In mid-May, an army of more than 2,000 men was marching north on the border of Yingzhou, north of Anzhou, as the march meandered through the ranks with flags fluttering and spears fluttering.

The leader of this army is Yu Wenwen, one of the self-proclaimed 'Three Giants of the Anzhou Demon Army', and his 'evil' minions are surrounded by him.

"Where's the momentum?" Yuwen Wen rode on his horse and glanced at the team that was silently marching, very dissatisfied, and then pulled Fifth Brother Chen's ear and shouted: "Momentum, Master Chen!" ”

Fifth Brother Chen hurriedly passed the order, and after a while, the soldiers recited in unison: "Heaven and earth are yellow, the universe is desolate, the sun and the moon are shining, and the sun and moon are shining."

Xu Shao listened to the soldiers reciting the thousand-character text on the side, this thousand-character text is a book for children to be enlightened in Mengxue, but now Gongyu Wenwen of Xiyang County is used by the illiterate recruits to recite it.

The recruit drill has entered the fourth month so far, Xu Shao followed Yuwen Wen to train the recruits in the mixed military camp every day, but he was familiar with his strange ideas, and the gentleman who taught the soldiers Qianziwen was still invited by him from the township school.

This army was recruited by Yuwenwen, and it is considered a subordinate and also known as a private soldier, so when the food is full and the money is enough, the soldiers have no opinion on how to practice and how to toss the soldiers.

After four months of training, the soldiers walked with a good look, both tacit understanding and discipline were impressive, and the training project was to march and camp.

This was the third march, and after the previous two marches had become more and more impressive, with the cavalry marching around the ranks to keep guard, while the rest of the soldiers marched on foot.

Tents, luggage and other large baggage were loaded on horse-drawn wagons, and the soldiers were dressed in two armors, armed with guns, swords, and bows, and the weather was quite cool in early May, but fine beads of sweat were already on their heads.

What Xu Shao cares about very much is the carriage, to be precise, the four-wheeled carriage, the front end of the four-wheeled carriage is connected to the body through a small disc and the steering is very flexible, and the load capacity of the carriage is much higher after having four wheels.

In February, Yu Wenwen asked the craftsmen of the Anzhou Ordnance Supervision to make this four-wheeled carriage, and after nearly four months of trial and continuous adjustment, the improved model has now begun to become popular in Anlu, and the ten carriages on this march are all four-wheeled.

More is the wheelbarrow, that is, the "wooden ox flowing horse" invented by the Prime Minister Zhuge of the Three Kingdoms Shu Han Dynasty in the world, a wheelbarrow is pushed by a heavy soldier or pulled by a soldier.

As the name suggests, the unicycle has only one wheel, and because it only lands on one wheel, there is no need to choose a wide road surface, so it can be passed on sheep intestine paths, lanes, ridges and wooden bridges in the countryside.

There are many places in Jingchu and water, and there are not as many plains as in the north, so when marching and fighting, the equipment used to transport baggage by land is mostly wheelbarrows, and it is no problem for horse-drawn carriages to walk on the official road, but in case you want to cross the mountains and mountains, it will be much more troublesome to take the sheep's intestine path.

"Is there anything you can't stand up? If you can't walk, you can raise your hand to get on the bus and rest! An officer shouted loudly, and then added, "The car is not for nothing, I will help with the laundry tonight!" ”

As soon as the words fell, some soldiers who originally wanted to get on the car hurriedly retracted their hands and the large army continued to march north, Xu Shao shook his head with a smile when he saw this, starting from Anlu early yesterday morning, the soldiers marched in full armor until they camped in the middle of the road last night, and continued to advance after spending the night in the field.

Encampment is also one of the training items, how to best and quickly set up camp and settle down is also one of the strengths of an army, and the performance of the soldiers last night was significantly improved compared to the previous two times.

Anzhou Prefecture Zhi'an Lucheng to the north of Yingzhou Prefecture Zhiyongyang about eighty miles, normal marching can be reached in more than a day, Yu Wenwen and the generals after discussing decided to wait for the soldiers to adapt to the normal marching speed and then the rapid march, and strive for the future marching speed to reach and stabilize at sixty miles a day.

Now that the team has marched to about five miles outside Yongyang City, Yuwen Wen is discussing with Chen Wudi and others how to toss these 'worms' after arriving, and suddenly the cavalry wandering in front of them came back and told that something was wrong outside Yongyang City.

"What's wrong?" Yuwenwen is a little strange, this Yingzhou is the northern gateway of Anzhou and borders Shenzhou, the governor's office of Yuzhou, and now the imperial court has not turned against Anzhou.

The cavalry returned to Yongyang, and the outside of the city seemed to be a little flustered, and the pedestrians ran into the city one after another, and the city gate was soon closed.

Yang Ji said that this is a little strange, could it be that he thought that there was something wrong with us, so he closed the city gate and was on guard? However, we have already been informed by the governor's office that we will march to Yongyang today.

The size of the army of nearly 3,000 people is not big or small, and in order to avoid causing unnecessary panic, Yu Wenwen led the troops to travel these times, and reported in advance in the governor's office so that he could inform the officials of the destination.

"Heizong, what do you think?" Yuwen Renjie asked.

"The county lord, there must be something strange in it!" Xu 'Yuanfang' replied very simply, Fifth Brother Chen and the others also nodded, and several people discussed for a moment and decided to let the large army stop and rest and pay attention to vigilance, and the cavalry went to Yongyang City to inquire about the situation.

After four months of training and selection, Yuwenwen now has 300 cavalry, because of the small number, he usually travels around the army as a scout, but also to avoid a half-way 'ambush'.

Yu Wenwen, who likes yin people in the day, is most guarded against being yin, just like Cao Chengxiang, who likes to cut off people's food routes the most during the Three Kingdoms, is also the most protective against being cut off by people's food channels.

But he is more afraid of 'pig teammates', his army is dominated by infantry, in case the war is stalemate, the only mobile force is the last straw for the assault to turn the tables, he doesn't want to end up, but he watches the cavalry sit by and watch the slip away.

Yang Ji didn't know what a 'pig teammate' was, but he knew what a 'selling teammate' was, as a person from the late Ming Dynasty, he remembered a battle example: the battle of the Hunhe River in the first year of the Great Ming Dynasty.

In the same year, Jianzhou ** Hachi led tens of thousands of troops to attack Shenyang, and Yuan Yingtai, the general soldier of Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, sent the general soldier Chen Ce and Tong Zhonghua to lead thousands of reinforcements from the Sichuan and Zhejiang armies to the north from Liaoyang to reinforce, and sent the general soldiers Li Bingcheng and Zhu Wanliang to lead the division from Fengji Fort to the north to support.

**Hachi took Shenyang in one day with the assistance of the traitors, and the soldiers of the Sichuan and Zhejiang armies were furious when they heard this, and they dared to take the initiative to fight!

Yes, there were only a few thousand soldiers in the Sichuan and Zhejiang armies, and they 'dared' to take the initiative to fight against the tens of thousands of troops of Jiannu, who had won a hundred battles, and then the two sides really fought on the side of the Hunhe River in Shenyang.

The Jiannu Eight Banners Army, who thought they could happily eat mutton hot pot, gnawed on a hard stone and almost knelt, first barred the mud legs, and the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan Army were killed, and the Eight Banners Army suffered heavy casualties, so it was easy to push the other party across the Hunhe River, and they never thought that after the Sichuan Army and the Zhejiang soldiers who came up, they would dare to fight again.

The Zhejiang soldiers are the remnants of the Qi family army trained by Qi Jiguang, and the Sichuan army, which suffered heavy casualties in the first battle but is still enthusiastic, continued to fight against the Eight Banners Army and launched a fierce battle, and the battle was as dark as the sky.

The Eight Banners Army continued to support the generals of the Sichuan and Zhejiang armies, and felt that I also had reinforcements, so I asked for help from the cavalry of the Liaodong Ming Army who were watching around: Seeing that the old slave was about to finish playing, the brothers helped them push them!

Reinforce? The Liaodong Ming army had suffered a lot of losses in the previous tentative attack, and now they were frightened by the bloody battle between the two sides, and said again and again that the world is beautiful, everyone fight, kill, kill, and kill, what are you doing, let's take care of it together.

As a result, this group of Liaodong cavalry, which was still numerous, watched as the two most elite troops of Sichuan and Zhejiang, who galloped thousands of miles to aid Liaodong and the Ming Dynasty, were wiped out of blood and stained the river little by little.

Then they sighed with emotion, "The Jurchens are not satisfied with 10,000, and there are no invincible people", so they retracted to the nest and asked the court for military salaries to 'train strong soldiers'.

Every time he said this, Yang Ji gritted his teeth with hatred, Yuwen Wen felt the same way, so he decided that even if his cavalry was small in number, it was not good or skilled, but it must be reliable, so he didn't want his father to send troops to the oil cavalry, but he had to train himself, and train a cavalry led by his henchman Yuwen Fifteen who listened to his orders with all his heart.

Yuwen Fifteen is the son of the Yuwen family, his father is still under Yuwen Wen's father Yu Wenliang, not to mention the rest, if Yuwen Fifteen dares to leave Yuwen Wen and run away, his father will be the first to jump out and cramp and peel the skin.

Yu Wenwen's 'sinister intentions' to completely control the cavalry are very clear: If I let you rush to death, you have to send you to death without hesitation!

Taking advantage of the fact that the scouts had not yet returned, they began to discuss what the situation would be in Yongyang City, and after thinking about it for a long time, they thought that the worst was that Shenzhou in the north would send troops to attack, that is, the imperial court would turn its face, and the best situation would be about a bandit attack.

The north of Yingzhou is the Tongbai Mountains, and the Ba Man, who lives in the mountains, is not under the control of the government, so it is normal if they go down the mountain to attack and disturb them.

Yu Wenwen couldn't help but think of the original historical trajectory: in August of the second year of the elephant (that is, in August last year), after Sima Xiao, the governor of Anzhou, raised an army against Yang, the barbarians in the Tongbai Mountains elected Qu Shuai Lan Luozhou as the leader to respond to Wei Chi's cronies in the north and Sima in the south.

Lan Yuzhou claimed to have more than 100,000 troops, claiming to be the king of Henan, wanted to fish in troubled waters, but Wang Yi, the marching marshal who was defeated by Sima and eliminated difficulties, divided his troops and pacified it in less than a month.

And now the fact is that Wang Yi had been defeated and killed in the battle between Xiangyang and the Anzhou army in July last year, and the Suicheng at the southern foot of Tongbai Mountain was defended by the Anzhou army like an iron barrel.

The news brought by the scouts later confirmed this: somehow Tongbai Shanba was in a commotion, and sent his troops south to invade the states, and Yingzhou assassinated Shi to find out that the enemy was about to take refuge, and immediately gathered the people into the city for refuge, and at the same time sent messengers south to report to Anzhou.

The few people who came back with the scouts were messengers, and Yuwenwen didn't dare to delay and let them hurry south, and then he faced a problem: to fight or not to fight?

It's only four or five miles away from the city, as long as you enter the city, wait a few days under the protection of the city wall, and the reinforcements will come, and it will be really stable.

I didn't dwell on it for long, Yuwen Wenwen, Yang Ji, Chen Wudi and others reached a consensus: do it!

My monthly military salary is almost 3,000 yuan, and the food consumed is raised by two people, but it is not just a rice bucket, life and death are not accepted, and I will do it!