Everyone stopped what they were doing, Zhu Wen and others who were busy, all the banner soldiers, Chen De and Li Tiansheng and other craftsmen, the people in the salt pond where the sea salt was stacked and dried, Li Guoding and Wang Sanyi, Wang Mingyuan, Ermei and others, all set their eyes on the barracks area.

The loud brass horn has been ringing non-stop, everyone is face is solemn, waiting for more than 20 cavalry to go out first, separate multiple strands galloping forward, the fiery red banner followed, a large group of infantry lined up in a column out of the camp gate, Li Guoding sighed long, said: "It seems that the bandits and pirates are approaching, and General Yuan Qi will lead his troops to attack the thieves!" ”

"Are you going to line up by the river?"

"That's passive, most of them are crossing the river by boat and taking the initiative to invite attacks."

"Yuan Qi is not the kind of person who is waiting to be killed, the battle of Shuiguan is to take the initiative to invite the attack, this time the people who came are just pirates and bandits, and they should also take the initiative to meet the attack with strong soldiers and break the enemy in one battle."

"The bandits are okay, they generally don't offend the military households of our guard, and the 700th household was robbed by Qinshan Island robbers a few years ago, and many banner soldiers and women and children died. These pirates are all murderers who kill people without blinking, and Yang Shiyong is even more brutal, if Yuan Qi can defeat this person, or even capture and kill, his reputation will not only rise in my Cloud Ladder Pass, but also the entire Dahewei, and the rest of the institutes will also spread their names and become famous in a battle, but that's it. ”

"What I mean is that it depends on how this battle can be fought."

"It's a pity that we don't have soldiers, and we haven't been on the battlefield......"

"My father has been on the battlefield, and he and the prepared Japanese battalion have faced a small group of Japanese invaders, but we are poor here in Yunti Pass, and we can't reach rich places up and down, so the Japanese don't want to come."

Many military attachés of hundreds of households couldn't help but look at each other solemnly when they saw the big flag waving and the strict array of flag troops leaving the camp.

Although they say that they are the village chief, they have never used swords and soldiers in their lives, and military-related is that there will be civil officials to inspect the guard every ten or eight years, and when the time comes, it is necessary to assemble the flag army for training for a period of time, and it is considered to be a pass if the flag is lined up, and the military drum is not chaotic, and there are things such as the imperial history of the Gou army and the Qing army, and the rest of the things, such as class drills, ordnance, quartermasters, drills, etc., that have to be something that thousands of households or the level of the health department can worry about. In peacetime, they are responsible for supervising the banner army to farm the land, handing over the grain every year, handing over the grain to thousands of households, commanding the servants and acquaintances, and commanding the private land grain, in addition to taking the flag army to fry salt, and arranging manpower to become the army to go north every year. None of these things have anything to do with the military.

But something from the depths of the blood still made them feel undignified when they saw the whole team of the flag army going out, and even felt excited, and trembled for it.

is a talent like Wang Mingyuan, and the same is true.

Wang Mingyuan felt a little lost when he first saw him, and everything in front of him was very different from his understanding. Scholars look down on martial artists, and those who are famous in Donghuamen are good men. This habit of light and cheap martial arts has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people since the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. No matter how good the generals are, how to redeem the heavens, in the eyes of the gentlemen who read, they are either assigned by the high-level training of civil officials and make small contributions, or they are arrogant warriors who need to be guarded against, have no morality, do not need to talk about any morality, do not need to be literate, and do not need to understand any profound truths.

It was this deliberate suppression and vigilance that led to the fact that the martial artists in the late Ming Dynasty really became a group of horsemen.

In Wang Mingyuan's cognition, Wufu is not only ignorant, but also cowardly and selfish, for so many years, he has grown up in the guard, and he has never seen any force in the banner army of the guard, and the garrison battalion soldiers are mostly gangsters who earn a few months' salary. For so many years, Wang Mingyuan had never seen a grand military formation, and it could even be said that he had never seen a serious army at all.

This is true for most of the people present.

When the column of more than 400 people all came out of the camp, the neat military appearance, the swords and guns flashing under the military flag, the vibration of the team neatly trampling on the ground, and the sentinels of the cavalry on both sides to protect it, then people suddenly realized that they usually get along with the trained flag army day and night, too close, watching them practice every day, watching these flag troops from a mass of scattered sand to forming a whole, until the recent period, even children don't like to watch the flag army training very much, almost every day is a similar situation that thunder cannot be moved. Until this time, when watching these flag troops come out in formation, all of them suddenly realized that unconsciously, those who ran around every day, kept lining up and down again, kept practicing marksmanship, knives and cards, and even fully armed, running around the trained flag army, those familiar faces, when they really lined up to fight, were so strange, so terrifying, so weatherous?

After the hundreds of households said a few words casually, they stared at the military formation and walked farther and farther, half speechless. However, after Wang Mingyuan was stunned for a while, he couldn't help shouting: "It's really an elite, this is the real army!" ”

Everyone didn't speak, only Wang Ermei glanced at her brother.

I am here every day, but I am so stupid, I have read a stomach full of books in vain.

Wang Mingyuan still didn't know it, looked at the military formation in the distance, and said with relish: "Today I know what a dignified and upright teacher is, what is an elite soldier who never returns, with this military formation, I think the group of thieves will be defeated." With this division, I am afraid that even if there are chaotic soldiers in the future, as long as the army does not come to fight our remote place, it can ensure the safety of one side. ”

This time, Wang Sanyi glared at his son, and couldn't help but say, "I only found out today?" No wonder we muttered all day long, we old guys, and thousands of book-signing households, everyone is optimistic about Yuan Qi, for what? ”

"Can he keep this side safe?"

"Yes." Wang Sanyi replied, hesitated for a moment, or said: "You are still a good student, our place has the support of Yuan Qi, most of them are safe and sound, no matter how restless the world is, readers always have to have a way to progress, this one will not be wrong, you are a good student to read your book, this year's township test will be tested next year If you can't do it, you may add Enke in two years, as long as you work hard, the township test will try Lianjie, and the glory of the ancestors depends on you." ”

Wang Mingyuan nodded at first, but still looked at the military formation that was gradually moving away, and felt a burst of excitement, and after half a sound, this Xiucai Xianggongcai, who had always regarded himself very highly, whispered: "How do I think now, what Min Yuanqi has done is to glorify his ancestors?" ”

"Nonsense." Wang Sanyi said with a face, but the hesitation and envy on his face were also quite obvious.

……

The cavalry first crossed the road in the village, reached the river, and then crossed the river first.

A boat easily transported more than 20 people, and after Min Yuanzhi and others crossed the river, the 100th general arrived at the shore and was lined up to get on the boat.

The three-person column is the result of Min Yuanqi's many experiments, whether it is the small road of Baihu Village or the main road leading to the city of Qianhu, or the road to the rest of the hundred households, or even the official road leading to Haizhou Prefecture City of Qianhu, roughly speaking, the widest official road can accommodate four people in parallel, and the narrowest road can also accommodate three people in parallel.

The condition of the road is good and bad, but since it is a road, at least two chicken buses can go parallel or opposite each other. In this way, a column of three people can pass through almost all the official roads and village roads, and even if some places are small roads, such roads are not suitable for large-scale army marches and can be excluded.

More than a dozen boats had already been prepared, lined up on the shore and waiting for the soldiers to board the ships.

After Min Yuanzhi and others crossed the river, they were immediately divided into four teams, and the knights between the ranks were also far away, in a short period of time, the cavalry immediately galloped out of a range of several miles, and continued to move forward, only Min Yuanzhi with a group of people, stayed by the river, guarding the crowd on the left side of the official road, to prevent the enemy from making a sentry to the river to prevent the army from crossing the river.

In fact, these cavalrymen had not been in the cavalry flag team for a long time, and before that they might have been sword players or pikemen, and they were boring handlers, but immediately after they had horses, countless people signed up, and no one was a fool, knowing that the cavalry's pay and treatment would definitely exceed that of the infantry.

Even if Min Yuanqi changed his original intention and began to collect more family members in the banner army, the cavalry would definitely be given priority.

However, so far, some of the Min family's families, including Min Yuanqi's own family, have been disrupted and placed in the flag army, and there is no special preferential treatment.

Wang Wumai and Li Junsun one is the captain of the sword flag, the other is the captain of the mixed flag, the two are stronger than the ordinary flag army, and they made a lot of contributions in the first battle of Shuiguan, and the result is that the flag captain, not even the deputy hundred presidents, from this point of view, most of the old departments of the Min family brought by Min Yuanzhi are just ordinary flag soldiers or team officers, and everyone has nothing to say.

Min Yuan, who was riding a horse by the river, stood straight by the knife, and the official road was the same as usual, and there was nothing special about it.

Foot merchants and two-wheeled carts carrying goods...... Most of these merchants came back from Haizhou, the shop scale is small, it is not worth going to Huai'an, most of the merchants are from the waterway to Huai'an Mansion, and then along the waterway back to the market town and the various hundred villages, from the land to Haizhou merchants are not many after all.

In addition to the merchants, there were several wandering monks in the past, and there were also a few wandering doctors who wandered around with hanging bells, most of these wandering doctors only knew a few prescriptions, and they could not be said to be liars, but they were not much stronger than liars. The herbs they prescribe are very cheap, and they don't know how to change the amount of medicine, so they can catch all the prescriptions, and if you are lucky, you can cure the disease, and if you are unlucky, you are afraid that you will be killed, and these traveling doctors are also prepared to be beaten at any time, most of them can't stay in the city, they can only wander around the villages, and it is normal to see a few on the official road.

In addition, there are men pushing small carts, and women and children are sitting on both sides of the cart, and they are ordinary people who are visiting relatives and friends.

There are also a few idlers, with open chests and open arms, wearing shabby straw sandals, walking aimlessly on the official road.

Min Yuan stared at these people a few times, and didn't notice anything suspicious, but he also knew that these things were not his specialty, anyway, no one showed obvious abnormalities, so he could leave it alone.

At this time, the boat was already full of soldiers, and the boat began to sail towards the opposite shore.

The original ferry boat at the mouth of the river was also full of people and headed to the other side, and the fleet full of soldiers and the ferry boat intersected in the river, causing the exclamation of everyone on the ferry.

Since the end of Jiajing, more than 2,000 officers and soldiers have built an earthen city here in Yuntiguan to prepare for the Japanese, and after the fifth year of Wanli, the garrison garrison has withdrawn one after another, and for nearly 70 years, a large number of officers and soldiers have not been seen in this coastal area.

Many people found out at the first time that there were more than a dozen boats full of the flag army, these people may not be the 300th households, there are many people who cross the river and go to the remaining 100 households or villages, they first exclaimed when they saw the flag army, many people subconsciously stood up, very panicked, and even some people wanted to jump directly into the river and swim to escape.