That night, as soon as Zhao Ziliang finished reviewing the last book, Wang Can walked in with a tired soldier and reported: "Wang, there is news from General Zhao Hu's side, this is the soldier sent by General Zhao to report the battle situation, his name is Bai Guang!" ”

The soldier named Bai Guang immediately bowed to Zhao Ziliang: "The villain greets the king!" ”

Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and said, "Bai Guang said, right?" Did you get up first and eat? ”

"Huh?" Bai Guang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "The villain is not hungry!" ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled and instructed a guard next to him, "Go get him something to eat!" ”

"Yes!"

The guards quickly brought over some ready-made food, and Bai Guang hurriedly ate it under Zhao Ziliang's urging. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Ziliang asked Wang Can, "Is there any movement on the side of the army of the Great Diet Caliph?" ”

Wang Can said: "No, General Zhang Ben sent someone to report the news every other hour, the last time he sent someone to report the news was half an hour ago, as of now, the army of the Great Food Caliphate is still in the small town of Nabid, Weichen guesses that they are observing the actions of our army on the one hand, and on the other hand, waiting for news from Ziyad, until our army has further actions and Ziyad has definite news, they may not act rashly." There will be news from Zhang Ben's side in half an hour! ”

Zhao Ziliang touched his chin, walked to the map and pondered for a while, and instructed the guard next to him: "Go and call Erzhu!" ”

"Yes!"

At this time, the soldier who called Bai Guang finished eating, drank a few sips of water, wiped his mouth with his sleeve and stood up and said to Zhao Ziliang: "King, the villain has finished eating!" ”

Zhao Ziliang heard this, turned around and sat on the main seat and said with a smile: "Okay, tell me about the battle between Zhao Hu and the men and horses of the Great Food Army Qi Yade!" ”

"Yes!" After Bai Guang finished speaking, he immediately introduced: "After the outpost was sent to the direction of Zaheidan to investigate, the news came back a day later, General Zhao learned that Ziad led 5,000 cavalry to kill him, and immediately left 3,000 infantry to defend the city, and personally led 5,000 cavalry out of the city to meet the battle, this news was soon learned by the Great Food Army, Ziyad set up an ambush in the town of Bad, and wanted to ambush our army, but was recognized by General Zhao, General Zhao ordered the army to stop advancing on the middle of the road and set up camp there, and then sent a sentry to investigate the movement of Ziad's army. Ziad saw that a plan could not be achieved and a plan, they left half of the troops in the same place, the other half of the troops marched overnight in the Gorge Gorge to set up an ambush again, the next day our army set off to the town of Bad, just entered the Gorg Canyon when General Zhao found the abnormality, immediately ordered the front army to change to the rear army, the rear army to the front army, before the big food army rushed down from both sides of the canyon the whole army withdrew from the canyon, the army did not suffer losses, to this point, the two armies have been faced, Ziad knew that the ambush plan was recognized, and then the battle with our army will only suffer, so quickly withdrew, but General Zhao immediately sent a battalion as the vanguard to pursue, the two sides fought twice, the morale of the Great Food Army has fallen, the combat strength has been greatly damaged, leaving more than 500 corpses to retreat to the town of Bad, and then our army is approaching the town of Bad, the sentinel has always been staring at the movement of the Ziad army, not letting them out of the sight of our army, Ziad has made several plans to sneak attack our army, but General Zhao has seen through, and is approached by our army, and can only engage our army head-on. At two o'clock yesterday morning, our army and the Great Food Ziad army engaged in the battle on the Huangsha Slope twenty miles southwest of the town of Bad, and when the sprint, our army shot a large number of enemy troops with cavalry and running tactics, but because the Ziad army first occupied the favorable terrain at the beginning, which was not conducive to our army's charge, after shooting a part of the Great Food Army, General Zhao immediately ordered the whole army to retreat while fighting, and retreated to a flat terrain, the Great Food Army thought that our army was timid and retreated, so they accelerated the pursuit, but the more they chased the more people were shot by our army, and when our army withdrew to the flat terrain, General Zhao ordered the army to turn around and fight back, the big food army collapsed on the spot, our army took advantage of the situation to cover up, Ziad only fled with more than a thousand people in embarrassment, at present, the remnants of Ziyad have fled back to Zaheidan City, General Zhao ordered the villain to report the above situation to the king, and let the villain tell the king that he has led the army to march in the direction of Zahedan, and will arrive in a few days, so that the king does not worry about the back road and supply problems, Zaheidan will soon return to the hands of our army! ”

After listening to this, Zhao Ziliang said to Bai Guang: "Okay, the king already knows what happened, the king will let you take you down to have a good rest, and tomorrow the king will have something for you to take back and tell Zhao Hu, and then the king will send someone to find you, you stay in the camp, don't go far!" ”

"Yes, villain farewell!"

Zhao Ziliang immediately arranged for a guard to take Bai Guang to arrange a residence, and after the people left, he said to Wang Can: "Do you think Qi Yade will defend or withdraw after fleeing back to Zaheidan with the remnants?" ”

Wang Can thought for a while and said: "Ziyad led his troops this time to cut off the supply line of our army on the one hand, and on the other hand, he wanted to flank our army with the caliphate's army, but this time he was defeated under Zhao Hu, so that the purpose of pinching our army came to naught, then he has only one task, that is, to hold on to Zaheedan City so that our army has no supplies, but he doesn't know that our army can support it for four months without supplies, if he knows, I don't think he should be stupid enough to continue to defend Zaheidan!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded, "Yes, Caliph al-Mansur's army has not moved yet, but I am afraid that he also has the intention of confronting our army and consuming our army's grain, and when our army's food is exhausted, it will be easy for him to defeat our army at that time." Therefore, even if Ziyad wants to lead his army to withdraw now, the caliph is afraid that he will not allow it, how can he be willing if he does not defeat our army? ”

Wang Can said: "The king has seen through the caliph's thoughts, I don't know what the king plans to do?" If the king is right, tomorrow our army is approaching the town of Nabid in a big way, Caliph al-Mansur is afraid that he will lead his army to retreat and not allow our army to fight, right? ”

"There is this possibility, that's why I asked people to call Erzhu!"

Er Zhu rushed over quickly after receiving the notice, and was not surprised to see that Wang Can was also in the big tent of the Chinese army, and hugged his fists and said: "Meet the king, see General Wang!" ”

Zhao Ziliang beckoned: "Come, sit!" ”

"King Xie!" Erzhu hugged his fists and sat down on the side.

Zhao Ziliang said: "This king has ordered the whole army to make a fire and cook tomorrow, and to march out of the camp at the end of the day, have you received the order?" ”

Erzhu hugged his fists and said: "Weichen has received an order!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "This king considers that tomorrow's army will march with great fanfare, the Great Food Army may retreat, and does not want to fight with our army now, now Ziad's army occupies Zaheedan City, they think that this will cut off the supply of our army, the Great Food Caliph may have the intention of waiting for our army's food to run out before fighting our army, although our army is not short of food, but we can't let the Great Food Army lead the way, and the time will affect morale, so this king decided not to give them the opportunity to stalemate and confront, Take the lead in sending a group of men and horses to set out tonight and overnight to occupy the Tahe Heights in front, this place is on the side between the place where our army and the Great Food Army are located, only twenty miles away from the small town of Nabid where the Great Food Army is now located, if we occupy the Tahe Heights overnight today, Caliph al-Mansour's army will not be able to withdraw easily, the distance is too close, otherwise our army occupying the Tahe Heights can pursue and cover up, and this can force the Great Food Army to have a decisive battle with our army, destroy their living forces, and hit their resistance morale! ”

"This king thought about it and decided to send you to lead the army to set off late this night to occupy the Tahe Heights, and firmly occupy it before the Great Food Army reacted, in addition to the Guards, this King will give you another 5,000 infantry, as for the servant army, all stay in the main force, and don't let them trouble you, what you have to do is to hold the Tahe Heights before the main force arrives, because once you occupy the Tahe Heights, the Great Food Army will soon feel the danger and will definitely send troops to attack you, in the current situation, who occupies the high ground on the side of the middle ground between the two sides, Whoever takes the initiative! ”

Erzhu hugged his fists and said: "Yes, Weichen takes the order!" Then Weichen will prepare, and the time will officially set off! ”

"Wait a minute!" Zhao Ziliang stopped him and asked, "Erzhu, did your father give you this name?" ”

Er Zhu touched his head embarrassedly, and smiled awkwardly: "No, it was Weichen himself!" ”

Erzhu is a compound surname, and the more famous of this surname are the Northern Wei Dynasty minister Er Zhu Rong and his daughter Er Zhu Ying'e, who married three emperors and is therefore famous in the annals of history.

Zhao Ziliang said: "Your name is too awkward, as a general under the king's account, not to mention having a mighty name, at least let others not be embarrassed when they call it, you are like this, change a nice name!" ”

"Huh?" Erzhu was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but smile bitterly, "The king, Weichen was originally from a barbarian, and he originally knew one of the big characters, and he didn't understand the etiquette at all, since he served in the army under the king, he was able to learn to write and read with the blessing of the king, but that's all, the king asked Weichen to give himself a nice name, and Weichen really didn't have so much ink in his stomach!" Why don't you ask the king to take one for Weichen? ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said, "Then call Erzhu Xianzhong!"

Erzhu was overjoyed, and it was a great honor for the king to give his name, and he immediately bowed down and said: "Thank you for the king's name, and Weichen will want Erzhu to be loyal in the future!" ”

After Erzhu Xianzhong returned to the camp, he immediately began to make preparations, he first took Zhao Ziliang's edict to the logistics baggage battalion to allocate materials, and then went to mobilize the 5,000 infantry that Zhao Ziliang promised, these 5,000 infantry are the only 5,000 infantry left, the entire second army is only 8,000 infantry, Zhao Hu left 3,000, and the remaining 5,000 infantry are all here.

He ordered the gang to rush to make dry food overnight, and as soon as the hour arrived, he ordered the whole army to eat, and when he finished eating, it was already half past the hour, and he immediately ordered the army to set off, and nearly 10,000 horses quietly left the camp without alarming too many people, even if some people in the camp heard the movement, because there were officers and generals patrolling the camp and did not dare to go out of the tent to inquire.