The huge cowhide drums on all sides were beating at the same time, making everyone present feel excited. With the sound of the drums, Li Ming walked up to the temporary high platform and gently raised his hands. The sound of the shocking drum stopped abruptly.

"My brave soldiers, I feel deeply proud of your brave behavior." Li Ming's voice was very light, but under the transmission of his strong internal force, he clearly sent the voice into everyone present: "Due to your efforts, we have freed ourselves from being surrounded by the enemy, and have also enabled us to continue to maintain our advantage in fighting against the enemy, and made the first contribution to our final victory in winning the Mingyang City. Today, I will award you the first medal of merit on Biquan Island."

The Medal of Merit was a concept that Li Ming copied from modern society. Before this trip, he specially made a batch of factories to cast. He would not be stingy with such things that can make soldiers feel honor and cohesion.

"The First Ranger Independent Division of the First Legion performed well in this Lianshan Mountain sniper battle. He dispersed the enemy's 100,000 troops with 20,000 rangers, ensuring the smooth flow of our army's logistics roads, and made outstanding achievements. He specially awarded the third-class merit medal. Now, please come up and I will award him a medal in person. The medals of the other personnel will be distributed to your division by the accompanying officials of the command headquarters." Li Ming withdrew his voice and announced with a passionate expression.

This division commander was one of the first group of soldiers led by Cao Bao back then. He performed very well in the past two years. He has always regarded Li Ming as his idol. Now, when he heard that Li Ming was going to give him a medal, he was moved by tears. He trotted and jumped onto the platform, saluted a standard military salute in front of Li Ming, and then held back his tears and looked at Li Ming excitedly.

Li Ming approached the division commander, reached out and patted his shoulder, then solemnly held the medal of merit in both hands, hung it on his chest, then took two steps back, and gave him a hand salute. Suddenly, the sound of drums sounded again, and the representatives of the troops present looked at the division commander with envious eyes, and warm applause was heard.

Next, Li Ming awarded the medal of merit to the heavy armored cavalry officials who participated in the annihilation war last night, and then improvised a full-army mobilization on the platform. Everyone present was excited and wished they could draw their swords and rushed to the enemy's camp immediately.

At this time, Li Jiao had initially determined his combat policy towards Li Ming. From the suggestions of his advisers and the deserters who participated in the battle last night, he had a full understanding of Li Ming's combat characteristics. In view of his characteristics, orders were continuously passed from Li Jiao.

When the sun was noon, Li Ming ended his long award ceremony. Although it seemed that it was a waste of time to hold such a tedious ceremony when the battle was densely covered, Li Ming knew that this seemingly useless thing had a great effect on boosting morale. Although Li Ming had excellent weapons and equipment, the soldiers were rigorously trained, and he had strategic and tactical ideas beyond this era, they were too far from Li Jiao's troops in front of him. Even though they wiped out more than 200,000 soldiers from the other side in the battle last night, there was still a big gap in the number of people between the two sides. The battle last night was only caused by the other party's carelessness. If they came up with a way to deal with themselves, the battle would become very difficult.

As expected by Li Ming, Li Jiao was not the kind of person who was easy to deal with. In the afternoon, the other party gave up all military operations and began to transport huge wood to the barracks with all his might. From the watchtower of his camp, Li Ming could only see piles of wood gradually piled up in the barracks of each enemy army, which gave Li Ming a very bad feeling.

That night, Li Ming summoned a group of senior generals in the camp to discuss the enemy's intentions. Judging from the performance of Li Jiao's troops during the day, they seemed to be taking a step-by-step strategy, which was very beneficial for the enemy who was backed by Mingyang City and was in Li Jiao's base camp. Without the logistics drag, he could slowly and gradually build a camp indefinitely and surrounded Li Ming's large army step by step. Li Ming was not able to do so. The long logistics supply line brought great pressure to Li Ming, making him eager to end the battle quickly. If the opponent relied on the camp to approach himself step by step and then trap himself here, there would always be a day to drag him down. Therefore, in terms of brainstorming, Li Ming found all the senior generals.

Among the generals present, except for Zhang Meng and Yuchi Xiong, the others were cultivated and promoted by Li Ming after he went to Biquan Island. Even Cao Bao grew up under Li Ming's new tactical thinking. Now he is simply incomparable to the past. Wang Wen, Zhuo Junhao, Leng Hen and other new generation senior generals were brought back by Li Ming. Now, after the baptism of many wars, they seem extremely calm. Their understanding of war has formed their own set of theories. Therefore, it is necessary for Li Ming to communicate with them.

After listening to Li Ming's analysis, the generals present nodded slightly. It seemed that they had all thought of going with Li Ming. Now Cao Bao, Wang Wen, Zhuo Junhao and Leng Hen have become Li Ming's major general commander. After Li Ming came back, he divided the 350,000 army into four armies, each of which consisted of four divisions and a reinforced brigade. Now, these four army commanders should have adapted to their own positions.

"We should take the initiative to attack and destroy their encirclement plan, otherwise our logistics supplies may not be able to keep up. Let's hand over the task tonight. With the help of heavy infantry, use fire attack to burn the supplies they transported during the day." Wang Wen was the first senior general to be with Li Ming, and was once an officer under King Kang's previous command. His combat experience was the richest among these people. After hearing Li Ming's words, he immediately made corresponding countermeasures.

"Our fuel is limited. When it is burned at night, they will replenish it during the day. The enemy is backed by Mingyang City, and Mingyang City is built on the mountain. It is inexhaustible for wood resources. Our fuel must be transported from Biquan Island thousands of miles away, so we must not fight them like this." Although Zhuo Junhao is young, he has the highest spirituality of leading the army to fight. After listening to Wang Wen's plan, he hit the nail on the head.

As soon as these two men spoke, they immediately mobilized the other generals. For a moment, there were crowds of people in the central army's tent, and there were endless discussions and quarrels.

The meeting lasted for more than three hours. Li Ming sat there quietly and listened to everyone's opinions. Although the scene was very noisy, Li Ming could still find many useful opinions and attentions from their noise. Seeing that the situation gradually became a little unreconcilable, Li Ming finally couldn't help but cough gently. This sound mixed with his strong inner part came into the ears of every general present, causing them to stop the noise like thunder. They returned to their original position with red faces, staring at the ground, and were all panic about their loss of composure.

Li Ming smiled slightly and said softly: "The suggestions you just now have their own characteristics, and they all have their pros and cons. Although the scene is very noisy, I still heard them. Today's meeting was very rewarding. When you were discussing fiercely, many positive and negative views were very useful. It seems that we have to hold such meetings frequently. I combined the views you discussed just now, plus some of my own ideas, and formed a set of action plans. You can see if there are any loopholes."

"The advantage of our army lies in its high mobility and high technology. Facing twice as many enemy troops as ours, we should give full play to the fullest. Our fire attack is not useful for the time being. The range of the catapult is only 500 meters. In such large-scale operations, it is impossible for us to put so many catapults close to the enemy camp at the same time within 200 meters. At the same time, there must be many traps in the enemy camp. Even if we can break through the enemy camp with fire attack and crossbow attack, it is very difficult to fight in places that hinder our mobility. Therefore, our combat method should be mainly guerrilla combat." Li Ming sat in the middle seat, thinking while talking about his thoughts.

"Of course, it is a little more difficult to mobilize more than 300,000 troops to engage in guerrilla warfare. The cooperation between the troops is a big problem first, but we can first dispatch a small number of troops to test the enemy. My idea is this. First, send 50,000 rangers to detour the periphery of the enemy's battalion, and use arcs to attack and kill the enemy's living forces. If nothing unexpected happens, they can destroy at least 20,000 enemies' soldiers at one time. If you are lucky, the enemy's losses may still be lost.

It would be much larger. In this way, within ten days, the enemy would be unable to bear it and take the initiative to attack, which would hit us. While the Rangers attacked, the stone-casting soldiers in our camp could attack the encirclement on both sides of the enemy under the cover of heavy infantry and heavy armored cavalry, and try to delay their encirclement time. When the troops of our two sides were almost the same, we could launch a big counterattack." After speaking of his plan, Li Ming's eyes glanced at the generals below and observed their reactions.

"Although the lord's plan is effective, it takes too long." A young general came out and clasped his fists at Li Ming and said, "You have said just now that if the delay is too long, it will bring great difficulties to our logistics supply. So why can't we directly attack the opponent's front camp? Although the enemy is huge, there are only more than 100,000 troops in front of us. If we concentrate on attacking this, I believe that we will break through the enemy soon.

The human camp reached the city of Mingyang, just like surrounding the Third Ring Road. With our fire attack, the small Mingyang City could not be easily captured? At that time, the offensive and defensive momentum between the enemy and us would turn around. The enemy lost the support of Mingyang City, and I believe that the days of defeat were not far away." Li Ming's enlightenment made the generals dare to speak out in front of them. Although this young man was just a major, he did not have the slightest restraint when facing Li Ming.

Li Ming smiled, nodded approvingly to the young general, and said, "Your idea is very good, but it is not suitable for the current situation. The victory of the Third Ring City gave many people great confidence, but it also created our blind confidence in our own strength. This is not advisable. In the battle of the Third Ring City, we were facing only Li Jue's 300,000 troops, and these 300,000 troops were stationed in three different cities, so our stone-treating troops can calmly approach the local city walls under the cover of other troops without worrying about being attacked, but now it is different. We face it.

The one is the 700,000 enemy troops concentrated outside the city. Although there are only more than 500,000 left now, it cannot be ignored. You are right. The enemy troops in front are easy to break through, but once we reach Mingyang City, what we are facing is the attack of Mingyang City and the enemy troops under the city. The attack of 500,000 people and the attack of 100,000 people are completely different. Although we have heavy armored cavalry and heavy infantry, it is still impossible to completely block the attack of so many enemies. Once the enemy breaks through our outer defense line, our stone-capping troops will suffer heavy losses. This situation is probably exactly what Li Jiao is looking forward to."

Speaking of this, Li Ming smiled and looked at the young officer with a red face and continued, "Your idea is very good, but we can't lead troops to fight too rigidly. We must adjust our tactics based on the actual situation. You must practice it well on this point, but I also want to praise your idea and do it well. One day you will mature."

The general was already ashamed of shame, but when he heard Li Ming's last few words, he was immediately excited. He hurriedly stepped forward and knelt in front of Li Ming, shouting loudly: "Don't worry, lord, I, Chen Hong, will definitely not let my lord down!"

The meeting ended in the evening. At this time, Li Jiao's camps were already full of wood of all sizes. When the sun set, the soldiers and craftsmen in the camp were moving the wood and building a new camp outside their camp. It seems that Li Jiao really has to adopt a step-by-step strategy.

At dawn, the waning moon in the sky fell on the horizon. The craftsmen and soldiers who worked all night began to return to the camp behind to rest. The brightly lit torches were extinguished. At this time, several rangers suddenly ran out of Li Ming's camp. They were tied with cowhide ropes on their horses' hooves and quietly rushed towards the newly built fence. With the help of the dim torches on the ground, they turned on the portable searchlights in their hands when they approached the fence. Suddenly, the dazzling lights illuminated the enemy's newly built camp. The rangers waved their hands.

The iron grab rope covers the newly built fence in the rope, and then worked together to turn around. After several pulls, the solid fence fell to the ground. The rangers dragged rows of fences and returned to their central army camp without stopping. The same thing happened around all the newly built camps of the enemy. Since there were no troops in these camps, when their soldiers rushed over from other camps, the rangers were already not far from Li Ming's camp, and the fences around the camp that Li Jiao's troops worked hard overnight had already been dragged away.

Li Jiao was awakened by this bad news and immediately lit up the 200,000 troops closest to Li Ming and rushed towards Li Ming's camp like a tide. However, when approaching the camp, he was attacked by a rain of arrows like a locust. Although Li Jiao was prepared this time and asked his soldiers to equip heavy armor and shields, he still suffered heavy casualties under the attack of Li Ming's strong bow and crossbow. In some places, although the enemy luckily cut off the fences of the camp and rushed into the camp, he immediately encountered it.

As soon as the two sides fought, Li Ming's technical advantages were immediately revealed. Although the soldiers on both sides were both heavy armor, Li Jiao's soldiers could only leave a knife mark on Li Ming's soldiers' armor with one knife. However, with a big machete in Li Ming's soldiers, they could easily break the armor and cut the opponent to the ground. Although they were both cold weapons, the quality differences still greatly influenced the development of the battle situation.

Li Jiao's attack lasted for a total of four hours. Two hundred thousand enemy troops rushed towards Li Ming's camp like a tide. It seemed that Li Ming's actions at Li Ming greatly damaged Li Jiao's plan and made him start to get a little crazy.

The enemy was able to take the initiative, which hit Li Ming's thoughts. With his own troops' technical and tactical advantages, Li Ming, who was on the defensive side, was very relaxed. Although camps were broken by the opponent from time to time, close combat with heavy infantry was a nightmare for any infantry. Li Ming was very confident about this. So far, no enemy troops could break through the steel fortress-like defense line of his heavy infantry. Therefore, after dawn, Li Ming gave up his attention to the battle ahead and sent out the heavy armored cavalry and rangers.

According to the strategy established yesterday, the 50,000 rangers walked through the enemy's surround and circled afar, and then launched an attack on the enemy's outermost camp. Since those camps were far away from Li Ming, they were quite relaxed in defense. There were no defensive traps outside the camp, and the personnel were mainly elderly, weak, sick and disabled, and logistics troops. Now that they encountered Li Ming's rangers, they were slaughtered like a group of lambs meeting wolves.

This time, each Ranger brought two oil tanks immediately. After two rounds of crossbow arrows attacked, the Rangers approached the enemy's camp and threw the oil tanks into the enemy's camp against the enemy's camp. The outer camp was a concentration of food and grass, and it was a good place for these Rangers to set fire. With the introduction of cans of fuel, the outer camps of Li Jiao's troops began to ignite one after another.
Chapter completed!