In Yanshan County, Zhou Huai stood in front of Shen Yi, lowered his head slightly and said: "According to the scout report, the Qi people who first went to the north and retreated have reunited, and it seems that reinforcements have arrived."
"I estimate that after a simple reorganization, we will head to Yanshan."
Mr. Shen put down the brush in his hand and looked up at Zhou Huai: "What do you think?"
Zhou Huai lowered his head slightly and said: "Mr. Shen, there is no good location to defend Yanshan County. According to the general's opinion, after the Qi people arrive near Yanshan, we will use Yanshan to defend the formation for a while, and then withdraw after a while. Yanshan County."
"In the past few days, my subordinates and General Zhang and General Peng have taken a look around Yanshan County. They have some understanding of the nearby terrain. The number of Qi people will not be much greater than ours. We can rely on the terrain near Yanshan County to , fighting with the Qi people."
Zhou Huai lowered his head and continued: "The more Qi people we can attract here, the easier it will be to fight with General Su Ling on the front line."
"When necessary, we can abandon the vicinity of Yanshan and return to Leling."
"According to your teachings, Duke Shen, when the enemy advances, we retreat, when the enemy retreats, we advance, and try to entangle as many Qi people as possible."
Mr. Shen touched his palms and smiled hoarsely: "You have learned all these things about me."
Zhou Huai is cautious and restrained by nature. He lowered his head slightly when he heard this and said, "If this subordinate can match one or two of Mr. Shen's skills, I will be able to serve you for the rest of my life."
Master Shen smiled and did not answer, but said: "Sit down, I have a few words to ask you."
Zhou Huai quickly took his seat.
Shen Yi reached out and knocked on the table, and said slowly: "I have been cooperating with the Forbidden Army and the Western Route Army for a while. Let me tell you what you think of them."
"What is the combat strength of these two armies?"
Zhou Huai is the commander of Shen Yi's guard camp and is absolutely one of his own. There is no need for any ambiguity between him and Shen Yi. After hearing this question, he thought about it and said: "Mr. Shen, the Imperial Army is well-trained. And most of them are young and strong. If there is a competition between thousands of military camps, some of them will even be better than our Huai'an army."
"Many in the West Route Army are also from the Forbidden Army, and this is probably the case."
"but…"
Zhou Huai changed the topic and said: "However, these two armies have not experienced too many battles, let alone life and death battles. Even the West Route Army is inferior to our Huai'an Army in actual combat. many."
"Also, they hardly know how to use firearms."
Zhou Huai looked up at Shen Yi and said in a deep voice: "Encountered in the wild..."
"The general will be sure to defeat them."
Shen Yi thought for a while and asked with a smile: "Five thousand people beat them ten thousand?"
Zhou Huai nodded, with a calm expression: "Yes."
"Tsk."
Mr. Shen stood up and said with a smile: "Your tone of voice is much louder than mine."
Zhou Huai lowered his head slightly and said, "Mr. Shen, you know that my subordinates never speak big words."
Mr. Shen looked him up and down and said with a smile: "You are also an old man who has been with me since the anti-Japanese army. Over the years, you have been serving as the commander of my guard camp for me, which is a bit unworthy of your talents."
"Now the opportunity is right, and it's time for you to try it out on your own."
Shen Yi said: "These fifteen thousand people will be given to you to take charge of. You will be responsible for pulling down the enemy's forces on the eastern front of this battlefield."
"If you are under great pressure, step back. If Qi people ignore you."
Shen Yi said in a deep voice: "I will look for an opportunity to go north and touch the Tianjin Three Guards in the north."
Tianjin is very close to Yandu. If someone threatens the three guards of Tianjin, Emperor Zhaowu in Yandu may not even be able to sleep well!
Zhou Huai froze on the spot and looked at Shen Yi blankly: "Mr. Shen, this subordinate..."
"Command the army?"
Shen Yi looked at him, frowned and said, "Is there any problem?"
Zhou Huai stuttered and said: "Mr. Shen, my subordinate has never led an army alone in combat. Moreover, in terms of seniority, General Zhang and General Peng are both older than my subordinates..."
"I'm afraid they will be dissatisfied with this appointment..."
"If they don't accept it, they go home and farm."
Mr. Shen's face was calm and his tone was very calm, as if he was talking about a completely insignificant matter.
He looked at Zhou Huai and said calmly: "I still have the final say on this kind of thing."
Having said this, he paused and continued: "Nowadays, the fighting on the front line is too fierce. According to reports from the left and right armies, there have been more than a thousand casualties every day in the past few days."
"Besides, there is also action in the vanguard army, and I need to be in the middle to preside over the situation."
"Now, it will be very difficult for our line to go straight to Huanglong. I can't stay in this place any longer. If I'm not careful, I will miss the opportunity to fight."
As a coach, Shen Yi's own geographical location is more important.
The best situation is that he and the various armies under his command are in roughly the same position, so that the information from each arm can basically be sent to Shen Yi at the same time, making it easier for him to summarize and process it.
But now, Yanshan, where Shen Yi is located, is almost at the easternmost edge of the entire battlefield. Although he receives news from Su Ding's headquarters very quickly, if he wants to receive news from Shanxi Xue Wei, there will be too much "delay".
The time difference between various military forces may be two to three days or even longer, which makes it difficult for him, as the coach, to grasp the entire battle situation.
Lord Shen looked at Zhou Huai and said silently: "I will leave this army under your control. Just fight as you told me before."
"If more than 20,000 Qi troops can be divided here, Su Ding will immediately breathe a sigh of relief. If you fight well here, you may be able to affect the entire battlefield."
"And then there's that."
Mr. Shen ordered: "Since you also think that the Western Route Army and the Forbidden Army have a good foundation, lead them well and win more battles, so that they can also be reborn."
Zhou Huai didn't speak for a long time. He looked up at Shen Yi, his eyes a little red: "Mr. Shen, my subordinates were sent as generals and took away all the guard camps. By your side..."
"Zhu Zhen will take over your old position."
Mr. Shen said quietly: "As for my safety, just pick out my original two hundred personal guards and give them to me. There won't be any big problem."
He smiled at Zhou Huai and said: "Today is your day to get ahead, why is it that a grown man makes your mother-in-law cry?"
Zhou Huai wiped his tears with his sleeves, lowered his head and clasped his fists at Shen Yi: "Mr. Shen, I have some things to do, so I'm going to leave now."
Mr. Shen was a little surprised.
"where you go?"
Zhou Huai lowered his head: "I'm going to look for Zhu Zhen."
"That Si Kong has a lot of physical strength, but his brain is not very good. I'm going to teach him how to be a good commander of the guard camp."
After saying that, Zhou Huai lowered his head, clasped his fists, and retreated silently.
Master Shen looked at his back and shook his head slightly.
I don’t know if this kind of temperament will be able to develop some tricks on the battlefield in the future...
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The next day, after Shen Yi handed over the mission of Zhou Huai's command, he left Yanshan with two hundred soldiers and headed west directly to Jiaohe County, Hejian Prefecture.
At this time, fierce fighting had been going on in Jiaohe County for more than a month.
Due to the large-scale use of firearms, in addition to the smell of gunpowder, wildfires are everywhere in the wild.
In early spring, the earth was full of dead leaves, burned to a dark color.
There were almost no pedestrians on the avenues or byways.
From time to time, one or two bodies can be seen on the roadside.
Looking up, it feels like a wasteland.
Only Shen Yi and his party were running in this "wasteland".
When he was very close to the left army camp, General Su Dingsu, whose eyes were red and obviously exhausted to the extreme, finally came to the official road and knelt down in front of Shen Yi with a plop.
He bowed his head deeply: "Mr. Shen!"
Master Shen dismounted and helped him up. Seeing his appearance, he frowned slightly: "General Su, what's going on..."
"The end will be fine."
He lowered his head slightly and said in a hoarse voice, "Mr. Shen."
"In Hejian Prefecture alone, there are probably nearly 100,000 Qi troops!"
"General Ling will probably face this number."
"Too much."
He gritted his teeth and cried: "There are too many people in Qi!"
Shen Yi patted his shoulder and was a little silent.