After thinking about it for a long time, Zhu Youlang felt that the night attack was a kind of trick, and the effect was really good if it was unexpected, so it avoided a frontal field battle with the Qing army, plus the morale was high, and the military spirit was available, so he approved Jiao Lian's night attack on the Qing army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In fact, the reason why Jiao Lian is so anxious to see the merit is mainly to compete with the water division to control Yu Long, that Yu Long just threw himself into the city and made a great achievement, the battle of Beijiang annihilated the main force of the Qing army's water division in one fell swoop, and forced to kill Shi Lang, the commander of the Qing army who was proficient in water warfare, and he was almost equal to him in terms of merit, Jiao Lian, as the commander of the land division, followed the emperor when he rescued him from Wuzhou, and boasted that he was the descendant of the Son of Heaven, so he was naturally unwilling to be able to compare the Lu division with the side water division that had just been recruited, so he tried to overwhelm Yu Long in terms of military exploits, Let the Son of Heaven see that the combat power of the Lu Division is no less than that of the Water Division.

Although he was anxious to achieve success, Jiao Lian did not act in a hurry, and in order to ensure the success of this sneak attack on the Qing army, he also made full preparations in advance. He sent a small soldier to disguise himself as a local villager, and took the opportunity of selling grain and horse material to the Qing army to find out the location of Li Chengdong's camp and the deployment of troops. This time, Zhu Youlang learned a lesson, and after approving the night attack plan, he did not interfere in specific military affairs from the side, but just sat in the city, and Jiao Lian was fully responsible for dispatching and commanding the night raid.

According to Jiao Lian's battle plan, he personally selected 3,000 men and horses from the 4,000 guards as the vanguard to serve as the sneak attack, and selected 3,000 people from the guards and rebels as the follow-up echelon to be responsible for responding. The remaining thousands of rebels in Qingyuan City guarded the Son of Heaven and took precautions. Jiao Lian believed that Li Chengdong's battalion had less than 20,000 soldiers, and the other sub-battalions each had several thousand men and horses, and they were several miles away from each other, so it was not easy to support at night. He had 3,000 elite soldiers, and he was attacking at night, and the Qing army would inevitably be at a loss at that time. As long as the plan succeeds, it will definitely be able to inflict heavy losses on the Qing army and achieve victory.

Two days later, at night, the moon was hidden in the clouds, and it was dark all around, under the cover of night, Jiao Lian personally led 3,000 carefully selected night attack troops, quietly came out of the south gate of the city, and went straight to the Qing army base camp thirty miles away, Jiao Lian's purpose was very clear, that is, to take advantage of the Qing army's sleep in the middle of the night, unexpectedly launched a surprise attack on the Qing army camp.

There are 500 cavalry in the 3,000 night attack troops, they are ready to enter the Qing army camp after the foot soldiers have succeeded in the sneak attack, and then enter the Qing army camp to kill, the horsemen have wrapped cloth heads on the horses' hooves, so that the war horses will not make a sound when walking, in order to avoid the war horses neighing, scaring the snakes, and attracting the attention of the Qing army sentries in the Qing army camp, they put a bamboo halter on each horse, so that the horses can not make a sound.

When the night attack troops arrived at a small hill not far from the Qing army camp, Jiao Lian saw that the Qing army camp was glowing with candlelight and the sound of fighting was endless, and there seemed to be nothing unusual, so he ordered the whole army to stop advancing and send spies to reconnoitre. After a while, the spies reported that the Qing army camp was no different from usual, and Jiao Lian was overjoyed, so he ordered the whole army to attack.

However, when the Ming soldiers who attacked at night broke into the Qing army camp, they found that many camp accounts were empty, and there was no Qing army. Jiao Lian led his troops to attack several empty camps, knowing that the secrets had been leaked and fell for the enemy's plan. So, he hurriedly ordered the front army to change to the rear army, and urgently retreated, when the Ming army just withdrew from the Qing army camp and came to an open field, a deafening shout of killing suddenly sounded in the fields on all sides.

It turned out that when the rescue force of the Ming army had just broken through the encirclement of Qingyuan, Li Chengdong was extremely concerned about the movements of the rescue army that had wiped out the main force of his own naval division. Began to consider the aftermath of the siege of the army, he is a battle-hardened commander, and a veteran trained in decades of wars with the people's army, once in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places all the way to victory, less than a year to fight to Liangguang, in addition to the destruction of the two emperors, thirteen cavalry to take Guangzhou, the war achievements are impressive, creating a great miracle in the history of war.

However, since the end of last year's expedition to the west, his good fortune seems to have run out, first stopped at Wuzhou, and then stopped in Qingyuan, and the two fortifications could not be exhausted, at this moment the army was alone, the grain route was cut off, and he was in a dilemma, and he saw more than anyone the unfavorable situation in which his army was in and the crisis that would soon occur.

Since the main force of the naval division was destroyed and the rescue troops of the Ming army entered Qingyuan City, he clearly understood that he was already in a very passive and dangerous situation strategically, and now the best way out was to safely withdraw to the base camp in Guangzhou, but it would be very difficult to do this without losses. On the one hand, Li Chengdong sent a grain collection team to step up the plundering of grain, and on the other hand, he discussed with the officers and staff under his command in the battalion to study ways to break through the predicament. Li Chengdong sat in the handsome tent and was at a loss, so he had to see the moves, and take one step at a time.

A few days ago, the Ming army launched a tentative attack, he deliberately withdrew his troops to avoid the battle, showing the enemy to be weak, and at the same time sent dozens of traitors to work carefully, pretending to be farmers, merchants sneaked into the city of Qingyuan and around the water and land camps of the rescue army, spying on the movements of the Ming army, when he learned that tomorrow Ziqin led the reinforcements to arrive under the city of Qingyuan, Li Chengdong increased the intensity of detectives, and when the night attack plan of Zhu Youlang Junchen in the city was introduced, when the righteous soldiers were selected as candidates for the night attack, because the righteous army was not strict, he was carefully explored, and he quickly got the news.

A miracle happened! Li Chengdong was overjoyed after receiving the report, and hurriedly summoned his confidants and staff to urgently discuss and carefully make arrangements for this night attack of the Ming army.