My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 591 Testing
The sky in the north of the Satsuma Plateau is overcast.

The rain line connecting the sky and the earth fell on the tent, causing water to bounce and splash on the soil. As the passing soldiers stepped on it, the muddy ground was marked with overlapping shoe prints.

For the army heading north from Satila in the south, the carriages transporting grain and fodder were moving slowly because of the muddy ground.

The Qingzhou Army, as well as the main force of the Western Expeditionary Army, mainly Yuezhou and Shengnu Auxiliary Army, are temporarily stationed and resting in the southwest of the Satsuma Northern City-State Alliance.

The Chinese soldiers hiding in the tent looked at the scouts and cavalry who were constantly entering and leaving the camp gate, and knew that they were not far away from the Prut Empire's army at this time.

Many people have already started sharpening their blades and tidying up their armor.

These soldiers and horses under the emperor's command are all made of government weapons. The weapons and armor are their own property, and they are also tools for them to build good land and houses for their descendants.

So it seems very cherished.

"This time we all put our best tricks into action. King Xiang and several generals all taught us a lot of survival skills. The other barbarians didn't catch their heads, and my own head was taken away by the other party."

"You need to tell me!"

The answer was from a veteran named Cui Yuan. He was once from the Yan Kingdom in the north. There was a severe drought that year, and he was the only one in his family who died. He only survived until the drought passed with the help of Ding'an City.

He was a person who cherished his life, or the third son of the Hou family wanted to recruit troops for the Northern Expedition. He did not go with him. Instead, he returned to his hometown and looked at the empty dilapidated house and the two earthen tombs behind the house before he decided to leave his hometown. Go to Yanjing and have a try.

At that time, a general named Xia Houyuan led the Xiliang army southward to counter Wei's invasion of Fenzhou.

He didn't catch up, so he hung out outside Yanjing City for a few days. Finally, when he heard that the Qingzhou Army was to be formed, Cui Yuan became cruel and joined the army.

He was tall and strong, so he was selected the first time. Later, he followed Xia Houyuan, who defeated Wei, and went south again to station in Zhangzhou.

However, he never thought that he would get married again. The woman was a widow, and the man was dead. He was not good-looking, but he was diligent, honest, and willing to do anything. Those few months in Zhangzhou were the happiest and most beautiful months for him. Happy time.

Soon, His Majesty was going to conquer Wei State in the south. Before returning to the military camp, his wife was pregnant.

He gave all the money he had saved in the past two years to the woman. After all, he might not be able to come back from the war. He also wrote the woman's name and her home address on the family pension.

If he dies in battle in the future, the money for stroking his beard will be left to the woman and her unborn child to live on.

Fortunately, he came back from Wei State alive and looked at the woman who came out of the house with her baby in her arms. He held the mother and son in his arms for a long time.

After that, the Wei State disappeared, and the emperor gave them fertile land and renovated houses, and they moved from Zhangzhou to the prosperous Central Plains.

This time he went to the west with all his strength, wanting to kill more barbarians and get more fields.

Because he now has his fourth child.

"The rain should stop soon." Veteran Cui Yuan licked his lips, his honest face showing an indescribable excitement.

In each tent, there was the sound of soldiers talking, laughing and sharpening their knives.

The humming noise spread through this dense tent area, and the largest tent stood in the distance. Su Chen handled today's military affairs, and discussed future tactics with Ma Chao, Lu Bu, Xiang Yu and others.

Coming out of the tent, he waved his hand to refuse Wu Zixun, the martial arts attendant, who offered him an umbrella, and walked around to the open space behind the handsome tent in the rain.

Over there, an ancestral hearse made of gold rivets and poplar wood, pulled by nine horses of different colors, gathered under the hay shed, chewing the grass.

Since the Western Expedition, apart from riding in the car and talking to the emperors, Su Chen has basically been dealing with military affairs. Now he is too lazy to have some free time, so he came over to take a look.

Li Tiangang had been waiting early. As the chariot sank, and when Su Chen came up, he handed over the prepared incense candles.

After a while, the burning incense curled up and was inserted into the incense burner.

Su Chen folded his arms and bowed respectfully to a statue on the altar table.

"Changsheng is really getting busier and busier. He doesn't even bother to come see us a few steps away." Zhu Yuanzhang was the first to come out, his tone was quite sour.

"You and I are both emperors who were killed. How busy is the military affairs? I don't know yet?"

Li Shimin was always like a big brother, saying a few words for Su Chen. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw streams of green smoke floating from the coffin table. The emperors, who had not been out for a long time, stretched their waists one by one and smelled the smoke in the rain. Air.

"It's still the breath of the human world that makes people nostalgic." Zhu Di stood on the chariot, twisted his hands back and forth a few times, then turned around and said: "Changsheng, where have we hit? Can we hit as far as I did back then?"

"We are already in Central Asia in the Western world, but there is still some distance to go from the extreme west."

Su Chen bowed his hands to a number of emperors such as Li Shimin, Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che, etc. When everyone heard his answer, they gathered around him curiously.

Except for the founding emperor, who conquered all over the world, few people have ever left the capital. Even Liu Che, the illustrious martial emperor of Han Dynasty, only visited the Chang'an area. Foreign countries, or the unheard-of Western world, they were curious after all. of.

"How are the opponent's troops and horses doing?"

Zhao Kuangyin and Cao Cao asked what they were most concerned about almost at the same time.

"I haven't played against the opponent's main force yet."

Su Chen did not sit on the big tiger-skin chair. After all, a group of emperors were standing, so he had no reason to sit down by himself.

At the moment, the Chinese emperors knew a little bit of what Su Chen said, but not completely. Knowing that the army had already set out to kill the northern city-state of the Satsuma people, they were somewhat excited.

"So we are about to fight against the main force of the Western barbarians?" Zhao Kuangyi rubbed his hands in excitement.

As a result, Yang Jian in the crowd replied contemptuously: "You are so excited, do you want Changsheng to use your mysterious skills?"

Everyone laughed immediately, and Wu Zetian also covered her mouth and chuckled twice. Apparently, she had already heard a little about Zhao Kuangyi, the later Song Dynasty.

Among them, only Zhao Da looked unhappy. After all, he was his younger brother. Even if he experienced the whole thing, he was still his brother.

When people saw the joke, he was also embarrassed.

"Tell me about other things, such as what the soldiers and horses of the Western barbarians are like. Most of our people are the founding emperors and help Changsheng give advice!"

This is the strongest staff group in history.

However, Su Chen did not dare to be careless and thanked the emperors, "Your majesties, the Xiliang army should soon launch a test. For more details, we still have to wait for Dong Zhuo to send back the information."

With that said, Su Chen also told everyone his concerns.

"Although we call the other party a Western Barbarian, the other party may be the man of destiny as mentioned by the National Master Zhang Jiao. There may be a Western Emperor like you behind him."

"Same as you?" Cao Cao narrowed his eyes.

"When you encounter strong enemies and defeat them, that's what a hero should do." Genghis Khan suddenly came out of his spiritual throne and walked over the crowd to Su Chen.

"I have entrusted you with the brave generals on the grassland. Use Mongolia's iron hooves to trample them to death!"

"It would be nice to be able to compete with the famous ministers and generals of the Western world, haha."

Li Shimin stroked his short beard under his chin and sighed with emotion: "It would be great if I had a physical body."

"You don't have to worry about immortality, because you still have me."

Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu also squeezed over at some point. When he said this, all the emperors laughed, "Indeed, with Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty here, there is nothing that cannot be solved. If you encounter something that cannot be solved, then send them to One shooting star is not enough, then two!" "You better not talk nonsense, it will make Changsheng even more troubled." Cao Cao changed his tone and said, "Let Changsheng not know whose secret technique to use, haha!"

When everyone reacted, they realized that Cao Cao had turned a corner and was also teasing Su Chen, and they all started laughing.

Su Chen was joking with these ancestors, and his mood was quite relaxed. There was no need to act like an emperor or maintain dignity.

Regarding the current situation, they can't give much, and they still have to wait for the Xiliang Army to test the situation before looking at the specific situation. However, the Samo people cannot let them sit in the city and watch the tigers fight, they must drag them into the water.

Su Chen deeply believed this.

After discussing with the emperors for a while, Su Chen got out of the car. Now he was in northern Central Asia, and there would be no cities to stop him on the way. He sent a few scouts with his orders to search for Wu'an Jun Bai Qi in the northeast. and Li Jing's two armies.

And inform them of the strategic ideas and purposes here.

The earth is filled with a layer of water vapor.

Su Chen returned to the commander's tent, looked at the map of Central Asia spread out in front of him, and said only one word to Wu Zixun who was waiting behind him.

"Send someone to inform the Xiliang army that they can launch a test attack. In addition, send a civil servant who can speak Western languages ​​to Satsuma and ask them to follow suit."

Not long after, two galloping figures rushed out of the camp gate on horseback, braving the drizzle and heading in different directions.

The gloomy rainy day was still falling more than three hundred miles to the northwest.

Located to the west of the nearest small city in the northern city-state of Satsuma, the Eastern Army came from Satira, divided into three groups, and was stationed in the mountains.

The five thousand men on the left were led by Li Jue, two Xiliang camps, and one thousand Feixiong troops.

Guo Si had two battalions of 4,000 men on the right wing. The man in the middle was Dong Zhuo and Dong Zhongying, who were honored as Grand Masters. During his military life, except for becoming comatose after entering Luoyang, he was never ambiguous in military matters.

After the Qingzhou Army captured Longcheng and surrendered to Terra Di, he led the Xiliang Army to take over as the vanguard. He broke through the blockades of the surrounding cities non-stop and arrived here as quickly as possible.

If it hadn't been for the rain that lasted for several days, it might have been faster. However, because of the rain, the barbarian army on the opposite side traveled much slower than them.

War is a race against time.

Along the way, the Xiliang army did not stop at all. During their rapid march, they also frightened the Satsuma people in the nearby city. They were relieved when they saw their black hair and yellow skin and did not make any attack on them.

In this regard, Guo Bang looked at these frightened Satsuma people with contempt. In his words, barbarians are barbarians, and they were so frightened.

Soon, they were stationed in the mountains and forests to the west of a small town that could not be named. On the way here, Dong Zhuo had already begun preparations for war.

A large number of scouts were sent out with two tasks. The first was to find out the situation and movements of the enemy's army, and to know how many troops there were and what their banners were.

The second is to survey the terrain and draw the topographic map here.

This is a necessary step that a general must do at all times.

Just when Su Chen's order came over on the seventh day of March, the atmosphere here had already become solemn.

More than 160 miles to the west, enemy scouts appeared from time to time. These brown-haired and white-skinned enemy cavalry were running in the wilderness in teams, so that the Xiliang army's scouts did not dare to approach at will.

Obviously, the other party was also on guard against the Xiliang Army inquiring into the situation.

On the second day after the emperor's edict came, the battle between the scouts began in the mountains and wilderness where the two armies were separated by a hundred miles.

The scouts on both sides met, and they came and went, winning and losing. Every day, many wounded scouts, or scouts who died in battle, were brought back by their comrades. The same was true for the Sakprut army over there. But in terms of experience, they are slightly inferior to the Xiliang Army, which has experienced hundreds of battles.

Even so, the Xiliang military master paid the price of more than a dozen Ming scouts.

It can be seen how intense the scout battle ahead is.

"First Legion of Conquerors?"

In the tent in the forest, Dong Zhuo looked at the contents of the intelligence and grinned, "Guo Aduo!"

"The general is here!"

"Give them a fight."

Dong Zhuo threw the information to the ground and gave an understatement.

It's cloudy on the ninth day of March.

In this small town in the northern city-state of Satsuma, the Satsuma general stationed there smelled an unusual smell and walked to the top of the city.

He watched the silhouettes running out of the mountains and forests in the distance and quickly disappeared from the end of the field of vision. Then he took a breath.

"The war has begun..."

As he spoke, the running Xiliang army flew silently across the wilderness. Hundreds of light cavalry bypassed their walking comrades and opened the way ahead.

Guo Si led the main force and quickly followed behind. He glanced at the map from time to time on horseback, and then pointed in a direction.

The army of four thousand people quickly changed its route in silence and moved forward over the mountains and ridges. As the scouts came and went more and more frequently, they saw a Sac army entering the plateau from west to east at the foot of a mountain. Pruitt's Army.

"Fuck them!"

Guo Si galloped on his horse, and the messengers waved flags. The four thousand Xiliang troops who were still on the march quickly changed their formations, lined up in the field, drew their swords, raised their guns, and looked into the distance silently.

At this moment, everyone's heartbeats were beating wildly.

At the other end of their field of vision, the Sakprut army that was passing through also launched an attack array. As an army that followed the emperor in conquering more than ten countries, they also had a lot of combat experience.

The scouting battle was so intense that it was natural to know that the Eastern Army was not far away from them.

Seeing that there were only 4,000 people on the other side, the leader, General Sakprut, raised his face proudly on horseback and stared at the troops in front of them who were in the same formation as them.

"The honor of the empire cannot be tarnished in our hands!" Mason looked at it for a moment, then drew his sword and waved it.

He had 6,000 men under his command and six combat orders, but he did not dare to be careless and send one by one to test. He simply used the advantage of numbers to defeat the opponent first and restore the previous defeat of Satila.

Opposite, Guo Bang tilted his head on horseback. He licked the blade of his blade and pointed to the distance and the position of the general's flag in Sakprut's army.

Then, he made a motion of wiping his neck.

The surrounding Xiliang troops saw how relaxed their generals were. They grinned, then tightened their grip on the hilts of their swords and gun shafts, and tied the handles of their shields firmly on their palms.

Four thousand people were divided into two groups, six combat teams, separated by several miles, and faced the advancing Sakprut army.

"Kill..." Someone gradually started running and exhaled.

Then, more people amplified his shouts. Four thousand people separated by several miles almost shouted out in unison: "Kill——"

The pace is getting faster and faster.

A stone's throw away!
(End of this chapter)