Vinh Loc County, Quang Hoa Province, Nghe An Province, this place is Vinh Loc County, Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam, where the first Zheng lord of North Trung was born.

Ye Kai led an army of 30,000 and stopped when he walked to Shicheng, a small city more than forty kilometers away from Yonglu.

Because after Ruan Hui learned that Ye Kai also gathered a large army to the south, he personally led an army of 50,000 to the north, and had already crossed the turbulent Ma River and surrounded Yonglu County.

He also sent people to occupy Jinshui City upstream, where dozens of river paddle rowboats were prepared.

Although the upper reaches of the Majiang River are not large in water and there are many waterfalls, the section from Jinshui to Yonglu County can still barely be navigated.

In order to increase firepower, Nguyen Hue spent a lot of manpower and material resources to move these rowboats to the upper reaches of the Ma River.

These small boats will be placed on one or two half-snake guns or a few large guns, and when the war starts, they will attack Ye Kaijun who crossed the river from the upstream downstream, to make up for the lack of firepower of the Xishan army.

Around Yonglu County, the Xishan Army built a series of small imitation fortress-style simple fortresses, forming a fortress group of more than ten kilometers in front, waiting for Ye Kai to crash into it.

Why is this someone taking refuge? Even if these fortress groups are crudely done, they will not be able to finish the work in a few months!

Not to mention that it took so much manpower and material resources to move dozens of inland river paddle rowboats to the upper reaches of the Ma River, and a Yonglu County can't beat it? Can you afford to surround it for more than a month?

This is obviously Ruan Hui sending reinforcements at the encirclement point!

Fan Guishi also sensed that something was wrong, and his face was a little embarrassed.

"Wang, something is wrong with the situation, I think it must be that Zhang Baozhi was deceived by Ruan Hui's traitor, or someone around him was bribed and deliberately sent false news!"

It may also be that your student is fake to take refuge, Ye Kai complained in his heart.

But he thought back to Fan Guishi's experience in history, he was hungry and didn't want to accept Ruan Hui's conquest, and he had no reason to betray Ye Kai now.

This kind of person, to keep his status as a Confucian and spread his doctrine all over the world, that is what he is pursuing, and naturally he can't go with Ruan Hui.

Moreover, Ye Kai is confident that the more than 30,000 people based on the Revival Army are capable of dealing with any situation.

If Fan Guishi really had a problem and Ruan Huilai raided him, Ye Kai would be relieved, and he wouldn't have to gnaw on the pile of turtle shells he placed on the front of Yonglu County!

The whining sound of the horn spread far and wide, which was a signal that Ye Kai was convening a meeting of officers above the major level.

The previous regiment-level model has long been unable to adapt to the scale of the Renaissance Army, and in the past few months when the identity of the North Vietnamese people was in chaos, Ye Kai also reorganized the Renaissance Army to a certain extent.

The entire Baath Army was upgraded to the size of a single corps with three divisions.

The first division has a strength of 7,000 people, and the division commander is Huang Laosi, who is awarded the rank of major general.

There are three regiments under its jurisdiction, the most elite of which is the Dividing Liang Regiment, which is the expansion of the fourth battalion of the original Huang Laosi, and the regiment commander is served by Huang Laosi himself.

In the second regiment, Ye Zhenwu was the commander, and from officers to soldiers, almost all of them were surnamed Ye.

The third regiment was expanded from the original Terengganu battalion led by Liu Chonghan, and both regiment commanders were colonels.

The second division had 5,500 men, and the division was commanded by Henry Brown. Elber held the post and was awarded the rank of brigadier general.

The backbone of this division was originally expanded from the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the French Far East Mercenaries recruited by Ye Kai in France.

The commander of the first regiment was Henry. Morality. Olivier, who was historically the most important French army officer in Nguyen Phuc Anh to restore the country, also had a Vietnamese name called Nguyen Van Trie.

Now he has become the commander of the first regiment of Ye Kai's second division, and the backbone of this regiment is led by Louis, a close friend of the emperor. That regiment commanded by Gaston.

Louis. Gaston was thrown by Ye Kai as a deputy commander of the Revival Army, and the position of brigadier general was set up.

It's not anything else, but this guy does have a very limited talent in command, and if he continues to command the second division and the first regiment, he will destroy this regiment!

So Ye Kai got a deputy commander and let him enjoy honorable treatment, but the specific right to lead the troops was gone.

But for Louis. As far as Gaston is concerned, he has become the first of Ye Kai's white courtiers, and he will be asked to teach in the artillery department of the Yixin Army Academy in the future, and he is still very satisfied with his official position and face.

The colonel of the 2nd Regiment of the 2nd Division was commanded by Alexander. Oudino served as the one.

After Ye Adi's suggestion, Ye Kai no longer set up a separate grenadier company, but averaged the grenadiers into each company, and Udino was naturally called the commander of the second regiment of the second division.

The commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Division is called Huang Guangyi, who was the first to defect to Ye Kai in Binh Thuan Mansion, the son of Huang Guangding who almost killed Nguyen Phuc Ying in the city of Binh Thuan Mansion.

Most of the soldiers of this regiment were recruited by the local tyrants of Binh Thuan Province to serve their money, among which the Mingxiang people and Han and Vietnamese people in Binh Thuan Province were the majority, and a small part were white sailors and deserters recruited from all over Nanyang, as well as dug up the corners of the Dutch Army in Batavia.

The third division was expanded by the elite of the Nanyang Police Army, with about 6,000 people, and the division commander was Ye Huan, who was awarded the rank of brigadier general.

This was originally a shining figure of the Ye family in history, because he failed to complete the things that Ye Kai explained before he went to Europe, and almost wiped out the Ye family's soldiers, so he didn't give Ye Kai much trust.

But since he is a famous figure in history, even if he was thrown into the police army by Ye Kai, he gradually showed his good ability.

So now he has become one of Ye Kai's three division commanders, although the third division is the weakest in the entire revival army, but that is also relative.

The commander of the first regiment of the third division was a strong man named Ye Zhouwu, and he knew that he was a descendant of the Nanyang Ye family.

Ye Zhouwu is not only Ye Kai's cousin, but also the first batch of Ye family soldiers who were selected by Ye Fulai to study in the French military camp in Chonburi.

Whether it was the war between northern Thailand and the Burmese, or the Phu Ray River that attacked North Vietnam a few months ago, Ye Zhouwu participated in every battle, and even performed well, he was a typical taciturn and strict self-disciplined soldier.

The third is that the commander of the second regiment is Chen Wenqi, Ye Kai's cousin of the Chen family, because he was a tandem officer who made his own decisions outside of Gan Ma Xi, and dared to do things privately without Ye Kai's order, and was beaten by Ye Kai for a long time.

It wasn't until the identity turmoil in the past few months that Ye Kai's trust was regained, but the former opponent Huang Laosi was the commander of the first division, and he was still a regiment commander.

The commander of the third regiment of the third division is Liang Wenying, He Xiwen's brother-in-law, and the soldiers of this regiment are, of course, the elite members selected from He Xiwen's Huashan Hall.

He Xiwen is now happy to be the town guard of Pingshun Mansion, and he doesn't care about the military affairs of Huashantang at all.

Liang Wenying became the head of the Third Regiment, and Huang Zhongtong became Ye Kai's Janissary Captain, and he followed Ye Kai all the time.

These three divisions, which are Ye Kai's basic plates, are 18,500 men, all equipped with flintlock pistols, and more than 60 percent of the flintlock pistols are equipped with bayonets.

In addition, it also has a direct divisional artillery battalion except for the Austrian independent artillery battalion commanded by Conrad, and its equipment and firepower are the strongest in the whole of East Asia.

In addition to the 18,500 people of the revival army, Ye Kai also had about 10,000 soldiers from the Three Towns under his command.

It was the original semi-new local army led by the brothers Wu Van Dung, Nguyen Van Hun and Hoang Phong Nghi, with Wu Van Dung as the brigadier general, Nguyen Van Hun as the commander of the First Division, and Huang Fengyi as the commander of the Second Division.

In addition, there were three independent regiments directly under the corps, that is, the 1st rifle regiment formed by the Junior Guards.

This regiment is basically equipped with Fuxing flintlock rifled guns, sometimes fighting alone, sometimes dismantling into other divisions for light infantry, depending on the situation, very flexible.

The second regiment directly under it is the Han'er Xiaojie Army, which is actually recruited from Xiaowuxue and various places, and the Jiaozhi Han'er who has set their identity and taken the benefits has become an army.

However, the equipment is not very good, although it is equipped with firearms, even flintlock pistols are not fully popular, and many people still use broadswords and spears.

In fact, they will not go to many battlefields, but will be used as a reserve force, mainly to feel the atmosphere of the battlefield and reserve forces for the future.

The third regiment was the 3rd Cavalry Artillery Regiment, consisting of a hussar battalion, a Cossack battalion, and Konrad's Austrian artillery battalion.

The commander of this regiment is Ye Kai, and he belongs to a special force under his direct command that plays an important role.

The three divisions of the Fuxing Army had 18,500 people, 10,000 of the old forces of the Three Towns Strange Soldiers, 6,000 people directly under the three regiments, plus Ye Kai's own guards, a full 35,000 people.

This is almost the vast majority of the army belongings that King Ye has saved in the past five years.

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In the temporary command post, Li Ashui spread out a map of Guanghua Mansion, and Ye Kai focused twice on the location of Yonglu County with his hand.

"This Yonglu County is on the edge of the Ma River, and on the right is a group of surrounding fortresses, which should not be easy to gnaw.

On the left is open land, but it is also the most open and slowest part of the Ma River, where Nguyen Hue is likely to deploy some river galleys and use the cannons on board to reinforce the firepower.

There is only a wide official road in the front, if we dare to enter Yonglu County from here, then wait for the shelling of the fortress on the right and the galleys in the river on the left! ”

As soon as Ye Kai finished speaking, Huang Laosi, who was straightforward and fast-talking, spoke directly.

"Ruan Hui has the time to build so many fortress groups, why can't he take a small Yonglu County, is there really someone who has taken refuge in us?"

Yes, Fan Guishi, who looked embarrassed, was pulled out and whipped again, and Ye Kai waved his hand to stop Fan Guishi's self-defense.

"People's hearts are separated from their stomachs, maybe it's just Ruan Hui's trick, Mr. Lizhai doesn't have to care, let's not talk about whether the attachment is true or not, this is obviously Ruan Hui's thief in the encirclement point to help, let's just talk about this battle, to fight or not to fight?"

"Hit! How not to fight! We dare to fuck the hell by the Fuliang River with less and more, this will be strong, what are you afraid of? ”

Huang Laosi was also the first to express his position, and the water divider beam is both a place of fame and a place of sadness.

So many good brothers died in the water dividing beam, and his brother Huang Lao Er also has to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, and he is the most excited when he mentions beating Ruan Hui.

Ye Kai swept his gaze to Liu Chonghan and Ye Zhenwu, the two rising stars of the younger generation and his most valued confidants.

"It's nothing more than some improvised fortresses, we use mortars to pull out one by one, I don't believe that he Ruan Hui can keep shrinking!"

Ye Zhenwu nodded and agreed with Huang Laosi's opinion.

"King!" Liu Chonghan was still cynical, and he looked at Ye Kai with a smile.

"The king, you have already thought about it and asked us, how could you let go of such a good opportunity to eliminate Ruan Hui in one fell swoop?

Since he came to this Ma Riverside, we have traveled thousands of miles to Hue to find him, and Nguyen Hue also knows this, so he has built so many fortresses generously, but he is not afraid that we will not fight! ”

"Let's fight! King! ”

"Let's fight! The First World War will determine the south of the sky! ”

"Your Majesty, the boys of the Second Division can't wait for a long time!"

"Okay, since Ruan Hui dares to come to die, we will give him a ride, and the troops will be sent to Ma Jiang, I want to see if Ruan Hui will make much progress after inviting the Portuguese instructor."

Looking at this general under his command with high fighting spirit, Ye Kai was also arrogant.

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"Boom!" A cannonball exploded violently in a very rudimentary fortress that could not be called a fortress at all.

The Xishan Army, which had been held down and bombarded for almost ten minutes, could not bear it, and a team led dozens of people to break through.

As a result, as soon as they left the fort, the 1st rifle regiment of the Young Guards sent a company, and in a single rifled shot killed thirty-four people, and only seven or eight finally escaped.

Not far from this fortress, a Caiqi with a few hundred people suddenly rushed out of an ambushed bunker.

It happened to bump into Liang Wenying's 3rd Regiment of the 3rd Division, the soldiers of this regiment were selected from Huashantang, and they still retained the habit of carrying cold weapons such as knives and spears.

Although they were attacked by surprise, they were still in danger, and after each side fired a volley, they were cut into a ball with cold weapons.

Such battles took place everywhere on the right side of Vinh Loc District, between the forts built by Nguyen Hue.

The Xishan Army relied on the fortresses built in these hills to resist steadily, and the Revival Army patiently pulled out one by one with its highly mobile mortars.

It has been three days since the exchange of fire, and there has not been a large-scale decisive battle between the two sides, and there is not even a chance to line up to fight, it is all a dog fight between the hills, Ye Kai has lost seventy or eighty people, and the Xishan army may have lost more than five hundred people.

Considering that the revival army is taking the initiative to attack, and the Xishan army is relying on the fortress defense, such an exchange ratio is very acceptable.

But Ye Kai still frowned involuntarily, such a battle is meaningless, even if he pulls out all the fortresses around Yonglu, it is estimated that in the end, he will only kill one or two thousand Xishan troops.

And Nguyen Hue wouldn't think that he would be able to kill and injure many soldiers of the Revival Army with these rudimentary fortresses, right?

This guy hasn't shown up yet, isn't it...

Ye Kai touched his chin, could it be that Ruan Hui wanted to use these fortresses to consume his energy, and then suddenly survive the surprise attack of Ma Jiang to beat him?

Well! You have to be on guard, Ye Kai nodded lightly, looking at Ruan Hui's combat style over the years, he is a person who has been with him all the way, and likes to use a small group of elites to attack suddenly, and then the large army will follow to cover up and expand the results.

"Fu'er!" Ye Kai shouted, wanting Li Ashui to pass the order and let the cavalry battalion pay attention to collecting information about the Xishan Army, but Li Ashui, who came in the door, brought an unexpected news.

"Father-in-law, the Xishan army has crossed the river, almost 40,000 troops, and set up seven or eight large phalanxes, they are lined up with their backs to the river, and Ruan Hui himself and his Daxu have appeared!"

"Is it really Nguyen Hue? Can you see clearly? Ye Kai asked in surprise.

"Commander Wu went to see it in person, and he said that it was indeed Ruan Hui, unless he had a stand-in like Fan Gongzhi!" Li Ashui nodded and replied.

Wu Wenyong follows Ruan Hui all the year round, he said that it is Ruan Hui, so he should not leave ten, it is estimated that Ruan Hui also deliberately let Wu Wenyong see him, what kind of trick is this dog playing?