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Chapter 484: Three Days and Three Hundred Miles

In the darkness of the night, one after another sailor ships ghostly dropped anchor in a hidden bend of the river, and a group of soldiers walked on the boats, quickly forming a formation on the river beach, one of them was assembled, and there was no call for mobilization, and there was no noise and noise, and they immediately moved forward. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Behind them, another phalanx quickly began to assemble.

They were marines subordinate to the Dingzhou Naval Division, and this time, all the marines of the 5,000th Naval Division were assembled, shouldering the heavy task of seizing Linzhao County in Shunzhou and cutting off Lu Weixiong's retreat.

The Marine Corps of the Marine Division is different from other elites in Dingzhou, because they have been cooperating with the Marine Division for a long time to carry out combat missions, the entire army is not equipped with war horses, that is to say, these 300 miles, they must spread their feet and run all the way over. Even if you don't count the local garrisons that had to annihilate several enemy forces along the way, the task of traveling a hundred miles a day alone can be regarded as extremely difficult.

But an order is an order, and once it is issued, there is no room for change, and what is left for the Marine Corps is how to overcome the difficulties, complete this task, and stop Lu Weixiong in Linzhao.

In order to reduce the burden on their bodies as much as possible, all the members of the Marine Corps took off their armor and brought only the necessary weapons, as well as a bag of dried meat specially made by the army as dry food and a leather bag of water.

"Zhiqiang, this mission is very difficult, do you have the confidence to complete it?" Zheng Zhiyuan held his younger brother Zheng Zhiqiang's hand and asked with some concern.

Squeezed the big calloused hand of the eldest brother heavily, Zheng Zhiqiang smiled lightly: "Big brother, don't worry, if someone can complete this task, then no one can do it except my sailor and land." Ha, big brother, if I complete this blow beautifully, the big marshal will definitely be promoted to my official again, well, I am already a general now, and if I go further, I will catch up with you, big brother, you have to work hard! ”

Zheng Zhiyuan was a little ridiculous, such a major task, but his younger brother seemed very careless, and he was still in the mood to joke with himself, and slapped him on the head, "What's the matter, you want to turn the sky upside down, that is, you will be a bigger official than your brother in the future, and I will clean you up when you return home." ”

Zheng Zhiqiang stuck out his tongue, made a grimace at the eldest brother, turned around and strode out of the cabin: "Big brother, just wait for my good news!" ”

Zheng Zhiqiang's Marine Corps has four brigades, each with 1,000 men and 200 people, and a reconnaissance detachment directly under Zheng Zhiqiang.

We have to seize the time, seize the Linzhao before the other party delivers the news, so there is no need to hide it, let's move forward, brothers, we are a thunderbolt, we are a lightning, we are a hurricane, we are an omnipotent torrent, we will make a mess of all the roadblocks in front of us, occupy Linzhao, and then cut off the head of Lu Weixiong for the night. Zheng Zhiqiang roared in front of all the officers.

The Marines buried their heads and ran along the official road, their officers running at the front of the line, not a single murmur except for the whirring panting, and all of them used their strength to rush forward.

In the early hours of the morning, the first brigade arrived in Laiwu County, and the defenders of Laiwu, who had just received the news, only had time to put on their clothes and lift their weapons.

The marines who followed up did not even glance at Laiwu, where the battle was taking place, and swept through Laiwu like a strong wind, heading forward. In Zheng Zhiqiang's view, although there are one or two thousand defenders in Laiwu, the strength of which is more than double that of the first brigade, but if the Marine Corps of the Naval Division has the advantage of raiding and can't swallow these fish belly in one bite, then the captain of the first brigade should hit a piece of tofu and kill it.

The fact is indeed as Zheng Zhiqiang expected, the will to resist of the Laiwu defenders lasted less than an hour, as the Lord will be cut off with a knife, nearly 2,000 defenders all collapsed, most of these defenders are locals, when they saw that things were not good, they threw away their weapons, and ran away all over the mountains, they were familiar with the terrain, and they just escaped from the battlefield, and they were safe and sound.

And the first brigade had no intention of pursuing them at all, so they broke the barracks, burned the barracks into flames, hurriedly buried the brothers who had died in battle, and only tore off the identification tags they hung around their necks, and then went all the way forward and chased after the main army.

The same story happened again in the afternoon of the next day, when the first brigade arrived at the second county town on the road, Laixi, the second brigade was storming the Laixi defenders' barracks, and Zheng Zhiqiang's large army had already crossed Laixi and only headed for the third target, Laiyang. The first brigade ignored the second brigade and spread its feet to chase the large army.

I only slept for two hours a day and a night, and then there was an endless rush, fighting, and even eating and drinking were all done in the march, as for the convenience, simplicity, on both sides of the road, the sky and the ground, the vast very, such a high-intensity action, even the elite of the Marine Corps finally felt fatigued, and everyone's eyes were bloodshot, and at this time it was not physical strength, but perseverance and faith. rushed to Linzhao, blocked Lu Weixiong's retreat, and then cut off his head as a night pot, and every time he was about to hold on, everyone would chant a few words in their hearts, and the breath that was about to be vented was brought up again.

But they are not iron men after all, and in the end there are still many people who have fallen behind, and it is impossible for the large army to stop and wait for them at this time, and those who have fallen behind can only rest a little, and then get up and chase after them, sometimes single-handedly, sometimes in groups of three or five.

At this time, on the road to Linzhao in Laiwu, Laiyang, and Laixi, there was a strange scene, there were often three or five groups of Dingzhou soldiers to charge the group of soldiers, but the defenders who had an absolute advantage in numbers did not want to counterattack and annihilate the enemy, their reaction was jaw-dropping, they actually ran away, three or five people shouted and wanted dozens of people and hundreds of people to charge, and the other party was like a duck to drive chickens and dogs, this scene was weird and cola.

The local guards were completely discouraged by these strong troops. At this time, the marines had already passed Lacey, and the messengers of the defenders of the three attacked places were far behind, and some even found a place to hide, who knows if they will meet those wolf-like soldiers on the road? I finally escaped, but I didn't want to give my life in a daze.

In the early morning of the third day, there were still a few hours before dawn, and the sailors and marines under the command of Zheng Zhiqiang finally arrived at a village less than ten miles away from Linzhao, and the sentinels who explored the way in front confirmed that Lu Weixiong's large army was still nearly 100 miles away from Linzhao, and it was impossible to arrive before noon tomorrow, which made Zheng Zhiqiang breathe a sigh of relief, and suddenly felt that his legs were as heavy as lead, and an indescribable sense of exhaustion came up.

"The order is that the whole army will rest for two hours. A hundred men from each brigade were sent to guard me, and all the people in the village were gathered together in that ancestral hall to be guarded, and we could not release them until we began to attack. ”

There were less than 200 people in this small village of only a few dozen households, and after being driven into the ancestral hall, all of them were terrified, squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands, and occasionally children opened their mouths to cry, and immediately covered their mouths and swallowed the loud cries back into their stomachs.

In addition to the loud snoring in the whole village, there was silence for a while, before the army entered the village, those barking dogs had already been corpses on the ground, Zheng Zhiqiang put a letter incense in his fingers, and regardless of the dampness on the ground, he sat on the ground, leaned against the wall, his head was crooked, and he was already asleep, and in the whole village, only hundreds of soldiers who were on guard were holding their eyelids to fight up and down, guarding the safety of the entire army.

An hour later, the incense burned to the end, the fire burned Zheng Zhiqiang's fingers, and with a bang, Zheng Zhiqiang jumped up, stretched out his foot and kicked the sleeping pig-like soldiers next to him, kicking him awake, "Go, gather the captains of the major teams, and gather here with me!" ”

More than 100 miles away from Linzhao, Lu Weixiong led less than 20,000 troops to set up camp, and behind them, there was no longer any team, and those mighty convoys had long been thrown away by them at this time.

Leaving Weizhou City earlier, Lu Weixiong immediately found that with such a huge convoy all the way, it was simply self-defeating, and he couldn't drive thirty or forty miles a day, how could he quickly rush to the Quanying defense line and launch a front and rear attack with Lu Fengchun, that Yu Nie Chenghua led those miscellaneous soldiers to defend the state, he didn't have any confidence at all. Ten days, that's just the most optimistic estimate, if it doesn't work, it will be broken in two or three days, these temporarily recruited soldiers are not the soldiers taken away by Lu Fengchun, but the farmers who have just put down their hoes and held their swords and guns for a few days.

Now he only relies on this army of less than 20,000 people, which is also his last capital, but unfortunately, Nie Chenghua left his 5,000 soldiers and horses, otherwise his strength will be a little stronger.

But it's also relieved to think about it, Nie Chenghua has a little capital in his hands, and he will buy more time for himself.

In fact, Lu Weixiong's estimate is not wrong at all, Weizhou City after Lu Weixiong abandoned the city, morale immediately fell to the freezing point, after two days of strong support for the attack of the Dingzhou army, Nie Chenghua gave up the city at the opportunity, tens of thousands of miscellaneous soldiers left them to fend for themselves, and he led his five thousand elites to retreat along the road of Lu Weixiong's retreat, Nie Chenghua is not stupid, knowing that these five thousand soldiers are the capital of their own lives, without them, they are worthless.

But soon after retreating, Nie Chenghua found a fatal problem, on the way he was advancing, there were huge convoys everywhere, and Lu Weixiong had long since disappeared, in the face of these greedy Lu clansmen, Nie Chenghua had nothing to say, at this time, he wanted money and didn't want to die, seeing that those people actually came to ask his soldiers to transport property for them, Nie Chenghua didn't say a word, raised his knife and cut it, and then led his subordinates to deviate from the main road and fled to the other side, he was convinced that Li Qing's goal was not himself. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to ***(***.***) to vote for recommendation, ***, your support is my biggest motivation. )