On the official road leading to Fankou in Wuchang, a cavalry was rushing to the east. At the same time, a fleet on the river was flowing downstream and heading straight towards Huangzhou, the base camp of the Left Army.

Li Guodong received news from spies that the Zuo Army was divided into three groups and was plundering in the east of Wuchang City. However, the Zuo Family Army had not yet successfully plundered, and three military household stations resisted stubbornly, blocking the Zuo Army. The Zuo Army had been attacking for an hour, and even a military household station could not be captured.

In addition, based on reliable information, Li Guodong also received a news: the Left Army, led by Zhang Yingyuan, had a total of 50,000 troops, bypassing Liangzihu to the south, attempting to wait for Li Guodong's troops in Wuchang to be transferred out of the city to rescue three military households, and took the opportunity to attack Wuchang and seize Wuchang, an important Yangtze River town. There was also the Left Army, a 100,000 army led by Xu Yong, setting up an ambush in the Heye Mountain area, waiting to intercept himself halfway.

After obtaining this series of news, Li Guodong sneered: "There are many generals and many generals, which is really useful! He can arrange three feint attacks, and can steal the city all the way, and then set up an ambush! The left thief really regards himself as Lu Meng? Do I think of me, Li as Guan Yu?"

"Brother is right, the left thief's plan is indeed a bit like Lu Meng and Lu Xun's sneak attack on Jingzhou," Han Dashan said.

Li Guodong laughed: "But this left thief treats himself as both Cao Ren and Lu Meng! He plays the roles of both Cao and Wu families alone!"

"One left thief is both Cao Ren and Lu Meng. It's easy to use if there are so many soldiers and generals." Zhang Wei said.

Li Guodong said: "In fact, the force of the left thief is far greater than the sum of the two forces of Cao Ren and Lu Meng back then! In the battle of Xiangfan in Guan Yu, Cao Wei was only 50,000, Lu Meng was 30,000, and the two armies were only 80,000. Now the left thief has an army of 300,000. The left thief has implemented this plan well, but unfortunately he forgot a little. Our army is well aware of the changes in military situations, and the movements of the left thief cannot be hidden from us."

Li Guodong's Jinyang Army and Huai Army were spies everywhere, and they were scattered everywhere without taking them at night, not to mention the agents of the personal guards everywhere. It is no exaggeration to say that Li Guodong's current secret service system is no less than the Jinyiwei and East China Factory in the early Ming Dynasty and the middle Ming Dynasty. The number of agents of his personal guards reached 50,000, which is more than the number of soldiers of the Jinyang Army.

However, not all of the more than 50,000 intelligence personnel were professionally trained spies. Many of them were just peripheral personnel of the intelligence system, that is, those who temporarily hired to do business, and did not belong to Li Guodong's military system.

With such a complex intelligence system, all kinds of conspiracies are filled with clouds in front of Li Guodong's eyes and ears everywhere.

In response to Zuo Liangyu's tactics, Li Guodong rescued the military households in three places with cavalry, and then joined forces with infantry and navy to Huangzhou, Zuo Liangyu's nest. Moreover, he not only had to capture Zuo Liangyu's nest, but also set up an ambush on Zuo Liangyu's retreat, causing Zuo Liangyu to bleed heavily this time.

"Lord, Heye Mountain is coming soon." said a military advisor who was familiar with the terrain.

Li Guodong nodded. In fact, he himself was very familiar with the terrain, because every time he arrived, he would ask someone to re-survey the terrain, draw large military maps, and even make sand tables. Since he came to Wuchang in May, the Jinyang army has occupied Wuchang for three months, and he naturally knows the surrounding terrain.

"Tell me the order, the team will suspend progress!" Li Guodong issued the order.

The team stopped moving forward, and Li Guodong summoned several cavalry generals including Han Dashan and Zhang Wei who came out with him. Everyone sat on the ground. Li Guodong asked a personal soldier carrying the map to take out the map from the bamboo tube.

"The left thief attempted to ambush our army in Heye Mountain. Now we have two roads to choose. The first is to go around the small road, but walking on the small road is more likely to be ambushed, and it is not conducive to the development of our cavalry. If the enemy situation changes, it will be difficult to deal with; the second road is to fight. As for how to fight, we must not rush over directly. We need to send people to set fire behind the enemy, so that the enemy will be confused first, and we will pass through the valley." Li Guodong spread out the map and gestured on the map.

If Li Guodong's three thousand heavy cavalry, three thousand light cavalry and four thousand dragon cavalry, and a total of ten thousand cavalry, would have no problem destroying the Zuo family army's 100,000 people. But now, the Zuo family army is ambushing the mountain with terrain advantages. If 10,000 people fight 100,000, it would probably not be easy to deal with. Even if it is killed, it will take a lot of time.

Li Guodong was going to save people. There were only a few hundred people in each of the three surrounded military households, and they were under attack from tens of thousands of Zuo family troops. How long can those brothers last?

"Zhang Wei, take a team of light cavalry, detour from behind, to the northwest direction of the ambush of the bandits, get down the mountain and set fire!" Li Guodong gave an order to Zhang Wei.

"No!" Zhang Wei retreated.

"He Xing, take your firearms and cavalry, detour from the south, dismount to fight. When you see the formation of the thief army, immediately shoot with a platoon!"

"promise!"

Finally, Li Guodong said to Han Dashan: "Let's pass through the valley together, slow down and pass slowly. As long as the thief army gets angry, the formation will inevitably be in chaos. At that time, you will be dismounted, clear the tripping rope and the trap, and we will rush over again."

On Heye Mountain, in the grass and in the woods, there were densely ambushed the 100,000 troops of the Zuo Family Army. At the foot of the mountain is an official road passing through the valley. The north side of the valley is a hillside and the south side is a lake. Such a terrain is conducive to infantry combat. Zuo Liangyu asked Xu Yong to ambush here. As long as Li Guodong was trapped and passed through the valley, even if he could not annihilate the Jinyang cavalry, he could still severely damage Li Guodong.

"Come in quickly!" Seeing the cavalry coming from the front slowed down, Xu Yong was so anxious that his heart almost jumped out of his throat.

However, the cavalry in front was not only very slow, but also sent a Yebusuo team to rush out and rushed into the valley quickly. When Yebusuo rushed into the valley, some people dismounted, took down their bows and arrows from their backs, and shot a few arrows at the hillside.

"Fortunately, the ambush position we were more than fifty steps away from the official road. Otherwise, Li Zhe would shoot arrows by a few dogs, and we could shoot our people out." Xu Yong said in his heart.

There were three general cannons on the hillside, all of which had been loaded with ammunition. The gunners had a fire pot around their necks, and the fuse had not yet been lit. Xu Yong said to the gunners easily: "Don't act rashly, wait for the guy in purple-gold armor to enter the valley and aim at him to set off fire! You must aim!"

However, the Zuo family army waited for a long time, but they did not see Li Guodong riding a red horse and wearing purple gold armor entering the valley.
Chapter completed!