The pacification officer, the consolation officer, and others have the right to express their own remarks and suggestions, but the military execution of a department is always presided over by a minister, Duan Shuchang. And this map was also received from the military headquarters when Duan Shuchang sent troops.

The scout battalion arrived many days earlier than the forward battalion of the army, and the scouts in his department had already surveyed the terrain on the front line of the busy mulberry to the first line of the monument and drew a number of maps.

According to the scout battalion, the bandits set up ambushes in the small tunzhai areas south of Zhanbei and north of Beidong, first with a small bait, and then with a large part of the siege, and the infantry and cavalry were very vicious. Xiaotunzhai is less than twenty miles away from our army, and we need to make a decision as soon as possible. ”

The speaker was a praise painting from the forward battalion, but he was also a soldier with the title of captain. Most of the staff officers of the Nanyang Army were from military backgrounds, and officers and sergeants with more literacy and resourcefulness in each department were selected to serve as praise paintings.

The high literacy rate in the Nanyang Army made the praise and painting of each department mostly martial arts, although there were many literati in it, but they were more responsible for copying and writing paperwork, because they were difficult to understand military affairs, and the high-level war style of the Nanyang Army was not suitable for them for a while, so it was generally difficult for these literati to ascend to the elegant hall and be reused in the army.

"According to the intelligence, there are as many as 80,000 thieves in ambush, can you suspend the march and ask General Guan Zheng for help?"

Duan Shu often lowered his head in contemplation, walked back and forth, and the surrounding generals stood quietly aside waiting for a decision.

Order: "Scout battalion Wang Liang, ride a fast horse, return to the military headquarters to report to General Guan, our department and today at three o'clock in the morning, want to lure out all the ambush enemy invaders, please General Guan soldiers divided into two ways to take the do not move and occupy the monument first, and then attack the enemy on both sides." Be sure to launch a general attack tonight to annihilate the invading enemy. ”

"Gentlemen, since the establishment of the Nanyang Army, all battles have been invincible, how can a mere bandit block the direction of my troops? We are all heroes who want to sweep the world with the prince and restore the Han family, and today's battle is a good time to shine in the world and become famous. If you want to make a name for yourself, just look at your hard work, let those bandits, see the majestic posture of my Nanyang sergeant! ”

These words were extremely agitatory, and the generals responded in an uproar.

The order was given to the soldiers to seize the time to rest, and after three hours, they approached the small tunzhai and went straight to the heart of the enemy. All departments must be mentally prepared for arduous and vicious battles. I personally led the Rui Shi Battalion as the front, and the other departments followed up according to the usual combat positions, okay, let's go back and prepare! ”

When a general war starts, it is the role of the vanguard to test the enemy's situation and disrupt it, so the general army has a striker. There is no striker, just as a sword without a tip is not lethal. Only an elite striker can be invincible.

Duan Shu is a constant striker, how can he back down? What about the rogue ambush? Let them taste what it is like to set up an ambush and be killed.

At that time, the bright moon hung high, the sound of frogs was a piece, the forward battalion came out from the busy mulberry, and the busy mulberry went to the small tunzhai and Pingchuan, and the forward battalion did not bring any heavy troops, so that the light equipment advanced, and the effect of many years of cross-country training was reflected. At the sound of footsteps, the army rolled forward in the darkness.

At the end of the day, the army arrived at a local place called Xuzhuang, and the scouts in front shook the fire, and the enemy army appeared in front, about four or five thousand people, and was setting up a formation to intercept it.

Duan Shuchang snorted and shouted, "Keep moving forward and catch up!" ”

Soon, a group of black and crushing enemy troops appeared next to a dilapidated and abandoned village in front of them, and they were forming a chaotic formation.

There were about four or five thousand people in that area, and under the moonlight, you could clearly see these bandits, most of them wearing strange costumes, different sizes, and male and female styles. They were small in stature and had a variety of weapons in their hands, except for a few officers who wore iron helmets and leather armor.

Most of the foot soldiers were young and strong, and most of them had spears in their hands, some of them had horned bows for hunting, and very few of them were equipped with waist knives.

In their position in the army, a large green flag was also erected, and it can be seen that a "crescent moon" is embroidered on it.

Duan Shuchang sneered: "The rabble." ”

The scouts had already made a clear search, and no enemy troops were found in the village. They also saw clearly the reality of the Bandit Formation, because the Bandit Army Formation was surrounded by villages on one side and hills and rocks on the other, and the only way to pass through this area was to pass through this Bandit Formation.

"Right on this front, break through the enemy's ranks."

Duan Shuchang passed down the order, and the army met it again, approaching two hundred paces in front of the Tukou army

The trumpets and drums sounded at the same time, and according to the order, the sergeants began to form a formation, and with the squadron as a unit, they formed a large phalanx with both offensive and defensive capabilities.

Duan Shuchang led the Ruishi battalion as the front, and the two squadrons behind him, one on the left and one on the right, protected the rear of the two sides of the Chinese army.

Seeing that their own army formation was soon formed, and the opposite side was still in chaos, several generals of the Ruishi battalion smiled and said: "I will definitely be able to defeat the Tukou today." ”

They were all in high spirits, Duan Shuchang laughed for a long time, and shouted, "Are you all ready?" ”

"Protection!"

The loud cheers sounded, and nearly a thousand soldiers shouted in unison, like thunder.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

The passionate war drums sounded, Duan Shuchang drew his sword and pointed forward: "Attack!" ”

"Mighty!"

The two sergeants shouted loudly and stepped forward in order.

"Fire on the shoulder!"

"Fire on the shoulder!" , one after another shouted orders.

"Forward!"

"Wan Sheng!"

With the sound of neat footsteps, a sea of steel strode towards the enemy formation.

There was a panic in the Tukou formation, they felt that it was different from the other small armies they had faced before, but their momentum, which they had never seen in previous battles. It's a very pervasive feeling.

Duan Shu often traveled in the Chinese army, and soon, the wave of the Nanyang army had approached a hundred steps in front of the Tukou formation. The bandits over there, a whoow shout, their archers have come out, open their bows and arrows, only to see a burst of random shooting, more than half of the arrow rain fell fifty steps before the Nanyang Army fell, and half of them did not know where to fly, the bandits were in chaos again, mixed with screams, there were a few arrows and feathers shot at the companions, foreign appearances.

On the African battlefield in later generations, the black uncles sat on AK47, often 10,000 rounds of bullets were fired, without hurting a single hair of the enemy, and often the two sides fought very fiercely, but after a big battle, there were few casualties.

"Stop!"

"Check the medicine, light the arquebus!"

Amid the shouts of the officers, there was a sound of fire.

The rogue archers on the opposite side have shot arrows desperately, and there are about 100 of them, and there are more than 400 musketeers in the Nanyang musketeers on this side, and the musketeers are in small formations in squadrons, with 50 people in each team, 10 people in each column, divided into five columns.

They came in formation, and by the time they stopped, each of the small formations had been gathered, so that the whole army was divided into five rows, each of forty men. The pikemen followed, and the axemen lined up on the flanks and in the rear to protect them.