Although most of the Crane Army were recruits, being able to defeat an army on their own during the day still greatly boosted morale. This kind of victory made the recruits who first entered the battlefield extremely excited, and some of the guys who had made a lot of achievements became the envy of many recruits!

Although the gains have not yet been exchanged for money and titles, all the recruits will never doubt the credibility of Cao Gong. This is also the principle that Dai Yan has always pursued as Tao Qiujun: to win the trust of the people. After all, even Shang Ying's reform of the law knew that he wanted to build a log Lixin, so how could he ruin his credibility at will when he was in power in Taoqiu?

It is precisely with sufficient credibility that he can sell 200 million bonds in a single speech in Taoqiu, gather an army of 100,000, and let them go to the battlefield to fight for themselves!

Xiao Xiang can also understand the excitement of the soldiers. When he followed the lord to the battlefield in person, he was just as excited. But now that he is out of this level, as a general of the first army, he needs to make himself absolutely calm. Although he did not deliberately suppress the excitement of the recruits, after the defense was done, he ordered the divisions to rest immediately and extinguish all the oil lamps in the camp!

Due to the developed economy of Taoqiu, the production of whale oil from overseas is sufficient and the price is low, which makes oil lamps a common thing in Taoqiu. With plenty of whale oil, it has succeeded in lighting up the city. Although it has not yet reached the scale of the city that never sleeps in later generations, the night market has also begun to rise rapidly in Taoqiu and prosper. Most of the soldiers who have joined the army today are accustomed to the nightlife of Taoqiu, and they are naturally not used to the night without lights.

Even though the general turned off their lights, he couldn't stop their mouths! The soldiers were all lying on their beds and began to talk to their comrades about the war during the day, and they were all excited!

However, outside the barracks of the Crane Control Army, it was not so calm at this time. A middle-aged man in his thirties stared intently at the large camp of the Crane Control Army in the distance, and when the lights in the camp were completely extinguished, he was relieved.

Beside this middle-aged man, there are several sturdy generals. When these people saw the lights out in the camp, one of the generals immediately said to the middle-aged man: "Young master, can I start acting now?" ”

This middle-aged man is the son of Xiangguo Lecheng, and now the young master of the Le family, Yueqing!

For the request of his subordinates, Yueqing did not immediately agree. He told his subordinates: "Now is not the best time. Half an hour later, wait for all the Taoqiu troops to fall asleep before starting to move. This time, we must destroy this adventurous army and cut off the Taoqiu! ”

"No!" It is a calm and stable response channel.

As soon as half an hour passed, a number of armies immediately appeared around the camp of the Crane Army, and these armies were the main forces of Le's army. They were divided into eight teams and surrounded the large battalion of the Crane Control Army from all directions!

The structure of the Le's army at the grassroots level is no different from that of the Taoqiu army, all of them are formed by five people, and there is a captain; Ten people are one tithe, and the chief is set; Fifty people are a tun, and there is a tun chief; A hundred for a hundred, a centurion. Compared with the soldiers recruited directly from the city by Taoqiu, Le's army was recruited from various territories of the Le's family, basically a small village can gather a tun or a hundred soldiers, and the tun chief and centurion are mostly composed of the village's heroes!

In terms of the composition of the high-level military system, they are a little different from Taoqiu. The officers who command the five hundred soldiers, they are directly called the five hundred lords; And above the five hundred masters, there are two five hundred lords who manage two five hundred masters, that is, the commander! Above the commander of the thousand, he is the commander of the five thousand soldiers!

Each commander can independently command the entire army, and they are actually equivalent to the generals in the Taoqiu army! The selection of these generals is also different from the selection of Taoqiu soldiers. Because the soldiers of the Le clan are all from the territories of the various towns under the command of the Le clan, those who can recruit large armies from these territories are the leaders of each city, and they are basically the military attachés with the highest status in each province!

These military attaches are not all Le's people. Le was able to control them, first of all, naturally relying on Le Cheng's position in the Song Kingdom; second, relying on the various marriages between Le's and these characters; Third, it is the blood relationship between the low-level clan soldiers and the Le family!

Le's and different military attachés supported each other and formed a close alliance of interests. Now when Le's needs help, these people naturally stand up and fight for Le's interests!

Now these eight armies, a total of more than 40,000 people, are basically most of Le's strength. This time, all the young masters were drawn out, and I thought that Le's really wanted to teach Tao Qiujun a hard lesson!

Yueqing's idea is very simple: it is better to break one finger than to hurt people's ten fingers! They first used an army to provoke near Taoqiu, to see if they could lure a large army to come, if the Taoqiu army was fooled, then pretend to be defeated and retreated, lure the other party to the Great Plains, and then mobilize the main force of the Le clan to eat this army in one fell swoop!

His idea is indeed a very good war plan. However, he ignored a very important issue, that is, the combat effectiveness of the Le clan's soldiers was a little different from the Taoqiu army, and the army that was originally used as a bait to go to Taoqiu to provoke was only to be defeated, but as soon as it fought with the Taoqiu army, it was immediately defeated and became a real rout!

The huge gap in combat effectiveness between the two armies made Yueqing extremely interested in this Taoqiu Jun who was chasing over, and he thought that this army must be the elite of Taoqiu's army! If you can completely defeat it and swallow it, then you can achieve the goal of breaking the finger of the pottery mound!

The pursuing army, he had already received a detailed reward from the scouts. Knowing that this is an army of more than 10,000 people, he wants to completely eat such an army, and he is worried about the combat effectiveness of this army. Therefore, he changed the plan that had expected to surround the Taoqiu army with twice the number of troops, to quadruple the troops! With such a huge gap in strength, it would be foolproof to eat this Taoqiu army!

The recruits, who were excitedly discussing with their comrades in the tent, did not feel sleepy at all. And the victory during the day made them full of energy, the only regret is that the army during the day ran too fast, and they may not be able to catch up with this army!

Just when these recruits were eager to fight, suddenly a warning voice came from outside the camp! Numerous patrolling soldiers went back and forth between the battalions, shouting, "Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Get up now and get ready for battle! ”

The "wishes" of the recruits came true, and immediately there was no desire to continue bragging! One by one, they quickly got up from their beds, got dressed, took up their weapons, and under the leadership of their respective officers, began to fight back against the enemy's attack!

On the edge of the camp, a fierce battle broke out immediately! The soldiers of the Le clan and the soldiers of the Crane Control Army began to shoot frantically across the camp with the bows and crossbows in their hands! And at the camp gate of the camp, fierce battles also began to break out!

Yueqing was a little depressed when he saw that Tao Qiujun had sobered up so quickly, and the attack he had planned had turned into a strong attack. But he soon didn't care: his army was four times larger than the other side, and even if he attacked, he was in an absolutely advantageous position!

Eight armies, besieged from all sides, each capable of having more than 10,000 people, two armies! Yueqing ordered these troops, one to attack, while the other was to be monitored as a reserve to prevent the Taoqiu army from jumping over the wall and sending troops to break through!

In fact, Yueqing's practice of preventing the Taoqiu army from escaping was a completely meaningless move in the eyes of Xiao Xiang, the general of the Crane Control Army! As a commander with a keen sense of smell on the battlefield, when he led his army to the plain far away from Taoqiu, he already smelled a hint of danger! This is also the strategy that he made sufficient preparations before, built a well-fortified camp, and implemented the strategy of loosening the outside and tightening the inside!

Yueqing's attack on him did surprise him, but he didn't care! He also quickly analyzed the strategy of the Le's army, and the Le's army that had come to Puqiu to provoke before was a bait; After eating this bait, the other party thought of killing him!

The other party regarded himself as a fish that could be killed at will, which made Xiao Xiang a little angry! He decided that since he had become the target of the other party's hunting, he would simply use himself as a bait, so that the other party wanted to eat himself but couldn't eat it at all, so that the opponent's army would be completely exposed on the plain, and he would also become the target of his own lord!

He believed that his lord would not abandon him! I also believe that the Taoqiu army must have the strength to encircle and annihilate the other party! If this can be done and this battle can be won, then he will definitely have the highest credit!

He personally deployed and sent all four independent divisions down, and let them guard the camp gates on all sides, and be sure to hold the camp!

At the four gates of the camp, an extremely bloody battle immediately broke out! The soldiers of the Le clan holding bronze short swords, everyone shouted the slogan of "Heavenly Destiny Xuanniao, descend to give birth to business", rushed towards the camp gate desperately, and held a big knife, and also chanted the slogan of "Heavenly Destiny Xuanniao, descend to give birth to business", and directly engaged in hand-to-hand combat!

The corpses quickly piled up near the camp gate, and all kinds of stumps and broken bodies fell everywhere on this land, and the land near the camp gate was completely stained red with blood, and the weapons that fell on the ground even began to float directly!

The soldiers on both sides, whether it was the Le's people who had farmed in the villages before, or the common people who had fought with hope in Taoqiu City, had already been red-eyed by this cruel war at this time! And the two sides also did not know each other before, and began to have a bloody hatred!

For the soldiers of the Le clan, the Taoqiu people on the opposite side killed their brothers, uncles and other relatives; As for the Crane Control Army, the relatives and comrades-in-arms who had fought with them and came to join the army together died in the hands of the Suiyang Army, which also made them swear to avenge their relatives and friends!

And both sides belong to the descendants of merchants who worship ghosts and gods, and they are far less afraid of death, which makes the cruelty of war even more serious! In less than an hour of fighting at the camp gate, the number of dead and wounded soldiers had exceeded 8,000!

The Crane Army occupies an excellent position in defense, and the number of casualties is much smaller than that of the enemy, but there are more than a thousand people! And the heavy losses of thousands of casualties among the Le clan soldiers made Deyueqing's heart bleed! However, in order to achieve victory, he still ordered the army on all sides to intensify the attack, and prepared the other four armies that had been watching all the time, so that they were ready to replace the friendly forces that were attacking the camp gate, and did not give the opponent the slightest respite!

Just as his order was about to be given, the situation on the entire battlefield quietly changed!