Whether or not a small-scale battle can be fought this time depends on whether both sides intend to fight here.

If bandits and pirates don't want to fight head-on, they can stop and loot from village to village, and then the flag army is very passive and can only be led by bandits.

If he is ignored, the bandits will cause trouble, and Min Yuanqi will be the cause of the disaster, and hundreds of households and villages everywhere will be very dissatisfied with him, and even hate him to the core.

If the banner army does not dare to fight, it will not line up here, and it can avoid the city of Qianhu or the city of Beiyutu, and the bandits will not be stupid enough to attack the city, they will scatter, burn and loot everywhere.

Min Yuanqi has realized that the battles throughout the ages have either been sudden encounters or surprise attacks, and all the battles that are fought after the battle are the willingness and needs of both sides to fight.

The bandits want to defeat themselves in a battle, and Min Yuanqi also wants to break the enemy in a battle and eliminate the threat of bandits and pirates in a short period of time.

Both sides want to fight, and today it seems inevitable.

After being encouraged by Shen Liang and other experienced military attachés, the morale of the flag army was not low, and the age of the flag army sitting cross-legged was about 20 to 35, and they were all young and middle-aged people in 100 households. Many of them were once members of the Min family, and they learned martial arts when they were young, and their courage and martial arts complemented each other, and they were much stronger than ordinary people.

There are also dozens of backbones who have passed through the battle of Shuiguan Hefang, and they have seen people who have fought in blood, and their courage is much stronger than that of ordinary people, as for Shen Liang, a veteran soldier who has experienced a hundred battles, he is even more courageous in the army.

At this time, no one spoke, and the flag soldiers were still breathing much heavier than usual, Min Yuanqi smiled slightly, and pressed the knife to shuttle and patrol the gap left between the hundred generals.

Everyone saw the figure of the deputy Qianhu pressing the knife, and gradually, the breathing of the banner soldiers stabilized, and the frequency of drinking water also decreased a lot.

Half an hour later, it was almost noon, and the sun became stronger, but fortunately, it was a coastal place, and the sea breeze was quite strong, blowing on the red military robes of the flag soldiers, and the robes crackled, so that people did not feel the heat of the weather.

Min Yuanqi was surrounded by Min Yuanzhong, Min Yuanjin, Gao Cuncheng and Yang Zhijin and others, and Han Sen took the calming soldiers to patrol the side of the formation, driving away the idle people from afar, and at the same time restraining the movements of his own side.

If there is a real war in the future, the pacification soldiers will line up behind the formation under the leadership of Han Sen, and once someone escapes, the pacification soldiers will directly take them down and be beheaded immediately.

When traveling, it is to affirm the military law, running away before the battle is a mortal crime, once found is a beheading, even if you escape at the time, you will be arrested and beheaded afterwards, Min Yuanqi is a deputy thousand households, even if it is a hundred households, according to the law of the guard, the three fleeing military households can be hanged, not to mention the fleeing army in the war.

On the horizon, the figure of the sentry cavalry appeared again, and many cavalry galloped back from many directions, and when they arrived before the main formation, more than twenty cavalry regrouped the whole team.

The galloping sentry back and forth, acting as a beam, these cavalry are also on the battlefield for the first time, and the overall performance is also quite excellent, and they are not afraid to dodge, and they dare not step forward as cowards.

This is also related to the selection of cavalry, most of the people who can have the foundation of horseback riding are from military attache families, or from family families, so there are some ancestral things, although the outpost detectives are dangerous, the looks of these cavalrymen are also quite nervous, but they still completed their tasks normally.

"Your Excellency." Min Yuanzhi said to Min Yuan in a corner in front of the formation: "More than 1,000 thieves, more than half of them have walked on the official road, a small half is walking on the mudflats, they have not walked far since the morning, and now they are two or three miles away from us, and they have not sent detectives and sentinels, when I wait for the sentry, they are resting in the same place, there are some scattered bandits into the village, the people are panicking and avoiding, these people find some water and go back, after many bandits have stolen the water, they got up and continued to walk towards us, it seems that they will not avoid. ”

"Very good." Min Yuanqi nodded and said: "The cavalry is running back and forth, consuming a lot of physical energy, take advantage of this last bit of time, dismount and rest." ”

"Yes."

Min Yuan responded directly, and the excitement on his face could not be hidden.

In fact, Min Qiande had already greeted Min Yuanqi, and if he really wanted to go to the battlefield, he would send Min Yuan directly to the logistics position, or only serve as a sentry agent, and the cavalry would not be used to charge.

Of course, Min Yuanqi can agree to this uncle's small request, and he was ready to transfer Min Yuanzhi off the front line a while ago and serve as the quartermaster's deputy, so that he can serve in the battalion in peacetime and not go to the battlefield in wartime.

Min Yuanzhi made a big fuss about this, and Min Qiande had no choice but to allow this son to go to the battlefield to fight hard.

In fact, Min Qiande also figured out that in such a world, only military attachés who lead troops to fight have a future.

Like Min Yuanzhi, the sentry riders dismounted one after another, loosened the horse's belly belt, and fed the horse with water, beans, and eggs.

The horses had been galloping all morning, and many of the horses were sweating, and the cavalrymen wiped the sweat of the horses with dry cloths, fed them with water and feed, but they could not rest for the time being.

This is the characteristic of the cavalry, and Min Yuanqi nodded slightly when he saw it.

After a while, the cavalrymen drank their own water, and then sat down to rest, and their horses stood still, bowing their heads and gnawing on some of the grass beside the road, so as to regain their strength.

In the distance, a large number of people were still gathered, and the flag soldiers were still sitting cross-legged, the sun was getting hotter and hotter, and people seemed to be a little anxious.

"It's coming, it's coming."

The two last cavalrymen with the last sentry sped back, and a large force of bandits and pirates could already be seen on the horizon walking along the official roads and beaches.

It may be that the bandits are still hiding in the middle of the night, and it is impossible to completely avoid people's eyes and ears after dawn. There are no mountains to hide, except for the beach, there are villages and pedestrians, and bandits and pirates simply follow the roads.

If it is only a group of pirates from Qinshan Island, they don't have to walk these twenty or thirty miles on the road, they can directly take a boat to the mouth of the sea on the side of Yunti Pass, and land nearby, but there are still more than 700 bandits from Yancheng, and the island pirates are not enough boats, and they consider that it is not safe to be too close to the guard, so they would rather take a long way.

But it is obvious that the bandits are arrogant and domineering, and there is only one thousand households in Yancheng, which has long been of no military use. The garrison is also very small, at most there are a small number of soldiers responsible for defending the city, which is also the general situation of the Daming city, the nine border towns are heavily stationed, and there are only a small number of soldiers in the inland states and counties, or even no soldiers.

For example, Zhou Lianggong guarded Wei County, that is, he temporarily summoned more than 1,000 Ding Zhuang, organized training, issued various ordnance, mobilized large households to contribute money and grain, repaired the city wall, prepared rolling stones and wood, and dug ditches in the city wall to prevent the enemy from digging tunnels to attack.

These things look ordinary, but they reflect a person's military talent, prestige, and organizational ability, most of these things are innate, and then there is an acquired exercise and study, and there is certainly no one among the bandits and pirates in front of him who has this talent.

Those who have military talent and organizational ability will either die long ago or come out long ago in this troubled era.

Many bandit leaders who have only a few dozen words in the history books of later generations and left bandit names are actually remarkable figures, take Yuan Shizhong, who once invaded Xuzhou and northern Haizhou, for example, this leader of the bandits from Shandong and Henan gathered more than 100,000 people at most, and there were more than 10,000 core elite people.

The command of so many people, the movement, the formation of the old battalion, the building of weapons, the distribution of robes, the feeding of these hundreds of thousands of people, where to loot, how to fight, how to deal with the rest of the rogue bandits, these are all things that the leader of the rogue has to decide.

From a few people, dozens of people, to several hundred, to a few thousand people, it is a qualitative change, and to more than 100,000 people, it is extremely high for a person's management ability, and the so-called talent of a general is to see how large an army can be controlled. Those rogue leaders, ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousands of people, not only have to guard against the pursuit of officers and soldiers, but also have to be responsible for the supply of military supplies for so many people, not only as simple as a plunder, but also to deter and suppress the generals under their command, and not let them do their own thing, establish a foundation and generate different aspirations, and then have to wander around and settle in many strange places, looking for gaps to develop, and those who can achieve things must be outstanding, very human.

Like Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Ge Zuo Wuying, Luo Rucai and others, are the success of thousands of rogues, no matter how many shortcomings they have, and then ended in a fiasco, but in more than ten years, their peers either surrendered or were exterminated, they can survive, and develop and grow, Zhang Xianzhong entrenched in Sichuan, Li Zicheng invaded the Beijing Division, with millions of people, many of his generals are also loyal, and even many years after Li Zicheng's death, the descendants who support Li Laixiang are not willing to stand on their own, Li Zicheng's ability to control is also visible.

The bandits and rogues in front of them can't match the word Renjie.

The original plan was to stealth and raid, and it was estimated that a small number of pirates were waiting at the mouth of the river in boats, and they rushed to the area around the mouth of the river at noon, crossed the river at dusk, and entered in the evening, so that they could kill the three hundredth households by surprise.

The outsiders of the more than 400 banner troops do not know, but the bandits must also know that Min Yuanqi can kill the Shuiguan River House and kill 100 people in one night, which is somewhat ferocious and brave, so a surprise attack is the best way.

But the plan is the plan, these bandits walked for a long time and complained bitterly, the tidal flats were difficult to walk, they simply walked on the official road, met pedestrians and villagers and scared away, and then simply went to the village to replenish the water, there was no marching army, let alone a formation, more than a thousand people walked in a chaotic manner, there seemed to be people everywhere in front and back, left and right, each person's weapons were held horizontally, and some were erected, and some bandits also played juggling the weapons in their hands at will, and also caused bursts of applause.

The locust-like bandits came in a hurry, and because of the large number of people, the power was quite amazing. They also did not have war horses, and all of them were on foot, so they were always controlled by the flag army sentry horsemen.

Two or three miles away, because of the flatness, the flag soldiers sitting in a formation here were also discovered by bandits and pirates.

The formation on the opposite side stopped for a while, as if the opposite side was a military flag formation that was intimidated by this side, and the bandits hesitated a little. However, it may have been discovered that there were only more than 400 members of the Banner Army, and the bandits, like ordinary people, had a deep-seated contempt for the Banner Army of the Guard. The flag army is the people, even the poorer than the people, and those lowly people are not much different, artisan households, music records, prostitutes, military households, almost the same status, the children of military households can only marry the daughters of military households, and civilian households generally do not intermarry with military households, although after all, they are not lowly people, and there are many children of military households who get ahead, but in the hearts of ordinary people, these thieves with the army are congenitally inferior, even if they are holding swords and guns at this time, sitting under the red flag, it seems to be a thing to scare people, and the poverty and embarrassment of the military attache of the flag army, In a short period of time, how can so many qualified flag troops be compiled, most of them are dozens of brave soldiers, with a full number of flag troops, what is there to be afraid of these hundreds of people?