Early in the morning, all the music is silent, the sky is already cloudy, the temperature is very low in the early winter morning, the morning light of the break of dawn slowly wakes up the sleeping land, the distant mountains lingering on a layer of soft smoke, when the people just woke up from sleep, the north gate of the city of Dacheng opens, and two teams of people come out of the city gate.
"Your Excellency, General Chu, Mister Wei will be the first to go." Wei Ren who was wearing a pair of locks armor rode on his horse towards Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui and clasped his fists, the locks armor on his body was a gift from Chu Chaohui, this set of armor was much better than his original equipment. Wei Ren can see Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui color between the hard to separate, intentionally go first to give them space to say private words.
Wei Ren's interest in making Zheng Yuming's face slightly red, and Zheng Yuming's embarrassment is different, Chu Zhaohui appears to be very appreciative, he is generous towards Wei Ren returned the salute: "Wei general please go ahead, I will catch up as soon as possible."
The large force that met the enemy from Ulsan to Edge Road Pass had already started a day ahead of them, Wei Ren and Chu Chao Hui did not follow the large force to march with them because of Xi Hou's injury. Although they were a day late, because the guard with horses marched twice as fast as the army on foot, this afternoon, Wei Ren and Chu Chao Hui, the two main generals, were able to catch up with the crusading army.
After Wei Ren and his guards went first, Wei Qing led Chu Chao Hui's guards to intentionally speed up and distance themselves from Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui, leaving the two at the end of the line.
"Da Niu, you and the guards stay here to keep watch and don't follow them, Gongzi and I are going to the front to discuss important matters." Chu Chao Hui wanted to speak to Zheng Yuming alone.
Wei Ren was very knowledgeable, Wei Qing was also very considerate, and only Da Niu was foolishly out of his element, leading a dozen or so Weishan Province guards to follow closely behind Zheng Yuming.
"How can this be? Da Niu can't protect far from the male." Da Niu firmly shook his head.
"Isn't there me!" Chu Chaohui forehead veins began to want to jump again, this big bull when he is a dead man, he will not even be able to protect a person? This is also too underestimating him, how come the big bull doesn't think about being pressed by one of his fingers in the Wu King's Palace that he can't move.
"Da Niu, you and the guards stay here, this surrounding has been searched twice for the scouts it's safe, General Chu and I will go to the front to say a few words and return." Zheng Yuming felt a gust of resentment emanating from Chu Chao Hui.
"Obey!" Da Niu obviously only obeyed Zheng Yuming's command, typically eating whoever he was and listening to whoever he was told.
Chu Chao Hui glared at Da Niu for a few moments before he and Zheng Yuming zigzagged their horses forward for more than fifty meters.
"Chao Hui, I'll send you here, you march to war to pay more attention to safety, I'm waiting for the army triumph in Dacheng." Zheng Yuming has never seen the battlefield blood and fire, but TV and movies on the ancient war scenes to see a lot, the original only with entertainment perspective to see the cruel scenes will be by Chu Chaohui real to face. Swords on the battlefield without eyes, no twenty-first century medical conditions, sometimes small cuts will cause people's lives. Zheng Yuming just think of these, the bottom of the heart is unusually heavy.
"Don't worry, that battle between the cavalry and the king's elite army has proven that our army's combat ability is a few steps better than the king's army, if such an army can't win, my three years of hard work would have been in vain." Chu Chao Hui comforted Zheng Yuming.
At this time the morning sun has jumped out of the horizon, the golden sunlight to Chu Chao Hui face smeared with a layer of honey color, distinctive features outline more and more have a kind of charm.
"Regardless of victory or defeat, I hope you are safe and sound." Really let Zheng Yuming choose between victory and Chu Chaohui, Zheng Yuming finally choose Chu Chaohui, although to this world has been close to three years, Zheng Yuming still can not get rid of the feeling that Da Qin is an otherworldly world, and he and Chu Chaohui is only a country.
A warm current was flowing in Chu Chao Hui's heart, he strangled his horse and turned his head to gaze deeply at Zheng Yuming. "Yuming, I've left three hundred men in the Ulsan Junfu, if the situation is not right..." Chu Chao Hui paused for a moment, then his teeth clenched. "If the situation is not right, you will take them on a boat and go out to sea, those three hundred people's loyalty is undoubted, they will protect you."
Chu Chao Hui finished speaking, not waiting for Zheng Yuming to react, patting the horse to leave the gallop to the north.
"Chu Chao Hui! If you don't come back, I'll marry three wives and four concubines!" Zheng Yuming's eyes reddened after hearing Chu Chao Hui's words, is he the kind of person who lives alone?
The wind will Zheng Yuming's threat sent to the ears of Chu Chao Hui, Chu Chao Hui can not help but listen to laugh, in the twenty-first century to live to the age of twenty-eight years old are not willing to say goodbye to the status of virgin billionaire, treating the feelings of the cleanliness of the light is not lighter than the light of the Gongzi to where, Zheng Yuming, if you want to get married, that the marriage object will only be his deep love, married Zheng Yuming will be sure to be loyal to the marriage, and now the more mouth of Zheng Yuming, the more it seems that The more Zheng Yuming speaks out of turn, the more it appears that he is too important in his heart position.
"Don't believe? Don't believe you don't come back and try!" Hidden loud laughter in his ears made Zheng Yuming's heart more and more uneven, three-legged toads are hard to find, two-legged men, no, two-legged women are everywhere.
Zheng Yuming mouth fuming hard, back to the Ulsanjun House, after seeing the courtyard Ma Ren with three hundred elite soldiers, the heart is more and more difficult to a mess, Ma Ren, like Dajiang, is the first batch of slaves bought into the valley, to Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui is the most diehard loyal, Chu Chao Hui screened out these elite soldiers, is the most courageous and loyal soldiers in the South Port and the valley army, Chu Chao Hui even though he will be faced with multiples of the enemy army, still put the best soldiers to stay! Protect the loved ones.
Chu Chao Hui with Wei Qing and the guards quickly catch up with Wei Ren, before dark caught up with the army, Chu Chao Hui and Wei Ren parted each to go to their own command of the army.
Chu Chaohui had the same official position as Wei Ren, because the cavalry trained by Chu Chaohui showed great power in the receiving battle, Wei Ren gave him the command of the army, and now the commander-in-chief of the Ulsan crusading army was Chu Chaohui.
Chu Chaohui had 2,500 infantrymen trained by himself, 500 cavalrymen, and 1,000 Huben given to him by the Hussar General, totaling 4,000 men, as the elite troops of the crusading army, at the front. Wei Ren only brought four thousand Huben from Ulsan, and left two thousand to protect Dacheng, these four thousand Huben followed after Chu Chao Hui's army. Guo Si brought three thousand miscellaneous troops to the rear, mainly to transport military provisions and protect the merchants and footmen who sent food with the army.
The army marched for two days to arrive at the thirty-mile bearing in front of the road junction, Chu Chao Hui ordered to set up camp and released a large number of scouts to search around.
When the army of Ulsan set up camp, Xisma led the army to the vicinity of the road junction, but Xisma did not dare to set up camp by the road junction because the terrain there was rugged and there was no flat land, so if the army set up camp there, it would not be able to unfold the military formation in case of a sneak attack, and Xisma found a piece of plain land south of the road junction to make a camp.
"Great General! The army only has two meals of rations left." The quartermaster of the King's Capital army reported to the Western Secretary.
"Only two meals?" West Sima's head is big, the scouts from both Wangdu and Ulsan have already met and photographed each other, and each of them understands that the enemy's army is not far away, and the vicious battle will come soon, and now the soldiers in the army can only have two meals, which means that by tomorrow's noon, the army of forty-eight thousand people will have to go hungry.
Wangdu army if from Wangcheng direct drive to Ulsan, do not turn around and spend five more days to attack the western marquis, now they can walk to the foot of Dacheng in the first two days, so that rations can still be left in three days of the amount of three days, three days of time to besiege the only low protection of Dacheng can certainly break the city, break the city to take possession of the Ulsan Province, rations supplies naturally keep up with it.
When Xi Sima thought of this, he was very remorseful for listening to Princess Ripple's order to exterminate the Western Marquis as a soft target, which turned out to be a stolen chicken.
"The rations of the auxiliary soldiers are reduced by half, and the mules and donkeys carrying provisions in the army are slaughtered to give the Huben enough to eat and drink." Xisima thought about it and decided to have a duel with the Ulsan army, before the duel, of course, the Huben should be fed well.
"Yes!" The quartermaster led the way.
When the quartermaster went back to issue orders to his men, one of his men got worried, "My lord, the food for the auxiliary soldiers has already been reduced, and this time it can only be reduced to corn soup, ah, so that they have even less strength."
Marching combat physical exertion, the army are three meals a day system, the auxiliary soldiers have been reduced from three meals a day to two meals a day, these auxiliary soldiers do not eat as well as the Huben, not as much as the Huben, marching but also to transport provisions, to help the Huben to carry the armor, the army to dig ditches and set up fortresses when the army camped, all dry physical work, and now the rations are reduced again, two corn porridge a day, who still have the strength to keep up with the army action.
"Do whatever the Great General orders, these auxiliary soldiers as long as they don't starve to death, when the Huben's win the battle, they will naturally be able to feed them." The quartermaster's eyes glared in disbelief, so what if he just starved some auxiliary soldiers to death, they were just pariahs.
Zheng Yuming from the hands of money, has been stockpiling food, the valley is not only stored from the neighboring vassal states to buy wheat, corn, soybeans, last year, Nambu and the valley planted terrier rice was also Zheng Yuming storage and purchase, this year, the Dacheng area fully planted terrier rice, September harvest, the same was Zheng Yuming monopoly purchase at the market price.
In order to store this grain, a dozen granaries were built in the valley, and five large cement fields were poured for open-air granaries. Once the Ulsan crusading army was in action, the entrance to the valley passageway became an outlet for grain, and every day merchants waited at the entrance for grain wagons in the valley to come out and collect grain.
Merchants receive food, pay a deposit and then transported to the army to receive back the deposit and pay, Chu Chao Hui led the army in the front, behind the army ass has been to reach the city of the avenue, all the footman pushed the one-wheeled grain and hay carts, this kind of one-wheeled grain and hay carts are Chen's vehicle factory production, the war has not yet begun, Chen's vehicle factory has made a big profit.
With the assistance of merchants, the Ulsan army marched without worrying about food and drink, every meal was either white rice, or white big steamed buns and corn porridge, and a guaranteed supply of meat every day. The soldiers in the valley and Nambu were used to this, their usual meals were like this. Wei Ren under the Huben because Wei Shen willing to spend money, usually also can eat such fine military food, these soldiers do not feel that the food treatment is too good, those Wangdu and fiefdom Huben was surprised, they feel that Gong Zi Ming is crazy, the army this way to eat, do not a month, the Weishan must be poor to the sound of a ding dong. At the same time, they felt that the blood feud in Gong Zi Ming's heart was too great, and he wanted to avenge his mother and brother at all costs, so he would feed the army at all costs. The better these Huben ate, the stronger the desire to help Gongzi Ming take revenge.
The two hostile armies camped on either side of the road crossing and spent the night in peace. Early the next morning, the Ulsan camp received a letter of engagement from Sisima, agreeing to fight to the death tomorrow in a wide open field south of the road crossing.