Yuan Fang and Yuqing also led the Taiji Legion to set off that night, and rushed to the southern beach first, where they joined the Rock Legion and the Lone Wolf Legion stationed there.

The defenders in various parts of Dongzhou had received the news before, and had already made preparations, and set off immediately after receiving the order, and the troops who were closer arrived one after another the next day, and the soldiers and horses gathered more and more, and the camp tents were endless, so that the positions on both Niujiao Mountain and the beach were very bloated, and the logistical pressure doubled.

Another three days, just three days, in this short period of three days, most of the defenders of Dongzhou traveled day and night, and finally all arrived on time, and the troops who arrived at the end only took a short rest, and the troops entered the territory of the Ningyuan Empire in three ways. The Chinese army, led by Li Rui, had 10,000 heavy infantry, 15,000 light infantry, and 5,000 light cavalry, and more than 30,000 people passed through the Niujiaoshan Gorge and went straight to the plain between Yunfu County and Yanhai County.

The Northern Route Army, led by Commander Zhan, led 10,000 light cavalry, 3,000 heavy cavalry and a part of the light infantry equipped with war horses, a total of 20,000 horses, also set off from Niujiao Mountain into the territory of the Ningyuan Empire, but they had a different destination from Li Rui's Chinese army, but carried a small amount of grain and grass to the north of Yunfu County.

In addition, Shi Ping commanded the Hurricane Legion, with a total of more than 10,000 cavalry, set out from the beach, went straight east to Yanhai County, and after joining up with the defenders there, he went to the area of Luohua Mountain, five miles east of the city, to station, and cooperated with Li Rui to contain the 50,000 horses of the Ningyuan Empire.

Speaking of which, everyone should have guessed, that's right, such a deployment was carried out in accordance with the plan proposed by Li Rui at the beginning, and as the formulator of the plan, Li Rui also became the main force and guide of this operation, of course, this is only part of Yuan Fang's plan, it is a trick used to confuse the enemy, but it can't be completely said that Li Rui and these people are not bluffing, but they will fight with the enemy with real knives and guns, but outside of Li Rui's plan, Yuan Fang will lead an elite army to sneak along the coastline, and bypass Yanhai County to take Lihua County directly before the enemy army can react as quickly as possible, which is also the key to the whole plan, as for whether Yuan Fang can capture the county town, and finally defeat the 50,000 horses of the Ningyuan Empire and force back the 50,000 troops of the Yuanhe Empire, it depends on whether Li Rui can attract the 50,000 horses of the Ningyuan Empire to surround it, so that the county is empty and creates a good opportunity.

Of course, it is not easy to achieve these goals, the other party is not a fool, and it will not be so easy to be fooled, which requires Li Rui and them to fake and do it at the same time, Yuan Fang must also grasp the best time to set off, attack with the momentum of thunder, and fight the defenders of Lihua County City without hurrying, otherwise once the other party's 50,000 horses and horses come back to help, Yuan Fang and they will be in a critical situation, and even the whole army will be destroyed, which is also the main reason why Tang Jian thought it was too risky at the beginning.

Li Rui, Yu Zhan, Shi Ping, on the third day after the departure of the three people, in the big tent of the Chinese army of the beach defenders, Yuan Fang listened to the information reported by Tanma, and said after a while: "It's almost over, the 50,000 troops of the Yuanhe Empire besieging Yunfu County have set up a position to meet the enemy, and the 50,000 horses of the Ningyuan Empire east of Yanhai County are also slowly moving towards Li Rui's Chinese army, and Shi Ping is biting behind them, so that they dare not attack rashly. ”

Speaking of this, Yuan Fang looked at the intelligence officers in the dark night and asked, "How is the coastal area now?" ”

The intelligence officer of the dark night bowed down and replied: "Back to the big boss, our brothers in the dark night and the reconnaissance horses under the command of General Shi Ping have cleared all the enemy scouts within twenty miles northwest of the coastline, only a few military stations along the way have not moved, but they are also under the monitoring of the brothers, General Shi Ping's side is ready, once the enemy troops at those military stations escape, General Shi Ping's cavalry troops will encircle and annihilate them outside the range of Ewha County." ”

Yuan Fang nodded with satisfaction: "What about the second master and the third master?" ”

The intelligence officer in the dark night replied: "The second boss has already infiltrated the Ewha county town with many brothers, and the third boss is outside the city to answer and kill the messengers sent by the county town to cut off the connection between the county town and the enemy army." ”

Yuan Fang took a deep breath and looked at Yuqing, the leader of the lone wolf legion, Li Yue, and Qin Yan, who had been promoted to the captain of the Rock Legion: "It's almost, let's go too." Li Yue, Qin Yan and Yuqing responded to the order and left the big tent to set off.

The sun is shining, the sky is cloudless, today is a good day, the warm sun shines on the body warmly, in the distance, a gentle sea breeze blows to bring a touch of coolness, the waves crash on the reef and make a loud rumbling sound, but can not hide the tremor of the earth.

On the mountain road a few miles away from the coastline, all kinds of military flags were unfurled, stretching for several miles, and the smoke and dust were billowing and dispersed along the way, and countless soldiers lined up in a long line and marched eastward in silence, this was already the second day that Yuan Fang left the beach border position.

Under the banner of the Taiji Army, Yuan Fang rode away from the team, rode a horse to climb a small hill under the protection of Xia Yi's daughters and a hundred personal soldiers, and looked north condescendingly, looking at the endless wasteland and being silent.

Lin Menghan leaned over to Yuan Fang and whispered, "Brother-in-law, are you still worried?" ”

Yuan Fang nodded slightly, that's right, he was really worried, just last night, Yuan Fang received the news that Li Rui's Chinese army had fought with the ** team of Emperor Yuanhe in Yunfu County, although it was only a tentative attack, the casualties on both sides were not large, plus Yu Zhan's 10,000 horses deterrence and containment, the enemy army was strictly guarded and did not dare to attack, and it could be regarded as a small advantage, but this was not what Yuan Fang wanted, the most important thing now is the 50,000 horses of the Ningyuan Empire, I don't know why, I didn't immediately go to support after getting the news from Yunfu County, Instead, they stopped dozens of miles west of Ewha County and stopped, if they did not leave, Yuan Fang would not be able to attack Ewha County, and the plan would also fail, once they lost the opportunity to be prepared by the enemy's insight, it was almost impossible to capture Ewha County City in the future.

Yuan Fang sighed and muttered to himself: "There are still two days to go, and we will arrive in Lihua County in two days, I hope God will bless you." ”

Xia Yi frowned and said, "Brother-in-law, is it that General Shi Ping's men and horses are too close to the enemy?" They don't dare to move? Do you want General Shi Ping to back off a little? ”

Yuan Fang shook his head and said: "No, if Shi Ping retreats, the other party will definitely have some suspicions, and when the time comes, as long as you send a random cavalry over, you can find our army, and everything will be over by then." ”

Ye Qingru frowned and said, "Then what should I do?" If they don't move, even if we get to Ewha County, it won't help. ”