The Sunjia ferry on the Yellow River was crowded with fleeing literati, and the price of a ferry boat rose to 20 taels of silver, but the supply still exceeded the supply. And these county towns behind them are already like ripe fruits, waiting for the intruders to come and pick them.

May 9, Zhongmu.

Xu Ping was already the master of the city, and when the governor of Henan fled in a hurry, leaving the city and warehouses intact to the Chuang army, Li Dingguo reported that he was leading his army north to sweep the counties of Heyin.

"Gao Mingheng, the governor of Henan, disguised himself as a Taoist priest, knocked on the wooden fish and fled out of the city." Chen Zhe reported: "At that time, my subordinates were still a little strange why a Taoist priest would mix with a monk, and the Taoist priest was holding a wooden fish, and the monk was holding a peachwood sword. These few things that I didn't know thought about and guessed what to guess: they were all monks, so they walked together when the war was in chaos, and they let the governor of Henan and the governor run away together. ”

"Haha," Xu Ping said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, this kind of patrol is what our army can't ask for." ”

"Maybe the next governor will be a bigger fool," Chen Zhe looked unwilling, and after the few standard camp guards he caught confessed to the governor and the patrol in disguise, he personally rushed to report a few city gates, and when Chen Zhe arrived, the suspicious monk had just escaped. Chen Zhe really didn't have a few soldiers in his hands, so he couldn't chase after him in a chaotic situation, so he had to consider himself unlucky.

In advance, Xu Ping only hoped that Chen Zhe could disrupt the deployment of Henan officers and soldiers, but the teaching team executed better than he imagined, not only completely disrupting the command system of the Ming army in a timely manner, but also taking the time to report to Xu Ping on the movements of the Ming army, and finally seized Zhongmu's warehouse without blood.

"Brother Han is talented, it's a pity to see it." Xu Ping had already heard some of Han Dake's ideas from Chen Zhe, and after inspecting Zhongmu, he couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the full warehouse. In the past two times, Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng, leaving behind many surrounding states and counties, and attacked the capital city of Kaifeng, but both times he stopped troops to open the city. This time, Xu Wenwen was steady, planning to cut off all the barriers around Kaifeng, so that the city would be completely exposed.

Yu Shenhe, who was by Xu Ping's side, also looked like he was related.

"Brother Han's idea, Hou Ye also gave a special name, called special operations." Chen Zhe didn't understand the meaning of the word, but the name was indeed very special, and he immediately remembered it: "I remember that General Xu once said that we should do better than our predecessors, right?" ”

"Of course, the teacher doesn't have to be stronger than the disciple, and the disciple doesn't have to be inferior to the teacher." When Xu Ping was promoting his own regulations, he said this: "Generally speaking, we don't know as much as the previous battalion officer, but we may not be inferior everywhere, just like the new army regulations are not made up by Hou Ye alone, and someone needs to fill in the gaps for him." ”

"Brother Han doesn't see it that way?"

"Oh?" Xu Ping was a little surprised, because he had heard Chen Zhe's description before, and Han Dake seemed to be a bold reformer.

"When I first met Hou Ye, Hou Ye jokingly called Brother Han the second Li Yunrui, Brother Han was very dissatisfied with this title, and felt that he was not the kind of person Li Yunrui. For example, Jin Qiude and Li Yunrui have stayed in the frame drawn by Hou Ye all their lives, and they have never thought of taking a step beyond Lei Chi. In other words, their intelligence is really worse than Hou Ye's, and it is difficult to even understand Hou Ye's intentions, let alone carry them forward. Chen Zhe had a disapproving expression on his face: "General Xu, if we were under the Hou Ye back then, we would never just obey orders." Brother Han said that the arrangements of the General Staff Department and the Military Intelligence Department of the New Army were fundamentally wrong, and it was the fault of Hou Ye, but Jin Qiude and Li Yunrui couldn't run these two divisions well, so where could they talk about going further? Chen Zhe remembered that when talking about the military intelligence system several times, Han Dake sighed: "Hou Ye divided the Military Intelligence Department and the General Staff Department into two, if Hou Ye was engrossed in supervising them and could barely operate, now it is good, the General Staff Department does not know what the Military Intelligence Department knows, and the Military Intelligence Department does not know what the General Staff Department needs to know, and it is not clear whether the information in his hands is urgently needed for the General Staff Department." It is always necessary to wait until the situation is very bad before the General Staff Department will hurriedly go to the Military Intelligence Department to ask the Military Intelligence Department whether there is any information that is beneficial to alleviating the current situation. ”

"Brother Han is right," Xu Ping applauded: "But in my opinion, Master Hou saw all kinds of shortcomings in the past to explore horses and staff, so he subdivided the staff and military intelligence divisions, so that the people below have a specialization in the art industry." ”

"Yes, Hou Ye is a genius in the world, but as General Xu said, the disciple does not have to be inferior to the teacher, Hou Ye separated the staff and military intelligence, and the Han brothers wanted to reunite them, he had no intention of replacing Li Yunrui, his dream was to lead the army alone. He thinks that the battalion needs a new team, this team is different from the staff team, it is specially used to deal with military intelligence, and at the same time to launch a military intelligence offensive against the enemy, Brother Han believes that military intelligence is the first priority of communication, so he plans to call this team a communication team, the first duty is to protect the communication between the battalions of our army, cut off the enemy's contact, and analyze reliable military intelligence for the battalion officer......"

Yu Shenhe, who had been listening carefully, interjected and said, "Analyzing the military situation, isn't this the role of the staff team?" ”

"In Brother Han's design, this signal team does not make any suggestions to the battalion officers, their analysis only judges that the information is reliable and true, and those are unreliable, this team helps the battalion officers grasp the military situation around them and correct the existing shortcomings in the new army......"

Zhou Dongtian, Gu Mengliu and others also joined in, and after chatting for a long time, the discussion of these young officers came to an end, and Xu Ping said: "If Brother Han and Brother Chen are still working for the new army, and the new army can use your words, I, Xu Ping, will definitely die without a place to be buried." ”

"Among the new army, there are those who can think and dare to think that Hou Ye is also wrong, and they can almost be counted on one hand." Chen Zhe shook his head: "Lord Yang picked for a long time, didn't he pick three, as for Jin Shentong, it was completely made up, in my opinion, he can't compare with the brothers in the camp at all." ”

Xu Ping was silent, and the faces of several other insiders changed slightly, but Chen Zhe was still unaware: "Relying on his background, he was able to command the most elite troops under Hou Ye; is also because his father is the one who is in charge of the new army for Hou Ye, and he can marry Hou Ye's daughter. Hou Ye's mastery is also appropriate to pass it on to his son-in-law. But no matter how good the swordsmanship and equestrian skills are, they are just the enemy of one husband after all. is such a person, he is still the first person among the children of the new army generals, it is said that the eldest son of the young marquis and general He is good, but I haven't seen it in the end, it's really sad and lamentable. ”

……

"It's a bit inappropriate to make five of each squad in the Guards Battalion." Shen Yunchong, an infantry officer of the Second Infantry Wing who later came to Zhongmu, said after seeing Xu Ping: "It's not easy to use." ”

A small team of five fruits, each with ten people, was a formation that Xu Ping copied from the new army, but if it fired a salvo, it could be lined up with three rows of people at most, and now when the salvo is fired, it is necessary to break up the formation of fruits, which causes some trouble for the command and formation. And if it is fired in rotation, because the flintlock pistol reloads much faster than the arquebus, if the five-fruit rotation is adopted, there will inevitably be a phenomenon of the soldier staying behind after reloading and waiting for the other fruit to shoot, which is undoubtedly a waste of firepower; If a three-row round fire is used, there will be the same problems of command and disrupting the organization as the salvo fire.

"Hou Ye set the five fruits back then, he had his considerations, the new army was not established for a long time, and the flintlock pistol had just been equipped, so I'm afraid I don't have this feeling yet."

"If it's wrong, what are you waiting for?" Under the influence of Xu Ping and Chen Zhe, Shen Yunchong gradually lost his sense of awe for the New Army Regulations.

"It looks like we're going to change the regulations of Zhendonghou again without permission." Xu Ping smiled: "And it has to be overhauled." ”

"The squad should be organized in three fruits, and each fruit should be expanded to twenty people." Xu Ping ordered the immediate reorganization of the organization, and the battalion training team should also fully cooperate with this action.

"Also, don't divide your forces again, even if you know beyond a shadow of the enemy's movements." The result of the ambush in the first battle of the Mu army made Hei Baoyi very dissatisfied, Xu Ping had fully understood the movements of the Ming army before the war, and the Ming army was not large, only more than 1,000 people, so Xu Ping tried to encircle and not let anyone be caught. As a result, it was difficult to contact the separated soldiers and horses, and they were startled long before the encirclement was completed: "The cavalry must not be separated from the infantry, if the Ming army on the opposite side has a little fighting spirit, they will fight more and less." ”

"Yes, I will never make this mistake again." Xu Ping nodded: "Today is not a mistake in the division of troops, but a careless partisan, if it weren't for the fact that I was too proud and underestimated the enemy, I wouldn't have made this kind of mistake." ”

This was the first large-scale field battle since the formation of the Guards Battalion, and the officers and men of the 4,000 Guards Battalion fought continuously within a radius of several hundred miles, successively defeated nearly 50,000 Ming troops, and seized large tracts of land and cities. Although the results were brilliant, the Guards Battalion also exposed many problems, from the rapid march to the field camp in front of the enemy, as well as the communication between the various units when pursuing and defeating the enemy, Xu Ping and his brothers encountered many situations that they had not thought of in advance, although they did not cause any evil results because of the vulnerability of the Ming army, but they all knew that they could not expect the opposite side to always be such an opponent.

"Sooner or later, we will have a decisive battle with the New Army on the battlefield, the three main battalions of the New Army, firefighting, rocking, and selection, how are our guard battalions compared to them?"

After hearing Xu Ping's question, everyone said: "It was inferior before, but after we summarize the lessons of this time, it may not be much worse." ”

"Okay, not to mention these three battalions, how is our Guards Battalion better than the Evergreen Battalion?"

Zhou Dongtian was the first to speak: "Soldiers, I'm afraid we don't have the training team of the New Army to train carefully, but the morale must be strong in our battalion, and the top and bottom are concentric; Non-commissioned officers, I'm afraid that the instructors of our training team are not as good as Instructor Song; As for the officers, the elite of the Evergreen Battalion are now on our side. ”

Yu Shenhe was very dissatisfied with this answer: "The Changqing Battalion is a trained soldier, and there are many problems in the First World War in Shandong; And our guard battalion is out of the fight, in the past few months, we have broken several cities, more than ten battles, when we were in the evergreen battalion, how can our subordinates compare with the guard battalion? ”

Others agreed, and some of them agreed with Zhou Dongtian's opinion before, and everyone felt that the combat effectiveness of the old army was considerable-after all, it was their first time in the army, but after listening to Yu Shenhe's words, most people felt that the latter was more reasonable.

"Gentlemen, there is nothing to praise for being stronger than the Evergreen Battalion, but it is stronger than the firefighting battalion, and I don't think there is anything to be happy about." Xu Ping paused for a moment, and after waiting for everyone's advance to refocus on him, he said slowly: "Master Hou, if you can take the head of the enemy in the army, this martial arts is at least a hundred times that of me; Master Hou, the rules of military training, see what no one has seen before, and what no one has thought before, this talent, if you don't think about it as a second person after three generations, even if Wuhou is reincarnated, he doesn't dare to say that he has any chance of winning, let alone me. And you must remember that one day, you will stand opposite the Hou Ye and fight side by side with me - that is, the guard battalion can be the same as the fire battalion, and we are also a dead end, if it is better to fight the fire battalion, then we should wipe our necks as soon as possible. ”

Everyone in the camp had heavy faces, and only listened to Xu Ping continue: "We must carry forward the regulations of the Hou Ye, and we must carry forward the momentum of not giving up until perfection is reached...... Everything must be stronger than the new army, and it must be a lot stronger, so that we can stand opposite Hou Ye with our heads held high and challenge Hou Ye, the peerless god of war. ”

The young officers in the battalion, although their expressions were solemn and solemn, but on their faces, it was difficult to hide the eagerness to try, Xu Ping smiled and said: "Gentlemen, please help me Xu Ping." ”

……

In mid-May, after the tidal news, there was an even greater wave of urgent letters, most of the Kaifeng Prefecture has fallen into the hands of the intruding army, and Yu Dong, a fierce general who had high hopes for the governor of Henan, also sent a report in frustration a few days ago: He was ambushed in Zhuxian Town, and the elite was lost, and now he had to retreat to Guide City to reorganize his troops and horses. The report sent by Guide also proves Yu Dong's statement, and when General Yu, who once had 3,000 strong soldiers, retreated to Guide, there were less than 1,000 remnants left, and they were yellow and thin, and their morale was low.

Governor Gao knew that Yu Dong had indeed tried his best, and when the other troops were defeated, Yu Dong was the only general who could resist a little, and obviously fought until the last moment of exhaustion before having to retreat, this kind of courage, fighting spirit and patriotic enthusiasm was even stronger than the impact on Governor Gao from the 2,000 elite soldiers that General Yu once had; In addition, the fact that a Ming army could not collapse after two-thirds of the battle was also impressive to the governor, at least Governor Gao was unheard of. The governor of Henan ordered the Guide Mansion to do its best to raise materials, and doubled the food and weapons given to Yu Dong, so as to make this strong general recover as soon as possible.

However, the distant water could not quench the thirst of the near, and the camp continued to attack to the east without stopping. Li Dingguo had forced the empty Xuanwuwei to stay behind and abandon the city and flee eastward, and his army was only twenty miles away from Feng; And Xu Ping was ruthlessly sweeping the periphery of Kaifeng, obviously out of attention to Yu Dong, Xu Ping did not immediately approach the Jiancheng Kaifeng, but went straight to Tong Xu, and killed Chen Liu after Zhu Xianzhen annihilated most of Yu Dong.

The governor of Henan desperately ordered the garrisons of Chenliu, Qixian, Tongxu, Lanyang and other places to immediately assemble in Kaifeng, and he knew that this was tantamount to abandoning the entire Kaifeng Mansion except for Fucheng. However, Kaifeng City is the last barrier of Hebei, and it is also the residence of King Zhou, so it must not be lost.

Henan is in danger! Central Plains is in danger!

After Gao Mingheng's urgent letter for help was delivered to Jingshi, Chongzhen Tianzi was furious. The situation was so critical that the imperial court could not consider any punishment at all. The cabinet drafted a vote to severely reprimand Gao Mingheng and let him make meritorious service for his crimes. urged Yang Sichang to immediately wave his army to the east to attack the army, and Chongzhen Tianzi immediately criticized the red rush to Henan.

On the same day, the imperial court considered sending reinforcements to Henan for the first time.

……

After hearing about the great victory at the front, Sun Kewang wrote to Xu Ping, saying that he was ready to lead his troops into battle. If it was a rare success to write a petition to displease the commander, then Sun Kewang succeeded in doing so. Xu Ping immediately left all the work in his hand and replied to Sun Kewang, enthusiastically but resolutely refusing his request.

Although it was only a short month, the Kaifeng Prefecture was thriving under Sun Kewang's governance, sending a steady stream of supplies to Xu Ping's troops, allowing each soldier in the Guards Battalion to change into cool summer clothes in time, and each of them was given two pairs of new straw sandals. Sun Kewang used various means to squeeze out tens of thousands of grains from the eunuchs' homes, forcing everyone to dig up the gold and silver they had hidden in the ground with the intruding army. The young and strong among the displaced people were mobilized to cultivate the land, and women and children were organized to dig pigweed in the mountains and fields. The practice of free-range pigs and sheep is now a prohibited practice, and all domestic animals are kept in cages. The veterinarians of the people were counted out by Sun Kewang and put into the rear camp, and every pregnant sow would be registered in the camp and cared for by better and more experienced people. Sun Kewang optimistically estimates that the number of live pigs this year can return to the old view before the war, and meat production will increase by at least 30%.

At the same time, Sun Kewang also opened a trading ground under the control of Chuang Ying in every county and town, and levied a certain tax on the peasants who came to trade. Xu Ping had questioned this policy, but Sun Kewang had a good reason: he believed that Li Zicheng's order to not pay grain was to ensure that the peasants would not starve to death, but that if they were willing to trade grain or poultry, it meant that they had left enough food for themselves to save their own families from famine – and that profiting from such a trade clearly did not put the peasants at risk of endangering their lives.

There is also a vigorous rectification of businesses......

I asked the physical bookseller, and the other party said that he didn't mind the difference between physical and electronic, since this was the case, all the previous settings about Huangshi were invalidated, including the hint that Huangshi lived to old age and became emperor, as well as his personality and experience twenty years later.

However, the opinions of readers who support "Tiger Wolf" still need to be considered, so I set up this poll. The Tiger Wolf is a story of the original characters fighting back against the traverser, then:

The first option is for those who vote black, and those who vote for black should choose the first option.

The second option is: to vote red, and accept that Xu Ping and his comrades will achieve a complete victory over Huangshi, a traverser.

The third option was: cast a red vote, not wanting to see Xu Ping and his comrades achieve a complete victory over Huangshi, the traverser.

The fourth option is: cast a red vote, which has not been considered yet.

Readers don't have to pay attention to my voting options, just follow the above option to make your choice.

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