Can you live forever

Chapter 98 Marching across the river, the encirclement is imminent

If you don't know how to ride a horse, you are called a cavalry. If you are not good at martial arts, you are a good soldier.

The rebel army composed of knights from the rivers and lakes and folk volunteers can't actually be relied on as the core, but the rebel army doesn't think so, just looking around, seeing such a huge team, they are full of pride, thinking that nothing can stop them from escorting the little celestial master. Beijing.

They elected Shi Jingyan as the representative, and he had a dialogue with Zhang Zhixiang.

Shi Jingyan came up to Zhang Zhixiang and the others on horseback, dismounted, and saluted with fists: "Little Celestial Master, just take the boat safely to the north, and I will ride the horse to follow, and I will definitely protect you all the way."

"No, we don't take a boat, we have to cross the river."

"Crossing the river? This..."

Shi Jingyan still doesn't understand why Zhang Zhixiang doesn't use water, and if they cross the river, there is no bridge, and they don't know how to build a pontoon bridge, so what should they do?
Just when Shi Jingyan was worried, Wang Yuanzhi took out a whistle.

When the whistle sounded, someone sent a signal flare into the sky, and after that, many cargo ships on the pier could be seen moving neatly, there were as many as hundreds of them!

"Cross the river."

Wang Yuanzhi's plain and simple words made Zhang Zhixiang feel great power. Is this... money ability?
The shocking banknote ability is not only that.

On the big yellow boats with three thousand materials, when he saw the boxes of armor, firecrackers, chariot parts, and neighing war horses in the cabin, he deeply understood how strong these wealthy merchants were. How strong.

"Is it really okay to let them wear standard armor?"

If it is defined as rebellion, Nanjing can send all the troops without any worries, right?Zhang Zhixiang felt that there were some problems with the standard of these armors.

"Our family thinks it's fine."

A sharp voice sounded, Cui Wen came to the cabin, he took out a token, and said: "Now you are the general of the Warrior Battalion under the Yumajian, and you are ordered to escort Dengwengu to Beijing."

The incident in Nanjing has only passed a few days, and the eight hundred miles hastened, and the news is estimated to have just been delivered to the capital.

It is naturally impossible for Jiajing to issue an order. This should be Cui Wen's exclusive power. Although the old eunuch was demoted to a commoner, since he holds the old department of Xichang in his hands, he is inextricably related to the Imperial Horse Supervisor. Cards and soldier symbols are not surprising.

With a legitimate name, things will naturally be easier to handle.

It was not only their 1100 direct descendants who changed clothes, Wang Yuanzhi prepared a lot of redundant equipment. When he crossed the Yangtze River to organize the team and assemble the chariots, he sent a batch of military supplies to the Jianghu rebels.

These knights in the rivers and lakes don't like firecrackers, but they have a special liking for armor, and they change their outfits happily.

Wang Yuanzhi had some things to say in public, so he called Shi Jingyan aside, and said, "This trip to the north was difficult and dangerous. It's not that I don't believe in righteous men, but because there are so many people, it's really hard to tell."

"This march, the two armies are fighting each other's horns, what does Daxia Shi think?"

Shi Jingyan understood, Wang Yuanzhi was afraid that there would be spies in the rebel army, if they were marching together, it would be a trivial matter if the spies leaked information, if there was poisoning and arson, it would be a big problem indeed.

He is not someone who does things based on emotion alone, and he is very clear that it is absolutely possible for the rebels to be mixed up this time, including spies.

"Mr. Shouyi, don't worry, it's the escort duty. The difference is just whether you follow the ship or the convoy." Seeing Shi Jingyan's promise, Wang Yuanzhi patted him on the shoulder gratefully: "Thanks for your hard work, Mr. Shi."

Afterwards, it will be easier for the knights to accept Shi Jingyan to spread the word, and there will be no grudges.

It was not until sunset that the assembly was finally completed.

The Cherokee lost their ability to speak, and they didn't know how to communicate, so they couldn't help much. They could only do some simple physical work. In fact, the servants of Duke Wei's mansion were not very skilled. Instead, they were the guards of the Wang family. This drill was average, whether it was assembling chariots or marching with an army, they were very proficient and methodical.

With these six hundred guards as the core, their team is like a regular army.

With a large number of vans and luggage, the speed of the army is not slow, and there are enough mules and horses in the army to provide animal power.

When the night comes, the torches are lit, and the convoy is particularly spectacular.

Xu Ding's three hundred family members were organized into cavalry. Wang Yuanzhi originally prepared three hundred horses, all of which were handed over to Xu Ding.

Rather, it is more convenient to command.

Xu Ding showed the ability of a mature general. He played the role of cavalry to a great extent. Of the 200 cavalry, [-] of them were dispersed and used as scouts.

Dare to use troops like this in the dark night, it is already extraordinary.

If the cavalry were not well-trained, and the cavalry went out to scout the horses like this, it would not matter how well the intelligence was collected, whether they would get lost, or whether they could come back was another matter.

Yu Dayou rode side by side with Xu Ding, and asked: "The servants under my brother's command have all been on the battlefield?"

"In the 12th year of Zhengde's Yingzhou victory, the children all fought against Mongolia with Wuzong. We retired after the first World War in Jingping, and we have never lost our skills in these years." Xu Ding said proudly.

Although the "Records of Wu Zong" records that the two sides invested 52 soldiers and horses in a decisive battle, and the battle lasted from morning to night.According to historical records, 16 people were killed in the Ming army, and [-] heads of the Mongolian army were captured. It was clearly a big victory, but it was exaggerated as a big defeat, saying that Wu Zong was bragging.

But no matter what the facts are, anyone with a bit of logic can see that there is something wrong with the history books.

Xu Ding and the others retired from the army because of this reason. Those civil servants were too deceitful. Once Wu Zong died, they were chilled and retreated from the frontier.

Of course, those were ordinary soldiers, and Xu Ding himself was the son of Duke Wei's family.

"I've heard about the great victory in Yingzhou, but the historical records are really chilling. I don't know how the battle went?" Yu Dayou was obviously very interested in that battle.

Xu Ding was silent for a while, and said: "The records in the history books are correct, but it is hateful."

"The little Mongolian prince has been attacking Yingzhou for several days, and the city is about to be destroyed. His Majesty planned a strategy back then. Our reinforcements are like divine soldiers, forcing the little prince to fight us."

"One day of fierce fighting, our army killed 52 people and seriously injured 563 people."

"Rarely, isn't it?"

"But that was when our army lined up to meet them, and the Mongolian cavalry shot and harassed them, but the soldiers who were hit by the arrows would be rescued on the spot, and they would not die unless they were directly shot at the vitals."

"The battle was still fierce, and there were more than [-] people in our army who were slightly injured."

"Of course, our army is not beaten like a turtle."

"The artillery and firecrackers have been fired for a whole day. I don't know how many bullets and shells were fired. The Mongolian army suffered at least tens of thousands of casualties. However, because our army is infantry, we need to rely on chariots and battle formations, so we cannot blindly pursue them."

"So if the Mongolian army wants to take back the corpse, we can only watch. After all, the Mongolian army has not collapsed, so we can't chase after it."

"Fight to the end."

"The Mongolian army suffered heavy losses and retreated back to Monan. In the same year, the little Mongolian prince died of depression. Since then, the Mongolian tribes have been broken again, and there is no threat at the border."

"And there were indeed only 16 Mongolian army heads collected by our army in that battle."

"Those civilian officials clearly know that our army's meritorious service records are no longer based on heads, but only on the basis of battles. Completing combat missions will have corresponding merits, and most of the damage caused by firecrackers was not fatal at the time, but they only record how many heads we seized. , it's ridiculous..."

Xu Ding was full of resentment, and Yu Dayou also sighed.

But he immediately smiled happily, picked up the spear and waved it around, saying: "Full of anger, after all, I will comment on the battlefield, brother, let's see how those civil servants will arrange our battle in the future!"

"Hahaha, that's true, let's see how they write the casualties of this battle!"

Just when their arrogance burst out.

In the city of Nanjing, Beiyuan, there are 22 guards in Nanjing. In fact, the new ten guards in Yongle are just empty shells, and the troops are basically among the original twelve guards.

Jinyiwei is in charge of intelligence, and Banner Guard is in charge of guard of honor. The main combat troops are Jinwu, Habayashi, Fujun, Huben and other ten guards.

The Jinwu Guards are responsible for guarding the imperial city, so naturally they will not move.

At this moment in Beiyuan, Wang Zhuo mobilized Habayashi Zuowei and Habayashi Right Guard. They had already replaced their original military uniforms with variegated military uniforms with unknown markings although they were somewhat tattered.

Under the night, [-] troops left the city, dispatched by the boat division, and left across the river...

From now on, Nanzhili has one more rebellious bandit army.

at the same time.

In the entire Southern Zhili area, the guards in Huai'an, Fengyang, Yangzhou, and Luzhou started to move. They have received orders from the Ministry of War to dispatch a total of more than 3 troops to wipe out the rebel bandit army...

It is self-evident who the goals of both sides are.

(PS: In the battle reports from the Ming army, the number of heads is far less than the actual battle results. Only when chasing, there will be more heads. This has a great relationship with the Ming army's combat methods. For example, Chenghua Liting, Four to five hundred villages were broken, and the leader Dong Shan was killed, and more than a thousand people were beheaded. In fact, there were 2300 Jurchen households in Jianzhou in the seventh year of Zhengtong. Sweeping holes in Liting, Jurchen has only a thousand casualties.)
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