There is a camp thirty miles southwest of Shuozhou City. Wang Junlin and his party, with only 20,000 people left, are resting here.

At this time, Wang Junlin was leading a few people to have an open-air barbecue in the open space in front of the handsome tent.

However, in addition to an army of more than 10,000 people, he only had Shen Guoer, Chunqiu Valley Master, Chong Yao and a thousand soldiers. Luo Shixin and Wu Si led an army of 80,000 people who had already marched out from here last night. The camp mysteriously disappeared.

Shen Guoer skillfully grilled a handful of mutton skewers and gave them to Wang Junlin respectively. Chunqiu Valley Master and Insect Demon divided a portion. She only held one kebab and asked while eating: "Your Majesty, Guoer has always been thinking about it. I have a question, and I would like to ask the prince to clarify it."

"Guo'er, you girl, what questions do you have?" Wang Junlin and Shen Guo'er were more casual when there weren't many people present. At this time, he finished the barbecue handed over by Shen Guo'er with some disgust, muttering to himself. Although there was cumin found from the Western Regions, without the chili pepper, the barbecue was still not flavorful enough and not satisfying.

Shen Guo'er saw Wang Junlin's dissatisfaction with the taste of barbecue, and while continuing to barbecue more seriously, she also said: "The entrance and exit of this mountain road is actually a hidden cave. Guo'er sent thousands of spies but still could not find this secret road. , I didn’t expect the prince to know such a secret mountain road just by taking a look at the top of the mountain, which really surprised Guoer.”

"This thing! It's a bit fantasy." Wang Junlin smiled, thinking that there was no answer to this. He couldn't say that the mountain road and the secret road were developed into tourist attractions in later generations. He happened to play here that day. Standing on the top of the mountain, I suddenly recognized the terrain and remembered this.

Shen Guoer had seen too many fantasy things about Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu in recent years. She was shocked and immediately stopped asking. Instead, she said: "Your Majesty, the two counties on the other side of the Luliang Mountains are involved in a dispute with Ma." Yijun is separated by mountains, making it difficult for the army to pass through and must go around. According to the secret report from the spies of the Military Intelligence Agency, the Li family defenders in the county and county towns have been relatively slack. In addition, each county and county already has our internal agents. Luo Shixin and Wu Si's 80,000 cavalry will divide their troops into two groups and attack Luliang and Xinkou counties at the same time. They will definitely be able to catch the opponent off guard, and I think they will definitely be able to capture the territory of these two counties."

Wang Junlin ate the last skewer of meat, handed the sign to Shen Guoer, nodded slightly in affirmation, but then shook his head and said: "Any situation or accident may happen during a war, and we cannot guarantee this." Both counties can be captured."

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Eighty thousand cavalry suddenly emerged from the Luliang Mountains, one man and two horses. After leaving the mountains, Wu Si and Luo Shixin each led their 40,000 cavalry into two groups and headed toward Xinkou County at extremely fast speeds. He galloped away with Luliang County.

The war horses ran wildly on the field. Every half an hour, the knights would fly up and down on their horses, jumping from the back of one war horse to the back of another. The war horses kept pace, from the evening of the day before yesterday to the second. In the early morning of the next day, the Tornado Battalion army led by Luo Shixin had arrived near Luliang County City, nearly two hundred miles away from Luliang Mountain.

For the defenders of these two counties, they were caught off guard. They never thought that the Far Eastern Army on the other side of Luliang Mountain, which was attacking Shuozhou, suddenly appeared in Luliang County and Xinkou County. You must know that for thousands of years, Only a handful of people crossed the Luliang Mountains from Shuozhou to reach these two counties. There had never been a large army crossing the Luliang Mountains, let alone 80,000 cavalry coming over the mountains.

As Shen Guoer said, because these two counties have the natural danger of Luliang Mountain to rely on, and they also know that the Far Eastern Army is far outside Shuozhou City, the generals and soldiers in the county towns and county towns of these two counties have lost their vigilance. With the ability of the spies and masters of the Military Intelligence Bureau, it is not difficult to boldly commit crimes and enter the city under false names. It is not difficult to deceive the city gates and let the army enter directly.

The 80,000 cavalry arrived in light cavalry with no baggage or siege equipment. The only option was to fight quickly. Wang Junlin used almost all the power of the Military Intelligence Bureau, the Wulin Guild, and the Xiaoyu Theater, and even used himself as bait. , took more than 10,000 people to stay in a camp of 100,000 people, and placed them 30 miles outside Shuozhou City. After the Military Intelligence Agency personnel killed all the spies sent by Li Shentong or forced them far away, At night, without anyone noticing, Wu Si and Luo Shixin led 80,000 troops through the secret road of Luliang Mountain, and suddenly attacked Luliang and Xinkou counties.

At the same time, the most powerful assassins and spies under his command were dispatched to panic the counties and counties in Shuozhou, convincing Li Shentong that Wang Junlin's target was still Shuozhou, and then Taiyuan Prefecture.

In addition, high-level secrets that had been hidden around Li Shentong for the past few years were also used, making Li Shentong's intelligence system and spies slow to respond and unable to figure out the situation in the first place.

This kind of planning can be said to have exhausted all means and power, but it can only buy one day at most.

After all, there are 80,000 troops, and it is impossible to hide Xingzang. As long as the Li family's army reacts, and all the Li family's military forces in Luliang County and Xinkou County react, they will never give them time to raid these two counties.

Therefore, Wang Junlin could only create an impossible miracle and conquer the two counties in one day. Otherwise, he would have to let 80,000 troops return to Shuozhou along the way and continue to attack Shuozhou City, which was obviously very well prepared. .

Facts have proved that, consistent with the previous investigation and analysis results of the Military Intelligence Bureau, most generals and soldiers in Xinkou County and Luliang County are very slack.

Because, the county towns of the two counties and the four main county towns were easily breached.

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Five hundred cavalrymen from the Tornado Battalion wearing the uniforms of the Li family arrived 500 steps away from the Luliang County city. They were discovered by the defenders on the wall of Luliang County. Then they blew a rapid horn sound. When the two guards guarding the city gate When ten soldiers were preparing to close the city gate under the leadership of the team leader, the assassins from the Military Intelligence Bureau and the masters from the martial arts guild who sneaked in early began to take action, easily killing twenty soldiers, and their reaction was not slow, and they rushed over. Nearly a thousand defenders came and blocked it for a short time.

But before this short period of time had passed, the five hundred Cyclone Battalion cavalry dressed as Li Jiajun had already rushed in like a torrent and guarded the city gate.

At the same time, 20,000 Tornado Battalion cavalry, also wearing Li family uniforms and armor, hiding two miles away, rushed towards Luliang County City with all their strength.

Two miles is only one thousand meters. For the cavalry sprinting at full speed, they have already rushed over in less than a minute. At this time, the defenders in the Luliang County city completely surrounded the five hundred Cyclone Battalion cavalry who were guarding the city gate. kill.

As you can imagine, the five hundred cavalrymen suddenly gave way to the road, and the extremely brave Luo Shixin led 20,000 cavalrymen and swept over from the city gate. Along the way, people shouted and horses neighed, the sound of hoofbeats was like thunder, and the roar was deafening.

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The sudden war has plunged the entire Luliang County into chaos. People are running all over the streets, vendors have their doors and windows closed, and Far Eastern Army soldiers riding tall horses and wearing military uniforms of their own army are everywhere, rampaging through Luliang City.

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The powerful combat power of the Tornado Battalion, coupled with the fact that one side came prepared, the other side was caught off guard.

As for the defense, even though there were 30,000 county soldiers in the Luliang County city, which was not a large number of soldiers, the war lasted for half a day and was basically over.

Nearly half of the 30,000 defenders in Luliang County were killed, about 10,000 people surrendered and were disarmed, and thousands more fled.

The Whirlwind Battalion cavalry led by Luo Shixin suffered less than a thousand casualties in the battle.

Just in Luliang County, the people thought that these soldiers of the Far East Army would be like the officers and soldiers or bandits they had encountered over the years. After capturing the city, they would kill people and set fire to them. They would cut people with steel knives and stab people with spears.

When women come up and grab things when they see them, the actual results are completely different.

Next, the city gates were closed and entry and exit were prohibited. Twenty thousand troops mounted the city walls and began to set up defenses. There were five hundred people guarding each of the two city gates, one thousand people guarding the prisoners, and one thousand people acting as law enforcement teams. They began to patrol the entire city to maintain order.

, 7,000 people went to the top of the city, and another 10,000 people left the city directly and galloped towards other county towns.

Coupled with the help of the spies from the Military Intelligence Bureau and the powerful propaganda and guidance capabilities of Xiaoyu Theater, order in Luliang County was generally restored in the evening. Ordinary poor people were no longer afraid of the Far Eastern Army. On the contrary, the officials and nobles in the city were still wary and closed their doors.

I didn't dare to come out, the streets and alleys were extremely deserted.

At the same time, the same means, the same fighting style, and similar scenes happened in the four counties of Luliang County, as well as in Xinkou County and the four counties.

However, compared with the attack on Luliang County, the number of troops dispatched, the degree of success, the time taken, and the number of casualties were different. Moreover, two county towns in Xinkou County and one county town in Luliang County failed to attack the city.

The main reason for the failure of the siege of these three county towns is that these three county towns are deeper into the hinterland of Hedong than other county towns, nearly a hundred miles away. Therefore, they were discovered in advance. Not to mention being prepared, they came.

reinforcements, that's why it failed.

In fact, the success rate of capturing these four counties is much lower than that of other counties in these two counties. Therefore, Wang Junlin, Shen Guoer, Luo Shixin, Wu Si and others have deduced this situation in advance.

, had already anticipated this and made corresponding plans - after attacking the other two county towns and seven county towns, they immediately left the necessary defenders behind, and the excess troops immediately went to attack these three county towns, regardless of the cost.

Loss of gunpowder bag.

When attacking three counties, not counting the loss of gunpowder packets, the army also had some dead soldiers who were specially dispatched by Wang Junlin and trained by Nie Xiaoyu on Shedao Island. They were wearing dead soldier armor. The final result was that each of them used

At the cost of more than a dozen dead soldiers, a section of the city walls of these three county towns was blown up, and then these three county towns were occupied.

At this point, in just one day, Luliang County and Xinkou County under the control of Hedong Li Yuan Group were occupied by the Far Eastern Army.

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Surrounding Shuozhou City, within a radius of a hundred miles, there are hundreds of military intelligence agency spies and martial arts guilds and master members of the Xiaoyu Theater lurking in various identities, rushing from Xinkou County and Luliang County to meet Li Shentong.

All the messengers fell into their hands.

Therefore, Li Shentong, who has been waiting for the Far Eastern Army to attack the city in Shuozhou City, is still kept in the dark. He is still waiting for the Far Eastern Army to attack the city. After consuming the strength of the Far Eastern Army, he will find an opportunity to negotiate with the other party, and then call himself

The weirdo No. 1 was sent to assassinate Wang Junlin.

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At noon, the sun is shining brightly.

In Hedong in October, you can already feel the breath of winter, the cold wind howls, and it hurts your face from the cold.

Li Shentong is Li Yuan's younger brother. He has a distinguished status in Li Yuan's group and can usually be pampered. But at this time, as the commander-in-chief of the Hedong battlefield, he often has to patrol the city in the cold wind. He can only rest behind closed doors.

, enjoy special treatment.

He was getting older and had not had a good rest at night. He had just inspected the city wall, and Li Shentong felt exhausted all over. At this time, he was resting his mind on the city tower with his eyes closed. Next to him, several soldiers and followers were filling the copper stove with firewood and making tea.

"Commander Qi! There has been no movement from the Far Eastern Army, but it is difficult for our spies to get within two miles of the enemy's camp." A spy came galloping from outside the city, entered the city gate, and was led all the way up the tower.

At the gate of the city tower, he knelt down on one knee towards Li Shentong and loudly reported.

Li Shentong didn't even open his eyes, and said calmly: "Okay, let's investigate again. Pass the order and send a spy over every half stick of incense to report the situation to me."

Not long after this spy left, another spy came, knelt on one knee and said: "Commander, there is still no movement of the Far Eastern Army to send troops to attack the city."

Li Shentong opened his eyes suddenly, with a puzzled look on his face, and said, "Why hasn't Wang Junlin attacked the city yet? Does he want to go directly through Shuozhou to attack Taiyuan?"

"But although Wang Junlin is very courageous on the battlefield, he is not an arrogant person. I led one hundred thousand elite soldiers to his side, so he can go to attack Taiyuan directly without fear. Isn't he afraid that he will go deep alone and be consumed by my layers of troops?

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"Or maybe he thinks that our army, like that of Li Mi, can be overthrown by 50,000 troops led by Xuan Ba?"

Li Shentong looked puzzled and frowned in thought.

After a while, Li Shentong murmured to himself: "There is only one possibility. I easily lost to Luo Shixin in a battle a few days ago, which made Wang Junlin despise me and at the same time become more and more dissatisfied with the combat power of our army.

More contempt."

"That should be it. After all, I have always been timid and failed again and again."

Thinking of this, the doubts Li Shentong had just disappeared.

However, at this moment, another spy came to report: "Commander, General Huang asked a low-ranking official to report to the commander. The situation is not good."

Li Shentong's heart skipped a beat and he shouted, "What happened?"

The spy said: "General Huang led the spies around to the south of the Far Eastern Army camp and found that a large number of cavalry had left the Far Eastern Army camp and headed for the Luliang Mountains. They have not returned yet."

"Going to Luliang Mountain? What does this mean?" Li Shentong was shocked when he heard this. He was stunned for a moment and then said: "You haven't come back yet? Wang Junlin wants to send a large army to pass through Luliang Mountain to Luliang County or Xinkou County.

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"How is this possible?" Li Shentong was very familiar with the terrain of the Luliang Mountains, because he had once considered hiding an ambush in the mountains.

The spy immediately said: "Commander, General Huang said that looking at the march traces, at least 50,000 Far Eastern Army cavalry entered Luliang Mountain and have not returned yet."

Li Shentong looked dumbfounded. He looked in the direction of the Far Eastern Army camp and felt something was not good. However, he firmly believed that the infantry in Luliang Mountain could still cross the mountains, but the cavalry was simply impossible.
To be continued...