Demon of the Three Kingdoms

"Master Hou! What the general said is the truth, please find out the truth!" The candidate immediately knelt down when he saw Lu Rui's doubts.

"General Hou, don't worry, I believe in General Hou, but I still need to ask General Hou about something." Lu Rui smiled, it seems that the four candidates gave up on Lao Cao, and they were so nervous about their attitude.

"Master Hou, please tell, if you will know at the end, you must tell Master Hou!"

"Well, General Hou, is Zhang Baiqi's [-] troops mainly infantry or cavalry?"

"Infantry!" The candidate answered Lu Rui without hesitation.

"Infantry? Why is General Hou so sure?"

"Reporting to Lord Hou, Zhang Baiqi's army is dominated by his Yellow Turban Army, supplemented by the Qiang Hu cavalry subdued by Ma Chao, and Xiliang cavalry has a very strict selection system, so Ma Chao only gave Zhang Baiqi a few hundred cavalry. "

"Well, so it is!"

"Yanming, go check the manger and estimate how many army horses there are!"

"promise!"

"Master Hou, I've checked it out. According to estimates, Zhang Bai's army horses are less than ten!"

"Less than ten horses? There are hundreds of soldiers, and they are not all cavalry? Zhang Baiqi doesn't seem to want to run away? Want to meet me?" Lu Rui touched his chin. It seems that Zhang Baiqi is really conceited. He came to Anding with hundreds of people, and left such obvious clues behind.

"Master Hou, choose to chase after Zhang Baiqi!"

"Okay! Then please General Liang and Yang Canjun stay in Anding, General Hou, you lead the cavalry to follow me to chase Zhang Baiqi!" Since Zhang Baiqi wants to play with me, I will meet Zhang Baiqi .

"promise!"

"He's handsome! We've already arranged it."

"Well, you lead thirty yellow turban fighters to stay. Stop the pursuers."

"promise!"

"Cao Jun's resourcefulness? Baiqi has no time to meet you. Let you see my formation!" Zhang Baiqi smiled.Take the rest of the soldiers to the north bank of the Wei River.

"Master Hou?" Lu Rui led five thousand cavalry to chase Zhang Baiqi and came to a muddy forest.

"General Hou, what is this place?" As soon as he entered the woods, Lu Rui felt that the horse's feet were unstable. Although the muddy road was covered with ice and snow, the snow was not very thick, and many horses slipped.

"Reporting to Lord Hou, this is called Mud Forest. Because of the climate, there are dense forests here, and because the trees are tall and deep, the snow will not be very thick."

"Is this a muddy road all year round?"

"That's right, Lord Hou, it's precisely because of this that this place is called the Mud Forest."

"It seems that Zhang Baiqi is already ready."

"General Hou, get off your horse, lead the horse on foot, and pass through the mud forest as fast as you can!" Riding a horse is no longer possible.He had no choice but to walk through the mud forest and continue chasing Zhang Baiqi.

"promise!"

"Master Hou! Look. There is black smoke rising from the east!" Lu Rui's army hadn't walked a few steps before they noticed black smoke rising in the distance. "

Following the direction of the candidate's finger, Lu Rui saw a puff of smoke rising.

"Master Hou, thick smoke is also found here!"

"Master Hou, thick smoke was also found here!" Soon, thick black smoke rose from many places in the mud forest.

"Master Hou, is this...?"

"Zhang Baiqi's suspicion is just a plan. Order the whole army to speed up and ignore the black smoke."

"Master Hou is wise!"

"Master Hou, why do we seem to be going around in circles?" The candidate followed Lu Rui around the dense forest for an hour, and then returned to the original place.

Lu Rui looked at the surrounding environment, and indeed returned to the original place.

"Master Hou?"

Lu Rui looked at the sky, the huge forest, the lush branches and leaves have completely covered the sun, and only the rare sunlight shines in through the dense forest.

What a Zhang Baiqi!Actually used the sunshine here to set up a formation.Lu Rui can't see the sun clearly now, and he can't judge the direction by the light. It is difficult to judge what kind of formation it is.

"Master Hou, Zhang Baiqi is good at formations. Are we going to be trapped in this muddy forest?"

"Hmph! Zhang Baiqi just wants to trap Master Ben in the formation. You underestimate me!"

"Is there a way for Lord Hou to get out of this dense forest?"

"Of course!" Lu Rui took out a self-made compass from his arms.

"Master Hou, what is this...?" The candidate felt very novel when he saw Lu Rui took out something like a small disc.

"This is Sinan made by Master Ben. With it, we can tell the direction and break Zhang Baiqi's formation with ease!"

"Hou Ye is worthy of being Lord Sikong's adopted son, a hero in the world..."

"Okay, General Hou, needless to say, let's go after Zhang Baiqi."

"promise!"

"Master Hou, I found a pile of firewood here." Lu Rui determined the direction based on the self-made compass, and basically deduced Zhang Baiqi's formation.

Zhang Baiqi's formation is actually very simple, just use the dense forest to arrange a kun formation, the main purpose is to delay the pursuit of soldiers.

"This is the black smoke released by Zhang Baiqi?" Lu Rui walked over, picked it up with a long sword and was still burning firewood, there was nothing unusual about it.

"Master Hou, why did Zhang Baiqi release the black smoke for......?"

"Ignore the black smoke, let's continue to chase."

"promise!"

After an hour of marching, Lu Rui's army finally passed through the mud forest.

"Master Hou? Are we going to continue chasing Zhang Baiqi?" After Lu Rui led the army to the mud forest, he looked at the mud forest behind him, as if he was thinking about something.

"No need, Zhang Baiqi is really good, this time I lost!" Lu Rui smiled helplessly, he did not expect Zhang Baiqi to use this trick.

The black smoke released by Zhang Baiqi was actually telling Lu Rui the way out of the formation. If Lu Rui discovered this early in the morning, he could quickly walk out of the woods and continue chasing Zhang Baiqi, then Zhang Baiqi would definitely be caught up by Lu Rui.

But Zhang Baiqi used a trick to confuse Lu Rui, and it took Lu Rui more than an hour to get out of the dense forest. It was too late to chase Zhang Baiqi now, and Zhang Baiqi might have gone far. Can't catch up either.

"Master Hou, then shall we return to Anding?"

"Well, General Hou, order the entire army to return to Anding!"

"promise!"

At night, in Anding City, Lu Rui's study was still lit, and Lu Rui wrote down the confrontation with Zhang Baiqi verbatim.

"Where did Zhang Baiqi's army go?" Lu Rui patted his head, but he never thought of the intention of Zhang Baiqi's army.

If Zhang Baiqi had an army of [-] in his hands, he would definitely not give up stability so easily. Judging from the formations set up in the Mud Forest, Zhang Baiqi is a cautious and alert person. The most important thing is that Zhang Baiqi will not admit defeat!

It seems that Zhang Baiqi's army must be far away from An Ding, but it will definitely not be in the north, so the only possibility is that Zhang Baiqi's army has reached the Weishui front.

What is the intention of Zhang Bai riding an army to Weishui?Lu Rui shook his head, Zhang Baiqi is really elusive. (To be continued..)

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