Then the 600 elite soldiers took out weapons from boxes, burdens, ox carts and other places, and directly reflexively killed them. The remaining old and weak women and children also directly gave up their baggage and fled north with all their might.

Among the six hundred elite soldiers, half of them were Jiang Zhuo's personal guards. Although Jiang Zhuo often ran around alone without bringing his own soldiers, as the lord's personal soldiers, Qin Fen, the commander of the personal soldiers, did not dare to take it lightly at all times.

The equipment is the most sophisticated, the training is the hardest, the diet is the best cooking that can enhance the NPC's physique, and when Jiang Zhuo is away, Qin Fen often takes these three hundred personal soldiers into the mountains to hunt or train.

Now these three hundred elite soldiers have the lowest level of 58, and the average level is 60, and their combat power is strong. In the face of the Qiaorui Army, an army formed by large-scale conscription of ordinary people, it is not an exaggeration to say that one is ten.

Therefore, these 600 elite soldiers easily blocked the peak of the Qiaorui vanguard army, and when the old and weak women and children ran away, they immediately turned around and retreated to the west. There was a very orderly way between retreating, first the archers and crossbowmen shot arrows to suppress, and then retreated 100 meters to form a shield formation.

After the crossbowmen have their arrows loaded, they will be suppressed by fire, and then continue to retreat.

The vanguard army of Qiaorui was very uncomfortable, and wanted to bypass the encirclement from the left and right sides, and these 600 elite soldiers immediately looked for weak points to break through. Once they succeed in breaking through, the vanguard army will be in chaos for a while, and they must reorganize their ranks before attacking, otherwise they will be in chaos and may be defeated by others.

Soon, all the troops of Qiaorui caught up. Seeing this, the 600 elite soldiers no longer fought and retreated, but directly retreated at full speed.

Because their level is slightly higher, their speed attribute is a little stronger than that of the Bridge Army, and the Bridge Army can't catch up no matter how much they can't catch up, and gradually slows down.

"What is this area?"

Qiao Rui was cautious all the way, and he didn't dare to chase at full speed. Otherwise, he asked some of the lightly armored archers to put down their bows and arrows and pick up their swords, and they would still be able to catch up with the six hundred enemy soldiers in front.

Lu Fan is more familiar with Jiangdong, and Yuzhou has really not been to it a few times.

So Qiao Rui could only send people to the army and the player array to inquire, and it didn't take long for several players to run over, "General, this area is the junction of Longkang County and Xiang County, and to the northwest is Longkang County, and to the northeast is Xiang County." If you walk more than ten miles to the south, it is water. ”

Hearing this, Lu Fan frowned, "More than ten miles away is water, why is this place so desolate?" ”

Irrigation is much easier and easier if you are close to the river. The people usually dig their own small canals and bring water from the rivers for irrigation. Therefore, the fields near the river are generally high-quality fields, and the yield is relatively objective.

But the ground was full of yellow weeds, and the weeds were so short that they didn't look like they had been cultivated at all. This is an anomaly, and Lu Fan urgently needs to know if the strangeness of this kind of place will be detrimental to the army.

It's just that those players have only been here before, and they don't know why. Of course, the leveling resources in the desolate place will be richer, and the fertile land is basically not a leveling place except for refreshing a wave of thieves and locust wild boars every once in a while. Only in the middle of nowhere, more monsters will be spawned.

"There are no high slopes around, and the enemy cannot be condescending. This place is not low-lying, and the enemy cannot attack it by water. The weeds here are short, and the enemy can't attack them with fire..."Lu Fan frowned, and muttered in a low voice like a convulsion, and others couldn't hear what he was saying clearly.

"Report!"

A scout soldier quickly came to report, "General Bao, we found more than a dozen ferries hidden in the weeds on the edge of the Yushui River in the south!" ”

"What?" The bridge is suddenly overjoyed, although a dozen ferries are pitiful, but the water is not wide, more than a dozen ferries back and forth to pull ropes, series dead wood or formwork, you can quickly build a river crossing pontoon.

In this way, their strategic space is greatly expanded. It is possible to directly cross the water, bypass Longkang County and attack the hinterland of Peiguo County to the north. In this case, all the arrangements of Lu Su will be empty.

As for whether the appearance of these dozen ferries will be fraudulent, Qiao Rui is not very suspicious. Many NPC fishermen or merchants who have boats will hide their boats whenever war comes, in order to avoid their property being expropriated. Or hide in the aquatic weeds, and even sink the boat directly in a frenzy, and then come to salvage it afterwards.

Lu Fan didn't say anything, he was already keenly aware that although all the suggestions he had put forward before were very likely, they had indeed hit his morale.

In fact, when they were cut off from the back road at the beginning, they should have fought against the water, and then their morale would rise to a terrible level. It's just that Lu Fan is indeed smart and resourceful, but he has no ability to plan the overall situation.

So now he didn't raise any doubts, now let's boost the morale of the army.

So the vanguard drove directly to the place where the ferry was found, and the army of the bridge also marched some distance forward, and then advanced south. After Qiao Rui and Lu Fan secretly discussed, they prepared to cross the water and destroy Lu Su's strategic plan.

All the way south, the five thousand Inhuman scouts they had scattered gradually came in. There is a fleet on Jiang Zhuo's side patrolling the Huai River, and it has already knocked over several ships from the Huainan side.

In addition, Lu Su led an army of 5,000 out of Longkang County and went south to kill the news, Qiao Rui and Lu Fan also received it. But he didn't care, just ordered the scouts to keep an eye on the other party's movements.

Although Lu Su's strategy was terrifying, it was a hard wound if he had too few troops. Originally, he had 10,000 soldiers and horses and some threats to the Qiao Rui army, but Lu Su actually divided his troops? Five thousand soldiers and horses, if Lu Su is here to seek a decisive battle, Qiao Rui is not afraid at all.

"Mr. Lu, why don't we send 3,000 strangers to rescue our cavalry?" Qiao Rui was a little worried that Lu Su's target was the cavalry, but Lu Fan vetoed, "General Xun Zheng is not incapable, since we have given him an order to return from the battle as soon as possible, I believe he will come back soon." ”

Xun is a member of the Xun family of the Yingchuan great family, and these great families like to scatter bets, and there are children of their families who work in many princes. Yuan Shu was still the number one prince in the world before he became emperor, and the people sent by the Xun clan were naturally not too bad.

Although Xun Zheng is indeed much worse than Xun Yu, Xun Yu, Xun Wei and others, he is talented after all.

It was not to Lu Fan's surprise, before they arrived at the shore of the water, Xun Zheng returned. It's just that when he left, there were 2,000 cavalry, and when he came back, there were only more than 1,800 left, and nearly a percent of his troops were lost!

"Go back and explain to Your Majesty yourself!" Qiao Rui didn't show Xun Zheng's face, and Xun Zheng himself didn't have a face, so he arched his hand and stepped aside.

Jiang Zhuo was so fierce that in the end, he almost couldn't run away after breaking it himself. Xun Zheng promised that in the future, he would definitely keep his eyes open and stare at those strangers in Yuan Shu's territory, and not allow too strong strangers to appear on his territory.

......

Jiang Zhuo on the other side also regretted that the cavalry came and went like the wind, and he also wanted to drag the cavalry. In Lu Su's plan, dragging the cavalry is an important step.

Of course, as long as the bait of a thousand people lures the Qiao Rui army to the vicinity of the water, the cavalry army cannot get out, and Jiang Zhuo can be regarded as completing the task. Therefore, Jiang Zhuo's trip can be regarded as a successful completion of the task, and by the way, he has gained more than 20 horse cards, which is even more profitable.

"It's up to you next, Lu Su..."