The next day, the second combing and emphasizing of the operational plan set yesterday was carried out, and a sand table exercise was conducted. On the third day, King Xian's reply to the determination of the first battle was delivered to Yangdu, and the heart that had been hanging before finally landed.

On the second day of the first month of October, news came from the border pass, the envoy of Zhiguo entered through Qiunan County, and after entering the country, the soldiers divided into two routes, all the way to continue to the Lingling, all the way through Pengyuan Bengan Mansion, the purpose is self-evident.

At noon on this day, after the military meeting, Bai Liyan dressed up neatly and took Zhou Kong and his entourage to the pavilion where Old Mooney and Little Mooney stayed.

"Your Excellency still lives here?"

"You Central Plains people are all the same, and the bed boards are all stiff and hard." Old Mooney complained, and the old spicy eyes quickly looked at Bai Liyan and his wife and said, "How are you dressed in a strange shape today." ”

Bai Liyan subconsciously glanced at his body, pointed to the tactical vest and armed belt on his body and said:

"Are you talking about that?"

"What you're wearing on your head, it feels funny, you know!"

Bai Liyan glanced sideways at the helmet around him, and he really couldn't see anything ridiculous about the steel helmet on his head.

In order to facilitate travel and combat, the new troops of the Xian Army were issued with practical canvas tactical vests, bullet packs, and tactical backpacks, and also wore a composite light leather armor with chain mail riveted on the chest, abdomen, back, and waist to strengthen defense. Yes

In view of the need for cold weapon combat, in addition to bayonets, each person is also issued with a short knife for self-defense, and individuals are also allowed to carry other short self-defense tools such as daggers.

There are slight differences in weapons and duties depending on the class. For example, generals are issued with revolvers, leather bullet belts, and steel armor, but they do not have tactical backpacks.

In view of the popularity of thermal weapons and the needs of future combat, the traditional leather helmets and iron helmets are difficult to meet the needs of the times, so Bailiyan has developed a steel helmet, on the basis of high manganese steel, molybdenum elements are added to increase strength, can resist bullets below medium velocity, the shape of the German helmet and Chinese helmet, the use of leather suspension system, in order to improve the wearing comfort.

At the same time, the helmet is painted, rust-proof and non-reflective, equipped with a mesh cover, and the special helmet is also wrapped in a pale blue canvas to facilitate infiltration activities.

Since it is common to tie hair in a bun nowadays, and in the army, the hair is wrapped with a cloth belt, so there is a slight protrusion at the top of the helmet to accommodate the bun.

Of course, it stands to reason that under the conditions of hot weapon combat, it is necessary to shave the hair so that it can be rescued after a head injury.

But the parents who have received their hair and skin, the beginning of filial piety, shaved their heads and did not say whether the army would boycott it, and they had to consider the social impact.

Secondly, the fundamental role of the helmet is to prevent stray bullets and fragments, and all current hot and cold weapons do not have the risk of directly penetrating the helmet, even if they hit the head, they are also solid bullets and facial injuries, and rescue is useless, so whether to shave the head has little impact. In the end, everyone who shaves their heads will inevitably become the laughing stock of the Central Plains, which will affect morale, so it is better not to shave.

In view of the finalization of the steel helmet last year, the output is not very large, and it is still in the trial stage. Therefore, only more than 10,000 people are equipped, and it is not enough to do one manpower. Mooney had never seen a protruding steel helmet on his helmet, and it was no surprise that he thought it was ridiculous.

Bailiyan didn't have time to talk to him more, so he said:

"You don't understand, I came here today to tell you that our army is about to go to war, do you want to see the might of our army."

Old Mooney was surprised when he heard the news, and hurriedly asked:

"You're going to war!"

"There is no joke in the army, and this can still be fake. Are you going or not? ”

Without giving it a second thought, Mooney readily promised:

"Okay, you wait a minute."

A moment passed, Mooney took his eldest son and more than 100 accompanying guards, followed Bailiyan and his wife out of the city from the north gate, crossed the river through the Quanhe ferry, and went to Pingliu County, which is separated by a river from Jiangquan.

When he arrived at the Quanhe Wharf, he saw the towering and countless guns in front of him, and Old Mooney was shocked:

"This ...... This is your warship! ”

Bai Liyan nodded and said triumphantly:

"Three years ago, all you saw was merchant ships, this is our Wanshi battleship, each of which has fifty-five guns, there are twenty Wanshi warships that have come to participate in the battle, and dozens of others are on guard in the North Sea, and the other half are repairing in the harbor. Well, it's much better than your broken ship, hehe......"

In 646, Mooney had seen Wanshi ships when he was traveling to the Central Plains to pass through the Yongxing River, and Gudapa and Figos also had a lot of information in private, but it was all commercial content, and they never actually saw the warships. To say shock, it was not the ship that was shocked, it was the cannon on board.

The ships were all full of ship's heavy guns, twenty ships were 1,100 guns, and a salvo could knock out several tons of solid bullets, and the casualties poured on the position can be imagined. The look of horror in Mooney's eyes can roughly deduce that the number of cannons of the Jinxuedi people is more than 1,100 at best, and 2,000 are dead, and they are still bronze cannons.

On the other hand, the Xianjun family, only 20 Wanshi warships have 1,100 cannons, and other ships and infantry military guns will only be more and not less, and Mooney's shock can be imagined.

Crossing the Quanhe River, a group of people arrived at Pingliu County before noon, because the terrain of Dekang County is generally higher than that of Ganfu County, so the side of Ganfu is flooded all the year round, and most of the cities on the east bank are shrunk in the river beach, and the Pingliu County Town is retracted into the river for five miles to build a city. However, due to the slightly higher terrain of Dekang County, the risk of flooding is small, and most of its cities are built on high land next to the river.

At the same time, in Jiangquan City on the other side of the river, Du Ruixun was busy withdrawing the guards who had invaded Fangling County to Dekang, and at the same time had to move away the young and strong people and elites from all over the country. Due to land and economic interests, the migration did not go smoothly.

And at this moment, the protector Wang Xie came to report:

"General Qiyu Du, just now the sentinel at the east gate came to report, and a Xian army entered the city from the south gate in Pingliu County on the other side."

Du Ruixun hurriedly stopped the chores at hand, frowned and thought for a while, and then his face became solemn:

"How many people are there in the Xian army entering the city?"

"There are about 600 people, and the speed is extremely fast, faster than the fastest horse, from this point of view, it should be the Qianli Yue Jianbao of the Xian army."

"Oh!" Du Ruixun was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "There are only 3,000 healthy horses among the horses led by the Xian army in the north, and 600 horses appeared in one day, which is by no means an ordinary Xian army. It's not good, the Xianjun army is probably paying attention to Pingliu County. Wang Xie, hurry up and invite Wu Changshi to the east gate, go quickly! ”

"No!"

The total number of horses brought back by the Xianjun from the pasture of Qianyue Mountain was 400,000, and another 100,000 horses were borrowed from the royal guests, of which 3,000 were Jianbao horses.

After fifteen years of breeding and growth, the Qianli Yue, which is now raised in the Qianyue Mountain, has a small scale of 100,000 horses, including the old and the young and the foals, during which all countries and even the Jinxuedi people have been constantly going back and forth between the north and the south to search for such horses, and in recent years they have really found sporadic horses, but the number is not much, only more than 1,000 horses in total, far less than the population of the Xian army.

Although Qianli Yue has thousands of benefits, how can the amount of food be too large, the cost of eating grain alone is too high, although the agricultural output has been greatly improved, but it is still not enough to feed 100,000 Qianli Yue war horses in the Central Plains, not to mention that there are hundreds of thousands of Central Plains war horses, which are raised in the country for a long time, which is simply unrealistic, so it has become a trouble now.

Bailiyan had to raise horses in the pastures of Qianyue Mountain on weekdays, and brought back to the mainland through Zhiguo during the war, so the relationship with Zhiguo was particularly important, and it was also the most unfavorable factor for Xianguo in the current "international relations". Once the source of horses is lost, the mobility of the Xian army will be greatly weakened, which is why Bai Liyan does not want to fall out with Zhiguo.

When he was young, Du Ruixun came to the head of the East Gate City, took out his beloved telescope and looked at Jiangdong, and vaguely saw Pingliu County, seven or eight miles away, quietly sitting on the riverbank, and sporadically saw some Xianjun patrol squads shuttling back and forth, but there were no clues hidden in the ambush of the main force of the Xian army. But looking at it from a distance, you can feel a powerful murderous aura and oppression enveloping Jiangquan City, and an indescribable depression cannot be dissipated for a long time.

As a professional soldier, Du Ruixun felt a hint of crisis.

The number of Jian Bao Bao in the Central Plains is scarce, so in the Xian Army, only the general and the scouts who send messages back and forth are equipped with Jian Bao, and suddenly five or six hundred Jian Bao Bao appeared, Du Ruixun only thought of one person.

"It's him, it must be him!"

This person is Baili Yan, and there are only two people in Xianguo who belong to the Jianbao Guard, one is Xianwang, and the other is Baili Yan. In the current wartime state, Zhao Xun, Lu Gao, Guan Longxiang and others are all equipped with Qianli Yue cavalry guards, but they have never made up the scale of five or six hundred horses, and only Bailiyan has the right to dispatch five or six hundred healthy horses.

After a while, Changshi Wu Bin came to the city:

"General Du, why did you call this official here?"

"Wu Changshi, Bai Liyan, the deputy commander of the Xian army, has arrived in Pingliu County on the other side, and he would have thought that the Xian army would have a major move in the near future."

Wu Bin was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly said:

"The Xianjun wants to take advantage of the Zhijun to enter Dekang!"

Du Ruixun nodded and said:

"I'm afraid so. Wu Changshi, how long does it take for Zhijun to enter the country? ”

"It will be mid-October at the earliest."

"It seems that the Xian army will not wait until late October to start, and at that time, Zhiguo may not turn his face in Xianguo for the sake of a county. Wu Changshi, the relocation of people from all over the country can no longer be delayed, and they must be moved away immediately. ”

"Dekang is separated by water and natural dangers, even if the Xian army strikes first, it will not be able to attack in a short time, whether it is too much to worry about."

Wu Bin is still very optimistic, but Du Ruixun shook his head:

"Although I don't know what the intentions of the Xian army on the other side are, as far as the general knows, the Xian army has transferred more than 20 Wanshi warships from the Beihai, each of which has 55 heaven-shattering fires, and if they are all moved to the shore, it will be more than 1,000 gates, and its power cannot be underestimated.

Moreover, Baili Yan has always deviated from the norm and not taken the usual path, the more he pretends to be a ghost, the more suspicious the motive in his heart is, and the strength of the Xian army must not be underestimated. After finishing speaking, Du Ruixun and the escort general Wang Xie said: "General Wang Xie, immediately send someone to order the whole army, and all localities should be strictly guarded to prevent the Xian army from suddenly crossing the river." Another order was issued to the water village, and the ships retreated to the west of the Biqing River for 50 miles, and they were not allowed to leave the village without military orders. ”

"No!"

As a professional soldier, Du Ruixun's intuition is undoubtedly correct.