(PS: Okay, three updates will be made. The first update will be delivered, the second update will be at 4 pm, and the third update will be in the evening. A total of about 15,000 words.)

To put it bluntly, poor General Zhang Lie, who could not resist threats and inducements, finally agreed to implement Tao Ying's battle plan, which was to let Tao Ying alone lead an army of 800 gentlemen to go south first, trying to lure Zuo Rong out of the city to fight in the field. Our poor Zhang

General Lie led two thousand infantry to station in the abandoned Pingan County, waiting for the victory between the Junzi Army and the main force of Zuo Rong, and then decided on the next move, so as not to hinder the Junzi Army. This was said by the Second Young Master Tao

of.

Of course, Zhang Lie didn't give in because of Tao Ying's ridiculous threat to fight Lin Qing. What prompted Zhang Lie to make concessions was that Zhang Lie was only Tao Ying's deputy. Tao Ying was the head coach of Xuzhou's southern expedition and refused to carry out the plan.

Tao Ying's military order not only violated the iron rules of the military that orders must be obeyed, but also offended Tao Ying, the future master of Xuzhou in the eyes of the old man Danyang. Therefore, after weighing it again and again, Zhang Lie finally bowed to Tao Ying and decided to execute Tao Ying against his will.

In response to this chaotic destiny. But of course, Zhang Lie also has conditions.

"Sir, the general can lead the infantry to wait in Ping'an County, but the general also has a condition." Zhang Jie said to Tao Ying bravely: "Please forgive the ominous words of the general. After the master's former army went south, he and Zuo Rong

If the battle with the dog thief's army does not go as planned, I hope that you will not show off your strength and love fighting, and you should withdraw your troops quickly to Ping'an and join forces at the end, and then fight the decisive battle with the thief."

Tao Ying smiled, knowing that Zhang Lie was still worried about him and was already making preparations for the defeat of Junzi's army before the battle started. However, Tao Ying knew that Zhang Lie had good intentions and was afraid that he would throw the guy who was eating into Guangling.

On the battlefield, Tao Ying was not dissatisfied and said with a smile: "General Zhang, please don't worry. I am still young and don't want to die. I will remember the general's advice. General, please don't worry. Even if the gentleman's army cannot defeat Ze

The army of thieves is confident enough to escape."

"Second brother is right." Tao Ji winked and laughed, "What our Gentlemen Army has practiced the most in the past five months is how to escape on the battlefield. Compared with the ability to escape, we Gentlemen

If our army is second in the world, then there is no other army in the world that dares to be number one!"

Tao Ying also laughed and couldn't help but laugh. Zhang Zhuoze looked strange and thought to himself: What happened to the third young master? How come he has become so talkative after following the second young master for more than five months? His ability to escape is the best in the world.

1. Is it very honorable? Lin Qing, who was standing next to him, quietly spit and cursed secretly: "Shameless! Thinking of escaping for your life before the battle even starts!"

"Then it's settled." After finally convincing Zhang Lie, Tao Ying immediately made the decision: "After the whole army has crossed the Huaihe River, the Junzi Army will take ten days of food and grass and set off first. The infantry will be entrusted to you, General Zhang. Come first."

Stationed in Ping'an County, wait until there is news about me, and then go south to help in the war."

"The general obeys the order." Zhang Lie clasped his fists helplessly and warned: "Young Master, please remember the words of the general. If you are not satisfied, please retreat northward along the official road immediately. The general will go all out to support the young master."

"I remember." Tao Ying nodded, and then Tao Ying turned his gaze to Lin Qing next to Zhang Lie, smiled at the unconvinced little girl and said, "Mr. Lin, didn't you repeatedly say that you want to see it with your own eyes?

Is it the Junzi Army that I personally trained? Now that the Junzi Army is about to fight for the first time, and you are just in time to do so, don’t you want to go south with me to see with your own eyes the unparalleled glory of the Junzi Army?"

"I'm not interested, I won't go." Lin Qing hummed with a straight face.

"Second brother, why are you taking him here? To increase the burden?" Tao Ji, who had always disliked Lin Qing, also snorted.

"Wait a minute!" Poor General Zhang Ji suddenly spoke. He first pulled Lin Qing aside and whispered a few words, then came back to Tao Ying and said, "Sir, the general has already persuaded my nephew to let him do what he wants.

Going south to conquer the bandits, firstly, my nephew has been familiar with bows and horses since he was a child, so he will not hinder the young master, and secondly, my nephew is young and ignorant, so it is just right for him to see the cruelty of the battlefield and temper his temperament."

"Then it's settled." Tao Ying smiled even more cunningly, and smiled at Lin Qing behind Zhang Jie: "Brother Lin Xian, I didn't expect that after half a year, we would have to eat in the same pot again, in the same tent..., hehe,

It's destined." Lin Qing's face turned red, she glared at Tao Ying, and turned her face away angrily.

So, after the entire line crossed the Huaihe River, the Gentlemen's Army, composed of more than 820 cavalry, carried ten days of food and grass. Under the leadership of Tao Ying, they set off first. The Qingqi rushed to Guangling to seek a decisive battle with the Zuo Rong rebels.

Tao Ying's deputy, Zuo Rong, led two thousand infantrymen and then set off, escorting the grain and grass baggage and the secret weapons of the Junzi Army back to the carriage and rushing to station in Ping'an County, preparing to meet the Junzi Army who was advancing alone with an uncertain future.

In addition, Tao Ying also made a precautionary arrangement, that is, he arranged for two Junzi soldiers who were injured and disabled during training to accompany Zhang Zhuo's team south to teach the infantry of Zhang Zhuo's team how to operate the returning artillery so that they could fight back in the future.

In the ensuing siege battle, return artillery will be used.

Accompanying the Gentlemen's Army southward, in addition to Lin Qing's non-staff personnel, there is also a special character who does not belong to the Gentlemen's Army, that is Xu Sheng and Xu Wenxiang, whom Tao Ying deceived from Zang Ba's subordinates. The Second Young Master Tao led Xu Sheng

After returning to Xuzhou, after several martial arts competitions, it can be judged from Xu Sheng's bravery and martial arts skills that this Xu Sheng is definitely the Xu Sheng in history, not just the same name, but he was ecstatically shouting that he had picked it up.

Empress Bao, Tao Ying did not let Xu Sheng join the Junzi Army, but first made Xu Sheng the deputy captain of his own soldiers, and then made other arrangements.

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there were no Gaoyou Lake and Baima Lake in Huainan, and even Hongze Lake and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal did not exist. The population was not as dense as it is now, and the few small cities were mostly abandoned.

They are all farmland, hills and woods that were abandoned during the war. The terrain is both open and low-lying. It is the ideal combat environment that both Junzijun and Tao Ying dream of. So after arriving on this land, they got rid of the encumbrance of Zhang Lie's team.

After that, everyone in the Junzi Army was extremely excited. They marched more than 120 miles in just one day and reached the current Baoying area. At this point, Tao Ying ignored Tao Ji's objection and forcibly ordered the Junzi Army to preserve his physical strength.

The result of stopping and taking a break.

After only walking a hundred and twenty miles in a day, he ordered the army to rest. Tao Ying often heard Tao Ji complain about this, but Xu Sheng and Lin Qing, the non-staff members of the Junzi Army, quit. Xu Sheng was better, and he had just become Tao Ying.

Xu Sheng, the lackey, had many worries and did not dare to complain in front of Tao Ying. Lin Qing, who was almost dead from exhaustion, did not have so many worries. As soon as he got the chance, he got angry in front of Tao Ying, "Nerd, are you crazy?"

? Marching one hundred and twenty miles in one day, do you want to exhaust all the soldiers and horses to death?!"

"Are you tired?" Tao Ying looked around and asked with a smile: "Brother Lin Xian, take a closer look. Are the officers and soldiers of my Junzi Army tired?"

"Aren't you tired?!" Lin Qing looked around unconvinced, trying to find a few exhausted Junzi Army soldiers to teach Tao Ying a lesson. However, after looking around carefully, Lin Qing was confused. One hundred and twenty

After the march came down, all the more than 800 officers and soldiers of the Gentleman Army were acting as usual, talking and laughing, making fires and making meals, and many of the officers and soldiers of the Gentleman Army still had the energy to fight, and the atmosphere was quite relaxed.

"The man is not tired, but the war horse is tired." Lin Qing came up with another reason to blame Tao Ying, but when she looked at the Hun horses that the Junzi Army rode, which were not much bigger than donkeys, Lin Qing was even more confused. The horse she was riding

The tall and elegant Dawan horses were already foaming at the mouth from exhaustion, but the donkeys and horses of the Junzi Army were very relaxed, and they were already eating the weeds on the ground. However, the hard work paid off, and Lin Qing finally succeeded

As if he had discovered a new continent, he pointed at the horses of the Gentlemen's Army that were carrying military supplies and shouted, "Did you see that? Those horses pulling the carts are all foaming at the mouth."

"I can't help it, those are horses from the Western Regions." Tao Ying spread his hands and said with a smile: "But it doesn't matter. When Zuo Rong's son escaped from Xiapi, he kidnapped my father's three thousand war horses and snatched them back in Guangling.

There are a lot of good horses, and once I take care of the little boy Zuo Rong, I can replace them all with Huns-drawn carriages, and the Gentleman Army will also have a rotating army of war horses."

"You mean, you dare to march one hundred and twenty miles in one day, all because of the donkey and horse you ride?" Lin Qing was not too stupid, and he quickly heard the implication of Tao Ying.

"No need to ask, haven't you yourself seen the endurance of this kind of donkey and horse?" Tao Ying replied with a smile, and approached Lin Qing intentionally or unintentionally, "Brother Lin Xian, are you tired after walking for a day?"

"Stay away from me!" Lin Qing vigilantly avoided Tao Ying's claws, retreated five steps away from Tao Ying, and threatened: "Don't forget, when we were in Huaiyin, you promised my uncle that you would

Take good care of me. Now I am tired and want a small tent to rest alone. No one can enter the tent without my permission!"

"It's boring to live alone, so you'd better live in my tent..." Tao Ying didn't dare to say anything in the middle of his words - Lin Qing was already drawing a sword with his face flushed. So Tao Ying had no choice but to

Turning to the guard captain Li Ming next to him, he ordered: "Send someone to get a small tent for General Zhang's nephew to rest. By the way, he ordered the whole army that the weather is very good today and it is unlikely to rain, so there is no need to set up camp tonight."

After the tent is settled, everyone wraps me up in blankets and sleeps, and leaves as soon as daybreak!"

The next day, the Junzi Army once again set a marching record that stunned Lin Qing. In one day, they marched 130 miles! And poor girl Lin Qing had to change her basic position and accepted Tao Ying's kindness.

, she changed horses once on the way, which prevented her beloved horse from being exhausted, and then asked Tao Ying to install two small wooden shoes on the saddle of her war horse. However, when stepping on these two strange wooden shoes

After the shoes ran for a while, Lin Qing quickly became furious again, "You slutty nerd! You told me that it would be easier to ride with this thing on the saddle! Did you do it on purpose? Did you want to tire me to death on purpose?!"

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Only the Junzi Army with more than 800 riders marched at such a crazy speed. After the news was passed back to the infantry team behind, Zhang Ji was of course as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. He sent messengers one after another to ask Tao Ying to slow down.

The marching speed must not go too deep alone. But after the news reached Guangling City, Zuo Rongzuo Bodhisattva and his right-hand deputy He Zi burst out laughing, madly mocking Tao Ergong for not knowing military affairs, and the troops were already small.

He divided his troops and led a small number of cavalry to go south alone. He dared to march so fast and crazy, and went deep into enemy-occupied areas alone. He was just like a beggar tricking himself into the toilet - seeking death!

After laughing, Zhe Rong quickly issued an order that all Guangling rebels raised their hands in approval, that is, only about one-third of the army was left to guard Guangling, Jiangdu, Hailing and other cities, and the remaining 10,000 troops were

Bodhisattva Zuo personally led him out of the city and headed north, taking the initiative to fight against the Junzi Army on the way south - lest the second master Tao, who was worth an equal amount of gold, suddenly wake up and run away before the battle.

One side was heading south rapidly and could not pull back even nine oxen, while the other side was eager to leave the city and head north. As the north and south advanced together, the much-anticipated first battle of the Junzi Army finally came ahead of schedule. In the early morning of August 25th,

Tao Ying, who had led the Junzi Army to cross Gaoyou, received a message from Qingqi. It was said that Zuo Rong had led 10,000 cavalry out of the city at noon on the previous day and marched 40 miles in half a day yesterday. If Zuo Rong did the same today.

If they are marching at this speed, it is estimated that the Junzi Army will meet the Zuo Rong rebels in the wild by noon today at the latest!

"Take the initiative to leave the city? You still walked forty miles in half a day?" Hearing the news, Tao Ying was extremely happy and quickly ordered: "Send an order to the entire army to put on high-bridge saddles and put on stirrups and arrowheads.

After all the distribution is in place, feed the war horses with fine food, check the horseshoes, lead the horses to march, and walk to Zhe Rong's children!"

The officers and soldiers of the Junzi Army followed the orders. At this time, two non-staff members of the Junzi Army, Lin Qing and Xu Sheng, also discovered a new anomaly in the weird behavior of the Junzi Army soldiers, that is, the Junzi Army's donkeys and horses were acting like weapons every time.

There is a semicircular iron ring nailed under the hoof of each horse! And the hoof of Tao Ying's own war horse is no exception. Tao Ying himself also straightened the horse's hoof with the help of his own soldiers and carefully checked whether the iron nails on the iron ring had fallen off.

"Bookworm, why are there iron rings on the hoofs of your war horse? Where did these iron rings come from?" Lin Qing asked in shock.

"Brother Mi Zhu and Chen Deng gave it to me." Tao Ying carefully inspected the horseshoe nails and replied without raising his head: "They gave me one thousand kilograms of fine iron, and I used all of it to make horseshoes and nails.

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"I didn't ask you this!" Lin Qing said angrily: "I asked you, why do you nail these iron rings on the horse's hoof? Doesn't the horse feel uncomfortable?"

"It will make the horse uncomfortable if you don't nail these **** shoes." Tao Ying said casually: "You can also ride a horse. I must have seen with your own eyes that those war horses with polished hooves can no longer ride or pull a cart.

, you can only kill the horse as a vegetable. If you put this kind of iron ring on the horse's hoof, the horse's hoof will not be easily worn out, and the war horse will not be easily scrapped."

Lin Qing's beautiful eyes widened. When she looked carefully, Lin Qing soon discovered that this was indeed the case. After the horse's hoof was nailed with a strange iron ring, the friction with the ground was indeed greatly reduced. Basically, the horse's hoof did not need to touch the ground.

It was supported by the weird flat iron ring. But Lin Qing still didn't quite understand, and couldn't help but ask: "Then, the horse doesn't hurt?"

"Does it hurt when you cut your nails? Horseshoes are actually the nails of the war horse. The horseshoes are nailed on the nails of the war horse and have no effect on the horse itself." Tao Ying explained and suggested to Lin Qing: "Brother Lin Xian

, now that you have time, you'd better shoe your war horse. Our long journey has only begun now. If your horse's hoof suddenly cracks or is injured, then you will be in big trouble."

"No!" Lin Qing shook his head firmly, "My horse is a Dawan horse. If it is damaged by a nail, then I will suffer a big loss."

"Whatever you want." Tao Ying said with a smile: "But don't blame me for not reminding you. If your horse suddenly hurts its hoof on the battlefield, don't expect me to give the horse to you - at most, you can ride with me.

Horse."

"Bah!" Lin Qing's face turned red again, and she snorted, "Who's surprised about your broken horse? It's about the same size as a donkey. I don't even want it as a gift."

Tao Ying smiled and was too lazy to pay attention to the little girl anymore. He turned to Xu Sheng next to him and said: "Xu Sheng, today we are going to have a decisive battle with Zuo Rong's son. Before the battle begins, I have a few words that I must tell you.

You, you must also remember that after the battle is over, you can tell me what you think and what you plan to do."
To be continued...