The news that the two official troops appeared near Xinpingbao was learned by Zhang Hong in the city early.

All the troops of the Second War Soldier Division were stationed in Xinpingbao City at this time.

Xinping Castle is a large fort that can accommodate tens of thousands of people to live normally.

After the Ming Dynasty and Tumote tribes opened a mutual transaction, Xinpingbao, as an important border fort, became a place where merchants often appeared, and gradually began to move their families to Xinpingbao to live.

This also makes a purely military border fortress like Xinping Fort gradually become a border fortress that is both military and civilian. There are far more people living here than the soldiers and generals in the fort.

However, after Du Yan captured Xinpingbao, some of the merchants living in Xinpingbao moved out of Xinpingbao.

For merchants, they can do business with the Tiger Flag, but they will never help the Tiger Flag deal with the court. Now the court wants to deal with the Tiger Flag and continue to stay in Xinpingbao. In the future, once the imperial army arrives, they will be recognized as the Tiger Flag.

As businessmen, they would never take this risk. Even if they lose some money, they would have to leave Xinpingbao temporarily and move back to Xinpingbao in the future.

Later, news that the imperial army was about to come to Xinpingbao reached Xinpingbao, and some people in the fort also began to move away.

Every citizen is willing to suffer war.

For the people, even if they move out of their hometowns, they will endure hunger outside, but they are much better than staying in the fort and waiting to suffer wars.

As a result, there were few people and merchants left in Xinpingbao City. Most of the people in the fort were soldiers of the Second War Soldier Division of the Tiger Flag, and some of the original fort guards of Xinpingbao.

"Shizheng, the two armies of the government army have just arrived during the day, and it is the most exhausting time. Tonight is suitable for sneak attacking their camp and defeating these two armies in one fell swoop." Pan Yi said to Zhang Hong.

Zhang Hong smiled and said, "What? Are you still afraid that you can't defend Xinpingbao?"

"Just the virtues of Xuanfu and Datong border troops, I still want to capture Xinpingbao from us and make their dream of spring and autumn." Pan Yi curled his lips disdainfully.

Except for the grassland, the soldiers and horses with the tiger-shaped flag rarely appear on a large scale in the Ming Dynasty. Most of them appear as guards of the accompanying convoy, and the number is not large.

However, as long as the border troops stationed in Xuanfu and Datong are willing to figure out what kind of strength the border troops are, it is not difficult.

In particular, the Ming border army has always been a potential enemy of the tiger flag. People with the tiger flag are always constantly understanding the specific strength of the border army, and even know that they can even understand the military situation of the border army clearly.

Zhang Hong said with a smile: "You have said that you are not afraid of the government army coming to attack the city, so why should you take the risk of sneaking into the government army's camp at night?"

The night attack camp has always been a few soldiers performing such a task. Relying on the night to make the enemy unclear the situation and causing the enemy's camp to be severely hit.

But equally, once the enemy is prepared, it will be difficult to succeed, and it will be easily swallowed by the enemy in one bite. After all, there should not be too many people who sneak attack at night.

"It's a pity for me to not attack such a good opportunity." Pan Yi said regretfully.

Zhang Hong shook his head lightly and said, "With the strength of our tiger-flag warriors, we don't need to attack the enemy camp at night. Even if the imperial army comes to attack the city openly, we will not be able to do anything. However, attacking the camp is too risky. Once it fails, it will not only lose its troops, but also lose its morale, which is completely unworthy of the loss."

He did not support sneak attacking the official army camp.

He was already confident of head-on battles. He didn't think that the tiger flag needed to attack the official army camp to increase his chances of winning.

"Since Shi Zheng does not agree to attack the enemy camp, his subordinates will defeat them head-on." Pan Yi said.

Without the consent of Zhang Hong, the chief general, his battalion could not lead his troops out of the city to sneak attack the enemy camp.

Zhang Hong said: "Since the imperial army has arrived, it is probably time to attack the city in the past two days. Which camp is left on the city wall tonight?"

"It's the camp of subordinates." Pan Yi said.

Zhang Hong said again: "Tell you, be alert to the night. We will not attack the official army's camp. They may attack us overnight."

"Don't worry, the subordinates sent additional posts tonight, so they could not even fly into the city from outside the city." Pan Yi patted his chest and promised.

At night, the tiger flag has its own patrol team, and every once in a while, it will be replaced. It will never be like the official army who is sleeping in the middle of the night.

After all, the tiger flag is a new force, with strict military rules and regulations, and in all aspects it is far superior to the Ming army, so it is very difficult to sneak attack the tiger flag camp.

The night passed quickly.

After dawn, the major battle barracks of the Tiger Flag began to bury pots and make rice.

Because of the arrival of the imperial army, Zhang Hong had enough strength to appear on the battlefield in order to make the soldiers below eat and drink well, and had enough energy to appear on the battlefield, and these days they have been full of meat and fish.

The big meat steamed buns in the morning were prepared by the people from the cooking team early, and they used baskets to deliver them to each soldier one by one.

The soldiers guarding the city wall were also replaced by the rebellion team.

Zhang Hong stood on the city wall, with Pan Yi accompanying him.

He held a single-channel telescope in his hand and looked at the direction of the official army camp in the distance.

However, because it was too far away, the official army's camp could not be seen at all, but the official cavalry that appeared near Xinpingbao through a monocular telescope.

Yang Guozhu put down the military book in his hand and asked, "Did he make any requests?"

"That's not, I agreed very happily." As soon as Xue Mu finished speaking, he seemed to think of something, and then said again, "I asked about the cannons, and the student told General Wang that we have prepared the twelve general cannons."

Yang Guozhu nodded and said, "He is not completely a fool. He also knows that the tiger flag has prepared cannons in Xinpingbao City to defend the city."

Xue Mu, who was standing below, twitched his mouth and did not dare to answer the conversation.

His own general can scold another general as a fool, and he dare not make trouble at this time. If it is reported, Wang Bao cannot do anything to his own general, but it is easier to deal with his own staff.

"Don't think that I'm going to say that he was deliberately humiliating him." Yang Guozhu said, "If he hadn't allowed the tiger flag to be bigger in Xuanfu, how could he have the strength to go north to the grassland to conquer the Tumote tribe? What's even more annoying is that the general of Xuanfu actually allowed the tiger flag to build a pier on the grassland outside Zhangjiakou. Do you think he is a candid?"

As he said that, he snorted coldly.

He believed that the tiger-shaped flag could be expanded by the generals of Datong and Xuanfu.
Chapter completed!