As soon as Song Zhiwen dispatched the three thousand troops mobilized from various places, the Tang Dynasty spies who were ambushing in Fucheng were already running all the way towards Zhengtai County. They wanted to pass the news to the new Tang army in time.
The big guys at the top make corresponding decisions.
Carrying a lot of baggage, you also need to be prepared for enemy ambush, and you need to maintain the physical strength of the soldiers at all times to face encounters. Marching too fast will cause the soldiers to exhaust their physical strength. In this case, if they encounter an ambush or
Encounters are fatal to a cold-weapon army that relies on the physical strength of soldiers to fight.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, a large-scale army marches very slowly, and the distance it travels in a day is no more than twenty or thirty miles. Even if it is a light march, the distance it travels in a day is only forty or fifty miles. No matter how much more
It's not possible to leave, but the risk is too great.
Therefore, the march of an army cannot simply be measured by a person's walking speed. A person's normal walking speed can cover twenty miles in an hour, and many large armies only cover this much distance in a day.
The slow movement of the army gave the spies of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty enough time to deliver the news. These spies did not have to worry about physical strength or being ambushed. They only wanted to do one thing, and that was to
They could deliver the message back in the shortest time, so they were traveling very fast, and they even had horses.
The spies kept running wildly, allowing Li Xuan to obtain Fucheng that night. The Ming army had officially left the city!
"According to their direction, they are coming towards the Lanjiang Ferry, and they must want to cross the river from here. And according to their formation, it is expected that the forward of the Ming Army will arrive at the Lanjiang Ferry tomorrow evening, and the main force will
The large-scale crossing of the river should happen the day after tomorrow!" Zeng Ziwen said: "There is not much time left for us. We will continue to speed up tomorrow morning and strive to arrive at noon. We will prepare an ambush and attack before they arrive at the Lanjiang Ferry.
Strike in one and a half steps!"
When Zeng Ziwen said this, Fang Dongquan said: "Our army has been marching for two consecutive days, and the soldiers' physical strength has been exhausted. At this time, we are still almost twenty miles away from the Lanjiang Ferry. We will have to march within half a day tomorrow.
Arriving there, I’m afraid it will be too much of a physical drain on the soldiers!”
Butcher Chen also nodded and said: "Yes, if you walk too fast, you will have no strength to fight. Without strength, you can't walk a few steps wearing heavy armor!"
Among the many arms of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, the ones with the greatest physical demands were the sword and shield soldiers under Chen Tufu. When fighting, these sword and shield soldiers had to carry dozens of kilograms of shields and armor, which placed considerable physical demands on the soldiers.
High, if they are too physically exhausted during the march, they will not have the strength to fight wearing these armors.
However, Wang Shanxu said: "If we are worried about the march speed being too fast, we can set off two hours earlier in the morning and maintain a good rhythm on the road. The soldiers' physical strength is still controllable. We can rest for half a day after arriving.
Even if the puppet Ming army wants to cross the river directly in the evening! We can still wait for a while and fight!"
Li Xuan also spoke at this time: "This battle is related to the survival of the Tang Dynasty. We must stop the puppet Ming rebel army from the Lanjiang River. The Lanjiang River Ferry must be seized!"
As soon as Li Xuan opened his mouth, he set the tone for this matter. No matter what, he must dare to arrive and seize the Lanjiang ferry before the Ming army crosses the river. This is not to ambush the Ming army, but to stop the Ming army at Lanjiang.
Beyond the river.
Because according to the current position and speed of the Ming army, they will definitely be able to reach the Lanjiang River tomorrow afternoon. Whether they will risk crossing the river directly in the evening, or whether they will cross the river the next morning, is unknown.
But even if the main force of the Ming army did not cross the river in the evening, they would definitely send some of their forwards to cross the river first.
After all, the generals of the Ming army cannot be fooled. If Li Xuan and others thought of attacking halfway across the river, they would definitely consider the danger of crossing the river.
What Li Xuan and the others have to do tomorrow afternoon is to kill the Ming army's forwards or force them back so that they cannot successfully seize the Lanjiang ferry and thus cover the Ming army's crossing of the river.
After Li Xuan set the tone, the subsequent discussion was simple, mainly discussing some specific action plans, especially what to do after arriving at the Lanjiang Ferry.
Li Xuan was not too involved in this, but listened to what they said!
When these people were discussing, Zeng Ziwen's role became more and more important. Although this man was not very good at actually leading troops in battles. He was once the butcher Chen on the battlefield, and Fang Dongquan and his men were defeated, but it has to be said that he
His theoretical skills are quite good.
He was very good at arranging marches and camps, and he was also very fluent in talking about various strategies.
However, Li Xuan also knew that Zeng Ziwen was only talking about it, and if he really asked him to lead the troops according to his plan, the end would be very tragic.
This is also the reason why Li Xuan did not send Zeng Ziwen to the army to lead troops, but continued to serve as a doctor in the combat department.
As a superior, the most important thing you need to do is to put the right people in the right positions. Zeng Ziwen is good at talking about military affairs on paper. If you have to let him lead the troops, you will be harming others and yourself.
After everyone agreed on the action plan for tomorrow, they dispersed, and Li Xuan also entered the tent early to rest.
There was nothing to say all night, and the sky had not yet brightened the next day. Many people in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty had already gotten up. The cooks in each army had to take advantage of the night to cook, so that those people could be served at dawn.
The soldiers who woke up had breakfast as soon as possible and started marching after breakfast.
Li Xuan didn't get up too late. After getting up, he led a group of officers to inspect the military camp. After confirming that nothing unexpected happened, he returned to his tent and started having breakfast.
It didn't take long for the sky to be completely bright. At the same time, more than a thousand people from the New Army of the Tang Dynasty also embarked on a new day's journey. They had to arrive at the Lanjiang Ferry before the Ming army. If the forward of the Ming army had already seized Lanjiang,
Jiangduk, then it is necessary to defeat the Ming army's forward and recapture Lanjiang Ferry.
The sun gradually rose, and the armies of the only two dynasties within hundreds of miles were gradually approaching. In the morning, a group of generals from the Ming army gathered together for a conversation. It didn't take long before the Ming army's queues separated.
There was an army of about five hundred men, who carried nothing but weapons and armor.
Under the leadership of a Qianhu, they broke away from the main queue of the Ming army and accelerated towards the Lanjiang Ferry.
Looking down from the sky, the two armies of the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty are almost moving towards each other in a straight line, and their intersection is the Lanjiang River Ferry!