"Sharpen the knife in battle, cut a few dogs, my brother is guilty of meritorious service." Hua An quipped softly.

When Wang San heard this, he chuckled and said, "With my brother's ability, it is easy to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and I still need to sharpen my knife so hard." ”

Hua An smiled indifferently and said softly: "The main army of the Peach Leopard is the elite of the Zhao State, and its combat power is extremely fierce, but it is not comparable to those bandits, so don't underestimate the enemy." ”

After the battle of Maoshan to suppress bandits, Wang San and many soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army have bred a sense of pride and complacency, they did not take the tiger and wolf division of Zhao State seriously at all, the so-called newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, in their eyes, these invading Hu army are just stronger bandits.

This self-confidence in despising the enemy is indeed commendable, but it is dangerous to underestimate the enemy too much, and the so-called arrogant army will be defeated, and Hua'an does not want the officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army to make the mistake of underestimating the enemy.

However, Wang San obviously didn't understand Hua An's hard work, he frowned and looked at Hua An, and said suspiciously: "Brother Hua An, Hu Ren was also born from his mother's womb, how fierce can he be." ”

At this time, more than a dozen soldiers gathered around Hua'an, and all the soldiers looked at Hua'an with anticipation.

This made Hua'an not know how to answer for a while, too much exaggeration of the strength of the Hu people will hit the morale of the soldiers, but belittling the Hu people will make the soldiers proud and underestimate the enemy, and the degree of it is really difficult to grasp.

"Hu people are more powerful, and they don't want to die in battle, as long as they recognize it, one shot at a time." Thunderstorm came over suddenly and shouted loudly.

"Yes, one shot at a time." Zhao Wu and Tie Niu also came over to follow Huhe.

Although the thunderstorm said it lightly, the soldiers heard it very clearly, "Great strength, don't die in battle." This is enough to reflect the fierceness of the Hu people, but how strong the Hu people are, flesh and blood, one shot can solve one, which tells the soldiers and soldiers that the Hu people can be completely defeated, and there is no need to be afraid.

Although the thunderstorm is a rough man, but with a casual shout, he said something that Hua An couldn't say after thinking for a long time, which made Hua Anzhong sigh a lot, sometimes, a rough man's very casual words are better than the result of smart people's thoughtfulness.

"Thunderstorm, that's a good point." Huaan looked at the thunderstorm and gave a thumbs up.

The thunderstorm was praised, and he became even more energetic, he looked to the north, and said excitedly: "Brother Hua, our army will definitely win a big victory in this battle, and when the time comes, we will drive straight into it until we reach Thundercloud Castle." ”

Speaking of the 'Thundercloud Castle' thunderstorm suddenly stopped, when they left the Thundercloud Castle, the people in the fort were fleeing, their own father stayed there, and they didn't know what was going on now, Zhao Wu was also sad when he heard this.

"Homesick." Hua An asked knowingly.

Thunderstorm, Zhao Wu nodded.

Hua An patted the shoulders of the two, and said: "Thundercloud Castle is located in the Central Plains, where is the rivers and mountains of my Great Jin, it must be recovered, as long as our brothers work together, nothing can stop us." ”

"Brother Hua, rest assured, our two brothers will always be of the same mind as Brother Hua." Thunderstorm Zhao Wu spoke in unison.

"Brother Hua An, Wang San also has the same heart as you."

"Brigade Marshal, don't forget my iron bull, one heart."

Hua'an was suddenly moved, looked at the four of them, and said sincerely: "You are all good brothers, you are all my good brothers Hua'an."

"Yes, we're all good brothers." The four of them shouted in unison.

Since they are good brothers, they naturally can't be called outside, Hua An looked at the four of them, and said: "It's better for us to marry Jinlan today, and from then on, we will be blessed and enjoy the same hardships, which is good." ”

"Well, that's great." Naturally, the four of them strongly agreed.

So, in the big camp, Hua'an became brothers with Thunderstorm, Zhao Wu, Wang San, and Tie Niu.

Thunderstorm and Tie Niu are both eighteen years old, and Zhao Wu and Wang San are both sixteen years old, of course, Hua An is also sixteen years old, but Hua An naturally didn't want to be a little brother, so he lied and said that he was twenty years old, so he justifiably started to be the eldest brother.

But Wang San grew up with Hua'an since he was a child, so he naturally knew Hua'an's details, and when he saw Hua'an claiming to be twenty years old, he hurriedly asked in a low voice: "Brother Hua'an, are you twenty years old?" ”

Hua An immediately kicked Wang San's ass and hinted that he should not talk too much, Wang San understood, and a mischievous smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

In fact, Hua An said that he was twenty years old, which is half of the words, counting the twenty-four years old in his previous life, and now, Hua An should be forty years old.

Looking at the four brothers in front of him, a smile appeared on the corner of Hua An's mouth, with such a brave and loyal brother, why can't he build a meritorious career.

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The Northern Expeditionary Army rested under Liyang City for two days, and on the morning of the third day, Han Qian left 2,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Liyang City, and led the main army all the way to the north.

Wherever the army went, there was no crime in the autumn, and the good style won the admiration of the common people, and many ordinary people along the way saw that the army was in order, and they all actively asked to join.

These ordinary people between the Jianghuai and the Huai River hate the Hu people very much, and their families more or less have the blood debts of the Hu people, and there are countless relatives who died at the hands of the Hu people.

For these ordinary people who took the initiative to join the army, Han Qian was extremely happy in his heart, but he still politely refused, after all, war is not child's play, fighting does not depend on a large number of people, an untrained army is easy to collapse when attacked on the battlefield, and this will severely damage the morale of his own side, and even cause the whole army to collapse.

Although he refused the request of these enthusiastic people to join the army, Han Qian mobilized them to help the baggage operation to deliver supplies, although he had recruited 4,000 people before, plus 1,000 officers and soldiers of the baggage battalion, there were a full 5,000 men and horses to serve the transportation of supplies.

But these are far from enough, the materials needed for the army to go out on the expedition are very huge, military rations, horse food, forage, firewood, clothing, chopsticks, spare weapons and armor, arrows, etc., all need the support of the baggage battalion, and the 5,000 men and horses are indeed stretched.

Now, with the support of these enthusiastic people, the pressure on logistics will be greatly reduced, which makes a boulder in Han Qian's heart let go.

Han Qian looked up and looked ahead, the city that was not tall in the distance was Dongcheng, which was in the center of Huainan County, which was the second line of defense for Han Qian to block the enemy, and also the fulcrum connecting the front and rear, so Han Qian decided to garrison 5,000 heavy troops.

"Driving ......"

The scouts sent out earlier were galloping towards Han Qian's location.

"General, urgent report." The scout was still thirty paces away when he roared loudly.

Han Qian's heart tightened when he heard the 'urgent report', and he secretly thought: "Could it be that Peach Leopard has already sent troops, according to the intelligence, it should be at least half a month before Zhao Guo sends troops to Jiangnan." ”

"General, the front line is urgent, the general of Zhao Guo Taobao has captured Yicheng, and the deputy generals Zhang Ju and Wang Lang have also captured the two cities of Xia Cai and Ping'a respectively, and my Dajin has fallen to the enemy in the city north of Huaishui, and the defeated soldiers of the three cities have retreated to Shouchun to defend it, at this time the Taobao army, the forward has crossed the Huaishui, and is besieging Dangtu, when Tu Chengchi is short, I am afraid that it has fallen into the hands of the enemy at this time." The scout finished in one breath, holding his breath.

"What, three cities in a row." When the generals behind Han Qian heard this, they were all dumbfounded, this qiē came too suddenly, and there was no warning at all.