Set up in the temple outside Jiangqiao Town, the Jiangdong Zhisi command post is shrouded in the bright moonlight at this time, today is the night of Shangyuan, although there is no sea of lights in Aoshan at this time, but the bonfires are lit everywhere in the barracks, but there is another taste. Zhao Mengjin originally wanted to invite the generals to drink and admire the moon together, but he gave up after thinking about it, and now he has basically locked the victory, but he also understands the truth of the trapped beast fighting. Therefore, it was only ordered that all departments could add vegetables to improve their food, but they still strictly prohibited drinking alcohol and strengthened vigilance.

Recalling that a full year has passed since His Majesty decided to annihilate the Mengyuan and Huai Legions, which made Zhao Mengjin feel a little emotional, but now that victory was in sight, he was quite pleased. Since the enemy crossed south into the ambush circle, he did not undress at night, and did not dare to slack off, after all, this was a battle in which the new dynasty used the most troops since the Battle of Yashan.

The warring sides mobilized more than 300,000 troops to fight, Zhao Mengjin knew that he had not experienced it, including the little emperor, it can be said that it was the most severe test for them, although the little emperor said many times that although this battle was related to the fortunes of the country, what could they do if they were defeated, they could start with hundreds of rabble, then they could still make a comeback, and the country would be a few years late!

But Zhao Mengjin, as the actual commander, was under great pressure. After all, once defeated, Jiangdong would have no danger to defend, and there would be no troops to adjust, and the enemy army would go straight to Lin'an, and years of hard work would be ruined. Therefore, he can be said to have fought twelve points of mental response, and has been commanding from the front, and the enemy has hit the command post several times during the attack, and the arrows fired by him have been shot into the temple. He did not give the order to move backwards, but still held his calm command here, which played the role of fixing the needle of the sea.

Zhao Mengjin went out and looked south, Lin'an should have been empty alleys at this time, and he went to the street to enjoy the lights; The home should also be full of friends and gathered together. Thinking that his two sons had already entered the military, one was in the military department, the other was in the privy council, and several grandchildren were also enrolled in school, a smile appeared on his face. And if there is no accident on his own, after this battle, with his military exploits and the identity of his clan, even if he cannot be crowned a prince, it is still possible to be a county king.

Zhao Mengjin also knew that all this was given by His Majesty, and his honor and disgrace had already been integrated with the little emperor. At the moment, the little emperor was alone in Huaidong, which was even more farther away, struggling with less than 20,000 troops, and was under greater pressure than himself. After all, he is only in a local battlefield, and the little emperor not only has to fight for the entire Huaidong with the few troops in his hand, but also has to dispatch the armies for the overall situation, and the defeat in any place may bury the hard-won victory.

'Bang, bang......'

Just as Zhao Mengjin was in a reverie, a few gunshots suddenly broke his contemplation, but he just frowned and didn't take it to heart. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Zhao Mengjin planned to besiege the Meng Yuan army without attacking, depleting its morale, and then attacking when the grain and grass were exhausted. In the past few days, the enemy army has not made any major moves, but often some small groups of enemy troops sneak into their positions in search of food, and are spotted by their own sentries and shot away.

'Bang, bang, bang......'

But this time, the gunfire did not stop, but intensified. Zhao Mengjin looked in the direction where the gunfire was most intense, but found that it was from the north, and the gunfire was getting denser and denser, and the flash of the guns flashed in the sky like lightning. He hurriedly asked people to go to inquire, but after a long time, the guns and cannons were everywhere, and they were disorganized, and it was gradually impossible to distinguish between the main and the secondary.

"Is it the enemy breaking through? Or did someone on your side fight for merit and launch an attack without authorization? Zhao Mengjin's brows furrowed even tighter, and he thought to himself.

After the last large-scale attack by the enemy, Zhao Mengjin ordered a siege without attacking, further depleting the strength of the enemy army, and then cleaning up the enemy troops who were already half starved to death. However, the imperial court urged him several times a day to annihilate the besieged enemy army as soon as possible and restore order in Jiangdong. He understood this very well, the enemy army penetrated deep into Jiangdong, and the imperial court not only suffered doubts and reproaches from all sides. And in order to clear the wilderness, hundreds of thousands of people evacuated their homes for refuge, and it is difficult for them to return home, and spring ploughing is imminent, and it is difficult for the people to return to their hometowns. Jiangdong served as the granary of the imperial court, which also affected the collection of taxes.

On the other hand, the little emperor wrote several times to inquire about the progress of the war, and although the letter did not urge them to speed up the destruction of the enemy, he only said that he should seize the fighter plane and annihilate the enemy completely. But Zhao Mengjin, as a close minister, still felt the anxiety of the little emperor from between the lines, and hoped that he could end the Jiangdong war as soon as possible and reinforce the Huaidong battlefield to deal with the Mengyuan guards and pro-army in the south.

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration and discussion with the generals, Zhao Mengjin decided to fight a decisive battle with the enemy on the 16th day of the first month to encircle and annihilate the enemy army. But now it was still the fifteenth, and a fierce battle broke out, and it was getting more and more intense, so that he had to suspect that someone was trying to fight for power to attack first, thus triggering a full-scale battle, which made him irritated, and ordered the generals to come and explain the situation.

"The defenders at the front found that there was a commotion in the enemy camp, and that a small force had appeared, and there was an exchange of fire with the guard post, as if there were signs of breaking through, so they told the last general. When the last general went to investigate, he found that the enemy camp was in chaos, so he sent troops to reconnoitre, and learned that the enemy chief Yuxi Timur suddenly led his troops and horses out of the camp, and the soldiers who had lost their command were running around without a leader, and some people strayed into our defense line, which led to a battle. Ran Anguo, who was closest to the command post, arrived first, and didn't say much, and briefly reported the situation after giving a salute.

"Yuxi Timur left the camp and ran away alone?!" Zhao Mengjin was very shocked when he heard this, but after thinking about it, the main force of the Fifth Army of the Forbidden Army under the command of Ran Anguo was arranged in the south, and breaking through to the south was equivalent to a dead end, so he asked sharply, "How did you deal with it?" ”

"The envoy is the last general...... The last general found that the enemy camp was in chaos and felt that it was difficult to find fighters, so he ordered his headquarters to move forward, shrink the encirclement, and prepare for the gathering and annihilation of the enemy army tomorrow. Because the matter is urgent, I didn't have time to report to the envoy, and I ask for punishment! "Zhao Mengjin can be said to be one of the founders of the New Song Army, and he has commanded the Chinese army for a long time, and he has accumulated great prestige in the army. Ran Anguo knew that he had no order, and it was a taboo in the army to transfer troops without authorization, and it was also a serious crime, but after hesitating for a moment, he gritted his teeth and told the truth.

"The fighter plane is fleeting, and it is not a big mistake for you to respond in time, but you should report it in time, otherwise the battle will start, and Ben Shuai will still be confused, won't it become a joke!" Zhao Mengjin looked at Ran Anguo fixedly for a while, seeing that his forehead was sweating, and his face was flushed red from nervousness, but he stubbornly held his head high with an unruly energy, as if he was saying that although he was wrong, it was for a reason. He was a little angry and funny, and stretched out his hand to point at it and scolded.

"It is true that the last general acted without authorization, but if the troops do not move, and the enemy chieftain takes advantage of the chaos to escape, won't it also make the goal of encircling and annihilating the enemy army fail?" Ran Anguo saluted again, and once again admitted his mistake, but everyone could hear it, and he was still unconvinced.

"Military law is in the furnace, and it will be punished! At present, the 200,000 troops on the battlefield are gathered, and the whole body is moved by one shot, and your department moves without an order, and the other departments do not know why, will it not cause even greater confusion and even accidental injury. If the defense line is loosened and the enemy army takes the opportunity to break through, can you shirk the past with a sentence that the fighter plane is hard to find? Zhao Mengjin said angrily.

"The last will be convicted of sins and willing to be punished!" Ran Anguo thought about it carefully, his own unauthorized actions did disrupt the entire deployment, if it led to the failure of the entire campaign, how could he bear it alone, thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, and sincerely admit his mistakes.

"You immediately order the rest of the troops to strictly guard the defensive line, if a single soldier escapes from your defense area, this commander will personally behead you!" Zhao Mengjin's face softened a little when he heard this, but he still ordered sharply.

"Yes!" Ran Anguo listened to Lizheng's salute, and then said with a hippie smile, "Commander, do you want to send the head of the last general first, and then behead the enemy chieftain after you catch it?" ”

"Get out!" Zhao Mengjin saw that he grew when he saw the wind, and he looked like he would climb the pole with a wry smile, and pointed to the door with a smile and scolded.

For Ran Anguo, Zhao Mengjin actually still had a heart of love, so he raised it high and fell gently, just giving a warning, and not killing him. However, he was not optimistic about it before, including the Fifth Army, the forbidden army under his command. Strictly speaking, Ran Anguo is not a descendant general of His Majesty like him, he is the leader of the local rebel army in Qiongzhou, and after the little emperor entered Qiongzhou, his department was incorporated into the state army, and he was entrusted with the post of observation envoy, but not included in the series of the Shuaifu army.

After the dynasty moved to Qiong, Zhao Yu reorganized the forbidden army, and still did not add the Qiongzhou state army to the armies, and still had relative independence. The function of the state army is to maintain local law and order, arrest bandits, and serve as a supplementary force for the forbidden army in wartime, so the training and equipment are very poor, so naturally there is no surprising performance in several wars in Qiongzhou, and Ran Anguo is certainly not taken seriously.

It was not until after the recovery of Jiangnan that the Xing Dynasty returned to Lin'an, because of the expansion of the territory, the troops were insufficient. Zhao Yucai ordered the Qiongzhou Prefecture Army to be reorganized into two divisions and moved to Jiangnan with it, and expanded and redressed. Ran An's Ministry of State added part of the Jiangnan Righteous Army, gave the army the title of the Fifth Army of the Forbidden Army, and was promoted to the commander of the capital, and at this moment they abandoned the bow and crossbow spear, replaced it with firearms, and became a regular army.

But because they were newly formed and had just changed their clothes, they stayed in Shaoxing for training and took on the task of defending Gyeonggi, so they did not have the opportunity to participate in a series of wars after that. In order to attack and plunder Lianghuai this time, Zhao Hao can be said to have used the whole country's troops, and the Fifth Army was ordered to go to the battlefield, but the generals were not optimistic about the combat effectiveness of this 'rookie', after all, they lacked actual combat experience and have always used them as reserves. But no one expected that in this battle to encircle and annihilate Yuxi Timur, they suddenly rose up, which impressed everyone......