According to the standards of modern military maps, the maps used by the Runing army can be described as rough, but by the standards of the Ming Dynasty, the maps of the Runing army are amazingly accurate.

In the process of drawing the map, Yamakawa Tsukasa spent a lot of energy, and they even marked the map with special markers to indicate which road could pass through the car.

Therefore, the road that Xue Yongli chose for Zhang Biao on the map, Zhang Biao walked very smoothly. In addition to defeating a few groups of bandits on the road, Zhang Biao and the others did not spend too much time on the road, and on the evening of December 17, Zhang Biao led 1,800 men and horses to Qingshui Bend. After a short rest, Zhang Biao immediately launched an attack towards Qingshuiwan.

After Zhang Biao's outflanked troops set off, Xue Yongli led the main force of the Runing Army forward. Because the front had been beaten by the scouts and cavalry, in the day's advance, the Runing army did not encounter any Shaanxi bandits' brigade except for more than 300 Shaanxi bandits or civilians along the way.

Moreover, the route of the Runing Army's advance was a small plain and hilly area. Since you have played according to your own jihua, you can take the initiative to choose a favorable battlefield terrain.

The Runing Army fully spread out the battle formation, with the Teaching Corps and the Nanyang Army as two groups, placed in front to alternately cover and advance. And the cavalry battalions of the two legions and Wu Shigong's pro-soldier battalion left in Runing, a total of 1,400 cavalry formed a cavalry group, ready to outflank and cover up at any time. Behind the palace were the artillery regiment and the engineer regiment.

Xue Yongli even divided the prisoners into categories, and the women, children, old and weak, were still guarded by the engineering regiment. The young and strong ones will be selected first, and they will be issued weapons at the right time to use them as cannon fodder to charge the Shaanxi bandits, and if they are lucky enough to kill a Shaanxi bandit and survive, the Runing army will provide them with rations. This is also known as the nomination.

And the peasant rebels swept in this direction. It was the Five Dragons, the Five Yama Kings, Xing Chuang Wang (hereinafter referred to as Xing Yan Wang) and the Four Tigers, the Yellow Dragon Great Heavenly King, Pili Needle (hereinafter referred to as Pili Needle), the two battalions of peasant rebels. These two battalions were not the strongest in the peasant rebel army, and their numbers were small, so they were pushed out in this direction. After all, the further east you go, the closer you get to the big city of Henan, where heavy troops are stationed, the more dangerous it becomes.

However, King Xing Yan and Piri Needle had no intention of resisting this order. After all, the righteousness of the rivers and lakes is to be heard by those hot-blooded young people, and the essence of the rivers and lakes is still about the law of the jungle.

When King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle crossed the Yellow River, their two battalions combined were only more than 13,000 people, of which the elite who could fight were only in their early 3,000s, and the rest were those who played soy sauce with the army and the families of the army.

But when King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle embarked on the route laid down for them by the peasant rebels, their two battalions inflated like balloons. So far. It has swelled to nearly 50,000 people. And their elite has also swelled to more than 6,000 people, and if it weren't for the lack of weapons, they would have been able to swell even more.

However, it can be seen from here that the elite of the peasant rebel army is except for some rebellious trilateral soldiers. The others are counted as long as they are young and strong. The standard of this elite is really low enough!

It should be said that in terms of numbers. King Xing Yan and Piri Needle are two battalions. They were the two battalions of the peasant rebel army that grew in strength the fastest after crossing the river. Without him, it is because they are close to the big cities in the hinterland of Henan, and there are many Zhuangzi and towns along the way; The harvest of grain and grass is also great; There are also many Henan refugees close to the city.

And after putting grain a few times, all the people came to vote! If the Runing Army had not appeared, it was possible that the number of their two battalions would have increased further.

Seeing that the situation was very good, King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle seemed to be taking a leisurely walk with their elites. Scattered all around, the refugees they had just taken in. However, on the 15th of December, King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle received a report that several groups of soldiers who had gone out to plunder in front of them had been defeated by a group of cavalry.

And at this time, King Xing Yan and Piri Needle happened to open to Qingshui Bend. They immediately gathered the rout and inquired about the officers and troops on the opposite side. But the soldiers who had just been gathered were simply ordinary people. When they fled, where would they have the heart to observe the number of officers and soldiers on the other side?

Therefore, the news reported was complicated, and the number of officers and soldiers ranged from a few hundred to tens of thousands. Fortunately, among the leaders of those troops, there were a few cronies from the border soldiers, and they told King Xing Yan and Pi Li that they had a relatively correct number of horses—less than a thousand horsemen.

After getting the correct number of people, King Xing Yan and Piri Needle finally relented. That's right, the march and looting for so long, and no official army has come to attack, which makes King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle feel a little hairy in their hearts.

And the 1,000 cavalry of the official army that came to attack this time has a certain combat effectiveness, but the number is not the largest, which is in line with the appearance of the mainland officials and troops in the Ming Dynasty.

And after collecting the rout, King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle were more at ease. Because they had gathered more than 5,000 defeated troops, they felt that they had not lost anyone at all.

So that proves that the combat effectiveness of this officer army is not very good! King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle didn't know at all, in fact, even they didn't know how many people they had under them now, so how could they know their true losses?

So King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle immediately left the family members and baggage of the army in Qingshuiwan, and left a thousand elites to garrison, they took the other elites, and gathered more than 30,000 people to move forward, to completely defeat the 1,000 cavalry army in front of them, so as to continue their great cause.

And throughout the day on December 16, the two battalions of King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle met no resistance. It looks like the situation is getting better. This force of officers and troops did not dare to take advantage of its edge. It's good to be scared! King Xing Yan and Piri Needle felt better.

In the evening, however, the situation took a turn for the worse, and the spies who were scouting in front reported that there were more than 5,000 officers and soldiers in front of them, and the distance between the two armies was less than 20 miles.

This made King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle retreat a little. How many years have they dealt with the official army? They all know that with the combat effectiveness of 5,000 officers and soldiers, it is not uncommon to defeat a rabble like 50,000 themselves.

But now there is no way to retreat. It was night again, the two armies were close to each other, and their rabble had no military training, and if they were given the order to retreat, the retreat would immediately turn into a rout, and it would be nice if they could bring back 10,000 men.

In that case, let's take a gamble. King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle looked forward to the fact that the official troops on the opposite side were those military households in the mainland, so the combat effectiveness of those military households was not much stronger than their own rabble. If that's the case, it depends on the number of people, and maybe you can win.

But as soon as the battle was taken the next day, King Xing Yan and Piri Needle were completely dumbfounded. Where are the military households facing this? Those more than 5,000 officers and troops are completely comparable to the most elite troops of the border army, and even the personal soldiers around those military attachés of the border army are not much different.

The tactics of the Runing Army were standard operations. The troops are deployed, the phalanx is lined up, the phalanx is pressed forward, the artillery shoots in front of the gun, the fire is fired, and the phalanx meets the enemy pikemen hand-to-hand......

All right! There is no hand-to-hand combat for pikemen. Because by the time the guns were fired, the entire peasant rebel army had been completely defeated. This caught the Runing army a little off guard, and their cavalry was not fully prepared to cover up the kill.

Seeing this, Xue Yongli simply ordered the distribution of weapons to those captives and told them to rush out to get their names. As a result, a ridiculous phenomenon appeared on the battlefield, with hundreds of ragged captives chasing and killing tens of thousands of ragged Shaanxi bandits. And the Runing Army, which had bright armor, was watching the play from the sidelines.

Finally waited for the cavalry to attack. After they took a large arc and intercepted a part of the peasant rebels, the whole battle was over. The Runing army received more than 800 heads and captured more than 1,900 people.

Although the Runing Army won easily, Xue Yongli was still very dissatisfied. Because when the Runing Army was doing tactical routines just now, some soldiers made mistakes and deformed their movements because of their first time on the battlefield and lack of training in peacetime.

Unlike Wu Shigong's habit of not pointing out mistakes to his face, Xue Yongli has always been directly scolded, so he also scolded some of his soldiers for doing wrong. Regarding Xue Yongli's temper, Wu Shigong also advised him, but Xue Yongli is still the same, in his own words: "I don't want to buy people's hearts!" Therefore, among the officers in the Runing Army, there are more people who are afraid of Xue Yongli.

And as soon as the artillery fired, King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle fled with their elite retreat. The long years of rebellion have made them both slippery like loaches. They left the rest of the rabble on the battlefield as cannon fodder to hinder the pursuit of the Runing army.

However, after winning the battle, the Runing army unhurriedly cleaned up the battlefield, and then incorporated the prisoners into the Surrender Army, and then pursued them unhurriedly.

However, this also gave King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle a time to rein in the rout. In the end, they are reluctant to give up so many people! So, after fleeing for nearly twenty miles, they set up a large battalion and began to collect the rout.

However, what made King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle sad was that the speed at which the Runing army pressed forward and pursued was very fast. When they had just gathered half of their routed troops, the Runing army was already about to pursue in front of them.

And this time, the Runing army attacked directly with cavalry. The whole cavalry formed a black wall and pressed towards the peasant rebel army at high speed.

The two battalions of King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle were broken up again. (To be continued......)