Ye Lie knew that his imperial uncle had already placed his army on the border.

Therefore, Ye Lie ordered that the garrison on the border must be in good spirits and not take it lightly.

At the same time, he also told the border army that they could only defend but not attack, and everything would wait until the reinforcements from the imperial court arrived.

Now outside the city of Beijing, more than 200,000 surrounding garrisons have been gathered, plus more than 70,000 people from the fifth battalion of the Beijing Division, and more than 10,000 people from the Royal Forest Army, with a total of more than 300,000 troops.

Ye Lie smiled faintly, "Deploy a few more garrisons along the way, a total of 400,000, and there are still 70,000 or 80,000 horses on the border, with such a large army, what can the King of Zhennan resist?" ”

Ye Lie also inquired that the entire Southern Dynasty could really fight, that is, the three major battalions, with a total of 60,000 horses.

The rest were garrisons in some places, and most of these troops were old, weak, sick and disabled.

To put it in layman's terms, it is the group of veterans who stayed behind in Zhennan Wangfu.

Therefore, Ye Lie estimated that the army that the Zhennan Royal Mansion could mobilize was about 100,000 people.

"500,000 against 100,000, the advantage is mine." Ye Lie muttered softly.

"After solving the king of Zhennan, there will be several other imperial uncles behind, and when the time comes, it is imperative to clean up together." He clenched his fists.

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In the dark night, on the border between the Southern Dynasty and the Jia Dynasty, there was a unit that had finished dinner very early and was on standby at the school yard at this time.

The general, who was in armor, walked up to the platform, "Everyone! ”

"Whew!" A flood of responses rang out.

Zhang Ye was very satisfied, although he was an unknown general in the local garrison of the Southern Dynasty, he also had 8,000 brothers in life and death.

In the training on weekdays, his army has never been lazy, and the last time the prince inspected him, he specially praised him, and it may be because of this that this task fell on him.

He said loudly, "The prince asked us to do one thing, to take down Danyang, and hold on for three days." ”

"General Ben is not a literati, he can't say anything sensational, and we don't have to listen to sensational words!"

There was a burst of laughter from below.

Zhang Ye spoke again, "Just ask, can it be done?" ”

"Yes! Yes! Yes! ”

The whole school field resounded with overwhelming sounds.

"Okay, it's the gentlemen, I'll cut off the heads of two more guys tonight, let's go!"

Zhang Ye stepped off the high platform and turned over his horse.

His troops, which were nothing more than local garrisons, had been drawn from their garrisons to this side after receiving orders.

No one expected that the task of this first battle would fall on him.

How can he be looked down upon?

Tonight there will be bloodshed, and there shall be no shame.

Danyang City, as the grain and grass transportation hub of the border city between the imperial court and the Southern Dynasties, the defenders in the city were obviously more than other cities.

The name of the guard of Danyang City is Zheng Yuan, this person is not an unknown person, he led the troops to step down in Pingxifan, thousands of miles of mountains.

Later, the emperor appointed him as the guard of Danyang City.

In fact, this also shows from the side that when the emperor was still there, he took precautions against the Southern Dynasties.

After all, the topography of the Southern Dynasties and the Western Fan is not much different.

On the tower of the city, Zheng Yuan, who was close to the age of sixties, was dressed in a military uniform, his eyes were blazing, and he wanted to personally check the situation of arranging duty at night.

"Don't be careless these days, the three most elite battalions of the thieves of the Southern Dynasty are only a hundred miles away from us." Zheng Yuan spoke.

There were three lieutenant generals behind him, one of them smiled and said: "Don't worry, general, my Danyang City has a lot of generals, easy to defend and difficult to attack, he Ye Xiong will not attack here if he is not stupid." ”

Another spoke, "If he does come, we only need to hold out for two days, and the surrounding troops will rush over and surround them and annihilate them." ”

The last person smiled: "Ye Xiong knows that he can only fight quickly, and our Danyang is definitely not the first place for him to attack." ”

Zheng Yuan knew that what the three of them said was very reasonable, but he still spoke, "The soldiers are treacherous, don't be careless." ”

"Yes." The three of them spoke in unison.

Zheng Yuan suddenly spoke again at this time, "Hasn't the imperial court's military salary been allocated yet?" ”

An adjutant general looked embarrassed, "General Hui, I've already urged." ”

Zheng Yuan spoke again, "How long has it been urging, I have been in arrears for three months in Danyang, what is the household department doing!" ”

"Now that the war is imminent, there is no military salary, how to make the soldiers work together."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The three lieutenants were helpless, and even they didn't receive the money.

Zheng Yuan spoke again, "Wu Yong, you stay on the city tower tonight, be sure to be vigilant." ”

When Wu Yong heard this, he nodded hurriedly, "Yes." ”

At the same time, a mile outside the city, a blackened figure appeared in the moonlight.

Zhang Ye restrained the war horse, "Pass my general order, rest on the spot, don't make a fire, don't make a loud noise, set off when you're young, attack the city when you're ugly, and be sure to take Danyang." ”

The lieutenant generals behind him took orders one after another.

Zhang Ye knows that when people are ugly, they are the most sleepy, and at this time, they can't concentrate, and it is a good time to attack at night.

On the other side, the Jia Dynasty is in the north.

Ye Yu and the others found a canyon where they lit a fire and rested.

The mentality of everyone is not very bad, after rushing out of the Jingshi, they have basically not encountered any more battles, and everyone's tense nerves have relaxed a lot.

Tie Niu was lying beside Ye Yu and suddenly opened his eyes.

"What's wrong, Iron Bull?" Ye Yu asked.

Iron Bull quickly got up, his eyes looking warily in one direction, which was the mouth of the gorge where they had entered.

"Shizi, I'm a little flustered." Iron Bull spoke.

Ye Yu raised his eyebrows, and his expression became serious.

Tie Niu must have felt that something bad was going to happen, so he looked like this.

As spies, they believe in their sixth sense.

Tie Niu squinted, "Shizi, you hurry up." ”

"Everybody get up!"

Tie Niu's words, everyone didn't dare not listen, and the people who were still asleep were shaken awake.

"Iron Bull, do you have to leave now?" Ye Yu spoke.

Tie Niu nodded, "Shizi, we have to go." ”

"Okay, everyone put out the fire and get out of here." Ye Yu didn't hesitate.

As a human being, he knew that caution was necessary.

They evacuated directly like this, and in less than an hour, the place where Ye Yu was originally located was already bright with torches.

An army of thousands of people appeared here.

The leader yelled at his subordinates for their waste, and then continued to chase after them.

"Iron Bull, we can't keep running." Ye Yu spoke softly.

Tie Niu was stunned.

"If the other party really comes to chase us, there will inevitably be some cavalry, and we can't run on two legs at all." Ye Yu said.

Iron Bull knew this well and nodded.

Under Ye Yu's command, everyone directly entered the woods on the side of the road.

It was now night, and the pursuers behind would definitely chase after them non-stop after learning that they had left, so naturally they would not run into the woods to collect the ropes.

Minutes and seconds passed.

Sure enough, a large number of cavalry rushed over the road.

They didn't bother with the woods at all.

If the woods on both sides need to be carefully retracted, then don't chase after them.

Ye Yu and the others were anxiously waiting, and after a long while, someone finally came, he was a Jingshi spy.

"How's it going?" Ye Yu spoke.

The man hurriedly replied, "His Royal Highness the Prince guessed that it was really good, and there was a large group of chasing soldiers on foot behind. ”