It doesn’t matter if you are scattered, you can’t command when fighting, and you can fight for a hunting ground when setting up camp. The key is that the information is so messed up that you can’t even distinguish the authenticity of the information..."

"If you said that, wouldn't you want to fight?!" Lan Dawen asked angrily. "Sit back and watch Zhang Xing take away our Demon Guard's foundation with just one sentence? Sit back and watch that Li Ding kill all the princes of the town guard one by one?

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"So invite Mrs. Lu here! Let her stand in this camp and say, we people in the north want to live and die together, and we want to be one body with honor and disgrace. I, the Lu family, will only charge forward, but I will not care about the cities and places in the south. Who can

Who deserves more credit! But why didn't she come?" Cui Xuanchen asked, spreading his hands.

Lan Dawen was speechless again.

"Lan Gong, this is a world of great strife. There is no room for half-heartedness or self-righteousness." Li Shu also said. "It's not that we are unwilling to help. We have already said that no one is more determined than us to deal with Zhang Xing. It is you.

It's so outrageous... It's as if you were blinded by someone's stick before you even realized what kind of world this is... But you only have so much money. If you are really confused by this stick, you will be stunned.

I can’t open my eyes anymore.”

Lan Dawen stood up helplessly and agreed without eating a bite of meat: "In this case, you go and invite Mr. Cui, and I will write a letter to ask Mrs. Lu to clarify the interests immediately."

"We don't actually need to invite him. We have made an agreement with Cui Gong that as soon as Mrs. Lu leaves, he will come. Just ask Mrs. Lu to bring people to Benma City on the way." Li Shu explained again.

"Okay." Lan Dawen nodded directly, turned around and got into the empty truck, and drove away.

After the people left, Li Shu took the lead and waved to the soldiers who were resting and watching to come over and eat meat. Yuwen Wanchou also took the opportunity to put down the roasted meat and called his subordinates to do it for him. The three of them walked to the side together, obviously everyone had their own concerns.

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After walking a few steps, Li Shu spoke first, but he came to ask Cui Xuanchen: "Old Cui, is what you just said about Cheng Dalang true?"

"Of course." Cui Xuanchen was startled, and then asked, "Don't Mr. Li know?"

"I didn't know before." Li Shu said in a low voice.

Cui Xuanchen immediately realized what the other party meant and came to persuade him.

Unexpectedly, Li Shu stood up first, then put his hands behind the tent and sighed: "Old Cui, you said that even Cheng Dalang couldn't pull the troops from his own village. I can still deceive myself and others, thinking that the gang will definitely

Will any of my veins respond to me in the future?"

Cui Xuanchen was silent for a moment, but did not answer directly. Instead, he asked: "If you are so careless, does Mr. Li regret leaving the gang?"

Li Shu responded with silence.

Cui Xuanchen sighed and continued to ask: "Let me ask you another question. When Li Gong decided to lead troops to Xuzhou, did he ever waver before being blocked by Shan Tonghai and the others?"

"I've been shaken, but I'm still not convinced...I can't bear to live under him." Li Shu spoke simply.

"Then what else is there to think about?" Cui Xuanchen asked.

"That's right." Li Shu came to his senses and smiled bitterly. "As things have come to this step by step, it's all my own decision, so why should I hesitate? It can't be done, it's just a matter of death. If I can survive by chance, I will go to the Witchland again.

If we can't leave... we are all from the Guanlong lineage, so we will join Bai Hengqiu as a casual official and spend the rest of our lives in the old house in Chang'an."

Cui Xuanchen's expression did not change.

After Li Shu sighed, he seemed to think of something, and then looked at the gloomy Yuwen Wanchou behind him, and said sincerely: "Captain Yuwen, I know that you have been wronged in the army before, and I want to give you a message today... When a man is alive,

If you want to know what you want, and if you want peace for the war group and clan, you should bow your head and be a philistine, there is no shame in it; but if you want to display your ambitions, then you have to think clearly about where your ambitions are to be developed, and you have to be promising.

This determination to abandon all others must not be scrupulous about this or want that. In the end, it will only harm yourself."

Yuwen Wanchou couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this: "Someone told me the second half of this..."

Li Shu's heart moved slightly, and he wanted to ask, but at this moment, the sound of drums suddenly sounded in the camp, which made several people change their colors in shock... You know, this is not the drumming every morning to gather people, this afternoon

, if the top fails to catch up with the three and the bottom fails to match the four, there must be a critical situation in the military.

Sure enough, Li Shu did not show up as usual, and Cui Xuanchen followed Yuwen Wanchou to the Chinese army's tent. When he met other regiment leaders on the way, he first heard enough miscellaneous rumors. This one said that Mrs. Lu succeeded in bypassing the sea route.

They are about to attack from both front and rear; some say that the main force of military reinforcements has arrived and they want to discuss countermeasures; others say that someone is indeed going around the sea, but it is not Mrs. Lu, but the army. They came from northern Shanxi and must withdraw quickly now.

In the end, everyone held back their temper and came to the Chinese Army's tent... The so-called Chinese Army's tent was not a big tent, but a temporary shelter just like the gang had when they had a meeting on the roadside. Then they quickly learned the specific information -

- Opposite the swamp, thirty miles away, the main force of the army, which had been at a stalemate for nearly twenty days, suddenly broke camp and left.

Those who left were clean and those who left were caught off guard.

"Then we're going to march?" After a long silence, a regiment leader stood up slightly puzzled. "Aren't we just waiting for them to withdraw? Hurry up and catch up! Or are you afraid of taking the lead?"

"It's not that simple." Someone rubbed his chin and said thoughtfully. "One hundred thousand troops, dozens of battle groups, soldiers and horses from four cities and two guards are all detained here. If someone lures us to go deep, then in

The south end of Luyezawa has been completely defeated, but it’s all over... You have to be more cautious.”

"Isn't it?" Someone else said jokingly. "Leader Yuwen has said again and again before that the army is tyrannical. Although our hundreds of thousands of people are several times more than the opponent, it is best not to attack, but

Go back, lure the enemy deep, and eat them at the Luyeze side... It seems that the leader of the Yuwen regiment did not go to Hebei in vain, nor did he assume the role of leader of the gang in vain. He wanted to go together. He just followed this path.

Count, which one is better, the 20,000 or 30,000 people on the other side, or the 100,000 or so of us?"

Everyone laughed, but a few people didn't laugh.

After a while, as Lan Dawen glanced over expressionlessly, the laughter quickly stopped.

"Is there anything wrong with Leader Yuwen being more cautious? Is it a lie to join the gang?" Lan Dawen's face was extremely ugly. "The families in the entire North who are willing to fight against the gang are all here. If you are not careful, everything will be lost.

Why do you want to be laughed at instead? Speaking of ridicule, I was the one who didn’t want you to take the initiative to attack before, and I am also afraid of the enemy? Do you want to laugh at me too?!"

No one in the crowded tent refuted it, but the noises of various movements, coughing, and wheezing were still very obvious.

Lan Dawen sighed and continued solemnly: "Speak carefully, what kind of situation should be ahead, and how should we deal with it?"

"What I said again is that we should catch up and fight!" the first person to speak reiterated. "Throughout the ages, whenever you want to do something, there is no one who dares not move even if he has a hundred thousand soldiers? Isn't this a joke?!"

"Indeed, how can there be any reason to have a hundred thousand soldiers but not dare to advance?"

"That is, we are not blind or deaf when we really arrive at the south of Luyeze. How many of you here have never been there? We are familiar with the geography there... They have only been here for a few days, are they just here?

Are you going to become your main guest?"

"Yes, they can't do any conspiracy."

"So, even if the army has a plan, it is just a conspiracy?" Many people agreed to attack, but Lan Dawen remained unmoved after hearing this and just continued to ask. "What about the conspiracy?"

"That means the reinforcements have arrived? Lure us into going deep, and then turn around and surround us?"

"Impossible... It would be good if the reinforcements could almost reach the vanguard. It is absolutely impossible for more than 50,000 reinforcements to come... It is one thing that the weather is so hot. He thought that so many people would have to take their time in the miserable place of Thudao Ridge.

ah!"

"That's true..."

"Then the elite vanguard of the reinforcements should have arrived. Didn't they say there were three hundred strange warriors riding on white horses?"

"Three Hundred Strange Scriptures, this idea is correct. In fact, they did not dare to retreat before, and they were worried that the demon guards behind them would rise up and cause trouble and cut off their escape route. Now that they have some elite support, they quickly retreated to the city.

The province's retreat has been cut off...the next step is to defend the city."

"It's hard for the reinforcements to pass through Thudao Ridge. Will they come from the sea?" someone asked again.

"Don't worry about it." Lan Dawen took the initiative to explain. "The east side of the sea can't catch up, and the west side of the bitter sea, Lu... Mrs. Lu has already sent all the fleets from Guanhai and Tingtao towns to Ben

Macheng Port... The original plan was that if there was no chance of meeting face to face, we would divide a group of troops to cross the sea and go around the back." At this point, Lan Dawen emphasized. "They want to come from the bitter sea, so the fleet can only rely on it.

Northern Shanxi and Youzhou are not regulated at all, let alone compared with our fleet."

"Then what else is there to say...just fight! Fight quickly and send out troops now!" The person who was the first to speak shouted loudly. "You are afraid of death. We, the war group, are rushing in front and doing reconnaissance by the way.

...On the off chance that the army is too tight and one, two or three of our battle groups are defeated, it will not delay your overall situation, but will block the sharp edge of the army for you! What is so scary?!"

"Leader Cheng!" Someone raised his voice in response. "It is right to fight quickly, and it is also right to send troops now. Anyway, the whole regiment will be sent to investigate, but if you don't say something clearly... you are willing to die,

But we are not happy!"

"What are you talking about?" The same person asked again.

"Mr. Lan." The person who answered the call turned back to look at Lan Dawen, but pointed at the people in the front of the seat. "These people are obviously counting on us to work hard to preserve their power, so why do they always sit here, like puppets?"

, every time it’s like looking at a fool

Come and see us discuss... Let me make it clear today, what if we pass through Luyeze and they feel that the crisis is over and the garrison remains stationary, or simply return to the city? Mr. Lan, we are here for your reputation, you want

Just explain it to us clearly!"

Lan Dawen looked serious.

In fact, this is the biggest division within the coalition. Among the scattered battle groups and the direct forces of the four western cities and two guards, the former is radical and the latter is conservative. The former has mixed sources and a mixed command system. The latter is influenced by Madam Lu, including

The powerful faction supports it, so the position is consistent.

Lan Dawen also did not expect that the leaders of these war groups would choose to force the emperor to go to the palace when the situation changed.

But the problem is this, and you have to solve it...either by convincing these leaders or by making a commitment.

After once again scanning the dense crowd present, Lan Dawen hesitated for a moment, and then said in a strange way: "Don't worry, I won't let you go forward alone while they sit back and reap the benefits... This

The battle was originally fought for them."

Hearing this, many people under the greenhouse were stunned. Even the heads of several regiments who were obviously colluding were a little surprised. Some of the regular army generals from the city couldn't help themselves and wanted to ask.

In the chaos, several people wanted to get up and make noise.

"Okay!" Lan Dawen suddenly expressed his expression. "I have made up my mind. From today on, no matter whether we advance or retreat, the battle group and the troops of the garrison will march hand in hand... Starting from now, Chief Cheng, you will take the

Your regiment, as well as Li Lang from Tingtao City, will send troops together to conduct reconnaissance first, and go immediately. The scouts will report once every quarter of an hour, and both sides will report."

The leader of the Cheng group was pinched, and he had no choice but to stand up and hand over his hands: "Since Mr. Lan said this, I, the blind Cheng, will naturally do my best."

Immediately, under the watchful eyes of everyone, General Li Lang, the general from Tingtao City, had no choice but to stand up in a low voice and go with the leader Cheng.
To be continued...