I want to be emperor

Chapter 116
The pain in Chen Yongfu's heart is incomparable to outsiders.

Hong Chengchou and other bigwigs at the top thought that Chen Yongfu was passive and lazy, unwilling to fight with the bandit army, and even had a seedling of raising the bandit's self-respect.

After the subordinates above received Chen Yongfu's order to go northward, many people looked at Chen Yongfu with doubts in their eyes.

The adults above don't know the virtues of the rural protection army in the north. Don't you know Chen Yongfu?
Let's just go north and fight to the death with the rural protection army. Let's not talk about the chances of winning, but even if we can win in the face of such a hard stubble, they will have to hurt their bones after this battle.

Maybe, many of the generals present here will not be able to come back alive.

You, Chen Yongfu, know it all, but why did you take us to die?

Looking at the puzzled and even questioning eyes of several confidantes of the direct line, Chen Yongfu remained expressionless, and directly handed Hong Chengchou's letter to a confidant of the direct line next to him.

After seeing this guerrilla, his face was gloomy!

Immediately afterwards, he handed the letter to several other people around him. Without exception, the expressions of these people were not very good after reading the letter.

"What do the adults above think? We all said that the rural protection army in the north is an elite army, but why don't we believe our words?"

"There is still a deadline of ten days to get rid of the township protection army and transfer to Lu's. The pressure is so urgent. Isn't this forcing us to die?"

"What are you talking about about Lu's defense? Is it Lu's problem now? If we can't wipe out the bandits of the rural protection army in the north first, I'm afraid the whole Nanyang Mansion will fall into the hands of these bandits."

"What should we do? This military order has to be obeyed. The guy surnamed Hong is not a soft-hearted person. If we dare to disobey the order, then things will end badly."

"Could it be that you just go north like this, and you don't care about fighting the Township Protection Army? It's not like you haven't been in contact with the Township Protection Army under Luo Bandit's hands, so it's not easy to deal with."

"Even if we want to delay the time, it won't work. He has restricted us to end the battle within ten days, and then go to Lu's. If the time is too long, we still disobey orders."

Listening to the words of the confidantes under him, Chen Yongfu said: "Don't say anything, no matter what, you must obey the orders of the supervisor, otherwise I don't need to tell you what the end will be." Know."

"Going to the north is a must, but we still have to think about how to fight. If we can really fight, then we will try our best to wear down some old foundations, put our heads on the waistband and fuck him once, and then go to Lu's when the fight is over! "

"The Township Protection Army has a lot of mules, horses, food, and excellent weapons. If we can get rid of them, the gains will not only make up for our losses, but also increase our strength by three points."

Speaking of this, Chen Yongfu looked around and said: "If something can't be done, then you can't be dead-brained, but don't really fold it in time, the thousands of soldiers trained by our brothers are not easy, and they must not be in vain. Too much damage."

"However, at the beginning, we all have to cheer up and fight hard. It's best to win. Even if we don't win, it's enough to give the supervisor an explanation."

At this time, the confidant guerrilla said: "Since this is the case, then we can only fight one battle, but it is not easy for us to accumulate two thousand soldiers, can we let those guard soldiers try the reality of the bandit army first, If there is a chance, use our headquarters again?"

Chen Yongfu said: "It is natural for this to happen. Let the guards take the lead first, and our soldiers will wait for the opportunity to act. But you also know who those guards are."

"Usually, it's okay to let them take the lead, but now when we face these rural guards, I'm afraid that these guards will be defeated by the opponent before they go up, so we must do a good job in supervising the battle."

After hearing this, the confidant Guerrilla nodded and said: "I will personally lead the cavalry to serve as the supervising team."

By this time, Chen Yongfu and several of his confidants knew about it.

Now they have no choice but to go north for a fight.

If you can play the best, you will not only be able to complete the task but also rely on seizing a wave of fat.

If he can't beat him, then it's an explanation to Hong Chengchou. He Hong Chengchou can't get angry because he really can't beat him, and finally cut himself off.

What they can do now is to carefully arrange the battle, and if the battle goes unfavorable, they must try their best to preserve their two thousand soldiers.

Yes, not one thousand soldiers, but two thousand soldiers!

Although Chen Yongfu was forced by Hong Chengchou to send troops, since he decided to go north, Chen Yongfu will go all out.

It is absolutely not possible to hide and leave half of the main force to watch a play in Nanyang Fucheng, and the foolish ones who only bring a thousand soldiers and a guard to go north.

He knew very well that any contempt for the Township Protection Army was a joke about the lives of himself and the [-] soldiers under his command.

Now that you have fought, you must go all out!
Therefore, Chen Yongfu ordered his son Chen De to go north with another thousand soldiers who stayed in Nanyang Mansion for garrison.

In addition, he asked his son Chen De to bring another thousand guards from Nanyang City.

As for the young and strong civilian husbands, he is not recruiting.

The soldiers of the guard can still be used as cannon fodder, but the young and strong peasants can only help transport the luggage.

The current [-] civilian husbands are barely enough, and if too many are recruited, it will be a waste of food.

Besides, after I transferred a thousand soldiers from Nanyang Mansion, Nanyang City became relatively empty.

Now there are only about 2000 guard soldiers left in Nanyang City, and there are two to three thousand young men who have been recruited one after another recently.

If there are too many transfers, Nanyang Fucheng will be completely undefended.

He doesn't care about the life and death of those officials and gentlemen in Nanyang City, but now Nanyang City is his rear base camp, the place where food and grass are supplied.

Chen Yongfu didn't want to see Nanyang Mansion being breached by a group of thieves who came here casually.

Therefore, some necessary guard soldiers and young adults should be left behind.

Nanyang City is not far from Yangjiazhuang, only more than ten miles away. It took only one day for Chen De, the son of Chen Yongfu, to reach Yangjiazhuang from Nanyang City.

The next day, Chen Yongfu personally led an army of 7000 soldiers, [-] guardsmen, and [-] civilian husbands, a total of more than [-] people, to march northward.

It's just that these 7000 people seem like a lot, but everyone knows that there are only 2000 soldiers under Chen Yongfu's command who are really in the army.

And among the two thousand soldiers, only Chen Yongfu's direct subordinates were more than a hundred soldiers who could be considered elite.

The various Ming armies in the Central Plains today are also officers and soldiers, but the differences will be very large.

For example, all kinds of young men recruited temporarily, regardless of the name of county bravery, township bravery, etc., they are essentially a group of temporarily recruited farmers, and many of them don't even have supplies.

The most powerful ones are naturally the various servants and personal soldiers in the hands of the generals.

The second is ordinary soldiers, and these soldiers are divided into recruit soldiers and guard soldiers.

Recruiting, needless to say, Wang Xiazi and the others belonged to recruiting in the past, and now many officers and soldiers who are more capable of fighting are basically all recruiting.

As for the soldiers in the guard, this is more interesting.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there were many ways in the Weisuobing. They were also Weisuobing, but the difference in combat effectiveness was huge.

There is a huge gap in combat effectiveness between the frontier army and the inland guards.

And even the guard soldiers who also belonged to the inland area had a huge gap in combat effectiveness.

Generally speaking, a guard in the inland area currently has several thousand military households in name, but in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it was implemented at a ratio of three to one, that is, three military households and one soldier.

If a guard has [-] military households, then there are [-] warriors.

But, this data is the theoretical peak in the middle of the Ming Dynasty...

By the time of the Chongzhen Dynasty, a guard with a name of 600 military households had only [-] soldiers, and the ratio had greatly increased to ten to one!

Don't ask why it became like this, it is too long to talk about it.

Let's talk about the five hundred and six soldiers.

Since officers and soldiers now use the battalion sentry system when fighting wars, apart from some of these battalion sentry soldiers are recruited, some of them are selected from the guard soldiers.

As a result, half of the five or six hundred soldiers in a guard are often selected, that is, about 300 elite soldiers.

These three hundred slightly elite guard soldiers will be incorporated into the battalion sentinel field troops led by senior generals, as one of the main components of the contemporary Ming army field troops.

And the remaining two or three hundred first-class soldiers who were selected stayed at the local garrison on weekdays.

If the local area is under attack, the local guards will mobilize and recruit ordinary military households who have not received professional military skills training in addition to using these left-behind second-class soldiers.

These ordinary military households recruited temporarily are actually not much different from other young and strong civilians recruited temporarily. The only better ones may have some tattered rusty iron knives, spears and other weapons.

Of course, because these ordinary military households are led by sub-first-class guard soldiers left behind, the actual combat effectiveness is still much stronger than that of pure civilian husbands.

How should I put it, in Chen Yongfu's mind, this time he went north to fight against the bandits of the rural protection army. The three thousand ordinary guards under his command were still qualified to be cannon fodder, while the two thousand civilian men were not even qualified to be cannon fodder. It is to let them consume the arrows and ammunition of the bandit soldiers.

Looking at the [-] troops under Chen Yongfu's command, you will find that there are actually not many who can fight, and even fewer who can be called elite.

However, even so, the [-] troops are still very intimidating.

As soon as Chen Yongfu and the others set off, Luo Zhixue got the news that the Ming army in Yangjiazhuang had come out in full force.

Luo Zhixue, who was standing in front of the window, put down the emergency report, and said calmly to An Yongduo beside him: "It seems that Chen Yongfu is determined to fight us, the seven thousand army, he is afraid that he will The coffin is already pressed!"

An Yongduo said: "That's true. Among the seven thousand troops, two thousand were just transferred from Nanyang City to the north. He has completely transferred all the troops in Nanyang Mansion!"

Luo Zhixue's expression remained calm: "Since he has taken the initiative to go north, we, as landlords, need to treat him well!"

"The biography will order: all battalion posts should be ready for battle, guns and armor should be inspected, repaired, and replaced."

"The first cavalry post continues to monitor the enemy's news. When necessary, it can choose to attack the enemy's luggage and delay the enemy's northward march."

"Send flying cavalry to the north and order the fourth infantry battalion, the second artillery post, and the second cavalry post to go south urgently, and the third battalion post to go south is led by Wang Dazhuang."

After Luo Zhixue's order was issued, An Yongduo immediately said respectfully: "Subordinate, let's arrange it!"

Luo Zhixue nodded slightly, but did not speak again.

What should be prepared has already been prepared, and what should be said has been said. Even the corresponding combat plan staff office has formulated five or six different combat plans.

This battle, whether Luo Zhixue or others, has actually been waiting for a long time.

Luo Zhixue ignored An Yongduo who was leaving in a hurry, but continued to stand in front of the window and look into the distance.

Outside the window is an endless wilderness, along the wilderness all the way to the south, is Yangjiazhuang, further south is Nanyang City, and further south is Xiangyang!

This is Nanyang Basin!

South of the Nanyang Basin is the Jianghan Plain!
Nanyang Basin plus Jianghan Plain, this is a place that can lay the foundation for hegemony!

(End of this chapter)