Li Xiangchun's resolute request to participate in the war was not only a vent of dissatisfaction, but also a consideration of his own future.

Of course, Li Xiangchun also had the capital to ask to participate in the war: the non-commissioned officer company of the garrison battalion.

The garrison battalion non-commissioned officer company is a unique formation in the Protector Army, with two infantry platoons and two cavalry platoons.

In terms of formed equipment alone, the non-commissioned officer company of the garrison battalion is no different from an ordinary mixed infantry company, but its personnel composition is very special:

The vast majority of petty soldiers are non-commissioned officers, and a few are even platoon-level officers. As for the command positions above the squad leader, all of them are high-ranking officers. For example, the company commander is concurrently served by Li Xiangchun, deputy regimental level, and Feng Chenghao, deputy company commander, who is a battalion-level salary, former garrison, and deputy captain of Zhang Zuokai's family.

Feng Chenghao also participated in the Battle of Yuxi. It's just that his battlefield is not in Yuxi Town, but in Jinbaozhai in the north of the town.

In the battle of Yuxi, Zhang Zuokai's troops were only 30% left, and they were split because of the arson of the town.

The anti-Zhang faction led by the thorn Cheng Weiguo was brought to Bazhou by Yang Mingshi, and later formed the 20th Battalion of the National Protector Army, under the command of the Fifth Regiment;

There are not many pro-Zhang faction troops left, and the rest are mainly Zhang Zuokai and Li Xiangchun's relatives and some of them in the camp. Ma Gan, the deputy envoy of the garrison, considered that the soldiers were tired and there were still a large number of wounded soldiers who needed to be treated, so he withdrew them to Dahou City to recuperate.

The general advocated that Zhuokai was seriously injured and Li Xiangchun of the capital division was missing, but the loss of more than 200 people under Feng Chenghao was slight, so Zhang Zhuokai appointed Feng Chenghao as the acting general before returning to Baoning to heal his wounds, commanding the remaining troops and supporting the shelf of his deputy general's battalion.

However, Zhang Zhuokai still miscalculated.

Soon after he left the camp, Feng Chenghao received the order of Shangguan, and the rest of Zhang's camp was reorganized into the Bazhou garrison camp of the National Protector Army and went to Bazhou.

Not only did he not have a regimental number, but he didn't even give Zhang Ying the number of the regular battalion. Feng Chenghao was furious in his heart, and he planned to refuse this military order, first pull the army back to the old nest in Maoyu Town, and then fight a lawsuit with the Sichuan government.

However, the reaction of the soldiers surprised Feng Chenghao.

Except for a few Zhang Xiangkai pro-Ding (pro-soldiers) who did not have military status, they were willing to follow Feng Chenghao, and most of the rest of the Zhang family were against it.

The reason why the family members were reluctant to clash head-on with the Sichuan government was because the reorganization order took good care of their interests. With the establishment of a non-commissioned officer company, the limited number of posts in the army is no longer an obstacle to promotion. Those who have the rank of the family are all appointed to the officer level, the main battalion of the division, the deputy battalion of the garrison, the general of the thousand, the general of the general, and the general of the trial corresponding to the main company, the deputy company, and the main platoon, and the captain and deputy captain who have no rank are also appointed to the deputy platoon, and even the ordinary family members are also non-commissioned officers.

In this way, why don't the families take the food and salary of the Protector Army, but instead go to live the old life of being full and hungry?

Losing the support of his family, Feng Chenghao had no choice but to rush back to Baoning Mansion to meet Zhang Zuokai, who was enjoying special care in the hospital for wounded soldiers.

General Zhang, who once surprised the battlefield, understood that the general trend had gone, so he had to sigh and ask people to write a petition for sin.

In the compromise, Zhang Zuokai took full responsibility for the Yuxi fire. He hoped that the prince and Liao Fu would allow him to return to his hometown for the sake of his life, old age, sickness and disability, and promote Li Xiangchun and Feng Chenghao, who had basically recovered from their injuries, as the chief and deputy commanders of the garrison camp.

Zhang Zuokai's move was to exchange his submission to the prince for the future of Li Xiangchun, Feng Chenghao and other old people in Zhang Ying.

The prince Zhu Pingjin soon had a positive response. Zhang Wei, the attendant eunuch, came with the order of the prince in his hand, and praised Zhang Zuokai for sticking to the land of Yuxi projectiles, burning the earth thieves, and creating "an unprecedented victory in northern Sichuan", "all requests are accepted, but the country has many things to rely on", so it is not allowed to return to his hometown to provide for the elderly, and appointed Zhang Zuokai as the deputy commander of the Baoning Military Region.

Zhang Zuokai couldn't retire, but became a hostage for Zhu Pingjin to control the remnants of Zhang Ying, and he had to take another thanksgiving fold.

But Zhu Pingjin gained far more than the hundreds of remnants of Zhang Ying. From practice, he gradually strengthened his confidence in integrating the officers and troops, and explored a way to digest the old military resources of the Ming Dynasty.

At the Boryeong Conference, Zhu Pingjin dared to integrate the military command of the whole Sichuan under the condition that the remnants of the enemy were not destroyed, and through the hands of Liao Daheng, the governor of Sichuan, he withdrew the abandoned guards, reorganized the battalions, and rebuilt the military strength of Sichuan in accordance with the military system of the Protector Army, and smoothly digested Zhang Zuokai's department and played a very good role as a pathfinder.

It's just that this kind of integration, like the law of development of all things, has a process and some waves.

Zhu Pingjin understands, and everyone in Bazhou City understands.

……

The blazing bonfire was left on Li Xiangchun's fleeting figure

A glimmer of light.

Seeing the battalion commander hurriedly walking down the stone steps of the city tower, Feng Chenghao hurriedly came out from under the dark eaves of the city and greeted him.

The two met at the mouth of the stone steps in an instant, and Feng Chenghao immediately asked, "Is it accurate?" ”

"Accurate!"

Li Xiangchun replied in a deep voice, and then added:

"The non-commissioned officer company and the second company will follow the west road out of the camp tomorrow morning, but the Ba River. After leaving the city, he left the brigade and acted alone, and went straight to the north, occupying Yinling Mountain and other places in the north of the city, connecting the east and west roads, and then advancing according to the battle situation of the east and west roads.

In short, you can't let go of the local tyrant, and catching Xiao Yuan is the first work!

The 3rd and 4th companies continued to defend the city and kept the captives in the city in prison. There were too many captives. I'm worried that they're not being honest, so they're all locked up tonight. If you don't go to work tomorrow, you will kill a pig and lie to them that you will have a day off.

Remember, by tomorrow night at the latest, the men and horses of the 16th Battalion will enter the city to take over the defense. At that time, even if the captives knew the news, it would be too late......"

"You can ask Zengkou's 17th Battalion to send a company first. The seventeenth battalion is close to Bazhou, and they are all barbarian soldiers, so they can suppress those bandits who kill the sky......" Feng Chenghao interjected and reminded.

"The regimental commander and the prison army have already thought of it. Lord Yang is writing a military order, and after the regiment commander uses the seal, he will issue it overnight...... I also asked Zhu Gongzi to translate it into a code. The sixteenth battalion, the seventeenth battalion, and the Wang Xiang regiment in Enyang all have coded letters.

It's just that the 17th Battalion is a soldier of the old Fourth Regiment, and we can't control it, and no one can say if we can come to help. In case Xu Yinhuan of the 17th Battalion replied that he wanted to ask the regimental headquarters at Jiangkou, then the time would be delayed.

The Thirteenth Regiment is just as uncertain. Although Liu Zhenfan asked the prince for permission to use Wang Xiang's department, no one knew whether the prince was allowed to use it. If the prince is uncertain, or if the order is delayed on the road, Wang Xiang can not buy the account of Regiment Commander He, after all, Regiment Commander He is only the deputy commander of the Boring Military Region.

So the most reliable is still the sixteenth battalion!

The sixteenth battalion has been included in the formation of the fifth regiment, and the military order is like a mountain, and it has to be from. Waiting for the 16th Battalion to take over tomorrow night, the 3rd and 4th Companies will also hurry across the river and follow behind the non-commissioned officer company and the 2nd company. ”

"That's it." Feng Chenghao sighed lightly.

played a company and a half in the early stage, and could only make a small fuss and be a supporting role.

"It's accurate, it's just ......" Li Xiangchun wanted to speak and stopped.

"What's wrong again?"

"The regiment commander took away the two cavalry platoons of the non-commissioned officer company, saying that he wanted to form a cavalry company under the regiment. I see that the regimental commander is still worried that the local thugs will use the old methods to ambush them halfway, so he uses cavalry as scouts, just in case. ”

Hearing that all the cavalry in the battalion had been transferred, Feng Chenghao couldn't help but scold: "Damn, the old general's three hundred cavalry, there are no bones left." ”

"And what! The garrison battalion has a new overseer. Yao Erwa of the task force camp temporarily served as the battalion supervisor ......"

"Mother's X!" Feng Chenghao finally couldn't help but scold loudly.

"They still don't worry about us old officers and soldiers...... Isn't it just that we used to grab some food ......?"

Feng Chenghao's shouting and scolding spread far away in the silent night, and Li Xiangchun had to stop it sharply.

"Crazy man, keep your foul mouth! What do they do we? It's all us now!

Remember clearly to Lao Tzu, we are all the protectors of the country now, and we are all soldiers of the prince! You crazy man screaming indiscriminately, you will be a pain in the face of death, if you are involved in the old general and the whole battalion, Lao Tzu will be the first to take you to the knife and sacrifice the flag! ”

Seeing that Feng Chenghao was scolded by himself, Li Xiangchun seemed to be talking to himself:

"Yao Jianjun didn't enter the camp for nothing. He also brought with him a special platoon of regimental headquarters. Spy platoon, do you know? Master Ma Ganma's family, the leader is that Ma Sizong. ”

"Yes!"

Feng Chenghao's two rows of steel teeth clenched, as if he was about to gnaw on the iron cable.

"Everyone is watching us, so this time, we must fight for the first credit!"

The two spoke in the dark. Above their heads, behind the wallings of the city wall, Yao Chengguo listened word for word.

Competing for the head?

All right!

A mysterious smile appeared on Yao Chengguo's young face.

……

On April 3, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the sun in the east showed a bright light on the ridgeline in the distance, and the north gate and the west gate of Bazhou were opened at the same time, and the two large groups of people and horses slipped out of the city gate hole silently.

Out of the west gate were the regimental headquarters of the Fifth Regiment led by He Qiukou and Yang Mingshi, the 20th Battalion of the Protector Army, the only two platoons of the provisional cavalry company, one and a half companies of the Bazhou garrison battalion, one and a half companies of the artillery battalion, four guns, a baggage company, and a platoon of engineers, totaling about 1,500 people. The troops will be with the eighteenth battalion of the king province of our department at the wooden gate

Town Division.

Out of the north gate was the task force battalion and a prisoner baggage company, and the acting battalion commander was Yang Tianbo, who had made many military exploits. The task force will cross the Ba River at the North Gate Pier and then travel north along the left bank of the Ba River. After arriving at the next two towns, they will recross the Ba River, and then cooperate with the main force of Liu Zhenfan to surround the local tyrants in Baishan.

Why did Yang Tianbo choose to march on the left bank of the Ba River? Not because the road conditions on the left bank were better, but because this march route could indeed cover the threat from the western flank by virtue of the Ba River, which began the summer flood, and prevent the marching columns stretched on the mountain roads from being suddenly ambushed by the local thugs. Later facts proved that Yang Tianbo's prudence was like a bone-turning palm in the internal boxing method, which easily eliminated the possible disaster.

On a small hill near Wangwang Mountain in the north of Bazhou City, Yuan Tao, the king of the heavens, watched every move of the Bazhou garrison through the sparse woods. When he saw the big boat full of soldiers at the North Gate Ferry and began to ferry, his face sank and he sighed softly.

"The one who holds the plate!"

A short local thug squeezed behind Yuan Tao and shouted with a grin: "The one in charge, the Shu army goes to Hedong, not Hexi, so aren't all the people and horses in ambush stupid?" Judging from the small ones, they did not have many soldiers and horses left in the city. Why don't I wait for tonight to cross the river and hit Bazhou! ”

"What the Earth Tiger said is reasonable!" Yuan Tao turned around with a smile and looked at the leaders of the other rioters, "You all come and talk about it!" ”

"Dabazhou? Okay! There are also captured brothers in the city, who can be set on fire at night and flanked inside and out! ”

"There is grain and meat in the city of Bazhou, and the brothers eat wild vegetables and chew chaff every day, and their faces are green! One by one, they were so hungry that they lost their human ......"

"There is still cloth in Bazhou, the one who is in charge of the plate, look at the brothers' rotten clothes, and the ditches are exposed. As soon as Lao Tzu ran quickly, the two eggs came out to breathe and bask in the sun......"

The rude laughter came to mind, but Yuan Tao didn't laugh.

He suddenly lowered his face and reprimanded fiercely: "Speaking of entering the city, you are all a long stream! Lao Tzu doesn't know that there are good things in Bazhou City? You don't need your pig brains to think about it, how can you get into the city, and how can you get out? Look, the big river in front of us, how many people can we cross in one night? In the event that the two national protector armies of Zengkou and Enyang are attacked together, how many of us will be able to retreat across the river? ”

Yuan Tao scolded his head and face, and suddenly the surroundings were clean. At this time, it was the summer flood of the Ba River, and there were not enough tools to cross the river, so the rebels could neither attack nor retreat across the river. Once you cross the river and are entangled by the Protector Army, it is a battle against the water, and it is a dead end.

"Nothing to say, right? Fucking bad ideas! Yuan Tao squinted his eyes for a week, and finally landed on Wang Huaiyu, the silent military advisor in the distance.

Seeing Wang Huaiyu, Yuan Tao immediately put on a humble attitude: "You people, the reason why you lost the battle is that you are uneducated!" Unlike Mr. Huaiyu, who knows astronomy and geography, he can make ghosts grind in the middle......"

The palm plate was changing the law to make Wang Huaiyu speak, and the eyes of many local tyrants looked at the past. I saw that Wang Huaiyu frowned, shook his head slightly, and walked up slowly.

"Hold the plate, your strategy of showing up to lure the enemy has worked. But the most urgent thing is to fight the enemy! ”

"I was about to ask: Mr. Huaiyu's high opinion......"

"Now there are four groups of officers and troops around us.

Liu Zhenfan is a veteran, with many soldiers and a wide range of generals, and he is cautious in using soldiers, and he can't fight;

The group crossing the river in front of me is called the task force. It was the elite soldiers and strong generals that the little prince drew from the battalions of the Protector Army in order to save Yilongcheng. This battalion is extremely powerful, and Ma Chao died at the hands of the task force. Now that they are going to the east of the river, even if they can fight, we can't fight!

The remaining two shares: Wang Xingwubu, which started from Gao Castle and Puji Town, is the one that overturned Chen Lin. Before arriving at Mumen Town, the official road is in the west of the Enyang River, and we can't fight either.

In this way, there is only one good fight......

After this fight, Wang Xiang from Enyang Town will continue to send it to the door......"

listened to Wang Huaiyu's words. Yuan Tao's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Please also Mr. Huaiyu tell me more!"

Wang Huaiyu sighed lightly in his heart, it is easy to get on a thief ship, it is difficult to get off a thief ship, the ancients will not deceive me! said that it hurt yin and virtue, but did not say hurt itself.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Sun Tzu's Art of War, divides the world into 'nine places', one of which is the 'land of death'.

What is a place of death?

Those who fight will survive, and those who do not fight will die (Note 1)! ”

Note 1: Excerpt from "The Art of War in the Nine Places"

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