Although Zhang Chong thought that he was quick and stealthy in transferring troops from the rear. But in fact, the dispatch of the Taishan Army has long been noticed by the Zhenbei Army.

In fact, the intelligence of the Han army on the side of the Taishan army has always been very superior.

Although the scholars and doctors of Wei, Zhao, Julu, Changshan, Anping, Zhongshan and other places fled north one after another, these people have been masters in this land for hundreds of years and have their own complex network of human feelings.

Even if they were restored to free people, many of them were still grateful for the kindness of the master in the past, and kept sending some information about the Taishan army to the Han army outside.

Therefore, the large-scale army movement of the Taishan army in the territory could not hide from the Zhenbei army in the north at all.

Of course, the Zhenbei Army didn't believe it at first. Because they don't know how much of this kind of information they have to deal with every day, like the true and false information sent by those powerful remnants, they are not valued by their Zhenbei Army.

But in addition to these unprofessional channels, Lu Zhi arranged an intelligence backhand in Jizhou.

On the way to Youzhou, Lu Zhi continued to disperse capable men to lurk, just to grasp the situation in the Jizhou area. He knew that sooner or later he would have to have a decisive battle with the Taishan army to decide the north, so the sooner he buried the better.

As the information of these professions was gradually gathered to Xinshi, for example, the army stationed in Jingcheng had changed its guard, and there was a flow of marching people on the side of any straight road. The Li communities between Zhao and Wei were all requisitioned to supply drinking water along the road.

In the end, it was summed up in Lu Zhi's hands that there was such a conclusion:

It is estimated that there will be 100,000 Taishan troops marching towards Zhending.

But Lu Zhi did not panic, because what he really trusted was a group of espionage agents rooted in the Taishan Army, although the number of these people was not large, but they were the essence of Lu Zhi's entire spy system.

So he had been waiting for the military report from these people, and finally he had waited for it, but it took a little longer for this information to be delivered.

On the eighth day, a major piece of information was sent from the other side:

"The thief bluffed, the number was 100,000, and the actual soldiers were less than 10,000, which was not enough to have an impact on the overall situation."

Now Lu Zhi understood.

What a thief Zhang Chong, what kind of increase plan did he play. As a soldier, he understood what tricks Zhang Chong played after a little thought.

It is nothing more than using the same group of people to go out of the city during the day, secretly return to the city at night, and then continue to go out of the city during the day the next day, so as to make the appearance of a continuous army.

Now that you have seen through the other side's trick, you have to think again about why the other side is doing it.

Lu Zhi discussed with his staff and thought that there might be several situations. One is that the thief wants to run, and he is bluffing now, just to let him cast a mouse trap on his side. Then he led his army south across the Hutuo River, and then bordered him with this water.

There is also a kind of thief who has other main directions. Obviously, he wanted to trap Lu Zhi's main force in the Xinting area, and then he went to attack other places.

As for this elsewhere, it is not clear.

However, Lu Zhi had a way to test the opposite side, and he decided to abandon the Xinshi and Xianyu areas, and led the army to withdraw to the Lunu area in Zhongshan in the north.

Aren't you bluffing, then I'll show weakness and see how you respond.

In fact, in addition to this reason, Lu Zhiben also planned to withdraw his troops to Lunu.

This is the result of his analysis of the superiority of the enemy's forces. The core armament of the Zhenbei Army is now the cavalry, even if the Gongsun Zhan Department is slightly damaged, the overall number of cavalry is still around 10,000 cavalry.

And in order to give full play to the strengths of the cavalry, there must be a broad depth that allows the cavalry to go back and forth.

But what about now?

He and the army of the Taishan thieves on the opposite side were all piled up in Kuandian, which was only thirty or forty miles between Zishui and Hutuoshui. Just spreading out his army is crowded, let alone letting the cavalry work?

Another reason is that now Lu Zhi has preliminarily achieved the goal of going south, which is to prevent the Taishan thieves on the north bank from harvesting the millet. As for the timing of the decisive battle, he wanted to delay it a little longer, but now the weather is still too hot, and when it comes to September, the grass grows and the horses are fat, and it is the time for the decisive battle.

Therefore, Lu Zhi had already made such a plan after Gongsun Chan failed to take the Sanhe Pavilion, and now this information has only contributed to this.

So, after looting all the corn in Xinshi, Lu Zhi moved to Dingkou on the north bank of Zishui and took it to Lunu, turning the north bank of Zishui into a no-man's land.

This is another tactic of Lu Zhi.

Setting up a no-man's land will greatly barrier Lu Zhi's Zhenbei army, because they are mostly cavalry and can quickly pass through the no-man's land. But most of the thieves in Mount Tai are foot soldiers, and there is no supply along the road, so they can only rely on grain transportation.

When the time comes, the Youzhou Raiders will attack everywhere and cut off their grain routes, and this no-man's land will be the burial place of these thieves.

As for how many Li Shu here died violently due to migration in this process, Lu Zhi can't see it.

Since you can't see it, you don't exist.

Here, Lu Zhi planned everything beautifully. But as everyone knows, he was wrong at the beginning.

In fact, in the past six months, the spies of the military department in the Taishan Army continued to investigate the interior, and under Dong Zhao's shrewdness and strength, they successively arrested several spies.

After that, he touched the melons and basically cracked these spy reports.

Later, Zhang Chong specially left these spies behind, and constantly transmitted some true and false information to the north, so that the north never suspected.

And this time, Zhang Chong once again ordered this side to pass on false information, which was to make the other side misjudge.

At present, Zhang Chong does not know how much impact these methods will have in the end, but at this time, it is natural to use whatever can be used.

Who knows the fruit of another day, not the cause of today?

However, compared to Lu Zhiyan sitting in the hall, he obtained information from paper, and then deduced the strategic military situation.

His allies, the rabble tyrant armies in the Zhongshan Kingdom, only believed what they saw.

However, to say that they are Lu Zhi's allies is really putting gold on their faces.

In fact, Lu Zhi didn't look down on these people at all, and he didn't even send people to recruit them. They are only treated as wild weeds and are dismissive.

But the local tyrants in Zhongshan obviously felt that something was wrong.

The local tyrant and the powerful family are definitely not the same thing. But if you add a piece of soil, you will know that the mud on the feet of these people has not been washed very much.

These people are generally a group of thieves, or a gang of powerful rangers, and there may be no more than one or two hundred people in a team.

And with the fall of the Prime Minister of Zhongshan in the Battle of Handan, this kind of local tyrant country song is as many as a cow hair in the Zhongshan territory.

Just like at this moment in the west of Wuji, in a dense forest near the direction of Jiumen, a fat man with his chest covered and showing a piece of chest hair is such a little tyrant.

This person's name is Lu Zhong, and he is a little ranger of Wuji. Because of his bravery, he was elected as the leader by the villagers during the Zhongshan Rebellion, and led a group of poor people to survive.

At this time, they collected the dates in this jujube grove as rations later.

Zhongshan is in turmoil until now, and only the heroes in the dock wall still have surplus food.

Lu Zhong is fat, and the hotter the day, the more difficult it is, so he simply spread it out in the shade to rest and watch the villagers collect dates.

Soon, a boy who was as dirty as a mud monkey handed it to Lu Zhong with crisp dates.

Lu Zhong was not too dirty, took a bite of a date, and then said with a sigh of satisfaction:

"That's the smell! Correct! ”

Seeing that Kui was satisfied, the mud monkey stuffed the last two remaining hands into his mouth.

He chewed the dates carefully, letting the fragrance and sweetness of the dates slowly bloom between his mouth and tongue. The jujube in my hometown is really delicious.

But at the thought of leaving his hometown, the mud monkey became depressed again, and he didn't even have a taste for dates in his mouth.

Lu Zhong saw the thoughts of this mud monkey at a glance, and then scolded:

"Monkey, don't spoil the dates, the dates in this forest are earned by Naigong and the three nearby township songs, and they will be delicious if you eat them. I don't want to think about how many people will still eat dirt there! ”

The mud monkey nodded violently, didn't think much more, and ate the remaining dates cleanly. If it weren't for the kernel clenching his bad teeth, he would have chewed even the jujube kernel.

But untouchables like them, who graze all day long, have long since lost their teeth in their mouths.

The mud monkey was about to leave after eating, but he was left by Lu Zhong, only to hear Lu Zhong sigh too:

"Monkey, we know you don't want to leave your hometown, but who wants to go. How can I not understand the truth of people leaving their hometowns? But in the end, this world is not just what you want. ”

At this time, this fat Lu Zhong looked like he had a story, looked out of the forest, and sighed:

"Monkey, I was already out of the country with a wooden sword when you were so old. At that time, I heard a truth from Lu Weng in the village, saying that wherever the wind blows, the grass will fall. When I was young, I thought I was the wind, but it wasn't until I returned home covered in bruises that I realized that I was the grass. ”

Then Lu Zhong grabbed a handful of mud monkey's loose hair and said:

"So now that the wind has changed, we have to change the direction of the grass, otherwise it will be blown away."

The mud monkey didn't understand these truths very well, he just felt that today's Boss Lu was very sad. But he's a good baby, and he knows it's better not to speak.

After a while, the folk song of more than 100 people left with more than ten baskets of jujubes, and it was obvious that the harvest this time was not as expected.

But also, everyone near this jujube forest knows that those who have means nearby have already searched for it, and if they can leave these ten or so baskets of harvest, it is already considered that Lu Zhong and these people have worked hard to find it.

With these gains, Lu Zhong rushed all the way to Wuji's biggest powerhouse, Wuji Zhen's family.

And they shall go there in exchange for some grain, that they may be entangled in the way.

For Lu Zhong, these dates can't support them to their destination, so it's better to change some corn bran to Zhen's side, and they will be able to do it.

The Zhen family is the biggest strong in this area, and the people's voice is not bad. Moreover, a friend of Lu Zhong's ranger career was a housekeeper in Zhen's manor.

Lu Zhong felt that with this affection, it was enough to change something.

In fact, it is true, when Lu Zhong and the others rushed to Zhen's manor tired and hungry, they not only gave them a meal, but also collected more than ten baskets of dates, and finally exchanged them for five stone millet and ten stone bran, which was obviously high.

Lu Zhong was suspicious, and he didn't know why the Zhen family was so generous. But the meal that was sent to him was not eaten in vain.

So, he and his men squatted in the corner outside the manor and devoured them. Just this meal of corn, with nothing, is already a supreme delicacy.

After eating about the same time, Lu Zhong's former ranger friend came over, and he said to Lu Zhong with a smile:

"Second brother, I'll just say that no one knows about your tiger lying in the deep post, and a roar is a storm. You see, our family knows the prestige of your second brother, and when I heard that the second brother was coming, I set up a special table to entertain the second brother? ”

Lu Zhong has passed the naivety of a good name when he was young. In his past life, he doesn't know how many times he has encountered this situation.

The Lord's eagerness to seek talent is to ask you to play with your life.

Originally, the life of the ranger evil boy was not worth much, and a meal of wine and meat, we also sold it when we said that we would sell it. But Lu Zhong was later injured because of the tragic death of a friend, and in the end he was abandoned by the master like a shoehorn and waited for death.

Lu Zhong, who was recuperating from his injuries later, was also disheartened and unwilling to go around in this muddy pond anymore, so he returned to his hometown.

At this moment, seeing such a familiar scene reappearing, how could Lu Zhong not be vigilant?

But Lu Zhong knew that he had no choice, so he had to respectfully follow this into the manor and let his subordinates wait for him outside.

Soon Lu Zhong saw the so-called Lang Jun, but it was a weak crown with no fluff in his mouth.

He first looked Lu Zhong's strong and fat figure up and down, and praised again and again:

"He's a good man."

Then he asked Lu Zhong what martial arts he knew.

Lu Zhong hesitated for a moment and said modestly:

"We know some sticks, they are all ranger methods, not martial arts."

But Lu Zhong's friend on the side was not polite and vouched:

"Lang Jun, Second Brother Lu is the most powerful we have ever seen. I once fought side by side with Second Brother Lu, and in that battle, he alone smashed the heads of more than a dozen evil teenagers. We will never forget that scene for the rest of our lives. ”

Lu Zhong frowned and glanced at his friend on the side, obviously dissatisfied with why he said this.

But the friend's eyebrows fluttered, and he replied:

"That's the second brother, don't worry, the great creation is coming."

Sure enough, after hearing that Lu Zhong had such a strong record, this little Langjun was very excited.

What he has to do later is exactly what he needs to do like Lu Zhong, so during this period of time, he will recruit all the rangers who come to their Zhen Manor.

This Lang Jun did not hesitate, and said directly:

"I heard Hou Jin call you Second Brother Lu, I am young, so I will call Second Brother with me."

Lu Zhong became even more nervous when he heard this, and he hurriedly lowered his head and said that he didn't dare to call it that.

But that Lang Jun insisted on this, and he couldn't continue to say it, so he said:

"We have a big deal here, and we need to use the bravery of the second brother. You also know our Zhen family, here in Wuji, our reputation is not how good, but it has not hurt our villagers. So the second brother is relaxed, as long as the second brother can help me complete this, not to mention the wealth in the future. You will be my brother from now on. ”

Lu Zhong silently lowered his head, chewing on the meaning of Lang Jun's words, and his heart became hotter and hotter.

Finally, Lu Zhong raised his head and said:

"As long as Lang Jun can take care of my villagers, we will do this."

Xiao Langjun of the Zhen family is also a bold person, and he directly asked people to let in the people of Lu Zhong Township outside the dock wall, and let them be Zhen's apprentices.

At this time, Lu Zhong asked what was going on.

Seeing this Zhen's Xiaolangjun facing the west, he said excitedly:

"Send my sister to meet a big hero!"

The monthly pass of the family is taking off. In the past two months, the monthly pass has not exceeded 1,000, and the calf is about to be finished.

(End of chapter)