The crowd listened with relish, some were dumbfounded, some had bright eyes, and some let out low exclamations.

When he finished speaking, there was a buzz in the tent, and Lao Dao frowned and cleared his throat to silence them, and then hugged his fists to the top and said, "General, it seems that this is a strong enemy!"

"Yes, this mother's, it's all interlocking, it's all caught up with the storytelling!" Yintuo's deputy general, Sun Gu, glanced at Lou Shiyong unhappily, and arched his hand:

"But General, now they are in Shangbandu, five miles away from Fengshan Terrace, and only ten miles away from the camp of Jiyang Mountain, this is simply making trouble in front of him, and he doesn't take us in his eyes at all!"

"What does General Sun mean that you can't let them make bigger?" Asked in a pious way.

"I don't mean it, I just think they're too rampant to swallow this breath!"

"People win even battles, and there are arrogant ones." The purple shirt Taoist was not in a hurry, and stretched out his fingers to count:

"So the other party should be 3,000 people, and now there are 2,000 in Uesakadu and 1,000 in Ogenwa.

Although the number of our army is almost three times that of theirs, their morale and equipment are superior to ours, and as the eldest prince said, there may be dozens of bird guns and two or three generals.

But ......," he tilted his head and thought, "if my army goes west, the camp on this hill will be empty, and who will block the north gate of Shangrao?"

"If your ministry is to the west," Lou Shi pointed with his handle:

"My second brother and third brother are now retreating to Dayuandu with 3,000 people, and your ministry can hand over to them, let them come to Jiyang Mountain, and hand over Dayuandu to your department.

In this way, Yinshuai will be able to base himself on both sides of the Chuxi River, and there will be room for advance and retreat, and my father and son will be relied on as the rear."

"Oh?" The purple-shirted Taoist chief looked softened and nodded, "This is not a bad idea." As he spoke, he threw a look at Yintuo.

If you get Dayuandu and Shangbandu in hand, and then control Xiabandu and Longtandu on the Guangxin side, it means that Yintuo can control the lifeline of Chuxi water.

Not only can you easily get supplies from the outside world, but you can also give orders to the fleet on the water, which is a big influence.

Lao Dao keenly noticed the subtlety and immediately hinted to Yintuo. After all, now that the team is getting bigger and bigger, it's not a thing to always be in the mountains.

Going to a more gentle zone is conducive to development and troop movement, which is what Lou has been trying to restrict and control them all the time, and now that there is a chance for Jiaolong to enter the water, why not?

Lou Zi often complained that he had to feed Yintuo, but he always refused to obey the call; But Yintuo thinks that Lou Shuai, you always refuse to let go and let me be alone, do you believe it or do you have any other plans?

He was very dissatisfied with the current situation in which everything was controlled by Lou Zishi, and the larger the team, the higher the call for his subordinates to stand on his own.

Having the opportunity to have greater self-esteem or even complete independence, that's naturally good! Poor Lou Zishi was asking for trouble, and he ended up complaining.

"Well, in this way, our department will no longer care about Shangrao's affairs, and we can go west with all our might?" Yintuo asked.

"Exactly!" Lou Shi thought to himself, it took me a long time to speak, and finally you began to understand.

"Good! So when will Dayuandu be handed over?"

"If the general agrees, I will send someone to inform my brothers now, and the general can send two thousand people to Dayuan tonight. So that they can cross the river early tomorrow morning.

If the bridge is captured tonight, the general can take advantage of the night to reach the city of Guangxin, and the enemy will be in a hurry and unprepared to break the city tomorrow at the latest. The troops who crossed the river in Dayuan could go directly to Fengling Town, Fengqi Pass and Nanshan.

I expected the enemy's main force to gather on the right bank, and once it was routed, there would be no more than a few hundred troops capable of fighting. Take advantage of the enemy's emptiness to occupy the vital point, so that the door for the general to go west to Geyang will be opened!" Lou Shi talked confidently.

Yintuo glanced at Dao Chang and saw that he closed his eyes slightly and nodded. After thinking about it, make a decision:

"Sun Gu, you and I will act separately, I will bring my own brigade to storm Shangbanqiao and Guangxin City, you take the rest of the people to receive Dayuandu, and then leave a few people to guard the camp, and the main force will cross the river tomorrow morning to take Fengling Town and Fengqi Pass to the west.

After I surround Guangxin, I will send a letter (the colonel of Yintuo's subordinates) to lead a team of 1,000 people to be your backup!" Finish talking about him

Standing up: "Gentlemen, return to camp at once! Pack your bags and go down the mountain to fight!

Tonight will take the bridge on the saka bridge, tomorrow during the day to take Guangxin! Our team is first, Sun is behind, Qian Sima leads the team to follow, and we will set off in an hour!"

The crowd got up one after another, and replied with a bang, "Obey the command!"

The sunset was fading in the west, and the repatriation of the captives from the Dayuandu side had begun. The herald relayed the news in flags, and Li Dan ordered the right battalion and the squadron to move forward and escort the first batch of supplies across the bridge.

And in the opposite bridgehead, the project continues to be carried out in a hurry. Hundreds of laborers are building three round forts on the north wall with mud bricks for the garrison of firecrackers.

This round fort is the bunker of later generations, the ground floor and the middle floor have been built, tonight the top of the fort should be covered with reeds, and then the middle layer to the upper part of the cement can be completed.

The men were told that they would receive a reward of two taels of silver each if they finished it tonight, so they sweated and worked hard, not caring at all about the troops marching behind them.

It wasn't until six horse-drawn carriages rumbled across the bridge that someone looked back and exclaimed, "Oh my good, look how big this cart is!" Look at the book

His cry caused the others to stop what they were doing and look back a few times, but soon reminded each other of "two taels of silver" and went back to work.

The round castle is thick at the bottom and at the top, like three petals slightly independent of the outside of the wall. The ground floor was used for the garrison and ammunition, and there was a two-person wide passage in the wall leading from the inside of the wall to the fort.

The wooden staircase on the ground floor leads up to the middle floor, and there is a doorway at the back that leads to the wall, which is convenient for the gunners to use and shoot at the wall battlements. The middle floor has three large holes on the outside and small on the inside, and up to nine musketeers can take turns shooting.

Further up there are also battlements at the top of the fort, which can be used by lookouts or musketeers and archers.

The three forts overlapped each other, supporting each other and acting as horns, and the outer walls of the ground floor had been plastered with cement and were solid and level.

At the northern end of the eastern wall there was a round fort that had been built, and a platoon of musketeers was stationed at it.

The middle floor in the southwest only finished the exterior wall in a hurry, and there were no walls and door openings in the back, and you could see the wooden frame and the floors of each floor, and it was probably going to be completed one after another in the battle.

Zhou Qin and the rest of the battalions didn't expect Li Dan to build such a project, and at first thought it was just a wall, but later found that it was not so simple, and they were all a little puzzled: Is it necessary to do such a complicated project?

However, Li Dan told them that if the rebels repented or intercepted halfway, or tried to seize the bridge, this bridgehead was the only barrier to protect everything, and everyone understood his intentions.

However, Li Dan knows in his heart that this thing is not only a barrier, but also a meat grinder!

Between the two round forts on the north wall, a platform slightly higher than the fort wall was built to place two generals' guns, and on the opposite side, that is, on both sides of the bridgehead on the right bank, a general's guns, to protect the two wings of the bridgehead.

The right battalion as the vanguard passed in front of the guards of the Uesaka Bridge, who were watching them, and entered the bridgehead, followed by the squadron to protect the chariots and horses.

There is still more than two miles from here to the north gate of Shuizhai, which is the "Jinbo Gate", and this section of the road is the last and most stressful section.

Previously, taking advantage of the negotiations between the two sides, Li Dan had sent people to find out the terrain from the left bank of the Chuxi River to the water village and the north wall of the palace and the city.

This area is high in the northeast (Fengshantai) and southwest (Shuizhai), sandwiched by the flat land in the middle, and the many ponds in the east are not conducive to the development of the army.

Therefore, everyone agreed that if the rebels repented and started to kill, then the battlefield would definitely be at the southern foot of Fengshan, south of Wutang, and west to the periphery of the bridgehead. The hundreds of acres of woods under the water village were selected as the preferred place for ambush.

But Li Dan didn't know that the Lou family didn't actually want to send troops by themselves, but instead found a more terrifying opponent, Yintuo.

Li Dan estimated that if Lou Shiming repented, or if Lou Zishi wanted to make a big profit from the raid, they could dispatch a maximum of 2,000 troops.

The regiment trained 400 men to defend the fort, and 1,000 men ambushed in the woods, with 1,500 officers and troops on the opposite bank as backup, which was enough to repel or even break the attacking enemy. This was his original vision.

After dark, the transportation speed slowed down significantly, but fortunately, Zhou Qin had already made contact with the guards in the city, and the first batch of supplies had entered the city smoothly.

The city prepared people and transport vehicles for transfer as agreed.

General Yu and Governor Han were both present, happily watched the process of unloading the grain, and encouraged Zhou Qin in person.

Zhou Qin handed them Sheng Huaien's letter, informing and explaining the plan to resist the enemy and set up an ambush to prevent the rebels.

However, due to the small area of Jinbo Gate, the narrow streets, and the lack of transfer vehicles in the city, the speed could not keep up, resulting in some follow-up carriages and horses having to retreat into the woods outside the city to standby, and only more than 3,000 stone of grain were actually unloaded into the city.

Li Dan was anxious when he heard the news, but when he looked around and saw the anxious looks of the other leaders, he was not in a hurry, he found a flat place to move a horse to sit down, and began to deduce in his mind what the scene would be like if the enemy killed.

Suddenly, there was the sound of footsteps on the ground, and two figures were approaching in the dim light (the lights were controlled, the lanterns were all covered, and only a small amount of light could be seen from the surroundings).

Kuroki flashed out of the darkness and asked in a low voice, and after a while, he came to him with a person: "Inspection, the sentry sent to Jiyang Mountain by the detective team has returned."

"Oh? Jiyang Mountain?" Li Dan was surprised, he got up to greet him, and asked, "But is Yintuo moving?"

"Yes, report the inspection, Yintuo Village was noisy and boiling for some reason, and then opened the gate of the village, a large number of people and horses flowed continuously, and they were divided into two branches when they went down the mountain, and the few people went to the direction of Dayuandu, and the more people came to us!" The man replied hurriedly.

"Crowded? How much?"

"If you count with one torch, there are at least five thousand people!"

"How much do you go to Dayuan?"

"More than two thousand, less than three thousand."

"Shhh Li Dan took a breath, narrowed his eyes, and two words came to his mind: "Oh no!"

In their impression, Yintuo is like a heavy Buddha statue, squatting on the side of Jiyang Mountain without moving, who thought that he would go down the mountain, this is a huge miscalculation!

As a result, both at Kamisaka Bridge and at Ogendu, the enemy has an absolute advantage in terms of strength, the former is almost double, and the latter is tripled!

"Inspection, the situation has changed, do you notify the delivery team to stop first?"

This is Zhao Jingzi's voice, it turned out that one of the two figures just now was him, and now he was blocked by the dark wood and the night, and Li Dan didn't notice him being there dimly.

"How long will it take for Yintuo to get here?" Li Dan didn't answer directly, but asked.

"More than ten miles of land is a night walk, and it takes two hours for a brigade of thousands of people." Zhao Jingzi replied, "It's a pity that Fengshan has too few troops, otherwise he would be able to stop his subordinates a little."

"If you can't count on them, it's good that those troops can protect themselves."

Li Dan shook his head and looked around. Now Wu Mao is counting and unloading goods in the city, and Master Ba is organizing freight transportation on the other side, neither of them is around, only Zhao Jingzi can discuss.

He paced a few steps and ordered the sentry to go back and continue to monitor the enemy's movements, and if the enemy reached Wutang, he would report back immediately. At the same time, he sent people up along the water's edge to monitor the situation of the enemy camp in Dayuandu.

After the assignment, he asked Zhao Jingzi, "Xianfu, what is the purpose of the Yintuo coming down the mountain?" Can't he see that the Lou family is using him as a gunman?"

"Maybe...... Would he be willing to make this gun?" Zhao Jingzi replied.

"Huh?"

"San Lang, you see, there are 20,000 stone of grain and baggage here, and it is obvious that it will not be able to be transported into Shangrao in an hour, so a large amount of materials will be piled up on both sides of the river.

Wealth is moving, even if Yintuo knows that he is being used, doesn't he want to swallow such a large amount of benefits?" After Zhao Jingzi finished speaking, he turned around and pointed:

"And the bridge! In the past, there was no bridge and there was nothing to do, but now there is a bridge, which can easily let the team quickly reach the other side of the bank and catch Guangxin off guard.

If I were Yintuo, it would not be a big loss to die thousands of people compared to being able to win Guangxin."

"Yes

There is no bridge before ...... helpless? That's an interesting thing to say. Our minds are all on the Second Heavenly King, and we ignore the value of this bridge!" Li Dan stroked his palms and said:

"I was just thinking that his army was divided into two roads, which way is real and which road is false, I understand what you said, at least the first step is to seize the bridge, grab the baggage, and occupy Guangxin City, and then he can support the partial division to go deep into the hinterland to attack Fengling Town and Fengqi Pass!"

Thinking about this, Li Dan ordered Heimu to find a leeward and hidden place to set up a military tent, and at the same time asked someone to invite the various teams in the front battalion, as well as Zhou Qin, who had just returned to his own unit and was performing a guard mission, and the two squadron leaders Gao Hanzi and Luo You came to discuss the matter.

Yang Yizheng was with Gao Hanzi, and his team was guarding the side of the front camp defense line, connecting with the third squadron led by Gao, so he came to chat with him.

Yang Yi's casual and free personality can naturally make friends with many people, and Gao Hanzi is no exception.

At this time, Gao Hanzi was telling Yang Yi that his original Dharma name was "Yuantong", Yang Yi was overjoyed when he heard it, and pointed at him and said:

"Your head is two fingers taller than Kuroki, how can you deserve a 'round letter'? It doesn't work, it really doesn't work!"

While laughing, he suddenly saw Gu Da leading Song Jiuyi and Zhang Cymbal (Thin King Kong) and asked him, "What are you laughing at?"

"Where are you going?" Yang Yi asked hurriedly.

"Let's go, let's go, let's go together, the inspection urgently summons us all over, saying that we want to hold a military meeting." Gu Da beckoned to the two, the two of them looked at each other in surprise, and hurriedly followed with a word of explanation to his subordinates.

The Chinese army has been surrounded by two curtains here, and after a while after entering, Zhou Qin and Luo You also arrived, everyone did not speak, exchanged glances with each other, and felt that the atmosphere was a little tense.

When the faint candlelight in the military tent was extinguished, Li Dan came out of it and sat on the horse in front of him first, and then motioned for everyone to sit down, and then began to lower his voice and talk to everyone.

"Brothers, just now the sentinel reported that Yintuo, who was entrenched in Jiyang Mountain, had descended the mountain. His troops were divided into two routes, all the way to Dayuandu, the main force of about 5,000 people, is coming towards us.

Our original arrangement was to prevent Lou Shiming from making trouble and being a ghost on the Dayuan side, and we didn't prevent Yintuo from coming down to rob. How's that, what do you think?

I don't have time to call Mr. Sheng Qian, Xiao Yingzheng and Lin Zhong, so let's get together first and discuss it." After Li Dan finished speaking, he looked at every face here.

He was familiar with these faces, but some were slightly surprised when they heard the news, some frowned, and some were eager to try with surprise, each with different personalities and different reactions.

"San Lang, do you mean to meet the enemy? Can...... The combined strength of our troops on both sides of the strait is only 3,000, right? There were only 1,500 people on this side of the river, which ...... Will it work?"

Gu Da was a little worried, seeing that his bright eyes secretly glanced at Monk Gao, Li Dan knew that this guy still hadn't said a word, that is, nearly half of the three thousand people were soldiers.

"It depends on how the troops are arranged." Zhao Jingzi said, "Originally, the reason why the officers and soldiers were left behind was to consider that they could take care of both ends and go to wherever they could reinforce them.

Now the enemy is clearly coming at us! Inspection, should immediately let the grand master lead the team to cross the river, the two troops and horses in one place so that there is still room for mobilization.

Although Yintuo is famous, the newly recruited people in his subordinates account for a small half, and we clench our fists, and there may be hope for this battle."

To put it bluntly, his opinion is to concentrate troops, rather than letting officers and troops stay on the other side of the strait or wait for the battle to start before mobilizing, because that may be passive, and it is impossible to say that it will delay the fighters.

"Even so, it's still a situation where we're outnumbered?" Zhang Bo suggests:

"I think even if Uesaka is the main battlefield here, Dayuandu can't relax, and even has to hurry up and deliver a message over there to tell them to be on guard!"

"Makes sense!" Immediately several people agreed.

"Who knows which side is the main battlefield, can you really be sure that Uesaka is the main battlefield?

According to what the inspection just said, even if the 1,000 people who had just been put back on the Dayuan side could not immediately participate in the battle, there were still 2,000 people in the hands of the Second Heavenly King, plus the 4,000 troops who had just been reinforced! How do you know they won't be silent?"

Song Jiuyi put forward his own idea.

"I agree with Saburo and Xianfu's opinion, Uesakabashi must be the main battlefield!" Yang Yi, who hadn't spoken for a long time, said:

"You think, there are two reasons why the north side won't be the main battlefield:

One, although Yintuo sent more than 2,000 people over, if he could join forces with the Lou family, he would have been together a long time ago, so why wait until the can't hold back?

So I don't think the northern front is going to join forces, but to replace Lou Shiming to take over Dayuandu!

If this is the case, there are many things to arrange after taking over, and the team will have to rest when they are tired, it is estimated that there will be nothing to do tonight until tomorrow morning, and tonight is our opportunity.

I suggest that someone be sent to burn their docks and boats, so that they will not be able to cross the river! No matter how many thousands of men he has, he can't swim over without a boat?"