At noon that day, Liu Xia came to a specially built high platform on top of a makeshift training ground in the camp, and opposite him were two different armies, and the difference between the two armies could be seen just by looking at him.

The number of troops on the left is about 400 people, all of them are riding tall horses, although the clothes they wear are not very uniform, all kinds, and many of them are very tattered, but the murderous spirit in the eyes of the soldiers seems to tell others that we are an elite army of a hundred battles.

Although there is no armor, no uniform uniform, and even the clothes on the body are not complete, the resolute military spirit and the honor of the division of a hundred battles shine brightly.

This army exudes a murderous aura, which is the temperament that has been produced after many large and small battles and the trials of life and death, and this is not the pride that a casual army can have.

On the right side of Liu Xia is a team of 1,000 people, and this team looks very neat, one by one, with their heads held high, their eyes shining with arrogance, standing like pines and cypresses, motionless.

Although they look very good, there is one thing they lack, and that is murderous energy. A soldier without murderous spirit is destined to be an ordinary recruit, not as good as the army that has survived battles large and small.

That's right, the army on the left is one of Liu Xia's elites, the soldiers of the Wolf Howling Battalion, and all the soldiers of the 100-strong Special Brigade. This time, Liu Xia is going to let these two teams go to find the whereabouts of the enemy, and at the same time serve as the main force to defeat the enemy.

On the right is the recruit recruited by Liu Xia along the way, although this recruit is trained in the new barracks with strict military discipline, and it is considered a preliminary regular army. This time, Liu Xia pulled out all the recruits in the recruit camp, and let them go with the Wolf Howling Battalion and the Special Brigade to see the blood, so that they could grow into a division of a hundred battles and an elite in the battle.

"Are you all ready?" Liu Xia stood on the high platform, the majesty swept across his face, blowing his hair up, and the sun shone on Liu Xia's shiny iron armor, making Liu Xia look like a radiant god.

The faces and eyes of the soldiers below immediately became more serious, and the wind blew a murderous aura and spread.

"Ready !!" Like the roar of a flood, like the roar of a wild beast, both armies shouted at the same time.

The thousand recruits are now at the moment of high morale and passion, they have not experienced too cruel battles, naturally they do not know the horror of battle, so at this time they have not been afraid of the word war.

Perhaps only when you go to the battlefield will you know the cruelty and horror of war.

"My brothers were killed, what do you say?" Liu Xia tried hard to raise his voice, wanting to make his voice louder and farther.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Revenge! Avenge! ”

Liu Xia looked at these two armies with satisfaction, because Liu Xia didn't know how many of the specific number of enemies there were now, so Liu Xia gave them all the war horses, whether they were recruits or veterans, if the enemy army was too much, they wouldn't be unable to escape.

At the same time, Liu Xia also couldn't bear to look at the recruits, because if the number of enemies this time was indeed very large, their recruits would definitely have a lot of casualties, and they might never be able to return to this camp after leaving this time.

"Good! Avenge them! ”

"Brothers, prepare your bows, your guns and knives, and let the swift arrows go to the throat of the enemy, and the spear and the knife pierce the heart of the enemy!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

"Revenge! Avenge! ”

"Let's go!"

Liu Xia gave an order, and Zhang Yuan, the commander of the leading army this time, led the Wolf Howling Battalion to ride away from this temporary training ground, followed by more than 100 people from the Special Brigade, and finally the 1,000 recruits left with the Wolf Howling Battalion under the leadership of Niu Chao.

This time, Liu Xia dispatched a team of more than 1,400 people, which was already half of Liu Xia's entire army, although the new recruits were not enough to compare with the elite.

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On the high platform, Liu Xia sighed and said to Chen Liu, who was beside him: "How many people do you say there will be in this enemy?" How many recruits can Zhang Yuan bring back to General Ben in the end? ”

Chen Liu pondered for a while and said: "The general doesn't have to worry too much, judging from the news he got from the scout yesterday and the inference below, the number of people on the pole this time will not exceed three thousand, and these people are all composed of a group of hungry, yellow-skinned and thin homeless people, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined, although most of the soldiers who went out this time are recruits, but anyway, these recruits have also received training for so long, and their physical strength and weapons are not comparable to them."

At the same time, he deduced that these poles fled back to their stockades for fear of retaliation, so he thought that the most difficult thing now was how to find the whereabouts of these poles, not whether they could be beaten. This is a plain area with no danger to defend, and if you find a place where they are hiding, it will not be difficult to defeat them. ”

After listening to Chen Liu's words, Liu Xia pondered carefully in his heart, and gradually relaxed his mood.

He has experienced so many winds and waves, and now he is a little worried about dealing with some poles, Liu Xia can't help but remember that when he defeated Duoduo, a famous Manchu general, he couldn't help but be proud.

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It has been some time since Liu Xia defeated Duoduo and came out of Yangzhou City, and after the previous anti-Qing wave was suppressed, the entire land of China seemed to be very calm.

The Manchu Qing in the north had not yet made a plan to go south because of the defeat of the Duoduo army, and the Southern Ming court also let go of the nervous and scared breath in their hearts because the Tartars did not break through the city of Nanjing.

Now the city of Nanjing is still full of warblers singing and dancing, drunk and golden. Not long ago, the Southern Ming Dynasty once again filled the palace with folk beauty pageants, and Emperor Hongguang basically ignored political affairs and indulged in beauty every day.

In the north, in order to stabilize the local Han people, the Tartars implemented a policy of recuperation and tax exemption everywhere.

However, the southern court continued to increase taxes, under the pretext of recruiting new soldiers to fight against the Tartars, and in fact the money went into the pockets of those officials.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, officials were hopelessly corrupt.

Yangzhou City, at this time, has been counted as a ruin.

The Qing soldiers slaughtered in Yangzhou City for a few days, although they did not kill all the people in Yangzhou City, but they also killed nearly two or three hundred thousand innocent people. Although it is a little less than the 800,000 people killed in history, it is still a lot. There were corpses everywhere, and as the Qing army was defeated and retreated by Liu Xia, the people in Yangzhou City also fled from Yangzhou City.

The current Yangzhou city is like hell, as calm as death. Rotting corpses could be seen everywhere, and from time to time fat rats would run through the cracks in the stones.

It's mid-to-late May, and according to the solar calendar, it's almost June and July, and the weather is already very hot, and those flies and mosquitoes are already flying everywhere.

Yangzhou City was also abandoned, not only was the Qing army unwilling to manage, but the Southern Ming was also unwilling to take over.

Nanjing City

In a thatched hut on the outskirts of Nanjing, a woman with a beautiful face walked out of the house. She had a bag in her hand, and she didn't actually have anything in it.

Outside the thatched hut was a rudimentary carriage parked along with three war horses. Outside, four young people dressed in tattered clothes but looking very energetic, saw this beautiful woman and did not have any lust, lust, or greed. But it's very respectful.

"Girl, get in the car, let's get out of here as soon as possible." One of the young men walked up to the carriage, lifted the curtain of the carriage and said to the beautiful woman.

The woman said, "Well, I'm ready, now let's go." Then the beautiful woman got into the carriage, and the young man lowered the curtains, sat down in the carriage, and drove out of the carriage.

The other three young men also mounted their horses and followed, one of them leading the way, and the other two following behind the carriage.

……

These four young men were the four scouts that Liu Xia had sent to Yangzhou City to help Bian Yujing find his sister.

The beautiful woman in the carriage was Bian Yujing's sister Bian Min.

When he was in Yangzhou City, Bian Min and Bian Yujing were separated, but Bian Min did not suffer like Bian Yujing, but followed a large number of people in Yangzhou City to hide, and when the Qing army retreated, they also ran out.

At that time, she also found an opportunity to go back to Yangzhou City to find Bian Yujing but had no whereabouts at all, so she thought about returning to Nanjing City, but thought that if she went back, she would have to sell laughter, although she was just selling her art and not selling her body, but she was still unwilling to go back.

At this time, she happened to meet the four scouts who came to look for her, and when she saw these four people walking in front of her, she thought she had encountered a robber and was afraid, but when the four scouts said that they were looking for her, she thought that the old bustard in Nanjing City had sent someone over.

Bian Min hurriedly ran away, but how could her two legs outrun the four-legged war horse, and was finally stopped.

The scout understood Bian Min's thoughts, so he hurriedly said that they were sent by her sister Bian Yujing to find her.

Even so, Bian Min still didn't trust it, and finally when the scout took out the Buddhist beads, Bian Min really believed their words, and then put down the worries in his heart.

Then he asked carefully what was going on.

So the four scouts added fuel to the fire and told the story again, of course, there must be some deviations from the real thing.

Bian Min knew that her sister was not dead, and she was going to pick her up, so she agreed, after all, she had nowhere to go now.