After all, wars are not frequent, in order not to let the armament slacken, stimulate the soldiers' sense of honor and enthusiasm for training, after each battalion held a big competition last winter, Guan Shanyue looked at the soldiers' black cotton armor in his brain with a flash of inspiration, he decided to introduce some modern concepts in addition to the military merit title system, that is, to add some intuitive honorary level marks to the soldiers' uniforms, as long as they reach a certain level of professional skills, they can obtain the corresponding badges. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info such as Second Class Marksman, First Class Marksman, Special Class Marksman, All-Weather Cavalry, All-Weather Gunner, High Mechanic, etc.

These badges are all designed by the best painters in Daning, embroidered by the best embroiderers in Daning with the best fabrics and gold and silver threads, which can be said to be regardless of the cost, but they are all exquisite, and they give people a sense of nobility and elegance when they look at it. And each medal has a corresponding number, the date of issuance and the person who handled it are registered in the register.

Don't look at it as a small medal, but the honor it carries is priceless, and once it is implemented, it will set off a training frenzy in the military camp where male hormones are bursting.

Under the deliberate request of Guan Shanyue, Daning's army has a fine style of passing on the help, and the sense of collective honor has gradually developed. The combat quality of the entire Daning soldiers is rising in a straight line, and the combat power is rushing straight up, which can be said to be a small medal that has triggered a big change.

The soldiers of Daning have all become a group of wolf cubs with scarlet eyes, and they are desperate for a war to test and verify the results of their training on the martial arts field. At this moment, their long-awaited battle order was finally issued.

After receiving the battle order, as the most elite unit in the entire Daning, the Heavenly Wolf Battalion took the lead in setting off, and for a while, the dust outside Duoyan City covered the sun, and hundreds of horses rushed towards the Jieling Pass in the southeast of Duoyan City. Only this time, in addition to the newly-born short-handled flintlock pistol suitable for horse warfare in the Weapons Factory, there was also a smaller version of Frankie weighing more than 30 pounds behind them.

The rest of the battalions were also quickly rearmed, and four groups of horse-drawn baggage vehicles were cleared several miles away, including more than 500 baggage vehicles of the firearms battalion. It was filled with a variety of improved Tiger Squat cannons and ammunition. The barracks were crowded with people who had rushed to see them off when they heard the news, and they didn't care whether they were their own children or not, and they stuffed eggs, beef jerky, dry food, peanuts, and other things into the arms of those majestic soldiers.

The most important thing in Daning is horses, the fighters of the Heavenly Wolf Battalion, the Firearms Battalion, the Tiger Battalion, and the Divine Arrow Battalion are all equipped with horses, and the baggage is all transported by four-horse carts, they are traveling day and night, and they are advancing towards the Jiepai Pass at a terrifying speed of 160 miles day and night. Among them, the fastest marching were the madmen of the Celestial Wolf Battalion, who were equipped with two horses each, and marched at a speed of 200 miles in day and night.

On the way, some newly recruited soldiers complained about why it was a rapid march when they came down from the exercise ground, and there were still rigid requirements for a rapid march. After hearing the result, their Bai Zong went up and kicked his ass, gritted his teeth and said: "It's nothing, just because those seniors who came down from the battle of Culomb City before can walk so fast, just because we are wearing this military uniform, that's all!" ”

The soldiers of the fourth battalion advanced at this terrifying speed, and the four-day march was originally planned to cross the Luan River in the early morning of the next day, and in the evening of the third day, they reached the area of Longwang Temple outside Niuxin Mountain, not far from the mouth of the Jieling.

Without an order, Guan Shanyue, a second-grade court official, could not enter the customs by himself, let alone lead so many soldiers. Therefore, although the mouth of the boundary ridge was not far ahead, the soldiers had to camp outside this barren mountain and ridge, but fortunately, the military rations they brought were sufficient, and there was no need to go to the pass to replenish supplies.

When the Daning army arrived, the soldiers of the Heavenly Wolf Battalion surveyed the terrain and removed the dead places, and then chose an open place in front of a valley in Niuxin Mountain to place the Chinese army's big tent. This valley is a road that must be passed to Houjin after leaving the boundary ridge pass, and this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is a good place to snipe.

The Chinese military tent is a positioning point, and as soon as it is fixed, the four battalions will set up camp around the Chinese military tent in the order of front, back, left and right, and bury pots and cook rice.

In the tent of the Chinese army, the lights are like torches.

Wei Zhongxian's face was sad, "Brother Guan, can't you fight this battle today?" The Houjin army went on a rampage this time, and invaded our Ming Dynasty as if it were no one, and all the officers and troops were defeated and retreated everywhere they went. If we make a rash move, will we expose Daning's strength prematurely? ”

Guan Shanyue picked up a piece of air-dried beef from the plate, put it in her mouth, took a bite of it, drank another sip of mare's milk wine, was silent for a moment, and said with a blazing gaze: "Brother Wei, brother, I don't think so. In terms of preserving strength, it is the best policy for us not to make a move. But I judge that as long as Houjin tastes the sweetness this time, he will endlessly go into the pass to plunder our Daming's population and various materials, this plunder is faster than construction, and it won't be long before Houjin's strength will snowball bigger and bigger, and Daming will slowly stop them from dragging down. This is what Mr. Wen Fu once told us about the barbaric destruction of civilization. Think about it, there are no eggs under the nest? Therefore, this battle must be fought, and Houjin will be beaten, and they will cry for their father and mother, and they will not dare to move. Brother Wei, this battle is not only for the population and materials that were captured by the Houjin, but also for the survival of the Ming Dynasty and the people. ”

Wei Zhongxian thought for a moment and sighed, "Hey, the house leak happened to rain overnight, Da Ming lost too much, and he really needed a big victory to cheer people up." They all scolded the miscellaneous family for being a powerful eunuch, but the miscellaneous family knew that no one could treat the soldiers of the nine sides badly, and I supplied the best materials to the soldiers of the nine sides, which can be said to be responsive, and if I had no money, I would collect the business taxes of the big landlords in the south of the Yangtze River. Because of the instability of the nine sides, the national glory of the Ming Dynasty will change. Look at the grimace of the Donglin Party, after driving away the miscellaneous family, they canceled the Jiangnan commercial tax in a blink of an eye, and continued to increase the distribution to the people in the northwest who had long been overwhelmed, which is really ...... Hey......"

Guan Shanyue has never had a good impression of the Donglin Party's group of guys who are full of benevolence and morality but don't care about the lives of the people, "Brother Wei, so we have to fight this battle even more." As long as we win the battle and play with prestige, the Holy Lord will recruit our Daning army to enter the customs. As long as we enter the customs, we will have the opportunity to go up to heaven and save the people in the fortress from fire and water. One day we will have the Donglin Party spit out everything they eat. ”

Wei Zhongxian nodded, his heart was full of miscellaneous tastes, he got up and respectfully bowed to Guan Shanyue, "The miscellaneous family also came out of the grass people at the bottom, and they know the suffering of the people. There must be countless things that the miscellaneous family has done in the past, and I also hate this group of wild boar skins to death, but this time the miscellaneous family is really not for their own selfishness, as long as it is beneficial to the common people in the world, the miscellaneous family is willing to retract what he just said. It's just that with less than 20,000 troops against Houjin's 100,000 army, what are our chances of winning? ”

Although it doesn't matter whether to fight or not, Guan Shanyue still looked happy when he got the support of this old friend, "Hey, Brother Wei is serious, everyone is for the good of Daning, please sit down." I know that you think Daning is now a hope for the people in the world, and you don't want this little flame to be extinguished by Hou Jin and the dumb officials in the court, so you don't want to fight this battle with Hou Jin. I'll tell you the bottom, you can rest assured, this time we are using a flowering bomb, I don't say that I am ten percent sure of this battle, and I still have seven or eight percent of the certainty. ”

He is full of confidence in the power of science and technology, not even the reduced version of Frankie and the flintlock guns of the firearms battalion, the firearms battalion alone is equipped with more than a thousand tiger squat cannons.

Wei Zhongxian seemed to be a little uneasy in his heart, and asked: "Brother Guan, are you so sure that Houjin will come out of the Jieling Pass?" ”

Guan Shanyue looked at the map on the table, her eyes lit up, and she pointed out the location of the boundary ridge mouth with her hand, "If Houjin goes out of the customs from the cold mouth in the west, it will be too laborious and laborious to drag so many captive personnel. If they choose to go out of the Yiyuan Pass in the east, the risk is too great, and the Ming army will rush to support them before they take the Yiyuan Pass and the Shanhaiguan, and it is uncertain whether they can go at that time. Therefore, Jielingkou has become their best choice to get out of the customs. As long as Huang Taiji is not stupid, they will go out of the boundary ridge pass. ”

Wei Zhongxian dispelled the doubts in his heart, he seemed to have been persuaded by Guan Shanyue, and was just about to open his mouth to express his approval, when suddenly the door curtain was lifted, and Liu Wenxiu, who was sweating profusely, walked in with hurried steps, interrupting the conversation between the two.

He didn't care about picking up the water bladder sewn from the horseskin on the table, and after drinking half of it, he wiped the sweat on his forehead and said quickly: "Lord Guan, the last general has just returned from the Jieling Pass, and the Houjin army is moving much faster than we imagined. The guards of the Jielingkou have already fought with them, and the entire Great Wall has been connected into a fire dragon by the raging beacon fire, but the last general feels that the Jielingkou will not last long and will be broken by Houjin. ”

Wei Zhongxian, who had just sat down not long ago, jumped up from the stool when he heard this, his forehead was exposed, and he didn't care about his disheveled clothes, so he asked anxiously: "Wen Fu, how many beacons are there at the mouth of the Jieling, and how many cannons are fired?" ”

Liu Wenxiu said without thinking: "Five beacons and five cannons!" ”

At this moment, even Guan Shanyue jumped up from the stool in shock, "Huh? Five beacons and five cannons! So fast, did Houjin's army grow wings? This is definitely not Huang Taiji's vanguard force, this must be his main force! All the staff set off, go and do the son of a bitch! ”

When Liu Wenxiu heard that Guan Shanyue was going to fight with Houjin at night, he was taken aback, and hurriedly blocked Guan Shanyue's way, "Lord Guan, Houjin forcibly broke through the pass at night, and that was because the pass was fixed. But what about personnel activities? Although the soldiers have already eaten, it is as dark as night and is not suitable for large-scale battles? ”

Guan Shanyue shook her head and hurriedly said, "Mr. Wen Fu, our soldiers eat flour with bran, and I also intend to let them eat carrots at every meal, so that they can see things at night." Huang Taiji must have selected soldiers who had no problem with their eyes to break through, and now the night battle was beneficial to us, and now the night battle was greatly beneficial to us, and the casualties were much smaller than during the day. There is no precedent for large-scale night battles, and we are not creating a precedent for large-scale night battles? If I get out of the basket, I'll carry it all, so let's set off quickly, don't bring non-combat supplies, if you go too late, the defenders at the mouth of the boundary ridge will all be killed! ”

Liu Wenxiu opened his mouth to speak and stopped, his eyebrows were twisted, and he clenched his fist at Guan Shanyue, "The last general will listen to the order!" He turned around and walked out of the Chinese military tent, and said to the herald who had been waiting outside the big tent: "The commander has an order, all the staff will pull out the camp and set off, and the tents and other non-combat materials will be left in place, and march towards the mouth of the boundary ridge!" ”