From the heights of Sennosho Castle, the enemy army swarmed like a large swarm of gray ants.

Behind the right side of the guest formation, dozens of large drums rumbled.

A large number of guest soldiers, under the guidance of many generals, continued to move forward.

Even at this time, even if they struggled to line up, the array of guest soldiers was still quite chaotic, even disorganized.

In the fields, on both sides of the official roads, in the bushes and woodlands, there were all the guest soldiers marching with knives and guns.

These people spoke with a Shandong accent and scolded and walked along with their own flags.

The guest soldiers are divided into more than a dozen, from the general flag of a thousand to the general flag of the guerrilla general, and then to the general flag, the deputy general flag, the general flag, there are dozens of flags, in the fields and the edge of the big river, there are tall red flags from the second to the sixth high.

Under the guidance of the banner, the guest soldiers still marched forward according to the various battalions of the general army, guerrillas, generals, and adjutant generals.

There are as few as one or two hundred, and as many as five or six hundred to more than a thousand.

It seems that even if Yao Wenqian is the general soldier, there are still no more than 2,000 subordinates under him.

This is also the result of Liu Zeqing's crazy expansion of the army, these generals in front of him led dozens to hundreds of troops at most before the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, and their positions may be from the thousand general to the capital, garrison, guerrilla.

Liu Zeqing himself is only a town commander-in-chief, and he is not qualified to have the rest of the commander-in-chief or deputy generals, staff generals and other generals.

Many generals are directly appointed and dismissed by the imperial court, and they are stationed in each place with their own credibility, such as Qi Jiguang from the training capital of Shandong Province, and directly appointed as a general is Ren Ning Shaotai general, Ning, Shao, and Taiwan These three places are Qi Jiguang's defense ground, and he also led Ning Shaotai's general battalion, and the source of troops is many local guards.

It is also because the guards are unusable, no matter how good Qi Jiguang's training is in the battalion, no matter how thoroughly the reason is, the distribution of military salaries and the implementation of military discipline are clear, but the final result is that these soldiers may flee at any time when they are on the battlefield, as long as the situation is slightly unfavorable, they will throw the main general and run away, and these soldiers will not hesitate at all.

Even if Qi Jiguang beheaded many heads after the war, these soldiers still went their own way.

Because there are hundreds or thousands of people running on the battlefield, no matter how murderous the commander is, it is impossible to behead everyone.

If you run with the crowd, you can save your life, and if you are beheaded, there is a chance that you will be cut off on your head, and the abacus of these soldiers is also quite clear.

Qi Jiguang had no choice but to ask the imperial court to re-recruit soldiers, no longer use market gangsters, nor veteran oil, all but simple farmers and miners, and then use his own military training method to train.

At the same time, it is also the salary of the silver, the true color of each soldier has more than one or two income, for the peasants is considered a high income, the average family of several people, a year of hard work can nominally earn five or six taels of silver a year, but in fact, the people are not able to drop the silver.

As a soldier, monthly salary, food and accommodation are in the barracks, as long as you don't die, you can save more than ten taels of silver a year, in the high salary stimulation and strict training, plus Qi Jiguang's command genius, the subsequent Qi family army is famous at home, becoming a strong soldier in the Ming Dynasty.

Even if Qi Jiguang died depressed after being excluded, his subordinates were still the best performing southern soldiers in the Renchen Rebellion around the twentieth year of Wanli, and the southern soldiers who conquered Korea were part of the Qi family's army.

At the end of Wanli and the beginning of the Apocalypse, the Qi family army still had a good performance on the battlefield of Liaodong, especially the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, where the last embers of the Qi family army cooperated with the Sichuan army and fought the Eight Banners to the end, giving great damage to the invincible Eight Banners.

The battalion soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are like this, each general has a distinctive personality and characteristics, and the soldiers brought out are different in performance, such as Li Chengliang's Liaozhen cavalry, Ma Fang's Datong cavalry, Qi Jiguang's Zhejiang soldiers, Yu Dayou's car battalion soldiers, etc., all have their own different performances.

Generally speaking, the southern soldiers are well trained and disciplined, and they are the top strong soldiers in the Ming Dynasty. Not only the Zhejiang soldiers, but also the Guangxi soldiers and the Sichuan Tusi soldiers are all the best among the southern soldiers.

Even the sailors of Guangdong and Fujian are much stronger than the sailors of the north.

The northern soldiers are fierce and brave, with good personal martial arts, and are good at cavalry and shooting, but the military discipline is generally very poor, the struggle between the battalions is non-stop, and the internal struggle is fierce.

The Western Army is a combination of the north and the south, which is not only fierce and brave, but also has good military discipline, and is the most outstanding collective of the Ming army battalion soldiers.

Except for Qi Jiguang, who had a large number of subordinates in a short period of time, the generals could not have their own direct deputy generals and staff generals, guerrilla battalions, let alone serve as commanders under the general army.

That is, after Chongzhen's seventeenth year, chaos occurred frequently, Liu Zeqing himself was only a general soldier, and there were already many general soldiers under his command, such as Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo each had many general soldiers, and Zuo Liangyu had more general soldiers, up to more than 20 general soldiers, which was absolutely impossible before Chongzhen.

If Qi Jiguang can have 20 general soldiers under his command and train more than 100,000 soldiers, I am afraid that there is really nothing to do with Houjin.

The performance of the guest soldiers in front of him is worthy of the names of these so-called commanders, deputy generals, and generals.

A large number of guest soldiers are like flies, and there is no array at all, just groups of soldiers and hedgehogs gathered together and moved forward together.

The more you go forward, the more terrain restrictions, the guest soldiers are gradually blocked by the long trenches and sharp piles, Yao Wenqian, Liu Zerun, Liu Zhigan and others have to gradually gather the infantry to the left and the Chinese army, and the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses that were originally scattered in a large area are gradually concentrated in the front of less than two miles, and the soldiers are crowded together, and the queue is long.

The cavalry was originally intended to be placed on the right flank, but the long ditch and deep fortress were more restrictive to the cavalry, and Liu Kecheng could only move the cavalry to the left flank of the river, where there were large riverside shrubs and trees, and the cavalry was quite embarrassed to move in it, but it was also helpless.

Liu Kecheng also put more than 200 cavalry behind the flank of the large formation, this was to prevent the brave cavalry from coming to raid the rear of the army in wartime, which was also a helpless move.

All the generals were frightened by the lone wolf-style attack and harassment of Min Yuanzhi and other cavalry, and would rather reduce the help of 200 cavalry at the time of the battle, rather than suddenly be pulled by that small group of cavalry behind them when they were advancing with all their might.

After the arrangement, Yao Wenqian squinted at the large area of trench stakes on the right, calm on the surface, but turbulent in his heart.

Following Liu Zeqing in the army for more than ten years, from the battle of Denglai to the liberation of the siege of Feng, he has been protecting Cao for a long time, and has fought with rogues, ringing horses, and bandits.

Yao Wenqian is also well-informed, and the large area of fortifications in front of him is definitely newly excavated, and the soil is still very fresh.

In a short period of time, digging out dozens of miles of long trenches, deep ditches and high bases, with sharp piles and arrow towers, it is terrifying to see.

Not only Yao Wenqian, but the rest of the generals also gave up the idea of cutting the past from the right side of the long ditch.

The march of the large army is restricted, and a small group of soldiers and horses will definitely not be able to penetrate through such a defensive formation in person, and give the opponent a head in vain.

On the left side is a number of cities lined up all the way to the city of Qianhusuo, it is absolutely impossible to break through the city defense and enter the city in a hurry, Yao Wenqian has already seen that there are many hanging households on the city of Qianhusuo, there are archers on them, and the city walls are full of guards with spears and iron spears, as well as mountains of stones and sasswood, as well as iron paddles inlaid with nails and other defending utensils.

No matter how weak the guard is, it is not an ordinary small civilian town that can be compared, as far as the thousand households in front of the city, the morale of the army of 10,000 people is high, and under the premise that the chariots, shields, ladders, and carts are ready, I am afraid that it will take several days to have a chance to succeed.

Yao Wenqian still has experience, knowing that this is the terrain deliberately created by the other party, but he thinks that he has rich experience, and Liu Kecheng's cavalry assists, and there are more than 10,000 soldiers, and the strength is far above the other party, so he still gives an indifferent order, and the whole army continues to move forward.

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"It's finally here."

When Min Yuanqi saw the big flag erected high on the opposite side, he couldn't help but sigh.

No matter how deep the plan is, no matter how careful the plan is, after all, it is necessary to see the truth on the battlefield.

The two sides were separated by less than a mile from each other on the narrow battlefield, and the opponent had penetrated deep into the middle of the city and the long trench, and had already broken through to the hinterland of the city.

Large and small military formations are pressing forward, and the power of more than 10,000 troops and cavalry is not small, and the generals of the other side are obviously boasting of their rich capital, and they do not pay too much attention to the deployment of Yunti Pass, and they are still high-spirited.

While Min Yuanqi breathed a sigh of relief, he also paid attention to the several arrow towers on his right-hand side.

After glancing at it, Min Yuanqi was determined to take the big three-material array as the core, and put the hundred general bureaus with the big three-material array to meet the enemy.

This battlefield is relatively narrow, and the frontal contact surface is limited, if Min Yuanqi's subordinates have enough iron armor, they might as well use the assault sharp formation, the stacked wave attack, and directly penetrate the opponent one after another.

But the armor is still insufficient, a small amount of armor, most of it is old cotton armor and leather armor, and a small amount of chain mail.

This can only ensure that a small number of elite sword players and former captain gunners are armoured, and there are still many soldiers who only have military robes and no armor.

If you attack the enemy with a sharp formation, the banner army that lacks actual combat experience and armor will be quite difficult to fight even if it can break the opponent's array, and then face the enemy's cavalry.

It is even possible to capsize the ship in the gutter, and the power of the cavalry cannot be overstated.

Yes, although the enemy is menacing, and he is a serious officer and soldier, and his inner ding and cavalry armor and equipment are also quite good, at least not much inferior to the Yuntiguan Banner Army, but in Min Yuanqi's opinion, the army in front of him is still a third-rate Ming army composed of miscellaneous soldiers, and it is not his real opponent at all.

The first-class Manchurian Eight Banners, the second-rate Ming Army Liao Town and the Liukou Old Battalion, and the third-rate are the main soldiers of the Ming Army's towns.

Even if it is the pattern of the Ming military town before Chongzhen, the important town of the nine sides also looks down on the inner town soldiers outside the Tusi soldiers of the southern soldiers, and even if it is the elite of the southern soldiers, including the southern soldiers of the Qi family, the northern soldiers are also looked down upon, and the dispute between the two sides is not a battle of will, but a battle for the salary of the soldiers, and the right to speak in the imperial court.

In the Korean battlefield, Li Rusong suppressed the meritorious Zhejiang soldiers, and Jizhen slaughtered the remnants of the 3,000 Qi family army at one time, all out of the north-south dispute between the military town.

An inner town like Shandong Town, even if it is a fourth-rate soldier if it is dead, Min Yuanqi really didn't take it seriously.