At night, in a barracks built on the east bank of the Lanjiang River, a four-rank civil official wearing a big red robe was raising a glass and looking at the other side of the river, with a confident smile on his face, and a group of civil and military officials were standing behind him.

This person is none other than Song Zhiwen, the prefect of Xingquan Mansion!

After the last Lanjiang fiasco, although Song Zhiwen used his strong writing skills to make a difference, and spent a lot of contacts and favors, he finally got things done.

After covering up the matter, he recruited and trained new soldiers non-stop, asked for reinforcements from other guards, and recruited a large number of young people, and did not forget to blackmail many big families in Xingquan Mansion.

Of course, he will not touch those who are really high-profile, they are willing to donate as much as they want, and his target is those nouveau riche and merchants.

Extorting money from these nouveau riche and merchants to use as military expenses is actually quite simple to ask for a table.

Not for anything else, just because he was born in the second class Jinshi, has entered the Hanlin Academy, and is a four-pint red-robed official, if he is tough, it is not an exaggeration to do whatever he wants.

In this process, a family that thought that a family could not donate money was uprooted by him.

First, they devised a small trick to remove the fame of their family master, and finally casually set up a crime to distribute the men of their family for 3,000 li, and the women and children were sold into slavery.

As for whether they committed a crime or not, it doesn't matter at all, Song Zhiwen said that he is guilty, then he is guilty.

Under Miki, why not!

In this special period, he fully explained to people what it means to be called 'Breaking the Family County Order and Destroying the Door Order Yin'.

Through this kind of tough means, he finally raised enough military expenses, and by the way, he also collected tens of thousands of taels more into his own pocket and distributed the profits to other subordinate officials and superiors.

Making money is such a thing, naturally it can't be monopolized, and if you share some profits with your subordinates, they will work harder and share some profits with your bosses, which will be more convenient to do.

After three months of preparation, he finally managed to scrape together enough military funds and raise tens of thousands of troops, he naturally would not rest assured that the generals who lost the battle last time, this time, he personally came to the Lanjiang Ferry!

He wants to personally lead the army to exterminate those bold pseudo-Tang thief army, and then grasp all the credit in his hands, and then repeat the old tricks, come to a wonderful pen, and stuff the benefits to the adults in the Beijing Division, and the promotion is proper, maybe he will be able to leave the ghost place of Guizhou, transfer back to the Beijing Division, and work harder in the future, and maybe he can live a lifetime of the addiction of Shangshu and even the ministers.

Being an official, who doesn't want to climb up!

And now, the rebellion of those pseudo-Tang thieves is an opportunity for him to be promoted and make a fortune.

For this reason, his staff planned for more than a month, and finally came up with a way to cross the river, and even annihilate those pseudo-Tang thief troops on the Lanjiang River.

This method is simple and simple, and complex and complex.

To put it simply, it is because this strategy is to send the elite main force to make a detour to secretly cross the river, and on the side of the Lanjiang ferry, it is to leave thousands of cannon fodder troops to attract the attention of the puppet Tang thief army in person.

As long as the main force can cross the river from other places, then it can avoid attacking the strong beachhead fortress of the puppet Tang thief army.

When the cannon fodder here began to cross the river to attract the attention of the puppet Tang thief army, the elite main force that had already crossed the river at night was to directly attack the flank and rear of the puppet Tang thief army.

At that time, a big victory is within reach!

However, Song Zhiwen himself didn't know that the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side was so decisive and resolute, and in the second half of the night, he had already sent troops to reinforce the No. 2 and No. 3 ferries.

But even if he knew, he would care too much, in his opinion, the reason why these pseudo-Tang thief army were able to defeat their own army of three thousand last time was because they occupied the river beach, not because the pseudo-Tang thief army was able to fight.

As for the report of the subordinate that the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army's fire guns are sharp and the flowering bullets are powerful, although he attaches some importance to it, he also feels that it is not enough.

The firearms of the puppet Tang thief army are sharp? Even if it's a little more powerful, but it's not that he doesn't have firearms, this time he brought dozens of bowls of different sizes, and I don't know whose firearms are sharper when the time comes.

But what are those flowering bullets, so far Song Zhiwen has no intuitive impression, listening to the people below, those flowering bullets are a hundred bullets in unison, such as thunder, like the earth dragon rolling, it is not scary.

But Song Zhiwen felt that this should be the people under him who exaggerated the power of the flowering bomb, and didn't say that the pseudo-Tang thief army was more powerful, how could they evade responsibility.

In this regard, Song Zhiwen just listened to it and laughed, if there was such a thing, these pseudo-Tang thief armies would have killed the river a long time ago, and they would still be stuck on the west bank.

Tonight, whether it is the Ming army or the Tang army, they all know each other, but there are many details that they do not understand.

The lack of means of communication and reconnaissance has led them to rely on guessing many things on the battlefield, and guessing correctly will naturally have many benefits, but if they guess wrong, then it will be a big trouble.

Not to mention the reactions of the main generals on the Lanjiang ferry, and to say that on the second ferry, Fang Xitong waited for a full hour before he got the second order from Li Xuan, which was quite simple, that is, let the first mixed battalion obey the command of Hao Bonian, the commander of the fourth infantry battalion, to intercept and annihilate the Ming army crossing the river.

And along with Li Xuan's order, there was also Hao Bonian's military order.

Hao Bonian ordered Fang Xitong to immediately lead the army back to the No. 2 ferry to investigate the reality of the Ming army crossing the river, and the most important thing is to find out how many Ming troops crossed the river, and in addition, if there is an opportunity, he can appropriately launch a blocking operation.

As for Hao Bonian, half of the troops of the Fourth Infantry Battalion, a total of more than 200 people, were rapidly reinforced.

After receiving these two orders, Fang Xitong's heart sank, he was not a stupid person, from these two orders, he had already seen that his previous conservative decision had caused His Majesty's displeasure, otherwise, he would not have sent Hao Bonian here to command him.

However, he still did not regret his previous choice, his conservative choice was a military strategy, but politically, it was absolutely correct.

Your Majesty may look at a talented general differently, but in the end, Your Majesty will always value a loyal general more than anything else, and what he wants to do is this loyal general.

Now that he received a clear order, Fang Xitong had no worries and immediately led the army back to the No. 2 ferry.

There, at least 1,000 Ming troops had already landed on the beachhead, and many more continued to cross the river.

At the same time, on the other side of the No. 3 ferry, a big battle has broken out!