At Povaltier, Marshal Mation changed his defensive tactics against Chen Jiujing and assembled the most elite mercenary force of France in several years in an attempt to stop the Ming army that had penetrated deep into its territory.

The 30,000-strong army was reduced to 200 heavy cavalry, 400 light cavalry and 400 artillery, three 1,000-strong brigades composed of French veterans, and a 3,000-strong German and Swiss mercenary phalanx corps, totaling seven brigades of 7,000 troops marching south along both sides of the Crane River for a long time, against the route of the Ming army.

The first to know the general of the Ming army was the guerrilla general Wang Youlan's Beiyang Army under the command of Li Dai, Jianzhou Jurchen, who was recruited by Li Rubai to lead his tribe into Japan to participate in the war, and won many military exploits, and then Li Rubai's family, was recommended to enter the Xuanfu Wutang Cavalry Section, and after graduation, he entered the Beiyang Military Government as a hundred households training officer, and was ordered to train the second phase of the Beiyang infantry and cavalry coordination.

This was originally supposed to be a story of the expansion of the warlordization of the Li clan in Liaodong, but as a result, Ye Mengxiong, an important minister of Beiyang, ordered the entire Li Dai clan to move into Baoding, followed by 100 military training officers to 100 households, and transferred to the East with the fourth phase of Beiyang.

Originally, Li Dai was very worried when he was transferred to the Dongyang Military Government, because of his background, he was quite unpopular in the Liaodong cavalry, but Liaodong was already the closest place to Jianzhou, and suddenly the imperial court dispatched him to Dadongyang, so the discrimination should not be more serious?

As a result, I came to see that everyone in North Asia has wow.

Mongol soldiers, yes; Japanese soldiers, there are; Korean soldiers, yes; North Asian native soldiers, yes; Jurchen soldiers, there are; Even the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty who floated here in the Zhengshuo Naval Battle can be together, who cares about those.

The military government only looks at the military position and does not look at the race, he is a captain of Zhaoxin, and all the treatment is no different from others, which suddenly brings a greater sense of belonging than the Li family in Liaodong, and even this sea-crossing operation is an opportunity for Li Dai to report to Fu Yuanshang.

Originally, the Dongyang Military Government did not plan to use the Beiyang Flag Army of the third and fourth phases, after all, the Flag Army of the first and second phases was about to be retired, but he couldn't stand his bitter pleading, so he was allowed to participate in the war with Fu Yuan with his family.

Li Dai was on the left flank of the Chinese army among the 18 divisions and 100 households, and his route was to raise supplies north along the east bank of the Crane River, sometimes crossing the Crane River to the west bank to harass the enemy garrison with light cavalry.

Said to be a light horse, in fact, there are twenty horses, are Li Dai's family clan, is a private soldier, according to the past is 'Yiding Tu Cai', now it should be called Zhenbao Jiading, riding is the Ming Dynasty practice to pay attention to mobility of the semi-mounted war horse, only cotton cuirass on the body, but the weapon is not bad, in addition to the waist knife bone Duo a water Liaodong Franco machine type rear mounted cavalry gun - from Li Rubai's gift.

With the coordination of these 20 horsemen and the infantry and cavalry of the Beiyang Banner Army under the establishment of 100 households, supplemented by the extremely high ability of the Beiyang Army to build pontoon bridges and fortifications, Li Dai dared to treat the river as nothing, today on the east bank and tomorrow on the west bank, he did not make many gains but turned the world upside down along the way, and almost raised the grain and grass needed by Wang Youlan's entire guerrilla general headquarters with the strength of 100 households.

However, towards the end of the year, Li Dai once again crossed the river and noticed different signs, there were signs of the movement of the army on the side of the valley road, although they tried to hide their whereabouts, they were still discovered by the experienced hunters of Jianzhou - this is extremely rare in France, although the winter here is much warmer than the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, and there is not even ice on the road, but the climate near the sea is humid, which makes people very uncomfortable.

According to the intelligence, the French war will also be truceed in the autumn when the war is at its most intense, and the war will start again in the spring of the following year, and there will never be such a large-scale march and movement as at this moment.

As a graduate of the Xuanfu Lecture Martial Arts Hall who focused on land warfare, after receiving a report from his subordinates, he immediately made textbook arrangements, sent a cavalry track, reported to the guerrilla general Wang Youlan in Hedong, and led the banner army of his headquarters to take five days of rations and ambush the roadside.

When the guerrilla general Wang Youlan heard the news, he immediately gathered seven hundred households under his command to march to the Kelan River, and just arrived at the riverbank, he saw Li Dai leading the Beiyang Banner Army to fight and retreat on the pontoon bridge, and a large number of pursuing soldiers boarded the pontoon bridge that was burned by Li Dai's oil and fire, and immediately led his troops to join the blockade.

It was not until the night that the pontoon bridge was completely burned down, and the two sides withdrew across the Crane River.

"Interception of the grain road, success?"

The casualties were not big for the guerrilla general Wang Youscale, and only two of the eight hundred households were killed and nine were wounded, while four family members were missing, and the other seven were unscathed, but more than half of the materials for their prefabricated pontoon bridges were lost, and the guerrilla general's headquarters was no longer able to build pontoon bridges on the Crane River.

"It is not good to do things at a low level, and I have not been able to intercept his baggage."

The brief time they spent with each other during the voyage made Li Dai know that the guerrilla general's personality did not like to listen to excuses, and he bowed his head and replied: "When the enemy comes to help, he has to burn the plundered baggage and carriage, but his baggage is only one-twelfth of his baggage." ”

"Twelve out of ten?"

Wang Youlan frowned, Li Dai's people have been doing the matter of robbing baggage, basically he knows how much he can grab at one time, and he looks a little worried: "What do you think, how many troops do they have?" ”

"There were no rutted hoof prints in the first tracks, and the footprints were scattered and numbered more than two thousand; Then there were 2,000 men guarding the baggage, and the horses were accompanied by them, and their morale in the battle was higher than that of the soldiers they had seen before, but the coordination was not good. ”

Li Dai was much more annoyed than Wang Youscale, he didn't expect that the enemy would send so many troops to protect the baggage, and he had grabbed a lot of things by grabbing this ticket, although the infantry guarding the baggage carriage at the end of the team did not scatter like those people in the past who were shot in one round, but the chaos of the attack was real, and they were quickly killed.

I grabbed a dozen wagons at once, and I ran away, and there were food, clothes, and even coins, armor, and gunpowder in the cars, not to mention how happy I was.

As a result, the French baggage wagons were too large and loaded with more things, which exceeded the load-bearing capacity of the prefabricated pontoon bridge.

Originally, the marching speed of the European armies in this era was far less fast than their wheels, and the Beiyang Army marched with baggage wagons, and the wheels could not catch up with the two legs of the Beiyang Banner Army and became a burden, but no one expected that the reason why they were caught up would be that the baggage carts were too heavy.

The cart was also big, and so were the horses, and a large cart creaked on the pontoon bridge that could accommodate two wagons with a heavy load, more than the three wagons they carried, and they could not pass at all, and finally they could only endure the strong heartache and drive the horses to the other side, and the winter clothes, food, and gunpowder gathered together and set fire, and the weapons and armor were pushed along the bank into the river...... The last cart with swords and muskets hurried onto the pontoon bridge before it could be pushed.

Some of the two fools did not want to be horses, some jumped into the fire, some jumped from the pontoon bridge into the river, and some were killed by muskets, and in the end only seventeen French horses arrived on the east bank and were restrained.

The rest was all wasted.

Li Baihu pouted and said: "General, I will come back in the spring next year, and everything in this river must be fished out, including weapons and armor, and copper cannonballs." ”

Wang Youscale's eyes lit up when he heard this, he frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly raised his hand and patted Li Dai and said, "I'm afraid you have made a meritorious service, this sentence is more than the credit of the grain truck you burned today—we are surrounded!" ”