Not to mention, there are a lot of soldiers and horses under Mao Jue's command in silence, there are more than 12,700 men in Tieshan, 9,000 in Yizhou, and 5,000 in Xidaying, these are theoretically all legions under Mao Jue, if all the people are soldiers, he can mobilize more than 26,000 troops at most.

Under normal circumstances, there are 5,000 soldiers in the West Battalion and 5,004 soldiers in the Iron Mountain Battalion, and he also has 10,000 soldiers and horses.

Of course, until the moment of life and death, Mao Jue could not take everyone out of production and arms, and this is to aid the Daling River, from the Iron Mountain to the Daling River is more than 400 kilometers, 800 miles, there are too many people and horses, logistics, baggage, will be subjected to double the pressure, the famous Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty in history conquered Goguryeo, and the troops dispatched reached a terrifying 970,000, but in fact, the number of people who arrived at the front line was only 350,000 to 400,000, and the huge corps was scattered on the long border. Since Guanzhong, Hebei has transported troops and horses to defend the place, accounting for more than half of the troops.

This is also where Mao Jue is unhappy, according to the military law of the Ming Empire, the local troops need to supply support the troops' food, but one by one the civilian officials are picking out the hair, take the previous Jinggi defense battle as an example, Shanxi Governor Geng Ruqi and Shanxi General Zhang Mengjing came to help, according to the regulations, the reinforcements will be issued one day after the defensive position, and the military department does not know that the adult is so "careful to calculate", in order to save this food, three days to mobilize Shanxi soldiers to change the defense of three locations.

Originally, the march of thousands of miles was already very tired, hungry for three days in a row to be mobilized regiments, the soldiers were also hairy, simply launched a mutiny, 5,000 men and horses fled back to Shanxi, Zhang Mengjing Geng Ruqi suffered the punishment of abandoning the city, a part of the Shanxi soldiers had to join the peasant army, but became a big trouble for the imperial court.

The relationship between Dongjiang and Liaodong is not good, this time, God knows if those old people are willing to give him the salary?

"Brother, are you sure you don't bring these soldiers and horses?"

At noon the next day, the leaders of the various armies successively led their soldiers and horses to Tieshan, but Mao Jue's order made the generals stunned.

In addition to the pro-army and the same number of soldiers, the remaining soldiers and horses are all disbanded!

What does this mean? There are 5,000 people in the West Battalion, Mao Youde, Mao Zhongming's personal soldiers are less than 1,000 people, so the two of them can bring 2,000 people, but they are still good, such as the Zhao brothers, He Baobao, Tian Tao and other local wealthy generals, they are even more miserable, mainly relying on the clan power, there are only fifty or sixty personal soldiers, and the three families of Tieshan can send about 600 troops together, which is comparable to the strength of 100 households.

As for Mao Jue himself, he was the most proud, the previous batch of 800 pro-soldiers, and when he helped Jin Zidian to fight against the Japanese, he recruited a batch of 800, plus the Tieshan standard battalion, and took over the soldiers and horses that were still gratifying, and he sent 3,002 troops this time.

This time, he was going to fight with Jiannu, every time he went out to fight, Mao Wenlong went all out, and even wanted to bring the lame blind man with him, but this time with Mao Jue, the number of people was actually reduced to such a point, Mao Youde was quite uncomfortable and pointed to the five or six thousand soldiers and horses who were blocked outside the Iron Mountain camp and disbanded in a hurry, and asked in amazement.

But listening to his question, Mao Jue rolled his eyes widely.

"Will you get the food for the 5,000 men and horses?"

Now Tieyi's army is still in the semi-feudal era, Mao Jue's 1,600 personal soldiers, all of them are mercenaries, and the rest of the soldiers of the Western Battalion are all left in the feudal era, which is somewhat similar to the relationship between the Japanese daimyo and the samurai today, in Tieshan Yizhou, Mao Jue was assigned to the Tun General Tuntian as the deputy general of Tieyi, and the Tun General distributed a part of the Tun Tian to the pro-soldiers in his own name, and the pro-soldiers generally belonged to the small landlords, and there were some tenants who farmed for them. The daimyo "pays money and food, and the relationship of allegiance is layered."

So Mao Jue decided to lead as many troops, Mao Youde couldn't object, Mao Jue rolled his eyes, he could only hug his fists stupidly, and went back to prepare.

The more soldiers and horses are not the better, the war has not yet been fought, Mao Jue already knows that it is just a defeat, this time he went mainly to the occasion, if he can, he can't wait to take dozens of cavalry directly, once in danger, run away, more than 10,000 old soldiers, small and small, bring more is also a burden, about two thousand eight personal soldiers as the main combat effectiveness, the remaining two thousand eight Mao Jue did not plan to take the battle at all, completely as a logistics soldier, to carry the soldiers and their own rations, so that it can be regarded as the lightest and simple, and it is convenient to retreat.

But even so, looking at these people under his command, Mao Jue still has a headache, his 1,060 pro-corps, there are more than 800 recruits training is only half, but the equipment is uniform, twelve musket regiments have a set of cotton armor, a flintlock pistol, a bayonet, a hundred base of musket bullets, cavalry sentry and shield sentry are similar, especially the shield sentry, in addition to the knife, now half of the waist has a revolver, which looks like a regular army, but those patchwork pro-corps are really a little unpresentable, Take everything.

In particular, as a pro-soldier, it is necessary to go into battle at a critical moment to follow the main general desperately, most of the pro-soldiers use cold weapons, and even some Qimen weapons, and the pro-soldiers bear their own equipment, some are new, some are old, and some are simply not armored, and the whole guerrilla looks like.

In the afternoon, after reorganizing the troops in the Iron Mountain City military camp and distributing the silver and food for the settlement family, it was really a Virgo obsessive-compulsive attack, and Mao Jue gave an order and opened the arsenal.

In these years, the most difficult part of the musket is the barrel, which can drill six or seven out of ten, but with hydraulic machine tools, the success rate has reached more than 90 percent, and the rest is done with assembly line assembly parts.

In the wooden boxes, stacked in straw were neat flintlock pistols, the dark barrel was glossy with a layer of oil, very well maintained, and there were three-edged thorns with cold light on the side of the handle.

However, what annoyed Mao Jue was that he was bleeding heavily, and there were still people who didn't appreciate it.

"You have to fight a war with real knives and guns, Lao Tzu has been in the army for 20 years, and I have never seen a win with this burning stick!"

It should be Geng Zhongming's army, who threw the flintlock pistol issued to him on the ground with disdain, and shouted loudly at the pro-army of the same team who hesitated with the flintlock pistol next to him.

But Mao Jue really agreed with what he said, even during the American Civil War, the final means of resolving the war were bayonets, and they all said that the Qing Dynasty was ignorant, just relying on big swords and spears, if the Qing army had the courage and blood of the founding of the country!

In the battle of Bali Bridge where the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, the cavalry of the Qing Army did not break through the hollow phalanx of the British and French coalition forces, but the military equipment at the end of the Qing Dynasty was really to an unbelievable extent, and the Qing army, which claimed to be riding and shooting the world, was a mess taught by the bayonets of the great powers in the hand-to-hand combat of cold weapons, and in that battle, the Qing army lost more than 3,000 people, and the British and French troops actually died 12 people.

There was also the Battle of Pyongyang in the First Sino-Japanese War, where the Qing army endured several days of artillery bombardment by the Japanese army, but quickly collapsed after the Japanese bayonet battle.

"General!"

The tone is not small, but after all, he is still a junior officer, this has not been blown, seeing that Mao Jue actually walked over with his hands behind his back and stepping on the military boots, this person still couldn't help but be nervous, and turned around and gave a military salute.

"Will make the gun not!"

"Hui General, the little one is relying on killing people to fill the army for food, how can he not make it, General, this burning stick ......"

Before he finished speaking, the bayonet on the handle was pulled off by Mao Jue, stretched out his hand to put it on the barrel, turned around and stabbed with both hands, and with a click, the sharp three-edged thorn pierced more than half of the grass target for training next to him, and the tip came out through the grass.

To tell the truth, this hand is not eye-catching in the eyes of those pro-regiments who have practiced guns and spears in their lives and have many fighting masters, but the effect of the bayonet is bright in the eyes of these pro-soldiers.

"How fucking can it be used?"

It was really quite a novelty, the stabbing man Qian always stepped forward and pulled out the bayonet, and the expert weighed the weight of the flintlock pistol, and unscrewed the half-meter-long bayonet again, and then put it on, not only his other members of the pro-army team who were originally disdainful of this firearm, weighed the firearm in hand, and his eyes became soft and eager to try.

patted him on the shoulder, Mao Jue was very General Patton's back hand and continued to inspect forward, with bayonets to supplement cold weapon fighting, most of the men and horses of the Western Battalion and the Iron Mountain Three Divisions accepted the newly issued weapons, but Mao Jue didn't expect that there were actually stabbing armor.

The clean cotton armor was thrown to the ground, and a pro-soldier with knotted muscles and a rather sturdy man showed the scars on his body while still clenching his fists at Mao Jue from afar.

"General! Little Zhao Tiehan, let's save a pair of armor for you! The little one has been in the army for twenty years, relying on this blood and bravery, fighting first, and never knowing how heavy a nail is!"

This is a bit of a concern, from the mouth of the Shanhaiguan general soldier Juniper, who was famous in the northwest of the year, and hundreds of battles with Hu people, he was shirtless, the big knife was like the wind, and the northwest ethnic minorities cried and called their mothers, calling them Du Taishi, this pro-soldier really does not seem to be from Liaodong, with juniper allusions, showing off his courage to Mao Jue.

However, his courage is better than Juniper, it is still not a star and a half, and before he finished bragging about this thing, the revolver in his right hand was violently pulled out by Mao Jue, and the crackling bullet slapped directly on the soles of his feet.

Caught off guard, as if dancing ballet, the old lady with small feet staggered back and forth several steps back, and finally sat on the ground with a sad butt, and the bright brain was full of cold sweat beads.

A kicked to the side of the thing, casually inserted the revolver into the gun pin on the belt, and Mao Jue also gestured a little thumbs up.

"Zhao Tiehan, right? This time in the war, Lao Tzu has special approval, you stand in the back row!"

In the laughter of these soldiers, Zhao Tiehan's old face was flushed, and he ran into the crowd like he fled with that set of cotton armor, and he could still hear his angry shouting and scolding from a distance.

However, in these two ways, Mao Jue is familiar with these soldiers and soldiers under the command of others, and a group of soldiers and ruffians also have a good impression and support for Mao Jue.

On the first day of Mao Wenlong's order, Mao Jue completed the assembly, and the next day, the mighty Dongjiang fleet had docked at the port of Tieshan, and at this time, Mao Jue could be regarded as having a decent corps, and the strongest combat effectiveness of the two thousand eight hundred Tieyi was uniformly draped in neat armor, with a flintlock pistol on the bayonet on his shoulder, and lined up on the ship in an orderly manner.

As for the 2,800 guards who served as porters in the back, Mao Jue really didn't have the energy to take care of it, one person had a light single knife, and he didn't have a shield, so he could wear whatever he liked.

And the bow of the flagship ship of the Dongjiang River, Mao Wenlong's old but majestic and stiff body also appeared there unexpectedly, and his old face showed a gloomy feeling of worry......

(End of chapter)