The establishment of the Great Xia Combined Army this time has a total of four divisions and 20 teams, including the logistics troops escorting grain and grass, medical brigades and other special arms, and the number of people has reached more than 40,000.

The funny thing is that among the 40,000 people, only about 5,000 have combat effectiveness, and most of them are adaptations of active gladiators, or former management of the gladiatorial arena.

The remaining more than 30,000 people have extremely low combat effectiveness, some have served as the janitor of the gladiatorial arena, some have done cleaning for the gladiatorial arena, some have worked as chefs in the kitchen, and some have unsound limbs, and they still take out prosthetic limbs for maintenance from time to time during the march......

Looking at such a large group of uncles who were struggling to walk, Zhang Yu wondered from the bottom of his heart whether the Great Xia Kingdom wanted to let his people go to the front line as human sandbags.

Thinking of the old man Guan who was the commander of the Combined Army, his eyes were dizzy and his ears were out of order, Zhang Yu's feeling was even greater.

However, although the fighting quality of the soldiers was unsightly, the equipment distribution was relatively complete.

Military horses, broadswords, military uniforms, *** and other equipment were delivered to each team in a timely manner.

In Lin Lang's words: Even if we go to the front line to die, they will at least give enough face......

Although the first team led by Zhang Yu was an infantry team, after his active efforts, the headquarters still allocated him 200 war horses - all of them were skinny horses, teeth were not very bright, and they couldn't chew the grass for a long time.

Zhang Yu looked at the old officer, thought of the old man at the grassroots level, and looked at the war horse that the commander had allocated to him, and couldn't help but wonder a little, why didn't he just change the name to the Pension United Army? Maybe if the creatures of the Kuroshio knew about human knowledge, they would have spared themselves and these people with pity.

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In the winter of 202 in the Divine Calendar, November 1.

The Bactria Combined Army, as the vanguard of the border guards who were the main force in this operation, began to move towards the Eastern Theater.

During the pre-war mobilization, the commander Mr. Guan Lao stood on the rostrum and excitedly said into the microphone: The final victory must belong to us! Long live the Great Xia Kingdom!

Some of the younger soldiers in the front row saw that he was so excited that he accidentally spit out his dentures on the ground.

Below, after listening to Mr. Guan's pre-war mobilization, Zhang Yu looked at his "comrades-in-arms" again, and was very suspicious that with this kind of quality of soldiers, how did Mr. Guan talk nonsense with his eyes open, and dare to talk about victory? Could it be that he has cataracts?

Subsequently, the army marched out.

In the eastern part of the Great Xia Outer Territory, with the destruction of Wuguan, seven provinces have fallen until now. They are Anbei Province, Andong Province, Annan Province, Zhongzhou Province, Tiannan Province, Donglin Province and Yongchang Province.

At dusk on the first day of the troops' mobilization, you could see from afar on the Great Plains, the refugees who had fled from the war zone had formed a long black line on the road, like a black iron chain with no end in sight, and everyone's face was covered with wind and frost and the pain of losing their homes.

When they saw the Great Xia United Army, the people cheered, but when they saw the quality of these soldiers, they all began to feel worry and sympathy.

Even some people couldn't stand it anymore, and went up to help the gray-haired old man carry his backpack and gave him a long way.

Mr. Guan Lao, the commander, nodded his head and expressed his appreciation for this act, saying that this highlights the deep concern and condolences of the grassroots people for the soldiers of our army, and is a special example of the military and the people working together to help each other.

For the sake of publicity, he even specially asked the war correspondent to take two close-ups, and the next day, the entire barracks could see such newspapers.

"Fool the hell!"

After reading it, Zhang Yu wiped his nose directly with it and threw it into the trash.

For these politicians, Zhang Yu has now seen through a little, each of them is a person who sells fame and reputation, in order to enhance their own merits and prestige, they do everything, but they can't realistically bring even a penny of benefits to the people.

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When the team reached Zhongzhou Province, the number of refugees increased.

Unlike the previous group of refugees, fear and apprehension were evident on their faces.

Zhang Yu pulled a random refugee over on the side of the road to inquire about the situation carefully, and the person was very nervous.

"Fellow, how is the battle on the front line, where has the Kuroshio attacked yet?" Zoen asked politely.

The refugee's hands trembled, and he replied in Mandarin full of local accents: "I don't know, I was sleeping at night, and suddenly I felt the ground shaking, and then all the people in the village woke up, saying that the Kuroshio was coming, and they should flee for their lives." So I quickly woke up my mother-in-law to get up and run with me, and when I was halfway through, I found that the ugly mother-in-law of my family had separated from me with her stupid son, and I wanted to find them, but I couldn't find them. ”

Zuo En sympathetically comforted: "Don't worry, fellow, when you get to the rear, you can go to the local police station to report the case, and they will help you find your wife and children." ”

The refugee cried immediately: "I'm afraid that the stinky lady of my family will miss the old house of my family and return the same way with my stupid son, which is a dead end!" ”

Zuo En felt the same way, and after sympathizing with the fellow with a gold coin as comfort, he let him flee.

Lin Lang analyzed on the side: "These people are all Zhongzhou people, and they were awakened by the shaking of the earth when they were sleeping at night, why did the earth shake?" ”

Zhang Yu said: "It may be that the Kuroshio tide has pushed over, if there is a large-scale beast trek, or if there is a regular army marching, then the surface will completely tremble slightly, and don't forget, when they feel the tremor, it is night, and the quiet environment is the easiest to feel the abnormal ground movement." ”

Everyone nodded, and everyone understood the meaning of Zhang Yu's words - the black tide is not far from here!

As if to cite their speculation, in the early morning of the next day, when the Combine Army was drawing water on the bank of the Red River in Zhongzhou, the terrifying black tide from the fallen world appeared!

The Red River, also known as the Chishui River, and the place where the combined forces are stationed is on the beach of the Chishui River.

Because it was early in the morning, the sky had not yet lit up, so most of the people except for the cooking brigade were asleep, even if they were mutants and evolutionary people, they could not avoid this physiological phenomenon, and this time was when they were asleep.

By the time the men spotted Kuroshio and sounded the alarm, Kuroshio had completed its preparations, and then the army charged, making a dull rumbling sound.

Guan Lao, the commander who had woken up from his sleep, rushed out of the tent before he could even put on his clothes, and when he saw the black tide spreading like a tide on the horizon, his muddy old eyes were instantly filled with fear, and he roared loudly: "What are the horses for?" Why wasn't the report sent out in a timely manner? ”

No one answered him, and the whole barracks was in chaos.

The scouts on the front line may not have had time to send the news at all, but they were caught up by the mutated beasts in the Kuroshio at an astonishing speed, and then killed.

And it just so happened that Guan Lao was a person who didn't know anything about command, and he was able to do this position entirely because the current chief of the Great Xia Kingdom was his cousin.

Afterwards, Zhang Yu recalled that if the combined army had been firmly established on the spot at that time, it would not have collapsed so quickly, at least, it would have been able to hold on to the aid of the rear border guards.

But fear has already overwhelmed Guan Lao's brain, or rather, this idiot doesn't know how to command in such a situation, he will only stand in front of the door of the headquarters and shout: let the people of the 1st Division go to the left, let the people of the 2nd Division go to the right, and the 3rd and 4th Divisions stay in the middle!

The officers could not guess the commander's intentions, and the soldiers could not put themselves in the right position, so some of them even quarreled over the formation in order to quickly set up the formation at the place the commander requested.

As a result of this, in the face of the wolf-like Black Tide, the 40,000-strong Great Xia Combined Army was like a white paper eroded by the flames, quickly swallowed up one big black hole after another, and then gradually turned into ashes as the flames spread.

The defense line of the first division, the first team and the second and third teams are arranged in the shape of "pin", this is the formation that Zhang Yu and the other two team leaders studied last night, so that no matter which defense line Kuroshio attacks from, the scouts sent by the three teams can be found at the first time and reported to the team commander.

Of course, Zhang Yu reported his speculation to the headquarters, but it happened that Guan Lao was having diarrhea at the time, so he took it and threw it in the barren mountains and wilderness after using it.

It must be said that this is the sorrow of a commander.

At this moment, the whole army was in chaos, and all three divisions except the first division were in chaos.

In the face of the strong crushing of the Black Tide, some of them didn't even have to wield their weapons, and they ran away.

"Go back, go back!"

A military judge waved his whip fiercely and tried to drive the soldiers back to the defensive positions, but was quickly pulled off their horses by the angry soldiers and killed directly.

The Overseers in the rear managed to form a formation, beating them with sticks and even killing some people with broadswords, but this did not help and could not stop their fear at all.

During this period, even if other teams or brigades barely organized a defensive formation, they were first escaped and broke through the blockade before the Kuroshio came.

The whole army collapsed.

"Master Zhang, withdraw! The defeat was a foregone conclusion, and the strength of our three teams alone could not be reversed. The commander of the second team said to Zhang Yu.

Not to mention that their grassroots soldiers are just some old people who tremble when they walk, even if they are young and strong guys, they are mutants who are in the sky, and they dare not rush into the boundless black wave with only a few thousand people, they may set off a small wave, but in the end they will definitely be swallowed by the black sea, which is no surprise.

Even the division commander gave the order to retreat immediately!

But Zhang Yu doesn't think so.

At this moment, there was only the 1st Division in the whole army that had no rout, but since the battle, they didn't even know what Kuroshio looked like.

In Zhang Yu's previous impression, the Black Tide was a beast tide temporarily composed of some low-grade mutant beasts, but this time Tanma told him that these Black Tides were different from the previous Black Tides in the Great Wilderness, they were all organized and disciplined, and they had obviously undergone unified command.

There are even different breeds of cooperation in the Kuroshio, and some tanma even claim to have seen the existence of a human form.

Therefore, Zhang Yu felt that even if he retreated, he had to catch a few prisoners first, otherwise he would not be able to figure out the appearance of the enemy, and if he lost this battle, he should lose the next battle.

"Zoon, Carl, and Shakui obey orders!"

Zhang Yu suddenly ordered.

The three of them were at the same time and agreed: "Yes!" ”

Zhang Yu said: "I order you to lead the elite of our army to capture two Kuroshio humanoids, and after capturing the prisoners, you don't have to come back to find the command headquarters, and retreat directly to the west, we will gather on the blockade line of the border guards." ”

"Yes!"

The three of them are all masters of the six grades, and with some elites, Zhang Yu feels that it should not be a big problem to catch a few prisoners.

At that moment, Zhang Yu ordered the whole army to retreat!