"Lack of greed."

Zhao Kuo looked at the reply letter from the King of Chu in his hand, and couldn't help laughing in his heart. Obviously, judging from the letters, Chu Jun should still be in Chendu now.

Although the letters between the two countries were delivered by carrier pigeons, three days had passed between the comings and goings.

According to Zhao Kuo's estimate, Li Mu should have passed through the Wei realm at this time and was about to reach the Dongjun range, and I am afraid that he would be able to reach the offensive line in three or five days.

Of course, if Zhao Kuo is willing, he can pretend to be preparing to go south, or even reply to the king of Chu, so as to continue to hang the Chu army near the Chen capital and buy more time for Li Mu's troops to encircle and annihilate.

It's just that after thinking about it, Zhao Kuo still didn't do it.

The reason is very simple, letting Chu Jun continue to stay in Chendu is not the best solution.

On the one hand, Li Mu's department has already occupied the advantage of time, even if the Chu army immediately goes east now, it will not be able to keep up with Li Mu's department, and it will be too late to rescue the Qi army.

On the other hand, the Chu army continued to stay in the Chen capital, but it was a great threat to Xinzheng City.

Very simple reason, once the Chu army in Chendu learned that the Zhao army was moving eastward, it was very likely that they would directly lead the army north and join the Qin army to storm Xinzheng.

At that time, Zhao Kuo had to face not an army of 360,000, but an army of 540,000.

Therefore, Zhao Kuo not only could not continue to hang the Chu army in place, but wanted to let the Chu army set off as soon as possible. The best result was that as soon as the Chu army arrived in Huaisi County, the news that the Qi army had been attacked.

For this reason, Zhao Kuo also hurriedly replied: The Qin army's heart is still fixed, and it must not be taken lightly, so it should strictly guard the front, wait for its food to retreat, and then annihilate it at both ends.

Of course, it's not enough to just let the Chu army strictly guard Chen.

Ma Tan even directly informed the King of Chu in the letter: his Hedong army is already on the way back, and it will arrive at the battlefield in a few days, and even if the Qin army still has residual food, it can be surrounded and annihilated by large soldiers.

Of course, these words were to intimidate the Chu army, but in fact, the cavalry sent by Zhao Kuo had not yet reached Hedong.

It's just that Sun Gu's subordinates in Hedong did disappear after taking Hedong, and of course Zhao Kuo knew that they were looking for a ferry along the river to prepare for a surprise attack on Hexi, but the Qin army didn't know.

All Qin Jun could see was Zhao Jun's sudden disappearance.

In this way, combined with the relationship between Zhao and Chu's allies, what Zhao Kuo said in his letter is very credible.

And knowing that the nearly 100,000 troops of the Zhao State were about to come back to help, what should the Chu army do?

Obviously, of course, it is to go east immediately, before the Zhao army's troops have not shrunk, to Huaisi County to break the situation! In such an urgent situation, even if the King of Chu wanted to continue waiting, the Qin army would definitely not agree.

A letter instantly made the Chu army move.

The day after receiving Zhao Kuo's letter, the king of Chu ordered the Chu army to immediately march towards Huaisi County.

It's just that the number of Chu troops attacking is not 180,000 as Zhao Kuo and Li Mu imagined, but 150,000.

It's not that Zhao's scouts made a mistake, it's just that the other 30,000 Chu troops were left in the Chen capital by the king of Chu. Obviously, the king of Chu wanted to keep Chen Du firmly in his own hands to rest assured.

Such a move of "forgetting righteousness when seeing small profits, and cherishing one's life while doing big things" is really something that Zhao Kuo and Li Mu did not expect.

Of course, this is understandable from the perspective of the King of Chu.

After all, in Huaisi County, the strength of the Qi army is enough to crush the Zhao army, and there is no essential difference between whether he sends an army of 150,000 or 180,000.

On the contrary, in this Chen capital, although the Qin army has withdrawn, once the Zhao army is defeated, no one can say whether the Qin army will turn around and take back the Chen capital.

With 30,000 troops here, at least it can make the Qin army throw a mouse.

Such a conservative mentality, placed on an ordinary person's body, may be a safety belt before he steps into the abyss, but when placed on a king's body, especially in the face of a battlefield related to the fate of the country, it can easily become a fatal mistake.

And what happened after that just confirmed this

A little.

Of course, that's all for later.

In any case, under Zhao Kuoming's secret "urging", the Chu army finally drove out of Chen Capital and rushed towards the Huaisi battlefield.

At the same time that the Chu army was slowly marching, the Qin army also began to shrink its forces in a pretended manner, as if it was going to retreat collectively to Chen Du in the next moment.

It's bitter for the Zhao Army scouts in Xinzheng City.

In order to cooperate with the performance of the Qin army, it was clear that it was impossible for the army to move lightly, but they were still frequently sent by Zhao Kuo to investigate the Qin army's every move. It's as if the Qin army makes any move, the Zhao army in the city will pour out and chase away.

And the Qin army was not idle, and immediately sent many scouts, wanting to strangle the scouts of the Zhao army on the spot. It was as if he was afraid that his actions would be detected by Zhao Jun.

An action scene of "you come and go" was soon staged in front of Xinzheng City.

It's a pity that although the scouts of the two armies fought to the death on the vast battlefield, the commanders of both sides had no intention of going to battle or leaving at all.

However, it was the frequent battles of the scouts that firmly locked the attention of the Qin army on the Xinzheng battlefield.

On the fifth night after Li Mu left Xinzheng City, several giants of the Zhao army met in Rencheng, a little-known small city in Huaisi County.

As Tian Dan, who was stationed in Huaisi County and was most familiar with the enemy's situation, he took the lead in introducing the battle situation.

"At present, the army of Qi is divided into two routes, east and west, to attack our Huaisi County, the east road is along Yishui to the south, and is blocked by our army on the line of Yushan, and the west route army is advancing southwest along the Mengshan mountain range, and is currently blocked by our army near Wuyang." Tian Dan pointed to the map and explained in detail: "It seems that the distance between the two places is not far in a straight line, but because of the mountain road, it will take at least two days to arrive."

"According to the king's arrangement." Seeing that the three of them did not speak, Tian Dan immediately continued: "The main force of our army has mobilized nearly 55,000 people and Wuyang City, preparing to cooperate with General Li to eat the enemy of Wuyang first, and then turn east and eat the land of Yushan."

After that, Tian Dan also looked at Li Mu, Lejian and Zhao Wei.

As a music room that has just been activated, he is not familiar with the battlefield situation, so naturally he will not have any opinions. As a general, Zhao Wei naturally charged into battle, but this strategic arrangement was not a problem at all.

It's just that Li Mu, who came on Zhao Kuo's orders, almost represented Zhao Kuo, frowned.

"No." After a long time, Li Mu finally slowly spit out these two words.

Hearing this, Tian Dan was obviously a little stunned.

Without him, this plan is already a plan that he has come up with with all his might, back and forth, he has deduced it more than how many times, but now it is rejected by Li Mu, how can he not be stunned.

But fortunately, Li Mu's ability has also been seen by Tian Dan in the face of Li Mu's denial, Tian Dan was not angry, but looked at Li Mu with a serious face.

This was a battle related to the prosperity and decline of the Zhao State, and even Tian Dan had to be careful.

"It's too far." Li Mu didn't sell it, even if he said his dissatisfaction.

It's just that as soon as these three words came out, Tian Dan and Lejian who were present were stunned, and even thought that they had heard it wrong.

"Is General Li saying that our army is too far away from these two places?" Tian Dan asked with some confusion.

"It's not." Li Mu quickly replied, "Is it that Wuyang and Yushan are too far away?"

As soon as these words came out, the two of them were even more confused. Does anyone still dislike the distance of the opponent's reinforcements is too far?

"The distance between the two armies in a straight line can be farther, but it can't be a mountain road." Li Mu ignored the stunned feelings of the two, and continued directly: "The straight-line distance is far away, there is an official road, my cavalry can arrive quickly, but if it is a mountain road, my cavalry will not be able to arrive quickly."

"Put the first battlefield in the Yin Ping." Without waiting for the two to react, Li Mu found his ideal decisive battle location on the map.

"Yin Ping?" Tian Dan followed Li Mu's fingers and quickly found Yinping's place

At.

A series of information about Yinping also instantly poured into Tian Dan's mind, obviously in the past few months in Huaisi County, Tian Dan had already clearly felt the mountains and rivers here.

"Yin Ping is located on the plain, but it is conducive to the assault of cavalry, although the city is not large, but it is not difficult to garrison tens of thousands of troops." Tian Dan immediately introduced Yin Ping's situation.

"Just." Tian Dan immediately raised his head and looked at Li Mudao: "From Yinping to Yushan, it only takes one day, if the cavalry comes lightly, even if you count the time to report the message, I am afraid it will not take half a day to arrive."

"Half a day to settle the battle." Li Mu said in an almost unquestioning tone, "After the battle is over, quickly rush to Yushan."

"Half a day?" Tian Dan couldn't help frowning.

Even though Li Mu had proven himself in battles again and again, but now in the face of the wild words at this time, Tian Dan couldn't help but feel a little angry.

This is a battle related to the fate of Zhao State! How can it be so sloppy?

It seemed that seeing the anger on Tian Dan's face, Zhao Wei, who came with Li Mu on the side, hurriedly interjected: "General Yutian, the three thousand heavy cavalry led by the last general have also come with the army."

Zhao Wei's meaning is very clear, with his own heavy cavalry, it is not impossible to eat the Qi army in half a day.

Tian Dan naturally understood what Zhao Wei meant, but on the battlefield, anything could happen, and no matter how much he couldn't compress the battle time so tightly, what if there was an accident? .

Just when Tian Dan wanted to refute it, Li Mu seemed to finally realize the inappropriateness in his words.

Immediately, Li Mu also bowed his hand to Tian Dan and Lejian and said, "The two generals are not arrogant. It's just that the war is like this, and our army must do its best to complete this battle as quickly as possible."

Sighing lightly, Li Mu could only tell the truth and say, "On the Xinzheng front, the troops in my king's hands are only 200,000. Once the Qin army learns of the Huaisi war, it will definitely storm Xinzheng with 360,000 people, and by that time......

"How?" Tian Dan suddenly panicked a little, and said, "According to a certain calculation, Xinzheng should still have 300,000 troops at this time?"

When Li Mu heard this, he immediately blushed and said, "The last general underestimated the enemy, and after taking the Great Liang on the king, he ordered Sun Gu to lead 100,000 troops to the east, and now he has occupied the east of the river, and is now marching to the west of the river."

"I see, I see." Tian Dan suddenly understood.

No wonder the king did not increase his troops to his side for a long time, and no wonder that after the increase in troops, Li Mu had to lead the army back......

"In that case, how can you rashly leave Xinzheng with 100,000 people and put my king in danger?" Tian Dan, who understood it, suddenly said even more angrily.

"This is the command of my king." Zhao Wei on the side hurriedly cleared the siege.

"Old General Tian, please put out the wrath of the thunder for the time being, the most important thing now is to break the thief as soon as possible." The music room on the side finally spoke.

Hearing this, Tian Dan also exhaled a long breath, and then looked at Yutu.

After thinking about the tea, Tian Dan said, "Since this is the case, then it is in Yinping."

"Of my 60,000 main forces, leave 50,000 in Wuyang, and gradually retreat, leading the Qi army to Yinping after three days; Another 10,000 troops came to the aid of Hayama as cover; General Rakuma's army of 70,000 immediately moved north to Hayama to strengthen the defense line of Hayama and cooperate with General Li in the battle." Tian Dan then adjusted the arrangement and said, "Three days later, at the end of the day, you led the cavalry to strangle the enemy of Hayama, and then marched westward. to the Yin Ping and defeat the enemy in front of him."

"In this way, after strangling the enemy of Yinping, I can continue to return to Xinzheng westward, or save half a day." Li Mu then followed Tian Dan's plan and said.

"Yes." Li Mu agreed to Tian Dan's plan almost instantly.

"Yes." Le Jian and Zhao Wei also nodded in agreement immediately.

The time, space, and tactics of the decisive battle are finalized in these simple sentences:

Li Mu did not ask Tian Dan if he could lead the Qi army to Yinping within three days;

Tian Dan didn't ask Lejian if he could be a foot soldier within three days

and the Lord's army of 70,000 was brought to the appointed place;

Le Jian didn't ask Li Mu if the 100,000 cavalry could hide their whereabouts and suddenly kill them three days later.

At this crucial moment in the decisive battle, the three world's best fighters all showed full trust in each other.

Soon, the four of them began to split up.

Three days is not a long time, but it is not a short time, and it is almost impossible to hide the movement of hundreds of thousands of troops from the Qi army.

This has to mention the 10,000 reinforcements sent by Tiandan.

It stands to reason that Tiandan Youle's 70,000 troops plus Li Mu's 100,000 cavalry and more than 10,000 elite Zhao troops stuck on the front line of Yushan are enough to strangle the cavalry army in front of him, and there is no need for Tiandan to send another 10,000 troops to help in the battle.

But it was the mobilization of this 10,000-strong army, which was simply a stroke of genius.

It was because of the mobilization of this 10,000-strong army that not only successfully covered up the retreat of Tiandan's troops and successfully introduced the Qi army into the established battlefield, but also made the transfer of Li Mu and Lejian's hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops hidden in the minds of the generals of the Qi army.