Chapter 136 Victory Army
The weather is in mid-April, which is the plum rain season in the south. Fortunately, governments in various places have prepared for a long time. The roads before crossing the river have been repaired and leveled for a long time, and a considerable amount of straw and other things have been prepared to pave the roads and facilitate the convoy to walk.
After entering the Central Plains, although the road was not as spacious and plain as the southern Song Dynasty, it was sunny. From Huangguan to Yangzhou, millions of people supported the wing army on the thousands of miles of front transporting countless strategic materials, continuously sending them to the front.
When Yue Fei and the central army arrived in Yingchang, the materials from the rear also arrived, and the reconnaissance in the front was also smooth. The puppet Qi lost the city and land, and the border defense army was useless. While gathering the main force, the Jin soldiers also wanted to know the specific strategic purpose of the Song army, so they scolded the top and bottom of the puppet Qi and ordered the puppet Qi to immediately gather the main force and repel the invading Song army. Han Shizhong's troops had already attacked Shandong and directly defeated Jinan, while Zhe Yanzhi and Yang Yizhong troops were not smooth as planned and were blocked under the strong city and could not move forward.
Under such a situation, the pseudo-Qi made a mistake in judgment, and the government and the people believed that as long as the main force of Yue Fei was defeated, the Song army's offensive would retreat.
Since the Song army began to attack in early April, and in the middle of the year, Yue Fei's troops captured four prefectures and more than 20 counties, the pseudo-Qi mobilized a main army in the heart of the Central Plains, with nearly 200,000 main forces, led by Li Cheng, and nearly 20,000 cavalry, slowly gathered from Kaifeng to near Luoyang, preparing to defeat Yue Fei's troops before the Song army in Huangguan arrived.
When Yue Fei knew that it was Li Cheng's general, he couldn't help laughing and said to everyone: "This man has been defeated by me five or six times, and he is considered an old acquaintance. He should have grown a little. If I took everyone to celebrate the New Year of the Pseudo-Qi Dynasty, he brought tens of thousands of people, but Yue Yun broke through the formation for five hundred years and fled in panic. Seeing that he led his troops this time, Ji Jian's plan would not really make any progress."
The other party gathered troops. Yue Fei was not confused. More than 90% of the main forces gathered were Han soldiers, and the pseudo-Qi Dynasty did not take deep roots, unlike the Song Dynasty that had an irreplaceable position in the hearts of the people. Therefore, its soldiers only had a small number of professional soldiers, which were the combat power. The rest were strong men, afraid that even the combat power of the Song army soldiers was not as good as that of the Song army. At this time, the main forces of the Jin soldiers had not yet been assembled. The pseudo-Qi was willing to gather their families together, which was equivalent to giving Yue Fei a big gift with both hands, which naturally had to be accepted with a smile.
With the warplane approaching, Yue Fei naturally issued an order. Except for the back danger and most of the infantry and armored heavy infantry stayed by his side, the other generals led their troops to advance first, and Gao Chong's troops rushed forward wildly, only a hundred miles away from Luoyang.
Everything went smoothly, but God refused to help, as if the rain clouds in the south drifted to the Central Plains. Since the middle of the month, it was heavy rain, and it took two consecutive days. On April 16th, the heavy rain finally showed signs of stopping. The sky was still dark, with rain clouds pressing on people's heads and refusing to drift. The sporadic light rains were intermittent, making people feel irritable, but there was no way.
It has been raining for days and the roads are muddy. In such a situation, the supply supply has been in place in advance, but it is not conducive to the actions of heavy infantry and cavalry. Even the Song army is anxious, but unfortunately, the weather does not make it beautiful, so they have to wait for a while.
Yang Zaixing is the deputy general of the Shengjie Army and local government, with a new military system. Each army has 10,000 people, and three deputy generals. Although such positions can carry a golden star on their shoulders, in fact, in the entire imperial guards, they are only the positions of a low-level officer who has just escaped from the lower-level officer and reached the middle level.
As for the struggle from the middle level to a higher position, we do not rely solely on personal courage to establish military achievements, or through hard work, and can achieve success. The right time, place, people, and military achievements and luck are indispensable.
Yang Zaixing was not worried about military achievements. He was a descendant of the Yang family in Shuozhou. He learned his skills for many years. In addition to his natural courage, no one was his opponent except for a few people in the army. Jiangluo was originally his shortcomings, and there was no war last year. He rushed to Chang'an martial arts lecture hall and received three months of training. Although it was not long, the content of the lecture was devoted to the generals. It was not just copied by military books, but also compiled lesson plans for various dynasties and even local battles in history, and used them to talk about the outcomes and losses, and then the details of the marching and the battlefield.
So in just a few months, Yang Zaixing felt like he was reborn. He felt that his martial arts skills were not talented but not as a general, and he became more confident.
When it comes to luck, he is not only not as similar as the ordinary generals, but even waits for it. He was originally a general of the huge gangster Cao Cheng. When Yue Fei was conquering Cao Cheng, Yang Zaixing used his martial arts to kill Yue Fei's fifth brother Yue Fan at the moment and formed a personal grudge with Yue Fei's family. Later, he knew that he had no future to follow Cao Cheng, so he surrendered to Yue Fei after Cao Cheng failed.
It is not surprising that Yue Fei did not kill him, but since the time of his effectiveness, he has been a deputy general. After two years of hard work, he is still just a deputy general.
There is no other reason. One is that there is no significant military achievements. The other is that everyone knows that he has a relationship with the Yue family. Yue Fei doesn't care, which does not mean that others don't care about it. Moreover, Yue Yun and Yue Fan's uncle and nephew have a strong relationship and have always held a grudge against Yang Zaixing, which also makes the generals at all levels forget this person intentionally or unintentionally when promoting generals as usual.
This time he attacked Zhongyuan, Yang Zaixing felt a little angry. After the new group of victories, he was also transferred to this elite army to be the deputy general because of his extraordinary force. There were more than a thousand people under his command, all of whom were carefully selected heroes. He was confident that he would kill the generals and seize the flag on the battle formation and vow to make some achievements so that those who looked at him coldly knew that his children from the Yang family in Shuozhou were not cowards.
Because Shengjie Army was organized in the Central Army, and was directly under the command of Yue Fei and above. Every day, he got to go to the Central Army's tent. Although the sky did not clear on that day, it was a sparse rain in the morning. The Central Army was in the city, but Yang Zaixing's troops were outside the city. They worked hard all the way. When they arrived at the Deying Camp, they realized that Yue Fei was not in the camp. They rushed to Luoyang in the rain and went to survey the terrain. The Central Army was left by Yue Yun. When they saw Yang Zaixing coming, they couldn't help but glar at him a few more times.
Yang Zaixing didn't care about it. He was also very young, but he had already started a family. Compared with Yue Yun, who was only sixteen, he was much more mature and steady.
He killed his uncle and was stared at him for a few glances. The only thing he could worry about was that Yue Yun stumbling on the battlefield and tricks would be very miserable. However, Yue Fei and his son were both open and honest. With Yue Yun's temperament, he would rather fight with Yang Zaixing in person than kill him in front of him than to make such a vulgar method, so he would never worry.
Seeing Yue Yun glaring at him, he ignored him and smiled and greeted many of his colleagues. Everyone knew that the weather was bad, the road was difficult, and they could not use troops for the time being. In addition, the danger of the Jin soldiers was still far away, so they were all in a relaxed mood and did not take the current war to heart.
When it was scattered in the evening, Yang Zaixing looked at the distant sky and saw rays of red light shining on the earth through the black clouds.
He was delighted, knowing that the weather was about to improve, and he could invite the enemy troops in Luoyang in a few days.
Just as he was about to leave the camp, he saw his general in charge, Fu Qing, the commander of the Shengjie Army, waved to him. Yang Zaixing did not dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly trotted forward, and after giving greetings, he asked with a smile: "What are the commands for the command?"
Fu Qing frowned and said, "The General was in front of me and the Luoyang area has been cleared long ago. Although it is difficult for us to travel here, it has not rained one day today, and we can go on the road tomorrow. Shengjie Army is a heavy armor and has to protect the convoy. The road is difficult, so it is even more difficult to travel on the road. After you go back, you will notify your brothers to rest early. As long as there is no rain tomorrow, we will have to go on the road."
"Yes! The last general will obey the order." Yang Zaixing was full of excitement and bowed to Fu Qing, then asked: "When we are in the battle, will we use our Victory Army as the leader?"
Fu Qing was an old member of Yue Fei. He always valued trust and lacked a lot of taboos. Because Yang Zaixing was brave and respected this beloved general, he smiled and replied: "What should we do when we fight the pseudo-Qi? It's not good to be exposed early. Burenjia and the chariot array have not been used yet. It's too wasteful to use it to hit them."
He turned his head and looked at Yue Yun not far away, and smiled and said, "The first battle is probably the result of the Weiwei Army. They are well-known, and no matter how they fight, it is not unexpected."
The war has not yet begun, and the main generals are full of confidence. Yang Zaixing didn't find it strange. Like these generals, the more than 100,000 troops that attacked Li Cheng could not put pressure on the Yue family soldiers who had been on the battlefield for a long time.
He said goodbye to Fu Qing and saw the personal soldiers beside Fu Qing summoning officers from the Victory Army one by one. He must have ordered that he would no longer pass the general by beating the drum. It would be sunny or rain tomorrow. Everyone did not know. Once he could pass the general by beating the drum and passing the general but could not do so, his morale would be reduced. Yang Zaixing nodded secretly, knowing that Fu Qing was a veteran on the battlefield after all, which was admirable.
After leaving the camp gate, his dozen or so of his personal soldiers surrounded him and asked Fu Xuan's orders clearly, everyone could not hide their joy. If they were not far from the Central Army, they would probably have cheered.
Yang Zaixing was also happy, but scolded the soldiers and said, "Whether tomorrow is going to be done, it is still between the 55th and 5th. After returning to the camp later, you will send orders to everyone to prepare. But to make it clear that if it still rains tomorrow, you still need to wait." Liu U vomited a soldier with a smile on his face, looked at the increasingly clear red clouds in the distance, and said, "No, tomorrow will be clear."
"This is the best."
Everyone said angrily: "Will General Fu use us to play the striker?"
"The Shengjie Army is the elite of the entire army, and we are the most elite of the Shengjie Army. If you are not convinced, you will see a good or bad on the school ground."
"That's right, we don't play forward unless we use cavalry."
Yang Zaixing was already full of excitement. At this time, he was so angry that he was unable to make a vanguard. Where was his military achievements?
Seeing him like this, everyone didn't dare to say anything anymore, so they had to follow him honestly. The dull sound of horse hooves sounded rapidly on the official road, and the brown and yellow soil kept splashing on everyone. After a while, the military camp in front of them was already in front of them.
Chapter completed!