After making up his mind, Zhang Xianzhong's army did not immediately stop to seek a decisive battle, but continued to march south for a day to distance the team behind and Fengyang. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After several days of marching, both sides reached the territory of Luzhou. The land in Luzhou is flat, there are almost no mountains, and even a small mound that is slightly higher is difficult to find. Such terrain made it difficult for Zhang Xianzhong to ambush the Ming army on the one hand, but on the other hand, it also made it difficult for Zhang Xianzhong, who had a numerical advantage and a large number of war horses, to have a decisive battle with the model army behind them as long as he wanted to.

Zhang Xianzhong brought the army to a halt and at the same time sent a large group of cavalry to bypass the opponent in order to cut off the opponent's retreat. The Model Army did not send cavalry units to stop the actions of the opponent. In fact, they don't care too much about the fact that the retreat is cut off. Because they knew that Zhang Xianzhong's military rations were limited, and it was impossible to besiege them for a long time. And the food they brought with them was quite abundant. Compared with the army of that era, the military rations of the model army, especially the military rations for field operations, were relatively very high-end. Because of the development of the whaling industry, the Zheng family has a large amount of whale oil in their hands. The main use of this whale oil today is, of course, for lighting, but in fact, this high-calorie oil is also edible. They are added to food to provide higher energy to food. Every 100 grams of whale oil can provide about 900 kcal, which is nearly nine times that of ordinary rice. As a result, the amount of food that soldiers need to carry during high-intensity marches is greatly reduced. Therefore, if Zhang Xianzhong felt that this army did not seem to carry a lot of baggage, and wanted to hold on to them, it would probably make the actual commander of this mixed force, the infantry battalion commander Gan Hui, drop his jaw with laughter. Because he was not worried about the problem of supply, Gan Hui just asked the soldiers to stop, and let the attached auxiliaries surround the baggage vehicles into a vehicle formation and prepare for defense, and did not send troops to open up the back road.

Gan Hui graduated from the Model Army Infantry School only two years ago. Gan Hui is not a homeless, he is a native of Fujian, and he also has a family in Fujian, and even the family environment is not bad, and he is not in danger of starvation, and even he has read a little in the family school. However, Gan Hui likes to listen to chivalrous novels, likes to dance knives and guns, likes to fight grievances, and always dreams that he is a hero in chivalrous stories. As a result, once when Gan Shaoxia was doing chivalrous righteousness, he was careless and beat the patriarch's son to a serious injury, and as a result, he had to escape from the family and wander around. Gan Hui thought that he could be a free ranger without the shackles of his family, but he was almost starved to death on the street. In the end, in order to fill his stomach, he joined the Zheng family's immigration team, and then because of his appropriate age and good health, he was selected into the model army and sent to the model military school for low-level officer training.

Zheng Sen has always served as the mountain chief of the Model Military School, and the list of new students every year naturally has to be seen by him. The name Gan Hui immediately caught his attention. In the original history, Gan Hui was one of the most outstanding generals under Zheng Chenggong, but unfortunately died in the Battle of Nanjing. Zheng Sen naturally has an impression of this name. Although he couldn't be sure whether this Gan Hui was the same Gan Hui in the original history, he still inevitably paid attention to his situation from time to time. And Gan Hui is indeed competitive, he performed very well in school, and after graduating and entering the army, he also performed well, and he has made some combat exploits in several battles. Soon rose to the rank of company commander. In the company commander, he didn't have time to fight any battles, but his company got the best results in the internal assessment, so with the expansion of the model army, he became the first batch of people to be promoted from company commander to battalion commander.

It would have been fine if it was just like this, but in this operation, he and his infantry battalion were sent out to carry out the task of eliminating Liu Zeqing and repelling Zhang Xianzhong, but it made many people like him who had just been promoted to battalion commander all kinds of envy and jealousy. Because in this operation, he will not only command an infantry battalion, but also command the artillery and cavalry contingents temporarily assigned to him. Rumor has it that the size of the Model Army will expand rapidly in the future, and that it will be a mixed formation, and that an officer who has commanded artillery, light cavalry, and heavy cavalry will obviously be more likely to be promoted.

Gan Hui also knew that he was promoted too quickly, and many people in the model army were not convinced by him, thinking that he was just taking advantage of the light of Fujianese. So, he felt that he had to seize this opportunity and fight a good fight to gag some people's mouths.

At this time, the auxiliaries behind had also surrounded the car formation and prepared for defense. In fact, the combat effectiveness of the auxiliary soldiers of the model army should not be underestimated, although it cannot be compared with a certain army in later generations with the combat effectiveness of cooking soldiers plus 200% of the special skills, but it may be slightly stronger than ordinary soldiers.

As soon as the car formation was arranged, Zhang Xianzhong's scout appeared near the car formation, but they didn't get close, just looked at this side from a distance. Gan Hui also sent light cavalry, but he did not let these light cavalry drive out the scouts, but conducted battlefield reconnaissance to determine the location of the enemy's main force.

Zhang Xianzhong's scouts tried to intercept the light cavalry of the model army, but their horses were not as fast as the light cavalry's hybrid war horses in terms of speed and endurance, and the training level of the soldiers could not keep up. So not only did they fail to catch up with the light cavalry, but they also seized the opportunity, made a time difference, and killed more than a dozen. As a result, Zhang Xianzhong's scouts' desire to fight immediately went down, and their interception of the light cavalry became a pure pretense.

In about a quarter of an hour, the scout cavalry sent out brought back news of the enemy. Zhang Xianzhong's army was already approaching. Gan Hui then ordered the infantry to put on armor, come out of the formation, and line up in three rows on both sides of the formation. The light cavalry also left the cart formation and was arranged on the sides of the infantry to take care of the flanks, and the artillery remained in the cart formation.

"The officers and soldiers on the other side are already ready." Zhang Xianzhong rode on a horse, looked at the car formation in the distance and the model army formation outside the car formation, and said to Sun Kewang who was accompanying him, "You see, their morale is really good, just such a few people, they dare to come out of the car formation to line up." ”

"It's really good, the child heard that Ma Shiying didn't have a long time to be this official, and it took even less time to set up this pro-military camp, I thought that in such a little time, this old man would make some appearance at most, and I didn't want to ...... Just looking at the posture of this array, it is no worse than that of Huang Degong's family. ”

"Whether it's bad or not, you still have to fight to know." Ai Nengqi said, "Daddy, this first battle, let's let the child go." ”