After Ji Fa and others rectified the defeated army, they set up camp and did not go too far.

After all, under the banner of crusading against the faint monarch for Tianxingdao, if he retreats because of a defeat, the prestige he has accumulated will definitely be greatly damaged.

And Ji Fa is also very confident, and when Jiang Ziya and the army arrive, he still has the strength to fight, so he constantly sends Tanma to find out the movements of the merchant army.

Tanma hasn't come back yet, Ji Gao has returned.

This is also one of Ji Fa's back-hands.

Ji Gao, Tai Ji and the insiders, ordinary people, and the old woman of Wuxincai were imprisoned because of Dou Rong's complete closure, and the people in the gate were only evacuated before, and these people are still in prison.

After Nangong Shi occupied Bishui Pass, he did not release them from prison, but only gave them some food to maintain food and clothing, just in case.

Unexpectedly, these people played a role earlier than expected, and the king didn't even do an investigation, and directly released them, and Ji Gao, who left Bishui Pass, brought first-hand news.

"Brother, in addition to ordering the collection of corpses and counting military merits, it seems that the king also plans to let the Imperial Forest Army and the guards pack up, and they are suspected of wanting to retreat!"

"Retreat?" Ji Fa frowned: "Just after a big victory, you are about to retreat? At this time, the King of Xuan is at the time of his prestige, according to common sense, he will definitely attack my Xiqi in one go, why do you want to withdraw the army, and once again completely hand over the affairs of the Western Expedition to Lu Xiong? Isn't there any conspiracy brewing again?"

Ji Fa has already reflected, the two sides fought, excluding the temptation of the enemy, the Zhou army was defeated three times, two small-scale battles, one large-scale bloody battle, and these three times were defeated in the hands of the king of Zhou, the king of Zhou repeatedly acted out of common sense, there are indeed some strategies, which cannot be underestimated.

Now that the army is withdrawn inexplicably, don't you want to repeat the old tricks?

Ji Fa thought about it, this matter, must be cautious, he looked at Nangong Shi.

Nangong Shi muttered: "If you want to say that there is any strategy, it should be impossible, our army has just suffered a loss, and it will not be easy to fight, let him calculate in every way I will stand still, and now it is the merchant army that is urgent, they want to take advantage of the big victory to march westward, the more urgent it is, the easier it is to make mistakes, and the king's move is mostly to slow down the speed of the westward expedition and fight steadily." ”

Ji Fa asked Xiang Ji Gao again, and said, "The merchant army will be trained every few days, how is the morale, how is the combat strength, and is there a chance to take advantage of it?"

Ji Gao had already prepared, and said: "Three days and one training, the whole army by Lu Xiong, the morale is extremely high, all of them are united, the combat power is not easy to say, if it is just a one-on-one fight, our army can gain the upper hand, but if the two armies are fighting, it is difficult to say." ”

The Zhou soldiers were all veterans and had also experienced the conquest of the Qiang people, while the Shang army was all new recruits with weak combat effectiveness, but once the battle was on a scale, the personal combat effectiveness of the soldiers was not enough to determine the outcome unless it reached the point of one enemy and one hundred.

Ji Fa nodded: "Three days and one training, if you want to come to the king, you must focus on self-cultivation and recuperate, it seems that his plan is not shallow." ”

"Cultivation?" Ji Gao's face was strange: "That's not necessarily, it's Lu Xiong who trains every three days, and in his free time, he is the leader of the king, one dance a day, one song every two days..."

"One dance a day, one song in two days?"

"Ten thousand dances. Ji Gao said disdainfully: "The king of the Xuan is so happy, he will forget about it after winning a few battles, he can win once, twice, can he win every time? There is no general in the world who wins a hundred battles, before our army was found out by the king of Xuan with the strategy of arrogance, and now the king himself has made a mistake, it is a real joke, and he deserves to be defeated!"

"If that's the case, it's really our chance. Nangong Shi agreed.

"It's not proper!" Lei Zhenzi suddenly realized that something was wrong, and said with a beak: "Brother, don't underestimate the enemy, the western expeditionary army in Lu Xiong's hands is divided into three routes, and now it can be on a par with us, in fact, it is because the king of Xuan brought troops to help, in fact, in addition to the road we are facing, there are also two western conscription horses in the south and north, these two soldiers and horses, I am afraid that they will arrive in a few days." ”

"I almost forgot!" Ji Fa suddenly shouted, stroked his chest and said: "If the two roads of soldiers and horses attack from the north and south, and the soldiers and horses of Xiangfu do not arrive, our army is afraid that it will fall into a bitter battle!"

"That's the case!" Ji Gao also secretly rejoiced, and said: "This must be the calculation of the king of Xu, deliberately let me out, and it must be for the sake of these two ambush soldiers, Dou Rong arrested all the outsiders who entered Bishui Pass, these people have been detained for a long time, all with grievances, and they come from all over the country, and there are some businessmen who do small business, if they are further investigated, it will only make them more disgusted, and even bring this emotion back to their hometown, and it is not a good thing to spread ten or ten to hundred." ”

"But the king found another way, and he didn't need to check and know how many people were in it, he just needed to know that there were our people in it, and used these people to spread the confusing news of the withdrawal of the army, one dance a day, and one song every two days to our ears, so that we were bent on taking advantage of the weakness to tackle the key problems and ignore the soldiers and horses of the north and south, and at the same time release the people at the first time, without further investigation, giving great trust to the innocent people, and resolving the grievances in the hearts of the innocent people who were imprisoned, killing two birds with one stone. ”

Ji Fa nodded, and said: "Sure enough, the King of Xuan is not so easy to deal with, it seems that the King of Xuan just wants to distract us, once we focus on the inexplicable withdrawal of the army, and begin to study how to counterattack, thinking about Bishui Pass, we will definitely slack off the defense around us, fortunately, you can see it, come here, send scouts to closely investigate the movements of the merchant armies in the north and south, if there is the slightest disturbance, come to report immediately!"

"Yes!"

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Ji Fa is a person who likes to do things himself, even if he sends out scouts, he is still not at ease.

At present, just after a rainstorm, there is no cloud, and there will be no more changes in the sky in a short time, so he selects a small number of soldiers and horses to follow his actions every day, one is to inquire about the news, and the other is to find out the terrain to see if there are any suitable places to deal with the soldiers and horses in the north and south.

And the daily rotation of soldiers can also keep the soldiers whose morale has plummeted from being too tired, of course, Ji Fa himself has no rest.

On this day, as soon as the sky was bright, and not long after the king on the other side fell asleep after singing and dancing, Ji Fa had already woken up and led the soldiers who took turns today to explore the terrain.

Shi Bufan and Gao Jineng coincidentally deliberately concealed their whereabouts, it was becoming more and more difficult to find out the news, and if they wanted to deal with these two troops and horses, instead of passively defending, it was better to take the initiative to ambush and attack them, at least it could resolve the danger of being attacked by the enemy.

Ji Fa chose Shi Bufan's soldiers and horses, Shi Bufan's reputation is not obvious, it seems that he can deal with it better than the martial champion Gao Ji, as long as he is familiar with the terrain and judges the place where the enemy may pass, he can set up an ambush in an excellent position.

Han water in the vicinity of the temporary camp of the Zhou army, there is a tributary, called the quicksand river, as for the Shang and Zhou Dynasty whether there is this tributary, thousands of years of changeable landforms and there is no exact map, really can't say, but this is not important, anyway, it is made up, there is a world of immortals, when the curtain general digs it when he goes down to earth.

Although Boyi also built a big road near here when he built the road, the merchant army would definitely not take the big road when he concealed his whereabouts, and the Liusha River was relatively straight, the land by the river was relatively flat, and it was more convenient to rely on the river water source.

Although the land along the quicksand river is flat, there is a place where the landform is ancient, and there is a large difference between height and height, where a mountain is formed, and the mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk, which is just used for ambush.

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