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Chapter 738: Battle of the Blue River (1)

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    The 80,000 Southern Army's Central Route troops under the command of Luo Jing attacked cities and towns all the way. In just a few days, more than 30 towns fell into their hands, and the battle line advanced more than 300 miles.

    The Banner Battalions of the Second Corps of the Qinghe Army under Yuan Jie also took turns to attack and harass the main force of the Southern Army.

    The banner battalions of the Qinghe Army sometimes set up ambushes against the Southern Army's forward troops, and sometimes attacked their grain transportation teams, burned the grain and grass, and then walked away.

    Some archers of the Qinghe Army hid in the forest. In the dense bushes beside the trail, they fired cold arrows from time to time, causing many casualties to the Southern Army every day.

    Facing the frequent harassment of the Qinghe Army, the generals at all levels of the Southern Army were itching with hatred, wishing to capture the Qinghe Army alive.

    However, the Qinghe Army has always been elusive, and they used the offensive of public opinion to portray the Southern Army as an image of looting and burning, and the Qinghe Army has become a warrior who protects their homeland. Coupled with some small favors from the Qinghe Army,  Won the help and cover of the people in various towns.

    The common people became the eyes, ears and eyes of the Qinghe Army, continuously reporting every move of the Southern Army to the Qinghe Army.

    Although the southern army has scouts Qingqi active, but compared to the Qinghe army, they have received much less effective information.

    Although faced with the frequent attacks of the Qinghe Army, Luo Jing, the commander of the Southern Army's Central Road, was quite calm.

    He felt that the more frequent the Qinghe army attacked, the more it meant that the Qinghe army's troops in the middle were empty, and the more they could advance unscrupulously.

    Xu Liang's unit of the Southern Army on the North Road was beaten by the Qinghe Army with a sap, and dared not move forward, and became a coward.

    Although Zhennan General Luo Mingyuan sent people to urge Xu Liang to lead his troops forward many times, looking for the main decisive battle of the Qinghe Army.

    However, every time Xu Liang set out with great fanfare during the day, and sneaked back into the fortified city at night, so that the Central Route Army advanced more than 300 miles, and the North Route Army was almost still in circles.

    Facing Xu Liangyang's behavior of obedience and disobedience, Zhennan General Luo Mingyuan was also quite annoyed.

    But Xu Liang is not his direct line of troops, and the First Corps also obeys Xu Liang's words.

    If he removes Xu Liang, the commander of the regiment, he will not only offend people, but he will not be able to command the first regiment, which will chill the hearts of the rest of the troops and is not conducive to unity.

    So Luo Mingyuan could only write down this account secretly, and decided to deal with Xu Liang, a rebellious general, after the war.

    The southern army on the South Road fought steadily. Although they also encountered some small-scale resistance, they also occupied more than a dozen towns. Luo Mingyuan did not urge them, as long as they contained part of the Qinghe army.

    ?The southern army marched forward in three groups. Except for the northern route, which lost more than 10,000 people and became a turtle, the other two routes went smoothly.

    ?The southern army attacked the city all the way, and the banner chiefs of the Qinghe Army's Second Corps kept retreating. They were able to sit still at first, but then they couldn't sit still.

    Because if they continue to develop in this way, they may lose one or two mansions before defeating the southern army, and it will not be easy for Chen Ziang to do business at that time.

    "The longer the Southern Army's front line is, the more beneficial it is for us. Temporarily losing some towns is not a loss."

    Compared with the banner commanders who were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, Yuan Jie, the regiment leader, was quite calm.

    "Every time the southern army occupies a town, even if they leave a minimum of troops to guard, they need at least 500 troops."

    "The more towns they occupy, the less mobile forces they have, which is more beneficial to us in terms of decisive battles."

    "And the lengthening of the southern army's front means that their supply line is also lengthening. We still have a lot of small groups operating behind the enemy lines. They attack their supply line and can contain part of the southern army."

    Indeed, as analyzed by Yuan Jie, the head of the Second Corps of the Qinghe Army, the main force of the Southern Army's central road advanced three hundred miles all the way, and they needed to divide their troops to guard various towns to ensure the safety behind them.

    Now there are only more than 50,000 troops under Luo Jing's command that can actually be mobilized into battle, and almost all of the other 30,000 troops are scattered in the occupied area and become a defensive force.

    Naturally, Luo Jing hadn't realized that this was Yuan Jie's conspiracy, head of the Qinghe Army Corps, to weaken their main force and create conditions for the decisive battle.

    On a misty morning in April, the central army led by Luo Jing advanced to the Blue River Plain.

    ? The Blue River Plain is the western part of the Jiangnan province.?The largest plain in the region, where the land is fertile and there are many towns, it is the junction of the central and western parts of Jiangnan Province.

    After the army left the hilly area and entered the Blue River Plain, their field of vision became wider.

    The purge army marched in the mist, looming like a long winding dragon, making it hard to see clearly.

    Luo Jing, a major general, looked at the large fields full of crops around him, and his mood was extraordinarily comfortable.

    Because when the other two offensive troops were dawdling, he had already led the troops to attack the Blue River Plain, and he would be the first to recover the Jiangnan Province. Those veterans would dare to disobey him then.

    "Report!"

    When Luo Jing was in a good mood, a scout Qingqi galloped over.

    "Reporting to the major general, the forward troops encountered a large group of bandits ten miles ahead!"

    The scout Qingqi reined in the horse in front of Luo Jing and shouted loudly.

    "Order the whole army to press up and destroy this bandit army!"

    Although Luo Jing and the others have been attacking the city and pushing forward all the way these days, they have often been harassed by the small Qinghe army, and their hearts have long been simmering with anger.

    Now the Qinghe army did not engage in sneak attacks, but blocked it head-on. In Luo Jing's view, the Qinghe army was simply hitting eggs with stones and seeking their own death.

    Major General Luo Jing gave an order, and the mighty troops of the Southern Army, who were looming in the mist, suddenly accelerated.

    On the battlefield ten miles ahead of them, the forward troops of the Qinghe Army and the forward troops of the Southern Army fought together.

    When the main force led by Luo Jing arrived near the battlefield, the blood-stained forward general had already led the troops back.

    When they found the Qinghe Army in front of them, they rushed forward screaming, thinking it was a small army of the Qinghe Army.

    However, it was only when they fought that they discovered that the opponent had more troops than they had imagined, and their combat effectiveness was quite strong.

    In particular, the scout Qingqi reported that when a Qinghe army of unknown size was approaching the battlefield nearby, the forward general of the southern army decisively led his troops out of the battle.

    ? Although the forward troops of the two sides only fought for less than half an hour, the southern army lost nearly 2,000 elite infantry, which was a small loss.

    When the main force of the Southern Army led by Luo Jing arrived at the battlefield, the main force of the Qinghe Army under the command of Yuan Jie, the second regiment commander of the Qinghe Army, arrived almost at the same time.

    Sitting on the horseback, Luo Jing saw through the mist that there was darkness in the distance, and countless soldiers and horses were pouring out of the mist, continuously.

    The Qinghe Army's spears are like a forest, and the flags are flying. The thick and mountain-like array is slowly creeping to the two wings, and the team has been stretched into the invisible fog.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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