The day had just dawned, and the Flying Harrier light horsemen had not yet had time to release the sentinels outside the fort, and the sentinel guards on the fort tower were immediately surprised to find that hundreds of Tartars had come from the south, and they were escorting a large group of people back north along the official road. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The guards reported to Tian Wei, the chief of the first general at the fastest speed.

Tian Wei reported to Li Xiao at a faster speed.

Soon, the military horn in Jinjiazhuang Fort sounded continuously, and a large number of soldiers poured into the city and began to guard and garrison.

Li Xiao, who was fully armored, quickly ascended to the fortress tower observation hall surrounded by a group of rampant team members, and then set up a clairvoyant mirror to take a closer and closer look at the Tartar.

After a while, Li Xiao put down the clairvoyant mirror, and his face was solemn.

"My lord, how is the situation?" Tian Wei, the head of General A, asked in a low voice on the side.

"The one who came was the female real blue banner, about half of the strength of Niulu, and there were two squads of the Mongol Tartars of the outer domain, and the captured people were more than 1,000 people, all of them sturdy men and women, and in addition, this batch of Tartars also carried a large number of captured goods and baggage. In the opinion of this official, their group of people must have captured a lot of people, animals and goods, and they want to be escorted out of the customs first, and then return to plunder again. Li Xiao's voice was rapid and calm.

Li Xiao's military observation was very accurate.

When the Tartars got closer, everyone on the fortress wall saw the appearance of the Tartars.

The one who led the way was the Niulu army that was half of the blue flag.

Looking from afar, the most eye-catching thing in this Niulu Tartar is the official flag that holds two poles of bright blue silk and has a flying dragon whirling dance, which is the symbol of the blue flag, and the two official poles are held by two horseback flag pro-soldiers. In the center of the two official guards, there is a flying feather on the helmet, and there is a flying tiger carrying a flag behind him, and two soldiers wearing bright helmets and bright armor. This Ka Shosh soldier is the forward battalion sergeant of the later Manchu Qing Dynasty. Two Kashoshi soldiers surrounded one person, riding a tall red-maned and white-hoofed Liaodong horse, wearing a fine iron armor painted with blue varnish, and Niu Lu Ezhen, who was wearing a fine bronze high-needle red tasseled helmet, slowly marched forward.

Niu Lu Ezhen, the original meaning of Manchu means the lord of the big arrow, and it is the most basic military unit of Houjin. In the army of the Later Jin, the soldiers in the army were mainly divided into three ranks, guards, infantry armor, and horse armor. Ordinary Manchurian males, starting at the age of ten, take exams every three years, and if they meet the standards, they are guards, then infantry armor, and then horse armor. On the vest is Pashku, which is selected by the winner in the vest, and the Han people call it the leader. Pashiku is the son of the generation, also known as the distribution of Pashku, which is the Xiao riding school of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations. Dividing the allocation of Shiku and then up is Niu Lu Ezhen, which is the head of the three hundred soldiers of Hou Jin Yi Niu Lu.

On both sides of the Chinese army flag, there are 10 white swing tooth soldiers on horseback, which is commonly known as the white armor soldiers, the sergeants of the guard camp of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations, they are as bright as silver painted white lacquer bright armor, wearing black dark helmets, high red tassels on the helmet, and a flaming side flag on their backs. These white armors belong to the elite selected from the Tartars, and each Niu Lu is only a dozen or twenty people.

The 10 white-armored soldiers were led by two Bunshku, and their armor was similar to that of the white-toothed soldiers, except that they wore larger, diagonally pointed flags on their backs.

In front of the white fang-laden soldiers, there were more than 20 horseback warriors, lined up in a relatively sparse row, each wearing iron armor and dark helmets, with black hats, holding tiger spears or long-handled tiger knives, led by two strong men.

Further forward, the cavalry team was lined up in two rows after the main infantry of the Jin army. (In the post-Jin military system, a Niu Lu had 300 soldiers, and one of the three was dressed in armor as a soldier, which was divided into infantry armor and horse armor, and the rest were auxiliary soldiers, divided into horse followers and unarmored foot followers.) ）

Li Xiao noticed that the back row of the Tartar infantry formation was composed of 30 horse armor soldiers on foot and 60 infantry soldiers, most of whom wore cotton armor with large copper bubble willow nails, and a small number of people wore ordinary iron armor. These infantry were led by Bashiku, who had black tassels on their helmets and two feet square on their backs.

At the forefront of the Tartar army formation, there are more than 30 followers with swords or ladder knives on their waists, holding hard step bows, each carrying two pots full of quivers, a pot of light arrows, and a pot of armor-piercing heavy arrows.

The most important reason why this half of Niu Lu's blue flag tartar allows the followers to walk in the front and put on a posture of stepping forward and riding backwards is that once they encounter a surprise attack by the Ming army, they can quickly form a battle formation on the spot.

Behind the Tartar array, the captives were tied together, and their faces were full of sorrow and numbness, and more than 1,000 people staggered forward one by one, crying and crying to the sky.

Seeing the miserable appearance of these captives, the soldiers who stood on the city wall and watched were all furious.

The captives were followed by more than thirty wagons and ox carts, filled with silver chests and grain, slowly following, the wooden wheels squeaking and squeezing because the goods were too large and heavy.

At the end of the battle were the two squads of the Mongolian Tatars of the outer domain.

After Huang Taiji conquered the Mongolian tribes, he compiled and examined the Karaqin, Naiman, Ao Khan and other departments to obtain a total of 7,830 strong men, organized into the Mongolian Eight Banners, the specific establishment is similar to the Manchurian Eight Banners, the same with 300 people as a bull record, 150 arrows for a Zuo, 50 Ding for a vest.

In addition to the Eight Banners of Mongolia, there are also three banners of Mongolia of the Outer Domain, which are composed of the Mongolian tribes of the Trans-Khalkha tribes, the Tumut Department and the surrendered Khan Department, because the number of these three banners is small, so they are all small flags, so their establishment is slightly different from the Eight Banners Mongolia, all of them are fifty Ding for a Zuo, ten Ding for a vest, their flag armor also maintains their own characteristics, not like the Eight Banners Mongolia is assimilated by the Jurchens, they are a team, all of them are a cavalry holding a black tasseled flag, each wearing a red tasseled hat, Wear a willow leaf armor petal helmet inside. The infantry wore only red tasseled hats and no armor, which the Ming people called the red tasseled tartars.

It was precisely because he saw that the strength of these Tartars was different from the banners, that Li Xiao could see at a glance that these people were Mongolian Tatars from the Outer Vassals, of course, which banner these Outer Mongolian Tatars belonged to and what tribes they belonged to before, I don't know.

"Master Li, what should I do? Do you let them go, or do you 。。。。。。 Tian Wei asked urgently in a low voice, but he didn't say the rest of the words.

Li Xiao understood what he meant.

The current Ming army was frightened by the Houjin, and any rumors of the Houjin army could scare the Ming army.

Some time ago, Xuanfu East Road Nanshan General Mao Bin, took some soldiers to Yongning for a meeting, the guards of Yongning City were worried that he was pretending to be the Houjin Army, the four doors were closed, and they talked to him in the city for a long time, and they didn't dare to let him in. Afraid that the Houjin soldiers have reached such a point, it is ridiculous.

And at the beginning of August, more than 20 cavalry of Houjin plundered more than 1,000 women and children in Lao County, Shanxi, and passed through the city of Daizhou, the soldiers of the Ming army looked at the relatives under the city who were taken captive, and cried to each other for a long time, but the Ming army in the city did not dare to send a arrow, and the Jin soldiers made fun of them and passed calmly. When Emperor Chongzhen heard the news later, he was so angry that he stomped his feet.

"Hmph, the Ming army is as fearful as a tiger elsewhere, but this official treats them like mustard! With so much food and baggage, so many good Tartar heads that can be promoted to the rank of lord, how can they be easily let go! ”

Li Xiao gritted his teeth and finished speaking, his eyes flashed with a sharp and fierce light like a bloodthirsty wolf.