Outside Chunhua City, the army camp was brightly lit.
The invading army set up a bright camp in the west of the city, with beacon fires and lights like daylight.
Various simple horse-repelling obstacles were piled up outside the camp, forming a simple camp wall.
The night patrol troops all held swords in hand, held bows and arrows, and stared nervously into the dark distance.
The Ming army was particularly good at attacking camps and often marched at night.
In years of fierce fighting, they suffered too many losses.
Even if they got the news that there were not many defenders in Chunhua City, they didn't dare to be on guard.
Looking through the gate, we can see that the troops are outside, the horse army is supporting them, and the elite cavalry is in the middle army as a defense, layer upon layer, in an orderly manner.
At the center of the army, a huge Qingmu military tent was guarded by many tents.
In front of the tent, a large black flag was erected and connected with the night sky, as if it were one body.
There are many armored men outside the tent, all wearing robes and belts. There are also many high-top helmets, iron arm shields, and riveted cloth face armor.
Carrying a sword and a bow, wearing soap boots and clean clothes, they are almost the same as the Ming army's elite attire.
But this is not the Chinese military camp of the Ming army, but the Chinese military camp of the Chuang army.
In fact, the armors worn by the three warring parties at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army, the Qing army, and the Chuang army, were basically Ming-made armors.
The Qing army made some changes, including removing the helmet flags and changing the colors to distinguish the two armies.
At the beginning, due to limited conditions, Chuangjun only changed some colors and colors.
This is also the reason why there are often rogue bandits pretending to be officers and soldiers, and they can cover up the past.
The lights outside the tent are brightly lit, and the inside of the tent is also like outside the tent.
Although it was already midnight, the military tent was still full of people.
Li Zicheng sat at the head of the tent, and the military academies in the camp were arranged on both sides according to their status in the army.
In the center of the military tent, a man was half-kneeling on the ground. The man was in ragged clothes, with a net scarf on his head and a pale face. He looked like an ordinary refugee.
"There are about three thousand soldiers in Chunhua City. They are stationed in three camps. Their uniforms are also different. They are not the same camp."
"The first battalion is the Liao soldiers encountered in Sanshui City, the other battalion is the eight or nine hundred infantrymen who came to the city later, and the third battalion has very little armor and looks the weakest. They seem to be new recruits who have never been in battle."
The people half-kneeling on the ground were not real refugees, but insiders who had sneaked into Chunhua City.
"When talking to some government officials in Chunhua City, they seemed to mention that they seemed to be the guards of Xi'an Prefecture."
After several days of investigation, they had already figured out the situation.
"Guards?"
Li Zicheng's eyes flashed with a gleam of light, his expression gloomy.
There are three thousand people in the three battalions. The Liao soldiers were naturally defeated by the Ming army in Sanshui City. The other battalion was the infantry who entered the city later. Only the last battalion of Xi'an Prefecture's guards remained.
He understood what was going on in an instant. Tang Jiuzhou was not in Chunhua City from the beginning.
The banners of Tang Jiuzhou and the banners of his army were all fake, and they were all Hong Chengchou's bluff.
Chunhua City relied on the nearly a thousand guards to scare him away from going south.
The guards were extremely weak, and the few cannons in the army were obtained from the arsenal of the Qingyang Guards.
If he had taken advantage of the situation and gone south from the beginning, Chunhua would have only a thousand guardsmen and remnants of the Liao army, and he would have been able to defeat him easily.
But now we know that it is too late. Ming army reinforcements have arrived, although there are only eight or nine hundred infantry.
But the point is, that army sent a lot of ordnance, and the Liao cavalry in Chunhua City were already armed.
Not only Li Zicheng had a deep understanding of how powerful the Liao soldiers were, but also all the leaders.
Cao Wenzhao's generals in Liao Town, You Shiwei and Zhang Waijia, were also generals in Liao Town.
Those Liao cavalry were fully equipped with armor, and no one could compare to them in charging and breaking through the formation.
If it were an ordinary encounter, and seeing the presence of Liao cavalry among the officers and soldiers, their aura would be lowered.
Although Zhang Waijia himself had been killed by Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng still did not look down upon him in the slightest.
Those Liao cavalry went out to fight one after another during the day, and they had obviously regained their fighting strength.
Li Zicheng knew very well that he was able to kill Zhang Waijia and defeat the Liao cavalry in Sanshui City not because his generals were stronger than those Liao cavalry.
But because of calculations and unintentional calculations, when they first entered the city, many of the Liao cavalry did not wear armor, and some of them had not even picked up weapons.
But despite being surrounded by many people, more than 900 people were killed.
Even after the city was broken, the Liao soldiers in the city resisted stubbornly. It was not until three days later that they completely captured Sanshui City.
In three days, the corpses piled up in the Liao barracks almost formed a hill before Zhang Waijia was finally killed.
"Is there any news about the new battalion general who will take over the Liao Cavalry?"
Li Zicheng's eyes narrowed slightly. He was most concerned about who the newly arrived camp general was, and he never waved a flag.
"But Cao Bianjiao?"
After fighting for such a long time, Li Zicheng, the general of the Ming army in Shaanxi, the deputy generals, etc. are almost all aware of it now.
The failure of the ambush battle in Qiutou Town eventually led to his and Xiang Huiden's separation.
After breaking through Sanshui City, Li Zicheng learned about it from the mouths of the prisoners.
In that ambush battle on the mountain road, they ambushed none other than Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao.
Li Zicheng's question was also a question for most of the military generals. They all turned their gazes and waited with bated breath for the answer.
"The new general is called Chen Wang, not Cao Bianjiao."
Everyone in the military tent breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that it was not Cao Bianjiao.
"I heard that this person was once a servant of Cao Wenzhao."
But when they finally heard that it was related to Cao Wenzhao, everyone took a breath of relief and started talking about it again.
Li Zicheng waved his hand, stopped the slightly noisy camp, and asked the final question.
"How are the officers and soldiers doing the city defense?"
When Li Zicheng finished speaking, the noise among the battalion commanders also disappeared.
This issue is the most important focus today.
What's blocking them now is just the wall outside Chunhua City.
As long as there is no part of the city wall, they have nothing to fear whether it is street fighting or field fighting.
"The officers and soldiers set up heavy defenses on the walls of Dongcheng and Beicheng. The government recruited many of us to transport defense materials, but we were not allowed to go near the two cities. The people transporting there were all citizens of Chunhua County. "
"but……"
The soldier kneeling in the center paused for a moment, then continued.
"Only a hundred officers and soldiers were stationed in Dongcheng and Nancheng, mainly guarding the city gates. Most of the city defenders were temporarily recruited Chunhua County citizens, and the defense was quite relaxed..."
"How certain are you?"
Li Zicheng stared at the soldier in the tent with lightning eyes.
The soldier raised his head, his aura suddenly changed.
"Sixty percent..."
The soldier looked solemn, his eyes solemn, and he responded in a deep voice.
"In three days, we are 60% sure to capture Nancheng."
