"The Hongchao army in Xuzhou City is gathering, and our scouts also found signs of a large number of supplies being transported into the city behind them."

When the Hong Dynasty Kong Youde and the others began to lay out, in Xiangcheng, where the commander of the Eastern Front of the Ming Dynasty army was located, a face that should not have appeared here was sitting in the center and listening to the information given by the scout battalion.

"Very good, let's just wait for them to do it first, and let them see our true chapter when the time comes!"

The person who spoke was old-fashioned, although he was old-fashioned, but he was full of energy, and he looked up at the vicissitudes of life, but it was the famous commander of the Ming Dynasty who was supposed to be on the main battlefield of the middle line, and the first and second armies of the Hong Dynasty, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi and the secretary of the military department.

Years of fighting have made Sun Chuanting's face covered with wind and frost, but it also makes his momentum extraordinarily calm, even if he simply sits at the top of the lobby, it makes it impossible to ignore his existence.

"This time, our army has made great efforts to set up this situation, in order to open the stalemate with the Hong Dynasty army, so this battle must not be lost, and the garrison generals must remain vigilant!"

"Wow!!"

The military attachés below replied in a deep voice.

On March 27 of the third year of Hongxian, Anhui and other places had entered the spring ploughing season, and the snow-white foundation that shrouded the entire winter gradually revealed their true colors, and there was a little more tender green in the wilderness.

The scouts of the third army of the Hong Dynasty have always maintained a close monitoring of Xiangcheng, but due to the fact that the Ming Dynasty army and the Red Dynasty army have dealt too many times, many reconnaissance methods know each other very well, so it is more and more difficult for the Hong Dynasty scouts to imagine the means of placing chess pieces in Xiangcheng to transmit news as before.

As for the Foreign Guard Intelligence Bureau, which has been expanding the scale of the Hong Dynasty's army, as most of their previous chess pieces have been exposed, and the bottom chess pieces have not yet reached a certain height, the channels of foreign guards in the front-line generals are not as strong as in the Jiangnan area.

Therefore, until now, no one in the Hong Dynasty army has found out that Sun Chuanting, the commander of the Ming army originally stationed in Xiangyang, has already quietly come to Xiangcheng, and followed by 100,000 Ming Dynasty troops, who have completed the task of secretly deploying around Xiangcheng in batches in this winter.

"Xiangcheng's troops have been mobilized, but our scouts have not found any signs of them attacking our army, or the intention of abandoning the city and leaving, and I really can't figure out the reason why the other party is so frequently transferred."

Zhan Wenbo, director of the Third Army's Aircraft Division, frowned, and with a little apology, reported to Kong Youde.

"It's okay!"

Kong Youde waved his hand, not dissatisfied with Zhan Wenbo because of this, but asked about the things he had explained to the other party before: "What is the result of the Xiangcheng battle deduction that you formulated?" ”

"It has been completed, according to the deduction, our army is more than seventy percent sure of occupying Xiangcheng, and at the same time giving more than thirty percent of the existing strength of the Ming Dynasty army."

"And the casualties of our army should not exceed 10,000."

Zhan Wenbo replied in a deep voice, and at the same time handed over the detailed deduction plan they had made in the past few days, and put it in the hands of the army commander Kong Youde and the deputy army commander Pu Liqi, as well as the more than ten middle-level generals who were now sitting in the hall.

Kong Youde and Pu Liqi each had a deduction book in their hands and carefully read it, and at the same time did not forget to compare each other and asked Zhan Wenbo about the detailed deployment of troops.

"Very good, now that the deduction plan has been made, shouldn't we also do it?"

Since Li Tianyang ascended the throne, there has been no strong order for them on the front-line battlefield, except that they cannot relax the advance and deterrence of the front-line positions of the Ming army, but in other aspects, they have given Kong Youde a lot of autonomy.

"I don't think there's a problem!"

Plic nodded in agreement.

"Pass my order, all the officers and men of the Third Army will enter the pre-battle preparations, and the soldiers in the army will complete their return within three days."

"Yes!"

With Kong Youde's order, the 50,000 soldiers of the Third Army of the Hong Dynasty in Xuzhou City took action, and after the next day, they went to Xiangcheng, which was more than 100 miles away from the west.

As soon as Xuzhou City acted, soon the soldiers of the Ming army where Xiangcheng was located learned of the other party's movements, and Sun Chuanting, who had been living in the city and rarely saw outsiders, finally appeared among the middle and high-level generals in Xiangcheng.

"Meet your lords! Many people didn't know the news of Sun Chuanting's arrival, and suddenly saw Sun Chuanting's existence on the pre-war mobilization meeting, and everyone was surprised, but at the same time, a sense of confidence rose in their hearts.

"Generals, the future war with the Third Army of the Hong Dynasty will be a tragic battle, and the purpose of our army is to completely annihilate the 50,000 people of the Third Army under Kong Youde outside Xiangcheng."

"For this reason, the governor has dispatched 100,000 troops from Xiangyang to deploy in Yongcheng, Xiayi, Suzhou and other places, and when the attack and defense of Xiangcheng begins, our army's hidden headquarters will be divided into three ways to outflank the Hongchao army."

"In Xiangcheng, your task is to show the enemy weakness, and at the same time as initially ensuring the vitality of the army, delay the pace of the Hong Dynasty's attack army, and buy time for the encirclement of our three-way army."

"Can you have confidence in this battle?"

Under Sun Chuanting's low and vicissitudes of voice, the soldiers present suddenly felt like a shot in the heart, arousing everyone's rare fighting spirit, and the general soldiers expressed their emotions emotionally: "The last general respects the order!" ”

"Prepare for war!"

"Whoa!"

After all the commanders and generals left, Zhang Huangyan, who took the initiative to serve as deputy marshal after Sun Chuanting's arrival, still didn't figure out some things.

"My lord, our army needs a big victory, and Xia Guan can understand it, why did he choose the final battlefield in Xia Guan's station?"

There has not been much improvement in the battlefield of their three-way main generals in the imperial court, and there are many complaints about the news, even if Zhang Huangyan's foundation in the imperial court is not deep, but he can still think of it.

Therefore, when Sun Chuanting focused on the layout and formulated a choice for the Ming Dynasty army to achieve a battle that could achieve partial victory, Zhang Huangyan could also understand.

However, what Zhang Huangyan did not expect was that Sun Chuanting's ambition was so great, and the target he chose was not a partial division of the Hong Dynasty army, but a confrontation with his own army of more than 100,000 for more than a year against the main force of the third army on the eastern front of the Hong Dynasty.

"Then who do you think the governor should choose?"

Sun Chuanting looked at Zhang Huangyan with a smile and asked noncommittally.

"Xia Guan thinks that even if the adults don't win a battle in the layout design of the battlefield on the middle line, they should choose the Hanzhong defense line, where it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if the layout fails, our army can retreat calmly."

Zhang Huangyan replied in a wordy manner, which made Sun Chuanting both satisfied and a little disappointed, but thinking about Zhang Huangyan being able to think of this, it shows that he also thinks a lot about the battle situation on weekdays.