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Although Cui Wen heard Lin Yuan's implication, he didn't say anything, and smiled and said, "Well, I'll just report the truth when I go back."

Lin Yuan pointed to the door and said: "Sir, please go slowly, Lin will not see you off." As soon as Cui Wen left, Liu Yufeng next to him asked, "Shuai Lin, what's going on? Why did Yuan Shikai ask you to see it?" It's a play, this is the battle between the two armies, it's really ridiculous."

Lin Yuan didn't laugh, but said, "This should be Yuan Shikai's psychological tactic. As for the intention, I think it's to confuse me and interfere with my judgment. Let's not care about it." After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he said to Liu Yufeng: " You go and call Zhong Cheng and let him accompany me to go out to do some reconnaissance."

Not long after that, Zhong Cheng came to look for Lin Yuan. The two of them took the reconnaissance company and headed towards the Qing army's camp. After walking for a while, a small river blocked the way. Everyone stopped the car. Lin Yuan pointed to the small river and asked. : "What is the name of this river?"

Zhong Cheng shook his head lightly, and Lin Yuan said, "Is it because I can't find a fellow villager to ask? So I don't know the name?"

Zhong Cheng said: "No, when we were in Dezhou, we found a group of fellow villagers. They have either been around Yucheng, or their homes are here. We take them with us when we scout, and ask them when we draw maps. They, so we all know the names of the rivers, ditches, and valleys in this area."

Lin Yuan asked suspiciously: "Then why don't you know the name of this river?"

Zhong Cheng replied: "A few days ago when we were scouting, there was no such river here. Today, for some reason, an extra river came out."

Lin Yuan's expression changed suddenly when he heard this, and Zhong Cheng said in fear: "Shuai Lin, this is our negligence..."

Lin Yuan waved his hand lightly and said, "Don't be afraid, I don't mean to blame you, show me the map you drew." Zhong Cheng hastily handed a map of [-]:[-] to Lin Yuan, and Lin Yuan I looked up and looked around, took a rough look at the terrain, and then went to the map to find the location of the river in front of me, only to see that the map showed grassland and no river.

Lin Yuan put down the map and said worriedly: "Armored troops are most afraid of rivers, especially our tanks. The exhaust ducts and cooling windows are only about 1.3 meters away from the ground. Once water enters these places, the engine will stop. At that time, the tank will become an immovable tin box."

Zhong Cheng asked: "Then what should we do?"

Lin Yuan jumped out of the car and said: "Mark this river on the map, and then find some comrades with good water skills to go there to see how deep the water is. If it is shallow, we will go over."

Zhong Cheng agreed to come down, and personally led the people to the river, only to find that the small river had just passed through the calf, so Lin Yuan led the troops across the river, walked less than ten kilometers, and there was another map in front of him. There are no rivers, Lin Yuan thought to himself: "The climate in Shandong is humid, and the precipitation is very heavy this season, so there will suddenly be more rivers."

The car drove forward for about fifteen kilometers, and Lin Yuan saw Yuan Shikai's company battalion from a distance in the car. It stretched more than ten kilometers north of Yucheng. The front of the company camp was full of people like ants. What to do, Lin Yuan pointed to Gao Po next to him and said, "Come on, let's go up and have a look."

Zhong Cheng agreed to get out of the car, and walked up the high slope with Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan took out his binoculars and looked at the Yucheng camp. He saw those ants-like people with shovels and poles. Lin Yuan was looking at the trench, and only heard Zhong Cheng say from the side: "Shuai Lin, why do I feel that something is wrong?"

Lin Yuan asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhong Cheng pointed to the south side of the company camp and said, "Did you see that big river?"

Lin Yuan said, "I see, what's the matter?"

Zhong Cheng said: "That river is called Tuhai River. It has a wide surface and gentle flow. Yucheng lies to the south of it. Why didn't Yuan Shikai camp in the open space between Yucheng and Tuhai River? In this way, Tuhai River can It has become a natural barrier to stop us, so why spend so much manpower digging trenches?"

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said: "It may be that Yuan Shikai knew that our ability to build bridges and cross rivers is very strong, so he didn't dare to rely on a single river for defense, so he set up his company camp on the north side of the Tuhai River."

Zhong Cheng nodded, and at this moment a soldier said: "Report to Commander Lin and Battalion Commander, we found Qing cavalry to the east!"

Lin Yuan raised the binoculars in his hand and looked to the east. He saw a group of cavalry coming with smoke and dust. The number of people seemed to be around [-]. Lin Yuan immediately said, "Let's get in the car and go back to the camp."

After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he took everyone into the car and walked to his camp. Lin Yuan originally thought that the cavalry of the Qing army came to drive him away. As long as they walked far away, the cavalry of the Qing army would naturally go back, but they did not expect that the cavalry behind them had no intention of going back at all, and instead followed behind Lin Yuan's convoy.

Zhong Cheng asked: "Shuai Lin, do you think these cavalry are going back to camp with us?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "They dare to follow us, they are looking for death, don't pay attention to them, let's speed up and get rid of them." The convoy accelerated for a while, and the Qing cavalry behind disappeared without a trace. Lin Yuan quickly returned to the camp, Call the chief officer for a meeting and report the two major situations that have been detected: the sudden appearance of the river and the fact that the Qing army dug a trench in front of the camp, and then ask each unit to pay attention to these two points when formulating an action plan.

While in a meeting, suddenly there was a burst of gunfire outside, Lin Yuan hurriedly asked his subordinates: "What happened?"

Someone came to report when he didn't have a bowel movement: A cavalry of the Qing army approached our army camp and was beaten back by us. "

Lin Yuan said: "Everyone, don't underestimate this attack. It explains many problems. First of all, the Qing army in front of you is completely different from the previous troops. If this army dares to take the initiative to attack, it shows that their combat effectiveness is very strong. Formidable enemy, we must not take it lightly."

Lin Yuan confessed some more things before announcing the adjournment of the meeting. Lin Yuan thought in his heart: "Yuan Shikai invited me to watch a play at the beginning, then he had people dig trenches outside the barracks, and now he sent troops to harass him. What exactly did they want to do?" what?"

Lin Yuan thought hard about Yuan Shikai's intentions, but found nothing. He came to the special staff and asked if he had detected the enemy's artillery. Fei also said that the reconnaissance in the past few days has been fruitless, and Lin Yuan couldn't help thinking: "Maybe Tada Zhengnan is lying to me?"

But Lin Yuan thought for a while and told himself: "Probably not, his concern for Akiko Qingtian is real, not fake!" The teacher has formulated an action plan, please study it."

When Lin Yuan came to the headquarters, Xiao Yingwu and Long Ye were already waiting for him. Lin Yuan said, "Please tell me, what is the plan?"

Xiao Yingwu said: "According to the previous situation, we have three major difficulties in our operations. First, the enemy's tank killer weapons. Since we did not find the hiding places of these weapons in the previous reconnaissance, we cannot prepare them in advance. destroy."