I just collected Miao Mei and her group and divided them into two temporary squads. Suddenly, a scout came over and reported loudly: "Brother Zhu...the officers and soldiers appeared ten miles away from the west!"

"Well? Are they officers and soldiers? Not the brave soldiers who retreated from Li Panlong?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a heavy tone.

"It's the officers and soldiers, not Li Panlong's troops!" The scout reported seriously: "The number of people is about 800, and the flag of "Du" should be the general Du Wenhuan."

"Well? Why did Du Wenhuan appear here?" Xu Renjie couldn't help asking.

"That's more, Wang Zuoguai surrendered obediently. Du Wenhuan should have left two hundred people to deal with him, and then led a large group of troops to kill Miao Mei and her gang." Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "There is another possibility that the officers and soldiers already knew that I was here, so they wanted to deal with me."

Although the drought causes desolation in the four fields, it seems like they are marching in an uninhabited area. In fact, there are countless villagers who are hiding in the invisible places in the four fields to watch Zhu Yuanzhang's army pass by. Such an army of more than a thousand people cannot avoid the people's march. Some villagers will always see the army from afar and then pass the news. Du Wenhuan knew that Zhu Yuanzhang's army was coming to Luochuan, which was not surprising. What was surprising was that he came very quickly and actually drove Li Panlong to leave before he arrived.

"This Du Wenhuan is good! From the point of his throwing away Wang Zuogao and chasing us directly, he should be a relatively excellent general, participated in many battles and had considerable combat experience." Zhu Yuanzhang commented lightly.

"Why do you make such a judgment?" Xu Renjie quickly asked for advice, wanting to learn some knowledge from it.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "First, Du Wenhuan has made great contributions after receiving the begging for surrender from Wang Zuoguai. He has slapped a bandit of ten thousand people. He will definitely be rewarded when he returns. But this person is not satisfied with it. He also wants to make more contributions. From this point of view, this person is very enterprising."

"Second, Wang Zuo Gua surrendered, and ordinary generals must feel that so many people must deal with it well in order to avoid surrendering and rebelling again. However, Du Wenhuan was bold enough to throw Wang Zuo Gua down and ignore it. It must be that he saw that Wang Zuo Gua was not worried at all. No matter how he threw it behind, he could not make any name for himself. Instead, Miao Mei, who escaped and our army who came from afar were even more threatening, so he rushed over at such a fast speed."

"Third, in the imperial court's environment, the combat effectiveness of the garrison soldiers is generally low. It is indeed of some level that he can move so quickly with the garrison soldiers."

"So that's it!" Xu Renjie laughed twice and said, "Brother Zhu, since he is coming, let's fight him. By ambushing Li Panlong's forest, we will ambush Du Wenhuan again."

"No!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "Do you think regular officers and soldiers and military generals from the court will be ambushed so easily? It's too underestimated to be the officers and soldiers! Officers and soldiers also have scouts. If you hide in such a forest and ambush the enemy, the enemy is five miles away, you will use the scouts to count the several trees growing in the forest..."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang paused and said, "If Du Wenhuan really had considerable combat experience as I judged, our scouts would immediately have bad news."

"What news?" Xu Renjie was very surprised.

"Block down the scout..." Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously.

"Block down the scout? What does it mean?" Xu Renjie didn't understand at all.

"When a general finds that his army is being monitored by enemy scouts, what do you think should be done?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked Yan seriously.

"This is not simple. Of course, I sent my own scouts to drive away the enemy's scouts so that the enemy would keep staring at him. What kind of war is there?" After Xu Renjie finished speaking, he suddenly realized: "I understand. You mean Du Wenhuan is about to drive away our scouts."

"That's right! This is what we are going to do now!" Zhu Yuanzhang jumped onto a stone and glanced around. Sure enough, a few figures flashed at the end of their sight in the distance of the east, and then disappeared... That was the scout of the officers and soldiers!

In fact, this is not surprising at all. Since the scouts from the side discovered the enemy, the scouts of the enemy naturally followed him. If they did not see any scouts around, it would be a strange thing.

Zhu Yuanzhang shouted: "All scouts who stayed in the army will be scattered! A scout net will be formed to drive the enemy scouts out of their sight."

"Abide by the order?" A group of scouts who had not been sent out jumped up. Before they heard Zhu Yuanzhang's order, they didn't know that the enemy scouts had been targeted by the enemy scouts. The brothers shouted together: "Which turtle who is not open to the eyes dares to use scouts to monitor us? We scouts are not for a good meal."

While cursing, they scattered in three directions: east, northeast, and southeast. The scouts opened a huge net and scattered a mile or two away at once. Their actions of opening the big net scared several figures from the field and fled far away.

This behavior is called blockade of scouts! By spreading all scouts on the ground, they form a vacuum zone where the central army is located that the enemy cannot detect. The enemy's scouts cannot directly see what the main force of the central army is doing. They can only see scouts who are chasing them, that is, scouts and scouts deal with each other.

Zhu Yuanzhang turned to Xu Renjie and said, "Do you understand? Now Du Wenhuan should be doing the same thing as me, scattering a large number of scouts and driving the enemy's scouts away. Not only will this happen when the infantry corps fight, but also when the cavalry corps fight on the grassland. Scouts will ride horses and rotate around their troops at a fast speed. On the one hand, they can ensure that the enemy troops are reconnaissance close to their own side, and on the other hand, they can also block the enemy's scouts from their reconnaissance network... If the two armies collide, the first thing they will do is to fight is the scout team. They will kill the enemy's eyes and ears as much as possible while ensuring their own safety. But scouts are not easy to kill, because any scout of an army is a selected elite soldier with fast pace and flexible brains."

Xu Renjie opened his mouth and didn't say anything. These things are not recorded in the military books! The military books only record tens of thousands of troops and tens of thousands of troops in a certain place, but it does not record that before the war, the scouts of the two armies had already had a fierce offensive and defensive battle.

After Zhu Yuanzhang dispersed the scouts, he confirmed that the enemy's scouts could not see what they were doing, so he quickly ordered: "The whole army will set off and withdraw the clan as soon as possible!"

"yes!"

The soldiers began to pack up the big iron pots and carry the food bags back on their backs. After several years of training, Zhu Yuanzhang's army has now taken the action of pulling out the camps. What should each soldier do, how long it takes to finish it, and where he returns to the team after finishing it, have trained many times, so the entire team is not at all confused when it starts.

The news that the officers and soldiers were already ten miles away did not make their movements panic, nor did they cause much emotional fluctuation to the soldiers. They did their own things step by step, as if they had not heard of this.

Miao Mei led the group of people to help him, but they soon discovered that they had not been trained and seemed clumsy in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers and could not help at all.

Not long after, the soldiers packed up their luggage, put on a long snake formation for marching, and began to move towards Huanglong Mountain to the west.

The news of the scouts kept coming back, and Du Wenhuan really dispersed the scout net. The scouts of both armies drove the scouts outwards, so the reconnaissance ranges of the two armies began to squeeze each other, just like two round balls squeezing into the middle, both balls were flattened, and their reconnaissance ranges were forced to be reduced by half...

However, this does not affect the scouts' judgment. Although they cannot directly observe the main force of the enemy and can only deal with the scouts of the enemy, they only need to infer based on the direction of the enemy's scout network to roughly guess where the main force of the enemy is.

Xu Renjie asked Zhu Yuanzhang while walking, "Brother Zhu, in this way, isn't it impossible to use tricks for the two armies to fight? Everyone's scouts are monitoring each other like this. Wrath tactics such as ambush are a joke?"

"That's right!" Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "Since ancient times, the battle between the two countries has been mainly based on a dignified army fighting on the plains. It is a trick... Then there must be a specific environment, the right time, place and people are harmonious, and not every battle can be won by tricks."

"Then "Thirty-Six Strategies" became bullshit?" Xu Renjie said with a bitter face: "That is my favorite military book!"

"Thirty-six strategies are not completely useless. As I said just now, as long as there is time, place and people, you can use them..." Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly smiled slightly and said, "Think carefully about the situation between the enemy and us, the terrain of the circumstance, and the situation faced by the two armies, you can come up with a useful strategy."

Xu Renjie said with a bitter face: "I don't believe it anymore. So many scouts stared at each other, what are the right time, place, people and people?"

"Haha, in fact, we have a certain degree of right time, place, and people, and we have plans to use it." Zhu Yuanzhang said suddenly.

"What?" Xu Renjie Daqi: "What strategy can I use? Can I ambush officers and soldiers?"

"No!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "In the current situation, the ambushing plan is absolutely impossible, but... the golden cicada can be used! I will teach you a small trick to make us disappear without a trace under the eyes of the enemy's scouts."
Chapter completed!