The pain in Chen Yongfu’s heart is something outsiders cannot understand.

The bosses such as Hong Chengchou and others thought that Chen Yongfu was passive and unwilling to fight with the bandits, and he even wanted to cultivate the bandits' self-respect.

After the subordinates above received Chen Yongfu's order to head north, many of them looked at Chen Yongfu with doubts.

The adults at the top don’t know what the virtues of the rural protection army in the north are. Don’t you, Chen Yongfu, also know?

Let's just go north to fight with the Baoxiang Army. Let's not talk about the chances of winning. But even if we can win in the face of such a tough fight, they will have to break their bones after this battle.
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Maybe, many of the generals here will not be able to come back alive.

You, Chen Yongfu, know this, but why do you still take us to die?

Seeing the puzzled and even questioning looks from several of his direct confidants, Chen Yongfu showed no expression on his face and directly handed Hong Chengchou's letter to one of his direct confidants.

After seeing this guerrilla, his face looked gloomy!

Then he handed the letter to several other people around him. Without exception, the expressions of these people were not very good after reading the letter.

"What do the adults above think? We all said that the rural protection army in the north is an elite division, but why don't you believe our words?"

"There is a deadline of ten days to deal with the Lu family that the Baoxiang Army transferred to. It is so urgent. Doesn't this force us to die?"

"What about the defense of the Lu family? Is it now the problem of the Lu family? If we can't wipe out the traitors of the Baoxiang Army in the north first, I'm afraid the entire Nanyang Prefecture will fall into the hands of these traitors."

"What should we do? We have to obey this military order. The guy named Hong is not a soft-hearted person. If we dare to disobey the order, things will not end well."

"Are you just going north like this, regardless of fighting with the Hometown Protection Army? It's not like you haven't come into contact with this Hometown Protection Army under Luo Thief, so it won't be easy to deal with."

"Even if we want to delay, it won't work. He has given us a deadline to end the battle within ten days and then transfer to Lu's. If it takes too long, we still have to disobey him."

Listening to the words of the confidants under his command, Chen Yongfu said: "Stop talking, no matter what, you must obey the command of the supervisor, otherwise I don't need to tell you what the consequences will be."

I know."

"It is necessary to go north, but we still need to think carefully about the specifics of fighting like this. If we can really fight, then we will try our best to lose some of our old skills, put our heads on the waistband of our pants and fuck him once, and then go to Lu's after the fighting!

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"The Baoxiang Army has a lot of mules, horses, grain and grass, and extremely sophisticated ordnance. If we can defeat them, the proceeds from the seizure will not only make up for our losses, but should also increase our strength by three points."

Having said this, Chen Yongfu looked around and said: "If something can't be done, then you can't be stubborn, but don't really get caught up in it. The thousands of soldiers trained by our brothers are not easy, and they must not be wasted.

Too much damage."

"But, at the beginning, we all have to cheer up and have a good fight. It's best if we win. Even if we don't win, it's enough to give an explanation to the supervisor."

At this time, the confidant Guerrilla said: "In this case, we can only fight one battle, but it is not easy for us to accumulate two thousand soldiers. Can we let the guard soldiers test the strength of the rebel army first?

If there is a chance, will you use our headquarters again?"

Chen Yongfu said: "This is natural. Let the guardsmen take the lead first, and our soldiers will see the opportunity before taking action. But you also know who those guardsmen are."

"Normally, it is okay to let them take the lead, but now against these home-protecting troops, I am afraid that these guard soldiers will be defeated by the opponent before they go up, so we must do a good job in supervising the battle."

After hearing this, the confidant guerrilla nodded and said: "I will personally lead the cavalry to supervise the battle team."

By this time, Chen Yongfu and several of his close men knew.

Now they have no choice, they must go north to fight.

The best you can fight is to not only be able to complete the mission, but also rely on capturing a wave of fat.

If he can't beat him, then he can give Hong Chengchou an explanation. He, Hong Chengchou, can't get angry because he can't beat him, and finally kill himself with a knife.

What they can do now is to carefully arrange the war, and if the war goes unfavorably, they must try their best to save their two thousand soldiers.

Yes, not a thousand soldiers, but two thousand soldiers!

Although Chen Yongfu was forced to send troops by Hong Chengchou, now that he has decided to go north, Chen Yongfu will go all out.

You will never hide and leave half of the main force to watch a show in Nanyang Fucheng, and stupidly go north with only a thousand soldiers and a guard station.

He knew very well that any contempt for the rural protection army was just a joke on the lives of himself and the two thousand soldiers under his command.

Now that we have fought, we must go all out!

Therefore, Chen Yongfu issued an edict and asked his son Chen De to go north with another thousand soldiers who were stationed in Nanyang Mansion.

In addition, his son Chen De was asked to bring another thousand guards soldiers from Nanyang City.

As for young and strong civilian men, he is not recruiting them.

The guardsmen can still be used as cannon fodder, but the young civilians can only help transport the baggage.

The current two thousand civilians are barely enough. Recruiting too many people will be a waste of food.

Besides, after I transferred a thousand soldiers from Nanyang Mansion, Nanyang City became relatively empty.

Nowadays, there are only about two thousand guardsmen left in Nanyang City, and there are also two to three thousand young men who have been recruited recently.

If too many are deployed, Nanyang Fucheng will be completely undefended.

He doesn't care about the life and death of the officials in Nanyang City, but now Nanyang City is his rear base camp and the place where he supplies food and grass.

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Chen Yongfu didn't want to see Nanyang Mansion invaded by a group of thieves who randomly came over.

Therefore, some necessary guard soldiers and young men still need to be left behind.

Nanyang City is not far from Yangjiazhuang, only more than ten miles away. Chen De, the son of Chen Yongfu, led his army to arrive at Yangjiazhuang from Nanyang City in just one day.

The next day, Chen Yongfu personally led an army of more than 7,000 people, including 2,000 soldiers, 3,000 guardsmen, and 2,000 civilians, to march northward.

It's just that these 7,000 people may seem like a lot, but everyone knows that the only ones who can really be considered an army are the 2,000 soldiers under Chen Yongfu.

Among the two thousand soldiers, the only ones who can be considered elite are the more than a hundred personal soldiers directly under Chen Yongfu.

Today, the various Ming armies in the Central Plains region are all officers and soldiers, but the differences are very large.

For example, those young men and women who were temporarily recruited, no matter in the name of county brave, township brave, etc., they are essentially a group of farmers who were temporarily recruited, and many of them did not even have supplies.

The most powerful combatants are naturally the various servants and personal soldiers in the hands of the generals.

Next are the ordinary soldiers, which are divided into recruiting soldiers and guard soldiers.

Recruiting soldiers, needless to say, Wang Xiazi and the others used to be recruiting soldiers, and now many of the more capable officers and soldiers are basically recruited soldiers.

As for the guardsmen, this is more interesting.

In the middle and late Ming dynasty, there were a lot of disciplines among the guardsmen. They were all guardsmen, but the difference in combat effectiveness was huge.

There is a huge gap in combat effectiveness between the frontier army and the interior guard station.

And even among the guardsmen who also belong to the interior, the gap in combat effectiveness is huge.

Generally speaking, a guard in inland areas currently has several thousand military households in name, but in the mid-Ming Dynasty, the ratio was three to one, that is, three military households per soldier.

If a guard has three thousand military households, then there will be one thousand soldiers.

But, this data is the peak of theory in the middle of the Ming Dynasty...

By the time of the Chongzhen Dynasty, a guard with a nominal number of five thousand military households only had five or six hundred soldiers, and the ratio had been greatly increased to ten to one!

Don’t ask why it’s like this, it’s just too long to talk about.

Let’s talk about these five hundred and six soldiers.

Since officers and soldiers now fight under the battalion sentry system, in addition to some of these battalion sentry soldiers being recruited, some are also selected from the garrison soldiers.

As a result, half of the five or six hundred soldiers in a guard are often selected, which is about three hundred relatively elite soldiers.

These three hundred somewhat elite guardsmen will be incorporated into the sentinel field troops led by superior generals and serve as one of the main components of the contemporary Ming Army's field troops.

The remaining two to three hundred first-class soldiers who were selected stayed at the local garrison on weekdays.

If the local area is attacked, in addition to using these second-class soldiers left behind, the local garrison will also mobilize and recruit ordinary military households who have not received professional military skills training.

These temporarily recruited ordinary military households are actually not much different from other temporarily recruited young and strong civilians. The only better ones may have some tattered, rusty iron knives, spears and other weapons.
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Of course, because these ordinary military households are led by second-class guard soldiers who stay behind, their actual combat effectiveness is still much stronger than that of pure civilians.

How should I put it? In Chen Yongfu's mind, this time when he went north to fight against the traitors of the Hometown Protection Army, the three thousand ordinary guardsmen under his command were still qualified to be cannon fodder, but the two thousand civilians were not even qualified to be cannon fodder. They were exhausted.

Just let them consume the arrows and ammunition of the thieves.

Looking at the 7,000 troops under Chen Yongfu, you will find that there are not many who can fight, and even fewer who can be called elite.

However, even so, this 7,000-strong army is still very intimidating.

As soon as Chen Yongfu and the others started to move forward, Luo Zhixue, who was behind, got the news that the Ming army from Yangjiazhuang was coming out in full force.

Luo Zhixue, who was standing in front of the window, put down the emergency report and said calmly to An Yongduo beside him: "It seems that Chen Yongfu is determined to fight us. With an army of seven thousand, he is afraid that he will

The coffin is already packed!"

An Yongduo said: "It is true. Among the seven thousand troops, there are still two thousand who have just been transferred from Nanyang City to the north. He has transferred all the troops of Nanyang Mansion!"

Luo Zhixue's expression remained calm: "Since he took the initiative to go north, then as landlords, we also need to entertain him well!"
To be continued...