Xu Ping stood on a small hill on the south bank of the Yellow River, watching the army at the foot of the mountain step onto the newly built floating bridge, like a line, stretching north along the Karochuan Valley.

If all the 50,000 troops are squeezed into a road, they will last for 10 or 20 miles. Even if two rows are marching side by side, they will have to be nearly ten miles long. Such a long formation will easily be dispersed once the enemy is discovered. If you want to ensure that you are facing the enemy at any time, the marching speed will inevitably slow down. From the north bank of the Yellow River to Zhuoluo and the south city, it will take two or three days to march normally. Xu Ping has to carry out a thunder strike on Yuan Hao, and the normal marching speed will lose its suddenness.

This time, Sang Yi and Liu Jianji's army set out from Yuzhong City, crossed the river in the ancient river near Lanzhou City, and then headed north along the ancient road. After going north for dozens of miles, they walked around the pass of the mountains on the west bank of the Karo River to the north of Zhuoluo and the south. Gao Daquan and Cao Keming's army entered Lanzhou from the Agan River Valley, crossed the river in the mouth of the Yellow River at the Karo River, and then headed north along the Karo River Valley, and attacked Zhuoluo and the south with Sang Yi and Liu Jianji's army. Most of the cavalry and mule, horse and carts in the army were entitled to Sang Yi and Liu Jianji's army, allowing them to act quickly and achieve a sudden attack. Xu Ping served as a reserve force for the entire army since he followed Gao Daquan.

This was the first full-line attack by the Qinzhou army. Although it was organized and arranged in an orderly manner, various situations were frequent on the road, and there were soldiers who were left behind from time to time. It was impossible for an army of tens of thousands of people to act completely according to their expectations. Xu Ping did not expect such extravagant hope. What was really useful was to tolerate these mistakes. Tian Kuang led a team of people to take in the fallen people along the way and handled various mistakes so that the accidents would not affect the actions of the entire army.

Shi Quanbin watched the army head north beside Xu Ping and said, "Master, you have been in Qinzhou for a year and it is not easy to bring the army to this. Look at this marching, although it is not as strict as the elite array of the imperial guards, it is also very good."

Xu Ping said: "The key to this military trip is fast. The neat array is useless. As long as you go to Zhuoluo and Nan's city before dawn tomorrow and organize the team, it will be enough. There are already many scouts in front of the army. Whether they are going well or not is of great importance."

In the past, no matter whether it was fighting against the Khitan or confronting Dangxiang, the scouts of the Song army were suppressed by the opponent, and often could not hear the news about the enemy, but their every move fell into the eyes of the enemy. The Qinzhou army put a lot of strength on this. The scouts in the army were strictly selected by half of the local foreign soldiers, half of the elite imperial guards, with a large number, hard training, and excellent armor. Each person had two horses, five people, and five teams and one capital, with strict levels, and truly came and went like the wind.

The method of the elite imperial guards to deal with the enemy that often suddenly appears is to turn into combat formations at any time, and they will sacrifice the speed of the march for this. Yuan Hao repeatedly surrounded the Song army, but he could not swallow it in one bite, which is the reason. Of course, Xu Ping's Qinzhou army could also march like that, but in most cases, it required a fast forcing marching for one to three days, and then rest in the set up stronghold. This marching mode is to be able to capture the main force of the Dangxiang Army, so that they would not let them fight if they wanted, run away if they wanted, and drag their own army to death.

The rapid forcing marching in one to three days is about two or three hundred miles away, and this range is the attack surface of the Qinzhou army. As long as the enemy enters this range, it enters the Qinzhou army's attack range. This attack on Zhuoluo and Nan is less than 100 miles away, and the distance is just right. This is the first time Dangxiang faces this war pattern. Yuan Hao broke in and let Xu Ping check it out.

The grass on the roadside has turned green, the water in the river is clear, and even the mountains have become wet. After enduring the severe cold of winter, we all ran out happily under the bath of the spring breeze, playing in the mountains.

A team of fast horses swept across the hill like a wind, and the antelope who were walking leisurely on the hillside ran away in scattered areas.

"Where did the thief come from so arrogant!" The two Dangxiang soldiers shouted when they saw the horse team, and turned over the horse.

When they were one or two hundred steps away, the opposite horse team suddenly dispersed and divided into two wings to surround the Dangxiang soldiers. The two Dangxiang soldiers were startled and said, "Master, shouldn't the Song army cross the river?" After that, they turned their horses and were about to escape.

Within a few breaths, the opposite horse team reached a distance of twenty or thirty steps and surrounded it in a semicircle.

Seeing the Song army's clothing on the opposite side, the two party soldiers were frightened. They scattered out to investigate the surrounding situation, mainly to find the nomadic foreign troops and ask them to pay cattle and sheep and food to Zhuoluo and Nan, but they were not prepared for the Song army to cross the river. According to usual experience, the Song army had to prepare for a few months to cross the river and attack on the south bank of the Yellow River, and they could reach the point where they could be said. Suddenly, the Song army appeared dozens of miles away from Zhuoluo City, completely breaking the convention.

As soon as the horse was turned, the two Dangxiang soldiers heard the sound of bowstrings behind them. Before they could react, each of them was hit by two or three sharp arrows and fell off the horse. Almost at the same time the Dangxiang soldiers landed, a team of Song soldiers rushed to the front, and someone turned over and dismounted and held two war horses that were in circles on the spot.

He stretched out his feet and kicked Dang Xiangbing on the ground. Song Bing pulled out his waist and stabbed them in the hearts. Then he turned his head and said loudly: "Captain, these two thieves are dead. How can we deal with the bodies?"

Several Song soldiers surrounded him. Captain Chen Tianming dismounted, carefully carried the crossbow in his hand behind him, and said, "Peeling off their military uniforms and throwing them into the grass layer over there. The tigers and wolves in the mountains were hungry for a winter and they would eat nothing left after a few hours."

Several soldiers agreed, dismounted their horses, put away their crossbows, and stripped Dangxiang's clothes.

Chen Tianming quickly ran to the top of the mountain, putting his hand on the awning to look around. At this time, the grass on the ground had just emerged, and it was not yet time to grazed. He looked at the desolation and could not see a figure.

From the top of the mountain, Chen Tianming said to his subordinates: "Du Tou has seen it with a telescope. There are only these two people within five miles of the mountain we just came to. After cooking them, we went to the higher mountain over there and waited for Du Tou to come."

Several soldiers agreed and carried two Dangxiang soldiers and threw them into the withered weeds next to them.

Before the army crossed the river, hundreds of scouts searched north. As long as they saw swords and guns along the way, they would kill them to prevent the wind from coming out. The first level of the whole family had a telescope and directed the hunting of Dangxiang people within dozens of miles south of Zhuoluo City. The scout captain brought a powerful crossbow at the first level, and the others brought a bow, and each person brought a gun and a knife, gathered or dispersed to clean up Dangxiang's eyeliner.

Such a large-scale clearance of the battlefield will naturally be noticed by the Dangxiang people. However, they don’t know how many people there are. In the past, when scouts were training, they would also come across the river and conduct drills as they are now. This operation was not abrupt.

After cleaning up the corpse, Chen Tianming said: "Take those two horses and hand them over to me when I see you. This time I met a lot more thieves and soldiers than before. It turns out that there are indeed a large army of thieves in the north."
Chapter completed!