After the major victory in the battle of Guanshanwa, Li Rupei suddenly issued an order, asking the officers and men of the Iron and Blood Army to speed up their journey, and they must rush to the outskirts of Yangzhou City within three days, and ignore the harassment of those small units along the road, and ignore the government offices of various counties, eliminate all interference, and arrive at Yangzhou City as quickly as possible.

For Li Rupei's order, Zhu Wen and Zhao Laibao and others were a little incomprehensible, they thought that Bi Shiduo must know everything about it, and he had made relevant preparations at present, and the iron-blooded army was to speed up the journey, and it didn't have much effect, it was nothing more than consuming more physical strength, and it was close to the thirtieth day of the lunar month, and they were also ready to let many soldiers eat and drink on the thirtieth day, and allow some soldiers to drink.

Li Rupei's order undoubtedly disrupted their arrangement.

After the army sped up its journey, Zhao Laibao and Zhu Wen came to Li Rupei's Chinese military tent.

In the tent of the Chinese army, the soldiers were busy packing up, and it seemed that Li Rupei was also ready to go.

The two had just entered the Chinese military tent, and Xie Yuxin also followed.

Li Rupei looked at everyone and spoke with a smile.

"Are you wondering why you asked the army to speed up the journey, seeing that it is the Spring Festival, the soldiers hope to have time to rest, at least to have a barely stable Spring Festival, but unfortunately the fighter is more important, can only make the soldiers hard, this Spring Festival is not good, make up for it after the end of the expedition."

Zhu Wen couldn't help but want to speak, looked at Zhao Laibao, Xie Yuxin and the others, and held back.

"The army must speed up the journey, presumably the failure of Guan Shanao will make Bi Shiduo change all the deployments, although it is said that the information in Yangzhou City has not yet arrived, but I think that Bi Shiduo must require all 70,000 troops to enter Yangzhou City, relying on strong troops to hold Yangzhou."

"Even if he had other ideas, it would not have been possible. None of the officers under his command wanted to face the Iron Blood Army face to face, and they had already lost three generals, and the rest were not fools, so Master Bi would not take any risks. ”

"70,000 troops are stationed in Yangzhou City, what is needed most, you can imagine, what is needed is grain and grass, and I also think that Bi Shiduo will definitely be ready, I am afraid that he has been raising grain and grass for a long time. But if you think about it, is it so easy to raise grain and grass, you need to go to various places to collect it, and it still needs time to transport, the time for the Iron Blood Army to launch the attack is very urgent, Bi Shiduo can't arrange it so carefully, and besides, everything can't be carried out according to his imagination. ”

"70,000 people have entered the city of Yangzhou, and it will take a certain amount of time to settle down. These are easy to say, even if it is a temporary camp, there is no big problem, but the grain and grass want to be transported into Yangzhou City. It's not that easy, it takes time. ”

"The Iron Blood Army will not attack Yangzhou City for the time being, and will adopt the method of besieging but not attacking, in this case. Keeping Master Bi unable to raise enough food and grass is one of the magic weapons for the Predator to win as soon as possible. ”

"By now you should understand why so-and-so asked the army to speed up its march."

Speaking of which. Everyone nodded.

"Zhu Wen, you lead 10,000 soldiers, as the vanguard, day and night, be sure to arrive at the outskirts of Yangzhou City within two days, you must remember, when encountering a small group of resistance, ignore it, your goal is to occupy the military camp of the Yangzhou army outside the city and prevent them from making destructive measures."

"Xie Yuxin, you lead 10,000 soldiers, as the Chinese army, to assist Zhu Wen's actions, if Bi Shiduo thinks about ambushing again, then you have something to do."

"A certain and Zhao Laibao led the rest of the more than 30,000 soldiers to break the rear, and at the same time urged the rear to prepare sufficient grain and grass."

Zhu Wen set off at the fastest speed, gathered 10,000 soldiers under his command, without the slightest delay, each carrying three days' rations, during the march, eating cold rations, everyone has become accustomed to it, so as to save time.

Zhu Wen simply explained the tasks to many officers, and everyone quickly understood that their tasks were also important, if Bi Shiduo decided to withdraw all the troops to Yangzhou City, he would definitely destroy the military camp outside, so that the iron-blooded army would need to spend a lot of effort to re-cultivate the military camp, and there was also grain and grass, if he could rush to the periphery of Yangzhou City as soon as possible, he might be able to capture a large amount of grain and grass.

When it was dark, the army set out, and according to Zhu Wen's request, the army had only two hours of rest every day, which included eating and sleeping, and letting the horses eat, and the rest of the time had to march.

The military order cannot be violated, although it will be the thirtieth month of the lunar month soon, but the soldiers still began a hard march according to the requirements, which is already the habit of the iron-blooded army, and the military order is like a mountain.

An hour later, Xie Yuxin led another 10,000 soldiers to set off, the difference is that among the 10,000 soldiers, there are 2,000 surrendered soldiers, this time the rapid march, the soldiers face the direct test of 2,000 surrendered soldiers, Xie Yuxin's task is also very heavy, he needs to pay attention at all times, to see if Bi Shiduo will have a desperate arrangement to deploy, if the 70,000 troops in Yangzhou City pour out, he must assist Zhu Wen to resist, waiting for the arrival of the remaining 30,000 troops.

There were no prisoners in the battle of Guanshanwa, this is a decision made by Zhu Wen, the prisoners of the battle of Haozhou and Luzhou, to a certain extent, slowed down the marching speed of the army, this is an indisputable fact, although the army obtained a lot of grain and grass from Haozhou and Luzhou, but these prisoners also have to consume grain and grass, and it is not cost-effective to calculate, so in the battle of Guanshanwa, Zhu Wen still took the method of killing them all, but for those soldiers who surrendered, there was no particularly deliberate pursuit and killing.

In the battle of Guanshanwa, Zhu Wen killed more than 6,000 soldiers, and more than 3,000 people fled, as for why only more than 1,000 people returned to Yangzhou, he didn't know the details of this, after the battle of Guanshanwa, although Zhu Wen won, when he saw Li Rupei, he still unconsciously lowered his head, afraid of being reprimanded because of the captivity, but this time Li Rupei didn't say anything, which made Zhu Wen suddenly understand, in fact, Li Rupei has a number in his heart, and some words are not easy to say, but he did it below, Li Rupei still understands the priorities.

The speed of the march of the Iron-Blooded Army was three hours after the victory in the Battle of Guanshanwa.

That is to say, at the same time that Bi Shiduo learned the news of the battle of Guanshanwa, the iron-blooded army was about to arrive at the periphery of Yangzhou City, but unfortunately this news, Bi Shiduo did not know at all, he asked the two generals stationed outside the city to wait for reconnaissance, but unfortunately these two generals thought of entering Yangzhou City as soon as possible, and the military camp was filled with fear, and at this time he also sent scouts out to investigate, afraid that he would spark anger.

The Yangzhou military camp is ten miles away from Yangzhou City, and the fast horse can arrive in half an hour, and the rapid march takes about half an hour or so, at this time, the general has already gone to Yangzhou City to accept the task, the military camp is busy, everyone is preparing for evacuation, and the ox carts transporting grain and grass are still in and out in a steady stream.

It was at this time that the scout entered the barracks out of breath, and after meeting the officer who was temporarily in charge, he spoke from afar.

"The military situation is urgent, and the army of the Iron Blood Army is only five miles away from here......"

Like a bombshell, after a few seconds of silence around the barracks, the pan exploded in an instant, and many sergeants who were cleaning up stopped what they were doing and looked at the officers, and more and more sergeants began to assemble in the direction of the playground.

The officer is wise, it is too late to ask for instructions at this time, if he cannot start the evacuation immediately, the slightest delay may lead to the destruction of 20,000 sergeants.

The officers immediately made a decision to evacuate immediately and enter the city of Yangzhou.

The large-scale evacuation began quickly, and at this time there was only one task, riding a war horse towards Yangzhou City, as for what kind of ox carts and grain and grass and other things, I didn't care, as long as the sergeants could all evacuate to Yangzhou City, it would be very good.

The officer who commanded the evacuation was still very good, the command was in good order, although his face was a little pale, but fortunately he commanded properly, there was no big chaos in the barracks, everyone obeyed the command and began to evacuate quickly, and the sergeants who were left behind were not so anxious......

When Zhu Wen led 10,000 soldiers to the barracks, he saw neat barracks, as well as countless ox carts left inside and outside the barracks, some of which were still dragging grain and grass.

After laughing for a while, Zhu Wen turned around and saluted with his fists in the direction Li Rupei came from.

"Dashuai, his subordinates are worthy of their mission, Dashuai is wise and martial, everything is expected, Bi Shiduo is about to be destroyed, and he can't escape from Yangzhou City."

Zhu Wen left two thousand soldiers on guard, and the rest of the soldiers began to pack up the barracks, entered the barracks, and saw the thick bedding, Zhu Wen sighed with emotion, this military camp could once be stationed with 100,000 troops, accommodating more than 50,000 iron-blooded soldiers, more than enough, and the bedding and so on are readily available, the other party did not have time to make any preparations, hurriedly evacuated, and when the scouts came to report, they talked about the soldiers who were evacuating, but unfortunately Zhu Wen could not stop the evacuation of these soldiers.

Soon the 10,000 soldiers led by Xie Yuxin also arrived.

The pace of packing up the barracks was rapidly accelerated......

In the Yangzhou field, the furious Bi Shiduo was ready to personally lead the army to the military camp outside Yangzhou to fight, the iron-blooded army's approach was too excessive, and the calculation was too accurate, he lost too much grain and grass, you must know that many of the grain and grass raised from all over the country were still in the barracks, and they did not have time to transport, and all of them were obtained by the iron-blooded army at once, which was a huge blow to the army in the city, and you must know that grain and grass are the foundation of the city.

The officers and strategists under his command stopped Bi Shiduo, and at this time led the army to fight, perhaps in line with the meaning of the Iron Army, a strategist inadvertently said that the Iron Blood Army's actions were so accurate, could it be that Li Rupei commanded the army to fight, this sentence made Bi Shiduo suddenly wake up, he returned to the wing, no one was allowed to enter, and he was alone in the wing room for a full day. (To be continued......)