After Wei Yan spoke for a long time, no one spoke, which made Wei Yan's brows furrow even tighter!

"A few days ago, they said one by one that the thief army was nothing more than that, if they dared to come, they would dare to kill them, and now that the thief army is here, why don't they speak one by one!" Wei Yan's expression became more and more serious: "Have you forgotten what you said to this official at the beginning?" ”

The more Wei Yan's expression became, the more serious he became, which meant that he was angrier!

At the beginning, they came from Wuzhou, and they were all full of confidence, but even when they came to Xiangzhou, they didn't lose confidence.

But since the 500 people of the forward division sent to monitor the movements of the puppet Tang thief army were defeated by the puppet Tang thief army two days ago, these generals who were full of confidence before have become timid one by one.

Isn't it just that more than 300 people were killed and wounded, which is nothing to their 8,000 army!

However, these damn generals are all sad!

At this moment, the generals of the Ming army below are also helpless!

Are they timid? No!

Are they stupid? Not even more!

If it was an ordinary more than 300 people who were annihilated by the puppet Tang thief army, they wouldn't think much about it, but the key thing is that the 500 partial divisions sent out before were not ordinary guards, but soldiers!

More than half of their more than 8,000 troops are recruited from various Tusi, and the combat effectiveness of these soldiers is not comparable to that of ordinary guards.

However, the five hundred soldiers sent the day before yesterday faced the advance of the pseudo-Tang thief army, which also had only five hundred people, and it was still a defensive operation, but it was only supported by the five hundred pseudo-Tang thief army in less than half an hour, and they were all scattered!

And what is even more terrifying is that because the soldiers are extremely respectful of attacking, they disdain to retreat, and their tactics are the option of retreating, so it also caused these soldiers to suffer heavy casualties, 500 people were killed and wounded, more than 300 people were killed and wounded, and in the end only less than 200 people escaped.

This battle happened the day before yesterday, outside the camp of the Ming army!

It happened under the noses of many Ming army generals!

However, it was such a tentative confrontation that made these Ming army generals see the horror of the puppet Tang thief army!

Its field combat ability is really strong!

They thought that they were already elite soldiers and they were fighting a field duel head-on, and they were not opponents at all, and the battle at that time was completely one-sided slaughter!

They didn't know that what they had fought with these 500 soldiers before was the elite of the entire Tang Army, the Second Infantry Battalion of the Tang Army, which belonged to the First Infantry Brigade of the First Infantry Brigade!

Its equipment level is about the same as that of the 1st Infantry Battalion, and the quality of officers and soldiers is only slightly worse than that of the 1st Infantry Battalion!

If the opponent was an ordinary Ming army, Hao Bonian would dare to use such an infantry battalion to fight against several times the enemy!

But the second infantry battalion is the elite of the Tang Army, and there are only two or three such infantry battalions in the entire Tang Army, but these Ming generals on the opposite side don't know.

In their opinion, this is just an ordinary pseudo-Tang thief army!

And when they thought of such a pseudo-Tang thief army of nearly 10,000 people, they just felt that their scalps were numb!

In such a situation, how can you let them come up with an effective strategy to retreat from the enemy!

After being silent for a long time, someone finally spoke: "Judging from the past battles between our official army and the thief army, the puppet Tang thief army has a good field combat ability. However, although the thief army's field combat ability is strong, its ability to attack fortifications is insufficient, and they have besieged Liuzhou City for more than half a month and have not taken it, which shows that its ability to attack fortifications is very average! ”

Speaking of this, the middle-aged general said: "The lower official thinks that this battle should stick to the camp as the top, the thief army will not be able to attack for a long time, and the food and grass will inevitably be out of time, and it will definitely retreat without a fight. ”

After this person said it, many of the other Ming army generals nodded in unison!

At this time, you must not be able to go out of the camp to take the initiative to meet the battle, the 3,000 soldiers in Rongxian County and the 500 soldiers two days ago are a lesson from the past.

After going through so many times, if someone still says that they want to go out of the camp to take the initiative to meet the battle and have a decisive battle in a battle, it must be a show of brains, knowing that the pseudo-Tang thief army has strong field combat ability, and you still go out to fight, this is not stupid.

When you go to war, you must make the most of your strengths and avoid your weaknesses!

They don't know what their strengths are, but they can see the strengths of the pseudo-Tang thief army, that is, the ability to fight in the field.

Whether it is strong or not in other aspects will not be known until after the fight!

I heard that a group of generals thought that they could not take the initiative to go out to fight, but to stick to the camp, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements in the rear, and waiting for the grain and grass of the pseudo-Tang thief army to retreat on their own, and then chase and kill.

Wei Yan actually despised these martial artists a little, and he didn't have the blood of a martial artist at all, and he was frightened by the pseudo-Tang thief army!

However, contempt is contempt, but he still respects the opinions of these generals, he knows his ability very well, and he reads the imperial examination? Then he's an absolute genius!

Officialdom struggle, this is also his forte!

He can even do some governance of places, people's livelihood affairs, etc.!

But only leading troops to fight is really not his strong point, although he has been an official for many years and has led soldiers to fight, but he has never commanded by himself, because he knows that he is not that material.

Therefore, in the end, Wei Yan still listened to the advice of the generals: stick to the camp!

The Ming army hid in the camp and did not come out, and the Tang Dynasty division in the north came slowly without hurry!

The actions of the army naturally cannot be rushed, even if they are only more than four miles away from the enemy, but Hao Bonian and they are still not in a hurry, but unhurriedly advance with the troops!

The army of nearly 10,000 people walked for most of the day before coming to a stop at a distance of one mile from the Ming army's camp.

At this time, it is already the final preparation distance for each other to fight, and if it gets closer, it will already be an official duel, and the Tang Army needs to take a certain rest after a relatively long march.

This break is naturally not a break, but a rearrangement of the formation and the arrangement of the offensive order.

In fact, they had set up camp five miles away last night, and had only walked three miles in the morning, and the physical exertion of the soldiers was not great.

While the subordinate officers at all levels were busy reorganizing the troops, Hao Bonian, Li Chunjing, and other senior officers, as well as six or seven operational staff officers, climbed a small dirt slope and overlooked the Ming army camp in front of them.

At this time, I saw Hao Bonian and said, "Bring the telescope?" ”

Immediately, the soldiers beside him took down the small wooden box he was carrying, then opened the wooden box, lifted the brocade cloth covered inside, and then carefully took out a metal pipe pile, first took the wooden lids at both ends of the pipe, and then carefully handed it to Hao Bonian.

After Hao Bonian took it, he first took a closer look at the thing in his hand, then rotated it slightly, and finally pulled it, and the metal tube became several sections, one big and one small, with lenses at both ends.

Hao Bonian pulled it more carefully, and only after it was completely pulled away did he hold it with both hands, put one of the small ones in front of his left eye, and looked at the Ming army camp in the distance.

At this time, Hao Bonian only felt as if he was very close to the Ming army camp, and the scene he saw was so clean, so far away, he could even clearly see the Ming army's every move on the wooden fence of the Ming army camp.

After looking at it for a while, he put down what he was holding, and then sighed: "This telescope sent by His Majesty is actually a sharp weapon in the military formation, with a distance of hundreds of feet, but the enemy army is like in front of him, with such a sharp weapon, the enemy army in the distance has nothing to hide!" ”

At this time, several other people also showed a hint of curiosity, Hao Bonian smiled, and then handed the telescope to Li Chunjing: "You guys also take a look, and then make a mark!" ”

At this time, Li Chunjing couldn't wait to take the telescope and look at it, he had long wanted to try the telescope that had just been delivered the day before yesterday, but unfortunately these objects were rumored to be worth thousands of gold, and Hao Bonian had treated this telescope as a treasure for the past two days for the soldiers to carry.

Now, he's got a chance to try it out for himself!

When I took it and looked at it, it was as rumored that I could see things in the distance as if I were near!

After reading it, he couldn't help but say aloud: "If there are more of these treasures, and more are distributed to the officers in the army, then it will be more convenient to fight in the future!" ”

Hao Bonian smiled and said: "How can such treasures be easily obtained, the people who sent them here in front have said, just such a piece, Your Majesty has kept those craftsmen busy for more than half a year, even if it can be made in the future, I am afraid that the number is not much!" ”

What Hao Bonian said is not wrong, Li Xuan spent a lot of effort in order to make this telescope, no, it should be said that it took a lot of effort from craftsmen.

In fact, Li Xuan didn't think about building any telescopes at the beginning, at the beginning he wanted to make transparent glass like many predecessors in time.

That thing is a big money-making weapon, once it comes out, the silver can't flow to his own pocket, so he specially found a few craftsmen who originally fired glass to start making transparent glass, and used some of his limited knowledge to guide.

But it is not easy to make this transparent glass, and it has not been done for more than half a year, which makes Li Xuan regret why he didn't study chemistry back then, and why he didn't remember the formula for firing glass after watching a lot of ancient time.

The transparent glass would not be able to be made for a while, and then Li Xuan shifted direction from the fired glass again, because he happened to see someone wearing crystal glasses.

This made him think of the telescope all of a sudden!