Chapter 575
In Wei Zheng's opinion, Ming Xiaotian is too conceited, and the current Feng Army is no longer what it used to be, and against it, the slightest sloppiness cannot exist, so that Ming Xiaotian can lead the army, I am afraid that he will suffer a big loss. But Ming Xiaotian had already said this, Wei Zheng couldn't say anything more, he arched his hand to Ming Xiaotian, and said: "Ming Gong is good at himself, and he takes the overall situation as the most important thing in doing affairs, and the lives of our soldiers and soldiers!"
Ming Xiaotian hates to hear Wei Zheng's teaching tone, he used to be the commander, he could only endure it, now that Wei Zheng has been removed and Ming Xiaotian has become the commander of the whole army, how can he still listen to Wei Zheng's verbosity. This time, Ming Xiaotian didn't even bother to reply, walked on his back, sat behind the handsome case, sat down with a big ass, twisted his head away, and didn't look at Wei Zheng.
Wei Zheng was ordered by Yan Chu to return to Ningdu, and the news soon spread to the Feng army. Hearing this, Tang Yin was overjoyed, this scheming Wei Zheng was finally transferred away, and let Ming Xiaotian lead the army? This is too ridiculous. When the Sanshui Army attacked Tongmen, the Ning State side sent Ming Xiaotian to attack, but as a result, this person could only attack strongly, and he would not even use some strategies, resulting in the Ning Army's attack on the city was unfavorable, and the losses were numerous. Now he is in command of the 400,000 Ning army, which, in Tang Yin's view, is simply God helping him to achieve great things.
Tang Yin's excitement was beyond words, and the generals below were also very happy, Liang Qi smiled and said: "Ming Xiaotian was promoted to general by relying on the family background of the powerful, in fact, he has no real talent and real learning, the Ning army is under his command, and our army will win!"
Zhan Hu stood up and said to Tang Yin: "King, our army will give Ning Jun a war letter now!"
Tang Yin waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't worry! Wei Zheng is leaving, but presumably he must have explained before leaving that Ming Xiaotian can't fight easily, we have to find a way to lure Ming Xiaotian out to fight!"
"The king means ......"
Tang Yin rolled his eyes and said: "Tomorrow, first reduce the guards of our camp, and after two days, our army will set up camp and retreat twenty miles." ”
"What?" Hearing this, everyone was a little dumbfounded, Wei Zheng, who had the most headache for himself, was finally transferred back to the capital, but why did the king still order the troops to retreat? Seeing that all the generals were at a loss, Tang Yin smiled confidently and said, "If you don't do this, how can Ning Jun take the bait?"
Ming Xiaotian's ability is far inferior to Wei Zheng, but he was also present when the two armies of Feng Ning fought a decisive battle, and he saw the battle situation very clearly, although in the end his own side won and the wind army retreated, but his own losses were greater than those of the wind army in the case of fighting more and less, which shows that the combat effectiveness of the wind army is far from being comparable to his own side.
After he took over the position of commander, he also followed Wei Zheng and strictly ordered all the officers and men of the army not to fight privately. However, on the second day of Wei Zheng's transfer, the Ning army spies reported that the guards of the Feng Army camp were suddenly reduced, and the sound of military horses in the camp was much smaller than before, I don't know for what reason.
Ming Xiaotian frowned secretly after hearing this, and asked the spies to probe and report again. The next day, the spies reported that the guards of the Feng Army camp were reduced again, and the practice in the camp was even weaker. By the third day, there were almost no guards in sight in the Wind Army camp, and the sound of practice in the camp had completely disappeared, leaving only the chaotic sound of tidying up the camp.
Looking at its posture, the wind army completely looks like it is going to set up camp. The spies told Ming Xiaotian of the situation as soon as possible, and after hearing this, he couldn't believe his ears, the wind army was about to set camp? There was their own army in front of them, and it was impossible for them to advance westward, so there was only one possibility left, that is, the wind army was going to retreat?!
Wei Zheng and the Feng Army have been confronted for so long, the Feng Army has not retreated, Wei Zheng has just left a few days, the Feng Army is about to retreat, and the heavens are too kind to him, so he actually dropped this miraculous feat of the retreating Feng Army on his head. Ming Xiaotian was happy, and the Ning generals in the camp were even more excited, this war was finally coming to an end, and the invading Feng Army was finally leaving.
At this time, General Ning, who had an impulsive brain, immediately got up and arched his hand and said: "General, the retreat of the Feng Army is a good time for our army to take the initiative to attack, and the General must not miss the opportunity!"
That's right! Ming Xiaotian's eyes lit up at first, but after thinking about it, he shook his head again and muttered: "The Wind Army is cunning, we can't afford not to guard against it! Our army will first wait and see if the Wind Army will really retreat or fake it!"
"Yes!
Early the next morning, when Ming Xiaotian was still asleep, he heard someone outside shouting: "The wind army has withdrawn! The wind army has retreated!" Hearing the shouting, Ming Xiaotian seemed to have been electrified, and he got up from the bed collapse, and he didn't even bother to put on his shoes, he strode to the door of the tent and asked the guards outside, "What are you shouting?"
"Back to the general, happy event, great joy! The Wind Army has retreated! The Wind Army's camp has been withdrawn!"
"Huh?" Ming Xiaotian gasped, stood stunned for a long time before coming back to his senses, and asked urgently: "Is this ...... When did this happen? When did the Wind Army retreat?"
The guards said in a rambling voice, "That's the news I just got!"
Without waiting for Ming Xiaotian to continue to ask, the Ning army scouts galloped over on horseback, arrived in front of Ming Xiaotian's camp, got down directly from the war horse, rushed to Ming Xiaotian with a rolling belt, and screamed: "General, the Feng army has already retreated from the camp, and has now withdrawn for several miles!"
"Can you see clearly?"
"What the villain saw with his own eyes, it's true!"
"Haha! God help me! God help me!" Ming Xiaotian finally believed that this was true, jumped high in excitement, waved at the guards left and right, and said: "Quick! Go and gather all the generals and go to the camp of the Wind Army with Ben Shuai!" After speaking, he took the lead in walking towards the Chinese military tent.
"General, general, you haven't put on shoes and clothes yet!" The guards hurriedly stepped forward and stopped Ming Xiaotian, who was extremely excited. Ming Xiaotian looked down, patted his head vigorously, turned around and walked back into the tent, assisted by the guards, put on his armor, and then walked quickly towards the Zhongjun tent.
The Wind Army did withdraw, and the original Wind Army camp was only left with a wolf at this time, and many inconvenient sundries were left behind, showing that the retreat of the Wind Army was very hasty. Facts have proved that the Wind Army did not pretend to retreat, but really retreated, and many Wind Generals began to suggest to Ming Xiaotian again to hunt down the retreating Wind Army.
But Ming Xiaotian still didn't answer, he couldn't understand, why did the Feng army retreat? If it weren't for the big changes in the army, the Feng army would not have given up so easily, but what happened in the wind army?
In the camp of the Wind Army, Ming Xiaotian was accompanied by the generals, walking slowly, looking left and right, hoping to find some clues to the retreat of the Wind Army.
After walking for a while, Ming Xiaotian suddenly frowned, turned around and asked the generals behind him, "Why is there a strange smell in the wind camp?"
At this time, the generals also smelled it, and the people nodded and responded: "It's a strange smell, it seems to be ...... Is it medicinal?!"
Ming Xiaotian didn't ask any more, continued to move forward, walked not far away, he saw a decoction jar on the ground, Ming Xiaotian hurriedly stepped forward, squatted down, lifted the jar, did not need to put it on the side of his nose, the strong smell of medicine had come to his back. He tilted his head sideways, covered his nose with his cuffs, and asked, "Who knows what kind of medicine Feng Jun boiled?"
Seeing that all the generals shook their heads and said they didn't know, Ming Xiaotian shouted: "Call the military doctor over!"
After a short time, the military doctors in the Ning army were brought over by the guards, and Ming Xiaotian handed the medicine jar to the military doctor and said, "You guys come and identify what kind of medicine is boiled in here and what it is for." ”
Several military doctors hurriedly took over the medicine jar, removed some of the remaining medicine residue inside, carefully checked and sniffed, and after a long time, a military doctor raised his head and said: "General, among these medicines fried by the Feng army are Chuanxiong, Huangling, Codonopsis, licorice and other medicines. ”
"Oh?" Ming Xiaotian perked up, stepped forward, and asked, "What are these medicines for?"
The medic looked at the other colleagues, and then said in an affirmative tone, "It's for malaria." ”
Ming Xiaotian's eyebrows tightened, and he fell into deep thought.
At this time, the general in charge of the Ning Army's spies suddenly remembered something, and said to Ming Xiaotian urgently: "General, I will receive a lot of news at the end of the past few days, the number of sneak attacks by the Feng Army on my country's villages and towns has decreased a lot, but every time I sneak attack, I will go crazy to rob the medicines in the villages and towns, especially those mentioned by the military doctor just now. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, several Ning sergeants in front of him ran over quickly, and when they reached Ming Xiaotian's approach, they panted and said, "General, there are many medicine jars and medicine residues left by the Feng Army in front!"
"Oh, take me to see it!" Ming Xiaotian's eyes lit up, and he asked Sergeant Ning to lead the way, and he quickly followed.
Walking forward for a while, sure enough, there were dozens of medicine jars in an open space full of debris, and the ground was full of black medicine residues. Ming Xiaotian's eyes rolled, and he suddenly realized, no wonder the wind army would suddenly retreat, it turned out that malaria was spreading in the wind army, and there were so many medicine jars left, and there were not many medicine jars taken away, it seems that there are not a few soldiers with malaria in the wind army.
At this time, the military doctors also came over, checked the medicine residue on the ground, and nodded one after another, and the military doctor who spoke just now said: "General, Hedong is humid, and the wind country is dry, Hedong is very hot, and the wind country is cold, it must be the first time the wind people came to Hedong, they are not suitable for the weather here, and they have not paid attention to the measures to prevent mosquitoes, which has led to malaria rampant, and it seems that the retreat of the wind army has something to do with this!"
"Haha-" Ming Xiaotian looked up to the sky and laughed. Malaria is a disease that is not serious in terms of medical skills at that time, and it is not light to say that it is light, and there is a way to treat it, but the healing process is very slow and long, suffering from malaria, let alone fighting, people are afraid that they will not even be able to stand steadily, and now there is large-scale malaria in the wind army, isn't this a good opportunity for their own pursuit?
If you don't fight at this time, when will you wait? Ming Xiaotian was completely energetic at this moment, his eyes lit up, and he even began to fantasize about the sensational scene of the people welcoming him when he broke through the wind army and led the people back to Liangzhou.