Crossing the Huaihe River is a silver belt flowing on the Mongolian grassland, which has nurtured the cattle, sheep and humans of this piece of water and soil. Unfortunately, in a few years, with the changes in the sea and the earth's climate, it will finally disappear from this land. This land

It's just a very helpless thing.

But now it still has abundant water resources and rich water plants, nurturing this generation of creatures.

At this time, a cavalry army slowly walked downstream along the Huaihe River.

"Captain, Brigadier Wang Guixiang is here."

Li Dingguo was commanding the troops to move forward. At this time, a scout came to report. After hearing this, Li Dingguo was slightly stunned and said: "Where is it? I'm going to see Brigadier Wang."

Now that you have entered the system, you still have to abide by some rules. Li Dingguo himself has a military background and knows the importance of the discipline concept of superiority and inferiority in an army. If everyone in the army is proud of their talents and disobeys management, then this army does not need to bring

.

You can be crazy and disobey the organization in all kinds of ways outside the system, but if you have already entered the organization and you still don't care about anything and don't obey anyone, then it won't work.

If you don’t believe it, just look at Sun Wukong. When he was causing havoc in the Heavenly Palace, he was so crazy that even the gods in the sky could not catch his eye. The majestic Jade Emperor was just an old Jade Emperor to him.

But after learning the scriptures, my attitude almost changed 180 degrees. The Jade Emperor is no longer an old man, and the Star King in the sky can also speak politely to others.

Some people say that Sun Wukong has changed too much, but those who have experienced officialdom or some large-scale workplaces should understand that these changes are not that the person is different, but that the position is different, so the person becomes different.

This is what Li Dingguo is like. Now he is just the regiment commander. If he encounters the brigade commander, he will not be polite. Isn't this a provocation?

So Li Dingguo wanted to take the initiative to receive the gift, and why Li Dingguo and Wang Guixiang did not act together was because Li Dingguo set out from Shaanxi and rushed directly from Xuanfu to cross the Huaihe River Basin, so it was faster than coming from Guihua City.

Moreover, this strategic plan is divided into two parts. The first part is to find the ***'s logistics transfer station. Secondly, after the ***'s logistics transfer station is attacked, the *** will definitely bring troops back to assist as soon as possible. At this time,

A force is needed to intercept their return reinforcements midway.

Therefore, the main division of labor this time was that Li Dingguo's cavalry and Wang Guixiang's cavalry found the Japanese logistics transfer station for the main force and destroyed it. Li Chaohu led a large force of 5,000 people to ambush halfway, catching the Japanese by surprise.

As for why Li Chaohu only brought 5,000 people, the main reason is that Guihua City also needs to be defended, and everyone cannot be brought out. Otherwise, if the Communist Party returns and attacks Guihua City, or the restless Mongolians on the grassland,

If any force comes to attack Guihua City, it will be a threat to Guihua City.

As the most important bridgehead of Lantian outside the Great Wall, Guihua City absolutely did not allow any mistakes, so Li Chaohu only brought half of the troops out of the city. Of course, half of the troops were enough. After all, the majority of the army was still in the Ming Dynasty.

We were wandering around, but not many stayed to provide logistics support, probably only a few thousand people.

Li Dingguo tidied up his brand-new Lantian military uniform and rode a horse not far away. He saw a huge cavalry unit parked in the distance. The Wang Guixiang Cavalry Brigade was said to be a cavalry brigade, but it has developed over the years and has nearly six

There were more than a thousand cavalry, and all of them were sitting lazily on their horses, as if they hadn't woken up.

But Li Dingguo could tell at a glance that these were definitely the best of the best.

The skin color of these cavalrymen is generally darker than that of the Lantian people. This is obviously caused by living on the prairie for a long time and being exposed to strong ultraviolet rays.

These cavalrymen have a lot of equipment on their horses, but it is obvious that the horses they ride on are all BMWs and good horses, and they do not seem very tired even though they are carrying cavalrymen and equipment.

These cavalrymen prepared three weapons, a carbine produced in Lantian. This kind of carbine was also equipped by Li Dingguo's regiment, and it was the latest model. It was more high-end than the equipment of these cavalrymen. However, Li Dingguo felt that if his people were to follow these

If there is a conflict between people, the cavalry in your hands will definitely not be able to defeat the cavalry in front of you.

In addition to the carbine, the cavalry also has a saber. Needless to say, the saber is indispensable. After all, no matter how powerful the musket is, there are short-term soldiers.

When fighting in close combat, you definitely can't use a gun, because the musket at this time is at best a stick for burning fire, so the best thing to use at this time is not the gun, but the saber.

When fighting hand to hand, a musket is not as useful as a fire stick.

Apart from these two items, the most conspicuous thing placed there is the compound bow.

Compound bows are the most important equipment of Wang Guixiang's cavalry brigade, even more important than muskets. This unit has no problem without muskets, but it cannot do without compound bows.

Although carbines are easy to use, it is too inconvenient to change bullets on horseback. Therefore, Wang Guixiang's Cavalry Brigade will only use carbines when the distance is far, and when they are close, they switch to compound bows.

The most powerful tactic of Wang Guixiang's cavalry brigade is the kite tactic. With the powerful mobility of the cavalry and the ultra-long-distance shooting of the compound bow, the enemy can be beaten like a rat covering its head.

In these years, Wang Guixiang's troops fought against the Mongols on the grasslands, against the Tatars who fled to the grasslands, and even had dealings with Uzang and the policemen who came from Liaodong to spy on military affairs.

And after these so-called people on horseback encountered Lantian's cavalry brigade, each and every one of them fell into disarray due to the kite tactics of Lantian's cavalry brigade.

Of course, the Lantian Cavalry Brigade also suffered casualties during this period. After all, these Mongolians and Tatars also have some talents, especially the Japanese. I don’t know if it is the so-called blessing of the gods. The probability of a master among the Japanese army.

Far more than other ethnic groups.

This may be fate, just like during the Three Kingdoms period, famous generals arose everywhere, and every one of them was brave enough to be worthy of ten thousand men, and there were countless people with a martial arts value of eighty or more.

There are many masters like ***, and *** also gave these people who are skilled in bow and horse a resounding name, Condor Shooters.

What is a vulture shooter? He is a ruthless man who rides on a horse and shoots down the giant eagles from the sky with a hard bow.

But even if such a ruthless person reached the grassland and near Guihua City, he was hunted down by the Lantian cavalry, and more than once.

Of course, there have been many such masters hunted, and *** also knows how terrible Lantian is, so they no longer send eagle shooters to investigate the situation in Guihua City. After all, eagle shooters are considered a rare resource here in ***, so take them out.

One of them could be regarded as Batulu, died tragically at the foot of Guihua City, and did not bring back any information. This is considered a waste.

This is the power of this army, a being that is more ferocious than the Japanese and the Mongols on the grassland.

Li Dingguo looked at the team in front of him with a hint of surprise in his eyes. He didn't expect that Lantian would have such a terrifying cavalry on the fortress.

"alert!"

While Li Dingguo was thinking about this, he suddenly heard a shout from someone in the cavalry brigade. The next moment, all the cavalrymen shivered. All the cavalrymen who were taking a nap suddenly stood up, their eyes became brighter, and at the same time, their weapons

He took out his sheath and stared intently at Li Dingguo, who was about to approach. An invisible murderous aura locked onto Li Dingguo.

The hairs on Li Dingguo's body stood up, as if he was being stared at by a beast.

"My own people, my own people, rest, rest."

Just when the cavalry were on alert, a man who seemed to be the leader waved his hand and said: "Everyone, rest, it's okay, we are on our own, our own."

As he said this, the man rode up to Li Dingguo, saluted and said, "Hello, Captain Li. I'm the adjutant of the brigade commander, Zhang Haoke."

Upon seeing this, Li Dingguo immediately responded: "Adjutant Zhang, where is Brigadier Wang?"

After hearing this, Zhang Haoke said: "I am resting. My brothers have been traveling all day and night. They are all very sleepy. Let's take a little rest and sleep for a while."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo pointed to the soldiers around him and said, "Are all the brothers sleeping on their horses?"

After hearing this, Zhang Haoke said: "Well, this is the basic skill of our brigade. Let alone a standing horse, it is a running horse. Some of us can also sleep, but sleeping on horseback can only be temporary.

Solving sleepiness cannot be used as a long-term means of relieving fatigue."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo nodded and said, "That's it, I've learned a lesson."

Zhang Haoke said: "Come, Commander Li, let's go meet

Brigadier."

Zhang Haoke said, leading Li Dingguo around the resting cavalry in front and to the back. Wang Guixiang was sitting on a big rock at this time, beating his knees with both hands. He had been riding this horse for a long time, and his legs were the first to suffer.

No.

This down-to-earth feeling is still very comfortable.

"Brigadier Commander, Li Dingguo, Commander Li is here."

Zhang Haoke watched Wang Guixiang guiding Li Dingguo. Li Dingguo saluted and said, "I have met Brigadier Wang."

At this time, Wang Guixiang stood up and saluted back: "Li Dingguo, hahaha... I have long heard from the brothers in Lantian that there is a good man named Li Dingguo in northern Shaanxi. I am really lucky to meet him today."

Li Dingguo didn't expect Wang Guixiang to treat him with such courtesy, so he smiled and said: "Commander Wang is so polite."

Wang Guixiang laughed and said: "Why are you so polite? You call a hero a boy, hahaha."

As the two of them sat down, Wang Guixiang rubbed his legs and said, "I have been riding horses for too long, and I like the feeling of stepping on the earth. My county magistrate once told me that our cavalry is very good, but we are not grounded."

ah.

After hearing Wang Guixiang's words, Li Dingguo chuckled, and then his adjutant Zhang Haoke brought two bowls of hot mare's milk and said, "You two, please use it slowly."

Wang Guixiang said with a smile: "Come on, Dingguo, we are marching and fighting and there is nothing good to eat. This is just the mare's milk. Don't dislike it."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo laughed and said: "Why do you dislike it? When I was fleeing famine in northern Shaanxi, I would have been so happy if I could have had a sip of mare's milk, hahaha..."

Speaking of this, Li Dingguo took a sip of mare's milk, and there was actually tea in it. Wang Guixiang said: "We cavalry have been in the grasslands for a long time, and it is difficult to eat vegetables. The county official said that we lacked some vitamins, so he thought of using hot

The method of making tea with mare milk is a supplement, not to mention it is quite effective.”

After hearing this, Li Dingguo smiled and spat out the tea leaves in his mouth. Wang Guixiang took a sip of mare's milk, then chewed up the tea leaves and swallowed them.

Seeing Wang Guixiang eating tea, Li Dingguo felt a little admiration in his heart. These men stationed on the grassland were real warriors, and they must be the most elite troops in Lantian.

Li Dingguo was thinking that at this time Wang Guixiang had already drank a bowl of hot mare's milk into his stomach, and then picked out two yak dried sticks from his arms, handed one to Li Dingguo, and started chewing on his own.

When the food was almost done, Wang Guixiang looked at Li Dingguo and said, "Well, have you gained anything these days?"

After hearing this, Li Dingguo said: "We have been searching along the upper reaches of the Huaihe River these days and have not found the location of the transfer station. However, as soon as we arrived at the middle reaches of the Huaihe River today, we saw the horseshoe prints trampled by a large group of cavalry.

I think the transfer station for *** should be near here, or downstream, because *** comes to get water from the river."

After hearing this, Wang Guixiang said: "Well, if we find large-scale horse hoof prints, it means that we have entered the living range of the ***. Next, as long as we send out enough cavalry scouts, we will definitely find the ***.

This is a good transit point. At least it proves that our general direction is not wrong."

As Wang Guixiang said, Li Dingguo said: "Yes, I have sent more than a hundred scouts to look for it this morning. I think there will be news soon."

After hearing this, Wang Guixiang said: "Well, the Huaihe River Basin is very large, and more than a hundred scouts are not enough. So, I will send another 200 people, and we will conduct a blanket search."

"Carpet style?"
To be continued...