The coming of night was not a painful end for Zhang Wenbiao's Jiangbei army, although the day had enough of the other party's harassment, but the night was even more difficult. The nightmare of last night was still vivid, so even though the camp had been retreated for several miles, and a large number of men had been assigned to dig trenches in front of the battle during the day, and set up tripping horses to keep away horses, etc., the tense atmosphere still enveloped the entire camp after dark.

Of course, Zhang Wenbiao did not dare to slack off, he knew that if there was another attack from last night, the morale of the army would collapse and the morale would fall to the bottom.

In view of this, Zhang Wenbiao ordered the soldiers and horses of the front battalion to prepare to defend against the enemy, and mobilized tens of thousands of Chinese troops to prepare for support. At the same time, a large number of scouts were sent to closely monitor the surroundings of Tanzhou City, and if the other party showed signs of action, they would react immediately.

The only 20,000 cavalry in the army also took advantage of the darkness to return to both sides of the camp, if once it was found that the other party followed yesterday's means to bombard the camp again, then even if Zhang Wenbiao fought with these 20,000 cavalry, he would rush to the city at any cost, abandon the horse and ants to join the city and desperately destroy these terrible long-range weapons.

However, what Zhang Wenbiao didn't know was that Li Yuan had no plans to attack the camp tonight. On the one hand, all the cannons have been installed on the city wall, and it is not convenient to move them back and forth. On the other hand, the number of explosive shells is not much, and there are a lot of iron ball shells, but now they are not sieges, so they can't cause much damage to the opponent, and they just consume the life of the cannon in vain.

Moreover, the fool also knows that the other party will be ready to fight tonight, and he is ready to fight, how can he go to meet the tip of the opponent's knife again.

Just because you don't attack the camp doesn't mean you don't harass them. On the contrary, it is necessary to use the pressure brought by last night's attack on the camp and today's harassment during the day to make the opponent uneasy and disturb them. The so-called virtual is real, the real is virtual, and it is necessary to play some tricks to scare people.

Therefore, after dark, Li Yuan ordered Zou Ping to lead some of the personal guards cavalry out of the city and began to drive and hunt the scouts around the city. The purpose of this is to make the opponent deaf and blind, and when the opponent does not know what military movements are under the city of Tanzhou, they will be more suspicious and will not dare to relax for a moment.

Zou Ping's personal guard battalion was stimulated today, and when His Majesty commended the barbarians today, they were actually not very happy in their hearts. Although there are at least one or twenty thousand Dongxi barbarians in the Yulin army, they have long been integrated with the brothers in the army, and the barbarian soldiers have indeed performed well today, and they deserve this commendation.

But the latest armor and weapons that the concubine Niangniang rewarded them with have always been unique to the guard battalion around Li Yuan, and the most important thing is to hear His Majesty praise these Dongxi barbarians, and let the concubine personally reward them, I always feel uncomfortable.

However, Li Yuan took the lead and organized these barbarians into the guard battalion, and Zou Ping became their main general, and these sons and daughters of the guard battalion who were originally envious and jealous saw that the barbarians had become comrades, and they were helpless, but they also lost a lot of anger, and the remaining fire in their stomachs naturally sprinkled on the enemy.

Zou Ping led the cavalry around the city, and when he encountered the opponent's scouts, he chased after him lifelessly, until he hunted the opponent to death. On several occasions, in order to hunt down a few cavalry scouts, Zou Ping even led people to chase them in front of the opponent's camp and shot the opponent in front of the barracks, which was so fierce.

Of course, the means of the cavalry guards were fierce, and the hundreds of scouts sent to the city soon died and fled, and they could not gain a foothold at all. In this way, Zhang Wenbiao's Jiangbei army became deaf and blind.

In desperation, they could only continue to send people to reconnoiter at the risk of death. The scouts sent did not dare to stay long, and fled back after a glance. Rao is so, send a hundred, back to less than fifty, the other horse is fast, it is like a demon asking for his life.

After coming and going, the scout battalion in charge of probing the news had 1,000 scouts killed and wounded, and the rest were unwilling to die anymore. But without probing the news and unable to grasp the enemy's movements, the matter fell into a dilemma, the general of the scout battalion Fang Heng really had no choice, and found Zhang Gu, the former battalion commander of the Jiangbei army, to ask for additional manpower, and sent people to assist in receiving the scout to investigate the news, so as not to be hunted by the other party unscrupulously.

Zhang Gu also understands the importance of the matter, if he can't find out the movements of the opponent's soldiers and horses, he has no bottom in his heart.

After all, last night's attack, the soldiers and horses of his former battalion did not cope effectively, and there were heavy casualties. It was easy to take advantage of the urgent need for employment in the Yangzhou Imperial Court, coupled with the identity of Zhang Wenbiao's distant relative, a small battalion general was promoted to a former battalion general who commanded 50,000 soldiers and horses, and of course he had to cherish his current high position.

"Who wants to pick up some of their best soldiers to help the scouts?" Zhang Gu asked his next general.

The generals were silent, who was willing to help the scouts do all this dirty work. The person sent is basically a death, who wants to send it to death. It is definitely useless to send recruits, and it is reluctant to send elite veterans, and now in the army, veterans are the backbone, that is, fragrant gluttony, and if one dies, there will be one less.

"What? Doesn't anyone want to? It is extremely important to detect the enemy's situation, and if you don't know the enemy's movements, how will you deal with it? If you don't want to take the initiative, the general will be assigned. Zhang Gu said unhappily. The low morale and the negative generals really made him feel angry.

The "......" generals still don't want to come forward, so they will be assigned, and whoever is unlucky will be sent, and dozens of generals may not be the unlucky ones.

"Well, in that case, General Ben will appoint it." Zhang Gu said angrily.

"General Zhang, the twisted melon is not sweet, since the brothers here are unwilling to go, the last general is willing to lead the soldiers and horses of his headquarters to assist the scout battalion to spy on the enemy." One of the generals stood up and bowed his hand in a loud voice.

Zhang Gu was overjoyed, he knew that the general, it was a state soldier general named Liu Chengwu who had been incorporated by the former Jiangbei Prefecture Government. These foreign generals have no status in the army, and most of the important generals in the army have followed Zhang Wenbiao to start their troops so far, so these people are in a group in the army, and other generals who have been transferred from outside look out of place and are often looked down upon.

Zhang Gu currently has only three foreign generals, one is Liu Chengwu, and the other is Zhang Yaoxian, these two are the imperial generals who were previously stationed in Chuzhou and Haizhou, and only because they were originally generals who could lead troops, so they were able to obtain the position of intermediate generals in the army.

The two of them each led 5,000 soldiers and horses in the front camp, and their performance was decent. Another foreign general named Li Zhong was just a literati who had just defected to the imperial court, but he was also sent to lead the troops for some reason, and he was also his deputy, which Zhang Gu was extremely dissatisfied with. Fortunately, Li Zhong was also knowledgeable, claiming that he could not lead the army, so he asked to be responsible for logistics and supply these chores, but he could also be competent.

"Good! It is still General Liu who understands the overall situation. Hehehe, you will select some soldiers and horses to help the general's scout battalion to investigate the enemy. If this matter is done well, the Japanese general will ask the king for credit for you. Zhang Gu said happily.

"Thank you, General! The mission will be completed! Liu Chengwu arched his hand.

The generals secretly scoffed at each other, thinking in their hearts, you fucking want to make heroic contributions, but I am afraid that you have a life to make meritorious contributions, but you have no life to suffer. You people who have been transferred from outside love to be in the limelight, and if you like to go, you will go, and Lao Tzu will not be grateful to you.

Liu Chengwu and Fang Heng turned around and walked towards the outside of the tent, and when they walked to Zhang Yaoxian's side, Liu Chengwu glanced at him. Zhang Yaoxian nodded slightly expressionlessly. A smile appeared on the corner of Liu Chengwu's mouth and walked out quickly.