The old rule, according to the military law of the Instant Township Army, every time you arrive at the camping place, the cooking trucks of each department always arrive in advance. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Each of the 1,000 general and general of the Shunxiang Army has a thousand headquarters and a general headquarters, each of which has a number of subordinate carriages, which are loaded with some baggage tents in the general department, and there are also grain and grass for the sergeants in the department to eat for a few days.

On weekdays, the ministry relies on these carriages for transportation tasks, and there are quartermasters who are responsible for the military rations and grass of the general departments in the ministry, but their identities are independent and they are only responsible for Sun Sanjie's baggage. The firefighters of each department are also located inside, equipped with special cooking vehicles, and they can cook on the vehicles without having to build a pot, which represents the high professionalization process of the Shunxiang army.

When most of the Shunxiang army and Chen Yongfu arrived in Jiaxian County and set up camp according to their respective directions, the firefighters of each department were busy non-stop, making dough and dough, and the dough was constantly changing shape in their hands.

The dough is then divided into essentially identical portions, rolled out into the shape of a round cake, sprinkled with chopped shallots, fine ginger, salt and sesame oil, and baked on a pan on a cooking cart.

The sizzling sound continued, the aroma was fragrant, and the golden flatbread was formed.

According to the amount, in fact, you can eat a large bread to eat, not to mention that there are dried meat, salted eggs and other things on the rest of the cooking car. Those drained pieces of meat are boiled in boiling water, put in some salt, onion and garlic, dregs and other ingredients, meet some dried vegetables to boil, and eat a bowl of steaming broth in cold weather, which is very comfortable.

These dried meats are packed in paper bags and stored well for about three months. Generally, the soldiers of the Shunxiang Army who suddenly went out on the expedition were rationed fried noodles with dried meat, or flatbread with dried meat. A bag of chow mein can sustain a sergeant for about seven to fifteen days.

So it's okay to be idle, and the firefighters of all the ministries are vigorously making fried noodles. In fact, compared with dry meat, Wang Dou prefers to give the sergeant more cheese milk powder, which is more nutritious and calorie, but the supply and demand of cheese in the Central Plains are not easy, so let's talk about it in the future.

The firefighters moved quickly, and soon after the sergeants of the various departments set up camp, their meals were ready, and the officers and men of all the ministries lined up in order to receive their meals, and the officers and sergeants were all the same. In the past few years since the Shunxiang Army became an army, this practice has become commonplace.

The aroma of the food attracted the salivation of the soldiers in Chen Yongfu's army, and they followed the example of the Shunxiang army, and they also lined up to receive the food one by one. Before the expedition, it had been stated that their meals were provided by the Shunxiang army, and they accompanied the army for a few days, and they were not used to the Shunxiang army's behavior to slowly getting used to it.

For their treatment, Wang Dou gave them the meal of the inferior sergeants, a large cake, which was not enough to add, a bowl of broth, with some shredded meat in it, and no salted eggs, but the lieutenant generals and soldiers of Chen Yongfu were satisfied.

In the past, Chen Yongfu's battalion soldiers ate a kind of military food called glutinous rice, that is, the rice was boiled and put in water to be exposed to the sun, repeated several times, and finally some dry rice was obtained. When eating, soak in hot water until soft, cook and eat.

In addition to this daily ration, the army's ration consisted of miscellaneous cakes, steamed cakes, some hard salt cubes, dried vinegar, etc., and the horses would be accompanied by some cheese to quench their thirst urgently.

Looking at the northern land of the Ming Dynasty, basically the military rations are like this. These types of military food are easy to carry, but of course the taste is not very good, and at this time, the army often runs out of food and salary, and even the above kinds of food are difficult to eat, and the sergeant's requirements will not be so high.

The Shunxiang Army's meals were full, and there was broth every day, and even the officers of Chen Yongfu's forward battalion expressed envy, not to mention their ordinary soldiers. In the past few days when they went out with the Shunxiang Army, many people felt that this trip was worth it for the day when they could eat enough every day.

According to his estimates, a cooking truck can provide at least 200 people's meals within an hour to meet the needs of a general sergeant, which is a strong impact on his traditional perception of "cooking in a pot". 、

Chen Yongfu was even more surprised that Wang Dou was queuing up to receive the meal during the meal, and his only explanation was that Wang Dou shared weal and woe with the soldiers, and ate and closing, no wonder his troops were invincible.

Of course, some officers in Chen Yongfu's camp were not unaware of Wang Dou's practice of not separating the grain and grass for them to receive, but letting the generals line up to receive food, believing that this would put their army in danger of becoming vassals of the Shunxiang Army. The personal private words are that the Shunxiang army does not give them grain and grass, how can they withhold grain and grass and fill their private pockets?

However, Chen Yongfu was silent, and Wang Dou also said it well, the sergeants can save time as much as possible by concentrating on eating, marching, and fighting, seize the fighters, and reduce undue losses. Chen Yongfu didn't say anything, and it was even harder for them to say anything. Moreover, the cooking carts of the Shunxiang army were indeed convenient, which greatly saved their time of "burying the pot and cooking", made the marching speed much faster than in the past, and the soldiers ate better, so as to maintain the ability to march and fight as much as possible. ,

In the past few days, Chen Yongfu has been with Wang Dou, and he has eaten the meals of the senior sergeants in the army, and only his son Chen De, who led the family to escort the soldiers and civilians, fell outside the army's itinerary for a few days.

There is no way, those amateur post-military civilians, their marching speed cannot be compared with the professional Shunxiang Army baggage team.

There are many soldiers in Shun Township, and the encampment at this time is to occupy the west, north and south of Jiaxian County, and Chen Yongfu's forward battalion occupies the east of Jiaxian County. After dinner, Wang Dou and Chen Yongfu gathered in the county government of Jiaxian County to discuss matters.

Half of the majestic yamen has been burned down, but fortunately, this hall is still intact, serving as the joint headquarters of the Shunxiang Army and Chen Yongfu's forward battalion.

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Under a few candles as thick as children's arms, Wang Dou and Chen Yongfu sat side by side on the main seat, and the rest of the Shunxiang army generals, Wen Fangliang, Gao Shiyin, Li Guangheng, Wen Daxing, Zhao Xuan, Sun Sanjie, Wu Zhengchun, Shen Shiqi, Gao Xun and others, sat in the lower right of the hall. In Chen Yongfu's camp, a few thousand generals and generals sat at the bottom left of the hall.

Ming is precious, Wang Dou's move is also to respect Chen Yongfu's meaning, but look at Wang Dou's generals gathered star-studded, all of them are wearing well-dressed armor, and there are warm red cotton wool wool coats on their bodies, so well-equipped, the sharp spirit is faintly pressing, on the other hand, his subordinates .......

What Chen Yongfu feels like in his heart, only he knows.

The Shunxiang army had never fought with the Liukou, and they did not know much about their combat power and tactics, and Chen Yongfu certainly had a lot of say in this regard.

Chen Yongfu was of course very happy to let Wang Dou let him introduce the situation of the Liukou first, to be honest, although he was the deputy chief soldier of Henan, but after he went out with the Shunxiang Army, the limelight was suppressed by Wang Dou's department. Compared with his own sergeant, he is greatly inferior in all aspects, and Chen Yongfu and others said in their hearts that it is impossible.

Looking at the generals of the Shunxiang Army, the deputy chief soldier sat calmly and said slowly: "The thieves are all over the army, roughly in the order of the commander, the chief, the sentinel chief, the department commander, the flag in charge, and the captain." The thieves only occupy, and they are the best at ambushing, and they are ambushed left and right, and they are more and more repeated, and they cannot be prevented."

"During the battle, the thieves are five times, the hungry people are outside, the second foot soldier, the second horse army, and the second horse, and the old camp is inside, if the battle breaks its threefold, the horse is fighting to the death. If they are defeated, the thief horse army, the horsemen, and the old battalion will immediately escape, and their elite will not be lost, and they will fight elsewhere, and they will gather tens of thousands of troops in a moment. ”

"These elite thieves, everyone has a horse, or two or three straddle horses, and the officers and soldiers are no more than three steps and seven horses, and it is extremely difficult to chase them. If the pursuit is tight, it is not easy to get food and grass, and all of a sudden, the old thief battalion will be cavalry again, and the officers and soldiers will be defeated every time. ”

Chen Yongfu said: "The thief is good at using fine work, or carrying the medicine bag Cai is a doctor, or the yellow crown is retained, or the beggar is playing, watching the reality of each city, or the hungry people and the hungry army. They traveled to and from the city in the thousands, not knowing whether they were thieves or soldiers. ”

He glanced at Wang Dou: "The thousands of victims in the west of the city are difficult to ensure that there are many thieves in the city, and they must be strictly guarded against." ”

Wang Dou groaned, what Chen Yongfu said was roughly the same as what he knew about the situation of Li Zicheng and other peasant armies from the history books, and their general tactics were that it was difficult to confront the officers and men, but they were extremely good at retreating and luring the enemy, and they were masters of guerrilla warfare.

According to Chen Yongfu's statement, Li Zicheng and the others' fighting style was just the opposite of that of the Qing soldiers, but the hungry people were in front and the elite were in the back. Because of a slight missituation, Li Zicheng ran away with the backbone. Anyway, the Central Plains and other places are full of fire and water, and with backbones in hand, it is easy to gather hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of "big troops".

After listening to Chen Yongfu's words, Wang Dou realized that the fight against the Kou was a political issue, not a military issue, and unless he guarded Henan, and had a large amount of grain and rice relief, and sought to level a place and consolidate a place, the Liukou would not be able to be exterminated, and this fire could not be saved.

And Li Zicheng and others are good at ambushes, but they have been trained in the past ten years, and this ability may have gone deep into the bone marrow. The Shunxiang army had never fought against them, and before they figured out their detailed tactics, it was better to be cautious, fight steadily, and never rashly advance.

After getting used to their tactics, find another opportunity to give Li Zicheng and the others a ruthless one at a time.

"The last general roughly found out that the thieves in Ruzhou, led by the enemy generals Li Guo, Liu Fangliang, and Hao Shaoqi, seem to have hundreds of thieves in the old camp, 2,000 elite cavalry, and more than 30,000 coercions. However, the camp of thieves is chaotic, and the exact details of the formation are indeed difficult to find."

"The thieves besieged Ruzhou very urgently, and Qian Zuozheng of Zhizhou heard that reinforcements were coming, and he was very excited, hoping that our army would quickly rescue and save the people from fire and water." ,

Before each battle, the Shunxiang army must try its best to ensure that the intelligence in the army is in place to provide detailed consideration for the attack of the army. Therefore, after Chen Yongfu, Wen Daxing, the ambassador of the Intelligence Department of the Shunxiang Army, reported on the military situation in Ruzhou that he had discovered.

He arrived in Jiaxian with Li Guangheng, Sun Sanjie and others in advance, separating the detection of the officers and soldiers of the Ruzhou peasant army on the part of the officers and soldiers of Jiaxian. In addition, there was a group that did not collect at night, and had already arrived near Ruzhou, and carried out a detailed reconnaissance of the peasant army there, and made sure to find out the strength of the local peasant army, as well as the leading generals and other enemy intelligence.

However, Wen Daxing estimated that when the officers and soldiers arrived in Changga, Yuzhou and other places, the peasant army in Ruzhou might have received news of the reinforcement of the officers and soldiers. How they will react is something that needs to be inferred by the officers of the General Staff.

Chen Yongfu expressed his admiration for the intelligence capability of the Shunxiang Army, and the current officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, whether they were facing the Shangqing soldiers or the upper classmen, were basically blind, which was also the reason why they were repeatedly ambushed.

However, after listening to Wen Daxing's words, his face was still ugly, and he muttered: "Li Guo, Liu Fangliang, Hao Shaoqi? These are the thieves' henchmen and generals, and they have been with them for many years. Li Guo is a thief's nephew, his person is calm, Liu Fangliang has been in battle for a long time, and his strategy is outstanding, and Hao Shaoqi is a fierce general, and he is fierce in battle. Although it is not the thief himself, but there are these three people in Ruzhou, General Wang, this battle is not easy to fight. ”

As far as Chen Yongfu is concerned, he has never seen the combat effectiveness of the Shunxiang army, he has lived in Henan for a long time, has had a lot of dealings with Li Zicheng and others, and knows a lot about the situation of his subordinates: "The thieves in Henan Prefecture are known as tens of thousands, and according to the estimates of the general, including the old camp of thieves, there are about four or five thousand fine cavalry. The rest are either foot soldiers, or they are the starving people. ”

"Those hungry people are not difficult to deal with, but the thieves actually have 2,000 elite horsemen in Ruzhou, hundreds of old camps, and more than 30,000 coercions......

Wang Dou glanced at Chen Yongfu and saw that there was a worried look on his face, obviously worried about the elite of these peasant armies in Ruzhou.

According to Wang Dou's estimates, the strongest in Li Zicheng's army at present should be more than 1,000 people in his old camp. Those people followed Li Zicheng to fight in various places, and they had about ten years of experience in battlefield fighting, and they were considered professional soldiers.

In addition to these, it is the elite cavalry recruited from the poles of the newly surrendered officers and soldiers in the past few months, or local horse thieves, and these are considered Xiao cavalry. Then there were those who had horses, all of whom were called horse soldiers, and the rest were foot soldiers or hungry people.

As far as the officers and men of the Central Plains are concerned, Li Zicheng's old battalion is much more powerful than the families of their battalions, and the combat effectiveness of those "horsemen" is now on par with ordinary officers and men, or even stronger. In addition, the remnants of the coerced subordinate army often reached tens of thousands, and the number of people was overwhelming, so it is no wonder that the officers and soldiers of the Central Plains were often defeated.

Looking at Chen Yongfu's expression, he was obviously not optimistic about the aid from Ruzhou this time, and everyone under his command was worried, but he did not expect that there were 30,000 or 40,000 thieves in Ruzhou, which was several times that of officers and soldiers.

The generals in Wang Dou's camp didn't care, they had all beaten the fierce DZ, what were the thieves?

Gao Shiyin stood up suddenly, hugged his fist at Chen Yongfu, and then said loudly to Wang Dou: "General, the military situation is like fire, and the last general is willing to lead his sergeants to open first, as a striker, defeat the thieves in Ruzhou, and rescue the local people." ”

Wang Dou is groaning, Gao Shiyin's style is to dare to fight, he does not doubt the combat effectiveness of his subordinates, but in the face of the rogues who are good at running and ambushing, they are too fierce, but there are advantages and disadvantages. As a striker, Wang Dou thinks that Wen Fangliang, Li Guangheng, and even Wu Zhengchun and Gao Xun are good, and they are more cautious......

However, Gao Shiyin repeatedly requested, considering his Ruhong's morale and fighting spirit, Wang Dou finally agreed to his plea. He told Gao Shiyin to fight steadily, don't be too greedy, if you encounter a rogue on the road, defeat it, don't chase too fiercely, so as not to be ambushed.

Gao Shiyin excitedly agreed.

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The next day, Gao Shiyin led his thousand generals to drive and forced them to Ruzhou in advance, and his nearly 1,000 people were veterans, and everyone had horses. The carriages accompanying the troops of the thousand headquarters also have grain and grass for the sergeants in the department to eat for a few days. Ruzhou is not far from Jiaxian, and Wang Dou's main army followed, so there was nothing to worry about.

Wen Daxing's night team is currently active in Jiaxian, Ruzhou, and even Yiyang and Dengfeng, and can provide intelligence for Gao Shiyin's vanguard at any time