According to Li Xuan's previous estimates, the Ming army was normal, but it was a slightly accelerated speed, so it would not be able to arrive until evening at the earliest.

But these Ming troops in front of them had already arrived in the afternoon, not even a few hours later than the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

This situation also made Li Xuan secretly happy, fortunately, they set off early in the morning, and they walked relatively fast on the road, otherwise, they might really be driven ahead by the Ming army.

If the Ming army arrived first and seized the ferry, then the follow-up battle would be in great trouble.

The Datang New Army on the west bank of the Lanjiang Ferry all hid behind the slope of the hillside, and did not leave people and horses by the river, and even in order to confuse the Ming Army, they even kept the two small ferries, of course, the boatman above will definitely not be the original boatman, but the disguised Datang New Army soldiers.

If the Ming army on the other side of the river did not cross the river, it was basically impossible to find more than 1,000 people hiding on the other side of the river when they only observed on the other side.

"Pass the order down and prepare for war!" When Li Xuan saw that the Ming army on the other side of the river was already preparing to start crossing the river on a small scale after observing for a while, he immediately gave the order to prepare for battle.

The soldiers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty began to prepare weapons, especially the sword and shield soldiers began to wear armor with the help of others.

Three infantry battalions, a sword and shield team, a cavalry team, and an archer were ready, and several large phalanxes were lined up behind the hillside, waiting for the final order to attack.

Once Li Xuan gave the order to attack, they would immediately attack, in order to completely defeat the Ming army that crossed the river.

As for why the target was only chosen as this group of hundreds of forwards, instead of letting the Ming army advance pass, and then ambushing the main force of the Ming army.

This is because once the 500 forwards of the Ming army are allowed to gain a foothold after crossing the river, it will not be an ambush, but a hard-to-hard frontal confrontation, and Li Xuan does not have the confidence to let his new army of the Tang Dynasty face off against the 3,000 Ming army head-on.

The more than 1,000 people of the Datang New Army have a lot of water, and there are only about 300 veterans with good quality, and there are more than 300 old bandits and soldiers of the Ming Army, and the rest are all recruits who have just been recruited for a few days, and they are not even clear about the left and right, and they don't even know how to use the spears and swords in their hands.

You can't count on them for a real war!

Li Xuan took them, hoping that after blocking the Ming army on the opposite side of the Lanjiang River, there would be a confrontation time, and this time was his training time, as long as he was given a month of training time, he could barely let these recruits fight, if he was given three months of training time, he would dare to pull them and the Ming army to fight head-on!

When the new army of the Tang Dynasty began to prepare for war, the Ming army on the other side of the river also began to move, about 30 Ming soldiers sat in two small boats and began to use the cableway to cross the river, the river surface of the Lanjiang River is not wide, and there is a ropeway to use, so they crossed the river quite fast.

It didn't take long for the Ming army to set foot on the land on the west bank of the Lanjiang River, and after arriving on the other side of the river, these Ming soldiers began to search towards the river under the leadership of a hundred households.

At this time, the follow-up Ming soldiers also began to cross the river!

At this time, Li Xuan also nodded towards Cao Mingda, and the next moment, Cao Mingda rode away alone!

After a while, Li Xuan saw a group of about ten cavalry galloping towards the ferry from the west on the hillside, and they naturally did not do this to attack the Ming army that had just crossed the river, but to attract the attention of the Ming army.

Especially the attention of the dozens of Ming soldiers who crossed the river first.

Li Xuan's plan was to let these cavalry create an illusion, that is, to make the Ming army misunderstand that these cavalry were the vanguard of the Tang New Army's cavalry to explore the road, and since it was a pathfinder, the follow-up main force would definitely not arrive.

As long as the Ming army leading the team is not the kind of person who is too suspicious, then his attention will be attracted by these cavalry, and then ignore the main force of the Tang New Army behind the dense forest on the hillside.

It's a psychological battle!

Soon, those Ming troops found more than a dozen cavalrymen including Cao Mingda galloping along the official road from the west.

Not surprisingly, they were in a panic, and the hundred households said something like a formation in a loud voice, obviously he also had great scruples about these cavalry.

And Cao Mingda naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to lead the cavalry to attack an infantry phalanx with more than 30 people and had formed a tight formation, that was not called bravery, that was called foolishness.

He led the cavalry to a distant halt, as if he wanted to keep an eye on these Ming troops.

At this time, the Ming army on the other side of the river also began to move, and after seeing the middle-aged Qianhu led by the leader and the others after a few words, someone soon rode a fast horse and galloped back, obviously to report the news of the discovery of the pseudo-Tang thief army scout to the main force in the rear.

Because the reconnaissance cavalry of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army was discovered, it means that the main force of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army is not far away, and it is very likely that it will be behind and will be able to rush to the Lanjiang Ferry at any time.

They didn't know that the main force of the new army of the Tang Dynasty was actually already in ambush on the hillside behind the ferry.

At the same time as sending people to report the news, the remaining Ming troops also began to cross the river one after another, and those officers were still urging, but there were only a few ferries for them to cross the river, and the number of people who crossed the river at one time was only thirty or forty.

And these Ming troops also began to cut down nearby trees and try to make rafts, but in any case, the main forces of these Ming troops had to cross the river in full, and it would take half an hour to say the least.

Although the Ming army on the opposite side crossed the river a little slowly, Li Xuan was not in a hurry, he wished that the speed of these Ming troops crossing the river would be slower.

Because of the slow speed of crossing the river, when they cross the river to the general level, they will kill themselves, whether they want to turn around and go back in the end, or the people in the rear want to cross the river to support the battle, it is unlikely!

And what is this called?

It's called a half-crossing attack!

Obviously, the current situation is developing in the direction that Li Xuan expected, and it is quite smooth, which makes Li Xuan feel like he should buy a lottery ticket today.

Luck is coming, it can't be stopped!

But good luck always can't last, after the Ming army crossed the river with about one hundred and fifty people, on the one hand, they were guarding against Cao Mingda's small cavalry, and on the other hand, they sent a team of people towards the side of the hill where Li Xuan and they were!

"What's going on? Did they find anything? Or are they too suspicious to worry? ”

Li Xuan was a little depressed for a while, how long did this good luck last, it was over in a quarter of an hour?

But now is not the time to be depressed, these Ming troops are about to approach the dense forests on the slopes, and when they come up, as long as they are not blind, they can find Li Xuan and them one hundred percent!

When they found out that there were more than 1,000 people lying in ambush behind this hillside, they didn't know if they would be scared stupid, but Li Xuan was sure that those Ming troops behind would definitely not cross the river!

In this way, it is impossible to eat more than 300 of them at one time, forget it, these more than 100 people are also meat, eat them first, so as not to have many dreams at night!

Li Xuan, who thought like this, simply raised the long sword in his hand, and then said lightly: "Attack!" ”