Hu Yanzhuo led the Runing army to the front of the bandit coalition army, the angular face was solemn, and the Runing army behind him was also in a neat line, striding with his head held high, in stark contrast to the several state armies that followed, not to mention the chaos of the state army teams, the ranks were also noisy, and from time to time there was a burst of laughter and scolding, and the difference in military discipline was exposed!

Hu Yanzhuo silently listened to the movement behind, his heart was sad, for any brave army, it is a privilege to be arranged to be a pioneer, because this is the commander's trust in this army, expecting the most trusted army to be the first to give the enemy a head-on blow, not only can be victorious, but also can take the lead in the morale of both the enemy and us,

But there is one exception, that is, the commander deliberately puts an army he doesn't like into danger first, deliberately depleting the strength of this team, there are too many such examples on the battlefield throughout the ages, and according to Gao Lian's performance, Hu Yanzhuo has reason to doubt what his real purpose is in arranging himself to be the vanguard,

To be honest, Hu Yanzhuo was not afraid of war, and he had even long been eager to test his army in a battle! But not in this way!

If he is asked to arrange his troops, he will definitely put this army at the rear, and after finding out the strength of the enemy and the strength of the battlefield, he will let the army with the strongest combat effectiveness in this coalition army give the enemy the most fatal blow at the most appropriate time and the most suitable place, instead of being the pathfinder army that is most likely to lose troops from the beginning, and it is also to a group of people who will not be generals and soldiers in the back!

But he can't do anything, he is just the deputy commander of the coalition army, and he can only obey the arrangement of the commander Gao Lian,

Alas, he has no ability, full of experience, as a pure general who leads the army to fight, but can only listen to the arrangement of a civilian scholar, even if he knows that the arrangement of the civil official will not work at all, he cannot resist, what a kind of sadness!

But what's the solution? This is the practice of this dynasty!

Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world is in turmoil, and the various festivals that hold the military power have made them compete to rebel and divide one side, and at the same time, the generals under their command are also unwilling to be lonely, and the phenomenon of sudden rebellion and replacement is also endless, even the founding emperor of this dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, is also in the yellow robe of Chenqiao, and occupied the Great Song Dynasty of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Kuangyi, who witnessed the troubled times of the five dynasties, were afraid, afraid that one day the rebellion of the generals would also happen to themselves or their descendants, so from the day of the founding of the country, They began to distrust the generals extremely much, in addition to constantly reducing the authority of the generals, they either treated the generals as "generals from the middle", or ruled the military with literature, and made the army that swept the world at the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and even fought against the Liao State in the strong era to become what it is today!

Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Kuangyi definitely did not expect that although their series of policies eliminated the threat of military generals to imperial power, they also fundamentally destroyed the army of the Great Song Dynasty, laying a hidden danger for the country to have no generals available and no soldiers available in a hundred years!

This is the sorrow of all the generals of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is also their own sorrow!

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"General, look, there's a situation ahead!" One of the guards pointed ahead and shouted, interrupting Hu Yanzhuo's thoughts,

Hu Yanzhuo raised his eyes and looked, his pupils suddenly shrank, it turned out that on the road ahead, a cavalry unit suddenly appeared, about a hundred or so horsemen, blocking the way forward.

As soon as Hu Yanzhuo stretched out his hand, Ru Ningjun immediately stopped, and Gao Lian and the others who followed behind also stopped, and then he looked carefully, only to see that the hundred horsemen stopped in the middle of the road and looked at this side, and a trace of doubt flashed in his heart, what did they want to do?

Suddenly, the hundred horsemen moved, rushed straight to this side, Hu Yanzhuo sneered, if he didn't guess wrong, the other party should be using this small army to lure the battle, the purpose is to attract the army to chase out, there must be something strange ahead!

He immediately gave an order, "Array!" Let them have no return! ”

In an instant, the front rows of the Runing army all moved out their shields and merged together, forming a shield wall in front, and one hundred and ten pikemen came to the shield wall, stretched out their spears from the gap in the shield wall, and formed a horse rejection array with the shield wall.

At the same time, hundreds of archers followed closely behind the pikemen, drew their arrows and wound them, ready to draw their bows and shoot at any time, and the left and right horse armies were also in formation, ready to rush out to meet the battle!

Sure enough, the hundred horsemen stopped a hundred paces away from the army, and began to draw their bows and shoot arrows in this direction, but their arrows were blocked by the shield wall, and Hu Yanzhuo also gave an order, "Shoot!" ”

The archers of the Runing Army also drew their bows and fought back, but the opponent had an excellent grasp of the range of the bow and arrows, and the arrows of the Runing Army fell to the ground more than ten steps in front of the opponent.

Hu Yanzhuo's heart jumped when he saw it, the opponent's arrows could shoot to the shield wall on his side, but his own arrows couldn't hit them, it seems that in addition to the opponent's bow is better than his own, the other party is also a group of strong archers!

At this time, he suddenly came from the back door to count the horses, and Hu Yanzhuo saw that it was Gao Lian and others who arrived, and hurriedly greeted him.

Gao Lian said, "What's the matter?" Why is it stopping? ”

Hu Yanzhuo replied, "Boss, there is a horse army of Liangshan bandits blocking the road in front, and we are counterattacking. ”

"Oh?" Gao Lian rode his horse to a slightly higher place and looked forward, and suddenly snorted coldly, "It's just a hundred people, the army just rushes over and kills them all, and the army of 10,000 people is blocked by this bit of thieves. ”

Hu Yanzhuo hurriedly explained, "The boss is like this, he is worried that this is the enemy trying to lure us, so he temporarily returned fire on the spot, and then sent scouts out to patrol again, to make sure that there is no ambush or anything like that." ”

"Hahaha......!" Gao Lian raised his head and laughed, pointed around and said, "General Huyan, I think you are an idiot who reads military books, this place is full of plains, even if there are ambushes, where can they hide?" ”

Everyone looked around in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, there was a plain all around except for the mountains that were faintly exposed in the distance, and there were no woods or bushes, so it was indeed impossible to hide the ambushes.

"Boss Takami, it's really impossible to hide ambushes here."

"Yes, yes, the deputy marshal is a little too cautious."

"When we send troops, we are frightened by these thieves, where do we put our faces?"

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Gao Lian was even more proud, "General Huyan, why don't you send your five hundred horse troops to kill all those thieves, in order to boost the prestige of the army?" ”

Hu Yanzhuo said hurriedly, "The coach can't, it's ...... lowly,"

"Huh?!" Gao Lian's face sank, "The deputy marshal wants to disobey the order?" I have ordered you to be in charge of the military discipline of the whole army, and as a military discipline officer, you have to take the lead in violating military discipline?! ”

Hu Yanzhuo was startled, and the sweat on his forehead suddenly came down, he couldn't afford this crime ......!

Finally, Hu Yanzhuo gritted his teeth, turned around and shouted, "Meng Feng! ”

Immediately, an armored warrior rode up to him, he turned over and dismounted, and saluted Gao Lian and Hu Yanzhuo, "Your subordinates are here!" ”

Meng Feng is a henchman of Hu Yanzhuo, and he is also the official army in charge of the Ma Army.

Hu Yanzhuo said, "Meng Feng, you bring ...... Five hundred horsemen to kill the hundred thieves! Other than that...... Be careful, and turn back if something goes wrong! ”

Meng Feng saw Hu Yanzhuo's concerns, and nodded understandingly, "General, please rest assured, your subordinates know." ”

Hu Yanzhuo's heart was relieved, "Go ahead." ”

"Yes!" Meng Feng turned over on his horse again, and galloped to the front of the formation and gave an order, "Ma Jun, follow me!" ”

In an instant, five hundred horsemen rushed out of the camp and galloped forward.

Hu Yanzhuo shouted again, "The archers shoot with all their might!" Drummers and drums, cheering for the horse army! ”

Knock knock knock ......! The drums of war sounded!

The archers of the Runing Army were also infected, and they desperately pulled their bows and shot, and sure enough, they shot a few steps farther than just now, and a few of the arrows also happened to hit the other party, and immediately shot two or three people, almost shooting them off their horses, the other party seemed to be frightened, and immediately turned the horse's head and ran to the grassland next to it, which immediately caused the Runing Army to cheer, and the five hundred horse troops of the Runing Army immediately turned around and chased over!

Gao Lian laughed when he saw this, "Did you see it?" The thief has fled! ”

The crowd burst into laughter,

Hu Yanzhuo looked at the back of his five hundred horse army, but the anxiety in his eyes deepened ......!