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Ten ice ploughs produced in Yingzhou are galloping on the ice of the Weishui River leading to Dingzhou Beiping City in Mozhou Waqiaoguan, which is a river that originates from Dingzhou Beiping City, flows into Mozhou in the east, and merges with Xushui in Yizhou in the north and Dingzhou in the south, and then joins with Hutuo Water in the end, and connects with Juma River, Zhangshui, Yongji Canal, Sanggan River and Lushui River to the east, and merges into the sea in Tianjin. If it is in summer, the area from Mozhou to Dingzhou is full of swamps, especially in early summer, and the road is extremely difficult to navigate. However, in the cold winter at this time, this dense water network area has become a smooth road.

In particular, it is even more convenient to sit on this ice plow, which is widely used in the Northeast. There are two types of climbing plows, ice and snow, and now they sit on the ice, which is best suited for walking on the frozen river in winter. The war horse drags with almost no effort, is faster than riding a horse, and is more stable and labor-saving, and can also carry a large amount of supplies.

The ice plough they ride on is a military type, sturdier and much larger than the normal one.

The car was speeding all the way, and Ning Yuanbo, Guo Tao, the deputy commander of the First Army of the Iron Cavalry Regiment, and the staff officers and guards were lying on the car wrapped in military coats. Guo Tao wore a tiger skin hat, and he also wore a tight neck sleeve covering his entire neck, and the grass green military coat covered with flying snow was tightly wrapped in cotton jackets.

The weather was very cold, and he had a pair of toad sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, but he was in a very happy mood, blowing a cold wind and whistling at the same time.

Since returning from Saiwai, Guo Tao has been transferred to an active combat unit. It turned out that he was the military master of the Xuejun, and after he came back, he was transferred to the Iron Cavalry Corps led by Li Jing. And he entered the First Army. Enter the 1st Army. The head of the school army was changed to the deputy head of the first army of the Iron Cavalry Legion. Bright falls, real rises.

When assessing the rank of Wu San, it was General Ning Yuan under the fifth grade. Ranked thirteenth in the martial arts rank, it looks a little low, but it is actually very high. Qin Fan's current Wusan level still uses the Tang system, with a total of thirty-one orders, the highest from the first rank, and then the second from the second. From the third grade. Each product is divided into four steps, from the top to the bottom. Moreover, the problem of Qin Fan's inflated official position in recent years has gradually changed, the third rank is already at the level of a corps commander, and the fifth rank is a senior general.

Guo Tao is seventeen this year, and he has been made an earl, and he is the general of Ning Yuan, the rank of the fifth grade, and the deputy commander of the first army of the Iron Cavalry Legion.

After being transferred to the 1st Iron Cavalry Army. Guo Tao has been low-key and honest for a long time. Nest in the barracks all day long, practicing skills. Efforts to dissolve into the First Army. There is still a big difference between the combat unit and the cadet soldiers, first of all, the officers below him, each of them is older than him, and even most of them can be his father, and some can even be his grandfather. can be the owner of the box and the owner of the battalion, which one of them has made great achievements and fought on the battlefield for many years. Guo Tao, a guy whose bird feathers have not yet grown, suddenly ran to their heads and became the deputy military master, which really made many people unconvinced. In the past year or so, Guo Tao, the deputy military leader, has actually worked very hard, and it can almost be said that there is no easy day, and he fights wits and courage with those old guys all day long.

Fortunately, the wandering life in his early years and the later life in the military academy made him very tenacious and undiscouraged, and finally took root in the First Army, and even initially won the recognition of most officers and soldiers.

If he wants everyone in the First Army to agree with him, he knows that he can only rely on a real battle to prove himself.

Fortunately, such an opportunity did not make him wait too long.

As the New Year approached, the General Staff Council, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the Military Department, and the Headquarters of the Iron Cavalry Corps jointly issued a military order, allowing the First Army to immediately go to the south. The task given to the First Army above was very simple, let them divide the ten cavalry battalions and attack Chengde!

At the same time, several other armies participated in this operation, and a total of 10 corps and 100 battalions were invested, which was known as the Battle of 100 Battalions.

On the first day of the battle, the first battalion of the 1st Iron Cavalry Army captured Beiping City very hard, and then captured Wangdu and Tang County one after another. This speed was even the result of the first battalion with no casualties at all, they almost marched all the way, and in seven days, before the follow-up troops came up, they had already captured three counties of Dingzhou in a row.

The owner of the first battalion was Guo Tao's younger brother when he was at the Dengzhou Military Academy, and he was also the little brother who entered the Dengzhou orphan camp together that year. This junior is very good, graduated from Dengzhou Military Academy and was admitted to Lu Shi, the last time he fought in the Northern War, he participated in the war as the head of the capital, and was promoted to the battalion owner after the war.

However, they rushed too hard, which made Guo Tao full of worry.

Maybe Zhao Jun of Chengde Town didn't know the truth of the Qin Army, but as the deputy commander of the First Army, he knew it very well.

This military operation is not so much an offensive as it is actually a drill.

This was a military tactical fraud, and the Qin army claimed to have mobilized 400,000 troops to destroy Chengde Town in one go and set foot in five states within three months. But in fact, the Qin army only planned to dispatch a hundred battalions in total, but only one army of the First Iron Cavalry Army was invested in the early stage. The other nine armies are still on the way!

To put it bluntly, the strategic intent of the General Staff is very clear, and this is an operation of fraud and intimidation. In order to promote peace, although there are many confidential things that he still doesn't know, he guesses in his heart that it may be related to the war situation in the northeast. The Northeast side has been fighting for two years, and it is still fighting, although it is intermittent and the truce is stopped, but the Qin army is dragged there. Now that two years have passed, the Qin army has a headache in this battle. After a year and a half of contraction and recuperation, I can't help it anymore.

At this time, most of the towns in Guanzhong in the Central Plains were involved in the struggle of the eunuchs, so it is very likely that the General Staff Committee also planned to take advantage of this good external situation to transfer troops and horses into the northeast, preparing to start from the stage of strategic defense and strategic stalemate to the stage of strategic counteroffensive.

This also means that the Qin army needs to send at least 100,000 more soldiers and horses to the northeast, 100,000 more troops, and at least 300,000 logistics people. It would be a decisive battle, and if it was won, the Qin army would solve the Northeast problem once and for all. And can control the Bohai Sea. Absorb the blood of the Bohai Sea to speed up the recovery of vitality. But there is a premise. That is, when the Qin army was unable to fight a decisive battle in the northeast, there would be a second battle.

Finally, this request, the Qin army suddenly issued an ultimatum to Chengde, and engaged in this battle of 100 battalions, in fact, it was just to scare Chengde and show the strength of the Qin army, so as not to prevent Chengde from seeing that the Qin army had been silent for more than a year and thinking that the Qin army was weak. In fact. If the Qin army sends troops to the northeast, it really does not have the logistical capacity to supply the war with Chengde. But such a hole card can't let Chengde know the way, otherwise, Chengde will definitely attack and disturb them when they fight with the Northeast, and even attract more people to take advantage of the fire to rob.

In fact, this is also because the Qin army now does not dare to really fight with Chengde Town before solving the situation in the northeast. Otherwise, there would be no need to bluff. The Qin army will definitely be able to win if it fights Chengde, but the current Qin army will fight Chengde. The price to pay is too great to be digested over there. If you swallow Chengde again, it is really possible that you will not be able to move.

It's better to be scared, show force, force Chengde to sue for peace, so that they don't dare to have dissent in a short period of time, and then transfer troops to the northeast for a decisive battle.

It's just that there are not many people who know this kind of strategic plan. Guo Tao himself also came up with such a guess based on the information he knew about the Dao, and then analyzed it carefully. The people below don't know the way, such as the junior brother Yang Weili, he knows that the situation of the road is that the Qin army will send ten armies to fight in Chengde this time, and at the same time, the king of Qin will take advantage of this winter idle period to mobilize all the township soldiers, unity soldiers, militia, student soldiers, and road maintenance soldiers in Hebei and Beiping to carry out a huge winter joint exercise. But in fact, it is just for the people of various states and counties to take advantage of the free time in winter to build roads, hunt, and bluff.

However, now it seems that it has been overdone, and in seven days, the 5,000 men of the First Army have attacked at the same time on a front of several hundred miles, and captured eight counties at once.

The Military Intelligence Bureau reported the situation on the battlefield to Li Jing at any time, and the 5,000 men of the First Army captured eight counties in seven days, and this situation not only alarmed Guo Tao and other commanders-in-chief of the First Army, but even the joint meeting of the Military Department, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the General Staff Yuan, and the Provincial Cabinet and the Yuan, and the meeting of the Political Affairs Hall was also alarmed.

Damn, do you want to fight so hard, you really want to kill Chengde, so desperate?

If he can really fight now, Li Jing has nothing to say. But now it's just cheating, and the play has been acted. You are really so desperate, in case Chengde comes to fight to the death, it will be difficult to ride a tiger when he freezes.

Many things were too much to fear, so Li Jing hurriedly ordered in Yanjing to brake and slow down immediately, and he couldn't fake the teasing to turn it into reality.

Orders are passed down one by one, and they can't be too public, and they have to be secret. The first-level commander conveyed that when he arrived at the First Army, Guo Tao immediately automatically asked Ying to go to Dingzhou to find Yang Willy and them. In order to be in a hurry, he did not bring a large army, only brought staff officers and guards, a total of more than fifty people, and hurried on the road.

Guo Tao is not an idle person, a real person with no background, I don't know who my biological parents are, I have been wandering for many years as a little beggar, and I entered the Boy Scout School in Dengzhou in my teens. In terms of loyalty, it may be that the six armies of the Qin King are not as good as these soldiers from the boy scouts. Beat a small wandering beggar, and later entered Dengzhou to become a boy scout, from the squad leader to the squadron leader, before graduation was conscripted to form a student army unit, joined the Northern Expedition, and fought outside the border for two years, and made great military achievements, from the battalion owner to the box owner, the army owner. After the victory, he was immediately named Ning Yuanbo, General Ning Yuan, and the deputy commander of the First Army of the Iron Cavalry Legion.

Although Guo Tao is young, he really relies on his own achievements. Although, there are also some reasons why he is set up as a typical meritorious person because of his age and meritorious service. But his outstanding military exploits are also a fact, after the propaganda of the Qin army, he can be described as a leader among the young rising generation, a star of the future. During the Northern Expedition, he raided the court of King Xi Khan, and fought a battle with Tuhe, and he defeated most of the enemy army with a small number of soldiers and horses twice, and the two battles combined beheaded nearly 10,000 prisoners, making him famous.

At noon, Guo Tao and his entourage crossed the border of Qingyuan County, and ten ice climbing plows galloped southwest through a small riverside village. I saw the word Zhao Zhuang written in lime on the wall of a muddy house at the entrance of the village, which had been mottled and blurred by the years, and was almost unrecognizable. The road in the village was deserted, and the two villagers ran home in a panic and closed the courtyard gate. Behind the cracks in the courtyard gates were pairs of frightened eyes, staring at the ten ice plows that drove from Mozhou into the Dingzhou interface, and the sergeants under the grass-green cotton army coats above.

There were many trees on the bank of the river at the edge of the village, Guo Tao accidentally took a look, but was surprised to find that not only had the leaves of these trees already fallen off, but also the bark had been stripped naked. Having wandered and begged in his early years, he suddenly understood that the bark had been stripped and eaten by the hungry. Looking at the ground on the shore, it is also bare, not to mention wild vegetables, not even weeds, and even the grass roots have long been dug up.

A flock of crows was startled by the sound of the horses' hooves and let out a flurry of croaks.

Guo Tao took out his pocket watch and looked at it, it was already one o'clock at noon, he felt a little hungry, so he ordered to stop, have lunch and leave.

The head of the guard brought a wooden box from the guard car behind, spread out a military tarpaulin on the bare riverbank, opened the folding chair, invited Guo Tao to sit down, and then began to distribute food.

Each of the guards in a team was given a three-pound field lunch box, which was the standard Qin army field food, also known as the third-level combat dry food, which contained sliced pot helmets, luncheon meat, a handful of fried rice, and a pickle.

Guo Tao and a few staff officers ate better, and their lunch was the Qin Army's first-class combat dry food, which was a battle picnic packaged on an assembly line, which was simply too extravagant from the perspective of other feudal towns at this time. Each lunch weighs three pounds and has three cans and a small box, three of which are canned meat, canned fish and canned beans, called high-nutrient supplements, and that box contains staple foods, including instant noodles, naan slices, and bacon and salted eggs. In addition, a small packet of tea leaves, ten cigarettes, and five matches were attached. Each serving is a day's ration, and in most cases, the soldiers' field meals and officers' field meals are cold, but they can also be eaten warm.

This specially designed field food greatly improves the army's sustained combat capability, but it also increases the difficulty of logistical supply. Compared with traditional military dry food, the field food of the Qin army took into account both nutrition and taste. Compared with the traditional dry food, the dry food of the Qin army reflects the strong comprehensive strength of the Qin domain and the degree of specialization of the handicraft workshop. This was very popular among the soldiers in the Qin army, and also saved the army the trouble and time of cooking in battle or on the march.

In the Qin army, all the soldiers and units could enjoy this field food, it was very popular in the army, and the soldiers enjoyed it very much! (To be continued......)