With Wen Shang's order, the soldiers and horses under his command seemed to have heard that there was an opportunity to beat the water dogs to get credit, as if they had been stimulants, their morale suddenly boosted, and their speed was obviously a little faster, and they went straight to the north of Exian County, which was obviously a little different from the spirit of the troops who were a little sluggish just now.

After all, if you are a soldier, who doesn't want to have military merits, only with military merits can you be promoted and make a fortune, and you can be a marquis and worship the prime minister, even if you are hungry now, there is a group of defeated troops on the other side, with their strong soldiers, if the siege is difficult because the enemy has the help of fire oil, then now they are not afraid of the rebels in the field.

Of course, these can only be the wishful thinking of the Nanyang soldiers who want to beat the water dogs and reap the merits of the war at this moment, after all, they have been stationed under the city of Exian since they assembled and set out for the battle, and they have not been in contact with these rebels at all, so they have always thought that they are always beaten down by the rebels, all because of the fierceness of the rebels' oil, but they have not thought about whether it is because of their own combat strength.

Just imagine, these rebels of the Han Barbarian Alliance Army can beat the Jiangxia County soldiers who are also Jingzhou Army all over the ground with their bare hands, and finally capture the four counties of Jiangxia, so that Jiangxia County Zhixiling County was also attacked by the rebels and could not resist, which shows the strength of the rebels. Therefore, once these Jingzhou soldiers meet those fleeing rebels in the wild, the outcome of the battle between the two sides can be imagined, and it will definitely not be as good as Wen Shang's Nanyang soldiers imagined in their hearts.

Let's say that with the movement of Wen Shang's forward soldiers and horses, the other soldiers and horses of the Jingzhou army marching after him also acted one after another, because the Nanyang soldiers led by Wen Shang are also famous and strong soldiers in Jingzhou, in addition to the naturalized barbarian soldiers recruited in the county soldiers, the strength of the Nanyang soldiers is very strong in the Jingzhou army.

Think about it, after all, Nanyang is the hometown of Emperor Guangwu, and the reason why Liu Xiu and his brother Liu Jiu were able to say a word in Liu Jiu back then, "Wang Mang is tyrannical, and the people are falling apart." Now there have been years of drought and drought, and the military revolution has risen at the same time. At the time of the death of the sky, the cause of the ancestors was restored, and the autumn of the eternal world was also "later, he raised troops in his hometown and repeatedly defeated Wang Mang's elite official army, relying on his hometown soldiers Nanyang soldiers.

Of course, the reason why the Liu Xiu brothers were able to succeed in Jingzhou was due to a series of reasons such as Wang Mang's unpopularity, and more importantly, the strength of the Jingzhou army at that time was already weak. Although Jingzhou belongs to the south, the pre-Qin period was out of the southern overlord Chu State, but after hundreds of years of economic development in the state, the powerful family deeply liked Confucianism, and the south from the Chu State has left the noble extravagance, the people in the state have long since ceased to be Jing Chu to overcome thorns and thorns, open up the territory and expand the territory of the martial spirit, only Nanyang because of the land in the Guanzhong, the martial spirit is not reduced, otherwise it will not let the Liu Xiu brothers gather a civil heroic army can make Jing Chu shake.

When the Liu Xiu brothers relied on their natural protagonist aura to win over the rebel army near Nanyang to take refuge, so that their power gradually cultivated, even if Wang Mang sent the elite forbidden army, they couldn't help them, and finally even defeated Wang Mou's elite officers and troops repeatedly, among which the Nanyang soldiers contributed a lot, which shows the power of the Nanyang soldiers. Later, if it weren't for Liu Xuan's arrogance and mistake, he never listened to Liu Xiu's advice, and said that Liu Xuan, the first emperor who became the owner of Chang'an and was not popular in the world, would have been replaced by Liu Xuan's brothers, who were born with the halo of the protagonist, and Liu Xiu would not have gone to Hebei again later, and he had so many branches in vain.

It is the later Yuan Shu in history, the reason why he desperately wants to get Nanyang by any means, in addition to the dangerous terrain and rich population of Nanyang, which also has the name of Nanyang soldiers in the south, otherwise there is no qualified soldiers and horses, how can Yuan Shu compete with Dong Zhuo only with a county in Nanyang?

Is it money and food?

Or is it relying on Sun Jian, the "Jiangdong Tiger"?

It's a joke to say, without an elite army, what's the use of you having money and food, I'm afraid that the people and horses have already become the first-level combat exploits of Dong Zhuoxi's Liang soldiers. As for Sun Jian, although a good general can improve the strength of an army, if there is no good quality of soldiers, no matter how powerful the generals are, it is not very useful to improve the combat strength of the army. And later, if it weren't for Sun Jian's carelessness and he was killed by an arrow, it is impossible to say that Yuan Shu would have relied on the Nanyang soldiers and the fierce general Sun Jian, and would have pushed Liu Biao back to take Jingzhou.

Therefore, the Nanyang soldiers are well-deserved Jingzhou strong army, and it is precisely because of this consideration that Zhao Kai, the current assassin of Jingzhou in the Han Dynasty, will order Wen Shang, the Sima of Nanyang County, to lead the Nanyang County soldiers under his command as the vanguard of the army. Even if Wen Shang is not Zhao Kai's cronies, but now it is a matter of whether he can pick the peaches of Fuquan and share this great merit of breaking the county seat of Exian County, so naturally he can't do anything about intimacy and alienation. It's just that I'm afraid Zhao Kai never dreamed that it was precisely because of his decision that the dispatch of troops had already departed from the plan he had decided in the camp tent in advance, which was really in vain.

The Nanyang soldiers, the vanguard of the Jingzhou army in front, marched quickly to the north, which naturally drove the other county soldiers of the Jingzhou army marching behind, and in ancient times, there was no current high technology, and they could quickly communicate information between the two small troops, because the scouts were directly reported to Wen Shang, so the Jingzhou army behind naturally did not know the specific situation of the county seat of Exian, and could only march mostly with the march route of the Wen Shang army.

However, it is precisely because of this reason that the Jingzhou army was unconsciously led astray by the vanguard Wenshang troops, until the soldiers and horses of the rear army saw that they seemed to be getting farther and farther away from the county seat of Exian County at this time, and they woke up like a dream, and their marching route seemed to be wrong.

Of course, except for a small number of soldiers and horses, because even the county soldiers who were ordered by Zhao Kai, the assassin of Jingzhou, did not change the original route of the army, most of the other Jingzhou soldiers got along far from Zhao Kai, and the notice was too late at all, thinking that this was Shangguan's temporary change of mind, so they followed Wen Shang, after all, the battlefield situation is ever-changing, and it is impossible to really follow the original plan step by step, right? Therefore, these unaware Jingzhou troops were unexpectedly led astray by Wen Shang's forward troops, and naturally their original plan was completely useless.

At this time, if you look down from the sky, you will see that the Jingzhou army, which was originally marching neatly, was automatically divided into two sections, one section bypassed the county seat of Exian County and ran quickly on the official road leading from Exian County to Yixian County, while the other section was still thinking about advancing in the county seat of Exian County, but the number of people looked a little scarce......