"If you come to Qingyang to defend it yourself, how should you develop and build this place?" Watching the sunset, Li Guolou thought about the suffering of the war and put his mind on post-war reconstruction

Coming to a hilly area, there is a cave in front of him, there are soldiers guarding outside the door, and there are soldiers guarding the courtyard next to the low wall, and there is an underground cave inside, which is called the pit courtyard, and Xu Zhanbiao's headquarters put it here

The plain digs out the square almost one acre square pit, and then digs out a hole, a hole and a hole for people to live in, which is called the pit courtyard, extremely rare, the pit courtyard is naturally Dong Zhiyuan's excellent scenery, warm in winter and cool in summer, and the local materials are not destroyed

The pit yard is to level the loess surface to dig a square or rectangular deep pit, about 6 or 7 meters long, l2 meters ~ 15 meters long, rectangular or square soil pit as a yard, and then dig 1~14 caves on the four walls of the pit, the amount of engineering is about 2 earthworks

The cave is about 3 meters high, 8 meters ~ 12 meters deep, about 4 meters wide, the cave is less than two meters, the wall is vertical, more than two meters to the top, it is a round arch, and then the four walls of the pit dig a number of holes, the cave hole, one of the holes, there is a slope passage in the kiln hole, turn an arc, a right angle, lead to the ground, is the door hole for people to travel

The pit yard and the ground are surrounded by a circle of blue bricks and green tile eaves for rainwater drainage, and the eaves of the house are built with a height of 3~5 cm, and the horse wall leading to the bottom of the pit is also surrounded by such horse walls, these low walls are designed to prevent the ground rainwater from pouring into the courtyard, the second is for people's ground work activities and children's safety, and the third is the architectural decoration needs to make the whole pit courtyard look beautiful and coordinated

The problem of drainage in the pit is naturally the first major thing, for this reason, the middle of the pit yard is dug with a depth of 4~5 meters, commonly known as the seepage pit, which is specially used to gather and infiltrate into the pit, and there is a deep well next to the pit yard and the passage to the ground, plus a wheel, which is used to solve the problem of human and animal draft, and each cave in the pit yard is divided into the main kiln, guest kiln, kitchen kiln, livestock kiln, thatched toilet, door cave kiln and other functions

The pit courtyard is generally a single door hole, and the single courtyard also has two courtyards and three courtyards, which is a door hole and is connected to 2~3 pit courtyards

The pit courtyard is located at the edge of the Loess Plateau, the soil layer is thick and hard, the cave is still a natural temperature regulator, warm in winter and cool in summer, so the pit courtyard has been loved by people in the mountainous areas of western Henan on the bank of the Yellow River for thousands of years, this is the Loess Plateau area, the people grow in love with the loess deep attachment, and the loess people have been separated from the loess for generations, and the blood does not flow

Xu Zhanbiao's personal soldiers and guards are all Tujia native soldiers, looking jet black, with tattoos on his face and perforated faces, not shaved but tied in braids, and very short, lean, with a rattan knife inserted in his waist, wearing a blue cardigan, trimmed with a turban, and a multicolored embroidery on his turban

But it is this Tujia soldier who is the trump card in Xu Zhanbiao's hand, with a total of two battalions with a strength of more than 1 person, one Tujia soldier is composed of the other is Guangxi Libing

The soldiers are both strong soldiers, mainly in blue-black dresses, trousers-style short clothes, strong people in short dresses, short skirts, men wear short shirts, called Li barrels, the waist and the front and back are not up to the knees, for the broken chest placket, the short collar of the Tang jacket, the placket is seamed with a row of cloth buttons, the chest is sewn with a small pocket, a pair of large pockets on the abdomen, the hem is folded inward into a wide edge, and the left and right sides of the lower edge are opened symmetrical splits, wearing wide trousers, short and knee-length leggings, turbans, pedals, cloud head cloth shoes

It was by virtue of mastering these two elite soldiers of ethnic minorities that he commanded the twelve battalions of elite soldiers before he became the commander of the North Road and became the main force attacking Dong Zhiyuan

In the Shaanxi and Gansu army, Zuo Zongtang and Chu troops have strong combat effectiveness and strong strength, with 33 battalions, followed by Liu Songshan, 13 battalions, Lao Xiang army, and then Xu Zhanbiao's 12th battalion, Sichuan Army, and all armies on the North Road obey the command of Xu Zhanbiao

As the commander-in-chief, Zuo Zongtang never came, and Dong Zhiyuan handed over the military command of the North Road to Xu Zhanbiao

The Tujia native soldiers are the descendants of the Ba people, who lived in the Qingshui Valley of western Hubei and the eastern and western Hunan regions of Chongqing, and the Ming Dynasty had a good relationship with the imperial court because of the good relationship between the Tusi and the imperial court

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the native soldiers of Yongbao were prosperous, that is, the local soldiers of Yongshun County, Hunan Province, and Yongbao were the native soldiers of Yongbao after a long period of war with other ethnic minorities and the central dynasty, forming their own unique military system and military culture

According to the record of Ming Shizong, "each flag has its own strength······ The flags are subordinate to the state divisions and belong to the general divisions."

The flag, the state department, and the general department form the Tusi, the military-political integration authority, and the Tusi is a soldier in the peasants, and the people are also soldiers and peasants

"If there is something, it will be mobilized as an army to prepare for battle, and if there is nothing to do, it will be scattered for the people to practice farming and chiseling"

The natives are required to be trained rigorously in the training grounds

"Yongshun Sizhi West Erli Xu has a school field, the natives often perform martial arts here, and there is Bo Shooting Ping in the northwest five miles and five miles north of the sun, the terrain is spacious, and the natives shoot here every time."

The Tujia family lives in the mountains, and is good at fighting on the mountains and flats, Hu Zongxian said: "The hand-to-hand soldiers, the building thieves are very fine, and the ones who can govern are the only ones who can govern the Huguang hook, sickle and crossbow, and the skills must be moved, and the two Xuanwei are the elite soldiers of the Division."

Infantry is the main type of native soldiers, the main weapons used are rattan hook sickle, strong crossbow hook sickle, long and short rattan soldiers with machetes, the reason why the Tujia family is strong, in addition to the strong folk customs, there is a perfect combat formation, the native soldier formation is a triangular flag, forming a battle sequence

Twenty-four flags are set up in each division: one person in front of each flag;

The second three people are listed as the second heavy;

The second five people are ranked as the third heavy;

The second seven people are listed as the fourth;

The next seven or eight people were ranked fifth, and the rest all came to cheer and cheer

The triangular formation is headed by rattan, the left and right strong crossbows, the second small triangle forms a large triangle, the formation is not dense, but the stability is strong, the length of the weapon is matched with each other, the front and back of the formation are mutually coordinated, the local soldiers are strictly disciplined, the use of the method of continuous sitting, and the military merits are not subject to the individual cutting the head, the first division of the team is subject to the cutting of the head, and the other soldiers make the stabbing attack, from the queue, tactics, discipline point of view, the Tujia soldier formation can remain stable, and the close combat can be long and short to cooperate with the assault ability is very strong

Such a team does not need to be requisitioned and requisitioned by the imperial court, and the army must be several times that of the army, as the only woman hero recorded in the official history, Qin Liangyu, a famous general at the end of the Ming Dynasty, was born as a Tusi, which shows the role of the Tujia soldiers in the Ming Dynasty

Guangxi soldiers: Soldiers originated in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, when the Zhuang Tusi was a military system in order to serve the imperial court

The Guangxi soldiers fought independently with 7 people as a team

Four of each of the soldiers were devoted to stabbing and three were devoted to cutting off their heads so that they could receive a reward

When one person forward, the same team, the left and right people shouted to support the attack, and the first team forward, the left and right teams all supported, and the whole team closely cooperated, and the spear bearer was in front, and the crossbow bearer guarded on both sides, forming a sharp knife formation, playing the role of long and short weapons

The soldiers are divided into horse spearmen, infantry archers, infantry spearmen, waist soldiers, bird guns, firefighters, standard-bearers, crossbowmen, skirmishers, and loose hands

Weapons include barrel armor, spears, swords, javelins, knives, ring knives, hand knives, shields, wooden crossbows, mountain crossbows, hammer arrows, medicine arrows, guns, etc., especially javelins and poison arrows

Compared with the native soldiers, the soldiers did not have a solid array, but the combat units were more flexible, and the small units and multiple arms cooperated with each other, especially for chaotic battles, it was simply invincible

Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Formation was inspired by this, and the harsh military law of the Qi family army also drew on the Tusi system

Similar to the native soldiers, it is also a soldier who is a soldier in the people, and the clan law and discipline are very strict, and the method of sitting in a row similar to the native soldier is adopted

However, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the regular military household system, that is, the guard station, had withered, and only this ethnic minority area still retained this system and could be preserved for a long time

Therefore, when the officers and soldiers were ineffective, the minority troops became the elite of the Ming Dynasty's military force, and the two armies were able to achieve the first battle in the southeast at that time

First, its melee combat capability and tactical weapons are all learned from long-term combat in mountains and hills, and only when they have learned lessons and tactical opponents can their strategic objectives be realized

Second, discipline is strict, and the soldiers under the command of tomorrow are undisciplined, and those who are lawless are scattered bravely, and Qi Jiguang's training is the most important discipline, which is to think from the ability of the local soldiers

Sannai's folk customs were originally fierce, brave and brave, Yongshun Peng and Baojingtian had Tusi at the age of eighty, and also went out with the army to Huguang since ancient times, due to environmental factors, the folk customs were strong, Hunan, especially Xiangxi, Guangxi should be the north of Guangxi

In the face of good mobility and long-range strike ability, the opponent is still a little out of reach, but mountain combat is the strength of the native soldiers, these two minority troops attacked the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom wing king Shi Dakai made great achievements, and now he has turned to the northwest to continue to serve the Qing Emperor

The Tusi Peng Dingyue and the Tusi Mo Baoguo personally led the team, and Peng Dingyue and Mo Baoguo also wore the robe of the six-grade military attache and greeted Li Guolou

Tusi Peng Dingyue was in his fifties, with gray hair, a goatee, a short, sturdy beard, and two flintlock pistols

Peng Dingyue saw Li Guolou's military uniform wearing a revolver, and his eyes were very red, although the officers here also had revolvers, but they were all gunpowder and old-fashioned pistols, and saw Li Guolou leading thirty personal soldiers and guards, each wearing a Browning revolver, which was obviously richer than him

Peng Dingyue slyly untied the two flintlock pistols on his body, and immediately told Li Guolou about the Tujia rules, and said loudly: "Master Wutang Xuezheng is really strong, our Tujia rules and friends want to exchange gifts when they meet, I will give Master Xuezheng two flintlock pistols in exchange for a Browning revolver hahahaha"

Lifting out the ethnic policy of Peng Dingyue made Li Guolou embarrassed, Xu Zhanbiao saw that Xu Zhanbiao was still touching a big beard and looked silent, and he was also an old fox, in order to have a good relationship with friendly troops, he had no choice but to take off the holster of the gun and handed it to Peng Dingyue, with a wry smile on his face: "Peng Tusi's official family will exchange gifts on this point, and I will talk about it when I return to Beijing."

This sentence is to tell other military attachés, he is here to make war exploits, not to make war money, how can he sell Li Ziying's family to them, these military attachés don't look at them wearing shabby military uniforms, dusty and dusty, and their faces are gloomy, in fact, they are all rich and rich people, and they share weal and woe with soldiers on the battlefield, return to their hometown, the scenery is infinite, and live in a deep mansion compound, not to mention that Li Guolou's team of guards and personal equipment is the entire Li Ziying and sell it to them, and they don't need to bargain and immediately sit on the ground and make a deal

The soldier Tusi Mo Baoguo was very unwilling, watching the Tubing Tusi Peng Dingyue play with the Browning revolver, he could only take advantage of the situation and said: "Master Xuezheng, then I will make an appointment and wait for the Li Ziying class teacher to return to Beijing to exchange gifts."

Before Li Guolou agreed, this time Xu Zhanbiao spoke first: "That's for sure, Master Li came to the front line when it was cold and snowy, and when he returned, he took it easy and listened to the command."

Li Guolou just wanted to see the power of the artillery attack on the fortress on the high slope of the loess, and roared urgently: "Deputy Marshal Xu, as soon as he came to the front line, he wanted to make meritorious service and receive awards, so he handed over one of the stubborn fortresses to Li Ziying, and I promise to capture the next fort in three days, and dare to make a military order."

Why is Li Guolou so bold, the front line dares to boast about Haikou, you must know that military law is ruthless, cannot be questioned, and no jokes are tolerated, in fact, it is related to Dong Zhiyuan's geographical environment, although there are ravines here, a high slope is connected to a high slope, but the slope is not steep, a loess high slope is more than 1 meter, plus the face cover to build a fortress is still more than 1 meter, as long as he is allowed to build the fort, the cannon is shot at an upward angle, although the power is weakened, but with the sharp flowering bullet, no matter how strong the stone fortress is, the fortress can be bombarded to the ground, so he has the confidence to dare to say this sentence, it is not arbitrary

Xu Zhanbiao has artillery, and it is made in all countries, but there is no Li Guolou to bring the artillery, the original storage of artillery shells is not enough, and it is necessary to wait for the beginning of spring to launch a full-scale attack, the power of the artillery shells is not as powerful as the Prussian flowering shells, he also wants to see the power of the artillery that has been transported to the front line thousands of miles away, as for Li Guolou's more than the past to get military merits, he has long been aware of the fact that the Zuo Marshal handed over this hot potato to him, just to let his Guoyong battalion get benefits, don't forget to share some military merits to Li Ziying

"Good Li Xuezheng's loyalty can be shown and courage is commendable, he dared to take Li Ziying to Dong Zhiyuan without hesitation, although the road is not smooth, but the three forts above Xiaokongtong are stubbornly resistant, hateful, occupy the main road of our army's grain transportation, and often harass our army, just two days ago, I just attacked our army's transport team, I wanted to pull out this nail, this commander ordered Li Ziying to open tomorrow until Xiaokongtong before the spring, uproot these three forts, and clear the obstacles for our army."

"Settle down, the official must do everything you can, live up to the trust, and take Xiao Kongtong down before the beginning of spring," Li Guolou was overjoyed, turned over and knelt on the ground to take a token, and was happy to caress the hard-won wooden token, and he can finally fight

Next, the Anhui army garrison, Guo Baochang and the Sichuan army, Shaanxi and Dao Huang Ding quarreled, and they all rushed to cooperate with Li Zi's battalion to attack Xiaokongtong

Guo Baochang spoke first: "Vice Marshal Xu, give me a hundred Mauser cotton coats, I also want it, I'm not greedy, that's enough, I promise to cooperate with Li Ziying to capture Xiaokongtong."

Huang Ding, a member of the Sichuan Army, and Huang Ding, relying on Xu Zhanbiao's cronies, also stood up and shouted: "Guo Dazui, you have to intervene in everything, our Sichuan Army has not made any contributions, Vice Marshal Xu has his own opinions."

"Fart, I'm going to be knighted, and I'm going to go for my life"

In the cave, the local soldiers, Tusi Peng Dingyue and the soldiers Tusi Mo Baoguo and other soldiers and horses officers also joined the battle group and asked to cooperate with the Li Zi battalion to attack the Xiaogangtong to defend the enemy

Li Guolou looked at this scene, who said that there are so many loyal monarchs and lovers in the sunset and dusk of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty will surely rise, burn patriotic fighting spirit, sway loyalty and bravery, and rejuvenate the fiery youth