Fortunately, this deputy general's position was not bought.

In fact, the Chen Dynasty allowed people to buy official positions, but those who paid to become military officers were all happily sent to the front line by the prince during the central battlefield and were exhausted.

This way, we can collect money without affecting the overall combat effectiveness. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can be said to be a genius in business.

So-called I received money and won once, and the Liang people on the opposite side got military merit and won again. It was truly a win-win situation.

Therefore, the deputy general reacted quickly. Before the second wave of Qinghe rain of arrows arrived, he had already judged that it was completely impossible to lead the troops back under the risk of arrow rain and being chased from behind. Committing suicide would probably be easier.

The only way is to form a turtle formation like the current Qinghe army, with shields outside and archers inside, and then try to mix with the Qinghe army in front of us as much as possible to make the long-range weapons of the ambush troops behind ineffective.

Once the fight starts, the outcome will not be determined in a short time.

What's more, he roughly judged from the number of falling crossbow arrows that the Qinghe army ambushing him had only four or five hundred people. The total number of people in the two Qinghe teams might be only slightly more than his team after the reduction in personnel. This battle was not impossible to fight.

Besides, he has reinforcements.

The reinforcements led by Jiang Zhili had already rushed out of the woods.

When Chiang Kai-shek first saw the ambush in Qinghe, he was both excited and disappointed.

He was excited because his judgment was correct and there was indeed an ambush here. This way he could show his military expertise in front of the prince.

The disappointment was that Qinghe's ambush troops only consisted of 500 people.

What's the point of five hundred men? The deputy general's troops can defeat them. Killing five hundred men in battle is only slightly better than having no merit at all.

However, when he saw the group of militiamen sneaking around the battlefield and then rushing into the fortifications, he knew that this group of people were not simple militiamen, or not militiamen at all.

Under normal circumstances, militiamen, civilian laborers, auxiliary soldiers, no matter what you call them, will hide as far away as possible when the regular army is fighting.

Now they dare to return to the battlefield and appear on the route that the Chen Dynasty army must take to retreat, which means that they must be up to something.

Since the prince is watching the battle, nothing is more important than securing victory.

Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly told himself not to be wasteful or greedy, and that having fewer military achievements was better than losing the battle.

So when he discovered this, he immediately ordered the soldiers who had been resting in the woods for half a day to prepare for the attack, and then led the team to charge towards Huang Zong's back.

Due to the distance, Jiang Zhi's troops could not rush to Huang Zong's front for a while, but Huang Zong also knew that he absolutely could not retreat at this time. If he retreated, it would be like using his own troops as a scapegoat. If he wanted to achieve any results in this battle, he had to firmly hold back the newly arrived Chen Dynasty army.

But there was little he could do to help the battalion that was already at war, and he could only rely more on himself.

Huang Zong ordered the entire army to turn around, and the entire army relied on fortifications to delay and attack the newly arrived Chen Dynasty soldiers.

If you look down at the battlefield from above, you will find that the entire battlefield has gradually evolved into a thousand-layer pancake state.

From west to east, first came the Qinghe army formation, then the army formation of Chen Chao's deputy general, then the position held by Huang Zong, and finally the reinforcements led by Jiang Zhijun came up like an oversized cheese, trying to cover the entire battlefield.

"When is the best time to send reinforcements?"

Cheng Guorong in the distance fell into deep thought.

After all, it was just an encounter. If he sent reinforcements again, would it become a tactic of adding fuel to the fire, with both sides passively increasing their troops one after another, and then the decisive battle that was expected to break out in a month would come early?

"Cheng Guorong, if you don't send some reinforcements, I'm worried that Huang Zong won't be able to hold on."

Lin Hai's voice came from the side.

In an instant, Cheng Guorong understood. He realized that this was the correct way to use it.

"Principal, we need to wait. If we send reinforcements now, the enemy will either send more troops or fight to break out. If this Chen Dynasty army fights to break out, Huang Zong and his men are limited in manpower and cannot stop them."

Cheng Guorong understood that since Lin Hai said that he would send reinforcements now, it meant that providing reinforcements now was a wrong option!

It’s God’s will, so please Huang Zong, just persevere.