That is the main force of the Ming army with at least 30,000 people, if you don't find them, the senior generals of the Tang New Army and even the emperor Li Xuan will have trouble sleeping.

Otherwise, they would not have sent so many scout troops to search forward, and now that they learned that Liping Mansion City had been captured by the Ming army's forward, they naturally needed to go to the direction of Liping Mansion City as soon as possible to find the Ming army's vanguard and even their main force.

The scout team hurried overnight, while Sun Yawei led the group of rout soldiers to rest for a night, and then continued their journey early the next morning, they were going in the direction of the Tonggu Acropolis, so that on the way they could meet the army led by Li Xuan himself, and then make a convergence.

Sun Yawei still had to personally report to Li Xuan the situation before and after the fall of Liping Mansion City.

Although Sun Yawei led the troops to retreat, it was with Li Xuan's permission, and even Li Xuan had already greeted him in advance, but under the attack of the Ming army, he didn't hold it for a day, which was still a big failure, and he had to face the saint as soon as possible, and then explain.

On the morning of the next day, Sun Yawei, who continued to go northeast, met several Datang New Army troops, the scale of these Datang New Army troops is not large, most of them are less than ten people, more than twenty or thirty people, this look knows that it is the outpost reconnaissance force of the forward force, these squads will provide early warning for the troops, and at the same time clear some small troubles and obstacles along the way, and open the way for the army.

In addition to these infantry, they also encountered two cavalry units, and the number of cavalry units was even smaller, often four or five cavalry in a small group.

After all, there are not many cavalry in the Datang New Army, and more importantly, the search range of the cavalry is much larger than that of the infantry reconnaissance troops.

Sun Yawei They were able to encounter so many forward reconnaissance troops and reconnaissance cavalry along the way, because they happened to be right in front of the army.

After contacting them one by one, although Sun Yawei could not know the exact location of the army and His Majesty from the mouths of the soldiers of these reconnaissance troops, he could also roughly guess that His Majesty and the army were estimated to be about thirty miles to the north.

As for the main force of the striker, it is estimated that it is about seven or eight miles to the north!

And what he saw in the afternoon also confirmed his conjecture, because in the afternoon of this day, he saw a large number of forward troops of the Datang New Army stepping in front of him.

"My lord, I have asked, these friendly troops are the brothers of the 3rd Infantry Regiment!"

Sun Yawei nodded slightly, as the first feudal history of the Tang Dynasty, even if he is now like a lost dog because of his escape, but he still maintains the dignity of being a feudal historian, and he will definitely not get off the horse and run to the avenue to ask those big-headed soldiers, you are from that unit.

"Finally, we have joined the imperial army, and we will be safe this time!" At this time, another subordinate official said: "It's not good to be frightened all the way!" ”

"Tsk, look at their muskets, they are all brand new, I'm afraid they are the guns they just received, they are worthy of being the main force of my Tang Dynasty Division, this kind of military might, such momentum, look at it magnificent!" A junior officer in a robbery camp said.

At this time, another officer of the robbery battalion who was slightly older than him said with a look of disdain: "What kind of main force, look at their number, it should be the unit of the eighth battalion, this is just a newly built unit, there is no way to compare with a few old infantry battalions, let alone the first battalion where Lao Tzu served!" ”

"If Lao Tzu hadn't been transferred a month ago, now Lao Tzu would have been at least a deputy platoon commander of the First Infantry Battalion!"

Others naturally know the origin of the officers of this robbery hunting battalion, this person was a sergeant sword and shield player in the first infantry battalion before, but because of his hot temper, he had a fight with his comrades last month, and as a result, he was transferred to the new robbery hunting camp in Liping Province as a deputy captain, and it seems that he was promoted to patrol lieutenant and deputy captain, but everyone knows that this is a demotion to a job.

The opponent who fought together could not escape the punishment of military law, and he was also driven out of the main force and transferred to the thief hunting camp in Xingquan Mansion.

The future of serving in the main force and the future of serving in the robbery battalion cannot be compared, because the robbery battalion is only a local security force, and there will be combat missions, but it certainly cannot be compared with the main force.

If there is no combat opportunity, there will naturally be no combat merits, and if there is no combat exploits, how can you talk about promotion!

What's more, the military rank on the side of the robbery battalion and the official military rank on the side of the main force are not the same, and the military rank of the officers and soldiers in the robbery camp has a prefix 'patrol police', and it can be seen from this military rank that they belong to the dual jurisdiction of the patrol police department and the army, and are an auxiliary force with the main task of maintaining local law and order.

Fighting the enemy is not actually their main task.

Now seeing the friendly troops of the main force, I can't help but envy and regret, I already knew that what kind of fight Lao Tzu fought, he should be a turtle grandson, now the main force is in a big expansion, as long as he fights a few big battles and does not die, it is easy for a senior non-commissioned officer like him to continue to be promoted to become an officer in the regular army.

What a pity!

In fact, like him, there are many people who have been kicked out of the main force and served in the robbery camp because of small mistakes such as fighting!

These things seem to be trivial, but the requirements of the main force for soldiers are that you can not be brave or even cowardly, but you must not become a thorn, because a thorn represents that the soldier still maintains his personality, and personality is absolutely unacceptable in the army, especially in the Datang New Army, which takes strict military discipline as the core.

The soldiers needed by the Datang New Army are the same soldiers as the wooden people, and the officer orders you to go forward, even if there is a pit in front of you, you can jump down, and you can't have the slightest hesitation.

The goal of the Datang New Army's training of soldiers is to strive to wear out all the personality and even humanity of the soldiers, so that they can become mechanical soldiers who can only obey orders.

Such a soldier is a qualified line infantryman!

Otherwise, how can you let them go to the battlefield, and still be able to keep loading and firing in the face of the enemy's guns, bows and arrows, and they have to obey the officer's command to load and shoot uniformly!

Otherwise, how can you let them withstand the enemy's firepower, not a single shot, just walk in unison, until they are only twenty or thirty meters away from the enemy before firing a salvo, and then rush forward with a musket with a bayonet on it after the salvo is over!

To do this, it is not only the courage of the soldiers, but also their instinctive obedience to orders, even if they are afraid, even if their hands and feet are trembling, but they must obey orders!

Obviously, this kind of soldier who can fight with his comrades without saying a word is retaining too much personality or blood, and they may be brave, but they may be the first to escape.

And the Datang New Army doesn't need this kind of person!

Sun Yawei did not intervene in the discussion of his subordinates, he looked at the troops in front of him who kept walking in front of him, and he couldn't help but have a heroic feeling in his heart, with this strong army, why don't I worry about the Tang Dynasty, recovering the city of Liping Mansion is a matter of waiting for the day, he will sweep Guizhou, Huguang, and several provinces around Guangxi It is also very possible

When these people stopped on the side of the road to let the army in front of them pass, at this time, an officer on a horse also rode in front of Sun Yawei and the others, and after he came over, he first gave a military salute.

This military salute is the traditional military salute of Chinese soldiers, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty inspected the barracks, Zhou Yafu greeted him with a bow salute, because it was inconvenient to bow down in armor.

As a self-proclaimed orthodox Han dynasty that can no longer be orthodox, the military salute of the Tang New Army is also not exempt from vulgarity, following this kind of military salute with thousands of years of tradition, and even stipulating it in the military regulations.

As a modern army that stresses military law everywhere and abides by discipline everywhere, the Datang New Army basically has rigid and strict requirements for every word and every eye, not only battlefield discipline, but also many rules in daily life.

For example, the regulations on the military system stipulate that when a soldier or a general, regardless of his position, he or she must bow his hand to each other, and he must not bow down, which will damage the prestige of the soldier.

Even when facing the saints, except for special occasions, such as the clear provisions of the Great Dynasty that the soldiers need to bow down, if the soldiers are dressed in military uniforms, they are exempted from the bow ceremony.

Only when wearing civilian clothes is a saint, you need to bow down, but soldiers are basically in military uniforms all year round, so it can basically be said that soldiers are exempted from bowing.

Sun Yawei nodded slightly towards this ensign, and this was just when he heard this ensign say: "Dare to ask, but Lord Sun of Liping Mansion is in front of him?" ”

Sun Yawei said: "This official is exactly!" ”

The second lieutenant said: "Lord Sun, the head of my family is invited!" ”

Sun Yawei nodded immediately, and then stepped forward with this second lieutenant, and it didn't take long to see the regiment commander in the mouth of this second lieutenant.

However, when he saw this person, he was a little surprised, because this regiment commander was not the Fang Xitong he was familiar with, but he remembered very well that the commander of the Third Infantry Regiment was Fang Xitong, how could it be the middle-aged man in front of him.

This middle-aged man also knew that he used to work on the side of the Privy Council, surnamed Song, but he was the deputy director of the Operations Department, and the official worshiped the major.

I just don't know when I became the commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment!

And where did Fang Xitong go? Could it be that His Majesty has lost his official position and resigned? Or was he defeated and lost his official position? Or was he unlucky enough to be wounded on the battlefield?

Or was he simply killed on the battlefield?

If Fang Xitong, who has been promoted to the commander of the Second Brigade, knows what he thinks at this moment, he has to spit on him: Lao Tzu has offended you? All you think about is how Lao Tzu is unlucky, how unlucky, can't you think about Lao Tzu's promotion?