For the ancient army, real night battles rarely happen, one is because many soldiers in this era have blindfolded eyes, and they can't see at all, and then night battles can easily cause chaos, and their own and enemy soldiers are mixed together, no matter how strong the combat power can not be played, and in the end they can only lose both.

Therefore, fighting at sunrise, collecting troops back to camp at sunset, and fighting during the day is the norm of fighting at this time.

Chen Yue didn't plan to attack the Western Army camp at night, he just sent troops out of the city to attack and harass in turn, paralyzing the tired Western Army, making it impossible for the Western Army to rest, and the next morning when he was tired and hungry and had no strength was a good opportunity to attack with all his strength.

In addition to the more than 10,000 elites of the main force scheduled to fight, Chen Yue eliminated the remaining soldiers who suffered from blindfolding, and then divided them into three groups and took turns to go out of the city to attack and harass.

Each group of soldiers numbered more than 10,000 people, each of whom carried a torch, and the rest of the soldiers carried weapons and equipment, and after leaving the city, they approached more than half a mile from the west camp and began to line up in array. In front of the array, a large number of horse-resisting antlers were placed, shields and spears were erected, and a defensive array was placed in the direction of Xiying, and then a noise began to be made.

Sure enough, when he heard that the Ming army was attacking, he immediately caused an uproar in the entire western camp, and without waiting for the officer to pass on the order, all the soldiers took up their weapons, and the ninja was so hungry that Yuguan walked out of the camp.

Under Zhang Xianzhong's order, the whole army was strictly guarded against the attack of the Ming army. However, after waiting for half an hour, the Ming army was still clamoring half a mile away from the camp, and had no intention of attacking the camp.

Zhang Xianzhong suddenly understood that the Ming army was feigning an attack to exhaust himself. Naturally, he couldn't let this happen, if he let the Ming army make noise all night, all the soldiers would not be able to rest well, and they would not be able to retreat smoothly tomorrow.

Zhang Xianzhong then ordered Wang Shangguo, the former military governor, to take 20,000 soldiers out of the camp to attack and defeat this Ming army.

Night combat is very unfavorable to both the enemy and himself, and Zhang Xianzhong does not want to fight at night unless he has to, but he cannot let the Ming army's treacherous plan succeed.

After Wang Shangguo led the troops out of the camp, he tentatively launched an attack on the Ming army, the Ming army played a large number of torches, and even a few huge bonfires were lit in front of the array, and the whole array was placed there to see very clearly, but the western army was hidden in the dark after leaving the camp, and the situation seemed to be favorable to the western army.

However, before Wang Shangguo and his men approached the Ming army's array, the sound of "boom" artillery and firecrackers rang out, and the Ming army actually brought dozens of tiger squat cannons, which were placed in front of the array, and they were loaded with gunpowder and fired by the bright light of the bonfire.

Before approaching the Ming army's array, his subordinates were shot down, looking at the antlers placed under the bonfire, and then looking at the Ming army's strict formation, Wang Shangguo knew that it was too difficult to attack head-on, so he divided his men into 10,000 people, divided into two teams and went around the two wings of the Ming army, and adopted a three-sided attack strategy.

Wang Shangguo believed that as long as an army was inserted into the Ming army's array, it would inevitably cause chaos in the Ming army in such a nighttime situation, and it would not be too difficult for him to attack and defeat this Ming army.

In charge of directing this attack in the Ming army was the deputy general Xiao Bing, who was ordered to command this night attack. Before leaving, Chen Yue specially instructed that this battle was not to really kill the thief army, but just to exhaust the thief army.

Therefore, when it was discovered that the thief army was divided, Xiao Bing decisively ordered the whole army to retreat, and the soldiers carried their horses, lifted the tiger squat cannon, and retreated. When Wang Shangguo led his troops to pursue, he was shot by the Ming army behind the palace, and when he wanted to continue to chase despite the casualties, he found that he couldn't catch up at all.

When it was dark, all of his soldiers were not even half full, so where did they have the strength to be hungry? Not only did they not have the strength or the desire to catch up and fight, now that the Ming army had been driven away, everyone was willing to attack at night again.

Zhang Xianzhong, who led the troops back to the camp, did not criticize him, he ordered the whole battalion to continue to rest, but set aside two armies to guard against the possible re-attack of the Ming army. Zhang Xianzhong believes that the Ming army will never be counted like this, and there will definitely be a follow-up.

Sure enough, within half an hour, there was another earth-shattering gong and drum sound, and a Ming army pressed towards the camp with torches, which caused an uproar in the whole camp of the western camp.

Zhang Xianzhong immediately sent an army out of the camp to meet the attack, and it was necessary to give color to the hateful Ming army.

However, this western army was not two miles out of the camp, but it was suddenly attacked by a storm from the side, and a Ming army quietly moved to the flank of the western army without torches, and suddenly launched an attack.

The flank was attacked, and the Ming army on the opposite side was not far away, and the western army immediately collapsed, and the soldiers cried and threw away their weapons and fled to the camp. And the Ming army took the opportunity to chase after the rout and attack the big camp.

His own army was defeated, Zhang Xianzhong was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered to mobilize more troops to strictly prevent the Ming army from taking the opportunity to attack the camp. At night, if the Ming army really attacked the camp, it would have to cause an uproar or even a rout in the camp, and then it would be really defeated!

The drums of the gathering troops sounded, and all the soldiers of the Western Battalion who had just laid down sat up again, took up their weapons and began to assemble. However, the Ming army did not seem to have any intention of attacking, and immediately retreated after encountering strong resistance when attacking the camp, and began to line up not far from the camp.

However, this attack of the Ming army had already frightened the whole camp, and the soldiers of the Western Army even panicked the wounded, and the panic before and after lasted for more than an hour.

Looking at the array of Ming troops holding countless torches in the distance, Zhang Xianzhong hated the root of his teeth, and at this time he didn't understand the Ming army's tricks. But the problem is that he doesn't have much to do about the Ming army's strategy.

In addition to the blatant torch-wielding Ming army, I don't know how many Ming troops are hidden in the night, and they are waiting for the opportunity to sneak attack when they come out of the camp to attack.

The only thing that can be done now is to hold the camp tightly and guard against the attack of the Ming army.

Zhang Xianzhong gave the order to go down, leaving half of the army on guard, and half of the army going back to the camp to sleep. It was already more than half of the night, and the soldiers in the whole battalion were exhausted, thinking about tomorrow's retreat plan, Zhang Xianzhong felt a headache.

After dawn, will your soldiers still have the strength to retreat? Is the Ming army trying to exhaust themselves, or is they really planning to fight a decisive battle with themselves? Could it be that Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi State, has already seen through his plan to retreat?

Looking at the array of the Ming army in the distance, Zhang Xianzhong was deeply suspicious.

At this time, it has reached the fourth watch, there is not much time before dawn, the soldiers of the Western Army who are tired for most of the night, tired and hungry, have no strength in their bodies, in this case, whether they attack the city or retreat, there is not much strength, at this moment Zhang Xianzhong fell into deep despair.