The next day, outside the west gate of Yingzhou, more than 1,200 red turban soldiers were ready to go. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the city gate, Liu Futong was also talking to Han Yan'er and Zhang Shihua with a serious face.

Liu Futong: "In order to ensure that this battle is foolproof, the two generals must rush to Shenqiu City within four days, and capture this city within seven days." But I don't know if the two generals can be sure? ”

As soon as Liu Fu's voice fell, before Zhang Shihua could answer, Han Yan'er patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry, the marshal is willing to make a military order here, and he will take this city for the marshal within seven days." And Zhang Shihua also replied loudly: "The same is true of the last general." ”

Seeing this, Liu Futong couldn't help but show a smile on his face, and said: "With two brothers saying this, Ben Shuai is at ease." Come on, come on, and before leaving, let Ben Shuai toast the two brothers for a drink. A soldier behind Liu Futong heard Liu Futong's words, and hurriedly brought the three bowls of wine that had been prepared a long time ago to Liu Futong, Zhang Shihua and Han Yan'er.

Yes, it's a 'bowl', and it's a full three bowls of wine.

After the three of them each picked up their wine bowls, Liu Futong looked at Zhang Shihua and Han Yan'er, and said, "I will use this wine to wish the two brothers a triumphant." After speaking, he drank all the wine in the bowl, and when Zhang Shihua and Han Yan'er saw this, they also had a sense of pride in their chests, and they all drank the wine in the bowl.

Putting down the wine bowl, Han Yan'er and Zhang Shihua hugged their fists at Liu Futong, then turned over and led the team away.

Although there were only more than 1,200 troops at this time, because of Han Yan'er's relationship, there were Thai centaurs in this army array, all of whom were veterans who had seen blood in battle. Therefore, when Han Yan'er gave an order and the military formation moved forward, its prestige was indeed not to be underestimated.

And after such an amazing force left Yingzhou City, it followed Yingshui and rushed straight to Shenqiu City.

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Because of Han Yan'er's military order, the march of the army was very fast, that is, in a day and a half, the army arrived in Taihe. However, it is also a loss that most of the more than 1,200 soldiers are young and elite, otherwise it is estimated that they can lose one-third of the troops if they are left behind.

And I have to say that there is also a reason why Liu Futong appointed Zhang Shihua as a deputy general. Because Han Yan'er's army was in a hurry, there were no requisitioned people to accompany him, so the army naturally didn't bring much logistical supplies, and even the military rations were only for each soldier to bring for three days.

If such a lightly armed army wants to attack Shenqiu City, it naturally needs Taihe's side to provide him with the necessary supplies.

But everyone knows that it is not an easy task to provide military rations, military tents and other things for more than 1,000 people at once, and besides, the Zhang family has just been attached to the White Lotus Sect, so in order to ensure that the Zhang family can really serve the Red Turban Army, Liu Futong will naturally appoint Zhang Shihua as the deputy general of this army.

In this era, the most difficult thing to fight a war is logistics, because there is no advanced means of transportation, and the logistics supplies needed by an army often rely on a large number of people to provide support for the army in the form of shoulders and hands.

And this is also the reason why in ancient times, when a large army of 100,000 was dispatched, 200,000 people had to be recruited.

But fortunately, Shen Qiu who attacked.

Because the three counties of Yingzhou are located next to Yingshui, the supply can be carried out by water. Although Taihe County includes Yingzhou City, and all the ships together do not have the conditions for forming a naval division, at least the ships of Taihe County are still no problem to transport military rations, military tents and other materials for more than 1,500 people.

As for why it expanded to 1,500 people, it was because after Zhang Shihua arrived in Taihe, in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, he brought the 100-person team of Lu Ge, Shi Shisan, and Zhao Er with them.

And I have to talk about Han Yan'er, although this person is a little arrogant, but he can also focus on the overall situation.

At the beginning, when the army arrived in Taihe, Zhang Shihua was worried that this person would cause trouble, but he didn't expect that when the army arrived in Taihe, Han Yan'er directly ordered the army to camp outside the city to rest, and even the county seat did not enter.

Even Zhang Shihua's second uncle, Zhang Liewen, wanted to entertain Han Yan'er and his subordinates in the name of the friendship of the landlord, but was rejected by this person with a sentence of "this is wartime". And after these two incidents, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but glance at him.

After all, in this era, a person who is brave in battle and can focus on the overall situation at the beginning of the war can definitely be called a good general.

In the early morning of the second day, more than 1,500 red turban soldiers who had rested all night outside Taihe City, after packing up everything, continued to march along Yingshui to Shenqiu City in the northwest. Half a day after the departure of the Red Turban Army, a fleet carrying grain, grass, military tents and other materials also followed the footsteps of the Red Turban Army and rushed to the northwest.

"It's fucking hot." Deng Hu wiped the sweat from his face, looked at the scorching sun hanging high in the sky, and couldn't help but scold. In the Yingzhou area in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the temperature is close to 30 degrees, and under the scorching sun, the group is still busy on the road, can it not be hot.

"It's not fucking easy to travel at this time." Deng Hu wiped the sweat from his face and thought so in his heart. Thinking of this, he turned around and glanced at the seven or eight sweaty new soldiers behind him, and couldn't help but think in his heart: "But this kind of march is quite exercised, and marching like this for two days is much stronger than training for two days in peace." ”

Thinking of this, Deng Hu no longer paid attention to the scorching sun hanging high in the sky, lowered his head and buried his head again and hurried to the road. Now he just wanted to hurry to Shenqiu City and fight with those dog tartars.

In the evening, the Red Turban Army finally arrived at Jiegou Station.

"Jiegou Station" is actually the head of the future generations, but the Jiegou is still just a small town, far less prosperous than the later generations. According to historical records, in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a long ditch that ran through the north and south, which was the boundary ditch between Yingzhou and Chenzhou, so this place was renamed "boundary ditch".

And after the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty and redivided the state capital, the boundary ditch became the dividing line between Taihe and Shenqiu.

Naturally, Jiegou Town also became the frontier position of Han Yan'er and Zhang Shihua's attack on Shenqiu City.

For such a place, Shenqiu naturally attaches great importance to it, originally there were a hundred officers and soldiers stationed here, but when Han Yan'er and Zhang Shihua arrived with a large army, these hundred officers and soldiers naturally would not stay here and wait for death.

Therefore, they abandoned this place as soon as they found this army of red turbans and fled back to Shenqiu City.

In this way, Han Yan'er and Zhang Shihua also took over Jiegou Town very smoothly.

At night, that is, the dinner time of all the soldiers, Zhang Shihua did not sit in the military tent and enjoy the food as peacefully as Han Yan'er. Instead, he took Xu Ming, who was nominally his deputy, and Zhao Jiu, his donkey brother, and others to inspect the barracks, after all, for a group of recruits, it was not easy to work for a day in a row in the weather like daytime.

Because of the different generals, the five hundred soldiers under the command of Zhang Shihua and Xu Ming naturally would not live with the soldiers under the command of Han Yan'er. Although both sides lived in the same camp, there were obvious differences, for example, Zhang Shihua and Xu Ming's soldiers were gathered in the eastern part of the camp, while Han Yan'er's soldiers were gathered in the western part of the central part of the camp.

And the place where Zhang Shihua went was naturally the eastern part of the camp.

At this time, in the eastern part of the camp, most of the soldiers under Zhang Shihua's command were also gathered in "Shi and platoon" units, or ten or thirty people.

I saw these soldiers sitting around the fire for lighting one by one, holding simple tableware and meals in their hands, while soothing the tired body of the day, they were also listening carefully to their elders and veterans, and telling the story of how they surrounded and suppressed the bandits under the leadership of Master Zhang.