After Li Jing and the Eighth Senior Sister separated, they quickly met with the people of the Shimen, and after negotiating the various matters of the shipping fair, they left 50,000 taels of activity funds to the Senior Brother, and sent the 50 professional biochemical spies they had just bought to cooperate with the Shimen to be responsible for establishing an underground pyramid marketing organization, training personnel, infiltration and counter-infiltration, internal discipline organization and combat team, etc. In the future, these people will be responsible for functions other than business. At the same time, Li Jing also left behind ten biochemical accountants who were responsible for the accounting of the entire pyramid marketing organization.

After everything was done, Li Jing was ready to leave Beijing. This time he entered Beijing without permission, and he wanted to go to Yingkou as soon as possible to preside over the construction of the port and fort. Now that the matter is almost done, he should also leave Beijing as soon as possible, so as not to be impeached by the imperial history.

This time, Zhang Quan's family also set off with Li Jing after finishing the affairs in Beijing and went to Liaoyang to take up his post. The second uncle also had to go to Phi Island to preside over the pirate counteroffensive. Just walk together. Hurricane-1 has now arrived at Tanggu Port in Tianjin, and will be used exclusively for message transmission and VIP transportation. The second uncle will take the Hurricane No. 1 to Phi Island as soon as possible.

Previously, the sword was sent to India by Li Jing with the Hurricane No. 1 to buy the Mawari Horse and the Katiawama, which are two kinds of war horses that are tall and have strong weight-bearing capacity, and can run quickly in horse armor. Both horses are related to Arabian horses, and their most characteristic feature is that their ears roll inward.

Li Jing planned to set up a cuirassier town with giblets in the future, with a capacity of 10,000 people, five cavalry regiments, and a town headquarters. Fifteen hundred soldiers per regiment. Headquarters of a thousand people. Auxiliaries of 2,000 people. There was also a regiment of three-pounder artillery with 1,500 men. Armed with a hundred three-pounder guns, horses were used to carry the guns and ammunition. It is completely possible to maneuver quickly.

Prepare to equip more than 15,000 horses of these two types. At that time, the cuirassiers were equipped with a carbine-type brown bass flintlock pistol, four short-fired guns, and ten grenades. A saber and a fire axe with a long wooden handle (used to break the three-layer armor of the white swing tooth lame heavy cavalry). The tactics of wall riding, used specifically against the Jiannu and Mongol cavalry, and even the future Russian Cossack cavalry.

Because the horses are much better, at least half a meter higher than the shoulders of Jiannu's horses, regardless of their sprint speed and endurance, their load capacity far exceeds that of Jiannu's Mongolian ponies. When Jiannu encountered the cavalry town, he couldn't catch up with him, and he couldn't run. Compared to the range, the musket beats the bow and arrow. Compared to armor, plate armor is better than piercing armor and cloth face armor. Use pack-loaded three-pounder cannons and thunderbolts against forts, walls, field fortifications, and shield carts. Hand-to-hand combat relied on the highly trained side-by-shoulder tactics of riding the wall side by side, dealing with infantry phalanxes and spear formations, and destroying them layer by layer with muskets like peeling bamboo shoots. If it is a shield array and a shield car array, a three-pounder cannon will be used.

It is estimated that one town can abuse the Eight Banners to cry. Not to mention against the Mongols. When the time comes, the Jeju Island concession in Korea will be used as a horse breeding ground and a cavalry town station.

Li Jing's and the others went out of Chaoyangmen, got into a carriage and went straight to Tanggu.

At this time, the tiger skin station. Li Yu asked the quartermaster to calculate, and the remaining barbed wire fence was only enough to lay in front of the three armies, not enough to lay around the entire army. Li Yu suggested that only barbed wire should be laid on the front line, and trenches should be dug on all sides, and walls could be built with sacks and straw bags, so that the problem of anti-throwing bows and arrows could be solved. Only a part of the helmeted head was exposed in the trench, and the projection area of the bow and arrow was greatly reduced, and there was also a curved shield purchased from Li Jing to protect the top of the head. In addition, the movement of troops in the traffic trenches is also concealed and safe.

Wang Gui and Bai Zaixiang took Li Yu's advice and bought sacks and straw bags from Shenyang and Liaoyang. Layers of trenches and walled walls were built in full swing to facilitate the defense of the layers, and some key points were piled up with bags to build high points in the form of watchtowers. Convenient for condescending observation, command and shooting. The bottoms are all connected by traffic trenches. Especially when the Mao soldiers did not have armor, the trenches were even more important.

In the early morning of the third day of the second lunar month, the entire Tiger Skin Post was sleeping, and suddenly the war drums sounded in the watchtower on the hill of the South Australian Army. The heavy sound of drums woke up the entire camp, and Bai Zaixiang slept with his clothes closed, and immediately got up when he heard the drums, and also ordered the drums to be gathered. At this time, the sky is just dawning, and the view is gradually improving. Neither Youyang nor Mao Bing found anything abnormal.

Li Yu sent someone to inform the two armies, and the telescope of the watchtower found that the Jiannu cavalry had come out of the mountain pass, about a cow, about 300 people. Seeing that the clothes and armor were inlaid with red flags, the preliminary judgment was that the purpose was to reconnoiter the reality of our army.

Bai Zaixiang and the others hurriedly climbed up to the watchtower and carefully observed like a snowfield in the distance. Soon small black dots appeared on the horizon. Bai Zaixiang ordered that the camp should be strictly guarded and that no unauthorized attacks should be made. Mao Bing's side also gave a similar order, these two families had no cavalry, and they couldn't catch up at all, but they were easy to be ambushed. had to strictly guard the camp.

At this time, a scout came to report that the camp of the field observation group had lowered a drawbridge on the terrace of ten high rivers. A hundred cavalry men from the cavalry post rushed out of the camp and headed straight for the cow.

Bai Zaixiang was in a hurry, complaining in his heart that Li Yu looked very mature and steady, how could he be so greedy and impulsive, the three hundred cavalry of Jiannu could sweep away the one thousand cavalry of the Ming army, unless it was an elite family, he could fight one-to-one. Rushing out like this must suffer a big loss. While he was worried, the drum beat on the high watchtower.

Li Yu sent someone to report that two more Niu Lu cavalry and ten Niu Lu infantry pushed the shield cart out of the pass and drove towards the Tiger Skin Station.

Bai Zaixiang considered that the highest point at present was the watchtower, so he took the generals to the top floor of the watchtower and observed the situation ahead with Li Yu and Wang Gui. The lookout group is constantly operating large-aperture monoculars to observe the enemy's situation and constantly report the latest situation. Four staff officers marked the location of friend and foe on the map.

A gust of wind blew, blurring the vision with snowflakes, this kind of strong wind blowing snow in Liaodong is called "big smoke cannon", and the vision is clear again after the wind. It was found that the cavalry post and the Jiannu cavalry Niu Lu on the opposite side were facing each other a hundred meters apart.