From the receipt of the first batch of supplies, in the following days from late August to early September, Yongping Li Jichun's department began to receive strategic materials continuously.

A steady stream of private caravans set out from Tianjin, bringing with them large quantities of grain, clothing, weapons, and horses.

So far, the actual number of registered soldiers in the Spring Thunder Battalion is 1,200, including 300 recruits who have been trained for less than three months. That is, the training time is more than half a year, and the number of soldiers who are qualified for battle is 900 people.

However, the armaments stored in the Acropolis today can arm 3,000 men. Among them, the grain reserves can support 3,000 men and horses to fight for half a year and defend the city for 10 months.

All of the above is calculated in accordance with the amount of consumption of the Forces nouvelles as stipulated in a certain logistics regulation. If the old army combat mode calculated by General Li Shen in private, then these materials are enough for 10,000 Ming to call Huazi to defend the city for one and a half years and still be rich.

So Master Li, who is a little nervous, has often lingered in the warehouse recently.

Rows of muskets, tubes of iron compressed biscuits, bags of military uniforms, knives and spears, and the fat and strong horses...... Lao Li has never seen such extravagant material reserves since he joined the army.

After personally checking the mountain of military quarters in the warehouse again, General Li was full of ambition and laughed with his hands behind his back.

From this moment on, the Yongping Acropolis, and even the Chunlei Camp entrenched in it, have been reborn and officially become one of the important military fulcrums of the crossing forces in the north of the Ming Kingdom.

There are some things that will not be known at the level of Counselor General Li now. According to the plan, the Yongping Acropolis will continue to build warehouses and secretly store armaments and materials. In the future, at a minimum, it should be able to support the high-intensity operational needs of the troops at the army level.

So at present, these material reserves, in fact, can no longer be bluffed in the southern industrial area where the traversers have worked hard...... can also shock Li Jichun, a poor northern ghost who has never seen the market.

In addition to conventional supplies, taking into account the narrow terrain and non-water network characteristics outside the pass, in early September, the Tianjin Railway Station also specially dispatched cavalry from the independent cavalry battalion to escort a batch of special combat materials to the Chunlei battalion: mines.

For cast iron mines with simple craftsmanship, with the current industrial capacity of the traverser, it is natural to build them.

The reason why this thing is not used on a large scale in the south is mainly because of the opponent's weak chicken - the mine is a defensive weapon, and in the south, there is no force that can beat Cao Dashuai's troops to the point of planting mines to defend them.

In addition, the south is humid, and the storage of mines is time-consuming and laborious, and if it is accidentally damp, it will become an occasional mass killer like a mine squib, so it has not been promoted.

That is, in order to deal with the affairs outside the customs and the fact that the General Staff had to test the combat capability of various new weapons in the north in advance, the arsenal was ordered to produce a batch of cast iron mines and send them all the way to Li Jichun's department.

There are very few types of mines sent to Li Jichun's department, only two, "Warm Type 1" and "Warm Type 2".

The two mines are almost the same size and power, but the difference is only the way they are detonated: one is pressed and the other is pulled.

All in all, the craftsmanship of the Warm brand mines is quite high-end...... Due to the support of later industrial theories and formal industrial production lines, even the old-fashioned cast iron mines are enough to surpass the seven or eight streets of the rough border area of Tuba Road back then.

Warm brand mines, the shell is a cast iron sheet produced in an uneven casting pattern. When exploding, splinters of cast iron of varying thicknesses can scatter more easily, dealing more damage to enemies.

Considering that the enemies of this era are all in dense formations, and the outer belt is not familiar with the mine combat mode, the warm series is generally large. The black lump with a child's big head is stuffed with special black powder - this is different from the nitrate and sulfur ratio of gunpowder that needs to be burned steadily, this is dedicated to the pursuit of violent instantaneous burst effect, and the so-called fierce gunpowder is also.

The most high-tech part of a mine is the fuse.

The fuses of the warm brand series are the simplest fuses. This is not difficult for the cross-military industrial system, which has produced countless fire caps. What really needs to test the industrial capacity is moisture-proof and anti-accidental explosion. After all, the current chemical production capacity of the crossing system is still very weak, and some chemicals that are not widely used have not yet been listed on the production list.

Based on this, this time it was a squad of instructors who came with hundreds of mines. In addition to training the soldiers of Li Jichun's unit in the safe use of landmines, the instructors also had to accompany the troops to the customs in order to collect information on the use of new weapons in the northern region.

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Military supplies are the foundation of a war. When Li Jichun's preparations were almost there, the time had already come to October. On this day, Li Jichun, the general of Yongping Wei, officially received a requisition order from Sun Chengzong, a university scholar, from Shanhaiguan.

At the same time as receiving this order, a telegram from the General Staff Department also arrived on Li Jichun's desk. The middle-aged man once again tasted the huge advantage of informatization, and he instantly understood the causes and consequences of Sun Chengzong's order.

Since the siege of the Houjin army in early September, Zu Dashoubu has retreated in the Dalinghe Fort and confronted the Houjin army, and the two sides have started a tug-of-war.

In this process, Sun Chengzong, who was sitting in Shanhaiguan, organized 3 sets of reinforcements to rescue Zu Dashou.

The first wave of reinforcements took place in mid-September and consisted of 2,000 defenders of Matsuyama. Due to the disparity in numbers, this group of people was easily defeated by the Jin soldiers.

A few days after the defeat of the first wave of reinforcements, the second batch of reinforcements was led by the famous traitor madman/father of Wu Sangui/general soldier of the master of running away Wu Xiang led 6,000 Jinzhou soldiers. As a result, Wu Xiangbu was defeated by the Houjin general Azig and retreated to Jinzhou City.

At the beginning of October, after Wu Xiangbu licked his wounds, he came to help again. This time, Huang Taiji personally came to fight, and the result of the battle was very Guanning Army...... More than 6,000 people of Wu Xiangbu were killed by the 200 white armor of Huang Taiji's personal guards, and when the Jin army arrived, it was a good situation to take advantage of the victory to pursue the red flag...... The 6,000 people of Wu Xiangbu were defeated and fled.

After hearing the news, Sun Chengzong was extremely anxious, so the old man studed. On the basis of the already assembled army, he once again ordered the transfer of all the Ming troops in the north that could arrive in time, and prepared to set off to rescue Zu Dashou.

This time, Yongping General Li Jichun also received an order.

In fact, theoretically speaking, General Yongping, who is close to Shanhaiguan, should have received the order a long time ago. However, due to some high-level political reasons-Peng Runan, the squire of the Ministry of War, is a party of Wen Tiren, so the military reports involving Yongpingwei before this were all suppressed by the Ministry of War, intentionally or unintentionally.

This time, if Sun Chengzong hadn't been anxious, Li Jichun would have stayed honestly in Yongping to train and avoid trouble.

Of course, at this point, Li Jichun's department will not go to Shanhaiguan for a while. Fortunately, the preparations were complete in advance, so on the day after receiving the order, Lao Li summoned the senior officers and staff officers of the whole battalion and held a mobilization meeting.

Yes, a mobilization meeting. As for the military strategy after going to the border in the future, Li Jichun had already been "given face-to-face instruction" by a telegram sent by the General Staff Department. General Li even knew that on the distant, choppy sea, there was even a fleet of ships coming to reinforce it, and the target was said to be behind the Jiannu flank. Therefore, for the Spring Thunder Battalion, a more important military meeting has actually been held in the core team.

After the mobilization meeting, on the second day, the Spring Thunder Battalion, which had already been prepared, held a pledge meeting. After the meeting, General Li Jichun packed up his bags and went to the countryside outside Shanhaiguan on the morning of the third day with his well-trained subordinates, with full confidence and warmth.

On the 14th of the month, 900 elite cavalry from the Yongping Wei Staff General Li Jichun entered the gate of Shanhaiguan.

And on the same day that Li Jichun's troops entered Shanhaiguan, Zu Dashou's troops were lured out of the city by fake reinforcements played by the Houjin troops, and suffered a big defeat again! This sortie was Zu Dashou's last attempt to break through in the entire campaign.

In fact, as early as a few days before Zu Dashou broke through, the last and largest group of reinforcements from the Ming Kingdom under the command of Zhang Chun, the number of 50,000, had already set off from Shanhaiguan.

Today's Shanhaiguan is actually an empty shell: whenever a force comes, it will be sent out by the big guy Sun immediately. Li Jichun, who rushed to Shanhaiguan, was no exception, and after only a day's rest, he was hurriedly sent to the battlefield by the anxious bachelor Sun Chengzong.

Li Jichun's troops were all high-speed cavalry, and one person and three horses brought enough supplies, so it stands to reason that they would soon be able to catch up with Zhang Chun's department after leaving the customs. However, General Li Shen dragged on all the way, not to mention the scenery along the way, and still ran around the corridor in western Liaoning, and it seemed that 400 people were "left behind" because of this, and the quality of the troops was worrying.

In the end, the day when Lao Li led the remaining "500 army" to catch up with the tail of the authentic army outside Jinzhou City, it was already the 20th of the month.

At that time, the front line was tense. The army of the Ming Kingdom, which has reached 50,000+, has left Jinzhou City and headed north, preparing to find an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with Jiannu.

Li Jichun, the Yongping general who drove directly to the Chinese army with his personal guards, came in a hurry, and finally met the leading brother in the north of Jinzhou: Zhang Chun, the superintendent of the army.

Zhang Chun, who was born as a person, is optimistic about Sun Chengzong. In this battle of Dalinghe, Sun Chengzong sat in Shanhaiguan, first recommended this person as the supervisor of the army, and then strongly recommended Zhang Chun as the commander.

Yes, that's right, the last strategic counteroffensive in the history of the Ming Empire against the Later Jin, the leader was a man of culture..... Lift people. At this moment, Zhang Chun commanded more than 30,000 elite Guanning troops and more than 20,000 Ming northern field troops.

These troops are the last field corps of the Ming Dynasty and are the foundation of the country.

Li Jichun, a second-tier local general who looked unremarkable, naturally could not arouse the interest of Zhang Chun, the commander of the army. Hearing that this gentleman only brought 500 cavalry, among the 50,000 cavalry on foot, Zhang Chun was even more uninterested. So when he was busy, the eldest brother who took the lead conveniently arranged the most suitable job for Li Jichun's department, who was late: guerrilla.

Next, it was the Battle of the Great Ling River, which decided the fate of Ming Jin in history.

On the day, the Ming army crossed the Xiaoling River and approached the Dalinghe City, and met the Houjin army at a distance of fifteen miles from the Dalinghe City.

At that time, in order to contain the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry that Houjin had the upper hand, Zhang Chun used a large number of chariots to set up a chariot formation to prevent the opponent's heavy cavalry charge. The chariots were equipped with firearms, which were also mixed with some advanced breech rifles that the Ming court had purchased from an uncle.

In this way, at the beginning of the war between the two sides, the Eight Banners still suffered a loss. After several unsuccessful attempts, the chariot array slowly moved forward.

However, what the Ming army did not expect was that when the battle line advanced some distance in the direction of Dalinghe Fort, the Houjin army moved out of the way, revealing Western-style smoothbore guns fixed on mounds.

When Houjin entered the customs, the artillery looted from Santun Camp and other places began to exert its power at this time, so the car formation was broken and the formation was chaotic.

Seeing that the opponent was exposed, Huang Taiji immediately personally commanded the army to press forward, and the Ming army was suddenly defeated and began to retreat.

Zhang Chun saw that the situation was not good, so he used a fire attack. The Houjin soldiers, who were in the limelight, seemed to be forced back by the fire at this moment. However, the next moment, another incredible occult phenomenon happened: it suddenly rained in the sky, and the wind changed direction.

After the Houjin army took advantage of the wind to cover up and kill, Zhang Chunbu was suddenly defeated, and the defeat was like a mountain, and the familiar scene of the Ming army came: all the people scattered and fled.

The Ming Dynasty is exhausted at this moment.

There is a regret in later generations: what would have happened if this rain had not fallen.

In fact, even if it doesn't rain, the Houjin army is only temporarily forced back by the fire, and there are still so many living forces. Zhang Chunbu was separated by fire, and it was impossible to wipe out the Houjin army, let alone break the triple earthen barrier in the distance and rescue Zu Dashou's ...... Even if he retreated 10,000 steps to rescue Zu Dashou, under the siege of tens of thousands of Manchurian iron cavalry, Zhang Chunbu could not return to Jinzhou at all.

In a word: after losing the ability to just face it, no matter how the Ming army struggles, it will always be defeated by a strong enemy in the end, sooner or later.

On this day in history, Zhang Chun was defeated in defeat. And Huang Taiji had already expected that this battle would be won, and he laid an ambush on the retreat of the Ming army.

When the fleeing Ming army encountered an ambush, naturally, most of them gave up resistance and surrendered on the spot. In addition, more than 30 generals, including Zhang Chun, were captured alive, and only the escaped grandmaster Wu Xiang led only a few dozen people to return by chance.

The last reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty ended in this way. Since then, the Ming court has completely lost the strategic initiative in Houjin, and has been permanently in a situation of shrinking/being beaten.

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The general trend of history is irreversible. In this plane, at least before the arrival of the traverser army, with the strength of Li Jichun's only 500 troops, it would definitely not be able to reverse a big battle of this scale.

So what will General Li do?

As early as the moment when the Houjin army charged, Li Jichun, who was wandering around the periphery of the battlefield at that time, saw the rout of the army for the first time with the high-powered telescope in his hand.

The next moment, on the emaciated face of General Li Shen all over the ravine, a smirking expression of "the telegram is really accurate" was revealed.

Immediately afterwards, the fierce general who had slashed Shuotuo at the beginning suddenly pulled out the sword at his waist...... Wrong, it was a small electric horn hanging on the saddle, and then raised the horn and shouted angrily: "All of them, according to the plan, follow Lao Tzu...... Turn in! ”

"Turn in, turn in, turn in!"

The 500 elite horsemen of the Chunlei Battalion, after hearing the order, quickly beat their horses and pulled the reins, shouted and shouted non-stop, and walked with neat steps, leading the rout army all over the mountains and fields behind them, and turned to the direction of Jinzhou.