When the generals left Yang Tinglin's tent, Dai Xiuyuan turned back and persuaded him bitterly, but Yang Tinglin did not know the art of war, so he only wanted not to make a mistake, so he still insisted on the strategy of defending the Baita River.

Dai Xiu's far-sighted persuasion was fruitless, and finally pleaded: "My lord, if the lower officials want to send more than 1,000 people to attack and harass after being captured, I hope that my lord will agree." ”

Yang Tinglin was entangled by him, thinking that Guo Weijing's recruits were very weak in combat and had limited use in the previous battles, so it would not hurt to allocate more than 1,000 people, so he nodded and said: "I will send 1,300 people from Guo Shilang's department to be commanded by you." ”

"My lord, would it be nice to have two hundred more?"

Yang Tinglin frowned, waved his hand and said, "Okay, it's just one thousand and five." ”

Guo Weijing was originally a servant of the ministry, and when Jiangxi was in a tight situation, he was ordered by Longwu to recruit troops, but he didn't think about leading the troops to fight, so he didn't say a word and asked Dai Xiuyuan to pick people by himself.

……

Liu Guangbi saw the old man who delivered the letter leaving with the soldiers, but his expression gradually became solemn.

According to the old man's words, General Bolo's secret order was issued more than ten days ago. The road out of Fujian has been blocked by the enemy, the general mobilized all the meticulous work in Fujian that was lurking in the Ming army, tried his best, and did not send the secret order out of Shanguan until yesterday.

Only then did Liu Guangbi learn that the Ming army had attacked Xianxia Pass, and tens of thousands of troops heading south were trapped in Fujian, so that Boluo had to break the cauldron and sink the boat, wanting to rush out of Jiangxi to protect the army.

The secret order required him to march to the west side of Shanguan by mid-June at the latest, and cooperate with Azig to attack Shanguan at the same time on both sides, so as to quickly seize the pass and make the two armies converge. In addition, the general also instructed him to prepare more grain and grass, and the Azig army had been trapped in Fujian for a long time, and it was feared that the grain and grass would be unsustainable.

"In mid-June...... Liu Guangbi frowned, "There are only ten days left." ”

He raised his eyes to look at the Ming army defense line in the distance, and he could vaguely see that dense small black dots were busy there. He knew that it was a large number of Ming troops digging ditches and building walls.

These Ming troops were very good at this, and they dug three ten-mile-long trenches and built a seven-foot earthen rampart in two days in the lower reaches of the Xinjiang River, so that his 20,000-strong army had to start a positional battle with the Ming army.

In front of him, the defense line built by the Ming army in the area of the Baita River is even more exaggerated, and two earthen walls more than one zhang high have been built, and there are even more trenches and wooden thorns.

If it was usual, Liu Guangbi didn't care about it. He has more than 20 cannons in his hands, as long as he slowly bombards in front of the formation, he can break through the Ming army fortifications sooner or later.

In fact, since the Great Wall, the Ming army is this set of self-styled play, but has never been able to stop the footsteps of the Jianzhou Iron Cavalry, they retreated all the way to the south of the Yangtze River, still digging ditches and building fortifications to defend the city, rarely dare to take the initiative to engage in battle, is to repeatedly defeat.

Since he led the army into Guangxin Mansion, he has broken through five such lines of defense and advanced more than 100 miles.

It's just that it will take ten days to reach Shanguan now, but it can't be as good as before. He calculated in his heart that as long as the cannon opened the gap, he would make the army rush forward and disperse the Ming army with hand-to-hand combat.

But in this way, there will inevitably be large casualties. When he thought of this, his mouth was a little bitter, what Azig led was the main force of the positive blue flag plus the thousands of men and horses of the positive yellow flag. In order to keep these Jianzhou flag soldiers, he did not hesitate to kill all the green battalions and even the Han army with blue flags.

"General," Chen Sheng, a general on the side, stepped forward and bowed, "the cannons are all ready." ”

Liu Guangbi nodded and pointed to the Ming army formation on the south side, "Don't skimp on ammunition, fire artillery day and night, and strive to break the enemy as soon as possible." ”

"Huh!"

A moment later, Liu Guangbi heard the roar of artillery, turned around and returned to the Chinese army camp, and summoned Chen Sheng, Li Quan and other officers under him.

He first ordered Chen Sheng to gather all the troops and ride the main force to stand by in front of the battle, and to take the Baita River within three days, and then ordered Li Quan to lead people to transport the gunpowder, projectiles and other materials hoarded in the lead mountain to the camp, which will be consumed very much in the recent days for its use.

……

Dai Xiu saw a person dressed as a Qing army approaching, but there was no different color, but he asked eagerly: "What, is there a flaw?" ”

"Lord Hui, there are also two guard towers on the west side of the granary, and the guards are very vigilant."

Dai Xiuyuan had to sigh when he heard this, there were only less than 2,000 people stationed in the land where the grain was stored in the lower reaches of Guixi, and if he could have more than 1,000 people in his hands, he would definitely be able to burn these grains and grass in one fell swoop.

But at present, with only his 1,500 recruits, I am afraid that before he can get close, he will be defeated by the captive army. Is it going to be fruitless this time?

"Let's go back to the camp first, and we'll see how things are going in the evening." He gave the order and retreated from the weeds where he was hiding, and the few people who accompanied him immediately followed.

Dai Xiuyuan raised his head to identify the direction, and then quietly walked north.

Since the recruits allocated to him this time are really useless, Mo said that it will be difficult for them to find the location of the enemy camp even if they are to find out the intelligence. Because he had to bring four or five capable generals to personally touch the vicinity of Liu Guangbi's camp to explore the truth.

After turning a mound, Dai Xiuyuan judged that he should be far enough away from the enemy camp, and was about to stretch his muscles and bones, when he suddenly heard a general whisper: "My lord, there are Jiannu!" ”

Dai Xiuyuan hurriedly lowered his body, raised his eyes, and saw a dozen or so Qing soldiers passing in front of them rather lazily twenty or thirty zhang in front of them.

"Did you go in the wrong direction and strayed into the camp?" He hurriedly looked around, and then took out the map to compare, "Strange, when this place is nearly a mile and a half away from the north side of the enemy camp, why are there captives patrolling?" ”

"Hu Jin, Zhang Peng," he glanced at the general next to him, "Take a look around, be careful." ”

"Yes!"

After a while, the two returned one after another, and both said that Jianyu had brought a large number of wooden boxes and sacks and placed them in the wasteland behind the camp, covered with oilcloth and piled up like a mountain, which could not be seen very well from a distance, but it looked very much like gunpowder and iron bullets.

"Gunpowder?" Dai Xiuyuan's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "How many are estimated?" ”

Hu Jin said: "At least twenty or thirty thousand catties, there are still cars and horses that keep coming, and the river is endless." ”

"How many people are guarding?"

"About four or five hundred."

Dai Xiuyuan nodded, "Although it is better to burn its grain and grass, it is better than nothing." He cautiously retreated behind the mound, and then walked quickly to his barracks, "I'm here tonight to burn the ammunition of the prisoners." ”

It's night, and the north wind blows.

More than 1,000 soldiers under Dai Xiuyuan were all mouth-holders, carrying dry firewood, fire oil and other things, and quietly went towards the north side of Liu Guangbi's camp.

It turned out that Li Quan arrived with the gunpowder needed to bombard the Ming army, but he felt that it was very dangerous to put it in the camp, so he piled it all up on the north side of the camp. At this time, Liu Guangbi's main forces were gathered in the south to confront the Ming army, and he didn't expect anyone to sneak attack at all, so he only left thousands of soldiers and horses at the grain store, and almost no one cared about such things as gunpowder.

Dai Xiu's troops went to the north side of the enemy camp, but did not attack, but only ordered hundreds of soldiers to unload the firewood, oil and other materials they brought half a mile away from the gunpowder pile of Jianyu, and then ignited a fire in the wilderness.