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Chapter 429 Prestige

When Ding Haijun's troops suddenly appeared, Chen Zhi was patrolling the camp.

He was a fellow martial artist who practiced martial arts with Li Quan back then, and he has always been the most trusted.So Li Quan led the attack, with Chen Zhi leading the headquarters and Zheng Yande as the assistant in the matter of staying behind.

This task is not easy.

There are probably more than ten thousand soldiers and horses stationed in the camp of Anding Town at this time; in addition, there are as many as seven or eight thousand civilians and military family members who were engulfed in the army.In addition, the ministries under Li Quan's command retreated all the way from Weizhou and other places, carrying altars, jars, and various belongings.In order to keep these belongings, Chen Zhi urgently signed two to 3000 troops in the old and small battalion, and was responsible for the defense and security of the camp. He dug many trenches and built several front and rear fences nearly ten miles long.

Under Chen Zhi's intimidation, the rest of the leaders recruited their family members into the Chinese army to take care of them, while the soldiers and horses were broken up and reorganized, and all of them entered a state of combat readiness.

This whole set of operations took three days.At the beginning, Li Quan released false news to the Jin Army in Hebei, showing that the rebellion of the Fourth Tian's Department had to be suppressed, so the subsequent continuous transfers did not arouse the Jin Army's vigilance.

Leading an army of [-], the general of the Jin Army, Wan Yan, who was deployed between the towns of Anding and Qinghe, was completely deceived by Chen Zhi.

And Chen Zhi even scouted a path that could accommodate a large army in the swamp forest between the two towns.As long as Li Quan succeeded in Tieling, Chen Zhi led his troops into the Hebei army camp and took away this army. From then on, he not only turned around, but also added wings to a tiger, and he could go anywhere in the world!
On the day before Guo Ning and his servant Anzhen were going to meet, Li Quan took out the good wine from his collection and drank it with his cronies and companions. In the world, he can act recklessly and use a bow and knife to obtain glory and wealth, which is really heartwarming.

After a day, Chen Zhi couldn't laugh anymore.

He hurriedly ran from the west side of the camp to the east side, only to see a large group of soldiers and horses in armor shining on the sun, and the military flags flying high one after another almost blocked out the sky.

This spectacular and unusual scene almost suffocated many generals present.

"Mother, mother, this is Dinghai! What do they mean? How did they come from the east? Isn't the east the domain of Yin Chang?"

Chen Zhi asked repeatedly, but he didn't know what he was asking, let alone who could answer.

Once the Ding Navy appears, it will continue to press forward.The groups of light cavalry wandering around the outpost of the army easily defeated the groups of sentry cavalry that Chen Zhi arranged in that direction.

Chen Zhi violently pushed away a soldier blocking the way, rushed to the westernmost part of the camp, and stared at Ding Haijun's increasingly clear and huge formation.

Because he stared for a long time and was forced into the wind, tears flowed from the corners of Chen Zhi's eyes.He rubbed his face vigorously, not paying attention to the blood in his eyes, and looked again carefully.

The number of soldiers and horses in this army is about ten thousand, but they are so powerful that they are almost unshakable.

Following Li Quan, Chen Zhi has experienced battles involving dozens of people, fierce battles involving hundreds of people and thousands of people, and even tens of thousands of people galloping around. He has seen many times.

In terms of battlefield experience, under Li Quan's command, he is second only to Liu Qingfu who fell in Yidu City, and he is a well-deserved veteran.But the more than 1 people in front of him gave Chen Zhi unprecedented pressure.

This kind of pressure was invisible, but it actually reached Chen Zhi's face, causing his eyelids to twitch wildly, as if being stabbed by a steel needle.

This kind of pressure can't be given by Pu San Anzhen's subordinates, Yang An'er's Tiewa Ganzhan Army can't give it, and Wanyan Sa's Shandong Army can't give it!I am afraid that only the momentum of the fierce Mongolian army's raid for hundreds of miles that day can be vaguely compared.

But the Ding Navy and the Mongolian Army are completely different.

The Mongolian army is like a group of ferocious beasts. They gather in one place with bloodthirsty instincts. They don't know life and death, but only slaughter.The pressure they brought was ferocious and brutal, with an inhuman atmosphere.

And the navy...

Their team is too neat.

Their team spread out a full front two or three miles wide, crossing high slopes and crossing depressions.Sometimes, the frontal horizontal team was divided by Mizusawa into two, three or even more teams.After crossing Mizusawa, the horizontal team didn't even need to stop to rectify, they just reconnected without any trace.Countless armors swayed with their footsteps, flowing like metal rivers.

An army of more than 1 people seems to be a whole, how terrible is that?
In the eyes of laymen, they will only receive a visual impact, but a veteran like Chen Zhi knows what kind of hard training and what a strong cohesion is behind it.

More than 1 people are getting closer.

The roar of footsteps, the roar of armor, the roar of war horses' hooves, and the roar of hundreds of military flags fluttering, but there is no sound of people talking.So many infantry, cavalry, and heavy-armored generals all advanced quietly, accompanied by the beating of the lively snare drum.

Chen Zhi stared carefully at the front soldiers, trying to see the tension and fear on their faces.

But he couldn't see it, because almost all the soldiers wore hemispherical iron leaf helmets, and their eyes were hidden in the shadow of the helmet brim.

"Don't worry about the Hebei Army. All the units were transferred back, filled in the camps everywhere, and defended according to the trenches."

Chen Zhi shouted sharply.

Someone replied ignorantly: "But the marshal ordered us to be ready at any time..."

Chen Zhi kicked him down: "The situation has changed! So many family members of the Marshal and Tian Si are in our camp! Once our camp falls, the Marshal's side will be in big trouble!"

He drew out his long knife and waved: "Beiqing River is to the south, and lakes and swamps are silt to the north. Don't worry about it. Just guard the east! All troops move immediately! Quick! Quick! Quick!"

Compared with ordinary generals of the Red Coat Army, Li Quan was extremely strict in running the army, and he had a strong ability to control the grassroots soldiers.

Therefore, following Chen Zhi's order, a large number of soldiers and horses swarmed forward. Although it was unavoidable to be scattered and chaotic, they tried their best to fill in the defense to the east of the camp.

There were seven or eight trenches front and back, four or five staggered fences, and after the camp composed of countless horses, it was soon full of soldiers holding swords, guns, swords and halberds.

And the generals and schools of each team also rushed back to their own team quickly.Being in the dense crowd brought them a sense of security, and made them dissipate the pressure a little. They shouted loudly to encourage their subordinates and cheer themselves up.

"Don't panic, don't panic!"

Chen Zhi continued to direct.He personally stood at the front of the camp, and let Zheng Yande continue to spread out in the rear with a thicker force, and immediately dismantled the extra tents to leave a way for retreat.

This is a self-proclaimed weak method of defending the camp. On the one hand, it relies closely on the defensive facilities, and at the same time, it is prepared to retreat one by one.

He hoped to hold on for as long as possible to wear down the vigor of the navy and buy time for Li Quan to go to Tieling.

As long as the direction of Tieling can win, Ding Haijun will have the upper hand for a while, but in the end he will only bow his head.

Even if Tieling failed to win, as long as our side withstood Ding Haijun's onslaught and followed Li Quan's return, there was always a chance for our side to come back.

Even if Shandong and Hebei can't accommodate it, it doesn't matter, you can go to the Mongols!

The Ding Navy can always win a temporary victory, can it continue to confront the Mongolian Kingdom for a long time?Sooner or later, the Mongolian army will go south again, they will defeat all the enemies, and Li Quan, Chen Zhi and others will become allies standing beside the victors, sharing endless benefits with the victors!

Directly opposite Chen Zhi, Wang Shixian and Guo Zhongyuan rode horses side by side.

Surrounding them are towering iron spears, shining armor, longbows that fluctuate with their arms while marching, and military flags of various colors.

The heart of such a large-scale army should have been the big red banner representing Guo Ning, the governor of Dinghai.But at this moment, Guo Ning is not in command of the army, and the one in the position of the big red banner is the general flag with the words "Wang" and "Guo" embroidered on it.

Wang Shixian liked this feeling very much.

Wang Shixian's personal force is insignificant in Dinghai, which is full of brave generals, so in the early days, he was often responsible for trivial matters such as logistics in Dinghai.

But after fighting the Mongols in Haicang Town, Wang Shixian felt that he had changed a lot.

He felt more and more that he was born to live in the army.However, the army he likes is not the Yi army that is common on the border of the Dajin Kingdom, but a truly well-trained elite army that can win battles.

He likes the feeling of being in the army, he likes to make rude jokes with his rude subordinates, and he likes the appearance of the Ding Navy being in unison, orderly, and everyone rushing to ignore one order!
"This person surnamed Chen is said to be Li Quan's fellow apprentice. It seems that he is not stupid."

Looking at the camp ahead, which was obviously built temporarily, but quite tight, and looking at the guards lined up between the camps, Guo Zhongyuan beside him yelled loudly.Immediately, he covered his mouth and nose with his military robe to block the smoke and dust.

Wang Shixian didn't hear Guo Zhongyuan's words clearly because the rattling of the armor and the muffled sound of the horses walking together merged.He turned sideways with a questioning look.

Guo Zhongyuan raised his voice and asked: "Should I move the crossbowman forward and shoot him two rounds and three rounds first? Half a quarter is enough."

Wang Shixian raised his head to look at the situation ahead, and then looked at the high slope five or six miles away across the Beiqing River.

Both he and Guo Zhongyuan knew that Guo Ning was on a high slope right now.

Guo Ning is watching the command of the two of them, waiting for Ding Haijun to play a crisp and crushing victory to show his prestige!
Wang Shixian said: "Give orders, one step at a time."

The rhythm of the rumbling drums suddenly accelerated, and the drum beats were rapid and sonorous, urging the soldiers to keep moving forward.

He said: "After fifty paces, the archers shoot a volley."

After fifty steps, arrows shot out from the army formation like locusts, and swept across the enemy camp fiercely.There were also arrows fired in the direction of the enemy camp, and hundreds of arrows landed in Dinghai's army formation, making many small gaps, which were immediately filled by subsequent soldiers.

When it was close, the army continued to attack the enemy camp.

The spears held by the soldiers at the front collided with the enemy's spears protruding from the back of the horse, making intensive crackling noises.

The soldiers standing in front of the ditch began to throw the earth bags on their backs into the ditch.

The drums are rumbling, the rhythm remains unchanged, and the whole army continues to press forward!

Wang Shixian pulled out the long knife in his hand, and raised it forward flatly: "Kill!"

Guo Zhongyuan then drew his sword: "Kill!"

At the front of the queue, Zhang Hui, known as a fierce general, swung his spear wildly and shouted sharply: "Kill!"

No extra commands are needed.Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people shouted to kill in unison.The army roared like a wave, smashing the dead and vibrating the decayed, and crossed the dam mightily.

"How can there be such a style of play? How can there be such a hurry and fierceness?"

Chen Zhi yelled, and could hardly hide the panic on his face.

Ding Haijun was too brave, they didn't take Chen Zhi's heavy defenses seriously.They didn't cover and suppress with arrows, spread their wings to outflank, or harass tentative small groups, nothing!

They just used enough brute force to rush into their own camp without reason!

Damn... How can an army fight like this!How could any soldier be so obedient?
This is a fierce style of play that does not consider its own losses, but only seeks to kill the enemy to the greatest extent and the fastest speed!It's a down-to-earth head-to-head!

The problem is, the moment the two armies meet, Chen Zhi knows that his army is not as strong as the navy!Not even close!
"Hold it! Hold it forward! Cut the one who retreats!"

Chen Zhi roared loudly, his eyes were wide open, and the corners of his eyes were almost bleeding.

(End of this chapter)