When Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun started to attack from Wu Sangui's descendants' army, their hearts hung up. For fear that Liu Sheng and Wu Guogui, the two military commanders of Wu Sangui's henchmen, would take advantage of the victory and attack fiercely, they would directly turn into pursuit. won the opportunity for their two miscellaneous brands to be awarded meritorious service......

The life of miscellaneous cards is hard, there is no miscellaneous card in the background that is more bitter, and the two of them have still voted for Tartar and been traitors!

And they sell out for glory!

Emperor Zhu spared them back then, because they betrayed their masters...... Sold their Tartar master Shunji!

Although it is the Tartar who betrays, he is still the seller after all! How can anyone in the world like this kind of thing that betrays the country first and then betrays the lord? Emperor Zhu is still using them, which is true to his word, keeping promises, and not wanting to smash his own signboard.

And they themselves have to be self-aware, and they have to know that they will accept what they see. Otherwise, even if Emperor Zhu doesn't find fault and ask for guilt, he can still not give them a good life!

In fact, they don't have a good life now, how many years have these two warlords taken refuge in Emperor Zhu? Until now, there is not even a territory, but it has the empty name of Kawabe Town.

Although the imperial court would pay the military salary according to the standard of 10,000 people (later raised to 20,000 at the request of Wu Sangui), there was no arrears, and there was no ministry fee - the military salary was a bank transfer, and the silver was not withdrawn from the household treasury at all, and of course there was no ministry fee.

But they had no territory, no subjects, and no way to recruit soldiers. According to Emperor Zhu's "Decree on the Laws of the Feudal Towns" issued in the early years of Hongxing, the feudal towns could recruit troops on their own if there was a shortage in the number of troops. However, the feudal towns could not go to other feudal towns to recruit troops on the territory of other feudal towns without authorization, let alone go to the territory directly under the imperial court to recruit troops without asking for a decree.

In addition to recruiting soldiers, the feudal town can also raise military households. Now the army directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty has no soldiers. However, the feudal town still retains the military household soldier system, but the military household soldier also needs territory!

Shang and Kong have no territory, so they can't support their own military households, and it's impossible to engage fathers, sons, and brothers in their own system.

So the two of them have no way to replenish their army.

And the officers and soldiers under them are not iron men who can't fight, and they haven't eaten Tang monk meat, so they can't live forever. After voting for Emperor Zhu, it would be useless, if it wasn't for Wu Sangui to help, the two of them would have lost their strength long ago, and now there is no warlord to be.

But where is Wu Sangui so kind? He helped Chuanbian Town replenish the army, didn't he so that one day he could squeeze out Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun, and then completely annex Chuanbian Town?

However, it is unlikely that Wu Sangui is going to swallow Chuanbian Town on his own, his territory army is already enough, and one more Chuanbian Town is not asking for suspicion? Most of this matter is still the Emperor Zhu who made a promise! He should not be a wicked person, let Wu Sangui come forward, and then get Chuanbian Town back from Wu Sangui after he is done......

Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun, who knew it, didn't dare, nor could they resist Wu Sangui's encroachment and annexation, so they had to retreat step by step, just asking for a dignified resignation - a knighthood, and then a certain amount of empty official position, if you can still get some silver, it would be better......

And if you want to step down with dignity, you have to be meritorious!

Shang Kexi, who received Wu Sangui's military order, breathed a sigh of relief and said to Kong Tingxun: "Virtuous nephew, it seems that Liang Guogong still thinks of the hard work of the two of us in the past few years!" ”

Kong Tingxun smiled: "There must be Your Majesty's meaning!" ”

Shang Kexi nodded with a smile and said, "Virtuous nephew, the opportunity is given by others, but the credit has to be set up by ourselves, this ......"

"I'll leave the first battle to my little nephew!" Kong Tingxun smiled and arched his hand, "The little nephew is good at using cavalry to chase the enemy!" It's better to let the little nephew take the cavalry first, and you will lead the infantry to hold back! ”

"Okay, well, the old man will lead the infantry to delay and watch the virtuous nephew make meritorious contributions!" Shang Kexi said politely, but in his heart he was like a mirror, knowing that Kong Tingxun wanted to take credit from himself...... But Shang Kexi couldn't compete with him, because Kong Tingxun also had a sister-in-law, Kong Sizhen, who was serving Zhu Cihong in the palace, although he didn't have any status, he could be regarded as someone in the court!

Kong Tingxun arched his hand, shouted "Order", and then ordered three cavalry battalions to follow him towards Dasanguan, which had been taken by Wu Sangui's army.

The basic tactical unit of the Ming Dynasty Town Army was the battalion (the basic tactical unit of the imperial army was the regiment), and the number of soldiers in a battalion was usually between 300 and 500. Among them, the cavalry battalion has a little less soldiers (but more auxiliaries), and the infantry battalion has more soldiers.

Because they have been fighting in the mountains for a long time, there are not many cavalry of the Sichuan Army trained by Shang Kexi and Kong Ting, there are only three battalions in total, and now there are more than 1,000 cavalry. These more than 1,000 horsemen are not black cavalry with black guns, nor are they cuirassier lancers responsible for impact, but traditional feudal cavalry - the knights have manors on the territory of Xiningwei (all given by Wu Sangui), relying on the manor to support training and service, but also receive military salaries from Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun.

The tactics used by these cavalry were also different from those of the new black cavalry and lancers, and they did not attach as much importance to group shock as the cuirassiers, nor did they adopt flexible tactics like the black cavalry. But these cavalrymen were proficient in mounted archery and hand-to-hand combat, and there were two kinds of cavalry archery, one was to shoot arrows on horseback, and the other was to shoot on horseback - each cavalryman was armed with at least one flintlock pistol!

In addition, this cavalry is also equipped with half-body plate armor, so it has a great advantage when fighting hand-to-hand combat and facing enemy arrows!

The only unsatisfactory thing is that the horses of this cavalry are a little worse, there are no folded ears and Arabian horses, only Hequ horses from Qinghai. However, it is still possible to achieve one person and two horses, and when the big dispersal is opened, it still gives people a feeling of being strong and invincible.

Kong Tingxun also felt very good, he rode a relatively tall Hequ horse under the escort of dozens of Confucian soldiers, and walked behind his own cavalry. Looking at the glittering cavalry in front of me, when wading across the great scattered water, it was inevitable that I was a little proud.

That's a thousand real iron horses! If you want to put it aside when the Qing Dynasty is still there, these people can at least stand up to the red armor soldiers!

With such an elite hand, it is the time to make a contribution! Kong Tingxun thought to himself: My requirements are not high, and I will be satisfied to get a hereditary Marquis of Kenan......

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"Ada, Wu Sangui's ironclad cavalry is chasing after you...... Thousands of iron riders, also equipped with flintlock pistols, and can also dismount hand-to-hand combat, children can't resist it! ”

Li Dingguo, who was retreating south along the Sanguan Road, received the news from his son Li Puxing from his son Li Puxing that the pursuing troops were approaching the morning of the day after he evacuated Dasanguan, that is, in the early morning of the 24th day of the first month of the first year of Daxing in Dongping. Although the palace army led by him was comparable in number to the pursuers, its combat effectiveness was a little worse, and its morale was low, so it couldn't resist.

"How many people have been lost?" Li Dingguo frowned, looking at his son with a tired face, a few broken arrows stuck in his armor, and his face blackened by gunsmoke, "Where did they chase them?" ”

"After a few battles, one or two hundred brothers were lost, and a lot of Sichuan horses were lost...... When the children were gone, they crossed the Tag Mountain. Li Puxing said, "The child left two teams of soldiers in ambush at the cattle shop and the Long Beach Dam, which should be able to resist it." ”

Sanguan Road is to walk along the big scattered water to walk the ravine, both sides of the road are mountains, and some places can set up ambushes. However, these mountains are not inaccessible, but have been developed for 2,000 years, so many trails have been opened to intersperse. It is more troublesome to fortify for a long time, but it is not difficult to delay the enemy in the short term.

"Ada, the child estimates that this Qianming army armor will be able to catch up one day," Li Puxing asked again at this time, "Where are you going to set up an ambush this time?" ”

Li Dingguo glanced at him and smiled: "What's the hurry?" It's just a thousand rides! Such a good opportunity, just exchange them for a thousand rides? ”

"Ada, how many rides do you want to change?"

Li Dingguo smiled: "I want Wu Sangui's head!" ”

"This ...... It's unlikely, right? He is the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi! ”

Li Dingguo smiled: "So I plan to give up the county seat of Fengxian County and Maling Pass to this group of chasing soldiers!" ”