Qiu Yizhi also agreed with him, nodded and said: "That's right, now we can't wait and see, it's good to probe the other party's reality first." I just don't know how to play, and I ask General Cui to give the order! ”

Cui Nan was also not polite, and said: "I will lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to fight the enemy army in Ximen." His Highness Yi led the headquarters and another 10,000 soldiers and horses to fight the enemy army at the south gate......"

Qiu Yizhi was stunned when he heard this: he clearly led 50,000 troops over, why did he only lead 10,000 troops each?

After thinking about it, it suddenly dawned on me: it turned out that more than 10,000 people had lost more than 50,000 soldiers and horses on the march, and when they came to the city of Hangzhou, ordinary people were extremely tired, and now there were only 20,000 people who could pull up and immediately launch an attack without resting.

But I heard Cui Nan continue: "This battle must be won in one battle, if you don't win for a while, you can't fall in love with the war, come back and reassemble and make another calculation." The rest of the people set up camp in the mountains and answered at any time. ”

Cui Nan, who has always cherished words like gold, rarely said such a long list of words, but he deployed the tactics clearly, Qiu Yi nodded while listening, and after discussing the details, he went down the mountain to count the army under the escort of Zhao Chengxiao and others.

The soldiers and horses led by Cui Nan are all forbidden troops of the imperial court, and although the current soldiers of the forbidden army are all new recruits, and the grassroots officers such as Baihu, Qianzong, and the inspection school are all from the sergeants of Lao Youyandao. Many of them, although Qiu Yizhi can't name them, they all have a relationship - so although these soldiers and horses have never commanded themselves, they are not helpless.

Qiu Yizhi also saw that the number of cavalry in the forbidden army was not large, and most of the horses were not strong, and he was afraid that the Lingnan Army camp was set up with iron thistles, tripping horse ropes, horse rejection piles and other objects, and the cavalry impact would be difficult to be effective. Therefore, he simply ordered all the horses to dismount and walk, each holding a short knife, rattan and other light weapons, lined up in a tight formation, bypassed a large paddy field facing the south gate, and assaulted towards the small camp besieging Hangzhou City on Lingnan Road. As for Lin Shuhan, who was powerless, he stayed in a safe place in the rear under the escort of Wei Chi Jiming.

The army marched forward quickly, but the Lingnan army didn't seem to notice it, until it was only a hundred paces away from the opponent, the camp still didn't react, as if it was an empty camp.

When Qiu Yizhi was in Lingnan Road, he had seen the Lingnan Army with his own eyes, although his agility and ability were not as good as the old Youyan Army back then, but compared to the current imperial forbidden army, it was no worse than the current imperial forbidden army, and it stands to reason that he should not be so careless.

Therefore, Qiu Yi's heart felt bad, and hurriedly ordered the army to stop advancing, but ordered his seventy crossbow soldiers to step forward and fired a volley towards the enemy camp.

As a burst of crossbow bolts shot into the enemy camp in the storm, a few screams were heard, and suddenly a cannon roar was heard, and countless elite soldiers poured out of the camp tents, pushing open the temporarily built slightly rough camp gate, and lined up according to the camp to meet the enemy's formation.

Qiu Yi saw that the opponent's decisive action, the proficiency of the array, and the completeness of the formation were obviously not a hasty response, but a long preparation, and he wanted to lure himself into rashly attacking the military camp, and then ambush the troops and kill himself by surprise!

Although the two armies did not use a single sword or shot, the tide of the battle had changed drastically, from a surprise attack on the enemy army to a head-on battle with the enemy.

Qiu Yizhi, who was in charge of the command, was very lucky, fortunately he saw the opportunity early and tested the enemy's situation with his crossbow early, otherwise he would rashly enter the enemy camp and be ambushed by the enemy, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

So Qiu Yizhi hurriedly concentrated and carefully observed the formation of the Lingnan Army in front of him.

I saw that the Lingnan army was really small in number, and the total number was less than 3,000. The formation is quite neat and rigorous, but perhaps because it has been fighting with the Lingnan barbarians for a long time, it seems that it does not know how to confront the large corps head-on, and it is only arranged in a close formation that can take care of each other - the depth is there, but the width is extremely limited - especially in the case of insufficient troops, it is very easy to be outflanked by the opponent's superior forces, and thus be besieged and annihilated.

Seeing this, Qiu Yizhi was already confident, and hurriedly greeted several generals and inspectors in the army, and carefully instructed them.

These officers were all from Lao Youyandao, they knew Qiu Yizhi's ability and identity, and they listened to the orders he gave them, so they naturally obeyed them and hurriedly went down to arrange them.

Under normal circumstances, Qiu Yizhi would always shout a few words to the enemy in such a situation, telling them to lay down their arms and surrender on the spot. This is because his desire to kill is really not heavy, and he does not want to hurt his life; Second, it is better to shake the opponent's military spirit and reduce his own pressure.

But what he wanted today was a quick victory, and he couldn't afford to delay in front of the battle any longer, so he saw that the army had gradually unfolded according to his deployment, and knew that the fighters were ripe, so he gently pulled Zhao Chengxiao, nodded to him, and signaled to start the attack.

When Zhao Chengxiao saw it, he waved the command flag in his hand, and saw seventy strong crossbowmen holding the crossbow machine in their hands, aiming it carefully, and when they heard an order, they all pulled the trigger in their hands. Hearing the sound of a neat crossbow string vibrating, a row of crossbow bolts thundered forward.

The crossbow machine is extremely powerful, specially designed to deal with the Turkic elite cavalry, in the Central Plains army, except for the old Youyan Dao "when the arrow battalion" or can barely resist for a while, there is no other army, weapons can match it.

The Lingnan army did not have the protection of the giant shield of the "Dangya battalion", so naturally it could not compete with the crossbow, and the dense formation of the Lingnan army gave the crossbow the best target for shooting - after a volley, the Lingnan army was shot dead by forty or fifty people without any suspense.

It's a pity that there are only 200 people in the Xiangyong Regiment directly under Qiu Yizhi, and there are only 70 crossbow soldiers among them. If the number of seventy were to be increased tenfold to seven hundred, then with just one or two bursts of crossbow fire, most of the 3,000 or so enemy troops in front of him could be killed.

Originally, Cui Nan's army also had crossbowmen - Qiu Yi's men were drawn from his camp - but the crossbows were too heavy, and this time he came to relieve the siege of Hangzhou, what he wanted was the speed of the soldiers.

The strength in his hand was like this, Qiu Yizhi didn't think about it, and looked around to see that the soldiers and horses of the forbidden army had been laid out, and the flanks of the Lingnan Army were completely exposed to his own soldiers, so he ordered his crossbowmen to shoot two more rounds of arrows, drew out the sword on his waist, and pointed forward. Zhao Chengxiao, who was beside him, saw it and knew that this was an order for the whole army to assault, so he hurriedly waved the order flag in his hand, and several war drums beside him also sounded at the same time.

When the troops saw such a banner, and saw that the Lingnan army on the opposite side was not large in number, and the victory was already in hand, their morale was immediately boosted, and the shouts of killing were everywhere, and they all fought bravely to be the first, and rushed in the direction of the enemy.

The front, left flank, and right flank were flanked by superior forces on three sides, and no matter how elite and tenacious the Lingnan army was, it could not resist such a sharp attack.

Seeing that the opponent was about to collapse at the first touch, the morale of the forbidden army was even higher, and the fatigue accumulated by the rapid march in the wind and rain for several days had already been forgotten, and they shouted loudly and slaughtered into the camp.

Qiu Yizhi saw such a situation from a distance behind the battle, and his heart was also very happy, as long as he continued to fight like this for a while, he would be able to kill all the Lingnan troops blocking the south gate of Hangzhou, and when the time came, he would be able to cooperate with the garrison army in the city, completely defeat this group of Lingnan troops, and then deal with it according to the rules, and the Lingnan army besieging the city could be defeated one by one, and the siege of Hangzhou would be solved.

However, the battle situation was not as smooth as Qiu Yizhi thought - although the Lingnan army suffered a defeat for a while and was forced to retreat into the camp, it did not immediately break up and surrender, but fought a bloody battle with the imperial court officers and soldiers in the camp. This camp was already very small, and although the imperial forbidden army was numerous, it was impossible to fully deploy it to exert its numerical advantage - the battle situation suddenly fell into anxiety.

However, the numerical advantage of the forbidden army was still unshakable, so after fighting for half an hour, the forbidden army finally compressed the Lingnan army to the edge of the city gate, as long as the defenders in Hangzhou opened the city gate, they could easily attack the gap behind the enemy.

Qiu Yizhi observed behind the battle, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that the situation was strange, there was such a big battle under the city, but there was no movement in Hangzhou, even if the defenders were afraid of the Lingnan army before, they didn't dare to wave the flag and shout in the city, and even the probe probed to check the changes in the war was not one and a half.

A terrible thought suddenly flashed in Qiu Yizhi's mind: "I've been tricked!" He hurriedly pulled Zhao Chengxiao and said: "Brother Zhao, hurry, hurry up and withdraw the troops!" ”

Zhao Chengxiao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and thought: The war is going well, and it is about to annihilate the group of Lingnan troops in front of him, why do you want to "withdraw the troops" at this juncture?

However, the military order is like a mountain, although Zhao Chengxiao has a thousand doubts and puzzles, but he still ordered his soldiers to beat a basin-sized gong - in an instant, the battlefield recalled the anxious and piercing sound of metal impact.

At this moment, suddenly heard a cannon in the city of Hangzhou, the original dragon flags on the city wall were put down at the same time, replaced by countless flags with the words "Lingnan Palace", and many soldiers and horses holding bows and arrows, rolling stones, sassal wood and other objects to defend the city, wearing Lingnan Taoist uniforms, appeared on the city wall.

I saw that the south gate opened violently, but what rushed out of it was not the Jiangnan Jiedu army, but the army of Lingnan Dao.

Sure enough, it hit the trick!

Since Qiu Yizhi led the army to fight, he has never only calculated others, and when he was not calculated by others, he was a little at a loss when he encountered today's situation, and he didn't know what to say: he couldn't figure it out, why the city walls of Hangzhou City were intact, and the city gates on all sides were intact, why could the Lingnan Army enter the city?

was thinking about it, but he heard Zhao Chengxiao urging: "My lord, you see, our army can't retreat, what should we do?" What should I do? ”

Qiu Yizhi came back from deep thought, and sure enough, he saw a mess in the camp under the city, and the forbidden army of the imperial court that entered it was pushed and squeezed, and he couldn't move at all, let alone quickly withdraw from it.

At this time, the Lingnan army that appeared on the city wall also saw the opportunity to shoot arrows and throw stones downward.

Tens of thousands of forbidden troops were huddled together in a small space, and the Lingnan army in the city did not need to aim carefully at all, as long as they shot and threw in the general direction, they could effectively kill and injure the opponent. The Lingnan Army under the city also took advantage of the situation to launch a counteroffensive, armed with swords, guns, swords, halberds, and tried to attack forward.

Under such a fierce counterattack, nearly half of the forbidden army had been killed and wounded in the blink of an eye, but it unexpectedly gave the rest of the men and horses space and opportunity to escape from the camp.

Seeing this, these forbidden troops who were lucky enough to survive turned around and fled in the direction of Qiu Yi regardless of the discipline, and the so-called throwing away their armor and failing to form an army is nothing more than that.