The sun gradually set westward until it completely disappeared on the western horizon, shrouding the unknown village west of Zhuangshui in darkness.

Although this village is inconspicuous, it is on the road to the Yalu River in the east. If you change places, this road may not be important, just go around it. However, there is still an undulating hill to the west of Zhuangshui, and the woods are particularly dense, and only a large road that I don't know whether it was from the Han Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty passes through these small hills and patches of trees. The village was built on the edge of this road, and behind the village was a patch of woodland.

This humble village stands on the road, stuck on a traffic artery.

Attacking and defending strongholds is usually the work of the infantry, whether attacking or defending, you need to use equipment, what bed crossbows, stone machines, rushing cars, siege towers, of course, cannons, etc., are all bulky things, and some need to be temporarily built on the battlefield. If the cavalry marches with them, they will lose their agility. That is, the Northern Expeditionary Army, which had long focused on the motorization of heavy weapons, had bed crossbows that could be separated and transported. However, each Eight Banners leader is only temporarily equipped with one.

However, the storage of only two three-bow bed crossbows made Prince Huotu, who had 1,900 cavalry, helpless for a while. Two attacks were organized, but they were both defeated by the Heavenly Thunder Arrow and the Eight Banners armed with infantry bows. Nothing was gained except a hundred and fifty dozen casualties. After all, they are only cavalry, and they don't have any attacking tools in their hands, and it is not a way to fill them with human lives. After two defeats, Prince Hotu had no choice but to switch to sleepiness. A few hundred-strong teams dismounted and walked around the village. They climbed several small hills on the west bank of Zhuangshui and surrounded the village. Meanwhile. He also sent cavalry to the west to warn Tachar's main force.

The road back to the east. Already in danger of being cut off by the enemy at any moment, now it's up to you to see whose reinforcements arrive first!

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Fifty or sixty miles northwest of Zhuangshui, in the mountains that later generations called the Qianshan Mountain Range, the main force of the Liaodong Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army had already set camp and occupied a valley of considerable scale. The topography of the Qianshan Mountains in eastern Liaoning is characterized by many mountains and valleys. After the Mongols took control of Liaodong, most of the surviving people took refuge in these easily defended and difficult to attack valleys. Therefore, the population density in these thousand mountains is likely to be higher than that of the plains outside.

The valley where the Northern Expeditionary Army camped tonight was the place where the people were densely populated (relatively outside), and there were three tribes scattered in the valley. One of them is Yang Akang's tribe, called Yang Pingbu. There were several thousand people, and they built a village along the hillside, and in the valley there were thousands of acres of land belonging to them, and they planted some wheat indiscriminately, but the growth was not good.

It seems that Liaodong's agricultural technology, under the dual effect of the Mongols' slaughter and the policy of "returning farmland to grassland", has regressed very much.

Chen Dexing was walking slowly by the wheat field at this time, after his soul was reborn. He has always served in the army and has not been in contact with the people's livelihood, so he does not care much about farming. But now he seems to be the head of a country, and now there are hundreds of thousands of people. In the future, the issue of feeding millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of people will be of concern to him. One of the main purposes of this Liaodong army was to seize the Liaodong Peninsula and the land of North Goryeo. to solve the difficulties of food supply. If the problem of food is not solved, the cause of the Northern Expeditionary Army will not go far.

Except for the wheat fields. The clearing in the valley was filled with neat camps, where the 20,000 troops of the Northern Expeditionary Army were assembled. This is also one of the strongest forces in the world in this era, the Great Mongolia has been crisscrossing the Eurasian continent for decades, if it were not for Chen Dexing's birth, they would have swept the Southern Song Dynasty more than ten years later, and then they also expanded all the way to Nanfan, Annam, and all the way to Japan, establishing an unprecedented empire. But only Chen Dexing knew that at this time, all the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army in this valley did not doubt that Chen Dexing could finally defeat the Mongols and replace the Southern Song Dynasty as the rightful lord of China!

After all, Chen Dexing has already made people believe that he is the Ming King, how can he not sweep away the darkness and establish a bright world - in other words, Chen Dexing's Heavenly Taoism is really getting more and more eccentric, the traditional Taoist elements are getting lower and lower, but the elements of Scientology are increasing. After the introduction of Scientology, there was another doctrine of building a paradise on earth. Otherwise, how should we struggle after the "victory of the revolution"? What is the point of developing Scientology? But what should this heaven on earth look like? 72 virgins are definitely not good, it is too disrespectful to women. It seems good to everyone to do what they can and distribute according to their needs......

Thinking that he is very likely to win the world and create a new dynasty, no, it should be a new world, Chen Dexing can hardly suppress the excitement in his heart.

Liaodong will be the beginning of this new world, because this is the first land of the new world, and it is also the location of Chen Dexing's first capital!

He turned back to Monk Liu, who came out for a walk with him, and said: "After this battle, we will have a country, we can go to Gaizhou in the north, and we can reach the Yalu River in the east...... There are enough states to set up. ”

"I think there can be a government and three states, south of the big black mountain is the Ming capital, north of Fuzhou and Gaizhou, and what is the state along the river in the southeast of Liaodong...... With so much land, it is estimated that every 50,000 brothers will have a Zhuangzi, but there will be fewer people farming. It would be nice if I could move some more from Handi. I don't know how to do it in the past few months, and the court hasn't even sent prisoners. It seems that we are afraid that we will grow stronger in Liaodong and Goryeo! ”

Monk Liu first chattered about the establishment of a country in Liaodong, and then turned the topic to the relationship with the Southern Song Dynasty. In the past few months, with the acceleration of the formation of the Sanya New Army in the Southern Song Dynasty, the attitude of Jia Yidao and others towards Chen Dexing has also changed. The waist pole was a little stiffer, and he refused to send prisoners to Chen Dexing again.

When talking about how to develop the treasure land of Liaodong in the future, how to lure the people who can't survive in the south of the Yangtze River to settle in Liaodong, and how to develop the transportation and industry of Liaodong, Zhang Xizai, who served as the military division of the Liaodong Army, suddenly came from behind: "His Royal Highness King Ming, don't receive reports at night: 100 miles to the southeast, there is a fire near Zhuangshui, it may be that the Eight Banners are blocking the Mongols!" ”

Chen Dexing let out a sigh: "Finally blocked, the herald ordered the cavalry division to immediately carry a company of artillery to the front line of Zhuangshui, and establish a defensive line on the east bank of Zhuangshui as much as possible." The rest of the departments blow the trumpet when they get up, have a full meal and prepare three days of dry food, and start pulling out when they are ugly! ”

The order was immediately issued, and the various divisions were ready to march at any time, the most elite ironclad cavalry was the first to set out, and the rest of the divisions would get up after midnight for breakfast, and after preparing three days' dry rations, they would drive out of the valley and advance towards Zhuangshui.

And just when the Northern Expedition army was drawn for the first time. Several wounded Mongol warriors also lay on their horses and galloped into the camp of Tachar, it was the cavalry sent by Prince Hotu to ask for help at dusk yesterday, and they ran for almost half the night, and the horses were tired and died, and fortunately the "Eight Banners Guerrillas" fought on the way, losing half of them, and the rest were also wounded.

King Tachar Khan also stayed awake almost all night, the confrontation outside the camp continued, and I don't know how many Eight Banners soldiers were active around, and the Mongol cavalry sent out by Tachar couldn't drive back and forth, and if you were not careful, there would be thunder arrows shooting into the camp. Although there was no damage, few people were able to sleep soundly that night.

Ta Cha'er's eyes were bloodshot, and he met a ten-household official sent by Huo Tu in the cleaned yellow tent, and just asked: "Batu, have you encountered the Jurchen brigade?" ”

The Mongol named Batu shook his head: "I didn't meet a large group, but there were only three hundred people, but they occupied a village on the west bank of Zhuangshui, and they really managed to hold the road." This village is very strong, and those born Jurchens have two bed crossbows and can shoot thunder arrows from the sky. We lost a lot of people and couldn't take it, so we had to surround it first. ”

Ta Cha'er smiled bitterly, the wild Jurchen in Liaodong actually became a sharp blade in Chen Dexing's hands. This is really unexpected!

Speaking of this, it is a bit of a stone to shoot yourself on the surface. For a long time, he, who held the "treasure of the emperor", was the number one person in Mongolia in Liaodong. He has a lot of credit for turning the farming people here in Liaodong into barbarians.

As a result, these barbarians were fooled by Chen Dexing, who pretended to be a ghost, and got the weapons and armor of the Han people, and became what kind of Eight Banner soldiers! And as soon as he made a move, he was so ruthless, and he was about to catch up with the "loyal and filial piety army" that made the Mongols suffer a lot more than 30 years ago.

This Chen Dexing really ate the gall of a bear's heart and a leopard, and he dared to arm the Jurchens like this, hadn't he heard the allusion that "the Jurchens are not satisfied with 10,000 and are invincible"? This kind of fisherman and hunter is fierce, but it is no worse than the men on the grassland!

"King Khan, Prince Huotu is a little nervous, why don't you start tonight!" The Mongol generals gathered inside the yellow tent built yì one after another.

"Yes, no one can sleep well tonight anyway, so it's better to leave early...... More than 100 miles away! It's always unsteady to finish walking quickly. ”

"If Zhuang Shui lets Chen Thief's soldiers hold it, our 30,000 troops won't be able to go to Goryeo."

"Not only is it impossible to go to Goryeo, but it is not easy to retreat north...... Chen Thief's Eight Banners are so annoying, in the old forest, our warriors are not their opponents! ”

Tachar nodded emphatically, he didn't care about the possibility of being ambushed on the night march. If Zhuang Shui is lost, this is really fatal.

"Let's go, the army will go at once!" Tachar snorted coldly, "Aren't they going to tire the enemy? Let's not sleep at all, march day and night! I want to see who rushed to Zhuangshui first! (To be continued......)