Dynasty Conquest

Chapter 647 The Provocation of the Red Turban Army
When Mu Xue led the remnants of the Far East Rebel Army to fight bloody battles with the besieged Hanhai army in the snow-capped forest, a battle of wits and courage was brewing in Luoshan Province thousands of miles away.

The withdrawal of the Hanhai Army from the area west of Tielan Pass finally let the Nanchuan Army, which had been under pressure, breathe a sigh of relief. The two battles between the main force of the Nanchuan Army and the Hanhai Army, the Battle of Hezhong and the Battle of Liuyang also promoted the strong rise of the Nanchuan Army. .

As a local provincial army, the Nanchuan Army is not only inferior to the Central Army, the Nanchuan Army, and the Zhenxi Army, which were directly under the Far East Dynasty, but also has a world of difference in status. Once disbanded and organized into the provincial garrison.

However, with the existence of the Far East Dynasty in name only, the Nanchuan Army once again ushered in a new life. Now, whether it is the Central Army, the Northern Army or the main force of the rest of the dynasty, they are deeply involved in the mutual conquest in the hinterland of the dynasty, and they are far away from the vortex of power struggle. Among them, the Nanchuan Army developed rapidly.

Especially when Lin Chuan served as the commander of the Nanchuan Army, instead of Lin Nuoyan's practice of reducing and abolishing the Nanchuan Army, he expanded the army wantonly. Relying on the huge population base of Nanchuan Province, Luoshan Province and Jiuyuan Province, Nanchuan The army expanded to an astonishing 30 people in a short period of time.

Although the Nanchuan Army was expanded in a short period of time, most of them were recruits, but with a series of measures such as three months of intensive recruit training, strict military discipline, and advanced sergeant system, the combat effectiveness of the Nanchuan Army is not low.

After the baptism of the Battle of Hezhong and the Battle of Liuyang, the recruits of the Nanchuan Army have transformed into iron-blooded veterans, and have become a murderous army of tigers and wolves. This cannot be trained by any training, and it needs to go through the flames of war. Baptized.

Although the Re Nanchuan Army suffered great losses in the two frontal battles with the Hanhai Empire, the good pension system did not have much impact on the people in the area controlled by the Nanchuan Army. Instead, the large amount of gold seized prompted the Nanchuan Army to control The district has experienced unprecedented rapid development.

Now the three provinces under the control of the Nanchuan Army are simply paradises compared to the rest of the provinces that are constantly conquering. The influx of countless refugees not only provides sufficient labor for the Nanchuan Army, but also provides more soldiers. , if Lin Chuan wanted, he could expand the Nanchuan Army to 100 million in one go.

However, what Lin Chuan pursues is not the number of troops, but the policy of elite soldiers. What he needs are elite soldiers who can stand up to ten, not ten cowards who are about to collapse. The scale of ten thousand people.

Now for the rest of the provinces where the melee is endless, the Nanchuan army is now rich and strong. If anyone wants to draw the attention of Nanchuan province, he must first ask the 30 tiger and wolf divisions whether they agree.

However, there were some people who wanted to challenge the authority of the Nanchuan Army and to test their sense of existence.

When the Battle of Liuyang broke out, in order to block the westward advance of the Hanhai Empire and protect the Nanchuan Province, the Nanchuan Army went out in full force. Even the militia troops and rural self-defense forces participated in the battle. In the west of the Nanchuan Army-controlled area The newly rising Red Scarf Army took advantage of the gap between the Nanchuan Army and the Hanhai Army to invade many lands and towns in Luoshan Province.

At that time, Lin Chuan was going all out to fight against the pressure of the Hanhai army, and he had no time to look around the Red Turban Army, so he could only take the initiative to order the local officials to cover the people to retreat to the hinterland of Luoshan Province to avoid greater casualties, because the Nanchuan Army is really No troops could be spared to support the Western Front.

Lin Chuan originally wanted to hold back and wait until the Hanhai people were repelled. However, the retreat of the Nanchuan army was considered weak and deceitful by the Red Turban Army, so they pressed on every step of the way and directly occupied Leites in Luoshan Province. Waiting for the main cities, this made Nanchuan officials very angry, but facing the sharp front of the Red Scarf Army, they had to swallow their anger.

After the battle of Liuyang, Lin Chuan didn't want to use any more weapons because the Nanchuan Army was exhausted after the war, and sent envoys to the Red Turban Army to negotiate, hoping that they would withdraw from the Nanchuan Army's control area voluntarily, so as to avoid the confrontation of swords and soldiers.

However, the Red Scarf Army had just defeated the Dynasty's inner guard army at this time, and it was in full swing. After humiliating the envoy sent by Lin Chuan, they killed it, and the head was circulated by the whole army, and stepped up. The invasion and infiltration of Luoshan Province under the control of the Nanchuan Army.

Only at the end of December in AD [-], the infiltrating troops of the Red Turban Army attacked more than ten villages and towns in Luoshan Province, causing a large number of civilian deaths.

After the time entered the [-]th year of the AD, the Red Turban Army not only did not restrain itself, but intensified, mobilizing more than [-] troops to press down on the surrounding areas of Luoshan Province, for their burning, killing, looting and looting. The behavior completely angered Lin Chuan.

In February [-] AD, Lin Chuan decided to counterattack against the Red Turban Army's pressing step by step. Under Lin Chuan's order, Xia Ge's First Field Army went to the front line of Luoshan Province to attack the Red Scarf Army. infiltration and aggression to fight back.

Xia Ge's First Field Army was the tiger and wolf division that shook the Hanhai Empire's elite during the Battle of Liuyang. 10 people marched to the front with a murderous spirit, and recovered all the land occupied by the Red Scarf Army in just one week. The land has regained control of the border at the border of Luoshan Province.

The Nanchuan Army was originally an act of justice to regain the lost ground, but the arrogant generals of the Red Turban Army were very angry. They were defeated by the Nanchuan Army and threatened to fight back.

The current Red Scarf Army is no longer the uprising army that was beaten and fled by the dynasty army a year ago. Now they have occupied eight provinces. , the central army, and the behemoth that the northern army dare not easily provoke.

Relying on their powerful strength, the Red Turban Army was very arrogant, threatening to destroy the Nanchuan Army, and bring Luoshan Province, Nanchuan Province and Jiuyuan Province into the territory of the Red Scarf Army.

Since mid-February, the Red Turban Army, which was expelled from the Luoshan Province by Xia Ge, began to dispatch troops to the Luoshan Province. Every day, the troops continued to go to the front line, and a large amount of food and supplies were also transported to the Luoshan Province. The province's frontline camp.

In response to the continuous provocations of the Red Turban Army, after discussions between Lin Chuan and a group of senior Nanchuan Army officials, they decided to take this opportunity to weaken the strength of the Red Turban Army or destroy him if they could. After all, the Red Turban Army now has eight provinces It swelled to the point where Lin Chuan had to face it squarely.

Anyone who sleeps next to such a covetous monster will not feel at ease, so Lin Chuan decided to take advantage of the fact that the Hanhai people have not yet moved westward, to clean up the red scarf army and destroy their prestige and power, otherwise when the time comes If I fought against the Hanhai army, and the Red Turban army stabbed me in the back, I would regret it too late.

(End of this chapter)