Even he himself led a thousand cavalry to assess the general situation of this place.

And the next day, when Li Mu personally led his army on patrol, he encountered an army slowly coming from the northwest. When he saw the flag, he was shocked to see that it was the Wei Wu Army of the Wei State.

Looking at the general's flag again, Li Mu just learned that the leading general of this Wei army was Wei's general "Shao Hu".

"Hey, hey, hey..."

Even Li Mu, the guard of Yanmen, was a little dazed at this moment: the reaction of the Wei army could not be described as speed. It was simply that they had anticipated the enemy beforehand, had a clear understanding of the fire, and had prepared everything well in advance.

So much so that their side, which was the first to take action, had not yet set up camp on the west bank of the Xihe River and established a foothold, but the Wei army had arrived at the river bank.

"Report! There are traces of enemy troops ahead. They should be cavalry from Yanmen County, South Korea. There are about a thousand people in number."

The sentry cavalry of Wei Wujun also hurriedly reported the traces of the cavalry led by Li Mu to General Shao Hu.

After hearing this, Wei General Shao Hu ordered the entire army to rest where they were, while he went out to watch Li Mu's thousand cavalry.

After excluding the soldiers stationed in the Hetao area, the troops brought by Shaohu this time were not many, about 20,000, but even with more than 20,000, he did not need to worry about the thousands of Yanmen cavalry on the opposite side.

——Although Wei Wujun is mainly infantry, and it is really annoying to encounter light cavalry who adopt harassment tactics, but if Wei Jun has been more vigilant, the losses will not be much.

After all, there are only a thousand cavalry.

The reason why he went out to watch was because he found that the Korean light cavalry did not harass them, but was sitting in the distance. If nothing else happened, it might be the Korean general who commanded this cavalry, who was watching.

They are Wei Wujun.

"...This is probably the cavalry who came out to perform inspection missions."

Muttering secretly, Shaohu also looked at the cavalry on the opposite side from a distance. Seeing that the other side's armors were fully equipped, the queues were neat and no one was making any noise, he secretly praised in his heart: What a well-trained cavalry!

On the opposite side, Han general Li Mu also looked at the Wei Wu army attentively. Seeing that nearly half of the Wei army were heavy infantrymen holding shields, he couldn't help but frown.

Although the cavalry restrains the infantry, this depends on the specific situation. Although the Yanmen cavalry wears breastplates, they are essentially light cavalry. When encountering Wei's heavy infantry, they may not necessarily have the upper hand, especially when the Wei

When the country's heavy infantry is gathering and setting up a tight defensive formation, if the cavalry dares to charge into the formation at this time, let alone the light cavalry, even the heavy cavalry will suffer heavy casualties.

"...the Hedong Army in Beiqu, the Northern First Army in Pingyang, and the Wei Wu Army here. The reaction speed of these Wei troops is simply incredible."

Li Mu couldn't help frowning. At this time, he couldn't help but have a bad guess: South Korea's blatant declaration of war on the Wei State might have been designed. Otherwise, how could the Wei State have defenses everywhere?

The speed of this support was simply faster than their attacking side.

After looking deeply at the Wei army in the distance for a long time, Yanmen guard Li Mu waved his hand and retreated with his cavalry.

Seeing this, Wei General Shaohu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It's not that he is afraid of the thousands of cavalry in front of him, the problem is that if the other side keeps harassing them, the two legs of Wei Wujun cannot outrun the four legs of the opposite cavalry, and they will only be beaten in vain, although the casualties may not be huge.

, but if you ask the other side to shoot some of your own soldiers in vain, this will hurt morale after all.

Shao Hu was also a little surprised by this: the general of this thousand-man Korean cavalry was very decisive, and it seemed that he was not an ordinary person.

Also, if he were an ordinary general, since Wei Wujun could not catch up with him anyway, he would probably harass these Wei soldiers, but Li Mu did not, because in his opinion, it did not make much sense.

Therefore, he decisively ordered an evacuation and took his cavalry back to the "que place", where his infantry were still building forts.

Returning to the unfinished camp, Li Mu summoned his deputy Yan Feng to the temporary commander's tent and said to him: "I just ran into a Wei army about thirty miles northwest of here."

"Which Wei army?" Lieutenant General Yan Feng asked curiously.

"It's Shaohu's Wei Wujun, estimated to be about 20,000 people." Li Mu said in a deep voice.

Li Mu still knew something about Wei General Shaohu and the Wei Wujun under his command. After all, during the "Third Northern Battle", Wei General Shaohu was the commander-in-chief of the Wei army. At that time, even Wei Gongzi Run was the commander-in-chief of the Wei army.

Served as Shao Hu's deputy general.

Even later in the "Battle of Wu'an", Wei Wujun was one of the main forces of the Wei army, so Li Mu had a general understanding of the strength of this Wei army.

"As far as I know, Shaohu's Wei Wujun is stationed in Hetao. Why is it here in Shangjun?" Lieutenant General Yan Fengyi said with a frown.

You know, the west of the Xihe River is Shangjun, which is at least eight or nine hundred miles away from the Hetao where Wei Wujun is stationed. It is hard to imagine that the Wei Wujun would arrive on the west bank of the Xihe River at this time, and they happened to intercept the Yanmen Army on the river bank.

Build forts in the area.

"I also think Wei Jun's reaction was a bit too quick..."

Li Mu frowned and said.

However, it was useless to think about it at this time. He calmed down and weighed between the two ideas of "advancing troops to defeat Shaohu" and "retreating to the east bank of the Xihe River".

After a long time, he said in a deep voice: "Yan Feng, please pass on the order. This fortress no longer needs to be built. Ask people to strengthen the defense on the east bank of the (river)..."

"General?" Yan Feng looked surprised when he heard this.

You must know that their strategy for sending troops this time is to sneak attack Hedong County and take the lead in opening up the situation. However, in the past few days, Li Mu's garrison did not move in Lishi. In fact, the fighter plane has been delayed for several days. But now, Li Mu actually wants to attack Dongdong County.

They set up defenses on the shore and took a defensive stance. This was completely opposite to their original strategy. No wonder Yan Feng was surprised.

Seeing this, Li Mu said in a deep voice: "There is something wrong with Wei's reaction. It is too alert, as if it is expected that our army will send troops at this time... If the Wei army here really gets some news, then in a few days It is definitely not only Wei Wujun who will arrive on the west bank within the next day. Sima An from Hexi and even Wei Ji from Hedong are likely to lead their troops to arrive." Having said this, he frowned and thought for a moment, and then said: " I even began to suspect that Wei Gongzi Run led the Yanling Army and the Shangshui Army to the Song Dynasty, maybe to lure Han Dynasty to use troops against Wei State..."

Having said this, he touched his chin with his right hand and pondered for a moment, nodded slowly and said: "Yes, only in this way can we explain why the Wei army reacted so quickly, because it was Wei Gongzi Run who triggered this war, so the Wei army must have been there for a long time." Be on guard.”

After hearing this, Yan Feng asked in confusion: "What are the benefits of Wei Gongzi Run doing this?"

Li Mu took a long breath and said in a deep voice: "In order to sneak attack on our country, Han... Think about it, if our army from Hanoi attacks Wei, they will only go to Hanoi from Handan. Once a war breaks out in Hanoi, it will be difficult for us to take care of it." After learning about the whereabouts of Wei Gongzi Run, he led the Yanling Army and the Shangshui Army to the north, crossed the river, and directly invaded the hinterland of our country..."

Listening to Li Mu's analysis, Yan Feng became more and more frightened. In his opinion, if the facts were as predicted by his general, then if Wei Gongzi Run led his army to attack the hinterland of his country in Korea, this move would be really serious. It's too deadly.

Thinking of this, Yan Feng said urgently: "General, we must be on guard against this matter. We need to send someone to warn Handan as soon as possible."

"Hmm."

Li Mu nodded solemnly.

On that day, Li Mu wrote down his speculations in his own handwriting, and ordered his confidants to travel to Handan day and night, and deliver them to Han Wu, the Marquis of Li.

At the same time, he ordered about 70% of his troops to withdraw to the east bank of the West River and build defensive facilities on the east bank. Only a few infantry were left to continue building forts in the area, and a few cavalry were still active in the west bank area - after all, he had no idea about his own speculation. , and he was not very sure.

But on July 18, when the Wei State's Hedong Guard, Lintao Lord Wei Ji, and Hexi Guard Sima An successively led their armies to the west bank of the Xihe River, Li Mu was finally convinced of his judgment.

Unfortunately, he guessed that in this battle, South Korea was not the active party at all. In fact, Wei State was the active party. Therefore, a sneak attack on Wei State's Hedong County was just a dream.

At this time, he was very lucky. Fortunately, he felt that something was wrong with this battle a while ago, so he deliberately delayed in Lishi for a few days and did not borrow the road directly from Hexi County to attack Hedong County. Otherwise, the Wei army would be in Hedong at this time. Blocked, and Wei general Shao Hu cut off the retreat on the Xihe River. Li Mu and his 40,000 cavalry were all buried in Hedong County.

On the same day, after learning that Wei Ji's Hedong Army and Sima An's Hexi Army had both arrived on the west bank, Li Mu also led hundreds of light cavalry out of the "Que Di Han Camp" and peeked at the three Wei armies, Wei Wu Army, Hexi Army, and Hedong Army from a distance. , secretly estimating the outcome of a confrontation between the two sides.

In his estimation, the three Wei armies, namely the Wei Wu Army, the Hexi Army, and the Hedong Army, together numbered nearly 100,000, and his army under Li Mu also numbered about 100,000. Therefore, the two sides were even in terms of numbers, and in In terms of the number of cavalry, the Korean side surpassed the Wei side, being about two to three times the number of Wei cavalry.

Therefore, Li Mu did not panic: since the sneak attack failed, let's fight honestly. Although the three Wei generals Shaohu, Wei Ji, and Sima An were indeed difficult to deal with, Li Mu was not in vain.

You can't defeat the opponent if you see him.

However, before this idea lasted for two days, Li Mu was stunned to learn that a Qin army also slowly arrived in Xihe. He saw this Qin army looking like a giant snake on the horizon, with only the head of the snake visible.

, the snake's tail is not visible.

Seeing this, Li Mu gasped and immediately ordered the woods on the west bank of the Xihe River to be burned down. He also burned his "Que Di Military Camp" and withdrew all his troops to the east bank of the Xihe River.

For the next two days, Li Mu stood on the east bank and peered at the Qin and Wei allied forces on the other side of the river. When he saw that the Qin and Wei allied forces on the other side of the river were so numerous that they could hardly stand, even Li Mu felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Emotions - Who the hell is hitting whom?

A few days later, the Qin and Wei coalition forces roughly built several forts on the west bank of the Xihe River - maybe seven, maybe eight. Anyway, these forts were so close together that it was difficult for Li Mu to judge.

But at this time, he could roughly guess the total strength of the Qin and Wei coalition forces.

Three hundred thousand!

It is three times the total force under his command!

In this situation, Li Mu felt a headache. He originally wanted to attack Wei's Hedong County, but he didn't expect that he was actually the one who should defend!

"..."
Chapter completed!