In the endless wilderness, Zhu Cheng was ordered to lead his soldiers to take the lead in the expedition against the Southern Barbarians!

His squadron was the vanguard of the entire vanguard light cavalry formation.

One day ago, the commander of the light cavalry formation asked his brigade to serve as the vanguard of the entire formation, but his brigade captain asked his squadron to serve as the vanguard of the entire brigade...

Zhu Cheng recalled this experience and sighed, life is really full of surprises!

But in a blink of an eye, he thought that the squad leader under his command was really 'lucky' - he was sent to the front to collect information and became the vanguard of this squadron!

Zhu Cheng sighed in his heart, and the entire squadron of light cavalry slowly moved forward!

"Report!" A Qingqi came galloping in front of him, stopped in front of him, clasped his fists at him and said, "Tell the squadron leader that there is a small tribe ahead!"

"Where? How far is it from here? How many people are there?" Zhu Cheng asked a series of questions: "Have you been discovered?"

"Back to the squadron leader, this small tribe is about a hundred meters away from here. It is behind a small dirt bag in the lee. It has a population of about one hundred. The other party did not notice us!"

The cavalryman's answer made him very satisfied, recalling what the captain said to him before setting off for the expedition.

"Zhu Cheng, as the vanguard of the entire army and battalion, you must pay attention!" the captain told him alone.

Zhu Cheng clasped his fists and said seriously: "Thank you, captain, my subordinates will pay attention!"

"Well! You have to pay attention. As the vanguard of the brigade, your squadron must report to me immediately once it discovers the enemy's situation. You must not make any arbitrary decisions!"

When Zhu Cheng heard the captain's order, he stood firm and clasped his fists, saying: "Yes, I obey!"...

Now, doesn’t this reveal the enemy’s situation? So Zhu Cheng ordered: “The whole squadron stops advancing!”

"Let the vanguard team keep their distance, stay hidden, and continue to monitor the enemy!" This is the order given to the cavalry in front of him!

Immediately afterwards, he ordered to a cavalryman directly beside him: "Go and report to the captain, saying that the enemy has been discovered and asking for his instructions!"

"Yes! Captain!" The cavalryman took the order, turned his horse's head, said "drive", flicked his whip, and galloped away in the direction from which he came!

After the two cavalrymen issued orders respectively, Zhu Cheng ordered to his team: "Stop advancing, dismount and rest!"

He is waiting for the news from behind, and at the same time, he is preparing for the upcoming fight!

On the other side, after the team leader learned the information, he immediately sent someone to report to the team leader. At the same time, he ordered Zhu Cheng in front to stand by and stay alert!

The commander of the formation also conveyed the news to Zhang Wei, and at the same time ordered the cavalry brigade in front to remain vigilant and increase the scope of exploration!

As soon as the vanguard cavalry team discovered the enemy, Yang Song also knew the enemy's location from the small map!

Since the guard camp went out, Yang Song has often paid attention to the small map and watched the cavalry searching and advancing bit by bit.

He is like a god, overlooking every move of this army. Unfortunately, he cannot operate each unit like a game!

Therefore, on-site command still depends on the commander’s ability!

When Zhang Wei received the intelligence from the front, it was already a few hours later!

When Zhang Wei learned that he had reached the Nanman's sphere of influence, he looked at the map in front of him, thoughtfully!

Based on the content of the intelligence, Zhang Wei looked at the location where he found the enemy. He quickly found the small dirt bag on the map.

He looked at the map and said to the messenger: "Command the light cavalry formation to conduct horizontal reconnaissance from the position of the forward squadron!"

He got some information about the tribes in the south from Chen Ping.

From this information, he learned that the various tribes in the south were located at different distances, some were close, some were far away, and they moved frequently to chase prey, which was a great change!

However, the intelligence still gave the general scope of activities of these tribes, which basically matched the location when the vanguard sent the message.

It was very difficult for Chen Ping to analyze this information from the clues. You must know that the appearance and living habits of the Nanman are completely different from the people of Xia Kingdom, so there is no way to send out an undercover!

The reason why Zhang Wei ordered a horizontal investigation was because they had entered the activity range of various Southern Barbarian tribes. The next step was to find out the specific locations of these tribes!

This can provide a basis and intelligence for the next actions, so that he can decide when to attack, where to attack, how many troops to use, etc.!

Following Zhang Wei's order, the three cavalry brigades of the light cavalry formation dispersed and conducted a net-like investigation in the form of small teams.

The intelligence ahead was finally gathered in Zhang Wei's hands, and the map spread out on the table was marked with dense dots.

Each small dot is a tribe, and the color represents the population of the tribe. The red ones represent more than one thousand, the orange ones represent five hundred to one thousand, the green ones represent less than five hundred, and the gray one represents the wandering hunting team!

So far, there are not many red ones, only three, followed by orange ones, seven, green ones the most, more than ten or twenty, and gray ones less, only seven!

After three days of investigation, the army's front area covering more than ten kilometers in the north-south direction and more than dozens of kilometers in the east-west direction has been completely explored!

Zhang Wei finally gave the order: "Order!"

Yu Shu Sima immediately spread out his paper and pen, preparing to record Zhang Wei's order!

"The light cavalry formation gathered together and sent out a large group to clear out all wandering hunting teams as soon as possible! Report to me after the cleanup is completed!"

Yu Shu quickly finished writing the order, asked Zhang Wei to sign and print it, and then asked the messenger to deliver it to the light cavalry formation in front as quickly as possible!

Zhang Wei wants to clear up these unstable factors before the war begins, because these wandering hunting teams are very mobile, so he does not want to take prisoners in this operation, what he wants is a quick word!

Soon, after receiving the order, the commander of the light cavalry formation ordered the other two brigades, except the first battalion, to target him and join forces in one place.

And the first brigade went to perform the cleanup mission!

Unfortunately, Zhu Cheng's brigade was the first brigade in his squad leader's mouth, and the brigade captain ordered that they be cleaned up separately on the scale of squadrons!

And his squadron will be responsible for cleaning up two stray hunting parties!

Zhu Cheng looked at the two targets given on the map and thought to himself: "I am such a miserable person. I didn't expect these two targets to be the two furthest away!"

But the other two squadrons are not very good either. Each of the other two squadrons is responsible for cleaning up three stray hunting teams, and they are relatively scattered. Although the two stray hunting teams he cleaned up are far away, they are relatively close to each other.

He can only comfort himself like this now, at least it saves a lot of time for transfer!

"Let's go, aim for the southwest!" Zhu Cheng stood on the hillside on horseback, looking at the wasteland down the slope, and ordered with high spirits.

This was his second time on the battlefield. The last time he fought was two years ago. At that time, he was just a commander. Unfortunately, he didn't even meet the enemy before he was sent to clean up the battlefield!

The bloody battlefield allowed him to see the cruelty of war for the first time, even though those were the corpses of the enemy!

This time he is about to fight his first real battle!
Chapter completed!