When the battle in the Northland is in full swing,

Zheng Tong, the rather elderly school captain, is also riding a horse to lead a team on the land from Hebei to Pinglu Road.

He used to be the elite unit of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the Shenwu Avant-garde, and a member of one of the few main forces in the Southeast Division; Because of his courage and courage to fight, he has long been a member of the most vigorous jumping battalion in the army.

Of course, they had to fight, and at the height of the war, they even fought three or four times, five or six times a day and night, sometimes for several days in a row, and for more than ten days without rest. This is something they have long been used to. When they heard the terrible sound of trumpets and the rapid sound of war drums urging them into battle, it was as normal as hearing the bell ringing into the dining hall and pick up chopsticks to eat.

In the kind of white-knuckle combat that really fights the enemy, the cold blade of the enemy constantly makes a crisp sound at the base of their ears, and the glitter of blood shines in front of their eyes. A cold arrow flying from nowhere seems to have eyes. The mouths and wings cleaved through the air at a rapid pace, whistling and galloping happily, and then at once they burrowed into the cracks of their armor.

How calmly they dealt with this approaching death! They drew their arrows without healing, looked contemptuously at the names of the enemy generals engraved on their arrows, and threw them on the ground as if they had thrown away a rotten straw, and their hearts did not skip a beat.

Sometimes the battle situation is unfavorable and they fall into the enemy's heavy encirclement, and they rely on courage, courage and combat experience to find the enemy's weaker links and break through. Naturally, breakouts are not always successful, and if they fail, they have to accept death. Death is one of the natural consequences of war, and as long as they have fought and demanded the price, there is no regret in death.

Therefore, they will never write any suicide note on the eve of the decisive battle to say goodbye to their parents, wives and children. This kind of farewell book, which seems tragic in words, was done by someone else, and the real soldiers did not do this, and they did not think of it at all.

This is a portrayal of the war life and war psychology that a group of real soldiers, including Zhao Liangsi, were once familiar with and accustomed to.

Then, overnight, the situation collapsed, and many familiar allies and neighbors collapsed or disappeared within elbows and armpits, and these sharp soldiers and brave warriors who were fighting in the streets of the enemy were also abandoned in the icy and snowy city of Luodu;

Because of the lack of food and clothing, and the lack of medicine, people continue to die, and he was frozen one night and lost consciousness, and when he woke up, he became a prisoner of those northern captives, and experienced a short and miserable period of prisoners.

It was not until the exemplary new army that stood out and entered the Imperial City that they were exchanged from the hands of those northern captives at a corresponding reciprocal price, that they were freed from this nightmare;

However, many of his comrades who were captured with him had already lost their lives or become crippled because of the lack of treatment for their injuries and frostbite, as well as the torture and abuse of those captives, and they had lost the value of exchange and could only be discarded;

He was a little more lucky, only froze off a pair of ears and three toes, but he could barely serve in the army, and became a white soldier in the left army of the imperial camp, and began another period of his career in the army;

But for him, it was the greatest blessing to be able to survive that terrible collapse; Therefore, there is no plan to return or defect to the old family, and began to wholeheartedly seek a long-term place to settle down in the newly established Huai Town.

Therefore, he relied on this past experience in the army, and accumulated more than a dozen wounds on his body with a fire gun in one hand and a sword in the other, and gradually re-tore out the position of a white soldier fire commander; And at this point, even if he has no hope of passing the performance examination and going up the ranks with the barracks school, he is already fully qualified to retire, and with the military division of at least 180 acres, he can enjoy a more relaxed and leisurely career in the county capital, the governor, or the garrison regiment.

But he prefers to stay in the army, to be able to listen to the trumpets and drills of work and rest every day, and to smell the sweat and the smell of soldiers at all times; Instead of having a lot of idle rear life all day long, waiting for his body to decay and waste a little bit.

Therefore, he finally chose to transfer to the supplementary battalion of the Jeju Soldiers and Horses, and served as a trainer with the rank of captain and lieutenant, and began a military training career temporarily away from the battlefield; And now following him in a row, silently carrying all kinds of uniforms and bags, these are also recruits from the supplementary battalion of the three states of Jibei;

Because of the needs of the great expansion of the army, in addition to the previous militarized management and regular discipline training, they only received a three-month basic training in spear, gun, and artillery coordinated tactics; Although it was still a little reluctant to fight the enemy in a battle, the resistance forces used to defend the garrison and suppress the Pinglu area were basically competent.

As far as Zheng Tong is concerned, there are many places in his life that he has turned to the south and the north of the world, but it is the first time he has seen such a large plain area.

It's so flat that there is nothing to obscure the view except the horizon where heaven and earth meet; People say that Wangshan runs a dead horse, but here there is no chance to see the mountain at all, and even if you ride a horse day and night in the flat wilderness, you can't finish it.

Along the way, there were dark and light brown fields suitable for cultivation, so dense and clustered that it was impossible to count them; From time to time, there are various depressions and large and small mounds, and large forests and trees are scarcely visible, but only clusters of fruit trees and street trees of all kinds that surround and surround the inner and outer parts of the settlements, and low, thorny wild shrubs on the meadow mounds;

The sudden sight of a low mountain forest or a reed bush in a low wet swamp was enough to lift their spirits for a while. Because it also means that the wild and fresh fish that can be hunted can be used to spice up the taste of dry food and canned food, as well as insensitive.

In the process of long and monotonous repetitive travel, there are occasionally tiny protrusions and black spots in the skyline, but they are only cities and market towns scattered across the plains; Therefore, sometimes when he stopped to rest, he would also have a whim of such a vast and vast land, but he did not know how many households could be settled, and how large and dense the population could be fed.

In this way, they walked and walked and walked in this way, and it was easy to forget the concepts of time and geography for a while, until the yellow tide soil (light-colored meadow soil), which is the most common on the Great Plains, has been mixed with the darker sand ginger black soil (green black soil), and the wind-blown sand soil of more and more large river floods; The saline-alkali soil around the river depression, the fan depression and the lake lake was slowly replaced by the colorful earth color.

"Huailai Town has arrived."

"Ahead is the Wuding River."

Outside the town of Huailai, which has been transformed into a temporary grain station and cantonment camp, as a garrison under the control of the Huai army, in addition to some people hanging at the intersection like bunches of grapes, there are also some people kneeling on the ground with flail and cloaks, all of whom are outlaws who have been dealt with on the spot because of their various acts of adultery and criminals.

For example, some people with notorious crimes were simply executed on the spot, and after a brief public verdict, they were hung on the public; Those who commit lesser crimes will also have to bear the consequences of different degrees of punishment and being in a flail.

Among them, there are even a few non-commissioned officers who stripped off their military uniforms, but they also failed to control themselves and violated military discipline on the battlefield. He also pointed it out, as an example of the appearance of the new pawns who brought it behind him.

Outside of Huailai Town, there are many local people and displaced people, the quarantine camp and the management area, the fields that have just been harvested and turned, and the women and children with small baskets and baskets are rummaging in the soil.

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"This is the Wuding River,"

I looked at a river in front of me that didn't look too wide and sighed, this is the original source of the sentence "Poor and uncertain riverside bones, especially the people in the spring boudoir dream" since the old monster "Looking for Qin".

"That's just it."

However, this river is also the sad place of Anton Da Luo's heart and the turning point of prosperity and decline, including the most outstanding generals of the Luo clan and the children of the family, tens of thousands of Liaodong soldiers, because they fell into the trap of Su Yuanjing to lure the enemy deep, and after a long battle, the old man was tired and embattled on all sides, and finally fell and almost did not escape; Anton Roche, who was once famous and well-read, almost fell into a period of decline and low ebb because of this.

Now that I am leading the army back here, for those old Luo clan members who serve in the army, there is no sense of fatalistic reincarnation and providence, but it is particularly full of fighting spirit and a certain ardent passion for shameful past hatred.

However, another river branch that happens to converge here is also very famous to me, because its name is Gaoliang River, and its upstream flows from Xishan Mountain from north to south through Youzhou City, which is also an important water source of Youzhou Ancient City and one of the local river transportation branch canals.

That is, Zhao Laoer, Taizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, who was anxious for quick success or great success, in another time and space, was carried away by the victory of the Northern Han Dynasty, and played the battle of the Gaoliang River that won first and then lost, and made a joke that the Son of Heaven who was driving the expedition heard of the defeat for the first time, and left most of the troops who fought to flee alone; The elite soldiers and strong generals who had accumulated victories and hundreds of battles since the founding of the People's Republic of China were also buried, and the painting of wisdom and martial arts in military strategy was stripped away, and even the entire Song Dynasty turned into a strategic defensive posture that was passively beaten.

Of course, for those brainless fans, this is another powerful proof that this is another powerful proof that I am so strong that I have no friends that I love peace, pay attention to the people's recuperation and recuperate, and are unwilling to use troops without permission, and would rather loot the people and spend a little money in exchange for peace. In other words, since I can't beat you from the beginning to the end of the Song Dynasty, it is definitely not a problem that the Great Song Dynasty itself was founded unjustly and the system was flawed.

It's like I couldn't beat the Liao State during the rising period of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, because the Liao State was the most powerful nomadic regime in East Asia, and the remnants of the Liao State that were corrupt and degenerate and ruined couldn't be defeated, that was the result of my Great Song Dynasty's unwillingness to pick up cheap, and being deceived and deceived by the enemy, and it was definitely not because the Emperor Song was not strong from beginning to end.

But the touted enemy is too strong, so strong that the most awesome foreign tribes in the past and present have all gathered together to bully our emperor and Song to hand over the coins; Therefore, the two Song Dynasty can survive for 300 years by handing over New Year's coins and being passively beaten in this situation, which is really awesome, and it is enough to beat most historical dynasties.

On the other side of the river, contrary to the usual pattern of burned fields and ruins of villages in the past few days, there began to be a faint stream of barracks and men and horses patrolling along the riverbank. Is it good news that the other side is going to take the initiative to meet the enemy here and resist the enemy on the riverbank?

After all, this kind of thing and tactics are not necessarily very unfamiliar to my army; Moreover, although my army, after two northern expeditions and the attack and defense of Luodu, did not lack experience in conquering large cities and fighting in them; However, since it is possible to destroy the enemy's living forces as much as possible in the field battle, it is better than the enemy's main force shrinking and hiding in the city to play long-term attrition.

And before the arrival of my main formation, the opposite side relied on the camp along the river that had been built and a sufficient number of archers and crossbow arrows, and the Che army capital supervisor Zhang Xian, who had arrived at the camp in advance, and there were confrontations and exchanges across the river less than a hundred paces, and it seemed that the tribe had some disadvantage and casualties;

As a result, several tentative raids and forcible crossings were launched, and the opponent was repelled with all his might; So the morale of the opposite side seems to be acceptable, and the courage to openly move and demonstrative reconnaissance activities outside the barracks.

(End of chapter)