A cavalry scout broke out of the barracks, and the shock caused by the horse's hooves trampling on the ground had not subsided, and the figure of the scout on a black horse had melted into the night.

Tang Qi ordered the scouts to quickly convey her new order to the Lijin Ferry, and asked them to transport the bamboo raft hidden in the dense forest to the shore and put it in the preset location. Tonight there will be a force of 300 men to force a crossing at Lijin. In addition, they are also asked to hurry up and make bamboo shields, the more the better.

At this time, Tang Yuan figured out why Tang Qi took a car of craftsmen to the Yellow River.

"Hey, Xiaofeng, is our buddy's first battle on the water?" He led two horses, one of which was his favorite, fat and strong, and he named the horse Potbelly Roll.

"Probably on the water." Tang Yuan knew that Tang Hu was afraid of water, and he said early on that he was born with fire. Tang Yuan took the reins: "But don't be afraid, we have iron armor to protect ourselves, if the enemy army is not a regular army, it mostly uses bone arrows and bamboo arrows, and it can't penetrate the iron armor." ”

Tang Hu suddenly became vigorous, but immediately said: "When the time comes, you arrange a job for me that does not need to be moved, otherwise I will be able to fall into the water without the enemy beating me." ”

Tang Yuan looked at Tang Hu, "You don't have to move..., or you pretend to be a dead body, or use it as a shield for everyone, you don't need to move." ”

Tang Hu rolled his eyes, "We haven't fought any battles on land, can we directly fight such a high-tech river crossing battle?" I don't know if that old man can fight on the water. ”

Tang Yuan rode on his horse: "I believe that General Tang Qi will not arrange a waste for us." Okay, don't talk nonsense, hurry up and choose elite soldiers. The opportunity is rare, and you must choose the best. ”

Tang Yuan selected three hundred people to leave, including his elite cavalry members, but he did not take all the elite cavalry away, but left Wu Kuang and other twenty people, and he said to Wu Kuang: "You stay and protect General Tang for me." ”

Wu Kuang agreed.

Watching Tang Yuan and his group walk away, Wu Kuang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

A few days ago, Tang Qi led the elite cavalry to teach the eldest young master Tang Qing a lesson, and at the critical moment, Tang Qi casually shouted the names of "Tang Yuan, Chen Bao", but forgot about his deputy cavalry commander to the clouds. It can be seen that he has no status in the general's heart. At that time, Tang Hu didn't come for some reason, and he even felt that if Tang Hu was also there, Tang Qi would also call Tang Hu, but he couldn't call his head. - Tang Hu was guarding Nalan Xin at that time.

"My chance to show my face has finally come!"

Wu Kuang clenched his fists and paused heavily in front of him.

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Tang Qi arranged for an old man to be a supervisor for this army, named Zhang Nu. It is an experienced old ** that Tang Qi seconded from the Longyou Shence Army. It is said that this person is brave and good at fighting, and has repeatedly made achievements on the battlefield, but strangely, he is rarely promoted, but has been demoted and used many times.

It seems that this veteran was a thorn in his youth.

Tang Qi took good care of these three hundred people and let them take away some high-quality equipment. For example, war horses, shields inlaid with iron sheets, and ten sets of iron armor, ten high-precision arm crossbows, and a detachable ladder, a wall planing crossbow, etc.

The wall-planing crossbow is a joking name for this kind of crossbow in the army, and its function is to "inlay" a sharpened wooden stake into the city wall within 200 steps, and drive it into the wall like a nail, and the soldiers climb to the top of the city through these "nails".

This thing is not as useful as a ladder, the randomness is too great, the use conditions are harsh, and it can only be used to deal with some old city walls that have been in disrepair for a long time, earthen walls, etc., if you encounter the rock-solid city wall of Luoyang City, it will be of little use. At most, it is hanging pine oil and shooting into the enemy city, which may cause a fire. However, this style of play is not allowed when regaining lost territory. Because there will be a large number of Han Chinese people in the city.

The text of the Northern Expeditionary Army made it clear that this battle was a just battle to drive out the Tartars. In this name, how could the people be allowed to suffer so much - in fact, as long as it is a war, it is the people who suffer, and all Tang Yuan can do is to avoid it as much as possible.

In order to encourage this newly established 300-person unit, Tang Qi also designed a separate unit number for the unit: General Zhonglang of the Provisional Fourth Recruit Division of the Third Army of Shence was directly under the Second Independent Regiment. The contact code of the army is "Night Stalker".

Three hundred people is the standard structure of a battalion, but Tang Qi called it a regiment unusually.

"Why don't you call it an independent group?" Tang Hu asked curiously.

"Because the independent regiment is the official number of the Ma Butong Prison Corps, which is the guard of the Ma Jian Army, and it is also the most well-equipped unit in the New Fourth Division today." Tang Yuan shrugged: "It's a pity that it's not used by Tang Qi." ”

"Damn! Honor guards, huh? Tang Hu scolded.

"At the critical moment, if you want to use it, you have to consult Ma Jianjun's opinion. Ma Jianjun didn't nod, and Tang Qi didn't either. Tang Yuan said helplessly: "Don't talk nonsense, General Tang is here." Tang Yuan turned his horse to the front and saluted Zhonglang General on the horse.

"Without further ado, I wish the warriors a triumphant!" Tang Qi threw the flag to Tang Yuan and shouted: "The flag is victorious!" ”

The flag is more than one person high.

Tang Yuan took the flag, waved it in front of him, and shouted at the three hundred warriors: "Success!" ”

Everyone echoed and shouted three times together. - This is all peacetime training in the army, and it is one of the basic courses of queue training. Platoon training helps to boost morale, and the regular army attaches great importance to morale and has a variety of ways to boost morale.

Three hundred people marched quickly under the gaze of Zhonglang General Tang Qi, at the beginning, the speed of the troops was very fast, the baggage was dragged behind, the troops were a little disjointed, Tang Yuan suppressed the speed of the vanguard troops, so that everyone maintained a good formation.

"Hey, General Tang, you get thirty horses, can't you give me one?" Nalan Xin got his wish to get an old donkey and mule to travel, at first he was still very satisfied, but soon after, he was not satisfied, and asked Tang Yuan for a war horse.

"For such a long distance, the horses are all ridden by everyone, so that everyone's physical strength can be more average. You have donkeys and mules to ride all the way, and you are not satisfied? Tang Yuan's expression was indifferent, and his tone was a little stiff. This kind of strategy of exchanging horses for riding war horses was thought up by Tang Yuan. Because of this move, he also won Zhang Nu's praise. At the beginning, Zhang Nuke looked down on the young player.

Nalan stopped talking.

Tang Yuan glanced at him and said, "Don't look at the small size of our troops, but although the sparrows are small, they will consume ten horses if they are heavy, so don't complain." ”

"Change horses!" Zhang Nu's roar suddenly came from his side, the old general was in his fifties and was appointed as the supervisor of the Second Independent Regiment, with the same rank as Tang Yuan.

He is the kind of person with a very strong personality, as long as he has the same level, in his eyes, he is the younger brother, and he is the leader of this team.

He doesn't care if he is the head of the army or the superintendent of the army.

"Tang Yuan, you also come down." Zhang Nu said a word, and glared at Nalan Xin again: "And you, I haven't seen you get off the mule this way." ”

Tang Yuan didn't want to be awkward with the old general, and he also felt that some soldiers with heavy loads were indeed too hard, so it was okay to let them ride horses for a while. However, Zhang Nu's tone sounded uncomfortable, full of command.

Chen Bao narrowed his eyes.

Tang Yuan patted Chen Bao on the shoulder and said, "Now is not the time to be emotional, he has rich combat experience, even if I want him to be the first officer, I have no opinion." ”

Nalan Xin walked over and said, "General Tang, believe me, if you want to establish your authority, it's better to do it as soon as possible." Otherwise, it gives the impression of soft persimmons at first, but it is a bane. In the future, you will develop slowly, and the first 300 people are very important, because the army is bigger, you must first select generals from these 300 people, but if they think you are actually a soft egg, hehe. ”

"Is it a soft egg, we'll see you on the battlefield. Hugh is to do his best in the back. Tang Yuan pushed Nalan Xin: "This time you don't even have a donkey or mule, you better pay attention to your feet." ”

The road after the rainy season was not easy to walk, their marching speed did not meet expectations, Zhang Nu seemed a little anxious, and scolded: "He's not eating, why is it so slow?!" He ran to the end of the line, brandished his horsewhip and whipped him, and his anger intensified, "Are you still a soldier like you?" If this is in our Longyou, you dogs □, all pull out to fight with military sticks! ”

He ran to the front of the line again and pointed at the two pioneer chiefs and scolded them.

The pioneer chief is not an outsider, but Liu Zhan and Zhang Jing, both of whom have a good relationship with Tang Yuan.

"This old □□ lamp is quite wide." Tang Hu scolded sullenly: "No matter how arrogant he is, I will teach him a lesson." In our independent second regiment, I don't know who is the boss and can still make it? ”

Tang Hu looked a little proud, because the head of this regiment was his eldest brother. But now the eldest brother's dignity seems to have been challenged, so it also hurts the fat man's good mood.

"Don't be reckless." Tang Yuan looked at the hour, "Our speed is indeed a little slow. ”

Nalan Xin was carrying a small bag, which was a typical military secretary Lang's small backpack, and it was said that Tang Qi asked Hu Lanhua to prepare it for him.

It's funny to say, in the regiment-level establishment, there will always be some secretaries who join the army, and Nalan Xin seems to be this role at this time.

He looked a little absent-minded, perhaps, a force of this size was too small for him.

But he doesn't complain about that.

Seeing that the fourth watch day is about to pass. If you don't cross the river again, you will miss the best time to cross the river. But at this time, the soldiers looked very tired, and even if Zhang Nu scolded them again, they would not be able to get up.

As he walked, Zhang Nu shouted: "Before dark, we must rush to the Lijin Ferry!" General Zhonglang said that the enemy's intelligence showed that there were also dozens of people guarding there. We can't take it lightly. If it is dawn, it will be more difficult for us to cross the river, the losses will be greater, and more people will die, if you don't want to die, hurry up! ”

After shouting these words, the speed of the troops' march increased significantly.

Tang Yuan nodded secretly, he came to Zhang Nu and said, "I think even if it is a little faster, it will be the wrong time to cross the river." Now I decided that the cavalry would set off first and cross the river first. ”