Liu Ruyi's incident can only be regarded as an episode, an episode in Zhang Hongbin's life.

In the days that followed, he continued to preside over the political reforms in the same state, while also keeping an eye on the training of the Salvation Army.

More than 20,000 recruits already have the potential to be warriors, and at least continuing to train will do little other than make them more physically fit. What they need is to see blood, keep seeing blood, and constantly accumulate battlefield experience, and then they can transform from newcomers to soldiers. Otherwise, no matter how long you train in the school field, when you face the old soldiers, you will inevitably suffer huge casualties.

Originally, many veterans became junior officers, and even some of them were directly promoted to mid-level officers. This method of bringing the old with the new allows them to integrate into the atmosphere of war as quickly as possible.

But to really grow up, it still has to be a real battle in the end.

It doesn't matter, after all, I just thought about going out to fight, and this battle was sent directly to the door. The three poor creatures, who despised themselves or were sadly pitied by their allies, were now gathering in three predetermined locations one after another. They will make their final preparations here and then converge south into the territory of Whitewater County.

After all, according to their intelligence system, the Salvation Army only captured Whitewater County. Therefore, their target is naturally Baishui County, as for Huanglong Mountain, that is a matter of the future, whether they want to fight or not, it depends on whether they think it is cost-effective. And whether this is a good deal mainly refers to how much money they have scraped in Whitewater County.

These poor jingling commanders of the new army were completely forced by the world and the imperial court to become calculating businessmen. They have to think about whether a battle is worth fighting, how much profit they can get if they fight, how much risk they have to consider. It will not be sent until the calculation is completed, so Zhang Hongbin also said that he is afraid that they will not be able to send troops in three months.

Seeing that the time given by Zhang Hongbin had arrived, the three troops totaling 30,000 were already waiting for Zhang Hongbin's verification outside the city of Tongzhou.

As for the issue of defending the city, Zhang Hongbin left 3,000 militiamen in charge, they are all ordinary people from the lowest level, and they also enjoy the happy life that Zhang Hongbin brought to them, so in terms of faith and loyalty, they are all Zhang Hongbin's diehards. They may not have much combat experience and no strong sense of battle, but if they defend the city, they can fight for the Salvation Army to the last drop of blood.

"I've handed it over to you, don't let me down!" Zhang Hongbin turned around and instructed Ling He.

"Rest assured, all counties, including Tongzhou City, are foolproof!" Ling He also made a mortal guarantee.

"Remember your words!" Zhang Hongbin turned his horse's head and ran in the direction of the team.

"What's your name?" Zhang Hongbin appeared in front of everyone, and he shouted hard.

"The Salvation Army!" Everyone answered in unison.

"Whose team are you?" Zhang Hongbin asked again.

"The team of the King of Redemption, the team of the people!" This is also a formulaic roar.

"Someone wants to endanger the people in our base area, what should you, as the people's team, do?" Zhang Hongbin shouted.

"Leave no one, kill them all!" Everyone shouted in response.

"Set off today, sons and daughters, for the sake of the base area, for the people of the base area, for your fellow villagers, and for the glory of our salvation army, go on the expedition!" Zhang Hongbin finally gave the order to go out.

"Fight! War! War!! "Morale is at its highest level for all.

Behind him, the former Ming Dynasty officials and scholars who stood on the city wall and looked at this army couldn't help but shudder, and at the same time couldn't help muttering: Such elite soldiers, is the Ming Dynasty going to die? ! Many people's careful thoughts that they had just generated disappeared at this moment, after all, the price was too great and not cost-effective.

The army set out as scheduled, and the troops began their respective expeditions in three ways.

Not to mention the situation of the two roads of Desperate Love and Li Dingguo, it is only said that Zhang Hongbin took Wang Er, but it was the new army that was mighty towards Luochuan and killed it.

Among the five newly formed new armies, the largest number of troops was 25,000. But interestingly, this unit also has the largest number of recruits, enough for 20,000 people. The reason for this is that the guerrilla generals of this army are constantly consuming a large amount of cannon fodder to hone 5,000 elites, and at the same time, they are constantly replenishing more cannon fodder to hone more elites. He used this method, one to reduce the consumption of money and food, and the other to train a new army for a hundred battles.

And the reason why he was able to do that was that Yan'an Mansion, where he was located, was relatively the safest, at least there was not a large group of rogues making trouble here. Well, even if there is, it will be Zhang Xianzhong, the eight kings who will only appear next year, but at this moment Zhang Xianzhong is still planning whether to rebel.

Small groups of troops were quickly wiped out, and many villages were executed on charges of collaborating with the enemy. As a result, the money and food of this army are much higher than those of others, which can support them to recruit so many soldiers.

At this moment, in fact, they can't wait to attack Huanglong Mountain or Baishui County.

Interestingly, the reason why they wanted to go on the expedition was not for their military exploits or for the sake of national righteousness, but that the consumption of money and food for 25,000 people was so terrible that the guerrilla general Dong Bowen could not afford it. He must do his best to consume the excess cannon fodder, otherwise he will have to pay for money and food.

As a veteran general who knows how to drink the blood of soldiers, he can't see the behavior of taking money in his pocket for the sake of these soldiers.

Therefore, he has decided that whether he can fight or not, he will go to Baishui County in three days. Of course, Huanglong Mountain will not pass through, the terrain there is too unsafe, unless you are really stupid to go back there, pay too much for the war and the harvest is too small, no one will do such a loss-making business.

"How many days can the logistics last?" Dong Bowen beckoned the baggage officer to ask.

"It can last five days! If we're going to Whitewater, we'll have to march for at least three days! The baggage officer is also Dong Bowen's old subordinate, so he naturally reported what he needed to know as soon as possible.

"Then inform them to go down and leave the day after tomorrow, and at the same time, on the day of departure, let them have a full meal!" Dong Bowen commanded.

"Yes!" The baggage officer naturally knew that this full meal was the so-called severed head meal.

It's not that Dong Bowen wants to kill them, but the 20,000 cannon fodder army will surely die many, many people in the process of attacking Baishui County this time. Since this is a fait accompli, it is better to let these cannon fodder be full of ghosts.

It's just that he was still very worried, and let go of the belly to eat, and the result was that they only had three days of food to use. In other words, if there is no grain harvest after entering Chengcheng County, the army will fall into a crisis of food shortage. Unless, the supervisor contributes some private money to buy food, but this is obviously impossible.

In other words, this battle is a must-win!

With all this and that ups and downs, two days is just a blink of an eye. Today, many people know that they may be about to die, so in the face of a hearty meal, at least with oil and water, and an open supply, they are naturally disrespectful and eat a full meal.

After eating this meal, their expressions also changed. From a muddled recruit, to a desperate fanatic.

Perhaps they also know that most of them will die, and those who are afraid of death will be the first to die. If you want to live, you have to keep killing, keep killing. Whether it is a civilian or an enemy army, as long as it is the object of Dong Bowen's orders, it must be killed. Only by killing each other can you survive.

This is the experience that the old soldier said, and this experience has long been known to the entire army.

The army is allocated, and the general regular army, or the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, is only fifty miles a day, or even thirty miles. And this army, perhaps with the attitude of sacrificing life and forgetting death, actually marched eighty miles a day, which can be regarded as fast.

It's just that they didn't know that as they came to the junction of Yan'an Mansion and Xi'an Mansion, they also slowly entered Zhang Hongbin's warning range.

When the sentry came back to report and found the Ming army, Zhang Hongbin was ready to face the enemy head-on.

Yes, face the enemy, no scheming or strategy at all. Zhang Hongbin just wants to tell his soldiers that the Salvation Army is powerful and meaningless. Naturally, this premise is based on the three elements of training on both sides: the training process, the military spirit cohesion process, and the well-equipped program.

Coincidentally, in these three aspects, the Salvation Army completely destroyed Dong Bowen's army.

In this way, how can there be any reason for cowardice?!