July 14, Shen time, Shi Shi.

It was time for the second time of the day to eat, but Chen Deng's 3,000 Huaishang disciples were marching.

At this time, Jiang Qin, who was born in the water on the river, was sitting on a loose cart and watching the army stretch north.

In addition to the 3,000 Huaishang children brought by Chen Deng from his hometown, there are also some heroic tribes who defected to Chen Deng after entering Qingzhou, such as Wang Xiu and others.

So far, Chen Dengjun's strength is about 4,000 soldiers, and about 2,000 Yu Ding, all of whom are sent from various townships.

Unlike Cao Cao in Qingzhou, Chen Deng not only provided these surplus rations, but also sent them some miscellaneous grains as compensation.

Xuzhou has not been in war for many years, so it has a lot of savings, and Chen Dengjun naturally has no risk of food shortage.

As far as Jiang Qin can see now, the road is full of all kinds of military materials and grains, and the whole battalion is full of herds of cattle and horses.

Seeing this, Jiang Qin felt more and more that his choice was right.

What is the future of continuing to mix with river bandits in the Jiujiang area? Now everyone knows that the world has changed, and there are fewer and fewer merchants on the river, and even if there are a few, they are all princes' and cannot be robbed.

So, Jiang Qin took the brothers ashore to change their way of life.

And then he chose Chen Deng, who had a relationship with him before. In the past, he had only heard that this was a child of the Gong family, but only after Jiang Qin really joined Chen Deng's forces did he know the content of this identity.

Jiang Qin consciously saw the world on the river, but he had never seen the march of five or six thousand people like the one he saw now.

Not to mention, when Jiang Qin and them went north with the main force of Xuzhou before, Xuanhe's scene.

The 20,000 Xuzhou elites are boundless and mighty, and the dust swept up by the riders can cover the sky.

But with such a huge force, Jiang Qin heard that the princes in the north were stronger than this.

It was only at this time that Jiang Qin, who had been watching the sky on the river, had a relatively sober understanding of the situation in the world.

For example, Cao Cao in the north is said to have occupied most of Qingzhou, and his troops are almost 30,000 or 40,000 people. And further north is the Taishan army, which is said to have taken most of the states and counties on the north bank of the Great River, and even in the Central Plains and Taishan, there are these people's armies.

Thinking about it this way, his own father-in-law Chen Deng seems to be the weakest among them.

But Jiang Qin also has his own considerations, the first is that he is self-aware, knowing that he is a water coward in the country, and he will be looked down upon by others wherever he goes, so it is better to be a confidant here in Chen Deng.

Besides, Jiang Qin didn't think that Chen Deng was really weak, as far as he saw in the Linpu area, he knew that this place was almost like the Chen family's fiefdom, and the power was extremely deep.

In the early years, the Chen family of Linpu reminded the troubled times because of Chen Qi's letters, and then began to Guangtian Livestock Valley in Huaishang.

After three or four years of accumulation of tuntian, canals were opened, irrigation was increased, and water transportation was carried out. The Chen family has accumulated 300,000 Hu in Huaishang, enough for 10,000 people to eat for five years.

Now everyone knows that in this world, there is everything, so Chen Deng's future is promising.

Therefore, Jiang Qin looked at the shuttle of these military vehicles in front of him, and he was full of energy.

At this time, a military officer galloped on the military road, shouting:

"All the generals and generals above have gone to the front military to discuss things."

Jiang Qin's sailors were also reorganized into a single unit after joining Chen Deng's army, and Jiang Qin was the general, so after hearing the military order of the Xun soldiers, he also took two soldiers to the front army on horseback.

There, Chen Deng was holding a pre-war military conference.

……

The structure of Chen Deng's troops is very simple, the whole army of 4,000 soldiers is divided into eight divisions, of which there will be four of Chen's troops, one each of Jiang Qin, Gao Cheng, and Dong He, and the last one is the Shiyi of Beihai, who took refuge with Wang Xiu.

As soon as the eight generals arrived, Chen Deng told everyone an amazing news:

"The Deer Hill defense line is empty, and the Tarzan thieves have fled."

It was a bit windy, and everyone didn't hear what Chen Deng said the first time, and after Chen Deng jumped out of the chariot and said it again, everyone accepted the good news.

Among them, Chen Deng's clansmen Chen Duan, Chen Shi, Chen Xun, and Chen Dong were overjoyed when they heard this, and hurriedly congratulated:

"Lang Jun, this Taishan army must have heard that our army was going north, and fled in a hurry. Our army should take advantage of the victory to pursue, and let those who sit and watch behind know how powerful my Chen clan is. ”

But except for the four of them who took the initiative to ask for battle, whether it was Jiang Qin, Gao Cheng, Dong He, or Shiyi, who had read the scriptures, they all frowned and were silent.

Chen Deng glanced at Jiang Qin and asked:

"Gongyi, what are your scruples, let's hear it."

Jiang Qin looked at everyone present and said seriously:

"When I used to be on the river, I used to run away when I saw merchant ships. At that time, we felt that they were afraid of me, so we enjoyed the pleasure of chasing them very much, until one time I chased them into an ambush and almost died there. ”

After speaking, Jiang Qin exposed his chest, only to see a long scar running down from his shoulder.

After Jiang Qin finished speaking, Chen Deng was noncommittal, but asked Shiyi on the side.

Shiyi is a local tyrant in Yingling, and the biggest official in the family is the county official, and he is himself. Shi Yi also did not agree to the pursuit, and he was very frank with Chen Deng:

"Lord, this Taishan thief can't be underestimated. At that time, the yellow scarves were everywhere, and when we held the camp and the mausoleum, we were already trapped by the Guan Hai thief army. Yes, a Han soldier can be three yellow scarves, but a Taishan army can be worth ten yellow scarves, which shows the strong combat power of the Taishan army. ”

Then Shi Yi looked at Wang Xiu, who was standing next to Chen Deng, and admonished:

"Although our army has strict military discipline and feels that it is a strong army in the world, but there is no outstanding martial arts, how can a hero like Guan Yu be frightened? There must be a demon when something goes wrong, please think twice. ”

After hearing this, Chen Deng laughed.

He said to the people:

"What you said is good, but I want to say that Cao Cao's army has turned around, just near the left, what do you think?"

At this time, all the generals still don't understand, and they all clench their fists:

"I am willing to follow the lord (Lang Jun) to pursue the victory."

So, Chen Deng was in high spirits, held up the military equipment, and ordered loudly:

"Chase, don't let the thieves return to Mount Tai."

……

In a hilly area five miles away from Chen Deng's department, Xu Shuzheng, a general of the former military academy captain department of the Marshal's Department of the Left Army of the Taishan Army, was lying in a meadow with his nine little brothers.

It was July, the grass grew and the warbler flew, and the weeds in this hilly area had already grown as tall as a villain, and no one could have imagined that thousands of Taishan troops would be ambushed here.

After Xu Shu listened to Shi Tao's words and went to join the Taishan Army together, he knew that he had made the right choice.

At this time, he felt that his name was changed to Xu Shu, which was in line with the will of heaven.

Because this Taishan army is really a group of troops that are in charge of turning over for the sake of the people, and everyone is equal in it, even the highest Guan Yu eats the same food and sleeps on the same mat as the brothers below.

In such an atmosphere, Xu Shu's heart was filled with a certain sense of noble morality, and a spirit of serving the world inspired him and Shi Tao.

In the end, Xu Shu chose to join the Taishan Army without hesitation, while Shi Tao chose to be a township official stationed in the township office.

Because Xu Shu had a very high level of education, he soon turned from a soldier to an official and became a general of the Taishan Army.

And this time, the entire department where they were all was ordered to be lurking here a few days ago.

So far, Xu Shu did not know their combat mission, nor did he know who the enemy they were going to ambush. This made Xu Shu feel a sense of powerlessness.

It's not that he lacks intelligence, it's because he is at a low level and has too little information.

About three days ago, they were still following the main general Chen Guang into the Dongping Tomb.

But in the morning of the next day, as soon as the sky was exposed, a military order was issued from above, telling them to withdraw from Dongpingling. After that, Xu Shu and his brothers hurriedly packed their backpacks and began to move outside the city.

And along the way, Xu Shu found that it didn't seem to be one of them, but several captains' departments that attacked the city last night seemed to have withdrawn from the city in sequence.

Outside the city, a military officer with an armband embroidered with a yellow star was waiting in a clearing where dozens of cauldrons were boiling broth.

Xu Shu only knew when he smelled it that this was a heavy dish in the army, stewed pork in an iron pot.

He never understood why the Tarzan Army could make such a stinky pork so delicious.

However, compared with this meal, Xu Shu was more satisfied with the food quality of Taishan Army.

In the military, food supplies can be roughly divided into four categories.

The first type is when the field army is about to fight, and meat is generally available at this time. The second type is when the field army is in order, and at this time there is meat across the mountain. The third category is the town garrison soldiers in various places, although there is no meat, but there is enough corn. The worst category is the scribes in the rear of Hebei, who are generally distributed according to rations.

Xu Shu is very much in agreement with this strategy of giving priority to the army.

After all, eating meat is combat effectiveness.

After Xu Shu and his brothers each ate a bowl of hot broth, the whole person was in good spirits.

Later, the soldier with the yellow star embroidered on his armband climbed onto a wooden platform stacked with boxes stacked on top of his head, and then said something uplifting.

Xu Shu and the others were far away and couldn't hear them too clearly, but as long as they looked at the way the brother troops in front of them were shouting, they knew that it was not bad news.

The military officer embroidered with Huang Xing on the armband is the long history of the Taishan Army, which is also what Xu Shu has never understood, he doesn't understand why a tun can have a long history.

There were also people from above who came to talk to Xu Shu before and asked him if he would like to transfer to the long history system.

But Xu Shu and his brothers had a good relationship, so they refused.

Later, just when Xu Shu and the others were about to disband and return to their respective departments, they received a new opening order.

It was about noon that day, the sacrificial wine of the various armies carried out a large-scale military sacrifice activity in Dongpingling, and the sacrificial wine prayed to the Yellow Sky on the field, and the heroic souls of the robes who died in the war were sent to the Yellow Sky.

Xu Shu and they also participated, and it was from then that he knew the death toll of the Taishan army in this battle.

I thought that the siege battle was so fierce that there were already a lot of casualties, but as far as Xu Shu himself could see, there were only more than 100 victims on the ground.

Later, Xu Shu thought about it again, this is also right. After all, he has not suffered a single casualty until now.

After the end of the military sacrifice, Xu Shu began to move east with his former military academy captain's headquarters.

At the beginning, everyone was quite excited, thinking that the army was going to return to the division in victory.

Many officers and soldiers in the army are getting married and having children in Fenggao, so who wouldn't be excited to return to the division and see their families in victory?

But that night there was a little rain in the field, and on the second day the army was ordered to turn south. No one knows where their destination is.

When they reached the hilly terrain that day, they began to dig trenches.

In this way, after dozens of connected trenches had been dug out of this hilly area, they were allowed to rest in the trenches.

Xu Shu and his brothers, who were tired all day, fell asleep wrapped in mats.

The next day, when Xu Shu woke up, he found that one of his brothers had a fever. This is their heavy sword, and their physique is the strongest in the whole Shi, but they did not fall in the siege of Dongpingling, but they were overturned in this small ditch.

In the end, Xu Shu could only ask the brothers to send the reloaded sword to the rear, and he also heard that several teams had such problems on the way.

No way, this is the military.

For the next few days, Xu Shu and the others hid in the ravine they had dug, and no one knew what they were waiting for.

Sometimes Xu Shu and the others could see one or two Han soldiers in crimson military uniforms running through this hilly area on horseback, and even once or twice, these people were stationed nearby, carefully observing the place.

And this boring day ended on the 14th of July.

But it would be more accurate to say that it was about two o'clock in the afternoon when they finally saw a cloud of dust to the southeast.

Along with the dust came the sound of dense footsteps and all kinds of exhalations, and gradually Xu Shu and they saw clearly.

But it was a troop wearing apricot yellow uniforms, and the banner was the post-military captain Gao Yabu, and they were running quickly towards the north.

Because there was no order from above, the Tarzan army lurking in this area did not go out to join the friendly forces, and just watched them move north.

But by this time, a military official like Xu Shu had already sensed something, and he ordered his subordinates to eat first, and also found the only bottle of honey water in Quanshi and tied it around his waist.

And the others also understood, some silently dragged out the armor and put it aside, some began to wind the bow and arrow, and even the one with the crossbow began to try the trigger.

In this way, time passed slowly in silence, and about half an hour passed.

Suddenly, smoke and dust rose again from the direction of the retreat from the Noble Division, and this time the scale of the smoke and dust was even larger than before.

When Xu Shu finally saw the "Han" flag in the smoke and dust, the flag that was as red as blood, he couldn't help but feel excited in his heart:

"It's finally time for you."

This Han army moved very fast, and it was already about to drive to this hilly land.

But at this time, Xu Shu found that the opposite side stopped, and then several military officials dressed up in front of the team and began to look at the area where they were lurking.

Xu Shu snorted coldly:

"It's alert."

But he and others are all lurking in the ravine, which is what these Han soldiers can see.

Maybe they really heard Xu Shu's heart, and soon more than a dozen mounted sentry scouts rushed out from the opposite side, rushing towards the hilly land where the Taishan army was lurking.

Looking at these sentinels, Xu Shu was hot all over, for fear of being exposed.

But just when Xu Shu was lurking carefully with his brothers, a horn suddenly sounded from behind him, which was the charge of the Chinese army.

Xu Shu was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know why he suddenly started attacking.

But he reflexively jumped out of the ravine, shouting to his brothers:

"Kill me!"

For a time, there were murders all over the hills.

(End of chapter)