When the personal soldiers brought dinner, Zhang Li's scout came in and whispered to Zhang Li. Zhang Li said to the scout: "Master! The scout has a major military information!"

Zhang Ping'an nodded, turned to look at the scout, and the scout immediately reported: "Master! According to the interrogation of the captured Mongolian Tartars, the Duoyan army has gathered 4,000 troops and may approach us in five days."

Zhang Ping'an said to the scout: "Thank you for your hard work, go down and rest first!"

After the scout came out of the tent, Zhang Ping'an then smiled bitterly at the old brothers in the tent and said, "It's really not a pity, but we really can't fight anymore! Now we are trapped and we will lose too much money when we fight another battle. My idea is to scare the Duoyan Tartars away, and it's almost done!"

Zhang Ping'an left the mutton and continued, "We are ready for both hands. First, scare the Tartars away. Second, fight the Tartars again. But we will prepare according to the second rule. Mr. Chen! You have worked hard these days and make more meat. Three meals a day, and the food is full! Add meat at noon and dinner!"

Zhang Ping'an said to Zhang Li, Hu Ming: "The scouts of your two divisions are released to the west and south for seventy miles, and choose to block the battlefield! It is best to have a backer on the battlefield!"

Zhang Li and Hu Ming stood up at the same time to salute: "Yes! The Grand Marshal!"

Zhang Ping'an asked Zhang Tong: "You ordered the carpenter in the camp to make five coffins for me and put the * in. Remember! When compacting the *, you should not use iron tools. It is best to use a wooden pestle to slowly compact it."

"Yes! Grandmaster!"

"Deyin! After you choose the battlefield in Zhang Li, Hu Ming and others, go to the mountain to see if there is any snow layer. After you choose the buried place, I will go and see it again!"

"Yes! Grandmaster!"

Zhang Ping'an said to Chen Pang: "I'll let you rest more in the past few days and train in a queue every day for an hour. There are also a few old and weak people in Duoyan's tribe to cut off their ears; let them go back to report the news. Just say that if Duoyan's tribe wants to fight with us, we will kill all Duoyan's captives first!"

"Yes! Grandmaster!"

Zhang Ping'an drank a sip of milk tea and glanced around the tent with his eyes. His tone was firm: "We are in a difficult situation now! The entire army is extremely tired and can no longer fight; but for the people of the Ming Dynasty we rescued, we must survive! I have no noble sentiment, I just want to live in this troubled times. The soldiers are not fighting for me, they are fighting for their families! Those of us who have the idea are just those who lead them to survive. So after you go back, you must explain the current actual situation to everyone."

Zhang Ping'an put down the bowl and continued, "I thought of Wu Tianxing's newly established ice city, resting for a while; trading with the government army, and then returning to our hometown. Unexpectedly, the Duoyan tribe is still in vain. Since we are going to fight, we will beat Duoyan tribe to death. No matter how much we lose, as long as Duoyan tribe dies another 2,000 men; Duoyan will hide when he sees us! Please add to see what other good ways to kill people!"

"Boss, I have a good idea of ​​a place, which is more than forty miles southwest of the camp. If the Tartars are led there, we don't have to die too many people!" Hu Ming stood up and suggested.

Zhang Ping'an was overjoyed: "We will go to see the terrain tomorrow! Huang Zhi, you are listening to Mr. Chen's order in the camp, and everyone else will follow me!"

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The next day, Zhang Ping'an took a group of old brothers and fifty personal soldiers out of the camp and walked to the place where Hu Ming said. But after only twenty miles, Zhang Ping'an stopped leaving. He shook his head at Hu Ming and said, "No need to go. The Tartar scouts must have discovered our camp. They will not run around here. Let's choose the battlefield on the way the Tartars might be coming!"

Zhang Ping'an and his friends were fifty miles away from the camp and saw a wide area near the north. Zhang Ping'an turned around and nodded to everyone. They got off their horses and walked up the mountain.

The white ridge was sparsely scattered with few trees. The bitter north wind occasionally rolled up small snow particles, ravaging the cheeks of the people who were up the mountain like sand. The snow on the mountain was very deep. When Zhang Ping'an and Lu Deyin went up the mountain, the snow had already exceeded their thighs. So they were dragged up the mountain by Chen and Zhang Li and others like dead dogs.

The scenery on the top of the mountain is beautiful, with an endless white wasteland that outlines the arc-shaped sky from afar. This is a wide plain, without gullies and without barriers. Zhang Ping'an dug out the snow and looked at it. He couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The north wind whistled, and Zhang Ping'an's handsome tent in the old camp was brightly lit. Zhang Ping'an sat in front of the newly prepared sand table and thought hard. The old brothers also quietly looked at the new things made by Zhang Ping'an on the sand table; six black flags of Yanmen and ten red flags marked our side. The old brothers all knew Zhang Ping'an's tactical concept of Zhang Ping'an to predict the enemy's lenientness. Although the Tartars' intelligence said that there were 4,000 male males of Yanmen, Zhang Ping'an asked to consider it according to 6,000 people.

Zhang Ping'an said, "I initially planned to put the main force in the south; Chen Pang led the headquarters and Zhang Li, Hu Ming, Huang Wei and other three units plus about 6,000 of my personal soldiers; I brought most of the Yin personal soldiers, Li Chen, Huang Zhi's troops, and Zhang Tong's troops, a total of about 5,000 people. On the front battlefield in the east, I led the troops to stick to the enemy's front, Chen Pang led the headquarters and Hu Ming's troops, and Huang Wei's troops hit the enemy's flank like a left hook punch, and Zhang Li's troops immediately rushed behind the enemy. Just pay attention to the troops not being too close. I looked at it and didn't need us to let it go at all; as long as the sound was loud enough, it would definitely cause an avalanche! Mr. Chen still had to work hard, so the camp would ask Mr.!"

Chen Liang stood up and bowed to take the order. Zhang Ping'an continued, "This time, we can't take a chance. We have to fight to the death. In order to lead the Tartars forward, Zhang Tong waited for the Doyan Tartars to approach the east battlefield and killed five hundred people first. If the enemy does not move, kill five hundred more. Don't set up traps on the battlefield, just prepare three thousand four-meter-long wooden spears in the east. If the enemy is forced to the foot of the mountain, it will be victorious!"

Zhang Ping'an taped a sand table with a small wooden stick and said to himself: "After this battle, we can't fight again within a month. We have to think about what to do next!"

Lu Deyin said: "Brother, we have been coming from the north for almost a month, and I don't know how the women in my hometown are doing? I want Xu Liang to take people back and have a look!"

Zhang Ping'an walked to Lu Deyin and praised, "Deyin is the same as I thought. I will do as you said, and let Xu Liang take 300 people back. By the way, he killed Burigude. Qiu Wushen, I want to live. Take Uncle Wang, Uncle Li and the others to the mountains. I also asked Uncle Tong to make a few big jars for me, and then I will draw the picture. OK, let's talk about it too! How to fight the battle in front of me!"

Chen Poe got up and picked up the wooden chess, and set up the battlefield situation according to Zhang Ping'an's plan. He asked Chen Xiucai to mark the names of the heads of the Red Array. He said to Zhang Ping'an: "Little boss, if the enemy penetrates through the gap between the east formation and the foot of the mountain in the north, and the avalanche does not occur; the flanks of the east formation are attacked, it will inevitably be chaotic. And the troops of our southern army formation are not in a hurry to return to the aid, what should we do?"

Zhang Ping'an was extremely happy. Finally someone could stand on the enemy's side and think about the problem. So he didn't say anything, but turned his head and gave everyone an inquiring look.

At this time, Zhang Li picked up another small wooden stick next to the sand table and pointed to the gap in the large array on the east side: "We can arrange traps and roadblocks here."

At this time, Li Chen also picked up a small wooden stick from the sand table and adjusted the position of the array: "Boss, I think the order of the array in the east can be like this; I am in front, Huang Zhi is behind my formation, you and Zhang Tong are on my left wing. If the enemy attacks from the front, Chen Tao and the others will still attack the enemy's flank. If the enemy goes around from the north, we are all cavalry, and the adjustment is faster than infantry; as Zhang Li said, using the trap to delay time. Huang Zhi's troops and I will press north."

Zhang Ping'an smiled with relief: "It will be like this in the future! My brothers will do war chess performances like this before the war. Imagine all the possible attack routes of the enemy. The more cunning the enemy is, the better. What suggestions do you have!"
Chapter completed!