Chapter 5 The Great Army Begins

In the dead of night, Luo Yujiao fell asleep groggily, and Zhang Xuan's eyes could not see any other light except for the moonlight outside. The hazy moonlight blurred everything. There was only the sound of insects chirping in my ears, and occasionally the terrible cries of nocturnal birds.

Zhang Xuan couldn't sleep, his eyes were not focused, staring at a dark spot on the beam.

"I already remember that Luo Rucai's ending should have been merged by Li Zicheng, as if it was in the small print part of the history book. Many major events in history are just a passing mention in the textbooks, if I go with the flow, I don't think I need to think about the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, and Yujiao and I can't pass the sixteenth year of Chongzhen. I don't believe that after Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, if they don't cut the grass and eradicate the roots, others can live, but Luo Rucai's descendants and relatives will definitely not survive. And I'm one of them now. ”

"Luo Ru is unreliable."

"I must have my own strength and be loyal to my own soldiers."

"In this era, no one can be trusted. The only thing that can be relied on is the soldiers and horses in their hands. And if you want to increase the strength in your hands, the best way is to fight and win the war, only with military merits and Luo Rucai's support, can I quickly expand my strength. ”

Zhang Xuan touched Luo Yujiao's hair, and said secretly in his heart: "Yujiao, Yujiao, for you, for our future children, I will also welcome the war." I must live a human life in troubled times. There was a gleam in his eyes.

The current Zhang Xuan and Zhang Xuan, who has just come to this era, are already like two people.

However, no matter how much he wants to meet the war, he knows that the battlefield is never reasonable, and it is to die. Therefore, Zhang Xuan fell into deep thought, and almost didn't close his eyes all night.

Three days passed by in a snap of a finger.

The army has already pulled out of Songshan.

Zhang Xuan stood on top of a mountain peak, looking left and right, looking extremely spectacular. The verdant green mountains stop here, and there are only rolling hills in the distance, and in the distance, there is a flat land, and the extreme eye can only faintly see the undulation of the horizon.

The army is out of the mountains.

Countless soldiers, divided into two camps, and Cao Ying, several nearby valleys walked out together, countless queues, like a long snake that can't see the edge at a glance, without a head in front and a tail in the back, stretching for miles.

The elite soldiers in the hesitant army, the old and the weak, together, there are hundreds of thousands of people, if they walk on the same road, it is not a matter of stretching for several miles, but stretching for dozens of miles, and this situation is the most vulnerable to being attacked. Therefore, once the army exceeds tens of thousands, it becomes inevitable to part ways. At this moment, the army is going their separate ways. The pace is staggered, and the carriages and horses are rampant. Mighty.

If you look down from the sky, you can see that like dozens of yellow dragons, on the land of Henan, rolling southward, there is an unstoppable trend.

Due to the large number of people and horses, although it was said that it was today, the brigade of people and horses came out of the mountain in an endless stream, and in the afternoon, it was the turn of the old camp to pull out.

Zhang Xuan divided his soldiers into two teams, one team in front, to open the way and build a bridge for the old camp. At the beginning, all the old battalions were operated by mules and horses, but as soon as the team expanded, and the speed also slowed down. You can add quite a few vehicles.

In many places, people can pass, horses can pass, but cars can't.

However, fortunately, the Central Plains is the hinterland. All dynasties have cultivated official roads, and although the official roads of the Ming Dynasty are broken, they can still be used. Even if there is a little problem, small repairs can be made to cope with the past. The burden of opening the way is not too heavy.

This team is in charge of Cao Zongyu.

Then the next team will be the last in the old camp.

However, because there is a break-in camp behind the old camp, there is no need to worry about enemy attacks behind, and there is no need to open the road or anything, but what they should pay attention to is to see if there are any people left behind in the old camp, and they are responsible for sending these stragglers over.

This team is Deng He in charge.

And Zhang Xuan acted with the old battalion, and Zhang Xuan took more than 100 of his own guards to inspect back and forth.

Rodain was in charge of the operations of the old battalion.

However, the size of the army expanded like a balloon, and it was the old battalion that expanded faster than the army.

In the old camp, it is generally divided together, in fact, the old camp is also very complicated.

The old battalion is responsible for the baggage, and the general's family is small, which is not conducive to combat, but the things that must be carried on the march are in the old battalion. Even the blacksmiths and carpenters who made weapons were in the old camp. Zhang Xuan quickly turned around and felt that the old camp had to be divided.

Otherwise, the team that is too bloated will not be able to get up at all.

Of course, now the army will no longer be chased by the official army and run around like rabbits, but the previous days have made Zhang Xuan have a shadow, and there are perverted requirements for the speed of the march.

After marching dozens of miles a day, after setting up camp that day, Zhang Xuan immediately went to Luo Dain and said: "It can't go on like this, the actions in the camp must be re-planned." ”

"The old camp personnel are complex, and they don't plan each other clearly, I think." Zhang Xuan said: "The old battalion must be divided into battalions, of which the baggage is a battalion, which is specially responsible for transporting grain and grass, among which the craftsmen are a battalion, the medical battalion is a battalion, the old and weak are a battalion, and the old battalion is also a battalion. For the time being, it was divided into four battalions. Then go on the road separately, and the people who are too bloated in charge of it can't go fast at all. ”

In fact, Rodain also understands this.

Although he has no skills, he is not a fool either. The old camp of thousands of people and the old camp of tens of thousands of people are two different concepts, even beyond the management ability of Rodain, who is trying to find a way to solve this problem at the moment.

Rodain said, "Okay, this is a good idea. Let's go for it this way. After being divided into four battalions, we will manage these four battalions separately, including the medical battalion, the old battalion, and the two battalions. ”

Rodain has his own thoughts.

What is the hardest part of the march? It's the big stuff.

And the craftsman battalion, and the baggage battalion are all such things, ask the old and weak in the camp, and the medical battalion, although the affairs are busy, but after a month of recuperation, most of the wounded have either died, or have been healed, even if they have not healed, now they have become minor injuries, and it does not affect these marches.

And there are additional benefits to taking care of the old camp and the medical camp.

What are the benefits? Connections, of course.

During the operation of the army, the real old and weak have long since died, and all the old and weak in the old battalion are the families of the generals in the battalion. Many people come to join the army, not alone, but with their families.

Even Cao Zongyu beside Zhang Xuan, his wife is also in the old and weak in the back camp.

In terms of importance, Rodain attaches far more importance to these old and weak than to baggage, whether it is baggage or these craftsmanship. If there is no more, you can go and grab it back, but if these old and weak are taken away by the official army, it may cause the morale of the army to fluctuate.

And Luo Dain let Zhang Xuan take care of it, Zhang Xuan can really manage it, the power of expenditure in the old camp has always been in the hands of Luo Dain, and he has never given it up, and anyone who wants to get something in the baggage camp must be agreed by Luo Dain.

Zhang Xuan didn't expect Luo Dain's careful thoughts.

Seeing that Rodain agreed, he immediately began to act.

On the second day of the march, Zhang Xuan and Luo Dain parted ways. At this moment, it has gone dozens of miles to the south, and it has already gone out of the mountains, although there are still shadows of mountains in the west, but the ground has suddenly opened up, and most of the ground has not planted any crops, and the army is also spread out on the ground.

Although Cao Ying and Chuang Ying also have a sequence, they slowly changed from one front to the other, to go side by side.

Of course, there are some places where the road conditions do not allow this, but it is limited by the terrain and has to go this way. But where is this, this is Henan.

If it is said that there is no possibility of parting ways in the land of Henan, then there is no possibility of parting ways in the whole of China. At this time, if someone looks down from the sky, they can see four or five long dragons rolling south on the land of Henan, and the yellow sand is set off one after another.

However, Zhang Xuan, who was in the bureau, didn't care about this, he was not concerned about anything else now, but the vehicles in the battalion.

Although the food left in Cao Ying's camp is not too much, this amount is not too much for tens of thousands of people, but it is still not too small for a baggage team of only a few thousand people.