It is said that on the way back to the camp, Captain Ding of the Zhou Army met Captain Li who came to answer him, and Captain Ding told Captain Li that he had been deceived, and there was no grain and grass at all, all sacks!

The two did not stop and immediately returned to the camp.

In the Zhou army camp, Wang Lin listened to the reports of the two captains and was uncertain.

I don't know what the Shuo army wants to do, why they are running around with more than 40 carts of sacks, and they don't set up ambushes or resistance, what do they want these sacks for?

Wang Lin thought about it and thought that it could only be the enemy's tired strategy, but in fact, after thinking about it carefully, he could figure it out that the Shuo army had a city to defend, and it was a local battle, so it was indeed the side that waited for work.

Wang Lin thought of the young hermit in Qiaotou Town, and I am afraid that the Shuo army also concluded that his more than 10,000 cavalry went deep alone, and the grain and grass could not be sustained, but he was not sure, so he sent such a fake grain transportation team as a test.

Thinking of this, Wang Lin was a little relieved in his heart, but he just told the scouts to continue to stare at the main roads, especially the direction of Qiaotou Town.

Wang Lin sneered in his heart: "This young man only said that I was short of food, but I didn't know that Santong Town was a land route that Zhou State must pass through, and the second prince guarded the border between Zhou and Shuo for four years. ”

…

At this time in Jia County, Zhao Yingqi and Zhao Tong were practicing martial arts in the backyard of the county government, General Guan was watching, and it was unbelievable for General Guan to watch the first master and the second master practice each other.

Although the body that Zhao Yingqi crossed over looked very similar to his previous life, he was six or seven years younger in comparison, especially the internal force, which made Zhao Yingqi like it very much. Flying eaves and walls, galloping on the battlefield, and going deep into the enemy army to open the Wushuang are very attractive to boys, even if the boy was already a twenty-eight-year-old social animal in his previous life. A man is a teenager until he dies, and the horizontal knife immediately laughs proudly, it's not too cool.

The fly in the ointment is that although Zhao Yingqi can win every time, the blind can see that Zhao Tong can release a reservoir with a large amount of water, which makes Zhao Yingqi embarrassed.

Swinging the long knife again, and then Zhao Tong's neck waited there, and quickly retracted his strength on Zhao Tong's neck, just kidding, such a beautiful maid, she would be distressed to death if she scratched a little skin. It's just that Zhao Tong's words are really unbearable.

"Mr. is really a wizard who practices martial arts, and he has made rapid progress." Zhao Tong put his neck there, not worried about being injured by mistake, just like playing with a kitten when he was a child, and put his fingers into the kitten's mouth, he knew very well in his heart that you would definitely not be able to bite it.

"Yes, yes, Mr. Zhao is excellent in martial arts, and he is really a young talent." General Guan stood aside and patted on the back, but no matter how Zhao Yingqi looked at it, he felt like he was saying to Zhao Tong, if you don't get angry, are you praising me, or praising my pretty maid!

Although Zhao Tong seems to be happier than himself, Zhao Yingqi himself is really not so thick-skinned.

Throw the long knife in your hand and stop playing! Dine!

After a brief freshening up, the three of them sat down at the same table the day before, ready to eat.

It happened that Vice General Chen also came back to give orders, and after explaining the situation to General Guan and Zhao Yingqi, they sat down to eat together. During the banquet, several people occasionally talked about battle-related issues, and Zhao Yingqi had been thinking about the strategy behind him.

According to Zhao Yingqi's inference, the purpose of the Zhou army is to drag the current war situation, maintain the status quo, and wait for the next wave of reinforcements from the Zhou State to arrive. But the lone army is deep, there is no food and grass supply, the Zhou army that has been three days should be short of food and grass, the Zhou army is all cavalry, and more than 10,000 people eat horses and chew a lot every day. According to the information reported by the scouts, the Zhou army sent 4,000 people to intercept and kill, so many people must be to grab grain rather than simply cut off the grain road in Nei County, Zhao Yingqi also basically made up his mind in his heart: the Zhou army has food, but not much!

"Vice General Chen, when you go to deliver food again tonight, you have to make some small changes."

…

On the second day, it was still the same road and the same place, and Vice General Chen drove more than 30 carts to Santong Town with 1,000 people.

The day had begun to clear, but it was still very cold, and that little bit of sunshine seemed to have been cooled by the snow all over the ground before it could hit the face, but fortunately the snow on the road had not yet melted, and the speed of the convoy did not slow down, because there were fewer than a dozen cars, but it was a little faster than yesterday.

In the tent of Marshal Zhou, Wang Lin once received news from the scout, and was about to reprimand the scout, but the scout reported that he had seen some food leaking from the convoy, and some birds were eating the food.

Wang Lin couldn't help but start thinking again, could it be that Shuo Jun's old tricks were repeated to play a routine that combined reality and fiction? Or is it really transporting grain this time?

In fact, if in peacetime, Wang Lin would not care about these at all, no matter whether the opposite side was transporting grain or cheating, as long as he relied on the mobility of the cavalry, he would go forward and burn it with fire, but Qiaotou Town was not captured, and the grain and grass collected by the army in these days and the grain and grass smuggled in advance by Santong Town could only support the army for four days at most. Now the embarrassment is embarrassing, this cavalry breakthrough has no siege equipment, no food and grass baggage, and at the same time, it cannot act rashly, once the position of curbing the passage of the three counties is lost, and then let the soldiers and horses of the three counties of Shuo gather, his 12,000 cavalry is really dangerous.

Food must be obtained!

Wang Lin immediately ordered again, and still let yesterday's Captain Ding lead the cavalry of his headquarters to rob the grain, and Captain Li responded.

…

On this day, when Captain Ding caught up with the convoy of the Shuo army, the Shuo army was only three or four miles away from Santong Town.

As soon as the same Zhou army arrived, Vice General Chen immediately led more than 1,000 Shuo troops to drop the grain cart and go straight to Santong Town.

The Zhou army did not continue the pursuit, and saw from a distance that the Shuo army in Santong Town had already been deployed.

When Captain Ding saw that the more than 30 carts were still pulling sacks and hemp ropes and other things, he was angry and smoked, and immediately ordered these carts to be burned.

Before the start of the move, someone reported that more than 3,000 Shuo troops had begun to line up in front of Santong Town, and when the angry Captain Ding was about to mount his horse and lead the army to attack the Shuo army, another cavalry came to report that 2,000 Shuo cavalry had killed in Jiaxian County, which was less than 20 miles.

Captain Ding immediately ordered to get on his horse and evacuate, preparing to return to the barracks, and Captain Ding wanted to lead the 2,000 cavalry of the Shuo army to the agreed place in advance, and cooperate with Captain Li, who came to meet him, to annihilate the 2,000 cavalry of the Shuo army on the spot.

Captain Ding led the army to run for more than ten miles, and when he felt that he was about to meet Captain Li, he ordered to turn the horse's head and prepare for battle, but when he learned that the Shuo army had not caught up, Captain Ding, who had a feeling of flashing his old waist with an empty fist, almost vomited blood and half a fight.

After returning to the barracks to report to Wang Lin, Wang Lin was also puzzled, Santong Town is just an ordinary cargo turnover town, although the place in Santong Town is stuck at the intersection of Chunnei Road, but the drawings are loose and cannot build a city, so there is only one town as a transportation transit, what does the Shuo army want to do with 3,000 soldiers in Santong Town?

Even if he wanted to cut off his back road, an unprotected town would not be able to stop a single charge of his more than 10,000 cavalry. Even if his army transported sacks and made them into sandbags and sand walls, it would not help, and the cavalry in his army all had grappling hooks and ropes, which could still pull down the sand walls.

Wang Lin, who had no clue, had to order to go down and pay more attention to the situation in the direction of Santong Town and Qiaotou Town.

Calculating the time, it has been three days, and the reinforcements from Shuo and Zhou are almost there. On the Shuo side, 25,000 troops have been gathered, and they will be able to reach Qiaotou Town in two days.

…

At present, the Zhou army still occupies the high ground at the confluence of the Beihe River and the Tonghe River, and holds the main roads of the three counties. On the Shuo army's side, after two fake grain shipments, the 2,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry in Jiaxian County were transferred to Santong Town.

On the evening of this day, Vice General Chen still returned to Jiaxian with one hundred and ten cavalry, and at the same time, the news that Shuo's reinforcements would arrive in Qiaotou Town in three days also spread to Jiaxian. In fact, when the Shuo reinforcements set off from Lanzhou, the capital of Shuo State, they had already sent people to inform the defenders of Jiaxian and Neixian, but the Zhou army was guarding the main road and the scouts were all over the place, and they had already intercepted and killed two waves of heralds.

Hearing the news of reinforcements was a great encouragement to General Guan and Vice General Chen, who felt that this time it was stable, and wanted F2A to pass.

It's a pity that Zhao Yingqi poured cold water on them, you must know that the Zhou army is the party that took the initiative to start the war, how can there be no backhand, maybe the army of the Zhou State will arrive faster.

Indeed, in the Zhou State, the monarch of the Zhou State had approved the second prince to send 30,000 troops to reinforce Wang Lin two days ago, including 20,000 cavalry at the same time to march towards Chunnei Road, but this time the grain, grass, baggage and siege equipment were all brought, so the speed was very slow, after all, Santong Town did not succeed in the raid, Jia and Nei counties were border cities, the city walls were very high, and there was no siege equipment that could not be beaten down at all, and the difference between Zhao Yingqi was that it was expected to take five or six days to reach Chunnei Road.

After thinking about the current situation again and again, he made up his mind, and asked Vice General Chen to find a way to get in touch with Qiaotou Town in the future, and if the naval army could not cross the river and land, then he would stare at the Zhou army camp on the other side of the river, once the Zhou army camp had more than 6,000 cavalry dispatched, more than 20,000 reinforcements from Qiaotou Town would immediately attack the Zhou army camp.

At the same time, he proposed to General Guan that he would continue to transport grain to Santong Town tomorrow, and it would still be 1,000 people, but this time it would be led by Zhao Yingqi himself, and General Guan would lead the remaining 2,000 people in Jiaxian County to stick to the county seat of Jiaxian.

Originally, General Guan was still worried and felt that only 2,000 people could not hold Jiaxian, but Zhao Yingqi was relieved for a long time, and promised to transfer 1,000 cavalry back to Santong Town, and at the same time said that the Zhou army would definitely have a strong attack on Jiaxian, but the Zhou army lacked siege equipment, and it was difficult to capture Jiaxian.