But after Bai Likang repelled the enemy on the river beach, his order was to gather more than 30,000 people from all Duan's army and launch a counterattack on the opposite bank.

The whole army counterattacked, attacking instead of defending, and if it was unsuccessful, it would become a benevolent.

Bailikang's conducting style is indeed eccentric, but it cannot be said that he is wrong.

Under this shape, the Lancang River defense line was already riddled with holes under the enemy's attack, and it was difficult to maintain, even if Bailikang brought 10,000 Ming troops at this time, it was impossible to strictly defend the Lancang River.

Moreover, there were only three thousand.

Offense and defense were inherently unequal, and no matter how high the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was, it was impossible to defend the entire Lancang River defense line.

Just as 10,000 Ming troops are enough to defeat 30,000 or even 50,000 Gao troops, but this does not mean that 10,000 Ming troops can defend against 30,000 or 50,000 Gao troops attacking from the entire Lancang River at the same time.

Point-to-point warfare is combat power, and face-to-face warfare is the number of people.

Undoubtedly, in this regard, Gao Fang is a veteran.

Therefore, Bailikang can only replace defense with offense, and only in this way can the speed of the enemy's eastward attack be partially blocked.

And this was originally intended to be the vanguard task carried out by the 3,000 Ming army, but out of consideration of the number of casualties, Bai Likang had no choice but to hand over this task to the Duan army.

In order to be insured, Bailikang was the task of 3,000 people, he gathered more than 30,000 Duan troops, that is, all the military strength of the Duan family, and sent 30,000 people to carry out the counterattack, and the remaining thousands of people were ordered to transfer to Dali Mansion and wait for Xu Shouren's orders to assist in the defense.

This order was questioned by most of the generals of the Duan army, they believed. If the whole army counterattacks, the casualties will not be counted for the time being, and if the enemy scatters the attack from all over the Lancang River. Then from the Lancang River to Dali Mansion, it has almost become an undefended situation.

Bai Likang explained that if you don't fight back, then Dali Mansion is in a catastrophe, and more than 30,000 Duan clan's troops are already struggling to support it, if it weren't for the success of the 3,000 Ming army's counterattack on the frontal river beach today, then. Now the main force of Gao's army has already crossed the river to the east.

Since you can't defend it, it's better to fight to the death if the counterattack is successful. The main force of Duan's army successfully broke through the west bank, although it was not enough to sweep away Gao's army, but as long as it held the west bank, it controlled the Lancang River. The enemy will not be able to pose a threat to Dalifu.

Because. Even if the enemy crosses the river from above and below, their supply becomes a problem, and an army without supplies cannot pose a threat to Dali Mansion.

After the explanation, Bai Likang strongly ordered the generals to carry out the battle plan, and the time of the counterattack was set at one hour in the early morning of the next day.

Although the generals of these Duan clan's army were puzzled, they could not refuse Bailikang's order, although Dali was still called a country. But it is no longer the original Dali Kingdom, and the current Dali Kingdom has become a vassal state of the Ming Kingdom. Before Duan Sicong left for the Jinling Mansion of the Ming State, he had already ordered the army to follow the orders of the envoys of the Ming Kingdom, and Bai Likang was one of the envoys of the Ming Kingdom.

Since it was impossible to prevent the fact that Dali Kingdom became a vassal state of the Ming State, any general wanted to establish some meritorious service at this juncture point in order to have a place in the Ming army in the future.

It was precisely for this reason that the generals unconditionally obeyed Bailikang's orders and began to prepare for a counterattack across the river the next day.

Gao Fangzheng on the other side was furious at the defeat of today's 30,000 "cannon fodder", and the army that had already landed was driven down the river by such a large number of Ming troops.

In Gao Fang's view, no matter how high the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is, it is only 3,000 people, and the number of people who cross the river by themselves is at least 15,000 people, five against one, even if you bite with your teeth, you can bite the 3,000 Ming army to death.

For this reason, Gao Fang angrily beheaded dozens of soldiers who took the lead in fleeing.

But this could not restore the fighting spirit of this "farmer" army, and the morale of the soldiers quickly dropped to freezing point.

Gao Fang knew that it was impossible to rely on this force to defeat the enemy, and he could only rely on more than 10,000 regular troops and more than 10,000 soldiers from the two towns.

Gao Fang, who calmed down, hated the Ming army like bones, if the Ming Kingdom had not stepped on two boats, after the first victory on the Lancang River, he could have led the army eastward, and at this time he might have sat on the dragon chair that should have been sitting on Duan Sicong.

It seems that his decision is correct, and the army of the Ming Kingdom in Dali is only a few thousand people.

Otherwise, it is not only the army that repels itself that crosses the river, but the army that pursues and crosses the river by taking advantage of the victory.

Since this is the case, then there is still hope for this battle, as long as the Ming army occupies Dali Mansion before reinforcements arrive, he will have a glimmer of life.

Thinking of this, Gao Fang ordered 30,000 "farmer" troops to repair overnight, and then continue to attack the east bank the next morning.

This is Gao Fang's action on the surface, secretly, he summoned the two towns and made other arrangements for tomorrow's battle.

Gao Fang ordered the two towns to lead 10,000 soldiers to cross the river from the upper reaches of the Lancang River to fight, with the goal of occupying Lanxi County, and then waited for his orders.

Gao Fang himself led more than 10,000 regular troops to cross the river from the lower reaches of the Lancang River to fight, so as to form a form of flanking the defenders on the east bank.

He handed over the 6,000 private soldiers of each tribe to his son Gao Zhiping, and supervised the battle of tomorrow's 30,000 "farmer" army, and if he was lucky, Gao Zhiping led the army to cross the river, and if he was unsuccessful, Gao Zhiping led the army to cover the "farmer" army and withdrew to the west bank.

In case of an accident, Gao Fang secretly ordered Gao Zhiping to abandon the "farmer" army and lead 6,000 private soldiers to retreat to Tengchong Mansion to hold on.

The generals of the two sides have a natural opposition to the arrangements for tomorrow's war without knowing each other.

In other words, a bloody battle on the front of the Lancang River can no longer be avoided.

The arrangements made by Bailikang have already laid the foundation for the victory on the frontal battlefield, but it is inevitable that the upper and lower reaches of the Lancang River will be broken through by the enemy.

In the early morning of the next day, Duan's army launched the first wave of attacks.

The 10,000 regular troops that had been assembled in advance were thrown into the front line as the main force of the attack.

The remaining 20,000 soldiers are in the midst of an intense purge as a second wave of attacks.

Bai Likang's strategy was obviously different from Gao Fang's, and he put the most effective regular army in the 30,000 Duan army into the battlefield as the vanguard.

This is a strategy, and it can only be so for Bailikang, who needs to buy time.

And Bailikang has an advantage that the high side can't reach, that is, the generals under his command do not have zài dissenting intentions.

Compared with Gao Fang, Bailikang's control of the army is more handy.

The battle began with the soldiers of Duan's army swimming across to the west bank.

The Gao army originally planned to start attacking after an hour, but since the other party had already started, they could only put down the rice bowl they were about to eat or were eating, and hurriedly responded to the battle.

Gao Fang had already left the south to take a detour, and as his replacement, Gao Zhiping, took over the command. (To be continued......)