After all, it is the New Year, no matter how much you fight, the soldiers still want to rest and rest on this happy day for the family, especially after following Sheng Yong for a few months in the mountains and forests.

It is already the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the Yan army has not moved in the past half a month, and Sheng Yong, who is stationed in Yi County with a large army, has relaxed a lot of vigilance, in his opinion, even if the king of Yan is urgent to go south, it is impossible to ignore the feelings of the lieutenant generals and soldiers, and the imperial court soldiers want to celebrate the New Year, will the Yan army not pass? Therefore, it is estimated that it will not be possible to fight at this point in time, so he ordered to hang some red lanterns in the village, paste a few couplets, distribute a glass of water and wine to each person, and let the people in charge of food make a few meals of big fish and meat, so that the soldiers who have confronted King Yan for several months can have a good year.

The military order, the whole army cheered, this village is located in the mountains, it is not easy to transport materials in on weekdays, so even the military food is saved to eat, the food on weekdays is so bad that it is not good, now not only saw a pig being put into the pot, there is water and wine sent down, a soldier is naturally grateful to Sheng Yong, Dai De is extremely grateful, since the start of the war has never appeared here The laughter and laughter have become a piece.

It's just that the soldier can relax and relax today, but the commander is not, Sheng Yong is a diligent character, and he doesn't pay attention to the set of camping accounts and soldiers having fun, hearing countless soldiers singing in the New Year's atmosphere outside, he just smiled slightly, and then looked at the marching map.

I have to say that Tie Hyun still has a way... He retreated to Shandong before, and met with him, this scholar who had never read a book of soldiers, but was trained in the first battle of Jinan, pointed out a clear way to himself, that is, through this piece of mountains and woods and Zhu Di around, he could not let the cavalry into the mountains and forests, and there was no way to cross himself to fight Jinan, even if he only had 50,000 troops in his hands, he could cut off his grain after he entered Shandong, and Jinan was guarded by Tie Xuan, he was very relieved, and when the time came, he would add Xu Huizu's 100,000 army, Maybe you can block Zhu Di in Shandong.

This is a seemingly unbreakable formation, the three strategic points are interdependent, Sheng Yong thinks that if he is facing this posture, he is afraid that he will cut off all thoughts of going south, and the only thing he can do is to clean up the two parts of the world in the north, but does Zhu Di dare to do this? If he really wants to divide the river and rule the country, won't he be convicted of the eternal crime of rebellion?

Dead end, this is Zhu Di's dead end.

Sheng Yong was very satisfied, he felt that he had finally found a way to deal with Zhu Di after several failures, in this era, there may be no general who can win against Zhu Di on the battlefield, but the general trend of the world, after all, Zhu Di cannot disobey.

However, this self-confidence and even complacency did not last long, and the curtain of the camp tent was lifted by the guards, who were still celebrating the New Year with their comrades, but now they were full of haste and anxiety: "Marshal, the Yan army has sent troops!" ”

Sheng Yong looked up in amazement, but he didn't panic: "How many people?" Who leads the troops? Where to send troops? ”

The guards swallowed their saliva: "I have only seen ten thousand elite cavalry, and the handsome flag with the soldiers is written with the word 'Gu', which has already crossed our sentry and gone south!" ”

"Over 10,000 fine rides? Got past us? Sheng Yong was stunned, and immediately stood up: "Herald..."

He stopped halfway through his hand, and the elite cavalry of the Wan Yan army sounded very scary, but to put it mildly, these ten thousand people and horses thrown into Shandong may not even be able to make a wave, what is Zhu Di thinking? What's the hell about the New Year's Eve if you don't celebrate the New Year in the barracks?

The doubts quickly disappeared, because an out of breath scout broke in with the wind and pushed away the guards standing at the door of the camp: "General, Texas returns, the Yan army has left the territory of Texas and is coming to Shandong!" ”

"How many are there this time?"

The scout's face was full of despair: "There are too many, too many to count, Yan Jun... It seems to be the whole army! ”

"What?!"

……

On the official road north of Texas, Ping An was marching with his army.

This time he went south, to put it bluntly, to see if he could find an opportunity to learn from Zhu Di to burn the military rations in Texas, after all, the Yan army was on an expedition, and if there was no food and grass, his fate would be much worse than that of Sheng Yong in Texas.

The 40,000 army behind him is all the belongings of Zhending, and when he comes out, Zhending is almost empty, but Ping'an is not worried that Zhu Di will turn his head to fight Zhending, because as long as he keeps an eye on every move of Zhu Di's army, he can return to the city before Zhu Di to defend it.

Thinking of this, Ping An couldn't help but laugh at himself a little - look at what he has become now, he obviously wanted to lead the army to fight against Zhu Di at the beginning, and then win him openly, but now he is almost a fucking guerrilla, either to fight Beiping to force Zhu Di to return to help, or to attack the Yan army grain road in Baoding, or to wander around the periphery of Texas to find a lone Yan army to see if he can stab Zhu Di's ass...

It's so chilling.

However, he was still very happy to make Zhu Di in a dilemma and upset.

It has been more than half a month since the troops were dispatched, and Zhu Di failed to fight with Sheng Yong, which means that Ping An can't find a chance to enter Texas, and the consumption of military food is not a big problem, anyway, the imperial army, as long as the area is not occupied by the Yan army, you can always find food and grass, as long as you are not fighting, it is easy to survive, but it is also true that people are sleepy and lacking, especially now that it is the New Year, many really determined soldiers want to go home and reunite with their families.

If a general really doesn't take the thoughts and lives of his subordinates seriously, it won't be long before he is defeated and runs away, so Ping An has made up his mind.

Just like this, he wandered around the periphery of Texas for a long time, and finally there was a return for the exploration of the horse, and what he brought back was indeed good news, Zhu Di really still liked to make yin tricks, and he wanted to send troops to fight Sheng Yong for the New Year.

It's just that as he led the army into Texas, the situation became more and more weird, because along the way, he didn't see a few Yan soldiers at all.

The small cities where the Yan army was originally stationed were empty; The cavalry that patrolled the official roads were gone; Even when they arrived at the city of Dezhou with a blank face, they found that the banner of the Yan army at the head of the city was gone, and the whole city was empty, except for the people who became numb in the hands of Dezhou again and again, not even a single figure of the Yan army could be seen.

Ping'an's face turned pale, the Yan army had hoarded more than 150,000 soldiers and horses in Texas, and now, where have all these people gone?

Texas... Empty!

……

Gu Huai lay on the horse, feeling the cold wind that cut through his skin like a knife, and tried his best to raise his body to adapt to the undulating arc of the war horse under him, so as to save physical strength and horsepower, he looked back at the ten thousand elite horsemen behind him, and the mountains that were left behind, and a smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.

He and Zhu Di couldn't think of that road, and Sheng Yong and they must not have thought of it, but they were not stupid people, Yan Jun's movement trajectory was easy to expose his intentions, and it wouldn't be long before they would wake up to what Yan Jun wanted to do this time.

But this little time for them to be caught off guard was enough, and when the whole Yan army crossed the defense line laid by Sheng Yong, it was the moment when Tu Qian saw it.

There is advance, no retreat!

To be honest, even Gu Huai himself didn't expect that Zhu Di would actually hand over the main attack striker to him this time, probably thanks to the experience of the grassland rush battle, he didn't have too much anxiety, because this kind of back road was cut off, and the road ahead was long, he had already experienced it once.

If you think about it carefully, it doesn't seem to make any difference, the cities in front of you are tribes on the grassland, don't think about what retreat, don't think about what gains and losses, all routes, all goals, there is only one.

Advance! Move forward by any means!

Commanding a large army to fight, Gu Huai may still be a little weak at this time, but this kind of thing with thousands of cavalry charges, he has done it many times, and it can be regarded as handy, just like at this moment, he can feel that he is not riding south on a horse alone, but connecting with the 10,000 cavalry behind him, becoming a behemoth, viciously pounced on those cities that were blocked on the road.

This time it was to take the Taohe River of the Daoist Hall, so there was no need to go to Jinan City, Gu Huai slowed down his horse slightly, took the map handed by Wei Laosan, and looked at the closest point to him on it.

He narrowed his eyes: "Donga..."

……

Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, even in wartime, the people of Shandong are still immersed in the atmosphere of the New Year, and the city of Dong'a is also the same as other places, hanging red lanterns on the streets early, although this place has been beaten by the Yan army once, but thanks to the Yan army usually does not harass the people much, so the streets and the city have not suffered any damage, and after the Yan army retreated, the people also returned to the city, so at this time, the streets are still bustling with people, full of New Year's flavor.

The sound of firecrackers resounded in all corners of the city, and the smell of gunpowder smoke was not offensive, but would make the body and mind dyed with a hint of New Year's joy, and even the soldiers guarding the city gate relaxed, holding their spears in the cold wind, chatting with their spears, waiting for the shift to reunite with their families, or find a tavern to have a drink to warm up.

No one is worried about whether the Yan army will fight at this moment, because from Dezhou to Dong'e, the cavalry march will take two whole days, not to mention that there are so many soldiers on the front line, and the Yan army used to send troops to go through a hard battle to enter the Shandong territory, and now the front line is stable, the New Year is coming, and the shadow of war seems to have left here for a short time, everything is as it was in previous years and peacetime.

The ground shook slightly, a tremor that was hard to detect in the city, but a few of the soldiers at the gate clearly felt it, and they stopped chatting and looked wonderfully to the north, where the tremor had come, and saw the small dots that had suddenly appeared on the horizon.

It's hard not to think of the tides on the seashore – countless black dots gathered together, like waves on the water, rolling gently and gracefully towards the shore, and then, at the moment of view, splitting in different directions.

Then the soldiers guarding the city gate did not feel the artistic conception of the waves crashing on the shore and rolling up a thousand piles of snow, their voices seemed to be grabbed, and even if they used all their strength, they could only make a low voice:

"Enemy... Raid! ”