"Military Advisor Han, it's less than an hour before daybreak …"
Xie Ze looked at Han Yu with a serious expression. His sword-like eyebrows were tightly knitted together.
Throughout the night, the closest distance between them and the enemy was less than a quarter of an hour's walk. However, the enemy was cunning and they managed to widen the gap. The enemy seemed to have calculated everything and always escaped at the most critical moment. They were right in front of their eyes, but they couldn't catch them.
As Yang Si said, Han Yu was too much of a gentleman. He was at a disadvantage when he met a guy like Yang Si who faced the wind head-on.
Not only was his positioning a mystery, but his maneuvering was also breathtaking.
"Less than an hour?"
Han Yu looked up at the night sky and blinked his dry eyes. He only felt better when he forced tears out of his eyes.
It was a big burden for Han Yu to stay up all night and follow the army to chase after the enemy.
Xie Ze said, "They should be able to reach the border of Qichuan Plain before daybreak."
The night sky was much lighter and the visibility was much higher than before. It was less difficult to travel.
"Qichuan Plain?"
Xie Ze sighed. "We miscalculated this time. We shouldn't have waited until nightfall to launch a sneak attack."
Han Yu said helplessly, "Liu Xi's troops are not the same as ordinary elites. If we had chosen to fight face to face, it wouldn't have been difficult to kill 10,000 people, but it would have been a great loss. How could the Lord agree to a deal that involves sacrificing eight hundred men to kill a thousand of the enemy? "
Han Yu hadn't seen the combat strength of Jiang Pengji's elite troops, but according to his analysis, they were definitely the best in the world.
If Jiang Pengji didn't have such confidence, she wouldn't have dared to attack Xu Bei after tearing apart the Meng's and the Northern Borderline.
"Releasing the dragon into the sea and the tiger back to the mountain." Xie Ze's eyes flashed with a trace of seriousness. "There will be endless troubles in the future."
Han Yu snorted and said, "It's not that we can't stop them …"
Yang Si had played a trick on him all night. If he didn't get back at him, he would be seen through.
"Qichuan Plain is a good place."
Xie Ze was confused. He didn't understand what was so good about Qichuan Plain.
Yang Si said, "Speaking of Qichuan Plain, what do you think of first?"
Xie Ze was originally from the north. He was half a northerner, so he didn't know much about the south.
However, if we were talking about the Qi Chuan Plain …
"Qiang Qi Chuan?"
"Exactly." Han Yu said, "Yang Jingrong dug a pit for herself and jumped into it unknowingly."
"Why do you say that?"
Han Yu answered, "The Qiang Massacre at Qi Chuan. It tells the story of how Prime Minister Huangfu killed five hundred thousand rattan-armored soldiers of the Qiang Wu Tribe at the Qi Chuan Plain with the help of black oil and fire before the establishment of the Xia Dynasty. Everyone knows about this, but does Commandant Xie know the details of the battle that year? "
Xie Ze's knowledge of Qichuan Butchering Qiang was limited to the history books.
"Could it be that there are other inside stories?"
"It's not really the inside story, but it's more detailed." Han Yu said, "The historical records are not wrong, but they are too brief. The Qiangwu Tribe was the ancestor of the Northern Borderline. Their horse-riding skills were top-notch. They galloped like the wind and were almost invincible. Their advantage was speed. Prime Minister Huangfu pretended to be defeated several times and sacrificed the lives of twenty thousand soldiers to make the Qiangwu tribe lose their composure. Only then did he lure them into the Qi Chuan Plain. This was only one of his many plans. If the news of our army was not as good as the cavalry of the Qiangwu tribe, the cavalry of the Qiangwu tribe would be able to gather and break out of the encirclement. In order to avoid this, the Prime Minister built a secret beacon in the Qi Chuan Plain. "
"Later, when the world was settled, these beacon towers were either demolished or abandoned." Han Yu sneered, "Two years ago, Yang Jingrong represented his lord, Liu Xi, to form an alliance with the lord. For the sake of the overall situation, the lord and Ling Wengong joined forces to fight against Wuma Shang, the County Chief of Shanghai County at that time. At that time, they also fought to the Qi Chuan Plain. Yang Jingrong mentioned the beacon towers and reactivated the abandoned beacon towers to transmit information between the two places. "
Xie Ze's eyes widened slightly. He could vaguely guess what Han Yu wanted to do.
They could not catch up with Yang Si's army, but the beacon towers could transmit information much faster than riding a horse at night. By igniting the beacon towers and gathering the troops stationed in the Qi Chuan Plain in advance, they could besiege or launch a sneak attack. Even if they could not kill Yang Si and the others, they could at least make them flee.
Yang Si was still unaware of all this.
"It'll be dawn in less than an hour."
Yang Si rode on the horse and secretly moved his position.
After riding for a long time, his buttocks were a little numb from the jolting. The skin between his legs was also sore from the chafing.
"I'm afraid that no one in their seventies or eighties will ever forget this night."
The temperature in the mountains was rather low. Yang Si clasped his hands together and breathed into his palms. He looked tired from a sleepless night.
His expression was tired, but his mood was very cheerful.
Qin Gong laughed, "Last night, it was all thanks to the military counselor's divine foresight."
Yang Si hummed a little tune, feeling a little pleased in his heart.
"Han Wenbin will definitely stomp his feet in anger at this moment."
"Before dawn, the army should be able to enter the border of the Qi Chuan Plain." Cheng Yuan said, "According to Xu Bei's reaction, it will take half a day for the news to reach Qi Chuan. There are few troops stationed there and the defense is not strong. We can take advantage of their unpreparedness and force our way out."
The Qi Chuan Plain was not a plain in the truest sense of the word. There were gentle hills and crisscrossing rivers at the border.
Because the terrain of the area was relatively flat and vast, the farmland was fertile and the grass was lush, it was also called the Qi Chuan Plain.
Most of Jiang Pengji's troops were elites. Breaking through the encirclement on flat ground was a certain advantage for them.
Yang Si was about to agree when his sharp eyes saw a small orange light in the distance.
They were on higher ground than Han Yu's side, so they could see it more clearly.
"What is that?" Yang Si frowned. "Are you hallucinating?"
The orange light flashed and disappeared. After a while, Yang Si saw that another place was also emitting orange light.
However, this time the orange light did not disappear.
As if it was a relay, the orange light lit up again after a certain distance.
"The military counselor is not hallucinating. That seems to be a beacon?"
Beacon?
Yang Si had a vague premonition in his heart.
Looking at the direction of the beacon, it was clearly heading towards the Qi Chuan Plain.
Qi Chuan Plain, beacon?
Beacon tower?
An idea flashed in his mind. Yang Si suddenly remembered something and slapped his thigh, startling the purplish-red horse under him into neighing.
"Military counselor?"
Yang Si said, "The entire army is moving quickly. If we don't leave now, I'm afraid we will be outflanked."
It was one thing to catch the enemy off guard, but it was another thing to be caught off guard by the enemy.
Yang Si secretly gritted his teeth and was full of remorse.
If he could go back in time, he really wanted to go back to a few years ago and strangle himself for coming up with stupid ideas.
Why did he dig a hole for no reason? He almost buried himself alive.
The beacon could not only be seen by one's own people, but also by the enemy.
Before the sky was completely bright, the scouts found that the beacon was lit in Hu County and hurriedly passed the news to Jiang Pengji.
"There are still people playing with the beacon now?"
The outdated technology of the ancient times once again refreshed Jiang Pengji's limits.
"Can you determine where the fire beacons are coming from?"
As the lord, Jiang Pengji could complain, but Wei Ci, Qiguan Rang, and the others could not be so lazy.
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