At the time of the third watch, the originally noisy Ming military camp has slowly quieted down, except for the footsteps of the patrolling soldiers and the neighing of horses from time to time, the whole camp is silent, as if everyone has fallen asleep.

And a few miles north of the Ming Dynasty, the army led by Hua Dang has quietly touched out of the mountain depression, the army of 30,000 people was silent when advancing, all the horses were stuffed with wooden sticks in their mouths, and even the horses' hooves were wrapped in sheepskins.

The distance of only a few miles, if it is placed in the daytime, as long as you ride on a horse, it will be almost instantaneous, but in order to prevent being detected by the Ming army in advance, Hua Dang ordered all the people to dismount and go, and specially selected those more remote places that are not easy to be discovered, and as a result, these miles of road are enough for them to walk for an hour.

It wasn't until it was two miles away from the Ming military camp that Hua Dang ordered the whole army to stop advancing, after all, this distance was already very dangerous, if it weren't for the lack of moonlight today, he would never dare to get so close. However, this distance is also just right, and when they ride their horses and charge, the distance of two miles can just increase the speed of the horse to the maximum, and whether they can succeed at that time depends on the strength of both sides, as well as the luck of both sides?

"Immortal Heaven bless me Duoyanwei, kill!" With a shout from Hua Dang, all the Duoyan Wei cavalry who had already mounted their horses immediately urged their horses to gallop, and in front of them was the military camp of the Ming Dynasty, in order to protect their people from harm, they must drive the Ming army out of the grassland.

As soon as Duoyanwei's cavalry attacked, the soldiers patrolling the Ming military camp also immediately noticed it, and the shouts of "enemy attack" were heard endlessly for a while. The sleeping Ming soldiers heard the enemy attack the camp. Immediately jump up and pick up arms. Rushed out of the tent and lined up under the command of the officer, waiting for the officer's order, because Zhengde had repeatedly told him to be careful of the enemy's night attack, so the soldiers sleeping outside the camp tent did not take off their armor, and directly lay down and slept, although this was uncomfortable, but it was better than cutting off the head when the enemy was sneak attacking, and the soldiers inside and outside were rotated. The army that slept on the perimeter guard today will be able to sleep well in the tent inside tomorrow.

Hua Dang also didn't expect the reaction of the Ming army to be so rapid, and even when his front army had just come into contact with the soldiers patrolling the periphery, there were already Ming soldiers coming to reinforce in the rear, and these soldiers were fully armored and armed, as if they had known that they would attack at night. This also frightened the sneak attack of the Duoyanwei cavalry, thinking that the Ming army had already prepared, and when they thought of this, they immediately demoralized the cavalry of Duoyanwei, after all, everyone was already prepared. Maybe there will be more powerful back-ups, in case they are surrounded by the Ming army. That's the end of the army.

Zhengde was already asleep, and when he heard that Duo Yanwei really came to sneak attack, he also jumped up from the ground at once, and wanted to rush out with an arrow step, but unfortunately he was stopped by Gu Dayong, because Zhengde was not wearing armor at all now, and now it is so chaotic outside, plus he can't see clearly at night, in case there are arrows that hurt Zhengde, then even if they kill Duo Yanwei, this battle is not won.

Zhengde also knew that Gu Dayong could listen to his own words in other things, but when it came to his personal safety, Gu Dayong would not let himself have any safety hazards even if he died, so he could only resist the impulse in his heart and let the little eunuch around him serve him as soon as possible to put on the armor, but his armor was very cumbersome, and it took a long time to put it on every time, which made Zhengde very annoyed, and at the same time swore in his heart that he must design a set of armor that was easy to wear for himself by the Ministry of Works.

When Zhengde put on his armor and came to the outside of the camp, the guards he brought immediately surrounded him in the middle, and the group hugged Zhengde to the north of the camp, which was the main area of Duoyanwei's sneak attack, and now the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty also spontaneously gathered to the north of the camp, but because the sky was too dark, not only could not see the number of sneak attack Duoyanwei cavalry, but even Zhengde wanted to command the Ming army It was a little difficult, because in the dark night he didn't know how many Ming troops participated in the battle.

However, fortunately, Zhengde had already prepared for a sneak attack by flowers in advance, so the army of the Ming Dynasty had already prepared, for example, the soldiers who lived in the periphery did not remove their armor, and they also explained to the generals in advance, so although the army of the Ming Dynasty participated in the war was chaotic, at least it could block the cavalry of Duoyanwei out of the camp, and even there were already artillerymen who pushed the artillery to the front of the formation, and kept firing at the cavalry of Duoyanwei, although the lethality of the artillery to the cavalry was limited, but the huge sound produced by the artillery could be extremely effective in intimidating the opponent's war horse. Confuses the opponent's cavalry formation.

Night fighting has always been a taboo for soldiers, not to mention in the era of the Ming Dynasty, even in later generations, night fighting is equally difficult, and the night is a double-edged sword, if used properly, even weak soldiers can kill enemies who are much stronger than themselves, and in turn, if strong soldiers fail to make good use of the night, they are likely to be killed by the other party.

However, night is not something that anyone can use, there have been countless wars on the Central Plains throughout the ages, most of the wars have occurred during the day, and sometimes even when the two armies fight until night, they will each collect their troops, and would rather give each other a chance to rest than fight at night, which shows the difficulty of night fighting.

Of course, in the ancient and modern war examples, there are also some wars that occur at night, but as long as you study them carefully, you will find that unless most of these war examples are sneak attacks, and for the sneak attackers, if they fail to cause great chaos to the other side at the beginning, and then cause the collapse of the opponent's army, then the next war will become a mess, if you use an image metaphor, that is, two blind people are fighting, you can't see me, I can't see you, two people can only wave their fists indiscriminately, as for whether they can hit the enemy, It's all up to your luck.

Now Zhengde and Huadang are in this situation, Zhengde can't see Huadang's offensive line, and he can't see how many troops his side has gone out to block, Huadang is the same, since his cavalry was blocked by the Ming army, he has lost most of the command, at most he can only command thousands of people around him to continue to attack the Ming military camp, as for the other cavalry, all can only be mixed with the Ming army.

Both sides fought in the dark, although there were torches to illuminate, but the light of the torches did not play much role at all, and sometimes there were even cases where their own people beat themselves. Speaking of which, this is a bit unfavorable to the Ming army, because they have a large number of people, and they are trapped in the camp, such a narrow distance, and they can't see the enemy's enemy clearly, so it is easy to accidentally injure their own people.

"Please give the general the order to let the Admiral use flares!" Just when Zhengde was also anxious about the chaos in front of him, suddenly a young general on a horse galloped over and shouted at him.

"Flares?" Zhengde was stunned when he heard this, and in his impression, he didn't seem to have heard of this term.

The young general was also a clever man, and when he saw Zhengde's appearance, he immediately understood, and immediately reported loudly again: "Your Majesty, the flare was specially developed by His Royal Highness King Zhao, and its principle is the same as fireworks, all of which are to shoot gunpowder into the sky, and illuminate it with the white light emitted by the burning of gunpowder, although the time is very short, but it is enough for us to see the situation on the battlefield!" ”

When Zhengde heard the young general's explanation, he suddenly remembered that when he came to Liaodong before, Zhou Zhong asked people to send a batch of new gunpowder weapons, which seemed to have this flare, but unfortunately he didn't care about it at the time, let alone understand the use of these gunpowder weapons in detail, and now it seems that this flare was invented for night fighting.

"General Denmoto's order, use flares immediately!" With Zhengde's order, someone immediately rushed away, and the young general wanted to go with him, but was stopped by Zhengde, because he felt that the other party was a little familiar, but for a while he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

"What's your name?" Zhengde looked at the young general in front of him and asked, although this young general is wearing armor, he is relatively delicate, if he changes to a Confucian shirt, I am afraid that he will become a suave scholar, which makes people dare not believe that he is actually a military general.

"Your Majesty, the last general Xu Cheng, is a military cadet of Zhengde for ten years, just graduated this year, and was assigned to serve as a hundred households in the Xuanfu Army. When the young man heard Zhengde's question, he immediately bowed down and replied, and his attitude was neither humble nor arrogant, and he knew at a glance that he was a young man who was polite and polite.

"Xu Cheng?" Zhengde was stunned for a moment when he heard this name, and then laughed and said, "I remembered, you are the grandson of Xu Na, the Duke of Wei, and you also entered the palace to visit me, and in that military academy mounted archery competition, you were the only military cadet who reached the finals, but unfortunately you lost to Jiang Bin in the end, I didn't expect you to graduate now." ”

Hearing that His Majesty the Emperor still remembered himself, and could also remember that he participated in cavalry and archery at the military academy, Xu Cheng was also very excited, and immediately saluted Zhengde: "Your Majesty is wise, the last general thought that his archery skills were unparalleled, but he didn't expect that there would be a person in this world who was as skilled as General Jiang, so the last general was also convinced." ”

Zhengde saw that Xu Cheng was so modest, and thought that when the other party was only a teenager, he was already able to compare with a battlefield warrior like Jiang Bin in riding and archery, which made Zhengde also have a good impression of Xu Cheng, although the battlefield is not a place for gossip, but Zhengde still asked Xu Cheng a few words, and then let him leave.

Just when Xu Cheng had just left, Zhengde's order finally had an effect, only to see a series of thunderous sounds suddenly sound in the Ming military camp, and then a cloud of light suddenly erupted in the sky, illuminating the entire Ming army camp like daylight. (To be continued......)