I went with the baggage battalion. The three arms of the car, infantry, and cavalry had already been drawn before, and they were all nominally going to "change defenses," while the baggage battalion was also in the name of "mobile training," and left the city defense from the east gate and went around for three or five miles, but turned around and headed all the way to the north, maneuvering straight toward the western part of Jinzhou.

The northeast in the first month is really dripping into ice, and the baggage camp is fortunate to be based on the car, the animals pulling the cart are covered with cotton and linen, and the soldiers in the car take turns to go out to push the cart, plus well-trained and well-equipped, but they can also insist.

Speaking of which, there is another allusion - when he first arrived in the north, in the first winter, Qi Jiguang rode alone at night, rushed to Beijing from the starry night of Jizhou, and rushed straight to the home of Shoufu Zhang Juzheng. Seeing that it was Qi Jiguang, the people at the main gate of Zhang Ju did not stop him at all, so Qi Jiguang went straight to Zhang Juzheng's bedroom, pulled Shoufu up from the bed, and threw a new winter coat on the table in front of Shoufu!

Shoufu was puzzled, Qi Jiguang took out a dagger, cut the winter coat at once, and then reached out and grabbed it to both sides! Suddenly the black heart cotton inside was revealed! Zhang Juzheng was also furious when he saw this, and immediately decided to investigate the matter strictly, but he sat down and thought about it, it was the mother of the current saint - the father of the queen mother, that is, the grandfather of the current saint! If it is investigated according to the law, I am afraid that the royal system will not exist.

So Zhang Juzheng presented this winter coat directly to the queen mother, and the queen mother was also for the sake of her son's country, and immediately called her father to the palace to reprimand him strictly, and stood in the snow for a day, and then was relieved of the logistics management position and went home to retire.

Since then, the supplies of the Qi family army have returned to normal levels, and the officers and soldiers are no longer afraid of the cold. In addition, Qi Jiajun had the heaviest endurance during training, so although it was hard, no one complained. It's just that this matter also has sequelae, after Zhang Juzheng's death, the Queen Mother was quite resentful of this matter, saying that Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang formed a party for personal gain, and then the Zhang family died, and Qi Jiguang ended up depressed and had nothing to do with this matter, of course, this is a later story, and it has nothing to do with the current war, so I won't mention it for the time being.

Ye Sizhong and I were in the same car, along with other officers in the battalion. Since it was a night walk, and there was still a considerable distance to the designated place, everyone hurried to catch up on sleep and recuperate.

By dawn the next day, halfway through the journey, the battalion stopped to make a fire and make food. I was holding the hot noodle soup, holding the hot baked cakes, eating pickles, sitting on the box next to the fire, chewing the food slowly, Ye Sizhong leaned over, I must have something to say.

I saw him sit on a box next to me with a smile, take a sip of soup, and then said with a smile: "Qilan, according to the governor, you have been afraid of light and heavy since you were a child, and your uncle-in-law also said that you eat cold and are afraid of heat, and I am worried that you can't stand the cold." I didn't expect you to be okay! I can actually stand up! As he spoke, he took a bite of the dry food and looked at me and smiled. I knew that what he wanted to say was not this, so I rolled my eyes, snorted, and said angrily, "Can I not go if I cry?"

Ye Sizhong laughed, and said for a while: "That's not good!" After that, he changed his posture, got a little closer, lowered his voice and asked me shyly: "Qilan, you said this time...... What are our odds? I looked at him and couldn't help laughing, I'm afraid, little one! I deliberately didn't speak, didn't look at him, took a small sip of the hot soup, and drank it as I blew. Ye Sizhong waited for a long time, a little anxious, and slapped me with his right elbow and said urgently: "You said it!" Hide with me! I rubbed my arm and smiled, "I'm afraid of you!" Your Excellency! Ninety percent! Ninety percent! ”

Ye Sizhong was stunned for a moment, took a breath, put down the morning, and said for a while: "So high? Qilan, you need to know about this incident, you and I are the mastermind, or you are the mastermind, and I am the mastermind! In case of a mistake, you and I are two grasshoppers on a rope, and no one can escape! When the time comes, if you kill your head, I will have to raid my house, and you are still laughing here? ”

Hearing this, I simply put on a strange look, threw down the dry food, lay on the box on all fours, and said, "If you want to kill, kill it!" I admit it! Kill! Kill! ”

Ye Sizhong stood up and kicked me, and said angrily: "Get up and talk well!"

I laughed and sat up, tugged at his sleeve and said, "Oops! Sit down, sir, and let me talk in detail. Ye Sizhong was still angry, snorted, and sat down beside me, but deliberately didn't look at me.

I pretended not to see, laughed, and said to myself: "It is unjust for the Tatars to invade us, and it is righteous for us to protect our family and defend the land." With righteousness against injustice, we will occupy 30% first. This is Sun Tzu's point of view on the Art of War, although it is a bit vague, but it is irrefutable, Ye Sizhong snorted angrily.

I smiled and continued: "The enemy is besieging Jinzhou in the light, and I am scattered in the dark. Attack the bright place with the dark, and our side will have a chance of winning three percent! ”

Ye Sizhong nodded, looked at me obliquely, and asked, "What else?"

I pretended to be righteous and said: "The enemy is cavalry, there is no danger to bear, and it can be said that it is dangerous for me to defend the city." There is no danger to attack, conservatively speaking, at least add three percent! ”

Ye Sizhong nodded again, mumbled, thought for a moment, and then asked, "What about Yicheng?"

I stood up, put my hands behind my back, looked at the direction of Jinzhou City, and said slowly: "There is one percent left, it depends on how good Li Chengliang is!"

At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the baggage battalion arrived at the designated position -- the sun of the hill twenty miles southwest of Jinzhou City, and the officers and men built a man-made city in a hidden and open place on the side of the mountain facing away from Jinzhou according to the usual practice! This kind of chariot has a heavy body, and the horses can't collide at all after being connected, and it is the natural enemy of the cavalry! With this, we are almost invincible in the face of cavalry!

Ye Sizhong and I climbed to the top of the mountain with a few cronies, looking at the direction of Jinzhou from a distance, only to see that the attack on both sides was hot! The enemy cavalry could not attack the city directly, so they let some of the cavalry dismount, turned into infantry, pushed the ladder to climb the city wall, and mainly attacked the west and north, and feinted to attack the east and south. On the city wall, Li Chengliang's troops resisted with all their might, and repelled the enemy's siege many times! But under the suppression of the enemy's bow and arrow fire, the casualties were not small. We looked at it for a moment, and Ye Sizhong said, "It seems that there is no problem."

I hummed, and after a while, I sighed: "The loess buries the loyal bones, and the heart is fragrant with three petals."

Ye Sizhong glanced at me, patted me on the shoulder and said, "War, how can there be immortals?" It's them today, you and me tomorrow, let's see what! ”

As night fell, according to the plan, the encirclement troops should be in place. In these years without mobile phones, everything can only rely on trust, and estimates. Ye Sizhong and I wore winter coats and stood on the top of the mountain quietly watching. I saw that the city of Jinzhou was brightly lit in the distance, and the Tatars attacked the city overnight, without stopping for a moment! The corpses under the city were dragged away layer after layer, but the soldiers in the back row were still like ants, trying to climb up to the city through the ladder!

Our troops on the city wall seemed to be very difficult to resist, but in fact the reserve force was still very sufficient. On this meat grinder-like battlefield, which side can't eat first, which side will have to lose, and at this time, both sides have reached the moment of exhaustion, and the moment of our final decision is estimated to be coming!

At this moment, suddenly a point of light suddenly flew in the sky in the distance! I know, this is the trumpet cannon of the Chinese army! "Boom! Click! "With a bang, this is the order to attack! Sure enough, the other three directions flew up one after another, responding to the orders of the Chinese army!

For a while, the torches suddenly lit up, and the mountains were all over the field! The shouts of killing were everywhere, and the ambush troops of our army were exhausted for a while, and they surrounded in the direction of Jinzhou! The Tatar Tumut tribe besieging the city was in great confusion for a while, and hurriedly turned around to meet the enemy!

Just when the two sides were about to engage the enemy, the front team of our army stopped and stood with spears to block the enemy's cavalry offensive! He shot the foot with a bow and arrow, and after a while, the chariots of the rear team gradually pressed down! This time, it is almost equivalent to building another Great Wall in front of the Tatars! For the enemy's cavalry to exert its might, it must have a considerable dash distance, but our army has taken advantage of the night pressure and has greatly exceeded the shortest distance of their dash! The soldiers relied on the carts, and the muskets fired volleys in turn, inflicting great damage on the enemy cavalry!

The whole night sky seems to be lit up by the scorching flames of war! More than 20 miles away, you can feel the breathless fire in the air! Just when the two sides were fighting fiercely, the horn of the city of Jinzhou behind the Tatars suddenly sounded, and Li Chengliang's handsome army brazenly fought back and went out of the city! Our army should be united from the outside and attacked from all sides, and the Tumut Department was caught off guard for a while, and the people turned on their backs! For a while, the two sides fought to the death! The sound of shouting and killing pierced through the sky!

In the middle of the night, both sides were exhausted. At this moment, the southwest side of the hill where I was suddenly sounded a dense war drum! I know it's harvest time! I saw that our cavalry came out from behind the mountain, and with the inertia of the downhill slope, they accelerated all the way, shouting and rushing towards the left army of the Tumut Department with all their might! The Tumut division had to draw out a cavalry and turn against our cavalry!

On the one hand, it is a new force to defend the country and take revenge with all its might, and it also sprints to the limit with a great downhill advantage; On one side are the invaders who have been fighting hard for days, exhausted, frightened, and in a disadvantageous position to climb the slope, and the victory or defeat of both sides seems to be doomed from the beginning! Our cavalry is like a hot knife cut into butter, all the way forward! Forward! Forward! In less than a pillar of incense, it has already chiseled through the enemy's left army!

The left army of the Tumut division was suddenly defeated! Yu rode away in a hurry!

The most important thing is morale, once one side is shaken, the other side will immediately be arrogant! Seeing the defeat of the left army, the morale of the Tumut division was shaken! I only heard a shout in our barracks, and after three volleys of artillery, the soldiers jumped out of the car city and began to counter-charge! Our cavalry team turned around as a whole, turned the ranks, and once again formed a cone facing the enemy's right flank, and began a new round of charge! Li Chengliang's troops under the city guarded the city gate to the death, killing corpses piled up, and still fighting to the death!

A quarter of an hour later, the right army of the Tumut division was completely routed!

"The big picture is decided". I stood at the top of the mountain and let out a long breath, before I said slowly, Ye Sizhong nodded, sighed and said, "Yes!" Then turn your head and let the ambulance team be ready to go to the front line at any time. At this moment, I suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from far and near, and when I looked up, it was a group of defeated enemy troops, about 500 horsemen, galloping in the direction of our baggage camp! At this time, is it to retreat to the line of defense and defend against the danger? Or do you rely on the mountain and attack the enemy unprepared? How do you decide?

I looked at Ye Sizhong, and he was also looking at me.