Chapter 582: Taiping Border Soldiers

In the middle of Shenyang and Tieling, there are two rivers, close to Shenyang is the Pu River, close to the Tieling is the Fan River, the vanguard soldiers and horses of Shenyang Zhongwei and Dongning Wei, lay pontoon bridges on the Pu River, repair the road, so as to give the army behind as much traffic as possible.

Puhe and Fanhe have thousands of households, there are official roads connecting them, and the position in the middle of the official road is Yilu Fort, and the officers and soldiers of Shenyang Zhongwei and Dongningwei do not know Li Gufeng's judgment on the Huazhou army in his heart, so they are not so sure, and they are careful and safe when they march.

After entering Yilu Fort, the general who led the two guards was relieved, the highest official of Yilu Fort was only a hundred households, and after a few random orders, he went with the other officers to arrange the garrison of the army.

Although there is still a guard post to the north of Tielingwei, those are all fictitious, so if the Huazhou army occupies Tielingwei, the battlefield will definitely be in the south of Tieling, and the area between Shenyang.

As the vanguard of Liaozhen, the two guards and horses are to rush to the north as much as possible, the further north they go, the greater the strategic depth left for themselves, according to Li Gufeng's calculations, it is best to set up a large camp north of the Fan River, so that they can not help but oppress the opponent's space, and there are multiple back roads to choose from.

If you retreat, you can set up defense lines at the Fanhesuo, Yilubao and Puhesuo, relying on the checkpoints on the river and the road to stop the opponent's march.

But after Li Liang, the general who led the two guards, arrived at Yilu Fort, he knew that Fan Hesuo did not have to go, because Yilu Fort contained a large number of rout soldiers and refugees from Fan Hesuo, and the Huazhou Army, which had been inactive, suddenly began to move when the Liaozhen army was opened, and Fan Hesuo was trembling and guarding there, and they thought that they would not be spared after Tielingwei was captured.

But he didn't expect that the so-called Huazhou Army didn't pay attention to them at all, and the people of Fan Hesuo seemed to be watched by the tigers, how to stay there freely, and asked to retreat many times, but they were strictly forbidden by Li Gufeng, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, and directly moved out of the deterrence of military law.

In the two months of such fear, when Huazhou began to attack, Fan Hesuo only symbolically resisted, opened his back door, and the officers and soldiers and their families who had been preparing to flee flocked out and went all the way south. Their symbolic resistance, the Huazhou army was also a symbolic attack, and they didn't even bother to pursue, watching the soldiers and subordinates of Fan Hesuo cross the river from afar.

On the one hand, General Li Liang reorganized the soldiers and horses of Fan Hesuo and incorporated them into the army, and on the other hand, he also quickly sent fast horses to report to the camp, and then arranged his men and horses to start building a camp in the place between Yilubao and Puhe, which was also the garrison of the Liaozhen army.

The distance between the vanguard and the team is only four hours to be delivered quickly, and in the evening, the general Li Gufeng arranged for his own soldiers to send a message over, and the battalion had its own rear team to build, so that the general Li Liang led the troops forward, and the forward of the Huazhou army was engaged, and the other party was driven away from the Fan River as much as possible.

Li Liang secretly scolded in his heart, it has only been less than ten hours since he arrived at Yilu Fort today, and he is going to take advantage of the night to pull out the camp to attack Fanhe, wouldn't it be to let the other party wait for work, and before, the officers above the garrison were all told that the Huazhou Northern Army was a rabble, and its actions were slow, and the military aircraft were delayed.

Who would have thought that the other party's reaction was not slow, and the general Li Liang always felt bottomless, but he was originally born in Li Gufeng's family, and he was a military general on one side, and he was under the jurisdiction of Li Gufeng, and the military order was like a mountain, how could there be any reason to disobey, and he was immediately anxious for his subordinate officials to arrange it.

The soldiers and horses of the two guards had only slept for three hours, and they were called, and all of them complained, but under the urging and scolding of officials at all levels, they still got up to cook, equipped the men and horses, and set off quickly. Prepare for a night attack on the Van River.

However, this night attack is a bit inaccurate, Li Liang calculated the time, but he could reach Fanhe Qianhu when it was dark, but it was dark because the night outside the gate began to get longer, and he should have arrived there when the sun was about to rise.

I slept for three hours, which is actually not less, converted to the current time, it is six hours, just a fire to cook at night, and then clean up the march, so that the rules of people's lives are completely disordered, it is difficult to adjust, the soldiers are all feeling particularly tired, not to mention these soldiers, even Li Liang and his cronies officers and soldiers are like this.

In such a tired state, there was no spirit to rush at all, the soldiers were listless, and Li Liang here was too lazy to urge. Originally, Li Gufeng's idea was that the two guards and horses led by Li Liang arrived before dawn, and the Huazhou army's procrastination and reaction must have been caught off guard, and the stronghold of Fan Hesuo could be recaptured.

However, he did not estimate the state of the soldiers, since the Mongol Tatars and Jurchen tribes outside the pass were swept away by Jiang Feng, Liaozhen has been peaceful for ten years.

The strength and courage of soldiers can only be tempered in the war, and they have not seen blood for ten years, and they do not go to the battlefield, even if they train non-stop every day, they will not be able to get on the table, not to mention that Liaozhen is vast and sparsely populated, whether it is an officer or a soldier, they are willing to use more land to support their families, and how much time do they have to train.

Not to mention Liaozhen, in fact, the Huazhou army on the main island of Huazhou, that is, North Korea, also has a similar situation, they are indeed training every day, but the actual combat experience is indeed too little, fortunately, there are a lot of Jiangfeng's veteran seeds, these veterans started from Dengzhou, experienced previous battles, and saw blood.

Huazhou's first battle must be won, this is the unified view of the Huazhou center, and it is also something that Jiang Feng has been planning since he really made up his mind to seize the world.

In order for the Huazhou army to have more experience in actual combat, in fact, the army of Huazhou Island regularly rotates on ships every year, going to Guanwai and Yizhou, going to the grassland to fight grass valleys, fighting pirates and natives, and sometimes they themselves act as pirates to rob Western ships in an organized manner.

Even so, the wealth and peace of Huazhou Island made the wealth of these soldiers too strong, and in general, Jiang Feng was not at ease.

On the contrary, outside the Guan, whether it is a regimentally trained soldier or a guard, basically every year from the West Fort of the Taer River to the grassland, some people travel a long distance to Dingbei City, and rotate with the soldiers there, and the soldiers stationed in the grassland outside the Guanwai expand the scope of their activities more and more to the north.

The soldiers of Dingbei City had to constantly fight against the Russian nobles and Cossacks, and the soldiers stationed in the steppes outside the Guanxi were at war with the remnants of the Obir Khanate and the tribes of the northern frontier.

The Mongolian barbarians in Russia and the north are extremely strong warriors, and the soldiers outside the border become stronger and stronger in this continuous training, and this kind of combat has rich benefits to be in their hands, the cattle and horse slaves in the northern Xinjiang, as well as the pastures, can be distributed to the soldiers after each battle.

On the island of Huazhou, there are already some people who are reluctant to go to war, and those who have craftsmen's shops at home, trade and trade, or those who hire third-class Korean workers at home and cultivate the land are not small rich people in Daming, and who is willing to let their children and nephews go to the army to fight. The Huazhou Governor's Mansion and the Taishou Prefecture promulgated various policies in favor of military families, and of course there were various rules for conscription, which was the only way to maintain a certain level of army there.

However, outside the Guan, that is, Beifu, and Yizhou, the young and strong people in these two places are stimulated by the benefits obtained by being a soldier and are extremely fierce and bloodthirsty, "farming and fishing for ten years is not as good as working for a year, and working for a year is not as good as being a soldier for ten days", this is a folk proverb in two places, which really reflects this situation.

Jiang Feng sometimes sighed in private, if it weren't for the veterans brought in Dengzhou and the tens of thousands of regiments collected when Huazhou was first built, to this day, the main island of Huazhou is a comfortable nest at this time, no one wants to be a soldier, and you and I will all die in peace.

Therefore, in this operation, the soldiers and horses of the Huazhou headquarters led by Yang Da were the rear team, but the soldiers and horses of Guanwai and Yizhou were the first to move, precisely because they had actual combat experience and were trained in the battle every year, such soldiers can be called strong soldiers.

The Huazhou army is like this, but the Liaozhen soldiers have the opportunity and experience to fight, and now the great tomorrow is all to make more money as the priority, the Liaozhen soldiers in the Ming Dynasty are known for their diligence and knowledge, and they have always been considered to be a strong army, because most of the soldiers and horses in the border town guard are busy doing business there to make money, and the soldiers are leased to the factory farm by the officer to make money, and it has long been in decay.

As for the so-called duty of the soldiers in Liaozhen, the situation is also a little special, Liaozhen is vast and sparsely populated, the land is fertile, and the soldiers only need to calculate a few acres of land than work, so it seems that the soldiers of Liaozhen are farming and training every day and abide by their duties.

But what combat effectiveness does such a peaceful soldier and horse have, Li Liang's soldiers and horses, who have been farming for so many years, were suddenly called out to fight, and everyone complained, and everyone was listless.

Li Gufeng thought in his heart that he would let this army rush for a few hours at night and march to Fan Hesuo, where he knew that these soldiers were suddenly called up, and the state would definitely not be the best, so there was still room for this time, but in fact, the real situation was even worse than he expected.

The soldiers and horses of the two guards did not stop on the road, but the speed was indeed slower, and when the sun came out and the sky was bright, Li Liang and his soldiers and horses saw the outline of Fan Hesuo.

There are also Huazhou soldiers and horses waiting for them on the banks of the Fan River......

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