Chapter 321: Determine the battlefield and take the lead

Yang Zhan finally felt something was wrong. The battlefield where he was shouting and killing had suddenly become quiet. Even the melee fighting behind him had stopped. He could even hear the sound of his subordinates panting. The hand-held always left the stirrup and stood up with him.

After looking around, I found that both the officers and soldiers and the rebels were looking at the east side, and even stopped fighting, all staring blankly in one direction.

At the end of his sight, smoke and dust rolled on the horizon, and gradually he heard a sound like thunder in his ears. Even on the road, he could feel the slight tremor on the ground.

In the smoke and dust, you could faintly see something coming out of the horizon. Slowly, it turned out that flags were flying in front of you.

"It's our Shandong army, our Shandong army..."

Yang Zhan shook his head frantically and shouted at his stunned subordinates around him with a hint of crying. The only one who came from that direction was probably the soldiers of Jiaozhou Camp.

This time, the soldiers who reacted quickly were still in the camp. One of them pulled out a horn behind the lancers and whined a few times. The gangsters who had already raised the Jiaozhou camp team were immediately taken back. Although the lancers were dispersed, they still forced them to stand in front.

When everyone retreated to the back, they turned around together and crossed the river directly. The terrified Jiaozhou Camp cavalry no longer had the strength to continue chasing. When the opponent's cavalry left, they felt relieved. The musket soldiers who confronted the lancers realized that the fuse in their hands had been extinguished.

Everyone was covered in cold sweat. The two hundred Jiaozhou camp horse team had already lost nearly forty people at this time. Yang Zhan was still in a state of fear, but he also felt like he was crying without tears. He had been chasing him smoothly these days, but who would have thought that he would encounter this trap today.

Originally, he thought that he could force the opponent to retreat with a firearm, but he didn't expect that the opponent would use such means to surround and kill. He was careless and arrogant. In recent years, Jiaozhou Camp had never encountered any strong opponents. Even if he was ambushed in Huaibei, he would easily take them down. Suddenly, Yang Zhan encountered such setbacks, although he was very excited to face the enemy, but when the enemy left, his legs became weak and he collapsed immediately.

They came out for two days, but they didn't know that the army was starting today. When they returned to the camp, they realized that nearly 600 people had lost their horses to explore during the past two days.

After the Chuangjun suffered a loss, the Chuangjun simply used a small group of horses as bait to show weakness to attract more officers and soldiers than them to intercept the team, and then the Chuangjunjun team with advantage was waiting there. At that time, take advantage of the opponent's horse running around and lack of horsepower. I waited for it and fought calmly.

If there were no firearms, the Jiaozhou Camp Cavalry would have suffered even greater losses. The cavalry in the camp was not all elite soldiers, and there were also few officers and soldiers watching. A group of people rushed forward, but were hit by the dismounted musket soldiers, but they suffered a great loss.

Li Meng and his troops met with the camp yesterday. In the news that Chen Liu received in advance, Li Meng led 1,000 personal soldiers and 4,000 cavalry to support him, a total of 5,000 cavalry, which was also a considerable force, but in fact, Li Meng brought 12,000 people.

Only 4,000 troops were left in Jinan Prefecture, Li Meng requisitioned a large number of mules, horses and vehicles from Jinan Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture, and Kong Sande's Wenru Trading Company also made great efforts to help prepare.

Including the local tyrants who came to join one after another, they have been mobilized as the original officers and soldiers of the coolies and auxiliary soldiers, and they can barely be called 50,000 troops here.

The tide army, which is more than 500,000, is nothing to the army that claims to be one million. After Li Meng arrived at the camp, someone immediately brought him a map of the nearby terrain and a special person to describe it. The engineers who drew maps still drew very roughly. Many details cannot be expressed.

Therefore, when the engineers who draw pictures are drawing, they often follow several assistants around them. These assistants are used to describe some details on the map they draw, and they also have their own written records.

Although it is not accurate, it is indeed more efficient than analyzing terrain from a simple map, and you can know many details and characteristics.

At least, on the first night of arrival at the military camp, Li Meng knew that there was a fortress on the north bank of Wo Shui that had been abandoned for less than two months. The terrain on the north bank of Wo Shui was slowly raised from south to north, almost a few hundred steps long, but it was not too high. People walking on it would not feel tired. Perhaps people with weak constitutions would feel a little struggling when they reached the top of the slope. This is how it was.

But whoever takes the terrain first will have the advantage and the advantage. After Li Meng arrived at the military camp, he took a short rest for a night and immediately ordered the entire army to set up the camp to the north bank of Woshui.

The general Yang Zhan is very lucky. If the army arrives late for a while, the entire queue will probably be destroyed and dispersed. The soldiers on the horse can still run away, and the soldiers who are dismounting and holding muskets may not be able to escape, and they will all die under the rush of the opponent's cavalry.

And to be honest, the five hundred cavalrymen of the rebellion army still had the chance to kill most of the officers and soldiers, but when they saw the main force of the officers and soldiers appearing in vain, these cavalrymen of the rebellion camp must go back and report the news to the camp. Such a war report could not be delayed for a moment.

But this is already too late. Since the main force of Shandong soldiers and horses is here, it is equivalent to confirming that the battlefield is here. The large army of the rebel army has lost the power to choose the battlefield.

Because of this time, he betrayed the agreement and came to eastern Henan to attack, the food and storage of the eastern Henan were one aspect, and more importantly, Li Zicheng wanted to fight a battle with the army that forced him to sign a city alliance to determine the scope of advance and retreat in the future. He has made great plans now. The size of the army between the two sides is too different. Not to mention that he has a great confidence in victory. Even if he fails, the other party will not have the ability to defeat him.

After coming to the north bank of the Wo Shui, Jiaozhou Camp never sent out a new horse to explore. Except for the cavalry that had arranged alerts within 30 miles around the camp, the cavalry that had been running outside these days rested in the barracks, and the army camped behind the gentle slope.

Ma Gang, Zhao Neng, Chen Liu and others were all in rotation, but Wang Hai and Tang Er followed Li Meng to fight in the east and west all day long. These people were the core of the generals of Jiaozhou camp. For example, Zhang Jiang, Wei Li, Jiang Xianchuo and others who rose up were almost the same.

Military account discussion. That is, these people can enter, especially the important matters in secret. There are only two people sitting in the account, one is Li Meng behind the case, and the other is Chen Liu sitting in the lower head. Zhang Jiang stood opposite Chen Liu, while Wang Hai and Tang Er were still standing behind Li Meng according to the old rules.

"The last time I forced Hao Yaoqi backed dozens of miles at the Zhaopizhai Ferry, and then Li Zicheng sent someone to make a contract with me. He said that as long as I guarded Shandong, his army would never set foot in Kaifeng. People in the world said that Li Chuang had no faith. It was true that in just a few months, he came to Kaifeng and Guide Mansion."

The general of one side made a deal with the rebels like the King of Chuang. He was so ruthless that he was charged with killing the nine clans. This was all true, but Li Meng said it indifferently.

Wang Hai, Tang Er, Ma Gang and Zhao Neng both participated in this agreement. They had known about this for a long time. Li Meng said that. Their expressions did not change much, but just listened silently.

Chen Liu was a little surprised and said:

"I said why did the thief shrank a little while ago and dared not go east and north. It turned out that he had made an appointment with the general. The thief was now in the same place as Luo Rucai and realized that the thief was invincible in the world, and that would still take our Shandong soldiers into consideration."

Speaking of this, Chen Liu looked up at Li Meng and the two behind him, with some prank expressions, and said with a chuckling:

"This time I happened to beat him up so hard that these thieves from Shaanxi and Henan knew that our Shandong troops were powerful."

Wang Hai and Tang Er also laughed. The series of outbound wars over the past two years have made the generals of Jiaozhou camp extremely confident about themselves. Although Shandong soldiers and horses have always been low-key, they already think that their soldiers and horses are the best in the world. However, although Li Meng said casually, his eyes deliberately or unintentionally glanced at Zhang Jiang who was standing next to him.

Zhang Jiang was standing by the side with his hands behind his back, without any expression, but his palms and back were slightly sweating. He was surprised by what Li Meng said. But what made him even more panic was Li Meng's unintentional glance.

As military generals, he followed the general to grab territory from the local area and fought with other officers and soldiers, which is a trivial matter. There are very few officers and soldiers in the world who have never done this or have not been done like this, and those soldiers do not even pay military pay.

The soldiers from Shandong are all paid enough. Even those soldiers from the village heads, the whole family can barely make a living. These village heads can eat enough food in the army, so they can earn enough food and eat enough food. There is also a system full of honor, to fight against friendly forces and grab territory. Everyone does it without hesitation.

Zhang Jiang was a military family of generations and a military family of a certain status in the garrison. He still thought about the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Jiang was really unscrupulous in his heart that Li Meng said something traitorous in front of him, but he also knew that there were two possibilities for him to say in front of him, one was to treat him as his own person, and the other was to test how loyal he was to this group.

That glance was very telling. After Chen Liu finished speaking, the military tent was a little quiet. For some reason, Zhang Jiang felt that the people in the military tent were staring at him.

Loyalty to the court, Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Guozhu are the examples of this. If you want to live a life of misfortune, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlongdi seem to be beggars. After staying in Jiaozhou Camp for a long time, I feel that if you are like those generals, you will be decent and depressed.

He has been in the Dusi Army and the Bandits, and has been in the position of the Dusi for so long. According to the promotion rules of Jiaozhou Camp, he has been doing guerrillas and generals in recent years. You should know that the biggest person in the Zhang family is just a Qianzong, and the military merits he earned from pacifying Maitreya in Shandong.

"With your grandmaster, our Zhang family's wealth and prosperity can be worry-free for generations. I always think this is too rare. It must be your grandfather's great good deeds, or the ancestors' good deeds have fallen on you."

At such a subtle moment, Zhang Jiang inexplicably remembered what his uncle said to him. It didn't take too long to weigh the pros and cons, and Zhang Jiang quickly made up his mind.

Step forward, clasped his fists and said:

"Master General, the current trespassers have taken over all the Shaanxi border soldiers gathered by Shaanxi Governor Fu Zonglong, and Luo Rucai's troops merged with him. His strength is no longer the same as a few months ago."

These words are all following the crowd, but Li Meng was a little relieved and said with a smile:

"Zhang Jiang, what do you think? Let's hear it?"

Zhang Jiang bent down again, looked around for a while, and said loudly:

"The thieves have such strength and their ambitions are definitely different from the past. Although our army is strong, if we only force them to retreat or win a little, the thieves will definitely think that our army is just like this. As long as we rely on the large number of people to consume it, it will be a problem. The goal of our Shandong soldiers is not like Henan like this quagmire."

Zhang Jiang paused, saw the expression on Li Meng's face, and felt very calm, and said firmly:

"In this battle, our Shandong soldiers should not be able to make any sense, but should attack with all their strength and completely fight the thieves. With their current scale, it is easy for our generals to defeat him this time, but it is difficult to destroy him. He will not dare to offend the majesty of our army, but still rampant in the Central Plains. This is a good thing that has the best of both worlds!"

The best of both worlds is definitely not the Ming Dynasty and the imperial court. Zhang Jiang said it so openly, which is certainly a good suggestion, but it also means to express his feelings.

The military tent was a little quiet, but in this quiet, Zhang Jiang, the Yanzhou Metropolitan Police, was not as nervous as before, but was quite calm. Li Meng and Chen Liu looked at each other, stood up and laughed loudly, very happy, and said with a loud laugh:

"It turns out that I am a military general from my old camp. He is considerate and understands things. He is right. Everyone, please send orders to fight against the thieves. Everyone should move forward bravely and not retreat!"

After saying this, Chen Liu, who was sitting on the chair, also stood up, and bowed with the generals in the room, and said in unison:
Chapter completed!