I have to say that the quality of the border army is really not covered, surrounded by thieves who are several times the number of their side, and the four directions are constantly attacking in turn, but the officers and soldiers are still as stable as Mount Tai, except for the east side that was attacked by Zhu Yuanzhang's army at the beginning and suffered heavy casualties, the other three sides are not moving.

Cao Wenzhao rode a tall horse, sitting in the middle of the Chinese army, because the horseback was relatively high, so his vision was also relatively broad, and soon he saw that the 1,000 Xiaoyong elite thief army in the east was slowly retreating, and finally gave the eastern front to the lantern army with poor combat effectiveness.

"Good! These thousand elite soldiers are finally tired! Cao Wenzhao's heart was relieved: "A thief soldier is a thief soldier after all, even if this thousand people are much more elite than ordinary thief soldiers, but the thief soldiers who have not undergone cruel training are not as good as my border army after all." ”

The officials may wonder if it is really okay for a main army to retreat in the heat of battle. When Cao Wenzhao saw the enemy's main force retreating, why didn't he think it was a ploy?

In fact, the withdrawal of the main army from the battle line is a very common thing in ancient legion wars, human beings are not machines, and fighting a war is tiring. Therefore, in ancient legion battles, after a period of time, the tired soldiers would be withdrawn and replaced with energetic reserves. Because of this, the side with more troops should have a great advantage in terms of the physical strength of the soldiers, and the surplus soldiers can be used to attack the enemy in turns, so that the side with fewer people cannot get enough rest, and finally is exhausted to death.

In Cao Wenzhao's view, the strongest 1,000 thieves chose to retreat at this time, and they should be physically exhausted and should retreat to rest. This was great news for him, as it would make it easier for his army to hold on until reinforcements arrived. Although there were still 7,000 thieves on the periphery, in his opinion, without the 1,000 elite thieves, these 7,000 rabble would not be a problem at all.

But he didn't dare to choose a hasty assault when the enemy's main force retreated, because the main force that retreated was still the main force, and maybe as soon as he broke through, people would rejoin the battle, which was not a good thing, and it was better to hold firm.

What Cao Wenzhao didn't expect was that Zhu Yuanzhang's 1,000 elites had no intention of retreating to the side to rest at all, but advanced directly to the north and met the 1,000 soldiers on the north road of the officers and soldiers.

At this time, the place where Cao Wenzhao was located could be regarded as an intermediate point, and on the distance of half an hour from the north and south, there was a team of officers and soldiers rushing to arrive, each with a thousand people. Zhu Yuanzhang ignored the army coming from the south, but directly faced the one from the north...... Half an hour was not a long time, the Northern Route Army was coming to the south, and Zhu Yuanzhang took the initiative to meet the north, so it only took a moment for the two armies to meet on the north side of the central battlefield. This place is not far from the main battlefield, and you can even hear the shouts of killing coming from the battlefield over there, and you can pass the figures of a large group of old and weak women scattered around the battlefield.

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his back to the old and weak women and opened the military formation, facing the 1,000 officers and soldiers who came in a hurry.

Xu Renjie's palms pinched a handful of sweat: "Brother Zhu, let's use a thousand against this thousand, can we do it?" Just now, against the 1,000 people personally commanded by Cao Wenzhao, we were surrounded on all sides, and the 8,000 army fought for a while and failed to completely defeat it, but now it has become a thousand against a thousand, and it is a head-to-head duel, without being surrounded on all sides, this battle is only very difficult to fight, right? ”

"No, this battle is not difficult to fight!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled slightly: "There is a very huge difference between this thousand people and the thousand people led by Cao Wenzhao. ”

"Huh? What's the difference? Aren't they all 1,000 elite border troops? Xu Renjie said.

"That's it...... Cao Wenzhao himself is not here! Zhu Yuanzhang smiled.

"It shouldn't be a big problem if he's not there, I don't think he plays much role in the army over there, but he just rides on a horse and stands in the middle of the formation to press the formation, like this kind of legion battle with a relatively small number of people and a not complicated battle situation, the command role of the general is very small." Xu Renjie asked curiously.

"Yes, his command is not very large, but ...... Whether his soldiers could see him with their eyes or not was a big question. Zhu Yuanzhang smiled.

"Uh...... What does this mean? Xu Renjie was puzzled.

"Well, it's almost time to unbundle the whole arrangement." Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "Inform the whole army, prepare to surprise the enemy army with 1,000 people head-on, and defeat them in an instant." ”

"Prepare for a full-fledged assault!"

"Prepare for the assault!"

The heralds spread the order with their mouths, and then the captains of the various hundred-man teams also began to shout, and then it reached the ears of the ten-captain, and then layer by layer, to the ears of the thousand soldiers brought by Zhu Yuanzhang. A thousand soldiers clung to their spears and watched nervously at the officers and soldiers rushing from the north.

In fact, these thousand officers and soldiers were already exhausted from running. After receiving Cao Wenzhao's order, they first released the scouts, and then began to march towards the bank of the Yellow River, but halfway through the march, they suddenly heard the scouts report that there were no thieves on the banks of the Yellow River, and all the thieves rushed to the Eastern Route Army together, besieging Cao Wenzhao, who commanded the Eastern Route Army, in the center.

This news frightened the Qianhu officials who led the army, for fear that Cao Wenzhao would spoil the poisonous hands of the thieves, so he hurriedly ordered the whole army to rush towards the central battlefield in a hurry.

When they ran wildly for a few hours and came to the edge of the battlefield, they were already quite tired, but the Qianhu who led the army didn't care very much, and the tired border army was still a border army, and it was not a problem to deal with the thieves.

But...... When he really saw the military formation of the thieves with his own eyes, he gasped in fright, only to see that in front of them was a very elite thief soldier, lined up in a neat military formation, spears like a forest, the military appearance was neat, and the faces of each soldier showed a kind of perseverance and perseverance...... Where the hell are the thieves, it is clearly the elite Yansui army...... "This is definitely not a thief soldier, it should be an elite officer and soldier who joined the thief soldiers after the mutiny......" Qianhu, who led the troops, couldn't help but think like this, in fact, not long ago, Cao Wenzhao had the same idea.

And behind these thousand elite thieves, there are countless shaking human heads, looking around, you can hardly see the edge, those are the lamp sub-department they have been pursuing, the rabble that is not a weapon.

Qianhu, who led the troops, wanted to see Cao Wenzhao's figure, but unfortunately he couldn't see it, there was only an elite thief and tens of thousands of rabble in front of him, and in the distance behind these people, there was a faint sound of shouting and killing, it seemed that Cao Wenzhao's department was surrounded by thieves and fighting hard.

"General Cao doesn't know what's going on!" Qianhu ordered loudly: "Rush in and rescue General Cao!" ”

As soon as the order of Lord Qianhu was passed down, a drum sounded in the thief formation on the opposite side, "Boom! Then, the drums sounded densely, and the thousand elite thieves shouted at the same time: "Attack!" ”

"Huh? I was about to rush at him, and he was going to rush at me? Qianhu was stunned: "Look for death!" Drumming! ”

"Boom! Boom! Boom! In the formation of officers and soldiers, dense drumbeats also sounded: "Attack!" ”

Both armies let out wild roars, and then both armies marched forward at the same time, advancing ...... Although he shouted passionate words such as "attack", neither side really threw off his legs and rushed wildly, but maintained his formation and slowly pressed forward...... Chino, who led the army, and his soldiers both believed that with the combat effectiveness of their border army, it would be no problem to defeat the same number of thieves, there was nothing to fear, nothing to worry about, as long as the two armies were close together, victory would inevitably belong to them.

That's when ...... Zhao Sheng, who was besieging Cao Wenzhao's troops in the distance, and was in a bitter battle, suddenly pricked up his ears, he listened to the drums in the north, and remembered an order that Zhu Yuanzhang quietly gave him before the war: "When I heard the drums in the north, I immediately yelled 'Cao Wenzhao is dead', well, now it is indeed as arranged by Brother Zhu, the war drums are sounding in the north, and I can start roaring here!" ”

I didn't know what the point of shouting like this was when I lit the lamp, but he still chose to believe Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangement, so he opened his throat and shouted: "Cao Wenzhao is dead!" Haha, Cao Wenzhao was killed by us. ”

"Brother Lamplighter, what are you yelling about? Didn't Cao Wenzhao ride a tall horse in front of us and live a good life? A leader of the thieves next to him asked sweatingly.

Zhao Sheng spread his hands: "It was Brother Zhu who told me to shout, and I don't know why I shouted like this, so you also shouted it to me...... Let everyone shout together. ”

"Uh...... It's ......"

The thieves of the Lantern Lighting Department received the order and began to shout vigorously: "Hahaha...... Kill Cao Wen and edict ......"

"Hahaha...... Cao Wenzhao was killed by us......"

"Win! We won! ”

"Cao Wenzhao is dead......"

"Don't just shout for us, let the more than 10,000 old and weak women shout together......"

"Cao Wenzhao is dead......

All the thieves in the lantern department shouted loudly together, although the thieves were not very good in combat, but they were victorious, and the total number of thieves and soldiers reached 20,000 cheered together, and suddenly roared like a sky-high price.

The second monk Cao Bianjiao, who was surrounded in the center of the circle, was puzzled: "What are the thieves doing?" Isn't my uncle alive and well? Is it useful to yell like this? ”

However, Cao Wenzhao, who was beside him, heard such a roar, but his face suddenly changed greatly: "It's not good...... Zhao Sheng shouted to our reinforcements...... We were surrounded by 20,000 thieves in the middle, and the reinforcements from the periphery didn't know about us at all, and if they heard the thieves shouting like this, they would really think I was dead......

(To be continued)