After instructing the night sentry to be on duty, Huangshi returned to the camp to rest, and the night was uneventful.

After dawn, the Ming army went out early, and soon rushed to the mouth of the Qinghe River to cross the river, and the water battalion that received it soon began to transport the troops over, and the fifty cavalry who crossed the river first quickly dispersed to reconnoitre, and then a whole army crossed, and then the Chinese army, and finally the whole army crossed the Qinghe River safely. The officers and men of the water battalion also left quickly and sailed to Lianyun Island.

After the troops were reorganized, they beat the drums again and went on the road, and when it was almost noon, the Ming army was in the front, and several post stations were billowed with black smoke.

Wu Muxian's brows furrowed more and more tightly, and he asked curiously, "General Huang, what's wrong?"

"Do you remember the situation yesterday afternoon?" "Yesterday, when the Ming army was marching, the surrounding Houjin defenders burned their supplies and retreated, but today as long as the Ming army did not approach, the Houjin army did not retreat, which also made the Ming army take a lot of unjust roads, and did not hit any prey.

"In the first battle yesterday, Jiannu was lucky, and in the afternoon he was panicked, but today he is much calmer. Huang Shi thought about it again, and ordered his troops to slow down their march to save their bodies, and at the same time sent more scouts around.

Half an hour later, Huang Shi's worries became a reality, and a scout horse came quickly to report: "My lord, ten miles away from the left flank of our army, there is a team of Jiannu horses in the direction of Gaizhou, numbering about a thousand people, and they are approaching our army. ”

"Revisit. ”

Soon the Houjin horse team appeared in the field of vision of the Chinese army, and reported the military situation like a flowing horse, and the Houjin army was the Gaizhou army with a red flag, of which there were about 500 armored soldiers, and there were 5 or 600 auxiliary soldiers without armor.

The Houjin army approached the left flank of the Ming army for about five miles and no longer approached, and the two field troops maintained this distance and advanced in parallel, and after a long time did not see the Houjin army have the posture of taking the initiative to attack, Huangshi couldn't help it first, he believed that this threat to the left flank must be eliminated, otherwise it would not be possible to achieve strategic maneuver safely and freely.

As soon as the drums and flags of the Ming army changed, the troops changed their formation and direction, and slowly leaned towards the left flank, but the Houjin army also deflected to the left flank at the same time, maintaining a distance of about five miles. When the Ming army turned around and returned to the west, the Houjin army stuck up again, and followed the Ming army's flank without leaving.

Looking at this haunting enemy army, Huang Shi swallowed his saliva and said to Wu Mu with a wry smile: "Our army has twice as many soldiers as Jiannu, and the total strength is almost twice that of Jiannu, so Jiannu is unwilling to accept the battle, and we are infantry, so we can't force Jiannu to accept the battle." ”

"General Huang is modest, even if there is any clever plan, our family will not object. "Wu Mu is obviously very confident in Huangshi.

"Your Excellency," another probe horse rushed back and reined in front of Huangshi: "My lord, the Jiannu in the grain depot in front will not retreat!"

"How many defenders are there?"

"It seems that there are more than 100 people, at least dozens of batches of Jia Jiannu. ”

Huang Shi sneered a few times, the calculation of the Houjin army was already obvious, as long as the main force of the Ming army went to storm the grain depot, the field troops of the Houjin army could move freely. Without defeating the Houjin field troops, it would be impossible to storm them, and the Houjin army obviously would not give the Ming army a chance to defeat them.

According to common sense, the Ming army could spend some time building a strong camp and then use it as a basis to attack the Houjin stronghold, so that the flanks and auxiliaries could be covered and most of the combat troops could be released. But the current situation is that the Ming army does not have enough time to build a camp, and Huangshi can imagine that Houjin's reinforcements are coming. Maybe the reinforcements haven't come out yet, but Huangshi doesn't dare to take this risk at all, and leaving the infantry-based army in this dangerous place for more than two days is similar to suicide.

The Ming army had stopped marching, and the Houjin army was watching them from afar, and He Baodao and other officers also rushed to the Chinese army, waiting for Huangshi's final decision.

"Why don't you go to the class?" Wu Mu cautiously put forward an opinion.

"We can attack the other Jiannu depots, they can't all be heavily defended. He Baodao also put forward his own views.

Huang Shi shook his head and vetoed He Baodao's opinion first: "It's useless, this is Jiannu's territory, no matter which fortress we advance to, Jiannu can divide a team to arrive before us to participate in the defense." Then they took the defenders in the granary and continued to follow us, and wherever we went to attack, we would run in vain. ”

Once the front is spread out into a battle formation and the back is relinquished, no matter how careful the Ming army is, there will definitely be a flaw, hundreds of Houjin soldiers can very much surprise violently, inflicting heavy losses on the Ming army and then retreating quickly, the Ming army, which is dominated by infantry, will not be able to catch up with the enemy.

"The squad is absolutely impossible, our army sent troops this time, the strength is twice that of the enemy, the purpose is to ravage the territory of Jiannu and humiliate the army of Jiannu. Now the retreat is to increase the morale of others and destroy their own prestige. ”

After Huang Shi finished speaking, he gritted his teeth and smiled, and he glanced at the Houjin army, who was also resting five miles away: "We must defeat them first." ”

"The problem is that Jiannu is absolutely unwilling to fight with our army. He Baodao was very impatient, he proposed a Jianyi, but unfortunately the expression on his face did not show any confidence: "The last general can lead the horse team to drag the Nu family, and then the lord will command the whole army to attack." ”

Huang Shi really shook his head: "How long can two hundred cavalry drag on? And the back of Jiannu is open, what threat can the infantry team pursue from one side? This is the advantage of riding horses, who told us that there are fewer cavalry." ”

Now when the military discussion was held, Wu Mu was used to being silent, and he listened with his head bored on the side, without saying a word.

"Unless," Huang Shi gestured with his knife to a sketch on the ground, "unless our army divides its forces." ”

All the officers who participated in the discussion immediately exploded: "Dividing troops is a taboo for soldiers!"

"No way, who made us all infantry. Huang Shi explained his idea, if you leave a foot team three miles away, then it will not be easy for the Houjin army to harass the front team, He Baodao's horse team can always be delayed for a while, and the Ming army will definitely be able to block a part of the enemy army by attacking from both sides.

"The cavalry, artillery, infantry and auxiliaries all went to attack the grain depot, and the remaining 400 soldiers guarded the rear road, I estimate that Jiannu will feel that the assault rear team is a foolproof strategy, Jiannu is unwilling to fight with our whole army, but it does not mean that he is unwilling to fight with a part of our army. I think the rear team can hold them back for a while, and after the front team returns to the division, unless Jiannu gives up the wounded soldiers, they can only engage our whole army. Huang Shi was silent again after speaking, if the Houjin army still did not give up the advantage of cavalry mobility under the temptation of eating the four hundred soldiers of the Ming army in one fell swoop, then there would still be many variables on the battlefield.

"Leave three hundred and twenty pikemen and eighty musketeers. I personally led this group of infantry, and then hoisted my general's flag high. Also, take my horse away. If the cavalry is not willing to voluntarily give up the initiative brought about by mobility, then the infantry has nothing to do. But Houjin will want to get me Huangshi and then fast, and at this time there are only 400 people around me.

(End of Section 11)

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