"Isn't Li Zicheng crazy, he actually wants to fight with Benxiang five days later? If you really don't know anything about the military, you can't do it, and you order all the armies to prepare immediately, tomorrow the soldiers will come out of the green dragon's back, and the prime minister will bombard Zhuxian Town, I want to see how Li Zicheng responds? ”

After more than ten days, the clearing in front of Qinglong's back that was soaked by the water of the Jialu River has long dried up, Li Xingzhi does not want to wait any longer, he wants to defeat the main force of the Shun army in a battle.

"Wang Zhong, the second town and the new second town and the tenth town are under your unified command as the central army, the sixth town and the new sixth town are the left wing, Shang Kexi will hand over the left wing to you, the new eighth town and the ninth town guard the right flank, General Gao, General Jiang, the safety of the right wing of our army depends on you."

There is no suspicion in employing people, no suspicion is needed, Gao Jie and Li Zicheng have a hatred for taking their wives, Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming's families are all in Shandong, Li Xingzhi is naturally not afraid that the two have the intention of rebelling.

After the surrender of the central part of the Yuan Dynasty, Li Xingzhi reorganized his department into the tenth town, considering that the Yuan department had just been incorporated into the organization, and the combat effectiveness was poor, and even the basic change of equipment of the troops was not done, so the department was placed behind the second town and the new second town with strong combat effectiveness.

"The last general will be ordered."

Gao Jie, Jiang Xiang and others felt a pang in their hearts, and hurriedly bowed down to receive the order.

"Wang Fuchen, I heard that you are known as the living Lu Bu, and you have the courage of ten thousand people, and the prime minister intends to merge the Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han green banners under his command with your Mongolian cavalry into one army, led by you and Amba, are you willing?"

Li Xingzhi arrived at Qinglongbei, Wang Fuchen successively thwarted Liu Zongmin's military exploits, Wang Zhong will naturally play truthfully, fighting on the plains, the role of cavalry is particularly important, and the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han green banners have played a decisive role in all the battles after the establishment of the Jingbei Army.

Considering that there were still nearly 100,000 Jiannu in Liaodong, Li Xingzhi intended to expand into two cavalry towns on the basis of the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han green banners, and Wang Fuchen, who was proficient in cavalry warfare, was one of the best candidates for cavalry town generals.

"Thank you to the prime minister for the last general, this battle will definitely move forward bravely, and the head of the thief will be beheaded in front of the prime minister's horse."

Wang Fuchen was overjoyed, he was not just a vulgar martial artist, he knew that he was in the eyes of Li Xingzhi, a powerful minister who was called the minister of the state and was actually a thief of the country, as long as he made new contributions, the opportunity for promotion was in front of him.

"Li Bangjie, Wang Chengzhu, the artillery town will be handed over to you, once the war starts, your task is to destroy the artillery of the thieves first."

The artillery town that the Jingbei Army did not have, this time Li Xingzhi personally conquered Zhuxian Town, but he reorganized all the artillery testers of the Zhaoyuan Manufacturing Bureau, and appointed Wang Chengzhu, the officer of the Fifth Town Artillery Team, as the general of the artillery town, mainly responsible for the 120 red-coated cannons and 280 thousand-pound general cannons brought from Shandong this time.

“…… The subordinates respectfully obey the orders of the prime minister. ”

Wang Chengzhu suddenly rose to the top of the throne, and in the face of the high-ranking generals of the Jingbei Army and Li Xingzhi, who was giving orders from the main seat, he was still a little uncomfortable, and he paused before getting up to receive the order.

"Prime Minister...... They all have a mission, but what about the general? ”

Zhang Wu, the general of the fifth town, was in a hurry, and said that the whole army would attack and defeat Li Zicheng in one fell swoop, and now it is okay, even Yuan Shizhong, who had just joined the Jingbei Army, went to the battlefield, and he, a confidant who had followed the prime minister for three years, did not receive any military orders.

"Your task is to defend the defense line of the green dragon's back for the prime minister and protect the rear road of our army."

Although there are Zhao Ergou and Chen Wen as internal responses, the battlefield situation is ever-changing, and Li Xingzhi does not dare to pack a ticket The Jingbei Army has a full grasp of the victory, and the Qinglong back defense line is related to the safety of tens of thousands of Jingbei Army, and it must be guarded by people who are close to their henchmen.

"Alas...... Weekend...... The last will obey! ”

Although Zhang Wu was reluctant, he still reluctantly received the military order after all, and he was able to hold out on Dongjiang Island for so long, and he still had this bit of vision, and he knew Li Xingzhi's purpose of letting him guard the back of the green dragon.

Li Xingzhi's battle was not only to defeat the main force of the Shun army, but to completely destroy Li Zicheng's confidence and force the main force of the peasant army away from Henan, so he must let Li Zicheng rest assured on the battlefield and rest assured that he threw all his troops up, only in this way can he defeat the enemy in one fell swoop in the field battle and collect all the merits, rather than simply fighting a battle with the Shun army.

The reason why the decisive battle was chosen in the open space in front of Qinglong was to strengthen the heart of the army, where the terrain was open, which was conducive to the deployment of large troops, and only in this way would Li Zicheng, who also had the heart to win the world, make a desperate bet, thinking about defeating the Jingbei army and becoming the master of northern China.

Shun army camp.

Li Xingzhi wanted a decisive battle, which made Li Zicheng, who had always been afraid of the Qinglong back defense line, overjoyed, and also made Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Xie Youjun and other Shun generals Zuo Xi look at it.

In their view, the Shandong army abandoned the barrier and chose the field battle to kill themselves, the reason is that the number of the Shun army is too large, and they believe that in the face of absolute strength, the Shandong army's choice of a decisive battle is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

Only Liu Fangliang, the general of the Shun army, expressed his doubts, so after Li Zicheng gave the order, he gave his hand to Li Zicheng and said: "King Shun, the Shandong army wants to fight a decisive battle, I think they must have a backhand, although the number of our army is numerous, but the camp is full of messages, before the leader Liu was defeated by the hands of the king thief, the last general is only afraid that the army is unstable, it is difficult to win"

Li Zicheng waved his hand and said: "Brother Liu doesn't have to hesitate, five days later, Gu will take the five battalions of the headquarters as the front, let the new army follow behind the main force, as long as our army wins, the morale of the new army will be greatly increased." ”

Liu Fangliang heard that Li Zicheng wanted to put the military horses of the headquarters in front, and his heart was a little at ease, the five battalions of the Shun army's military horses were all old thieves who had been in the army for many years, and the will to fight was not under the official army.

Song Xian thought about it for a while, and then asked, "King Shun, if the official army is laid off after five days, what will our army do?" ”

"Huh!"

Li Zicheng sneered, and said again: "If Li Xingzhi comes with the whole division tomorrow, Lone will lead the army to fight with him tomorrow, even if there is no artillery to help him fight, Lone is not afraid of him, does he Li Xingzhi really think that our hundreds of thousands of horses are soft persimmons?" ”

Li Xingzhi and Li Zicheng both chose a decisive battle, because whoever wins the battle will become the new master of North China, which is also the so-called decisive battle of the First World War.

On March 26 of the first year of Yongli, the camp of the Qinglongbei official army sounded the rapid sound of drums and cannons and the desolate sound of bull horns.

This is the signal of the Jingbei Army's attack,

Although Wang Zhong, Shang Kexi, and others had doubts about Li Xingzhi's decision to insist on fighting with Li Zicheng's main force, the prestige accumulated by Li Xingzhi's repeated victories since he formed the army enabled them to resolutely carry out Li Xingzhi's military orders.

As for Anti-Ba and other Manchurian and Mongolian green flag generals, they were even more eager to try, they used to be the slaves of the Manchurians, and now they also think that they are Li Xingzhi's slaves.

Another staunch supporter of Li Xingzhi is Li Bangjie, in Li Bangjie's opinion, the Manchurian heavy cavalry cannot break through his iron soldiers, let alone the opponents of the iron soldiers.