"Long live the Duke of Yingguo!"

"Long live the Duke of Yingguo!"

……

In the boiling cheers on both sides, Yang Xin, dressed in gold armor, appeared on the street, and he was riding a mount, although there was indeed no war horse that could bear his weight except for the Shire horse, but fortunately, there was a kind of mount in Nanjing City......

Elephant!

This one is sufficient.

You don't even have to go out of your way to buy it, there is an elephant house in the Nanjing Imperial Palace.

At this moment, Yang Xin, who was standing on the back of a giant Asian elephant, looked down like a god.

Behind him is the guard battalion of all the horse, the new type of war horse that was previously transferred to the horse farm on Jeju Island, and after so many years of introduction and breeding, it has grown to more than 3,000 horses. However, it is still only used as a mount for the guard battalion. After all, this battalion is pretended, and it is a relatively heavy three-quarters of the top.

The soldier is also a big man.

Quite a bit of a Guards Grenadier style.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who are also in the top three-quarters, are on the left and right, and the two major thieves finally gathered, but at this time their faces were covered under a mask that was purely pretended.

The former is the captain of the pro-soldiers.

is similar to Zuo Liangyu's role to Hou Sui.

Of course, Ying Guogong has no special hobbies.

The latter was specially transferred to join the guard battalion of Yingguo Gong, and he was the battalion commander of the guard battalion, in order to satisfy the bad taste of Yingguo Gong, after all, the feeling of Li Zicheng on the left and Zhang Xianzhong on the right made him very happy. Zhang Xianzhong was previously promoted to sentry commander because of his performance on the Wuxi battlefield, but the 12th Army of the Jingnan Army, which was reorganized from the Dangkou Army, was not in the ranks of this battle. They still need to stay in Wuxi. After Li Jin was promoted to battalion commander because of his military exploits, he was promoted to the commander of the infantry brigade in the First Army in Nanjing.

This time, those who went north to participate in the decisive battle were the five armies in Nanjing, plus the sixteenth and seventeenth armies with Fengyang Yangjiazhuang as the core, and then recruited new soldiers from Fengyang, Luzhou, and Taiping.

Actually seven armies.

The other is Yang Xin's direct team.

Two cavalry brigades, a guard brigade, a heavy artillery brigade, an engineer brigade and other various logistical support units add up to almost one and a half army strengths.

In the end, 85,000 men actually participated in the battle.

And their opponents were about 30,000 elite cavalry of six cavalry corps, 15,000 archers, plus about 50,000 infantry of six infantry corps, since it was the army of the imperial court. Mu Yunfeng remembered to read the collection of this site, the update here is really fast. Don't expect them not to eat empty salaries, Zu Dashou, He Shixian, it is a miracle to be able to fill up his subordinates!

Therefore, the 120,000 troops of the Son of Heaven of the Apocalypse have moisture.

Lu Xiangsheng is not Xiong Tingbi.

In other words, Xiong Tingbi knows how to tolerate He Shixian's empty salary!

There is not much difference in the strength of the two sides.

As for the regimental training on the eastern front, Lu Xiangsheng was not transferred to the Huaibei battlefield, and it was even more impossible after the Jingnan army reached eastern Zhejiang, and Xu Du's subordinates could not lose Hangzhou again.

But Lu Xiangsheng's cavalry advantage is too obvious, especially the 30,000 elite cavalry, which is the real elite, well-equipped, experienced in a hundred battles, the Ming Dynasty has been in the Guanwai Eight Years War, honed such a Liaodong iron cavalry, even the archers are the elite selected by the King of Shunyi and other families. The idea of the cavalry crushing the infantry was deeply rooted, and the strength of the 45,000 cavalry was almost terrifying, and it can be said that almost all of them, and even a large part of the officers and men of Jingnan, believed that the opponent had a clear advantage. …,

But......

They have an invincible commander.

"Don't shout long live, we are loyal ministers of the Qing monarch who is in trouble with the country, and there is still only one long live of the Ming Dynasty!"

The Invincible Commander said majestically.

There was silence in the crowd......

"Yingguo Gong is nine thousand nine hundred years old!"

Suddenly, a voice shouted.

"Yingguo Gong is nine thousand nine hundred years old!"

"Yingguo Gong is nine thousand nine hundred years old!"

……

The shouts boiled again.

Ying Guogong bowed his head modestly.

This title is not a big deal, nine thousand years old has been shouted for so many years, even the Nanjing garrison eunuchs can be called a thousand years old, and the nine thousand nine hundred years old of Yingguo Gong is still very in line with the identity, anyway, as long as it is not long live.

It's just an honorific title.

Don't over-read it.

The 9,900-year-old Yingguo Gong. Under the left and right escorts of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, riding a giant elephant under the seat, he walked proudly to the Hongwu Gate in front of him in the cheers of the middle road. And when he boarded the gate of this city named after the name of the Ming Taizu, on the royal road outside, his two cavalry brigades and his guard brigade were already waiting in formation, which was actually the first flintlock brigade.

Of course, this little time was not enough for him to complete the flintlock pistol of the army, in fact, this is only one brigade.

It's just that there are more people.

An infantry battalion of four thousand people, an artillery battalion and a cavalry battalion, this is the standard establishment of his army in the future, after all, the establishment of the flintlock pistol era and the arquebus era cannot be the same.

As for the cavalry brigades......

It's just infantry on horseback.

It is impossible for Yang Xin to train enough cavalry to resist the Liaodong Iron Cavalry in such a short time. In this case, it is good to train the mounted infantry, which is just right to act as a quick mobile force on the battlefield against those Mongol archers. As for the cavalry brigades to which the armies belonged, they were also not mainly cavalry warfare, and their real purpose was only to protect the flanks of the infantry formations.

After all, Yang Xin's infantry was still an old-fashioned mixture of arquebuses and spears.

"Are you ready?"

Yang Dudu, who had ascended to the Hongwu Gate, shouted at the three brigades lined up below with a golden reflection.

But that's just for the strikers.

Because behind him, in the Hongwu Gate, countless infantry cavalry lined up and waited, and the two armies and the directly subordinate teams that set off from Nanjing to Fengyang were all inside the Hongwu Gate, waiting to pass through this city gate, and then start their journey.

"Ready!"

Below is a neat roar.

These are local military households in Nanjing. Mu Yunfeng remembered to read the collection of this site, the update here is really fast. They had been training for more than half a year, and they were absolutely in order, and they were also red uniforms, but they were not armoured, and rifles with bayonets were carried on their shoulders, forming a bright forest of bayonets. This kind of thing is even more murderous than a spear, after all, the spearhead of the spear is actually very small, not as big as the palm of the hand, and it is difficult to hold the spear with a large spear. But these bayonets were more than a foot and a half long, and a jungle of such slender spikes was as terrifying as a jungle of spears.

"Then turn around and kneel goodbye to your parents, wives and children!"

Yang Xin roared.

All the cavalry dismounted, and the infantry turned and knelt down in front of their relatives on both sides......

"Tell them that you will bring them news of victory, that you will return triumphantly, that you will use the guns in your hands to defend the good days they have just gotten, and that you will not let the happiness they have obtained be ruined by others!" …,

Yang Xin roared.

The chaotic shouts of the soldiers rang out.

The relatives on both sides flocked to them as soon as they were allowed to do so.

"We don't want to fight, and I never thought I'd disobey the Divine Decree, but now I have no choice, because I know that as soon as I leave here, as soon as this land returns to the Imperial Court, everything I have just brought to you will be in vain.

You are still the military households of the past.

If you don't have enough food and clothing, you are like those noble slaves, and they are not even as good as slaves.

But I promised.

I promised to let you live a good life, I have to be worthy of you, I have to fulfill my promise, so I would rather bear the notoriety of rebellion, risk the extermination of the race, and would rather resist the will than live and die with you. But now they are still here, and they are still coming to take away your good days, so now I will also live and die with you. Join you with your weapons to protect your homeland!

Cry!

Cry as much as you want!

There will be some among you who will die in battle, but your parents, wives and children, your children and grandchildren will be proud of you, and they will point to your tombstones to tell your descendants.

You are heroes!

More than 200 years ago, your ancestors also bid farewell to their relatives and embarked on the Northern Expedition, and they drove out the Tartars who enslaved you for the sake of your descendants. But it is a pity that a group of jackals has been driven out and a new batch of jackals has come, so now you must drive them away as your ancestors did.

A good life is not a reward for others.

A home without a jackal is also not left by the jackal on its own.

It's not that the jackal talks to you about your conscience.

Jackals are all the same.

You have to use your bayonets. Pierce their hearts and turn their flesh into fertilizer for the land! ”

In the midst of the cries of relatives saying goodbye, Yang Xin's roar continued to sound.

The cries below have stopped.

A young soldier resolutely got up, pushed away his wife, who was still wiping tears, and then went straight back to his original position, and then more soldiers stood up and pushed away their relatives to return to their original position. And those relatives did not bother anymore, and finally waved goodbye to them, and then retreated to the side of the road, and soon all the soldiers were separated from their relatives, and one by one the formations were quickly reformed, but the spirit of the soldiers was obviously different.

Yang Xin nodded with satisfaction.

"Go and bring them back the victory!"

He waved his hand and yelled.

Then he jumped from the city wall. Mu Yunfeng remembered to read the collection of this site, the update here is really fast. The elephant below was already waiting, his heavy body landed accurately on the latter's back more than three meters high, although the impact force of more than three hundred catties was not small, but this head was still a four-ton beast or easily bearable, just raised its proboscis and roared.

Then he pulled out the greatsword-like sword from the elephant's back.

"Forward!"

He yelled.

The giant elephant immediately stepped out of its heavy hooves.

In front of him, all the soldiers turned under the command of the officer, and the infantry was in the middle, marching in a neat pace, accompanied by the drums in front of them, and went straight to the main gate of Zhengyang Gate, and the cavalry was divided into two sides, each running to the ticket gate on both sides.

And Yang Xin rode a giant elephant behind the infantry, and behind him was the guard battalion.

Behind the guard battalion was the 1st Infantry Corps.

In this way, the mighty procession began its journey to the battlefield amid the cheers of millions of citizens on both sides.

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