Songzhou, outside the city of Xiangyi,

In the vast wilderness, large fields of beans that have not yet had time to be harvested have been yellow and white in the dark green of the branches and leaves, and the bean bushes that have been burdened have been rummaged and trampled.

With the green smoke curling on the ridges, the aroma of green beans roasted with pods has been permeating the air.

The members of the stragglers, gathered in groups of three or five in front of the newborn fire, were doing the "boiled beans and burned beans." Why is it too anxious to fry each other".

This is also their time in the battlefield, countless little fun. Although the requirements for stragglers in the army are not high, there are also corresponding disciplines and regulations, and they are not blindly laissez-faire.

Although they can be used in coordinated combat to obtain their own loot and equipment supplements, they are also strictly restricted from aimless indiscriminate killing and unrestrained excessive destruction.

In the beginning, some people rebounded because of this, and then they were suppressed without hesitation, and many people could not bear it or were constrained by the distance of the row, so they fled in droves, and then the pursuing troops brought back the strings of human heads, and turned them into suspense in the wind.

There were even rumors that some of these escapes were encouraged, and these escapes were used to train the troops and exercise the troops' reconnaissance and recourse capabilities, so the rest of the people, no matter what their reasons or ideas, gradually became accustomed to this normality, and faintly looked forward to the day when they would have the opportunity to be added to the various auxiliary army brigades to eat and drink spicy food, and even get full salaries and allowances like the uncles of the third battalion of the regular army.

Although it is ranked third in the army, and it does not even have the status of an auxiliary force, it can only be counted as a straggler such as a heavy civilian man in terms of name, but there are also nuances such as three, six, nine and so on.

Of course, this is not a daily rule of fame, but a spontaneous formation within them.

At the top of the stragglers were undoubtedly the old men who had brought the Lord as an auxiliary from the ridge, and some of them were even some of them from the relatives of Borneo;

secondly, under the jurisdiction of the military town on the southeast road outside the Lingwai, which provided bravery; Then there are the people of Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian;

Then there are the old military towns in the south of the Yangtze River that have been flattened, because of some historical origin, mainly people from Runzhou, Jiangning and the Jiangdu area on the other side;

After crossing the river, they came from Huainan locally, and those young and strong soldiers who were forcibly conscripted and sent on errands were brought under the command of the right wing of the new army, and they were also selected to be filled into the stragglers to assist the army.

Originally, these Huainan talents belonged to the lowest level of this group, but now they are replaced by those who are at the bottom, undoubtedly those newcomers.

Holding the roasted jicama, on the wild vegetable miso soup, eating very fragrant, occasionally a few pieces of canned meat, on the great joy of a thousand thanks, in the supply of demand and expectations, is pitifully low.

As the old saying in the army goes, these Japanese people only need to be fed as two-legged animals, and they can eat everything and do any work.

It's just that the brain is a little stupid and sluggish, it takes a lot of effort to communicate, and it takes a lot of effort to learn things more than ordinary people, so it takes a lot of effort to master simple commands and rules.

Therefore, most of them are only used as coolies and cannon fodder, but in spite of this, these Japanese people seem to have eaten like a sweet food, although they are humble and obedient to the top, and internally, they are divided into a number of small groups according to the region of origin, and there are signs of competition with each other.

For most of the military ranks of the Southern Dynasties, these Japanese soldiers were really useless compared to other feudal people. Therefore, after hearing that the right wing of the new army was willing to receive and use these dwarves, he sent a large number of them.

Even Hitoshi Kuroshima, who had just become the leader of the Japanese soldiers and had not been proud for two days, also had a sense of crisis, and personally led people over and used punches and kicks to "teach" these new compatriots how to learn the rules of the left wing of the new army in the shortest possible time, so as not to drag everyone down

In the newly captured Ningling City, the smell of fireworks after the attack and burning had not yet dissipated, so I sat in the city and listened to the reports from all walks of life

After entering Songzhou, I used the first battalion and the second battalion to attack alternately in two directions, and the territory was almost overwhelming, without encountering any decent resistance or obstruction.

In other words, the local defenders did not consider and guard against the attack from the west, their own rear, those beacon sentry forts, military castles, almost so coaxing in an unprepared situation, that they could not even run out of the messengers.

We fought until Ningling City in the west of Songzhou, and only then did the local officials and defenders react to the news, close the city and guard it, and then the dilapidated place of the city wall was blasted open by a powder keg, and only three auxiliary brigades were put in, and the whole city was lightly suppressed.

Then, I got the news that even the state city of Songcheng was taken down under the triumphant advance.

"This is? ……”

I looked at the head of a bloody human on a wooden plate in front of me

"This is the deputy envoy of land and water transshipment, and the first ...... of Chen Jilie, the assassin of Songzhou."

The second battalion's lieutenant, Captain Sukhoi Dao

"When the staff arrived in Songcheng, they found that many people had fled."

"Then there was a report that the enemy was fighting among ......"

"Send people to explore again, but it is the regimental training of Songzhou and the guest army with the banner of Hedong, who are fighting in the city and have no time to ......"

"Bid to take advantage of the chaos and win three ...... in one fell swoop"

"The remnants of the enemy who were trapped in the inner government suddenly opened the door and surrendered, and offered the head of this subordinate as a ...... of dedication"

This gentleman is a well-known cool official, known for his cruelty and tyranny, and he is often skinned and cut alive under his rule, although there are small mistakes, they are not avoidable.

As a result, under the critical situation, he showed his cowardice, and his subordinates who had a long-cherished grudge gave him his head. By the way, he also sent me an intact tooth city, along with thousands of soldiers.

This is the first time I have received such a number of enemy troops, and they have all been captured and routed before, and there are very few northern soldiers who have actually surrendered voluntarily in front of the battle.

I am more cautious about the instructions for these surrendered troops and how to deal with them afterwards, although I do not intend to continue to use them, but I will not be too embarrassed, it is one thing to torture prisoners and sell them into slavery, and it is another thing to kill and surrender.

I'm not the kind of fool who has a reputation for being killed indiscriminately for the sake of personal likes and dislikes, even if I am an enemy, I have to consider potential means of division and disintegration to reduce the cost of resistance and my own attrition.

These unexpected surrenders were undoubtedly a good benchmark and example, and I immediately ordered them to take out some money from the local seized treasury, and to give them three days' rations, and to send them home.

Immediately after that, new news came, and the vanguard I sent to the south to attack the strategy actually encountered the rear of the new army.

Hearing that the rear was lost, the enemy was on the back of the abdomen, and was defending the city in the Tuocheng and Gu Shu generation, resisting the Songzhou army attacked by Liu Yanqing from Chenzhou, almost in an uproar, and the morale plummeted.

Then at dawn, when Liu Bu attacked Gushu County again, he found that the enemy in front of him was demoralized and had no intention of fighting, and he only held on for a while, and began to collapse. Therefore, after capturing the county seat of Gushu, the rear of the new army seized the opportunity and sent people to blend in with the rout, and took Zhecheng lightly in one go, killing thousands of defenders.

In this way, most of the entire territory of Songzhou has been lowered, and the remaining cities are all in the east, sandwiched between the main force of Xuzhou and our department, and it is just around the corner to be taken down.

Since I have reached the set goal faster than expected, I can't help but have some thoughts of getting Longwangshu, maybe I can take advantage of the current momentum and continue to do something.

At this time, the chief general staff of Lu Wuguan, who came up with the baggage of the state rear team, gave me a reminder

"The autumn harvest is coming? ……”

I was surprised.

"Exactly ......"

He just wiped his face and continued

"Along the way, I saw a lot of acres of crops, lying in the ground and no one to clean them up......"

"The local population withered, and all gathered in the city to avoid disaster, and the daily consumption was very large......"

I only then remembered that this was indeed my negligence, the Great Plain of Henan has been an important grain producing area in the north since ancient times, although there are frequent wars in Songzhou, but around the city, there should still be some harvest.

And when the army is on the march, one of the biggest problems is the logistical cost of grain and grass supply, if you can eat food according to the place, it will be the best strategy of the art of war, I will actually ignore this aspect of the problem, it really should not be.

"What Lu Shen said is that I immediately ordered all the stragglers to be dispatched, and the auxiliary troops who are not on duty are also transferred......

"Allow you to act cheaply, requisition more men on the spot, and form an armed harvesting team......"

"First far and then near, first the countryside and then the suburbs, be sure to complete the harvest ...... as much as possible"

"Don't worry about loss, you can get back as much as you can......"

"Only when you receive the grain and grass in your bag can you ......"

I thought about it and added

"If there is any surplus that cannot be taken away, eat it on the spot, and the rest will be used as a reward for the stragglers and the people who have been requisitioned."