"Commander, something is wrong!"

Zhan Wenbo, who didn't sleep well all night, had a premonition come true, and Tian Laosan and the three people, who rushed back before dawn, truthfully reported the news they had detected to the upline one by one, and then urgently woke up Zhan Wenbo and reported it to Kong Youde.

Kong Youde was woken up from his sleep by Zhan Wenbo, and he was somewhat resentful, but when he saw Zhan Wenbo's heavy face, the mood that he just wanted to nag for a few words was suddenly suppressed, and he forcibly raised his spirit and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"The scouts sent out by his subordinates last night found a large-scale lurking Ming Dynasty army in the direction of more than twenty miles southwest of Xiangcheng, at most a day's trip."

"The scouts due west have not heard back until now, and my subordinates are worried that there will be other Ming Dynasty troops lurking."

"Among the scouts sent during the day yesterday, there was no trace of the teams in these two directions, combined with the report of the scouts in the southwest direction last night, the subordinates believed that the Ming Dynasty army had an ambush in Xiangcheng."

"What?"

Kong Youde's whole person was like being drenched from head to toe by a bucket of ice water, and the last trace of sleepiness was gone.

"Is there any definite information, how many Ming Dynasty troops were detected?"

"At least more than 20,000, but because it was a night reconnaissance, our scouts found that the other party was heavily guarded when they approached the reconnaissance, and finally left two people to continue the investigation in more detail, and they came back to report the news first."

Zhan Wenbo replied in a deep voice.

"It's impossible, if the number of defenders in their Xiangcheng decreases, we will fight with them for more than ten days, and it is impossible not to detect it!"

"Unless they have reinforcements from elsewhere!!"

Kong Youde frowned and pondered, and finally raised his head and instructed Zhan Wenbo: "Send a few more scout teams out, and be sure to find out if there are enemy troops lurking in the direction of due west!" ”

"No, the scout battalion is still a little poor, and sending a few teams of members from the special operations battalion to investigate, not only due west and southwest, but also in the southeast direction can't be careless!"

"Don't be idle in the scouts, all the hands are scattered, I need to know all the changes within a radius of fifteen miles from our military camp!"

Thinking that if the enemy really set up the overall situation and let himself be like an urn, it is impossible to withdraw now, unless Kong Youde and they are willing to give up the huge supplies and artillery ammunition they have carried.

In this way, the possibility that they can escape from the encirclement safely is also very small, you must know that the Ming Dynasty army in Xiangcheng still has at least 70,000 infantry, confronting their own side.

If the other party does not hesitate to delay his own time for a day, it is just an easy thing to do.

However, fortunately, things have not yet reached the most critical time, and the cautiousness of Zhan Wenbo, the director of the aircraft division, allowed his side to detect the ambush of the Ming Dynasty army in advance, at least so that he would not completely fall into a passive situation.

"Pass on my order, the Hongchao army in the city on the front line quickly evacuated the city, and at the same time set up a minefield in the city position to delay the pursuit of the Ming Dynasty army."

As soon as the scouts and special combat personnel were sent out, Kong Youde immediately made arrangements for the deployment of the army.

"Commander, isn't it a bit of a fuss, if the other party only has this ambush army, my Chinese army of 15,000 people, I can eat it, I can't just give up the results of the battle!"

Gong Yewei, the commander of the Third Brigade, who was temporarily called to discuss the military, seemed to be unsatisfied, looked at Xiangcheng, which had been eaten by them, and said unwillingly.

"Xiangcheng is there, sooner or later, it's our Hong Dynasty, I can't run!"

However, there are also people who agree with Kong Youde's arrangement, that is, Deng Jichang, the commander of the First Brigade of Kong Youde's confidant.

"But if it is really a trap set by the Ming Dynasty army, then our 30,000 soldiers who go deep into Xiangcheng will be in great danger, if we don't withdraw in time, when the other party's layout is completed and the attack is really launched, I'm afraid it will not be so easy to get out of the city."

"As long as it is a head-to-head duel, with the strength of our musketeers and artillery regiments in the field without cover, we are absolutely sure that we will have the upper hand against the enemy attack twice as large as our army!"

The answer given by the commander of the first brigade was indeed from the perspective of their front-line warfare mixed officers, so the commander of the third brigade did not refute it after listening to it.

"The first brigade commander is right, our Third Army actually has greater concerns, that is, the main forces of our eastern front are all in the Xiangcheng battlefield, if the main force is damaged too much here, then it is not the same news for the situation on our eastern front!"

As a military commander, Kong Youde considered a more long-term perspective than their middle-level officers, and said something that they had not thought of for the time being: "Don't forget, if you talk about the straight-line distance with Beijing City, my eastern front is the shortest distance among the fronts. ”

"If the enemy succeeds in ambushing the main force of our army here and defeats most of our army, it means that there will be a defense gap in our Shandong defense line for at least a month in the next month, and if the other party goes north from this line to Beijing City, it will have a great impact on the other two defense lines."

With Li Tianyang changing the name of Jingshi to Beijing and establishing the Great Hong Dynasty here, Beijing City became the royal capital of the Hong Dynasty, so its important position in the government system of the Hong Dynasty naturally rose.

“…………”

Several brigade commanders woke up one after another, and their hearts were shocked, thinking that if such a situation really happened, then where would their Third Army still have the face to meet with their colleagues in other armies!

"Therefore, in my opinion, instead of continuing to risk attacking Xiangcheng, it is better to take precautions while the other party has not completed the siege network, even if it is worth being conservative."

"The commander thinks about it!"

The officers were moved by Kong Youde's words and echoed one after another.

After receiving the order to retreat, although it was not clear what the upper-level officers were pumping, the duty of the soldiers to obey the military orders penetrated into the bone marrow of the soldiers of the Hong Dynasty.

"My lord, the movement of the Hong Dynasty army on the other side is not right, are they aware of it?"

Zhang Huangyan, who had been paying attention to the army of the Hong Dynasty, noticed that something was wrong at the first time, and hurriedly came back to report to Sun Chuanting.

"I didn't expect that until now, the vigilance of their Hong Dynasty army is still very high, and there is no mistake in dealing with it, I can't complain that we have been at a disadvantage on the battlefield all these years!"

Sun Chuanting was not surprised, in fact, when the three-way army she arranged yesterday reported that a large number of Hong Dynasty army scouts had been discovered and strangled, Sun Chuanting already had a premonition of being detected.

"Pass the order, all battalions in Xiangcheng will be put into a counterattack, and the Hong Dynasty army must be left in the city!!"

"Wow!!"