"Master Hou! What the last general said is the truth, please see it! Seeing that Lu Rui had doubts on his face, the candidate immediately knelt down.

"General Hou, don't worry, Ben Hou believes in General Hou, but Ben Hou still needs to ask General Hou about something." Lu Rui smiled, it seems that the four candidates are desperate to do it with Lao Cao, so nervous about their attitude.

"Master Hou, please say, if the last general knows, he must inform Master Hou!"

"Well, General Hou, is Zhang Baicai's 10,000 troops mainly infantry or cavalry?"

"Infantry!" The candidate answered Lu Rui without hesitation.

"Infantry? Why is General Hou so sure? ”

"Returning to the Hou Ye, the army under Zhang Baicai's command is dominated by the Yellow Turban Army, supplemented by the Qianghu cavalry subdued by Ma Chao, and the Xiliang cavalry has a very strict selection system, so Ma Chao only gave Zhang Baiqi a few hundred cavalry."

"Well, I see!"

"Yanming, go check the manger and estimate how many military horses there are!"

"No!"

"Master Hou, it's clear, according to estimates, Zhang Bai has less than ten military horses!"

"Less than ten? There are hundreds of soldiers, but not all cavalry? Zhang Baiqi doesn't seem to want to run? Would you like me? Lu Rui touched his chin, it seems that Zhang Baiqi is really conceited, he actually came to Anding with only a few hundred people, and left such an obvious clue.

"Master Hou, choose to ask for your life to pursue Zhang Baiqi!"

"Good! Then ask General Liang and Yang to join the army to stay in Anding, General Hou, you lead the cavalry to pursue Zhang Baiqi with Ben Hou! "Since Zhang Baiqi wants to play with himself, he will go to meet Zhang Baiqi.

"No!"

"Qu Shuai! We've got it laid out. ”

"Well, you lead thirty Yellow Turban wrestlers to stay. Stop the pursuers. ”

"No!"

"Cao Jun's resourcefulness? White Rider doesn't have time to meet you. I'll let you see my formation! Zhang Baiqi smiled. He took the rest of the soldiers and went to the north bank of Weishui.

"Master Hou?" Lu Rui led 5,000 cavalry to pursue Zhang Baiqi and came to a muddy forest.

"General Hou, what kind of place is this?" As soon as he entered the woods, Lu Rui felt that the horses' feet were unstable, although the ice and snow covered the muddy road, the snow was not very thick, and many horses had slippery hooves.

"Back to the Hou Ye, this place is called the mud forest. Because of the climate, the forest is widespread, and the snow is not very thick because the trees are tall and deep. ”

"It's a dirt road like this all year round?"

"Yes, Master Hou, it is precisely because of this that this place is called the Mud Forest."

"It seems that Zhang Baiqi is ready."

"General Hou, dismount, lead the horse on foot, and pass through the muddy forest as fast as possible!" Horseback riding is no longer possible. Only by walking through the muddy forest and continuing to pursue Zhang Baiqi.

"No!"

"Master Hou! You see. Black smoke rises from the east! "Lu Rui's army hadn't taken a few steps before he noticed black smoke rising in the distance."

Following the direction of the candidate's finger, Lu Rui saw a puff of smoke rising.

"Master Hou, smoke has also been found here!"

"Master Hou, smoke has also been found here!" Soon, thick black smoke rose from many places in the mud forest.

"Master Hou, what is this?"

"Zhang Baiqi's suspicious tactics are just that. Tell the whole army, speed up, and ignore the black smoke. ”

"Hou Ye is wise!"

"Master Hou, why do we seem to be going around in circles?" The candidate followed Lu Rui around in the dense forest for an hour and returned to the same place.

Lu Rui looked at the nearby environment, and he was indeed back in place.

"Master Hou?"

Lu Rui looked at the sky, the huge woods, the lush branches and leaves had completely covered the sun, and only the scarce sunlight shone in through the dense forest.

What a white ride! He actually took advantage of the sunshine here to lay out a formation. Lu Rui can't see the sun clearly now, and he can't judge the direction with the light, so it's hard to tell what kind of formation this is.

"Master Hou, Zhang Baiqi is good at formations, are we going to be trapped in this muddy forest?"

"Humph! Just Zhang Baiqi, he just wants to trap this Hou Ye in the formation, he underestimates me too much! ”

"Could it be that Master Hou has a way to get out of this dense forest?"

"Of course!" Lu Rui took out a homemade compass from his arms.

"Master Hou, what is this thing?" The candidate saw Lu Rui take out something like a small disc, and felt very novel.

"This is the Sinan made by this Hou Ye, with it, we can discern the direction and break the formation of Zhang Baiqi, it is easy!"

"Master Hou is worthy of being the adopted son of Lord Sikong, and he is a handsome man in the world."

"Okay, General Hou, needless to say, let's hurry up and pursue Zhang Baiqi."

"No!"

"Master Hou, a pile of firewood was found here." According to the self-made compass, Lu Rui determined the direction and basically deduced the formation of Zhang Baiqi.

Zhang Baiqi's formation is actually very simple, just using the dense forest to arrange a Kun array, and the main purpose is to delay the pursuers.

"This is the black smoke released by Zhang Baiqi?" Lu Rui walked over and picked the firewood that was still burning with his long sword, and there was nothing peculiar about it.

"Master Hou, what is Zhang Baiqi releasing these black smoke for?"

"Ignore the black smoke, let's continue the pursuit."

"No!"

After an hour's march, Lu Rui's army finally passed through the muddy forest.

"Master Hou? Are we going to continue to pursue Zhang Baiqi? After Lu Rui led the army to the mud forest, his eyes looked at the mud forest behind him, as if he was pondering something.

"No need, Zhang Baiqi is really powerful, this time Ben Hou lost!" Lu Rui smiled helplessly, he didn't expect Zhang Baiqi to use this trick.

The black smoke released by Zhang Baiqi was actually telling Lu Rui the way out of the formation, if Lu Rui found out about this as soon as possible, he could quickly get out of the woods and continue to pursue Zhang Baiqi, so that Zhang Baiqi would definitely be caught up by Lu Rui.

But Zhang Baiqi used a trick to confuse Lu Rui, causing Lu Rui to take more than an hour to get out of the dense forest, and now it is too late to pursue Zhang Baiqi, Zhang Baiqi is afraid that he has gone far, and Lu Rui's cavalry will not be able to catch up.

"Master Hou, then let's go back to stability?"

"Well, General Hou, give an order to the whole army and return to stability!"

"No!"

At night, in Anding City, Lu Rui's study was still lit, and Lu Rui wrote out the confrontation with Zhang Baiqi word for word.

"Where did Zhang Baiqi's army go?" Lu Rui patted his head, but he never came up with the intention of Zhang Baiqi's army.

If Zhang Baiqi has an army of 10,000 in his hands, he will definitely not give up stability so easily, judging from the formation set up by the mud forest, Zhang Baiqi is a cautious and astute person, and the most important thing is that Zhang Baiqi will not admit defeat!

It seems that Zhang Baiqi's army must be far away from stability, but it will definitely not be in the north, so the only possibility is that Zhang Baicai's army has reached the Weishui front.

What was Zhang Bai's intention to ride his army to Weishui? Lu Rui shook his head, Zhang Baiqi was really elusive. (To be continued......)

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