Guo Rong reminded Lu Xiaobing that with the physical fitness and equipment of the island people, the combat effectiveness of the island people may not be strong, but with the blessing of some special factors, the island people may be able to become very crazy.

Originally, Lu Xiaobing didn't quite understand what Guo Rong meant by madness, however, soon Lu Xiaobing understood.

On the second day after killing out hundreds of Japanese scouts, after the whole army was out of camp, after crossing the Huanglei River with the pontoon bridge built by the sappers the night before, they attacked, ambushed, trapped, and in short, all kinds of accidents emerged one after another.

From Nanhuang to Zetou, there are no mountains and rivers, a total of less than 30 miles of distance, according to the original plan of two hours, can be reached in the afternoon.

However, under the almost endless attacks of the Japanese scouts, the thirty-mile journey took more than four hours.

The only thing that made Lu Xiaobing more relieved was that the Japanese people used to hide in the shadows and rarely show up directly, so the speed of the march was affected, and the casualties and material losses were not large.

Arriving at Zetou means that the distance between Lu Xiaobing and Wendeng County has changed from ninety li to only sixty li, which is only two or three hours for cavalry, and a normal march will not exceed two days for foot soldiers.

When he arrived at Zetou, the time had already come to Youshi, looking at the sun that had already sunk in the west, holding the letter from Guo Rong that he received in Nanhuang the day before, Lu Xiaobing who was standing in Zetou's camp smiled.

It's not that there is such a thing as conspiracy, it's just that it's more strategic than tactical.

But on the battlefield, it is more about seeing the moves, the soldiers are coming to block, the water is coming to cover, and what kind of tricks to play is basically wishful thinking, and the purpose of a certain behavior is often fixed.

Obviously, there can only be one purpose for the Japanese to block this level, that is, to prevent their own rapid advance, and this also means that the message they want to convey has been received by the commander of the Japanese people, and preventing their rapid advance can only be to facilitate their own concentration of forces.

Moreover, Lu Xiaobing believed that as long as the Japanese forces had not been assembled, as he got closer and closer to Wendeng, the resistance he would receive would become greater and greater, and perhaps tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, he would encounter a crazy attack by the Japanese people.

At the strategic level, Li Shidao was very successful in strategic deception in the early stage, which even Guo Rong had to admit.

After returning to the imperial court, Li Shidao deceived the Hebei warlords, the princes of the imperial court, Guo Rong and the generals of the forbidden army, and Li Yu, the emperor of the imperial court.

If no one finds out, Li Shidao may really be able to accomplish something, but at this moment, the strategic advantage that Li Shidao has worked so hard to achieve has disappeared under Guo Rongming's plot of repairing the plank road, secretly Chen Cang, and advancing thousands of miles.

In the letter received in Nanhuang the day before, Guo Rong gave a general explanation of the current situation.

Mo Lingjun had already taken Shouguang and Beihai, blocked the retreat of the main force of the Qingzhou Jiaodong Army, and captured more than two million additional grains and grass.

At the same time, Guo Rong had already ordered the main forces of Changyingjun and Zuo Wuwei to turn around and attack Qingzhou, and in fact, Li Shidao, who had already been encircled, was already destroyed.

As for the Central Plains, there may be a lot of pressure in the short term, but it will definitely not collapse.

Therefore, Guo Rong asked Lu Xiaobing to be calm and calm, as long as the Jiaodong direction is undefeated, the overall situation is under control.

Of course, if Lu Xiaobing, Meng Qian, and Han Xiang want to complete the pit killing of the Japanese people, it is no problem, but the premise is not to be careless, and do not underestimate the madness, ferocity, and extermination of humanity of the Japanese people.

Guo Rong's letter did give Lu Xiaobing and a few people confidence, but it also inadvertently put Lu Xiaobing and a few people under a lot of pressure, without him, Mo Lingjun's surprise attack was too dazzling.

Fortunately, Mo Lingjun's battle was beautiful, but his cavalry regiment was also injured and lost its combat effectiveness in a short period of time, so Lu Xiao's soldiers still had a chance to prove themselves with a beautiful siege and annihilation battle.

Therefore, at this moment, Lu Xiaobing only thinks about one point, how to bring the Japanese people together as much as possible.

Therefore, Lu Xiaobing is actually looking forward to the fact that tomorrow the Japanese people will be even more crazy.

In fact, Lu Xiaobing's speculation was not wrong, and at dusk, a whole day had passed since the military discussion of the Japanese people.

The day was not a long time, but it was enough for the scout leader Hattori Massaemon to convey the order to the ears of each scout, and hundreds of scouts began to gather from all over Wenden to Zetou.

Originally, Hattori was going to launch an attack when the Nagaying Army was building a camp, but the camp was built faster than Hattori expected.

Walls, ditches, watchtowers, shooting platforms, thistles, stakes......

A well-defended battalion rose from the ground in less than half an hour, and this scene saw Hattori Masaemon was dumbfounded, the scouts were indeed lurking and attacking, but it definitely did not include a sneak attack on a well-defended barracks.

Although he was surprised, although he was very unwilling, Hattori was not allowed to order his subordinates to temporarily stop the attack.

Although the battalion itself could not be attacked, Lu Xiaobing, who had already understood the other party's thoughts, did not want to give the island people time to rest and think, so he very thoughtfully prepared another target for his island scouts to attack.

The river east of the camp of the Changying Army is called "Muzhu River", but it is called the Sow River by the locals of Wendeng, and as one of the few irrigation water sources in Wendeng, the Sow River is one of the most important rivers in Wendeng.

It was summer, and it was in the wet season of the Sow River, and the depth of the Sow River near Zetou was more than one zhang and the width was close to ten zhang, so it was obviously impossible to wade across the river.

In order to be able to cross the river smoothly the next day, a pontoon bridge that can carry hundreds of pounds of horse-drawn carriages is indispensable.

According to the original plan, when the camp was pulled out early tomorrow morning, the engineer battalion used the bridge parts that had been prepared long ago to complete the pontoon bridge.

However, in order to find something to do for the island country scouts and prevent the island country scouts from affecting the rest of the main force in the direction of the big camp, Lu Xiaobing decided to adopt the suggestions that Guo Rong had put forward and throw bricks and stones.

Therefore, Lu Xiaobing temporarily changed his plan and canceled the rest of the engineer battalion, but as he had camped in Nanhuang the day before, the sappers began to build a pontoon bridge immediately after completing the construction of the large camp.

Of course, the main task of the sappers is to complete the fixing of the most important iron chain connecting the two sides of the pontoon, and then guard it by the soldiers, as for the rest of the part, they can play freely.

It's just that, in order to ensure that the engineer battalion, which is good at boating bridges and building baby Gada, will not be damaged, Lu Xiaobing sent a whole battalion of soldiers, and thousands of soldiers are fully armed to patrol and guard within a radius of three miles, and complete a rotation every other hour.

After discovering that the Nagatashi army had set up a pontoon bridge, Hattori Shozaemon was overjoyed, but the only thing that made him unhappy was the hundreds of heavy infantry with armor and blades on guard near the pontoon bridge.

With the equipment carried by the scouts, ninja knives, blows, bows and arrows, it was simply impossible to inflict the slightest damage on these fully armed and defensive soldiers of the Changying Army.

However, this did not mean that they stopped attacking the sappers who were building the pontoon bridge, so they focused on the pontoon bridge itself, using special equipment such as water spiders to go down the river from the upper reaches of the Sow River.

Under the release of scouts and soldiers in charge of the vigilance, scouts carrying hidden fires and other equipment successfully reached the pontoon, and then set the pontoon bridge on fire.

After the pontoon bridge was burned, the engineer battalion was again built with wooden planks on the iron chains that had been secured, and then the Japanese scouts again destroyed the bridge at great risk.

So, from dusk to sunrise that night, the pontoon bridge was laid three times, and it was burned by the Japanese scouts three times.

As the sun rose, the entire engineer battalion, which was busy in turn, went out to lay the pontoon bridge for the fourth time.

When the sun completely hung up in the sky, looking at the pontoon bridge that looked sturdy again on the sow river, Hattori Shozaemon had not slept all night and his eyes were glowing red, and he felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

It's just that not everything is bad news for Hattori.

When the bridge over the Sow River was erected for the fourth time, there were more than 800 Japanese scouts gathered on the line from Zetou to Wendeng, except for a few elite scouts who protected Yuanyasu and Itakami Tianjun Maro, all the Japanese scouts who came with the expeditionary force gathered here.

It was no longer possible to burn the heavily protected pontoon bridge again in broad daylight, but after the army had crossed the river, the island scouts gathered on the road began a frenzied attack on the headquarters of the Ashitaka army, according to the orders of the leader Hattori.

Because of the tricks played by the Japanese people at night, and because the Japanese only adopted the tactic of delaying yesterday to affect the speed of the march when the Japanese were insufficient, Lu Xiaobing initially slightly lightened the enemy, and only prepared according to yesterday's routine.

As a result, this slight carelessness made the Changying army pay a heavy price.

If the day before, the Japanese were more hidden in the shadows, mainly traps and harassments, then today the Japanese have really entered a state of madness, and they have begun to attack regardless of casualties and losses.

In less than a quarter of an hour, at least 30 people died tragically under the pervasive attacks of the Japanese scouts, and three wagons of the logistics battalion that had been dragged behind were burned.

As the saying goes, you have a good plan, I have a wall ladder, and after suffering a loss, Lu Xiaobing also put away his contempt, and readjusted his deployment and strategy-for-tat.

Take the heavy infantry with armor to open the way, and the light infantry and cavalry will guard the attack on both flanks.

With this protective ring composed of iron armor and rangers, the opportunities and space for the Japanese scouts to sneak attack were drastically reduced, resulting in a significant reduction in the number of casualties and losses.

However, at the cost of another significant decrease in the speed of the march.

Hattori, the leader of the Ashi Takayo soldiers' change formation, saw it.

The speed of the Tang Army has indeed decreased, but the eyes are staring at the Changying Army, and the Hattori Shozaemon who is mentally hanging on Yin Heshou thinks that the speed of the Tang Army is still too fast!

After leaving Zetou, the Tang army was less than sixty miles away from Wendeng, and there were no rivers and mountains to block it, and the premise of Itakata Jun Malu and the island prince Yuansheng was to keep the Changying army out of Wendeng County for five days.

It is said that the reason why Yin He and Jia He came up with Shinobi and Scouts together, hired by all parties, worked hard for all forces, and even did not hesitate to kill each other and fight in the same room, was completely forced by life.

Although Hattori himself is also a samurai, he is only a low-level samurai who is not valued and has no status, and it is difficult for the barren Yin He, Koga, and Kiyin to give birth to any famous characters in the island country, with the resources and land of the island country, people who have no value can only choose to die.

This time, the thousands of people he brought to Datang from the island country are the real elites of Yin He and Jiahe, and what he wants is to open up a way for Yin He and Jiahe to live.

In Hattori's mind, as long as the task is completed, no matter how big the loss is, it is worth it, and if it fails, then everything will be worthless.

As soon as the heart was crossed, an order was conveyed from the door of Hattori's main left guard, and immediately after, dozens of scouts silently lurked in the short tunnel that had been dug out in advance near the official road.

Through the reserved air holes and the vibration of the ground, the Japanese scouts lurking in the short tunnels judged the situation, let go of the heavy infantry in front of the heavy armor and heavy armor to open the way, and when the logistics battalion, equipment battalion, and engineer battalion carrying a large number of baggage arrived, these scouts lurking in the tunnels suddenly burst out, brandishing swords, ribs, and kunai against the sappers, baggage soldiers and other auxiliary soldiers to kill them!

The auxiliaries, who were already dressed in light armor or cloth and had no defense, suffered heavy casualties.

Although these cloth-clad attackers were quickly chopped into meat sauce by the soldiers who followed, a large number of auxiliaries still died in their frenzied suicide attacks.

What's even worse is that at this time, more than sixty percent of the mixed army in Lu Xiaobing's hands was only temporarily supplemented, and it was not the soldiers who were temporarily added, but the ordinary people from Guanyang County.

Before, under strict protection, they didn't feel much of a crisis, but when the killing appeared around them, blood splattered on their faces, and panic inevitably began to spread.

To be honest, digging tunnels in advance and carrying out suicide attacks through tunnels really surprised Lu Xiaobing, but it was just unexpected.

This kind of suicide attack is not long-lasting, and Lu Xiaobing is not without a way to deal with this situation, but at this moment, Lu Xiaobing does not want to leave.

Since the Japanese have used suicide attacks, if they don't cooperate, this next step will not be easy to act, after all, judging from the degree of resistance, they have not yet gathered, how can they have a good time~!

Immediately, Lu Xiaobing ordered the whole army to camp on the flat land on the north side of the official road, near the side of the Sow River.

On this day, the Changying army, who had already pulled out the camp to complete the crossing of the river, until the unitary time set up camp, and only marched ten miles in more than four hours.

Ashi Takabing was satisfied, and of course, Hattori Masaemon was also satisfied.