Since entering the Akiyama Peninsula, he has not encountered any resistance, which makes him, who has always been steady, feel deeply uneasy. He knew who he was up against and how difficult he was. I also know that 100,000 horses are not an absolute advantage in this unfamiliar place. Shi Qiuyu was wiped out, and such things have happened before, in Qipan Town, in Shushan City, and in Watson's Muyuan. He's no match for him either, he's well aware of that. If he can go head-to-head, he will still have a better chance of winning, and he knows that, so until then, he can't afford to lose.

On the third day, his scout finally discovered traces of the army on the Akiyama Peninsula. On the road sixty miles away, there are traces of soldiers and horses marching, and the place of ninety miles is a narrow strip of land, with dense jungles on both sides, which is definitely an excellent place to set up an ambush. This forced him to choose another wider, safer path.

After only one day's journey, they encountered another problem, and three roads appeared in front of them, and the horses of the three roads did not return. He sent two more groups of scouts, but they still did not return. It was not until the third day that the people on the left rushed back, but they were ragged and staggered.

"I was ambushed by the locals on my way back," said Tanma, who was sixty miles away, "and it was just dark, and I was riding relatively fast, so I didn't notice anyone on the road, and they stumbled."

"I went out an hour later than him, and I tripped over it not far away, and it is possible that he was discovered, but I didn't have time to arrest him, and I was arrested when I went." He looked gloomy and unlucky.

"Are you the local peasants who captured you"? Sheng Shiyuan asked.

"It doesn't look like it," they exchanged glances, and the man before said, "Although he is dressed as a peasant, his clothes are clean and his skin is white. It is impossible for a peasant to have such white skin."

"There is also a big man", and the other man suddenly said: "That big man is definitely not a peasant".

"How so"?

"His hair! His hair hung down to his calves, and it was impossible for a peasant to have such long hair, let alone maintain it so well."

Sheng Shiyuan suddenly had an ominous premonition, so much so that his voice trembled a little when he spoke: "So, what is the color of the hair, what is the color of the hair?"

"It's blue, deep, deep blue, sparkling blue"!

"Sapphire blue"?

"That's right! That's the color"! He wondered why the general knew, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

"I've seen this person", he said dejectedly: "Back then, in Dadu, the guest on the throne of the King of Jibei was him, Li Jiuyuan."

When the name was spoken, everyone was moved. Today, there is the only absolute genius in the military world who makes people talk about the tiger. Qipan Town, Shushan City, and Watsons Muyuan, these three battles have been rumored to be miraculous. Chu Han, Chu Feng, and Yu Fengzhi are all rare generals, but they are vulnerable in front of him. His cruelty is also terrifying, the fire in Luo Yuan burned more than 10,000 people, and the Watsons Muyuan battle, killed countless enemies, and shot Yu Fengzhi to death with his own hands. Such an enemy is enough to make them shudder, and now, he is in his own way. They had come to conquer him, but they did not want to meet him too soon.

"Then how did you escape, did they let you back?" Sheng Shiyuan is a famous general after all, and a famous general can suppress the fear in his heart and show disapproval.

"After the big man left, there were a few people left who were looking at us, they were real farmers, we gave them some money, and they let us go". They feel lucky that the big man is gone and they still have money.

"Where do the big guys go, you know"?

The two of them thought about it, glanced at each other, shook their heads and said, "I haven't heard of this, it's just that those two farmers said that the road before last was so difficult to walk, and they looked ahead." -- I think they came ahead of us."

Sheng Shiyuan waved his hand and motioned for them to go down. Then Zhengse said to his subordinates: "Since Li Jiuyuan appears here, his army will not be far away. They're probably in front of them waiting for us to get in, or they know we're here, and they're going to go ahead and defend it. In either case, we didn't have to take any chances, so I decided to go back and re-follow the path where I found traces of the march."

"General, all the way is not passable, there are two others. Why go back? Once you go back, don't talk about the delay, in case there is an ambush, what is the regret"? Deputy General Wu Qiren said.

Sheng Shiyuan thought for a moment, and then said: "The other two roads of Tanma have not returned, which means that they have all encountered the same thing. Although it is impossible for Li Jiuyuan to set up an ambush on all three roads, we cannot be sure which road has an ambush. It's dangerous to go either way, so I want to turn back. Li Jiuyuan is here, and his military horse can't be there. As long as he's not there, others don't have to worry about it."

Others agreed with the plan, and for them, the farther away from Ba Niu, the better. So he got up and returned. After a day of walking, I returned to the original point and walked down the road.

It's July, and the weather is unpredictable. A heavy rain, three days and three nights of flash floods, the road ahead was washed away, and they had to repair the road first, and then march. In this way, it was delayed for another three or four days.

Ba Niu set up suspicious soldiers everywhere, so that Sheng Shiyuan circled around the Akiyama Peninsula. They go and go and around, and finally lose their direction completely, not knowing where they are or which way they are going. Even Sheng Shiyuan, who has always been cautious, is a little impetuous.

"We have fallen for the enemy's tricks", when they walked to a relatively wide place, Sheng Shiyuan immediately ordered to set up a village. He wanted to stabilize first, calm the morale of the army, and rationalize his thinking.

"Those suspicious places on the road are likely to be suspicious soldiers of the enemy." Now we know, it's too late. But it's better than not knowing all the time, and if you know, there will be a solution.

"So what do we do? Do it the other way around"? Deputy General Wu Qiren said: "Li Jiuyuan has always been scheming, if he knows that we are acting in a suspicious direction, if we take fiction as reality and set up an ambush, wouldn't he still have to fall for the scheme?"

"According to me, it doesn't matter what kind of ambush he has, even if we encounter an ambush, it is impossible for us to meet an ambush at the same time. When one side is ambushed, how many parties support, how can they endure me? Why don't you just go in a dignified manner"! Xu Ze, the general of the cavalry, said loudly, he has always been irritable, and he is even more angry these days.

"This plan is not possible"! Sheng Shiyuan immediately denied it: "The rut of the front car, the lesson of the back car, Chu Han and Yu Fengzhi, all of them are more against less, and they were defeated by the enemy in an instant, and their heads were different. Although I am not afraid of death, the loss of the army and the humiliation of the country is not a small matter, and I must act cautiously."

Everyone was silent, although they felt that Sheng Shiyuan was too cautious, but there was no better way, and they didn't have it.

"It's better like this", Sheng Shiyuan thought for a while and said: "Let's station here first, and then send a few people to explore the way, see which way to go, let's go again, why do you think it is?"

Everyone agreed in unison: "Listen to the general's orders"! So he sent three groups of men, a thousand men on each road, to go out to explore the way, and he waited here quietly. But 100,000 horses are stationed in such a small place, and the degree of crowding can be imagined. It's early autumn and late summer, and the rain is frequent, and the heat has not yet dissipated. Within a few days, an epidemic appeared in the army. Many soldiers suffered from skin ulceration and swollen hands and feet. As the days passed, the situation became more serious, and dysentery and flu went hand in hand, and gradually there were deaths. Although there are herbs in the mountains, there are not many military doctors, which leads to the delay in the treatment of most people. Moreover, the epidemic was incurable, so many people were cross-infected, and soon, dozens and hundreds of people began to die.

Almost no one was spared, all were infected, and less than a third survived, all of them were weak and dying.

"Big things go"! Sitting in the big tent, Sheng Shiyuan's heart was like ashes, the only thing he hoped for now was that Ba Niu could come soon, he didn't want to stay here for one more day, but there was no way out.