After discovering the conspiracy of the thief army, Du Yinxi decided to plan and set an ambush trap.

According to the agreement with Feng Yuan, the gentry of Yueyang, he sent He Gang to attack the city with three thousand wolf soldiers, and privately sent the chief soldier Wang Shicai to attack the east gate.

In order to confuse the Yueyang thief army to take Yueyang City, Du Yinxi did not tell the wolf soldier general Long Ao the truth, but allowed the wolf soldiers to fall into an ambush in Urn City to contain the defenders in Yueyang City, and while the southern city was fighting, Wang Shicai led the main force of the Ming army to sneak attack the east city and attack the city. This is the arrangement for attacking Yueyang.

And for the thief army that secretly peeped at him, Du Yinxi also set a trap. He believed that as long as he did not send troops to attack the city, the thieves would definitely attack his camp. He set a trap in the camp and ordered his soldiers to rebuild the barracks and set up artificial barriers. Of course, due to the rush of time, it can only be arranged in the simple appearance mentioned above.

Of course, because the thieves attacked at night, they didn't find any clues at all.

A large amount of firewood and hay were piled up on the roofs of the barracks, and a large number of haystacks were piled up in the gaps between the barracks, and oil was poured on the top of several haystacks, and large barrels of gunpowder were buried.

When most of the thieves invaded this camp, under the order of Du Yinxi, the Ming archers fired rockets, ignited the barracks, ignited the oil and gunpowder, and the huge explosion made the sparks fly wildly, and the ignition range was even larger.

It was March, and the land was dry after a long time of rain, and once the fire was lit, it spread rapidly.

Seeing the sudden fire around him, the thief sergeants fell into a panic all of a sudden, and some hurried forward to extinguish the fire, and the front continued to fight with the Ming army, while some soldiers in the rear had already begun to retreat.

Seeing the sudden fire in the camp of the Ming army in front, Bai Wenxuan, who commanded the rear, was stunned, and he thought that it was set on fire by his own soldiers during the battle, in order to cause a riot in the Ming army. However, the fire grew bigger and bigger, and many of our soldiers fled in horror.

"What's going on?" Bai Wenxuan was shocked and angry. Several guards rushed out of the ranks, quickly retrieving a deserter.

"General, the Ming army suddenly set fire, and we were ambushed!" The deserter cried out in panic.

Ambush! Bai Wenxuan was shocked, and hurriedly stepped on the horseback with both feet to take a closer look, and saw that countless fires were lit in the depths of the Ming army's camp, and they were connected into more than a dozen curved huge lines of fire, and between each of the two adjacent lines of fire, his own soldiers were crying and fleeing in embarrassment.

Once the fire was ignited, it was unstoppable, and it was bearable at first, several generals of the Western Army on the front line were still commanding their men to attack the Ming army array, but as the fire became bigger and bigger, the temperature suddenly increased, the scorching smoke, even the smoke and roasting, the soldiers near the fire could not even breathe, who could continue to attack?

The two lines of fire seemed to be far away, and they couldn't burn in the middle, but the heat and smoke alone made people unable to gain a foothold, and they had to retreat again and again.

Who still has the heart to fight at this time? Dodging the fire is the right thing to dodge.

However, as soon as they retreated, it turned into a rout, and all the thieves wanted to escape, thinking about staying away from the sea of fire, and what else did they care about commanding the formation? At this time, Bai Wenxuan was by his side, and I was afraid that no one would be willing to obey his orders.

Fortunately, the fire forced the thieves to flee in disarray, and the Ming army could not catch up at all. The thieves who escaped from the fire gasped one by one, looking back in horror at the raging fire behind them.

Finished! Looking at the soldiers who fled back one after another, Bai Wenxuan secretly screamed badly. He knew that the commander of the Ming army had just let go of this opportunity to attack.

At this time, it is important to talk about attacking the camp of the Ming army, or to desert as soon as possible.

Bai Wenxuan didn't say much more, beat the horse like flying, and rushed towards the outside of the Ming army camp with hundreds of guards around him.

"General!" The five thousand soldiers arranged in the south of the camp looked back in horror at the raging fire in the camp, and the generals led by them exclaimed at Bai Wenxuan, who was rushing over.

"The whole army retreats!" Bai Wenxuan didn't say more, and fled to the southeast in the lead.

The whole army was defeated, and it was impossible to reorganize the ranks, the defeat was already decided, and if they did not flee in time and wait for the Ming army to attack, it would cause even greater riots, and there were probably fewer who could escape safely. Bai Wenxuan, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, naturally knows what the consequences will be.

Sure enough, before Bai Wenxuan could escape far, the Ming army had already bypassed the fire from the north side and attacked the defeated Western soldiers.

The number of soldiers in the Western Army was still far above the Ming army at this time, but because of the fire, it was already a big chaos, the soldiers could not find the generals in the dark, and the army that was not organized in the rout, no matter how many people there were, it was just a group of lambs to be slaughtered. When a rain of arrows accompanied the Ming army, tens of thousands of Western troops scattered, and countless soldiers threw away their weapons, took off their armor, and fled wildly into the darkness.

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The camp was still burning, and the morning light had fallen, and I saw that the whole camp was in a mess, with swords, guns, weapons, flags and corpses everywhere, around a pile of bonfires, and the Ming army who had fought hard all night was eating breakfast.

When the thief army was defeated, Du Yinxi did not order his soldiers to chase after him from afar, he was afraid that the Ming army would also lose its formation in the dark night and become a chaotic battle.

This time, Yueyang was defeated, and the thief army was defeated in a sneak attack, and a complete victory was achieved.

However, there was no time to count the results of the battle, and the soldiers who had rested for a while and had breakfast were sent out by the team of Plug Yinxi to chase and encircle the thief army.

The thief army was defeated, and it was impossible to assemble to form a combat force in a short time, so it was a good time to pursue and kill.

Not only the soldiers in the battalion were Wang Shicai He Gangbu in Yueyang City, but Du Yinxi also passed down an order, ordering them to send troops to chase down and kill the thief army.

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Bai Wenxuan sat on the hillside, surrounded by more than 200 soldiers. Nearly 30,000 troops broke up overnight, and there was no way to gather at all, and most of the 5,000 soldiers who fled with Bai Wenxuan were gone.

Bai Wenxuan sent more than 100 men to gather the rout, and he continued to walk north with more than 200 soldiers, the farther away from Yueyang, the safer it would be.

set up a strategy and led nearly 30,000 troops to attack the Ming army, but fell for the tricks of the Ming army, and the whole army was beaten and scattered, which made Bai Wenxuan depressed, and he didn't know how to go back to face the Anxi general Zhang Dingguo.

Fortunately, although the rout, there were not many soldiers who were really killed by the Ming army, and a large number of rout soldiers were brought back under the gathering of the pro-soldiers, and the number of soldiers under the hillside became more and more, and when it was close to noon, more than 15,000 people had gathered, and they recovered slightly.

However, most of these 15,000 people were empty-handed, and they had already lost their weapons and armor, plus all the food and baggage, although they were numerous, they had no combat effectiveness at all.

"General, a group of Ming troops is chasing from the south!" A sentry scout flew over and said to Bai Wenxuan.

Bai Wenxuan sighed, "The whole army continues to retreat and retreat to Wuchang!" ”