A knight rushed over from behind and shouted directly at Sun Ce: "General, there are cavalry behind you, the number is unknown, and they are still investigating." ”

"Got it." Sun Ce nodded in acknowledgment. The knight turned his horse's head and ran towards the back of the group. Sun Ce grabbed the reins of his horse, raised his hand, and motioned for the cavalry to stop advancing. He turned to look, there was no smoke on the horizon, only a flock of birds flying through the sky, chirping incessantly, full of panic and uneasiness.

"There must be a hole in front of this." Sun Ce muttered a sentence and shouted at Xie Guanglong: "Old Xie, you take two people to have a look." ”

"Whoa." Xie Guanglong answered and took the two knights forward.

Seeing that Sun Ce sent Xie Guanglong on a mission, the rest of Yi Cong's infantry began to inspect the equipment. Passing through Rencheng is inherently risky, fighting is a matter of high probability, everyone is mentally prepared, and there are not too many accidents at this time, and they are very calm.

But Sun Ce was not calm at all in his heart. Things on the battlefield can be big or small, it may be just an encounter, or it may be a long-planned ambush, he does not dare to take any chances, he must prepare for the worst. Compared with the plan, it was delayed by one day, but it didn't matter, if Yuan Tan and Xin Bi wanted to ambush him, only two days would be enough to arrange everything.

Guo Jia had already estimated this possibility, and agreed on a way to respond before leaving. According to the plan, Guo Jia should be not far from the front, just for the sake of concealment, there will not be too many troops, just some rangers, the main force will be farther away, and it will take a little time to get to the battlefield.

So he's going to wait. It won't be too long, but the risks are not small at all. Yuan Tan and Xin Bi have a strong desire to take his life, if they send troops to ambush him, they will definitely not send thousands of people to do things perfunctory, it must be besieged by heavy troops, and it must be foolproof. Strong crossbows, tripping horses are necessary, and even digging some dark pits is not impossible. Xie Guanglong was sent because he was most familiar with these techniques. The Yellow Turban Army has a lot of blood, equipment and training are very average, and those who can survive are human spirits, Xie Guanglong is one of the leaders, he is fine and yin, and he has rich experience in survival, and he is better at dealing with this situation than anyone else.

Sun Ce didn't need to think about reconnaissance, his task was to figure out how Yuan Tan would arrange it based on the results of reconnaissance. It is not unusual to have an ambush in front, but it is not normal for cavalry to appear in the back. It seems that the success rate is higher if the front is blocked and the rear is intercepted, and the success rate is higher on both sides, but this undoubtedly also exposes the combat intent, greatly reduces the surprise nature of the ambush, and does not conform to the common sense of using troops.

With Simbi's IQ, it seems that it should not be so clumsy. It is more beneficial for him to fight head-on, and even if he can't beat it, it is more than enough to break through. For Yuan Tan, the success rate of ambushes is higher, and if he is well concealed, when he enters the ambush circle, a salvo can cause him heavy casualties, and may even kill him.

Could it be that I thought too much, this was not arranged by Yuan Tan and Xin Bi in advance at all?

Sun Ce jumped off the horse and transferred the bags on the horse's back to the horse. Because the distance is relatively short, he only brought three days of food for men and horses, people are two buckets of rice, horses are two stone beans, plus some light wine used as drinking water, which adds up to seventy or eighty pounds, and they are placed on the back of war horses when marching.

There was no need to command, more than 600 people from the Yicong Infantry were doing the same action. It's just that the righteous infantry cavalry of the two battalions of Wumeng and Wuwei should wear heavy armor and prepare a big shield for foot soldiers, and be ready to break through forcibly. The Yicong infantry is equipped with small and sturdy round steel shields, and Wu Meng and Wu Wei are also equipped with a certain number of large square shields with a larger protection area. When it comes time to break through on foot, these large shields are more practical than round steel shields.

After a while, another knight came to report that a large number of horsemen appeared behind them, but instead of making a charge, they dismounted and took up battle on the side of the road. There were many of them, four or five thousand in total, and they were equipped with many strong crossbows.

Sure enough, it's a lot of money. Sun Ce sighed with emotion, although there was no cavalry, he could gather four or five thousand horses to walk, the signboard of the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family was really not given in vain, and Zhen Rong compared with them, and he couldn't hide his shabby appearance. Of course, he was even more shabby, and he couldn't even make up three thousand horses, so he could only rely on grabbing.

Four or five thousand horses, which is a very good trophy.

Ma Chao took a few knights to monitor behind, and every once in a while he sent a knight to report. The other party intercepted the retreat and set up a position, but did not launch an immediate attack, as if he was waiting for something.

Sun Ce chuckled. He knew what they were waiting for. On the south side is the camp of Ren Cheng and Yuan Tan, and on the north side is a large swamp land, which has rained several times recently, and the places that could have been walked have now become unknown places. He was either going east or west, and the east was already blocked, and he could only go west. To the west was the ambush circle, and the position would certainly be stronger than this newly established position, so these men only had to cut off his retreat, and there was no need to risk a strong attack.

After a while, the knight who had gone to scout with Xie Guanglong returned. Although they didn't see anything, Xie Guanglong judged from experience that there was an ambush position ahead. He and another knight went forward, managed to get in touch with the cavalry who received them, and asked Sun Ce to wait patiently.

Sun Ce breathed a sigh of relief.

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"Envoy, Changshi, Sun Ce stopped."

"Stopped?" Yuan Tan and Xin Bi looked at each other and didn't quite understand what they meant. The scout gasped and explained. Sun Ce was less than two miles away from the ambush position he was defending, but he did not continue to advance, as if he had discovered something, and sent a knight to the front to investigate.

Xin Bi's eyebrows frowned slightly, he pondered for a long time, and laughed: "Sun Ce's intuition is very good, he should have smelled danger, and he didn't break into the ambush circle headlong." But even if he found out, it would be useless, there were a total of 10,000 elites and 6,000 strong crossbows waiting for him before and after, no matter whether he advanced or retreated, it was a dead end. ”

Yuan Tan nodded. "He was so calm that he was cut off from the back road, and he didn't speed up to escape at the first time, but stopped."

"He is conceited and brave, and of course he will not be as busy running for his life as ordinary people." Simbi tilted his mouth. "Perhaps, he is still waiting for Zhu Huan to answer him."

"Will Zhu Huan come from Father Kang?"

"It probably would. Sun Ce was surrounded, and they couldn't help it. Simbi walked quickly to the map, picked up a cinnabar pen, and drew an arc on the map. Envoy Jun, Sun Ce has already entered the palace, unless he really has wings, there is no possibility of escape, we can deploy a second trap to ambush Zhu Huan. Father Kang arrived here for about thirty miles, and it took an hour to march in a hurry. We have the advantage of being a landlord and have plenty of time to prepare a trap for Zhu Huan. When he traveled thirty miles so far, he just caught it all. ”

Looking at Xin Bi's confident smile, Yuan Tan was also overjoyed and agreed.

"Okay, just follow George."