Soon after Chen Jing'an's death, the situation in Henan Province changed again, on the one hand, the rebels from all over the country left their cottages and began to gather and move, judging from the information collected, they seemed to regard Chen Zhou as the focus of prevention, thinking that perhaps Chen Jing'an had used some unknown channel to send this news to the hands of Jiazhou Xizuo before his death, although this made Yuan Zhang feel a little surprised, but it was not unexpected by him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But another thing made him a little confused, after receiving his handwritten letter, Arub immediately mobilized 100,000 troops in Longcheng to prepare to go south to support Henan Province, originally this army had entered Hedong Road, ready to break through Qian Hua's defense into Henan Province, but they suddenly stopped their pace, waited in place for a few days and then dried up the marching route, turned back to the west and changed the destination to the capital.

At present, Qin Shixin in the south of the capital has only 60,000 soldiers and horses, and with the strong walls of the capital and the tens of thousands of Northern Yuan troops in the city, this one of the best fortified cities in the world has no possibility of falling in a short period of time; On the contrary, the situation faced by Usari in Nam Province is already precarious, why did they make such a choice? Yuan Zhang couldn't figure out Arubu's intentions at all, but unfortunately now that time was very short, he couldn't verify with Arubu anymore.

It seems that this operation can only rely on the existing 100,000 troops in Henan Province, Yuan Zhang thought with regret that according to his original plan, this support army can work with him to solve the problem of Qian Hua's harassment of the rear, and then join forces to ambush the army led by Li You himself, but now he can only leave a part of the soldiers and horses to guard the main road of Hedong Road into Henan Province, in case Qian Hua takes him to ambush Li You to go south, and he himself takes 30,000 soldiers and horses to slowly drive towards Chenzhou.

At the same time, after many days of artillery bombardment, Usari's camp was already in tatters, and the trenches surrounding the camp had been dug by the Jiazhou army, and the deep water flowed clean along the gaps dug up; Then the prepared engineer battalion rushed forward, filling in the trenches with bags of dirt and filling out several roads leading to the camp, and Usari's camp was almost undefendable, and the question was when the Jiazhou army would attack.

"According to the news sent by the Black Ice Platform, Yuan Zhang has personally led nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses to prepare to meet Usari, and the route of their march is like this." A staff officer marked the direction of Yuan Zhang's advance on the map, and it looked like he would reach Chenzhou in a few days at most, "And the soldiers in Usari's camp have recently begun to pack their bags, and it seems that the withdrawal of troops will be a matter of the next day or two." ”

Hearing this, the generals visually measured the distance from the Usari camp to Chenzhou, and were faintly aware of Yuan Zhang's plan, Luo Shiji shook his head and said, "The vicinity of Chenzhou is mountainous, and the road is narrow and not easy to pass, which can easily cause the gathering of large armies. ”

"It's not just Chenzhou, it's also Xuzhou in front of Chenzhou, and there are more than one suitable places for ambushes along the way." Someone reminded that through their efforts, the Jiazhou Army was familiar with the terrain of Henan Province, and they could tell all the names of those places on Usari's retreat route with their eyes closed.

"When Usari retreats, he will definitely burn the camp to hinder the pursuit of our Jiazhou army, so as to get rid of us for a while and buy time to join Yuan Zhang; Of course, these can't stop us for long, so the ambush site prepared by Yuan Zhang will definitely not be far from here, either Chenzhou or Xuzhou. Luo Shiji said slowly, he narrowed the scope of the target again, "Judging from the news from Henan Province and the feedback from various rebels, it seems that Chenzhou is more likely. ”

Li You smiled silently, but he was a little anxious in his heart, the cannon was moving slowly, and he couldn't keep up with the speed of the army in the pursuit battle, and he lost this sharp weapon, if he was ambushed by Yuan Zhang, I am afraid it would be a bitter battle again; Now he was very much looking forward to the news from the Black Ice Terrace in time, but something seemed to have happened in Henan Province, and the contact with the local Black Ice Terrace was suddenly cut off, and he couldn't get Yuan Zhang's true plan through this channel.

Therefore, now we can only rely on the General Staff to deduce the ambush site prepared by Yuan Zhang through other news, so as to avoid losses and obtain the greatest results; Judging from the current situation, the staff is doing a good job, and has deduced several of the most suspicious locations, and the following is to continue to eliminate options and get the only answer.

In addition, the General Staff also made improvements to the pursuit plan, sorted out the possible ambush methods adopted by the Beiyu and gave solutions one by one, and issued them to officers at all levels, so that they could urge the soldiers of the Jiazhou Army to train diligently so as not to suffer heavy losses at that time.

As the saying goes, "three stinky generals, one Zhuge Liang", Yuan Zhang is certainly resourceful, but individual wisdom cannot withstand the collective strength after all, Li You believes that even if he hides his true purpose deeply, he will be found flawed by the Black Ice Terrace, the General Staff and the rebels all over Henan Province.

In Usari's camp, the morale of the soldiers was extremely low, and as long as they heard the roar of the cannons every day, they were like frightened birds, subconsciously hiding their bodies behind thick walls and in earthen pits, until they were sure that the cannons of the Jiazhou army had stopped firing before they dared to straighten up again.

After many days of suffering, a long-lost smile finally appeared on their faces, because on this day Usari finally gave the order to retreat, they began to pack their bags, abandon everything they could, and buy flammable materials around the camp, preparing to use fire to block the pursuit of the Jiazhou army.

The old, weak, sick and disabled had already left first, and now those who remained in the camp were all elite soldiers with superb horsemanship, and Usari reluctantly looked around the camp that he had run for a long time, and then slowly gave the order to fire and retreat; Flames erupted everywhere in an instant, and Usari commanded the last of his soldiers to retreat quickly.

The fire was instantly seen by the Jiazhou army, and the news also quickly spread to Li You, who had been prepared for this, immediately issued an order, and the engineer battalion took the first step to cross the trench and enter the enemy camp to extinguish the fire, and break a pursuit road for the Jiazhou army in the rear.

Immediately, Pan Feng led 30,000 cavalry to quickly fall in the direction of Usari's retreat, and a pursuit battle began.