The 130,000-strong army that had originally gathered outside Kirin Mountain, poised to enter and attack Chunqiu Prefecture, suddenly changed direction, its spearhead aimed straight at Yun Prefecture!
The Vanguard Army outside Kirin Mountain had set up a Deception Formation.
A so-called Deception Formation.
It meant having several thousand men push carts back and forth along the plank road amid the blinding snow. It looked as though more and more men were entering the valley, but in truth, it was always the same few people going back and forth.
Chen Sanshi himself selected seven thousand soldiers from Hongze Camp. They quietly left Kirin Mountain amid the wind and snow, instead arriving at the foot of Yinping Mountain.
Since ancient times, marching into battle had always depended on "transportation."
It was not the case that an army could advance wherever a person could walk.
Supplies, warhorses, weapons, armor, and so on...
Unless it was an Elite Forced March, even weapons and armor would only be carried after reaching the battlefield or before passing through dangerous terrain. That was why surprise forces could often achieve miraculous results.
The enemy soldiers might all still be traveling in plain clothes, empty-handed, when a fully armed cavalry force in armor suddenly charged out from behind them. It would be strange if they were not scattered to pieces.
Even the Imperial Guards in the palace normally did not keep many weapons on hand. Every palace coup throughout the dynasties had first needed to seize the armory before it could formally raise an uprising.
For this very reason, armies on campaign needed to mobilize massive numbers of laborers as logistical personnel, along with countless horse carts and handcarts. All these things had to travel by the main roads.
But at this very moment.
Under Chen Sanshi's orders, all