After chewing a few mouthfuls of the somewhat astringent wheat cake, Zhang Wanshan took off the water bladder from his waist and drank it, sat on the stone slab and looked around, his eyes wandered aimlessly over a group of soldiers who hurried by, and swallowed expressionlessly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The army of the ant thieves is deployed in a chaotic manner, or it is deliberately arranged to create this chaotic pattern.

Except for the top-level generals, even the leaders who command thousands of troops don't know where they will go next.

Maybe it's just waking you up in the middle of the night, and when an order comes down, you have to mobilize immediately and set off at the appointed time.

This also places high demands on the ant thief's ability to mobilize and march.

Fortunately, ant thieves are not as logistically advanced as other armies, they can eat wherever they go like locusts, and if they don't have enough to eat, they will naturally spread around until they find enough to eat.

Only the regular army and the elite can have supply support, and sometimes even the regular army has to eat everywhere.

In the distance, several Confucian figures dressed in ragged clothes and decadent faces passed fifty paces away in ox carts, surrounded by dozens of cavalry.

Zhang Wanshan lowered his head, as if he was unconscious, but the afterglow of his eyes had already taken all this into his eyes.

He knew that although he seemed to be unattended, he was certain that at least three or five special people had been secretly observing and monitoring him, and that his scout background had given him a more innate insight and perception than others.

Although the adults let themselves come to Yingbo Erzhou to meet the leader of the ant thieves this time, this trip is also an extremely important polishing baptism for themselves, so that they can observe and understand the structure and performance of the ant thieves more deeply and intuitively as a scout.

The ant thief already has his own full-time spell team, and the scale is still expanding, Zhang Wanshan silently remembered.

It can be seen that the ant thieves are also paying more and more attention to the magic team, which should have a lot to do with their defeat of Shansang City some time ago.

There were two armies of the probation army stationed in Shansang City, but they were broken by the ant thieves inside and outside, and Zhang Wanshan was also extremely shocked by the ant thieves' infiltration ability.

You must know that the county seat of Shansang is located in the lower reaches of the whirlpool, and the geographical location is extremely important, and the probation army has also made extremely careful preparations in Shansang City, and even sent a full-time magic team to ensure the city, but they never thought that the ant thieves had already arranged a large number of internal responses in the county town of Shansang, and they burned the city gate at night and broke the city in one fell swoop.

This is also a great wake-up call for Zhang Wanshan.

The ant thief could have arranged the fine work and the response personnel to Shansang City a few months in advance, and at that time, the ant thief had even just entered Yingzhou, and Bozhou had not even realized that the ant thief would sweep all the way in, but the ant thief had already begun to consciously arrange people to arrange internal responses in these important cities.

Zhang Wanshan also shuddered a little when he thought of this, most of the soldiers of the Third Army of the Gushi Army and the soldiers of the Tun Army who were stationed in Tun Yin City were recruited from the displaced people in Yingzhou and Shouzhou.

After the city of Shansang was breached, more than 2,000 people were killed in the 5,000 probation army, and more than half of the remaining 2,000 were included in the servant army, and three or four of them were captured.

Zhang Wanshan couldn't help but sigh at the luxury of Huaibei, and actually dared to arrange three or four magicians and magicians in a county town to assist the garrison to defend the city.

It has long been heard that Huaibei, Huainan and Wuyue and other places are prosperous, and the talents are like clouds, which seems to be true.

There are only a few magicians in the entire Gushi Army, but the Huaibei Reforming Army is willing to put a few magicians in Shansang City.

Even if Shansang City is important, it is still too hasty to disperse the use of magicians, without perfecting protection measures, of course, this is probably related to Huaibei's solid accumulation of magicians.

Thinking of this, Zhang Wanshan also felt a little sorry, if he had the opportunity, he really wanted to hijack these magicians and magicians back to Gushi, but unfortunately this can only be thought, if it is around Gushi, it is better to take such a risk, and this is Bozhou, it is not very realistic.

It should be said that he has gained a lot in the ant thief army during this period of time, and Zhang Wanshan can have the opportunity to observe and understand the operation of the ant thief in all aspects at such a close distance, which in itself can provide a basis for the next adjustment strategy of the Gu Shi Army.

But his main task this time is to meet Qin Quan, and he has not reached it so far, which also makes Zhang Wanshan a little irritable.

Just when Zhang Wanshan was upset that the task could not be completed, three people were discussing in a tent thirty steps away from Zhang Wanshan.

"Shansang City has obtained enough food for our army to eat for two months, luck is too good, it just so happened that Shansang City is ready to transport grain, five thousand soldiers, and a few magicians, it seems that the Shi family really wants to nail us here. ”

The short man has a bald head and a short neck, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a wide mouth and a flat nose, and looks very incongruous, but a thick Mo knife leaning at his feet, especially the Mo knife is thicker than the ordinary Mo knife, and there are a large number of talisman patterns on the knife surface, but it makes people understand that this person is by no means an idle person.

"Lao Shang, attacking the county seat is still a bit risky for us now, if it weren't for enough internal coaxing, we wouldn't be so easy to break through, or even return home. Qin Heng shook his head, "For our Flame Army, the most important thing is to continue to win, only in this way can we gather morale and attract more people to join us, and Datang has provided us with this stage." ”

"I also know this, but the children below are not vegetarians, so a few months of running around, if there is no thought, the big guy's mood will be a little low, Ah Heng, you also have to pay attention to the group of people below you, I think you can make people like you by taking the lead, boss, I think I still have to make a wish to the brothers, so that the big guy has to have a thought, otherwise if this continues, one day if we lose one or two games, people's hearts will be shaken, two more defeats, maybe there will be problems. ”

The bald-eyed thin man glanced at the wide-mouthed man with some satisfaction, after a few months, this guy's insight has increased a lot, I heard that he specially invited a few strategists and Confucian scholars to be his staff, in addition to fighting all day long, it is to let these guys give him a lecture on the war book, it seems to be quite effective, and I also know that people have no long-term worries.

"Big brother, what Lao Shang said is not unreasonable, we are always going around in circles in this place, and the guys in the probation army have realized that if this continues, they will not be able to pass next year in Huaibei, so the action is getting bigger and bigger, and the speed of pursuit has also caught up, I am afraid that one day I will always be bitten by them." ”

The man who also had bald eyebrows, but was much more pleasing to the eye, glanced at the eldest brother who had been lowering his eyelids without worry, and sighed and said: " Han Baling and they are also a little impatient on the Shouzhou side, they feel that it is a little difficult to bite hard in Shouzhou, but as long as we support it, there is no problem, Huoqiu's side has been taken down by them, and they have gained a lot, it is estimated that this winter and spring is no problem, but they don't want to keep whirling in the circle of Shouzhou, they feel that except for Shouchun, there is nothing else to fish. ”

The bald-eyed man stroked his forehead and shook his head slightly: "It's not the time yet." ”

Seeing that the bald-eyed man finally spoke, Qin Heng and Shang Ke finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Big brother (boss), then how long are we going to spend time in this Yinglang land?" Ah Dao and Ah Ru are a little impatient, what are we waiting for?"

The bald-eyed man's dark yellow eyes flashed with a sharp light, and his gaze also looked to the east.

He didn't know that there was not much oil and water in the land of Yingbo now.

The gentry in the countryside who had a little bit of assets had already fled to counties such as Pengcheng, Fuli, Qiaoxian, and Yongcheng, where either the prefectures were located, or the transportation key areas where the probationary army was stationed, but the 200,000 people under their own hands could no longer be fed by these two states.

There are also tens of thousands of people on Han Baling's side, this guy is tossing more in Shouzhou, his power is expanding greater, and he has a faint smell of being too big to lose, and he is becoming more and more impatient with his own orders.

The Shi family has already been aware, but the army on Pengcheng's side has never left Xuzhou, which is a disaster.

In addition, what is more critical is that there has been no news from Huainan, which is the most important thing, if you don't wait for that node, if you are too hasty and rushed, you may fall short.

The beam should also be a little suspicious, but it is still within their acceptable range, and the intricate joints in the middle make even me have a headache.

But there are some things that must not be said to outsiders, even Ah Heng and Shang Ke, not because they are afraid of being disloyal, but the fewer people who know about this kind of thing, the better, and the more people who know, the more danger of leakage, they just need to obey the order.

The time has not yet come, but how to solve the current dilemma?

The bald-eyed man thought for a moment, "Let Ah Dao and them enter Sizhou." ”

Qin Heng and Shang Ke are all happy, the eldest brother has finally opened the golden mouth, but it is difficult to satisfy the appetite of such a large group of people in Sizhou alone, and Han Baling's side is also showing more and more dissatisfaction, and if he doesn't give Han Baling's side an explanation, I'm afraid it won't work.

"Big brother, what about Han Baling's side, do you agree with them entering Luzhou?"

"No, you are never allowed to step into Luzhou for half a step!" said the bald-eyed man flatly.

"But Han Baling and they are limited to tens of thousands of people now, and Shouzhou can't support them. Qin Heng explained euphemistically: "You have to let them have a place to go, right?"

The bald-eyed man's cold color swept by, and he coldly glanced at his younger brother, who was a little unconscious, "Ah Heng, do you mean that if I don't agree, he is ready to do his own thing now?" )