Whether it is fearful or fearless, it is inevitable that the 3,000-strong army will be pulled.

The best thing to do was that the bounty had just been distributed, which meant that the soldiers had seen their families receive their own bounty. With this bounty, the family can live a much better life than before. In this period when the price of people has fallen to one or two silver, they are worth at least ten times more than ten times that of those who sold themselves into slavery!

Besides, if you die in battle, your family can still get a pension, your children can still be taken care of, and your parents can have someone to support them to the end of their lives, and you can say that you have no worries at all.

Whether it is to repay the favor or to be full of contempt for the enemy, the fighting spirit of the Salvation Army is unprecedented, and the morale is high.

Under such morale, the speed of the army's advance has increased a lot, and those thieves who can walk forty miles a day are only the limit, but the Salvation Army can travel eighty miles a day. This is still not thoroughly trained, otherwise the speed of a daily march of a hundred miles would be just an ordinary thing.

During this period of trade with northern Shaanxi, through Guò Lao returned to that group of thieves, Zhang Hongbin could get more than 30 war horses. Lao Huihui is not a good man and a woman, and the war horse given is indeed a war horse, but it is not a good one. The worst thing is that they are all stallions, there is no possibility of breeding at all, and every spring, there will inevitably be a month of estrus, irritable and difficult to tame, and if you want to be docile, you must castrate them.

Fortunately, now that that period has passed, the war horse is easy to control. It's just that Zhang Hongbin, Wang Er, or other Salvation Army generals have no experience in horseback riding before. Therefore, now it is said that it is equipped with a war horse, but it is just a general on horseback, and when he arrives at the place to start a war, he should dismount or dismount to fight, if he still dies on the horse at that time, the combat effectiveness will drop by fifty, maybe one is not good, and he will be killed on the battlefield.

Zhang Hongbin did order the generals to speed up the training of horseback riding, but first, he lacked the talent to ride horses, and second, there were too few horses to form cavalry. The remaining twenty or so war horses were finally distributed to the scout camp and let them scatter to collect intelligence.

Along the way, the scouts had come back for the third time to report, and finally found the enemy's traces seventy miles away, and at this moment they were also killing in this direction.

The scout has made preliminary contact with the big red wolf, and what has been confirmed is that the big red wolf knows that Chengcheng is the territory of the Salvation Army, but he does not believe in evil, and thinks that he has more people than the Salvation Army, and the Salvation Army has never dared to openly declare that Chengcheng and Baishui are his territory, so he thinks that the people of the Salvation Army are a group of bad people.

Since Chengcheng and Baishui have been breached once, especially the walls of Chengcheng have not been completely repaired, the big red wolf intends to take food in the tiger's mouth of the Salvation Army. To put it bluntly, it was he who burned, killed, and plundered all the way, and in the territory where he started his own incident, he was already thousands of miles away, and he could no longer find food and money to eat. If he didn't eat anywhere else, his 30,000 people couldn't sustain themselves at all.

"Is it true that our Salvation Army is so good to bully? Let me see if these 30,000 of them have three heads and six arms! "Wang Er sharpened his knife Huo Huo.

"I said Wang Er, your sharp knife battalion will only be used during assaults, where will you have your share in the first place?" Li Dingguo laughed.

"You're a doll going to charge, that's the joke!" Wang Er immediately retorted.

"What about small people? I can still use a gun and kill someone! Li Dingguo demonstratively raised the spear in his hand.

Li Dingguo is indeed a wonderful, he can already hold a twenty-pound spear at the age of nine, and his familiarity with equestrianism is faster than Wang Er, becoming the first cavalry general of the Salvation Army, even if the real combat effectiveness needs to be improved, but he can charge with the help of horsepower, and his comprehensive combat effectiveness is not much worse than Wang Er. What is rare is that he is literate and knowledgeable, and he is also the highest among children, but he is a real embryo of both civil and military skills.

"Okay, I can't talk about you, you have to be more leisurely, there are 30,000 people on the other side!" Wang Er didn't care about a doll, so he just told him.

"I naturally know this......" Li Dingguo nodded solemnly, the pressure of 30,000 people is still very great.

"Are you all scared?" Zhang Hongbin suddenly asked.

"Don't be afraid!" Wang Er took the lead and shouted.

But his leadership did not reduce the fear in the hearts of the soldiers, in fact, many people lowered their heads for the first time.

Just because of the appearance of the opponent's army, it has appeared on the horizon, densely packed with a large number, and the man in front is also full of explosive power, he should have killed people and seen blood. With such 30,000 people, are they really opponents? Even if you kill twenty-five thousand of them, will the remaining five thousand be able to eat your tired self?

"What are you afraid of, as a gang of rogues, their biggest feature is that there are not only young and strong people in the team, but also many old and weak women and children. They keep coercing more and more people, and if they don't seem to do so, the momentum of the ranks will be lost. Think about it, tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of troops spread out like this, just afraid that when they see someone else, they will flee as soon as they see it, where do they dare to fight him? Zhang Hongbin pointed to the big red wolf army in front of him and shouted to the people around him.

Without waiting for everyone to say anything, he continued to shout: "His method is nothing more than to put Qingzhuang in front, and Qingzhuang can occupy five or six thousand out of these 30,000 people, which is already good." The most important thing is that they have never received any training, and after killing again and again, it is inevitable that some young people will be lost, so the ratio of young and strong people may only be two or three thousand, and the rest are old and weak women and children. ”

At this moment, everyone came back to their senses, and after a closer look, it seemed that behind the dense youth, they really saw a lot of women and old people. Thinking of Zhang Hongbin's words, I really believe that the other party can go into battle, but I am afraid that there are only about two or three thousand people.

The military strength of the two sides was actually equal from the beginning, at least the number of people was almost the same. But the Salvation Army has been trained to be truly militarized, and the other side is nothing more than a group of gangsters, relying on individual force rather than overall cooperation. When Zhang Hongbin was training them, he had told them more than once that the reason why an army is called an army is that they act together and fight together, and these young men under the command of the big red wolf are just individuals, and they are vulnerable in front of the army.

In an instant, all the soldiers were embarrassed to throw away their fears, and they felt ashamed to think about themselves who were afraid of a group of old and weak women and children.

At this time, the two sides have actually stood at a relatively close distance.

The big red wolf was also very nervous at the moment, he had always heard that the Salvation Army was a bad breed, and he didn't dare to claim that he occupied two county seats. Come to think of it, since you don't dare to declare it, then I'll occupy it, and then directly announce it loudly to the world that the big red wolf is a first-class powerhouse, and the Salvation Army is simply a fart.

Now I look at the opponent's military appearance neatly and the formation is closely unified. Looking at these 'armies' who are sparsely fought, listless, and mixed with a lot of old and weak women and children, in terms of momentum, the big red wolf has no confidence to compete with the Taiping army.

Not to mention, Zhang Hongbin's analysis is actually very correct, before he led his men and horses to attack Heyang County, and as a result, he lost more than 2,000 young people, and now more than 3,000 remnants are here to strengthen their morale. When ordinary people see so many people in themselves, the first time they turn around and run, but the Salvation Army in front of them is not afraid of their '30,000 army'.

The big red wolf is not a fool, and he knows that if he really fights, he will definitely not be pleased.

That being the case, it's better not to fight.

"Redeem my brother, I'm passing through here, and I'm going to go to northern Shaanxi to live a good life, I don't know if my brother can do a good job, let us go?" The big red wolf curve begged for mercy.

"These 30,000 horses are coming to my territory with great momentum, are they really just passing by? Then why is it that the scouts I sent out told me differently? Zhang Hongbin didn't agree, but just asked casually.

"This ......" The big red wolf regretted a little, why was he so impulsive when the scout came to ask him before?

"Okay, if you act, it's on the stage! Since you dare to invade my territory, if I let you go like this, won't everyone in the world think that I am really easy to bully the Salvation Army? Zhang Hongbin shouted.

"Salvation, I have an army of 30,000 on my side, and if you really want to fight, you can't please it! You don't want to lose both sides and let others take advantage of you, do you? To give you one last chance, you only need to pay for the grain and grass we cross, and then send us out of Xi'an Province, I promise not to infringe on your territory! The big red wolf finally resisted.

"Don't talk nonsense, I really don't look down on those goods under your command! Dingguo, clean up this idiot! Zhang Hongbin didn't talk nonsense and gave instructions.

Li Dingguo nodded and immediately gave the order to attack.

Zhao San'er, a hundred households in the new bow and crossbow battalion, immediately gave the order to shoot, and the crossbowmen came out of the ranks, shooting according to the team of the big red wolf. That's not all, using the principle of three-stage shooting, the crossbow bolts are constantly shooting.

Where did the big red wolf have any strong crossbows, and there were not many bows and arrows, and as soon as he looked at his face, he was shot and killed by nearly 300 people. The rest were completely panicked and scared, and no matter how the officers above drank the order, they all dispersed. No one is a fool, and they won't do it if they die or something!

This battle is interesting, the general decisive battle has not yet begun, but the very beginning of the bow and crossbow shooting link killed the main force of the opponent. That's not all, just the death of more than 300 people actually led to the complete collapse of these 30,000 people.

This is not a war at all, this is actually bullying!

"Wang Er, take the head of the big red wolf off for me! Li Dingguo, take people to shout according to habits! Zhang Hongbin couldn't stand it anymore and gave a decisive order.

Wang Er immediately killed the sharp knife battalion, while Li Dingguo took the men and horses of his headquarters and stepped forward and shouted: "Those who squat down and surrender with their heads in their hands will be spared death!" ”

There were still many people who fled, but more men and women squatted down with their heads in their hands. And Wang Er's sharp knife battalion broke through the big red wolf's personal guard for the first time, and when both sides were foot generals, Wang Er held a seventy-five pound big knife and cut off the head of the big red wolf directly in front of him.

At that moment, the surrounding rout soldiers were shocked, and more people squatted down and begged for mercy, and a dry fight that could only be called a bully was brought to an end.