Murong Ke believed that as long as the 120,000 troops under Xie Ai's command were annihilated, Xie Ai's army would lose its core strength, and in this way, it would be easy to capture the entire Hebei.

"What the fourth brother said is that if you want to capture Xiangguo City, you must first annihilate the main army under Xie Ai, and with the current strength of our army, it should be possible." Murong Ba Zhengse said.

Murong Ke nodded, and said with a straight face: "Let's leave here and go to the location where Xie Ai's army is stationed, and I will personally go to inspect it to understand the reality of Xie Ai's main army." ”

"Fourth brother, don't go! It's too dangerous, just let the scouts go and investigate. Murong Ba persuaded softly.

Obviously, in Murong Ba's heart, Murong Ke's safety is more important than anything else, and it is already very dangerous to go to Xiangguo City to investigate the situation, and it will be even more dangerous if he goes to Xie Ai's main army camp to investigate.

Murong Ke said disapprenously: "Fifth brother, since we have all come to investigate the intelligence, how can we let go of the Xie Aijun camp, you don't have to worry about my safety, it will be fine." ”

"Fourth brother." Murong Ba still wanted to persuade, but when he saw Murong Ke's firm eyes, he immediately stopped persuading.

However, the sneaky actions of Murong Ke and his party were discovered by the soldiers and horses defending Xiangguo City.

A young general defending the city pointed to Murong Ke and his party outside the city, and said loudly: "General, the group of people outside the city is suspicious, it must be the work of Yan Guo." ”

The general nodded and said: "That's right, now that our army and the army of Yan are about to go to war, but this group of people suddenly appeared here, it is obvious that it must be a fine work sent by Yan State." ”

"General, looking at the attire of their leader, he should be a big official. If he is caught, it must be a great achievement! The teenager said excitedly.

The general was overjoyed when he heard this, and ordered loudly: "You immediately lead three hundred cavalry out of the city and destroy all these people, if you can catch the leader, it will be better." ”

"Yes. Checkmate. The young general shouted the order and immediately went to prepare.

Soon, the north gate of Xiangguo City opened, and the three hundred cavalry killed Murong Ke at the fastest speed, obviously, they planned to capture Murong Ke alive, so as to gain a huge credit for themselves.

"Fourth brother, it's not good. We've been discovered, get out! Murong Ba saw the three hundred cavalry who were surging and slaughtered, and said loudly.

Murong Ke glanced up and said softly: "It's just a group of enemy soldiers who are eager to make meritorious contributions, there is no need to be nervous, let's retreat." After saying that, he rode his horse and retreated in the direction of the camp.

"Retreat, retreat all." Murong Ba shouted loudly and led all the pro-soldiers. Following behind Murong Ke, he quickly retreated in the direction of the camp.

"Rush. Catch them, catch them. The recruits of Xiangguo City, who were eager for meritorious service, saw Murong Ke and his party retreating quickly, and immediately chased after them excitedly, they felt that Murong Ke must be a senior official of the Yan army, and they would definitely get a lot of rewards if they caught it. So, I worked very hard to catch up.

After retreating for a mile, Murong Ke suddenly stopped slowly, and stretched out his hand to signal that Murong Ba and his own soldiers all stopped.

"Fourth brother. The enemy army is chasing us, why stop. Murong Ba stopped, looked at Murong Ke, and asked loudly.

Obviously, Murong Ba felt that Murong Ke was crazy, and actually stopped evacuating in this situation.

However, the military order was like a mountain, and under Murong Ke's order, all the fifty personal soldiers under his command stopped their horses, took out their weapons, and prepared to fight.

Seeing that Murong Ke and his party suddenly stopped fleeing and lined up to face themselves, the recruits of Xiangguo City who were in charge of the pursuit were all surprised, they didn't understand what was going on, but their pursuit did not stop, they were still chasing Murong Ke and his party.

Murong Ke looked at the soldiers under his command and said loudly: "Soldiers, you are all warriors of the Great Yan Kingdom, let the enemy soldiers in Xiangguo City see your strength and prepare for battle." ”

When the soldiers heard the order, they immediately bent their bows and arrows, preparing to fight to the death with the pursuing enemy soldiers.

Soon, the pursuing recruits of Xiangguo City entered the attack range of the bow and crossbow, and Murong Ke ordered loudly: "Release the arrows, release the arrows." ”

"Whoosh......" A rapid rain of arrows roared towards the recruits of Xiangguo City.

"Hiss...... Ahhh......h

Seeing that the pursuing enemy soldiers fell, Murong Ke smiled faintly and said loudly: "Release the arrows, continue to release the arrows." ”

"Whoosh ......" Immediately after, there was another rapid rain of arrows, and the wounded pursuers fell down again.

"Fourth brother, the enemy soldiers have lost at least forty or fifty soldiers, it seems that they are completely a bunch of rubbish!" Murong Ba said happily.

Obviously, the fragility of the enemy army is beyond Murong Ba's imagination, after all, if it is a well-trained cavalry, when facing fifty archers, it will not lose so much at once, which is enough to show that these cavalry are newly trained recruits, and their skills in dodging arrows are very poor, and these soldiers and horses in charge of guarding are all new soldiers, and it can be seen what kind of soldiers and horses in the city are.

"Withdraw, withdraw." Seeing that the soldiers and horses under his command lost forty or fifty at once, the young general who was in charge of pursuing Murong Ke was frightened and immediately gave the order to retreat.

Seeing that the pursuers had retreated, Murong Ke looked at Murong Ba and said loudly: "From the shouts of their pursuit just now, it is already certain that they are a rabble, and now the first battle has completely confirmed this, which seems to be enough to prove that the defenders in the city are all recruits with weak combat strength, and the main army is all concentrated in the camp of the Xie Ai army on the outskirts." ”

"What the fourth brother said is that this is indeed the case, Xie Ai concentrated all the main forces under his command in the suburbs, obviously, he planned to attack our army from the flank direction when our army attacked Xiangguo City!" Murong Ba said loudly.

Murong Ke nodded and said: "Since Xie Ai has deployed troops and horses like this, our army should concentrate all the elite troops and go all out to annihilate the elite main army under Xie Ai, as long as the 120,000 main army under Xie Ai is annihilated, Hebei will be the world of my Great Yan Kingdom." ”

"Fourth brother, now that Xie Ai's army is false and real, we are already very clear, so there is no need to go to investigate the enemy in person!" Murong Ba took the opportunity to persuade.

Obviously, Murong Ba is still not at ease, he is still very worried about Murong Ke's safety, after all, the safety of the main general is related to the safety of the whole army, and it is not sloppy at all.

Murong Ke still didn't think so, he looked at Murong Ba, and said, "Don't worry, let's just take a look, after all, if you can't know yourself and your opponent, how can you defeat Xie Ai's army?" ”

Seeing that Murong Ke insisted on going in person, Murong Ba had no choice but to agree, and accompanied Murong Ke to run towards the location of Xie Aijun's camp.

In order to prevent accidents, Murong Ba sent a personal soldier to pass the order, telling the three thousand troops in charge of receiving them to follow them closely and keep within a distance of three miles so that they could support at any time.

The location of Xie Ai's army camp is five miles outside the west gate of Xiangguo City, and it is in a favorable position that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, here, Xie Ai and the main army of more than 100,000 under his command, with the superior geographical location, can completely block the main army under the command of Murong Ke.

It didn't take long for Murong Ke and his entourage to arrive at a location not far from Xie Aijun's camp, and carefully reconnoiter the location of Xie Ai's army's camp.

"Fourth brother, Xie Ai's army is stationed in such a position, which is very unfavorable for our army to launch a surprise attack! Especially the elite iron cavalry of our army, they will not be able to give full play to their advantages here! Murong Ba looked at the station of Xie Ai's legion and said with emotion.

Murong Ke nodded, and said with a straight face: "That's right, Xie Ai stationed the main army under his command here, just to prevent our army from raiding, it seems that the method of taking a surprise attack is completely unworkable, if you want to annihilate the main force of Xie Ai's army, you have to find another way." ”

"Fourth brother, we can adopt the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao and storm Xiangguo City in the direction of the north gate, in this way, the Xie Ai Legion may take advantage of the opportunity of our army to attack Xiangguo City and attack our army from the side, in this way, won't our army have the opportunity to fight the main force of the Xie Ai Legion?" Murong Ba Zhengse built yì road.

When Murong Ke heard this, he nodded approvingly, and said, "Fifth brother, you said a lot, this is indeed a good strategy, we should do this." ”

Murong Ba nodded, and said with a straight face: "Fourth brother, it's not too early, we should go back." ”

Obviously, Murong Ba was still worried about Murong Ke's safety, and besides, now that he had understood the basic situation of Xie Ai's main army camp, there was no need to continue to stay here, after all, one more minute would be more dangerous.

Murong Ke took one last look in the direction of Xie Aijun's camp, then nodded and said, "Let's go, go back to the camp." After saying that, he rode his horse and ran in the direction of the camp.

After returning to the camp, Murong Ke immediately summoned his subordinates and began to deploy an offensive plan.

In order to lure Xie Ai's army into battle, Murong Ke planned to let the 100,000 cavalry under his command be responsible for attacking the north gate of Xiangguo City, and ambush the most elite 100,000 soldiers and horses, so that as long as Xie Ai's army attacked, the 100,000 elite soldiers and horses under his command could fight a decisive battle with the elite army under Xie Ai, as long as the elite army under Xie Ai's command was annihilated, there would be no force in the entire Hebei direction that could stop the edge of the main army of Yan State, and conquering the entire Hebei would be an easy matter.

After Murong Ke gave the order, all the troops under his command agreed, and immediately returned to their respective camps to make various preparations before the battle.

Since Xiangguo Castle is a strong city, for this reason, if you want to attack the city, you must prepare a large number of siege equipment, and the more the better. (To be continued......)