The main force of the Red Turban Army advanced east along the provincial highway, but the various teams that were sent out in their two wings to collect food and grass were severely attacked by the Nanchuan Army. In just three days, five teams were wiped out, and more than half of those who fled back were lost, which was a terrible sight.

Faced with the side attack of the Nanchuan Army, the Red Turban soldiers suffered heavy losses. Facing the worried leaders, the Northern King Wu Tiance was very happy.

He smiled and said to everyone: "Look, our strategy to advance to the Nanchuan Province is correct. The Nanchuan Army can't sit still. Now we want to delay our advance by side attacks. Therefore, we don't care about the small forces of the Nanchuan Army on both wings. The army accelerates its advance and takes advantage of the time when they have no time to evacuate and attack the Nanchuan Province."

The originally worried leaders suddenly realized when they heard Wu Tiance's analysis. It turned out that this was the Nanchuan Army's delayed policy, so they admired Wu Tiance's strategy even more. As long as they approached the Nanchuan Army's nest, the Nanchuan Army's policy of keeping the walls and clearing the fields and avoiding the war would go bankrupt.

Just when Wu Tiance was happy to think that he had seen through the Nanchuan Army's plan, under Lin Chuan's order, a carefully organized huge encirclement had already surrounded the main force of the Red Turban Army.

On March 15, the Red Turban Army troops who were accelerating their advance arrived at Austin, an important eastern town in Luoshan Province. Here they encountered the most fierce resistance of the Nanchuan Army since the invasion. The Red Turban Army launched more than 50,000 attacks on the same day and were repelled. They were trapped and tired in the continuous march, and they had to camp outside Austin's city to prepare for the second day's attack.

The Red Turban Army was now seven or eight hundred miles deep into the Luoshan Province. Apart from receiving a few supplies along the way, they had always eaten food and stored food. Now they were sold out. They were originally preparing to capture Austin for supplementary supplies, but they encountered a strong resistance that they encountered unexpectedly. The Red Turban soldiers who had no food could only starve and endure the difficult night.

This was undoubtedly the most difficult night the Red Turban Army had spent. Many Red Turban soldiers were hungry and pressed against their backs. They knew that Austin was storing a large amount of food and food in Austin not far away, but they could only look at it.

In order to attract the Red Turban soldiers, Lin Chuan released the news that Austin stored a large amount of food and had no time to transport it away, which made the Red Turban army take the risk of losing food to attack Austin. However, now it is indeed here, but he is helpless when he sees the tall city wall.

Perhaps the unstoppable good luck of the Red Turban soldiers along the way was used up after arriving in Austin. While enduring hunger, it started to rain again that night. Many Red Turban soldiers who had no tents in camp were affected and their whole body was covered in a clear way.

The spring rain seemed to have no intention of stopping. The Red Turban Army stationed outside the city endured the cold and hunger. After finally surviving the unbearable night, the next day, the low sound of horns rang out in the Red Turban Army's camp.

Countless red scarf soldiers took their simple weapons and surrounded Austin under the leadership of their respective leaders. Under the gray sky, the fields around Austin were like a huge refugee camp, with dense red scarf soldiers covering the roads and fields.

The originally green grass and black fields were all occupied by gray red scarf soldiers, and the mountains were everywhere. The guardian of Austin was Lin Cunzhi, who was promoted to commander of the corps, and the youngest commander of the Nanchuan Army.

Facing hundreds of thousands of red scarf soldiers, although only Lin Cunzhi was guarding Austin with 30,000 troops, the young general was not nervous at all. Lin Cunzhi, who had experienced fierce battles, had become calm and calm, and he had become a general.

"It seems that the Red Turban Soldier is bound to win today." Looking at the dense red Turban Soldiers outside the city, Li Qing, the newly-elected sergeant of the Corps, had a faint smile on his face.

Chu Ming, the new chief of staff, said seriously: "In our corps' first battle, the young marshal will hand over the task of defending the city to us. We must show our prestige and not let down the young marshal's expectations."

Lin Cunzhi's corps belongs to the newly formed corps of the Nanchuan Army. Compared with the other veteran corps, there has not been any merits. Therefore, the young generals are eager to establish honors for their corps and hope to not lose to the other veteran corps.

Whether it is the general of the Corps, Lin Cunzhi, the chief of staff, Chu Ming, or the chief of sergeant Li Qing, they are all military academy students who graduated from the first phase of Nanchuan War Academy. They are different from the generals who have worked hard from the grassroots level. They are born with a golden key in their arms.

After graduating from the War Academy, they were assigned troops and served as officers of at least a thousand-person chiefs. If they were ordinary soldiers, they had to accumulate military merits for at least several years before they could be promoted to a thousand-person chiefs. Now they have become generals at the corps level. Among the Nanchuan Army, they are not only the academic sects mentioned by others, but also the representatives of the young and strong sects.

The reason why Lin Chuan lets them, the young generals lead the army so important in Austin is a test for them, and this is also a exploration of how Lin Chuan trains generals in the army.

What Lin Chuan wanted to build was a new army that was different from the rest of the dynasty's army, so he not only created a training mechanism like the recruit battalion, but also the War Academy was the cradle for him to train officers.

You should know that in the war of cold weapons, it is very difficult for a soldier to be promoted to a senior general through accumulating experience and military achievements, because the cruel war may have killed him before he has grown up, which has led to the shortage of experienced senior generals in various armies.

In order to make up for the lack of senior generals in the army, the Far Eastern dynasty adopted the practice of the nobles as the children of the nobles. The children of the nobles received a good education since childhood, and it was much better to serve as senior generals in the army than those who could not read a few words.

But the Nanchuan Army is different. The Nanchuan Army controlled the area, no longer had the distinction between nobles and civilians, and no noble children to supplement the gaps of senior generals. Lin Chuan could only establish a war academy and train systematic officers and generals. This was also one of his measures to build a new-style army.

"Dong!Dong!Dong!"

The intense war drums rang outside Austin's city. Amid the shouts of the leaders, the red scarf soldiers in a messy queue began to approach Austin.

"Go back to their respective posts and prepare for the battle!" Corps Commander Lin Cunzhi took a deep breath and ordered.

The officers of the corps surrounded Lin Cunzhi immediately strode away and headed towards their posts. This time, the Red Turban soldiers adopted a policy of attacking at the same time from all sides. Although the Nanchuan soldiers were elite, they were still under pressure.

"attack!"

The red scarf soldier first took small steps forward, and as he approached the city wall, his speed became faster and faster. When he was hundreds of meters away, he ran wildly with a loud shout.

The Red Turban Army does not have a complete logistics system like the Hanhai Army, so their siege weapons are extremely simple. Apart from the temporary ladder, there are only city-knocking hammers made of logs.
Chapter completed!