When Yidengzi saw Zhu Yuanzhang sending scouts, he didn't say anything, knowing his opponent and knowing him. He won every battle. He understood this principle, but he really couldn't come up with the scouts. After seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinates receive the order, they ran out as easily as monkeys. He was slightly surprised: "Brother Zhu Ba, all of you are good at your hands."

"These are my old brothers who followed me when the uprising in the early years of Chongzhen." Zhu Yuanzhang did not show off, nor pretended to be modest, and said plainly: "I have been with me for more than three years, but I have learned some skills.

Lighting the lamp was secretly surprised. He just glanced at him and saw that this group of people was very powerful. If they were placed in his own team, they would be small leaders who could lead hundreds of people. But for Zhu Ba, it seems that he was using them as guards to show that the leader in Zhu Ba's army was even more powerful. It seems that his background is somewhat different from Zhu Ba. Well, now is not the time to be jealous of him. Since he is so powerful, if he helps, he will be more confident in dealing with Cao Wenzhao.

The scouts were sent out, and it would take at least one or two ris to wait for them to come back. Before the information came back, Zhu Yuanzhang could not decide any tactics against the officers and soldiers, so he had to talk to the light of the lamp.

In some nonsense novels, the protagonist has not even reconnaissed the enemy's military information, and has never seen the enemy's army at all. He has no idea of ​​the depth of the enemy. He even couldn't figure out how many people outside the military camp were watching, so he immediately made a plan to send a special force to sneak into the enemy camp and directly kill the enemy's head, and scare the enemy's head. He was so angry that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have this ability! That was the special stunt of the hero Long Aotian.

In short, the two of them could only sit down and chat while waiting for the news. There was not much to talk about, so they had to talk about boring topics. They were a little bit of trouble in reading people. They liked to blow the air in a wide range of places, and kept bragging to Zhu Yuanzhang how powerful the 36th Battalion was, and what a 200,000 army was. They just wanted to say that he was very powerful in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, which was amazing.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang would also deal with such people. After becoming emperor in his previous life, officials wrote memorials every day to brag about themselves and wanted to express their merits to the emperor. After seeing such fake characters, he had long been used to them. He listened with a smile on his face, and just go in the left ear and the right ear. There was no need to see them as him.

After a rift, the scouts sent the news back. The Liaodong border army led by Cao Wenzhao had actually arrived at a must-pass road eight miles east of the bandit army. It was not a marching camp, but a relatively strong camp. It seemed that Cao Wenzhao had already reconnaissed and lit a lamp to station on the Yellow River and could not escape, so he was not in a hurry, and he had to settle the roots first and then fight. Since the other party was building such camps, he would not think about it. If he attacked such camps at night, before he had time to break through the walls of the village, the soldiers in the camp had already put on clothes and lined up waiting for you.

The style of the Bianjun is indeed stable!

"Brother Zhu's scouts discovered a strange place!" Ma Xiaotian reported: "There are only one thousand jing soldiers in this camp, and not three thousand people are inconsistent with the troops told by Brother Lighting the Lantern."

"Oh?" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the light of the lamp with inquiring eyes.

Zhao Sheng said quickly, "It's really three thousand. We have fought several battles with him, and the troops are absolutely impossible to make a mistake."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned tightly, lowered his head and thought for a while, suddenly raised his head and said quickly: "Xiaotian, send someone to spy on both north and south directions to see if each camp is eight miles apart."

Sure enough, the news that the scouts sent back again was as expected by Zhu Yuanzhang. There was a camp on the main roads in the east, north and south directions of the lamplight camp. Each camp had a thousand people... and they actually surrounded 20,000 people with 3,000 people. They were so bold that they were extremely brave.

Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "It seems that Cao Wenzhao is planning to encircle and annihilate you here. Except for the Yellow River side, you have blocked the other three directions."

Illuminated the lamp a little panicked: "Brother Zhu Ba, what should I do? Oh by the way, the enemy divided the troops, I should gather superior forces and fight out from one of the directions."

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "If we had discovered that the officers and soldiers were splitting their troops and camping earlier, the whole army would attack while the camp was not stable, and they might be able to eat Jizhong and defeat the other two routes. However, at this time, the officers and soldiers had already set up their camps, and it would be unlikely that they would use this trick. No matter which route we attack, the officers and soldiers only need to block the camp and drag the people from the other two routes to help.

It's still a situation of three sides."

I was so scared that I had already found out that I would have sent a scout earlier...what should we do? Then we build rafts, quickly build a large number of rafts, cross the Yellow River, and flee back to Shaanxi and West."

"Don't panic!" Zhu Yuanzhang shouted in a deep voice, stopping the roar of the lamp: "At this moment, there must be scouts from officers and soldiers monitoring in the nearby mountains and forests. If you cut down a large number of trees and rafts, you will tell the officers and soldiers that you plan to cross the river. At the same time, you will also tell your subordinates that the situation is extremely dangerous and the morale of the army will inevitably be unstable. Cao Wenzhao will leave. When your army is shaken, you will attack you easily defeat you in one fell swoop. Now you must not show the momentum of building rafts and escaping. My reinforcements should almost be here. When they cross the river, we will have the power to fight.

"There are scouts from officers and soldiers nearby monitoring?" Lighting the lamp was shocked: "Will that mean...Brother Zhu Ba, your reinforcements will also be seen by officers and soldiers when they come from the other side of the river? Will the officers and soldiers make any actions such as early attack?"

"It's very likely!" Zhu Yuanzhang analyzed: "Cao Wenzhao has two choices. One is to defeat your army before my reinforcements cross the river. In this way, my reinforcements dare not come and can only retreat to the west bank. Another option is to deliberately let my reinforcements come over and join forces with you, and then he will eat our two troops together at the same time."

"Dan"

Zhu Yuanzhang thought carefully and said seriously: "I guess Cao Wenzhao would use the second type! Because he was the Liaodong border army, his combat power was extremely strong, and he didn't take our rebel army seriously at all. From the 20,000 troops he divided the troops and besieged you in three camps, he could tell his xing. In his opinion, it doesn't matter if I have more manpower, but he can make more military achievements!"

"I'm happy that no matter whether the officers and soldiers will attack at any time while my reinforcements cross the river, we must be prepared." Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "Please light the lamp and rectify the army, put down the army formation behind the river to make a strict defense, and at the same time, scatter the vector scouts, monitor the movements of the three officers and soldiers camps, and buy time for my reinforcements to cross the river."

"Okay!" Lighting the lamp was shocked by the calmness and confidence in Zhu Yuanzhang's tone. He didn't expect to object at all. He quickly transferred the order. There were no special scouts in his army, so he had to send a large group of hunters out. These hunters had not received scout training, but at least they had developed a light and fast skill in tracking animals in the mountains, which could barely be used together.

The seven thousand young and strong main forces in the Lighting Army quickly cheered up, picked up spears and other weapons, and set up a defensive formation with their backs to the Yellow River. At this time, the thousand jing soldiers led by Xu Renjie also arrived on the other side of the Yellow River, took turns to board dozens of ferries, and began to cross the river.

Relying on dozens of small and broken ferries, it is not an easy task to cross the Yellow River, and it is impossible to do it without most of the day. Cao Wenzhao may attack at any time during this half day. He was so nervous that he stood in front of the military formation that he personally served as a military supervisor for his seven thousand young men...

On the small hill one mile away to the east of the Lighting Lantern Barracks...

A group of officers and soldiers were hiding behind the trees, looking at the situation on the edge of the Yellow River through the height of the hillside.

There were thirty soldiers in this team, and the leader was a military general wearing Wenshan armor. This man had a face in his forties, but he had a body in his thirties. He had a tall cow and strong horses, and had a skeleton. It turned out that this man was Cao Wenzhao, a good general who had just been transferred from the Liaodong border army to the deputy general of Tingsui.

He looked at Zhu Yuanzhang's army who was crossing the river from afar and said curiously: "It's so strange that there is an army in Shaanxi, and there is actually a crossing the river to help light the lamp. Could it be that the remnants of the party who stayed in Shaanxi to pick him up?"

"Uncle, why don't we take advantage of this attack if we delay the attack for half a moment, will the reinforcements that light the lamp come over? Isn't it even harder to fight?" The speaker was Cao Wenzhao's nephew, named Cao Bianjiao, and was also a powerful general. He was collectively known as General Cao, both of whom and Cao Wenzhao were called General Cao, and he is currently the general in the army.

"Just! What's the use of just a thousand bandits? We are leading the Liao army's border troops, and we are not at a disadvantage when fighting with skilled archers and horses. He Ju and other farmers holding hoes and pot lids..." Cao Wenzhao sneered: "Let these thousand people come here, and I will catch them all in one go, so I won't have to go to Shaanxi again and chase them in the west..."

Cao Bianjiao Shen sighed depressedly: "We have been back to Guanzhong to suppress the bandits for a year. I am really worried about the situation in Liaodong... A man and a real man cannot fight for the country's blood, but he wants to suppress the bandits in the country. My nephew is really unhappy. I really want to deal with these thieves who are in trouble earlier, so it's better to return to Liaodong to kill shoes. Uncle... Why don't you know these thieves know? Jiannu in Liaodong is causing trouble, and the whole country needs to work together to deal with foreign enemies. These thieves choose to drag us back at this time. It's really hateful."

Cao Wenzhao's face changed slightly, and a helpless smile appeared on his face: "Good nephew, you are still young... Things are not black and white in your eyes. Alas, there are always some inevitable reasons for this thief to cause chaos... Forget it, we should not care about these things, we should just fight and defend the Ming Dynasty, and don't care about those that are there or not! In short, the bandits make trouble and defeat them is to defeat all their enemies, and it is our way to save the country as warriors!"
Chapter completed!