When Li Jing allowed Wuchang Jiedu to make Liu Rengan's holy decree to send troops was still on the way, Liu Renzhen had already personally led 20,000 elite soldiers to the Chu-Tang border by land and water.

There is no need for Wei San to specifically explain the precautions for concealing his whereabouts as Lin Feng said, Liu Renzhen, who has been fighting all his life, will naturally act cautiously, taking advantage of the night with Ma Xicao's warrant, in the name of the three thousand Tang troops entering Chu to support, after shouting to open and close the card, he immediately controlled all the guards at the checkpoint, and only after the whole army passed did he release a group of guards guarding the checkpoint. After that, he rushed forward overnight, bypassed Yuezhou, went out by day and night, rushed south, and all the living people he encountered along the way were tied up and taken with him in the army. Wei San went alone and contacted Lin Feng in advance.

On the evening of October 25, Liu Renzhen led his team to meet Lin Feng in Yutan City, 20 miles north of Tanzhou City, and all the soldiers settled in the infantry camp where Lin Feng led his troops to urgently set up Lu.

The two urgently discussed, leaving a thousand weaker soldiers to garrison Yutan, and the remaining 19,000 men and horses squeezed into the two hundred warships brought by Lin Feng and one hundred warships full of food and weapons overnight, ready to go up the Xiangjiang River and go straight to Guizhou.

Early in the morning of 26 October, Liu Renzhen and Lin Feng led some soldiers to openly enter Tanzhou City to meet with Ma Xicao, claiming that 3,000 Tang reinforcements had arrived and were temporarily stationed in Yutan.

After that, Ma Xicao announced to the world that the Southern Han Dynasty had repeatedly violated the border, wounded the people and plundered, and ordered 17,000 Chu naval troops, infantry and Tang elite soldiers, known as 30,000 soldiers and horses, all of them were dispatched to the Guiguan area.

All the soldiers in Tanzhou City rushed to gather, noisily preparing to go out.

At noon on October 26, Lin Feng and Liu Renzhen quietly boarded their warships and set off for the south as the first batch of forwards.

It was late autumn, but Liu Renzhen, who was still dressed in thin cedar, was in a good mood, and pulled Lin Feng to talk about tea in the cabin and say goodbye.

Liu Renzhen sat cross-legged on the mat, and after drinking a cup of tea, he said to Lin Feng: "In the past two days, the old man has learned about what you have done since you entered Chu, and he is very surprised. It's not uncommon for you to take those boys to make great achievements on the battlefield, but you kid is too lucky, right? How did you know that the Dao Panlong would besiege you, and you were ready for anything? ”

Lin Feng smiled bitterly: "Boss, then you should also understand that it was really pure luck that day, Tanzhou City was broken too quickly and smoothly, Zhou Qizhi and they happened to gather the rich people in the city the day before, and those two hundred guards helped me a lot, otherwise ......"

Liu Renzhen shook his head in disbelief and asked, "Yes, it was a bit of a coincidence that day. However, you are at a disadvantage in Meizhou, but God has come to a sudden change in the direction of the wind; As soon as you were besieged in Tanzhou City, my Wuchang elite arrived just in time, this luck is so good that I can't believe it, and then think of you started planning Chu State a few months ago, I really doubt that you can pinch and count, and see the future! ”

Lin Feng smiled bitterly, so he had to hit a ha, pointed to it and said, "If there is really luck, then God is helping me Datang!" ”

Liu Renzhen glanced at Lin Feng suspiciously, and put down the question for the time being, but immediately threw away another question: "We suddenly dispatched 20,000 elite soldiers into Chu, Ma Xixu didn't even care about it in the past two days, is he really so straw?" Can't you see anything wrong at all? ”

Lin Feng chuckled: "I had a secret talk with him before, and he was originally taken aback, so I said that Wu Huaien led more than 20,000 troops, and the number was still increasing, and he immediately stopped asking about it, and praised me for being prescient, and thanked me repeatedly!" ”

Liu Renzhen also smiled and continued to ask: "Boy, it is normal for you to take His Royal Highness Li Congqian and all the special soldiers and elite troops on the ship, why would you let a Tujia general also get on your ship?" ”

Lin Feng knew that Liu Renzhen was referring to Zhao Ye, who had just returned from Lizhou, so he told him about the crime camp.

Liu Renzhen nodded, didn't ask any more questions, and threw out a question again: "How do you deal with the giant elephant team of the Southern Han Dynasty?" ”

Lin Feng smiled mysteriously, lowered his voice and said, "Lord Liu, you don't know the way, I have completely emptied the Tanzhou arsenal and the things that defend the city in Tanzhou!" There are a lot of big guys, and I'm sure to surprise these brutes then! At this point, I have to thank Panlong for being short-sighted, only grabbing treasures, not food and weapons! ”

Liu Renzhen and Lin Feng laughed, and continued to ask about the situation of Wu Huaien, the eunuch general of the Southern Han Dynasty, and the two discussed under the candlelight until the sky was bright, and then he and Yi lay down to rest for a while.

On October 27, Ma Xicao led a large fleet from Tanzhou to join the southbound team.

Two days later, when the large army fleet traveled to Hengzhou (now Hengyang, Hunan), the news of a fierce dispute that could not be worse came, Liu Yan, the assassin of Chenzhou, merged with the Tujia family of Panlong, and established himself as the king of Chu in Chenzhou, known as Western Chu, and openly set up an anti-flag.

Ma Xixuan was furious when he heard the news, and first issued a letter to the world to crusade against Liu Yan as soon as possible, and then immediately found Liu Renzhen and Lin Feng to discuss.

At the public discussion meeting, Liu Renzhen suddenly said that the relationship between the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Southern Han Dynasty had always been very good, and it was really abrupt to send troops to confront the enemy of the Southern Han Dynasty, and implored him to lead 3,000 elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty to turn back, kill Benchenzhou, and put down the rebellion first.

Ma Xixu, who had no choice but to agree, immediately decided that the 3,000 Tang soldiers plus the 2,000 soldiers who stayed in Langzhou would be killed by Liu Rengan, the commander of the Tang Wuchang Festival, and make every effort to quell the rebellion; Ren Wang Kui was the commander and Zhou Xingfeng was the deputy commander, and led the remaining 6,000 infantry and 7,000 infantry troops to rush to Guizhou from both land and water; Ma Xicao led a thousand soldiers of the Chu State to return and sit in Tanzhou, paying attention to the development of the two battlefields in real time.

The huge fleet and the parallel shore troops were suddenly greatly reduced, and the momentum of the southward movement immediately weakened a lot.

Of course, Liu Renzhen and his troops didn't leave at all, and after playing the scene of returning ashore during the day, he turned his head and ordered a deputy general to go back in his military uniform, and he turned back to the ship, hiding in the cabin every day to deduce the battle situation with Lin Feng. In the past few days, Lin Feng was afraid that a group of special soldiers would stay on the ship and get bored, so in addition to letting them train the rookies of those elite troops every day, he also let them do it, using noodles, soil and water together, and invented a fun thing - the sand table map of the Guiguan area.

In fact, the sand table is something that has existed since ancient times.

According to legend, when Qin Shi Huang built his mausoleum, he built a large topographic model in it, built with mountains, hills, and cities, and used mercury to simulate rivers and seas, and used mechanical devices to make mercury flow and circulate. Qin Shi Huang Benji once recorded that "mercury is the sea of a hundred rivers, and the hunger is irrigated, with astronomy on the top and geography on the bottom." "This can be said to be the prototype of the sand table.

Subsequently, Fan Ye of the Southern Dynasty Song Dynasty wrote the Book of the Later Han Dynasty? Ma Yuan Biography once recorded: In the eighth year of Jianwu of the Han Dynasty (32 AD), when Emperor Guangwu conquered Tianshui and Wudu, the general Ma Yuan had "gathered rice for the valley and pointed to the situation", so that Emperor Guangwu suddenly had the feeling of "being captured in my eyes", which should be the earliest sand table operation.

Different from these records, Lin Feng asked a group of brothers to pinch a group of small clay figurines, small boats and small red flags, representing the soldiers, warships and military arrangements, and deducing how to arrange troops on the sand table every day.

Liu Renzhen was deeply fascinated by this new gadget, and as soon as he opened his eyes every day, he gathered in front of the sand table, of course, he had been fighting horses for half his life, and the arrangement of troops was naturally to sweep a cadre of special soldiers. However, Lin Feng has always pretended to be mysterious, stood by and studied seriously, and never played. Liu Renzhen invited him to fight several times, and he had to laugh at Lin Feng for this every day, but Lin Feng just smiled and never made a move.

Late that night, when the special soldiers left, Liu Renzhen grabbed Lin Feng and asked in a low voice: "Boy, you dare to use such a dangerous trick as arranging Liu Yan's betrayal, are you so sure?" ”

Lin Feng smiled mysteriously and replied in a low voice: "When the fake is true, it is also false, and when it is true, it is also true, and the mystery of the matter lies in the fact that it is difficult to distinguish between the true and the false!" Boss, just take a look, most of the opportunities for us to recover the Chu State are still in this true or false way! ”

Liu Renzhen laughed angrily at him, punched him, and scolded: "Get out, the stinky boy who doesn't dare to fight against the old man!" ”

Lin Feng replied: "If you can't do it, you can't do it!" "It means that I can't, but I won't give you face to the old man, so I won't make a move!

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Feng immediately turned around and fled out of the cabin, and ran away with a smile!