"Hundred House Lord, Chen General Flag, Zhang General Flag have been brought"

  "See the three hundred officials!" Chen Hua and Zhang Feng bowed their heads in salute.

  "Hmm, you two stand over here." Wang Zhen beckoned and ordered the two to stand beside him.

  "Now that everyone is here, let Wang Baihu explain it himself." Liu Sheng said with a still expressionless face.

  "Everyone listen up! By imperial order, we will assemble outside the south gate at dawn tomorrow. The scheduled break is cancelled. Anyone who fails to arrive on time will be beheaded! Did all the unit commanders hear that clearly?"

  "We understand!" The six commanders responded in unison.

  Wang Zhen nodded and continued: "This time, I will lead the Thousand Households of the Central Guard and the Left Guard to march together. Our destination is Pinggu County, Ji State. Due to the circumstances, our army must advance quickly, so today's drill is temporarily cancelled. Everyone should rest and prepare for tomorrow's journey."

  "Our goal this time is the mountain bandits around Pinggu County. According to reports, these bandits have dared to openly attack our military grain teams and kill our soldiers, which has made the King of Yan extremely angry and wants to quickly eliminate this den of thieves as a typical example. By the way, take this opportunity to let the new soldiers from my 2,000 households see some blood, so that they can be prepared for future battles." Wang Zhen roughly explained a few sentences.

  The main purpose of gathering everyone this time is actually for some new recruits to take a look at the overall situation, and to let them get familiar with the rules in the army.

  Wang Zhen explained that the purpose had been achieved, and the other two hundred households left separately with their own men, and when they returned, they would have to explain some things privately again.

  "Chen Hua, Zhang Fen, you two sit down. If there's anything you'd like to ask, now is the time. After all, Zhang Fen, you're still new here, and if you don't ask now, you won't have another chance." Wang Zhen invited them to take their seats.

  Chen Hua sat down with a big smile, Wang Zhen was his old superior after all, and he had long been used to it. On the contrary, Zhang Feng still looked a bit stiff, and he bowed his hands to thank Wang Zhen.

  Wang Zhen smiled and looked at him, he was extremely satisfied with Zhang Feng, the general flag. The promise made to Liu Sheng earlier to exchange a bottle of wine for Zhang Feng was truly a great deal.

  In the month since entering the camp, Zhang Feng led the soldiers to train actively and achieved outstanding results. Compared with other new recruits in the same batch, he was absolutely the best among them.

  It's just a baptism by fire now, although this campaign against the bandits is child's play for these old men, but it's the first time these new recruits have gone to war, if they can get through it smoothly, these new recruits will be greatly improved, and when they go on another campaign against the bandits, or even go to the northern border to fight against the Northern Yuan, these new recruits will become seasoned veterans.

  As for how many of them can survive, it depends on themselves. If they are timid and afraid to fight in the battlefield, even if the military police do not execute him, he will eventually die under the enemy's sword. Only those who dare to advance without fear of life or death can survive in this bloody battlefield.

  Zhang Feng saw Wang Zhen's hundred households looking at him with a smile, and suddenly thought of the night after the new soldier's comparison. Suddenly, he shuddered again, leaned his body back, and wanted to stay away from Wang Zhen a little further.

  Chen Hua looked at Wang Zhen's smiling face and then at Zhang Feng's performance, suddenly understanding that his superior had fallen into his old habit again. Whenever he encountered something he liked, he would unnaturally reveal this mysterious smile. Of course, he definitely wasn't fond of Zhang Feng as a person, but rather admired Zhang Feng's talent; otherwise, the one in Wang Zhen's household who couldn't be mentioned would have chopped him down with a knife.

  "Cough, Lord Baihu, I have something unclear, please explain it to me in detail." Chen Hua broke into Wang Baihu's words with a helpless dry cough.

  "Oh, okay, Chen Hua, what's your question? Speak up and let me hear it." Wang Zhen said seriously after regaining his composure.

  Chen Hua also asked his doubts: "Sir, why do we need to send troops from Yan Shan Wei Qian Hu to suppress the bandits in Pinggu County? I remember that Pinggu County is a garrison of Yingzhou Zhongtunwei. Why are there still so many bandits around?"

  "This is no longer a secret, and there will be an announcement in two days. I'll tell you first. The Pinggu County's Yingzhou Middle Garrison now only has more than 500 old and weak soldiers left, the others have all gone to reinforce the border. According to reports, the shadow of Yuan soldiers has appeared at various passes on the Great Wall, and even the General Stone Pass near the abdomen land was attacked twice."

  Zhang Feng, who was listening on the side, suddenly stood up. Wang Zhen looked at him in surprise. Chen Hua vaguely knew why Zhang Feng was so excited. In their daily chats, they gradually understood Zhang Feng's background and naturally also knew his purpose for joining the army.

  "Hundred Households' Lord, I'm fine. I just suddenly heard some news from the Northern Yuan soldiers and got a bit excited." Zhang Feng calmed himself down and sat back slowly.

  Wang Zhen was curious about why he was like this, but it wasn't a good time to ask questions now, so she could only continue speaking.

  "The majority of the elite troops from the Zhongxun Guard in Yingzhou were led by their commander to defend General Shi's pass, leaving behind only one thousand households with five hundred weak soldiers to guard. According to the soldier who escaped from the protection team and reported back, they encountered an ambush while passing through a dense forest path outside Pinggu County. The bandits attacked twice, with over 200 people in the first wave, mostly old or sickly, seemingly sent to simply exhaust our army's strength."

  "Just as they thought the killing was over, an arrow suddenly shot out from the forest and pierced through the throats of their hundred households, directly beheading them. Then, a group of robust men emerged from the forest and attacked while they were exhausted. Their commander let one man ride back on horseback to report the news, otherwise we would have had to wait another ten days to know that the grain convoy was robbed."

  Chen Hua asked in puzzlement, "Don't these bandits know that plundering military rations is a serious crime? How can they be so bold as to do this, and their charging method is also very strange. There are still old people inside the mountain bandit's lair?"

  "This I'm not clear about, the intelligence we have is only this much, there are many strange places, that will need to be said after we arrive in Pinggu County. However, no matter who they are, since Prince Yan has already decided to train troops and establish prestige, they must die." Wang Zhen's tone was cold when he spoke these words.

  Zhang Feng silently returned to his barracks from Wang Zhen, his original intention of joining the army was to avenge his parents by killing the Northern Yuan people, but he didn't expect that this first battle would be against bandits, Ming people fighting Ming people, what's the point of it all.

  The next day at dawn

  More than 6,000 people from 2,000 households gathered outside the South Gate of Beiping. Liu Zi and his companions were originally full of interest in today's Spring Breeze Pavilion trip, but military orders are like mountains after all.

  Six thousand people, more or less, according to the system one thousand households with one thousand one hundred and twenty people, but they are the personal guards of the King of Yan, naturally there is a difference, each thousand households have expanded, the entire King of Yan's three guards except for the right guard which has eight thousand people, the other two left and middle guards all have more than fifteen thousand people.

  This number is not the most among the vassal states, it is said that in the previous year, the Jin Wang Gongxia of the vassal state had 50,000 armored soldiers under his command, which was quite impressive.

  At this time, Qiu Fu, who was already in armor, rode his horse to the front of the army and said loudly: "Now our army is about to go on an expedition. In this battle, all soldiers must fight with all their might and shed blood to prove that our army's prestige is unmatched!"

  "Cheers! Cheers! Cheers!"

  "Let's go!"

  The vanguard sets out, provisions and fodder go first, Zhang Feng's life is about to experience its first expedition...

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