Outside Yanmen Pass, Xu Da's temporary camp.
At this moment, Xu Da was solemnly looking at the military map.
"Tell me, where is Blue Jade's army now?”
After looking at the map for a long time, Xu Da asked the personal guard beside him.
"Reporting to Great General, General Blue Jade's vanguard army is already approaching Lin.”
"General Lan Yu replied that the vanguard army is less than fifty miles away from the expansion headquarters.”
Xu Da didn't show the slightest joy when he heard this. Instead, a 'Chuan' word formed between his brows.
"We can't continue chasing. Kuo Kuo must have set up a large number of ambushes near Lin.”
"Lan Yu only has 10,000 elite cavalry. Once they are surrounded by the Yuan army, the consequences will be unimaginable.”
"Order the scouts to immediately send a message to Blue Jade and stop her advance!”
"Yes, sir!"
Not long after Xu Da gave the order, a group of scouts quickly left the camp.
What Xu Da didn't notice was that there was an unexpected figure in this group of scouts. It was the King of Yan, Zhu Di!
As a hundred-household of the scout camp, Zhu Di actually didn't need to personally go out of the camp to deliver messages. What he did every day was to pass on the scouting information sent by the scout camp to Xu Da in a timely manner.
However, it was obvious that Zhu Di was not satisfied with the current situation.
He watched his scouts go in and out of the city every day, and they often had to fight with the Yuan people's cavalry.
Zhu Di's blood was boiling.
He had applied to Xu Da more than once to personally lead a team to investigate, but he had been rejected by Xu Da every time.
This time, he couldn't take it anymore. He secretly changed into a scout's uniform and secretly brought his men out of the camp to deliver the message.
Xu Da did not expect Zhu Di to be so bold.
He actually dared to leave the camp without his permission.
At this moment, Xu Da was having a headache over another piece of news.
Just now, Xu Da received news.
Li Wenzhong of the east army led fifty thousand elite cavalry and advanced all the way to the Luqu River. They then attacked the reinforcements led by Kuihalazhang near the Tula River.
After that, Li Wenzhong led his army to Chenghai on the bank of the Laluhun River.
At this moment, hundreds of thousands of Northern Yuan troops suddenly appeared around Li Wenzhong's army, surrounding his 50,000-strong army.
This was a classic trick to lure the enemy in.
Xu Da didn't need to think to know that this was definitely the work of Kuokuo Timur.
This was because Blue Jade was facing the same tactic.
The only difference was that on Blue Jade's side, it was Expanse Cosmos who personally went to lure him.
As for Li Wenzhong, he was most likely careless.
Now, Li Wenzhong's 50,000 elite cavalry were trapped by the Northern Yuan army.
He could only face two choices. One was to break out by force.
The other was to wait for reinforcements.
Li Wenzhong did not dare to make a rash decision. He could only send someone to pass the news to Xu Da and let him make the decision.
Facing this sudden situation, Xu Da also had a headache.
He didn't expect Li Wenzhong to be so careless.
He had caused the Northern Expedition Army to fall into such a predicament.
As the commander of the Northern Expedition Army, Xu Da naturally couldn't leave Li Wenzhong's 50,000 strong army alone.
It was just that even if he wanted to send troops to rescue, he had to wait until Blue Jade's vanguard army withdrew first.
After all, Li Wenzhong was trapped by hundreds of thousands of Northern Yuan troops.
If they only sent 10,000 to 20,000 people, it would be like drinking poison to quench their thirst.
Xu Da couldn't just leave Blue Jade's 10,000 men to the side.
Therefore, Xu Da ordered Li Wenzhong to defend and bring reinforcements.
He was prepared to wait for Blue Jade's men to retreat before rushing over to rescue Li Wenzhong.
Just as Xu Da was worried, his personal guard came to report that the supplies from the supply camp had arrived. Thousand Households Zhu the Fifth requested to meet him.
Xu Da frowned. At this juncture, Xu Da really wasn't in the mood to take Zhu Rong seriously.
However, Zhu Xi was a prince and his future son-in-law, so he could only arrange for Zhu Xi to meet him.
Soon, Zhu Rong arrived in front of Xu Da under the lead of his personal guards.
"Greetings, General!"
Zhu Rong bowed respectfully.
Xu Da glanced at Zhu Rong and frowned."
"Why aren't you busy with your logistics camp? What are you trying to do now?”
"If there's nothing important, then go do your own thing. I really don't have the mood to talk to you about unimportant things now.”
Zhu Rong looked at Xu Da's gloomy face and immediately had a bad feeling. He hurriedly asked,
"Great General, did something happen? Was our vanguard ambushed by the expanding troops?”
Xu Da was stunned when he heard that.
"How do you know that our vanguard army might be ambushed?”
Zhu Rong said in a low voice,"
"Isn't it obvious?"
"Ever since Lan Yu led the vanguard army out of the fortress, he won every battle. Even Kuo Kuo was defeated by him.”
"Great General, don't you think that everything is going too smoothly?”
"I don't know about others, but I've heard my Imperial Father mention it before.”
"Back then, when his name shook the world, other than the Great General and the late Uncle Chang, no one could compete with him.”
"Although Lan Yu is Uncle Chang's brother-in-law and has been in the army for many years, he is still young. Perhaps in the future, he can grow into a general who is not weaker than Kuo Kuo, but now is not the time!”
"If the current Lan Yu can defeat Kuo Kuo, then Kuo Kuo is not worthy of my Imperial Father's admiration.”
"I don't think that a person who is valued by my Imperial Father would be so unbearable.”
"So, I guess there must be a backup plan for the expansion!”
"Great General, even I, a little brat, can see this. I don't believe that you can't see it.”
"But why did you still let Blue Jade underestimate the enemy and advance rashly?”
"Great General, please give me a reasonable explanation!”
Truthfully speaking, Zhu Rong's words surprised Xu Da.
He didn't expect Zhu Rong to see things so clearly at such a young age.
He sighed in his heart. He had underestimated this brat.
Thinking of this, Xu Da narrowed his eyes and asked indifferently,
"Why do I need to explain my actions to you?”
"Moreover, you're wrong. It's not Blue Jade's vanguard that's in trouble, it's Li Wenzhong from the east.”
"So little brat, with your current abilities, you don't have the qualifications to ask me to give you an explanation.”
Zhu Rong was stunned."
"Not Lan Yu?"
Xu Da said with certainty,
"It's not Blue Jade."
As he spoke, he threw the urgent report in his hand to Zhu Xiong.
"Take a look for yourself."
Zhu Xiong quickly took the report and read it carefully.
"What is it? Li Wenzhong's east troops were surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Northern Yuan cavalry?”
Zhu Rong's expression was a little ugly."
"What is this Li Wenzhong doing? Such an obvious plan to lure the enemy in, but he actually didn't notice it?”
Xu Da sighed lightly when he heard this.
"After winning too many battles, his heart has risen and he no longer regards the Yuan people as his opponent. Li Wenzhong has forgotten that the grasslands are the home ground of the Yuan people!”
Zhu Rong looked at Xu Da and frowned."
"What do we do now? This was obviously the time to expand the territory to surround Wei and save Zhao.”
"We've been led by the nose.”
"If we don't save them, Kuo Kuo will use all his strength to devour Li Wenzhong's east troops.”
"But if we do, we have to temporarily give up on attacking Lin.”
"What a good idea to expand the borders. He lured the enemy deep in and surrounded Wei to save Zhao. He has learned our Han family's military strategy thoroughly.”
Xu Da said helplessly,
"What else can we do? Wasn't war like this? No matter how good a plan was, it wouldn't change much.”
"The east army must not lose anything. That is fifty thousand elite cavalry, a third of our Great Ming's cavalry strength.”
"As for Lin and Lin, we'll take it one step at a time!”
Zhu Rong sighed. This was the only way in the current situation.
Just at this moment, a fast horse quickly entered the camp. Before he arrived, a voice was heard,
"Report! Great General, our vanguard army has been ambushed by the Yuan army. General Lan Yu has sent his subordinates to seek help!”
Xu Da and Zhu Rong were both shocked.
"What is it? Didn't I order Blue Jade to retreat? Why was he ambushed?"
The scout smiled bitterly."
"When we received the news, General Blue Jade led his men to attack Lin and captured Northern Yuan Royal Palace.”
"I just didn't expect that the entire Lin City was a trap set by the Yuan people. We fell for it.”
Xu Da was stunned for a moment, then he said furiously,
"Who allowed him to ambush Lin! Did he really think that Kuo Kuo was so easy to deal with?”
Faced with Xu Da's fury, the scout did not dare to speak at all.
Seeing this, Zhu Rong hurriedly said,"
"Great General, it's useless to be angry now. The key now is how to break the situation.”
Xu Da's expression was extremely ugly.
"How do we break this situation? The expansion of the territory now gives us two choices, to protect the big or to protect the small!”
"If we save Li Wenzhong, we have to give up on Blue Jade.”
"Rescuing Blue Jade means that Li Wenzhong's army is basically finished!”
"Damn it, I finally understand what it means to be arrogant and fall!”
At this moment, the scout said weakly again,
"Great General, there's something else that General Lan Yu asked me to tell you. His Highness the King of Yan is also in Lin.”
" What did you say?!"
This time, not only was Xu Da shocked.
Zhu Rong's entire body swayed.
Ling, how could he be in Lin?
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