On the official road, several light horsemen with orders on their backs shouted to the marching troops along the way:

"The Metropolitan Governor has an order, don't enter the Fengzhou and go around the city and continue to advance!"

Someone in the team immediately complained: "I only had to rest for half a day yesterday, and today I have to march with a heavy load, why don't you enter the city and be majestic." ”

At this time, a junior colonel named Li Jinshui scolded: "I actually want to play prestige, if you win the battle, there will be a time when you will show your majesty." ”

The soldier immediately asked: "Brother Shui, I heard that the tiger and leopard rider is the elite of Northern Hungary, do you think we have a chance of winning?" ”

Li Jinshui said with a sad face: "You ask me, I ask who to go, our 20,000 people have no experience against cavalry, but as long as the guns are lined up, the cavalry will not dare to rush up and die." ”

"I heard that the prairie horse is a few heads taller than our horses in Zhongzhou, and it is as strong as a calf, I don't know if the rumors are true." Someone picked up the conversation and said.

Someone immediately replied: "It's true, you know the royal family of Liangzhou, their private soldiers use grassland horses, and the tall horses are scary when they look at them, we only have 20,000 people, and Beihun heard that there are 50,000 people, plus the horses they ride, how can there be 100,000." ”

Li Jinshui drank and said: "Don't speak, if the general hears it, you will be convicted of disturbing the morale of the army, and then you will not be able to eat and walk around." ”

In fact, this kind of discussion has long been circulated in the army, the 20,000 troops assembled this time, the central guard army of Wei Tieyi transferred 10,000 people, the middle guard army is usually properly trained is nothing, and the other 10,000 people are from the left and right guards each transferred 5,000 people, these soldiers are relatively loosely trained, although they have also experienced battlefield battles in the past, but they have been stationed in Kyoto for a long time, and they are inevitably a little slack.

Moreover, many people with the rank of captain and above were implicated in the rectification of military discipline, and none of the generals who went out this time followed, and for more than 10,000 people, there was some drumming in their hearts, for fear of being excluded by others.

The team bypassed the city of Fengzhou and continued to advance to the northwest, because it was an armor-piercing march that could walk at most fifty miles a day, the march of this infantry army could not be chaotic, if someone fell behind or the spacing was too large, once the enemy attacked, it was too late to form a battle formation to resist the enemy, so it was spent on the road

Not a small amount of time.

The farther they went northwest, the more frightened the soldiers became, and the villages and towns that the marching procession passed through were destroyed by the war, and the corpses hanging from the trees, the blood stains on the broken walls of the eaves, and the deep pits trampled by horses' hooves on the ground all indicate the brutality and terrible destructive power of the iron hooves of the Northern Hungarians.

Rao is these soldiers are all soldiers of a hundred battles, if they are replaced by new soldiers who have not been in battle, they are afraid that they will be frightened to the soul when they see this scene, the battlefield has never been a place of games, but a place of death, where the evil thoughts in human nature will be magnified countless times, and the same will be true of cowardice and fear.

Ten days later, the army finally arrived in the riverine area.

Hejian land borders the desert, is a plain area, due to the perennial wind and sand invasion, on the surface it seems to be covered with green grass, but in fact it still contains a lot of sand and soil is not suitable for grazing, and the area is gradually decreasing every year, I believe that it will be desertified in a few hundred years, becoming a part of the Tucker Desert.

The terrible thing about the desert is that not only its own environment is harsh, but it will also spread to the surrounding areas like a plague, and the tribes on the grassland will not let them graze on the edge of the desert, because they are afraid that once the grass is eaten up by cattle and sheep, and the land is deprived of grass roots to consolidate the soil layer, the desert will swallow up the land they rely on for survival, but even so it can only delay the speed of desertification, and cannot completely curb the extension of the desert year by year.

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Tens of thousands of people in the north of the Zhenbei Army, divided into two large battalions stationed at the edge of the west and south areas of the river, leaving only a gap on the east side, which is also because of the lack of troops is difficult to take into account, but the east side is close to the first peak of Yinshan, if there is an enemy approach, it can be dealt with through the beacon warning.

The barracks stretched for miles in a row, and the soldiers were reinforcing the camp's defenses with wooden fences, while digging deep trenches and setting up horses to extend the defenses.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Yun Hao sat firmly in the commander's position, and dozens of generals and colonels with the rank of generals under the tent were arranged on both sides, the right was headed by Wei Tieyi and his subordinate generals, and the left was led by Shangguan Luo Yi and Zhang Beihai and other Yun Hao's old departments.

Yun Hao opened his mouth and said: "Generals, there is a possibility of confrontation with the Northern Huns at any time, and the governor is in charge of the Chinese army, and the Wei Du will command the dispatch of the west and south two battalions. ”

Wei Tieyi immediately saluted and said solemnly: "Order." ”

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An order is undoubtedly announced in the generals, Wei Tieyi's position as the deputy marshal, and Wei Tieyi and other Northern Expedition opportunities have been many years, and now it is the opportunity to make contributions and leave a name in history, if he just obeys the orders of others and has no authority in his hands, the meaning will be greatly reduced, but fortunately, Yun Hao gave him dignity.

The generals under the tent also said in unison: "Obey the orders of the Governor and the Commander." ”

Immediately, Yun Hao continued: "In order to better centralize the dispatch and analyze the enemy's situation and corresponding strategies, this governor should appoint a military division general as the second commander of the army, and at the same time, he can also make decisions on behalf of this governor. ”

The generals were slightly stunned when they heard this, the second commander? Wei Dutong is the deputy marshal of the Izumo Emperor, and he is already the second-in-command of the army, how can he temporarily set up a 'military general' above the deputy marshal, what is the difference between this and the different marshals in battle, I don't know if it will shake the heart of the army!

For Yun Hao's arrangement, the biggest shock is undoubtedly Wei Tieyi, just now Yun Hao gave him supreme dignity, but the next moment he was ruthlessly deprived, making his pupils shrink for a while and he was a little dazed.

Yun Hao ignored the puzzled gaze of the congregation, and continued: "Shangguan Luoyi stepped forward to listen to the order. ”

Shangguan Luoyi walked to the middle and hugged his fists and said, "The student is here." ”

"From today on, you are the chief military general of our Zhenbei Army, you say everything I say, you order all my orders, if anyone dares to disobey the order, he will be convicted of disobeying the military order." Yun Hao announced in public.

As soon as these words came out, the generals couldn't help but exclaim, this Shangguan Luoyi woman dressed as a man and the people present had long known, even if they didn't know it, they had heard the name of Langya's talented woman, and the Metropolitan Governor accompanied the army with his female dependents, and there was some criticism among the generals, but it was only regarded as a talking point, limited to the level of private morality of the Metropolitan Governor, but now it is obviously to the extent that there is no distinction between public and private.

Let a woman command these martial artists who are fighting for fame on the edge of the knife?! The army has always spoken with military achievements, why should a weak woman be? Is it just because you can blow the pillow wind?

Shangguan Luoyi didn't need to turn around to guess the reaction of the generals behind her, but she was calm and replied lightly: "Shangguan Luoyi is ordered by the metropolitan governor. ”

This time, except for Zhang Beihai and other old departments, no one under the account echoed the voice.