Late at night, in a small village ten miles away, dogs barked like a tide.

Humming the song of the newly learned society, Wang Da Hammer carried a large piece of black rhinoceros meat and swaggered into the village.

In the dark, a villager whispered to Wang Da Hammer: "Big Hammer! Why did you come back? Didn't the officers and soldiers take you away and beat you? You escaped by yourself?"

"What escaped back?" Wang Dazhui shook the black rhinoceros beef proudly, and said: "See, not only did they not embarrass me, but also invited us to watch a play, eat steamed buns, and give us the meat of high-level soul beasts!"

"Watching a play, eating steamed buns?" The villagers in the shadows did not know when there were a few more: "So, what those officials and soldiers said is true? They really didn't force you to pay taxes and grain? They really didn't force you to work as coolies? They really didn't blackmail you or bully you?"

"No, no, they are very trustworthy and very well-behaved!" Wang Dazhui said: "There are many aunts and sisters who have also gone, and no one has done anything!"

"Then what are they trying to do? Didn't they be quite domineering at first? I heard that many people were taken captive by force!" The villagers wondered: "Could it be that now the officers and soldiers have also changed their temperament, and they have also changed their temperament?"

Wang Dazhui glared and said: "Then how do I know? All in all, this dragon army commander is very powerful, different! I have to tell my son to go quickly, let him pay attention! They have dug out their minds to inquire about the terrain of Bison Gully, and they may soon go there to fight!"

After bragging with the villagers, Wang Dazhui hummed a song and left with satisfaction.

"The rules and regulations of revolutionary discipline must be clearly written,

The people's fighters love the people everywhere!

Defend the Motherland forever forward,

The people of the whole country support and welcome it!"

In the dark, several villagers muttered in a low voice: "Do you want to report this matter to Yan Shuai and Mr. Wen today?"

"Then what do we report? Say that Long Yuandong captured the common people and released them back unscathed? What is there to report about this?"

"Anyway, what to say. There is also that Wang Sledgehammer, I see that he looks happy, he must have been poured ecstasy soup by the thief officer army. Maybe his son will become a deserter!"

Similar things, in the villages within a radius of more than ten miles, frequently repeated, all kinds of story versions are available, some scold, some praise, some believe, some question, some secretly expect, some look coldly, but in general, the image of the dragon army not bullying the people, stressing discipline, and keeping promises will eventually go away with the military song that is like a magic sound.

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"Stop!" Long Yuandong drank the troops, jumped on horseback, and carefully observed the front with a telescope.

Twenty miles ahead, is their destination today, Bison Gully!

Four days ago, he personally went to the Bison Gully to step on the spot, and found that the geographical conditions there were much more complicated than imagined, but the enemy had already sent a large army to be on strict guard at this time, and he could not get close to reconnoitre, and he could only roughly observe the peripheral trend, and there was no way to know what the situation was inside.

The five elements of military intelligence include the task, time, place, enemy situation, and our situation, among which the factor of location has a very great impact on victory or defeat. For the sake of prudence, he asked the guard division to find a way to collect a large amount of information about the Bison Valley, and at the same time, he also found a few villagers who had lived near the Bison Ditch since childhood to act as guides. After making sufficient preparations, he led the army to fight.

Dugu Wen said: "It is reported that the bison ditch is one hundred and sixty miles wide from east to west, sixty miles deep from north to south, and the middle ravine is vertical and horizontal, with seven or eight meters or even more than ten meters in depth, and two or three meters in shallow places, like a flat earth, squeezing out of thin air a wrinkle." According to legend, these ravines and ravines are the traces of fighting left by two groups of bison in ancient times to grab water resources and wrestle with each other, hence the name Bison Gully. ”

Long Yuandong nodded and said: "Since the enemy wants to use the geographical advantage to fight this battle with us, naturally he will not set up an ambush outside the Bison Valley, we can go forward another twenty miles with peace of mind, and after arriving at the Bison Valley, we will see the opportunity to act." ”

The army continued to advance, and after walking for about ten miles, Dugu Wenjiao suddenly found that the soil under the ground had signs of being turned over, and hurriedly stopped the army, saying: "Far East, it seems that there is something strange here, you have to send someone to investigate it to make sure that there are no traps before leaving!"

Long Yuandong beckoned to call the guide, one of the eldest, named Zhang Yishan, was thin and thin, but his eyes were very bright, he nodded and said: "Dashuai, these dirt are not turned by people, they are pulled out by wild beasts foraging for food." In the bison ditch, there are many moles, lynxes, and foxes, and some often come out to steal the grain and vegetables grown by the farmer. But now that the grain has been harvested, they have nothing to eat, so they dig around the barren fields and vegetable fields to find some vegetable roots and seeds to feed their stomachs. ”

Long Yuandong smiled: "Very good, you go down first." After a while, he had a plan in his heart, turned around and whispered to He Dali, and asked him to take a battalion of 1,000 people from the regiment of force, as well as 2,000 people from the first regiment of the Fire Martial Arts Brigade of the Fu Huo Division, and leave the team to the right.

Dugu Wen said in a deep voice: "Far East, the guide's words can't be trusted, let's be careful." The Bison Gully covers a vast area, and the enemy army has only more than 100,000 people, so it must only choose one of the areas to set up an ambush, otherwise the personnel are too scattered to play the role of ambush. They set up an ambush, and the most worrying thing was, of course, that we would not march according to the route they expected and would not enter their ambush circle. If we don't go into the ambush circle, the enemy won't be able to take advantage, so they will definitely try to lure us into the lure. And these churning dirt may be the signal of temptation. If we turn westward by surprise at this time, and then cut into the bison ditch, the enemy will be unprepared and will be caught by surprise. ”

"Fellow countrymen, you have to listen to them, otherwise what are you calling them to do?" Long Yuandong said with a smile: "Besides, if the tossed dirt is a signal for the enemy to lure us, then do they want to startle the snake and let us take a detour, or do they bet that we will turn a blind eye and move on?" Or, no matter how we react, it is all in their expectations, and maybe we have entered the enemy's encirclement at this time!"

Dugu Wen hissed and took a breath, thinking that this is not impossible, if the enemy's secret art retreat army secretly dug the tunnel to more than ten miles away from the bison ditch, no one would have expected it.

Assuming that our army has indeed entered the encirclement of the enemy, it will be too late in any case to retreat in all its parts. However, our army has nearly 50,000 troops, and the ranks are more than 10 miles long, and even if the front foot enters the enemy's encirclement, most of the rear is estimated to be outside, otherwise why doesn't the enemy do it now? It is nothing more than that the time is not yet ripe for total annihilation!

At this time, our army divided 3,000 people and turned westward, and the enemy threw a mouse trap, and we must grasp the big and let go of the small, and let them pass safely, otherwise they will completely expose themselves and lose all their previous achievements. And our side has an extra surprise soldier who can affect the situation of the battle to answer outside. Therefore, regardless of whether our army inadvertently enters the enemy's ambush circle or not, there is no disadvantage.

"So you let the fat man lead the army first?"