In the tent, Guo Zhongxun put the letter on the desk and said: "Hangzhou was lost, but fortunately the Taifu escaped.
Now the Taifu has retreated to Anjizhou.
He just sent an order to the general, asking the general to retreat for ten days.
Recover the city of Hangzhou within a day, otherwise he will be impeached for his poor decision-making, which is the main culprit for the loss of Hangzhou city."
When Han Shizhong heard this, he immediately cried out for Guo Zhongxun and said: "The city of Hangzhou was not lost in the hands of the general, let alone the Taifu who sent the general out of the city to suppress the bandits.
How can the general be blamed for the loss of the city?"
Guo Zhongxun shouted: "Okay, there is no need to say such things.
I summoned you here to ask you, how do you think we can regain Hangzhou City?"
When Han Shizhong heard this, he frowned and said: "General, now our army knows nothing about the group of bandits who captured Hangzhou City.
It is too dangerous to attack rashly like this.
The general believes that the top priority is to find out the identity of these bandits as soon as possible.
Who, how many soldiers and horses are there?
What is the connection with the gang of thieves who stole the rice and robbed the squires?
There is a saying in the art of war: Only when you know yourself and the enemy can you win a hundred battles."
Guo Zhongxun sighed and said: "I know it too, but the Tutor gave us ten days, and we must recover Hangzhou City within ten days."
"General, the city of Hangzhou has high walls and thick walls.
If there are a lot of bandits, it will be too difficult to capture Hangzhou in just ten days," Han Shizhong shouted.
Seeing that Han Shizhong couldn't think of a way, Guo Zhongxun had no choice but to say.
"It seems that for the present plan, we can only head towards Hangzhou City while sending people to inquire about the news about Hangzhou City."
Han Shizhong pondered for a moment and said: "General, judging from the series of actions in this short period of time, those bandits are not ordinary bandits.
There must be scheming people among them.
General Chen Song was ambushed by the bandits.
This led to a great defeat.
There was a place that I needed to pass on my way to Hangzhou.
There are reeds on both sides where we can hide people.
If our army rushes in lightly and the bandits suddenly attack after our army is halfway through, our army will suffer heavy losses.
In the opinion of the general, it is better to divide the army into three.
The general will lead two thousand troops as the front army to survey along the road to ensure that the army can pass safely."
Guo Zhongxun nodded and said: "This is a very good plan, just follow your words."
After spending a night repairing in Huangjiacun, Guo Zhongxun divided the army into three teams.
Han Shizhong led 2,000 soldiers and horses as the front army, while Guo Zhongxun led 5,000 soldiers and horses as the center army, and appointed another deputy general, Cao Bin, to lead 3,000 soldiers as the rear army.
The three armies were five miles apart and echoed from the front and back.
There is a stone bridge forty miles away from Hangzhou City.
This is the only way from Haiyan to Hangzhou City.
Both sides of the stone bridge are covered with dense reeds.
It is not difficult to hide a thousand or two thousand people.
When Han Shizhong passed by, he asked his five hundred men to carefully check the reeds on both sides of the road.
After confirming that there was no ambush, Han Shizhong sent one of his men to report to General Guo Zhongxun, and he continued to lead his men forward.
When Guo Zhongxun heard that there was no ambush, he immediately moved forward with peace of mind.
Han Shizhong was a little surprised when he safely passed the important defensive point of Stone Bridge.
Why didn't these thieves send anyone to stop them?
If he sent thousands of people to stop him on the other side of the stone bridge, even if he could defeat the enemy, he would still have to pay a lot of casualties.
Han Shizhong thought to himself: Could it be that I overestimated these thieves?
Just as Han Shizhong was watching, suddenly the spy who was scouting the road in front ran back and shouted: "General, there are bandits stationed three miles ahead."
When Han Shizhong heard this, he immediately shouted: "How many thieves are there?"
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In addition to inquiring about information and surveying the terrain, spies in the army must also know some military skills and be able to roughly estimate the number of enemy troops they see.
Otherwise, what are the spies doing?
The Song Army spy quickly replied: "Go back to the general, there are about 5,000 thieves there."
Han Shizhong felt a little weird when he heard it.
Why is it that no one is stopping me on the other side of Shiqiao, but I am sending someone to stop me here?
He asked cautiously: "Can you carefully check the terrain around the thief to see if there are any ambushes or anything unusual?"
The spy shook his head and said: "I have carefully observed that there is a flat land nearby, and there are fields all around.
What's more, the rice has been harvested, there is no place to hide people, and there is nothing unusual."
Han Shizhong became even more confused when he heard this.
Han Shizhong is actually familiar with the terrain around Hangzhou City.
The places the spies mentioned were flat and wide, with no place to hide people.
I would ask the spies just to make sure.
What on earth do these bandits want to do?
Are these bandits so arrogant that they think they can defeat my 10,000 soldiers with just 5,000 men?
Han Shizhong couldn't think of the reason, so he could only turn around and shout: "Envoy Zhao, you can send someone to inform the general.
Ask him to lead the army to join our army and attack the bandits together."
"I have the order," the envoy of Zhao Jun shouted hurriedly.
Guo Zhongxun was also very surprised when he received the news from Han Shizhong's people.
He was also puzzled as to why these thieves did not stop him on the other side of the stone bridge, but wanted to stop him in front.
Although he was confused, Guo Zhongxun still led his troops to join Han Shizhong, and even asked Cao Bin to step up his march and join him himself.
Although the opponent only had about five thousand soldiers and horses, Guo Zhongxun still felt that it was better to be cautious.
He planned to bully the minority, defeat the opponent, and capture a few tongues alive, so that he could find out who these thieves were.
Soon, the three armies reunited.
Guo Zhongxun was very careful.
Ten thousand Song soldiers formed a formation and slowly advanced towards the bandits.
The closer he got, the weirder Guo Zhongxun felt.
This group of thieves seemed to have no regard for their 10,000 officers and soldiers.
No harassment, no testing, just stood there quietly waiting.
Moving slowly, Guo Zhongxun led the Song army to march more than 300 steps away from the bandits.
When he was about to ask Han Shizhong to come forward and shout.
Suddenly, the five thousand thieves in front of them suddenly shouted in panic, then turned around and ran away with a crash.
Guo Zhongxun was stunned when he saw the scene in front of him.
What's going on?
Are they scared when they see there are so many of us?
Is this still a deception, trying to lure our army into an ambush?
But you didn't even fight, you just ran away.
It really makes people wary Guo Zhongxun frowned and shouted: "Han Wulang, please lead your men to test and see what the bandits' intentions are."
Han Shizhong hurriedly shouted: "I have the order"
Han Shizhong just wanted to order his men to catch up.
Suddenly he heard a loud rumbling sound, and then his eyes darkened: