October 18, 1013 Huayuan, outside the Lingying Mountains

Looking at the high Lingying Mountain Range, Kong Ming couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, after twenty-five days of fighting and marching, they finally walked out of this Demon Beast Mountain Range. At this time, Kong Ming and his team were resting in a forest not far from the mountain range. The third battalion commander of the Wizard Regiment, Brooke Slo, and several other battalion commanders surrounded him, several people sat together, Kong Ming withdrew his eyes from the Lingying Mountain Range, looked at those tired faces, and couldn't help sighing in his heart, although they walked out of the mountain range where the demonic beasts were rampant, but some of the soldiers fell inside, and they couldn't get out again, and the wounded also increased a lot, the team of 5,000 people, now there are only more than 4,000 people who can fight. Kong Ming said: "Everyone is here, let's have a meeting, for the next five days, we will camp here to rest, everyone pay attention to concealment, each battalion will send a platoon ten kilometers away from the camp, and a scout will be sent twenty kilometers away, a battalion commander." Kong Ming pointed to a small town on the map and said, "You immediately send a scout team in Xiaolang Town to find out the news outside, and it is best to bring the nearest newspaper." What we need to know most now is the current situation in the country and the latest developments in Harvey's army, can we do that?"

Xiao An, the commander of the first battalion, compared the map to determine the distance between the team and Xiaolang Town, and said: "It will take about a day or so to know the exact news." ”

Kong Ming thought for a moment, "Do you have anything else to say for the others?" Kong Ming swept the faces of several battalion commanders with his eyes, and after seeing that there was no one to say, he dismissed the meeting directly.

A day later at noon.

Kong Ming was sitting under a tree in a daze, thinking carefully about some inexplicable things in this war, some inexplicable failures, there were always some incomprehensible places that made Kong Ming puzzled. At this time, Xiao An, the commander of the first battalion, ran to the front of Kong Ming with two panting people. Kong Ming looked at the three of them in a hurry, didn't say a word, and directly put a map on the spot for them to report. One of the older senior swordsmen said: "Commander, we entered Xiaolang Town last night, and asked local officials, mercenaries, and civilians about it, as well as some preliminary information from some newspapers, which is not very authentic, but can be used as a reference. ”

"Speak. Kong Ming said, after all, not every piece of information on the battlefield is very accurate and certain, and there are some information that is artificially or deliberately given by the enemy, which needs to be judged by intelligence personnel and commanders, and not fully accepted or completely denied.

"According to the mercenaries in the town, Harvey's army attacked in three directions: the national capital, Nanleng, and Jinshi, and they were in the three directions of the Lingshui army after passing through the Guò Eagle Ling Pass. Among them, the main force of Harvey who went to the national capital was Harvey's Fifth Legion, and the commander of the corps was Pang Longye, which has been established, because two days ago there was also a rumor that a group of assassins assassinated Pang Longye's disappearance, which is said to be an assassination failure. The southern route is the first legion of the Yan State, known as 300,000, attacking the southern ridge, probably for the resources of the southern ridge, while the northern route is said to be led by a prince of Harvey, also said to be 300,000, which may be to prevent the Huayuan Empire and other principalities from entering the Chu state. They left a few thousand men behind in Lingshui, using Lingshui as a supply transfer point for them for the time being. ”

"Have you figured out their specific deployment?"

"Time is too tight, and it's not something that the mercenaries can know. The scout replied. Kong Ming also knew that these things were indeed not something that those mercenaries could hear.

"The situation is very dangerous, what can we do?" Xiao An said on the side, after all, he was a pure Chu countryman, and he had a deep sense of family thought, unlike Kong Ming who couldn't beat him and just patted his ass and left.

"It's to do something, can't let them walk freely on the land of Chu like this. You go and call the battalion commanders. Kong Ming said, pointing at the young scout. Then he said to another scout, "What else did you hear?"

"It's all some rumors, some say that the royal family fled to the Huayuan Empire, Xiang Zuoding has been dismissed because of the defeat of the two wars, and now he is replaced by another person, who is not very clear, there have been many refugees who have fled to other countries, and there are rumors that some families in China have been loyal to the Harvey Empire. ”

"These lackeys!" Xiao An said hatefully. "Usually a powerful person, even a dog is not as good as a ...... at a critical time. ”

Xiao An scolded for a long time, but Kong Ming did not have the slightest intention to stop him, at this time, Kong Ming's whole body and mind were focused on the map, he was constantly measuring the distance between Lingshui and them now, the distance in a straight line is more than three hundred kilometers, but if you go straight along the nearest road, it will be about five hundred kilometers, with the speed of cavalry, if you still have to maintain the assault force when you reach Lingshui, it will take two days before and after, and launch an attack in the early morning of the third day. It took a lot of effort just to avoid the Harvey's scoutings. This is not the most important thing, but more importantly, no one knows exactly how many people there are in the water, how they are deployed, and how many Harvey troops can support them in the immediate vicinity? Although it is obvious that there are only a few thousand people there, how can it be that the logistics center of nearly a million people is only a few thousand? Or do they dare to leave so few people because a team is approaching there, or they have the necessary support, or are they dizzy? All of them have become an unknowing, but most tempting bait because of the lack of information?

As a young man who had just started a team on his own, although Kong Ming thought a lot, the bait there was indeed very tempting. The logistics of the million-strong army are actually guarded by only a few thousand people! Not to mention that this is a very favorable opportunity, and if it succeeds once, the crisis of the Chu State can be solved immediately, and if it is a trap, then the contingent of several thousand people led by Kong Ming will immediately disappear.

Soon after, all the battalion commanders arrived, and Kong Ming briefly introduced the enemy situation and the doubts involved, and put forward the determination to attack Lingshui, and at the same time asked everyone to think of a way. Just as Kong Ming thought, most people thought it was a trap after hearing this news. Under normal circumstances, a team of more than one million people must always leave enough troops in key places, at least 3 to 50,000, and now there are only a few thousand people left to guard here, so there are many situations where such a situation will occur, and there are two convincing situations in so many cases, one is that this is a trap, and the other is that the Harvey Empire wants to end this war as quickly as possible, and the supplies brought by their army are enough for them to fight a battle with enough time to end this battle。 At present, the formed army of the Chu State in this region has been wiped out or dispersed by them, and it is no longer enough to pose a threat to them. All things considered, Kuming leans towards the second option, while most of the others tend to favor the first.

Kong Ming looked at the people around him, and said with a burst of determination in his heart: "Don't fight, let's assign tasks below." The first battalion was responsible for sending out the front soldiers, the second battalion and the third battalion were responsible for the security of the two sides, and the magic battalion used magic to detect around the march, especially in the front, all the wounded soldiers were left, and the whole regiment advanced lightly, and set off an hour later, we marched along the path, striving to reach the forest twenty miles away on the north side of Lingshui after a day and a half. Kong Ming looked at the surprised looks of the people around him, and did not explain anything again, because now is not the time to argue, and war is like this. "The meeting was adjourned. ”

Before leaving, Brooke Sloe looked at Kong Ming again, wanted to say something, but stopped again, shook his head, and went back to arrange.