Nineteen-year-old Zhao Da looked calm on his face, but he was extremely nervous inside. He quickly went through Li Jingda's information in his mind, and then showed a confident look on his face.

"Li Jingda is a mediocre person! He definitely doesn't have the ability to create doubts about the formation. Even if he did, the Southern Wu army outside the city would be in chaos. Isn't it a little too realistic?"

When he said this, the surrounding soldiers all laughed, yes! Even if they were trying to disguise themselves, they were not as serious as those in Nanwu uniforms, right?

As soon as the laughter subsided, Zhao Kuangyin's face turned solemn, and he reached out and pointed at the sketch drawn by Xue Guizhong.

"It is my intention that the left and middle battalions attack, and all members of the right battalion are equipped with hard bows and divine arm bows to respond.

We attacked from the due west and penetrated the southern Wujing naval position, and the right battalion responded in the east."

"Here!" the officers hurriedly crossed their arms in response. No matter how joking they were in front of them, no one was allowed to laugh at them during the military discussion.

Zhao Kuangyin's face became darker and darker as he aged, and he already had the temperament of a famous general.

"We agreed in advance that this time we will attack the enemy with a small number, and we must attack according to the agreed route.

If anyone kills someone to the point of death and lacks discipline, even though you are all the saint’s most trusted warriors, and you have to seize the rank of officer, beheading can also be used on your heads.

Military law is ruthless, and even I, Zhao Dalang, cannot be an exception."

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Xue Guizhong was right. To the west were more than 6,000 people belonging to the Jinghai navy envoy Yao Yanhong, plus more than 10,000 united rural soldiers.

Zhao Kuangyin also guessed correctly. How could Li Jingda have the ability to create a suspicion formation? Not only did he not know about the formation, he didn't even expect that the three thousand people in the city would dare to come out of the city to attack him.

Yao Yanhong was deployed to the west of the Southern Tang Dynasty and placed his commander's camp on the right side of the army.

The reason why it is not placed in the middle according to regulations is because the Yangtze River is on the right side. If anything goes wrong, I, the Yao Army Envoy, can immediately get on the boat and escape.

Although this man is a second-generation soldier, he has a lot of shadows about the war.

This shadow comes from a war that took place between the Southern Tang Dynasty and Qian Yue in the fifth year of Zhenming Dynasty in Later Liang Dynasty (919).

This was also the last of the three battles between the Southern Tang Dynasty and Qian Yue for Wuzhong. The Southern Tang army was defeated on the river south of Jinghai Haijun.

Peng Yanzhang, the governor of Shuzhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty, committed suicide after his troops were exhausted. Yao Yanhong's brother Yao Yangui and more than 70 other generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty were captured.

What is even more terrifying is that among the more than 70 generals captured in the Southern Tang Dynasty, there were more than 10 members of the Yao family. It can be said that the entire family has lost all its talents.

At that time, Yao Yanhong personally experienced the tragic defeat that almost caused his father Yao Cunzhi to commit suicide, and he also remembered the tragic situation of wearing Xiao in every family member of the family.

Even his elder brother Yao Yangui was never released and died in Qianyue a few years ago.

Since then, a deep fear of war has been planted in Yao Yanhong's heart.

Historically, during the Later Zhou Dynasty's expedition to the Southern Tang Dynasty, after the Zhou army captured Yangzhou, Li Jing ordered Yao Yanhong to go in for rescue. Yao Yanhong simply abandoned his home and went to Qian Yue with more than 10,000 people, which shows that he was afraid of war.

With this fear of war, Yao Yanhong drank a lot of wine before it got dark. He couldn't sleep without drinking!

But, to be honest, Yao Yanhong's side was the fastest among the Southern Tang army to set up camp.

Because Jing Haijun's territory is small, he has thousands of people who are with him all year round. They are all fellow villagers and even relatives. It may not be possible to set up a defensive formation, but there is still a tacit understanding when setting up camp.

After setting up camp, it was time to eat. At this time, China had been in chaos for almost two hundred years, and its products had declined sharply. The three-meal system that had begun to rise in the Tang Dynasty was forced to change back to a two-meal system.

Therefore, this 'supper' eaten in the afternoon is extremely important to people at this time, especially civilians.

The Jinghai soldiers and Tuanjie soldiers on Yao Yanhong's side began to fetch water for cooking. When other soldiers of the Southern Tang Army saw this, they also started clamoring to cook.

Li Jingda had no choice but to ask them to stop building the fort, and smoke began to rise from the formation.

Zhao Kuangyin saw the birds and smoke rising from the Southern Tang military formation at the top of the city and was immediately overjoyed. This was the opportunity he had been waiting for.

With a strong wave of his hand, the south gate of Yizheng City opened wide, and Zhao Kuangyin personally led his army out of the city.

However, the place where the Southern Tang army camped was still about a mile away from Yizheng City. The Zhou army who left the city did not mount their horses directly, but led their horses out of the city.

They had to wait about half a mile before mounting their horses in order to save horsepower.

This is what determines the quality of an army. Not only must they be able to walk in armor and know how to save horsepower, but they must also have the ability and discipline to mount armor and mount a horse.

Half a mile later, the guards around Zhao Kuangyin raised a red flag for equipment assault, and the two thousand cavalry of the Zhou army immediately began to help each other mount their horses.

The horse archers wearing light armor and using horse bows as their main output method immediately assisted the shock cavalry in cotton armor to mount their horses one-on-one.

After the shock cavalry mounted their horses, they began to press forward slowly. At this time, the horse archers began to mount their horses.

At this time, the shock cavalry could not start running wildly immediately because there was still half a mile to go, but later the horse archers who mounted their horses could start to speed up slowly.

Amidst the sound of horse hooves, a thousand horse archers, guided by three large flags, suddenly accelerated and began to charge at two hundred paces.

Although Nan Tang Jing's navy saw it when Zhou Guo's cavalry went out, the responsible junior officers also reported the situation.

But Yao Yanhong, a military envoy with war stress disorder, still moved a little slowly.

By the time he gave the order to withdraw and stick to the camp, the cavalry led by the three brothers Xue Guizhong, Yang Guizhong and Zheng Guizhong had already rushed to the front of Jing Haijun's army.

At this moment, most of Jing Haijun's soldiers are waiting to eat. Not to mention that they don't have any armor in the first place. Even if they have armor, not many of them can put on armor so quickly.

Moreover, after waiting for a long time, the food was still not available. Many people's stomachs were growling with hunger, and how could they think of fighting.

Therefore, this wave of 1,000 horse archers was originally there to test, but it actually had the effect of attacking the cavalry.

Jing Haijun's military camp seemed to be made of tofu, and a huge gap was cut directly by a thousand people.

Xue Guizhong spread his wings like an eagle, and the unarmored soldiers of the Jing Navy fell to the ground one after another. Looking at the relatively neatly built fortress, it looked like it was nothing.

The soldiers set off a wave of fleeing people, undulating like waves and running around amid the screams of crying fathers and mothers.

As a separatist group for decades, Jing Haijun was still on the front line of the battle between the Southern Tang Dynasty and Qian Yue. Its main force was Yao Yanhong's thousands of tooth soldiers.

Although Yao Yanhong's first reaction was to run away, his subordinates stopped him.

The first reaction of these tooth generals and tooth soldiers was, don't be kidding, there are more than a thousand cavalry coming from the opposite side. If they do this, they will break through our camp of more than 10,000 people, and beat the commander to the point where he fled to the river.

Then how will they hang out in the future?

However, when the Jingjun Navy, which calculated the combat strength of Zhou's cavalry by two, based on the combat strength of Qian Yue's army, had assembled the Ya soldiers, and organized the running soldiers and country soldiers, they immediately became numb.

Because at this time, Xue Guizhong's thousand horse archers had swept through their military camp like a whirlwind. When they came out, they could hardly even see the horse's buttocks.

What they happened to bump into was a thousand assault cavalry led by Zhao Kuangyin himself.

A Jing naval officer looked at Zhao Kuangyin who was rushing to the front in a white cloth-covered armor. He raised his hand and shot an arrow, but then his eyes suddenly widened.

Because the arrow missed, it was bounced away. Zhao Kuangyin also noticed this military academy. He roared angrily and fired the horn crossbow in his hand.

The short crossbow arrow, with a trace of white light, pierced into the chest of the military academy.

The cowhide armor of the military academy could not stop the arrows shot from the One Stone Eight Lijiao crossbow. He could only watch helplessly as the crossbow shaft sank into his chest and then disappeared.

He screamed like a military academy being hit in the air. He threw away the long bow in his hand and quickly grabbed the place where the crossbow arrow disappeared with both hands, as if he wanted to dig out the crossbow arrow.

But after only two grasps, he felt so weak that he was spinning around, and then fell heavily to the ground. In a few breaths, he even lost the ability to scream.

At the same time, brilliant flames flashed, and it turned out that the shock cavalry at the front ignited the pear blossom gun in their hands.

Jing Haijun, who was the closest, was sprayed on the head. In an instant, his face was sprayed into a standard pockmark by the iron sand wrapped in the pear gun.

After inhaling a breath of choking poisonous smoke, he screamed and fell to the ground. The poisonous smoke, iron sand, and severe burning made him so painful that he could hardly breathe.

Du Tou fell on the ground, twisting back and forth like a fish on the beach, his hands were like chicken claws, scratching out traces on the ground. Only the fingernails he grabbed could not relieve the pain of at least four pear blossoms.

The pain of being sprayed from the front of a gun.

The soldiers of Jing Haijun had never seen this formation before, and they were familiar with gunpowder, because Yang Xingmi had soldiers who knew gunpowder under his command back then, but they had never seen anyone who could make gunpowder so terrifying.

Pear-shaped spears opened the way, horned bows and crossbows fired, horses and sabers struck randomly, Zhao Kuangyin led a thousand assault cavalry, and immediately dispersed Jing Haijun's weak resistance.

Relying on his senses, Zhao Kuangyin rushed towards Jing Haijun's central army. These soldiers were so weak, it was better to capture their commander.

But immediately, Zhao Kuangyin met Xue Guizhong, who looked shocked.

Xue Guizhong looked at Zhao Kuangyin with anger, "Damn it, the commander of Jing Haijun is not in the Central Army!"

Zhao Kuangyin was also speechless. Only then did he realize that the most suitable command position in the Chinese army did not have the commander's banner and canopy.

"This is an incredible coach! Do you have any military knowledge?"

While the two were complaining, Dongdong's drums sounded. Although Li Jingda was slightly incompetent, the Imperial Army of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the healthy troops guarding Jiangning were not incompetent.

Li Jingda only needed to give a symbolic order, and Bian Hao commanded thousands of forbidden troops, health troops, and thousands of state and county soldiers began to assemble.

At the same time, hundreds of cavalry from the Forbidden Army also rushed out in advance, preparing to block Zhao Kuangyin and others' route back to the city.

Zhao Kuangyin spit hard and immediately turned the horse's head. Shuai Qi also immediately changed direction. They were going to rush back according to their original plan.

Hum hum! Zhao Kuangyin sneered and wanted to stop me from returning to the city, but I had no intention of returning to the city at this time.
Chapter completed!