A large number of scouts spread out from Zhu Yuanzhang's army, spreading towards the surrounding woods, hillsides, fields, and ravines...... This is a huge scout team that even Cao Wenzhao, who has experienced a hundred battles, has never seen before, and its total number has reached as many as 1,000 people, divided into 20 teams of 50 people to attack in all directions...... With so many scouts scattered, a huge scout circle was suddenly formed, spreading outward in a circular state, enveloping all the surrounding places that might hide the scouts of the officers and soldiers, and the total number of scouts was less than a hundred, how could it be possible to compete with such a huge scout team? I had to give up spying on the thieves and retreated.

At this time, in the camp of officers and soldiers directly east of the thief camp, Cao Wenzhao was frowning and listening to the news sent by the scouts: "General, the thieves have opened a very exaggerated scout net, as many as five hundred scouts have come out of the camp and scattered in all directions, and the scouts of our army have been forced to retreat and stop monitoring the thief camp. ”

"What? A thousand scouts? Cao Wenzhao's nephew Cao Bianjiao was bluffed by this amount: "What are you doing with so many scouts?" ”

"It's called a scout blockade!" Cao Wenzhao sneered: "The thieves want to use this method to block our army's scout operations, and they want to blind us and can't grasp their next move." Well...... Do you remember? Not long ago, we also heard that there was a person named Baishui Zhu Ba, who used the method of spreading fake scout nets to play Du Wenhuan, the chief soldier of Tingsui......"

Cao Bianjiao nodded: "Remember!" After Bai Shui Zhu Ba did this, Du Wenhuan thought that the main force of the thieves was in the center of the scout circle, and ended up chasing in the wrong direction...... The main force of the thieves had already secretly turned around and fled elsewhere. Oh, I see, uncle...... You mean, lighting the lamp is also using the same tactic? ”

Cao Wenzhao nodded: "The thieves have shallow knowledge and don't know many tactics, after Baishui Zhuba used the tactics of scout blockade, it may be widely spread among thieves, and then he was learned by the lamp and wanted to use it on us, right?" It's really stupid, these two battle examples are fundamentally different, Luochuan is a flat river, and Zhu Ba was not surrounded by Du Wenhuan, at that time, it was possible to get out of the siege with a scout blockade. But the situation in front of him is different, the lamp is surrounded on three sides, and one side is backwater, this guy actually copied Zhu Ba's tactics, is there a fart? I didn't need a scout, and I knew he was camped by the river. ”

Cao Bianjiao was learning to fight with his uncle, so he asked: "That means that lighting the lamp is a waste of effort, what does he want to do?" ”

"There's only one possible surname!" Cao Wenzhao said in a deep voice: "He used the method of scout blockade to drive away the scouts we sent out to monitor the thief camp, and when our army lost news, he used the small number of boats to escape to the side of the Yellow River. ”

"I see!" Cao Bianjiao suddenly said: "This is the same trick that Zhu Ba used to play Du Wenhuan, always to get out." ”

"Hmm!" Cao Wenzhao stood up suddenly, and ordered the people around him: "Send an order to the north camp and the south camp, send troops at the same time, attack in three ways, and take advantage of the opportunity for the thieves to cross the river and escape, and wipe them out!" ”

"Yes!"

As soon as the order was issued, the officers and men immediately took action, and it was worthy of being the most elite Liaodong border army, from receiving Cao Wenzhao's order to send troops to the completion of the soldiers' preparation and departure from the camp and formation, it was just a flick of a finger. These people's equipment is very rich, hanging knives with guns, bows, mandarin ducks, and jackets are the necessary equipment for elite soldiers, and there are more than 100 of them holding three-eyed eye guns in their hands.

What is this so-called three-eyed god gun? In fact, it's a fire gun with three barrels together! When firing, three bullets are fired with a "bang", which is more powerful than an ordinary bird gun, and of course, the three barrels can also be ignited in turn to achieve the effect of three shots in a row. This is the favorite firearm of the Liaodong Border Army, because it can not only be fired continuously, but also has a large weight, and can also be used as an iron rod after the bullet is released...... Not only the soldiers are prepared quickly, Cao Wenzhao sent out to inform the heralds of the north and south battalions to move faster, and they have already rushed out of the horses a few miles away, these heralds have been dealing with the Tartars on the Liaodong front for several years, and their equestrian skills can be described as perfect, it is not an exaggeration to say that at this time in the Ming Dynasty, no one can compare with the scouts and heralds of the Liaodong border army in equestrianism, as long as they let them fly and run, no one can intercept the orders they want to transmit, even the scouts of the Tartars cannot do it.

Cao Wenzhao was draped all over his body, shining armor and silver spears, leading his nephew Cao Bianjiao and several hundred household officials, followed by a thousand elite soldiers, and left the camp at the fastest speed, and rushed straight towards the Yellow River.

After leaving the camp for a mile, Cao Wenzhao's eyes swept to both sides of the road, and a large number of thief scouts appeared on the hillside next to the road, these scouts monitored the camp of the officers and soldiers with a small team of fifty people, and after walking not far, he found three teams of scouts...... Cao Wenzhao didn't pay attention to them at all, and didn't even bother to pursue them, he only needed to go straight to the bank of the Yellow River now.

In his mind, the thieves must be desperately squeezing the boats and fleeing across the river in disarray, but it doesn't matter, as long as his army arrives quickly, the thieves will only have time to run out of the small ferries with low carrying capacity, at most a few hundred people, and all the others will be intercepted by him by the river.

Unexpectedly, Cao Wenzhao miscalculated this time, his army had just left the camp for three miles, turned a cliff, and as soon as his vision opened, he saw a large area of black and oppressive human heads appear in the open space in front of him, and as far as the eye could see, there were at least 7,000 people, which were the main young and strong troops of Zhao Sheng, who lit the lamp, and the person who led the army was Zhao Sheng himself!

Ordinary generals suddenly saw that the road ahead was cut off when they were marching rapidly, and they were inevitably panicked, but Cao Wenzhao was very calm and actually laughed: "I see! You took advantage of the scout blockade to transfer all the young men in the army here and block them in the middle of the road...... Zhao Sheng, are you planning to use yourself as bait to protect those old and weak women who successfully escaped? ”

"But!" Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but praise and said: "You can have the consciousness of sacrificing your life to cover the retreat of your subordinates, but it impresses me." ”

"No, I didn't appear here to cover the old and weak women, but to defeat you!" Zhao Sheng laughed.

"Just your seven thousand?" Cao Wenzhao said in a deep voice: "Don't think that 7,000 people are amazing, I will rely on the 1,000 people in my hand to defeat your 7,000 people without much effort." ”

"Who said there were only seven thousand?" Cao Wenzhao suddenly jumped out of the back of an army, this army was from the slopes on both sides of the road, drilled out of the woods, in fact, Cao Wenzhao had already found them when he was marching just now, but he didn't care, because these people were the scout team released by the thieves, a group of fifty scouts, one after another from both sides of the road, a team ...... Both teams ...... Three teams...... Team 10...... Fifteen teams...... Twenty teams...... The thieves and scouts were apparently well-trained, and when they came out of the road, they quickly merged together without receiving any orders, and almost in the blink of an eye, they merged into a beautiful formation, full of spears and neatly groomed...... There were also archers who shot their feet.

"Huh? This is the 1,000 reinforcements from Shaanxi * West......" Cao Wenzhao was slightly vigilant in his heart, this thousand people are not easy to mess with, looking at the appearance of the army, you know that it is not easy to be with the generation, and from the neat movements of the people who just got out of the woods, from a plate of loose sand to forming a military formation, the combat power of this army is at least equivalent to the level of Tingsui elite soldiers, at least after more than three years of training, they have fought real tough battles...... "I see...... Sending up to a thousand scouts is not just to block my news, but to scare away our scouts at the same time, to break a thousand troops into zero, disguise them as scouts and disperse them outside my camp, and then suddenly turn them into pieces and cut off my retreat! I thought that these 1,000 scouts would scatter to the north and south camps at the same time, and it seems that they were all piled up on my east side. Cao Wenzhao couldn't help laughing: "Ha, interesting, very interesting...... It's not easy for these 1,000 people, to achieve such a beautiful instant formation, I'm afraid it will take countless times of hard training...... Hahaha......"

He laughed a few times, not showing a trace of cowardice in the slightest for being surrounded by the enemy's 8,000 troops, but snorted coldly: "You have come to surround me with all your strength, the 8,000 soldiers who can fight are all here, and the more than 10,000 old and weak women who stayed by the river will completely lose their protection, my southern and northern battalions, after receiving the order, will rush to the river as fast as possible and capture the families of you thieves, are you still in the mood to fight with me here?" ”

As soon as his words fell, a young man came out of the 1,000 elite thieves behind him, this person's eyes were deep and sharp, and his gestures carried a kingly spirit, it was Zhu Yuanzhang, he said lightly to Cao Wenzhao: "Seeing that the situation is not good, have you started to use a strategy to attack your heart?" The old and weak women of our army are not working for the generals, in fact...... They're right here! I'm not going to surround you with just 8,000 men...... Instead, more than 20,000 people in the whole army will be arranged here, vowing to surround you to the point where you have no way out! ”

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang's words fell, behind Zhao Sheng's 8,000 people, a large number of heads poured out of the ground, it was the more than 10,000 old and weak women, these people had no combat effectiveness, but they were victorious, once they appeared, they scattered in all directions, and outside the encirclement of Zhao Sheng and Zhu Yuanzhang's two armies, a circle of black pressed human heads was surrounded...... "Surrounded like this, it's really difficult to fly with wings!" Cao Wenzhao laughed: "It's interesting, it's so interesting...... Hahaha...... Light the lamp Zhao Sheng, your resourcefulness is really beyond my expectations......"

(To be continued)