After Lu Xinghe attacked Sanggan, Chi Yulin, who was guarding Longshi Fort, raised his vigilance, readjusted the deployment of troops in the five towns of Hu Ye, Yulin, Shiquan, Baishi, and Huangjia, and divided the troops in the fort into three teams, one team was responsible for defending the city, and the other two teams were responsible for supporting. Therefore, when Liana attacked Huye Town, he sent the first team, and when Huang Minghe attacked Shiquan Town, he sent a second team. The rest of the matter is to sit back and wait for Lu Xinghe to fall into the net. But to his surprise, after waiting for a day and a night, he didn't see half a shadow, let alone Lu Xinghe's army.

"Does he want to attack Huye Town and Shiquan Town first, and then attack Longshi Fort? Or is it that after the five towns are breached, they will form a siege of Dragonstone Fort and then start it?" But he quickly rejected this idea, he knew very well in his heart that with Lu Xinghe's current strength, he would divide his troops into five places, not to mention besieging Longshi Fort, whether he could take down the five towns was a problem. And attacking Dragonstone Fort, in his opinion, is not very realistic. This fort is different from Sangkan, which was the original frontier position of Mingsha Mountain, and after several major battles, it has been dilapidated. Although it has been repaired a little, it is still not very strong, and most importantly, there is only one lonely city in Sangan, and there are not many fortifications around it that can be defended.

Dragonstone Fort is very different, not only the city is high and deep, but there are also five important strongholds outside, these strongholds and Dragonstone Fort echo each other, each other is a barrier, hit one point, four points of response, with 100,000 people, it may not be perfect, not to mention that he Lu Xinghe is only 20,000 horses?

On the other hand, the forces and defenders in the two places are also very different. There were only 30,000 horses in Sangan, and most of them were surrenderers, while Longshi Fort had 50,000 men, all of whom were Kangle's generals. As for the commander, it is even more incomparable. Chu Zihang is just a representative of the aristocratic class, and Chi Yulin is a veteran general who has experienced a hundred battles. ――No matter how you look at it, if Lu Xinghe wasn't stupid, he would never do such a stupid thing.

Or was the attack of Huye and Shiquan just a tentative provocation? Provide a basis for the next operational deployment? Puzzled, he returned to the sand table and looked carefully at the important areas under his jurisdiction, but found nothing missing.

"General"! Suzushita took a letter and knelt down on one knee.

"What's the matter"? He didn't turn around, still staring at the sandbox.

"News from Huye Town has arrived".

"How's it going"? He slowly turned to the messenger and asked with a worried face.

"Report to the general, when General Zuo arrived, the enemy soldiers had retreated and did not engage the enemy." As he spoke, he presented the paperwork.

The secretary took it, picked it up, and handed it to the table, Chi Yulin picked it up from the table again, and unfolded it to see: General Qida learned that the enemy launched an attack in the early morning and retreated until noon, and the two sides were always in a stalemate, and there was no particularly fierce fighting. General Zuo arrived in the afternoon, when the enemy had retreated and there was no fighting, so I would like to ask the general to give instructions to the left army to be stationed there, or to return the same way, or to send another dispatch? Attached: The enemy's strength is about 5,000, well-equipped, and morale is quite strong.

"Let General Left return immediately"! He was aware of the danger, but he had no way of knowing what it was or where it was happening.

"General! The letter from Shiquan Town has also arrived"!

Not long after the messenger from Huye Town left, news from Shiquan Town also came. The situation described in this letter was similar to that of Huye Town, and after a stalemate between the two sides for a while, the enemy troops retreated.

"Let the partial general come back immediately"!

When the messenger received the order, he hurried down.

"There must be something I didn't see", Chi Yulin stared at the sand table, silently distracted. After thinking about it, he didn't see the problem until the time of the lamp.

"Huye Town, Yulin Town, Shiquan Town, Baishi Town, Huangjia Town, ......", he kept moving his hands from one battlement to another, repeating more than a dozen times.

"Where the hell is it"?

"General, General Zuo and General Partial are all back". It was not until midnight that both armies returned.

"Let them come to me at once"!

With little effort, General Zuo Chu Tianyao and General Chu Tianxun rushed to the hall together.

"The two generals have worked hard," he said, he sat the two of them down, and then asked them in detail about the whole process of the rescue.

"Am I overthinking"? Chi Yulin frowned slightly, looked at the two of them and said, "According to the two generals, what is the purpose of Lu Xinghe's trip?"

"This, in fact, is unpredictable", Chu Tianyao looked at Chu Tianxun, and said with a puzzled face: "According to Fang Xiongbo, the general of Hu Ye Town, after the enemy army came, he immediately launched an attack, and it was extremely violent, but after the first wave of attack, the second wave of attack was not organized, but it was just a stalemate with our army for an hour, and then retreated in an orderly manner."

"The same is true for Shiquan Town" Chu Tianxun continued: "According to the opinions of his subordinates, this is not like an attack, it is not like a temptation, it is not very like, if it is said to be a sound attack on the west, it is not like it."

"The two of you are reasonable", Chi Yulin nodded and said: "I think so too, I think it is unlikely that I will be tempted." According to the reports of the scouts in Huye Town and Shiquan Town, there are more than 10,000 enemies in the two places, and there are too many enemies to harass the enemy or tempt. However, the possibility of attacking the east and the west cannot be ruled out."

"If it is for the sake of dispersing our army, and there are other plans, why is there no action"? Chu Tianxun asked very suspiciously, he didn't think that there would be anything abnormal about Lu Xinghe's military operation.

"Or maybe we don't know yet"! Chi Yulin shook his head and said, and then, he looked back at Pan Yue, the secretary in charge: "What documents are there in various places?"

Pan Yue asked, and replied casually without thinking: "There are reports in other places, there are only three places, and there is no news so far."

"Which three places"?

"Chu Xiong, Lin Fan, Bei Mo".

The three of them immediately came to the sand table and looked for these three places. Chuxiong is a jurisdiction of Huye Town, and the other two are both jurisdictions of Huangjia Town.

"Fallen for the enemy's tricks"! Chi Yulin slapped the table hard and fell heavily into the chair.

"Ming Xiu plank road, dark Chen Cang", he shook his head with a wry smile, motioned for them to sit down too, calmed down a bit, and then said: "Lin Fan and Beimo, although they are only two subdivisions of Huangjia Town, they are the grain production area of the entire Erlongshi. Lu Xinghe came from afar, and what he lacked was food. I should have thought of this", and as he said this, he slammed the table again, remorseful.

"He first made two armies attack what I must save, distracting my attention, and at the same time convinced me that the two places were just false attacks, the focus was on Dragonstone Fort, and he secretly attacked Lin Fan and Beimo and took away the food, which is really the best strategy."

"I'll go and intercept it halfway immediately, it should be too late"! Chu Tianxun stood up and said loudly, Chu Tianyao also stood up, and the two of them waited for his order.

"It's already too late", Chi Yulin waved his hand and asked them to sit down: "When you wait for the rescue of Huye Town and Shiquan Town, he must have arrived in Huangjia Town." You and his round-trip journey is basically the same, how can you go again at this time? However, he should not be presumptuous", at this point, he stood up suddenly, slapped the table again, and said loudly: "I touched the tiger's buttocks, and I still want to be safe"?

Three days later, a well-disciplined and well-armed vengeful army of 30,000 men was assembled on the south bank of the Sangan River, and all sorts of civilian boats and boatmen were gathered together to await his orders. Unlike Lu Xinghe, Chi Yulin didn't plan to make a detour, he wanted to break through in a straight line, walk the shortest distance, and use the bravest way to give his enemy a fatal blow. But what he didn't know was that Lu Xinghe was waiting for this day, and all his plans were to provoke him and then lure the snake out of the hole.

"Water washes the mud off our bodies and drowns the ignorant hadders, but that's for later, and now we're going to let them come into our homes and feed them poison!" At the mobilization meeting, Lu Xinghe did not lose his humor, and said very firmly: And send them to the end"!