The east has just revealed a touch of fish belly white, it is the coldest time in the early winter season in Liaodong, and the Ming army camp has begun to have a noisy and warm atmosphere.

There are more than 10,000 soldiers, and there is no boundary. Although the three soldiers and horses did not reach the scale of 10,000 people, they really covered a large area of mules, horses, baggage, vehicles, artillery, etc., and the momentum was slightly superior. The lanterns of various flags and banners are not visible at a glance, and the continuous camps are spread all over the land.

Looking at the camp of the Ming army through the hazy morning light, the camps are like the alleys of the town, and the camps are up and down one after another, looking at it from afar, it is like a mushroom drilled out after the rain in the wasteland.

From these camps, from time to time, some sturdy families with small flags on their backs rushed out, and they did not collect at night. Riding horses along the edge of the camp, they galloped all the way to the bottom of the hill where the remnants of the Red Banner were guarding, carefully observed the Qing army on the hill who had been nervously preparing all night, pointed at the remnants of the Qing army on the hill with a horse whip and shouted and insulted, and then rode away, and carried out a sentry along the edge of the battlefield.

These sentinels were in waves, one after another. The battlefield where the war is about to break out is monitored and shielded. Prevent the Qing army from taking the opportunity to escape, or not notice when the Qing army comes to help.

Inside and outside the camp, the flow of people shuttled back and forth like ants, in and out, filled with a solemn atmosphere of imminent war.

When a round of red sun jumped out of the horizon with great effort, in the camp of the Ming army, the sound of horns and golden drums was even louder, and the Qing troops who were resting on the hills could no longer be stable, they knew that the battle was coming. Yue Le was no exception, he silently came to the earthen wall that was repaired overnight, took the monocular given to him by Nikan, and carefully observed the Ming army camp at the bottom of the mountain.

Whining horns and the sonorous sound of golden drums. The men and horses of the various units of the Ming army slowly poured out of the camp like a tide, and gradually formed a formation according to their respective formations. In terms of establishment, the three towns of Xuanda are basically the same, with one battalion and one Chinese army. Two thousand generals, a few generals under their command, and then the team leader, a chief, each has a flag, at a glance. Among the 12 members of the basic first 12 people under each team, the first captain is wearing a flag and holding a scimitar, and the four behind him are archers. Four more were hookgunners, then two were palladium-bearers, and finally a fireman, armed with a stick, to strike the enemy's horse's head. They set up according to their respective battalions and towns, and according to their banners, forming a clear queue of Weijing, and finally converging into a fiery ocean. The morning breeze blew and blew the flag fiercely.

Today's battle. Datong Town is considered the main force, almost pouring out of the nest, however, this battle is regarded as a mountain attack, the cavalry is useless, and the cavalry of the brigade are scattered on both wings as guards and sentinels. In order to guard against the anti-thieves in Liaodong, reinforcements came to the rescue. Wu Biao, Wang Pu, and Li Fuming agreed that the Model Brigade would send Lin Changgen's horse battalion, and Li Fuming would also send all his cavalry to patrol the left and right. In this battle, the Ming army dispatched nearly 6,000 men and horses, and the rest of the generals were all in their own departments. Lead the headquarters to stay in the camp.

is completely different from the grassroots background of the model brigade and Wu Biao's experience of ascending to Tianzitang in the evening, Datong Town and its commander Wang Pu are both profoundly profound, not to mention the identity of one of the nine-sided military towns in Datong Town, Wang Pu was born in a family, and it is not something that Wu Biao, a son of a peasant family in eastern Guangdong, can look forward to.

Cun zài determines consciousness, and the origin and background of Wang Pu and Datong Town determine their combat methods and queue movements.

Unlike the model brigade, which does not pay much attention to the external image of the soldiers, Datong Town has made a lot of efforts in the image of the soldiers. Place the big shoulders and round waists in the town at the front of the queue and on the wings to strengthen the momentum. (This is the same trick as selling fruit!) ）

Datong Commander Wang Pu rode out of his horse, first glanced at the opposite hill with contempt, and then vigorously shook his bright red cloak with his right hand. Let it flutter in the wind, and flick the red tassel on his helmet in a chic manner, and shouted loudly: "The sons and daughters of Datong are going to battle today, and they must kill the generals and capture the flag, and take the head of the enemy chief to come back and report good news!" ”

Standing in front of the military formation, looking left and right, all the elite soldiers under their command, the phalanx knives and axes are as neat as chopping, the queue flags are dense, and as far as the eye can see, there are eight-petal hats and iron-pointed helmets of water, as well as swords and spears like wheat ears and firewood forests.

"Break the enemy with this, why not defeat the enemy?! With this effort, why not take it?! ”

Wang Pu felt that a force in his chest was surging against him.

This force inspired him to gallop in front of the military formation, holding the reins in one hand and the horse lance in the other, the horse lance pointed obliquely into the air, and several guards behind him carried his recognition flag and the military flag of Datong Town followed closely, in the cold wind, the fluttering battle flag and the bright red cloak of several people who were swept up by the wind reflected each other.

Wang Pu rode his horse and ran in front of his formation, raising his gun and shouting: "I am the same army!" ”

"Mighty!"

"I'm a Datong army!"

"Mighty!"

"Mighty! Mighty! Mighty! ”

The secret detectives were all guns, and the morale of the soldiers in Datong Town was encouraged to the extreme by Wang Pu.

The morale had reached the burning value, so Wang Pu poured a scoop of fire oil on the pyre that was already smoking.

A heavy footstep, with Wang Pu's broken drink, sounded from behind the Datong Town formation, and dozens of pro-soldiers carrying more than ten heavy boxes appeared in front of the array.

"Open!"

Wang Pu pointed to the box with the horse lance in his hand, and as the soldiers opened the lid of the box, with the rising sun, the lovely light of the silver dollar almost dazzled the eyes of the sergeants.

"Those who dare to choose the front will be rewarded with fifty pieces of silver each! This is Lao Tzu's reward for Xuanfeng! The rewards for the aftermath are another story! We don't believe it, a few remnants of the army on a small hill are defeated, and the officers and soldiers of my Datong Town will not be able to rush down! ”

"Those who are willing to choose the front will be rewarded!"

Wang Zheng and the others led a group of pro-soldiers to roar loudly with Wang Pu, which suddenly made the conceited and brave people in Datong Town burst out.

There is a way to be rewarded, there must be brave men, and the ancients are honest and do not deceive me. In the blink of an eye, four or five hundred people were formed among the thousands of Datong Town sergeants.

Wang Pu nodded with satisfaction, the horse lance in his hand swayed, which was regarded as replacing the military order, the team of men and horses slowly started, and the military formation slowly advanced in the earth, heading towards the destination. Heavy footsteps shook the earth.

"Datong Town morale is available. It seems that the army is about to be rewarded with wine and food. Wu Biao, who was watching the enemy in the rear of Datong Town, nodded slightly, and appreciated Wang Pu's actions.

"Brother Wu, don't be too happy, wait until you engage with the Tartars." Li Fuming was not very optimistic about Wang Pu's prospects, and reminded Wu Biao not to be happy too early.

On the top of the mountain, Yue Le leaned on the earthen wall and calmly looked down the mountain. The fortifications that were repaired overnight. Naturally, it can't be compared with the long ditch besieging Jinzhou, it's just a chest-length low wall and three trenches. In front of the earthen wall, a lot of soil from the trench was piled up, and it was impossible to find the many cloth bags and bamboo baskets in a hurry, so they had to pile up outside the earthen wall and use these floating soil to prevent the Ming army's large and small artillery.

Behind him, Yue Le gathered more than a thousand archers in formation, using the blind spot of vision to ambush behind the low wall of the mountain. After the attacking Ming army entered the firing range, they met it with a rain of arrows!

The archers lined up in two rows, each of whom had just taken out the huge bow in his hand, twisted the bowstring tightly, and waited for the master's order, so that the Nikans under the mountain could taste the benefits of these arrows that they had carefully concocted!

Compared with the shoddy weapons of the Ming army, the Liaodong thieves strictly implemented the quality standards of the Ming Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, although compared to the bows and arrows of the Ming army. The bow strength of the Liaodong anti-thieves is weak, but it is only seven buckets. The effective range is only 70 steps, but within 50 steps, it has absolute lethality, and in order to achieve the effect of armor piercing, it is necessary to draw the bow and release the arrow at about 30 or 40 steps, and attack the opponent's leather armor, cotton armor, and iron armor.

But. The bow is not strong, and the arrow comes to help. Their arrows are large and heavy, with blood grooves and three edges, and they are extremely capable of armor-piercing and bloodletting. If you are hit by an arrow, you will soon bleed too much and die. In order to increase the lethality, these Liao thieves, who were already on the verge of life and death, used horse manure and human feces to soak arrowheads, in order to achieve the effect of poisoning and death after the Ming army was hit by arrows.

"Pass the order! Which one dares to fire an arrow when the Ming army crosses the first trench and kill it immediately! Yue Le narrowed his eyes, looked at the Ming army brigade that was spreading, and issued a military order in a low voice.

The first trench, about twenty paces from the earthen wall, happened to be within the range of the archers' strongest damage.

For these archers drawn from the various Niu Lu, Yue Le is still very sure, not only are there many of them, but they are all good at shooting. Don't say that those bannermen who were originally archers, they are the Yu Ding, auxiliary soldiers, and Baoyi Ahabs who accompanied the army, although they did not have the qualifications to wear armor, but they also practiced archery and horses since childhood, and their combat ability was not bad.

Last night, Yue Le had already promised in front of the whole army that as long as he held on until the reinforcements arrived and broke the Ming army in front of him, he and Nikan Beizi would ask the emperor for a decree to raise all the banners of Baoyi Ahha, and the original Yu Ding would be organized into armored soldiers! For a while, it also made these originally demoralized defeated troops suddenly burn with a desire to fight.

Shouts of killing rang out from the hillside, and the soldiers of Datong Town, wearing eight-petal hats and iron-tipped helmets, began to slowly attack the hillside like a rising tide.

The hill guarded by Yue Le and others was not high, and it was relatively gentle, for the use of artillery, it was difficult for those gunners who were accustomed to direct aiming not to hit the cannon into their brothers' ranks, so Wang Pu simply refused the artillery fire, and only relied on the courage of the soldiers and swords and guns to solve the enemy in front of him.

"Master, the dogs are starting to cross the ditch!" The loyal Baya Lama Zhangjing held the Huya Knife in his hand and whispered to Yue Le about the progress of the Ming army.

"Sons, get ready to rush forward! Cut off the head of the tartar and take the silver! "At the foot of the mountain, there are officers in the ranks who are shouting and encouraging their subordinates.

"The Tartars dug three trenches and built a low wall, this battle is not easy to fight!" Wu Biao and others, who were watching the battle at the foot of the mountain, also expressed worries about the prospects of Wang Pu's battle.

Just in case, Wu Biao quietly ordered the two battalions to be transferred to the rear of Datong Town to serve as a response and reserve.

The two battalion officers had just received the order to leave, but unexpectedly, there was a long roar on the mountain, followed by the sound of drums, and a dense rain of arrows shot down on the head and face.

Poor Datong town soldiers, led by the selection of the front is climbing the second trench, the brigade of hedgehogs gathered between the first trench and the second trench, there is no defense against the rain of arrows falling head-on, there is no formation, there is no cover, and they are pierced by sharp arrows.

The bowstring sounded continuously, as if the screams of the Ming soldiers had beaten the Qing soldiers on the wall. Waves of arrows shot down with more and more power.

The big and heavy arrows came with a roar, and in the blink of an eye, the Ming army of this wave continued to scream and be hit by arrows. Those who were hit by the arrow only felt a chill on their bodies, and then quickly, their bodies became weak and weak. And from the outside, these sergeants who were hit by the arrows were all bleeding. Extremely scary.

The follow-up Ming army didn't care about treating the wounded, so they just picked up a shield to cover to resist the strong bows and arrows of the Qing army, and in this short distance of more than ten or twenty steps, the Qing army's bows and arrows had a very high hit rate, almost every shot must hit. Although the range of the arrows shot by the foot bow is not far, the armor-piercing and bloodletting ability is extremely strong. Yue Le again arranged a trench within the best firing range as an obstacle to the sluggish advance. Extending the stay of the soldiers in Datong Town increased the casualties of the Ming army. Those sergeants who were hit by arrows felt weak and powerless and lost their combat effectiveness in the blink of an eye with a large amount of blood loss.

Before the drum was finished, the Qing archers on the hill each shot four or five arrows, and within a distance of less than twenty paces from the earthen wall, the white arrow feathers were everywhere, like many reeds growing from the flat ground. But. Below these arrow feathers are mostly the soldiers of Datong Town who are groaning and bleeding, this round of blows. Almost all of the candidates and more than 100 soldiers who followed up have been lost.

In front of the breastwork, in the trenches, there were wounded soldiers and corpses of the Ming army lying horizontally and vertically, just like the scene of yesterday's battlefield. The flowing blood shimmered with strange and bewishing colors under the rising sun, emitting bursts of strong fishy sweet taste. Bloodstained weapons, flags, helmets, and scattered silver dollars rolled everywhere on the mountain slopes.

"Don't panic, don't mess around! Take it down! Get out of range of your Tartar bow and arrow! The whole team! The whole team! ”

A thousand presidents in Datong Town are quite bold. Shouting loudly in the panicked army, he organized his soldiers to shoot at the Qing army behind the earthen wall, and for a while, fire guns, three-eyed guns, bows and arrows, and all kinds of long-range strike weapons just hit behind the wall.

"This kid has a kind! Didn't embarrass Lao Tzu! When the battle is over, Lao Tzu will definitely be promoted to his official! At the foot of the mountain, Wang Pu saw very clearly that the team of thousands of people and horses was like the mainstay, stabilized the decline of the rout, and began to attack the wall guarded by the Qing army.

With a loud bang, nearly a thousand sword and shield soldiers of the Qing army flashed out from behind the wall, first pushing down the rolling wood made of cutting down the trees and grass in the mountain along the mountain, and then with the momentum of the rolling wood, these spearmen and sword and shield soldiers swooped down from the hillside.

In the eyes of the Ming army, who had just finished forming a team and was about to launch an attack, hundreds of thick logs were rushing towards them.

In the screams one after another, many people were hit and broke their tendons. Those who hit the body will spurt blood from their mouths, and if they are hit by their hands and feet, they will end up with broken hands and feet. Many people exposed Bai Sensen's bones on the spot, holding the wounds, all of them in pain.

These soldiers in Datong Town, the will to fight is not resolute, but yesterday I saw the harvest after the friendly battle in Shanxi Town, I thought that the Tartar on the mountain was already a bird of the end of the strong crossbow, and he came up to cut the head of the military merit, but he forgot the words of the trapped beast. Seeing the tragic situation of the Pao Ze brothers, the sad howl in his ears, and the courage to fight inspired by the silver dollar and military exploits, came to an end in a blink of an eye.

Yue Le sent pikemen and sword and shield soldiers out of the wall to rush out to kill at this time, but he just took the right measure!

Although known as the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, the Qing soldiers were better at foot combat, especially this kind of mountain warfare. There is a saying in the Ming notebook "Seeing the New Strategy": "It is said that the slave is good at Tengshan and fights in a short battle." Horse soldiers are weak. Yeh horsemen were the toughest, and the infantry was weak. Therefore, the slave is afraid of the north ride, and the north is afraid of the slave step. Yehe White Sheep Bone said: 'I am afraid of slave steps, slaves are afraid of me to ride, strength is also resistant, and skills are also enemies.' ’”

Seeing nearly a thousand fierce and violent Qing troops, each holding a tiger spear and a spear of the Eight Banners, followed by a Qing saber and shield soldier with a soldier's knife, or a short-handled axe, or even a long-handled knife and a tiger tooth knife, suddenly made these Ming troops, who were already on the verge of collapse, completely lose the courage to fight.

They shouted and fled down the mountain, ignoring even the hoarse roars of the superiors.

Wang Pu, who supervised the battle under the mountain, was so angry that his beautiful face was blue and gray, and what Li Fuming showed off in front of him yesterday was just the record of the first battle, and he planned to use this battle to win back a game, but he didn't want to be so embarrassed.

"Wang Zheng, you take your family forward, who dares to retreat and cut him for our Laozi!"

Wang Pu gritted his teeth and instructed his general Wang Zheng.

At this time, the mountain was already showing a one-sided situation, and in the crying and shouting, the officers and soldiers were desperately fleeing in front, not caring about the thorns and recklessness, but running wildly all the way, and behind them were Liao thieves and soldiers divided into more than a dozen units.

The officers and soldiers who fled seemed to be as many as 1,000 people, and due to the division of the terrain, the Tartar soldiers who pursued and killed were only a few dozen each, but none of these officers and soldiers dared to turn back to face the battle, all of them lost their armor and lost their souls, and many of them desperately shouted: "It's over!" Finished! The Tartars are so fierce that everyone can't stand it! ”

Wang Pu was about to have a seizure, but he heard bursts of cheers and cheers from the thunderstorm on the hills, and countless Tartars stood on the earthen wall waving their swords and guns in their hands, and cheered endlessly.

In a moment of ignorance, Lin Changgen, the battalion officer of the Model Brigade Horse Battalion, rushed to the horse: "Wang Shuai, our army's sentry cavalry found that there are Tartars with blue flags to come to help, and my general asks your troops to quickly gather troops and return to defense, and agree on how to resist the enemy who comes to help!" (To be continued......)