From a son-in-law to a favorite of the empress

Chapter 290

North of Tianjin, in Yunshan Town, two thousand people have already set up their tents.

Zhou Yuan arrived yesterday. The military exercise officially begins at noon on the ninth day of the second lunar month, which is about an hour later.

There are officers from the Internal Court and the Embroidered Uniform Guard in the army to ensure that the army does not move before the start and try to be fair.

Zhou Yuan kept drawing various route maps on a piece of white paper, concentrating and focusing.

Finally, he let out a long sigh and sighed: "It's really hard to learn. Although the scale is dozens of times smaller, it's still hard to learn!"

Li He looked at the strange map and route on the paper and frowned: "General, what are you drawing? It doesn't look like a map of Chaobai River!"

Zhou Yuan said: "This is the march route map of the Four Crossings of Chishui River."

Li He was stunned for a moment, and after careful recollection, he still couldn't remember it. He couldn't help asking: "Four Crossings of Chishui River? Which dynasty's battle?"

Zhou Yuan waved his hand and said: "It's hard to explain. You just need to know that this is a great battle personally led by a great strategist."

"I have been reviewing this battle these days, trying to comprehend the essence of mobile warfare, but it is really difficult to comprehend. After all, fighting is not just talk!"

Li He scratched his head, his face full of confusion.

A voice came from outside: "Grand Commander, the female guard of the inner court wants to see you."

"Finally here!"

Zhou Yuan hurriedly said: "Please come in!"

Zhuang Xuansu looked very unhappy, pouted and strode in, coldly put the iron box on the table, with a bang.

Li He was startled and took two steps back.

Zhou Yuan smiled and said, "Master Zhuang, you don't look very happy. What's wrong?"

Zhuang Xuansu said, "Zhou Yuan, you are shameless!"

Zhou Yuan waved his hand and said, "Master Zhuang, please don't get angry. If there is any misunderstanding, just say it directly. Why lose your temper?"

Zhuang Xuansu gritted his teeth and said, "Bullshit! The pigeons in my inner court are all specially raised by Xiaoying. They fly fast, know the way well, are highly domesticated, and even understand human nature. There are only 20 in total, and you asked for 12. It's a big mouth!"

Zhou Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "This is borrowing. I will return it to you after the military exercise is over."

Zhuang Xuansu said, "Shameless! I said I won't lend it, but you still went to my sister and made me get scolded!"

This sentence made Zhou Yuan a little embarrassed. There was no way. The most important thing in war is intelligence. In this era, pigeons are the fastest and most convenient. If you don't have them, you can only borrow them.

Who knew that Master Zhuang was so stingy that he was only willing to lend four pigeons. She could not convince him even after talking so hard, so she had to ask Master Xiaozhuang for mercy.

Who knew that Xiaozhuang directly scolded Master Zhuang!

Zhou Yuan whispered: "Master Zhuang is not angry, I will be responsible for you."

"Get out!"

Zhuang Xuansu almost kicked him in anger, rolled her eyes and said: "Don't use these glib words to deceive me, I didn't give birth to your children, you don't need to be responsible, but if you kill one of my pigeons for me, I will kill you!"

At the end, she glared at Zhou Yuan's crotch, made a scissors gesture, squinted and said: "Do you understand?"

Zhou Yuan said with sweat on his forehead: "I understand!"

Zhuang Xuansu snorted heavily, and then said: "Hey, Zhou Yuan, you have to win, why "I sent Qingying to Zhongyuan because I didn't know your big thing. "

"If you go back to Yunzhou, Qingying's trip would be in vain."

Zhou Yuan suddenly raised his head and said in surprise: "You are crazy! Zhongyuan is the territory of Wusheng Sect and bandits. It is too dangerous for her to go there!"

Zhuang Xuansu said: "What can we do? Our business is walking on the edge of a knife. Besides, since you want to suppress bandits, you must have intelligence foundation. You can't not go."

"Oh, I have intelligence!"

Zhou Yuan was anxious. Now no one knew that he and Wusheng Sect were wearing the same pants, so naturally they didn't know that he had intelligence support.

But the problem now is that Ye Qingying will definitely be targeted by Wusheng Sect if she goes there. If she is caught, with the means of Wusheng Sect... it's worse than death.

Damn, I must say hello to the Virgin Sister quickly, otherwise something will really happen.

"Hey, you don't have to look like that!"

Zhuang Xuansu frowned and said, "It's not me who insisted on sending her, she wanted to go."

Zhou Yuan took a deep breath and said, "I know, thank you for the pigeon, Master Zhuang. The military exercise is about to start, and I have to prepare for it."

Zhuang Xuansu turned around and left without saying a word.

The four deputy governors of Zhou Yuan and Guan Dayong entered the tent and sat around the table.

Zhou Yuan knocked on the box and said in a deep voice, "Twelve pigeons, there are six of us in total, two for each person, for communication."

"In order to prevent letter forgery, there must be three typos in each communication, no more and no less, understand?"

Everyone looked at each other.eyes, and said in unison: "Understood."

Guan Dayong smiled, he certainly didn't understand, but he had people who could read.

Zhou Yuan said: "Look at the sand table, this is the terrain of the north and south of the Chaobai River. If you were Qiu Huan, how would you fight this battle?"

Li He said in a deep voice: "He has sufficient troops, and he must have divided his troops into five groups, two groups on each side of the Chaobai River, all the way south, and the main force will come from the middle."

"This will form an encirclement, and we have no way to escape."

Xiang Yong nodded and said: "This is the safest way. After all, the opponent has too much advantage. There is no need to win by surprise. Steady and steady will win."

"Twenty thousand people, six thousand on each side of the Chaobai River, divided into two groups to advance forward and backward, with eight thousand main forces in the middle, directly pressing down . "

"Five armies will launch at the same time, link up with each other, and finally surround us and annihilate us."

Zhou Yuan smiled and said, "Yes, you at least know how to fight. In Qiu Huan's view, the advantage is huge. This kind of march will not leave any gaps for us to achieve encirclement in the end."

"So we have to fight a hard battle at the beginning. We must go north as quickly as possible, aim at the first batch of 3,000 troops on their right wing, and kill them by surprise."

"Our advantage is that they don't know how strong our soldiers are!"

This time, all the recruits participating in the battle are new recruits, that is, Shandong refugees who were naturally selected.

They are tall and strong. After nearly a month of training, they have already formed combat effectiveness. What's more, there are Dayong and other warriors. Under the condition of equal strength, Qiu Huan cannot be an opponent.

Liu Fang whispered: "Grand Commander, once the battle begins, the enemy's main force in the middle and the reinforcements in the rear will quickly surround us. What we should consider is how to escape after defeating the first 3,000-man army."

Zhou Yuan smiled, pointed to the large iron box in the tent, and said slowly: "Do you know what's in it?"

Everyone was puzzled.

Zhou Yuan smiled and said: "Four thousand taels of silver! This will be very useful!"

Everyone was still confused, but they had some confidence in their hearts, because they saw that the Grand Commander seemed to have a way to win.

If the two thousand soldiers of the Five Army Camp really defeated the 20,000-man army...

That would be a great revenge!

Thinking of this, everyone felt an indescribable excitement in their hearts, almost bursting out.

Accompanied by the sound of a bell