After integrating the troops at Wuguan, Li Zhiyun took all the troops to the front line, leaving only a few hundred people to guard Wuguan.
Regarding this arrangement, Li Yuan had one thing to say: I think there are too few people and it is unsafe.
But whenever he heard Li Zhiyun's calm and decisive orders, Li Yuan could only shut up. On the surface, King Chu didn't seem to hate him, or even take him to take away Yunyang's army to heart, but in fact
, every move of King Chu revealed an unquestionable meaning.
Don't interfere in my business!
After leaving Wuguan, Li Zhiyun led his army to quickly join Duan Zhixuan. With Duan Zhixuan's troops and horses, his strength rose to 60,000.
"The general will meet your Majesty." Duan Zhixuan and Xue Shou looked very relaxed when they saw Li Zhiyun and his party.
Li Zhiyun helped the two of them up and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work. You have lived up to my high expectations."
Duan Zhixuan looked up at Li Zhiyun and nodded secretly, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will always remember that Your Majesty is with you and will never slack off."
Duan Zhixuan nodded vaguely, Li Zhiyun looked into his eyes, and immediately patted his shoulder, "Well done, thank you for your hard work."
Immediately, he looked at Xue Shou again, "Brother, you have worked hard too."
Xue Shou bowed and said, "This is the duty of my subordinates."
Everyone met and exchanged pleasantries, and then Li Zhiyun followed Du Ruhui and Xue Shan to set up camp. Duan Zhixuan took Li Zhiyun to the makeshift archery tower and looked at Zhu Can's camp in the distance.
"Your Majesty, although Zhu Can claims to have an army of 200,000, his actual fighting strength is only 50,000. The remaining tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are actually refugees who were hijacked by him. His subordinates once captured some prisoners.
We learned from their mouths that if they did not help Zhu Can fight, they would be killed by Zhu Can’s troops.”
"Even on the battlefield, these people were forced to rush into battle. Because if they didn't rush, the archers and axemen behind them would swing their swords at them."
Li Zhiyun pondered for a moment and asked: "How much food and grass does Zhu Can have now?"
"Not sure."
"Not sure?" Li Zhiyun held the railing of the archery tower with one hand and pointed to Zhu Can's camp in the distance with the other hand. "Food and grass are the top priority. Are you telling me that you are not sure?"
Duan Zhixuan said ashamedly: "Please forgive me, Your Majesty, because Zhu Can often... feeds on living people, so I really don't know how much food and grass he still has. The scouts sent out by my subordinates found that some villages around Nanyang had already
It was looted.”
Hearing this, Xie Shufang, who was following Li Zhiyun, cursed angrily, "You are just a beast."
Li Zhiyun also frowned. He originally thought that Zhu Can's nickname of Ogre King was justified, but now it seems that Zhu Can is indeed an anti-human beast.
"I wrongly blamed you."
"About food and grass, your Majesty is right, my subordinates did not do this well."
Li Zhiyun waved his hands and looked into the distance.
"Has Zhu Can made any attacks recently?"
"When his subordinates first started setting up the camp, Zhu Can once led troops to attack. However, after the camp was built, Zhu Can had no way to control the camp, and gradually he stopped coming. On the other hand, he kept attacking Nanyang.
.”
Li Zhiyun said: "Zhu Can is still very smart. He tried to attack the camp and found it difficult to deal with. He wanted to use Nanyang as a breakthrough to force you to go out and fight."
"My subordinates are not fools." Duan Zhixuan smiled and said: "My subordinates have been sending cavalry teams to guard the flanks. As long as Zhu Can dares to attack Nanyang with all his strength, his subordinates will receive the news immediately and attack his rear.
He failed miserably."
This is called pulling.
"Well done, by the way, how is King Changping doing now?" Li Zhiyun asked.
Duan Zhixuan said: "Two days ago, King Changping sent people to ask for help from his subordinates. He said that Nanyang had run out of food and asked his subordinates to defeat the enemy as soon as possible." Gu
"Then do you have any strategy to defeat the enemy?"
"My subordinate is stupid and has no idea of a solution for the time being. I can only involve the flanks to reduce the pressure on Nanyang."
Li Zhiyun took out the telescope from his arms and looked at Zhu Can's camp.
In the round tube mirror, what I saw was an unorganized camp, with soldiers huddled together in chaos, and there was a smell of a refugee camp everywhere.
King Changping was able to defeat such an army so miserably.
Now, Li Zhiyun really doesn't understand how Li Shuliang lost to Zhu Can. To fight against such a shapeless bandit, you only need to fight slowly and steadily, and you can basically drive the opponent to death. Why bother with fancy surprise attacks? This is not a betrayal.
Are pants farting?
Putting down the telescope, Li Zhiyun touched his chin and said: "Get ready and send someone over to tell Zhu Can that the king will have a meeting with him tomorrow."
"Your Majesty wants to fight Zhu Can in a decisive battle?" Duan Zhixuan dissuaded him: "My subordinates believe that although the opponent is not our opponent of the Tang Army, if there is a decisive battle at this time, even if we win, we will suffer heavy losses. Zhu Can's inhumane approach
, he will definitely use those unarmed refugees to charge into the battle. By then, our army will be restrained by it, and its combat effectiveness will definitely be reduced. If Zhu Can attacks with elite troops at this time, the consequences will be disastrous."
"Your worries are not unreasonable." Li Zhiyun first agreed with his statement, and then said with a half-smile but not a smile: "But who said that I would have a decisive battle with Zhu Can."
Duan Zhixuan was a little confused when he said this, "What does the king mean?"
Li Zhiyun stood with his hands behind his back, looking like a master.
"The next step is to attack the city, and the first step is to attack the heart."
On the other side, Du Ruhui and Xue Shou were sorting out the arrangements for setting up camp.
Seeing that Du Ruhui never mentioned why he wanted to use conspiracy and tricks to recapture the Yunyang Army, Xue Shou finally couldn't hold himself back and pulled him to a corner of the camp.
"What's wrong?" Du Ruhui asked.
Xue Shou looked around and saw that no one was coming around. He turned to look at Du Ruhui and asked him seriously.
"You should give me an explanation about the Yunyang Army."
"What explanation?"
"That's enough, stop pretending to be stupid at this time. Don't you know, Li Yuan is on good terms with the prince, and the king asked me and Duan Zhixuan to use a conspiracy to recapture the Yunyang Army. You have to give me an explanation as to why you did this!"
"Can't you bear it anymore?" Du Ruhui smiled secretly in his heart, "That's fine, let me talk to you on behalf of the king."
"Why don't you go to the king and ask me clearly what you want from me?"
Hearing this, Xue Shou was a little angry. As an official of the King of Chu's palace, how could he question the King of Chu? This was because of the following crimes. Just like the King of Chu asked them to use conspiracy and tricks to recapture the Yunyang Army, the King of Chu did the same to the prince.
The following is a crime.
"Keming!" Xue Shou lowered his voice, "Don't pretend to be ignorant at this time. Do you know what the king has done? Do you know what the consequences will be? Do you know that the king is going astray?
!”
Seeing that Xue Shou was a little anxious, Du Ruhui still said slowly, "Since you have doubts in your heart, you might as well talk about it. Maybe your suspicions are correct."
Xue Shou looked at Du Ruhui's face and stamped his feet with hatred.
That look seemed a little funny to Du Ruhui, so he continued: "Brother Xue, you might as well guess why the king wants you to take back the Yunyang Army by any means, even if it means defeating King Lujiang."
At this point, it is actually very explicit and even a bit dangerous.
Xue Shuang narrowed his eyes, exhaled sharply, and said coldly: "I can't guess."
"If you don't guess, then I won't tell you. You have to ask the king." With that, Du Ruhui turned around and left.