After the New Year, after more than half a month of preparation, the day of the army will quietly come. Because of the previous experience of going north to Juzhou-Ningling-Guide, the Wu'an Battalion, which was selected by Zhou Shixian as the vanguard of the army, took action first.

In the barracks, the soldiers are packing their bags in an orderly manner, after more than half a year of training, and have the actual combat experience with the Green Battalion Army, the morale of the soldiers of the Wu'an Battalion is very high, and the Qing Army is not so terrible in their eyes.

This is also the reason why Zhou Shixian wants them to be the vanguard of the army, this is not only because of his trust in Zhang Hong, Xue Laoer's Tianwei Central Military Camp must be in the center, and the rest of the troops have not experienced the mobilization and actual combat of the whole army.

The soldiers of the Wu'an Battalion have a lot of equipment, not to mention being fully armed from head to toe, and each of them has a primary weapon, a secondary weapon, and a supplementary weapon. Among them, the auxiliary weapons are mainly Qi knives and short-handled axes, and the supplementary weapons are military daggers, which can play an unexpected role if they are correct in hand-to-hand combat, and can even pierce armor.

In addition, tents, mats, heavy armor, etc., all of which needed to be transported by men and mules and horses, and the physical strength of the soldiers needed to be preserved during the march and used in the time of the great war.

Zhuang Lidong checked his bags, and after confirming that it was correct, he immediately urged his soldiers to speed up:

"Hurry up, it's finished in a while, the Department of Military Justice will send people to check the equipment and ammunition one by one, count the personnel, report to the Shangguan, and then pull it out after lunch, don't give Lao Tzu a grind, if anyone is late in the end, and is deducted from the monthly salary, don't come to Lao Tzu to intercede."

The soldiers in the room shouted "yes" in unison, and then continued to bow their heads and tidy up their belongings, the strict military discipline in the army has become a part of their subconscious.

After Chen Yu saw Zhuang Lidong walk out, he turned his head to look at Zhang Dong and said, "Zhang Dong, help me take a look, are all my things ready?" ”

The last time Chen Yu went north to fight Juzhou, because the equipment was not checked well, he fell into a coconut scoop (a container for water), suffered 30 military sticks, and was deducted two yuan a month's salary. After thinking about it, he asked Zhang Dong to help him take a look, but Zhang Dong's speed was very slow, and he hadn't finished his own things yet.

"Don't hurt me, you kid, look at it again, I won't be able to finish the inspection in a while." Zhang Dong didn't raise his head, and continued to nervously organize his bags and count the equipment on his body.

Chen Yu looked at the other party's anxious appearance, and sighed in his heart, his brother is indeed stupid, it seems that he can't count on it now.

However, Zhang Dong usually trains very well, and all kinds of martial arts are really good, the last time he fought in the city of De, he killed four green battalion soldiers by himself, and he and the captain of the flag team killed a Tartar, even if he is old and left, he can't tell the difference, but he still has to follow the other party on the battlefield.

Chen Yu is still a soldier, his main weapon is an iron-tipped flat pole, both ends are made of the best quality Su Steel, the sharp part can even break through the iron armor, the auxiliary weapon is a one-pound ten-tael, three-foot-two-inch long Qi knife, extremely sharp, and a dagger inserted in the waist.

On his head is an iron helmet with a neck guard, and on his body is a piece of chain mail, and when he goes into battle, he also wears a cotton armor inside, and the double armor is the standard for going into battle, unless he wears heavy scale armor.

He counted them one by one, and only after the amount of equipment on his body was enough in the end, he was relieved, and as soon as the trumpet of the army ready to assemble sounded, he went out to assemble with Zhang Dong.

Huang Fa heard the sound of the military horn preparing to assemble, and turned his head to look at the mother-in-law beside him, and the two who were holding his mother's thigh, looking at his child with bulging eyes, wanting to say something, but he didn't seem to be able to say it, he had always not known how to speak.

The last time they went north to Juzhou-Guide in the big war, one of their neighbors was killed in battle, and another had a broken leg, and the yellow-haired daughter-in-law was very worried, especially when she heard that she was going to fight the real Tartar this time, and she had nightmares for several nights, and they had heard about the power of the Tartar before, and they felt more and more uneasy in their hearts.

But fortunately, the bereavement of these two soldiers soon came down, and the family of the soldier who died in battle received fifty taels of silver, and the court would raise his child until he was sixteen years old, and the land originally distributed to the family would not be recovered.

And the one with the broken leg received a pension of twenty taels of silver, and the family's land would also be cultivated by the recruited homeless, and he also got an idle job in managing the tunbao.

When the soldiers in the army saw this, they felt at ease and knew that even if they died in battle, they must defeat the enemy, otherwise the wives and children in the rear would not only not receive pensions, but also might be killed by the Tartars, which strengthened their determination to fight to the death.

"Okay, don't cry, this time Lao Tzu is the same as that stunned man, cut off a few of his Tartar heads, and the first one of the people is rewarded with twenty taels of silver."

Huang Fa's eyes were full of determination, "When the time comes, I will be promoted, and our family will also move out and build three big brick houses to live in." ”

"You dead ghost, as soon as the fight starts, you run and hide behind." The yellow-haired daughter-in-law had ruddy eyes and said in a choked voice.

"If I have a broken arm and leg, I can still farm and raise you, but if my life is gone, the child will have no father, and I will be bullied......"

"What do you know, if you run away, the Tartars didn't kill me, the military law soldiers killed me first, don't talk about the pension when the time comes, the house you live in, the land you have been allocated, all have to be recovered, stinky woman, don't talk nonsense here."

Huang Fa was originally nervous because he was going to fight Tartar, but now he sees his daughter-in-law crying there, and saying such stupid things, and his heart is even more irritable, is his yellow hair that kind of bad seed?

Soon, the second rallying cry sounded, and the yellow hair couldn't care so much, so he hurriedly put on his bright helmet and walked out, and the two children watched with a blank eye as the tall back of the heavily armed man in front of him slowly became smaller and blurred.

After the experience and punishment of the previous large army assembly, this time, the whole battalion of more than 2,000 people, no one made any more mistakes, and after the whole army had lunch, the officers of the various departments immediately began to emphasize the discipline of marching according to the custom, and the destination to which they went......

Just after noon, the army immediately set out, nine large armies, 25,000 soldiers, more than 21,000 people, more than 10,000 mules and horses, all set off one after another according to the planned route, and the official road was mixed with men and horses, stretching for several miles.

The armies will be assembled in the capital city of Chuzhou, where Zhou Shixian will also review the army under his command, and at the same time hold a military meeting to determine the next offensive and defensive plan of the army according to the latest military situation, and complete the final deployment of the army.