Chapter 247: True General!

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"Quick, quick, bolt tight, bolt tight!"

"Mao Lao Er put the board on the ......"

"Bell, bell, bell......"

"One more hammer, another hammer, this wedge is not enough!"

Yanping County, on the Luoming River.

Ships come and go on the river, from south to north, from north to south, and the construction of boat bridges is busy in a tense and orderly manner.

Since Fan Shixiu received an official letter from the Prime Minister's Mansion four days ago, he rushed from Jiangjin County to Yanping County overnight, and then led nearly 1,000 men of the Qingjiang Gang to eat and live by the Luoming River for three consecutive days. The pontoon bridge construction work of the Qingjiang Gang is not a problem to build a pontoon bridge across the river within six days from the requirements of the prime minister's official document.

At present, the north and south heads have been built two miles long, and only one mile in the middle is left to grow on the water surface, but there are still two full days after tomorrow. Looking at the sunset at the end of the Xijiang River, Fan Shixiu breathed a long sigh of relief.

"But...... From Beiping to Yanping, thousands of miles, then Zhu Biao only started the army today, can he catch it in three days? "The Prime Minister's Mansion personally stamped the direct official document of the detention, and in Fan Shixiu's mind, this is second only to the imperial decree of the King of Han.

"Drive, drive......" On the official road from Beiping to Yanzhou, 24,500 horsemen were silently marching. Only the roaring sound of horses' hooves was heard, but not the slightest human voice.

The long line drove for more than ten miles, and under the hazy spring rain, they hurried away!

It has been raining since yesterday in the area of Beiping, and the official roads were muddy when the army started. No matter how rammed the dirt road is, it is still a 'dirt' road after all, after being soaked in rain for a day and a night. The epidermis also softened.

On this day, it looked like it was getting dark, and I had only traveled about 200 miles. Although the further west the horses went, the less rain came, and now it was all misty and rainy.

However, rain is rain, and it is not only difficult to travel fast. Cold spring rains absorb heat from the bodies of people and horses faster than sunny days. Today, I only drove about 200 miles, a third less than expected, but I was tired. The army status in the status bar has dropped to 60 and the fatigue level is over 50.

"Brothers, go a little further. Throw this rotten rain behind you-" Looking at the tired appearance of the soldiers, Zhu Biao was super looking forward to being able to upgrade the cavalry attribute of the A rank to the S rank at this moment, thinking about the 30% of the body. Even if other attributes such as killing and injury are not mentioned, it is extremely hot-eyed. The longer he leads the army, the more Zhu Biao can realize the importance of the body!

Cheering up the soldiers loudly, Zhu Biao continued to burst out of his mouth with the stimulating words "fire" and "hot rice". The cavalry soldiers, who had not felt the appeal of the fire and the hot soup and the hot meal, were now energized by all of them.

Only those who have soaked in the cold spring rain for a day will understand the happiness of 'warmth', and the soldiers think about the fire and hot food that Zhu Biao said, and instantly feel a little warmth in their cold hands and feet.

"Damn, no more! Finally run out! After driving more than 40 miles, it was dark, and Zhu Biao finally waited until the sky stopped raining.

"Brethren. It's not raining anymore, we're leaving the rain behind. Ten more miles, the whole army rests-"

A moment later, there was a loud cheer. The morale of 70 points soared to 90+ in an instant, Zhu Biao looked at the change in the status bar, and really didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

The army is not well trained. After all, it's only been three months, and ninety percent of them are recruits. In Zhu Biao's absence, the training was all attributed to Luo Yaxiu, Zhu Tong, Chen Mengren and Zhou Ziang. There were four of them, except for Zhu Tong, and the remaining three were only middle-level officers at the level of the Qu Ministry before, and Luo Yaxiu was promoted a little faster. But although he was a lieutenant before, he didn't care about military horses, and that battalion should be said to be directly led by Zhu Biao. In a practical sense, he, Chen Mengren, and Zhou Ziang jumped to the actual position of lieutenant together. He had to be responsible for the training of 6,000 officers and men of the first battalion, and it was only strange that he could do it well. Not to mention Zhu Tong, he is even worse than Luo Yaxiu's three, even if Zhu Biao's book of war and the art of war are all meaninglessly passed on to him and Zhu Zhong and Zhu Ming, but how can a person who has only been in the army for a few months in total be able to understand it at a glance!

> the status bar restores the corresponding attributes of the army, and you can see morale, training, and running-in, the former is as high as 83 points, which is very good for a new army. The latter two, on the whole, are just over 50, and in terms of scattered battalion-level establishments, the lowest is the rear battalion of the Zhu Tong Department, with 47 points of training and 49 points of running-in.

During the days when he was bedridden in Jixian County to recuperate from his injuries, Zhu Biao had turned over the "New Book of Martial Arts" and "Summary of the World Formation Map", training 60, 50 formations, and 40 fortifications, and the training had reached the passing line, and it was unbelievable that Zhu Tong had trained such a bad soldier for more than three months.

Fortunately, although these four people are not good at training, the military orders and military regulations are extremely strict, and the troops can roughly do the four words of orders and prohibitions.

When camping and resting by the Luoming River, there was a small village not far from the side, and Shi Meng and his men stared with wide eyes to prevent anything disturbing the people. By the time they started the camp the next morning, they did not find a single person who had violated military discipline. Shi Meng, who had a strict face in the past, couldn't help but smile.

"General Yu, the baggage battalion camped in Huaxian County last night!"

Before the meal was eaten, Zhu Biao received the fast horse report from behind, and he didn't even have the appetite to eat when he landed. The baggage battalion had just arrived in Huaxian County, and it had walked 50 miles less than the original journey. "The rain is wrong for me, the rain is wrong for me!"

This time, he was in the battle of Poison Li, and when the cavalry arrived in Yandong, it must have arrived much earlier than the Linzhou soldiers and horses arrived in Yandong. Just like going out alone, baggage, food, grass, and armor supplies must be considered.

When he attacked Beiling before, when he was decided, he still had a baggage battalion to follow and stay behind. Now the four battalions of cavalry, 20,000 soldiers, four or five thousand officers and corresponding personal soldiers, the total combat strength is as high as 25,000 people, how can they not follow the auxiliary troops all the time? In fact, together with the more than 1,000 Ding Zhuang requisitioned, the number of people in the entire baggage battalion was as high as 5,000. And if you count the armored iron cavalry transferred by the King of Han, the corresponding number of auxiliary soldiers has increased by 2,000, and Ding Zhuang has increased by 1,000, and the total number of people has exceeded 8,000!

The standard configuration of the forbidden army's armor and iron cavalry, a soldier, a war horse, usually not covered with armor, heavy armor and horse armor are carried by two pack horses embellished by two auxiliary soldiers, and the pack horse is also carried by the fine feed of the war horse. During the war, an auxiliary soldier helped the soldiers to put on armor, and an auxiliary soldier helped the war horses to put on the armor, and the cost was so high that together with the Northern Han royal family, it only trained a battalion of 5,000 troops.

Of course, before the war broke out a hundred years ago, there was no battalion of armored iron cavalry in the forbidden army of the Northern Han royal family. And even if this unit was added to the Hundred Years' War, it only appeared on the battlefield a few times. The nomadic Hu light cavalry is too incomparable with the armored iron cavalry, and the Hu cavalry will not be stupid enough to clash head-on with the armored iron cavalry after suffering a few losses!

The royal family of the Northern Han Dynasty has always retained armored iron horses, also out of consideration for the worst times. When the Hu cavalry approached the city of Beiping, 5,000 armored iron cavalry swept out, and the Hu cavalry either retreated in a short distance, or fell into the Luoming River!

Without great military exploits, you can't hold your head up and speak in the army. In addition, the fundamental reason for the existence of the armor iron horse is so embarrassing, it is because the armor iron horse that was transferred by the king of Han is very obedient. Zhu Biao put them in the back and walked with the baggage battalion, and at the same time transferred a hundred elite people led by Zhu Zhong to accompany them. His idea of forming a heavy cavalry by himself is still not extinguished!

Fu Shaoxue and Qi Pingxuan led the baggage men, and not a single soldier was left for the baggage battalion, this is still the absolute control of the Han army, more than 5,000 auxiliary soldiers, and it is necessary to be able to act as a light cavalry at all times A thousand armored iron horses, the safety can be fully guaranteed.

The combat power of the auxiliaries is far inferior to that of the soldiers, most of them are not armoured, and their weapons are only simple spears, single knives, a small number of shields, bows and arrows, and there is no strict and diligent training. The role is only to transport grain and grass, build camps, etc., which is equivalent to a strong soldier with a simple armament of +1. If it is put on the battlefield, it will definitely be slaughtered by the rain of arrows and arrows. Just like the militia in Yandong, fighting alone in the field is unbearable for the Hu people.

Only eleven of the elde-12 men in armor wore the lowest quality leather armor. For example, leather armor made of belly leather, or leather armor made of broken skin, is far from the leather armor used by serious soldiers.

However, within the absolute control of the Han army, these people escorted grain and grass, took care of Ding Zhuang, and spears and short knives were enough. Zhu Zhong's 100 elite horsemen had to act as probes and blades along the way, which was really an easy job for these people.

The day's progress of the baggage camp was between 80 and 100 miles, and they had to delay Zhu Biao's front by 10 to 12 days before they could reach Yandong. But on the first day, the first day when the people and horses were most abundant along the way, the baggage camp was a full fifty miles slower.

"Sue Lord Fu, I want the heavy battalion to speed up!" Zhu Biao endured his anger, after all, the first day of their former army was sixty or seventy miles shorter. If you say hard things, you also owe some confidence.

"No-" The fast horse led the order to retreat.

More than 20,000 cavalry troops faced the rising sun in the east, and once again rode their horses in the direction of Yanzhou. In the afternoon, the news was passed by the villagers on the edge of the campsite to the ears of the local county magistrate. Hearing that more than 20,000 cavalry troops were camping in the territory under their jurisdiction last night, but did not disturb the people in the slightest, the county commander was shocked and admired.

As the war dragged on, the army's salaries began to be intermittent from the beginning of the previous year. Not only did the mentality of military leaders begin to spread among the troops, but military discipline also deteriorated a lot.

Although it is not to the point where the soldiers are like a grate, but Qiu has not committed any crimes, so don't even think about it.

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