Yang Zhan finally felt that something was wrong, the battlefield that was still shouting and shouting just now suddenly became quiet, even the hand-to-hand combat behind him had stopped, and he could even hear the sound of those subordinates panting, this always left the stirrup and stood up with himself.

looked around, but found that both the officers and soldiers and the intruding army were looking at the east, and even stopped fighting, and were all looking in one direction blankly.

At the end of his sight, smoke and dust rolled on the horizon, and gradually he heard a muffled thunderous sound in his ears, and even on his horse he could feel a slight tremor on the ground.

In the smoke and dust, I could faintly see something coming out of the horizon, and slowly, it turned out to be a flag flying in front of me.

"It's our Shandong army, it's our Shandong's army......"

Yang Zhan shook his head frantically, and shouted at the subordinates who were already stunned around him, and there was already some crying in his voice, and the soldiers and horses of the Jiaozhou battalion could only be coming in that direction.

This time it was the soldiers and horses who broke into the camp that reacted quickly, and one person pulled out a horn behind the lancers, and blew a few times, and the army horse team that had already put the Jiaozhou battalion horse team up was suddenly taken back, and although those lancers were scattered, they still forced the front.

When everyone retreated to the back, this was a turn together, directly across the river, the frightened Jiaozhou battalion horse team had no strength to continue the pursuit, and waited until the other party's cavalry was far away, this was a sigh of relief, and those who confronted the lancers found that the fire rope in their hands had been extinguished.

Everyone is covered in cold sweat, the horse team of the two hundred Jiaozhou battalion has lost nearly forty people at this time, Yang Zhan is shocked, but there is also a feeling of wanting to cry without tears, these days have been smooth pursuit, who would have thought that today he encountered this trap.

Originally thought that the other party could be forced back by firearms, but I didn't expect the other party to use such means to encircle and kill, careless, but also arrogant, these years Jiaozhou battalion has not encountered any strong opponents, even if it is ambushed in Huaibei, it is easy to take, suddenly encountered this kind of setback, although Yang Zhan's body is very excited to meet the enemy, and when the enemy goes, his legs are weak, and he collapsed on the horse all of a sudden.

They came out for two days, but they did not know that the army had begun today. When they returned to the camp, they learned that the horses that had come out in the past two days had lost nearly 600 people.

After the invasion army suffered losses, it simply used a small group of horse teams as bait to show weakness to attract slightly more officers and soldiers than them to intercept and kill the team, and then the superior army horse team waited there.

If it weren't for the firearms, the losses of the Jiaozhou battalion horse team would have been even greater. The cavalry that broke into the camp were not all elite soldiers, and some of them saw that there were few officers and soldiers, and a group of people shouted and swarmed up, but they were hit head-on by the dismounted firecrackers, but they suffered a big loss.

Li Meng and his soldiers and horses converged with this battalion yesterday, and in the news that Chen Liu got in advance, Li Meng led a thousand personal soldiers and 4,000 cavalry to support, a total of 5,000 cavalry, which is also a large force, but in fact, Li Meng brought 12,000 people.

Only 4,000 soldiers were left in Jinan Mansion, and Li Meng requisitioned a large number of mules, horses and vehicles from Jinan Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion, and Kong Sande's Wenru Commercial Bank also made great efforts to help prepare for it.

Counting the local tyrant armies who have come over one after another, and the original officers and soldiers who have been mobilized as coolies and auxiliaries, this can barely be called 50,000 horses.

After Li Meng arrived at the camp, someone immediately brought him a map of the nearby terrain and a special person came to describe it, and the sappers who drew the map were still very rough, and many details could not be expressed.

Therefore, when the sappers are drawing, they are often accompanied by several assistants, who are used to describe some details of the map they have drawn, and they also have their own written records.

Although it is not very accurate, it is more efficient than analyzing the terrain from a simple map, and many details and features can be known.

At the very least, on the first night of arriving at the barracks, Li Meng knew that there was a village on the north bank of the whirlpool that had just been abandoned for less than two months, and the terrain on the north bank of the whirlpool was slowly raised from south to north, almost a few hundred steps in length, but it was not too high, and people and horses would not feel tired when they walked on it.

After Li Meng arrived at the barracks, he rested for a short night, and immediately ordered the whole army to pull out the camp and go to the north bank of the whirlpool to set up a formation.

If the army comes late for a period of time, the entire queue will probably be broken and scattered, and those soldiers on the horse can still run away, and the soldiers who dismount and hold the fire guns may not be able to escape, and they will all die under the charge of the opponent's cavalry.

And to tell the truth, the 500 cavalry who broke into the army still had a chance to kill most of the officers and soldiers, but seeing the main force of officers and soldiers that appeared in vain, these cavalry who broke into the camp had to hurry back and report the news to the battalion.

But this is already too late, since the main force of Shandong's soldiers and horses is here, it is equivalent to determining that the battlefield is here, and the large army has lost the right to choose the battlefield.

Because of this renegade on the agreement, to attack in eastern Henan, the grain and grass and reserves in eastern Henan are on the one hand, and more importantly, Li Zicheng wants to fight with this army that forced him to sign an alliance under the city, and determine the scope of future advance and retreat, he has now planned very well, the size of the army on both sides is too different, not to mention that his victory is very certain, even if he loses, the other party does not have the ability to defeat himself.

After coming to the north bank of the whirlpool, the Jiaozhou battalion never sent out the horses again, except for the cavalry that had been placed on guard within thirty miles around the main camp, the cavalry that had been running around these days were resting in the barracks, and the army was camped behind the gentle slope.

Ma Gang, Zhao Neng, and Chen Liu all fought in rotation, but Wang Hai and Tang Er followed Li Mengdong to fight all day long, and these people were the core of the Jiaozhou battalion generals. For example, the rising Zhang Jiang, Wei Li, Jiang Xianxuan and others are a little worse.

The military tent discussion, that is, these people can enter, especially confidential important matters, there are two people sitting in the tent, one is Li Meng after the handsome case, and the other is Chen Liu, who is sitting at the bottom, Zhang Jiang is standing opposite Chen Liu, and Wang Hai and Tang Er are still standing behind Li Meng according to the old rules.

"The last time at the Zhaopizhai ferry, Hao Shaoqi was forced to retreat for dozens of miles, and then Li Zicheng sent someone to find the general to sign a contract, saying that as long as the general guards Shandong, his army will never set foot in Kaifeng, return to the two German mansions, people all over the world say that this Li Chuang has no faith, it is really true, it has only been a few months, and he has come to Kaifeng and this Guide Mansion."

The general soldier of one side made a contract with anti-thieves such as King Chuang, and the charges of rebellion and extermination of the nine clans were all real, but Li Meng said it so indifferently.

Wang Hai and Tang Er, as well as Ma Gang and Zhao Neng that day, were all involved in this contract, and they had known about it for a long time, and when Li Meng said it, the two of them did not change their expressions, but listened silently.

Chen Liu was a little surprised, and said:

"I said that the thief shrank back some time ago, and didn't dare to go east and north, it turned out that he made an appointment with the marshal, and this thief is now joining forces with Luo Rucai, and he is consciously invincible in the world, and he will also see our Shandong soldiers and horses in his eyes."

Speaking of this, Chen Liu looked up at Li Meng and the two behind him, with a somewhat mischievous look, and said with a smile:

"This time, I just beat him hard, so that these thieves in Shaanxi and Henan know how powerful our Shandong soldiers and horses are."

Wang Hai and Tang Er also laughed, a series of expeditions in the past two years have made the generals of the Jiaozhou battalion extremely confident in themselves, although the Shandong soldiers and horses have always been low-key, but internally they already think that their own soldiers and horses are the first in the world, but although Li Meng's words are casual, his eyes glanced at Zhang Jiang who was standing on the side, intentionally or unintentionally.

Zhang Jiang has always stood solemnly on the side with his hands behind his back, without any expression, but his palms and back are slightly sweaty, what Li Meng said he was very surprised, but what made him even more flustered was Li Meng's unintentional glance.

As a general, follow the commander to grab land in the local area, and fight with other officers and soldiers, this is a trivial matter, and there are very few officers and soldiers under the big tomorrow who have not done this or have not been done like this, and those soldiers are not even paid.

Shandong soldiers and horses are all full of salary, even those Zhuang Ding soldiers, the family is barely mixed with food and clothing, these Zhuang Ding can also eat enough in the army, just rush to eat enough, and there is a system full of honor, go to fire and friendly troops, to grab territory, everyone is not hesitant to do.

Zhang Jiang is from a military household for generations, or a military family with a certain status in the guard, and he still has some good thoughts about the Ming court.

Li Meng said such a rebellious thing in front of him, Zhang Jiang was really difficult to accept in his heart, but he also knew that the reason why he said it in front of him was that there were two possibilities, one was to treat him as his own, and the other was to test how loyal he was to this group.

That glance was very revealing, after Chen Liu finished speaking, there was some silence in the military tent, I don't know why, but Zhang Jiang felt that these people in the military tent were staring at him.

Loyal to the imperial court, Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Guozhu and other chilling examples are in front, wanting to live in confusion, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong's subordinates seem to be beggars, they have been in the Jiaozhou camp for a long time, and they feel that if they are like such generals, they will really lose their dignity.

Defecting to the army, taking refuge in the thieves, being an officer and soldier for so long, it is already the position of the capital division, according to the promotion rules of the Jiaozhou battalion, doing guerrillas, and being a general is a matter of the past few years.

"Follow your family's handsome, our Zhang family's glory and wealth can be worry-free for generations, your uncle and I always think this thing is too rare, it must be your grandfather who did some great good, or the yin virtue of the ancestors fell on you."

At such a delicate moment, Zhang Jiang inexplicably remembered what his uncle had said to him, and it didn't take too long to weigh the benefits and disadvantages, and Zhang Jiang quickly made up his mind.

He took a step forward, clenched his fists and said:

"Marshal, the current thieves have taken over all the Shaanxi border soldiers collected by Fu Zonglong, the governor of Shaanxi, and Luo Rucai's soldiers and horses have merged with him, and his strength is no longer the same as a few months ago."

These words are all words that follow the crowd, but Li Meng was a little relieved, and said with a smile:

"Zhang Jiang, what do you think, let's hear it?"

Zhang Jiang bent down again, looked around, and said loudly:

"The strength of the thieves is so, the mood is definitely different from the past, although our army is strong, but if it is only forced to retreat or a small victory, the thieves must think that our army is just like this, as long as there are more people and our army is consumed, it is also a trouble, my Shandong soldiers and horses should not be this quagmire of Henan."

Zhang Jiang paused, saw the look on Li Meng's face, and his heart was settled, and he said categorically:

"In this battle, my Shandong soldiers and horses should not leave any measure, but should attack with all their might, completely hurt the thief, with their current scale, our soldiers this time will defeat him easily, but it is difficult to destroy him, cut off the thief's arm, so that he does not dare to offend the majesty of our army, but still rampant in the Central Plains, this is the best of both worlds!"

The best of both worlds, this beauty is definitely not the Ming Dynasty and the imperial court, Zhang Jiang said it so openly, although it is a good suggestion, but it also has the meaning of showing his heart.

The military tent was a little quiet, but in this quiet, Zhang Jiang, the capital of Yanzhou, did not have the nervousness of Fang Cai, but was quite calm, Li Meng and Chen Liu glanced at each other, stood up and laughed, very happy, and said with a loud laugh:

"Sure enough, I am a military general from my old battalion, I am intimate to use, but I also understand things, what I said is good, everyone, pass the order down, fight with the thief, everyone should move forward bravely, not retreat!"

After saying this, Chen Liu, who was sitting on the chair, also stood up, clasped his fists and bowed down with the generals in the room, and said in unison:

"Follow the orders of the commander, move forward bravely, and never retreat!"

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