On the fifteenth day of the first month of the third year of Chongzhen, just after dawn, the troops continued to advance eastward from the Shimen Post Camp.

"Report, captured soldiers have been found ahead." The call of the scouts came over the intercom.

"The scouts retract their forces and report the details." Yang Ming commanded calmly on horseback.

"Report to the general, there is a stone fort ahead, and a group of captives are stationed in it." The scout's voice trembled a little.

"How many are there?"

"There are two or three riders outside, and I don't know how many there are inside, but it is estimated that there are seven or eight riders."

Yang Ming took out his surface tablet, called up the satellite map and looked at it, according to the distance estimate, the stone fort that the scout said should be located in the middle of Shimenyi and Zunhua City.

Baozidian is located in the west of Zunhua City, 20 miles, is a historic town store. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang sent the general Xu Da to expel the Northern Yuan to the Great Wall, and a large number of garrisons and immigrants began to be stationed in the east of Beijing. Zunhua's fort shop, there was a fort here before the Ming Dynasty, in the early Ming Dynasty, a large number of immigrants here, the surname Huang opened a shop here, so it was called the fort shop, during the Longqing period (AD 1567 to 1572), the general soldier Qi Jiguang had rebuilt the stone fort here, as the peak fire platform of the garrison.

Yang Ming asked the scouts in front to retreat to two miles in front of the large army to strengthen the connection with the large army, and he led his own soldiers to the front of the team at an accelerated pace.

In the 7x green film lens of the M24 telescope, a castle with an earth and stone structure appeared in front of Yang Ming's eyes, the fort is three-dimensional, three zhang high, about six zhang long and wide, the wall is made of ashlar, the stone cracks are muddy with lime and clay, and the middle of the wall is filled with tamped loess, which looks quite hard. There was a stout elm tree growing in the fort, the branches stretched in the air, like a big umbrella, the thick shade almost covered the castle, and the stone wall was covered with dense weeds, indicating that the fort had long been abandoned and in disrepair.

There are dozens of dwellings around the fort, and after the soldiers, there are already ruins and broken walls, and there is no trace of them.

Yang Ming was a little strange that Liu Zhilun's soldiers had passed here a few days ago, why he didn't leave anyone to garrison in this fort, maybe he felt that he couldn't hold it, or maybe he left soldiers, but it had been removed by the sentry cavalry of the Houjin army.

At present, when Jin Bing saw Yang Ming's army coming, they had all shrunk back into the fort, and Yang Ming didn't want to waste any more time here, so he decided to use a grenade to remove the nail.

"Company Commander Xie, bring a few grenadiers." Yang Ming gave the order on the walkie-talkie.

On the walls of the fort, several Houjin soldiers were holding bows and arrows with their heads exposed, and the armor on their heads glistened in the sunlight.

"Yunqiu, let's shoot at close range." Guarded by the pro-soldiers, Yang Ming and Yun Qiu rode side by side on horseback to a place about 200 steps away from the fort.

Yun Qiu took a deep breath, raised the HK416 rifle in his hand, and according to the shooting essentials taught by Yang Ming, he aimed at a Houjin soldier at the head of the wall with the red dot lens in the AIMopoint P M4 on the gun, stabilized his breath and pulled the trigger, only to hear a gunshot, the Houjin soldier with a bow and arrow in both hands rolled down from the wall in response, and the other Houjin soldiers were frightened, and they all retracted back into the fort one by one, not daring to probe again.

This is Yun Qiu's first time using a rifle to shoot, the power of modern weapons shocked her, two hundred steps away from where to fight, in this era, no matter whether the other party is cavalry or infantry, there is no way to counter, the only possible way can only be to pile up corpses and rush up to fight in close combat, this price is big.

As soon as the gunfire fell, the two sergeants held shields to escort Xie Qingyuan to rush forward, until they were within fifty steps from the fort, Xie Qingyuan took out the M67 grenade, waved his arm and threw it at the fort, the grenade crossed a long arc in the air and fell into the fort.

There was a dull loud thud, and smoke rose from the castle, accompanied by a splash of brick and muck.

The effective killing radius of the M67 grenade is 15 meters, the length and width of this fort is only six zhang, and it is a closed space, basically all the people in one grenade will be reimbursed.

"Company Commander Xie led people to clean up the battlefield, and they will follow as soon as they are cleaned up." Yang Ming ordered.

The advance of the large army never stopped, and the sergeants in the ranks, attracted by the sound of gunfire and grenade explosions, turned their heads to look over, and everyone had a look of shock and excitement on their faces, and their morale was immediately greatly boosted.

Yang Ming rode his horse and continued to move forward, and Xie Qingyuan quickly chased after him.

"General, mark something to report." Xie Qingyuan reined in the horse half a way behind Yang Ming, panting and arching his hands.

"What's the situation?"

"There are eleven horses in the sentry fort, dead and wounded, and they are useless. Of the ten soldiers, eight died, and two were wounded, and they did not die for a while. Xie Qingyuan took out a few crumpled pages of paper from his arms and handed them over, "The mark has been interrogated by the interpreter, they are the sentinels under the Tartar general Ying Erdai, and they intercepted and killed Lord Liu's herald here last night." ”

"Oh?" Yang Ming was shocked and took the paper handed by Xie Qingyuan.

However, he saw that the document on the paper was covered with the big seal of the right attendant of the military department, and one was written to Ma Shilong in Jizhou, the content was to refuse Ma Shilong's kindness to invite him back to Jizhou, and to inform the department that Niangniang Mountain was besieged twenty miles east of Zunhua, and urged Ma Shilong to quickly send troops to relieve the siege. The other is an order written to Yang Ming, Ziyun fought against the captives in Niangniang Mountain, twenty miles east of Zunhua, so that Yang Ming's troops hurriedly came to join the division to fight, and the date of the two documents was yesterday on the 14th of the first month.

According to the history of the last world, Liu Zhilun's soldiers should be besieged around the twentieth day of the first month, and now somehow they were surrounded on the fourteenth day of the first month, it seems that Yang Ming's arrival has produced a butterfly effect, which has had an impact on the historical process of this era. Another thing that Yang Ming didn't understand was that Liu Zhilun sent troops from Shimenyi to Zunhua, but somehow he ran to the east of Zunhua, looking at the location of Niangniang Mountain, it was almost close to the Santun camp, and he had to bypass Zunhua to relieve the siege. Yang Ming estimated that Liu Zhilun should have lost the battle under Zunhua City, and he was defeated all the way, panicked, and had no choice but to retreat to Niangniang Mountain.

The troops accelerated forward, and now they were less than twenty miles away from Zunhua, and the scouts in front had been ordered to retreat, and could only provide a few miles of early warning, Yang Ming decided to release the RQ-11B "Big Crow" drone, he took out the drone backpack from the accompanying cart, and threw it to the east after the assembly was completed, and the propeller of the drone was buzzing and spinning, flying into the sky in front of the sergeants in surprise.

Yang Ming turned over and got on the horse, observing the controller screen in his hand while moving forward, the drone climbed to a height of 200 meters, and the terrain and desolate wilderness below were suddenly in front of him. He controlled the drone to fly along the official road, over a high slope, and the picture that appeared on the color LCD screen of the controller startled Yang Ming.

I saw the slopes on both sides of the official road, densely covered with Houjin troops, some of these Houjin soldiers rode on horses, some got off their horses and sat on the ground to rest, the iron armor on the horses and the swords and guns in the hands of the soldiers shone with phosphorus and phosphorus in the sunlight, judging from the banner of the white edge and red heart, this is Yue Tuo's red flag troops, and the men and horses are estimated to have two or three thousand horses.

Yang Ming controlled the drone to hover and fly, obliquely observing the situation around the Houjin army, but saw that there were hundreds of horsemen on the left and right wings of the Houjin army branching out from the slope and speeding westward around the bend.

"All pay attention, there is an enemy ambush eight miles ahead." Yang Ming reported the situation on the walkie-talkie, and the noisy voices in the channel suddenly stopped, and there was a serious silence on the walkie-talkie.

"The scouts in front obeyed the order, stopped their advance, and waited for most of them to meet."

"The four companies accelerated forward, and the first company split into the four companies and two wings." There are two or three thousand cavalry in the front of the Houjin soldiers, and it is meaningless to put the cavalry of the first company in front again, Yang Ming is now letting the grenadiers and archers of the fourth company take the lead.

The rearguard company listened to the order, accelerated its advance, and moved closer to the main force. All the troops listened to the order, marched two miles, stopped the army and lined up, and prepared to meet the enemy! ”

"Yes!" On the walkie-talkie, the officers responded in unison.

The army came to a halt and began to line up on a slope five miles from Houjin. Craftsmen and people dug trenches in the rear and left and right flanks, erected wooden fences, sergeants placed antlers in front of the array to resist horses, Yang Ming's Chinese military flag was set at the highest point of the slope, behind him, the craftsmen were building lookouts, and Yang Ming personally commanded several personal soldiers and craftsmen to build a firing position.

Yang Ming put the M3A1 bottom plate of the mortar into the pit, stepped on it firmly under his feet, and then put the tail of the gun into the bottom plate socket and rotated a quarter of a turn to lock it, and then asked the soldier to lift the bipod to engage with the barrel positioning pin, tighten the locking handwheel, connect the M67 sight to the tightener of the bipod through the dovetail, and adjust the bipod so that the horizontal bubble on the scope is centered. The mortar was installed, then the ammunition box was opened, and the M821A2 high-explosive shells were taken out and placed in rows on the wooden planks laid on the ground.

Several soldiers and craftsmen built a semicircular machine gun firing table more than one meter high out of wooden planks and stones, the cartridge box was removed from the soldier's backpack and placed on the firing table, and boxes of ammunition were moved from the cart and stacked behind the firing table.

On the walkie-talkie, the officers of each company were nervously talking to each other, each of them reporting on the situation of their company's formation and fortifications, Ding Yousan kept asking and scheduling, and the entire position was a tense and busy scene.

In the LCD screen of the drone controller, the Houjin army began to mount the horse and line up, and a sentry horse came out of the array and galloped towards the direction where Yang Ming's troops were located. The flight endurance of the RQ-11B "Big Crow" UAV is 90 minutes, which is almost there, Yang Ming controlled the turn of the nose and followed the sentry team of the Houjin Army to fly back.

"Report to the general, there is a sentry cavalry in the front two miles!" Xie Qingyuan, the commander of the fourth company, shouted over the walkie-talkie.

"Roger. Don't move, leave them alone. Yang Ming replied, his eyes moved away from the drone controller, and he raised his eyes to look forward, and after a few horses, the golden soldiers appeared on the ridge line on the ground of the official road, and they obviously also saw Yang Ming's army, and stopped the horse, and one of the horses turned around and disappeared behind the ridgeline.

On the soil slope, layers of ironclad cavalry are neatly arranged, and the war horses are Xiao Xiao, and the banners are hunting. Thirty-year-old Yue Tuo, the owner of the Red Flag Banner, rode on horseback, looking in the direction of the west, with a proud and calm expression, and the young man riding side by side with him was the eldest son of Huang Taiji, twenty-year-old Haoge.

"Why hasn't this brute come yet? How many miles have you been walking so long? Hauge said hatefully: "Today Ben Belle will break this man's body into ten thousand pieces, so as to relieve the hatred in my heart!" ”

Yue Tuo glanced sideways at Hauge, and smiled faintly on his white face, but did not make a sound. After Hauge lost Shunyi last time, he had been stripped of Baylor's title by Huang Taiji, and at this time he still called himself Baylor in front of Yue Tuo, and Yue Tuo was very disapproving.

A sentry horse galloped from afar, and the horse was in front of the side of the horse's head, and the Houjin soldiers on horseback turned over and dismounted, ran a few steps forward and knelt on the ground, and reported in a loud voice: "Lord Beile, the minions just went to reconnoitre, and saw the barbarian army digging trenches in front of five miles......

"Tartu, did you wait for the surrounding guards to be lax and let the barbarian scouts see our army?" Hauge asked the Houjin soldier who was kneeling on the ground coldly.

"Back to Lord Belle, the minions' people have been patrolling around to take precautions, and there is no such thing as a barbarian army scout." Tartu flatly denied it.

"It seems that this barbarian surnamed Yang really has some skills, and he didn't even enter our ambush circle." Yue Tuo said lightly: "It's a pity that he didn't bring a big iron cannon with him this time, so he can't use any thunder method, and it doesn't matter if he can't enter the ambush circle or not." ”

"Yue Tobel, before leaving, my father Khan repeatedly told you and me that we must not underestimate this barbarian." Hauge reminded Yue Tuo.

"Are the two armies of Baltai and Daisonga in place?" Yue Tuo ignored Hauge, but turned his head to ask a leader behind him.

"Back to Lord Belle, it's almost time to come." Nasa replied hesitantly.

Yue Tuo didn't ask any more questions, his eyes turned to the west and looked silently.

"Report to the general, two Tartar cavalry have appeared on the left and right flanks of our army, outflanking the movement to the rear." Ding Yousan reported to Yang Ming on the walkie-talkie, with a slight hint of nervousness in his voice.

"Got it, don't worry about him, continue to dig trenches on the left and right flanks and in the rear, digging wide and deep!" Yang Ming ordered.

"Yes! Checkmate. ”

There are mortars and machine guns on the battlefield in front, Yang Ming is not worried about being broken through by the Houjin army, but the left and right flanks and the rear are the weak points of his own defense line, if the Houjin army attacks from these three places, then the entire army formation will be under a lot of pressure, and once the Houjin army breaks through from the two flanks or the rear, his own army will face collapse.

"The commander of the fourth company, Xie Company, listened to the order and quickly sent ten grenadiers to be on standby on both flanks and in the rear to strengthen the defense." Yang Ming gave Xie Qingyuan an order, so that there were only ten grenadiers left on the frontal battlefield.

A flag appeared on the ridge line of the ground of the official road ahead, and then, the dense ironclad army crossed the ridge, and spread the entire slope row by row, and the iron armor of the soldiers of the layers of war horses was shining in the sun, it seemed that the Houjin army had given up the plan of ambush and planned to face Yang Ming.

A hint of uneasiness flashed across Yun Qiu's cold face, "General, they may feint on the front and then break through from both flanks. ”

"Oh, huh?" Yang Ming smiled at Yunqiu.

"I'm not proficient in battle formations, but I've seen them use this kind of tactics before, and I'll say it for the general's reference." Yun Qiu hurriedly added.

"Yunqiu, they've been defeated." Yang Ming took out a small flat green box from his pocket, poured out two pieces of chewing gum and threw them in his mouth, and handed Yun Qiu two more.

"General, don't be careless!" Yun Qiu reminded Yang Ming.

"I can defeat them now, it's just ......" After that, the main force of the Jin army was already exposed to the line of sight, and Yang Ming only needed a mortar to blast it over now, but he didn't want to do it immediately, he wanted to let the troops exercise in actual combat and see blood.

"Sanlian He Dakun, how is the situation of the trenches in the rear?" Yang Ming asked on the walkie-talkie.

"Report to the general, it has been dug a zhang wide, and it is deepening." He Dakun hurriedly reported, with whirring wheezing and scattered footsteps in his voice, obviously talking while running.

"Do you want to send more people?" Yang Ming is most at ease now in the rear, where the vehicles and baggage are concentrated, and most of the personnel are craftsmen and civilians, and their combat effectiveness and discipline cannot be compared with the troops.

"No, thank you for your concern, there are a lot of people here, and now it's too crowded to show their hands, so let them dig in shifts now."

"Okay, Company Commander He, the back line must be resisted!"

"Please rest assured, Deputy Company Commander Luo has come to support with grenadiers."

Thirty horsemen rushed out of the array of the Houjin army in front, and these heavily armored horse knights waved long hooks in their hands, shouting and rushing to the antlers in front of the Shunyi army to resist the horses, their task was to use the hooks to open the obstacles and clear the passage for the subsequent cavalry charge.

The antlers and horses were placed fifty paces away from the front line of the Shunyi army, and within the range of the bows and arrows, the four companies of archers who took the lead opened their bows and released arrows, and shot a wave of arrows at the rushing Houjin Iron Cavalry.

Some arrows were shot into the body of the Houjin cavalry, but they were bounced away by the heavy iron armor, only a few feathers shot the weak part of the iron armor, the arrows broke through the armor, and its momentum had declined, and those Houjin cavalry who were hit by the arrows endured the pain, waving the hook rope and trying to hook the antlers to resist the horse.

The position of the Shunyi army sounded the sound of gunshots, Yang Ming's M249 machine gun fired, his Chinese army flag was in the rear of the forward troops a hundred meters away, less than 200 meters away from the antlers to reject the horse, the M855A1 bullet shot condescendingly, and the thirty horsemen of the Houjin soldiers suddenly turned on their backs and fell in front of the position.

One of the horsemen of the Houjin cavalry was shot, and the horse neighed and threw forward, throwing the cavalryman to the ground, and the cavalryman rolled a few times with great might, and did not run away from it, but rushed to the antlers, grabbed the antlers with both hands and dragged them desperately.

"Spearmen in formation!" Yang Ming drank on the walkie-talkie and gave the order.

Fifty pikemen lined up in two rows, holding their five-meter spears, rushed forward in a neat formation, and in ten seconds rushed to the antler line, Rulin's spears stabbed at the remaining Houjin cavalry with the force of the impact, and the cold tips of the spears broke through their heavy armor and brought out a rain of blood.

With the sound of a whining horn, two hundred Houjin cavalry rushed from the array with spears and rushed towards the front of the Shunyi army.

"Lancers retreat to position!" Yang Ming shouted at the walkie-talkie, but the fifty pikemen who attacked in front did not react, their commander did not have a walkie-talkie, and could not hear Yang Ming's order.

Yang Ming suddenly came to his senses, quickly grabbed the loudspeaker in the hands of his own soldiers, and repeated the order loudly, and the amplified voice came out of the loudspeaker of the loudspeaker, resounding throughout the entire position.

(End of chapter)