In the second half of the night, the rain gradually decreased.

East of Huaiyin, on the east bank of the Jianghuai Canal, Li Jing led 30,000 troops to ambush here.

Time passed little by little, Gongsun Lan was a little worried, but when she saw Li Jing instead of sleeping with heavy eyes, she couldn't help asking: "San Lang is sure that 10,000 people from the 7th and 8th Armies of the Marine Corps can successfully defeat the Huai Army battalion?" ”

10,000 men attacking the Huai army camp was a bit risky.

Li Jing didn't open his eyes, he was hurrying to rest.

"After our investigation, we learned that there were 100,000 people in the Huaiyin camp, including 50,000 Huai soldiers and 50,000 people. The Huai army intends to mobilize more troops and horses to cross the river to attack Sizhou, and at this time we will raid the Huaiyin camp and will attack it unprepared. On the night of heavy rain tonight, 10,000 soldiers of the Marine Corps raided the camp of the Huai Army and the people, causing chaos. The Huai army could not know how many attacking troops there were for a while, and the Huai army would not dare to fight in the dark and night, and it was very likely that they would choose to retreat to Chuzhou, and wait until dawn to find out the situation and rectify the troops and horses to fight again. Therefore, our army ambushed here, waiting for the Huai army to retreat eastward, and half-crossed the canal to attack it, and it could be defeated. ”

Although it was a risk, it was a tactical arrangement based on the reaction to the Huai army.

Raid and ambush, this combination of tactics is definitely more effective than 40,000 people raiding the Huai army camp together.

"If the Marines can't achieve their goal, maybe they'll get caught up in the enemy camp." Gongsun Lan was still a little worried, and at this time, she hadn't seen the slightest movement.

"It is up to man to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen." Li Jing said calmly, "There is never a 100% chance of winning a war, you can only do more planning, if the raiding army really fails, then there is no way." ”

Fortunately, this torturous wait was not too long, and it was almost dawn. The probe horse galloped back to report again. The Huai army camp has been in chaos. The Huai army is retreating eastward.

Soon, the Huai army appeared in the west.

At first, it was a messy squad, and then at the end of the day, a large group of people began to appear, and then there were flags one after another, flags. Followed by Gao Yu and others, most of the Huai army gathered in the cage, although they retreated, the queue was quite neat.

Li Jing held a clairvoyant mirror and carefully observed Gao Yu's handsome flag.

"Wait!"

"Wait!"

Finally, Gao Yu's handsome banner slowly moved across the canal in the midst of a Huai army.

Nearly half of the Huai army crossed the canal. Half more are on the west bank of the canal.

"This is the time." Li Jing shouted and drew his sword and swung it.

The horn began to sound, and on the east bank, the long-awaited knights stepped on their horses, and the infantry drew their swords and raised their spears.

"Prepare for battle!"

Hurry, hurry, hurry!

Guo Wei quickly ran past his team with his sword, kicking his subordinates who were still slow, "Check the whole body equipment." Prepare for battle. He shouted, "Move fast." He was already fully armed, and one of his dazed subordinates asked, "What happened?" ”

"Just as King Qin expected. The 7th and 8th Marine Corps had already raided the Huai army camp, and the Huai army was withdrawing towards Chuzhou. ”

In the dawn light, Li Jing's army was like a slowly blooming steel rose, its spikes shining brightly.

The Chinese army was commanded by Lin Wei, and the Chinese military governor Lin Wei had already erected a flag on the east bank of the canal.

Lin Wei commanded two infantry armies with 10,000 horses in the center, and the strange soldiers held a shield in one hand and a gun in the other, forming a square array, with iron shields on one side like a wall, and thousands of spears blooming like flowers. On the left and right are jumping infantry carrying tomahawks and horizontal knives and holding regimental cards. In the middle of them were crossbowmen. Under the protection of the strange soldiers and the jumping soldiers, the crossbowmen formed a crossbow phalanx, calmly adjusted the bowstrings, took out the arrows in the pot, and inserted them into the wet ground in front of them.

Behind the shield wall of the strange soldiers, there were also two thousand Mo knife hands, wearing rope steel wire armor inside, covering the whole body plate armor, and covering a set of red battle robes outside, wearing a long silk cloak, holding a thirteen-foot double-edged Mo knife. There were also 500 light cavalry around Lin Wei, the Eagle Yang Army Lord Li Wei, and the Leopard Cavalry Army Lord Qiu Shengong and other generals.

The left flank was all cavalry, with a total of about 10,000 cavalry, commanded by Zeng Yuanyu, the governor of the rear army.

More than half of the cavalry was gathered here, like a huge iron-clad steel fist. Zeng Yuanyu commanded, and the two cavalry were Li Cunxiao's Black Flag Army and Wang Yanzhang's Feather Cavalry Army. From a distance, you can see the pitch-black banner of the Black Flag Army, as well as a white Pegasus embroidered with ribbed wings on the flag. One black and one white, but so coordinated.

Li Jing sat on a sloping ground at the back, surrounded by reserves, half cavalry and half infantry, as many as 5,000 men. Li Jing fights and has always liked to arrange reserves. Now Li Jing's position is no longer suitable for charging at the front line, so in this battle, Li Jing commanded the reserve team in the back, and was on the high ground where he could have a panoramic view of the battle situation, and put the reserve department into the place where it was most needed according to the situation.

Living on a high slope, not only can he have a panoramic view of the entire battlefield, but also on the high slope where Li Jing is located, the whole army can also watch the commander of the whole army from a distance. Under the high handsome banner, Li Jing is still majestic and brilliant.

Li Jing's battle armor will be overshadowed by the golden armor collected by Li Yi, the Son of Heaven. His cloak was made by the best craftsmen hired by the Xihe County Lords and their workshops, and was woven from countless golden threads, which seemed light and thin, but was so heavy that it would not float up when charging, and the long back swing of the straddle horse almost completely covered the hind legs of the mount. This cloak is comparable to a piece of armor of good quality, and it is difficult to penetrate even if an arrow hits.

With the full-coverage copper plate armor painted with the green dragon pattern, the golden light is shining and extremely eye-catching. Although wearing such armor may become everyone's target if he is on the front line, Li Jing rarely needs to rush to the front line now, sitting in the rear, wearing this dazzling armor, many times, it can make the soldiers on the front line discover his position for the first time, but it can play a better role in motivating.

At this time, Guo Wei had already heard the panicked shouts of the enemy army.

He remembered that the last time he was in the Hebei River, there was an almost equal battle, but there were more Hebei people, but the marshal was as confident and calm as he is today. His Royal Highness the King of Qin was wearing the golden armor, straddling the high war horse, under the fluttering handsome flag, and the long sword unsheathed in his hand was snow-white and shiny. He remembered that the huge silver wolf like a pony was always guarding his side, as if it would jump up and roar at any moment to bite the past.

After a raid in the first half of the night, and then a retreat march in the second half of the night, the Huai army was a little exhausted at this time. In particular, many Huai troops fled in a hurry when they were attacked, with uneven clothes and armor, and even swords and guns that they did not bring. After Gao Yu issued a military order to temporarily withdraw to Chuzhou, these people ran all the way east. Seeing that the canal had been crossed, and Chuzhou City was not far ahead, he relaxed for a while.

Who knew that at this time, an ambush would suddenly be killed in front of him.

I have to say that Li Jing's arrangement is extremely ruthless. If 40,000 horses and horses raid the Huai army camp at the beginning, and too many people and horses cross the river together, it may be difficult to cross for a while, and it is easy to cause the Huai army to find out. What's more, in the dark night raid, the difference between 40,000 people and 10,000 people is not too big, it is not difficult to disrupt the opponent's camp, but it is difficult to hunt down and annihilate the 50,000 Huai army with 50,000 people in the vast rainy night.

Li Jing only sent 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack the camp, but he led 30,000 people to guard the road that the Huai army must pass. But it first broke its morale, then messed up its formation, and then half-crossed the ambush and gave a fatal blow.

On the right, Li Cunxiao and Wang Yanzhang, the two famous generals of His Royal Highness, stood under their respective flags, ready to wait. A recruit who had only been replenished in Songzhou glanced at them, "They are so strong, they will be the first to attack, right?"

Guo Wei glanced at him and said with a smile: "No, they will be the most reluctant." When you see them attacking, it means that the battle has been sealed. ”

In the Qin army, there is a rumor that it is Wang Yanzhang and Li Cunxiao. Rumor has it that when you see the Iron Spear and the Tiger Warrior dispatching, it means that the battle is about to be won. This was not only because the two of them were leading the rare hoplites and the bravest lancers in the whole army, but also because the disciples of these two highnesses had always been straightforward in battle, and when they were dispatched, they expected that the battle would not change much, and they only trampled on the mood.

"They are the sharpest swords!"

Li Cunxiao's Black Flag Army was the only heavy cavalry in the whole army, with four battalions of armored cavalry. Their armor and horses were as black as their banners. The armor was a heavy steel plate of pitch-black, with no coats of arms or ornamentation, only signs of long-term and intense use. Their armor covered their entire body, covering their heads from head to hands to feet, revealing only breathing holes and windows. Their primary weapon was a huge horse lance, which was four feet long, valuable and sharp, and their secondary weapons were a two-handed greatsword and a two-handed battle axe. Their horses were also pitch black, like black coal. He was not wearing leather armor, but iron armor. These horses are all the best horses, with great explosiveness and a strong load.

Li Cunxiao was heavily equipped with the same equipment as his subordinates, but the main weapon was a muddy iron lance weighing dozens of pounds, which was held in his hand as easily as an ordinary person holding a wooden stick. At this moment, he had already put on his armor with the Black Flag Army, sitting beside the war horse, making preparations before the battle, and his eyes were full of desire for battle.

On the right flank, here is the canal to the west and the Huai River to the north.

Li Jing indicated that there was no arrangement of soldiers and horses to guard this triangle at all.

But secretly, the herald rushed to the mouth of the canal on horseback to convey the latest military orders to the more than 5,000 sailors hidden in the reeds.

"King Qin's military order, half an hour after the battle begins, the sailor will immediately go down the canal to cut off the retreat of the Huai army across the river!"

Here is the left flank of the Huai army, the right flank of the Qin army, and here is the Huai River to the north, so there is no need to deploy many troops on land. It only takes to wait for the battle to break out, when most of the Huai army crosses the Huai River, the navy suddenly kills from the upstream, cuts off the canal, and cuts off the back road of the Huai army, then these Huai troops who cross the river will fall into the Qin army's four bread raids. (To be continued......)