Chapter 66: The Combined Army

"Why don't you ignore people......" The person who asked loudly pursed his lips in dissatisfaction.

The company commander of the fourth company of the first battalion happened to pass by, and when he heard these words in his ears, he couldn't help but smile slightly, turned his head and shouted the password: "One-two-one, one-two-one." ”

The soldiers' footsteps grew louder.

Suddenly, his voice raised an octave, "One, two, three, four!" ”

The soldiers of the entire first battalion and four companies immediately shouted with him, "One! Two! Three! Four-"

The loud sound spread out as if it were materialized, startling all the birds within a hundred meters of the vicinity.

Not far away, the soldiers of the Jiezhong Xi Department were frightened by this neat roar, although they knew that the troops in front of them were friendly troops, but this fierce momentum actually made them subconsciously want to avoid this group of people.

Soon, when another group of Dragon Guard officers and soldiers behind them chanted "...... Raising the bow and crossbow firearms, the roaring Hongyi heavy artillery, defending the hometown, defending the Yangtze River ......", the dragon guard military song, when they passed in front of their eyes, these people opened their mouths in shock.

A few people were infected by the passionate singing, and they also learned to hum quietly, but the singing gradually faded away, and most of them only remembered the small paragraph of "Defending the Whole Ming Dynasty".

Approaching nightfall, the Longwei Brigade had reached the south of the Fuhe River, and then walked more than 100 miles north to Linchuan, where the Fuzhou Mansion was located.

After the Dragon Guard set up camp, the soldiers immediately dug two four-foot-deep trenches around the camp with steel shovels in their hands, and placed horses and other objects around the periphery, and then began to eat dinner.

The soldiers of Jiezhongxi, who were not far away, soon smelled the smell of meat, and one by one they took the miscellaneous vegetable cakes in their hands, and stretched their necks to look at the Dragon Guard.

But all they could see was the hazy campfire, and finally they took a hard bite of the mixed vegetable cake and ate their dinner with the aroma.

At that time, Su Chengyu took the officers and more than a dozen personal soldiers and rode around the camp a few times to check the deployment situation.

In this era of lack of lighting equipment, once the enemy attack camp succeeds, the consequences will be very serious. The enemy may not be able to inflict much damage, but a stampede of one's own men on a dark night can wipe out an army.

"Two platoons of hussars have been arranged to patrol five miles away." Yu Xin followed behind Su Chengyu to report. Although camping is a regular training program, it should be very close to the enemy army at this time, so you have to be cautious.

He continued: "A mile away, there is also a circle of open and dark whistles. If there is an enemy, a gong will be sounded immediately to warn you. ”

Su Chengyu glanced at the messy campfire in the camp of Jiezhongxi's troops on the east side, and ordered: "Send more people and include their camp in the patrol range." He was very clear about the strength of the Ming army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and he had to prevent the Dragon Guard Army from being implicated because these friendly troops were attacked in the camp.

"Yes!"

As he was talking, a pro-soldier came to report, "Report! The governor of Jiangxi, Lord Wan Jiwan, sent someone to contact, and asked the commander to lead the troops to join the army and discuss the battle in Fuzhou tomorrow. ”

Su Chengyu took Wan Yuanji's warrant, looked at it with a torch, and nodded, "I know." Reply to the messenger, saying that the Dragon Guard will march north early tomorrow morning to join forces. ”

"Yes!"

Wan Wan Ji Nai was appointed by Longwu as the governor of Jiangxi, and he had an overview of Jiangxi's military.

At that time, the appointment of Jiangxi officials was quite chaotic, and due to the critical situation in Jiangxi, Longwu continued to send people to Jiangxi to supervise the war.

There have been Yang Tinglin, the secretary of the military department, Wan Yuanji, the governor of Jiangxi, the governor of Jiangxi, Jiezhongxi, Huguang and Su Guansheng, etc., plus the king of Yongning and the king of Luochuan, and there are seven or eight governors and county kings in Jiangxi.

Later, under the coordination of the imperial court, Yang Tinglin was in charge of Jiangxi's military and political affairs, and Wan Yuan Ji was in charge of the military commander-in-chief, so there was barely no confusion in the government order.

The next day, the Longwei army marched to the east bank of the Fu River.

Su Chengyu saw the flag in front of him from a distance, and the company camp stretched out mathematically, which was quite imposing.

However, the company battalion was clearly divided into several parts, and the colors of the flags were also different, and it was obvious that there were multiple units under their own command.

Soon a scout reported that it was the camp of the Governor Wan in front of him.

Su Chengyu instructed Yu Xin to take the Longwei Army close to the main force of the Ming Army and set up camp in a state of imminent battle, so he took his own soldiers and went to the Wanji military tent.

A slightly chubby middle-aged man had already brought his subordinates to wait outside the tent, and it was Wan Yuanji, the governor of Jiangxi.

He saw Su Chengyu from a distance, hurriedly greeted him, and then personally led Su Chengyu into the account.

There were already a lot of people gathered in the big tent of the Chinese army, and Su Chengyu immediately saw two familiar faces - Zhu Youzhen, the king of Yongning, and Zhu Youling, the king of Luochuan.

The two kings also saw him, but they just smiled coldly and turned their heads to look away. Su Chengyu didn't bother to take care of them.

Wan Wan Ji heard that there seemed to be some discord between the three county kings, but he still had to introduce enthusiastically: "His Royal Highness King Yongning and King Luochuan, this is His Royal Highness King Chenzhou." ”

"Acquaintance." Zhu Youshu has always had a grudge against Su Chengyu because of the last artillery incident, and now his nostrils turned to the sky and said, "I heard that King Chenzhou also trained a battalion of soldiers?" Hmph, in this troubled world, anyone can really lead troops to fight. ”

Su Cheng didn't have a good impression of him, and said-for-tat: "The Dragon Guard Army is definitely much stronger than those under you. But he was telling the truth.

"Humph......"

"A few months ago, I heard His Highness say that he wanted to recover Jianchang," Su Chengyu didn't give him a chance to speak, and continued, "Now the Qing army is attacking Fuzhou with Jianchang as a battalion. King Yongning, but do you want to say that it is because of the lack of artillery? ”

Zhu Youma's face was red, he had just been defeated by the Qing army Gao Jinku in Jianchang not long ago, but he didn't expect Su Chengyu to expose his scars here nakedly.

Seeing that the smell of gunpowder was getting stronger, Wan Yuan Ji hurriedly came out to play a round, "If our army wins this battle, Jianchang can be restored." ”

On the one hand, he gave his deputy general Wu Zhifan a look, asking him to quickly comfort Zhu Youma, and on the other hand, he pulled Su Chengyu and said, "Your Highness may not know these people, right?" ”

He first pointed to the man in front of him who was dressed in a white robe, with a pointed face and phoenix eyes, and was about forty years old, "This is a scholar of Huguang and Jiangxi Jingluo Su Guansheng Su University." ”

"I've seen His Royal Highness the King of Chenzhou." Su Guansheng waved his hand and saluted.

Wan Yuan Ji gestured to the middle-aged man with an angular face on the side: "This is Zhang Jiayu and Zhang Jianjun. ”

Zhang Jiayu? Su Chengyu couldn't help but look at him twice, this is one of the famous Lingnan Three Loyalties in Nanming, one of the few generals under Longwu who can fight, I didn't expect to meet him here.

Zhang Jiayu hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "His Royal Highness the King of Chenzhou." ”

"Zhang Jianjun ambushed Jin Shenghuan in Xuwan a few months ago, killed 5,000 enemies with 2,000 soldiers, and killed the rebels all the way back to Linjiang Mansion." Wan Yuan Ji praised and said, "Even the saint said that this battle is the first battle in Jiangxi!" ”

Zhang Jiayu said, "Don't dare to be."

After Governor Wan recounted in detail, Su Chengyu learned that this Zhang Jiayu was originally sent by Longwu to supervise Zheng Cai's supervising army.

Zheng Cai has been nesting in Guangxin and can't fight, Zhang Jiayu has no choice but to urge him repeatedly. Later, Zheng Cai was annoyed, so he said: "If you are in a hurry to fight, you can lead the troops to fight it yourself." ”

Unexpectedly, Zhang Jiayu agreed, took half of Zheng Cai's troops at the moment, and began to fight everywhere in Jiangxi. He relied on his own strategy and achieved a lot of results with these two thousand weak soldiers.

This Xuwan ambush is even more of his proudest work. At first, when his military camp caught fire unexpectedly, he planned and did not let people put out the fire, but pretended to be in chaos in the camp and led the troops to retreat.

Jin Shenghuan thought that his camp was really on fire, so he immediately led his troops to attack, but Zhang Jiayu ambushed his troops and killed him to a great defeat, killing and wounding thousands of people.