The brutal war of attrition lasted for seven or eight days, at the beginning, the Ming army sent two or three hundred troops to attack each time they crossed the river, but slowly only sent about a hundred people, and when it came to the evening of the eighth day, the Ming army only sent a dozen people over, trying to get close to the position of the new army of the Tang Dynasty to make trouble.

In this process, the Ming army also suffered heavy casualties, and there were more than 500 Ming soldiers killed and wounded by the Tang New Army, and hundreds of people were captured.

And the Datang New Army itself suffered a lot of losses, with more than 200 casualties before and after.

Although the losses of the Ming army were not small, in fact, the new army of the Tang Dynasty was even more uncomfortable.

After all, the strength of the Ming army was already large, and they had tens of thousands of people, and a few hundred dead and wounded were nothing, but the more than 200 dead and wounded of the Datang New Army made Li Xuan and them feel more heartbroken.

The total number of Datang New Army is less than 4,000, and there are more than 200 casualties, which means that the casualty rate has reached 5%.

Fortunately, these casualties are cumulative, and the new recruits are still being replenished, if there are so many casualties in one battle, I am afraid it will affect morale.

Fortunately, the Ming army suffered more casualties, hundreds of dead and wounded, and hundreds of prisoners were captured, even if the remaining Ming troops were able to return to the other side safely, but the cumulative losses of the Ming army should be able to reach seven or eight hundred.

However, this will not affect the strength of the main force of the Ming army, because through the interrogation of prisoners of war, it was found that most of the Ming troops who were sent to cross the river to sneak attack were guards, and some of them were young and strong.

In other words, these Ming troops are cannon fodder, and the real main force, that is, the recruits recruited and trained by Song Zhiwen, are all in good condition.

However, maybe the number of dead and wounded is too large, so the Ming army stopped sending troops across the river after the eighth day to sneak attack, as for them sneaking a few people to come over as spies, this kind of thing is difficult for the Tang New Army to find out, so the Ming Army must continue to send people over, but the scale is too small, the concealment is too strong, and the Tang New Army is difficult to find for a while, so it is not easy to judge.

After all, the new army of the Tang Dynasty can secretly send scouts across the river to investigate the situation and sabotage, and the Ming army can naturally send scouts to investigate the situation.

After all, the two sides are separated by the same Lanjiang River, and both sides are also monitoring the river, if you can't do it, the other party can't do it, and if you can do it, the other party will naturally be able to do it.

In general, in the eight days after the main force of the Ming army arrived at the Lanjiang crossing, the two sides made strategic preparations on the one hand, and fought a small-scale battle on the other.

At least through these battles, Li Xuan knew that the main forces of the Ming army were still on the east bank of the Lanjiang River.

If the generals of the Ming army were not too stupid, then they could also detect that today's Datang New Army is already stronger in combat effectiveness than before.

You have to know that in the skirmishes of the past few days, the first mixed battalion and the second mixed battalion often fought alone, and in the first few days, there were not many troops on both sides, and even the Ming army had more.

And such a battle could not have taken place on the beachhead, but at the stage after the successful landing of the Ming army.

After all, the place where the Ming army secretly crossed the river was not fixed, and the two mixed battalions of the Datang New Army could only arrange manpower to monitor several ferries.

Some people may ask, what if the main force of the Ming army also secretly crossed the river?

Li Xuan said that if Ming Jun did this, he would be able to wake up laughing in his dreams?

Tens of thousands of Ming troops want to smuggle across the river?

This is impossible, unless they can fly directly over, otherwise they can only use a large number of boats and rafts, bamboo rafts and other means to cross the river, just to prepare these means of crossing the river, it is enough for the Ming army to be busy for several days.

If the main force of the Ming army carried these rafts directly from the Lanjiang ferry and carried them ashore to cross the river in other places, the spies of the Datang New Army would not be blind and would be able to find out and send back the news as soon as possible.

At that time, the main force of the Datang New Army will also move with the Ming Army, they will go downstream, and the Datang New Army will also follow downstream, and if they go upstream, the Datang New Army will also follow upstream.

In addition, there is a very important reason, that is, once the main force of the Ming army goes, whether it is to cross the river elsewhere or where to go, this has to be equal to the side of the Lanjiang ferry, the main force of the Ming army is no longer there, at this time, if Li Xuan crosses the river with the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and then goes straight to Xingquanfu City, those Ming troops must not be scared to death.

The Ming army was also afraid that the puppet Tang thieves would cross the river to attack Xingquanfu City, otherwise they would not have confronted the puppet Tang thieves here for months.

But they didn't know yet, Li Xuan didn't plan to do this for the time being!

Xingquanfu City is to be attacked, but not now!

Now he has a more important goal, that is, to destroy the Wan Ming army in front of him first, and then talk about it, and when he kills this Wan Ming army, the entire Xingquan Mansion is in his pocket, and he can get it at his fingertips.

To kill this Wanming army, the best way is to rely on the Lanjiang River and fight a defensive battle, so that you can give full play to your geographical advantages and firearms advantages.

If you rush across the river, and then be attacked by the Ming army on the other side of the river for a half or be ambushed while walking, then the trouble will be big.

The current Li Xuan didn't want to take this risk.

So he waited, waiting for the day when the Ming army crossed the river!

Anyway, now that the Ming army has come, and the Ming army, which will look at the situation for a while, will not continue to send a large army to reinforcements, this 10,000 army will already look up to him Li Xuan, and if there are tens of thousands of Ming troops, Li Xuan will doubt his luck, so that the Ming army will increase the attention of 300%.

The rebellion of a small bandit leader, even if Zhengtai County has been defeated, but the county seat has not yet been taken, even if the Ming army attaches importance to it, it should also be limited, and sending 10,000 people to it is already very face-saving for him.

Li Xuan patiently waited for the next move of the Ming army, and the Ming army on the other side did not let Li Xuan wait too long, on the tenth day after the arrival of the main force of the Ming army, there were many boats and rafts on the east bank of the Lanjiang ferry.

The Ming army also prepared a lot of river-crossing tools before, but according to the number of those river-crossing tools, at most, it was able to take two or three thousand people to cross the river at the same time, but on this day, the Ming army didn't know that there were so many boats at once.

There are so many small boats and rafts, it is enough to transport seven or eight thousand Ming troops across the river, and tens of thousands of Ming troops cannot all be combat troops, and the total number of guards and recruits is estimated to be six or seven thousand.

This also means that these ships are enough to transport the main force of the Ming army across the river!