Li Sangrou followed Ruyi out, and Wen Cheng spread the piece of paper he had just counted in front of Gu Xi.

"I did a rough calculation, there are about 100,000 people in these paintings of the big boss, and according to the number of forage yards, there should be about 40,000 cavalry, with two horses, or even three horses.

If the camp is still extended, our spy report says that there are 100,000 light cavalry in Nanliang, but I'm afraid it's not too exaggerated, there must be 70,000 or 80,000, it seems that this is all dispatched. ”

Wen Cheng furrowed his brows.

"What they want to take is Xuzhou, and then occupy Shandong, and then advance southward, holding the entire river in their hands, we thought of this, but we didn't expect that they would send so many light horses, this is pouring out."

"Big brother thought of it." Gu Xi listened to Wen Cheng's words while looking at the huge topographic map.

He and his eldest brother thought that Nanliang would pour out of the nest, take Xuzhou directly, go south to control the canal, connect with Hefei, and hold the river in their hands.

If they were replaced, it would be like this, the monarchs and ministers of Southern Liang are all the same smart people.

But they did not expect that Nanliang would take advantage of their national mourning to raid and enter in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and gather so quickly, it seems that their cavalry, as early as last winter, had assembled and waited in Jiangnan.

"They sneaked up on Hefei City on Chinese New Year's Eve, Hefei City was completely defenseless, at most on the first day of the first month, they could take Hefei City, deploy defenses along the northern line of Chaohu Lake, and from the night of the first year, they could transport a large army across the river."

Gu Xi spoke very slowly.

"By yesterday morning, in five days, they had transported a total of 100,000 people, men and horses, plus heavy grain and grass, Nanliang's ships would not be much more than ours, this time, they mobilized at least two-thirds of the ships, which is really a big deal."

Gu Xi was silent for a moment, and then said:

"Mobilize so many ships, such a skill, it seems that the cavalry of Nanliang is really going to pour out, then there must be 340,000 or 445000 light cavalry, about 150,000 people, and in five days, they will be able to drive north and go straight to Xuzhou.

In 12 days, Hefei was captured, and 100,000 light horsemen were transported across the river. ”

Wen Cheng took a step forward, from Hefei City to Jianle City, "Hefei City to Jianle City 1,600 miles, on both sides of the river, the post post is the same, the gold medal is delivered five hundred miles a day, from Hefei City to Jianle City, the fastest will be three and a half days, or four days."

From Jianle City, the order was urgently sent to the various armies, and the fastest one was one day, and most of them took two to three days.

The garrisons in various places are to be assembled, and now they are all celebrating the New Year, and it will take a day at the earliest.

Rush over again, the light cavalry is the fastest, a day is only 200 miles, after arriving, either rest for half a day, the horsepower is restored, in order to meet the battle, otherwise to catch up, it is also no combat power, let others slaughter.

We need to gather an army of 500,000 to 100,000, thirteen or 14 days at the earliest.

But the army of Nanliang, the assembly is completed, it only takes twelve days, and when the assembly is completed, the first group of light cavalry has been resting for nearly ten days, and the soldiers are strong and strong.

This time, they fought hard-won, and the soldiers were fast. Wen Cheng sighed, unable to tell whether it was admiration or worry.

"But we received a tip report on the first night of the new year, and they were missing three days!" Gu Xi raised his hand and tapped on the topographic map, and his voice was pleasant.

"Hmm." Wen Cheng also smiled, these three days are very important!

"It's still too sudden." Wen Cheng looked down at the piece of paper that had just calculated the strength of Nanliang, and his brows furrowed, "In the Chinese New Year's Eve night, it has been peaceful for more than twenty years......"

Wen Cheng didn't say the rest of the words, the garrisons everywhere are celebrating the New Year, and when they are assembled, they are at least half a day or even two days slower than usual, and at this time, every quarter of an hour is a matter of life and death.

"It's already 30,000." Gu Xi also lost a smile on his face.

"However, 20,000 is a pawn." Wen Cheng wrinkled his eyebrows and looked at the topographic map, "It's really not good, we have to retreat, stop here, and let Huainan go to them." ”

"Let's see how much we can get tomorrow." Gu Xi squinted at Huainan who Wen Cheng pointed to.

Huainan is the granary money bag of Daqi, if it goes through the war, once it is released and seized, this year's harvest can not be counted on, and he does not want to put Huainan into it as a last resort.

Besides, at the beginning, they had already lost the lead, and if they retreated from this step, it would be extremely unfavorable to the hearts of the army and the people.

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Li Sangrou slept until around noon, sat up, and then had the time to look at her tent.

The tent was small, and there was a small charcoal stove on the other side, and the chimney led to the outside of the tent, so it was so warm.

There was a curtain hanging in the middle of the tent, and Li Sangrou leaned over and stretched her head to the side of the curtain.

On the other side of the curtain is a half-person-high bucket, next to the bucket is a basin shelf, and on the shelf next to it, there are clothes and a makeup box.

Makeup box!

This must be prepared as you wish, and you don't know what a makeup box is.

Li Sangrou stood up, there was water in the bucket, lukewarm, and there were two large buckets full of hot water in the back.

Li Sangrou carried a bucket of hot water, poured some into it, washed it, changed into clean clothes, wiped her hair until it didn't drip, pulled it to the top of her head, washed her clothes and hung them up, clapped her hands and was about to go out, when she saw the makeup box at a glance, and walked over to open it.

In the box, the honey lipstick, rouge gouache, quite complete.

Li Sangrou picked up the fragrant honey, smelled it, wiped a layer out, and wiped it with her face and hands.

Well, it's much more comfortable.

Li Sangrou lifted the curtain and came out.

The blind man squatted beside the tent and took a nap with a blind cane.

In front of a big tent next to it, there is a big cauldron, the big head is burning, the pot is full, and the fragrance is overflowing.

Dachang is facing a big copper pot to mix cold vegetables, the black horse is holding the garlic mortar and pounding garlic, grasshoppers, channeling strips and small Luzi, squatting next to the cauldron, using chopsticks to tie the baked steamed buns.

"Chicken and fish, it's quite complete." Li Sangrou stretched out her head and looked into the pot.

"It's all our New Year's goods!" Xiao Luzi grabbed the fastest talk.

"Is there any green garlic?" Li Sangrou looked at Dachang and asked.

"Yes, yes!" The dark horse replied.

"Chop it and sprinkle a handful when it comes out of the pan." Li Sangrou commanded, walked over and squatted next to the blind man, "How is it?" ”

"What do you say?" The blind man glanced at Li Sangrou, "The little one is okay, hit a dozen or so small arrows, you can try the head in a while, the arrow has no tail feathers, where to fly, you have to try to know." ”

"Eat! Dine! He pounced, screamed twice, and quickly pounced back.

He was starving.

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Li Sangrou came out of the tent, and after Gu Xi and Wen Cheng carefully calculated and calculated, the generals who had withdrawn from Hulala were summoned again.

By the time Gu Xi was busy for a while, it was almost the end of noon.

Ruyi immediately brought food in.

"Is Miss Li awake? Invite her over for dinner. Gu Xi cleaned his hands and instructed Ruyi.

"Miss Li woke up at noon, had dinner with Chang Ye and them, and just went out of the camp with Mr. Mi and a few craftsmen to try the crossbow. General Wen also followed. Ruyi hurriedly reported.

Gu Xi sighed, Wen Cheng looked at Gu Xi and smiled: "Let's go and see it in a while, Mr. Mi's two crossbows are very unusual, the arrows are heavy and small, he said that they are specially prepared for Master Li." ”

Gu Xi snorted and sat down with Wen Cheng to eat.

Soon after eating, the two came out, left the camp, and trotted not far from the horse, when they saw Li Sangrou and others.

The grasshopper Xiao Luzi and the others were very scattered, squatting on the ground and not knowing what to do.

Da Chang carried a brand-new steel crossbow and stood behind Li Sangrou, Li Sangrou bent over, and the black horse also bent over, looking at the blind rice man and a few craftsmen who were squatting on the ground.

Wen Shunzhi was walking back step by step from a few hundred steps.

"How did you try?" Dozens of steps away, Wen Cheng raised his voice and asked.

Several craftsmen hurriedly stood up and fell to their knees.

"It's fine." Li Sangrou turned around and said with a smile.

Wen Shunzhi waved his hand, still counting back step by step, but the pace was much faster.

"The arrow still has to be changed, it's not heavy enough." The blind man squatted and did not move, holding a small arrow six or seven inches long in his hand.

"The quasi-head of the big boss is so good!" Wen Shunzhi counted to the place where the blind man was squatting, rushed over, his eyes flashed with excitement, and he held a fat wild pigeon in his hand, "Six hundred steps, look at it." ”

Wen Shunzhi entrusted the pigeon to Gu Xi.

"Six hundred steps?" Wen Cheng was very surprised, "This crossbow ......"

"It's not this crossbow, it's a person, so she can have this quasi-head, this crossbow, this arrow, just for her." The blind man was holding a small arrow, and he didn't have a good airway.

He has always been angry with Wencheng.

"This is the ...... of the head," Gu Xi looked at the pigeon passing through his chest.

"Ten arrows were tried, and so were the arrows!" Wen Shunyi looked up at Li Sangrou.

Gu Xi saw Li Sangrou from the pigeon, then looked six hundred steps away from Li Sangrou, and then looked back at Li Sangrou, and asked with bated breath: "Shouzhen said that this is a repeating crossbow, how many arrows are fired in succession?" It's also like this when you even shoot? A few breaths and an arrow? What about loading arrows? How much breath? How many times can you open it in a row? ”

Li Sangrou was asked by Gu Xi like a series of questions, and leaned back when she asked.

"I'll try again, you see. Give me the crossbow. Li Sangrou took the crossbow from Dachang's hand, and the black horse hurriedly handed over a small arrow in his hand.

Wen Shunzhi raised his voice to command the guards and put the target six hundred steps away.

Li Sangrou put on the arrow, pulled the crossbow string hard, held the crossbow flat, pulled the plate machine, and the heavy black arrow continued with a sharp sound of breaking the air.

"Five breaths, ten arrows!" Wen Cheng owed to Li Sangrou, he really admired it.

"Bring it, bring it!" The blind man waved at the guards in the distance.

The guards ran back with the target, and when they saw Gu Xi waving his hand, they put the target in front of the blind man.

Gu Xi stretched his neck and looked at the small arrow that was not far from the center of the circle of the target and almost pierced through the target.

"Come here, take a look, this arrow is used for the second time, and the deviation is even more powerful, this time it is much more." The blind man beckoned to the craftsmen.

"Mr. Mi said that if it is not nailed in the center of the circle, it must be that the arrow is not done well." Wen Shunzhi and Gu Xi explained, spread their hands, and smiled.

Such a distance, such an accurate head, is already extremely rare, and the arrow is hitting the red heart, which is a bit of a joke.

Gu Xi stared at the row of targets lying horizontally on the ground, as if he hadn't heard Wen Shunzhi's words, after looking at it for a while, Gu Xi took two steps back, stood for a while, and turned to look at Wen Cheng, "Our strategy has to change!" Walk! ”

Gu Xi rushed out two steps, paused suddenly, turned around and rushed to Li Sangrou, looked at her, for a moment, and smiled, "I'll tell you when I think about it!" I'll go back first, and if I want to eat anything in the evening, I just have to tell Ruyi. ”

"Eat shepherd's cabbage dumplings at night." Li Sangrou pointed to Xiao Luzi and the others scattered around.

Gu Xi was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "Send me a bowl to taste." ”

"Okay." Li Sangrou smiled, looked at Wen Cheng and said, "Mr. Wen also tastes it?" ”

"Okay." Wen Cheng smiled and subconsciously glanced at Gu Xi.

Gu Xi and Wen Cheng hurried back and forth, and the blind man commanded Li Sangrou, shooting arrows out, taking them back, shooting them out again, and taking them back and forth more than ten times, and they were finally satisfied.

A group of people, Xiao Luzi carried several large baskets of fresh and tender shepherd's cabbage, a group of guards carried tattered targets, black horses and three grasshoppers, howling along the way, and went back to the camp.

Gu Xi's handsome tent, you can feel the urgency and tension from afar.

Li Sangrou asked Dachang and the others to move the stove away from the handsome tent.

Dachang was busy mixing noodles and making dumplings, Li Sangrou adjusted a pot of seasoning, marinated the half-killed sheep, and then slowly skewered a large pot of huge mutton skewers.

After the dumplings were wrapped, Li Sangrou put half of the sheep on the shelf, and began to roast it slowly, when the blind man came out of the artisan shed in the corner of the camp and rushed straight over with a blind cane.

"Black horse, go and call those masters over and have dinner together." Li Sangrou instructed the black horse.

As soon as the black horse jumped up, he was held down by the blind man with a blind staff.

"Forget it." The blind man looked at Li Sangrou, "Don't be embarrassed, cook the dumplings and send them some." ”

The blind man said as he sat next to Li Sangrou, "How many people like you and me, ignoring the world?"

This person has to be about the same to be able to gather into this and that group, and everyone is at ease. Even if they come, they will be unrestrained and uncomfortable with us.

You are not an official, you don't need to show grace and act, don't make people uncomfortable. ”

Li Sangrou snorted, didn't insist any longer, and roasted the mutton skewers in a row.

"I told them just now, let them hurry up, and try it again tomorrow, the big crossbow is almost the same, try it together tomorrow, and the arrows of the big crossbow will definitely have to be adjusted once or twice.

At most, the day after tomorrow, I'll be gone, and they're about to fight, right? ”

"Three or four days, four or five days." Li Sangrou replied in a low voice.

"Alas, as soon as the fight starts, the blood flows like a river, and this area ......" Mi looked around blindly, and sighed again, "The yin qi has come up, I have to leave quickly." ”

Li Sangrou looked back at the blind man, "Where are you going?" Is there a place to hide? ”

"Where to hide? There's nowhere to hide, and you can't hide, I'll go back, alas, what I told you, you have memorized everything, don't be careless, don't underestimate the enemy. The blind man looked at Li Sangrou with a solemn expression.

"Well, what are they going to do?" Li Sangrou replied in a low voice, looked at the blind man and asked.

"I don't know, I haven't been back for more than ten or twenty years, and I haven't heard from me, alas." The blind man sighed lowly.

"You're going back, are you okay?" Li Sangrou said with concern.

"What can it be? I just don't want to go back, I don't want to be taken care of, I don't want to be assigned here and there, running and working. They were assigned, and there was nothing to worry about.

However, I'm old and don't have much ability. ”

"What if you don't go back? Will something happen? ”

"That's my home." The blind man said in a low voice, and after a moment, he knocked on the blind cane and shouted: "Black horse, bring a pot of wine, there is meat and dumplings, no wine!" ”