Qin Mu stood in front of the terrain model, pointed to the various locations on the model, and analyzed to everyone one by one, "I also analyzed the enemy's military strength and commanders this time. Although the enemy has a large military strength, it does not have much advantage in its strength because it has supplemented a large number of new recruits, especially infantry. Moreover, since the garrison area has been adjusted, it is not familiar with the situation in the east. Although the commander Ukola is known as the most powerful general in the low-rise Hungarians, he is only brave in combat, has high martial arts skills, has no outstanding command ability, and has a great advantage in pride and conceited weaknesses. These are great benefits for us. As long as we do our work well, I believe that this war will end with our great victory!" At the end, Qin Mu made a remarkable statement.

"If we can do a good job in keeping the army confidential, this plan is actually the best solution to the lowly Huns." Zhuge Jian said after Qin Mu finished speaking.

On October 20, 15th year of the Apocalypse, four brigades of the First Division disguised themselves as Qin Mu's orders and became two horse thieves under the excuse of changing defenses, sneaked out of Tokugawa County and sneaked into the Dongtengri Grassland. The two teams were led by Fei and Tao Yuan (the commander of the Second Brigade), and were responsible for cleaning up the low-level herders from Tokugawa County to Jiantoupo. Qin Mu gave them the order that no matter what method they were taken, they could act cheaply. There was only one requirement, strictly keep their identity confidential and avoid alerting the enemy.

Soon, news came back, and the cleanup operation went very smoothly. Since the Huns had no regular garrison in this area, the "horse thieves" led by Yu Fei and Tao Yuan frantically carried out burning, killing, looting and looting in this area, and constantly sent people to create rumors that the horse thieves would be active here for a long time and would rob all the herdsmen and their property, and the herdsmen, regardless of men or women, would be sold to the Sithro Empire as slaves. These news soon spread among the herdsmen in this area. Many herdsmen simply moved north with their families, drove their livestock, dragged their children and daughters, and fled this area.

Fei and Tao Yuan led the "horse thieves" to conduct a carpet-style inspection of this area. Fortunately, there were not many herders in this area, so they quickly cleaned up the area into a vacuum area. Even after passing caravans learned that a large number of horse thieves appeared in this area, they took a detour.

On November 2, the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, Qin Mu received an intelligence report that the Huns' expedition to the east had been mobilized. On October 27, the army set out and began an invasion. According to their normal marching speed, it was estimated that it would arrive in the Jiantoupo area around November 18. Qin Mu immediately made corresponding arrangements and ordered all the prefectures of Tokugawa County and Northwest County to be under martial law. Especially since November 2, the Tokugawa Temple will only enter and leave in the prefectures. Without Qin Mu's order, no one will be allowed to act at will. The Security Bureau and the Police Bureau will also do their best to implement my orders to prevent enemy spies from spying.

Li Dabang's Second Tokugawa Army only retained a small part of the troops stationed at the junction of Meishan County, the northwest County and Longdong County. All other troops went back to Tokugawa Prefecture, and at the same time strengthened the city defense of Tokugawa Prefecture. He and the First Legion used to show that they wanted to fight against the Huns in Tokugawa Prefecture. In addition, Qin Mu ordered the government officials of the grassroots rural towns outside the city to organize local people to move to remote areas that deviate from the main road to paralyze the secret spies arranged by the Huns in Tokugawa Prefecture.

At the same time, Qin Mu frequently mobilized his troops day and night, and declared martial law in Tokugawa. No ordinary residents are allowed to go out at will, otherwise they will face imprisonment. These measures are mainly used by the secret spies of the Huns who could not effectively grasp the mobilization of Qin Mu's army. Qin Mu also used these real and false mobilizations to continuously mobilize the troops out of the city and gather secretly outside the city. On November 9, he personally led the army and secretly sneaked into the area of ​​the sharp-top slope on the Dongtengri Grassland on the night of November 12, and hid in the ambush site that had been prepared.

Before departure, Qin Mu ordered the army to carry dry food, drinking water and forage for ten days, and the small engineering troops that infiltrated in advance also secretly built some facilities in the ambush to facilitate the subsequent large troops to station.

Time passed day by day, and I had been in this damn place for five days, but there was still no news about the main army of Hunting. In order to prevent the enemy's scouts from discovering problems, Qin Mu strictly restricted the entry and exit of his own scouts. Except for sending a very small number of elite guard scouts, Qin Mu did not send anyone else to reconnaissance. According to analysis, Hunting should have reached Jiantoupo yesterday, but the news brought back by the scouts was that no sign of an army was found in the nearby 50 miles.

It is so difficult that the enemy really discovered us? Qin Mu thought about it, but immediately denied this idea. If we were discovered, we just needed to detour behind us and attack us, we might have been wiped out.

Therefore, Qin Mu believed that the Huns were delayed on the road, but if they were delayed for a long time, there would be no need for the Huns to attack us. We all had to escape back to Tokugawa with our tails in shame, and the grain and forage could only be supported for two days at most.

Qin Mu couldn't help but on the surface, he had to pretend to be confident and calm, as if everything was under his control. He also led other officers to various barracks from time to time to inspect the lives of soldiers, cheering for the already a little anxious soldiers. At this time, anyone could be impatient. He could not have the commander, otherwise he would not have to fight this battle and he would have lost.

"Report!"

"Come in!"

It was already evening. Just when Qin Mu was sitting in the tent and was having a headache about the whereabouts of the Huns, Li Keyan, the captain of the First County Regiment Reconnaissance Fleet, and other personnel who went out to reconnaissance, finally returned, bringing back the good news he had always dreamed of.

"Report to my brothers, my brothers and I have been delaying some time because of the larger scope of the reconnaissance and the more verifications. Please forgive me."

Li Keyan was also a little excited. Because this reconnaissance was of great importance, he personally brought several brothers with quick and flexible minds for several consecutive days, and finally got rewards today.

Qin Mu could see the joy in his eyes, and knew that there must be good news. He calmed down his emotions and asked, "What did you find?"

"Sir, my brothers and I discovered the enemy's scouts about thirty kilometers away from here this afternoon, and found the enemy's vanguard at 60 kilometers away from here. Later, we sneaked around the enemy's main force to conduct reconnaissance, and now we have basically figured out the enemy's situation."

Li Keyan's chest was still swaying sharply, and he said excitedly, not knowing whether he was overly excited or exhausted, or both.

While trying hard to control his excitement, Qin Mu signaled Li Keyan to sit down beside him and said slowly.

"When we left, the enemy's vanguard troops were already camping and preparing to rest, just on the flat ground by the river about thirty kilometers away from us. The enemy's vanguard troops were iron armored heavy cavalry, with about 100,000 people. The central army was mainly infantry, and heavy infantry was deployed behind the vanguard's vanguard. Light infantry and baggage troops followed closely, and finally some light cavalry and heavy cavalry. The enemy's flag can also be seen there, and it is estimated that it is the enemy's camp. The entire army dragged several miles, and there was no end at a glance. The total number of troops was estimated to be no less than 500,000."

Qin Mu pondered for a while and asked again: "So, according to you, is there any abnormality in the enemy? How is the enemy's alertness?"

Li Keyan thought for a while and immediately answered, and his tone was very affirmative: "I can't see anything abnormal, and the enemy's alertness is also very ordinary. Their scouts were just searching around one or two miles on both sides of the road in routine. I think they were all perfunctory. After all, this place is still about 300 kilometers away from our territory. It takes four or five days to march, and they have to pass one of their villages."

Qin Mu quickly calculated that if the enemy was very alert, it was possible to find out the abnormality here. Qin Mu was preparing to lead the cavalry to attack the camp tonight, but Qin Mu brought only 40,000 cavalrymen this time. Qin Mu was not sure whether he could defeat the enemy's main force in one fell swoop.

Since the enemy was so careless and did not notice our existence at all, Qin Mu decided to proceed as planned and ambush at the scheduled location tomorrow.

The order was quickly passed to various departments, and it was another sleepless night. Qin Mu looked at the moonlit night sky with sparse moons and prayed silently, hoping that tomorrow's battle would give me a satisfactory ending.

After dinner, the Great General of the East of the East, Ukra, lay in the big chair of the coach camp with satisfaction, and the tea set on the desk was emitting a scent of scent. "Buda, have the scouts returned?"

"I have returned, and there are no special abnormalities. But I heard from the scouts that horse thieves were rampant in this area some time ago, and many local herders fled to the north. I always feel something is wrong, but I can't tell what's wrong."

The reply was Ukola's deputy general Buda, who was a very cautious general, and Ukola had always been very at ease with his affairs.

"Maybe it was the Mot or the horse thief among the Kuoer people. Maybe they wanted to follow us. When we defeat the people of the Qin Empire, they would take advantage of the situation and get a piece of the pie."

Ukra did not think about other adverse situations at all, after all, this place is still far from the territory of Tokugawa County. "I don't know where they are hiding now."

Although Buda felt that something was wrong, he could not figure out what was wrong after thinking about it. He had to instruct all levels to strengthen night duty and night patrols to avoid any accidents.
Chapter completed!