On this day, as soon as the sky was dark, Wang Lanping called Song Xian, the chief of the light cavalry of the Fengzi battalion, to the military tent, asking how he had trained these days and how his morale was, and Song Xian replied one by one, and today's light cavalry is no longer comparable to Li Zhi's reign in the past.

Under the intensive training of Song Xian for half a month, it is really a strong soldier and a strong horse, people are like tigers and horses, and they come and go as fast as the wind, which is not only the merit of Song Xian's training, but also thanks to Wang Lanping's new military promotion system.

Wang Lanping changed the first-level merit to military inspection merit, and when stationing, he inspected the daily training of soldiers and the maintenance of personal weapons, etc., and the scoring system, except for special soldiers such as sentry posts, all the remaining combat units did not pay attention to the combat ability of individual soldiers, and the mutual cooperation and cooperation of military formations in the era of cold weapons was the royal road to victory.

During the battle, those who did not obey orders and privately pursued the enemy troops and looted the battlefield materials were beheaded for public display, no matter how heroic the battle was, regardless of the officers and men.

The army conducts a military inspection every half month, where the cumulative nine points, the military rank is automatically promoted to one level, for example, a small soldier within a month to obtain the qualification for promotion, then promoted to the chief, if there is no vacancy for the time being, then the person can also get the chief military salary, all the real positions in the army, since Wang Lanping began the post of commander, everyone has the opportunity to take over.

If this man had been promoted to the rank of general as a small soldier, he would have to be restrained by the rank of chief when there was no real appointment, and this was only in the barracks, of course.

If a serving officer does not receive any promotion within three years, he will be automatically demoted by one level, and you must surrender your military rights, even if you are already a general.

If the imperial court appoints someone to be a general in the army, even if it is a prince, he must start as a small soldier and obey the military orders of the chief.

There is an exception to the promotion and promotion of all posts, that is, Wang Lanping was specially appointed and dismissed due to operational needs.

The whole army, regardless of officers and soldiers, who have been convicted of violating military law and are convicted of capital crimes, even if you are as brave as Zhao Yunzhi to suppress Kong Ming, you will be killed.

In other words, the Champion Army was independent of the imperial court, and the only power the imperial court had over the Champion Army was the power to dispatch battles, and this power seemed to be gradually disappearing with the rise of Wang Lanping's influence in the army.

In just a few days, more than 100 ordinary soldiers have been promoted, three mediocre commanders have been dismissed, and a former left vanguard battalion commander has been beheaded for deducting soldiers' salaries.

Wang Lanping This is also an expedient measure, in order to deal with the current chaos, he can only do this heavy ceremony, and when the world is peaceful in the future, it is definitely the way to take chaos.

After listening to Song Xian's report, Wang Lanping nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile, "General Song is worthy of being a sharp weapon for governing the army, good, but the real ability is not said, it is a mule or a horse, and I will know when I go to the battlefield to go to the battlefield, I will give you half an hour, order all three thousand light horsemen, bring two war horses per person, and wait outside the camp."

Song Xian didn't even ask where he was going, and retreated.

Later, Wang Lanping ordered someone to call Song Dali to discuss the matter.

Song Dali is really a daughter-in-law for many years now, in just two months, he has been promoted from a small centurion of the original wind word battalion to the commander of the five thousand iron cavalry of the new wind word battalion of the champion army, and the elite of the whole army is in his hands.

Song Dali entered the tent, and saw that there was only one person waiting for the master in the tent, so he took off his weapon, picked up the kettle on the handsome case and drank it to his heart's content, and after drinking a mouth, he burped, patted his stomach and smiled, "It's getting hotter and hotter this day, it's only enjoyable to have a pot of wine, wait for me, are you looking for me?" ”

As the commander of tens of thousands of troops, in addition to using strict rewards and punishments and their own appeal to envelop the whole army, there must be some brothers who have made friends with their hearts, victory and defeat in the war are common things, maybe today they have the power of the generals to follow, in case of defeat one day, maybe there will be a situation where the tree is falling and scattered, there is really this day, only Song Dali and the two hundred old brothers brought from Huaining City may not be far away from him, and even the wooden word battalion that Zheng Sen brought to Huaining City may not be reliable.

So when no outsiders are present, the two are more casual.

Wang Lanping pointed to the armor of the commander behind Song Dali and said, "You kid give me some peace, bring my armor over, and the army will be handed over to you in the next few days when I am away."

Song Dali said while taking the armor, "Master Hou, where do you want to go?" ”

Wang Lanping said, "Haven't you heard, our champion army has become a rebel army, the military salaries and supplies in Nanjing are all cut off, and the food in the army can only be supported for seven or eight days at most, and if you don't think about it, you won't be able to bring this soldier."

Song Dali's eyes lit up, and he whispered, "Hou Ye, you don't really want to besiege Nanjing" Song Dali is wishing he did this, the army will surround Nanjing, anyway, there are not many soldiers in it, and then directly pull the Zhu Yousong who is neither attractive nor useful from the dragon chair, and then Wang Dushuai will do it with his ass, and he will not be killed, and then again, kill all the Fengzi and dragon grandchildren of the Zhu family, and the generals under the Dafeng Wang Commander, fight in the south and the north, and lay down an iron bucket of the country, how happy it is, I heard that there is a small Japanese slave country at sunrise, Fortunately, it was cleaned up, and the emperor had never done it for thousands of years, and at that time, the emperor had to give me a prince, and when the world was too peaceful, she would raise a hundred and ten beautiful wives and concubines, and we would also have a day for a girl, and the days of the month would not be the same.

Seeing Song Dali's thoughtful appearance, Wang Lanping stretched out his hand and knocked on the door of his head, "What do you think, I'm asking for food, and by the way, I will also clear the charge of our rebels, just our little people, we can't find them in the Ming army pile in the south of the Yangtze River."

Song Dali came back to his senses from the boundless fantasy and smiled, "Yes, you never fight unprepared battles, but, Master Hou, we have all become rebels, can you get food?" Besides, I guess the man surnamed Ma is in ambush waiting for you, how many soldiers are you going to take with you?"

Wang Lanping said with a smile, "Who told you that I was going to Nanjing, someone owes me and will pay it back after all."

Song Dali thought about it, and couldn't help but be shocked, and said in a suppressed voice, "Master Hou, you, you won't go to Liu Zeqing."

"Why, can't you?"

"Good is good, but ......"

"No, but, remember, before I come back, not a single soldier is allowed to move, even if it is a holy decree"

By night, Wang Lanping led three thousand light cavalry and personal guards to gallop in the direction of Huai'an, along the way, no one including Song Xian knew where the target was, six thousand war horses took turns to ride, two days and two nights galloped for hundreds of miles, and finally in the middle of the night the day after Liu Zeqing caught the spies suddenly appeared three miles outside his Chinese army camp.

Wang Lanping ordered the whole army to rest for two hours, he took Song Xian to find a higher place, looked at Liu Zeqing's fire-lit military camp in the distance, and said to Song Xian, "Song Xian, see it, launch an attack in two hours, and end the battle before dawn."

Song Xian replied, but he is also a veteran of the war, judging from the layout and scale of the campfire in the distance, it is clearly a Ming army camp, with at least 10,000 people, is it true that Governor Wang wants to replace Ming as legendary?

Song Xian was suspicious in his heart, but he didn't dare to say nonsense, and said cautiously, "Commander, it seems that there is a Ming army camp there, aren't we killing each other?" ”

Wang Lanping said, "That's right, that's Liu Zeqing's camp"

Song Xian was taken aback, "Huai'an Barracks, that, then we are, are we really rebels" The last few words, Song Xian's voice can almost only be heard by himself.

Wang Lanping snorted lightly, "The winner is the king and the loser is Kou, and we are the heroes who take Liu Zeqing."

Although Song Xian was puzzled, he still received the order to prepare.

Wang Lanping took a few guards and drove his horse to a place less than half a mile away from Yuanmen, but he didn't even find a lurking post all the way.

Walking around the barracks for a while, Wang Lanping was glad that he had come early, and the spies who had been ambushing Liu Zeqing just now reported that Liu Zeqing had been assembling military horses two days ago, and had sent a large number of scouts to Xiangshan in advance, maybe he had found Wang Lanping's cavalry on the road, but he didn't have time to come back to report it, because Wang Lanping's speed was too fast.

Since Liu Zeqing learned that Wang Lanping had to march into Nanjing City for more than 10 days, he immediately relaxed and did not urge the troops that had not yet had time to assemble, and after two days of delay, less than 10,000 people were assembled.

The time was almost up, the light cavalry battalion recovered its strength and turned over the horse, in order to distinguish between the enemy and us, everyone put the white towel they carried around their necks, Wang Lanping pointed to Liu Zeqing's Chinese army tent and said to Song Xian, "Capture the thief first capture the king, you take his Chinese army tent directly, it's best to catch me alive"

As soon as Song Xian waved his hand, three thousand light horsemen scattered in a fan shape and touched the front barracks, and five or six Huai'an barracks guards were dozing off the door with spears, completely unaware of the arrival of death.

More than two dozen light cavalry dismounted and fired at the guards at the gate of the camp, and with a few screams, the guards were all killed.

Another hundred and ten cavalrymen rushed out, each of them holding a long rope with an iron hook in their hands, quickly rushed to the bottom of the gate, threw all the long ropes on the wooden fence, more than a hundred horses galloped backwards together, and the tall gate fell down with a bang, all this happened in a moment of lightning.

With the arrival of Yuanmen, Song Xian drew his saber and shouted, "Kill!" ”

Three thousand war horsemen shook the earth, and also woke up tens of thousands of Huai'an soldiers from their sleep, for a time the Huai'an military camp cried dad and shouted mother's voice, many soldiers who didn't have time to put on clothes were naked and frightened and inexplicably scurrying around, they didn't know what was going on, in a blink of an eye, dozens of people had fallen under the hooves, Wang Lanping had instructed Song Xian, try to hurt as little as possible.

At this time, Song Xian had already rushed to a distance of less than fifty steps from Liu Zeqing's big tent with hundreds of cavalry, and fought fiercely with dozens of Liu Zeqing's guards who were in armor day and night.

The curtain of the big tent of the Chinese army was suddenly lifted at this time, and Liu Zeqing, who was naked and striped, was panicking out of the big tent surrounded by several guards, and then, several women who were also sleek also ran out of the big tent screaming, panicked, rushed into the chaos, and died under the knife.

Wang Lanping and his two hundred personal guards stood in the distance, and saw that torches were rushing out of the camp in a disorderly manner, and he knew that the big tent of the Chinese army had been breached.

"Let's go!" Wang Lanping led 200 people into the barracks.