On the border between the Eastern Han Dynasty and Xianbei, hundreds of thousands of Xianbei cavalry gathered, rehearsing formations around their military camps, and it was very spectacular to look at the past from afar.

Although the Xianbei tribe subdued some of the Xiongnu remnants under the leadership of Tanshi Huai, and the overall development was very rapid, due to the limitations of nomadic characteristics, their population was not large. Even if the game map is expanded by a thousand times, the total population of the Xianbei clan will still not grow as rapidly as the agricultural civilization, so it is not easy to send more than 400,000 troops at a time. The only advantage is that their combat effectiveness is relatively strong, even in the face of more than two million players. However, this time the imperial court also began to intervene, and it is uncertain who will win and who will lose.

With the popularity of "Real World", a lot of various industries have been born to attract the attention of players, in addition to traditional video commentary and live broadcast, the more popular ones are the first-line "war correspondents". These players use the system's built-in video recording and photo functions, and when some battles or events occur in a place, players will report them to get clicks and tips. As the saying goes, the power of the masses is strong, and with their intervention, a large amount of information can be obtained quickly, and even some guilds will buy more information from them.

However, the more powerful guilds often set up an intelligence department or the like to collect and analyze intelligence, and in fact rarely have a deal with "war correspondents", and only smaller guilds will come to the door.

Although Lu Shuang did not have enough manpower and material resources to build an intelligence agency, his NPCs were able to take on this important task, and some scouts with higher qualifications comprehended the relevant skills after engaging in reconnaissance work for a long time and became a veritable scout. The only criterion for judging a character's profession in the real world is to see if he has the corresponding skills in the field, for example, an ordinary soldier riding a horse can call him a cavalry, but this is not a cavalry recognized by the system, only a soldier who has comprehended the primary equestrian is considered a real cavalry, which is equivalent to a professional certificate in reality.

Strategists generally have "virtual and real" passive skills, and in the process of marching, affected by these passive skills and levels, the traces and numbers of the army will be hidden or confused, and will not be easily discovered, which enriches the comprehensiveness of the war to a certain extent. After all, there are so many players, and if you can spot the enemy army with the naked eye alone, then the two sides will know each other's movements without any pressure when they fight, which is what the system does not want to see.

So since there are Strategists' passive skills of "virtual reality", then there must be corresponding skills or classes to crack them, and Scouts are one of them. Scouts who have comprehended the detection skills have a certain chance to see through the opponent's "reality", obtain correct information, and be able to detect other movements of the opponent.

The scouts under Lu Shuang's command are all A and above, and there are even a few special scouts with S qualifications, although the Xianbei forces are still stronger than the ordinary regular army, but they are still insufficient in the training of strategists. After sending dozens of high-level and special-level scouts, in less than two days, some of Xianbei's movements were collected and reported to Lu Shuang's table.

As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first, and the daily consumption of an army of 430,000 people is huge, not to mention the addition of almost the same number of war horses. The Xianbei soldiers each carried a certain amount of dried meat or dry food before departure, which could last for several days, but the generals did not wait until the food was almost exhausted to let people transport it from the rear, but transported and stockpiled military rations before the battle.

The scouts sent by Lu Shuang successfully detected the Xianbei logistics brigade, a mile-long troop loaded with military rations in ox carts. These transport troops often have skills or props that interfere with reconnaissance, and several of Lu Shuang's scouts are forcibly judged by the system to be undetectable because of their lack of level, and they seem to be either a grassland or a few cavalry from a distance, and they can't be connected with the troops at all. Fortunately, a scout at the peak of the super level passed by here, broke the interference of "virtual reality" from the clues, and successfully discovered the traces of the other party.

This setting of the system is still relatively lewd, if you want to fight a good war, you really have to develop your comprehensive strength in an all-round way, and a simple scout can reflect this, and you can't find the direction of the other party's action, so you will be in a passive state. As for how the system does it, when it determines that the probability of scout detection cannot be triggered, it will forcibly change the scene in that place, and the scouts will no longer see the army, and may change to a forest or something to confuse the scouts. Only when the skill is triggered can it be detected, and the detected army situation may be different from the real situation, mainly depending on the difference between the "reconnaissance" and "virtual and real" skill levels of the two sides.

However, it doesn't mean that you have to scout, for players, there are generally no "virtual and real" skills or corresponding props of strategists, so the war between players is not so advanced, and only when it comes to NPC forces.

Lu Shuang naturally can't be regarded as an ordinary player force, the army configuration in his territory is still relatively complete, and there is only a king-level strategist who is currently lacking.

"My lord, since we know the grain and grass troops of the Xianbei people, we might as well act as soon as possible to reduce them, and burn them even if they are not good. As long as the grain and grass are destroyed, the Xianbei people will definitely be in chaos and will not attack, and this will be the best time for us to attack. Cheng Hui was very excited to receive this information, since he led his troops to Jiuyuan County in the north, he had learned the importance of food after losing the days when he had no worries about food and clothing in the territory.

"Well, but the matter of grain and grass is very important, it is impossible for the Xianbei people not to be careful, if they can't take it quickly, with the mobility of the Xianbei cavalry, the possibility of supporting them is very large." Lu Shuang must have hoped to swallow this batch of grain and grass alone, but with his strength, he was afraid that he could only annihilate the transport troops and not transport all the grain and grass, and asked, "How long will it take for this army to reach their camp?" ”

"Back to the lord, the other party used ox carts to transport grain and grass, and the movement was slow, and it was estimated that it would take five days to reach their military camp. However, if it is cavalry, it will be able to support it in less than half a day. The scout reported.

"And what about their troops?" Lu Shuang continued to ask for details.

"Back to the lord, the other party has a total of 30,000 regular troops escorting, and the strength is roughly around the sixth-order soldiers, but there is a force of 5,000 people equipped with armor and hard bows, I am afraid that it is an elite army. There are 20,000 transport soldiers transporting grain and grass, and their strength is low, which is still weaker than the ordinary fourth-order soldiers. ”

"Thirty thousand sixth-order regular troops, five thousand elite troops...," Lu Shuang muttered.

"My lord, according to the last general's opinion, this batch of military rations should be quite important to them. The 30,000 sixth-order soldiers and the 5,000 elite troops among them can be used as the main force by any force, but they are used to escort military rations, which is a bit wrong to think about. Cheng Hui wondered.

Whether it is the player force or the NPC force, it is not like Feitian City has the attribute of defying the sky, so in an army of 400,000 people, there are 50,000 sixth-order soldiers and about 10,000 seventh-order soldiers, which is almost the main main force. Although the scout does not have reconnaissance skills, he can roughly determine which level the opponent's strength is, and only when the rank is higher, can he not judge.

"Did you find anything special about it?"

"Special?" The scout carefully recalled the scene at that time, and hesitated: "Back to the lord, when it comes to the special place, it should be that they covered the ox cart with a black cloth, and they couldn't see what was inside. ”

"It seems that the food is not the point, the focus is on what is under the black cloth." Lu Shuang keenly felt that the Xianbei people should need something, but he was worried that he would be discovered by the imperial court if he brought it too early, so he decided to mix it in the military rations and send it to the front line together.

A total of 30,000 troops is not enough to resist the iron cavalry of the heavy cavalry, but in this way, there will definitely be losses on the side, and Lu Shuang wants to find the best strategy. Since there are Wang Zhi and other forces here, if you don't make good use of it, you are a little sorry for yourself.