The eighth day of this night will soon come in the morning light, if you take into account that Zhou Yu Ye will continue to enter the Dongzhou Continent, then people in the dream will almost have more than twenty days to carry out the strategy of the tail city.

Yesterday during the day, the coalition forces were still in the camp southeast of the tail city, and at this moment they had already moved counterclockwise around the tail county administration office with a circumference of nearly twenty miles, and came to the west of the tail city plain.

Since the camp of the coalition army had been established in the southeast of the tail city, and the purpose of their coming to the western passage was also to ambush, not only did this camp not have any tents, but they had not even dug a single bite of the marching stove, and everyone from the dreamer to the coalition soldiers ate cold dry food from top to bottom.

The morning sun of the Dongzhou Continent crossed the head of the tail city, sprinkling a warm morning glow on the temporary campsite of the coalition army, bringing a touch of warmth to everyone.

Huang Zhi looked up at the rising sun that had just emerged, and saw that the walls of the tail city were dyed with a circle of scarlet blood, which abruptly gave people a feeling of the twilight of the remnant sun, just like the future of the rebels in the tail county.

At the same time, Du Ziteng, who hadn't slept well all night, had also gotten up early and came to the north gate tower of the tail city, waiting for the nearest Wangxinguan to come to help. He slept very poorly last night, and always felt that the coalition army in the southeast was a little too quiet, and with his many years of military career, this situation was quite like the calm before the war, which was really worrying.

At this moment, he looked anxiously at the official road in the north of the Weicheng Plain, and calculated that the reinforcements from Wangxinguan should also arrive, but at this moment, there was no trace of him. Thinking of the faces he saw the night before, he couldn't help but feel a little weak, remembering the night when he looked at Huicheng and lost it. Many of the surviving soldiers that night said that those people were the ones who followed Liu Yuanzhi into the city.

According to his later investigation, these people were the supreme leaders of the Eastern Navy, a group of strange guys known as "dream people". These people almost wiped out the 2,000 troops of Wanghui City under Du Ziteng's hands, and they didn't seem to have many people, so they couldn't reach a thousand people.

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, if it weren't for the fact that his cavalry had been lost in the sneak attack the night before, and the last few horses in the city had been sent out by him to ask for help, he really wanted to send a few scouts out to find out. And now, if the tail city is lost, Du Ziteng, the general who defends the city, will not even have a chance to escape, because in order to increase the chance of success in asking for help, he even contributed his own mount.

"Could it be that all the scouts asking for help have been intercepted by the coalition forces?" He thought about it with some trouble, and then denied his own idea. "Impossible, I've sent at least three scouts from each direction asking for help. If this can't evade their interception, then the rebel army is really finished. ”

As time passed, in the blink of an eye, it was already the third pole of the mountain, but there was still no movement in the north, and Du Ziteng's face became more and more ugly. Under his influence, the rebels on duty at the head of the city were all silent, for fear of touching his mold. Under this rising sun, the tail city does not make people feel a trace of vitality at all, but gives people a feeling of lifelessness.

On the official road to the north, more than 20 miles away from Weicheng, the corpses in the center of the official road were all over the field, and hundreds of corpses were only stripped of their weapons and equipment, still maintaining the posture they had when they died last night.

The Dream Man didn't want to expose these unfortunate cavalrymen to the streets, but they were pressed for time. In the limited time, they need to heal the wounded, need to transfer positions, need to explore the terrain of the Western Passage, need to arrange a second ambush, and simply cannot spare time to do these humanitarian things.

Just like at this moment, the coalition soldiers were sleeping in a small valley next to the West Passage one by one, but in the dream, people had to allocate half of their men to accompany Sima Fuqiang, and continued to work despite sleepiness. They spent nearly three hours and nearly thirty miles on this official road to the west, just to choose a suitable place for an ambush.

After selecting a mountain pass that was most suitable for ambush, the three stinkers stayed in place for further investigation and deployment, while Xiaofeng hurried back to the temporary camp to summon the coalition forces together.

Although the coalition soldiers only took a three-hour nap, they finally regained a lot of mental and physical strength. On the other hand, the three decision-makers of the Eastern Navy were all drooping with black bags under their eyes, their beards were unwieldy, and their faces were haggard.

Even Li Erhu, who has always been very arrogant, was a little unbearable, and asked in a loud voice, "Three bosses, why don't you go to sleep first?" ”

Sima Fuqiang directly chose to ignore his suggestion, because he was really tired, but he had to finish the task at hand. He hadn't slept well since yesterday morning, but after squinting a little last night, he had to get up to fight because of the early arrival of reinforcements from Wangxinguan. Other teammates just can't sleep, but he still has to use the "sand table deduction" skill to judge and choose the most suitable location for the ambush, so he is almost tired at this moment.

Huang Zhi patted Li Erhu on the shoulder, "Erhu, let's go to sleep, you come to set up an ambush?" ”

Li Erhu was immediately dumbfounded when he heard this, and shook his head like a rattle. "It's okay for me to let the two tigers charge into battle, and it's okay to go up the knife mountain and down the sea of fire, but it's okay to arrange the troops."

Everyone was amused by him, and finally let the sleepy dreamers recover a little of their spirits.

When the relevant precautions were finally arranged to Wu Qiang, Liu Yuanzhi and others, the three stinkers casually found a grass nest to lie down, and in the blink of an eye, they snored and shook the sky.

In addition to the rotating personnel and the scouts dispatched, the other coalition soldiers continued to sleep after entering their respective ambush positions.

Huang Zhi and the three of them slept until the second half of the night, and if it weren't for the fact that they were really hungry, they were really reluctant to wake up. After eating some dry food indiscriminately, Huang Zhi and Zhang Wei fell asleep, Sima Fuqiang looked up at the sky, but couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

He turned his head and looked around, and at this time, the dream man on duty was Wuyang, and called the other party over, "Haven't you come yet?" ”

"Who didn't come?" The honest farmer didn't react for a while.

"Ugh." Sima Fuqiang sighed, "I'm asking for the enemy's reinforcements. ”

Only then did Wuyang react, "Oh, yes, it's not here yet." ”

Sima Fuqiang thought for a moment and asked, "What time is it now?" ”

Wuyang crossed his fingers and counted for a long time before he replied with some embarrassment, "Captain, when Wu Qiang said it was ugly just now, I couldn't tell what time it should be......

"Got it." Sima Fuqiang nodded. The ugly time is the period from one to three o'clock in the morning, compared to the "early" Wangxinguan reinforcements, the men and horses on the west road are a little late. According to the pre-estimate, unless the rebels along the way did not want to come to the rescue, they should have arrived at the ambush site before the hour.

"Did you miscalculate something?" He looked into the distance, and the expatriate scouts had not reported any news so far.

After pondering for a while, he looked up again and said to Wuyang, "How long do you have to be on duty?" ”

"About two hours." For this, Wuyang is not ambiguous.

"Well, stay vigilant, wake me up if there's any movement. Also, you go and inform Wu Qiang and ask him to send another team of scouts to see if something goes wrong. With that, he went back to sleep.

Sima Fuqiang's sleep was half a day, and this time he was awakened by the dazzling sunlight. I sat up and stretched, and found that my energy had basically returned to its best state, but because the sleeping place was not flat enough, my whole body was sore. Turning his head to look around, he found that the two brothers, Huang Zhi and Zhang Wei, were still sleeping with their heads covered, while the other teammates had already woken up.

Looking up and squinting at the sun that was already hanging high in the sky, he suddenly jumped up, "That's not right! The enemy's reinforcements have been more than half a day late! ”

Hurriedly woke up Huang Zhi and Zhang Wei, who were still sleeping happily, and asked other teammates to quickly find Liu Yuanzhi and other commanders, Sima Fuqiang convened an emergency military meeting.

"Liu Yuanzhi, you take out the map and calculate it carefully, the reinforcements along the way shouldn't be so late." The first thing he found was naturally Liu Yuanzhi, the commander of the army.

Only then did Liu Yuanzhi realize that something was wrong with the situation, and quickly took out the map of Wei County handed over to him by Li Wei and re-examined it. "The distance is right, two hundred and fifty miles, even if it is a little rubbing, it should be there early this morning. Moreover, there are three scouts sent by Du Ziteng for help on each road, and it is impossible for accidents to occur at the same time. ”

"Didn't this support army travel overnight, and still be able to spend the night on the road? Got enough sleep before continuing on the road? Zhang Wei muttered, this idea is really a little unbelievable.

Huang Zhi shook his head, "It's impossible to be like this. If it's not the condition on the road, then it can only be a problem over there. Liu Yuanzhi, what reason do you think the rebels on the Western Road are delaying the rescue speed? ”

"The rebels of the Western Road ......," Liu Yuanzhi struggled to recall.

After a while, he knelt on the ground with a pale face, "Please punish the sinner, it was the negligence of his subordinates!" ”

Sima Fuqiang's eyelids jumped when he heard this, what he was most afraid of when marching and fighting was negligence, and any wrong judgment could directly lead to a reversal of the relationship between victory and defeat. At this moment, misjudging the arrival time of the reinforcements from the west will directly lead to the miscarriage of the plan of the ambush at the wrong time, and the rebels will regain the numerical advantage, and the failure of the tail city attack is small, and it is likely to bring heavy losses to the coalition army.

Thinking of this, he was already anxiously pacing back and forth, and began to consider whether to withdraw his troops immediately and give up the plan to continue to "encircle the point and send reinforcements".

Huang Zhi pressed the captain's shoulder and asked him to calm down, and then he opened his mouth and asked Liu Yuanzhi, "Don't talk about the problem of punishment first, people will inevitably be negligent, it is more important for you to tell us what is going on first!" ”

Liu Yuanzhi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, pointed to the map and said, "This rebel army on the Western Road does not have a formed cavalry configuration, and its reinforcements will naturally not arrive in a short time. Due to the high cost of cavalry, the rebels in Weixian only had a small number of horses in the north and south and the rebels in the center, while the other east and west roads had only a small number of horses for officers and scouts. ”

Sima Fuqiang was a little relieved, but when he recalculated the arrival time of the reinforcements from the western route, he became entangled again. Based on the speed of the infantry marching at half the cavalry, the arrival time of the reinforcements from the western route happened to be at the same time as the reinforcements from the farthest northwest road arrived at the Weicheng Plain.

"Divide the troops?" This was the first thing that came to his mind. If there are only 500 reinforcements on both sides, then the 2,000 coalition troops can still maintain their numerical advantage on both sides.

"I'm afraid not!" In order to atone for his crimes, Liu Yuanzhi also actively used his brain at this time, "Due to the low defensive pressure on the face, it is entirely possible that these two reinforcements will be between 500 and 1,000 people, depending on what their boss thinks." ”

What Liu Yuanzhi said is very reasonable, if the people in the dream were in the hands of the two thousand East Navy at this time, instead of the two thousand coalition troops, they would dare to divide their troops and attack the two reinforcements at the same time. However, at present, the 1,000 troops under Li Wei are really difficult to reassure, and who knows if they can cope with one of the reinforcements that are evenly matched with their combat effectiveness.

What's more critical is that the East China Sea team lacks skills, it is absolutely impossible to divide them into two teams and take care of two fronts at the same time, and if they lose the length and weight of the weapon, the probability of the dream man being damaged will increase a lot. This is absolutely unacceptable to them.

At this time, Zhang Wei stared at the map, and suddenly pointed to a mountain range in the northwest of the map and asked, "Is there a road here?" ”

Hearing this, Liu Yuanzhi looked at the place where he pointed his finger, "That's right, between the West Passage and the Northwest Road, there is indeed a small road connecting it, just a few dozen miles ahead. ”

"Hey, hey!" Zhang Wei finally smiled, "That's easy, we can still use the time difference to win the advantage in numbers." ”

Sima Fuqiang and Huang Zhiwen also came over to look at the map, and after some careful calculations, both confirmed that Zhang Wei's method was indeed feasible.

At this time, the coalition forces were located twenty-five miles away from the West Passage and Tail City, and twenty miles away from the path connecting the West Passage and the Northwest Passage. Based on the rapid march of reinforcements from the west road for 120 miles a night, they should be able to reach Weicheng by tonight and tomorrow morning.

However, if the coalition forces take the initiative to meet the reinforcements, they will be able to meet the other side by this afternoon at the latest, and after defeating the reinforcements, they will immediately turn around and take the small road to the northwest, and they should still have time to meet the reinforcements from the northwest.

Although according to this plan, the coalition forces will face high-intensity marching and fighting in the next twenty-four hours, but it is the only way to solve the current situation.

There was no longer any hesitation, and the three decision-makers of the Eastern Navy immediately decided to implement the battle plan according to this, and even did not give Li Wei more time to think about it, and directly set off first, lest this guy regret it.

Fortunately, the coalition forces have also rested for almost a whole day since noon yesterday, and there should be no big problem with such a high-intensity continuous battle at this moment, so Li Wei has no opinion.

At this moment, he really loved and feared the three stinkers of the dream man, and what he loved was that they were so clever that nothing seemed to bother them. The brainstorming of three people is stronger than one person's brain, as long as one person has a flash of inspiration at any time, many problems can be solved, or how to say that three stinkers beat Zhuge Liang.

However, Li Wei also planted fear and worry about the Eastern Navy in his heart, and the growth rate of this army, which had only been formed for less than two months, was really amazingly fast. Even he had to admit that if he let himself fight with this Eastern Navy with an officer army that had left the state capital at this time, he was afraid that he would be the one who would lose.

And the army is clearly still growing, at least not yet, and Le Wei has not seen where they are going to end. The increasing number of inhabitants in the East China Sea Territory and the increasing financial resources indicate that this strong army with extremely high combat effectiveness will have a stable rear and a stable source of troops.

"I'm afraid that one day, they won't be their opponents from the state capital!" Li Wei suddenly had such an idea.

Fortunately, although the Eastern Navy is readable, it is still a controllable force under the Dongzhou Imperial Court system, unless they plan to rebel. Li Wei didn't dare to think so.

Before you know it, the coalition forces have crossed the trail to the northwest, and the reinforcements from the west are already not far ahead. Considering that the opponent was a pure infantry army, and it was impossible to build any fortifications during the march, the three stinkers gathered all the cavalry of the coalition army at the front of the team, and tried to launch a charge at the first time when they found the rebel reinforcements, and beat the opponent first.

It must be said that their judgment was quite accurate, and before the afternoon fell, the coalition army was met with reinforcements consisting of eight hundred foot soldiers, among which there were only three or two horses, all of which were officers' mounts.

After the coalition cavalry launched a charge, the reinforcements, who had not yet figured out the situation, had been beaten to pieces. When the cavalry turned around and launched a second charge, the infantry that arrived later also completed the encirclement of the rebels.

Within half an hour, the coalition forces had crippled the support army with almost no effort, and seeing that the remaining remnants of the army were about to turn around and flee, the dream was that the cavalry had chased for a short distance in disguise, and without even having time to clean up the weapons scattered all over the place, they turned and hurried towards the mountain trail at full speed.

Calculating the time, it was still a little difficult to ensure that all the members of the coalition army arrived in the Northwest Road before the Northwest reinforcements, and the people in the dream gritted their teeth and simply let the cavalry go first, while they personally led the team as the commander of the cavalry team. And hand over the infantry army of up to 1,700 men to Li Wei, Wu Qiang, Liu Yuanzhi and others, and let them follow as quickly as possible.

Although he was a little tired, after a rapid march of hundreds of miles, the Northwest Road finally appeared in front of the eyes of the dreamer, and it was only the tenth day of the year, and the sky was not yet dawn.

The first thing Zhang Wei did was to jump off the horse, and by the moonlight, he looked at the ground for a long time before he raised his head with confidence, "They haven't arrived yet!" ”

(To be continued)