Combat effectiveness is not cultivated instantly, and it is difficult for only one or two ceremonies to make the people of the time win.

During a ceremony, the soldiers roared and vented, and in the end, the basic formation could not be maintained, one by one swayed or collapsed on the school field, allowing the commander to kick and scold, but no longer the original neat and distinct posture. Their past experiences and cognitions did not make them realize the meaning of this ceremony, even if the roar just now was just a venting of exhaustion, although they felt different, but it was not clear what the difference was.

The messy situation on the school field made Hu Run and other generals around Shen Zhezi feel quite embarrassed. They had prepared a lot for this military exercise, especially in the queue honor guard, in order to get a stunning start. The entire military salute of becoming a teacher has been practiced many times, but I didn't expect it to be a mess when it came to the end.

This is really unacceptable to Hurun and others who want to repay Lord Lang's kindness for reuse.

Seeing the chaotic formation in the school field and the stumbling of the soldiers, all the generals took a step forward to ask for their guilt, but Shen Zhezi took the first step to speak: "Only win with a meal, not only the soldiers will encourage you, but you must also engrave it in your hearts." The military appearance is a subsection. Shi Shilong's generation, the worst villain in the slaves, took advantage of the chaos and raged in the world, the animals were revealed, and all the people with the crown were embarrassed! The Ding is boiling, not for the ears, as firewood, burning this body, and sharing the thieves with you! ”

"Fight hard in the coming day and win with the general!"

When they heard this, they looked at each other slightly, and then shouted in unison.

Although the slogan of Zhuang Qi has been shouted and the morale has been boosted, when the army is really dispatched, this army, which was proposed by Shen Zhezi as the Shengwu Army, has not been incorporated into the official main force sequence. Although it also followed the army to officially start, it was still used as a reserve to escort grain and grass to the rear.

The reason why he wanted to draw up a military horn was not that Shen Zhezi blindly demanded to be unusual, but that it was related to the overall reorganization of the successor Yuzhou Army. The specific measure is a Jiagong boarding food system derived from the Jiatian Order, in which the army is no longer fostered in a specific location, but must break away from geographical restrictions and travel to the four directions. Of course, this Quartet is only limited to a corner of Yuzhou at the moment, but the scope will definitely be greatly expanded in the future!

Yu Yi led the main force from the mouth of the water, and Shen Zhezi would also march straight north to join Du He in Tuzhong. On the one hand, it is necessary to ensure the safety of Shen Zhezi's logistics and grain routes, and on the other hand, it is necessary to pay attention to the development of the war in the direction of Chaohu Lake, and be ready to help Juchao from Dongxing in the west of Liyang.

Shen Zhezi's subordinates, Chen Gui, Ji You and others stayed behind, waiting to escort the grain and grass that Poyang had transferred in succession.

Soon, Shen Zhezi led the front team to set off, in addition to his own elite more than 1,000 troops, there were nearly 2,000 people from Lu Yong's department, plus two battalions of scout pioneers led by Shen Mu. In addition to the official soldiers, there were also some grains, grasses, baggage and armor and arrows carried by small boats.

From Liyang and not far to the north, it is a hilly land, from the south to the top, including mountains, Gaoling, Anhui hills, etc., all the way to Dabie Mountain. Although there are not many military strongholds in the so-called Huaiyou Mountains, according to the current transportation situation and the surrounding supply environment, it still adds a lot of trouble to the military dispatch in the region.

Because there was nothing to rush and a strong opponent ahead, Shen Zhezi's troops were not moving fast. Of course, the most important thing is that you can't go fast if you want to, and crossing the river during the rainy season has the advantage of having waterways that extend in all directions.

When Shen Zhezi's department first set out on the road, there was still a branch of the Great River Hengjiangpu to rely on, so the journey was relatively smooth. However, when passing through Liyang and reaching the vicinity of Hanshan, the upper reaches of Hengjiangpu have long been congested and difficult to travel, even if there is rainwater supplementation, it only forms a silted depression.

The waterway was cut off from this, and if you directly relied on manpower and animal power, you would have to wait here for several days until the rear team caught up. However, fortunately, there is another old Wu waterway more than ten miles ahead, which can be used to continue walking. So in the next two days, the soldiers in the front turned into sappers, cleaned up the river silt, dug canals, and connected the two waterways.

But in terms of efficiency, of course, it is more important and convenient to directly transfer cattle and horses and animal power, but Shen Zhezi's northward expansion this time is not a one-shot deal, laying a good foundation, and he can continue to borrow water power in the future.

The confrontation between the north and the south, the large strategic buffer area between Huaisi and Si, and the fact that Jiangdong did not have a large-scale cavalry team to mobilize for the attack, in order to avoid too redundant and huge logistics troops, relying on waterways was a certain choice. Therefore, in addition to killing the enemy and attacking the city and plundering the land, the most important task of the soldiers was to dig waterways.

Originally, this kind of task was naturally the most appropriate to be handed over to the people, and the armor soldiers could also preserve their combat power. But the problem is that in this buffer zone, there is almost no civil power that can be requisitioned!

Speaking of this, it is also the iniquity of the predecessors and the suffering of the descendants! During the confrontation between Wu and Wei in the Three Kingdoms era, it was true that several major wars were waged around the fortress of Hefei, but after the successive defeats, Eastern Wu no longer regarded Hefei as a must-take place, and shifted its focus to plundering the population. Frequently crossing the river deep and plowing, and Cao Wei naturally will not be soft in this regard, and the people are all transferred to the north, resulting in a vast uninhabited land.

Although China and the DPRK are united in the north and the south, the reunification of just a few decades is simply not enough to restore the long-damaged land. What followed was the turbulent era of Yongjia, which was a well-dressed southward crossing, and this land of a hundred battles was not to mention any management and recuperation.

Desolation, this is Shen Zhezi's biggest feeling along the way, as far as the eye can see, the forest and grass are green, but there is no human habit. In the old years, the slope ponds and cottages, aside from the messy and lush wild grass, there are still traces to exist. Wild birds nest, jackals rampant, but there are no people!

Of course, this is not absolute, and the team was attacked on the first night of their camp.

The night was still heavy and cloudy, and there was no trace of stars and moons in the sky. Shen Zhezi had not slept in the camp tent of the Chinese army for a long time, when he heard the drum at the camp gate to warn, and he immediately rushed out of the camp tent in armor. At this time, the campfire outside the tent was already rising, Shen Zhezi was surrounded by personal guards, and hurried to the place of the riot with a sword.

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he couldn't help frowning, the night was heavy, the enemy was dark and I was clear, the most important thing was to hold the camp without losing, it was really not appropriate to go out of the camp to chase after him. But after thinking about it, Shen Mu has also been in the military for a long time, and this kind of military common sense should not be unaware, since he chased it out, he must also have his considerations, or the night raids are really not enough to worry about.

Despite this, Shen Zhezi still ordered the drums to be beaten, and the soldiers marched out through the camp, guarding around the camp, and at the same time sent a small group of scouts to patrol the left and near.

After working like this for most of the night, it was not until dawn that news came from outside the camp that Shen Mu, who was chasing the enemy, was already on the way back, and went straight to the thief's nest and won a complete victory!

Hearing this news, even if there was no specific detailed report, Shen Zhezi also understood that this time it was a false alarm, and the enemy who came was not enough to worry. The sergeants worked hard for half the night, and they were all tired, and at this time, Lu Yongbu had also moved the camp here to change the guard. So Shen Zhezi ordered the sergeant to disband and return to the camp to rest, and he himself was no exception.

It was not until the afternoon that Shen Zhezi got up to sleep, and when he came out of the tent, he was told by his own soldiers that Shen Mu's department had returned to the camp and drove back more than 100 prisoners in this battle.

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he went through the camp to see who dared to commit such a bold attack, and when he arrived at the place where the prisoners of war were housed in a corner of the camp, Lu Yong had already arrived, and had already interrogated several prisoners of war.

Seeing Shen Zhezi coming, Lu Yong walked up with a ragged prisoner of war and said with a smile: "The people who disturbed the camp last night turned out to be just a group of thieves!" This group of thieves, who had heard of it when they were in Liyang at the end of the early years, were a group of villains who roamed and ate between Hanshan and Gaoling. Because he did not have a great grudge against the public, and his whereabouts were uncertain, it was difficult to appease him, so in his early years, he mostly turned a blind eye to it. I didn't expect to dare to invade Wang Shi this time, but I was captured by Shen Hou in a battle against the thief's nest, which can be described as magnificent! ”

Lu Yong's shallow flattery to Shen Mu, Shen Zhezi didn't care, and as for the origin of this group of thieves, he was not surprised. He also saw similar thieves in Tuzhong last year, where the rebels were in exile, or the walls of the dock were broken by the army, and there was nowhere to live, so they could only gather for evil and loot for a living.

It's just that this group of thieves looks even more miserable than what he saw. For example, Lu Yong grabbed this person in his hands, he looked very large, and he should have been a strong pawn, but now he was skinny, wrinkled, with a pair of gray eyes embedded in both sides of the bridge of his nose, and his eyes were full of frightened wandering, and there was almost no one.

In this encircled camp, there are more than 100 people similar to thieves, most of them are men, and there are no old and disabled women and children. And the weapons they relied on to loot were now thrown in a corner of the camp, nothing more than wooden sticks and bamboo guns, and occasionally one or two tips were inlaid with iron pieces and sharp nails, which were already rare murder weapons. In addition to the mud, there are still black-brown marks on it, which has been completely immersed in the wood. It can be seen that they still kill a lot with such a rudimentary blade.

Shen Zhezi is not a good person, most of the time he is rational and almost cruel, but even so, he still doesn't dare to think deeply about the past experience of these thieves, how can he be harmed by the world? And how can you inflict the evil of the world on others and survive to this day?

"Give the soup food first, interrogate carefully, and report later."

Shen Zhezi commanded in a heavy tone, then turned to leave, rubbed his somewhat sour nose, and a layer of moisture had gathered at the bottom of his eyes. He is still not as strong as iron, or he can endure to see corpses all over the field, but he really can't see the humanoid and powerful posture of his flesh and blood compatriots.