Zhang Yong's formation was arranged for a long time, and Yuan Zongdi did not launch an attack.

"The Yuan thief was probably resting his soldiers, right?" Zhang Yong knew that Yuan Zongdi had just fought a battle with Hu Wenke. Even if the battlefield terrain was flat, Yuan's troops, who had just fought fiercely, needed to rest. Not long ago, the report of the general who returned to his subordinates was a verbal evidence. The number of Ming soldiers was more than the Qing army that surrounded him, but he insisted on the spot and refused to launch an attack. However, when the Qing army retreated, the Ming army did not follow and pursue: "Maybe it possible to launch an attack now? However, the melee may be exactly what Yuan thief hopes for. If it is broken up, Yuan thief can run away even if it is defeated. Forget it, I'd better wait for Wang Mingde and others to drive Yuan thief over and save their strength to chase Yuan thief and wipe out all the troops."

While Zhang Yong was making a wishful thinking, an arrow suddenly emerged from behind him, and then another ray of smoke rushed straight into the sky.

After the war broke out, the Ming army, who were cut by the Qing army, immediately returned to the way, and several of them had horses. They soon met the Ming army's back team and informed them of the discovery of a large number of Qing army. After receiving this news, the Ming army immediately accelerated and rushed to Zhang Yong's back. While preparing for the pre-war, the entire army raised a bonfire to try to contact Yuan Zongdi.

Shortly after the wolf smoke rose, a black smoke rushed straight into the sky in the direction Zhang Yong faced. After Yuan Zongdi saw the beacon fire of reinforcements, he also lit a pile of fires to contact him. The two black smoke echoed each other and conducted necessary communication intermittently.

As soon as I saw the smoke rising behind me, Zhang Yong knew that the general situation was not good. The most common way of communication was that the officers commanded the soldiers by calling and calling, which could be understood as long as they were not deaf; secondly, the flag, which already required some training; as for the sound of arrows, it was a communication method that only middle and senior officers needed to understand. Different officers had different designs, such as Hu Wenke's signal Zhang Yong was not omnipotent to understand; and wolf smoke was a communication method with a similar range and had high requirements. Once it rose, it would attract the attention of both the enemy and the enemy and the armies around him. It needed a safe sending environment, a skilled operator, and an officer who could translate. Basically, they were the communication and communication methods of the main general and the deputy general in an emergency, and sometimes they were in the hands of the reconnaissance vanguard or important observation posts.

Therefore, when Zhang Yong saw Langyan, he knew that most of the reinforcements from Yuan Zongdi were coming from behind. After observing for a while, although he couldn't understand the specific signals, he vaguely felt that the east seemed to be reporting the location and military numbers, and the west was Yuan Zongdi's direction, and then he began to issue an order to attack - although each had its own design, many basic things were common, and cryptography was not developed in this era.

At first, Zhang Yong was lucky, hoping that Yuan Zongdi's scout was deploying a suspicious array in the old attempt to disrupt his own formation. But the wolf smoke on the east side did not look fake, and it contained a lot of information; and the scout sent by Zhang Yong also reported that there were indeed signs of large troops in the east, and the number of people could not be judged for the time being, but the range was large. If it was a normal formation, it would probably exceed a thousand people, which might be only a part.

"I just knew! Why did Yuan Zhe suddenly become bold and go against me? It really wanted to bully the weak with the masses. No wonder he refused to attack, this timid coward!" Zhang Yong shouted in a frustration. He knew that more Ming troops might arrive one after another. The powerful strength of the Ming army surprised Zhang Yong because he had observed two thousand Ming soldiers in the west. Since the Ming army dared to approach him, he would have at least more than one thousand soldiers: "Where did Yuan Zhe get the soldiers? He has stationed a lot of fields in Wanxian County and has made a fortune in the past year?"

Now is obviously not a good time to think about this. Although Zhang Yong was nervous, he was not desperate yet. Calculated the journey, Wang Mingde should have been behind Yuan Zongdi at this time. Even if he had not arrived yet, it would be a matter of immediate success.

"How should I deal with it?" Zhang Yong thought nervously: "Should all the armorless soldiers be released and the armored soldiers gathered together along the river?"

"No!" Zhang Yong immediately rejected his idea, which would be equivalent to losing half of it. Let Wujia escape from his own will not only suffer huge losses, damage morale, but also let go of the road and unable to intercept Yuan Zongdi's main force to leave.

"Yuan Zongdi should be his elite main force, but he has fought a battle and is relatively tired. His combat effectiveness has dropped a lot, and he will be restrained by Wang Mingde; and even if the reinforcements in the east are similar to Yuan Zongdi's unit, they should be one of the poorest soldiers of Yuan Zongdi. Well, they must be his newly recruited new recruits, and their equipment will definitely not be compared with the elites around him." Zhang Yong knew that Yuan Zongdi had been in a difficult years and had not launched a large-scale attack in recent years. He had no chance to train new recruits, so Zhang Yong quickly made a decision: "The new recruits from the east are not strong in combat, and Yuan Zongdi's unit in the west are tired and unable to attack me with all their strength, so I should divide the troops into both sides and continue to stabilize the defense."

Zhang Yong divided his subordinates into two equally, and at the same time launched a front to the east and west sides. To be safe, Zhang Yong estimated the Ming army from the east to two thousand soldiers - this number Zhang Yong thought was already very high, but even for two thousand new recruits, Zhang Yong was confident that he would use half of his subordinates to block their attack. Compared with the Eastern Front, the Western Front made Zhang Yong more worried. Although Yuan Zongdi's troops had fought one battle, the Ming army would probably launch a fierce attack in order to escape the danger: "As long as you persist in the west, if Yuan Zongdi's entire army attacked fiercely, Wang Mingde would be able to rush over without any obstacles. As long as I gritted my teeth and persevered, Yuan Zongdi would still be dead." Zhang Yong repeatedly nagged as if he wanted to hypnotize himself: "Persevere, persist!"

As Zhang Yong expected, Wang Mingde and Yuan Jiawenbi had already reached the back of Yuan Zongdi at this time, but they did not raise up wolf smoke to contact Zhang Yong, but planned to launch an attack silently.

Pointing at the two wolf smokes in the sky, Wang Mingde said to Yuan Jiawenbi: "Since the thief is still using beacon fire, it means that Admiral Zhang is still blocking them. We should launch a quick attack to rescue Admiral Zhang."

"Or, after the Yuan thief launches an attack, we will attack again." Yuan Jiawenbi had a different view. They met Zhang Yong's troops who had retreated just now, and knew that the defenders of Wanxian were standing in front: "If we launch an attack rashly, the thieves will resist us with all their strength, and Admiral Zhang's troops will resist the thieves in the east at this time, and it will be easy to end the stalemate. If the battle cannot be resolved before nightfall, the thieves will escape."

"Does the deputy governor want to wait for the Yuan thief to break through before attacking?" At this time, Wang Mingde's scout and Yuan Zongdi's defender also had contact. I believe the other party had noticed the actions of the Qing army, but Wang Mingde and others did not raise the beacon, nor did they develop quickly. I believe Yuan Zongdi didn't know much about the strength of the Qing army.
Chapter completed!