Yuan Fang closed his eyes and pondered for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and ordered: "Order, let General Shi Ping send half of his men to the direction of General Li Rui, cooperate with General Li Rui and General Yu Zhan to attack the enemy army in Yunfu County, and order General Shi Ping to lead the rest of the troops to defend to the death, and prevent the enemy scouts from entering the coastal area at any cost." The herald answered the order and rode away with Yuan Fang's token.

Yuan Fang took a deep breath: "I hope those enemy troops outside Pear Blossom City can make up their minds to rush to support." ”

Yuan Fang knew very well how much pressure his orders put on Shi Ping, there were already not many men and horses divided more than half of the army, not only to pretend to contain the enemy army, but also to disperse to stop the enemy scouts, this is a difficult task, but Yuan Fang really has no better way, and now he can only take a risk.

The troops continued to advance, but Yuan Fang's mood was very heavy, and Xia Yi and the girls were silent when they saw this, not daring to disturb them.

In the evening of the same day, Yuqing hurried over with a team of personal soldiers, turned over and dismounted, Yuqing was stunned when she saw Yuan Fang's sad face, and then sighed secretly, and said softly: "Brother-in-law, General Qin Yan sent someone to ask, less than fifty miles further is the largest military station on the coast of the Empire, and then there is Kaiyang Port in Lihua County, are we fighting or waiting?" ”

Along the way, there were not many defenders at the small military stations along the way, and they were all easily annihilated, but the one in front was the largest military station along the coast, with about two or three thousand people stationed, although Yuan Fang had enough ability to easily deal with it, but there was no guarantee of annihilation, and it was beyond the scope of the blockade, and there were scout outposts nearby, once the war started, as long as someone escaped, the Ewha County City would soon get the news, and the Kaiyang Port not far away was lined with ships, if there was an enemy who fled into the sea by boat, Yuan Fang and they couldn't do anything about it, and they couldn't stop the message at all.

According to the original plan, if the 50,000 horses of the Ningyuan Empire left the vicinity of the county town, Yuan Fang's strange army would advance at full speed, sweep the military station to capture Kaiyang Port, and use it as a logistics transit station, leaving some men and horses to wait for the logistics troops to transport grain and grass supplies by water and land at the same time, and Yuan Fang would lead the main force to attack at full speed and capture the county town of Lihua with thunder. But now that the plan has changed, the 50,000 horses of the Ningyuan Empire have shrunk, and it is difficult for Yuan Fang to make a choice at this time.

After pondering for a long time, Yuan Fang spoke: "Let the troops be stationed in place for repair, set off in the early morning, capture the military station before dawn, and occupy Kaiyang Port before noon." You can discuss the specific battle plan with Qin Zhen, I have only one request, quickly, and at the same time try to block the news and buy time. Yuqing nodded, and wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything, and left in a hurry with her own soldiers.

That night, all the scouts, scouts and intelligence personnel of the Taiji Legion, the Lone Wolf Legion, and the Rock Legion were all dispatched, taking advantage of the night to comb through the area within the radiation range of the military station and Kaiyang Port, and eliminate most of the scout sentry posts distributed in the surrounding area.

Then, the cavalry of the lone wolf legion was blockaded along the outermost periphery, and finally, the rock legion soldiers who were good at attacking the fortifications attacked in two ways, and it took less than three hours to capture the military station and occupy Kaiyang Port, and the lone wolf legion guarding the periphery also lived up to its mission, intercepting and killing a large number of enemy deserters, temporarily controlling the leakage of news, of course, such a large space, even if there are more cavalry of the lone wolf legion, there will always be people who escape from the hidden path, but these are not important, as long as no one rides away, There is still a distance between the coastline and the county town of Ewha County, and it is absolutely impossible to reach it without three or two days on foot alone, with the buffer time of these three or two days is enough, as for the enemy troops who are lucky enough to escape on the way, they will encounter their own men and horses on the way to transmit the news back to the county town of Ewha in advance, that is not something that Yuan Fang can control, everything depends on the will of heaven, but now that the two sides are at war, there are Shiping's men and horses on the periphery, and the probability of deserters meeting their own troops is too small and almost negligible.

After the battle, cleaning the battlefield and treating the wounded, Yuan Fang did not hesitate to leave some men and horses to take care of the wounded and wait for supplies, and also left Lu Ling and some military doctors to establish a medical center, and then led the main force to advance at full speed and make a detour to raid the county town of Ewha County.

At the same time, Tang Jian, who was sitting in Niujiao Mountain, also issued a series of orders, and the logistics troops who had been gathered on the border line for a long time set off, carrying a large amount of grain and grass into the territory of the Ningyuan Empire to deliver supplies for Li Rui and Yuan Fang's two armies, and at the same time, the border defenders advanced, part of them arrived in Yanhai County to garrison, and the other part went to support Li Rui to relieve the siege of Yunfu County, which had been trapped for a long time, of course, these all take time, although the distance is not far, but there are no ten days and a half months that cannot be achieved, this is still in the absence of resistance, If you encounter enemy troops, it's hard to say.

On the night of the second day of the contribution to Kaiyang Port, Yuan Fang finally waited for Shi Ping's good news, the enemy army outside the city of Lihua County moved, and was rushing to the direction of Yunfu City at a very fast speed, at the same time, Li Rui's front army had received the news and was ready to evacuate, and Yu Zhan divided his troops into 8,000 troops, and on the way to meet with the other half of Shi Ping's cavalry troops, bypassing the route of the enemy army in Ningyuan, was rushing to Lihua County City to join Yuan Fang.

The clouds opened and the fog dispersed, and the worries of the days were swept away, Yuan Fang was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the troops to speed up again, everyone knew very well that although the 50,000 horses of the Ningyuan Empire left, but that was only temporary, once they appeared outside the Lihua County City, the enemy army would definitely return to help quickly, and the time really left for Yuan Fang was actually not much, according to the speed of the enemy army, at most two days, whether they could capture the Lihua County City depended on these rare two days. In the castle of Ewha County, not too far from the south gate, in a small courtyard, the stone house was dimly lit, and five or six people were sitting around the table looking at the map drawn on the table.

Luo Siping, who was dressed in coarse cloth clothes and had a beard on his face, pointed to the map and said, "Old Five, your task is to lead people to raid the West City Gate before the battle, and attract as many defenders as possible to the West City, and wait for the specific time to wait for orders." ”

Lao Wu nodded heavily: "Yes, the second master." ”

Luo Siping looked at the other person and said, "Old Seven, your task is to lead people to ambush between Xicheng and Nancheng, once the defenders arrive in Xicheng, you will set fire to create chaos and block several main passages with carriages." ”

Lao Qi smiled and said: "Don't worry, the second master, killing people and setting fires is our old business." ”

Luo Siping nodded, looked at the other person and said: "Sixth, eighth, you two have the best skills, follow me, once the war starts, the big bosses will first feint to attack the west city gate, when the defenders in the south of the city are empty, we must take the south gate at any cost, no need to hold on, just open the city gate and block the gate with an iron wedge so that they can't close it." ”