In the early autumn, when the autumn wind was blowing, a gust of wind blew through the trees, the branches swayed, and the yellow leaves covered the sky; 5,000 men and horses were all veterans, and the large group of men and horses marched forward, the horses' hooves rattled, and no dust was flying. The army advanced in the fields, like a long dragon, carrying the constant dust straight to Ulzhou; Yang Zhi retracted his train of thought and broke the embarrassment: "Han Tao, now Zhongshan and Hejian are almost all the world of the Jin people, and the Jin army going south is the inevitable result, Bianliang is not safe, even if they refuse to come to Yunzhong, it is best to let them go to Jiangnan to settle down, and if necessary, turn back to Zhu Wu to pay a sum of money." ”

Han Tao listened to this, and knew that Yang Zhi was not talking nonsense, and all the family members who Yang Zhi himself did not come over were in Jiangnan, so he nodded and said, "I know, I will arrange this battle after I finish it." ”

Yang Zhi remembered what Zhu Wu said during the deduction, and pointed to the ranks of people and horses in front of him, so he asked Wang Ding behind him: "The Jin scouts are powerful, if you look at the high places, the military horses move dozens of miles before and after, and it is estimated that they will not be able to hide from the other party." We set out in a hurry, we need to join forces with the Ulzhou army, you fought against the Jin army's East Route Army in Hebei, what are their tactics?"

Wang Ding has followed Han Tao to fight and train troops on weekdays for several months, and he has become familiar with the tactics of the Canglang Battalion, and he said: "The main army in Hebei is lax, especially after the recovery of Yanyun, and I feel that it is not in the way if I don't train. Therefore, with many enemies and few enemies, they often lose the first opportunity, and their combat effectiveness is unbearable, and they are almost broken by each opponent. ”

Yang Zhi said: "The army in the division has entered the siege of Dingzhou, but it does not dare to defend Dingzhou for this reason, for fear that the lone army will be trapped in the city, and there will be no reinforcements outside, so it is better to withdraw and consider it in the long run." Our dispatch of troops this time is actually to encircle Wei and save Zhao, but whether we save Datong Mansion or Daimyo's Mansion depends on Wu Qimai's determination. ”

The Jin army returned the Daimyo's Mansion, Huazhou and other places to the Great Song Dynasty, and now the Daimyo's Mansion is the first barrier to resist the north, if Wu Qimai is determined, regardless of the victory or defeat in the clouds, and goes all out to the south, Yang Zhi can only maneuver around the Datong Mansion; unless Wu Qimai is determined to win, Yang Zhi will consider whether to go out of Taihang Mountain and fight in Hebei with Yang Weizhong and Wang Ping.

The war horses galloped wildly, and in less than two hours, the army had already left the border of Yingzhou, and turned to the southwest to be Ulzhou; Yang Zhi had sent people to report the news as early as two days earlier, and the scouts had reported that Zong Ying, the supervisor of the Ulzhou soldiers and horses, had come with 5,000 horsemen, and the accompanying generals were Qin Guangbi, Chen Kui, Wang Xiaozhong, and others. When the two sides met, Zong Ying reported to Yang Zhi: "Zhang Zhizhou has led the army to move to Feihu County, let me take over the governor, in order to prevent the Jin army from looting, the nearby people have been moved to the county seat, and there are basically no people in the villages on the side of the road, just empty villages." ”

Yang Zhi specially went to the roadside village to watch, the people did escape without a sound, many people's soft things, firewood, grass and miscellaneous grains were in the house, only some wild dogs howled in the corner. Yang Zhi nodded and said: "In this case, when the Jin soldiers come, there will be grain and grass carts to accompany them, and we will fight more with less, but only to burn his grain and grass is twice the result with half the effort." It's just that you have to send someone to reply to Zhang Zhizhou, Hebei is now in the hands of the Jin army, and they are likely to attack Feihu County from Feihu Road, so we can only defend one side. ”

Zong Ying nodded and said, "Understood, I'll write another letter to Zhang Zhizhou." Manager Yang, it was Wanyan Xiyin who led the team this time, and there was no sign of going south for the time being. ”

Yang Zhi nodded and said: "So we want to attack Huairong County, not in the county seat, but in the Qingyi Military City next to the Qingyi Water, where there are hot springs, suitable for the four seasons garrison, is the outpost of the Jin Army, and is also the place where grain is transferred from Youzhou to Datong." ”

However, when it came to the actual action, Yang Zhi was still more cautious than ordinary people, under Zong Ying's men and Han Shizhong determined the route of the Jin army to transport food, Yang Zhi still went to check it out in person, most of the village huts on the side of the road were burned, and there were very clear rut marks on the road, Han Shizhong pointed to the traces along the way and said: "Where the Jin army passed, it wantonly plundered property and people, so it did not come and go like usual, leaving obvious clues on the road." ”

Yang Zhi looked at it for a long time, and asked Han Shizhong with a look at the woods in the distance: "The fiefs of Wanyan Gao and Wanyan Xiyin are in Zhongjing and Bohai, why did they transport the looted property and population to Datong Mansion, besides, this is already the territory of the Jin Kingdom, and those villages will have a lot of uses in the future, why should they be burned?"

Han Shizhong and Zong Ying were shocked, Wanyan Gao's fief was in Huanglong Mansion, and Wanyan Xiyin's fief was in Huining Mansion, both of which were east of the Bohai Sea, even if they shipped their belongings back, they didn't need to go west to Xinzhou at all; Han Shizhong immediately looked at the surrounding sky, the sun had already set in the west, emitting the gentle light of autumn, the clouds were fluttering in the sky, and the crows in the distance were flying, glowing with a strange black gold color in the sun. Han Shizhong immediately picked out two hundred horsemen and went to check separately from Li Zhong, the tiger general.

In less than half an hour, Han Shizhong and Li Zhong came back, and the cumbersome ruts really turned into a large number of human footprints in a pine forest, several times more than the original human footprints, plus the horseshoe prints of the escort, the number of people was as many as four or five thousand. Han Shizhong said with sincerity and sincerity: "As expected, if one or two thousand people come to fight the side grass, it is easy to be ambushed by the other party in the pine forest, but it is very strange that the other party has no one in the pine forest now." ”

Liang Hongyu smiled like a flower and said: "Wanyan Xiyin's mind is careful enough, singing the whole book, he doesn't want to ambush anytime and anywhere, but once in a day or two, and every time he chooses an ambush location, he will change places, even if our army scouts find something wrong, they can't confirm whether there is an ambush." ”

None of the celebrities in history can be despised as well, Liang Hongyu is as beautiful and wise as the legend says, and has a good kung fu, Yang Zhi said: "Wanyan Xi Yin is both civil and military, the use of soldiers is different from Wanyan Lou's room, he does not pay attention to danger, he will not be as simple as ambushing a small group of people, he knows that there are more than 10,000 people and horses in Ulzhou, and he must be ready to fight a big battle.

Let's give it a try, Wang Xiaozhong, you lead a thousand horsemen to the Qingyi military city, but don't approach the city, from here to the north, stay for a while every ten miles, and find that the enemy army immediately withdraws; Zong Ying and Qin Guangbi lead 3,000 men and horses, ambush in front, and meet Wang Xiaozhong; Chen Kui, you command five hundred horsemen to divide into five teams, find five woods nearby and drag tree branches to run, causing a large-scale ambush, I will take the rest of the people to the front to wait for the men and horses of Youzhou. ”