"We will meet the enemy directly at the seventh-hundredth household." Min Yuanqi did not have a wooden sand table, but the nearby terrain was quite clear.

The 700th household is the place where Liang Shifa and others pretended to fry the salt banner army on the seaside after crossing the river, near the sea, a large tidal flat, the village on the left and the beach on the right, and then the big river on the front, two cities on the west side, and a thousand households on the west.

"The whole army is dispatched, and there is no need to carry baggage. The firecracker should bring foot medicine, and the quartermaster should bring some spare swords, guns, and shields. There is all the armor, and it is now two quarters of the hour, so give everyone a moment to prepare, and set off in a moment. ”

"Yes, sir."

All the military attachés saluted, and their faces with different expressions showed similar expressions.

As long as Min Yuanqi is determined to make up his mind, then everyone will only follow with an iron heart and flee without a fight, what the consequences will be Everyone knows in their hearts, it can be said that even if it is an ordinary flag army or Yu Ding's women and children, they also know that they must win this battle.

Min Yuanqi looked at everyone's expressions, and realized in his heart that after this battle, his authority will increase greatly again in the future, and then mobilize soldiers to meet the enemy, I am afraid that there will not be much hindrance.

In fact, Min Yuanqi also passed a hurdle invisibly.

Shuiguan was a battle of life and death, with everyone desperate, Min Yuanqi himself rushed to the front, so there was no obstacle in his heart.

And this time, it is to take care of the foundation, and lead hundreds of people to fight against strong enemies, and many people will die between victory and defeat.

The so-called mercy does not mean that the military law should be abused to order the killing of sergeants, but that in a war of millions of people, a single decision can decide the life and death of hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people.

For example, if an army of 100,000 is to be left behind, these 10,000 people will basically be trapped by strong enemies, and most of them will be wiped out, and even if they can complete the task, thousands of people will die.

Which general to send with these 10,000 people is quite a difficult choice for the generals.

There is also a siege, which one is the first to climb will definitely suffer heavy casualties, and even the main general, that is, he must choose his loyal and brave subordinates to die!

Everyone is not a symbol or a simple text, the general leads the troops, gets along with his subordinates day and night, the love of the robe is even far above the ordinary friendship and even family affection, and sending his own henchmen to carry out the task of almost death is quite a severe test for any commander.

At the critical moment, the main general who is reluctant to give up the lives of his subordinates and cannot give up the winner seems to be benevolent, but in fact he is not worthy of being a general at all.

This is the true intention of Ci Bu to take charge of the army!

At this time, Min Yuanqi took his subordinates who got along day and night to fight with more than twice as many strong enemies as himself, although he practiced day and night, and the training was not stopped, and he could also be called a strong soldier, but under the fierce battle, who could survive and who would die on the battlefield, this is something that no one can say.

Min Yuanqi was able to take this step, which can be regarded as truly embarking on the road of being a general, but at this moment, Min Yuanqi himself still does not know.

There are some things that will not be explained even in a military book written by a famous general, and only the scholars who come back can understand it themselves.

If you understand it, you have the qualifications to become a famous general, and if you can't understand it, it's useless to say it.

"Blow the trumpet, gather the soldiers, and get ready to go."

"Yes, sir."

The lieutenant officer Min Yuanzhong looked slightly excited, and he walked quickly to the few trumpeters on standby, and waved his arms vigorously.

The trumpeters looked even more excited, they had been waiting a little anxiously! From Liang Shifa entered the camp, everyone knew that a big event was coming, but they didn't know what the decision of Lord Min and the officers was, and by the time Min Yuanqi rushed here, the trumpeters had already raised the brass trumpets, and Min Yuanzhong didn't say much, and after waving his arms, he said loudly: "Blow the assembly horn, and the whole army will set off in a moment!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

Several trumpeters were holding brass trumpets, and when they heard the order, they brought the brass trumpets to their mouths, and the rapid, loud and rhythmic brass trumpets immediately sounded around the camp!

Shen Liang Huo Ran got up, and beside him, Xie Xiang also stood up.

Li Junsun and Wang Wumai stood up together, one of them was the captain of the sword flag and the other was the captain of the spear flag.

Min Yuanzhi and the 20 cavalry were originally sitting cross-legged on the side of the war horse, the war horse had been fed with beans and eggs in the early morning, and the saddle was set, ready to set off at any time, hearing the sound of the trumpet, Min Yuanzhi made a powerful hand gesture, everyone got up and stood at the first time, and turned over on the horse.

The captain of the spear flag, Xu Wenhuan and Guo Shangyi, also waved their arms and got up, almost with a bang, all the soldiers got up, and for a while, it was immediately like a forest of spears, and the cold was dazzling!

"The three of them formed a marching column, and the cavalry went out first as a sentry to ride the beam," Min Yuanqi rode on his jujube red horse, and rode his horse to the camp gate before, his war horse was the tallest and most sacred horse, it may be that he hadn't driven well for several days, the war horse was a little uncontrollable, and after stopping, he kept fighting towards the sky, and seemed to want to gallop out immediately, Min Yuanqi appeased the war horse, and ordered loudly: "The first flag team of the sword brand is in front, the hundredth total, the second, the third, and the four hundred are out in turn, and the fire flag team is at the end, and the march is in a column posture, and the three people come out in a column!" ”

Min Yuanqi paused, the soldiers in the battalion had already moved, each hundred flags were placed according to his orders, and all the teams that were originally placed according to the horizontal team began to change rapidly, each flag team formed a column, three flag teams were placed in exactly one hundred general, and four hundred generals were placed in a column of three people, which happened to be a complete marching column, which was placed in the camp like a long snake.

At the front of the team, there is a red Zhang 200 household flag, according to the Ming Army's regulations, in fact, Min Yuanqi, the deputy thousand households, is far from qualified to use this Zhang 2 red flag, but the Tiangao Emperor is far away, so he will use it.

The flag is high, raised by a tall banner army, above the flag, there is no complex pattern, only the majestic atmosphere of the endless mountains and seas.

This is Min Yuanqi asked Zhu Wanchun to embroider in Huai'an, this is his military camp flag.

The battalions of the Ming generals, or the name of the striker, etc., or the name of the camp for the station, or the name of the general, or the name of the general, the camp or the surname of the general as the camp number, Min Yuanqi's battalion head has not been officially named, but many people have privately named this flag army from the banner, and the name is the Shanhai Battalion.

Min Yuanqi was not in a hurry to name his battalion, first, because he was afraid that the tree would make a big move, and secondly, because his strength was still insufficient. The number of people in the first battalion of the Ming Dynasty varies, and some of the total soldiers are as many as five or six thousand in the main barracks, and even now the total barracks can exceed 10,000 people. There are few regular barracks, odd barracks, and guerrilla barracks, some of which have two or three thousand people, or a thousand people, but there is never a battalion that is less than a thousand people.

At least the numbers on the books are more than 1,000, and the actual number of people depends on how many families are adopted.

Under normal circumstances, a regular barracks registers 3,500, and the actual number of battalion soldiers is eaten by the generals at all levels, and the actual number of battalion soldiers is 2,000, and the total number of soldiers is 1,500 to support their families, most of them are 5600, and the least is 2300.

It's just that although these families are brave, they are also considered to be strong soldiers, but the number is too small, and it is impossible for the generals to join forces to practice tactical arrays, cooperate with each other, and encounter a small number of northern captives can still fight, and the generals of the Ming army often lead hundreds of horsemen, more than 1,000 horsemen go deep into the grassland, such as the famous Li Rusong, who led hundreds of elite horsemen to sneak attack the barbarian tribe and was ambushed by the enemy, and died in battle. This tactic of the Ming army was effective against the Mongols, and it is not surprising that the Jurchen Eight Banners, which had about 30,000 soldiers, were repeatedly defeated in battles.

After the big flag is the hundred total red flags of each hundred households, and these hundred total flags do not draw patterns, but simply write numbers.

During this period of time, Min Yuanqi has been doing literacy for officers above the rank of team officer, and then the officers are literacy for the soldiers in their respective teams.

In fact, Min Yuanqi doesn't want soldiers to be able to read and write, but officers need to be able to write and read military newspapers, and they don't have to rely on books and school books for everything.

During this period of time, at least many soldiers can read and understand numbers, and when reciting military regulations and regulations, Shundao is also slowly becoming literate, for Min Yuanqi, this effect has made him extremely satisfied.

Each hundred is composed of three flag teams and a direct knife team, the hundred is on the left side of the team, the deputy hundred is on the right, the flag captain is in the middle of the flag team, the flag bearer plays the flag team on the left side of the flag captain, the deputy flag captain is on the right, and then the officer of each team, holding the flag gun at the front of the team.

Then there were the knife players, the pikemen, the boring handles, and then the firefighters who carried the iron head and the flat shoulder, and carried some military supplies and iron pots.

When Qi Jiguang formed the army, he mainly fought against the Japanese in the south, considering that the south was mountainous and watery, and the Ming army in the south had very few war horses, when forming the army, the baggage mainly relied on sea and shipping, and a small amount of military supplies were solved by the army itself.

Except for a few mules and horses, most of the military supplies, such as rations and iron pots and stoves, were solved by a firefighter in each squad.

During the rest of the march, the firemen were responsible for burying the pot and cooking.

When fighting, the firefighters can also come forward to engage the enemy with iron-clad poles, and after the middle of the queue of the Mandarin Duck squad, the position of the firefighters is located.

After one fireman, then the officer's flag gun, then two knife players, then the pikeman and the boring handle, and then the firefighters of this squad.

Every three squads form a flag team column, and three flag team columns form a hundred general.

When the four hundred generals gathered together, the red flag and the red robe formed a dazzling red torrent, and the little white dots flashed among them, which was the tip of the spear and the boring tip of the boring handle that the soldiers held diagonally on their shoulders.

In the sound of the loud military trumpet, in less than a quarter of an hour, the cavalry came out first, and then the hundred generals came out in turn, and when Shen Liang walked out of the camp gate with his fire gun flag team, an officer who was ordered to stay behind raised the flag gun, with tears in his eyes, and greeted his comrades who went out in a loud greeting.

On March 27, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, after Min Yuanqi trained the army for less than two months, he already had a strong army of more than 400 people in front of him. Even the generals' families, those cavalrymen with horses, in their daily life and when marching, their appearance and posture are far inferior to the army in front of them.

Even if the enemy is attacked by a thousand people, the people present suddenly have confidence.

This is also where Min Yuanqi's confidence lies in daring to take the initiative, whether it is trapped in the 300th household, or hiding in the city of a thousand households or preparing for the land city, this is a passive and weak choice, with this strong army in hand, it is Min Yuanqi's greatest confidence, why be afraid of those rabble bandits?

This time, we must not only take the initiative to face the battle, but also annihilate the incoming enemy, and at least fight a peace that will not be harassed in the short term. Not only for bandits and pirates, but also for those "own people" with bad intentions, you must know that it is those who are more difficult to deal with than foreign enemies.

Thousands of households, commanders, local officials, strong gentry, these people will not be willing to lie in wait, Min Yuanqi's salt pond profits provoked people's hearts, and at the same time touched the interests of some people, this time bandits and pirates hooked up, among which Haikou is Yang Shili's cousin, there is no need to say much about the interests, many bandits may not be Yang Shili's instructions, I am afraid that there are other people.

Even if it is a big salt merchant in Yangzhou City, it may not be without a hand in this matter, the Zhu family has a large amount of purchases, seizing the sales territory of other families, and the affected ones are from stove households to small and medium-sized salt merchants, and they have been fed back to the big salt merchants, the more goods Min Yuanqi ships here, the more angry the affected big salt merchants are in their hearts, for the stove households, the loss they suffer may be to eat two less meals, and for the big salt merchants with a large shipment, each family may lose thousands of taels of silver a year or even more than 10,000 taels.

This kind of loss is enough to make the big salt merchants angry, and they are secretly arranging and secretly killing them.

If you want to break the black hand stretched out, there is no other way, that is, to break the skill, since they sent a large number of bandits and pirates to come, they will come forward to meet the enemy, and exterminate it, this battle is not only to win, but also to completely suppress the momentum, after the big victory, those secretly hateful and covetous eyes will converge, will choose to give up!

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