After understanding Jiang Chuan's expected goal, everyone was excited and discussed how to fight again.

In the end, after discussion, a final decision was formed: Ran Wu led 8,000 cavalry to intercept the rear army of the Ming army in a roundabout way, and try to find an opportunity to seize all the heavy grain and grass of the Ming army. If it cannot be captured, it will be burned and burned out, and it must not be left for the Ming army.

And it is necessary to defeat the rear army of the Ming army and prevent it from merging with the Chinese army.

The remaining 2,000 cavalry led by Shanjia lured and harassed the front army of the Ming army, lured its light troops to break through and attack Erlong Valley.

Jiang Chuan himself took Liu Ji and Baishan to sit in the valley, commanded the defenders of the fortress to use the advantage of the fortress to stick the front army of the Ming army, and used the fastest attack method to crush the morale of the front army of the Ming army, and then 2,000 cavalry attacked from the rear, and the defenders in the city attacked from the front, attacking from both sides, and solving the front army of the Ming army before the arrival of the Ming army.

In the end, 10,000 cavalry converged with the main army to encircle the Ming army, so as to achieve the goal of encircling the Ming army and capturing Yuan Chonghuan.

Of course, a plan is a plan, and the enemy is not a marionette who will not be at your mercy according to your intentions, and any unexpected situations will occur on the battlefield, so everyone discussed several sets of plans to deal with possible unexpected situations.

After the discussion, everyone dispersed, and Ran Wu and Shanjia received the order to go to the military camp to transfer troops.

Baishan went to the head of the city, and checked all kinds of city defense measures again, Liu Ji's task focus is still on civil affairs, if the people know that this time it is the Ming army to attack, after all, they were all Ming people before, so there will definitely be a little fluctuation in the heart, Liu Ji has to go to prevent this kind of emotional fluctuations so as not to give birth to any chaos.

However, Jiang Chuan suddenly became the most idle person, and he could just do a good job of centering and scheduling.

In the evening, when the cold began to surge, the gate of the fortress of Erlong Valley was opened, and 10,000 cavalry quietly ran out of the city gate, heading to the southeast, and after galloping forward for twenty miles, I heard that there were already scouts who had discovered the sudden increase in the number of scouts of the Ming army, and Ran Wu judged that the Ming army should go out of the city tomorrow, so he divided his troops with Shanjia here.

He himself led 8,000 cavalry to the north, intending to make a detour back to the rear of the Ming army to intercept the rear army of the Ming army.

The 2,000 cavalry carried by the mountain armor were hidden in the nearby mountains and forests, and once the main force of the Ming army was discovered, they would appear to attack and harass.

The original two blockade lines were also withdrawn according to the plan, leaving only one ten miles away from Erlong Valley as a warning.

If the blockade is too tight, and the Ming army cannot get an accurate view of the battlefield, it will be cautious step by step, which will not be conducive to the Jiang army's implementation of the established tactics.

After everything was ready, it was time for the Ming army to enter the urn.

In the early morning of the next day, the mighty 50,000 Ming troops marched out of the military camp in Datong and headed northwest. The whole team stretched for more than ten miles.

The 10,000 horses led by Cao Bianjiao took the lead as the front army.

Cao Bianjiao, who was sitting on a horse, was tall, with a strong physique, a pair of eyes with a pair of eyes flashing, wearing a mountain armor, wearing a phoenix-winged helmet, the red tassels fluttering on the top of the helmet, and the big red cloak behind him hunted in the cold wind of the early morning, setting off the image of a heroic and warlike general.

The soldiers around him also looked at the chief soldier with convincing and adoring eyes. The core force of this 10,000-strong horse is the original team that followed Cao Bianjiao to suppress the Kou in the Central Plains, and this time as the core formed the front army of the bandit army.

Yuan Chonghuan led 30,000 horses as the Chinese army, and kept a distance of less than 20 miles from the front army.

In the end, there were 10,000 rear troops of Hong Chengji, escorting the heavy grain and grass hall to the rear.

It can be said that this time 50,000 troops were dispatched to attack the Jiang family's army, which was already Yuan Chonghuan's greatest importance to the Jiang family's army. If you really just treat the Jiang family army as an ordinary thief army, there is no need to dispatch an army of 50,000 at all, maybe tens of thousands of horses are already very face-saving.

You must know that it is not so easy for the army to go out alone, the organization wants to be cumbersome, and the consumption of food, grass, military salaries, etc. is also amazing.

Therefore, it can be said that Yuan Chonghuan has basically taken out all the strength he can take out in order to deal with the Jiang Jiajun this time.

With such a large formation, Yuan Chonghuan actually had illusions about subduing the Jiang family's army, a powerful team. He hoped that the best result was that the kid surnamed Jiang saw that the army was pressing, and the army was mighty, and then trembled and feared, bound himself out of the valley and surrendered, and he angrily reprimanded him, and then he could be generously exempted from the crime of arrogance, and then given a small military position, and then this army of tigers and wolves became his own.

Yuan Chonghuan even felt that this result was the best result for that kid who didn't know the height of the sky. If the kid surnamed Jiang is smart enough, he should know the current affairs and act like this.

Of course, if this kid still doesn't know the current affairs, then he doesn't mind giving him a thunderous blow, knocking out his arrogance, and letting him know what the real battlefield is like, so that guy will be afraid and surrender on his knees.

As for the failure of this operation, Yuan Chonghuan never thought that it would fail. In his opinion, if he can't level a small thief army with an army of 50,000 himself, then he is too unworthy of his name, and he has no face to live in the world.

Therefore, the word failure did not come to mind at all in his expectations.

And he couldn't think of a reason why he would fail.

The army of 50,000 marched in three sections, heading in the northwest direction.

The Ming army did not have many cavalry, and although the border army had more cavalry, it only made up 10,000 cavalry among the 80,000 border troops in Datong.

And these 10,000 cavalry have not yet been used intensively, but are distributed in various battalions. On this expedition, only 8,000 horsemen were dispatched. Among them, 5,000 cavalry were distributed to Cao Bianjiao's front army.

The Chinese army had 2,000 cavalry for reconnaissance, herald and escort Yuan Chonghuan.

Hong Chengchou's rear army only had 1,000 cavalry.

Therefore, the ratio of cavalry and infantry of each army was very different, and as they walked, the originally prescribed distance of twenty miles gradually became larger and larger.

Cao Bianjiao's front army had already run more than 30 miles in front of the Chinese army, and the forward cavalry of the front army had even run 50 miles away.

And Hong Chengchou's rear army was already more than 30 miles away from the Chinese army because of the drag of grain and grass.

The march of an army of this size, and a mixture of infantry and cavalry, was not much faster. Therefore, when the sky was approaching at dusk, the farthest advance army had traveled less than eighty miles. The Chinese army only traveled fifty miles. As for the rear army, it was less than thirty miles.

In early winter, the sky is dark, the sunset is hidden behind the mountains, and the twilight is quickly covering the earth.

And the various units of the Ming army also began to order to stop the advance and began to camp.