But since he personally led the troops, he knew that not all the soldiers and generals in the world were as elite and capable as Lao Youyan Dao, even if it was to do it when there was an order and stop when there was a ban, it was a very difficult thing. Therefore, with his 218 elite soldiers and Lin Shuhan and Zhao Chengxiao, two helpers of Wen Yiwu, except for a few battles where the strength was too different, he did not taste defeat.

Such a record made Qiu Yizhi's self-confidence in his body continue to swell, and he also thought that with a mediocre talent like Zheng Yu, even if he used ten or twenty times the number of troops to encircle and suppress himself, he could be able to do it with ease with the familiar terrain and widely distributed ears and eyes nearby.

However, although Qiu Yizhi grew up in a group of famous generals, he was taught since he was a child that he was a fierce soldier and a dangerous soldier, and he could not be complacent on the battlefield, so although Lin Shuhan's words reached his heart, he couldn't directly agree, and after a change of words, he said: "He Zheng Yu is so nervous about feeding now, and he may not be able to send a large army to encircle and suppress, right?" ”

"The more we distribute, the more money and food we consume, and the more difficult it is to sustain; It's less sent, and it doesn't work. It's really hard to think about Zheng Yu! Lin Shuhan interjected with a smile on his face.

Qiu Yizhi also echoed when he heard this: "That's what Mr. Lin said. That's why I'm afraid that Zheng Yu will only think that the little thief outside has robbed his grain cart, so I specially sent these defeated troops back to report the news! ”

Sure enough, as Qiu Yizhi and Lin Shuhan expected.

When Zheng Yu heard that the grain and grass that had been transferred from other places for a long time had been robbed, he immediately flew into a rage, pointed his nose and scolded the inspector in charge of the escort, but he did not forget to ask where the thieves came from and dared to rob the transport team of the Lingnan Army.

When he heard that the raider was none other than his sworn enemy Qiu Yizhi, he calmed down a lot under his anger, and immediately sent someone to send the general Sun Hao to his account and asked him how to deal with Qiu Yizhi, a tricky and vicious thief.

Sun Hao is a calm and slightly conservative general, listening to the second prince's rare opinion of asking for his own opinion, he didn't dare to be perfunctory, pondered for a moment, frowned and said: "Even if this surnamed Qiu is outside the city now, the strength in the city is real." How many people are there in the official army now? There are more than 20,000 people in the city, and one of him Qiuyi is outside the city, how many soldiers and horses can he bring? In the view of a veteran, as long as he continues to besiege Shanyin County and starve all the soldiers and horses in the city to death, how big a wave can a bare general of Qiu Yi set off? ”

"What about our army's food supplies? You can't let him plunder, can you? Zheng Yu asked.

Sun Hao thought for a moment: "Fortunately, there are only two roads leading to here from outside." Why don't we spread out the soldiers and horses besieging the city a little bit and use them to ensure the grain route? Although the current strength of our army cannot defeat the city, it has also shrunk the opponent, and the main general is not in the city, and the defenders in the city will definitely not dare to counterattack. I think the troops are still full. ”

Zheng Yu listened to Sun Hao's words, got up and paced a few steps, and said: "Tens of thousands of people in our army have been mobilized all over the world by a handful of soldiers and horses of this Qiu Yi, which is really ugly, and spreading it will inevitably fall into the prestige of the Lingnan Palace." Moreover, it is not a long-term strategy to strictly guard the grain route in this way. In my opinion, I have to take the initiative to catch this thief is the fundamental plan! ”

"Although the second prince said well, there are things that can be done and things that cannot be done in this world. Looking at the surrounding hills and dense forests, not to mention the squad that can't hide more than a thousand people, even if you drive all 20,000 or 30,000 horses into the forest, as long as you command it properly, you may not be able to find clues for the opponent. What's more, Qiu Yizhi was originally the parent official here, and the terrain couldn't be more familiar, if you want to find his trace, surround him, and then completely annihilate him, it can be described as looking for a needle in a haystack, but it's not the second prince's upper lip and lower lip touch, it's ......"

Sun Hao thought so, but he didn't dare to say this, but he felt that Zheng Yu in front of him was no longer the honest second prince he was back then-not to mention anything else, just look at the current situation, although the court has not yet disposed of Zheng Nuo, the eldest son of the King of Lingnan, but it is only a matter of time before he kills the head and sacrifices the flag, and then Zheng Yu will be the only heir of the Prince of Lingnan, and it is not a good idea to offend him at this juncture.

So Sun Hao pondered for a while, and then said: "The second prince really knows people, and the old man is not as good as the young man." The last general is willing to guard the camp for the prince here, waiting for the second prince to triumph! ”

Of course, Zheng Yu was happy to hear this, but he didn't know that these two simple sentences were Sun Hao, a martial artist over fifty years old, who used all his wisdom and experience to come up with this best of both worlds without offending Zheng Yu and keeping the army safe.

Zheng Yu obviously hated Qiu Yi very much, and the day after discussing with Sun Hao, he ordered 2,000 elite soldiers and went directly to the section of the road where the convoy was robbed. Of course, two days have passed, even if Qiu Yizhi is even a snail, he has climbed far away at this time, and Zheng Yu pounced without any suspense.

But before he had time to regret, news came from the camp that a transport team from Yuezhou Mansion had been robbed again.

When Zheng Yu heard the news, he was angry and anxious, and hurriedly urged the army, rushed to the place where the incident occurred, and hurriedly drove away for half a day before arriving at the place of the incident, but all he saw was a piece of grain and grass still burning on the ground - as for the figure of the enemy, he couldn't find half of it.

After working like this for a whole day, Zheng Yu dragged his men and horses on hundreds of miles of mountain roads, almost crushing a new force alive, but he was still only led by Qiu Yizhi's nose, not to mention that Qiu Yizhi's life was captured, and even half of his hair was not touched.

In this way, a few days later, the grain trucks of the Lingnan Army were still being robbed day by day, and Zheng Yu's actions seemed to have become useless, except for wasting money and food, it did not play any role.

At such a point, Zheng Yu seems to have been forced into a dilemma by himself, if he continues to attack, it will inevitably be fruitless; If you don't go out again, it is tantamount to admitting that you have made a big mistake before, and you will be even more unbearable on face.

People are forced to be in a hurry, but they can come up with a way.

Zheng Yu slept until midnight with a full stomach, and finally came up with a plan, regardless of the cold of the night, he put on his clothes and lit an oil lamp and wrote a letter and sent it to the camp in Jinling.

Zheng Yu came up with a clever method - it was to ask the Jinling battalion to send a transport team, the number of troops, the materials transported, the route of travel, and the time of action were all written in great detail, and even the number of miles to be walked on a day and where to go were clearly written - what he wanted was to lure Qiu Yizhi to come over and rob the grain, and he led the army to follow the established route and follow far from the left and right, and lured Qiu Yizhi to annihilate him.

Although Zheng Yu's method is smart, his opponent Qiu Yizhi is several times more shrewd than him, and he has Lin Shuhan by his side, a person who understands the strategy.

When these two people saw this grain transportation team, they still transported a large amount of money, grain and weapons when the previous grain team was repeatedly plundered, but they did not increase the escort force much, and they were unhurried when they moved, and the attitude of luring the enemy was too obvious. They received reports from several outposts that there was an army, numbering about two thousand, that was moving with the caravan.

"Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles!"

When Qiu Yizhi said this sentence proudly, he already had an idea in his heart.

However, when the Jinling Battalion of the Lingnan Army received Zheng Yu's warrant, he immediately guessed his mission, not to send grain and grass to Shanyin County, but to act as a bait to attract the enemy to attack. Of course, no one would do such a dangerous and hard errand. However, the warrant of the second prince of Lingnan Zheng Yu could not be ignored, and a general was always sent to serve as a grain officer to complete this thankless task.

However, after a lot of discussion and discussion, they still couldn't decide who to go, so in desperation, they could only resort to the ancient and fair method of "drawing lots", and chose a lieutenant named Anping to escort the dangerous grain and grass.

Although Anping's name was obtained by his parents, he was actually a person who had always caused trouble, and when he was a small soldier, he killed the top hundred households for the unfair distribution of salary. Lingnan King Zheng Gui took a fancy to his character of not being afraid of the sky and the earth, so he spared him from death in the court, and instead proposed him to take over the official position of the hundred households, and since then he has made a fortune.

However, although this Anping is a character who is not stingy, he also knows that the errand that the second prince has given is not trivial, not to mention that he took a wrong step, that is, he walked fast and slowed down one step and a half, and the resulting results were unbearable.

Therefore, Anping reined in his heart, did not ask the reason, regardless of right or wrong, only according to the content of Zheng Yu's letter, ordered the people and horses, escorted the grain and grass and military supplies, and walked along the mountain trail, stopping all the way to Shanyin County, the capital of Yuezhou.

Although Anping was rude, he also knew that he was actually a bait, so he was extremely careful along the way, lest he fall into the opponent's ambush, and he was afraid of delaying the second prince's established itinerary, so he walked very poorly. Thanks to all the patience he had in his life, he didn't make a mistake.

In this way, there were eight days of walking, and six days of entering the mountain, and Anping found out that it was only two days away from the county seat of Shanyin, so he was even more energetic, and asked his soldiers to move forward carefully, not to make a mistake at this last moment, as long as they entered the camp under the city, they could save their lives, and everything was fine.

An Ping is a battle-hardened person, and he also understands the identity of his decoy, if he arrives at the camp safely like this, and does not lure the enemy army to attack, then his mission is equivalent to failure. But in life, meritorious service, promotion, wealth and other things can only be placed in the second place, and only the word life is the first priority that is well deserved.

An Ping also wanted to wave his subordinates to make a concurrent journey, to make a two-day journey together, and to make peace with the brigade besieging Shanyin County as soon as possible, but the warrant of the second prince Zheng Yu set his journey to the death - it was not yet noon today, and he would finish the whole day's journey, so he had to camp on the spot.

An Ping knew that it was now a crisis, and the enemy might be watching him tightly somewhere, so he didn't dare to relax, so he carefully calculated that there was a small stream as a water source and set up camp on the flat land, and turned it into a small car city in a circle with the vehicles that were pushed, and sent sentry guards to guard it carefully.

Who knew that when Anping opened his eyes the next day, he was startled - the "gurgling" stream next to the original itself, in less than one night, turned into a turbulent river two feet wide, trying to explore the depth of the water, it was waist-deep.

There was neither rain nor snow on this night, and the brook became a small river, and there must be something strange in it.