Chapter 4: The First Battle of the Recruits

The next day, it was almost the time of the hour when the army began to get up and clean up, which should have been something that should have been done at the beginning of the day. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

After all, the rest was delayed by two hours last night, and the next day it was natural to extend the rest time by two hours, otherwise the soldier's physical strength would not be fully recovered. Further, today's march time will actually be shortened by two hours.

If it were another army, Zhu Cheng would be punished even if he was meritorious. Fortunately, the commander of this army is Zhu Jun, but he didn't do anything to him, but it can be seen that Zhu Jun is a little dissatisfied with this.

After absorbing the lesson, Zhu Cheng's march on this day was also decent, and the speed of his advance was also carried out according to the standards of the new army, and as a result, he only advanced more than 40 miles in one day. Finally, choose a place near the river, slightly higher and away from the forest.

"Good day!" Zhu Jun was very satisfied with Zhu Cheng's performance today, although the movement speed was not fast, but the maximum guarantee of the combat power of the soldiers, even if there was a fight with the sudden attack of the enemy now, the soldiers still had spare strength.

A hasty march is not bad, it should be carried out on the premise of ensuring security from the rear to the front. A quick march in enemy-occupied territory results in a tired and exhausted situation, and it is easy to be successfully attacked by the enemy's ambushes.

"Thirty miles away is where Chenliu County is located, and there are a large number of yellow turban thieves gathered nearby, so be careful when you rest tonight. Tomorrow, the soldiers will be divided into six ways to encircle and suppress the surrounding Yellow Turban stragglers, and Zhu has only one condition, don't be reckless! After the meal, Zhu Jun summoned all the school officials and gave instructions for tomorrow's arrangements.

According to the information reported from the front line, as well as the results of scouts, there are no Yellow Turban troops around Chenliu. Maybe they also have a lot of factions within them, even if everyone helps the Yellow Turban, but they are fighting on their own. Often, thousands of people in one share, or tens of thousands of people, loot around Chen Liu, perhaps because they think it will be more efficient.

To deal with these unfashionable troops, the 20,000-strong troops were divided into four routes, and there were almost 5,000 troops per unit, which was exactly one school. Those Yellow Turban thieves who are slightly inferior to the bandits may be slightly inferior to the bandits, five thousand people are enough, as long as they are not strong.

There are some things that Zhu Jun didn't say, and everyone knows it in their hearts. In the end, recruits still have to go through the flames of war to grow, and from the time they came out of Luoyang to the present, except for the scout troops who have fought a battle, the other troops have hardly experienced the baptism of war. Fortunately at this stage, it is only a small force that is not in the climate, if it is against the main force of the Yellow Turban Thieves in the future, then these 20,000 people, except for a few people, are almost the existence of delivering food to people.

Before fighting the regular army, it was a policy that had been formulated a long time ago to practice actual combat with those small groups of Yellow Turban thieves. In addition to the fact that Lu Zhi's troops did not need it, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun had to make the troops under their command have sufficient combat effectiveness in the short term.

"My subordinates understand!" The people of the five schools, including Zhu Cheng, replied.

As for the last colonel, the cavalry unit commanded by Zhu Jun himself, their main role is to rush to help, and they will not take the initiative to find the Yellow Turban Thieves to attack. In the days when horseshoes were not available, cavalry was not suitable for excessive galloping, and the nail layers of the horses' hooves would wear out and crack, and eventually the horses would lose the ability to continue running.

In addition, the cavalry is all served by non-commissioned officers with experience in horse warfare, and even the generals are selected from the cavalry schools that are good at cavalry warfare in the forbidden army. They know when to go into battle.

The next day, after breakfast, the army began to disperse in six directions, cruising around Chenliu County.

"Reconnaissance ahead!" Zhu Cheng's troops mainly patrolled the Yongqiu area, and after leaving the camp, he gave orders to Yang Lang.

"Whoa!" Yang Lang received the order, and immediately dispersed with the scout troops, cruising about twenty miles ahead.

"Report, eighteen miles ahead, there is a Yellow Turban Thief looting the township, the number of which is conservatively estimated to be no more than two thousand!" Two quarters of an hour later, there were scouts who went out to report back to Zhu Cheng.

"Yang Lang didn't attack?" Zhu Cheng asked jokingly.

"The marquis is ready to go into battle at any time!" The scout quickly replied, this is also what Yang Lang has explained.

"Let him wait this time, and let someone else eat some meat! Let him keep an eye on the surroundings, this school doesn't want to be raided by others in the process of attacking! Zhu Cheng replied slowly.

"Whoa!" The scout who got the reply was a little disappointed, but he still took the order to go back and pass it on.

"Li Zhi, Zhang Chun!" Zhu Cheng turned around and shouted, and the two military marquis under his command quickly stepped forward to listen to the order. "Take your men and soldiers and surround the enemy from the left and right!"

"Whoa!" The two received the order and quickly rushed to the front line with their foot soldiers.

"Sons, the achievements are in the future, follow me!" Zhu Cheng pulled out the first knife in his hand, pointed ahead and shouted.

"Kill!" The soldiers, who were already ready to kill the enemy, responded excitedly.

In fact, these recruits have changed a bit since they were just recruited. For example, they already know more or less the importance of military regulations and military orders, and they also know that the basic element of a soldier is obedience. The key is that after leaving the customs, seeing what those yellow turban thieves did happened to be the same as advertised, which made their illusions about the yellow turban thieves completely shattered.

There was no hesitation or confusion in my heart, and the rest was filled with the idea of making a contribution. Earlier, I hadn't grabbed the opportunity to perform, and I was a little depressed. Now that I know that I can start attacking, I am naturally overjoyed.

By the time the army raided the township, the raids of the Yellow Turban Thieves had come to an end.

Look at the burning cottage, look at the villagers who have fallen to the ground, look at the Yellow Turban thieves who are still killing. The recruits have also gone through a series of propaganda, and even now there are political commissars to reinforce them every day, and the final result is that these soldiers have completely entered a state of rage at this moment, but fortunately, the training during this period of time has not been in vain, and there is no rush.

"Archers ready to shoot!" Zhu Cheng shouted, and more than 500 archers under his command had already come out. Although the Han could not get military rations and soldiers, they had a lot of equipment.

Zhu Jun commanded 35,000 soldiers, almost each of the ordinary soldiers had a set of leather armor, and the low-ranking officers were inlaid with iron armor. Middle- and high-ranking officers also have a set of iron armor, and generals also have a set of hardcover fish scale armor.

Each school had five hundred archers, and they would shoot at the same time when necessary; Zhu Jun's personal guard cavalry was also equipped with 500 large yellow crossbows for cavalry shooting; In addition to the pro-guard army, there are also 1,000 sword and shield soldiers in the first school, using simple knives and leather shields; The remaining three thousand are common pikemen!

Zhang Chun and Li Zhi were the sword and shield soldiers under their command, and their responsibility was to guard the exits on the left and right sides and block the rout of the Yellow Turban Thieves. At the same time, the south side is vacated, so that they can't be ruthless and desperate. It's just that they don't know that Yang Lang's scout troops are already waiting for their patronage in a farther place in the south!

"Shoot!" As the enemy began to enter the firing range, even if there were still a few civilians among them, Zhu Cheng still gave the order to shoot. At that moment, the archers quickly shot five hundred arrows forward.

The arrows were not neat, but they still had a covering effect, directly causing hundreds of Yellow Turban thieves to be killed or wounded.

"Fight!" The attack of the archers had already shocked the Yellow Turban Thieves, and Zhu Cheng took the opportunity to give the order to attack.

The marquis quickly led their subordinates and soldiers to maintain the basic phalanx in Qu as a unit, and slowly advanced according to the way they were practicing. They didn't need to be in a hurry at all, the force of 3,000 men had already sealed off the entire northern edge, and the Yellow Turban Thieves would always appear within their attack range unless they moved south.

At this time, you can't be greedy for merit, you must move forward steadily, the weakness of the pikemen is that the flanks are relatively weak, so the most taboo is to let the enemy surprise attack the flank. At this time, the greed for merit and recklessness will expose the side to the enemy, and if it eventually leads to casualties in the army, then it will only be too much and no success!

It is true that the non-commissioned officers are all recruits, but fortunately, the officers are not recruits. Most of them are forbidden soldiers who have fought in battles, or soldiers who have been trained by Zhu Cheng for a month, and their psychological quality and discipline are much higher than those of new soldiers.

The Yellow Turban thieves were not lambs that everyone slaughtered, they quickly came to their senses in the attack of the official army, and directly brandished the weapons in their hands and killed Zhu Cheng and them.

Obviously, there is no armor on his body at all, and all he is holding in his hands are some farm tools or something, and even long swords or ring-headed knives are relatively rare, and there is an obvious gap in the strength of the two sides, but these guys still rushed forward without hesitation.

Maybe it's because they've been burning and looting for too long, so they're in a state of blind excitement and self-confidence?

Their dreams quickly turned into bubbles, and as the distance between the two sides grew closer, the spearmen in front of them quickly launched a thrust forward according to the general's orders. The tip of the spear pierced directly into the Yellow Turban Thief's body, barely delaying.

Draw your gun, take a step forward, and continue to stab, this is the technique that all the soldiers have learned in these few days of preparation. In fact, in a large-scale war, there is no need for too fancy martial arts at all, and the power of a simple group thrust is very impressive!

From disbelieving, unbelievable that life can be taken away so easily, to slowly becoming numb, the recruits' ability to accept new things is indeed quite fast. However, Zhu Cheng knew that psychological counseling must be carried out afterwards, otherwise there will be a lot of war-weariness and other emotions if it is not good. Not everyone can get used to others dying in front of them.

"Thrust, thrust, thrust ......" the generals kept giving orders, and the soldiers advanced step by step, and stabbed the spears in their hands.

One by one, the Yellow Turban thieves were killed, and the casualty rate quickly increased to more than 50%. Seeing this, where did the remaining soldiers still have the confidence to continue to oppose the officers and soldiers? Immediately, they rushed up and scattered towards the east, west and south!

It's just that there are sword and shield soldiers on both sides of the east and west, and the only result of running towards that side is to be killed or surrendered. In fact, there is no point in running away to the south, the scout troops have been waiting for a long time!

As for the thief head...... Seriously, Zhu Cheng saw an existence that could barely block the spear lunge, but the next moment he was directly stabbed to death by the follow-up spearmen.

"Rest in place and count casualties, prisoners and survivors! An hour later, a post-war wrap-up! Zhu Cheng gave the order, which meant that the skirmish war was also declared over.

This war gave him 700 experience, 100 mastery experience, and 4210 energy points, along with the previous one. It's a shame that you're still missing 90 XP from leveling up; However, the Dominion has been increased to 28 points, which can affect 16 more soldiers. Originally, there was also Ouyang Xing under him, but the latter was a civilian official and did not command the army, so the system was stingy and did not give him a place of soldiers who could influence, and Zhu Cheng was also full of resentment about this.

On the contrary, it is an energy value of 4390 points, and Zhu Cheng plans to use it for something......