After training, the soldiers newly incorporated into the Qin army basically mastered the high-grade alchemy ordnance used by the Qin army, and the soldiers who surrendered to Cheng understood why the Qin army was invincible only after using these high-grade alchemy ordnance.

In addition to the elite army policy adopted by the Qin army, which can defeat one enemy and ten, as well as strict military discipline, the more important reason is that the ordnance used is more than one grade ahead of the opponent!

Some soldiers even thought that with such an armament, they would be able to sweep away the Northern Prince. The optimism brought more enthusiasm, and many of the warriors were a little impatient, and they asked their commanders to enter the battle to sweep away the Northern Prince as soon as possible.

Qin Ning and Sha Xingping could only shake their heads and smile bitterly at such enthusiasm.

The biggest difference between a military commander and a soldier is that they consider the direction of the same, the military commander considers the entire battle situation, while the soldiers often rely on their enthusiasm.

After repeated deductions, Qin Ning and Sha Xingping felt that the time for the Northern Expedition had come, the enthusiasm of the army was high, and Tongguò observed that all the newly incorporated soldiers had mastered the use and cooperation of new ordnance.

The only thing that is lacking is the actual combat drills.

Actual combat is not a joke, and sometimes a change in the situation will affect the entire battle situation.

After careful consideration, Qin Ning decided to use the old Qin army as the vanguard force to launch the Northern Expedition.

But when such an order came to the army, the repercussions were something that Qin Ning did not expect.

Because Guo Mo had early contact with Qin Ning, he was popular among the soldiers and clever in his work, so he was promoted to a deputy general by Qin Ning.

A newly joined Qin warrior. Generally, he told Guo Mo his thoughts, and then let Guo Mo react to Qin Ning.

Guo Mo found Qin Ning. asked: "General Qin, why are the vanguard troops using old Qin soldiers?"

Qin Ning was a little surprised. I don't know how Guo Mo asked this question.

But Qin Ning still gave Guo Mo an answer: "Guo Mo, I think so. On the Northern Prince's side, although it is already at the end of the road, it still has a lot of troops, especially the two-legged wolf, which is why it will use the veterans of the Qin army to take the lead, is there a problem?"

Guo Mo said embarrassedly: "General Qin, the brothers can't think about it. Do you think that General Qin arranged for the veterans to take the lead, is he not worried about the combat effectiveness of the new army. I know that General Qin will not have this idea, but I can't stop people from thinking about it when they say this, right?"

Qin Ning immediately laughed and said, "Guo Mo, this is a good thing, this shows that our new soldiers treat the Qin army as their home." It's just that you also know that the Northern Expedition is not trivial, and we have to face an extremely ferocious opponent. ”

Guo Mo grinned. hurriedly explained: "General Qin, it's not that I haven't persuaded my brothers. But the brothers said that the prince of the north treated the villagers and elders like this, and if he couldn't fight a battle with his own hands, he wouldn't be able to explain to the villagers when he came back. You can understand this. Our common people have a bitter hatred for the prince of the North and are eager to eat his flesh, and it is understandable that the brothers want to rush to the front line. ”

Qin Ning thought for a moment. Nodding his head and saying, "I ignored this feeling." I'm afraid that my brothers, don't think I'm using them as cannon fodder, so I put them on the front line. It seems that I am being stingy. In this way, the forward troops used half of the new army. At the beginning, play support, if the effect is ideal, and then hit the main force, this is not negotiable. ”

Guo Mo still wanted to argue, but was blocked back by Qin Ning without any leeway.

Under this small episode, the Qin army of 300,000 embarked on the journey of the Northern Expedition.

The strategy researched and formulated by Qin Ning and Sha Xingping was to start with the easy and then the difficult, starting with small cities, and gradually disintegrating the urban defense of the Northern Prince.

Therefore, the route of the Northern Expedition formulated by the Qin army was actually not a straight line, but a zigzag northward route.

The first contact of the Qin army was a small town with a population of only 50,000, and to the surprise of the Qin army's vanguard, the army in the town ran away before the heavy artillery battalion could be put into position.

The vanguard of the Qin army captured the first military objective of the Northern Expedition without firing a single shot.

The recruits of the Qin army in the vanguard team completely acted as a commentator, responsible for telling the few local people who stayed behind to go to the territory of the Qin army.

These only remaining local people have long been frightened by the army of the Northern Prince, and when they heard that they could leave here, they all evacuated their hometowns where they were resting, and ran to Moko City, which was already the territory of the Qin army.

Having broken four small cities in a row, the Qin army did not receive decent resistance.

On this day, the vanguard of the Qin army reached Tongling City, the first large city facing the north.

Like Moko City, Tongling City is also a large city built on mountain ranges, with dangerous terrain and large city scale, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Tongling City has an army of 150,000 troops, which is the first difficult bone to gnaw after the Qin army marched north.

The task of the vanguard was to be responsible for clearing the field and clearing the defensive strongholds on the periphery of Tongling City, so that the troops could be deployed smoothly when the large army arrived.

Guo Mo is the general of the vanguard of the new army, and when he went to the periphery of Tongling City to discuss with the main general, we can work together left and right, you go to the left and I go to the right, so that we can complete the task as soon as possible.

The main general listened to Guo Mo's construction, and muttered a little, before setting off, Qin Ning had instructed that he must take care of the soldiers of the new army, once the new army is frustrated, it will affect the morale of the new army, which is extremely unfavorable to the entire Northern Expedition.

However, as the supervisor, the commander-in-chief can also understand the desire of the soldiers of the New Army to fight, and if he blindly does not let the soldiers of the New Army fight, it will also dampen the enthusiasm of the soldiers of the New Army.

After thinking for a long time, the main general warned Guo Mo: "You must deal with it carefully, don't be greedy, once something goes wrong, General Qin will not be able to explain it." ”

Guo Mo said yes and returned to the soldiers of the New Army.

In the vanguard, Qin Ning transferred 20,000 soldiers of the New Army, and Guo Mo gathered the soldiers together to shout.

"Brothers, we can finally fight a large-scale battle alone. I already told you when I came here that General Qin was worried about our safety and didn't let us take the lead completely. Let's not wonder if the above is not worried about us, it's all, only when we play well, the waist pole of speech is hard, don't you say?"

All the soldiers of the New Army boiled at once, shouting in unison: "Yes!"

Guo Mo signaled everyone not to get too excited: "I discussed with our master general and chose the right side, I am hiding a little selfishness." There is a pass on this side of Tongling City, everyone is a local, and they know that there is no city wall behind Tongling City, and it relies on the mountain range as a city wall. As long as you pass this pass, you can directly insert it into the back of Tongling City, and when the time comes, hehe......"

A soldier of the New Army immediately responded: "General Guo, I am from this vicinity, and I am familiar with the situation here, and that pass is called Tongling Pass, and I passed through it several times when I was not a soldier." Yes, as long as you bypass Tongling Pass and insert it behind Tongling City, you can kill it all the way down the mountain range, and Tongling City is at your fingertips. ”

Guo Mo laughed and said: "Ho, you are better than me! Good brother, do you have the courage to lead someone to Tongling Pass?"

The soldier laughed and said, "General Guo, the brothers are going crazy, and they haven't fought a decent battle yet. I still don't believe it, we are also the Qin army, why can people attack the city and pull out the ground, let's do an auxiliary work? Which brothers dare to touch Tongling Pass with me?"

As soon as the soldier finished speaking, almost all the soldiers who heard this responded enthusiastically.

Guo Mo saw that the morale was rising, so he hurriedly cooled down, and sometimes excessive passion can also kill people.

"Don't make a fool of yourself, this brother, I know a little bit about Tongling Pass, what kind of brother do you think you want to choose?"

The soldier said with a smile: "Tongling Pass was built by choosing a treacherous terrain, and if you want to attack head-on, it will not work without heavy artillery. I know of a hidden path that can be climbed through guò to Tongling Pass. So the brothers I want to choose must be brothers who can climb steep slopes with ease. ”

According to the requirements of this soldier, Guo Mo equipped a death squad of 100 people, and made it possible for each person to have a handful of super firepower ordnance such as hand running and rainstorm pear flower bombs.

After making a plan, Guo Mo took 20,000 new troops of the Qin army and quietly approached Tongling Pass.

At a position twenty miles away from Tongling Pass, the 20,000 army stopped, Guo Mo asked a hundred death squads to set off, and waited until dusk to touch Tongling Pass, with the name of arson, and then the new army would kill together and take Tongling Pass.

After the death squad set off, Guo Mo led the large army, a little closer to Tongling Pass, and when it was close to dusk, Guo Mo led the large army to the position ten miles before Tongling Pass. In order to avoid startling the snake, Guo Mo ordered all the troops to hide and wait for the signal of the death squad.

Time passed little by little, and the crescent moon soon hung in the sky, and there was silence all around, but there was an eerie smell in this silence.

Suddenly, I heard the cannon fire on Tongling, and the sound of heavy rain and pear blossom bombs was endless.

Guo Mo was overjoyed and shouted loudly: "Brothers, the brothers of the death squad have already started, rush with me!"

The army of 20,000 was killed at the bottom of Tongling Pass in an instant, and at this time, the death squad had opened the gate of Tongling Pass, and 20,000 troops rushed in.

Suddenly, the shouting of killing resounded in the sky!

The defenders of Tongling Pass never dreamed that the pass would be opened from the inside, and as soon as the 20,000 troops came in, the defenders of Tongling Pass had already collapsed.

Before dawn, Guo Mo led the troops of the New Army to occupy Tongling Pass. (To be continued......)