Looking at Yelu Daoning, who was full of wine, Xiao Siwen sighed secretly, and immediately smiled: "Where did the commander speak, the privy didn't tell you that. Without a commander sitting here, where can the privy council rest assured? ”

As he spoke, he walked to the veteran's side, first signaled the two Yelu Daoning's cronies to retreat first, and then persuaded in a low voice: "Commander, didn't Xiao Shumi already say earlier, the Song people's trump card is the Western Army that crossed Wutai Mountain!" There is no need to attack the camp of the Song people. As long as this Western army that came over the mountains to attack was eliminated, even Han Shumi, who was over there, would have to admit defeat. In your case, it is enough to hold the stronghold. ”

"How many Western troops will be able to cross Wutai Mountain?" Yelu Daoning put down the wine gourd in his hand, his eyes were still drunk, and he asked Xiao Siwen rhetorically, "Is there 20% of the strength of Xinkou Village?" ”

"Those are the elite soldiers of Kansai, the most elite of the million-strong army of the Southern Dynasty. Less than 10,000 men were dispatched to destroy a southern country with 100,000 soldiers and horses in half a year. According to Xiao Shumi, it has to be regarded as the same elite as the leather room army and the palace division army. Don't look at the large number of troops on the side of Xinkou Village, but they are all wastes who have never been in battle. is really about to lose all the elites from the Kansai side, even Han Shumi can only find a way to keep his Xinkou Village, and has no energy to interfere with the peace. ”

Yelu Daoning snorted, but did not refute Xiao Siwen's words. After all, Xiao Shisan's plan, he also knew the Tao before, but he just had his own ideas.

Xiao Siwen looked at Yelu Daoning, smiled secretly, and said with a straight face: "But the Song people will definitely come to attack the big and small kings!" Although it is to confuse our feint attack, so that we can ignore the direction of Wutai Mountain. But such an offensive is not so easy to deal with. Your side of the village defense needs to be strengthened a little more. ”

"Who knows when they'll arrive!?"

"Isn't there a report these days that the Song people are rushing to build roads? When the road is repaired, it will almost be there. Xiao Siwen pointed into the distance, "Now the big trucks are crushing the road surface into ruts, even if Han Shumi over there has the ability, he can't let the big carts full of grain not press the pulp road." It's going to be a while before I want to rule you. ”

Jerodonin was silent. The Song army was indeed building roads, but few of the scouts he sent out could see the official road that stretched to Xinkou Village up close. According to those who came back from the horses, the Song people may have used the same method as the plate building, bringing in a lot of wooden planks to build a wooden frame on the road; It is also possible that those planks were used to repair gaps in the pavement.

Although Yelu Daoning was completely confused about the road building techniques used by the Song people, such a special road building method should be very effective from past experience.

Twilight falls.

Since Emperor Xuanzong Yelu Hongji fell from the spaceship, there has hardly been a single high-ranking official who dares to board the spaceship and fly into the sky. But today there are two more people.

The night wind of hunting was whistling in their ears, and Yelu Daoning and Xiao Siwen stood in the shaking basket of the spaceship, each holding a clairvoyant mirror, looking at the camp of the Song army in the distance.

Determining the general strength of the Song army at the front line and determining the correctness of the number reported by Yelu Daoning was another task that Xiao Siwen was sent to Wangzhuang.

Of course, Xiao Siwen was unwilling to take risks, but with Xiao Shisan's orders, he didn't dare to discount it at all. Of all the means of detecting the enemy's strength, the present one is actually the safest.

Countless campfires outlined the outline of the Song army's camp in the night. The light of the fire is dense like the reflection of the sea of stars, and it is very conspicuous in the dark night. However, looking down, you can find that the density of campfires in the camp of the Song army is actually not much different from the size of Wangzhuang under your feet, and it can be seen that the strength of the army should be about the same. Further into the darkness, there were a few faint fires, and there were several small battalions around the Song army camp, and the troops stationed in them were even more scarce.

"That's the camp of the Song army!" Yelu Daoning explained the camp on the ground to Xiao Siwen.

"It doesn't look that difficult to attack." Xiao Siwen squinted, in the middle of the Song army's camp, there was a large amount of space shrouded in darkness. These places must have been the weak points of the Song army's front.

"It's true that it's easy to get in. But it's hard to withdraw. ”

The position of the Song army was a defensive line centered on villages, and it was a model defense system with the continuous walled forts in Shaanxi in the mountains. However, because it was done in a hurry, in the eyes of Yelu Daoning, the entire line of defense was still very fragile, and there were flaws everywhere.

If the troops are suddenly dispatched and taken by surprise, it is still easy to break through such a line of defense. But Daizhou is only a basin sandwiched between two mountains, not a thousand miles of fertile fields in Hebei. The narrow terrain determines the singleness of the course of action. When it comes time to return, you have to face the Song people who are waiting for you, and their traps.

If you don't dare to storm with a large army, then only a small scale of scout spies remains. However, any army protects the grain route as if it were their life. When the Song army successively entered the front-line camp, they strengthened the defense of the grain road, and Yelu Daoning's exploration horses could not get close to the official road that passed through the big and small wangzhuang, and they were always blocked several miles away.

However, Yerodonin was still very sure of the number of troops in the Song military camp. On the battle line, the Song army's open and secret posts were arranged a lot, and the iron thistles were scattered everywhere, so that the tanma sent out to go back and shouted distress - the Han people were ruined, and those scattered on the ground were first-class iron. However, from the amount of cooking smoke and the number of dung trucks pulled out of the battalion, it is still easy to judge the strength of the Song army in the battalion.

"Commander, what's that?"

A few sparks suddenly appeared from the depths of the darkness, attracting Xiao Siwen's attention. Those sparks are not static, but constantly moving, getting closer and closer.

Hearing this, Yelu Daoning immediately turned the clairvoyant mirror in his hand in the same direction, and soon found the spark that made Xiao Siwen exclaim. The sparks were dim, and under the bright light of the fire in the Song military camp, those sparks could not be seen at all if they didn't look carefully. It's also a shame that Xiao Siwen can find out.

"What's that?" Xiao Siwen asked again.

It's the lights.

From the color of the halo and the shaking of the light, it can be judged that it is a light.

Yelu Daoning searched the memories in his mind, and the route traveled by those few lights almost coincided with the location of the official road.

"It's a Song person." He affirmed.

A few lights, connected to each other, but not very many, like two or three fireflies strung on a rope. Some are like a team that has always been disciplined, moving forward with the help of a faint light.

Xiao Siwen pressed the clairvoyant mirror to his eyes, and kept staring at the lights from the southwest towards the main camp of the Song army. After a moment, his voice suddenly rose: "Another team is coming!" ”

Jerodonin immediately looked south. Indeed, a few more lights flashed out of the darkness, along the official road route he was familiar with, heading towards the main camp of the Song army.

"Hmm." Jerodonin counted the time, and it was almost half an hour to a quarter of an hour

"Is it reinforcements from the Song people? The Song army from Xinkou Village is coming? ”

"No, there's too little fire." Jerodonin shook his head. A torch can only illuminate a small area of a few feet around the body, and if the Song army walks at night, it will definitely be a fire dragon winding in, and it will never be a little bit of fire. If it's a covert operation, the lights shouldn't be lit at all.

"It could only be a horse-drawn carriage, and it was a convoy."

"Not the troop transporters?"

"Absolutely impossible!"

It took half an hour on the road to see two or three lights coming in a line, which showed the scarcity of vehicles. If it were a wagon to transport troops, I am afraid that a thousand people would not be able to be transported in one night.

"Are there a lot of convoys like this these days?" Xiao Siwen asked.

Yelu Daoning shook his head and said: "During this time, the Song people have been repairing the road overnight, and the direction of the official road has always been brightly lit. Only today it is not. ”

Xiao Siwen raised his head and asked, "Why didn't you see it today?" ”

"Probably the road was repaired." Yelu Dornine said very unconfidently.

How difficult it is to walk the official road of turning the pulp after the frozen soil thaws, he has already felt it from the complaints of the baggage team during this time. The Song people used large trucks to transport grain, which caused greater damage to the road surface, and it stands to reason that it could not be repaired quickly.

"How is this possible?!" Xiao Siwen also said that the Song army could not further concentrate its forces on the front line until the official road was repaired, but now Yelu Daoning told him that the Song people had already repaired the official road.

"It's also possible that the night road was abandoned." Jerodonin added, "No amount of lights can see more clearly than in the daytime." ”

It is difficult to determine the speed at which the two teams of chariots and horses are observed at night from a spaceship more than ten miles away. However, inferring from the small number of them, it seems that it has not been repaired, at least not completely.

"That's right! When you build roads at night, there must be a lot of road damage that you don't notice. That's why I gave up. ”

Yelu Daoning and Xiao Siwen quickly decided that the road would not be repaired for a short time, and that the Song army could only wait until the road was repaired before they could reach the front line in large numbers.

But the reality seemed to be mocking people, and at night he had just sworn that it was impossible for the Song army to borrow the official road for rapid transfer, and when it was daytime the next day, he found that groups of soldiers from the barracks were rushing out of the camp and gathering in front of the formation. But not 10,000, but as many as 230,000.

"Overnight, how could it be possible to arrive at so many Song troops?!" Xiao Siwen was almost stunned by a slap in the face, he pointed to the Song army in front of the formation, "That must be fake, it must be fake!" ”

Unable to take care of Xiao Siwen, who was in chaos, Yelu Daoning grabbed the cronies around him and yelled at the poor man who was pale with fright, "Why don't you go and light a beacon fire soon!" The main force of the Song army has arrived! ”