When Li Jing's imperial edict to allow the Wuchang Jiedushi Liu Renshan to send troops was still on the way, Liu Renshan had personally led 20,000 elite troops from both land and sea to the Chu-Tang border.

Without Wei San's special explanation of what Lin Feng said about precautions for concealing whereabouts, Liu Renshan, who had been in the army for a lifetime, would naturally act cautiously. He took Ma Xi'e's handwriting at night and shouted to open the checkpoint in the name of the three thousand Tang troops entering Chu to support him. He immediately controlled all the guards of the checkpoint until the entire army passed. After that, he rushed forward overnight, bypassed Yuezhou, hid in the day and went out at night, and rushed to the south. All the living people he met along the way were tied up and brought them to the army. Wei San walked forward alone and contacted Lin Feng in advance.

On the evening of October 25, Liu Renshan led his team to meet with Lin Feng in Yutan City, twenty miles north of Tanzhou City. All the soldiers settled in the infantry camp that Lin Feng led his troops to urgently set up.

After an urgent discussion, the two of them left a thousand weaker soldiers to guard Yutan. The remaining 19,000 troops squeezed onto the 200 warships and 100 warships full of food and weapons brought by Lin Feng overnight, preparing to go up the Xiangjiang River and head straight for Guizhou.

Early in the morning of October 26, Liu Renshan and Lin Feng led some soldiers to openly enter Tanzhou City to meet Ma Xi'e, claiming to the outside world that 3,000 reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty had arrived and were temporarily stationed in Yutan.

After that, Ma Xi'e announced that the Southern Han Dynasty repeatedly invaded the territory and injured the people and plundered them. He ordered the Chu navy, infantry and Tang elite soldiers to 17,000, which were known as 30,000 troops and horses to be dispatched to the Guizhou-managed area.

All the soldiers in Tanzhou City rushed to gather, preparing to go to war.

At noon on October 26, Lin Feng and Liu Renshan quietly boarded their warships and set off south as the first batch of forwards.

It was late autumn, but Liu Renshan, who was still wearing thin fir, was in a good mood. He pulled Lin Feng to tea and talk about his goodbye in the cabin and said goodbye.

Liu Renshan sat cross-legged on the floor mat, drank a cup of tea, and then said to Lin Feng: "In the past two days, I have learned from you from many ways to what you did after entering Chu, and I was very surprised. It is not uncommon for you to make great contributions on the battlefield with those kids, but you are so lucky, right? How did you know that Pan Long will be besieging you and make complete preparations?"

Lin Feng smiled bitterly and said, "Sir, you should also understand that that day was really a pure luck. Tanzhou City was broken too quickly and smoothly. Zhou Qizhi and the others happened to gather the rich people in the city the day before. Those 200 guards helped me a lot, otherwise..."

Liu Renshan shook his head in disbelief and asked, "Yes, it was a coincidence that day. However, you were at a disadvantage in Meizhou, but God suddenly changed the direction of the wind. As soon as you were surrounded in Tanzhou City, my elite Wuchang arrived. This luck was so good that I couldn't believe it. Thinking of you starting to plan for the State of Chu a few months ago, I really doubt whether you can calculate and see the future!"

Lin Feng smiled bitterly and had to hit him haha, pointing at him and said, "If you are really lucky, it's just God is helping me with the Tang Dynasty!"

Liu Renshan looked at Lin Feng suspiciously, temporarily putting down this question, but immediately gave up another question: "We suddenly dispatched 20,000 elite troops to Chu, and Ma Xi'e didn't care about it these two days. He is really such a fool? Can't you see something wrong at all?"

Lin Feng smiled and said, "I had a secret conversation with him before. He was shocked. I said, "Wu Huaien led more than 20,000 troops, and the number of people is still increasing. He immediately stopped asking about this matter, and praised me for being prescient and thanked me repeatedly!"

Liu Renshan also smiled and continued to ask: "Boy, you took His Royal Highness Ninth Li Congqian and all the special forces, it is normal for elite troops to board the ship. Why did a Tujia general also get on your ship?"

Lin Feng knew that Liu Renshan was referring to Zhao Ye who had just rushed back from Xuzhou, so he told him about the Suizi Camp.

Liu Renshan nodded, did not ask any further, and once again threw out a question: "How do you deal with the giant elephant team of Nanhan?"

Lin Feng smiled mysteriously and lowered his voice and said, "Mr. Liu, you don't know. I have completely emptied the things in Tanzhou Armament and Tanzhou City! There are many big guys who will definitely surprise these beasts at that time! I have to thank Pan Long for his short-sighted eyes and only robs of treasures, not food and weapons!"

Liu Renshan and Lin Feng laughed and continued to ask about the situation of Wu Huaien, the eunuch of the Southern Han Dynasty. The two discussed under the candlelight until the sky was bright, and then lay down with their clothes for a while.

On October 27, Ma Xi'e personally led a large fleet of ships from Tanzhou and joined the team heading south.

Two days later, when the army was walking to Hengzhou (now Hengyang, Hunan), news of a fierce dispute that was too bad to be worse came. Liu Yan, the governor of Chenzhou, merged with the Tujia tribes under Panlong, and proclaimed himself the King of Chu in Chenzhou, known as the Western Chu, and openly raised the anti-flag flag.

Ma Xi'e was furious when she heard the news. She first issued a manifesto to the world to attack Liu Yan, and then found Liu Renshan and Lin Feng to discuss it.

At the public discussion meeting, Liu Renshan suddenly made the case that the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Southern Han Dynasty had always had a good relationship and rashly sent troops to fight against the Southern Han Dynasty as a reason, and begged to lead three thousand elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty to return, run to Chenzhou, and quell the rebellion first.

Helplessly, Ma Xi'e had to agree, and then decided to 3,000 soldiers from the Tang Dynasty and 2,000 soldiers who stayed in Langzhou, Liu Renshan, the governor of the Wuchang Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty, as the commander-in-chief, and fought with all his might to quell the rebellion; Wang Kui was the commander-in-chief, and Zhou Xingfeng was the deputy commander-in-chief, leading the remaining 6,000 infantry and 7,000 infantry to rush to Guizhou from both water and land; Ma Xi'e led 1,000 soldiers of Chu to return, and took the formation of Tanzhou, paying attention to the development of the two battlefields in real time.

The huge fleet and parallel shore troops suddenly decreased a lot, which immediately weakened the momentum of moving south.

Of course, Liu Renshan and his troops left without any. After pretending to return ashore during the day, he turned around and ordered a deputy general to go back in his military uniform. He turned around and turned back to the boat, hiding in the cabin every day to deduce the battle with Lin Feng. In the past few days, Lin Feng was afraid that a group of special soldiers would stay on the boat and feel bored. In addition to letting them work hard every day to train the rookies of the elite troops, he also asked them to do something, use noodles, soil and water to combine them, and invented a fun thing - the sand table map of Guiguan area.

In fact, sand tables are something that has existed since ancient times.

According to legend, when Qin Shihuang built his tomb, he built a large terrain model in it, which was built with mountains, hills, and cities. He used mercury to simulate rivers and seas, and used mechanical devices to make the mercury flow and cycle. This is what he once recorded in "Records of the Grand Historian? The Records of Qin Shihuang" "Mercury is used as the sea of ​​all rivers and seas, with astronomy and geography." This can be said to be the prototype of the sand table.

Later, Fan Ye of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote "Book of the Later Han Dynasty? Biography of Ma Yuan" that recorded that in the eighth year of Jianwu in the Han Dynasty (32 AD), Emperor Guangwu conquered Tianshui. When Wei Xiang, a local tyrant in Wudu area, the general Ma Yuan once "gathered rice into a valley to draw the situation", which made Emperor Guangwu feel like "the enemy is in my eyes", which should be the earliest sand table operation.

Unlike these records, Lin Feng asked a group of brothers to pinch a group of small clay men, small boats and small red flags to represent soldiers, warships and military forces, and to deduce with everyone on the sand table every day how to arrange troops.

Liu Renshan was deeply fascinated by this new thing. Every day, he would be surrounded by the sand table when he opened his eyes. Of course, he had been in the military for half his life, and naturally swept away a group of special soldiers. However, Lin Feng always pretended to be mysterious, and stood by and studied hard, and would never go on stage. Liu Renshan invited him several times to fight, and he would laugh at Lin Feng for this every day. Lin Feng just smiled and never took action.

Late that night, when a group of special forces left, Liu Renshan grabbed Lin Feng and asked in a low voice: "Boy, you dare to use such a dangerous move as Liu Yan's deceitful betrayal. Are you so sure?"

Lin Feng smiled mysteriously and replied in a low voice: "When it is true, it is true, and when it is true, it is false, and when it is true, it is true. The mystery of the matter is that it is difficult to distinguish between true and false! Master, just look at it. Most of the opportunity for us to take back the State of Chu is still on the true and false!"

Liu Renshan was angry and laughed at him, punched him hard, and scolded: "Get out, the bad guy who dares not fight me!"

Lin Feng responded: "It's not that I can't do it, but that I can't do it!" It means that I can't do it, but that I can't give you face so that I won't take action!

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Feng immediately turned around and escaped from the cabin, and ran away with a smile!
Chapter completed!