The 50,000 army of the imperial court was divided into two north and south routes in Tianshui City, and the 20,000 people on the south route were led by Yan Xing, under his command, Jia Xu as his military advisor, Yang Ru, Du Kai, Gao Shun, Zang Ba and other generals assisted, and 30,000 people on the north route were led by Liu Cheng himself, and under his command were Zhang Xiu, Xu Huang and others. The two armies were not marching fast. They conquered the cities and lands, recovered the cities along the way, and ordered the people and officials to surrender to the court again.

Han Sui and others, who were far away in Jincheng, soon received news. Staff Fu Xing suggested leaving a small number of troops to guard Jincheng, and the remaining large groups of troops raided Yan Xing, a slightly weak army, to destroy the vital forces of the imperial army, and then deal with Liu Cheng's along the way. In this way, they would be very sure to severely damage the imperial army.

However, this suggestion was strongly opposed by another adviser Cheng Wen. Since the strategy of sneak attacking the food routes of the imperial army had been formulated, there should be no trouble. When the food routes of the imperial army were messed up, even if the imperial army had many soldiers, it would be disintegrated. Why should we raid the hard bones of the imperial army?

Fu Xing and Cheng Wen were quarreling, but Han Sui adopted Cheng Wen's suggestion and wanted to use nearly 30,000 military regions to raid the imperial court. With such a large military operation, how could the imperial court not get the news in advance? Could it be that the imperial court was really blind? Sikong Liu Cheng was really a pampered person?

Han Sui had no troubles, so he asked his troops to take them in Jincheng as usual, and only sent two cavalrymen to attack the imperial court's food route.

Chengji, the west coast of Huashui.

A baggage team guarded hundreds of large trucks filled with food and grass slowly heading northwest along the river bank. The front line of the team had a black "Li" embroidered with a flag. A young lieutenant under the line was riding on the war horse with a long spear, and turned around from time to time and shouted to the soldiers and civilians behind him: "Hurry up, speed up the journey!"

The man's name is Li Jin, and he is Li Jue's nephew. Although Li Jue brought the marquis and two thousand acres of fertile land to be a rich man, his nephew is still in the army and can be regarded as appeaseing the elderly in the Xiliang army. Now Li Jin serves as a lieutenant in the Baoxiong Army and leads 1,000 troops.

The regular army of this baggage team was Li Jin's 1,000 people, including two thousand civilians, and among the soldiers were cavalry and infantry. The soldiers placed a car and civilians in the middle on the outside of the team. The entire team was not fast, and in fact they couldn't get up.

Marching is a very boring thing. In order to understand boredom, the soldiers chat and fart from time to time.

A personal soldier asked Li Jin: "Sir, where do you think Lord Sikong's troops are now?"

Li Jin said: "It should have passed Pingxiang County. The marching speed of the imperial army must be much faster than our grain transport team! Don't worry about spanking, just be alert. Although the army ahead recovered all the surrounding cities and villages one by one when advancing, it is difficult to guarantee that Han Sui will not send people to intercept our grain transport team!"

"yes!"

As soon as he finished speaking, thunder came faintly from the west, and then the ground under his feet kept shaking.

Li Jin's face changed. Something was wrong. He immediately stopped the horse and raised his hand to signal the army to stop, then turned his head and looked west.

Soon, the sky was soaring upwards, and a large number of black dots appeared on the horizon.

"It's Han Sui's cavalry!" A sharp-eyed soldier in the team exclaimed in a burst of voice.

The team began to panic, and Li Jin immediately shouted: "Don't panic, don't panic..."

The personal soldiers next to him shouted, "Sir, what should I do? Judging from this formation, I am afraid that there are thousands of cavalrymen, just by our little men and horses, it is not enough to put them in between!"

Li Jin immediately shouted: "Come here, lit the fire and burn all the food and grass, and will never leave it to Han Sui! Everyone else, please withdraw with me!"

Another personal soldier shouted to dissuade him: "Sir, don't, you can throw away the food and grass and retreat. Even if you can escape your life, I'm afraid that Lord Sikong will not be able to pass that level and your head will not be able to be saved!"

"Fuck!" Li Jin yelled, "Whatever you do, run away first, come with me!" After that, he turned around and ran towards Tianshui City. The other soldiers looked at me and looked at you, and turned around and ran away. The civilians ran faster. They had no armor or swords on their bodies, and they were much lighter than the soldiers. They quickly threw the soldiers behind them.

When the soldiers saw it, they all abandoned their weapons, took off their armor and left them on the ground.

"Boom..." Thousands of cavalry rushed over.

Yang Qiu, the general of Han Sui, rushed to the near the baggage vehicle and looked at the court soldiers who were abandoned with armor and laughed: "Hahahaha... These are the court soldiers? They are so timid and want to attack my Liangzhou? Brothers, what's the use of killing these cowards? Don't chase them, put out the fire on the food and grass. How much can you save? These are thousands of stones of food and grass. It's a pity to burn it!"

"Yes, General!" The Xiliang soldiers stopped one after another and began to put out the fire.

Li Jin, who had escaped for more than ten miles in one breath, slowed down and stopped. He turned his head to look and saw that his soldiers were running all out of breath.

When the soldiers and the civilians saw Li Jin stopping, they all stopped and fell to the ground to breathe, as if they had just been fished out of the water.

Li Jin calculated the time and looked back at Tianshui. Just as his soldiers and civilians almost fled back, a court cavalry appeared from the direction of Tianshui City. The cavalry was marching at the same speed as the infantry. When they saw Li Jin's men and horses in front, they suddenly accelerated and rushed over.

Li Jin immediately met and clasped his fists to Xu Huang, the general who led the army, and said, "General Xu, I have been waiting for a long time!"

Xu Rong asked: "How many people are there? Where did you encounter them, and how many hours have passed?"

"Return to the general, they had about two thousand cavalry, under the banner of Yang, probably the men of Han Sui's general Yang Qiu. We encountered them by the river fifteen miles ahead. It has been almost an hour!"

Xu Huang nodded and asked, "Can you still march?"

Li Jin replied: "The marching speed is acceptable. If you want to speed up the marching speed, you are afraid that you will not be able to catch the force!"

"Since that's the case, you will follow our army at normal marching speed. If you leave our army in advance, you will follow the horse's hoof prints. Do you understand?"

Li Jin clasped his fists: "I understand!"

Xu Huang stopped talking nonsense and waved to the cavalry behind him: "Go away!"

The marching speed of Xu Huang's army was not fast, just like before, and Li Jin and the soldiers under his command could keep up with him.

A captain next to Xu Huang asked in confusion: "General, why do you march at such a slow speed? How can you catch up with the enemy if you continue like this?"

Xu Huang smiled and pointed to the people behind Li Jin and asked, "Look at them, they look very embarrassed. The soldiers even threw away their armor, but they almost lost nothing. Why? Because Yang Qiu's people didn't chase them at all, why didn't Yang Qiu chase them?"

The captain seemed to figure it out and slapped his head: "Is Yang Qiu going to put out the fire and grab food without chasing Li Jin and the others? If so, Yang Qiu is too greedy, right? They are here to intercept the food route, not to grab food!"

Xu Huang shook his head and said, "If it were me, I'm afraid I wouldn't give up the thousands of stones of grain and grass. Xiliang itself is a barren land with a small output. Han Sui's people are probably suffering in their lives. These thousands of stones of grain and grass are not a small amount. It's enough for them to grab them back!"

The captain nodded, but when he thought about it, he still felt puzzled: "Even if they robbed the food and grass, the marching speed became slower, it would be difficult for us to catch up with them at this speed, right?"

Xu Huang reached out and slapped the captain's helmet, and said with a lesson that he was so disappointed: "Why are you so stupid? We are cavalrymen. The speed of the marching will inevitably cause a lot of noise. Yang Qiu is not a blind man or a cage. Will he not notice that there is a large army behind him to pursue him?"

The captain suddenly realized: "I understand. I slowly hang them and follow their march traces, and wait until they camp and then take action at night!"

Xu Huang then smiled, "It's not too stupid!"

Two hours later, a fork appeared in front of him, one road leading to the west and the other leading to the southwest. Xu Huang raised his hand and stopped, raised his hand to signal the troops behind him to stop advancing, and the army slowly stopped.

A lieutenant jumped off the horse's back and walked to the forks to investigate carefully. He squatted on the ground to check some horse's hoof prints and a few piles of horse manure. He turned around and clasped his fists to Xu Huang and said, "General, look at the direction of horse's hoof prints and horse manure on the ground. The enemy should go southwest, but there seemed to be traces of being swept across the road to the west. Beizhi suggested sending people to search ten miles to see if the traces of the army could be found. If it could not be found, it proves that the enemy is making a huge difference and is indeed heading southwest; if it is found, it means that the enemy is trying to erase the traces and is heading west!"

Xu Huang looked up at the sky. It was almost the hour of the afternoon. He said, "No hurry, send an order to order the army to rest on the spot, eat, drink water, and go to the toilet, and solve it quickly! At the same time, two groups of detectives were sent to explore the west and southwest directions twenty miles!"

"Yes, General!"

An hour later, two groups of whistle-snooping sent people back to report. The horse hoof prints on the southwest direction disappeared after only five miles away, and a large number of horse hoof prints and horse manure appeared five miles westward.

After hearing the report, Xu Huang said, "It seems that Yang Qiu is also worried that it is a trap, and there are soldiers and horses following behind, so he set up this maze array, but it was not done in detail. They didn't know that we were not in a hurry and had enough time to play with him! He sent the order and headed west!"

"promise!"

While resting just now, the soldiers had solved their physiological problems. At this time, they still marched towards the west slowly. The horses in front were ordered to continue to explore the enemy's traces westward.

The army left for another hour and it became dark. For safety reasons, he was worried about being ambushed. For the sake of safety, Xu Huang decided not to march before finding Yang Qiu's army's camp. So he ordered the army to rest on the spot, neither setting up camp nor setting up camp, and let the soldiers sit on the ground. However, Xu Huang sent many guard posts around.
Chapter completed!