"It's still half a day late......"

Yizhang north, Huangcen Mountain (riding Tianling) east foot, chariots, horses and people rush to the south. In the queue, Li Xian, who received an urgent report from Yizhang, settled on a big stone in his heart, and he was still complaining.

"Heavenly King, did you use the Immortal Carrying Method? Two people, thousands of miles away in Guangxi and Fujian, arrived in Yizhang in three or four days!? ”

Meng Kui was still muttering.

"It's not an immortal method, it's just turning the two-way army into 12,000 people."

Li Xian replied leisurely, Meng Kui sighed, pretending to understand, but his heart was even more confused, what difference is this?

Glancing at this thief leader who had not yet grown up, Li Xianxin said that he was lonely and widowed, but the two armies and 12,000 people were not the same thing.

When the army moves, the weight of grain and grass is incalculable, and even if it is a rapid march, whether it is riding a horse or on foot, under ordinary conditions, a hundred miles is already the limit, which is the common sense deeply rooted in the minds of the enemy and us.

But no matter whether they are friends or enemies, they don't pay attention to one thing, or rather, they don't have enough insight to notice what this matter has to do with the march of the army, after all, in this era, the army's mobility is mostly their own business.

The Anglo-Chinese army was fighting on the inner front, and the forces of the industrial and commercial people in the territory were mobilized to transport 12,000 people, but it was just a drizzle. According to Peng Xianzhong's estimate, even 120,000 people are enough to deal with it, and it depends on whether Li Xian can get the money.

There are more than 1,000 large and small river boats in the Sanjiang Boat Company, which belongs to Qingtian Company, and one-third of them are fast boats newly built in the past two years. In the car shops that are blooming all over Guangdong, there are thousands of horse-drawn express cars, as long as they are properly organized, the vehicles and boats do not stop, and people do not touch the ground, as if they stepped on a conveyor belt, and they were directly sent to Yizhang, Hunan.

This is still one side of the "immortal law", and the other side is more important in the difference between "army" and "people". There is a concept that goes beyond this era, that is, "material presetting". In order to use its limited military strength to achieve its strategy of global deployment and global intervention, a certain imperialist power in Li Shi's previous life had no choice but to engage in a large-scale pre-construction of materials and equipment. Stockpiling supplies at various military bases, and even cruising the sea with pre-loaded cargo ships loaded with supplies, thus reducing the pressure of transporting supplies when the army is mobilized.

At this time, it was still 1716, and the military needs of the British and Chinese army were grain, grass, ammunition, clothing, etc., plus guns and ordnance.

The whole process does not involve any high-precision engineering technology, but tests the organizational ability, and now it seems that there is still a great lack of real-time communication means. It was originally planned to be completed in three and a half days, but it turned out to take four days, and there was a lot of confusion in the process. For example, the eight-catty cannon was equipped with twelve catties of ammunition, and many Yongli-style muskets were equipped with old-style ammunition, and even the Military Command Department issued a wrong order, and several internal guards were pulled to Yizhang as belonging to the reserve battalion of the Yulin Army, and the internal guards who had changed into new clothes and new guns didn't have time to be happy, so they greeted Jia Hao with a black face, and the three words that made them almost faint: "Mistaken." ”

The other mistakes are all subtleties, but time is very important, and Li Shi repeatedly emphasizes the precise control of time, because this action must be advanced along a precise timeline.

Considering the enemies on three sides as a whole, Yang Lin, Shi Shibi, Garbi and Yanxin, the four people, all relied on Yinzhen's general in Changsha to dispatch in the center. Yang Lin and Shi Shibiu's urgent report will reach Yinzhen in at least four days. It took a day and a half for Yinzhen to send the news to Garbi, and more than two days to Yanxin.

After figuring out the information transmission system of the Qing army, Li Xi made a plan. used himself as bait to lure the Yinzhen army to the south, and then urgently transferred the two armies of Yulin and Yingyang to Hunan, and annihilated the Yinzhen army in one fell swoop.

Time is of the essence in this plan. The two armies of Yulin Yingyang came early, and the Yanxin army will definitely not go south to Yizhang. If it's too late, Yizhang will be in danger. After thinking for a long time, it was finally determined that after the Yanxin army passed Hengyang, the Yulin Eagle was mobilized. In three or four days, Yanxin should have arrived outside Yizhang, but he had not yet had time to launch the army, and at the same time, the news of the return of the eastern and western armies had just reached Yinzhen's hands, and Yanxin did not know yet.

Now the retreat of the two armies was successfully completed, but the time was slow for half a day, Jia Hao and Wu Ya sent a joint urgent report, when the Yanxin army arrived to the north of Yizhang, only the Baicheng battalion of the Yulin army arrived first, and a battalion of men and horses frightened Yanxin, and then the Qingpu battalion of the Yingyang army arrived, and only then did they stand still, if it was one step later, the situation could be unimaginable.

Now that the eight battalions of the two armies have arrived in Yizhang, they should be coordinating the position, and Li Shi will let Jia Hao and Wu Ya handle this matter by themselves. In order to promote the further development of the war situation in the direction planned by himself, he also personally led the Tiger Ben army to the south, asking the three armies to join forces to force Yanxin.

Outside Yizhang County, the cannon roared, the sand and dust swept into the sky, and dozens of red-clothed soldiers lined up in a row, shivering and lifting their pants one after another.

"Or I'm ...... South"

Jia Hao smiled apologetically at Wu Ya, Wu Ya grinned like a toothache, and was frustrated why he hadn't drunk more water before.

Yanxin came from Huangcen Mountain in Guiyang Prefecture and was frightened by the artillery of the Baicheng and Qingpu camps outside the city of Yizhang County. If Yanxin was a reckless man, he would have hit it headless at that time, 50,000 against 3,000, and it was really difficult to predict how things would be. But he was a cautious man, and after hearing the roar of at least twenty cannons, he hurriedly retreated the whole army, fortified on all sides, and at the same time sent people to report back to the general of Changsha in a hurry.

"Thousand Feather Ring Sword, that is the banner of the Yulin Army. The flying eagle spreads its wings, that is the banner of the Eagle Yang Army, and the general flag of the commander of the two armies and the commander of the eighth battalion has been seen, and it is the thief army that has returned from Fujian and Guangxi to help. ”

Although it was hard to believe, seeing is believing, and Yanxin had to painfully admit that Yinzhen's plan and his expectations had been completely disappointed.

The situation changed suddenly, Yanxin was more cautious, he even had the heart to retreat, the two armies in front of him were the elite of the thief army, the battle of Shaozhou, Guangxi and Fujian, all of which were done by these two armies, although he had 50,000 people, including 30,000 Shaanxi, Gansu and green battalions, against the elite of the thief army who could win with one or ten, he should have no bottom in his heart.

But his 50,000-strong army came from Huangcen Mountain, so he didn't have to worry about the enemy army when he came, and he naturally didn't care much about crossing the mountains and mountains. Now that the enemy is pressing, he is not a fool, if he wants to retreat from the mountain road, that is, he will give the other party meat to eat, so he hurriedly defends on the spot.

"If you are not completely sure, you will not fight rashly with the thief army!"

Yanxin suppressed the generals who were full of war spirit in the big tent, especially the Shaanxi and Gansu generals who were already screaming.

"If I guess correctly, Li Xianzheng is leading his army south, wanting to merge with these two armies, and defeat me in this Yizhang. Just use our army as a chopping block and attach the elite of the thief army to it. When Garbi and even the general arrive with the army, they will be wiped out in one fell swoop! ”

Although Yanxin's words are whitewashed, this intention is very clear, and it is also accepted by the generals, and when they think of the scene after that, the generals are even more blood boiling. This is the decisive battle! Not only can Li Shi be defeated, but also the elite of the thief army can be annihilated here, and then the rebellion in Guangdong will be brought to a halt with this battle...... What a magnificent scene it must be!

Then the movement of the thief army in front of him seemed to confirm Yanxin's judgment, the Yulin army was in the south, and the Yingyang army was in the east, sandwiching the two sides of the Yanxin army.

Although he is looking forward to the big war in the near future, the situation in front of him makes the Qing generals feel a little ridiculous, their own side is 50,000, the other side is 10,000, but their side seems to be surrounded, and the roles seem to be reversed...... This sense of absurdity quickly dissipated without a trace, on the fifth day of July, thousands of thieves appeared in the north, the general flag of the Tiger Army, and the Wang Banner of Li Shi fluttered high in the ranks of the thief army, Li Xi arrived, the three armies were separated on three sides, and the small-scale attack and assault were ruthlessly repelled by artillery fire, and all the generals of the Yanxin Department subconsciously swallowed their spit.

"It can't be!"

Hengzhou, the general temporarily left, received an urgent report from Yanxin, Yinzhen couldn't believe it, three or four days, that Li Xian's two-way army was like a Pegasus urgent report, and it really rushed over, which is also ridiculous.

"Lord Garbi reported urgently, saying that Li Shi had led an army out of Chenzhou to the south, presumably to meet the new elite and attack Lord Yanxin's way."

The staff reminded Yinzhen that now is not the time to believe each other, but to decide what to do.

"Linggarbi left a group of men and horses to monitor Chenzhou, and most of them went south, even if they couldn't tail Li Xi, they had to meet Yanxin, as for our ......"

Yinzhen turned his head to look at Chen Wance, who was obviously haggard.

"Yes, Mr. Chu, have all the gun trucks followed?"

Chen Wance's pupils were a little out of focus, and he nodded again and again, of course he followed, and after the army's food and straw were roughly in place, his focus shifted to another direction, transferring hundreds of general artillery to the front line. In order to tow these cannons, he had to wait for thousands of carts, cattle and horses, and he had to plan and supervise the relevant human and animal expenses and distances, and these tasks cost him a small life.

"My banner battalion will personally lead the artillery team to the south, and we will fight a decisive battle with that Li Xi outside Yizhang!"

The plan was completely disrupted, and the situation was extremely urgent, Yinzhen Feiyang's heart attacked, and he was full of determination and ignored everyone's persuasion.

The decisive battle in Hunan, first the Tiger Army broke into Chenzhou, and then the Hunan people bravely took the stage, and then Li Xi came to the front line in person, and then Kangxi took the Fuyuan general Yinzhen as his hand, and opened a grand layout of a right hook, which lasted for more than two months.

This battle of wits and courage, from Kangxi to Yinzhen, and then to the generals under him, has squeezed out every distraction, and Li Xian's side has also launched unprecedented strength, and even took risks in Guangxi and Fujian. But at the time of this decisive battle, the heartstrings of the Qing court were tightened to the tightest point, but Li Xi had already relaxed.

In his opinion, if there is any suspense in this battle, it should be what kind of face the victory will be presented.

(To be continued)