"Are you sure the message is accurate? You won't leak the news in advance, right? Xiang Jie asked the local guide next to him from time to time, no wonder Xiang Jie was so nervous, this time it was the maiden battle since the establishment of the first army of Han Zheng.

According to the meaning of Wang Xian and others, recruits were not allowed to participate in the war this time, but this proposal was vetoed by Han Zheng, in fact, Han Zheng was not without the slightest worry in his heart.

But this is a good opportunity for military training, although half of the soldiers under his command have never been on the battlefield, but after pre-arrangement, with a force of nearly 300 people, if they have to retreat even to attack a group of water bandits and smugglers, how will they go to the battlefield in the future?!

This was the first battle in which Han Zheng reached the Voryang region, and it was also the first battle of the entire army, and he wanted to let the army have a preliminary contact with a bloody war in this battle.

At that time, when Han Zheng and his subordinates followed Zhang Xun's troops to the southwest, although they had seen several small-scale battles along the way, Han Zheng and his party had always been in the rear team to help Zhang Xun's logistics team transport weapons and ammunition, and they had never been on the battlefield.

Later, Han Zheng took over the task of cleaning up the battlefield, and the nerves of the soldiers were much bigger. At least I can bear it slowly, and I am psychologically ready for war.

From Xuzhou to here, small-scale wars continued, but the big battle Han Zheng has not yet seen, in Han Zheng's view, both the north and the south are ready to accumulate strength for a big war, but these small-scale wars, at the beginning of which Han Zheng was surprised.

Because in later generations, the area north of the Huai River was still under the strong rule of Beiyang, and at this time, a small group of revolutionary troops appeared, but he noticed that others were not surprised by this, and his heart slowly figured it out.

In this time and space, history is slowly disconnected from the previous life after all, even if people are still those people, but the development of the current situation is not like that of later generations, at least some details, which also makes Han Zheng full of enthusiasm for his future.

In order to gain time all the way, Zhang Xun just cleaned up after the war, and then led the front team to continue to advance, handing over all the work of cleaning the battlefield to the troops who followed behind.

Every time they walked through the battlefield at the end of the day, the recruits under Han Zheng turned pale, and when they saw those stumps and broken arms, some soldiers even couldn't eat for a day or two.

Although the training is not bad in peacetime, but seeing the cruelty of the battlefield, no one is not nervous, even the faces of the veterans are full of uneasiness, they did not expect that this war will be fought so tragically.

Han Zheng saw these in his heart, although it was also uncomfortable, but he thought that he didn't know how many years he would have to survive in this environment in the future, so in order to exercise the courage of the soldiers, he had to be ruthless, and even after cleaning the battlefield, he found Li Yan, who was also following behind, and took the initiative to take over the job of burying the corpse, which no one was willing to take.

After Li Yan knew Han Zheng's intentions, he had to look at Han Zheng again, as for the logistics personnel of other Zhang Xun's troops, they were also happy, shouting Han Zheng behind their backs, and then continued to follow the troops to the south.

Just after the New Year's Festival, the rest of the winter is not over, and the remnants of the battlefield such as corpses do not emit any foul smell, but the mixed smell of blood and gunsmoke is quite unbearable. Xiang Jie complained several times, but they all had to continue this task under Han Zheng's strong orders.

The wreckage left on the battlefield can clearly see the intensity of the war at that time, which also made Han Zheng have a deeper understanding of the strength of the Beiyang Army, no wonder in the future, he can dominate China for more than ten years.

For the remains of the soldiers on both sides, Han Zheng buried them respectfully every time, and marked them as much as possible, watching those blood-stained young faces carry by his soldiers and walk in front of him, he was deeply shocked.

In this environment, Han Zheng's sense of mission is also stronger, his heart is burning like a fire, Han Zheng realizes that he has to speed up his pace of development, otherwise I don't know how much national blood China will consume in the civil war.

In later generations, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression lasted for eight years, and although it was finally won, the price paid was incalculable, and Han Zheng was unwilling to let this calamitous nation start again.

In this way, Han Zheng led his subordinates all the way, all the way to collect the corpses of both sides, at first some people laughed at Han Zheng's woman's benevolence, but then all the people began to admire slowly, no one knows if they will die next time, whether there are still people like Han Zheng to collect their own corpses...

Xiang Jie and the others slowly stopped complaining, for them, every time they cleaned the battlefield was an experience.

It wasn't until the Voryang Realm that Han Zheng separated from Zhang Xun and stationed there.

When everyone separated, almost all the soldiers who were with Han Zheng and his party all the way out of the camp saw each other off, and Han Zheng and his subordinates also won the respect of the other party with their respect for the soldiers along the way.

And this time, Han Zheng's preparation for the first war that was about to be launched was on the fifth day that Han Zheng and his party came here, to be honest, this war was not expected by Han Zheng, in Han Zheng's impression, there are no mountains and rivers in this area of Voryang, endless plains, how can there be any bandits and bandits, let alone any water bandits.

But after Han Zheng and his party arrived at Vortex Yang and stationed there, they learned that it was not peaceful here, and the Vortex River was not like in later generations.

Now the surface of the vortex river is still very open, the two sides of the vortex river are barren everywhere, and because this river is connected to the Huai River, it has also become an important waterway traffic place, and the water bandits are naturally produced.

Later, Han Zheng looked for a local county official or something, only to find that the position of county magistrate here had been vacant for a while, and he found the local squires to find out the reason.

It turned out that during the revolution in the south, it was affected here, and the local ruffians, river bandits, and outlaws who smuggled salt smashed the county office.

Speaking of which, the number of this group of outlaws is not large, only more than 30 people, but it is said that there are enough guns and ammunition, and everyone is not afraid of death, and then there has been no one to manage this place, and those water bandits and smugglers have become more rampant, every winter, they will go ashore to loot, do all kinds of evil, there are not many people near the banks of the vortex river, and the river transport has slowly declined.

Since Han Zheng regarded this place as his starting base in the future, how could he want these people to disturb his rule? After inquiring privately for a long time and cooperating with the local squire, I learned that this group of bandits and smugglers would go ashore tonight to loot again, so there was a virgin battle of the Han Zheng Department tonight.

When he came, Han Zheng was worried that there was a dark line of these outlaws in the county, so he didn't make any noise, and sent people here to observe the terrain two days in advance, and made a plan for this war, hoping to clear the hidden dangers of the development of this place in one fell swoop.

In order to ensure that this group of people escaped after discovering it, they did not lay in ambush on the shore, but lurked in the woods on the edge of a low-lying land more than 500 meters from the shore, and left more than 30 people led by Chen Feng and Duan Nian at two hundred meters from the main battlefield near the river bank to prevent any fish from slipping through the net.

Xiang Jie was unconsciously nervous because he participated in the battle for the first time, so he asked the local guide from time to time.

Han Zheng understood Xiang Jie's heart, and didn't blame him, but when he saw him say "Why haven't you come yet, why haven't you come yet" after a while, he will also be a little unable to stand the other party's verbosity, which makes him a little nervous.

Han Zheng glared at the other party angrily, but it was dark, and he didn't light a torch or anything like that, how could Xiang Jie see Han Zheng's dissatisfaction? Han Zheng's white eyes can only be a waste of feelings.

In the end, Han Zheng really couldn't stand his verbosity, so he had to let Xiang Jie go down to see if the soldiers had already entered the state, supervise the soldiers, manage his subordinates, and Xiang Jie went down.

The troops were arranged and each went into the prepared positions.

Wang Xian's gendarmerie was also arranged to guard the periphery of the encirclement to prevent anyone from responding, Li Feng and Lin Xiang led their second team to stay in the woods on the left, Han Zheng originally put Xiang Jie on his side, but he couldn't stand Xiang Jie's verbosity, so he took his people to the woods on the right.

In this way, under this arrangement, the entire formation just formed a pocket array, sealing the place where the opponent must go after going ashore, once the opponent enters the encirclement, Chen Feng and Duan Nian will block the pockets and completely eliminate this group of outlaws.

The night was getting darker and darker, and the surroundings were quiet, except for the occasional grinding sound from the gentle movement of the soldiers, which added to the silence and coldness of the winter night.

Tonight is destined to stain the banks of the vortex with blood, as for whether it can go as smoothly as Han Zheng expected, he doesn't know, and Han Zheng can't think about it so much at this time, lying on the cold ground like ordinary soldiers, feeling the still cold night wind, waiting for the first war that will come for him, and it is also the official start of his life warlord career.

"Battalion commander, look over there, it's coming."

Xiao Fengzi had been paying attention to the riverbank, and was discovered as soon as there was a little movement, and whispered to Han Zheng, there was some trembling in his voice, I don't know if he was nervous or excited.

After Xiao Fengzi's prompt, the soldiers on Han Zheng's side carefully looked up at the riverbank, and the lights were particularly conspicuous in the dark night, and suddenly the soldiers under his command were a little commotional, until they saw Han Zheng lying in front of him still standing there motionless, and then they quieted down again.

War, that's how it came...