Valley Emperor

According to Li Xuan and the others' previous estimates, the Ming army would be able to arrive at a normal, but slightly faster speed, at the earliest in the evening.

But the Ming army in front of them had already arrived in the afternoon, not even a few hours later than the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

This situation also made Li Xuan secretly fortunate. Fortunately, they set off early in the morning, and they walked faster on the road. Otherwise, they might have been rushed by the Ming army.

If the Ming army arrives first and seizes the ferry, the follow-up operations will be troublesome.

The new army of the Tang Dynasty on the west bank of the Lanjiang Ferry all hid behind the **** of the hillside, and did not leave any men and horses by the river. They even kept two small ferry boats in order to confuse the Ming army. It will be the original boatman, but a disguised soldier of the new Tang Dynasty.

If the Ming army on the other side of the river can't beat the river, it is basically impossible to find more than 1,000 people hiding on the other side of the river when they are only observing from the opposite side.

"Go on and prepare for battle!" When Li Xuan saw that the Ming army on the other side of the river was observing for a while, and was already preparing to start a small-scale crossing of the river, he immediately issued an order to prepare for battle.

The soldiers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty began to prepare weapons, especially the sword and shield soldiers began to wear armor with the help of others.

After three infantry battalions, a sword and shield team, a cavalry team, and an archer were ready, several large phalanxes were listed behind the hillside, waiting for the final attack order.

Once Li Xuan gave the order to attack, they would attack immediately, in order to completely defeat the Ming army forward crossing the river.

As for why the target was only selected as the forward of this group of hundreds of people, instead of letting the Ming army forward, and then ambushing the main force of the Ming army.

This is because once the five hundred frontmen of the Ming army are allowed to cross the river and stand, it will not be an ambush, but a head-on confrontation, and Li Xuan has no confidence in letting his new Tang army confront the three thousand Ming army head-on. military.

There are more than 1,000 people in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, but there is a lot of water. There are only about 300 veterans with better quality, and there are more than 300 old bandits and soldiers of the Ming army who defected. The rest are all freshmen. The recruits who have not been recruited for a few days now can't even distinguish between left and right, and they don't even know how to use the spears and swords in their hands. The only role of these recruits on the battlefield is actually to build up their momentum and scare the enemy.

You can't count on them in a real war!

Li Xuan brought them because he hoped that after blocking the Ming army on the opposite side of the Lanjiang River, there would be a confrontation time, and this time was his training time. As long as he was given a month of training time, he could barely make these recruits fight. , if he was given three months to train his troops, he would dare to pull them and the Ming army in front of them!

When the new army of the Tang Dynasty began to prepare for the battle, the Ming army on the other side of the river also began to move. About 30 Ming soldiers sat in two small boats and began to use the ropeway to cross the river. The river surface of the Lanjiang River is not wide, and there is a ropeway. can be used, so they cross the river fairly quickly.

It didn't take long for this Ming army to set foot on the land on the west bank of the Lanjiang River. After reaching the other side of the river, these Ming army soldiers, led by a hundred households, began to search for the river.

At this time, the subsequent Ming soldiers also began to cross the river!

At this time, Li Xuan also nodded towards Cao Mingda. The next moment, Cao Mingda rode away alone!

After a while, Li Xuan saw a group of cavalry of about ten people on the hillside galloping towards the ferry from the west. Naturally, they did this not to attack the Ming army who had just crossed the river, but to attract the Ming army. 's attention.

Especially the attention of the dozens of Ming soldiers who crossed the river first.

Li Xuan's plan was to make these cavalry create an illusion, that is, to make the Ming army misunderstand that these cavalry were the pioneers of the new Tang Dynasty's cavalry.

As long as the Ming Army Hundred Households leading the team are not the kind of person who is too suspicious, then his attention will be attracted by these cavalry, and then he will ignore the main force of the new Tang army behind the hillside jungle.

It's a mental battle!

Soon, those Ming troops discovered more than a dozen cavalrymen, including Cao Mingda, who were galloping along the official road from the due west.

Unsurprisingly, they panicked. The Baihu said in a loud voice, saying things like forming a formation. Obviously, he also had great scruples about these cavalry.

Naturally, Cao Mingda would not foolishly lead his cavalry to attack a phalanx of more than 30 infantrymen who had already formed a tight formation. That would not be called brave, but foolish.

He led the cavalry and stopped far away, as if he wanted to monitor and pay attention to these Ming troops.

At this time, the Ming army on the other side of the river also started to move. I saw that the middle-aged Qianhu headed by and after a few words with others, soon someone ran back on a fast horse, obviously to find the fake Tang thief The news of the military reconnaissance cavalry was reported to the main force behind.

Because the reconnaissance cavalry of the pseudo-Tang bandit army was discovered, it meant that the main force of the pseudo-Tang bandit army was not far away.

They didn't know that the main force of the Datang New Army had actually been ambushed on the hillside behind the ferry.

At the same time as sending people to report the news, the remaining Ming army also began to cross the river one after another, and the officers were still urging them, but there were only a few ferries available for them to cross the river, and the number of people who crossed the river at one time was three or four. Only ten people.

And these Ming troops also began to cut down nearby trees and tried to make rafts, but in any case, the main force of these Ming troops had to cross the river, which would take half an hour to say the least.

Although the Ming army forward on the opposite side was a little slow to cross the river, Li Xuan was not in a hurry. He wished that the Ming army would cross the river slower.

Because the speed of crossing the river is slow, when they cross the river to normal, they will kill themselves. Whether they want to turn around and go back in the end, or the people in the rear want to cross the river to support the battle, it is impossible!

And what is this called?

This is called a half-pass!

Obviously, the current situation is developing towards the situation Li Xuan expected, and it is quite smooth, which makes Li Xuan feel that he should buy a lottery ticket today.

When luck comes, it can't be stopped!

But good luck can't last forever~www.wuxiaspot.com~ After the Ming army crossed the river with about 150 people, one side was guarding against Cao Mingda's small cavalry, while the other was sending a group of people towards Li Xuan and the others are here on the hillside!

"What's the matter? Did they find something? Or are they too suspicious?"

Li Xuan was a little depressed for a while, how long did this good luck last, and it was over in a quarter of an hour?

But now is not the time to be depressed, these Ming troops will be close to the hillside jungle. As soon as they come up, as long as they are not blind, they will be 100% able to spot Li Xuan and the others!

When they found out that there were more than a thousand people in ambush behind this hillside, they would be scared and stupid, but Li Xuan was sure that the Ming army behind them would definitely not be crossing the river!

From this point of view, it is impossible to eat more than 300 of them at one time. Forget it, these more than 100 people are also meat. Eat them first, so as not to have too many dreams at night!

Li Xuan, who thought so, simply raised the long sword in his hand, and then said softly: "Attack!"