Chapter 569 of the main text, the first engagement

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After a long while, Ji Yunlai, who had been silent, finally spoke again. He looked at the sky in the distance and said proudly: "Then let's just wave our army to Xiangshan County! Go there and meet our enemies for a while! If we have the opportunity, we will directly break through Xiangshan County!"

All the soldiers responded in unison!

In this way, the forward army of the Shu army, which had 5,000 soldiers, went straight to Xiangshan County.

Meanwhile.

On a small hillside, a five-member reconnaissance team of the Xinghua Army was looking through the telescope and continued to observe a summer ** team that began to march again in the distance. Visually, there were about 5,000 people. Just now, this army stopped, and then moved forward again, but it was obvious that it was going straight to Xiangshan County.

It was the forward of the Shu army of the Xia Kingdom led by Ji Yunlai.

"They even came to Xiangshan County, aren't they worried that they won't have water to drink? Or did the news that spread out not attract their attention?"

"Perhaps, the commander of the forward army of the Xia Kingdom is too conceited, thinking that with these five thousand soldiers, it is enough to break through Xiangshan County. ”

After seeing the enemy situation clearly, these members of the Xinghua Army's reconnaissance team chatted a few words disapprovingly. He is also the leader of the reconnaissance team, picks up the walkie-talkie, and reports the movements of the enemy to his superiors.

The Xinghua Army Headquarters in Xiangshan County thus learned the news that the Shu Army Advance was about to arrive in Xiangshan County.

"Five thousand...... These people, I really admire their courage. Zhao Chang said with a smile, thought about it, and added as if muttering, "Or should I say that they really don't know the height of the sky?"

Qin Zhengguo didn't have much to comment, just stood up with a stern face and looked at the map. To put it mildly. Said: "Since you're here." Then don't go. ”

"The sheep ran into the tiger's mouth by itself, and if it doesn't eat for nothing, it won't eat. Zhao Chang understood Qin Zhengguo's ambiguous words, and then nodded in agreement.

"Order the SPA submachine gun team, mortar team, rifle team to prepare as a whole. When the whole army strikes, it must be hit with one blow and annihilate all the invading enemy troops. Qin Zhengguo ordered.

At the north gate of Xiangshan County, 1,500 soldiers of the Xinghua People's Army. It's all ready to go. Qin Zhengguo personally came to the north gate, faced a group of soldiers, and once again emphasized: "In this battle, we must completely annihilate the invading enemy." ”

"Annihilation, Annihilation!" The morale of the soldiers was high, and they responded without hesitation, and the roar shook the sky, even as if it shook the advance of the Xia Guoshu army that was slowly moving towards this side in the distance.

Although the Xinghua People's Army was originally formed with the goal of saving the people, it was not the country's dragon and tiger army. But it was also made up of well-trained soldiers of the Xinghua Army. Since the founding of the country, the Xinghua Empire has been at war every time. Repeated victories and invincibility made them feel proud and proud from the bottom of their hearts because they were soldiers of the Xinghua Army. The domineering spirit of the soldiers is even more revealed.

Seeing the energetic soldiers standing in front of him, Qin Zhengguo nodded with great satisfaction, such a state will definitely make the Xinghua Army invincible on the battlefield. So, Qin Zhengguo waved his hand and ordered simply and heroically: "Get out of the city!"

Officers at all levels, one by one, ordered the subordinate soldiers to march out of the city.

This time, Zhao Chang did not follow Qin Zhengguo to meet the vanguard army of the Yunzhou Shu army of the Xia State, because he wanted to stay in the city and control the situation in the city. What's more, in Zhao Chang's opinion, it was enough for Qin Zhengguo to come forward in person, and he didn't need to make do with it at all. At the same time, there are 3,000 people of the Xiemin Army who will stay at the North Gate, as long as the Xinghua Baomin Army is victorious, they will be used as a rear army to clean up the defeated Shu army.

It's a must-win battle.

In fact, for the Xinghua Baomin Army, the 5,000 Shu Army vanguard army is indeed not a problem, as long as Qin Zhengguo said, all the 5,000 soldiers were annihilated in the first battle, leaving no room for survival, so that they could not return to the Shu Army headquarters to report the news. However, in order to ensure all the safety, the Xinghua army finally sent several reconnaissance teams to ambush in various places on the periphery of Xiangshan County, and their role was to monitor the surrounding roads leading to Xiangshan County and ensure that the enemy's forward army of the Shu army was not followed by a backup army! At the very least, it was necessary to make sure that the enemy army did not reinforce within an hour's march of the forward army of the Shu army. Once the situation is found to be different, it is necessary to immediately report to the Xiangshan County Headquarters for response.

At this time, the vanguard army of the Shu army that came slowly, Ji Yunlai was walking ahead with a confident face.

Ji Yunlai is very young, but at the age of twenty-five, he has been promoted many times by virtue of his repeated military exploits, so that he has been promoted to the status of a general of the first army earlier than soldiers of the same age.

Ji Yunlai's young man is in a high position, which is a matter of course. Because he is indeed a rare young man born with unique military talents. He not only has a shrewd military vision, but also has excellent skills and keen military judgment ability, and in this respect, he is indeed a young general who stands out from the crowd. Moreover, there are no weak soldiers under strong generals, Ji Yunlai is also good at using his own methods to train some elite soldiers who are forbidden by orders, and the soldiers he leads are also outstanding.

It's just that although Ji Yunlai does have such an extraordinary side, he is still young after all, and he doesn't have enough actual combat experience, so he is inevitably frivolous and impetuous. If he could have had setbacks in the past, it would be a fortune in his life, but it was this kind of success that made him too proud. Therefore, Ji Yunlai will inevitably think too highly of himself.

Otherwise, Ji Yunlai would not have thought that his vanguard army was powerful enough to wipe out the Xinghua army, which was "just a rabble". From Ji Yun's point of view, according to the intelligence information he obtained, he could almost conclude that this was actually a small army in the name of "saving" the merchants, not the imperial division of the Xinghua Empire, and it was really not on the stage, let alone afraid.

Ji Yunlai has investigated the Xinghua Protector Army, which comes from the side view of the undefeated myth of the Xinghua Empire. Such a strong opponent aroused his fighting spirit. But it's a pity that most of the information Ji Yunlai got was hearsay. After an imaginary study of the battle trajectory of the Xinghua Protector Army, Ji Yunlai began to think that the Xinghua Protector Army was nothing more than that.

For example, Ji Yunlai thinks. Since the Xinghua Baomin Army has captured Guixi County and Xiangshan County. The door to the Yunzhou Basin was opened. Judging from the perspective of military strategy, Ji Yunlai felt that if it was him, he would definitely take advantage of the victory and pursue, continue to attack all the way, and occupy more cities, but the Xinghua Baomin Army was abnormal. There was no further movement, but it suddenly stopped.

Therefore, Ji Yunlai determined that there was only one reason why the Xinghua Baomin Army would stagnate, that is, the lack of troops and limited strength.

Since the strength of the Xinghua Protector Army is insufficient, Ji Yunlai naturally will not take the Xinghua Protector Army seriously. Therefore, Ji Yunlai is even already anticipating what will happen next - after returning from this battle, the Xinghua Baomin Army will eventually become another stepping stone in his life career of Ji Yunlai. Help him rise to the top of power.

Yes, Ji Yunlai looked down on the Xinghua People's Army very much.

All the way forward. The vanguard of the Shu army was not slow, and when they reached a flat land not far from Xiangshan County, the scouts reported that the enemy army in Xiangshan County was out of the city, and the city gate was wide open.

The scout's report made Ji Yunlai stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly burst out laughing, his eyes glowed with a strange light, and said: "God really help me, all the soldiers, follow me into Xiangshan County!"

Under this order, the 1,000 cavalry in the forward army brought by Ji Yunlai immediately galloped and rushed forward as soon as possible, while the remaining 4,000 infantry behind them also accelerated their speed and followed them to charge towards Xiangshan County.

Soon, Ji Yunlai saw Xiangshan County, and also saw the Xinghua Army outside Chengwai in Xiangshan County.

As soon as he approached the city gate, Ji Yunlai immediately ordered the thousand cavalry to rush towards the enemy without stopping.

As long as they crush the enemy's front army and control the city gate in time, maybe their forward army will be able to capture this place in Xiangshan County. At this moment, Ji Yunlai's mind has already begun to emerge that after he returned to the dynasty with a complete victory, he was rewarded by the general of Yunzhou and made meritorious contributions.

Boom!

Unexpectedly, at this moment, there was a sudden loud noise, as if a huge cannonball exploded in Ji Yunlai's ears, shattering the series of extremely beautiful illusions he had just now.

Suddenly, Ji Yunlai remembered the meeting in front of the general's tent. The general once told the generals that the Xinghua army had powerful weapons......

But before he could figure out what the explosion was, Ji Yunlai only felt that he seemed to be blown up, and then his eyes suddenly turned black, and he lost consciousness before he fell to the ground.

In this way, outside the north gate of Xiangshan County, the forward army of the Shu army was very unfortunate to lose their young and promising commander.

The mortar battalion of the Xinghua People's Army definitely didn't expect that they would directly kill the commander of the enemy army with such a single shot.

In fact, at this time, no one cared about confirming who was bombed, on this battlefield, only the fierce sound of artillery and gunfire was heard, and the cavalry that hit the forward of the Shu army was hit hard, and they lost their commander, and they had no power to fight back at all.

Therefore, when the infantry of the forward battalion of the Shu army arrived close behind, they only had time to see the scene of rout in front of them, and the deputy general who led the army was even more frightened by the cavalry falling all over the ground, unable to understand what was happening.

The Xinghua army did not give them time to think and continued to attack.

"Retreat!" the adjutant general quickly ordered, because at this moment, he suddenly understood that they had miscalculated the enemy army!

However, he should not have done anything, that is, he did not leave any troops to stop him, so he ordered to flee. The entire forward battalion was completely crippled after losing its commander, and the soldiers only ran away, and no one thought of fighting back. Even the five hundred crossbowmen that the vanguard army had specially prepared did not even have a chance to play in the end......

However, what is even more terrifying is that even if the deputy general wants to retreat back to the camp first to reorganize the army, it is already too late, because from the very beginning, Qin Zhengguo has already given a death order - total annihilation!

When he found that the enemy army was showing signs of fleeing back, Qin Zhengguo immediately led his army and continued to pursue, absolutely not giving the Shu army's forward army any chance to regroup.

In the end, the battle situation was decided, the forward battalion of the Shu army was defeated, and the Xinghua Baomin army completely annihilated the invading enemy. Taking advantage of this battle, in Yunzhou, Xia State, Qin Zhengguo became famous.

Xia Guo, Yunzhou.

100,000 Shu troops camped in a place called Pineapple County. It is about 300 miles away from Xiangshan County, and it takes half a day to travel quickly.

At this moment, in this camp, there is a gloomy atmosphere of solemnity and coldness. Because, just now, an unexpected military intelligence report was sent back from the front line, which made this camp instantly fall into the current freezing atmosphere.

I saw the commander Zhang Guangwu sitting on the seat of the commander with an angry face, looking at the generals who were standing in front of him and never dared to come out, and rushed out a few angry words from time to time!

On the ground, there was a broken teapot, stained with tea, and splinters were scattered all over the ground.

However, no one dared to pick it up.

Zhang Guangwu's face turned red with anger! The 5,000 soldiers in the vanguard of the Shu army! The entire vanguard army was completely annihilated by the enemy! Zhang Guangwu could not swallow this breath!

"Before I set out on the expedition, how did I repeatedly warn you?" Zhang Guangwu roared angrily almost the whole time, "I don't hate the Xinghua Army, I hate Ji Yunlai, he killed 5,000 soldiers! He can't afford this crime, and he has to bear it! If he doesn't obey the general's orders! Does he think he is a military god? Just 5,000 people dare to attack the city, hum! In my case, even if I win, it will be useless! Not to mention making such a joke!"

Zhang Guangwu is a military general who beats the tent, and he can no longer tolerate this kind of military general who does not obey the general's orders.

The audience was silent, and no one dared to answer.

Zhang Guangwu stood up, walked to the map of Yunzhou, and said: "Now, we are powerful, it is better to fight steadily, the disparity in strength is huge, the enemy will definitely be helpless, and no despicable means can be used." ”

"Listen to the commander!" the generals replied.

When Zhang Guangwu heard this, he glanced at everyone, all of them looked obedient, and finally nodded with satisfaction, and continued: "Chen Yi and Wang Wu, the two of you each lead 3,000 men and horses to guerrilla around Xiangshan County, I want the scouts of Xiangshan County, there is no place to stay. ”

"Humble and ordered!" the two generals stood up to take the order.

"Xu Qiong is the main general, Zhang Yide is the deputy general, the two of you led 10,000 troops, took the first step, and camped in Fenghuangpo, north of Xiangshan County. Fenghuangpo is less than fifty miles away from Xiangshan County, so you should be careful. I hope that as soon as the army arrives, the surroundings will be cleaned up. Zhang Guangwu continued.

"Humble command!" said two more generals.

The reason why Zhang Guangwu made this arrangement was because there were still some powerful and inconvenient weapons in the army that needed to be transported, so he first arranged for Chen Yi and Wang Wu to be the vanguard, and Xu Qiong and Zhang Yide were postponed, first, to clear the enemy troops blocking the road and ensure the safety of the road; second, before the arrival of the army, to set up a garrison camp, and as soon as the army arrived in Xiangshan County, it could immediately launch an attack.