After the Jin army stormed for a few days, the Ming army scouts spread the news to Huayin, and the Jin army scouts found out that on the official road from Huayin to Lintong, the Ming army soldiers and horses blocked the road, and countless people, horses and vehicles covered the road, and the main force of the Ming army finally began to move westward.

Wang Yan left 20,000 men to protect the back road near Huayin County, continued to search for the men and horses ambushed by the Jin army, and then set off to the west with a mighty army, with a dignified army, to defeat Haoge's thrashing needles.

The war to exterminate gold began at the end of last year and has taken more than half a year until the beginning of May.

The war will end soon, and the people will be able to rush back to participate in the summer harvest, but if the war continues, I am afraid that the two seasons of grain in the golden year will be delayed.

Especially in Guanzhong, millions of people, a year's harvest was affected, the Ming Dynasty was defeated, it is estimated that there will be big trouble, after all, it is easy to destroy, difficult to build. A decisive battle is already the will of both sides.

Outside Lintong City, the trench dug by the Jin army surrounded the city into an iron barrel, the purpose of which was to isolate the Ming cavalry in the city, so that they could not participate in the great duel between the Jin State and the Ming army.

In the wilderness, twenty miles east of Lintong, the Jin army also built a large number of trenches, low walls and earthen forts.

If the fortifications outside Lintong were to trap the Ming army in the city, the fortifications built by the Jin army in the east of Lintong were to prevent the main force of the Ming army from approaching Lintong and rescue the Ming cavalry in the city.

In the eyes of the Jin army, as long as the Ming cavalry in Lintong is trapped, the Jin army and the Ming army are still evenly matched, if the Ming army breaks through the defense line, kills under the city of Lintong, and releases the 50,000 cavalry in the city, the 10,000 horses gallop, the Jin army will be finished immediately.

Because of this, the Jin army placed 70,000 elite soldiers and more than 100,000 garrison troops in front of it, and built a large number of fortifications.

At this time, in the wilderness, tens of thousands of Jin army foot soldiers stood in a waist-high earthen ditch, sweating like rain to lift a spade of loess. On the mile-long front, the Yellow Dragon Swallowing Sun Flag of the Jin State flew in the wind, and the officers kept shouting, urging the soldiers to widen and deepen the trench and encourage them to be emboldened.

In addition to deep ditches and low walls, as well as earthen forts erected at intervals, the Jin soldiers also laid a large number of obstacles in front of the line, and they inserted sharpened wooden stakes into the dirt diagonally to hinder the advance of the Ming army's shield carts.

The whole front, as long as several miles, borders the south bank of Weishui in the north, and reaches the foot of Lishan Mountain in the south, with ravines and fortresses.

If some barbed wire is laid out in front of you, the scene in front of you is very similar to a battlefield on the Western Front in Germany during the First World War.

"Your Majesty, such a fortification is even further than the trench dug by the king thief during the Great War in the Central Plains. If the thief comes, he will be struck on the head and his blood will flow. Meng Qiaofang followed behind Hauge, and when she saw a front like a big construction site, she didn't say anything in surprise.

Meng Qiaofang had participated in the Central Plains War, and was very impressed by the fortifications of the Ming army, and he was originally a little suspicious of the decisive battle after the ambush plan was revealed, but at this time, the fortifications built by the Jin army undoubtedly gave him a little confidence.

Wu Sangui followed behind him and nodded slightly, this kind of trench fighting was often seen in Liaodong back then, but it was the first time Wu Sangui had seen such an extreme.

After the ambush plan was revealed, the deployment of the Jin army needed to be replanned, and Hauge sent a fast horse to quickly summon the two back.

At this time, Hauge led the people to climb an earthen fort to watch the entire frontal defense line, and he pointed to the busy Jin sergeant and said, "The time is a little rushed, but the basic outline is still constructed. Looking ahead, the trench was divided into three, each ditch had wooden stakes that rejected horses and oblique thorns, and some of them were sprinkled with thistles. I have used everything that the thief has used, and I want to see if he can break it himself! ”

As he spoke, Hauge pointed to the low wall behind the ditch, "I am also going to build three low walls." The first way is to defend against the enemy in front of them, and build an earthen fort every mile, even after the wall is broken, the soldiers on the earthen platform can still support it and continue to defend. The second earthen wall is mainly for the soldiers to avoid artillery fire and be ready to support the first wall at any time. Behind the third wall were artillery emplacements and reserved men. ”

Hauge sneered, "With such an arrangement, to be honest, I don't even know how to break it, I want to see how the king thief attacks." ”

If the fortifications were really built, they would have been in a mess after seeing them, and they didn't know what to do.

Wu Sangui looked at it carefully, and said in a deep voice: "The minister has watched the defense of the front, and there is no doubt about whether His Majesty can hold the front. As he spoke, he looked at Meng Qiaofang and said, "Right now, our army's formation is clear, the Chinese army is defending, and the wings are swinging fists and hitting hard. There is no problem on Your Majesty's side, whether you can defeat the Ming army depends on whether the minister and the king of Yongping can attack left and right and defeat the king thief. ”

Haoge nodded and said: "That's true, now that the ambush can't be found, then my Dajin can only fight head-on with the king thief." At present, we have 190,000 elite soldiers, and the 60,000 cavalry of the king thief can be ignored, and the men and horses he brought from Huayin are at most more than 200,000, and the strength is about the same as ours. ”

The Ming army in Henan was nearly 300,000, with more than 50,000 cavalry trapped in Lintong, and the remaining 20,000 were on the front line of Wuguan and Luling Pass, 10,000 were left in Tongguan, 20,000 were left in Huayin, and Wang Yan plus 20,000 people from Sun Shoufa could bring about 220,000 troops.

Of course, there are still more than 100,000 Ming troops in northern Shaanxi and Hanzhong, but they can't do it for the time being, so the gap in strength between the two armies is not particularly large.

If it was an ambush, with such a small force difference, the Ming army would probably be defeated, but now it has evolved into a real battle with real swords and guns, and the situation is not easy to say.

After the ambush plan was aborted, Haoge had such a heroic spirit, which was a good thing for the Jin army and could strengthen the confidence of the generals, but Wu Sangui still reminded: "Your Majesty, our current arrangement has not changed much compared with the previous ambush plan, but the whole strategy has changed from dark to light. The minister thought that since the king thief had insight into the deployment of our army's troops at this time, he would inevitably make some corresponding responses and layouts, so we couldn't help but guard against it. ”

Meng Qiaofang nodded, agreeing with Wu Sangui's opinion, "Before, the north and south flanks had a great deal of suddenness, and they were able to attack them unprepared, but now that the Ming army knows the layout of our army, the suddenness is gone, and they may focus on guarding against us." ”

Haoge frowned, "What the two Qing families said is that Wang Yan will definitely pay attention to the precautions on both sides, but the key to our victory is whether the two wings can break the Ming army, so this is a tough battle, there is no trick, even if the Ming army is on guard, the two wings can only attack hard." Haoge was silent, "Fortunately, this time the Ming army rushed to our preset battlefield to fight, and the king thief didn't have time to build fortifications, so Wu Qing's side, I am not worried." Meng Qing's men and horses are on the north bank of the Wei River, but they are in some trouble, in case they are blocked by the Ming army on the north bank, they will not be able to give full play to the advantage of two heavy blows. ”

Jin Jun's posture is like that of a boxer, and now that he is wearing armor on his chest, he doesn't have to worry about it, but to defeat his opponent, he has to strike with two old punches.

Hao Ge paused, looked at Meng Qiaofang and said: "Meng Qing, after you return to Gaoling, immediately send troops to seize Lingkou Town, Xinfeng Town, and Dufugou on the south bank of the Wei River, establish a stronghold on the south bank, and then build a pontoon bridge, so as not to be blocked by the Ming army on the north bank of the Wei River!" ”

Meng Qiaofang nodded, and then saluted: "The minister will return overnight today and urge the army to do it." ”

Haoge looked at Meng Qiaofang and Wu Sangui, "Everything that needs to be done now has been done, and all that remains is to wait for the king thief to come over and fight." ”

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On the north bank of the Wei River, the white military tent stretched, and since it had been exposed, Meng Qiaofang simply moved the camp from Gaoling to the edge of the Wei River.

At this time, almost all the nearby trees were cut down by the Jin army, and the Jin army, which was as dense as ants, was busy making a pontoon bridge leading to the south bank.

At this time, a group of hundreds of cavalry suddenly appeared on the south bank, they stopped on the shore, took out a clairvoyant mirror for the first one, looked at the north bank, and then waved their hands, and the cavalry turned south and ran to a village in the distance......

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