Chen Hua stood up and said: "The rebels are playing tricks, there must be deception in them, pass on my general's order, the whole army will immediately assault and attack the rebel camp!" As he gave an order, the Yan army moved up and down, and the army drove out of the camp one after another, and went straight to the opposite You camp to advance over.

At the beginning, the Yan army was still cautious and worried when advancing, but when the Yan army had entered within a hundred steps of the You camp, there was no counterattack in the You camp, not to mention that there was no movement.

When the Yan army entered the You camp fifty steps, seeing that the You camp was still calm, at this time, the Yan army began to change from a slow advance to an all-out charge.

The front army was the first to rush into the You camp, but after coming in, there was not even a shadow of a person in the huge You camp, and the large and small camp tents were empty, and the things had already been light, so it can be said that there were only rows of empty camp tents left in the You camp now.

Chen Hua and a group of Yan generals saw this situation, and they were so angry that they stomped their feet again and again, such a cunning rebel, it was really a suspicious tactic!

Seeing Chen Hua's ugly face, the Yan generals stepped forward one after another to persuade him: "General Chen doesn't have to be angry, the rebels escaped with a suspicious strategy, which shows that the rebels also know very well that their strength is not as good as our army, not to mention, the monk can't run the temple, Gongcheng is not far from here, our army should take this opportunity to take Gongcheng in one fell swoop, and first beat Bainan County out of a gap!"

"That's all there is to it. Chen Hua nodded and said, "General Yu!"

"What does the general command?" a burly general stepped forward and stepped in to salute.

Chen Hua said: "General Yu immediately led two corps to attack Gongcheng, Gongcheng is just a small city, there are no heavy troops hoarded in it, it should be easy to take Gongcheng, presumably, the main force of the rebels has now fled south." The generals will chase and kill with all their might!"

"The last general will obey!" all the Yan generals intervened in unison, and then started to split up.

Chen Hua led the main force of the Yan army to pursue south, while General Yan surnamed Yu led two corps to attack Gongcheng.

According to Chen Hua's inference, the main forces of the rebels have fled, the huge camp is gone, and Gongcheng, which is close at hand, must be an empty city. Even if there will be rebels stationed in the garrison, there will definitely not be too many troops.

His inference was not wrong, the You army only left a thousand people in Gongcheng, but these thousand or so people were all elite soldiers in the You army, and they also caused a lot of trouble to the Yan army that came to attack.

Yan Jiang, surnamed Yu, thought that he would be able to take Gongcheng in one walk, but in the end, Gongcheng, which was only garrisoned by more than 1,000 people, failed to take it after the Yan army launched two fierce attacks, but lost a lot of troops.

Seeing this, General Yan surnamed Yu also panicked. I don't know how many rebels are stationed in this small Gongcheng, so I hurriedly sent a message to Chen Hua, who went to chase the enemy, and asked him to transfer troops to reinforce Gongcheng.

After receiving the report, Chen Hua had no choice but to divide another corps and order it to carry large siege equipment to assist his own siege army on the Gongcheng side.

With the assistance of this corps. In addition, they brought a lot of large-scale siege equipment, and the Yan army finally broke through the city defense of Gongcheng.

After Gongcheng was broken. The remnants of the You army did not fight to the death against the Yan army, and the soldiers threw away their weapons, took off their armor and military uniforms, and fled into the city, blending in with the people.

The rebels are Youren, and so are the people of the city. The Yan army that rushed into the city wanted to pick out the rebels from the people, which was even more difficult than ascending to the sky.

If this was the case for another country, the main general would have to order the slaughter of the city without saying a word, but the Yan army would not do this, and the Yan army, which has always prided itself on being civilized and noble, never disdained to use such bloody methods.

After the capture of Gongcheng. The general surnamed Yu only ordered a notice to be posted, one is to reassure the people, and the other is to offer a reward, as long as the people are willing to report the rebels' hiding place, the Yan army will give a heavy reward.

There may not be brave men under heavy rewards, especially for people.

Helping the rebels hide and avoid the pursuit of the Yan army, these are all voluntary by the people, even if the Yan army offers a heavy reward, no one is willing to betray the rebels.

The people refused to betray the rebels, and the Yan army didn't care too much, after all, there were only a few hundred rebels who escaped, so there was nothing to worry about, and then, Yu surnamed Yan would send a good news to Chen Hua and ask him if he needed to rush over to join him.

Chen Hua replied quickly, so he led three corps to stay in Gongcheng.

It can be said that Gongcheng is the gateway to Bainan County, as long as Gongcheng is occupied, the main force of the Yan army can rampage in Bainan County without any worries, ensuring the safety of Gongcheng, which is equivalent to ensuring the logistics supply line of the main force of the Yan army.

So far, Chen Hua has made no mistakes in this series of decisions, and it can even be said that he is the most correct choice, but soon, he made a fatal mistake.

Bainan County is the largest county among the three counties of Youxi, the land is large, there are many towns, the Yan army goes deep fast, but the troops are dispersed quickly, along the way, the Yan army has to divide the troops to garrison the captured towns, the east is divided into a group, the west is divided into a wave, when the Yan army goes deep into Baiyang County, the westernmost part of Bainan County, the original army of 250,000 people only has more than 100,000 people left.

It can be said that from the time the Yan army entered Bainan County until now, it has not experienced large-scale battles, but the main battle force has been invisibly reduced by more than half, and it is not due to casualties, but due to its own division of troops.

This is exactly a habit of the Yan army in combat! The Yan army has always paid attention to capturing and consolidating a place, and in order to consolidate a place, it is necessary to garrison troops to stay behind, and Chen Hua is the orthodox general of the Yan army, and the decision he made at this time is exactly what the Yan army has always been accustomed to.

At this time, it reflects Chen Hua's shortcomings of being decent and not knowing how to be flexible, and the policy and strategy of capturing a place and consolidating a place cannot be said to be wrong, but it needs to depend on the situation, as far as the current point of view, this is the biggest failure of the Yan army after entering Bainan County.

Of course, the reason why Chen Hua did this was that he also had confidence, even if the main battle strength of the Yan army was only more than 100,000 people, he still had an absolute advantage over the rebels. And he and the Yan generals below also had a miscalculation, when the Yan army divided its troops to capture various towns, they all encountered stubborn resistance from the rebels stationed there, indicating that the rebels were also stationed in the whole territory of Bainan County, and they captured so many towns all the way, and the rebels eliminated were definitely not a few, judging by the 80,000 strength of the rebels, the current rebel army strength is about 50,000 at best.

More than 100,000 against 50,000, almost three times the enemy, there is no suspense in winning.

Since the main force of the Yan Army successfully advanced into Baiyang County, the soldiers of the Yan Army have become more relaxed. According to the speed of this advance, several parties can capture the entire territory of Baiyang County in half a month and completely wipe out the rebels, and at that time, the additional reinforcements sent by the imperial court are still halfway there, and the credit for annihilating the rebels will be all credited to them.

Gao Peng, the commander of the 11th Legion, Feng Yu, the commander of the 16th Legion, and Chai Song, the commander of the 17th Legion, had already met Chen Hua one after another. Hurry up and draw the head portrait of Nie Shu, the leader of the rebels, and post it everywhere to prevent Nie Shu from absconding.

It can also be felt through the entry of the various army commanders, they have all decided that their side has won the game, and it is only a matter of time before they can sweep away the rebels, and even the follow-up plan to prevent Nie Shu from absconding has been thought out in advance.

In the territory of Baiyang County, the Yan army's operations were still smooth, and they captured one city and four towns in a row without much effort.

Next. The Yan army's target was Qijia City, the county seat of Baiyang County.

If you want to go to Qijia City, you have to pass through a dangerous place, Wan'an Valley.

Wan'an Valley is a long and narrow canyon, with high mountains on both sides, and only one road in the middle can be walked. There are always deaths and injuries among passers-by, so people have given this canyon the auspicious name of 'Wan'an Valley'. I hope to use the name to dispel the ferocity here.

Of course, this is superstition, the canyon is still the same canyon, and deaths and injuries still occur frequently.

When the Yan army marched here, Chen Hua urgently ordered the whole army to temporarily stop advancing.

He came to the front of the army with a dry general. Stand on a high ground and look out at Wan'an Valley in the distance.

Chen Hua looked at the deep canyon in front of him and muttered secretly in his heart: "What a precipitous place!"

Chen Hua is an experienced veteran, what terrain is easy to ambush, what terrain is not easy to pass, he can see it at a glance. He said to the surrounding generals: "This place is steep, if the rebels occupy the peaks on both sides of the canyon, and our army rashly breaks in, the consequences will be unimaginable!"

Gao Peng smiled and said with a relaxed face: "General Chen, don't worry, our army scouts just visited Wan'angu yesterday, and there were no ambushes, so you can pass with peace of mind now." ”

Chen Hua nodded, shook his head again, and said: "The rebels are cunning, so they have to guard against it, so immediately send scouts again to continue to investigate." ”

"This ......" Gao Peng frowned slightly, this is too much of a move, Chen Hua is too cautious. He reminded in a low voice: "General, it is not early now, if we wait for the spies to finish probing, it will be dark, and our army can only wait for tomorrow to hurry." ”

Chen Hua said: "Now our army is not in a hurry to fight to the death with the rebels, and it is not too late for this day. ”

When he said this, Gao Peng couldn't say anything, and then ordered the deputy general to send out the spies of the 11th Army Corps to explore the Wan'an Valley in front, and then the commanders of the corps ordered the whole army to camp on the spot and continue to rush tomorrow.

Wan'an Valley is not a small canyon, and it will indeed take a long time to explore the entire Wan'an Valley.

The spies sent out did not return until late at night, and the information they brought back was consistent, there were no ambushes on the peaks on either side of the Wan'an Valley, and no trace of the rebels was found nearby.

Hearing the spies' report, all the generals secretly shook their heads in their hearts, they had just visited this place yesterday, but Chen Hua still wanted to investigate today, isn't this asking for trouble!

However, Chen Hua didn't think so in his heart, a day's delay was nothing, as long as he could ensure that nothing went wrong, it was more important than anything else.

There was nothing to say that night, and early the next morning, the Yan army set off and passed through Wan'an Valley.

You Jun really did not have an ambush here, such a precipitous place, even a fool could see that it was easy to set up an ambush, if Yin Kai still set up an ambush here, then he would no longer be worthy of being the commander of an army.

Smoothly passing through Wan'an Valley, and then thirty miles forward is Qijia City, the county seat of Baiyang County.

As long as the Yan army takes Qijia City in one fell swoop, then most of Baiyang County has been controlled by the Yan army, and the space left for the rebels is only a small border city Longtangkou.

At this time, all the generals of the Yan army were like being beaten with chicken blood, and they urged the soldiers under their command to march quickly.

When the Yan army was still ten miles away from Qijia City, the spies galloped back from the front, and reported to Chen Hua and others that a rebel army had just escaped from Qijia City in a hurry and was heading in the direction of Longtangkou, as for the specific number of troops, it was impossible to count, and it was conservatively estimated to be around 40,000 or 50,000 people. It can be concluded that it is the main force of the rebels.

Hearing that the main force of the rebels didn't even dare to defend the county seat, and directly abandoned the city and fled, Chen Hua and the others were all overjoyed, this opportunity is too rare, isn't this a good opportunity for their own side to fight to the death with the rebels?

Chen Hua ordered on the spot that all the soldiers should march urgently. Be sure to catch up with the rebels who have fled to Longtangkou and go head-to-head with them on flat ground.

The soldiers of the Yan Army who received the order rushed forward one by one with all their strength, and the distance of ten miles took less than half an hour to arrive.

The rebels really fled without a single soldier, and the huge county town did not leave a single soldier, and the city gates were all hidden. The Yan army didn't even use the siege equipment, so they directly pushed open the city gate and poured into the city like a morning water.

The Yan army in the advanced city did not make any stops. Walk straight through the city to pursue the rebels who have abandoned the city and fled.

Qijia City is not a small city, the size is almost the same as the county town, the people in the city are as many as more than 100,000 people, and the city is also very prosperous, with large and small shops, among which many shops are opened by Yayue people.

Seeing that a large number of Yan troops rushed into the city, the people in the city were very calm. I can't see that there is a look of panic, from the heart. You people are not afraid of the Yan people, or they are not convinced by the Yan people, and the Yan army has always had the reputation of a benevolent and righteous teacher, and the military discipline is strict, and the soldiers will not kill innocents indiscriminately, nor will they rob the people's property.

That's it at this point. Looking at the Yan army rumbling through the street, the people did not scatter and flee, but just retreated to both sides of the street, and stretched their necks to look around, completely with the mentality of watching the excitement.

A teahouse on the side of the road. Second floor.

Lin Haotian and Wang Han were sitting by the window, and around them, the entire tea table on the second floor was occupied by their people, including Shao Lin, Tong Lei, Luo Lan, and Cheng Jin and his demonic martial artists.

Looking down at the Yan army swarming on the street, as well as the people on both sides of the street, this harmonious scene of the river water on both sides not violating the well water made Lin Haotian couldn't help but laugh dumbly, he said happily: "Who said that you people are stupid? Who should hide and who should not hide, they know very well in their hearts!"

Wang Han was also happy, nodded with a smile, changed his words, and asked, "Childe thinks that you can win this battle?"

Lin Haotian snorted lightly and said: "According to the investigation of the Heavenly Eye and the Earth Net, the current strength of the Yan Army is only 130,000, and the strength of the You Army is 70,000, even if the two armies go head-to-head, it is difficult for the Yan Army to win, not to mention, Yin Kai still uses the tactics of attacking from both sides, and in this battle, the Yan Army will be defeated!"

Wang Han said quietly: "Yin Kai has seen through Chen Hua, or he has seen through the habits of the Yan army, it is expected that after the Yan army enters Bainan County, it will be divided into troops and stationed in various places, resulting in a sharp reduction in the main battle force, this person is shrewd, not only good at strategy, but also good at exploration, in the future, adults need to be more wary of this person!"

"Well, I didn't expect Nie Shu's subordinates to have such a talented general, perhaps, we shouldn't have recommended him to Nie Shu at all. Lin Haotian shrugged his shoulders, picked up the teacup, drank the tea in one gulp, and then his eyes fell on the street outside the window.

At this time, the Yan army that passed in front of the teahouse had become cavalry, and the cavalry team lined up in a neat formation, with five horsemen in a row, walking in unison.

About a thousand horses passed, and a group of fire generals came behind them, headed by one, fifty years old, with gray hair, wearing gold helmets and gold armor, looking extraordinary and majestic.

Wang Han glanced at it out of the corner of his eye, and said in a low voice: "Childe, this person is the commander of the Seventeenth Army of the Yan State, Chai Song, who was originally a literary general, but he is known for his bravery, good fighting, and bravery. ”

Lin Haotian smiled and asked, "Do you know him?"

"I met once a few years ago, the Chai family is a famous family in the Yan country, and has been in business for generations, a general with a strong temperament like Chai Song is really an outlier in the Chai family!"

Wang Han is an authentic nobleman of the Red Kingdom, well-informed, and he also knows the nobles of the Yan Kingdom very well, and he tells it like a treasure.

The smile in Lin Haotian's eyes was even stronger, and he said slowly: "It's a pity that the only general of the Chai family is afraid that he will die in Yuxi this time." ”

While he was talking, Chai Song, who was passing by the teahouse, also happened to look up at the second floor where he was.

Wang Han didn't turn his head for the first time, but Lin Haotian did not avoid it, smiled at Chai Song's scrutinizing gaze, and nodded slightly to him.

Chai Song couldn't help but take a breath, he hadn't seen Lin Haotian, and it was impossible to guess that this young man sitting in the Qijia City teahouse would be Lin Haotian, the commander of the Jin Army, he just felt that Lin Haotian was restrained and surprisingly handsome, different from ordinary people, especially his pair of eyes, even if they were smiling, they couldn't hide the glittering light in them.

What a young man with a radiant and lofty spirit, who is this person? Is it Youren? In Chai Song's impression, most of You Ren's body has a barbaric aura, which is extremely uncomfortable, but he can't feel it at all in Lin Haotian's body.

If he had to chase and kill the fleeing rebels, he really wanted to get off the horse and go to the second floor to talk to Lin Haotian at this time, but unfortunately now that he was in military affairs, he didn't have that time.

Chai Song is also very polite, even if he is a general, and the other party is dressed as a civilian, seeing Lin Haotian nodding to his chin, he also nodded in return, and then, he turned his head sideways and whispered to a guard beside him: "Keep the young man on the second floor of the teahouse, wait for Ben Shuai to sweep away the rebels, and then go back to the city to see him, remember, don't be rude!"

The guard first glanced up at Lin Haotian at the window of the teahouse, then nodded again and again, and replied, "Yes! General!"

Chai Song didn't stop for a moment, he walked directly, and the guard who received his order stopped with more than a dozen Yan soldiers, turned his horse to the door of the teahouse, turned over and dismounted, and strode into the teahouse.

The guards and more than a dozen Yan soldiers went up to the second floor, but after arriving on the second floor, he immediately froze, there were not many people on the first floor of the teahouse, but the second floor was full of people, and there was a strange smell wafting in the air, which made him shudder.

If it was an experienced old Jianghu, he could immediately tell that the strange aura emanating from the second floor of the teahouse was murderous, but the guards and Yan soldiers didn't notice it, they just felt that it made them very uncomfortable here.

Ignoring others, the guard walked directly to Lin Haotian, arched his hand with a smile, and said, "I don't know your Excellency's name?"

Lin Haotian turned his head, looked at the guard with a smile, and said, "In Xia Lin Asan, I don't know what this big brother has to do?"

"I am on the orders of my general, and I have come here to ask Your Excellency to wait here for a while. ”

"Oh?" Lin Haotian raised his eyebrows in confusion and asked, "What are you waiting for?"

The guard said, "Wait for my general to destroy the rebels outside the city and return to the city, and then meet your Excellency." ”

"Your general is ......"

The guard's waist straightened, his face naturally showed arrogance, and he said in a loud voice: "My general is the commander of the Seventeenth Army of Dayan, General Chai Songchai!"

"Oh, it turned out to be General Chai. Lin Haotian nodded, and then didn't say anything more, and continued to drink his tea slowly.

Seeing that he was so plain when he heard the general's name, the guards subconsciously frowned, and looked at Lin Haotian carefully. However, the people did not say no, and the general told him not to be rude, even if he was dissatisfied, he endured it and did not have a seizure.

In the end, Chen Hua left two corps to garrison Qijia City, and he himself led the main force of about 100,000 Yan troops to chase and kill the rebels who abandoned the city and fled.

The rebels had gone more than an hour ahead of them, but the speed was very slow, and when the leading troops of the Yan army chased twenty miles out of the city, they saw the tail of the rebels.

Due to the distance, the exact situation was not very clear, but I could already faintly see the dust raised by the march of the army ahead.

Knowing that the front army could see the tail of the rebels, Chen Hua immediately made a decision and ordered his cavalry to attack first, catch up with the rebels, and disrupt the rebels' formation as much as possible.

Now, there were no more than 10,000 cavalry in the Yan army, and the momentum was amazing, and the tremors of the ground and the roar like thunder could be felt for miles away. (To be continued......)