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Chapter 124 The flags are like a forest, happy to hear the war!

On the Rhona tribe's side, after discovering the traces of Penke's subordinates, they began to contact the surrounding friends and neighbors non-stop, preparing to form a tribal alliance to join forces to resist Penke.

Naturally, Penke didn't rest.

After capturing several wildling knights, under the strict interrogation of the mature woman, he immediately got the specific location of the Rhona tribe.

It is obviously too much to expect these savages to talk about loyalty, collective honor, and patriotism.

After giving enough benefits, the few wildling knights almost answered every question.

Soon he figured out the situation of the Rhona tribe.

24 priests, one high priest.

There are more than 200 fighters in the tribe.

For the Rhona tribe, whose total population is only in the early 3s, and the number of slaves is less than [-], this is somewhat militaristic.

But considering that this is a primitive tribe, it seems quite reasonable.

After all, the population structure of this primitive tribe is not very healthy, with fewer elderly people and more young adults.

And all young adults are considered fighters.

Looking at it this way, it is still reasonable.

But eight thousand young and middle-aged men who can go to battle are not a small force.

Again.

Even if there were [-] pigs in the forest, they wouldn't be able to catch all of them in a short while.

Not to mention people?
And this time the battle still focuses on capturing more alive.

That's even more tricky.

Inside the large tent of the Chinese army under Peng Ke's command.

A battle meeting is being held.

Sitting at the head of the long table in the tent, Peng Ke said with a serious face: "Everyone, there are more than 8000 young and middle-aged men in the Rhona tribe, all of whom can fight with weapons."

"Although our army is not afraid of its power, if we directly confront the enemy, the harassment of more than 20 priests will still cause a lot of damage to our army."

"We must formulate a stable combat plan."

"While trying to catch as many savages as possible, we must also ensure the safety of our soldiers and keep the battle damage to a minimum!"

More than a thousand generals in Peng Ke's army participated in this battle meeting.

Everyone sat around the deduction sand table, all of them frowned and watched the distribution of enemy and enemy forces on the sand table, thinking about how to minimize the battle damage to the greatest extent.

As for how to guarantee victory?

Do you even need to think about it?
If the army of the Ming Dynasty can't even beat these savages, don't even think about the Northern Expedition, and retreat back to the Great Wall as soon as possible to live.

Defeat, or even a tragic victory, never appeared in their thoughts.

This battle can only be a big victory, and it must be a crushing victory!

Wu Xuanshu looked at the sand table with a frown, stretched out his hand and pointed at places hundreds of miles away from each of the Rona tribes, and said worriedly, "It's fine if there's only one Rona tribe."

"But according to the captured wildling knight, there are two large tribes with more than 2 people around the Rhona tribe."

"These three large tribes rule the entire land north of the middle reaches of the Nalin River, and the small tribes in this area all rely on them."

"A few wildling knights were not caught, and they must have returned to the tribe at this time."

"Once the Rhona tribe learns about our army, they will definitely choose to contact the other two tribes to resist our army together."

"No matter how stupid the high priest of the Rhona tribe is, it is impossible for them to think that they can stop our army by themselves."

The other generals all nodded in agreement, and no one felt that Wu Xuanshu's guess was wrong.

As far as East Asia is concerned, no one can fight against the Daming King Division with the same force!

Although the Rhona tribe is a tribe of primitive slavery, they are not idiots. This situation is still understandable.

With a reasonable expression on his face, Peng Ke said decisively: "So, before these three tribes join forces, we must quickly defeat the Rhona tribe with the force of thunder."

"Based on the speed of the cavalry of the Rhona tribe, it will take at least half a day to notify these two tribes."

"And even if those two tribes sent troops immediately after receiving the news, it would take at least a day and a half for these savages to gather their troops to help the Rhona tribe."

"That is to say, we need to take down this Rhona tribe within two days, and then transfer our troops to eat the reinforcements of these two tribes!"

"It will take at least half a day for the army to march fifty miles."

"There is not much time left for us to prepare."

After simply calculating the distance between the headquarters camp and the Rhona tribe, and the distance between the Rhona tribe and the other two tribes, he calculated the time difference between their battles.

The combat time given to them is only two days!
And remove half a day of marching time, and half a day of pressing the captives back to the camp for care, and then go to the Rhona tribe to prepare and wait for the reinforcements of the other two tribes.

In fact, they had to spend half a day to take down this Rhone tribe.

The time is really tight.

But this is the most extreme situation.

After all, even if the Rhona tribe finds someone to support them, the other two tribes may not immediately send troops. They also need internal discussions and preparations.

In terms of the efficiency of mobilizing the army, these savage tribes are definitely not bright, and there is basically no military discipline.

So in fact, the support should be one to two days later than Penke expected.

But he still chose to deploy the combat plan in the most extreme situation.

Facing any enemy, one cannot take it lightly, let alone put hope on the slow reaction of the enemy!

I would rather move faster myself than expect the enemy to move slower!
This is a taboo for using troops!

If you can win the Rhona tribe as soon as possible, you should win it as soon as possible, so as not to have long nights and dreams!

"We only have half a day to fight, and we must completely take down the Rhona tribe within half a day and remove all resistance!"

"Time is tight and the task is heavy!"

"Please everyone, don't take it lightly!"

Peng Ke stood up, picked up a small flag, stuck it on the location of the Rhona tribe just marked on the map, and said fiercely: "Since we want to take them down quickly with the momentum of thunder, then don't think about it." It's a matter of taking prisoners."

"Use the most violent offensive first to interrupt the fighting will of the Rona tribe, so that they dare not bring up swords and bloody battles with our army, and then surrender!"

"Beat them first, and be afraid!"

"Especially those more than 20 priests, you must set fire to me immediately!"

"Don't hold back, beat them first, then catch the prisoners!"

Pen Ke gave orders to his subordinates with a fierce face.

Although the boss meant that they should catch as much work as possible and transport it back to China to repair the railway.

But if you want to capture these savages who don't understand the Central Plains dialect alive, you have to use thunder force to beat them so painfully that they are afraid to beat them until they dare not fight back.

Facing those small tribes with only two or three hundred fighters, the soldiers under Pen Ke's command can naturally capture them alive with several times their military strength without firing a single shot.

But this Rhona tribe has eight thousand warriors.

How could it be possible to capture them alive without directly destroying their will to fight with a wave of offensive first.

Let's kill a batch first!
"Here!"

"As ordered!"

In the big tent, all the generals stood up, and after paying a respectful military salute to Peng Ke, they turned their heads and left the tent to prepare for the battle.

The next day was a sunny day.

It was just after midnight.

"Ugh-"

"Ugh-"

"Ugh-"

Some dull sounds of assembly horns resounded throughout the entire Zhenhai camp.

All the soldiers, no matter what they were doing at the moment, put down immediately, grabbed their weapons, put on their battle robes and cloth face armor, tied their leggings tightly, walked out of the tent, and walked along the scattered and orderly corridors to the middle of the camp. trot away in the open space of the school yard.

In less than a quarter of an hour, [-] regular soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers had all assembled on the school grounds.

Standing on the temporary high platform in front of the school grounds, Peng Ke looked down. They were wearing red mandarin duck jackets and red cloth face armor, and they were arranged in a square formation. They were standing quietly under the banner, looking up at the He is the general.

Each square formation is a standard square formation of 10×10. There are more than 100 such square formations.

Every soldier holds a Hongwu 25-year standard rifle, or a shield and a battle ax in his hand.

There are also a waist knife and a string of thunderbolts hanging around their waists.

This is the standard configuration of the Ming Dynasty frontier army, taking into account both melee and long-distance combat and defense.

Peng Ke stood on the platform with his hands behind his back, and behind him were two guard commanders, ten thousand households.

He looked down.

The wind was strong, and the military flag erected on the school field swayed with the wind.

There are more than a dozen military flags, except for two with the words "Da Ming" and "Zhenhai Camp", the rest are all general flags such as "Peng", "Wu" and "Lv".

The number of flags in an army usually represents the size of the army's organizational system. On the battlefield, it is very useful for identifying the strength of the enemy and our troops.

The so-called flags are like a forest, but that is the case.

Under the banner.

The movements were uniform, as if carved out of a mold, and even the [-] soldiers with the same expressions all raised their heads and looked at Penke.

The bayonets attached to the rifles in their hands gleamed coldly under the sunlight.

This feeling is still very shocking.

Without too much nonsense, Penke just smiled and said softly: "Prepare for the food, take out all the pigs that were killed yesterday, and the wild animals that were hunted, and give the soldiers extra meals."

"After eating the court food, leave a thousand main soldiers and auxiliary soldiers to guard the camp together."

"Others, let's set out!"

"Conquer the Rhona tribe!"

"Here!" The messengers on the general platform immediately conveyed Penke's orders down layer by layer.

Penke's order was accurately conveyed to the ears of all soldiers.

As soon as I heard that there is an extra meal to eat, and after eating, I will send troops to fight.

The soldiers who had longed for military merits all cheered loudly!
"call--"

"what--"

"drink--"

Looking at the soldiers in the audience who were full of fighting spirit and delighted at hearing the battle, Peng Ke turned his head and smiled and said to Wu Xuanshu and the others: "With this morale, you will definitely be invincible and invincible!"

(End of this chapter)