As night fell, the camp of the Western Army of Nuoda gradually fell into darkness, except for the troops on patrol duty, most of the soldiers lay in the barracks and could not sleep.

During the day, in order to have the strength of his subordinates to attack the city, Zhang Xianzhong had to make the soldiers who participated in the siege eat their stomachs, and as a result, more than half of the remaining food was consumed, and each soldier could only drink one bowl of gruel at night, even the wounded soldiers.

This is also an important reason why Zhang Xianzhong is unable to attack the city again, he can't let his subordinates go hungry to attack the city, right?

The taste of hunger is too unpleasant, especially those soldiers who have been seriously wounded, but they can only lie in the cold barracks, and the hard resistance of lack of medicine and less food can be imagined. Therefore, although the military discipline is strict and noisy at night, the sound of sobbing and moaning is loud. And the officer in charge of military justice could not prevent this situation.

Standing at the door of the tent, looking at the camp that fell into darkness, Zhang Xianzhong frowned, he could feel the sad mood and extremely depressed atmosphere of the soldiers in the camp. This situation has appeared many times in Zhang Xianzhong's life's battles, and each time he is facing a desperate situation.

This time, I will definitely be able to save the day and regroup as before! Zhang Xianzhong pursed his thin lips and clenched his fists.

Tomorrow's evacuation has already been summoned and arranged by several generals, and it is waiting for tomorrow morning to take place. Zhang Xianzhong glanced at the camp again, and when he turned around and was about to return to the camp tent, there was a sudden noise in the direction of Jiujiang in the distance.

The sound was faint, accompanied by countless fires in the distance. The Ming army actually went out of the city to attack at night! Zhang Xianzhong was shocked, and then saw a horse rushing along the wide passage between the tents, the cavalry with bright torches in their hands, but it was the soldiers in charge of the sentry who came to report the news.

"Report, Your Majesty, the Ming army is coming out of the city, and it is only five miles away from my camp!"

"Knock knock" accompanied by the words of the sentinel, and the dull sound of gongs and drums sounded, which was the sound of the Ming army's marching, which resounded throughout the whole camp, and the entire battalion was awakened.

Thousands of torches lit up the sky, like fire clouds, floated from the Jiujiang River in the north towards the Western Army camp, and the whole ground shook with the footsteps of the Ming army.

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The five provinces of Jiujiang passed through a little distance, and with the withdrawal of the western army one after another, the hustle and bustle of the day of fighting stopped. After inspecting the city wall and comforting the wounded soldiers, Chen Yue returned to Jingluo Xingyuan as usual.

Today's western thieves seem to be attacking the city like crazy, which has brought great pressure to Jiujiang, because the elite troops have withdrawn from the city, only ordinary soldiers and strong men are in a hurry to defend the city, resulting in the western soldiers attacking the city wall several times.

However, after more than a month of defending the city, even the most ordinary recruits gradually matured, and slowly began to fight in style, although the thieves attacked the city wall several times, but they could not gain a foothold at all.

However, from the frenzied attack of the Western Army for a day, Chen Yue saw other meanings. The consequence of such a frenzied attack was a large number of casualties, under the fire of artillery and various firearms and crossbows at the head of the city, tens of thousands of corpses of the Western army under the city, and the entire battlefield was universal.

In the past, after each siege, the defenders would tacitly allow the Western army to take away the corpses. And at the end of this battle, the Western Army did not even send soldiers to clean up the battlefield and bury the corpses, so they let a large number of corpses lay across the battlefield, which made Chen Yue see a big difference.

Could it be that the Western Army doesn't even have the strength to clean up the battlefield and bury the corpses? Thinking of the fact that the Western Army had burned all the military rations, and this time so many troops were dispatched to attack, Chen Yue smelled a strange smell.

After returning to Xingyuan, Chen Yue immediately ordered someone to call the officers of the Enemy Intelligence Division who were responsible for investigating the enemy's situation.

In Chen Yue's army, the Enemy Intelligence Department was responsible for probing the enemy's situation, and several of them were responsible for probing and observing the enemy's camp at various city walls, and were responsible for recording data for the commander's reference. In charge of this was a general flag officer, with a dozen or so soldiers.

"How is the smoke in Xiying cooking today?" Chen Yue asked.

"Back to Grandpa, the number of stoves cooked by the thieves this morning is not much different from the past, but the number of stoves cooked at night is only thirty percent of that in the morning." The general flag said.

"Are you sure the number of stoves in the morning is the same as usual? What about yesterday morning? Chen Yue hurriedly asked.

"The subordinates confirmed that this morning was the same as usual, but yesterday morning was about 20% less than usual." General Flag Road.

"I see!" Chen Yue suddenly understood.

The army wants to burn a fire for cooking, and the number of soldiers that can be supplied when cooking is naturally certain, so in ancient times, there was a strategy of increasing troops and reducing stoves, reducing troops and increasing stoves to confuse the enemy.

By observing the amount of cooking smoke during cooking, it is natural to be able to distinguish the number of stoves. Now that the Western Army is short of food, it is natural that the food supplied to the soldiers is much less than in the past, and this situation can be distinguished by observing the number of stoves when cooking.

The Western Army is short of food, and the soldiers naturally can no longer eat as usual, and it is normal for them to be half-full or even hungry, which can be observed from the number of stoves during cooking yesterday.

Recently, in order to attack the city, the thief army had to give the whole army a full meal, which made the already small amount of food even worse, so the soldiers of the Western Army were half-full at dinner, and they didn't need to cook so much food, and the soldiers didn't need to burn so many stoves.

"After a day of onslaught, not only did a large number of soldiers be killed and wounded, but I am afraid that the only food left in the Western Army is not much!" Chen Yue muttered, "Maybe tomorrow they won't be able to continue." Since there is no hope of breaking through Jiujiang, and there is not much food left, what will Zhang Xianzhong do next? Definitely going to retreat! ”

Gu Junen and Lu Zhenfei were deeply convinced of Chen Yue's analysis.

"The thieves will not attack again tomorrow, and the little food they have left will definitely be saved for a full meal when they retreat, so that they can have the strength to escape. Even if the thief army does not retreat overnight tonight, it will not exceed tomorrow. Lu Zhenfei said.

"That being the case, we must not allow the thieves to escape. They ate a little bit for dinner, and they were hungry and had no strength, so we simply sent troops to attack at night, and they could not rest at night after the night had passed, and we would launch a general attack early tomorrow morning. Then we will see if they are tired and hungry, and if they have the strength to resist our attack! Gu Junen suggested.

The plan of the three was decided, Chen Yue issued a military order, the whole army was fed, and the ordinary soldiers went out of the city in batches to harass them, so that the western army could not rest. The 10,000 elites, who are the main force, rest normally, waiting for the dawn to launch a general attack.

At the same time, he ordered the firehead army to rush to prepare food overnight, and the meal for tomorrow morning was also ready. Sufficient food is the greatest advantage of the Ming army over the Western army!