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Ten ice sleds produced in Yingzhou are running rapidly on the ice surface of the Rushui River from Waqiao Pass to Beiping City, Dingzhou. This is a stream from Beiping City in Dingzhou, flowing east into Mozhou, joining Xushui in Yizhou to the north and Qingshui in Dingzhou to the south, and finally joining Hutuo River, eastward with the Juma River, Zhangshui, Yongji Canal, Sanggan River, Lushui River, and rivers that converge into the sea in Tianjin. In summer, the areas from Mozhou to Dingzhou are full of water-dian swamps, especially in early summer, the road is extremely difficult to walk. However, in the cold winter, this dense water network area becomes smooth roads.

Especially sitting on this type of ice sled that is widely used in the Northeast is even more convenient. The sleds are available in two types, ice and snow. Now they are sitting on the ice type, which is most suitable for walking on the frozen river surface in winter. It takes almost no effort to drag a war horse, it is faster than riding a horse, and it is smoother and more labor-saving, and can also bring a lot of supplies.

The ice sled they rode was military, more sturdy than the ordinary ones, and much larger.

The car was running at lightning all the way. General Ning Yuan, the deputy commander of the First Army of the Iron Cavalry, Guo Tao, and his staff, were lying in the car in military coats. Guo Tao was wearing a tiger-skin hat, and a tight neck cover covering his entire neck, covered with snow-covered grass-green military coat and cotton jacket tightly wrapped around it.

The weather was very cold, and he had a pair of toad sunglasses on his nose, but he was in a very happy mood. He was still whistling while whistling with the cold wind.

Since returning from the Great Wall, Guo Tao has been transferred to the active combat troops. It turned out that he was the leader of the Xuejun. After returning, he was transferred to the Iron Cavalry Army led by Li Jing, and he also entered the First Army. He entered the First Army. The leader of the Xuejun was changed to the deputy leader of the Iron Cavalry Army, and he surrendered in the Ming Dynasty and was promoted.

When evaluating the Wusan rank, General Ning Yuan, who was ranked under the fifth grade. He ranked 13th grade among the Wusan ranks. It seems a bit low, but in fact it is very high. Qin Fan's current Wusan rank still uses the Tang system, with a total of 31st grade, the highest is from the first grade, and then from the second grade. From the third grade, each grade is divided into the fourth grade from the upper and lower grades. Moreover, the problem of inflated official positions in the Qin Fan in recent years has gradually changed. The third grade is already at the level of the legion commander, and the fifth grade is all senior generals.

Guo Tao was named Count at the 17th year, and General Ningyuan, a rank under the fifth rank of Zhizheng, and served as deputy commander of the First Army of the Iron Cavalry Corps. Three years ago, he was just a squadron leader in a military academy, and his promotion speed was not even as fast as the Thirteenth Taibao.

After being transferred to the First Iron Cavalry Army, Guo Tao was low-key and honest for a long time. He stayed in the barracks all day long, practicing his skills and working hard to integrate into the First Army. There is still a big difference between the combat troops and the student soldiers. First of all, each of the officers below him is older than him, and most of them can be his father, and some can be his grandfather. They can be the master of the wing and the battalion. All of them have made great achievements and fought on the battlefield for many years. Guo Tao, a guy whose bird feathers have not yet grown, ran to them as the deputy military commander, which really made many people dissatisfied. Over the past year, Guo Tao, the deputy military commander, has actually worked very hard, and it can almost be said that he has not had a relaxing day, and he has fought wits and courage with those old guys all day.

Fortunately, his wandering life in his early years and later military academy made him very tenacious and never discouraged. He eventually took root in the First Army and even gained the recognition of most officers and soldiers.

If everyone in the First Army wants to recognize him, he knows that he can only rely on a real battle to prove himself.

Fortunately, this opportunity did not make him wait too long.

As the end of the year approaches, the General Staff, the Governor's Office of the Five Army, the Ministry of War, and the Iron Cavalry Corps jointly issued a military order to let the First Army go to the south immediately. The task given to the First Army was very simple, asking them to separate the ten cavalry battalions and attack Chengde!

At the same time, several other armies participated in this operation, and a total of ten armies and one hundred battalions were invested, which was known as the 100 battalions war.

On the first day of the battle, the first battalion of the Iron Cavalry Army captured Beiping City with great confidence, and then successively captured Wangdu and Tang County. This speed was even the result of the first battalion without any casualties. They almost advanced all the way. In seven days, before the subsequent troops came up, they had already captured three counties in Dingzhou.

The battalion leader of the first battalion was Guo Tao's junior when he was at Dengzhou Military Academy, and he was also the young brother who entered the Dengzhou Orphan Camp. This junior was very good. He graduated from Dengzhou Military Academy and was admitted to Lu Shi. In the last battle of Daibei, he participated in the war as the head of the capital and was promoted to the battalion leader after the war.

But they rushed too hard, which made Guo Tao full of worry.

Perhaps the Zhao army in Chengdezhen did not know the reality of the Qin army, but as the deputy commander of the First Army, he was very clear about it.

This military operation is not so much an attack but rather an exercise.

This was a military tactical fraud. The Qin army claimed to the outside world that it had mobilized 400,000 troops to destroy Chengdezhen in one breath and placing the five prefectures within three months. But in fact, the Qin army only planned to dispatch 100 battalions in total, but the first cavalry army was only one army. The other nine armies were still on the way back!

To put it bluntly, the strategic intention of the General Staff was very clear. This was a fraud and intimidation operation. In order to promote peace, although he did not know many secret matters, he guessed in his heart that it might be related to the war situation in the Northeast. The Northeast had been fighting for two years and was still fighting. Although it was intermittent and stopped fighting, the Qin army was dragged there. Now two years have passed, and the Qin army has suffered a headache in this battle. After a year and a half of contraction and rest, the people are now unable to help it.

At this time, most of the towns in Guanzhong in the Central Plains were involved in the battle between eunuchs, so the General Staff was very likely to plan to use this good external situation to draw troops into the Northeast and prepare to start from the strategic defense and strategic stalemate stage to the strategic counterattack stage.

This also means that the Qin army needs to send at least 100,000 troops to the Northeast, and send at least 100,000 troops, and logistics civilians and others. This will be a decisive battle and win. The Qin army will eliminate the Northeast problem once and for all, and can control the Bohai Sea. It absorbs the blood of the Bohai Sea to accelerate the recovery of vitality. But there is a prerequisite, that is, when the Qin army is unable to fight in the Northeast, there will be a second battle.

Finally, the Qin army suddenly issued an ultimatum to Cheng De and engaged in this 100-bat war. In fact, it was just to scare Cheng De and show the Qin army's force, so as not to see the Qin army silent for more than a year. He believed that the Qin army was not strong enough. In fact, if the Qin army sent troops to the Northeast, it would not be able to provide the war with Cheng De. But such a trump card cannot be known, otherwise, Cheng De would definitely harass them when they fought with the Northeast, and even attract more people to take advantage of the situation.

In fact, this is because the Qin army dare not fight with Chengde Town before resolving the Northeast war. Otherwise, there would be no need to bluff. The Qin army will definitely win by fighting Chengde, but the current Qin army will have to pay too much to fight Chengde, and it has not been digested yet. If Chengde is forced to swallow Chengde, it is really possible that it will be too late to move.

It is better to be scared than to fight, show off your force, force Chengde to seek peace, so that they will no longer dare to have any other intentions in a short period of time. Then they will mobilize troops to fight to the Northeast.

However, there are not many people who know about this strategic plan. Guo Tao himself also based on the information he knew. Then he analyzed it carefully and came up with such a guess. The people below did not know, such as his junior Yang Weili. What he knew was that the Qin army would dispatch ten troops to fight in Chengde this time. At the same time, the King of Qin would take advantage of this winter free period to mobilize all the village soldiers, united soldiers, militias, students, and road-raising soldiers in Hebei and Beiping to conduct a massive winter joint exercise. In addition, the county and villages would also gather young men and women, and on the surface, the whole nation mobilized to destroy the Zhao war. But in fact, it was just to let the people of each prefecture and county build roads, hunt, and bluff during the free period of winter.

But now it seems that it has been a bit too much. In seven days, the 5,000 troops of the First Army have attacked at the same time on the front hundreds of miles, and captured the eight counties in one go.

The Military Intelligence Bureau reported the situation on the battlefield to Li Jing at any time. The First Army captured eight counties in seven days. This situation not only alarmed Guo Tao and other leaders of the First Army, but also even the Joint Meeting of the Ministry of War, the Governor's Office, the General Staff, and the Provincial Pavilion and the Council of the Provincial Pavilion were alarmed. The Political Affairs Hall was also alarmed, and Li Jing was also alarmed.

Damn, do you want to fight so hard? Do you really think that you want to kill Chengde and work so hard?

If he can really fight now, Li Jing has nothing to say. But now he is just a fraud and has acted. If you are so desperate, if Chengde fights to the death, he will be in a difficult situation.

Many things are afraid that too much is not enough, so Li Jing quickly ordered in Yanjing to brake and slow down immediately, so that he could not make fake jokes.

The orders were passed down one by one, but they could not be too ostentatious and secretly. The first-level chief officials conveyed it. When they arrived at the First Army, Guo Tao immediately volunteered to go to Dingzhou to find Yang Weili and the others. In order to hurry, he did not lead the large army, but only brought more than fifty staff members and guards and hurried on the road.

Guo Tao is not an idiot. He is a real person without background. He has long known who his biological parents are. He has been wandering for many years as a little beggar. He went to Dengzhou to enter the Boy Scouts School in his teens. He lived entirely by Li Jing, and only studied and learned calligraphy. With this ability. In terms of loyalty, the Six Guards of the King of Qin may not be as good as those of them, the soldiers from Boy Scouts. He became a boy scout from a small squadron leader, and later entered Dengzhou to become a Boy Scouts. Before graduation, he was summoned to form a learning army unit and joined the Northern Expedition. He moved outside the pass for two years and made great military achievements. He was promoted from the battalion master to the wing master, and the army master. After his triumphant success, he was immediately granted the title of Ningyuan Bo, General Ningyuan, and Deputy Head of the First Army of the Iron Cavalry Corps.

Although Guo Tao is young, he really relies on his achievements. Although there are some reasons why he was awarded a typical example because of his age and merit. But his great military achievements are also a fact. After the propaganda of the Qin army, he can be regarded as the best among young people and the future star. During the Northern Expedition, he raided King Xi's Khan Court and fought against Tuhe. He defeated most of the enemy with a few soldiers and horses twice. In the two battles, he beheaded nearly 10,000 prisoners, making him famous.

At noon, Guo Tao and his party passed through Qingyuan County. Ten ice sleds rushed southwest across a small village by the river. They saw the wall of a broken soil house at the entrance of the village with the word Zhaozhuang written in lime. It had been washed away by the years and could hardly be identified. The roads in the village were deserted, and the two villagers ran home in panic and closed the courtyard gate. Behind the more gaps in the courtyard gate were pairs of frightened eyes, staring at the ten ice sleds driving from Mozhou to Dingzhou, and the soldiers under the grass-green cotton military coats above.

There were many trees on the river bank next to the village. Guo Tao took a look inadvertently, but was surprised to find that not only the leaves of these trees had fallen off, but the bark had been stripped off. He had wandered around in his early years and begged to understand that the bark was stripped off by the hungry people. Looking at the ground on the shore, it was also bare. Not to mention wild vegetables, there was no wild grass, and even the grass roots had been dug up.

A group of crows were startled by the sound of the horse's hooves and made waves of croaking.

Guo Tao took out his pocket watch and looked at it. It was already one o'clock noon. He felt a little hungry, so he ordered to stop the car and have lunch before leaving.

The guards brought wooden boxes from the guard van behind, spread a piece of military tarpaulin on the bare river bank, opened the folding chair, asked Guo Tao to sit down, and then began to distribute food.

Each team of guards was given a three-pound field lunch box. This was the standard Qin army field food, also known as the third-level combat dry food, which contained sliced ​​pot-kick, lunch meat, a handful of fried rice, and a portion of pickled vegetables.

Guo Tao and several staff members ate better. Their lunch was first-class combat dry food for Qin army, which was a combat picnic packaged in assembly line. From the perspective of other feudal states at this time, this set meal was simply too luxurious. Each lunch weighed three kilograms, three canned foods and a small box, three of which were canned meat, canned fish and canned beans, called high-nutrition supplements. The box was staple food, including instant noodles, naan slices, bacon and salted eggs. In addition, a small bag of tea, ten cigarettes, and five matches were accompanied by a day's ration. In most cases, the soldier's field meal and the officer's field meal were cold, but it could also be eaten with heat.

This specially designed field food greatly improves the army's continuous combat capability, but also increases the difficulty of logistics supply. Compared with traditional military dry food, the Qin army's field food takes into account both nutrition and taste. Compared with traditional dry food, the Qin army's dry food reflects the Qin vassal's strong comprehensive strength and the specialization of the handicraft workshop. This is very popular among the soldiers in the Qin army, and also saves the army the trouble and time to cook during combat or marching.
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