Horse on the World

Chapter 837
March [-], at noon.

The exhausted Kuang Yigui didn't care about the dust and exhaustion all over his body, his face couldn't hide his joy, he got off his horse and rushed towards Shi Wanshan and Hu Zequan.Seeing Kuang Yigui's return, Hu Zequan, who was seriously ill, couldn't help turning over from the stretcher and sitting up.

"It's done, it's done!" Kuang Yigui said happily, "They agreed, promised to provide us with food, and went to attack Quancheng with us."

Shi Wanshan was ecstatic, "Yigui, you have done a great job this time. With food and enough food for the soldiers, we will have the energy to fight and break through the spring city. The fish swam."

Kuang Yigui took a water bottle from the soldier on one side, took a few sips, and said in disbelief: "General Hu, General Shi, I didn't even expect it to be so smooth. It really is God's help!"

"Yigui, what conditions did Zeng Yifan propose?" Hu Zequan asked while coughing and rinsing.

"The last general did not see Zeng Yifan!" Kuang Yigui handed the water bottle to the soldier beside him, and wiped the water droplets from his beard, "but the last general saw the three generals under Zeng Yifan, Guo Quan, Liang Yi, Zhou Shuwen, These details were finalized by me and the three of them."

"What, you didn't see Zeng Yifan? How could the three of them decide?" Shi Wanshan was startled.

Hu Zequan also raised his head abruptly, his eyes full of doubts.

"It's like this. During this retreat, Zeng Yifan caught wind and cold on the way. He became seriously ill and couldn't get out of bed for a while. Now all the affairs of the Zeng Ministry are presided over by these three people. After explaining what we mean Then Guo Quan took the letter from General Hu to the White Horse Mountain Fortress to report to Zeng Yifan, and when he came back, he agreed to the matter. The condition is that the food and grass will be paid every day, and at the same time, we will reorganize our army and incorporate our army into their battle order .”

"So that's the case!" Shi Wanshan nodded, "Guo Quan, Liang Yi, and Zhou Shuwen were former generals of the Zeng Department. It is reasonable for these three to preside over the military affairs of the Zeng Department. One day's rations are paid, it seems that they are still guarding against us! What else?"

"Oh, Guo Quan said that Baima Mountain is too small to accommodate so many troops, so please let us go to Ten Mile Bend to set up camp. They will send people to bury pots and cook rice there in advance. Once we get there, there will be hot food. eat."

Hu Zequan suddenly began to cough violently, and he was a little out of breath. Shi Wanshan hurried forward to caress his back and help him breathe. After a while, Hu Zequan waved his hand and said, "Yigui, you have worked hard, go down first." Take a break!"

"Yes, General Hu!" Kuang Yigui bowed and walked away.

Seeing Hu Zequan's expression, Shi Wanshan's heart skipped a beat, "General Hu, what do you think about this?"

Hu Zequan rubbed his chest with his hands, and after a while he said leisurely, "Wan Shan, I'm afraid something has happened to Zeng Yifan!"

"Something happened!" Shi Wanshan exclaimed in surprise.

Hu Zequan nodded emphatically, "What's wrong with Zeng Yifan that he can't even see people? Since he can see Guo Quan, why can't he see Kuang Yigui? Guo Quan and the others can make such a big deal like this? And There are more than the three of Zeng's generals, there are also Chenghua and Yao Qingquan, not to mention, if Zeng Yifan is seriously ill and unable to manage the affairs, the one who will take charge of military affairs must be a member of the Zeng clan, not the three generals with foreign surnames."

Shi Wanshan looked serious, "You mean that the Zeng Department has mutinied, and Zeng Yifan has lost his command?"

"If my guess is correct, it must be so. And the mastermind of the mutiny must be Guo Quan, Liang Yi and Zhou Shuwen, and Cheng Hua and Yao Qingquan may have already been captured."

"In this case, why did they provide us with food and agree to join forces with us?" Shi Wanshan asked.

"They don't want to join forces with us, they want to eat us and give us as a gift to Li Qing." Hu Zequan raised his head, stared at the green hills in the distance, and said every word.

"They surrendered to Li Qing?" Shi Wanshan asked in surprise.

"That's right, otherwise do they have a second way to go? It must be like this. Wan Shan, open the map of the whole state." Hu Zequan said.

Shi Wanshan waved his hand, and a soldier behind him untied a bundle from his back, took out a scroll from it, and handed it to Shi Wanshan.

Hu Zequan opened the map, spread the map on the quilt, pointed to a place and said: "Wanshan, look at the terrain of Shiliwan, Guo Quan asked us to camp at Shilidu, what is An De thinking?"

Shi Wanshan looked at the map. In fact, Shi Wanshan was relatively clear about the nearby terrain, but he hadn't thought about it in this direction before. If you really enter this ten-mile bay and camp, the other party will rush up from the outside, and you will have the Tuojiang River behind you. Moreover, this half-crescent bay beach is extremely shallow in depth, and the widest part is only two or three miles deep. It is more than ten miles long, so it is called Shili Bay.The sinister intentions of the other party are already clear at a glance.

"General Hu, what should we do? If the other party wants to eat us, our current military strength is really unbearable!" Shi Wanshan sighed, "Unexpectedly, even Zeng Bu wanted to attract our attention." Feeling suffocated, the tiger down the mountain is bullied by the dog, and the phoenix with shedding hair is not as good as the chicken!
"Wan Shan, there are still 5000 people in our Chinese army, and the combat power has not been reduced much." Hu Zequan stared at Shi Wanshan with bright eyes.

Seeing Hu Zequan's stare, Shi Wanshan was startled, "General Hu, don't you want to risk this battle?"

Hu Zequan breathed a sigh of relief, "This battle has to be fought, Wan Shan, tell me, if we don't go to Shiliwan, the other party there must know that we have seen them through. The real disaster is imminent. Let’s not talk about whether we can beat our opponents in our current situation. As long as we are entangled by them for a few days, the Dingzhou Army behind us will pounce on us like flies smelling blood. Disaster."

"What does the general mean?" Shi Wanshan was thoughtful.

"They want to use tricks to destroy us, so why don't we just use the tricks?" Hu Zequan's eyes flashed, "Wan Shan, this is a big adventure. If we win, we can get Zengbu's military rations and Baima Mountain." Fortress, if you look back, you can bite the chasing army back, hehe, is it possible to turn around right now?" He said excitedly, his face was flushed abnormally, and his expression was extremely excited.

"Wan Shan, call all the officers above the generals to come to me for a meeting immediately. Success or failure depends on one action. Everyone must try their best to survive. If they want to survive, everyone in our army has to fight this battle." Do your best, I need them to mobilize every one of their soldiers, Shiliwan, hehe!" Hu Zequan hit the stretcher with a heavy fist, and coughed loudly again with excessive force.

In the war room of Baimashan Fortress, a simple sand table has been made, surrounded by the sand table, Guo Quan pointed to Shiliwan and said: "General Liang, General Zhou, you see, as long as the Southern Army enters this area, you The two troops rushed out from the ambush site, blocking the opponent's way out, a group of remnants whose eyes were green from hunger, and they were easily captured."

Liang Yi rubbed his hands excitedly, and said: "The strategy is good, but General Guo, will the opponent be fooled? Hu Zequan is a famous general in the world. What is the terrain like Ten Mile Bay?"

Guo Quan smiled, "They are already so hungry that they can't tell the difference between east, west, north, south, and north. People who are about to drown will be desperately grabbed at a straw. What's more, how do they know the situation here? This battle , sure enough, but in order to be safe, your two armies will attack their army in a surprise attack, and I will lead Fengli to stay behind to support Hu Zequan, just in case Hu Zequan still has a backup player. You just said that Hu Zequan is a famous general in the world, no matter what Difficult, I believe he must still have an army capable of fighting in his hands, my task is to keep an eye on this army, and you are to attack the defeated army."

"That's right, so we can be sure of everything. Even if the opponent notices it, we won't be afraid." Zhou Shuwen nodded.

Guo Quan clapped his hands and said, "In that case, let's split up!"

"Farewell!"

"Farewell!"

Liang Yi and Zhou Shuwen bid farewell to Guo Quan.

Seeing the backs of the two leaving, Ji Tong asked a little puzzled: "General Guo, it is a great credit for annihilating the Southern Army's rout. Why should we give this great credit to them?"

Guo Quan sneered, "Ji Tong, it looks easy, but it is not necessarily easy to do. Just like what Liang Yi said, Hu Zequan is a famous general in the world. The so-called trapped beasts are still fighting, and dogs are eager to jump over the wall. After the Southern Army is in desperation, if you don't want to be driven into the river Feeding fish and shrimps will inevitably lead to a desperate fight, and its explosive fighting power cannot be underestimated. We have been operating Fengliying for so many years, but in fact, I don’t want them to take risks in this kind of battle that can be fought or not.”

Ji Tong bit his lip, "Since you can fight or not, why didn't you reject the Southern Army cleanly, anyway, they dare not attack Baima Mountain and Baimadu, so let them starve all the way to Quancheng, wouldn't it be easy to deal with them?"

Guo Quan lost his mind for a while, and said: "Ji Tong, you are a Dingzhou soldier, and I will not hide it from you. Liang Yi and Zhou Shuwen each have more than 1 Zeng Jun elites? How can you rest assured if you don't consume some of them? Let them enter the Liaoshen area to work for the lord?"

Ji Tong shook his body slightly, "What if they can't stop the Southern Army's desperate counterattack?"

"It doesn't matter if they are defeated, as long as the Fengli battalion is still there." Guo Quandao: "Besides, it is not easy for them to defeat this battle. You must know that General Wang Yan's Changsheng battalion will be in the battle. Arriving, what is Hu Zequan's plan? Does he see through my plan? It doesn't matter at all. As long as the Changsheng Battalion arrives, there will be more than 1 Changsheng Battalion cavalry, plus our [-] Fengli Battalion fierce soldiers , Breaking through a hundred meetings with one force, even if Hu Zequan has three heads and six arms, seven orifices and an exquisite heart, he can still settle him."

(End of this chapter)