While he was talking, the spies came to report that the enemy troops were scattered in all directions and had been surrounded, and the enemy seemed to have been ambushed in the trench for a long time.

"Order, all the staff retreat in the direction of Hankou, the heavy cavalry will open the way, the light cavalry will be assisted by arrows in the center, and I will lead the army to the rear of the palace." Zhu Jianwen ordered, the herald hugged his fists and replied that he turned around and ran out, Zhu Jianwen sighed and then turned his head to Bai Yong and said: "Brother Bai, you are better than me, you can press the formation in front and open the way." ”

"Okay." Bai Yong nodded and replied, not much to say, put on a helmet and straddled the horse and led the team, the cavalry broke through to the west in an orderly manner, Zhen Lingdan's army kept shooting bows and crossbows in the distance, mixed with artillery strikes, although it was difficult for everyone to march, but it was not difficult to move an inch, but they did not encounter a large group of enemies to confront them head-on,

Bai Yong's brows furrowed more and more as the team retreated westward, and finally suddenly ordered: "Order, put down the big shield, no longer step by step, and gallop towards the west." The generals listened to the order, Zhu Jianwen was caught off guard when he got the news behind the team, but he knew what Bai Yong had discovered, so he did not raise any objections, the command of this army is jointly owned by the two of them, Zhu Jianwen is stable and brave, but it is also a complement of cooperation,

The team galloped wildly, but the bow and crossbow lost their accurate target, the casualties were reduced a lot, and everyone quickly broke away from the encirclement, Zhu saw that Bai Yong had no intention of stopping, so he said: "Brother Bai is really clever, let's gallop up like this, but let the enemy be inaccurate, but why do you still run wildly, don't we monitor the dynamics of Jiujiang." ”

Bai Yong replied while riding his horse: "Shizi, we have won a plan. ”

"What do you say?" Zhu Jian asked puzzled,

"Since we entered the territory of Jiujiang Mansion, we have never encountered a frontal hostile force, the iron thistle bow and artillery are just using the strength of the equipment, I suspect that there is no large-scale enemy army near Jiujiang at all, they have left enough soldiers and horses to pretend to be a large army, the number is just right, which can not only deceive us but also prevent us from insisting on attacking, and the ambushes around are just a bluff, creating the illusion of leading the king into the urn, if there is really a large army here, we will not only have casualties, but the whole army will be annihilated." Bai Yong said,

Bai Yong waved his hand as he spoke, and the herald shouted down, the cavalry team stopped advancing, and Bai Yong shouted: "Follow me to kill back, don't storm the city, you can only besiege the city, and if you encounter the enemy outside the city, you can divide the team to pursue, and you will definitely kill and kill." As he spoke, he turned his horse's head and went to kill the Jiujiang Mansion that had fled just now.

Zhu saw that he couldn't make a mess now, so he could only follow Bai Yong back to Jiujiang Mansion, sure enough, there were a large number of crossbowmen and seven or eight artillery pieces outside the city, they were packing up their tools and retreating towards Jiujiang Mansion, and suddenly saw a large group of people and horses killing, but he didn't expect Bai Yong to kill a back horse pistol, and the crossbowman was beheaded by the whistling cavalry before he opened the bow and arrow, and the screams continued for a while, the heads were rolling, and the cavalry bravely killed the enemy to evacuate the unhappiness of the nest battle just now, and shouted again and again in his mouth It was terrifying,

Bai Yong and Zhu Jianwen observed the battle situation and discussed, Bai Yong explained: "I didn't finish the words just now, first, I found that our casualties were not heavy, and secondly, although there are a lot of bows and crossbows, they are not the kind of 10,000-person army that covers the sky and the sun, and the angle of fire is large, and the arrow array is very sparse, I think it may be a bow and crossbow regiment of more than 1,000 people, but Zhen Lingdan scattered this army around us, making us mistakenly think that we are surrounded by a large army, which is supported by thistles and artillery and crossbow carts on the ground, Even more so that we can't raise our heads, we believe it even more, and the previous disadvantage of the division made the army disheartened, this plan after another is really powerful, not in how much lethality there is, but in destroying our confidence, killing people. ”

Zhu Jianwen nodded thoughtfully: "Indeed, thinking about it this way, the artillery is not a salvo, but is released in batches, it seems that there are no more than ten, three to four cannons are placed on the wall of the Ming Dynasty, and two are in the city, and the artillery in the city we occupied before has been taken away by Zhen Lingdan, he should have more than thirty artillery, only ten are used here to confuse our sight, this Zhen Lingdan is really cunning, then in this way, my father should not be in Jiujiang Mansion, so where did Zhen Lingdan's main force go." ”

Bai Yong's face was not very good-looking, and he said coldly: "What you said is not quite right, the king of Tong should be in Jiujiang Mansion, otherwise Zhen Lingdan can completely make Jiujiang an empty city, they are scarce, there is no need to leave men and horses to defend Jiujiang in order to confuse us, just raise the banner and let the troops on the city, in this way, let's turn the cavalry into infantry for a while, and attack Jiujiang with captured artillery ballistas, try to know that the king is not in the city, as for his large army, I want to encircle and suppress our reinforcements, It may be that the Qinwang army you gathered is estimated to have been wiped out. ”

"How could this be?" Zhu was taken aback, his face turned pale suddenly, and Bai Yong blamed himself: "It's all my fault, I didn't see through Zhen Lingdan's movements at once, I think his plan was the same as I guessed, and after he walked to Jiujiang, he found that we did not quickly assemble troops, and rushed out to fight to cause fatigue, but led the cavalry to come first, and the infantry came back to help, so he suddenly changed his plan, gave up the idea of encircling and annihilating us, and instead led the troops to pounce on our supporting infantry, but we didn't find anything abnormal before, and there was no trace of battle on the road. Our infantry must have marched unsuspectedly, and now they will be completely annihilated. ”

"We are deflated in Jiujiang, we can only make two choices, the first is what you said to be in a tight battle, so that they can keep putting cold arrows around and continue to besiege us, even if we find that the number of ambushes around us is not large, it is all an illusion, they can also withdraw to Jiujiang in batches, so that the loss can be minimized, of course, for Zhen Lingdan, the best result is the second one, after we are ambushed, we must go to meet with the infantry, and then attack Jiujiang, at this time Zhen Lingdan has eliminated the reinforcements, just wait for work, Set up an encirclement and wait for us to throw ourselves into the net, we can wipe out our cavalry in one net, this move can annihilate all the previous forces together, even if the lord leads the troops to kill, there is no our assistance, the strength is greatly frustrated, the enemy retreats and I advance, Zhen Lingdan's plan is to annihilate the vanguard troops, so that the forces of the two sides are balanced, this plan is really poisonous, it's all my fault. Bai Yong said,