Chapter 653: Prologue to the Decisive Battle

How does a conference battle begin?

No matter how anxious several parties are, but, at least in this era. A main battle is kicked off by a continuous outpost battle. The officers and troops on both sides of the Wei River were no exception.

Countless light cavalry squads repeatedly entangled, probed, hedged, and fought in the north and south of the Wei River. Both sides must try to control the battlefield and cover the opponent's reconnaissance curtain. Cover yourself with the main force to unfold. The battle will be preceded by a series of skirmishes until the main armies of both sides are combined. Eventually, lead to the final fateful battle battlefield.

When hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides shouted and formed a formation to rush and kill each other, before that, it may be a few months of confrontation, the two sides battle wits and strength, and the rear is trying its best to supply. In the end, it condensed into the name of a glorious battle in history! This time, between the Wei River, the final battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Chuang army for Shaanxi will not escape this road.

In these scout squads, in the official army, He Renlong spared no expense to send his own battle-hardened personal soldiers, but here to break into the king Lu Shi, he took pity on the one in a million prison sergeants, but sent the most powerful subordinates of Tianxing.

In any case, for Lu Shi, who was new to such a big battle, in order to be responsible for himself, in order to be responsible for the brothers who followed him, and for the upcoming decisive battle, there was no luck in his heart, but more trembling.

On the other hand, for Wu Du Wenhuan, a veteran of the official army, why is this not the case? The whole of Shaanxi, in fact, at a deep level, is related to the entire Ming Dynasty that they have been loyal to all their lives, and this battle is even more important.

This is just as the governor Li Yingqi said, if you win, the Ming Dynasty will have a long life, and if you lose, Shaanxi will be gone, and the thieves will be uncontrollable, what is left? Occupy thousands of years of imperial capital, swept the world, this is a thing that everyone knows, in thousands of history, dozens of dynasties, as long as they occupy here, it is the helpless end of an era, the rise of a new emperor, this is definitely not these loyal to the Ming Dynasty of the scholar bureaucracy can bear to see.

Therefore, whether it is the king Lu Shi who did his best, or the two governors who did their best, they regarded this decisive battle as a turning point in the rise and fall of the world.

Under this tacit understanding, the main forces of both sides, under the cover of the outpost light cavalry, entered the river bank and set up a continuous camp position. Stabilize your position and unfold the brigade.

Even if the main force is arranged, this battle will not be able to start in a while. Both sides should seek the position of the initiative, suitable for their own battlefield, both want to force their opponents, enter their own battlefields, repeatedly sentry to detect the weak points of the opponent's troop deployment, what is the road to woodcutting, the route of grain and grass transportation, and is the back road safe? Where is the other party must protect and the other party must save? In a word, we should do our best to maintain the initiative on the battlefield.

Niu Er had been lying in the grass, holding a straw stick and looking around for a long time, in front of it, was the Wei River, the largest river in Weinan, and the two sides invariably regarded it as a kind of demarcation, a mutual defense, so that they could calmly organize the army, so as to attack with all their might.

However, this is the boundary of the decisive battle, and it is still the place where the scout patrol posts of the two sides are desperately fighting.

Niu Er, when the army entered Pucheng, he had not yet found his soul in the sky-shattering explosions, and he looked extremely embarrassed as a former Pucheng officer and army small banner, a small officer who had not yet entered the ranks. At this time, he was already neatly dressed, wearing the red standard jacket of the black ** corps of the Chuang Army, and under the continuous full food supply, he had definitely changed his appearance, and the original face was long gone, but he didn't see much of the refined taste, and it was still that slimy appearance.

This time they were sent out, although they did not wear armor, because in this operation, they were almost in little danger, and at the same time, wearing the rattan armor like a turtle shell, in his heart, there was great resistance, the reason was that after he finally married Xiaohong, a brothel under the auspices of Yang Fan, he was absolutely disgusted with this word. Especially in this travel mission, the rattan shell tortoise shell with round circles on both sides is more inconvenient to wear on the body, in fact, it is even more inconvenient to escape to be precise.

It turned out to be a small flag in the official army, but now he is in the army, but he remembered that he had made a meritorious contribution to the mixed city at the beginning, and he was also good at equestrianism. Promoted to the cavalry directly under the star of the sky as an errand boy. This time, the cavalry swept forward, and as the main force released by the army to cover the battlefield, he naturally followed.

This time, most of the people who followed Niu'er were the brothers who surrendered in Pucheng, but in fact, everyone was stained with the light of Niu'er's eldest brother Yang Fan.

At the beginning, the hungry people in Pucheng rioted, but just in time for Yang Fan to take a vacation in accordance with the regulations, the hungry people exploded, and those in the neighborhood who could not survive, also raised wooden sticks, knives and guns to join, Yang Fan was pushed as the leader by the neighborhood for too many reasons, Yang Fan was also far-sighted, after some hesitation, he resolutely joined, commanded the army of displaced people to attack the official army to receive the army into the city, so he was meritorious, received by Lu Shi, after a sincere conversation, he was liked by Geng Kui and others, so he was appointed as the garrison of Pucheng, and assisted the administrative officer sent by the army to manage this Pucheng.

Whether it is selfishness or ability, it is natural, Yang Fan recommended this brother Niu Er to Guo Tianxing to become a trainee martial artist.

However, since becoming the commander of the army, Niu Er has felt uncomfortable, for no other reason, that is, there are too many rules in the army, which are fundamentally different from the official army, especially those propagandists, who are there all day long, taking a big iron microphone, babbling to tell everyone the truth, for a veteran ruffian, it is simply annoying, and there is the endless training, so that there is a kind of newlywed joy, he who eats a few full meals, and he is even more unbearable when he is willing to do things in bed.

However, the treatment of the army is good, but the military law is stricter, although there is no danger that you may be killed by the official at every turn in the official army, but a leather whip is indispensable, so Shang, this time I took the task, my heart is very happy, this is a good opportunity to avoid hard work.

The brothers in other places had already crossed the river early and patrolled to the other side, but they were just cattle, and they were still grinding in the end under various excuses. He got up from the grass, and when his men saw him move, they thought the cow was about to move on. They all got up and stood up, moving their waists and legs, which had been numb from the cold, and pressing the blades on their waists. Prepare to turn around and pull the horse at the stake under the hill.? As a result, the cow just changed from lying on his stomach to squatting, holding a straw stick and continuing to look at the scene in the faint light in the winter.

On the opposite side of the riverbank, the grass and trees are forested, and in the whistling north wind, it is shaking and extinguishing, and there seem to be countless monsters hidden in it. A section of corpse lay there half a mile and half away, obviously dead for a long time, and the blood that flowed down the body had long since frozen into a hard lump of ice.

"That must be an unlucky scout." Niu Er's firm judgment, because, judging from the clothes of the corpse exposed outside the grass, it is a Zhang Jiajun's village bravery, Chuang Jun, there is absolutely no such color clothing, and at the same time, the Chuang Jun brothers will never leave the remains of their robes outside, even for the return of this unlucky corpse, it may be necessary to take the lives of a few, or even dozens of brothers, this matter, since the time when King Lu Shichuang entered and exited hundreds of thousands of officials and border troops for an irrelevant little girl, it became a tradition, in fact, it is more of an honor. This kind of behavior that Niu Er thinks is absolutely stupid has been staged countless times in the scout fight for nearly half a month. His men couldn't bear it anymore and whispered one after another.

"When will this be able to see clearly? Head, still facing forward. In order to see the scene on the other side clearly! "Everyone is very dissatisfied with this veteran ruffian, so in words, they have no habit of respectfully calling their superiors for their ranks in the army ranks.

In fact, although the preaching of those propagandists hardly worked for the veteran ruffians, they were greatly touched by these young sons, especially the declaration of the city gate of King Chuang, which made everyone yearn for it, and their blood boiled for King Chuang's promise.

However, God is unfair, and he was assigned to this cow's hand, which is simply a kind of torment for everyone's enthusiasm, if it weren't for the strict discipline of the army, everyone would have swarmed across the Lao Shahe, and those officials and soldiers would have fought to the death, for their dead relatives, and for countless fathers and elders behind them. "We are surrendering to the army, and it is the time to make meritorious contributions, look at the faces of the generals who have been transferred to our army by the Shengjie Army! Come out to sentry, we are also us, the Shengjie army is the Shengjie army, and there is no such thing as mixing. At this time, I am afraid that those Shengjie army sentinels have already crossed the Gaoliang River and touched forward! We're here to watch, when will we find out some clear news? I don't dare to think about the silver medal cow wine reward, at least I don't want to be blinded! ”????“ The army is ready to go, and the officers and soldiers have already sharpened their knives, so if you find out more about the terrain in front of you at this time, it will be cheaper for the river-crossing brigade to advance north in the future, so you have to wait until the officers and troops appear? ”????“ , our lives are not good, with such a cow and bad goods! If it weren't for the fact that he had crossed the Wei River and arrested a few officers and soldiers to come back to ask for confessions, maybe it would have been a great achievement, and King Chuang would have met him. ”???? The cow just squatted there and whispered to the people below, as if it didn't hear it. Whether it is the local Haoqiang dock wall, or the sporadic visible official and military patrols, look at the clothes, tattered, not He Renlong's personal soldiers, nor Zhang Jiajun's descendants, I saw Niu'er's team of people from a distance, and they just watched from a distance and did not interfere.

The patrol posts of this team of officers and soldiers are definitely better than less now, everyone is just eating together, there is no need to really work hard. Besides, the failure of the outpost battle that didn't play endlessly also made them, the guest army, see the strength of the breaking army, and they can't beat others at all, so they rush up to provoke others, but they are just adding to their war exploits, so why bother?

At this time, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves, on the west bank of the Wei River, rushed over a team of small horses, immediately a few elite men, around an official wearing civil robes and uniforms, ran directly to the river, to the river, a group of people and horses stood still, the civil official gently stepped forward, his hand hit the pergola, blocking the east sun, looking at the opposite side of the riverbank, the expression on his face was extremely solemn.