When Han Jian said "retreat", many generals present were a little surprised. Because the fork in the road between the two worlds began from the time of the Three Kingdoms, in the history of the Wei Dynasty, there were also the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

"Young boy, this doesn't fight...... I retreated ......"

Han Jian said coldly: "What, this king's words are not good? ”

The generals present did not dare to say anything. Han Jian's order is a military order, and the military order says that it is to withdraw troops, that is, he knows that doing so may lead to the annihilation of the entire army, and he must abide by it, unless he wants to be disobedient.

Another right guard general said: "Your Royal Highness the East King, I don't know why my right guard has no leader to attack?" ”

"Because the king has other arrangements? The right guards and horses, all with the army to the south, and now the heavy snow is closing the road, a day to travel thirty miles. After three days, I walked out of these ninety miles. ”

Although the generals of the right guard felt a little unlucky, after all, the left guard was sent out to lead the troops, and they were going to retreat south with the army, so naturally they would have some strange feelings in their hearts, and some of them were despised.

"Okay, go back and prepare, and when the sky gets dark, you will pull out the camp and retreat." Han Jian ordered.

The generals of the army ordered them to retreat, and in the end, only Han Jian and the empress were left in the entire Chinese army tent.

The empress said with a somewhat suspicious face: "What do you mean by ordering the withdrawal of troops?" ”

Han Jian said with a smile: "Maybe it's because the minister is young and vigorous, and he doesn't know how to transfer troops and send generals, so he made some arrangements haphazardly." ”

The empress glared at Han Jian, and if she wanted to say that the person in front of her was young and vigorous, she was the first to disbelieve it. If you talk about old treacherous and cunning. Even "old thieves" like Yang Luochuan and Yang Pingju are caught in his way, and now Han Jianming is going to show weakness and withdraw his troops first, but he is brazenly sending more than a dozen soldiers and horses out to "ambush"? This is not clear to tell Zhou Yuan, the commander of the Northern Wang Army, am I luring the enemy to go deeper?

"You!" The Empress sighed suddenly, and said nothing.

Han Jian said: "Rui'er, you beg to be a husband, maybe the husband will be happy in his heart, so he will tell you in detail?" ”

"Stay in your heart and rot!" The empress seemed to curse and turned around. "I'm going back to the camp."

"Why is Your Majesty in such a hurry to leave?" Han Jian stepped forward and grabbed the empress's arm.

The Empress turned her head. smiled and said, "Didn't you say that you will pull out the camp and retreat tonight?" If I don't go back, how can I prepare? ”

"It's just a matter of pretending to be a look, why should you take it seriously? It is said to be a retreat. I'm sure we haven't gone thirty miles yet. The Northern King's army will chase after them. When the time comes, this battle will be fought if it is not fought. ”

The empress frowned again and said, "Can you be so sure? Aren't you afraid that the Northern Wangjun will find out about your transfer of the Left Guard Horses? ”

"I'm afraid they don't know. Your Majesty, do you know what is in the secret letter I sent to these left guard generals? ”

The empress shook her head slightly, indicating that she did not know.

Han Jian smiled suspiciously. Said: "When we win a big victory, Your Majesty may be clear." ”

The empress glanced at Han Jian, turned around and was about to leave, but was held by Han Jian. The empress shook slightly, and shook Han Jian's hand away, Han Jian sighed in his heart, his martial arts are still inferior to the empress, if the empress wants to betray her treachery and regret not marrying him afterwards, there is nothing he can do.

"You go back to the sleeping tent with me, and I have something to discuss with you." The Empress walked to the door of the tent and suddenly spoke again.

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That night, the Dongwang army really set out and withdrew its troops all the way to the south. At the same time, the Dongwang Army divided the 11th route of soldiers and horses and advanced towards the two wings, but the 11th route of soldiers and horses did not move forward, but withdrew with them, as if they were broken into pieces on the way to the withdrawal.

In the camp of the Central Army of the Northern King Army, after Zhou Yuan learned the news, he fell into hesitation for a while.

But after decades of fighting, such a strange way of retreating from the army, and such a strange way of retreating from the army into parts, it was the first time he had seen it. He vaguely remembered that in his decades of military career, there seemed to be a battle similar to this, when a Xianbei tribe retreated, it also wanted to disperse and withdraw the troops, because the prairie was vast, and the Xianbei tribe also wanted to preserve its strength and retain the roots of the tribe.

But the result was that the Northern Wang Army drove straight into the Xianbei tribe at that time, uprooting the Xianbei tribe at one time, if it were not for the Xianbei main tribe to kill, the Northern Wang Army could take advantage of the situation to defeat all the Xianbei tribes of the Liaodong generation. At that time, the Xianbei people and the Bohai people were still enemies, and the Bohai people chose to watch the battle between the Northern King Army and the Xianbei tribe.

"General Zhou, the Eastern King Army withdraws its troops...... What should we do? The subordinate general couldn't help asking.

Originally, they thought that the Dongwang Army was moving slowly every day, just to fight to the death with the Beiwang Army, but who would have thought that when the two armies were stationed for less than 30 miles, the Dongwang Army actually pulled out the camp and withdrew.

Zhou Yuan muttered: "According to common sense, the withdrawal of the Eastern King Army may be due to this snow. However, this snow has been falling for two days, and the Dongwang army was still marching close yesterday, which shows that the Dongwang army does not seem to care about this snow, and wants to fight with our army in the snow. Can...... The withdrawal of troops at the moment is still a little confusing after all. ”

A general next to him said: "It's strange that this Han Jian Xiao'er actually divided the Dongwang Army into twelve soldiers and horses, there is such a strange thing in the world?" ”

"Twelve Routes...... Twelve Routes ...... Soldiers and Horses" Zhou Yuan muttered a few times, but after all, he still didn't know the point.

Why Han Jian wanted to break it into pieces, he couldn't figure it out. This is obviously contrary to the common sense of marching, and it is easier to be divided and dissolved.

"General, you still give the order, and our army will attack like this, and kill him by surprise!" A general pleaded.

Zhou Yuan scolded: "Confused! Take the initiative? If the East Wangjun has set up an ambush circle for you to drill, are you going to die like this? It's night, and it's snowing heavily, how far can the Dongwang army retreat overnight? Let's wait and see what happens! ”

Zhou Yuan felt that something was wrong, and through guò intelligence, he learned that although the Dongwang Army was withdrawing along the way, it seemed that Han Jian still had a platoon in his hands. But he still underestimated the number of this army.

In Zhou Yuan's intelligence investigation, Han Jian's Chinese army only had 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and horses, and the main force of the Dongwang army was now led by Lin Zhan and was on the northern line of Luoyang.

After Zhou Yuan gave the order, the generals present had to retreat first, because Zhou Yuan's order was also to rest for the time being, regardless of whether the Eastern Wangjun withdrew its troops or not.

Everyone is gone, and only a few trusted generals and staff members of Zhou Yuan are left in the big tent of the Chinese army. Zhou Yuan also wanted to discuss today's matter with these people in detail.

“…… In the general's opinion, this matter is not simple. Lin Zhan of the Eastern King Army led more than 100,000 soldiers and horses to the north of Luoyang, cutting off our back road. Maybe it was the East King who learned that our army was short of food and grass, and came to fight against the West King's army, and wanted to withdraw his troops first and hang us. Over time, we had to withdraw our troops and surround us with Lin Zhan's soldiers and horses. A general analyzed.

Those present immediately agreed, because the analysis was very reasonable.

Zhou Yuan didn't reply, but turned to look at the old man who had been silent next to him, and asked, "Mr. Lan, what do you think?" ”

Mr. Lan, named Lin Lan, is a well-known military advisor in the Northern Palace. After the death of Yang Ru, the king of the old north, Lin Lan also became Zhou Yuan's guest and won Zhou Yuan's trust. From the beginning of the Northern Wang's army to Yuzhou, Zhou Yuan obeyed Lin Lan's words, including entering Yuzhou, so that the Western Wangjun and the Southern Wangfu could be killed first, and they could withdraw from the battle and return to Luoyang at any time.

It's just that in the Battle of Luoyang, the Northern Wangjun was a little stagnant, but this was not because Lin Lan was at a loss, but because the Northern Wangjun did not expect that the Eastern Wangfu would be connected with the Southern Wangfu and the Xiwangfu. Now it is three families fighting one, and the Beiwang army has not broken up now, and it is also Zhou Yuan's way of governing the army, and Lin Lan's strategy is effective.

Lin Lan faced the gaze of the people present, just looked at the military map and shook his head, and said, "Don't chase it!" ”

"Why?" Zhou Yuan immediately asked.

From Zhou Yuan's question, many generals understood that in fact, in Zhou Yuan's heart, they also tended to pursue more. It was only because he couldn't find out the intentions of the Eastern Wangjun that Zhou Yuan chose to wait and see.

Lin Lan pointed to the military map and said, "The Eastern Wang's army is scattered, and the faction of the soldiers and horses is unknown. Now the two generals under the command of the East King, Lin Zhan and Zhang Xing, are both north of our North King Army, and the East King Army has withdrawn its troops, which has the intention of luring the enemy to go deeper. ”

Zhou Yuan was a little abrupt, and then he remembered that in fact, for him, although his henchmen were the king of the east and the empress. But the ones who really threatened his way were Zhang Xing and Lin Zhan.

Now Zhang Xing is stationed in Luoyang City, while Lin Zhan is sweeping the city on the northern line of Luoyang with soldiers and horses. If this move goes south, although it can take down the troops and horses of the East King on the south road, it may not be able to capture the East King and the empress alive. Otherwise, the battle would be meaningless. Because the East King and the Empress will still rely on the living forces of the East King Mansion to deal with the Northern King Army.

Lin Lan said: "If our army goes south, there will be great losses, and when we go back to the north, we will be even more blocked." The soldiers and horses of Huang Shilang of the Southern Wangfu have been in Luoyang, and now, it is better to think about how to return to the north. ”

Zhou Yuan sighed and said, "Then it's so fruitless? So...... How do I go back and see my lord? ”

Zhou Yuan was frustrated because this battle was completely fruitless. Although it also occupied some cities, including those around Luoyang and northeast of Yuzhou, once the Northern Wang's army withdrew, these cities would still be returned. Not only that, the road to the north is not easy to walk, Luoyang is now occupied by the East Wangfu, the north line of Luoyang to the Yellow River generation, are also the soldiers and horses of the East Wangfu in the town, to retreat north, you have to cross the Yellow River, it is likely that they will go to Shandong and Henan generation, and these places, have just had a famine and civil uprising, and the local is very unstable.

Lin Lan smiled and said: "General Zhou, you have to be willing, and if you have to give, you can get it." If you blindly think about it, then you will get nothing. If your soldiers and horses don't exist, how will the Northern Palace? ”

Zhou Yuan thought about it, and he shouldn't take the North Wangfu to risk. After all, the elite of the North Wangfu are all under his command, and such a rash pursuit of the south is tantamount to giving up the back road to others, and there is no way back, and now the West Wangfu, the East Wangfu and the South Wangfu are connected in a line, and the North Wangfu will not be able to survive in the cracks. (To be continued......)