Valley Emperor

Just when Chen Ke took a group of soldiers to carry out adaptive training before the battle, they just ate and slept, and continued to eat after enough sleep, just left Xingquan Mansion and brought the army into Jingzhou. The generals of the Ming army, Huguang was in command of the incident, and Hong Linquan, who still had the title of sergeant general, looked irritable.

The march along the way was relatively smooth, but I don't know who made the news on the road, so that the middle and low-level officers below and even ordinary soldiers know that their supply line has been cut off by the pseudo-Tang bandit army. The fact that the memory grain has been less than seven days.

This situation inevitably caused the military to fluctuate, and many mid-level officers showed a little pessimism.

Some people even prefer not to believe the correct information, plausibly saying that there are tens of thousands of pseudo-Tang thieves who cut off the supply line between the two places, and there are at least 20,000 real thieves.

These idiots don’t even think about it, if there are tens of thousands of fake Tang thieves going north to Jingzhou, and there are 20,000 real thieves in them, they still need to cut off the supply line between the two places and directly kill Xingquan Mansion or other places. Wouldn't it be better to storm Jingzhou City?

How many troops did the Pseudo Tang Bandit Army have?

Although the outside world has said how many tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops of the pseudo-Tang thief army are, but Hong Linquan, a senior general of the Ming army, still knows something.

After all, although the pirate army of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty can hide the detailed military strength, many things are semi-public. As long as people who have a heart to inquire about the collection, even ordinary people can judge from some official news of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty.

From the comprehensive calculation of many channels, the total strength of the Puppet Tang Bandit Army is a relatively vague number, and it is difficult for all parties to judge, because the Puppet Tang Bandit Army includes the Guards Army, the Regular Army, the Guard Army, and the Stealing Camp. It is very difficult to determine the strength of the robbery battalion. Not to mention them, even Li Xuan himself can't figure out how many robbery camps there are in the huge Tang Dynasty, because almost every Tang Dynasty has many robbery camps. The counties under the control of the dynasty will have robbery camps, but the number is not uniform, some are less, some are more, and they are changing all the time.

However, it is not easy to judge the robbery camp, but it is better to judge the number of the garrison army, regular army and guard army in the Tang Dynasty, because this is just by looking at the number.

A brigade of the Puppet Tang Bandit Army has about 6,000 people. It is said that there are five regular army brigades and about seven or eight garrison brigades in the Pseudo-Tang Bandit Army. If you calculate it like this, it is about 80,000 people, and then add other messes. An estimate of 100,000 troops is quite appropriate.

But in fact, many troops in the Tang Dynasty were dissatisfied with the formation, and there were also many auxiliary troops such as baggage and navy. In addition, there was a new organization independent of the combat troops.

If nothing else, there are more than 20,000 recruits who are just training in the recruit camp.

Because the military configuration of the Datang Wangshi is relatively complex and has many numbers, it has always been difficult for the outside world to judge how many troops the Datang Wangshi has.

But there is one thing that many people can be sure of, that is, the normal rules of the pseudo-Tang thief army, that is, the so-called real thieves, at most 30,000 people.

Because there are only five infantry brigades in total in the Puppet Tang Bandit Army, and all five of them are considered to be up, but only 30,000 people.

It is impossible for the main force of these pseudo-Tang thieves to be used on a certain front. Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Huguang are everywhere, because there are thousands of fake Tang thieves in Jingzhou. Thief, that is not bad, it is impossible to have tens of thousands.

For those who have shaken the hearts of the army, whether it is because of ignorance or ignorance or because of fear, Hong Lin has all arrested and killed one. He has killed more than a dozen such people in the past few days. All also include a thousand households.

This is the initial stabilization of the military's heart, but even so, there is still fear in the hearts of the soldiers for the future.

Taking such a group of people to fight against the new force of the pseudo-Tang bandit army, he felt a lot of pressure!

But now he doesn't have too much thought about it. No matter what, he needs to go to Jingzhou to kill this fake Tang bandit army. Even if he can't kill them completely, he has to drive them out of Jingzhou. State, otherwise, the supply lines in these two places will not be able to recover. The 30,000-strong army in Xingquan Mansion relies on food reserves, but it cannot support it for too long.

Ten days is okay, half a month is barely okay, but over time, there will inevitably be uncontrollable changes.

After taking the army all the way eastward, he soon learned the information of the pseudo-Tang thief army from the mouth of the detective!

As the previous information said, there are indeed 7,000 pseudo-Tang thieves in Jingzhou, and most of them are wearing unsightly military uniforms such as blue shirts and red trousers. From experience, all thieves who wear such ugly military uniforms are real thieves. Although they are ugly, their combat power should not be underestimated.

Therefore, although he has an army of 15,000 people on hand, he is still more cautious. All the horsemen under his control are sent out to continue the investigation. Investigate the outside to see if there are other pseudo-Tang thieves in ambush.

When he didn't want to kill the enemy, suddenly another band of thieves came out to attack his flank.

In addition, he also sent a fast horse to Jingzhou City to report the letter, so that they would be prepared, and agreed to join forces about twenty miles northwest of Jingzhou City in five days.

He didn't plan to attack the Puppet Tang Bandit Army immediately. He still planned to fight steadily, first joining up with the Jingzhou defenders and then attacking this daring army. Even now they are still staying outside the Jingzhou City Puppet Tang Bandit Army. .

At that time, we will be able to gather about 25,000 troops and horses, and we will be more confident in fighting a bandit army of 7,000 people. Even if we cannot win, we will be able to protect ourselves.

Hong Linquan was extremely cautious. He did not lead the army to march toward the Fourth Army, but began to circle the north.

Naturally, this situation was quickly learned by Chen Keqiao.

It's not that the Ming army only has reconnaissance cavalry, the Fourth Army also has reconnaissance cavalry!

At this time, although the two sides were separated by dozens of miles, because of the existence of a large number of reconnaissance horses, the movements of the two sides were actually transparent to each other.

There's no way, the speed of scouting is fast, and it doesn't need to be too much. Dozens of scouting can roughly search these dozens of miles. Not to mention, there are quite a few scouting on both sides.

And when the reconnaissance cavalry on both sides conducts reconnaissance, it is inevitable that there will be contact!

At this time, more than ten kilometers away from the fourth army station, the cavalry of more than a dozen Great Tang kings were leading their horses slowly forward, looking at the direction of their march, but they were not heading for the direction of the Ming army, but going around. Make a big circle with your own troops.

That's right, they are not the reconnaissance cavalry sent by Chen Keqiao for reconnaissance, but the cavalry unit in the second cavalry battalion directly belonging to the Fourth Army. Their mission is not to investigate, but to shoulder the mission of peripheral security, while intercepting and infiltrating. The incoming Ming army reconnaissance cavalry.

In order to save the horses' physical strength, they did not march on horseback, but the cavalry led the horses to carry out, and even in order to lighten the burden on the warhorses, they even carried their own equipment on their backs, leaving only the backs of the horses. Just a small amount of equipment.

In the Datang cavalry unit that rides alone, in fact, unless it is combat time, it is difficult to see the cavalry marching on horseback even during combat readiness patrols, but any cavalry who dares to do so will be arrested. The cavalry officers directly drew a whip!

Because as a cavalry, a warhorse is his second life. Whether he is escaping or killing an enemy, he relies heavily on horses. Therefore, there is a very important clause in the relevant regulations of cavalry, that is, no matter when and where, It is necessary to preserve the physical fitness of the war horse as much as possible.

Unless the officer expressly orders a rapid march on horseback, it is absolutely not allowed to ride a horse without permission during the march.

The dozen or so cavalrymen who marched with their horses belonged to the first cavalry team under the second cavalry battalion, and were sent by their superiors to carry out peripheral security tasks.

As they walked, they looked around, trying to find the trail of the enemy cavalry.

From noon to noon, a lieutenant cavalry officer who led the team ordered the troops to rest on the spot. In addition to the soldiers eating dry food and drinking water, they also needed to feed the horses with food.

During the execution of combat missions, in order to protect the physical fitness of the war horses to the greatest extent, it is necessary to feed the horses.

When most of the cavalry began to eat and feed the horses, the other two cavalry went forward to the edge of the grove and took up the task of guarding~www.wuxiaspot.com~ These two cavalry looked a little weird , Because their age difference is too big, the older one looks to be in his forties. This age is a veritable elder in the ancient times with an average life expectancy of only 20 or 30 years old. Many people live here. Age, children and grandchildren are a large group.

The other one seems to be only fifteen or sixteen years old, and his face is still immature, but the two have one characteristic in common, that is, they are extremely strong.

Although it is said that there is a general lack of nutrition in this era, the people's body is generally thin, but the regular soldiers in the King's Division of the Tang Dynasty are an exception. They have sufficient food to supplement nutrition, plus proper physical training, their physical fitness is better than that of ordinary people. Much better, and some veterans who have been in the army for a long time are even stronger and stronger.

The exposed little arms of these two people are strong enough to see the lines of the muscles, and these muscles are enough to make a group of sub-healthy later generations envious.

At this moment, the two of them showed a hint of vigilance invariably. The young cavalry directly leaned over and lay on the ground, then pressed his ears to the ground, and then raised his head with a heavy look: "There is an enemy cavalry!"