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However, such a long-distance march has also greatly tested the marching ability of the various departments, especially the battalions and horses who rushed over from Huguang, many times on the way are in a hurry at the speed of a rapid march, so in such a long march route, it is inevitable that there will be non-combat attrition, some people can not bear such a long-distance march, and they fall ill on the way. Therefore, when the battalions were assembled in Nanle County, there were different degrees of attrition, and the largest battalion was transferred from the south of Huguang, and the number of personnel lost due to illness on the way was as high as 20 percent, and when they actually arrived in Nanle County, there were less than 1,000 troops left.

So this transfer has taught a lesson to all the departments participating in the war, and at the same time has also tested their long-distance marching ability, fortunately, since the day the Xingtian Army was established, Xiao Tianjian has attached great importance to the physical training of the generals, and the daily exercise is the law that cannot be moved, unless the weather is extremely bad, in order to reduce the number of sick people, they will stop the exercise, so the generals of these main battalions are basically veterans, and their physical fitness is still quite good.

If it was replaced by letting the men and horses of an official army carry out such a high-intensity long-distance rapid march, it is estimated that the soldiers would have mutinied halfway and dispersed on their own, and the generals of the government would not dare to urge the soldiers under their command to rush like this, such a situation has appeared many times in the late Ming Dynasty, but it was replaced by the Xingtian Army, but it finally completed this super-large-scale transfer.

However, this transfer also made the soldiers and generals complain, they didn't feel that the march was too hard and tired, and the main thing they complained about was that Shangfeng had been hiding from them, making them want to be dizzy.

But now that Xiao Tianjian is here, the situation is much better, these generals worship Xiao Tianjian like a god, when Xiao Tianjian arrived here, told them that it was his order to do this, the whining voice in the army should be gone, in the eyes of the generals, the reason why Xiao Tianjian wants to do this, it must be a reason to do this, and it will never be nothing to play with them, so the doubts immediately dissipated in the army.

After Xiao Tianjian arrived in Nanle County, he immediately summoned the generals above the battalion general to his tent, when the generals arrived, Xiao Tianjian laughed at a glance, many of them were brought out by him, almost all of them he could name, in addition to nearly half of the old subordinates like Luo Li, there were also quite a lot of younger generals, nearly half of the battalion generals were basically the young generals from the juvenile battalion who had been promoted over the years, of course, there were a small number of people who later joined the Xingtian Army, For example, generals like Lao Huihui and Li Yantian are now also serving in the Xingtian Army.

Through these years of training, these young generals have gradually grown up, and gradually began to become the mainstay of the Xingtian Army, gradually replacing some of the old subordinates of the Xingtian Army, making the cohesion of the Xingtian Army unprecedentedly improved.

And those old subordinates who used to follow Xiao Tianjian to raise troops in Shaanxi, many of them have either died on the battlefield in these years, or quit the army with disabilities, or because of personal reasons, they have not been promoted and continue to work among the low-level generals.

Looking at these subordinates lined up in the account, Xiao Tianjian was both happy and a little sad in his heart, after these years, the newcomers have grown up, but the old brothers have left him one by one, but it also shows a problem, that is, his strength has now grown to an unprecedented extent.

"See the big handsome!" After Luo Li and the others saw Xiao Tianjian, they all immediately saluted and shouted.

"Excuse me! Let's not talk nonsense, I know that many of you have a stomach full of complaints, but today I can tell you the reason for this!

This time, the court and Jiannu negotiated peace, simply because of our existence, the emperor in the court can no longer sit still, and knows that he can no longer restrain us, so he will take the risk to make this decision, rather than cede land and pay compensation to Jiannu, but also vacate the officials and troops in the north and come south to deal with us!

So this time, I am transferring you here to do this life-and-death duel with the imperial court, the winner will gain the right to control the world, and the loser will never have a time to reflex! It can be said that this battle will decide the fate of us or the court, and we can't be careless!

You all know what it means to win by surprise now, and I won't explain to you nonsense, I ordered you to come here to assemble in secret, just to make the court and the government unable to understand where our main force is, and Jining Prefecture and Xuzhou and even Taiyuan are all covering for our big battle this time!

This is also the reason why I did not tell you where to assemble in advance, precisely because the stakes are so important that there is no room for error, even if the slightest rumor leaks the slightest rumor, it may make the court or the government perceive the purpose of our operation, so that we have made so many efforts this time, but in the end we have fallen short!

Therefore, don't be dissatisfied, and tell your subordinates, don't be dissatisfied, this is done for our final victory, in order to make more people bleed less and die less, that's why you do this!

Of course, many of you have come here, and it is very hard to brave the wind and snow along the way, some of you are even tired and frozen to death on the road, some brothers are sick on the way, and some people are left behind. It's just as distressing as you, but it's worth it! Because there will be more people living for it!

Fortunately, you all lived up to Ben Shuai's expectations of you, and in the end, you basically rushed here to assemble on time, laying the groundwork for the next step and the official and military duel in advance! For that alone, everyone here deserves to be commended!

All right! That's all for this matter, if you think about it, you can figure it out, and if you can't figure it out, you have to figure it out, in short, put away the complaints, and if you are angry, you will turn back and sprinkle it on the officers and soldiers!

Now let's talk about the situation of the officers and soldiers! Everybody looks at the map......"

As he spoke, Xiao Tianjian asked the guards to unfold a large map, hang it in the big tent, and walked to the front of the map, and those generals also came to the front of the map in order and formed a circle.

This map is a newly drawn map of the Daimyo Mansion and the surrounding prefectures and counties, on which the roads, rivers, highlands, villages, and towns are all clearly marked, for this map, Shi Ran's scouts have made great efforts, and even some small villages that are not known at all are marked on the map.

It's just that because the time is relatively rushed, it is too late to make a sand table, so Xiao Tianjian can only rely on this map to arrange it.

"Look! We are now all gathered in the vicinity of Nanle County, and all the surrounding thirty miles have been under martial law, except for the birds, it can be said that even a mouse can't get in, and can't get out! In addition, on the side of the Daimyo's Mansion, there is also a shield formed by Diao Zheng's headquarters, so I can conclude that our assembly operation was very successful, and the government must not have noticed that we were assembling here.

Therefore, we can seize the initiative on the battlefield and catch the officers and soldiers by surprise!

Now according to the information sent back by the scouts, the imperial court has dispatched a total of nearly 60,000 or 70,000 Guanning troops to the south, and these border troops can be said to be the last elite that the imperial court can handle.

After they arrive at Shunde Mansion, they will be under the command of Sun Chuanting, the governor of Baoding, and obey Sun Chuanting's dispatch! I don't have to say more to you about what Sun Chuanting is, this person is not a general person, back then he and Hong Chengchou supervised the rebels from all walks of life in Shaanxi, and they did a very good job, this person is not only scheming, but also good at controlling troops, and cooperated with Hong Chengchou to exterminate more than a dozen rebels who were active in Shaanxi, and even King Li Chuang was planted in their hands, and was almost wiped out, and almost followed in the footsteps of Gao Yingxiang! It can be seen that this person will never be an easy character to deal with! Therefore, these people can become our strong enemies, this time you must put away your contempt for the officials and soldiers, and do not be careless! ”

When the generals heard this, they immediately shouted, "Obey ...... order."

After Xiao Tianjian raised his hand to stop their shouts, his face slowed down and said, "Of course, if you don't despise them, it doesn't mean that you are afraid of them!" From the point of view of troops, it seems that we are slightly at a disadvantage, but in essence, the generals we came here this time are the most elite generals under my Xiao, although it is not said that one can be ten, but there is no problem in dealing with the officers and soldiers with one as five! In this way, we still have the advantage in our forces! Hehe!

In addition, from the point of view of equipment, our cavalry is at a slight disadvantage at the moment, after all, the imperial court feeds these Guanning troops, but it costs a lot of money, and a large amount of Liao salary is added every year, all of which are invested in this group of officers and soldiers, so over the years, I am afraid that there are at least tens of millions of taels of silver, so their cavalry combat effectiveness is still quite strong, if the army will dare to fight, they can even confront Jiannu head-on!

But our strength is in the infantry army, you are all my Xiao's cronies, naturally know the power of our battle formation method, we are good at firearms, and our advantage is mostly in the long-range shooting of firearms, so against their cavalry, we are not afraid of them, the legend of the Tartars is powerful enough! Don't you eat deflated in front of us? Even if we don't have the advantage of firearms, even if we just fight in close combat, the officers and soldiers will not take advantage of anything, because Ben Shuai believes that the fighting spirit of our soldiers and generals is far more than that of the officers and soldiers! Because you know what you're fighting for! But the officers and soldiers only know how to fight for money, and when the two armies meet, the brave wins, and we are the brave!

What's more, the official army can be said to have fallen for our strategy, and they didn't know that we were assembled here, and the initiative on the battlefield was also in our hands. Save the shame of going back! ”