On August 10, there was no fighting in Zhongren Pavilion.

When the Taishan army arrived at the Zhongrenting battlefield, it was close to dusk, and they conservatively chose to camp, and the Han army did not take the initiative to attack from the position.

Thus, the day of 10 August ended in tension, uneasiness, and excitement among the officials on both sides.

August 11, Yinshi, Pingdan.

The Han army chose to cook and eat two hours earlier than before, when the sky was not yet dawn, and the cold wind was still blowing.

Before the heavy rain, it was summer, and after the heavy rain, it was winter.

The huge temperature difference made the officials at all levels very uneasy, and they reported the situation to Lu Zhi, and then General Zhenbei agreed to send the reserve of spirits down.

Before the war, it was undoubtedly crazy to let the soldiers drink, but perhaps for the officials of the Zhenbei Army, liquor was probably what they needed most, far more useful than empty words loyal to the Han family.

Today, the Han soldiers ate a meal of mutton and braised corn rice, and for most people, this meal may be the last.

While the baggage soldiers were still busy, two peripheral sentinels and a stranger hurried to the Chinese army, please see Lu Zhi.

This strange official was a Yan Jing soldier stationed at Changshan Pass, and he came to see Lu Zhi at this moment to ask about the location of his troops.

Previously, when Lu Zhi went south from Changshan Pass, he left 3,000 troops behind, and Yan Jing, the general under his account, was a general. After that, Lu Zhi decided to fight a decisive battle at Zhongren Pavilion, and in order to ensure that the troops were sufficient, he asked Yan Jing to take 3,000 troops south to Zhongren Pavilion.

Before the battle on August 11, Yan Jingbu arrived.

Lu Zhi was overjoyed to learn that Yan Jing's troops had arrived in time, and then ordered his troops to be stationed on the east side of the battlefield, controlled by Ma Teng's troops, so as to strengthen his left flank.

Yan Jingbu received the order and quickly moved to the northeast of the battlefield, where he joined the Ma Teng Ministry.

It was also at this time that the soldiers of the various battalions of the Han army, who had finished their meals one after another, began to act.

Under the rumbling drums of the Chinese army, they carried their halberds, walked on the mud ground with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and then drove to the established position under the command of the leaders of each platoon.

However, not all Han troops were so obedient. The battlefield was too big, and there were too many battalions involved in the battle, so quarrels and clashes were inevitable.

When the officials of the Yueqi battalion went to the forage field on the back slope to ask for forage, they quarreled with the barns there. The barnsmen said that this batch of forage was for the Youzhou Tuqi, and then they were beaten up by the knights of the Yue Cavalry Battalion and snatched the supplies.

There were also some troops who were still sleeping when they heard the rallying horn of the Chinese army. The so-called one general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies.

Li Min was drunk yesterday and hasn't woken up yet, and the soldiers outside the tent don't dare to disturb one by one. They are all members of the Xiangping Li family, and they can say very clearly what the character of their family head is.

Did you see the dozen or so hounds raised outside the tent? One of the most popular crimes of the head of his family is the dog execution.

Therefore, even if these soldiers heard the Chinese army's gathering drums, they should not have heard it, and their fear of the head of the family was far greater than Lu Zhi's military law.

Someone once said that the first thing in the battle of the large corps is military discipline. It seems that Lu Zhi's military law is not good.

Li Min didn't wake up, and his subordinates were naturally snoring in the tent.

Tai Shi Ci was no exception, he was lying on the straw mat with his clothes open, snoring and sleeping. It's not that he didn't wake up after drinking too much, but yesterday he asked them to be on guard in the trench to prevent the night attack of the Taishan soldiers on the opposite side.

Tai Shici took the seven brothers below him to squat in the trench all night, except for being bitten by mosquitoes, squatting lonely.

So from the time they came back to the present, Tai Shici and they actually haven't slept for two hours.

But Tai Shici didn't wake up, but Lao Zheng, who slept with him, got up with a bone, and he heard the sound of a horn.

For an old pawn like Lao Zheng, the sound of the golden drum horn is engraved in his dream, and it has formed a conditioned reflex.

When he got up, he found that it was not a dream, but a rallying number.

Lao Zheng hurriedly woke up Tai Shici and exclaimed:

"General, blow the trumpet of the troops."

Although Tai Shici is mighty, he actually has little experience in battle formations, and compared with Lao Zheng, he is a new soldier.

Hearing Lao Zheng shouting that the Chinese army was blowing the trumpet, Tai Shici didn't dare to sleep anymore, so he hurriedly got up and listened carefully, but this time he heard it was wrong.

He said to Lao Zheng:

"Isn't this our camp's head?"

But Lao Zheng still pulled up Tai Shi Ci and ordered the two Hu to give Tai Shi Ci armor. Lao Zheng knows very well in his heart that whether they can survive this battle or not depends on their own generals.

When Tai Shi Ci took his subordinates out of the tent in armor, the Zhongren Pavilion outside was already boiling, and only their camp was still silent.

This made the two of them scratch their heads, so they could only wait for orders in the big tent first.

However, because Li Minbu is on the back slope and is not on the front line, the delay of this meeting is actually not too serious.

What really mattered was the Han army at the head of the twenty battalions on the front slope, who were frozen in the cold wind of the early morning, and from time to time they took a sip of liquor from their water bags.

These people are either from the northwest or from Youji, and they are all people who can drink.

So this little drink not only drives away the chill, but also makes them more excited. They sit on the ground and try to lean on each other to keep warm. There was only a glimmer of light in the sky, and they whispered in the dark.

There are families who are and the robes who have passed their lives entrusted with their will, and some of them can write, and they are also responsible for writing a parting word or two to the robes. If the Han army won the war, even if they died, these things would be sent back to their hometowns along with the reward, and to their wives.

As for losing? So what do you have to think about?

While the twenty battalions on the front slope were still moving slowly to reorganize the army, a group of vendors suddenly came from the back slope, pushing carts full of food and liquor, and began to peddle supplies between the battalions.

In fact, these people have a dual identity, they are not only the baggage team of the Zhenbei Army, but also the merchant group organized by the powerful people.

Prior to this, Lu Zhi felt the slackness and numbness of recruiting the people, and handed over the supply and demand tasks of the Zhenbei Army to the powerful people in the Zhongshan area.

Lu Zhi also drew on the experience of the current dynasty in the expedition to Qiang. At that time, in order to stimulate the wealthy merchants in the Kanto region to actively support the front, the court gave the corresponding quota of salt and iron primers to these wealthy merchants to make them profitable.

And this time Lu Zhi also used a similar method, he promised that the capture of this battle could be purchased directly from the soldiers.

It's big business.

In every battle, the officials of the Zhenbei Army will have captures. But these seizures were varied, including slaves, expensive furniture, and industrial title deeds. These things are not convenient to take away, so the best thing to do is to dispose of them at that time.

At this time, the officials of the Zhenbei Army can cash in with the merchants, and the merchants can also obtain these excess wealth at a low price.

And this time the decisive battle with the Taishan army is the same, although everyone can see the huge risk here, but everyone knows the huge wealth contained in it.

Annihilate the main force of the Taishan Army here, so wouldn't the central and southern parts of Jizhou be slaughtered by them? I don't dare to think about how much wealth this will have.

Therefore, in the end, the heroes of Zhongshan and some of the heroes of Youzhou took over this heavy work to support the Zhenbei Army.

But the reason why a merchant group is a merchant group is to make money. The original things can be supported, but the excess is not going to cost money?

It's like this hot bar, Lu Shuai has a water bag for everyone. But for the men of Youzhou, what is this bag enough for?

So here's where the business opportunity comes.

At this time, the merchants drove their servants to sell spirits between the positions of the various battalions. Because of military discipline, the soldiers could not leave, but their longing eyes put considerable pressure on the officers.

These people also know that if this requirement cannot be met, how can they ask the people below to work hard?

So even the most stingy officers flocked to these vendors under this pressure, asking about the price of the drink.

But not a single officer did not gasp when he heard the price of the drink. But the situation is like this, and it is really unreasonable not to buy it.

So the officers had no choice but to sell some of their previous seizures to the merchants, and then gave each soldier another bag of liquor.

Le Shang was such a generous general, he bought all the wine on his side, and filled the water bags of the officials again.

The halberds of the Anping camp gathered together happily and drank bitterly.

Only Xu Miao swallowed in small bites, and there was no intention of drinking it in one go.

The old soldier beside him asked him:

"Xiao Xu, what are you doing with this wine? Any idea what kind of wine this is? It's called a death drink. That is, we are going to the battlefield, so we have this drink. If you don't finish drinking it now, I'm afraid you'll be cheaper for others later. ”

The old army's words are very direct, that is, this battle life may not be kept, and this little wine must be kept? Silly or not?

But Xu Miao was not angry at all when he heard this, but said to Lao Jun very seriously:

"Don't worry, the arrow that killed me Xu Miao hasn't been made yet. I'm going to be a general. ”

The old army couldn't help but laugh out loud and snorted:

"Okay, you become a general. Then bring the brethren with you. ”

But I didn't want Xu Miao to nod very seriously, and said:

"Well, but only if you survive this fight."

This can make the old army angry, and his whole face is red with anger, don't look over it and don't want to pay attention to this bastard boy anymore.

……

Li Min woke up, and this will be a thunderous dispatch of troops to start the formation.

Just now, he was whipped ten times with a whip by the gentleman's battalion soldiers who came from the Chinese army, and after the person finished the whip, he left a sentence:

"The marshal has an order, if you neglect my military life again, it won't be a whip next time."

These ten whips woke Li Min up, and he didn't dare to command him anymore, so he hurriedly lowered his head and admitted his mistake.

After that, Li Min hurriedly began to order the military drummers to blow the drum horns and dispatch the army out of the camp to line up.

Their battalion was on the back of the southern slope of the ridge, and not far behind was Lu Zhi's Chinese army. So at such a close distance, Lu Zhi would not be able to see Li Min's mistakes unless he was blind.

However, Li Min is a veteran general of the border army, although he is brutal and rude, but his ability to be a general is not bad at all.

In a short time, thanks to the presence of the Li tribe in the army, its division soon spread out into a vertical formation on the north side of the southern slope, and its speed was also breathtaking.

The generals of the Middle Ages basically relied on three means to dispatch and command the army.

One relies on the golden drum, the second relies on excellent heralds, and the third relies on the officer corps with excellent experience.

The third type in particular is particularly important. Why can a family of border army generals like Xiangping Li often be able to act as generals on behalf of others? In addition to the reading and family learning, the most important thing is that there is a group of experienced troops in the clan as their officer corps.

It is precisely with these troops that have been delegated to the various cantonments to control the army, that Li Min can command the army like an arm. Of course, there is another consequence of this, that is, after the development of this army for a long time, it will easily become the private army of generals.

This is also the reason why Li Min caused such a big disaster, and Lu Zhi only flogged him ten times instead of cutting off his head.

Li Min's actions here naturally fell in the eyes of Lu Zhi, who was watching the battle behind, he nodded unconsciously, and said to Chang Shi on the side:

"This Li Min is a hyena, and he can't drive this person away if he has to add up a big stick cage. But once you're convinced, it's still a good dog. ”

Chong Fu didn't answer this, he still felt that Lu Zhi was too polite. Then Li Min is a general in the army, how can he be so humiliated. And now he also sees the resistance of the northern army and the border army.

After Wei Duan, who was a westerner, was appointed as the deputy marshal, those border army generals were a little dissatisfied, and they were still taming the generals with cruel means at this time, I am afraid that it would be inappropriate.

So the kind of whisk skipped the topic and said something else:

"We're out of battle here, and the Tarzan thieves on the other side should also come out of the camp. Why don't we take a look? ”

Lu Zhi did not hesitate, turned on his horse, and led the gentlemen and soldiers to gallop to the high slope of the ridge, looking at the Taishan thieves below.

Then Lu Zhi and the other generals saw this scene that they will never forget.

I saw that under the hillside in the distance, people could no longer see the real thing. But the endless black crowd was on the horizon.

As the sun in the east jumped out of the horizon, the warm morning sun sprinkled on the hillside in front of the Zhongren Pavilion, and also sprinkled on the Taishan army in yellow clothes and yellow armor.

The warm light shone on this yellow ocean, and this enthusiasm and passion were like a volcano waiting to erupt, containing infinite energy that could destroy everything in the world.

The armies waved their battle flags constantly, determined their positions with each other, and then formed in silence. Compared with the noise of the Han army, the Taishan army on the opposite side seemed quiet and terrifying.

Lu Zhi and Chong Fu glanced at each other, and they both saw the horror in their eyes.

But both of them tacitly did not mention this matter, but continued to watch the battle, looking for possible weaknesses in the Taishan army.

Maybe it was because he had a heart, and in the huge military array at the bottom of the slope, more than ten horsemen suddenly rushed out.

They stopped in front of the military formation, and one of them pointed in the direction where Lu Zhi and them were.

At this moment, Lu Zhi was extremely sure that that person was the thief Shou Zhang Chong.

Maybe it's an illusion, many of the officials who lived in the rest of the war said that at this moment, they seemed to see Zhang Chong's back rising under the Longpan slope and groaning, and Lu Zhi's back rising on the tiger standing on the slope to roar.

A real battle for the dragon.

The decisive battle is finally here.

Some readers always think that the water I write is, hey, my heart is bitter. Have attentive readers noticed that this battle has a completely cinematic sense of scene? Yes, that's what I want to present to you. This scene card is the last one in this volume, and it needs to be written better. Stop talking about water, if you really want water, you won't write like this.

Finally, give Xiao Chen another wave of monthly tickets and go. Let's witness the final battle of the Northland!

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