Chapter 575

In Wei Zheng's view, Ming Xiaotian is too conceited, and the current Feng Army is no longer what it used to be. Against him, no carelessness can exist. If Ming Xiaotian leads the army, he will suffer a big loss. However, Ming Xiaotian had already said this, and Wei Zheng could not say anything more. He bowed his hands to Ming Xiaotian and said: "Ming Gong likes to take care of himself. When doing things, he puts the overall situation first and the lives of our soldiers. Heavy!"

Ming Xiaotian hated hearing Wei Zheng's teaching words. He used to be the commander-in-chief, so he could only endure it. Now that Wei Zheng was dismissed and Ming Xiaotian became the commander-in-chief of the entire army, how could he want to listen to Wei Zheng's wordy words? . This time Ming Xiaotian didn't even bother to reply. He walked away and sat behind the handsome desk. He sat down carelessly and turned his head away, not even looking at Wei Zheng.

Wei Zheng was ordered by Yan Chu to return to Ningdu, and the news soon spread to Feng Jun. After hearing this, Tang Yin was overjoyed. The scheming Wei Zheng was finally transferred away and allowed Ming Xiaotian to lead the army? This is ridiculous. When the Sanshui Army made a sneak attack on Tongmen, Ning Guo sent Ming Xiaotian to attack. As a result, this man only knew how to attack violently and could not even use any strategy. As a result, the Ning Army was in trouble in attacking the city and suffered numerous casualties. Now he is in charge of the 400,000 Ning army. In Tang Yin's view, this is simply a sign of God helping him to achieve great things.

Tang Yin's excitement was palpable, and the generals below were also very happy. Liang Qi smiled and said, "Ming Xiaotian was promoted to general because of his powerful family background. In fact, he has no real talent or knowledge. Ning Jun will be promoted to general by him." Commander, our army will win!"

Zhan Hu stood up, raised his hands to Tang Yin and said, "Your Majesty, our army will issue a letter of challenge to Ning's army now!"

Tang Yin waved his hand and said with a smile: "No rush! Wei Zheng is leaving, but he must have told Ming Xiaotian not to go into battle easily before leaving. We must find a way to lure Ming Xiaotian out to fight!"

"The king means..."

Tang Yin rolled his eyes and said: "Tomorrow, we will first reduce the number of guards in our camp. After two days, our army will set up camp and retreat twenty miles."

"What?" Upon hearing this, everyone was a little dumbfounded. Wei Zheng, who caused the most headache to his side, was finally transferred back to the capital, but why did the king still order the withdrawal of troops? Seeing that all the generals were confused, Tang Yin smiled confidently and said: "If we don't do this, how can Ning Jun take the bait?"

Ming Xiaotian's ability was far inferior to that of Wei Zheng, but he was also present during the decisive battle between Feng and Ning's armies, and he had a clear view of the battle situation. Although his side won in the end and Feng's army retreated, his side was fighting with more and less. Under such circumstances, the losses were even greater than those of the Feng Army, which showed that the Feng Army's combat effectiveness was far beyond our own.

After he took over the position of coach, he also followed Wei Zheng's example and strictly ordered all soldiers in the army not to go to war privately. However, on the second day after Wei Zheng was transferred, Ning Army spies reported that the number of guards in the Feng Army camp suddenly decreased, and the sound of the military horses in the camp was also much quieter than before. It is not known why.

After hearing this, Ming Xiaotian secretly frowned and ordered the spies to investigate again and report again. The next day, the spies reported that the number of guards in the Fengjun camp was reduced again, and the sound of military training in the camp was even weaker. By the third day, there were almost no guards in the Fengjun camp. The sound of training in the camp completely disappeared, leaving only the chaos of cleaning up the camp.

Judging from his posture, Feng Jun looked like he was about to set up camp and break out the stronghold. The spy immediately informed Ming Xiaotian of the situation. After hearing this, the latter couldn't believe his ears. The Feng Army was about to set up camp? With their own army blocking the front, it is impossible for them to advance westward. So there is only one possibility left, is the Feng army going to retreat? !

Wei Zheng and Feng Jun had been at odds with each other for so long, but Feng Jun had not retreated. A few days after Wei Zheng left, Feng Jun was about to retreat. God must have been so kind to him, and he actually allowed this miraculous feat of repelling Feng Jun to fall on his head. superior. Ming Xiaotian was happy, and General Ning in the camp was even more excited. This war was finally coming to an end, and the invading Feng army was finally leaving.

At this time, the impulsive General Ning immediately stood up, raised his hands and said: "General, the retreat of the Feng Army is a good time for our army to take the initiative to attack. General, you must not miss this opportunity!"

yes! Ming Xiaotian's eyes lit up at first, but after thinking about it, he shook his head again and murmured: "The Feng Army is cunning, we have to be on guard against it! Our army will wait and see what happens to see whether the Feng Army is really retreating or is pretending to retreat. !”

"Yes! General!"

Early the next morning, while Ming Xiaotian was still sleeping soundly, he heard someone outside shouting repeatedly: "The Feng Army has withdrawn! The Feng Army has withdrawn!" Hearing the shouts, Ming Xiaotian seemed to have been electrocuted, and a wheel came from behind. Getting up from the bed, he didn't even bother to put on his shoes. He strode to the door of the tent and asked the guards outside: "What are everyone shouting?"

"Back to General, happy news, great happy news! The Feng Army has retreated! The Feng Army's camp has been evacuated!"

"Ah?" Ming Xiaotian took a breath and stood there for a long time before he came back to his senses and asked urgently: "This... when did this happen? When did the Feng Army retreat?"

The guards all said at once: "That's the news we just got!"

Before Ming Xiaotian could continue to ask questions, spies from the Ning Army galloped over on horseback. When they arrived in front of Ming Xiaotian's camp, they got off their horses and rolled and crawled towards Ming Xiaotian, screaming: " General, the Feng army has set up camp and retreated, and has retreated several miles!"

"Can you see clearly?"

"This little man has seen it with his own eyes, and it is absolutely true!"

"Haha! God helps me! God really helps me!" Ming Xiaotian finally believed that this was true. He jumped up excitedly and waved to the guards on both sides, saying: "Quick! Go and gather all the generals, follow me to the camp of Feng Army!" After speaking, he took the lead to walk towards the central army tent.

"General, general, you haven't put on your shoes and clothes yet!" The guards hurried forward and stopped Ming Xiaotian who was extremely excited. Ming Xiaotian looked down, patted his head hard, turned around and walked back into the tent. With the help of the guards, he put on his armor and walked quickly towards the central army tent.

The Feng Army did withdraw. The original Feng Army camp was now in a mess. Many inconvenient miscellaneous items were left behind, indicating that the Feng Army's retreat was very hasty. Facts have proved that the Feng Army did not pretend to retreat, but really retreated. Many Feng generals began to suggest to Ming Xiaotian to chase and kill the retreating Feng Army.

But Ming Xiaotian still didn't agree. He couldn't understand why the Feng Army retreated for no reason. If there hadn't been a major change in the army, the Feng Army wouldn't have given up so easily. But what happened in the Feng Army?

In the Feng Army camp, Ming Xiaotian was accompanied by the generals, walking slowly and looking around, hoping to find some clues about the Feng Army's retreat.

After walking for a while, Ming Xiaotian suddenly frowned and turned to ask the generals behind him: "Why is there a strange smell in the Feng Camp?"

At this time, the Ning generals also smelled it. People nodded and responded: "There is a strange smell, it seems... It's the smell of medicine?!"

Ming Xiaotian didn't ask any more questions and continued to move forward. Not far away, he saw a jar for decocting medicine on the ground. Ming Xiaotian hurriedly walked forward, squatted down, and picked up the jar. Without putting it to his nose, the strong and choking smell of medicine had already rushed up. He tilted his head, covered his nose with his sleeve, and asked, "Who knows what medicine the Feng army boiled?"

The Ning army only knew how to lead troops to fight, how could they know medical knowledge? Seeing that all the generals shook their heads to indicate that they didn't know, Ming Xiaotian shouted, "Call the military doctors over!"

Not long after, several military doctors in the Ning army were brought over by the guards. Ming Xiaotian handed the medicine jar to the military doctors and said, "Come and identify what medicine is boiled here and what it is used for."

Several military doctors hurriedly took the medicine jar, took some of the remaining medicine residues in it, carefully checked and smelled it, and after a long while, a military doctor looked up and said, "General, the medicine boiled by the Feng army includes Chuanxiong, Huangling, Codonopsis, Licorice and other medicines."

"Oh?" Ming Xiaotian was refreshed, stepped forward, and asked, "What are these medicines for?"

The military doctor looked at several other colleagues, and then said in a positive tone, "It is for malaria."

Cure malaria? ! Ming Xiaotian frowned and fell into deep thought.

At this time, the general in charge of the Ning Army spies suddenly remembered something and said to Ming Xiaotian in a hurry: "General, I have received a lot of news in the past few days. The number of times the Feng Army sneak attacks our villages and towns has decreased a lot, but every time they sneak attack, they will scramble for medicines in the villages and towns, especially those mentioned by the military doctor just now."

As soon as he finished speaking, several Ning Army soldiers in front of him ran over quickly. When they got close to Ming Xiaotian, they said breathlessly: "General, we found many medicine jars and medicine residues left by the Feng Army ahead!"

"Oh? Take me to see!" Ming Xiaotian's eyes lit up, and he asked the Ning Army soldiers to lead the way, and he quickly followed.

Walking forward for a while, as expected, there were dozens of medicine jars placed on an open space full of debris, and the ground was full of black medicine residues. Ming Xiaotian rolled his eyes and suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the Feng army retreated suddenly. It turned out that malaria was spreading in the Feng army. There were so many medicine jars left, and there were who knows how many more medicine jars that were taken away. It seemed that there were quite a few soldiers suffering from malaria in the Feng army.

At this time, the military doctors also came over, checked the medicine residues on the ground, and nodded one after another. The military doctor who spoke just now said seriously: "General, Hedong is humid, while Fengguo is dry. Hedong is hot, while Fengguo is cold. It must be that the Feng people came to Hedong for the first time and were not used to the weather here. They did not pay attention to the measures to prevent mosquitoes, which led to the rampant malaria. It seems that the retreat of the Feng army is also related to this!"

"Haha——" Ming Xiaotian laughed up to the sky. Malaria is a disease that is neither serious nor mild in terms of medical skills at the time. There are ways to treat it, but the recovery process is very slow. If you have malaria, you may not even be able to stand steadily, let alone fight. Now that there is a large-scale outbreak of malaria in the Feng Army, isn't this a good opportunity for us to pursue?

If we don't fight now, when will we wait? Ming Xiaotian was completely excited at this time, his eyes were shining, and he even began to imagine the sensational scene of him defeating the Feng Army and leading the people back to Liangzhou, and the people lining the streets to welcome him.