Batu also thinks that this is probably the most reasonable explanation, otherwise who would use a group of half-grown children to form a team alone?

"Master, let's beat them!" The sentry rider said excitedly: "So many little chicks, catch a few and let those Qi dogs exchange their wealth for silk!" ”

Hearing this, even Batu felt a little excited.

The country of Qi is rich, this is something that everyone on the grassland knows.

The salt, tea, woollen cloth, cotton cloth, wine, and even linen cloth in the hands of the Qi State were all necessities that were not too much for the Mugyu people.

The merchants of the Qi State, led by Wang Qinian, brought a large number of supplies needed by the Mughurs every year, and then took a large number of horses, camels, cattle and sheep, furs and wool from the grassland.

Everyone in the world says that Jiangnan is rich in the world, but Batu doesn't know how rich Jiangnan is, he only knows that last year's Qimeng trade was as high as tens of millions!

If these Qi soldiers were really a group of second ancestors to take credit, then Batu felt that he could really grab some of them and then exchange them for a large amount of supplies with the Qi people.

"This is the fattest sheep! Catch them and you'll be able to celebrate the New Year! ”

The Mughal cavalry under Batu was eager to try, and in their opinion, the army formed by the Second Ancestor, who ran to the battlefield to take credit after seeing that the enemy was too weak, must not be strong there.

Fat enough and looking easy to get his hands on, Batuu feels that he is really lucky.

In fact, when he came out of Datong, the idea of the princes was to let him go directly to the west to fight the middle route army of the Qi army, which was approaching Datong.

Batu was reluctant to confront Xu Shiyang, so when he left the city, he took the eight hundred Mengwu riders to turn south and burrow into the Taihang Mountains to find opportunities.

Now's your chance.

"Get ready! Let's teach these Second Ancestors that the battlefield is not a place for them to play! ”

"Whew!"

The eight hundred Mughal cavalry let out a strange cry together, and after a few moments, everyone mounted their horses and headed straight for the valley where the young soldiers were.

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The young soldiers had been warned in advance, and although they did not know where the Muguls were, or whether they would come looking for them, they had heightened their vigilance at this time.

This is the rule of the Qi Army's infantry drill code, and everyone follows the same set of procedures, but the bookish young soldiers are more dogmatic.

Dogmatism is not necessarily a bad word, especially when the hostility is unclear.

In the afternoon, Xu Shizhen's battle group camped in a narrow valley at a junction, and because they could not find enough wood to make a fence, Xu Shizhen simply dug a deep ditch at the rear intersection to work, and the excavated soil was directly piled up into a chest wall.

According to the regulations, neither the breastwork nor the trench were completely sealed, and there was a gap in the middle of the breastwork for three people to enter and exit side by side, and then three meters diagonally opposite the gap, there was also a passage in the trench for people to walk on.

At the beginning of the battle of the Yellow River, the Qi army frantically repaired fortifications to the point that even the route of their own counterattack was blocked, and as a result, the defense of the counterattack was very good, but the counterattack was completely ruined because its own fortifications were so well repaired.

Since then, the requirements for fortifications in the Qi Infantry Drill Code have been added to the requirement of trying not to block your own counterattack.

In fact, if it were the young soldiers' own will, they would not even want to build such fortifications - the Qi army had a case of close-range infantry shooting and crushing a considerable number of Jin cavalry with a round of fire (Xu Shizhen participated in that battle), and the bold young soldiers also had this confidence.

At this time, it was clear that the officers and non-commissioned officers had the advantage of being heavy, and they had just forced the young soldiers and the village soldiers to dig fortifications together, and the sentry on a nearby hill fired two red fireworks into the air.

The teenagers under Xu Shizhen were very excited when they looked at the brilliant colors that exploded in mid-air.

"It's really coming!"

"Two reds, a thousand!"

"Huh, we can each have at least one!"

"The instructor said that the Tartars' casualty bearing capacity will not exceed thirty percent, which means that if we kill three hundred, they will have to run, and there will be no one for each person."

"It's okay, it's enough to slaughter all the captured captives."

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Xu Shizhen shook his head helplessly and shouted loudly: "Silence! ”

With an uproar, the noisy sound of the young soldiers immediately disappeared without a trace, leaving only the village soldiers to look blankly at these children who suddenly became extremely serious.

"The first and second rows come forward!"

Xu Shizhen continued to order:

"Three or four rows ready!"

"Check the ammunition separately!"

The four young soldiers lined up in twos and twos, standing in front of the breastwork.

Another platoon remained slightly further back as a reserve, standing with the villagers.

Officers and non-commissioned officers walked in front of the soldiers, checking their rifle loads one by one, patting them on the shoulders as a sign of encouragement.

"All of them, bayonets!"

The bayonet of the Qi army's flintlock pistol is actually a spear stab, and in the final analysis, it is nothing more than a piece of triangle iron fixed to the barrel with screws.

The new type of musket, on the other hand, uses a sword-shaped bayonet, which can usually be used as a tool knife such as a long dagger, and is not usually mounted on the gun for a long time like a flintlock pistol, but instead of the previous position of the soldier's saber, it is hung on the left waist.

After the order was issued, only a soft sound of brushing was heard, and the Qi army's position suddenly became cold and flashing, and the murderous aura was awe-inspiring.

The young soldiers looked at the valley mouth in front of them, quietly waiting, or rather, expecting the arrival of the enemy.

Twenty minutes later, a group of cavalry poured out of the valley, and the dense rumbling of horses' hooves shook the earth, and Xu Shizhen was slightly surprised to find that the Mongolian army was actually a group of armored cavalry rushing to the front!

"The Tartars are really willing." Xu Shizhen smiled and muttered to himself.

Today, some of the credit has been earned.

"One or two rows aim!" Xu Shizhen shouted, and then put the whistle in his mouth.

As the enemy cavalry approached violently, they could already feel the ground trembling slightly, and the village soldiers who had not experienced the battlefield had a slight commotion, but there was a fifth row watching, and there were still breastworks and two columns of young soldiers in front of them, and their panic was not uncontrollable.

The young soldiers had faced the cavalry charge training of the Blue Army Brigade many times in the military academy, and they had all seen the cavalry spinning in front of the bayonet wall or the breastwork, and they were at an age when they were not afraid of heaven and earth, and they became more excited in the face of enemy cavalry.

Looking at their appearance, if it weren't for the restraints of military discipline, Xu Shizhen estimated that they would directly fight a round at close range without waiting for the order, and then fight with the enemy with a bayonet regardless of it.

That would be a waste of the new musket's performance.

"One hundred and twenty paces (180 meters) away."

An old non-commissioned officer who was measuring the range reminded loudly.

The Qi army's position was silent.

"A hundred steps (150 meters) away!"

"Shh

A sharp and piercing whistle sounded, and an orange-red fiery snake suddenly rose above the chest wall of the Qi army!