It was noon, and the scorching sun shone on the earth high in the sky.

Under the scorching sun, an army of 1,000 people, neatly planned, dressed in iron armor and black, exuding the aura of a strong army, walked on the official road to Beijing on foot.

At the front of the thousand-man army, Su Ming was sitting on a strong war horse in iron armor, holding the reins of the war horse while carefully browsing the information on his mobile phone.

These materials were downloaded by Su Ming when he just returned to the modern era, and they are full of all the written materials and historical archives about the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and the Great Song Dynasty, as well as the battle plan of the Cold Weapon War, which occupies ten G's memory.

Su Ming was cramming crazily to absorb knowledge that might help him.

By the way, after half an hour of hard work, after almost falling off the horse several times, Su Ming finally learned to ride a horse!

Although he couldn't gallop on a horse, he could at least sit firmly on a war horse, and he could barely ride a horse and walk slowly, Su Ming was still quite satisfied with the harvest of his busy half a day.

What the? Where did the war horses come from?

The commander of the Beiwei cavalry battalion, who was helping Su Ming lead the horse in front, couldn't help but let out a cold snort in his nose.

For the cute subordinates who squeezed hard work, Su Ming said that there was no pressure.

As for why he led the army to Beijing when Chongzhen was about to play GG, Su Ming said that he was in danger of happiness, and he wanted to keep his brother from danger.

Don't take advantage of this critical moment to fish in troubled waters, take Comrade Li Zicheng to be promoted first, and wait for the Qing army to enter the customs after two months, why fight with others?

Moreover, Su Ming didn't plan to use just 1,400 people to force Li Zicheng's army of 500,000, although he didn't know much about military affairs, he also thought that he was not mentally retarded to this extent.

Su Ming's current idea is to follow the guiding ideology of our Taizu movement war, let the Beiwei army fight a guerrilla harassment war around Beijing, and find a way to eat Li Zicheng's several small detachments with a size of less than 10,000 people first, earn more war points, and then go crazy and riot.

As long as he secretly eats a few troops of Li Zicheng, so that Su Ming can successfully develop the scale of the Beiwei army to more than 20,000 people, and then summon a super fierce general like Yue Yun, Su Ming will dare to fight Li Zicheng head-on!

Anyway, you can slip away at any time, Su Ming said that for the sake of his brother, this king has long been fearless!

However, now that the strength is too weak, it is better to be a low-key person, in case Li Zicheng accidentally notices it, and then leads the 108,000 Dashun army to warmly welcome it, it will be a little embarrassing.

"Report to the General!"

Just when Su Ming was staring at his mobile phone and wandering out of the world, a red-clothed sentry rode from the hill in the distance, turned over and dismounted five meters in front of Su Ming, knelt on one knee, bowed his head and reported:

"Ten miles to the northeast, I found thousands of rogues under the banner of the Great Shun Army, and they are marching towards our army!"

Su Ming was taken aback when he heard this, and suddenly came back to his senses, he looked to the northeast, his eyes slightly solemn.

Recalling the knowledge of war that he had just seen in the materials, Su Ming replied in a deep voice: "Send more people and explore again!" ”

"Yes!" Without hesitation, the red-clothed sentry turned over and got on his horse, and waved his whip behind his back.

In the roar of the war horse, the red-clothed sentry horse galloped towards the northeast, raising countless dust.

At the same time, in the Beiwei cavalry battalion behind Su Ming, several Beiwei cavalry took off their horses and heavy armor, and only carried bows and arrows and long knives, and turned over on their horses again.

Several heavy cavalry on their backs turned into light cavalry, and they rushed out from behind Su Ming, following the pace of the red-clothed sentry horseman, and galloped quickly to the northeast.

You must know that the Beiwei Army is one of the few armies in Chinese history that is known for its "omnipotence", and it is a basic skill for them to detect the enemy's situation, and almost every Beiwei cavalry is a qualified sentry horseman.

At this moment, the mechanical sound of the system suddenly appeared in Su Ming's mind.

Side Quest: A Narrow Encounter

Mission Level: 1 star

Mission: Defeat an army of rogues ten miles away

Reward: One raffle card (two-star beginner)

Task accepted: Yes/No

[Reminder, since this is the host's first mission, this system only opens the novice mode.] As a novice benefit, the reward for this mission will give the host a two-star lottery card. This will play a lot of auxiliary role in the future development of the host, please be sure to accept and complete the task! 】

"Quest accepted!"

Su Ming said silently in his heart, he stared closely at the sentry horse that was getting farther away, his brows furrowed slightly unconsciously, and his fists clenched from time to time.

"Is the first battle in this world coming?"

After a morning, Su Ming had already been mentally prepared, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly.

Although Su Ming wants to use Li Zicheng's army of rogues as a monster for upgrading, reality is not a game, and the real war is even more cruel!

In the midst of war, a random arrow from somewhere can kill Su Ming!

However, even if he was still a little unaccustomed to starting a war, Liukou was indeed ten miles away, and unless Su Ming led the army to retreat, a big war would inevitably break out between the two sides.

Regarding the fait accompli, Su Ming quickly adjusted his mood.

Anyway, the black stab-proof suit on Su Ming's body is not only double-layered, but also a very special full-body protective type, and his face is also equipped with a thickened bulletproof glass mask, and even the vest is bulletproof.

In this era, even if it was a ten-force heavy bow that used an armor-piercing cone, it was impossible to shoot through Su Ming's protection.

Because of this, Su Ming, who was very desperate for his life, dared to talk about war lightly, otherwise, he would have run back to modern society long ago!

Of course, it would be nice if I could still get some antiques back.

Although it is painful for my brother to cut three centimeters shorter, it is more important to have a small life!

Su Ming took a deep breath, temporarily calmed down his fluctuating state of mind, and said to the herald beside him:

"Order the army to stop marching and rest where it is!"

After receiving the order, the herald began to run to the army in the rear, conveying Su Ming's orders to officers at all levels.

In less than half a minute, more than 1,000 elites began to sit on the ground one after another.

Although permission was given to rest on the spot, the army did not exchange any words, and there was silence for a while on this official road, except for the neighing of war horses.

Half an hour later, the sentry riders had already returned one after another, and Su Ming gradually figured out the situation of this gang of rogues.

"According to the summary of the sentry report, there are about 5,000 people in this gang, and most of the battalion are young and strong people with sharp weapons with certain combat ability, accounting for about eighty percent, and the rest are almost non-threatening children and old people."

"However, although there are a lot of young men with weapons in this gang of rogues, there are only three hundred people wearing leather armor, and there are fifty archers and more than thirty light horsemen, these should be the old camp of rogues!"

After figuring out the strength of this gang of rogues, Su Ming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but his brows furrowed even tighter.

However, this is not because the opposite side is too strong, on the contrary, the reason why Su Ming frowned is that the opposite side is too weak.

For the rogues in the late Ming Dynasty, the armored soldiers of the old battalion in the army are the real backbone of the army, and as for those rogues who only have weapons, they are just how many cannon fodder they need.

If it weren't for the suppression and dispatch of the old battalion soldiers, hundreds of officers and soldiers would have been able to chase thousands of young men and women, and even rub them on the ground.

If you only face such a rogue young man, you will not be afraid of more backswords, and you may even reproduce the legendary myth of 500 battles and 100,000 again!

However, Su Ming now wanted to avoid Li Zicheng's main force and find an opportunity to fight guerrilla warfare, and did not want to immediately confront Li Zicheng.

This is because although these rogue young men are not successful when they fight alone, if the scale reaches a certain level, they are still under the leadership of the old battalion armored soldiers, but they can use the crowd tactics to grind the elite troops in the regular army of the Ming Dynasty alive.

Of course, in the last years of Chongzhen, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was simply outrageously low, and even if it was a relatively elite unit, it was still unknown what the combat effectiveness was.

"Judging from the scale and armor rate, this gang of rogues is a ragtag army sent by a certain general to attack the surrounding counties, otherwise it would not be possible to only have only three or four hundred old battalions in armor."

Actually, this is also right, Li Zicheng claims to have millions of soldiers, and he can push all the way to Beijing City, and the old battalion in armor should be no less than forty or fifty thousand. But now, his elite troops are definitely used to attack the city of Beijing, and it is impossible to send too many to other places. ”

"Since I can meet this gang of rogues sixty miles away from Beijing, it means that this gang of rogues is definitely not an elite, and may even be the kind of scum army that does not even have the qualifications to attack Beijing."

"Such a miscellaneous unit is just given to me and the Beiwei army to practice first, and earn some war points by the way."

After thinking carefully for a while, Su Ming, who was very good at reasoning, thought that he had figured out the details of the gang of rogues opposite.

To be reasonable, in Su Ming's opinion, if the information on the Internet is not all nonsense, then dealing with this gang of rogues is just a piece of cake for the victorious backing army.

Now that he was sure of victory, Su Ming was ready to use hard power to crush them in a dignified manner and get a beautiful first kill.

"All the troops stand up! Array! ”

Su Ming roared on his horse, and the roar reached a hundred meters away in an instant, and at the same time, it also reached the ears of every soldier on his back.

More than 1,000 soldiers quickly stood up, the cavalry all turned over and got on their horses, and the infantry also formed a battle formation in the shortest possible time.