At dawn, Liu Zhigan came out of a big house in Guannan County, and the rich man not only gave up the main house of the main hall to Liu Zhigan and his personal soldiers to live, but also found many prostitutes from the county town to serve.

Liu Zhigan got up in the dark, drank and prostituted extremely happily, and left the war out of the clouds.

There were originally more than 10,000 garrisons inside and outside the city, most of which were stationed in the surrounding market towns and military camps outside the city, and less than half of the inner and elite generals lived in the city.

Liu Zhigan's nephew like Liu Zeqing is of course the object of everyone's pursuit, and after Liu Zhigan woke up from the wine-colored township, Yao Wenchang and other generals who were traveling with him were already preparing their troops outside the city.

More than 100 Naiding rushed to the side of the official road with Liu Zhigan, and a large number of barefoot soldiers were either bald, or wearing cool hats, some wearing Fan Yang Li, and some were wearing folding scarves, and the jackets were also strange, with any style and color.

There are also various weapons, but most of them are inferior.

Liu Zhigan didn't take a look at these soldiers, although most of these soldiers were Shandong soldiers, but they were the people who were coerced by Liu's uncle and nephew when they went south, and most of them were ordinary people a few months ago, and they were not long in the camp, and their desire to die was insufficient, and their training and battlefield experience were poor, even in Liu Zhigan's eyes, they were a group of miscellaneous soldiers who were not worth investing their energy in.

A little earlier, closer to the military flag, there were always some inner dings in cotton or iron armor, either with or without horses, under the flag.

Most of the weapons are fine iron weapons, and the feeling of holding them in your hand is different from the inferior weapons of those miscellaneous soldiers.

More than 10,000 people are spread out on both sides of the official road in the field, but it is also mighty and magnificent.

It wasn't until Yao Wenchang and Ruan Yingzhao and other generals that they all wore Fan Yang hats, and the number of soldiers holding elite iron long soldiers increased.

But most of them were ordinary cyan jackets, and there may be one or two soldiers wearing cotton armor or two-sided cloth armor among the ten people, but there are more of them, and most of them are on horseback, and all of them are wearing cotton armor, leather armor, or iron armor, and the color on the faces of these soldiers is also more obvious.

Most of these generals and Neiding followed Liu Zeqing around six years after Chongzhen, and the time of the campaign was more than ten years.

Those who can become Nedin or Nedin team officers have followed for at least five or six years.

Don't look at these Nedin nominally ordinary family members, but if you ask them to go down to the barracks to be a team officer, I'm afraid that no Nedin is willing. At least you have to do a lot of work, so you can barely get the hard work and risk of being a natin.

You must know that Nedin's salary is extremely high, not only nominally several times higher salary.

The usual supply is first-class, unless it is encircled and cut off from food, otherwise it is usually fine wine and fat sheep, and there is no shortage of wine and meat.

The armor, weapons, and war horses are also the best ones for Nedin, and Nedin will only take turns with ordinary battalion soldiers after he is equipped.

Then if the generals have a large number of acres of land, the inner ding is also divided, the generals are big landlords, and the inner dings are small landlords.

This is the case in any military town in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the last days of the Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen period, even if it is Chenghua, during the Jiajing period, the appointment of Neiding is also completely in line with the regulations, and even when the military department calculates the military salary, the salary of the Neiding is completely counted in the military quarters, which is a grandiose official expense.

This kind of military behavior will have a model in the Tang Dynasty after the disaster was strictly forbidden by the two Song Dynasty, but it was popular in the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming court was not taboo, and even fully supported.

Including the Li family in Liaodong, Li Chengliang had 8,000 Neiding when he was in office, all of them were Neiding in iron armor, such strength was completely able to beat the barbarians and Jurchens at that time, and they resisted the Tubarians and suppressed the Jurchens.

At the time of the Renchen War, Li Rusong was the commander of the army, and all the elites of the northern and southern armies under his command went to Pyongyang in the first battle, and the main force of the Japanese army in Pyongyang was defeated in a battle, and it was not the opponent of the Ming army at all.

Later generations have explained that the army has artillery, the Japanese army has no artillery, the Ming army has cavalry, and the Japanese lack war horses, lack of iron mines, and no iron armor to deal with cavalry.

This all makes sense, but the fundamental reason is the bravery and bravery of the Ming army.

The Ming army that entered the dynasty, both the northern army and the southern army were the choice of the moment, and the northern army was dominated by the elite of Liaozhen, and they were all outlaws who dared to follow the master into the grassland for thousands of miles if they dared to ride a few hundred horses.

The southern army was dominated by the remnants of the Qi family's army, which was still above the northern army at the time of the battle of Dengcheng.

However, Li Rusong, as the commander of the Northern Army, had to favor the officers and men of the Northern Army, and the distribution of military achievements was unfair, and the Southern Army was greatly dissatisfied because of this, and almost raised a camp to mutiny.

Because of this, Li Rusong led more than 1,000 cavalry, most of whom were members of the Li Mansion, and rushed to Seoul to find a surprise attack.

As a result, it was ambushed by the main force of the Japanese people, although the cavalry of the northern army had a strong will to fight, and the lethality was extremely high, several legions of the Japanese army sent back and forth to attack fiercely, but they did not completely annihilate a small number of Ming cavalry, and the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat, and they were also frightened and did not have the will to continue fighting.

The Ming army lost nearly 1,000 cavalry, all of which were cultivated by the Li family for many years.

Jiading is indeed the proud son of the Ming army, and as for the Ming court's letting go of the generals to cultivate Jiading, the main reason is the battalion system of the size system.

He was not appointed as a general, and he did not control the army with the respect of Uncle Hou, and the general army was only led by his own small number of family members and two or three battalions of soldiers and horses, and the civilian officials controlled the logistics and promotions, and also instigated internal strife against the generals, demarcated the area for defense, and were not allowed to leave the place of faith without reason.

It was under such a peculiar military system that the Ming Dynasty actually survived for more than 200 years.

In Liu Zhigan's eyes, the miscellaneous soldiers in front of him were insignificant, and what he valued was Neiding under the banners of the generals.

Among them, many old people are still familiar with their faces, and when they saw Liu Zhigan coming, these men clasped their fists and saluted on the horse.

"What about Liu Kecheng and his cavalry?" Liu Zhigan came all the way and did not see Liu Kecheng, the leader of the generals, and he was very dissatisfied.

After complaining, Liu Zhigan saluted Liu Zerun's uncle, and then said: "Where did Liu Kecheng go to drill sand?" Didn't General Yao say yesterday that all the troops gathered before Chenshi, and then marched east along the official road together, and today they will march at least more than 30 miles? ”

Liu Zerun glanced at the nephew and said, "It seems that you don't know about the attack on the military camp outside the city last night?" ”

"Attacked?" Liu Zhigan was taken aback and said: "Are there bandits attacking the camp or the local people rebelling, and they actually dare to sneak attack the barracks of our army, these people will die." ”

His face was full of murderous energy, and he said angrily: "The big war is imminent, and those who dare to attack my camp should be beheaded regardless of the good and the bad, and all places will be burned regardless of the village or town!" ”

Liu Zerun said helplessly: "What the hell are you called?" Last night, more than 1,000 garrisons of Xiaowangji were touched by people, as if they were serious cavalry, and they rushed into the set in the middle of the night, threw torches, slashed and killed the generals who ran out, and made a fuss for more than an hour. ”

"In this way, most of them are soldiers and horses from the cloud ladder?" Liu Zhigan had a ghost-like look on his face, and shouted: "They dare to come and touch our battalion, they dare, they dare to dare?" ”

"Why wouldn't they dare?" Liu Zerun's face is white, like a scholar is better than a general, in fact, he was originally a student, Liu Zeqing was originally a scholar, the Liu family was originally poor, and then the brothers did not succeed in studying, so they simply joined the army to seek development in the army, Liu Zeqing also stayed up for many years before he came out in the Denglai Rebellion.

If it weren't for the civil strife in Denglai, the massive resources invested by the Ming Dynasty on the Shandong Peninsula would have been lost, and Liu Zeqing would probably have no chance to come out.

At this time, Liu Zerun was also in a mess, and only said: "We used to want their lives, how could people not run over and fight hard?" ”

"Then Liu Kecheng led his troops to catch up?"

"Yes." Yao Kechang, as the commander of this army of more than 10,000 people, also has the status of a chief military officer, and said helplessly at the moment: "Uncle Zerun said that he couldn't ask people to touch the camp and ignore it, so he sent Liu Kecheng to pursue him." ”

Liu Zhigan nodded and agreed: "That's true, if we don't chase and kill, we still have to march for three days, not every day we have to ask people to attack the camp at night." ”

Yao Kechang was stagnant, he was a veteran general who had fought for more than ten years, only a few dozen horsemen who touched the camp last night, rushed to the town and burned for a while, it seemed that the movement was very large, and the loss was not small, but in fact, less than 20 soldiers died under the knife, and then they collided with each other and were burned to death for dozens of people, and hundreds of people ran away in the middle of the night.

After Liu Kecheng, Yao Kechang and others arrived after dawn, they saw bare-bottomed deserters everywhere on the roadside and in the fields, and they arrested more than a dozen people and cut off more than a dozen heads on the roadside on the side of the road on the charge of desertion.

In this way, this part of the soldiers and horses were gathered again, but everyone was busy in the middle of the night, and it was not until dawn that Liu Zhigan, the marshal's nephew and middle officer, ran out of the county seat.

Liu Zerun and Liu Zhigan are both people who don't know soldiers, but they are marshal relatives, since they have the same opinion, Yao Wenchang thinks that there is no reason to argue with these two, so he nodded immediately and said: "Then we will walk along the official road and see if Liu Kecheng can hunt down the enemy." ”

Everyone was speechless, the generals from the general deputy general to the general, guerrilla, thousands of generals, the general, the team officer, all the way to the general order down, Tang Ma ran back and forth along the road, and then the banner was spread, all the rules seemed to be the same.

After two quarters of an hour, the front team had already walked several miles, and the large army slowly moved, and it was only after half an hour that the rear team slowly squirmed in the rear, following the front team, the formation was swinging out, and going east along the avenue.