Chapter 355: The Three Battalions of the Huaiyang Army are facing each other

Liu Xiyao was so angry that he was about to vomit blood, thinking that Lao Tzu fought the hardest and suffered the heaviest losses, but the result was this situation, this matter, today must be fair, and the other two families also have their own reasons, when you Zuo Jin King entered Zhengyang Town, the things he robbed were all divided with the Eight Kings, but the brothers did not share the profit at all, why should you make it cheap, you go to hold the waist of the Eight Kings yourself, and now you can't hold the waist, you can bear it yourself.

Every day is a quarrel, who will go first, there is an endless dispute for a while, and several times the guards of the three families in the county government are tense, ready to fight, and they are persuaded by the big leaders below.

Lao Hui back over there has already said, when you arrive in Yingzhou, if Yingzhou is knocked down, you will arrange a messenger to send a message to them, and then you can move, otherwise Yingzhou is not beaten down, and the pass downstream of Yingzhou can not be lost, this is a way out.

When I was still arguing here today, I suddenly heard the footsteps outside the county government and suddenly remembered that the three people in the lobby looked at each other, and their hands were pressed on the handle of the knife.

However, as soon as the man outside entered the gate of the county government, he shouted at the top of his voice:

"The King...... Outside the city... There are officers and soldiers outside the city!! ”

If the title of this king is placed in the town, it has to make people laugh off their big teeth, since the appearance of Water Margin and Journey to the West, this name is generally used by small thieves or goblins, but the five battalions of Ge Zuo feel that the name is loud and comfortable, so they all arrange their subordinates to call it so.

As soon as they heard that there were officers and soldiers outside the city, although their hands were still on the hilt of their swords, their faces changed, and when the man came in, he looked at the panicked and surprised look on his face, and he knew that something was wrong.

Wei Xiaobei, the king of troubled times, shouted directly and shouted loudly:

"Close the gates, close the gates!"

Liu Xiyao on the side opened his mouth and scolded:

"You bastard. Do you want to suffocate everyone in this Yingshang City by closing the city gate? I won't accompany you to die. ”

He Yilong served as a soldier in Henan for several years. Slightly more knowledgeable and composed than the other two. I took a step forward and asked a few words. Said in a cold voice:

"The officers and soldiers have just arrived at the river. Let's organize someone to beat him. Otherwise, there is no waterway. We can't run. Halfway through, we're going to break up! ”

Marching along the waterway. This is also a conventional rule in contemporary times. One is the drinking water of the army. The army marched in a group. It tends to be much denser than those of the big cities. If you go from the road. It's not enough to drain the wells in those villages. Second, the water transportation of heavy transport vessels can save a lot of land effort. The Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo washed the city during this period and fished a lot of soft and soft. The baggage was heavy. It's so hot again. If you don't rely on the river. I'm afraid that the marching team will not be able to support itself first.

He Yilong said. Several people are in reverse. Wei Xiaobei had already rushed out of the county office. Loudly greet his own leader. Now this situation. It's not the time to lose your temper with each other. The reason why the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution has existed in Huguang, Henan, and Nanzhili for so many years. Consistency at critical moments can be an important reason for the characteristics of the field.

On the battlements of the city, several soldiers from the camp of King Zuojin. There he cautiously watched the officers and soldiers and ships on the edge of the Yingshui. Originally, the soldiers and horses of the 5th Battalion of the Left Wing were also deployed outside the city. There are also soldiers guarding the ships on the shore of Yingshui. But the first reaction when I saw the officers and soldiers. It was to run towards the city.

After the initial surprise of the soldiers lying on their stomachs at the battlement, they were temporarily safe at the head of the city, but a group of people were confused, the fifth battalion of the left side of the revolution had also fought so many battles, and the sentry detectives were all arranged, why was they attacked by the officers and soldiers in such a surprise attack.

The old man looked at the officers and soldiers who got off the boat and lined up at the edge of Yingshui, and muttered a sentence in his mouth. scolded in a low voice:

"I can't figure it out if it's the gang from Zhengyang Town..."

A few people were still talking there. Already an officer had come up to the city and scolded viciously:

"Straight mother, what are you still doing there. Get out of the city and out of the city, line up to fight the official dog!! ”

The people at the head of the city were not afraid of going to war, it was a desperate deed, the old money and Scarface shouted, and a group of people followed the city with knives and guns.

"Liu Laosi, how did you arrange this damn Tanma, Lao Tzu slashed you with a knife!!"

Liu Xiyao scolded hatefully while wearing armor, and the personal guards around him did not dare to speak, and soon the military general called Liu Lao Sidi ran in angrily, he and Liu Xiyao had some kinship, and he did not shy away from saying loudly as soon as he entered the door:

"Big brother, one of the Tanma ran back, yesterday we were in the direction of Yingshui, all of them were killed by the officers and soldiers and those big families, today this one just ran back on a horse, and was shot with an arrow in the arm."

Hearing this, Liu Xiyao, the king of Zuojin, calmed down, pushed away the personal soldiers around him, tied the rope of the cuirass with his own hands, and strode outside.

From Zhengyang Town to Yingshang, it takes two and a half days to march urgently, because it takes more than three days to march during the day and rest at night.

However, after Li Mengdi's order was issued, Chen Liu first asked the cavalry and the salt merchants to cooperate with the local manor and township bravely, and sent the 5th Battalion of Gezuo to the ground to explore the horses and kill them as much as possible, forming a short-term battlefield shelter.

The Huaiyang army walked intermittently for nine hours on the first day, such a long-distance and long-term march, that is, under the training system of the Jiaozhou battalion, in order to have enough discipline and physical fitness to ensure that this was done, every soldier had a suitable cloth shoe, every time he set up camp, someone went to boil hot water to burn the feet of every officer and soldier, and the officers had to check one by one to see if there were blisters on their feet. Each soldier only carried three days' dry rations and individual weapons, and the rest of the baggage and supplies were all transported by water.

On this march, Chen Liu, the general of the Huaiyang Army, led his horse and walked in front, and the same was true for officers at all levels. They can also ride horses according to their subordinates, but in this case of forced marching, the officers have to walk in the front, leading the people forward, and the soldiers see that the officers are also advancing on foot, and there is no complaint in their hearts, and the sense of belonging to this team will be stronger. The momentum is also more sufficient.

The officers and soldiers of Zhengyang Town shrank for a long time, and the Shouzhou side was even more unmistakable, with the fifth battalion of the left side of the sentry and horse scouting everywhere. There is already a kind of inertia and blindness, especially since the local gentry are honest and kind, and they have no scruples.

Suddenly moved like this, the sentry and the scout of the fifth camp of the Revolution were caught off guard, but the gentry and wealthy families who were still smiling at each other suddenly dropped the killer, and no one could react.

The eyes and ears outside were cut off. Chen Liu's side is a noble soldier again, and the fifth battalion of Gezuo was really caught off guard in Yingshang City, and it was only when he hit the door that he reacted.

Chen Liu's march was a day earlier than normal, and the night before arriving at Yingshang City, he was resting in the manor of a salt merchant in Yangzhou, and he was so hidden, if the sentry of the fifth battalion of Gezuo was only on the periphery of the manor, I am afraid that there would be no such army in the manor, unless he saw the boats on the river.

Chen Liu was like a divine soldier descending from heaven. appeared in this Yingshang City, but he was completely refreshed, and there was no sense of fatigue from a long journey. Sun Tzu Youyun, "Fifty miles and fight for profit." He will be on the general. This maxim has actually been broken for a well-trained and well-structured army.

Chen Liu looked at the homeless soldiers who were running towards the city in a panic, and the corners of his mouth twitched. Laughing with great disdain, he waved his horsewhip and pointed at it, and said:

"These wretches can actually wander around in Nanzhili, Huguang for so many years, what are the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili doing?"

He has read more books over the years, and he has learned a little bit of Wei Rui's commanding demeanor, but after coming here, the officers didn't have time to chat with their commanders, so Chen Liu just pointed his fingers and finished it. There are no well-informed generals. Come up and flatter a few words like the general's wisdom.

The big guys each commanded the soldiers and horses to march forward in unison. The movement of the army was methodical. The front from Yingshang City to Yingshui could not even allow a camp spear phalanx and firecrackers to be fully deployed, but this time the Huaiyang army had already been arranged.

Liu Xiyao, the king of Zuojin, and Wei Xiaobei, the king of the troubled times, each led the team out of the city gate, while Ge Li Yanhe Yilong was arranging city defenses everywhere in the city.

The two generals of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left, looking at the officers and soldiers opposite, Liu Xiyao slammed the big knife in his hand to the ground, and cursed a dirty word in his mouth, although the pro-soldier guards on the side were strange, but they were all looking at the battlefield in front of them, and everyone who had participated in the battle of Zhengyang Town was extremely angry.

Watching the officers and soldiers by the river use large wooden shields to form a line and slowly push forward, this is clearly the means used by the battalion of Zuo Jinwang in Zhengyang Town.

If you look closely, the people in the front of the officers and soldiers are holding bamboo rows, which are simply cut off side by side with a dozen bamboos, and then nailed up and down.

In this way, the bamboo row may be able to hold the bow and arrow in a low grade, but there are also a lot of firearms in the fifth camp on the left, what can this thing block, it looks like a row of bamboo fences moving forward, and it looks quite powerful at a rough look, but if you look closely, you feel ridiculous, and the tiger is not an anti-dog, what is the use of this thing.

The first column of these soldiers with a large bamboo platoon slowly moved forward, followed by the spearmen who followed the line forward, so looking at the past, it seems that the distance between the spearmen and the line of the bamboo platoon is also very far, it is really inexplicable formation, I don't know if the general on the opposite side has eaten his brain.

In front of Yingshang City, the place that can be spread is so big, looking at the opposite side like this, the horse team of the fifth battalion of the left is not easy to deploy, so the best way is to use artillery bombardment.

There was no hesitation in this, Liu Xiyao and Wei Xiaobei hurriedly gave orders in their respective teams, and deployed artillery to prepare for bombardment. If the officials and soldiers fought so inexplicably, they couldn't even cross the moat, and these cities in the south of Fengyang Mansion were surrounded by deep and wide moats, and they introduced living water, which was difficult to be filled.

The river was five hundred steps away from the city gate, and when the bamboo line advanced to more than two hundred steps, the sound of the gong was heard by the river, which was probably an order to stop advancing.

At this time, the artillery of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution had just been launched, and the soldiers were nailing iron nails to the ground and digging pits to fix the cannons. Now that I am closer, I can see that the lower end of the bamboo row may be sharpened, but it is not troublesome when it penetrates into the ground.

In front of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Movement, a chest-high bamboo wall quickly appeared, and the Fifth Battalion of the Left Movement was confused, thinking that what was the point of doing this, this kind of bamboo wall was too weak, and nothing could stop it, but blocked the way forward, I don't know what they were going to do.

The artillery of the 5th Battalion of the Left Wing of the Revolution is the kind that is used in the world, the wheels of the gun mount are relatively small, and the push is relatively slow, and it has to be fixed by digging pits and nails before it can be fired. The artillery here was pushed out, and the bamboo wall made of bamboo rows over there suddenly opened a few openings, and several small cannons were pushed out.

For the 5th Battalion of the Left Battalion, they did not have the ability to cast cannons, and they used captured artillery, but these cannons could move quickly in an emergency, albeit relatively fast. They only have, and can only be, small cannons of about a pound.

However, the Huaiyang army used artillery cast by the Shandong Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, and the three-pound artillery could be pushed by six people or individuals, and the degree of travel would not lag behind the infantry array.

Moreover, the soldiers who train every day are far more loaded than the other side in terms of ammunition......

This is a timed cloth, Lao Bai went to sleep first, slept for a few hours and continued to scold, it is estimated that the third is around half past nine, and the monthly pass will be smashed over

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