"The good news is that King Xue Ba killed Cheng Yuan and suppressed the entire right army governor's mansion." Cheng Zheng said: "We are repairing those traitors right now."
"That's okay." Mo Wen pondered for a moment and said, "Let him take the Right Army Governor's Mansion to cut off our queen."
"Yeah." Cheng Zheng nodded and said with a smile: "Xue Bawang will definitely be unhappy."
"Tell him that there is nothing you can do, as long as he can control those soldiers and horses," Mo asked: "When this scene is over, I will treat him to dinner later."
"Okay." Cheng Zheng responded, turned around and was about to leave, but turned back and said, "Old Mo, do you think we can still see the prince?"
"Yes." Mo Wen nodded firmly.
"But the prince is indeed alone and helpless now..." Cheng Zheng said worriedly.
"No." Mo Wen said calmly: "You forgot about the military advisor..."
"Ah" Cheng Zheng stared and said, "Has the military advisor already returned?"
Mo Wen nodded.
"Where is he now?" Cheng Zheng became excited, and his originally pessimistic mood was suddenly ignited.
"I don't know either." Mo Wen said softly: "But His Royal Highness suddenly didn't come to Fangshan. I think it was the military advisor's intention."
"So, the military advisor is with the prince?" Cheng Zheng immediately felt relieved and said, "Then I'm really worrying for nothing." Then he remembered something and said, "Why didn't you tell me just now? This news will boost morale."
"Only by mourning the soldiers can we win." Mo Wen said calmly: "Besides, I don't know what the military advisor will do next. If the soldiers fail to see the military advisor for a long time, it will be counterproductive."
"That's right. If you think about the problem carefully, then I won't worry about it blindly." Cheng Zheng smiled and said, "I'm leaving."
"Yeah." Mo Wen nodded and watched Cheng Zheng ride away, but there was deep worry in his eyes... Although he suppressed the generals just now, he actually had the same worry - the vanguard of the government army was
The prince's only reliable army, but the military advisor ordered them to go east. Although they could get rid of the Han army, they would also be farther and farther away from the capital.
Although this move is to avoid its edge and seek survival in death, it is too dangerous. Although Mo Wen doesn't know Wang Xian's arrangement, this situation in the capital is really dangerous. Can he escape from death? Not only does he have to go against the sky
I'm afraid you have to have enough luck... If His Highness the Crown Prince cannot escape and join them, then they will all be sinners through the ages.
But Mo Wen is Mo Wen after all, and the next moment he regained his expression of Gu Jing Bu Bo. Now he is the commander-in-chief of the three armies. Anyone can mess up, but he can't mess up. Even if the world is going to fall apart in the next moment, he must remain calm at this moment.
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The central barracks of the Rear Army Governor's Mansion has been turned into the headquarters of the deputy commander-in-chief of the Han Dynasty Army. The huge sand table that the Han Dynasty King looked at before has also been moved here. Now the second-ranking figure in the Han Dynasty Army, Song Hu, the Marquis of Xining, has a solemn look on his face.
Standing there, staring at the sand table intently.
Unlike Li Maofang, who had never really acted alone, Song Hu once served as the chief military officer of Shaanxi and was responsible for the defense of the western frontier of the Ming Dynasty. Although it was a very unpleasant experience, Song Hu still understood what it was like to command the three armies.
How rapidly the battlefield changes.
So even though the task seemed very simple, he still didn't dare to be careless at all. He sent out all the scouts and didn't miss any sign of trouble...
But up to this point, the news that came was still satisfactory. Although it failed to turn the five guards of the Right Army Dudu's Mansion into yellow flags. But it unexpectedly got the three guards of the Central Army's Dudu's Mansion, and it seems that the remaining
The four guards must also remain neutral. Calculating inside and outside, the opponent only has a total of 50,000 troops. However, one's own troops have reached a hundred thousand.
Two to one is enough to win in a fight, let alone just blocking...
Just when the Marquis of Xining was about to breathe a sigh of relief, a scout hurriedly broke into the tent and reported loudly: "Master Marquis, the enemy has broken camp."
"Yeah." Song Hu already had a plan in mind, so he calmly looked at the sand table, which marked all the possible routes for the other party to return to Beijing. "Whether it is to the north, west, or northwest?"
"Yes... heading east," the scout gulped.
"What, go east?" Song Hu was stunned immediately. He never expected that the other party would make this choice. Because Fang Shan is directly south of the capital, if the other party goes east, he will only go further and further away. Even so.
If we turn back to the capital, the distance will be too far and we will give them enough reaction time to definitely stop them.
If we fight now, at least the physical strength of the two armies will still be the same. But if the other side makes such a fuss, the veterans will be exhausted, let alone their opponent.
"Then Mo Wen is also a little famous, how could he commit such a taboo among military strategists?" Song Hu's deputy Xu Cheng was also confused. "Could it be that they want to escape?" He scratched his head and said, "This is really the only possibility."
"Perhaps they want to move us away first..." Gao Fu said in a deep voice: "But unless they ignore the prince, they will always turn back. We should not act rashly, send people to keep an eye on them, and wait for them to change direction before leaving camp.
Not too late."
"Yes." Song Hu felt that this suggestion was appropriate, and ordered: "Send the Yingyang Guards out to join the scout team, and expand the scope of the investigation to two hundred miles from the northeast to the south of the capital." The Yingyang Guards are pure light cavalry.
In addition to the 1,000 scouts in the original scout camp, there were 6,000 scouts keeping an eye on the semicircle from the northeast to the southeast of the capital. Under such intensive and large-scale reconnaissance, it was absolutely impossible for the opponent to hide the truth.
"Is the Marquis a little too cautious?" Several generals disagreed. In their opinion, the opponent's destination must be the capital anyway, and it would not be too late to change their defenses when they return.
"Be careful and you won't make a big mistake." Song Hu said with a straight face: "That's it.
So the locust-like scouts set out. They followed closely behind the prince's army and continuously transmitted back their news.
Every time a new update was sent back, the handful of green flags on the sand table opposite Song Hu would be moved. Song Hu stared at them from morning to night, watching the green flags go eastwards for fifty miles.
, then turned to the north.
"Finally I couldn't bear it anymore." Seeing that the Prince's Army finally changed direction, all the generals relaxed and looked down on the other's commander even more. Because if they turned back to the capital at this time, the straight-line distance would be a hundred miles.
Without fighting, the Prince's Army has exhausted all its physical strength. And they are waiting for work here, and they are twice as powerful as the enemy. No matter how they fight, they will win a complete victory.
"..." Now even Song Hu had nothing to say, but he still couldn't figure it out. Why was Mo Wen so stupid? Could it be that he had deceived all those previous victories?
After thinking about it, I still can't figure it out. It seems that only after the victory and interrogating the prisoners can we know what happened to the enemy.
"Continue the investigation" was Song Hu's last order. Under such circumstances, there was really no need for him to mobilize the troops in such a hurry...
After more than half a day, in the afternoon, the little green flag on the sand table had moved to the east of the capital. Song Hu and others thought, it must be heading west now, right? Who knew that the movement coming from there was still strange - the prince
The army actually continued to move north
"Oh my God, what do they want?" The generals were driven crazy by the prince's army, and they were tortured to the point of going crazy. Why are they far away from the capital again?
"Do we have to go around to the north and then go south?" After Gao Fu said this, he felt ridiculous...
Song Hu didn't hear what Gao Fu was saying at all, because his eyes followed the direction of the prince's army heading north and saw a place name - Zhenjiang.
‘Could it be that they don’t intend to go to the capital at all?’ Song Hu came up with this idea. Although it seemed unbelievable, to say the least, if this was the case, the other party’s marching route was quite reasonable.
"What's going on with His Highness the King of Han?"
"There's still no progress..." Xu Cheng muttered.
"It's broken." Song Hu's whole body suddenly shook, and he slapped the big case hard, knocking down all the small flags on the sand table, and said: "They are not going to the capital at all."
"Where are we going?" The generals asked reflexively without reacting.
"Zhenjiang" Song Hu roared: "They must be going to Zhenjiang and report to the prince quickly."
"Why did they go to Zhenjiang?" Gao Fu and others were still puzzled: "The prince is obviously still in the capital."
"The prince must have left the capital." Song Hu said in a panic: "If the prince is still in the capital, their actions are completely unexplainable. But what if the prince has already left the capital?"
"They are going to Zhenjiang to meet up." The expressions of the generals also changed. Xu Cheng trembled, "It is really possible..."
"Regardless of whether it's possible or not, we can't wait any longer." Song Hu roared again: "Bring out the camp immediately and catch up with them quickly." He almost drew his sword and drove the generals out.
The result of Deputy Commander Song's outburst was that in less than half an hour, the Han army formed a Z-shaped formation and launched a pursuit in the northeast direction, with a total of 20,000 cavalry among them. They even abandoned all their baggage and pursued them at full speed. The mission they received was to...
Bite the enemy as quickly as possible and hold them back at all costs until the large force arrives.
And the whole army has received the same death order - a life-and-death war has begun. Once the enemy comes into contact, it will be a life-and-death battle. There must be no mercy.
On the Prince's side, although Mo Wen was calm and relaxed, he was actually worried all the time. Although he sent his troops eastward to make the opponent confused, the detour range was still too small after all. Once the opponent woke up early, they would still block their way north.
.If you get entangled, you will fail.
It wasn't until the team passed Langya Realm that he finally breathed a sigh of relief, because this meant that the huge position advantage of both sides was finally eliminated. From this moment on, both sides stood on the same starting line.
Although the soldiers have traveled a hundred miles further than the other side, Mo Wen is still confident that he can reach the destination before the other side. As long as His Royal Highness can get there in time, the originally hopeless situation will finally be revealed.