Li Yanqing did not understand Xiang Fa's plan to lure the enemy deeper and then cut off his retreat, but Li Yanqing also had a clear strategic plan. It took only one day for 20,000 to cross the river and rested in Dantu County for a night. The 20,000 Jingzhao Army ignored the Jiangnan Army of Jiangning Prefecture. Li Yanqing immediately led his army to march southward and march towards Changzhou.

Xiang Fa seemed to have expected Li Yanqing to go south directly, which was what he expected. Li Yanqing went deep alone and was too risky, and he would eventually be annihilated by himself.

Just half a day after Li Yanqing sent troops south, Xiang Fa also ordered troops to be sent, and he led 90,000 Jiangnan troops to kill along the official road towards Changzhou.

Changzhou of the Song Dynasty and Changzhou of the Tang Dynasty had similar jurisdictions, including today's Changzhou and Wuxi of Jiangsu. In history, it was the famous Shangzhou area in the Jiangnan region. It has a developed economy and a large population, especially grain production. Since the Three Kingdoms era, it has been a military farmland.

The 20,000 Jingzhao Army headed south along the canal. The canal was a fleet of 500 tugboats. The fleet contained food, armor, tinder oil and various firearms. This was why Li Yanqing made logistical preparations in advance in order to prevent the empty grain of the official warehouse and did not want to plunder the civilian food.

The army marched very fast and entered the territory of Changzhou in just one day. At this time, dusk had fallen, and Li Yanqing ordered the entire army to garrison on the spot.

Li Yanqing had just received the information sent by Yan Qing, and the Jiangning Mansion army had already set off, about half a day later than him. It would take at least one day to go from Jiangning Mansion to Changzhou. If the Jiangning Mansion army did not rest and marched overnight, they would catch up with him at noon tomorrow. However, at that time the other party was seriously overdrawn, and it should be the end of his strength, just waiting for him to work hard and hit him head-on.

If the other party also stays on camp, then it will be only one day before you, which will allow you to get rid of the 30,000 new troops heading north.

The army did not carry the camp tent. At this time, the weather in Jiangnan was a little hot. There was no need for camp tent at night. The soldiers could fall asleep by wrapping them in blankets. However, another worry could not be removed, that is, the mosquitoes appeared. One night, I kept hearing the soldiers cursing and slapping the mosquitoes.

The next day, before dawn, the low trumpet sounded, and the soldiers woke up from their sleep, ran to the river to wash, and gathered together to drink hot soup and eat dry food.

The march was rushed. In addition to burying a pot to make rice at night, dry food was used to satisfy hunger during the day. However, the dry food of the Jingzhao Army was not bad. Every soldier had steamed buns, chopped green onion meat and sauce buns. In addition, hot broth was also provided in the morning, with steamed buns with minced meat and sauce, and drinking a bowl of hot broth. The soldiers basically had no complaints, and even the commander Li Yanqing ate the same dry food.

Just as the soldiers gathered together to eat dry food, Li Yanqing received information from Yan Qing. The other party also camped last night and seemed to be in a hurry to catch up.

"Master, the other party does not seem to be in a hurry to fight us?" Wang Gui walked up to him and whispered.

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "The other party's intention is very obvious. I hope we will go deep alone. Anyway, our army is not large, only 20,000 people. At that time, a hundred thousand troops will attack us, and our troops will be trapped and have no help. In the end, the entire army will be destroyed. This is their wishful thinking."

Wang Gui hesitated and said, "But our army is indeed not large. If there are 30,000 people, then we will not be afraid of them at all."

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "We have three thousand cavalry, but the other side has no cavalry, we still have thunder and no other side. These are our advantages, not to mention that I have never considered fighting with the other side. Then I will drag them to death, not them to death."

"I understand!"

Li Yanqing patted his shoulder, "I will hand it over to you the three thousand cavalrymen."

Wang Gui nodded and turned around and left. Li Yanqing immediately ordered: "Transfer the three armies and set off!"

The army quickly lined up and set off south, and five hundred tugboats also followed the army south.

The army headed south along the canal. At noon, the army passed Jinling County, the prefecture was under the jurisdiction of Jinling County. At dusk, the army arrived in Henglin Town, which was about thirty miles away from Wuxi County. Li Yanqing ordered the soldiers to rest on the spot. The soldiers buried the pot and rebelled and prepared a full meal.

At the same time, several clutches had passed Wuxi County. This was Zhang Shun leading more than a dozen subordinates along the canal to search for the new army northwards. In terms of time, this army of 30,000 people should have also entered Changzhou. However, the clutches had already left Wuxi County for thirty or forty miles, but still did not find the new army. Ten miles ahead was Wangting Town, Suzhou.

"General, it's a bit unreasonable!"

A subordinate said to Zhang Shun in confusion: "We knew two days ago that this army entered the Suzhou territory. Why did they still stay in Suzhou after two days of traveling? Didn't they go north along the canal?"

Zhang Shun shook his head. The main road in the north and south was close to the canal. The other party needed supplies and should have to use a boat. Even if he did not carry the logistics supply materials, he had to walk along the main road. Twenty miles west, there was an old road, but the road conditions there were not good, and it was too far from the canal and the county towns, so it was not easy to replenish supplies. Zhang Shun felt that the other party was unlikely to walk on the official road.

At this time, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the front of the shore. After a moment, the riders approached the river and waved to them. With the help of the moonlight, they were one of the two cavalrymen who had sent forward to investigate the situation.

Zhang Shun quickly ordered his men to dock the ship. After a moment, the cavalry stepped forward and clasped their fists and said, "Caughter General, Wangting Town discovered 30,000 main forces of the enemy, and they were stationed outside Wangting Town."

"Can they have a tent?"

"Yes! I carried hundreds of large tents, but no camps, and deployed hundreds of peripheral patrols. I was approaching the waterway and was not discovered by them."

The cavalry handed over a map to Zhang Shun, "This is the enemy's camp map, please check it out in detail!"

Zhang Shun immediately left two ships to continue surveillance in front, and he turned the bow of the ship and drove quickly to the north.

At the first update, Zhang Shun returned to the Jingzhao Army camp. 20,000 Jingzhao soldiers were still lying on the ground, but they found a large amount of mugwort with the military doctor. The soldiers applied mugwort juice to their hands and faces before going to bed, effectively preventing mosquito harassment. The soldiers slept particularly sweetly.

A marching tent was erected in a small woodland. At this time, Li Yanqing took an oil lamp in the marching tent and carefully checked the garrison map sent by Zhang Shun. The garrison of the 30,000 troops was on the west side of Wangting Town, and the canal was on the east side of Wangting Town. The distance between the two was about hundreds of steps, just a town separated the canal from the military camp.

"From the degree of alertness of their camp, the defense is relatively lax, there are no sentry towers, no trenches are dug around the camp, and there are relatively few people on the outside, which means that the other party has not entered a state of war, and we should not have been discovered yet, Taiwei, this is our opportunity."

The person who spoke was Deputy General Liu Qi. He followed Li Yanqing for many years and was also experienced and had a lot of combat experience.

Li Yanqing carefully checked the Jiangnan marching map again. They are now about sixty miles away from Wangting Town. It is awkward to say whether the distance is close or not, and it is not far. If the infantry rushed to attack, it would be brighter when they arrived there, and it would be a bit unworthy of the loss.

At this time, Zhang Shun said: "Bizhi rides in the Clippers and can guarantee that he will arrive at Wangting Town at the fourth update. Beizhi feels that he can use Wangting Town to cover and use fire attack."

It has been a consensus among everyone in the tent to attack with fire. They have fire crows and can launch fire crows into the opponent's camp one mile away.

Li Yanqing nodded, "It is OK to use fire attack, but just using fire attack, I'm afraid the effect of killing the enemy will not be significant."

This is also a lesson from a sneak attack on the water village. They burned the dry village, but basically no casualties were caused. It was necessary to cooperate with the army to achieve results.

Wang Gui next to him immediately said: "There is no time for infantry soldiers, so you can use cavalry. You can guarantee that you can arrive in Wangting Town before the fourth update."

Li Yanqing hesitated and said, "But the sound of the cavalry's horse hooves is too loud, it can easily alarm the enemy."

"Cavals can detour south. In addition, cavalry all have soft silence cloths. When approaching the enemy camp, they slow down and wrap horse hooves with soft cloths. The opponent will not find cavalry."
Chapter completed!