After walking more than ten miles to the east, and passing another town, a large group of guest soldiers gathered nearby.

This should be a garrison stationed in the locality, there are more than 1,000 people, and there are people in the ranks who hold the red flag of the generals, and there is a general who wears an official robe, a black gauze hat, and no armor, but there is a big red cloak hanging behind him, which looks a little nondescript.

may have received an order to transfer troops, but because of the heat, I didn't want to tie my armor, so I had such a weird dress.

The generals are like this, and the middle and lower-level military attaches at the bottom are also the same, some wear round-necked short robes, some wear arrow robes, and some even have long-sleeved robes, looking similar to literati and inkmen.

The military attachés rode horses, surrounded by a small number of personal soldiers, and some carried the flags, most of them followed the brigade with their swords.

Most of the guests walked barefoot in the fields along the official road, they hung straw sandals or cloth shoes around their waists, most of them wore short summer cloth robes, and the dyeing was also messy, and most of them wore straw hats or fanyang hats on their heads, different dresses, different hat ornaments, different belts around their waists, and completely different items on their bodies.

Soldiers and the like carry cauldrons on their backs, and some people carry the cauldron directly on their backs, making it look like a turtle walking upright.

There are more miscellaneous soldiers carrying spears and knives, and their robes are tattered and of different colors, most of them are gray robes, as well as blue robes, green robes, and even straight Taoist robes.

The way these soldiers were dressed made one wonder where they got their robes.

There are also some who wear arrow robes, look neat and well-dressed, and should be the archers in this army.

Liang Shifa was a little speechless, although the status of cavalry, gunslingers, and sword players was not low in Yunti Pass, and the pikemen seemed ordinary because of the large number of people, but everyone knew that when they were in battle, pikemen were the basis of the entire array's attack and defense.

Here, a large number of pikemen are the feeling of cannon fodder for miscellaneous fish.

The barefoot soldiers walked freely in the fields, trampling and destroying most of the rice seedlings, and they did not care, and walked forward in a scattered formation, talking and laughing casually as they went.

The peasants and people who were hiding in secrecy were full of indignation in their eyes, but no one dared to step forward to stop or even dissuade them.

Liang Shifa paid attention to the number and the number of troops, as well as the number of Neiding.

The soldier in front of him is a strange battalion, led by a general surnamed Tian, more than 1,000 people are divided into three guerrilla battalions, and then divided into several thousand headquarters, some of the thousand headquarters are more than 100 people, and the least is only more than 50 people.

One general and three guerrillas, there are more than 110 Naiding, only less than half of them have horses, and the rest of them are wearing cotton armor, their faces are vicious, and their skills look powerful, but they also have to walk barefoot with ordinary battalion soldiers.

The three guerrillas added up to about 100 Neiding, most of whom were also horseless, armed with weapons in their hands, wearing cotton armor or leather armor, and following the generals.

Only the Nedin who followed the general on horseback, it is estimated that there is an official position in the Nedin, riding a horse, wearing iron armor, and the weapons in his hands are also made of fine iron, looking extremely brave, and the guest soldiers who passed by these armored Nedin were mostly full of awe on their faces.

Liang Shifa looked at the miscellaneous soldiers of more than 1,000 people, most of them were dressed in tatters, and the spears in their hands were cut out of wooden rods with iron heads, which were originally inferior weapons, and the storage was not good, and many of the spear heads actually had rust.

It is no wonder that in the past six months or so, Liu Zeqing has been fleeing from the east and south, and he has not fought a battle at all, and he has not used force at all to fight for food and wages, and when a group of officers and soldiers enter the village, the people can only kneel down and wait for the fate.

After a long time, not only the soldiers were tired and slack, but even the generals did not pay attention to the training and camp affairs.

What's more, even in wartime, how many of these generals who led troops attached importance to military training?

It's just those family soldiers.

Even if it is a soldier in Neiding, he is dressed in cotton armor, and the ratio of sword players to archers is much higher than that of the battalion soldiers, in addition to this, he is more powerful, taller, and his appearance is more vicious.

This is also the standard for generals to select Neiding, who must be big, fierce in appearance, and courageous.

In fact, these Neiding have never fought any hard battles or bad battles.

They are fighting more about looting and bullying the people, and they are afraid that they have not experienced a few wars.

Liu Zeqing's troops expanded too quickly, and when he aided Kaifeng, there were only a few thousand people under his command, and by the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, it had swelled to 30,000 in just two or three years, and there were far fewer experienced generals and soldiers.

Today, it has expanded to nearly 100,000 people, and the number of veterans and experienced military attaches has become more dispersed.

These guest soldiers walked casually on the official roads and farmlands, but fortunately their military orders were urgent, and they only glanced at the pedestrians, chariots and horses passing by on the official roads, but they had no intention of coming up to extort and loot.

Even so, the people around Liang Shifa were sweating profusely, half of them were hot, and half of them were scared.

Fortunately, the group walked forward for more than ten miles, and when they reached the next market town, they stopped the group.

The general immediately gave a few orders, and someone shouted a few words with gongs and shouts, and the miscellaneous soldiers carried their guns in twos and threes, and went into the market town to find their own lodging to rest.

The generals should go to the big families in the town to rest, they have someone to serve good wine and food, please accompany the guests to serve, the guest soldiers have been in Huai'an for a long time, most of these generals are familiar with the local gentry and rich households, and their benefits are a hundred times more than ordinary soldiers.

A large number of soldiers walked freely through the fields, trudging through muddy water, and after going to the fields, they went to the ditch on the side of the official road, washed their feet covered with silt, then wiped their feet dry with the corners of their robes, put on hemp sandals, and then marched to the town.

There were a small number of guest soldiers who were still entangled, and when they entered the town, they also untied the entanglement and slowly paced into the village.

In Liang Shifa's eyes, this is an out-and-out miscellaneous army, in terms of military discipline and weapons, he does not feel much stronger than the bandits and pirates who came to attack Yunti Pass, and even if the number of people on both sides is about the same, the battalion soldiers may not be the opponent of pirates and bandits.

The strength of the battalion lies in the fact that it has generals and military attachés under the command, and the battlefield experience of these generals, the level of marching and formation, and the vision of looking at the battlefield situation are certainly much stronger than those of bandit and pirate leaders.

The second is that each general has Neiding by his side, just like the battalion of more than 1,000 people in front of him, he may not be able to win against the pirates of more than 1,000 people.

But with the more than 200 armor of many generals, the pirates had no chance at all.

There are only fifty or sixty horsemen riding these more than 200 Naiding, if this soldier and horse get more money and food, or Liu Zeqing appropriates the war horse, the more than 200 Naiding are all cavalry, which is enough to fight three or four thousand bandits and pirates.

Even if they encounter more than twice as many rogue pirates, unless the rogue also has an equal number of cavalry, these officers and soldiers will win more and lose less.

This is a battalion head of the standard Ming army, and it is not even so standard.

Normally, a battalion is a hill, for example, a guerrilla battalion led by a guerrilla general has more than 1,000 people, and the general leads dozens or more than 100 nain, which is a very normal situation.

Like the battalion in front of us, there are only more than 1,000 soldiers, but there are three guerrillas and one general, which is impossible to happen in the Ming army more than ten years ago.

Three guerrillas and one staff general, Neiding is only 200 people, which is also too shabby.

This is the chaos after the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the military attaché hat is worthless, the towns and even the governors of Huguang, Fujian and Zhejiang and other places are sent to send official hats, and the original order is still maintained, and there is not much chaos in the Yunnan-Guizhou region.

It's a pity that Mu Tianbo, the prince of Qianguo who guarded Yunnan, also asked people to take the old nest, and the rebellious Tusi took down the city of Kunming, and the wealth accumulated by the Mu family for more than 200 years was swept away.

Later, the Tusi who supported the Mu family and the rebellious Tusi confronted each other, which just gave Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, who were looking for a direction after entering Guizhou, an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Yunnan and Guizhou became the reliable rear of the Great Western Army, supporting Li Dingguo to send troops to fight against the Qing army, and won many victories, even defeating the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

At that time, the Qing court had the intention of giving up the southwest, after all, the Ming Dynasty could only place Tusi in the southwest, and the Qing court was planning to regard the remnants of the Ming Dynasty as the southwest Tusi, at this time, Sun Kewang's ambition was not satisfied, and after the failure in the internal fighting, he surrendered to the Qing court, and reported the details of Yungui to the Qing court.

The situation of Liu Zeqing's department in front of him has gradually become the norm, and even the situation of adding a general soldier hat to bring hundreds of soldiers is also a common thing in the wars of the following decades.

Liang Shifa naturally didn't think about it so far-reaching, he just kept the situation in front of him in his mind, and didn't dare to omit anything.

After the afternoon, everything was quiet, and only the pedestrians on the official road were still talking about the continuous dispatch of troops around Huai'an Mansion.

However, looking at the direction of the soldiers and horses, most of them are assembled in the direction of the south bank of the Huai River, and then continue to the east, which also makes many people gradually feel at ease, and then discusses what is the purpose of so many soldiers and horses to the east.

After Liu Zeqing arrived in Huai'an Mansion, he quickly grabbed territory and assigned generals to garrison various county seats, and the big market towns gradually let soldiers and horses in.

Of course, the main force is around the garrison city, and the main force of the troops this time is also the elite soldiers stationed in the prefecture, that is, Liu Zeqing's descendants.

The garrison outside also dispatched many units, but Liang Shifa saw only two units with his own eyes, so there is no exact number of the full strength of his dispatch of guest soldiers.

At dusk, Liang Shifa saw the county seat of Andong, where there were many garrisons, but he did not see the guest soldiers stationed in Andong County leaving the city, nor did he see a large force of soldiers and horses marching on the official road.

It seems that most of the guest soldiers dispatched are the previous soldiers and horses.

Liang Shifa felt a little relieved, but his heart was still heavy and uneasy, even with the current soldiers and horses, it was several times that of Yunti Pass, and he didn't know what Lord Min would do after receiving the military information?