On the sixth day of April in the thirteenth year of Wei Zhaowu, on the day when Wei general Le Yi concluded that the Qin army was most likely to attack the east and attack the west, he immediately sent people to Pinyang to remind Bai Fangming not to rashly cut off the Qin army's retreat. He came to Linwei City.

Report this matter to Sima An.

Coincidentally, at this time, King Huan Zhao Xuan had just led the First Army of the North to the Linwei area and came to Linwei City in person to visit Sima An.

In fact, Sima An was the commander-in-chief of the Wei army in the Hexi battlefield from beginning to end. According to his past personality, he would never delegate power to an 'outsider' like Le Yi, even if Le Yi came here under the orders of Tiance Mansion.

Sima An also had to try this Le Yi first - in addition to testing Le Yi's ability to command troops, he also had to test Le Yi's principles of marching and fighting.

It's just that Sima An is getting older now and often has less energy to keep up with, so he can only let Le Yi temporarily take charge of part of the Hexi Army on his behalf.

But having said that, after all, Le Yi is a famous former Korean general and participated in the war that destroyed the Three Kingdoms of Qi, Chu and Yue. Therefore, Sima An quite recognized Le Yi's ability to command troops.

Because of this, when Le Yi suggested to him that the Qin army might be attacking in the east and attacking in the west, and it seemed that it wanted to capture Lin Wei, but it was actually plotting against Pinyang, Sima An seriously considered this possibility.

He even invited Le Yi and King Huan Zhao Xuan to spy on the Qin army's camp.

The Qin army's camp was built on the west side of Linwei, about forty miles away from the city.

When Sima An led Le Yi and King Huan Zhao Xuan to peek at the activities inside and outside the Qin army's camp from a distance, they saw that the camp had almost been completed, but the Qin soldiers were still pulling logs in carriages.

These timbers were not transported nearby, because after Chongquan abandoned the defense, Le Yi set fire to the woods along the way while withdrawing. This forced the Qin army to cut down trees from farther away for construction.

Camp a fortress or build siege engines.

"The Qin army...are they really just pretending to attack Wei City, as General Le said?"

After watching from a distance for a while, King Huan Zhao Xuan frowned and said, because he could faintly see that there were many wells and carriages in the Qin army camp.

On the contrary, Zhou Min, the general beside Zhao Xuan, shook his head and said: "Your Highness, even if the Qin army builds Jinglan chariots, it is not certain that they will attack Linwei City. These Jinglan chariots can also be used to attack Pinyang."

After hearing this, Le Yi glanced at Zhou Min with admiration, nodded and said: "What the general said is absolutely true. It is indeed possible that these Jinglan vehicles can be used to attack Pinyang. However, Le Yi is more inclined.

Another speculation is that the Qin army deliberately made these Jinglan chariots for us to see, in order to make us believe that he would attack Linwei..."

After that, he pursed his lips in the direction of the Qin camp and said with a slight sneer: "This place is less than two miles away from the Qin camp, and there is a vast plain as far as the eye can see. If it were our Wei army, we would definitely be able to find the enemy at this distance."

The army is peeping outside, but so far, no Qin army cavalry has come to harass us. It seems that the Qin people don't care about our peeping at all, which is not in line with common sense."

"That's true..."

There was a hint of surprise on Zhou Min's face, and he squinted his eyes to visually measure the distance between himself and Qin Ying.

At this time, Sima An frowned deeply, thinking about Le Yi's words.

He has been in charge of Hexi County for more than ten years and has fought against the Qin army many times. They are old acquaintances. Even though Sima An is older now and his thinking and reactions are not as good as before, his ability to judge things is still there.

Of course I understand that Le Yi is right.

Considering the capabilities of the Qin army, it is unbelievable that they would ignore the enemy troops two miles away.

Not to mention, on their way here, they encountered a group of Qin Army cavalry on patrol. Although the Qin Army cavalry retreated on their own initiative because of the small number of people at that time, after calculating the time, it stands to reason that

It is also time to report their movements to the Qin generals in the Qin camp.

As Le Yi and Sima An judged, they were indeed let in deliberately by the Qin army this time.

In fact, as early as a quarter of an hour ago, the Qin army's commander-in-chief Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi received a report from the patrolling cavalry and learned that a group of Wei cavalry was approaching their camp, numbering about three to four hundred cavalry.

At that time, Gongsun Qi thought for a moment and concluded that this must be an attempt by the generals of the Wei army to peek into his Qin army's camp - after all, those three or four hundred cavalry could not have come to attack his Qin army's camp, right?

Therefore, Gongsun Qi made a plan and ordered the cavalry in the camp not to disturb the Wei cavalry for the time being. He hoped that the Wei cavalry, especially the Wei generals among them, would see some cavalry who would mistakenly think that they were about to attack Linwei City.

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For example, those siege tanks are more conspicuous even from a few hundred feet away.

If there is no ulterior motive, it stands to reason that after the construction of this kind of siege weapon is completed, it should be covered with a cover such as green cloth to prevent the defenders from knowing the situation in advance and making corresponding preparations.

Just when Sima An, Le Yi, King Huan Zhao Xuan and his entourage were peeping at the Qin camp from a distance on the slope, on the guard tower on the east side of the Qin camp, Gongsun Qi and the King of Qin who came after hearing the news returned.

The chief concubine, Zhao Ran, was also looking at the Wei army in the distance.

As Le Yi said, even though they were two miles apart, with three to four hundred Wei cavalry gathered in one place, the Qin army could not detect the enemy in the distance. That would be unless all the Qin soldiers were

blind.

"That's almost it."

After estimating about half a stick of incense, Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi ordered: "Come, order Xu Zhi to lead more than a thousand cavalry to drive away those Wei cavalry in the distance!"

After hearing this, King Qin was quite surprised and asked: "Wu Xinhou didn't want to use this to deceive the Wei army, so why did he rush to drive them away?"

Hearing this, Gongsun Qi cupped his hands and replied: "Your Majesty, I am not sure whether Le Yi is among the cavalry of the Wei army. This man is extremely cunning and experienced. He must be upset when he sees that our army has not sent cavalry to expel it.

Doubt, and then doubt whether our army has set up a suspicious formation for the sake of reason, so I want to send cavalry to drive it away, making it difficult to judge."

"That's it." King Qin suddenly realized.

After a while, the door of the Qin camp opened wide, and a group of cavalry quickly rushed out of the camp and rushed towards the distance where Sima An, King Huan Zhao Xuan, Le Yi and others were.

Seeing that the Qin army sent at least a thousand cavalry out of the camp to expel him and others, Sima An immediately ordered a retreat.

After all, Qin's cavalry is not weak. They are the main force in the war between Qin and the Xiqiang, Yiqu and other foreign tribes. Although there are three or four hundred cavalry on our side, Sima An is not arrogant enough to have these three.

Four hundred Wei cavalry could defeat more than a thousand Qin cavalry.

It has to be said that the attack of more than a thousand Qin army cavalry made Huan Wang Zhao Xuan and Zhou Min a little unsure - a moment ago, they had agreed with Le Yi's judgment. After all, they also felt that the Qin army would not turn a blind eye to their prying eyes. Unexpectedly,

, just a moment later, the Qin army sent out more than a thousand cavalry.

However, when this topic was brought up on the way, Le Yi still believed in his own judgment. He felt that the reason why the more than a thousand cavalry left the camp to attack was just because Wu Xinhou Gongsun raised suspicions about the formation.

Based on his half-life military experience, when encountering an enemy general of the level of Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi, one must trust one's initial intuition and judgment, because subsequent judgments are actually mixed with many falsehoods deliberately released by the enemy general.

Intelligence', in contrast, initial intuition and judgment are actually more accurate.

Seeing Le Yi's persistence in his opinion, Sima An didn't say much. He had to admit that he was really old and could no longer make judgments as quickly as he did when he was young. However, he recognized that Le Yi had something to do with it.

The "initial judgment" perspective.

After all, when Sima An was young, he also relied on his own intuition more than the 'best strategy' based on known information - the intuition here can actually be understood as the experience accumulated over the years, which enabled them to operate in similar situations.

Make the best decision immediately given the situation.

After thinking about it, Sima An said to Le Yi: "Send people to watch every move of the Qin army twelve hours a day... If the Qin army really attacks Pinyang, then it must be Bai Fangming who wants to cut off the Qin army's retreat but fails.

Was ambushed by the Qin army, if you find out

In the next few days, the Wei army and the Qin army in Pinyang area were fighting, and it was concluded that the Qin army most likely wanted to attack Pinyang. At this time, King Huan was asked to lead his army to support Pinyang. As for General Le Yi, he led the army to support Pinyang.

The army attacked the Qin camp and took advantage of the situation to capture Chongquan."

Looking at the veteran with white hair and beard in front of him, even though he is proud of Le Yi, he can't help but feel a little emotional. He feels that this general in front of him, if he were ten years younger, would definitely be able to personally command this war without

Just like now, just leaving the city to spy on the Qin army's camp made the old general's face full of tiredness.

"...After returning to the city, I will call Ji Yan and Le Kui to lead the cavalry of our Hexi Army to help you. I hope that General Le will not betray your majesty's trust in you." Sima An said seriously.

"As you command!"

Le Yi responded with cupped fists.

He didn't say anything like "General Sima" because in his opinion, this would be a bit like "getting a bargain and being a good boy". After all, Sima An didn't hand over the Hexi Cavalry to him because he was not close to him.

Again, if Sima An were ten years younger, he would definitely only let Le Yi be responsible for the defense of a certain city, instead of entrusting the entire overall situation to Le Yi.

Proud people like them believe in themselves more than in their allies.

Therefore, Le Yi only said, "I will definitely live up to your Majesty's trust," and Sima An nodded with satisfaction.

After returning to Linwei City, Sima An immediately summoned General Ji Yan and Le Qu, asking the latter to assist Le Yi.

Le Yi, named Ji Yan, and Le Kui, two generals, sent cavalry to monitor every move of the Qin army's camp day and night.

At the same time, in Pinyang City, the guards Bai Fangming and Pang Meng were arguing over who should attack the Qin army's retreat.

As Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi judged, due to Sima An's character, the soldiers of the Hexi Army were more inclined to take the initiative. Since learning that Chongquan County had abandoned its defense two days ago, Bai Fangming has been waiting for the Qin Army

Next action: Should the Qin army attack Pinyang or Linwei?

If he attacked Pinyang, he would hold on to the city. Anyway, at that time, Huan Wang Zhao Xuan's 670,000 Northern Army was stationed south of Liangshan. It was absolutely impossible for the Qin army to capture Pinyang in a short time.

If the Qin army attacks Linwei, then he also wants to try to see if he can cut off the Qin army's food route.

After all, the Qin army has always been short of food. If he succeeded in intercepting a batch of grain and grass from the Qin army, it would be like cutting the flesh of the Qin people with a knife. If he intercepted it a few more times, the Qin army in Hexi might collapse early due to lack of food.

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Therefore, although the risk of cutting off grain is high, the reward is also great, especially for an enemy like the Qin Army who is short of food on a daily basis.

Two days later, Bai Fangming learned of the Qin army's decision. He learned that the Qin army had sent its troops to Lin Wei and built a camp about forty miles west of Lin Wei City.

When the scout cavalry sent out found out that more than 100,000 or 200,000 Qin troops were rushing towards Linwei, leaving Chongquan County without much defensive force, Bai Fangming was overjoyed and thought the opportunity had come, so he and his deputy Pang Meng decided to

A sneak attack on Chongquan cut off the Qin army's food route.

However, although Pang Meng supported his decision, he asked him to lead the troops, which made Bai Fangming quite worried.

You must know that although Pang Meng is a fierce general in his Hexi Army, even Bai Fangming is not his opponent in terms of personal martial arts. But unfortunately, Pang Meng is more brave and less strategic, and is far inferior to him in terms of handling situations.

Yes, in fact, Bai Fangming also considered the risk of a sneak attack. He even thought about whether the Qin army attacked Wei without taking his pinyang, whether this was a trick to earn him money for sending troops for a sneak attack, but considering that if he could re-attack,

Retaking Chongquan County would give his Wei army a huge advantage, so Bai Fangming decided to take risks.
To be continued...