When the first transport ship carrying canned food sailed from Taijiang to the sea off Tianjin, the time had come to late February.

At this moment, Taiwan is the best time of the year. The temperature is neither hot nor cold, mosquitoes are scarce, vegetation has just begun a new round of luxury, everything is revived, and the greenery is abundant.

And thousands of miles away in the north, it is still shrouded in the wind and frost of the Xiaoice period. The entire northern land is a scene of slaughter, the mountains and fields are frozen, the wasteland is desolate, and the remnants of snow are everywhere in sight.

With a "poof", a grass stalk was spat out under the tree.

The one who made such an uncivilized move was Mei Fuxi, the deputy captain of the Flying Tiger Battalion A team.

Mei Ge'er has lost the image of the original son. More than a month of high-intensity cavalry training washed away his impetuousness, and replaced it with a rough and fierce atmosphere.

At this moment, Mei Fuxi, dressed in a green military coat, is sitting on a tree stump with a golden sword, leather boots stepping on the slush under his feet, and his back against a small tree. He was holding a large gray military kettle in his left hand and a piece of meatloaf in his right hand, and was lazily taking a sip of water and a mouthful of bread.

Mei Fuxi's group was not very numerous, only eleven people and twenty-two horses in total. Now their location is in the Hebei Plain, in the Yanshan branch north of Tangshan.

The vast and majestic Yanshan mountain system, stretching for 800 miles from west to east, stretches from Zhangjiakou in the north to Shanhaiguan next to the Bohai Bay, and has been an important barrier for the Central Plains regime to resist the northern nomads since ancient times.

One hundred and fifty miles north from the Tianjin Acropolis, you can reach the southernmost part of Yanshan. This remnant vein is about 50 miles wide from north to south from the north of Tangshan.

In the middle of the vast mountain system between this branch and the main vein of Yanshan, there is a flat corridor connecting Shanhaiguan and Beijing, which can be passed by large troops.

The city passes along the corridor, including Jizhou, Zunhua, Qian'an, Luanzhou, Santunying, Xifengkou and other places, are all choke points, and there are thick ink waiting in history.

It was now late February of 1630, and the war situation in the entire area of Beijing had undergone a major change.

From this month onwards, the Eight Banners army entrenched at the foot of the capital began to turn around, and Huang Taiji personally led the elite to break through the above-mentioned towns and passes one by one, so as to guide the army to return north.

The reason why the Eight Banners Army wants to completely open up this corridor is also a last resort.

When entering the customs before, the march route of the east and west armies of the Eight Banners was to break through the passes on the Great Wall such as Xifengkou, Longjing Pass, Da'ankou, etc., enter the customs with light troops, and then open up the two key nodes of Zunhua and Santun Camp, and then take advantage of the situation to go straight to Tongzhou and besiege the capital.

And when the troops were withdrawn now, because the Eight Banners had looted a large amount of goods, food, and people in the Jingyuan area for several months, the troops had become swelling slowly, so Huang Taiji had to open up the entire back road so that the slow large army could pass.

As a result, throughout the month of February, a large number of Eight Banner troops, baggage, and captured Ming people gathered in the corridor area.

At the same time, the Flying Tiger Battalion, which had been running in for a period of time, with the improvement of the skills and tactics of the whole team and the enhancement of confidence, the soldiers were gradually approaching the north of Tianjin, extending their tentacles to the area around the Yumai of Yanshan.

The formation of the Flying Tiger Battalion was as follows: five hundred-man detachments formed the basic structure. Each of these hundred-man detachments was subdivided into a scout team and nine ordinary cavalry squads.

The scout team, known as "Night Doesn't Collect" in the Ming people, is usually led by a vice-captain with strong skills and tactics. The captain of each detachment was a veteran caravan guard.

These people have been escorting the caravan all the year round, and they not only have certain organizational skills, but also know how to judge the situation, which is exactly what the high-level position of the Flying Tiger Battalion is currently in.

As a famous "young man" Mei Fuxi in Tianjin, at the beginning of the establishment of the army, he relied on his excellent kung fu to get a position as a deputy captain.

He and his nine spearheads have undergone quite rigorous training during this time. Due to the outstanding achievements, in this operation of the whole army going north to enter the remaining veins of Yanshan, the reconnaissance detachment under the jurisdiction of Team A took on the task of arrows and appeared in the upper left corner of the marching phalanx.

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Just as Mei Fuxi was sitting in the dry woods in winter and swallowing the last piece of dry food in her hand, there was a faint "click" sound from the side.

Mei Fuxi didn't need to look back to know that the news was coming.

The sound of "da-da" came from an iron box wrapped in a flower cloth bag. This bells and whistles iron box was carried on the back of a special combat team member with a five-short figure and also wearing a flower suit.

The special combat personnel, who have a total of only 50 members, were scattered among various cavalry units to serve as supernumerary communications officers in the early stage of training and reconnaissance. Therefore, Mei Fuxi's reconnaissance team, which was walking in front of the large army, was deservedly assigned one.

This communications officer is none other than Chen Huoding and Chen Erye, a special combat officer with the rank of national sergeant/imperial second lieutenant.

Today's Second Master Chen, whose official identity is the captain of the Imperial Special Operations Team, temporarily serves as the communications officer of the Flying Tiger Battalion A Team.

After hearing the signal from the knapsack radio, Chen Erye reached out and took down the microphone and headphones, and then muttered and began to talk to the other end of the signal.

There are two types of tactical radios used by the special combat team when they go north this time.

One is the VHF Individual Radio. The frequency of the VHF segment is relatively strong in diffraction and ground wave propagation, but the penetration of buildings is poor, so it is just used for short-range communication of individual soldiers in mountains or fields.

In the pure electromagnetic environment of the 17th century, the communication distance of individual soldiers of special combat personnel traveling through the Yanshan Mountains was generally maintained at about 1o kilometers.

The other is a 12o digital shortwave radio.

This is used as a command station. Once the antenna is set up, a high-wattage radio can even achieve effective communication within 1ooo kilometers. Even if the communication distance is affected in the mountains, this kind of radio can fully support the communication network needs of the entire Flying Tiger Battalion.

What Chen Huoding had just received was a report on the enemy situation from 10 kilometers away by Qian Tieshan, commander of the special combat team.

"Get up and leave." After the brief voice call, Chen Huoding turned his head and whispered a few words to Mei Fuxi, who immediately got up and ordered the team to leave.

Hearing this, the rest of the nine members of the team hurriedly began to pull out the camp: quickly stuffed the last mouthful of dry food into their mouths, packed up the bags hanging from the horses' necks, put muzzles on the horses to prevent neighing, and finally packed up the alcohol/kerosene stove on the ground.

The current position of the team has penetrated the remaining veins of Yanshan in the northwest of Tangshan from south to north, and a little further north, you can see the plain corridor near Zunhua. Therefore, at this time, the camp must be very cautious, and no smoke and loud neighing horses may appear nearby at any time.

After pulling out the camp in two minutes, everyone in the squad put on thick gray masks, then turned over and got on their horses, and the sharp soldiers in front of them hung up the binoculars on their chests, and everyone launched a search formation under the command of Mei Fuxi's simple gestures, and began to slowly walk through the mountains.

The entire search formation was as follows: two sharp men on the left and right were responsible for advancing and observing the ridges on both sides. In the valley between the two mountains, two horsemen were also in charge of clearing the way in front, while the rest followed one mile behind with replacement horses.

This search formation is a mode that is currently used more by the Flying Tiger Battalion. Teachings from some border armies included many retired and deserted border soldiers in the Flying Tiger Battalion, who were quite familiar with cavalry tactics between the northern mountains.

In this regard, the southern soldiers, including the crossing crowd, are all students. In other words, during this more than a month of running-in, not only the local natives were trained, but the special combat team from the south also learned a lot of cavalry tactics and marching details in the 17th century.

This kind of thing is not in the syllabus of special forces brought by later generations.

However, even so, the Ming natives, including Mei Fuxi, did not long after the training began, all of them honestly accepted the command of the special combat team, and no one dared to stab again.

This is because the huge gap in science and technology, knowledge, and equipment between the Ming and the special combat personnel cannot be bridged by a little battlefield experience.

At the beginning, many auxiliary comrades were secretly a little unconvinced by this group of flower-clothed soldiers who claimed to be the personal guards of General Cao.

Because in addition to the sharp guns in their hands, this group of people is actually not very good at riding, and they are not familiar with the Northland. Although the special combat personnel have been trained in riding in the south, they have only barely reached the passing line, and the gap between them and these cavalry in the north is still very large.

However, once field training began, the natives quickly discovered each other's strengths.

First of all, the flower suit. Whether in the plains or mountains, the special combat personnel wearing black, yellow and green northern camouflage can easily shake off the sight of the Ming people.

This situation is especially obvious in the confrontation in the mountains: the Ming soldiers, who are known as not collecting at night, are often raided by special combat soldiers who come out of the roadside, and the Ming people who are a little farther away will not be able to show this gang.

Mei Fuxi will never forget the fear she felt when she was strangled by an arm suddenly stretched out from a bush beside her.

After knowing the power of this set of flowers, no one dares to underestimate this thing anymore.

Next came the march.

The cavalry team, armed with telescopes, walkie-talkies, and radios, quickly defeated the unequipped side in the confrontation.

Mei Fuxi also belongs to the kind of people who don't believe in evil when they are killed. However, when his team of 100 was inexplicably surrounded and ambushed by the opponents who were inferior in numbers, and was sentenced to lose three times in a day, he completely admitted it.

Finally, there is the night attack.

The terrifying night attack of the flower-clothed soldiers made the Akito completely unable to parry. In the mountains, once it falls at night, unless the Ming people don't sleep, they will be solved by the special combat team members, and the feeling of the cold dagger gently slashing across the throat makes the Tianjin gentlemen shudder.

By this time, the Ming people knew the horror of their opponents by the hands of these elusive soldiers who had magic weapons such as "Night Eyes" and "Thousands of Miles of Voice".

In the days that followed, as the equestrian skills of the special combat team members improved, their long-trained tactical literacy soon surpassed that of the Ming people.

Whether it was hand-to-hand combat, continuous marching and cavalry combat, or day and night ambushes, the most basic and quality-testing tactical movements, the natives quickly felt the tenacity and horror of the special forces in the bitterness, and they gradually realized that even if they did not use firearms, if these fifty southern soldiers planned to kill all of them 500, it would not take them about three days.

From this moment on, the auxiliaries of the Flying Tiger Battalion were served.