Cao Hongzu desperately urged the horse, while constantly looking behind him. In fact, he could only see the light of the torch beside him in the night, but the wound on his face reminded him that a large number of Jianyu were chasing after him.

In the first half of the night, he ran out with his subordinates for an unknown distance, and finally found that he had been scaring himself all along, and there was no shadow of the enemy at all.

He cursed bad luck, gathered the team, and ordered to be repaired in situ.

His men and horses fled for a long time, and when they heard that there was no pursuit from Jianjiao, they immediately fell to the ground to rest.

At this moment, a group of Qing troops came from the south side, and it was Zhang Yingmeng who came to "pick up" Fan Shaozu's men.

Zhang Yingmeng sent scouts to come forward with a pair of passwords, and he knew that it was not his own people, and immediately waved his army to cover up the killing.

Cao Hongzu's anger had not yet stopped, and he heard the sound of killing behind him. At first, he calmly sent his own soldiers to drink the soldiers, telling them that there were no enemies and that they should not shout.

Unexpectedly, the pro-soldier ran back in a moment, and was shocked to report that this time it was really a prisoner attack.

Before Cao Hongzu could react when he heard this, he suddenly felt a hot pain on his face, and a feathered arrow was nailed to the tree behind him, and the body of the arrow was still buzzing.

He jumped on his horse in fright, whipped his horse desperately, and continued to flee north.

In the camp of the Dragon Guard, Zhu Linmiao was discussing with the officers of the Dragon Guard Army and the Broken Battalion, when suddenly a hussar came in and saluted: "My lord, I just found a few local people, saying that this is Xia Rong Village. It is true that a large army of Jianyu was stationed on the outskirts of Nanping, but no one knows the specific situation. ”

Zhu Linmiao quickly found the location of Xia Rong Village on the map, and frowned slightly: "It's only about twelve miles away from the outskirts of Nanping, so it's a little close. The whole army was ordered to remain in a state of readiness for battle, and the number of people in the outer cordon circle was doubled, so as to guard against the construction of captives and attack camps. ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Jiayu arched his hand and said: "My lord, we have traveled along the way, and we have not seen any people for dozens of miles. I thought it was still in the wilderness, but I didn't expect it to be close to Nanping. ”

Zhu Linmiao nodded, Nanping County is the seat of Yanping Mansion, and it is desolate at this time, which shows that the construction is raging.

He instructed Zhao Shichao: "Send the hussars to the camp of the captive army immediately, and be sure to find out the truth of Jiannu as soon as possible, and it is best to catch a few alive and come back for interrogation." ”

"Yes!" Zhao Shichao then took the order and left.

Zhu Linmiao pointed to a hill on the map, "Here you can overlook the surroundings, and tomorrow you will transfer all the cannons." ”

"Yes!" Chen Xiongfei replied on the side.

"The camp can be retreated a little more, and the village is ...... by Nanxi"

As a few people were talking, Zhao Shichao, who had just left for a while, turned back again, saluted and said loudly: "My lord, the hussars on the south side of the guard found a group of men and horses hurrying towards our army, the number is unknown, but there are always more than a thousand people!" In addition, Tanma also heard the sound of fire. ”

Zhang Jiayu immediately continued: "My lord, if the slaves are built to attack the camp, when the silence sneaks in, it will not be fired." So, or is there a Ming army engaged in war with Jianyu? ”

Zhu Linmiao nodded and said: "The Ming army near here should only be Jiang Zhengxi's department, could it be that he is fighting with the enemy......" Speaking of this, his face sank, "I'll just say how can Jiannu surrender easily!" The fox's tail leaked out. ”

Zhen Zhen said hurriedly on the side: "But I don't know what the battle situation is at this time." Jiang Zongbing had 6,000 men and horses, and if he was defeated by Jiannu, it would be a huge loss for the Ming army. ”

"You have to beware that this is a ruse to attack the camp and build captives." Zhu Linmiao immediately ordered, "Order the infantry of the Dragon Guard Army to line up in formation with the center, and break the camp to cover on both flanks." The cavalry was concentrated in the rear of the infantry to form a formation, beware of the sound of the captives attacking the east and west. ”

"Yes!"

"Torch control, silence." Zhu Linmiao ordered again. In the last night battle with Tong Peng, the Dragon Guards gave full play to the advantages of the flintlock gun without a fuse rope and easy to conceal, and it has now become a standard mode of night combat.

"Zhao Shichao, send a team of hussars to respond. If it is Jiang Zhengxi's people, he will lead them to the back of our army. If it is a captive army, it will be returned immediately. ”

"Yes!"

……

Cao Hongzu knew that it was not easy for Jianyu to follow him in the middle of the night, so he kept urging the horse to gallop. Gradually, he felt that the shouts of killing and the sound of fire behind him were lowered, and he was slightly relieved in his heart.

"General, look!" Suddenly, the soldiers beside him pointed their fingers to the north and shouted in shock.

Cao Hongzu looked up and saw the neatly arranged torches rushing towards his side, which was clearly a group of cavalry!

At present, Yanping Mansion is full of captives except for his own people, and his heart is tight, could it be that the Qing army is setting up an ambush in front? !

Thinking of this, he looked around for a while, and finally pulled the reins with great force, and ran towards the east side again, and the remnants of the soldiers behind him followed closely behind, running without looking back.

Jin Jie, on the order of Zhao Shichao, led his hussars to connect with "Jiang Zhengxi", not wanting to be far away, so he saw the oncoming men and horses hurriedly turning to the east.

He didn't know what to do, and he was afraid that it was a trick to lure the enemy, so he ordered his soldiers to wait in place and wait for the change.

A moment later, more people arrived, and it was Zhang Yingmeng, who was ordered to answer Fan Shaozu. Zhang Ying dreamed that the Ming army suddenly turned to the east and ran away, and saw nearly a hundred torches in front of him, and subconsciously thought that it was Fan Shaozu's department.

His main task here was to ensure the thoroughness of Fan Shaozu's 5,000 men, so he immediately gave up continuing to pursue the Ming army and sent people to counterpoint with "Fan Shaozu".

Jin Jie saw the group of men and horses in front of him stop, and a few of them came out and shouted at him from thirty or forty zhang away: "Purple Qi is coming from the east!" ”

Another person said loudly: "Is it the person in front of Fan Shenling?" I'll come and answer you. ”

When Jin Jie heard the word "Counselor", he knew that it was Jianyu, so he didn't say anything, and whispered to his hussars to turn their horses and leave.

After running sixty or seventy paces, he took out a bone whistle from his bosom and blew it three times in succession. The shrill whistle pierced the night sky, and the Dragon Guard camp half a mile away received the warning, and knew that there was an enemy in front of them, and all the soldiers immediately moved.

Zhang Ying dreamed that the other party did not answer the password and turned to leave, so he knew that it was not Fan Shaozu, he looked at the Ming army who fled to the east again, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, who is with whom?

He was hesitating to chase which side, when he suddenly heard a series of cannons in front of him, and then there was a scream on his side, and when he turned his head to look, he saw one of his own soldiers still sitting on a horse with the lower half of his body, but he didn't know where to go above his chest.

Cannon?! He was about to give the order to retreat, but suddenly found that it was pitch black in the distance, and only the faint light of fire was dancing in the distance.

Then there was another flickering of the fire, and the cannon roared again, but there was no light from the torches around it.

On the battlefield at the end of the Ming Dynasty, operational command mainly relied on flags and drums. In a night battle, it is impossible to see the flag without torches, and what kind of battle can there be without a flag?

In other words, there should be no infantry or cavalry cover near those cannons!