In fact, before the night battle began, another battle had ended early.

As Ashikaga expected, after receiving a request for help from Hattori, Sakagami did not hesitate to send more than 1,000 people from the Japanese soldiers who had already arrived in Wendeng Prefecture to reinforce in the direction of Zetou.

After leaving Wendeng, the support army forcibly marched for a whole afternoon, and by dusk it had left the county seat of Wendeng for nearly twenty miles.

Just as they were about to set up camp for rest, a cavalry detachment consisting of a small number of scouts and light and heavy cavalry suddenly attacked.

It was ten o'clock in the evening, and a blood-colored remnant sun hung above the horizon, enveloping the cavalry of the Changying Army from the west in a bloody color.

Facing the 800 cavalry bathed in the remnant sun, the menacing cavalry, exhausted and defenseless, the island reinforcements had no resistance at all, and they were directly defeated in one by one, and began to scatter and flee frantically.

It's just that how can a two-legged Japanese soldier outrun a four-legged war horse, and in the afterglow of the setting sun, the cavalry began to harvest the heads easily.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the battle was completely over, all the Japanese reinforcements were slaughtered, and 1,500 Japanese soldiers' heads became trophies of the cavalry.

In Sawatou, taking advantage of Hattori Shozaemon's gambling psychology, a night battle almost wiped out all the island scouts who invaded Tang with the army, which was equivalent to eliminating the hidden dangers in the follow-up action.

Although the scouts of the island country were purged, the all-pervasive attacks of the scouts of the island country left a deep impression on Lu Xiaobing and made him learn enough lessons.

In the face of unexpected situations, the performance of those untrained civilians was really not satisfactory to Lu Xiaobing.

In order to prevent being dragged down in the later battle, Lu Xiaobing spent a morning compressing his team to 20,000 people, close to more than 7,000 civilians who had been transferred from civilian to army, as well as the wounded and sick were left in Zetou.

At the same time, it had been stationed in Muping since the beginning of the war, and two battalions led by Han Xiang were dispatched at the same time.

Taking advantage of the opportunity that Itagadajun Malu concentrated all his forces in Wendeng and the rear forces were empty, he quickly inserted it eastward along the northern coastline from Muping, aiming in the direction of Rongcheng and Chengshan.

After clearing out the rats and fleas that had been causing trouble for him, and completing all the preparations including gunpowder, equipment, and personnel, Lu Xiaobing led the selected 20,000 horses to recover their speed and continue to move northeast along the official road.

A day later, the main force of Lu Xiaobing's department and the 800 cavalry who had suddenly attacked successfully converged.

However, after the convergence, the cavalry also brought an unexpected surprise to the Ashi Takasa, abandoning his subordinates and leading a few cronies to flee, and was captured.

It's just that for Lu Xiaobing and Meng Gan, the greatest joy comes from the results of the cavalry, plus the heads won by the cavalry, the number of heads of the island people mastered by Lu Xiaobing at this time has exceeded 3,000.

On July 27, the fourth year of Zhenyuan, a full 20,000 highly mixed Tang troops arrived at Wendeng County, Dengzhou, South Tang Province, under the command of Lu Xiaobing and Meng Gan.

Without any warning, the Tang army suddenly approached the city, which more or less surprised the general of the island country expeditionary army, Sakaue Tamura Maro, who was sitting in Wendeng County and controlled the entire 70,000 island country expeditionary force.

If it had been placed a day earlier, the Tang army would have been under the city, Sakagami's heart would have been full of worry and uneasiness, but at this moment, looking at the Tang army who were camping about five miles west of Wendeng City, Sakagami's face was full of smiles.

According to reason, there was a military order in front of him, and he sent two more support armies to him, even if the Tang army broke through the defense line, Hattori should more or less send people to deliver the letter, and the soldiers should not be so abrupt to come to the city.

However, the fact is that since I received the last letter for help, I haven't received any information from Hattori for three full days.

Considering that Hattori had been blocking for more than five days and had already met the qualifications for the reward, there was no reason why Hattori would hide the whereabouts of the Tang Army in this situation.

Therefore, in Sakagami's heart, Hattori Shozaemon and his scouts, as well as the two support armies, have been completely wiped out under the attack of the Tang army.

In Sakagami's view, his inference is not unreasonable, after all, the number of Tang troops reported by Hattori at the beginning was more than 20,000 and close to 30,000, and at this moment, the number of Tang troops appearing under the city will not exceed 20,000, which shows that Hattori's desperate resistance must have brought amazing losses to the Tang army, otherwise the Tang army would definitely not have produced such an astonishing sharp decrease.

It's just that for Sakagami, it doesn't matter to them whether Hattori Shozaemon and the island soldiers under his command are dead or alive.

After all, they are just cannon fodder in their own right.

The so-called Yoon Kamoru is a great existence in the eyes of a low-class samurai from the countryside of Yoshibe, Hattori, but in front of the real nobility of the island country, Yoon Kamori is just an official position that is not in the stream from the sixth rank.

The important thing is that in the past few days, Sakagami has concentrated tens of thousands of soldiers and horses scattered on the peninsula to the vicinity of Wendeng County.

In addition to the 2,000 Japanese soldiers who stayed behind to guard Rongcheng Bay, and the 3,000 Japanese soldiers who followed Hattori to block the Tang army's losses, the number of Japanese soldiers gathered near Wendeng County exceeded 60,000.

The number of the Tang army was only 20,000, and more importantly, the Tang army was a tired army after a series of bloody battles.

At the end of the so-called strong crossbow, he couldn't wear Lu Min, and he used more than 60,000 elite Japanese soldiers to encircle and suppress 20,000 Tang troops who were extremely tired, and there was no reason for him to be invincible.

At this moment, in Sakagami's eyes, the arrival of the Tang Army is meaningless and self-defeating.

If Hattori came back alive, he wouldn't mind giving him this reward with Gensheng, but since Hattori was dead, he would also be dead.

In order to prevent various unexpected situations from frightening the Tang army, which had just arrived outside the city, Sakagami ordered all the Japanese soldiers gathered near Wendeng City to remain lurking and silent.

Until the construction of the Tang army's camp was completed, Sakagami was completely relieved, and at this point, the Tang army stayed here, which was equivalent to being surrounded by his own army.

As night fell, the Tang Army's camp was brightly lit, and there seemed to be countless people in the camp running around and seeming to be busy.

Sakagami, who was above the castle tower, didn't know what Tang Jun was doing, but he didn't care and didn't want to know, because in Sakagami's eyes, everything Tang Jun did didn't mean anything, it was just a struggle before he died.

Ignoring the anomalies of the Tang army, Sakasaka ordered all the previously hidden and silent Japanese soldiers to move from the hiding place according to the original plan, moving westward from the north and south sides, and silently sealing the Tang army in the narrow area between Wendeng County and the Sow River.

Under the command of Sakagami, the Japanese soldiers began to encircle the Tang army, and in the brightly lit camp, Lu Xiaobing and the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were naturally not idle.

What Sakagami saw was busy and running, and it was the engineer battalion, the equipment battalion, and the logistics battalion, frantically assembling all kinds of equipment.

At the same time, in the big tent of the Chinese army in the camp, Lu Xiaobing also gathered all the colonels and lieutenants in the general, as well as several high-ranking Taoist priests.

"According to the information sent by the general, Li Shidao, the former defense envoy of Jiaodong, personally led hundreds of elites to cross the sea to Dongying by boat two years ago, and then colluded with some members of the royal family of the island country to assassinate the then king of the island country, and then raised the puppet and grasped the actual power of the island country's court behind the scenes."

"It's just that after controlling the actual power of the island country, Li Shidao not only did not return this to the Tang Dynasty, but controlled the court of the island country behind the scenes, began to expand the army crazily, and raised 100,000 Japanese soldiers in less than two years."

"Prepare to provoke chaos in Datang, and then take advantage of the opportunity of Datang to fall into chaos, and use the huge fleet of the original Jiaodong Navy Division to send these 100,000 Japanese soldiers into Datang!"

"Now, these Japanese people who appear in front of us are the Japanese soldiers who were transported to Datang by the Jiaodong Navy Division under Li Shidao and are ready to wreak havoc on Datang!"

As soon as these words came out, the big tent of the Chinese army, which gathered dozens of middle and high-ranking officers, was like a frying pan, filled with surprise, doubt, dissatisfaction, anger and other emotions.

In fact, when they heard these words, the first reaction of all military schools was shock, and the shock quickly turned into anger.

Destroying the country, this kind of thing is not an uncommon thing for the Tang people.

The powerful soldiers of the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Turks, Goryeo, Xue Yantuo, and Tuguhun, fought all over the world and suppressed the grassland in a hundred years.

The Anxi Army and the Beiting Army relied on tens of thousands of soldiers to crisscross the Western Regions and control thousands of miles in the river, destroying countless countries, and even Wang Xuance, a scholar, borrowed troops from Tubo to destroy Tianzhu.

For the Tang people, it doesn't matter what your starting point is, how you do it, and what you do in the middle, what matters is the glory that your victory brings to Datang.

As long as you bring back the news of victory and infinite wealth, no one will care about your means, no matter who will praise a hero.

Therefore, Li Shidao led hundreds of people to kill the Wa King of the island country is not a matter in the eyes of the Tang Dynasty and the Tang Army, and it is not the Tang Emperor who assassinated him anyway, as for the so-called Wa King in the eyes of the Tang people, there is no difference between the toad by the river.

But Li Shidao is too much.

After killing the Wawang and controlling the power of the island country's court, he neither reported to Chang'an, nor sent the resources and wealth of the island country back to the Tang Dynasty, but took care of himself as the emperor in the island country.

Of course, if it's just like this, it's nothing, after all, it hasn't harmed the interests of Datang, but after becoming the emperor of the island country, the elite of Li Shidao of the dog day actually integrated the forces of the island country, instigated the turmoil of the Tang Dynasty, and waited for the opportunity to attack the Tang Dynasty.

Looking at the angry military academies, Lu Xiaobing and Meng Qian looked at each other and smiled, the military heart is available!

Immediately, Lu Xiaobing suddenly shouted.

"Do you remember the edict that the general asked the emperor to issue before the expedition?"

After a moment of silence, all the generals present shouted in unison under the guidance of Meng Gan.

"Where the sun and the moon shine and the rivers go, they are all Han soil!

All the Tang flags are displayed, and the soldiers are all concubines!

All those who dare to call themselves soldiers inside and outside will be beheaded, beheaded, and burned their sects, thousands of miles away!

Whoever dares to offend will destroy his city, destroy his country, destroy his species, and cut off his descendants! ”

"The general has issued a killing order, and all island people who step into the territory of the Tang Dynasty will be killed regardless of the purpose, the reason, the men, women, the old and the young."

"After this battle, after the hidden danger of my Tang Dynasty is lifted, the general will invite the Emperor and His Majesty to lead the army across the sea to expedition to Dongying!"

"Li Shidao is a Tang man, he has forgotten his ancestors, he is rebellious, and his wolf ambition is obvious, no matter if Li Shidao escapes to the ends of the earth, the general will lead his troops to completely capture him, and he will be punished."

Immediately, Lu Xiaobing raised his arms, controlled the atmosphere a little, and continued.

"Five days ago, several fishermen who had returned to Jimo reported to the general that a large fleet of boats was heading along the coast of Baekje."

"At this moment, there is only a fleet of this scale on the sea, the former Jiaodong Sailor!"

"According to the information grasped by the general, there are a total of three routes for the island country to send Tang envoys from the island country to Datang, one of which starts from the island country and then goes north along the coastline of Silla and Baekje, enters Liaodong and then turns southwest and enters Jiaodong."

"According to the general, this should be the third group of more than 30,000 Japanese soldiers sent by Li Shidao."

"According to the existing intelligence and the analysis of the boatmen, scholars, and fishermen of the Jimo and Laoshan bases, the general judged that the Jiaodong Naval Division would most likely choose the northern line and finally land in Rongcheng Bay, the easternmost point of the Jiaodong Peninsula."

"Since Li Shidao has mastered the actual rights of the imperial court of the island country, it means that the Jiaodong Naval Division of my Datang Dynasty is now equivalent to the Naval Division of the island country, with the scale of the former Jiaodong Naval Division, if it is a disaster, it will be infinitely harmful to my Datang."

"It is very difficult to completely wipe out such a fleet on the sea, and it is the best time for us to transport Japanese soldiers with the help of the Jiaodong Naval Division."

"So the general decided to seize this opportunity to completely annihilate the Jiaodong Naval Division mastered by Li Shidao and completely eliminate the hidden dangers along the coast of my Datang."

"According to the wind direction and hydrology provided by the fishermen, the Jiaodong sailors should arrive within three to seven days, which means that we don't have enough time."

"Now Captain Han has led two battalions of soldiers from Muping and headed east along the coastline to Rongcheng Bay."

"Three days ago, the general had personally led the newly formed Laoshan Wei and Jimo Divisions to set off from Laoshan Port and rush to Rongcheng Bay by sea and land."

Looking at the military academy present and listening to the bewildered look of Jimo Wei and Jimo Shui Division, after getting affirmation from Lu Xiaobing's gaze, Meng Qian said.

"During the period of Jimo, the general rebuilt a Laoshan guard from the servants, boatmen, fishermen, and strong men who served Jimo according to the model of the Changying Army, with the independent battalion as the backbone, as the guard force of Jimo and Laoshan base!"

"At the same time, after discovering the traces of the Jiaodong Naval Division transporting Japanese soldiers, the general used the experimental sea ships in Jimo Port to transfer the craftsmen, boatmen, and fishermen in the Jimo and Laoshan bases as crew members, and temporarily formed the Jimo Naval Division."

"It's just that their two forces are still relatively weak, and if they want to completely annihilate the enemy's sailors and soldiers, we still need to be able to reinforce them in time."

"So tomorrow, we have to win quickly."