He Rubin asked Tang Yunwen: "How far is this place from Lingao?" What is this place? ”

"Back to Lord Zhentai, there are still eighty miles. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" Tang Yunwen glanced at his horse and said, "This place is called Stone Mountain. ”

He Rubin glanced at this hill, which was about a hundred zhang away from the post road. It's a good place to control the post road. If the thieves were to ambush the men and horses here, he would have to go through a hard battle to get through. But the scouts had already come to explore, and there were no ambushes here.

"After all, it's a pirate, and the land route can be described as a soldier." He Rubin commented, "If there is a camp here, send someone to guard it." Our army must first capture this mountain before it can continue to advance. ”

Left and right echoed: "What the adults said is extremely true. ”

"The terrain is important here. Set up a grain station here. He Rubin commanded.

The supply of food and grass for more than 10,000 people is a very urgent matter. The most convenient sea transportation is that the thieves' "big ships and cannons" cannot transport grain, and it is always quite troublesome to transport grain by land, regardless of the distance, especially the situation of the post roads in Hainan is really bad. It was very difficult to rely on the requisitioned people to carry carts on their shoulders and push hundreds of miles to receive food. Therefore, the Ming army adopted the mode of setting up grain platforms section by section and transporting them layer by layer.

Shishan has certain topographical advantages, and the road is moderate, which is one of the best places to set up a transshipment grain platform. He Rubin immediately ordered a thousand generals to lead 500 soldiers to set up a camp here, set up a grain platform, and be responsible for transporting grain. In this way, not only can the grain, grass and energy be continuously transported to the army, but also ensure the safety of his back road.

Since there were no thieves to harass them along the way, the army reached Lingao smoothly. When he arrived at the location that originally belonged to Lingao County, He Rubin was surprised to find that the county city wall had disappeared, and the city was full of square houses, like bricks and stones. Because of the arrival of the army, all the people in the city were so frightened that they closed their doors, and in these years, soldiers are more terrible than bandits.

"Lingao has become like this, and the county order actually concealed it and didn't report it?" He Rubin was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, the city defenses were gone, and the thieves came when they wanted to, and left when they wanted, what is the difference between this and the fall?

What made him angry the most was that there was no city defense to rely on, which meant that there was no way back, and he lost the room to maneuver with the thieves, and there was no other choice than to capture Bosuke in one go.

Since the county town has no value of stationing, it can only approach Bosuke, camp in the wild, and at least arrange fortifications. However, not being stationed in the county does not mean that the county does not demand food and salary from the army. The army entered the city in batches, and for a time the county town was full of scolding, pleading, screaming and crying. Some people's homes were broken into by soldiers, rummaging through boxes and cabinets looking for belongings, and some people went into homes to bully women, and there was chaos in the county, with the cries of the people and the scolding and shouting of the officers and soldiers one after another.

The county commander Wu Mingjin was summoned by the governor to report on his work, and there was no one in charge in the county, so the county and the history would not come out to anger the imperial army, and the officers and soldiers almost turned over the county, and no one dared to stop it. Seeing that the war was imminent, it was not good to go too far, so he immediately ordered a pro-general with dozens of pro-soldiers to patrol the city according to his orders, and beheaded a few robbers and murderers on the street to maintain order.

After the "demand for support" was satisfied, the army left Lingao County and went straight to Bofu. At this time, it was almost dusk, and the army was encamped ten miles away from Bofu to prepare for the next day's battle.

Between Bofu and Lingao County, on the hastily built earthen "fortress", the escort team was making final preparations: all the artillery was transported to the cement poured "wall" -- there were not only light 8-kilogram mountain guns, but also freshly baked 10-kilogram field guns -- 1,000 escorts armed with Qionghai-style rifles were evenly arranged at various prominent corners. Huang Hansheng and Yang Youji arranged the deployment of troops and artillery point by point, and scattered the 300 members with the most experience in actual combat in various places, so as to prevent a certain point from becoming a breakthrough point for the officers and troops due to lack of combat experience and weak firepower.

Xia Nan, Lin Weiye, Sima De and others were stationed in the "Fortress". Whether it was the first encirclement and suppression by the local officials and the army of Guangdong, it was a life-and-death battle that they could not afford to lose. Although they can choose not to fight on the front line, it makes no sense for them to survive if the escort is defeated, and the leader can also improve morale by advancing and retreating with the escort.

The next day, the officers and soldiers pulled out the camp and went straight to Bofu. Countless troops, countless flags, the clanging of armor, the footsteps of soldiers, the sound of hunting with the wind blowing the flags, like a great tide is surging towards the earthen fort.

The sun shone in the east, the sun shone on the rolling army coming from the east, the armor and spear tips shone brightly, and the sound of snare drums and trumpets sounded from time to time. More than 10,000 men and horses arrived around the earthen fort, occupied the surrounding open space and hills, set up barracks, placed artillery mounts, and arranged three camps in the whole army, and dug a long trench outside.

Although Xia Nan and Lin Weiye knew from a rational point of view that it was impossible for an army like the Ming Army in the Middle Ages to defeat the escort of the modern armed forces, and the rest of the people were also very confident in the firearms and artillery, but seeing this large army coming in one after another, with banners and banners waving, swords and guns like a forest, everyone's faces were very solemn, and some people even felt dizzy.

He Rubin took his staff and generals to climb a hill and took out the clairvoyance he bought from Macao to look at the thief camp.

About four miles away, the camp was surrounded by an earthen wall more than two people high, and the shape of the camp was not round or square, but protruding from several large sharp corners. He didn't understand the use of such protruding sharp corners around the entire camp, but he knew that the Hongmaoyi people of the big man built the fort in this way.

The upper part of the earthen wall seems to be made of stone, but it is all in one piece, not like stone, and there are many tall towers made of shelves, on which figures are shaking, probably to observe the watchtowers around them. The entire camp was heavily defended by a trench dug outside the barracks.

Looking at the size of the camp, the thieves' men and horses would not be more than 2,000 people killed, He Rubin breathed a sigh of relief. Compared with the one-sided water battle, the huge disparity between the enemy and our forces on land gave him great confidence.

However, after carefully observing for a while, He Rubin couldn't see the weakness of the thief's camp, and knew that the next battle of the enemy's camp would be a very difficult bone to gnaw, and the loss of troops would be inevitable. But as long as this camp is broken, this attack will be over-this part of the army is probably all the land division owned by the thieves. The opponent's tactics were nothing more than the pattern of using firearms to defend the village according to the wall, and it did not surprise him. It's just that the other party set up camp behind the sea and plunged himself into a Jedi, whether the other party is a pirate who doesn't understand land warfare, or has other plans, it is unknown. (To be continued.) )