The No. 2 ferry, the place where the main force of the Ming army had crossed the river before, was particularly lively tonight, with bright lights on both sides of the Lanjiang River, a large number of torches burning, and figures surging, as if announcing that a super war was about to break out.

The Ming army on the east bank of the Lanjiang River was very serious, not only by the nearly 1,000 Ming troops originally stationed here, but also by more than 500 reinforcements urgently dispatched by Song Zhiwen on the way.

At the beginning, since the Ming army could think of crossing the river from here, it was also to guard against the puppet Tang thief army from crossing the river from here, so after the failure of the second battle of crossing the river, Song Zhiwen sent people to defend it here.

They built a lot of beachhead fortifications, and the attention was very simple, that is, if the puppet Tang thief army dared to cross the river from here, then they would fight a half-crossing attack here, so that the puppet Tang thief army could also taste the huge casualties when landing.

However, unlike the Ming army on the east bank of the Lanjiang River, on the west bank of the Lanjiang River, several Tang Army officers looked at the other side of the river with bitter faces.

One of the lieutenants said, "My lord, do you think we can hide from those Ming troops?" ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the 'soldiers' who were holding artillery cannons and wearing the uniforms of Tang Army soldiers, but they did not even have a weapon in their hands.

The captain in front of him also said with a calm face: "It's hard to say, it's not easy to test these people and hide from the spies of the Ming army!" ”

"But it's night, it's not so easy for them to find out, even if it's daytime, even if the spies of the Ming army are bold, they don't dare to sneak into our team to see if our people are ordinary villagers or soldiers!"

"I hope our side can contain more Ming troops for the main force!" A second lieutenant on the side said the same: "As long as our side can contain the Ming army of 2,000 people, it will be much safer for the main force to cross the river!" ”

"But who came up with the idea to let the nearby villagers pretend to be our army?" At this time, he seemed to suddenly come up with a problem.

"I don't know, I heard that those staff officers of the Operations Division came up with it!"

Naturally, they didn't know that this method was not actually proposed by the Operations Division, but Li Xuan's inspiration!

Since he wanted to set up a maze array at the No. 2 ferry to confuse the Ming army, so that the Ming army mistakenly thought that he wanted to cross the river from the No. 2 ferry, then it was natural to put the formation bigger.

And the bluff on the surface is also easy to see through, so Li Xuan simply came to confuse the truth, recruited nearly 2,000 villagers from the vicinity, dressed them in the military uniforms of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and took long wooden sticks to disguise themselves as musketeers or spearmen, in order to make them more like real soldiers, he even took out some old cold weapons for them to hold.

The military uniforms they wear are still the military uniforms used by the soldiers of the Datang New Army themselves!

According to their own wishes, these villagers are naturally reluctant to come to such a dangerous front line, but the Datang New Army is half-luring and half-coercive to forcibly pull people.

When you come, you will be fed, and every meal will be full of white rice, and an extra two catties of rice will be distributed.

If you don't want to come like this, it's simple, just serve with knives and guns!

The efficiency of temporarily pulling Zhuang Ding is quite high, and it only took one day to pull almost 2,000 villagers nearby, in order to avoid revealing the stuffing, they are all men, but these men are all old and young.

After all, it's just to use them to act to confuse the Ming army, and it's not really to let them go into battle.

In addition to the Ming army pretending to be nearly 2,000 villagers, there is naturally a genuine Datang New Army on the side of the No. 2 ferry, but there are not many of them, and they are also second-line troops.

There are only two teams of the Datang New Army here, one is the spear team of the Fourth Infantry Battalion, and the other is a team of the Hunting Battalion.

These troops are naturally not used to fight the Ming army, but to maintain the order of this show, after all, the nearly 2,000 villagers are not regular troops, not to mention untrained, and many of them are still reluctant, there are not enough troops to guard on the side, it is difficult to ensure that they will not disperse in a hurry.

However, although the Tang army on the side of the No. 2 ferry was only acting, it was the same as the real thing, the boats used to cross the river were moved out one by one, and then put on the riverside, and the villagers disguised as soldiers gathered at the beachhead.

Just looking at this posture, you will think that it will not take long for more than 2,000 pseudo-Tang thief troops to cross the river and fight over.

The generals of the Ming army on the opposite side of this frightening were extremely nervous, and sent people to report to Song Zhiwen several times in a row, asking for more reinforcements, and swore that the number of puppet Tang thieves who were ready to cross the river was as many as 2,000 people, and the main force with firearms was more than half, and this puppet Tang thief army must be the main force.

The main force of more than 2,000 puppet Tang thieves is going to cross the river from the No. 2 ferry, and they can resist it with a thousand people, so they must ask for reinforcements!

Song Zhiwen couldn't sleep at all tonight, according to the information from various fast horses, he was already very sure that the general attack of the puppet Tang thief army across the river had begun, and now the night was the preparation period, and it was also possible to send a partial division to cross the river directly at night, and by tomorrow morning, I am afraid that the puppet Tang thief army will fully cross the river.

It's just that so far, he still can't judge where is the main force of the puppet Tang thief army crossing the river.

On the side of the No. 2 ferry, the defenders reported that they had found more than 2,000 puppet Tang thieves, and they swore that they were the main force of the puppet Tang thieves.

But on the side of the Lanjiang Ferry, the pseudo-Tang thief army on the other side is also making a big splash, and the momentum is even bigger!

Even on the side of the No. 3 ferry, there were as many as two or three hundred pseudo-Tang thieves found.

And so far, these three places may be the places where the puppet Tang thief army crossed the river, so he never dared to act rashly.

Even though the defending general asked for reinforcements over and over again at the No. 2 ferry, he only sent 500 men.

Even if there were not many puppet Tang thieves on the No. 3 ferry side, he still put about 500 troops on the No. 3 ferry to garrison.

Now, he still has about 4,000 troops on the side of the Lanjiang Ferry, including 2,000 guards, 500 recruits led by him, and the rest are naturally recruited young and strong.

Before finalizing where the main force of the puppet Tang thief army was, he didn't dare to send too many troops to the No. 2 or No. 3 ferry.

Song Zhiwen's caution also made Li Xuan and the others frown!

"I didn't expect the surname Song to be so cautious!"

"What now?"

Li Xuan listened to the words of Zeng Ziwen and the others, and also frowned, and said after a while: "Order the No. 2 ferry, let them increase their momentum, make the fake come true, and be sure to launch the river crossing before dawn!" ”

Zeng Ziwen asked with some puzzlement: "Your Majesty, let the No. 2 ferry really cross the river?" ”