On the left bank of the Grand Canal, a group of infantry roared past, and the captain Sun Ah Si's thirsty throat was smoking, and he looked up at the increasingly vicious sun, but the established marching place had not yet arrived, and no matter how thirsty and hot he was, he could not stop casually. Otherwise, if the marching time is missed, the military law of the Three Guards will not spare him.

"Team officer, we have walked more than a hundred miles, not to mention every household on the road, even if we haven't seen a chicken, is it possible that the local people are still afraid of the Three Guards in our hometown?"

Sun Asi's team are all the native children of Nanzhili Ying Tianfu, and although the people of Huai'an Mansion belong to Jiangnan and Jiangbei, they finally have the fate of a province, so they will not be frightened and flee, right?

"Who the hell knows, a few words of noise, save your strength to march, the road ahead is still long!"

According to the military order, they marched in a column without a team, and they had to rush to the front line before dark, so that the foot soldiers of the Three Guards galloping north in a column could be seen everywhere on both sides of the Grand Canal at any time and everywhere.

The Three Guards have always been dominated by foot soldiers, and the cavalry is mostly only used for reconnaissance and harassment, so all you can see are infantry running all the way north.

Sun Ah Si spat out thick phlegm, and his throat was already full of dust raised on the road.

"Damn, I finally know the reason why when we were in the Nanjing New Barracks, the instructor asked us to run around the outer city of Nanjing all day long."

If it weren't for the three months of high-intensity exercise in the recruits' training, I am afraid that more than half of the people in today's rapid march would have run away.

Boom Boom!

Suddenly, there was a faint sound of artillery in the north.

Sun Ah put up the pergola with his four hands, looked ahead, trying to find out what was going on, but it was too far away, and even the sound of the cannon was only intermittent and faint.

"Brothers, work hard, the front is already fighting, we can't be willing to be the queen, or the war exploits will be robbed!"

The rewards of the Three Guards were extremely rich, and if they wanted to get a good reward, they had to exchange the heads of the thieves.

According to the previous battles, the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution Zuo was even inferior to the Huangmei thief, and it was basically crushed for thousands of miles after the encounter, so there were not many thieves who could be beheaded.

That's why it's so slow that you don't get credit for grabbing!

Chen Kaiyuan was tired and out of breath on his horse, he couldn't understand why Mi Yan had to march in a hurry, so that the soldiers could press the border in a hurry, and scare the thieves of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution with the might of the soldiers who surrendered without a fight?

He and Zhang Yingxun are both officials who are used to living a comfortable life, how could they have worked so a saddle horse? Even if Mi Yan took care of the two of them and provided a horse for each of them, he couldn't afford to walk down this hundred miles.

Zhang Yingxuan blamed Chen Kaiyuan for talking too much, "That Mi Yan looks thin and thin, and he is walking in front of you and me, are you and my brother not as good as him?" ”

Chen Kaiyuan was a little embarrassed, but he still frowned and whispered:

"Brother Baomo, I can't hide it, my little brother's thighs have been worn out by the saddle, and the war horse takes a step, and it hurts my heart!"

For this, Zhang Yingxuan can't help either, so he can't openly ask for help and find a soldier to carry his colleague, right? If that's the case, you still have to be laughed at and your big teeth are gone? In the future, when the officialdom spreads, Chen Kaiyuan's face will be lost.

"Brother Zi'an, bear with it, the sky will descend on a big task, avoid suspicion, work his muscles and bones, and suffer his mind. This torture can sometimes be a test! ”

Chen Kaiyuan almost had his nose crooked by Zhang Yingxuan's words. He was expecting Zhang Yingxuan to comfort him, but all he could think of was some cool words.

After a while, Zhang Yingxuan pointed to the empty villages along the way and said worriedly: "Brother Zi'an, look at these villages along the way, there are no people, there is no rooster crow for a hundred miles, I am afraid that the thieves will be ruthless, and the people will be in trouble!" ”

Chen Kaiyuan thought for a while, "Brother Baomo should have been too worried, the thieves are at most passing the people away, and there are millions of people in Huai'an Mansion, they have the strength to kill so many people?" ”

However, Zhang Yingxuan still looked at the north worriedly, and muttered: "I hope the people are okay, after all, the reward has recovered the lost land, and these people are the foundation and capital of the imperial court." ”

Mi Yan is galloping north with the cavalry guards, as early as Yangzhou, he has already received information, these days the main force of the fifth battalion of the left is gathered in Huaibei to fight with Lu Xiangsheng fiercely, this is a golden opportunity, as long as the main force of the department is surprised by Baoying, will be able to break the enemy in a battle. In this way, the battle was fought neatly and beautifully, the Grand Canal was opened early, and he had to go back to report to the marquis.

However, when they arrived at the boundary of Shanyang County, the soldiers suddenly came to report, "The prison army, there are thieves in front of you, and the fight has started, please avoid the prison army immediately!" ”

Mi Yan didn't pay attention to these stragglers, with the current combat effectiveness of the Three Guards, no one could defeat them, and the current Three Guards were no longer what they used to be. At that time, the Three Guards won more with less every time, and they fought extremely hard, but now the Three Guards have enough strength to rely on the strong and bully the weak.

Suddenly, the sound of the mountain roaring like a tsunami came from far and near. This made Mi Yan immediately taken aback, and the men and horses of the fifth battalion of Gezuo listened to the momentum, and there were about 100,000 people.

This time, he sent 50,000 troops, including 20,000 soldiers and 30,000 auxiliaries. Although the auxiliary soldiers are called auxiliary soldiers, their actual combat effectiveness is not much worse, and they can be pulled out as soldiers at critical moments.

At this time, a team officer came to the urgency with a panicked face.

"Oh no, the fifth battalion of the left side of the revolution has taken the people hostage to attack our army's formation, and the soldiers can't fire, this battle, this battle can't be fought!"

For a while, Mi Yan didn't understand what the team officer meant, so he asked again: "How many people?" Driven by thieves? ”

Sun Asi's hands holding the musket were trembling, he never thought that after a whole day of rapid marching, after arriving at the front line, he was actually faced with women, children, old and young. This, how can they do it?

"Team officer, give the order quickly, if it is a little later, they will rush up!"

The order given by the battalion commander was to shoot immediately, and no one was allowed to cross the line, otherwise military justice would be involved. But the hesitant team officers didn't know that Sun Ah Si was one, and these old and weak women and children in front of them were not thieves, but some local people. If you kill them, I'm afraid you'll have nightmares for the rest of your life.

"The prison army has an order, and those who dare to disobey the military order will not be spared!"

Law enforcement officers rode war horses and cruised back and forth behind the battle line, constantly preaching the law and discipline in the army!

"Fire!"

Sun Ah Si almost gritted his teeth and gave the order to fire. But he knew that he could only do this, otherwise once these women and children were allowed to storm the military front, the Three Guards would be in danger of being wiped out. He only hated those thieves in the fifth battalion of the Revolution for actually driving the people as tools, such cruel behavior was simply outrageous!

At the same time, four artillery battalions were fired, hundreds of cannons fired in a salvo, and shells of various calibers were whistling with deadly temperatures and smashing down like hailstones. Hundreds of thousands of civilians collapsed in meetings under the bombardment, began to stampede, and began to flee in all directions.

The tragedy in front of him was unbearable to witness, Sun Asi's eyes widened with anger and tears. Before this, he was a peasant who only knew that he was facing the loess and his back to the sky, and it was the Three Guards who gave him the opportunity to broaden his horizons and even read and write, but he never imagined that he would one day kill these defenseless women, children, old and children.

Half an hour had passed, and the wounded, who had fled from the old and weak people, were left in the stars, and they fell in the wilderness, groaning in pain. However, their mission was far from over, and the military order was soon handed down again.

"The prison army has an order, assault on all fronts!"

The three guards were all strictly trained, and as soon as the military order was delivered, the entire wide front of the Broad Riches shook and marched towards Shanyang City step by step.

Chen Kaiyuan and Zhang Yingxuan finally arrived at the battlefield in Shanyang Territory after a lot of hardships, Mi Yan originally wanted to arrange for them to rest in Baoying, but Zhang Yingxuan was not at ease and had to drag Chen Kaiyuan to the battlefield to watch the battle. Therefore, they were witnessing the sensational scene of the battle line in the Three Guards. The scene of such orders forbidden, and tens of thousands of people moving together and arm-in-arms, made them feel extremely shocked. Or is it unbelievable, how did Li Xin train such an army with such military discipline and combat power?

"Swords and guns have no eyes, the two of you should wait for good news to return to Bao, if nothing happens, at the latest tomorrow, Shanyang City can be recovered!"

When Chen Kaiyuan heard this, he had one heart in his heart, and one heart finally landed steadily. In his impression, this unsmiling prison never said empty words, and he said that if he could take Shanyang City tomorrow at the latest, he must be more than ninety percent sure.

And back to Baoying, for Chen Kaiyuan, who had no flesh and blood on the inner thighs, there was a more irresistible temptation, and he was really fed up with this kind of pain that was almost numb.

On the way back, Zhang Yingxuan, who had been silent, suddenly said: "I don't know if Brother Zi'an has noticed, that Mi Yan said that Shanyang can be recovered tomorrow at the latest, but in his face and eyes, he didn't find the slightest joy, and even a little heavy and depressed!" ”

After Zhang Yingxuan's reminder, Chen Kaiyuan also suddenly realized that this was indeed the case, Mi Yan's expression was indeed a little abnormal, and he did not have the joy of imminent victory at all.

"Could it be that Mi Jian Jun is deceiving me and others?"

Zhang Yingxuan shook his head again, "It's not just that, but there must be something that you and I don't know!" ”

In fact, the doubts of the two people did not last long, and before they could wait for Baoying, they learned that the thieves of the fifth battalion of Gezuo drove innocent people to attack the Three Guards. Under Mi Yan's iron control, the Three Guards launched a merciless attack on the people who attacked the front line of the Three Guards, so as to lay the foundation for the recovery of Shanyang.

Yes, if this is the recovered Sanyang, then what else is there to celebrate?