Chapter 172: Ding Xiaochen's Bloody Battle

He Xi is paving the way for the post-war period.

A lot of things are blowing in the wind.

Compare the reforms of local prefectures and counties. Beijing's reforms have been completed. There are no more traditional servants. All of them are clerks. And the officials are also capable of being officials. But it's a little hard. Nanjing conducts the imperial examination, while Beijing conducts the official examination. All the big officials must step up from the petty officials.

Under the military authority of Beijing, many local government officials also recognized the reality.

Ordinary people are also thinking about what they will do after the war.

Ordinary people are ready to go home to farm, after all, after a large number of new agricultural tools have entered the countryside in recent years, the cost of land reclamation has been declining. The land that can be cultivated in Hebei is valued by people. If it weren't for the war siphon, it would have attracted a large number of young and strong laborers.

The next few years will be a great climax in the development of cultivated land in Hebei.

Ding Xiaochen is naturally thinking about his future, he thinks that if he can become the chief of the Jinghai Soldiers and Horses Division in the future, it will already be good, and he is also a figure in the county, and their Ding family can be regarded as having a firm foothold in Jinghai.

He didn't think much about the war anymore.

He also has his own friendships in the army. He also knows a lot of all kinds of news, and he knows one thing very well, the court has won. It's just a matter of time.

It's just that he never expected that just when he was imagining his bright future, they were given a strict order to attack in the rain at this moment to support Qin Zhuang, which was a few miles away.

And in order to prevent them from disobeying orders, a group of officers was parachuted. These are all expeditions to the Southern General's Mansion, in order to supervise the war.

It was none other than Deng Yuan who came to the Jinghai militia group.

Deng Yuan went to the envoy before, which can be regarded as a meritorious service. He begged Ye Shen to let him go out to lead the troops. Ye Shen verbally agreed and let the people around him arrange it. After all, with just a staff officer, there is no need for Ye Shen to be concerned.

But the arrangement is not too easy to arrange.

If you want people to go out, you must first have vacancies.

If there are no vacancies, how will they be arranged?

We can only wait for the first time. Now that the militia regiments are to be sent to the front, the staff is worried about the ineffective command, because these militia regiments have not cooperated with the army at all. Therefore, all the personnel of his staff department were sent over, on the one hand, to supervise the battle, and on the other hand, to be responsible for contacting the above.

Deng Yuan also came out like this.

Although Deng Yuan has the arrogance of a prince of the country, he has more than a dozen guards by his side. These guards are not in the army, but the generals of the Shen State Mansion. This shows that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse.

Maybe the Shenguo Mansion doesn't have many connections now. But there are still a lot of good players. It is simply impossible to arrange so many guards in the ordinary human army. But with the face of Shen Guogong Deng Zhen, the people below will also arrange to accompany the army.

Of course, general things don't come up. The last time I went to the mission, this time I went to war, these people will appear.

Ding Xiaochen could see at a glance that Deng Yuan was unusual. Don't dare to offend. After the assembly, Deng Yuan made meritorious contributions. Urge to go immediately.

The Jinghai militia could only follow Ding Xiaochen with dry food and weapons.

It's not easy to walk along the way.

The heavy rain affects the sight very much, not to mention the road that was originally easy to walk, because of the heavy rain, it has also become very muddy, and if you are not careful, you will slip and become a soup chicken.

Fortunately, you can't go wrong with the goal.

Because even in the midst of heavy rain, the rain can't withstand the sound of artillery and fire in front. It's just become more sparse.

After Deng Yuan came to Qinzhuang, he immediately received an order to immediately recapture the three rooms.

The name of the place is strange.

Just to the east of Qinzhuang, there is a family, the yard is very large, there are only three earthen embryo houses, and this piece is all vacant land. These three rooms are the central landmarks, hence the name.

Immediately, Ding Xiaochen led people over.

A fierce battle ensued, and the three rooms were recaptured.

It's not easy, but everything in front of him makes Ding Xiaochen even more uneasy.

Without him, he found out that he was able to

easily captured three rooms, not because of his strength, but because the Southern Army that won three rooms was already at the end of its strength. In just three rooms, there were hundreds, if not more, corpses.

He found that there were more than a dozen officers, and he even saw three battalion officers of the Northern Army.

That's a battalion officer.

He knew a few battalion officers, and he didn't take care of him on weekdays.

They are all characters he needs to stammer, and now they are all lying here like dead pigs.

Ding Xiaochen immediately knew that it was dangerous, very dangerous.

But what can be done at this moment?

He looked back at Deng Yuan, who was very excited, and Deng Yuan didn't seem to know what kind of situation they were going to face.

It didn't take long for him to find out.

Heavy rain won't last long.

In the evening, when the sun sets, the heavy rain stops, and there is a very refreshing feeling in the air. But Ding Xiaochen was not easy at all. He was sitting back to back with Deng Yuan at the moment, and he didn't even have the strength to stand up.

Within a few hours in the afternoon, they did not know how many times they had fought.

In the pouring rain, firecrackers are of little use.

It's all hand-to-hand combat.

There are more than 1,000 militia groups, but now there are only a few hundred.

Everything else became corpses.

One of the three rooms was full of corpses, and it was the corpse of a general, which was not like this at first. Ding Xiaochen originally wanted to arrange for the corpse to be stopped here. It was not thought that it was just the corpse of the suspended officer. But too many people died.

There's no way around it.

Deng Yuan never knew that the battlefield was so terrifying. He only felt that this day was the longest day he had ever lived, and almost all the guards around him were killed. Few survived.

Life and death are things that happen in the blink of an eye.

For a moment, Deng Yuan didn't want to restore the title of Duke of Shen Guo anymore, after all, compared to these, life is the most important thing, and soon he didn't want to think about these things, because there was no time and no effort.

Deng Yuan said, "The sun is about to go down, and we have time to rest for a while."

On the battlefield, between life and death, the relationship between all people develops very quickly. At the beginning, the relationship between Deng Yuan and Ding Xiaochen was not good, after all, there were too many gaps in the lives of the two sides, and they could not understand each other in many things.

But between life and death, none of this is a problem.

When Ding Xiaochen heard him say this, he immediately said, "Don't talk nonsense, I beg you."

On the battlefield, Deng Yuan seems to be a crow's mouth. Say anything and don't hit anything? Whatever he says, it will go in a bad direction.

Deng Yuan was stunned for a moment, and said loudly: "No, no, it's been a day of fighting, so many people have died, does he still want to attack at night, and he still wants to live."

Ding Xiaochen said, "I think, maybe he doesn't want to live either."

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Ding Xiaochen's idea is very right.

Fu Youde felt a great deal of pressure.

The Southern Army was already on the verge of collapse.

Today's battle, up to now, the southern army has advanced more than ten miles, but tens of thousands of soldiers have been killed in the battle, as the attacking side, many wounded can not be withdrawn from the battlefield, not to mention, in the heavy rain, the wounded who did not die will also quickly lose temperature, and death is only a matter of time.

No matter how powerful Fu Youde is, in the face of such a situation, there will be opposition in the army.

Many people persuaded Fu Youde again, not because they didn't want to fight, but because they really couldn't fight, and if this continued, it was very likely that the army would mutiny.

But Fu Youde was unmoved.

Fu Youde already knew that Ye Shen had sent more than a dozen militia groups to support.

And during the battle, many of these people were captured, and Fu Youde personally interrogated them, and he also proved that he ignored something. The militia in Beijing is different from the militia in Nanjing.

The people were recruited free of charge, and they even had to bring their own dry food. The militias are militarily trained and even paid for.

So it is feasible to send the militia to the battlefield, although these people will also desert. But it is impossible to get the people to go to war. What a big face the court has, let the people take the initiative to work hard for the court, don't even think about it.

Moreover, these thirteen militia groups, in today's battle, were almost all exhausted, either defeated or disabled, and ceased to exist.

And Fu Youde is also judging, what does it mean for Ye Shen to send a vigilante group?

Either that, Ye Shen's troops were exhausted, and he had to send these militia groups, otherwise the front line would not be able to support it.