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The action of the Xingtian Army is not like that of the officers and soldiers, every time they want to send troops, the officers and soldiers have to make trouble about what to ask for salaries, military salaries and the like, and the Xingtian Army cannot have such a problem at all, as long as Xiao Tianjian gives an order, the whole body will start to act quickly, and the efficiency of action is not comparable to that of the officers and the army at all.

Moreover, through more than a year of operation, Xiao Tianjian ordered Luo Bin to set up military stations in various places within his jurisdiction last year.

These military stations scattered all over the area under the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army are actually small forts, once they are attacked by the enemy, these reports stuck in the area of important intersections can play a role in preventing the enemy from easily entering the area controlled by the Xingtian Army, and buy time for the army to come to help.

At the same time, a large amount of grain is also stored in advance in the military station, and deep wells will be dug in the fort to ensure the supply of water.

The establishment of the military station system can be said to be a milestone innovation for the logistics support capability of the Xingtian Army, and after the Xingtian Army captures a place, the military station of the logistics department will immediately set up a military station on the traffic artery in the newly occupied area, which will be garrisoned by the personnel of the logistics department and assisted by the local reserve battalion, and all kinds of materials will be stored in these military stations in advance, so when the army is mobilized, a large amount of temporary material allocation work will be reduced. It has undoubtedly played a great role in improving the operational capability of the Xingtian Army.

At the same time, the establishment of the military station system also provided favorable support for the logistical replenishment of the Xingtian Army, which could quickly obtain the replenishment of combat materials through the military stations set up along the way after the expedition, and in addition, the wounded could be quickly transferred to the rear for treatment.

Of course, on the route of the transfer of a large number of troops, the men stationed in the military station can also prepare meals for the upcoming soldiers and horses in advance, prepare horse materials and other things, so that when the army passes through the military station, they no longer need to camp and bury the pot to make rice, and can directly eat hot meals, so that the mules and horses accompanying the army can eat horse food.

Although the military station system was implemented not long ago, but Luo Bin's ability to execute is still quite powerful, he first started from the periphery, in Lushan, Baofeng, Ruzhou, Yiyang and other places on the periphery set up a military station, in order to speed up the construction of the military station, he simply chose some important roads on the original Zhuang Fort as the basis of the military station, and dispatched local displaced people to repair, expand and strengthen these Zhuang Fort so that it can be put into use soon, and the soldiers stationed in the military station in peacetime are in addition to training. Another task is to continuously strengthen these military stations and receive a steady stream of materials, so don't look at Xiao Tianjian's order to build military stations for a short time, but now it has begun to show results.

After Xiao Tianjian ordered the start of the operation, the soldiers and horses stationed in various places did not even need to assemble in Ruzhou at all, so they immediately began to act, quickly gathered in the direction of Baofeng from all over the place, almost did not stop along the way, and made a short rest through the military stations everywhere, and it only took two or three days to basically gather all of them in the area of Baofeng County.

And Xiao Tianjian himself also made up his mind, so he immediately set off from Ruzhou and rushed to Baofeng County with Liu Yaoben's teaching camp and Situ Liang's cavalry battalion.

Only one day after he arrived in Baofeng County, all the battalions that accompanied him arrived at the designated place and merged into Xiao Tianjian's command, Luo Li and other generals also arrived in Baofeng County in advance, and entered the big camp to listen to the order, and even the artillery battalion and baggage battalion, which were relatively slow to act, also arrived in Baofeng County on time and within the specified date, and merged into the army sequence.

In this way, Xiao Tianjian gathered a total of four battalions in Baofeng County, one cavalry battalion, one artillery battalion, one baggage battalion and one engineer battalion, in addition to two reserve battalions used as auxiliaries.

After Xiao Tianjian held a short oath-taking ceremony in Baofeng County, he didn't stop at all, so he immediately waved his army south and left Baofeng County, which opened the prelude to the Central Plains War in the eleventh year of Chongzhen.

The army took Situ Liang's cavalry battalion as the vanguard, followed by the Xingtian Army Engineer Battalion, along the way, Situ Liang first led his troops to sweep away some of the officials and local armed forces that appeared in front of them and tried to block their advance, and then the engineer battalion leveled the roads along the way under its cover, and immediately built pontoon bridges when encountering rivers to prepare for the follow-up soldiers and horses.

Xiao Tianjian himself led the armies to follow closely behind, rolling forward at an extremely fast speed, and the entire corps was like a giant crush, crushing all the resistance encountered along the way into powder, and there was no force at all that could effectively delay or prevent them from advancing in the direction of Runing Mansion.

And along the way, there are a large number of displaced people and small groups of local armed forces to vote, they pass all kinds of news to the Xingtian Army, and the Xingtian Army has already secretly pulled up the team, just wait for Xiao Tianjian's army to arrive, they immediately responded with troops, and cooperated with the forward to attack some of the Zhuang Fort that blocked the road, in short, after starting from Baofeng, the Xingtian Army was like a broken bamboo in the direction of Runing Mansion, and no one could stop them at all.

As for the two counties of Ye County and Wuyang along the way, the defenders can almost say that they did not do much resistance, so they abandoned the city and fled, but when they arrived in Xiping County, Xiping Zhixian ordered the defenders in the county to close the door and defend to the end, putting on a posture of wanting to fight to the end, but Xiao Tianjian did not waste a little time in Xiping County at all, and directly led his troops around the city and rushed straight to Runing Mansion. So it only took Xiao Tianjian two days to kill all the way from Baofeng County to Runing Mansion.

At this time, Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan had just arrived in Runing Mansion for a short time, and they were waiting for Xiong Wencan's order to attack Baofeng, and they were also watching the limelight, planning to see how the other officials and troops were doing, and then planning to enter the army, so they Chen soldiers rested outside the city of Runing Mansion.

But what they didn't expect was that they didn't wait for them to fight the Heavenly Army, and the Heavenly Army actually pounced on them so quickly, and after hearing the news, the prefect of Runing hurriedly invited Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan to the city to discuss the countermeasures.

(Relatives are here, the number of words in the second update today is a little less, everyone is more forgiving!) ）