The sky was white, and there were still embers curling in the camp of the Northern Army, which had slept all night, accompanied by the smoke of the cooking of the gang, and finally drifted over the camp, like a faint morning haze.

Yang Cunzhong, the training envoy of the Guizhou regiment and the right commander of the Ping Navy, stood on the ruins of a sentry tower, but he felt that his face was burning hot, as if the northerners had scraped through the palm fiercely, and he could not calm down.

You must know that he is almost with his own pro-military troops, unable to sleep at night, and waiting until dawn.

At the end of the night, although the specific casualties were only 100, it was disturbed because of this, and the loss of spirit and morale was difficult to estimate.

Originally, he sent troops to attack and seize the enemy camp, but he planned to take advantage of these foreign aid divisions, and the camp was not stable and his position was chaotic, and he just took the opportunity to make a profit.

As a result, the night attack was unsuccessful, and more than 1,000 brave jumping battalions who attacked were attacked by guarded dense firearms, and less than 30% of them were really returned.

But he was also followed by the other party and came back from the counterattack, and harassed him with firearms for a whole night, which was undoubtedly a kind of taunt and slap in the face of eating fruit.

And so far, even the sentinel with the best eyes can't clearly describe the scale and means of the opponent's sneak attack. These enemy soldiers were longing for people outside the camp, and it was almost elusive and confusing.

Most of them could only see a flicker of fire in the darkness, and then among the patrolling sergeants, they found someone spurting blood and falling to the ground and suffering casualties.

Then, sporadic fire bombs were thrown from the north corner of the camp through the trenches and pits, and although they only lit a few watchtowers and a fence, the light of the fire that spread briefly disturbed the horses in the nearby field stables, and a group of horses broke free from their restraints and wooden fences, and ran around the camp, causing much confusion and accidental injury.

Thanks to the army's excellent quality and habitual experience on the battlefield, it quickly calmed down, but many people's drowsiness was also lost.

Because he couldn't bear the disturbance, he angrily led a cavalry out of the camp and rushed to the direction of the projection, but not long after leaving the camp, he encountered the bombardment (actually a pre-buried ground mine) and gunfire of the southern army, and the mount was frightened and could not be controlled.

And in the darkness, there were many enemy soldiers, who were clamoring and pounced like rain, and had to blow the horn for help, and ordered the brigade of infantry to rush out of the camp to meet them, and only then did some wolves get out again.

It's just that after the arrival of the large group of men and horses, these enemies have long disappeared, and the search of the local area found that in addition to the dead of our own army, there are almost no corpses of the incoming enemy, only footprints all over the ground, and a few bloody pits.

Then the rest of the generals, for fear of an ambush in the dark, refused to continue to search for a longer distance in the dark.

After dawn, Yang Cunzhong found that he had folded two generals under his account, first selecting the general Miao Fu, and the leader went out to attack the camp and never returned, I am afraid that it has been more auspicious; Then the horse army on the right side knew Liu Zhengyan, went out of the camp to ask for the enemy to be ambushed, fell from the horse by the secret artillery of the southern army, and after the soldiers rushed back to the camp, he was seriously injured and died.

In addition, more than a dozen officers, including generals, commanders, generals, and team generals, were killed and wounded by lead pellets that suddenly flew to the camp wall while leading the team to patrol the camp wall.

How did he explain to the little envoy Zhang who patted him on the shoulder and gave him a heavy responsibility.

"The commander, the left military department and Sheng Weiwei have already responded......"

A junior colonel walked up to him and bowed down

"In addition......"

He paused

"The sentry cavalry has been determined, and the main battle flag in the opposite formation has been replaced with the wind and thunder flag of red and purple lightning and the paw print flag of the four regiments......"

Yang Cunzhong sighed again, in his long military career, even the wind, frost, rain and snow that could freeze people to death on the side did not make him sigh a few times.

He actually regretted it a little, and in order to restore and expand his combat strength, he gathered those Henan soldiers under his command and mixed them with Antonlai's soldiers, and as a result, he also brought in some of them, which were obviously rumors and depression that shook the morale of the army.

Nonsense and tension such as "the new army is less than 10,000 and invincible" began to spread rapidly after the appearance of the opposing army, and with the left flank of the failed sortie.

With the ups and downs of the war, the war of public opinion between the north and the south also continued, and all kinds of claims and notices were always unguardable, appearing in the control areas of the northern dynasties.

Before, no matter how many Northern Dynasties the other side claimed to have defeated, it could be regarded as an exaggerated boast of the Southern Dynasties, but under the town of Fugou in Xuzhou, the destruction of the Shenbiao army and the fiasco of the Huangliang cavalry in Haozhou were confirmed by those who participated in the incident.

Therefore, after the partial defeat in Yunzhou, Hebei Xingtai, which planned to cross the river and attack, once reported some pessimistic worst-case plan, but fortunately, the more tricky one is just this way, and the forced crossing in other aspects is unbelievable.

The local soldiers and people of Ji and Qi prefectures even took the initiative to lead the way for the officials and soldiers, and tens of thousands of troops easily defeated the local southern army, leaving only a few large remnants of the army and a strong fortress.

As a result, the southern army in Yunzhou moved again, quickly broke through the follow-up Hebei soldiers, and bit up.

For this southern army that only appeared in the back road, the commander in chief of the armies did not fail to consider countermeasures, such as eating or severely injuring this stubborn enemy who bit his tail.

Therefore, after the main army crossed the river one after another, a bureau was set up on the south bank of Jishui, and at least two armies of men and horses were temporarily left on the spot, preparing to ambush the left wing of the new army that was chasing south, and to do the thing of attacking halfway, but they did not want to wait for a small cavalry team under the banner of the new army.

As a result, he took it as a precedent and let it go, and Bai wasted two days in the local area. The other party has already killed in Qizhou.

By the time they turned back again, they would already have tens of thousands of soldiers, which should not be underestimated. In addition, the head of the local defenders has been converging, and it is even more powerful.

Therefore, even he did not have a complete grasp of his many years of experience and retreated, and it was reasonable that he would rather let go of the momentary humiliation and personal shame, and also send messengers to ask for help from friendly neighbors......

In the camp on the other side, the firewood smoke and hot air of the cooks were also dispersed, the breakfast was steamed cakes and canned meat stewed bean soup, and the soldiers who had not yet put on armor held weapons in groups to carry out some kind of team confrontation nature to eat and warm up, so that the spirit and physical strength could reach a certain optimal state.

And in the chilly morning breeze, I was personally meeting with the warriors who had participated in the night raids, and I commended them for showing the majesty of our guerrilla army and the unwarranted momentum.

This was also another relatively successful joint operation of the capture team, the training team, and the hunters, and although the overall use of only two or three hundred men was not enough, it succeeded in a certain cold gun and cold artillery movement, which caused a disturbance to the enemy's large camp all night.

It was only after dawn that I noticed that not far away was a large lake with a thousand sparkling waves, gradually revealing itself in the mist that had dissipated in the morning light.

The camp of the Shenji Army is located at a fork of a river not far from the lake, so it is very convenient to obtain water sources, and even dig a few holes on the spot, so there is naturally shallow water seeping out.

"Where is this ......?"

I asked, left and right

"Return to the military marshal...... This is the ...... of Weishan Lake."

A Marquis Yu with a portable map replied.

Hearing this familiar name, I couldn't help but hear a piece of music in my head: "The sun in the west is about to set, and the water of Weishan Lake is quietly ......"

I shook my head, trying to shake out this chaotic sense of time and space reversal, to bring my attention back to reality, and began to arrange their own defense points and priorities for the generals gathered under the tent.

After all, this was my first experience in commanding, or coordinating, a large corps of operations, albeit temporarily.

On the grounds that the Shenji Army was inconvenient to move, Guo Tongzhi decided the sequence of the battle in front of the army, and my army was the main one, so I also gained the temporary dominance of the front of the battle.

Therefore, in terms of the specific arrangement, with the men and horses of our headquarters as the core, the three battalions of the main battle plus the five brigades of the auxiliary army, the first and second lines in the center and the forefront.

The heavy firearms unit of the Shenji Army is the second to serve as the precursor and suppression of the battle, and after the headquarters has engaged the enemy, they must also follow up and cover and work together to further break through the enemy's position.

As for the other lightly armed firearms sequences of the Shenji Army, I left them in the rear to guard the camp and protect the baggage on the grounds that the tactics were different.

Several of the friendly forces I brought were merged into the left wing, and the Fang La Division, which was quite tenacious in style, was the strongest; The local infantry army of the Shenji Army was combined into the right wing, and the strongest left Xiaowei on paper was the first formation.

For them, I don't seek merit but no fault, and it is good to be able to follow up in time and cover both sides of my own formation.

Pacesetters and instructors with mounts, deployed a little farther along the lakeside, as peripheral mobile and reserve units, and as a surveillance of friendly forces on both flanks;

The survival team and the guerrilla team are on the east and west sides, acting as a guard on the edge of the battlefield.

The large and small artillery trucks of the artillery regiment are arranged horizontally between the main battle battalion and the auxiliary brigade on the front line to provide support and fire reinforcement nearby.

And the Qinzhi Regiment stayed with me in the third column of the formation, together with the heavy equipment troops of the Shenji Army, not only to supervise nearby, but also to prepare for emergencies.

This kind of prosaic and most modest to safe tactical arrangement is mainly due to my lack of confidence in those friendly forces.

Therefore, it is enough to expect them to be able to form a formation on the battlefield to protect themselves, even if they are waving the flag and shouting soy sauce, they can more or less contain and deter some enemies on the battlefield, and they dare not put all their strength into it.

With the sound of drums and trumpets rolling across the field, the northern army on the opposite side also took the initiative to camp and lined up to meet the battle.

But the first to warm up were those who ran outside the camp of the wandering army and the army, those rangers, sentry horses,

They displayed their riding skills and skills in groups of three or five, like flying and circling falcons, chasing each other and galloping on their horses, and then briefly and rapidly staggered together.