"It's almost time, and the enemy should have discovered us."

Perhaps the French light cavalry was cautious enough, or perhaps the Ming army scouts were slackened by rushing all night to speed up the construction of fortifications.

Yuan Zizhang had slowed the French army's marching speed to half of the Ming army, and increased the rest time to twice that of the Ming army. He believed that the French army should have chased after him, but there was still no information on the enemy's movements on both sides of Shiqiao.

He stubbornly thought that he had been waiting for the battle for too long.

He passed the martial arts Jinshi, entered the martial arts lecture hall, joined the Beiyang Military Office, sent the Dongyang Military Office to cross the East to Europe... The first time he led his army to the battlefield, he should have a big fight with the enemy, so he stopped when he arrived at the bridge on the way to withdraw.

The Crane River is diverted here and merges into a river called Charente. The stone bridge is built on it for many years. The French army on the east bank of the Crane River needs to pass through it to reach the west bank, and the troops on the west bank also need to gather here. The two armies converge and merge into a strong army.

If the battle begins here, it should be a war worthy of his years of waiting.

But his personal ambition can only support him to rest for two hours here. If things come to this point, he should have led his army to Dingjiazhuang at this moment.

After the reorganization of the Pioneer Army, there were still 1700 households. The three additional small flags became direct sub-signs for the participating generals and the guerrilla generals. The successive battles cost them a lot of gunpowder. The remaining gunpowder could no longer make the tiger squat cannons fire continuously during the war. The firepower was weakened and the troops were insufficient, so there was no choice to retreat.

But when the world came, the world and the world worked together. Just as the vanguard army slept and nourished their spirits, Yuan Zizhang reluctantly bid farewell to the stone bridge. The reinforcements commander Kang Gulu, sent from Chen Jiujing Office in Baishan City, drove 180 miles and told him that the reinforcements were on the way with the archers and baggage vehicles.

Yuan Zizhang's mind was settled.

The Beiyang Banner Army demolished the camp, arranged horse-resisting horses on the bridge with sharpened wooden thorns, buried clean military ration pots on the west bank, and dug fortifications on the spot, and built the first fortification with split wooden boards and excavated foxgloves from the scattered line, and expanded it into a half-body trench before the pursuit troops arrived.

As for the complete trenches, Yuan Zizhang had no hope at all. The weather was so cold that it seemed that there were signs of icy. There were many gravels under the area on the bridge that was most suitable for building fortifications, which brought great trouble to the construction of fortifications. The amount of work that could be completed in half an hour of Changsheng would take at least one hour.

When the fortification was completed, six soldiers from the Ministry of Households entered the half-body trenches and began to strengthen the wooden walls. The scouts on the periphery still found no signs of the enemy approaching ten miles. Yuan Zizhang began to use earth to fight two forts under the protection of the trenches at the bridgehead. General Liumen Zhenshuo, who was transported by Jurchen horse archers, solved his urgent needs and strengthened his confidence in the vanguard's army to stand up for a French offensive.

"It's so easy to play?"

Kanggulu took the plate-armored Iron Futu formed for him by Chen Jiujing and was amazed at the attack on the vanguard army during this period. He looked at the fine map drawn by the Beiyang Banner Army in Yuan Zizhang and looked very eager. He took off his iron armor and stretched his fingers to draw a line on the map, saying, "Take this river bank to me. If you build the bridge head as solid as a solid foundation, the enemy on the east coast may not be able to eat your hard nail."

He chose the south bank of the southern river diverted, opposite the bridge head, which was the side and rear of Yuan Zizhang's troops. He said: "The water there is fast but shallower. My children have tried it. As long as they are not afraid of the cold, they can wading across the river on horseback. If the enemy dares to cross the river from there, I will flatten them."

Hearing Kangguru take it for granted, 'If they weren't afraid of the cold', Yuan Zizhang smiled all over his eyes and pointed to the repaired earth-shaping fort, saying, "Then you score three hundred cavalry to prevent the enemy from surrounding the left wing. They may not necessarily walk on the river unless they go around the east for a few more miles."

The French army may not want to take a detour, but General Zhenshuo will teach them to take a detour.

More importantly, Yuan Zizhang knew very well that his enemies were afraid of the cold and were afraid of death... Compared to their troops, where everyone had cotton coats and armor, the French soldiers were too thin to wear. Not to mention wading through the water, even if they were trapped in the camp for a few days, someone would be frostbite.

"Hundred and fifty cavalry, I'll give you another six hundred step bows. What do you need to do to defend the wings?"

Apart from the riverside, there are abandoned farmland everywhere, and the terrain is flat. The heavy cavalry can be used as a decisive force on this land. Yuan Zizhang's subordinates have few cavalrymen, and they pay more attention to these Jurchen heavy cavalry. He said: "Give me three hundred heavy cavalry, I don't plan to defend on the left wing. As long as they don't let them attack from the left wing, it seems that defending on the left wing is the same as the cavalry moving behind the enemy."

Just as Yuan Zizhang finished speaking, he saw several Jurchen riders wearing Liaodong bowls coming from the north, hesitating fortifications, and finally being led by the flag army in the trenches to bypass the trap, and hurriedly said: "Your rider is back, please see if there is good news."

Kangguru was overjoyed when he heard this and simply walked over quickly.

At this time, there was almost no bad news for them, and the worst news might be that the French army retreated for no reason.

However, after a few words from the cavalry, Yuan Zizhang saw the Baishan camp general laughing and walked along with a smile: "General Yuan, you can't guess why the enemy's march was slow. Perhaps an enemy scout had discovered that your troops were stationed here earlier. The enemy troops on the west bank were busy picking grass seeds and digging wild vegetables twelve miles from the north riverside, and it seemed that they wanted to have a full meal before coming over; most of the enemy troops on the east bank also appeared on the river bank."

"It seems that the food and grass are not finished there. The five teams of thousands are busy transporting logs to prepare for camping before sunset."

Kanggulu was extremely impressed by Yuan Zizhang's orthodox military general education and the court officers trained in the most mysterious martial arts hall of the Ming Dynasty. Whether intercepting military rations or pursuing the enemy's baggage under a small hill, he did not bother to make the enemy dizzy. For the French army, this may have been a confusing half of the troops lost their combat effectiveness, but in Kanggulu's view, all of this was Yuan Zizhang's calculations and arrangements.

They are clearly bullying people, they are bullying you lack clothes and gunpowder to protect you from cold. The more you lack, the more he will destroy the rest and let you die.

The entire battle revolved around clothes, food, and gunpowder. Now Kangguru not only admired Yuan Zizhang, but also admired the French general... If it were him, he would have been so angry that he would have been desperate to push the army up.

This reaction is like a local battle with weak firepower usually charges in advance with a bird gun.

It seemed that the enemy troops on the West Coast could not sit still. They planned to eat some wild vegetables to fill their stomachs and came over. The enemy troops on the East Coast were still calm and planned to camp far away.

"Three hundred is three hundred, and I will leave you three hundred heavy cavalry. I will take away the rest of the people and make trouble for them. I will not let them camp before sunset. He will not dare to set up camp again when it gets dark. He will force the enemy troops on the east coast to retreat first. Don't worry, wait for me to come back and clean up the people on the west coast together."
Chapter completed!