The intelligence gathered from all sides showed that the Iron Eagle Army was indeed stationed in the hinterland of the Han Dynasty three thousand miles away, and the king of thieves handed Shi Pengyue's secret letter to Chai Jiangtao, saying: "The Han Emperor is about to change the main general again, and before the new main general is in place, the army may remain stationed, according to this situation, even if there are twenty more days, they may not be able to reach Nanshan." ”

Chai Jiangtao took the secret letter and read it carefully, he couldn't understand, with the shrewdness and skill of Emperor Liu Qi of the Han Dynasty, how could he not be able to make an army, and he should understand that changing generals in battle is taboo, the Iron Eagle Army has changed its main generals twice so far, resulting in low morale, and the soldiers can't ban it, is it meaningful to change it again?

In the secret letter, Shi Pengyue mentioned that the Iron Eagle Army was transferred back in a hurry, and the soldiers were used to fighting in the north, and suddenly let them attack Nanshan, many people were reluctant and had great opinions on this.

"Is that really the case?" Chai Jiangtao asked.

The king of thieves nodded: "Confirm that it is correct, it is said that it cannot be repeated again and again, the Iron Eagle Army has changed its main general four times, and it is no longer suitable to be the vanguard of the Southern Expedition, Liu Qi is not stupid, sooner or later he will order the Iron Eagle Army to retreat and choose another army to replace it." In this way, it will take at least a month to toss, which is only good for us. ”

Indeed, in the past, due to the tight time, the preparation of many troops was not ideal, but now there is plenty of time to make up for a lot of losses.

Chai Jiangtao frowned: "Brother Wang, it's not that I'm suspicious, I always feel that this matter is strange, it shouldn't be as simple as it seems." Please enter it in small letters to the website: Нёǐуапge.сОМ to see the latest and fastest chapters

The king of thieves smiled: "You mean the 300,000 Eastern Barbarian army, they are indeed in place, stationed sixty miles away from the southern front, it only takes two hours to reach the front line and launch a fierce attack on our army." But don't you forget, the Han army has not been in place for a long time, and Meng Zhun dares to attack the order?"

Chai Jiangtao nodded and said: "Meng Zhun is a guy who has no idea, and he is obedient to the Han Emperor, the Han army is not in place, he will definitely not attack the order, there is no doubt about this! It may really be that I am thinking too much, since the north and south sides are very calm, I have nothing to worry about, and I will leave." ”

At the same time, Zhuge Haotang and Zhuge Yingqi left the Second Army Division.

Seeing the two of them walk away, Chen Muyang lowered his voice and asked: "Yun Yang, even if it is to confuse the enemy, there is no need to change the commander of the Iron Eagle Army frequently, every time a new commander comes to power, some new orders will always be issued, which will make the soldiers feel at a loss and don't know who to listen to." The emperor is a wise man, how could he make such a low-level mistake, and no one would remind him?"

What an army is most afraid of is that the order changes overnight, which is a taboo for soldiers.

Ye Yunyang smiled and said: "I can't tell you too specific the situation, but I can say very responsibly that your worries are unnecessary, everything is under the control of Your Majesty, wait to see the results." ”

With that, he turned around and returned to Fuchu.

The generals stationed at the front received the latest instructions from Wangcheng, ordering them to strengthen the defensive line and continue to prepare for battle. Knowing that the Han army would not appear until at least half a month later, the soldiers' tense hearts were all relaxed, and the generals began to set up wine and banquets, clearly saying that they would enjoy the last peace before the war, and then fight with the enemy when they were full of food and drink.

This laxity spread rapidly among the army, and the defense standards dropped again and again, and there was no sign of sentries on the mile-long defensive line.

However, only four days later, the latest news came from the south, 300,000 barbarian soldiers suddenly launched an attack, caught the defenders by surprise, and successively conquered two lines of defense, penetrating more than 40 miles into the hinterland of Nanshan.

The southern front is almost on the verge of collapse, according to the pre-war deployment, the king of thieves set up three lines of defense in the south, and two lines were conquered in the blink of an eye, if the third line is also lost, the barbarians can drive straight into the city of thieves.

"How can this be?" the king of thieves asked the person who came to deliver the information: "What do the defenders of the southern front do to eat, why don't they fight to the death?"

The messenger complained bitterly: "Palace, it's not that our army is not desperate, but that the barbarians are too cunning and use sneak attacks to break through the first line of defense, and our army struggles to counterattack after suffering losses, and the generals vow to defend the second line of defense." As a result, the enemy adopted the method of attacking the east and attacking the west, feinting to attack the weak southeast, and the generals thought that this was the enemy's main direction of attack, so they drew troops from the southwest to support, but first encountered an ambush on the road, almost completely annihilated, and then the barbarians took advantage of the southwest to carry out a fierce attack, and then ...... They broke it. ”

Chai Jiangtao frowned, and said: "Palace, this is the usual attack method of the Han people, Meng Zhun that stupid guy just wants to break his head, and he can't think of such a strategy, I doubt that the Han Emperor gave him the idea." But the Han army is not in place, so why let the barbarians attack first?"

The King of Thieves turned around and asked, "Where is the Iron Eagle Army, and how far is it from us?"

One of the counselors standing in front of the map replied: "It is still in the south-central part of the Great Han Dynasty, two thousand six hundred miles away from us. ”

The king of thieves thought for a while and said: "It is still a trick to attack the west from the east, wanting to attract our attention to the south, and draw troops from the north and west to support the south, causing the empty forces in these two directions, so that the Han army can easily break through our army's defense line and achieve the ultimate goal of attacking from the north and the south." ”

Chai Jiangtao nodded: "Brother Wang's analysis is reasonable, so what should we do?"

Without hesitation, the king of thieves said: "Draw out the troops of two halls from the west, one hall to support the south, and one hall to strengthen the defense line in the north, and this king wants to make the tricks of the Han people come to naught." ”

Chai Jiangtao thought to himself that the north and south sides had been strengthened, but the west side had 50,000 fewer horses, and only 100,000 defenders remained, in case the enemy launched an attack from this direction, would 100,000 people be able to block it?

But he immediately dismissed this idea, because even if the Iron Eagle Army advanced at full speed, it was impossible to bypass the north and attack the west, so the west was safe.

In the Second Army Division's Mansion, Chen Muyang showed the movement of the army on the map, and the defenders on the west side changed from six halls to four.

Ye Yunyang smiled and said, "Wait and see, the king of thieves will regret it immediately." ”

Chen Muyang raised his eyebrows: "What, the Han army will attack from the west?" It's unlikely, there are only 20,000 Han defenders over there, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, they dare to touch the moldy heads of 100,000 southern mountain bandits?"

Ye Yunyang lowered his voice and said, "What if there are 100,000 elite Yue troops?"

"The Vietnamese army?" Chen Muyang's eyes widened: "Aren't they in charge of the defense task in the north, how can they run to the west?"

"In fact, the Vietnamese army is no longer in the north, and it is the Cai ** team that replaces them, but they continue to play the banner of the Vietnamese army. Ye Yunyang explained: "The real Vietnamese army, ten days ago, went to the west, in order to hide people's eyes, they were divided into small units, and chose to march at night, not to mention the king of thieves, even the generals of the Han army did not know about it. ”

Chen Muyang stared at the map and said, "Where are they now?"

"If I'm not mistaken, they should have attacked by now. Ye Yunyang said with a smile.

In fact, the Vietnamese army launched the attack before dawn, which was the most sleepy time of the day, and the Nan Son bandits were caught off guard, and the Vietnamese army broke through the first line of defense without much effort, and at this moment they were engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy troops of the second line of defense.

Because the western line of defense is four hundred miles away from the City of Thieves, the messenger has not yet sent the information.

Chen Muyang fell into deep thought, and said in his heart that 100,000 Vietnamese troops against 100,000 thief soldiers can be regarded as evenly matched, but as the defensive side, the thief soldiers occupy a geographical advantage, can the Vietnamese army win?

Also, what if the King of Thieves draws troops from the north to reinforce the west?

Ye Yunyang knew what he was thinking, so he explained without waiting for him to ask: "The King of Thieves does not dare to draw troops from the north, because there are 200,000 Iron Eagle Army eyeing them there, even if the Iron Eagle Army cannot be in place in time, it can also play a role in containing the north, not to mention that another army of 100,000 people will have to flank them." ”

Chen Muyang said he couldn't understand: "There are still 100,000 people, where did they come from?"

He stretched out his hand and pointed to a small black dot on the map and said, "The defenders of Nanyue Mansion are all elite soldiers of the Southern Army, and their adaptability in terms of climate and terrain is no worse than that of the Nanshan bandits. ”

"That's not right, the defenders of Nanyue Mansion only have 80,000 people, at least one-third of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, how can they get enough 100,000 people?" Chen Muyang still couldn't understand, could it be that his intelligence was wrong, impossible!

Nanyue Mansion is the southernmost important town of the Han Dynasty, and it is also the place where the king of thieves attaches the most importance to it, and there are no less than 100 spies lurking in the city, and there is almost nothing to hide from their eyes.

The explanation given by Ye Yunyang was that the emperor sent 40,000 people to secretly stationed in the back mountain of Nanyue Mansion, and this matter was done extremely secretly, because the back mountain was dozens of miles away from the capital city, and this army did not have any contact with the city of the palace, so it did not attract the attention of the spies.

The defenders of Nanyue Mansion received an order to leave 20,000 old and weak to defend the city, and 60,000 elites to go out of the city to set up defenses, and at the same time block the four gates to strictly investigate the spies and cut off their contact with the City of Thieves.

The 60,000 people who left the city and the soldiers hiding in the back mountains converged to form the real first echelon, and then killed the southern mountain bandit defense line as fast as possible.

Chen Muyang was incomparably surprised: "No wonder you said that the emperor is playing a big game of chess, it is really big! Now I understand why the Iron Eagle Army is stagnating, it was originally to attract the attention of the king of thieves, to cover for the Vietnamese army and the first echelon, and to achieve the effect of surprise." ”

Ye Yunyang nodded: "That's right, that's it." The king of thieves never dreamed that the Iron Eagle Army, which he was always concerned about, was actually a disguise. ”

Chen Muyang's face was excited: "Great, this will interrupt the various deployments of the Southern Mountain Bandits, and our side will take the lead! The Iron Eagle Army is the second echelon, right?"

"Wrong. Ye Yunyang said meaningfully: "Not only are they not the second echelon, but they will not enter Nanshan to fight at all, their task is only to confuse the king of thieves." ”

Even Chen Muyang felt that the Iron Eagle Army was the second echelon, and the King of Thieves would definitely think the same, the Iron Eagle Army was like a knife hanging above his head, the more he didn't make a move, the more frightened he was, no matter what kind of strategic adjustment he made, he would involuntarily take it into account.

Chen Muyang didn't notice that Ye Yunyang's gaze turned from the west side of the map to the east side until the vast sea.