Chapter 69. The wolf smoke rises, and the mountains and rivers tremble
"Kill! Kill!"
The fierce shouts shook the entire school field, and the recruit training has entered its second month, and the training has finally entered the actual combat from the hated queue and standing posture of the pro-corps.
The shiny flintlock pistol was already in everyone's hands, and at the door of the barracks, a dead one, a huge boar hung there, causing a sky full of flies.
Will be the soldier's guts, the guy at hand, the armor on his body is also the soldier's courage, the day the flintlock pistol was issued, Mao Jue in front of everyone, casually snatched a flintlock pistol from a personal soldier, a bayonet passed, the sharp bayonet easily pierced the boar's heart, such a hundred pounds of beast was directly knocked down.
This is definitely different from the soft and brittle bird gun in the past, and it instantly gave great confidence to the eight flintlock whistles, and the farthest rumor in Liaodong, Nurhachi means wild boar skin, this stab also shows the meaning of the existence of this regiment, that is, to stab into the heart of the wild boar skin like a bayonet, which also greatly improves the morale of this newly formed pro-corps.
Soldiers, you have to be this kind of sharpness!
The only drawback is that the Hongyi cannons of the two artillery posts have not yet arrived, and the runners can only run around with the tiger squat cannon first, running around with cannonballs and powder barrels.
However, at this time, Mao Jue was not on the school ground, and the task of commanding these hundreds of infantry to practice assassination against the throat of the scarecrow was completely handed over to Wen Meng, and at this time, Mao Jue was personally supervising another team that he relied on extraordinarily.
Cavalry!
Twenty miles east of Garlau Peak Fort, Yellow Lawn.
The slope of about ten degrees is quite flat, and on the edge of the forest, there are hundreds of shadows holding shields, bows and arrows, and hideous scarecrows seem to have just pounced out of the forest, and at the foot of the mountain a few hundred meters away, two cavalry posts are waiting restlessly.
"Attack!"
In Mao Jue's angry shout, Liu Chong took the lead in throwing the reins of the horse, and then the two regiments of cavalry pulled into noodles and charged forward, the horse's hooves flew up, and the dry hillside was covered with deep horseshoe prints.
If in the past, this cavalry team that bravely attacked would have fiercely slashed down with sabers and killed heads, but this time, the cavalry made a big turn thirty or forty meters in front of the "Jiannu" army formation, and in an instant, the same dark barrel of the gun poked forward.
Ping Pong~
The cavalry is really treated higher than the infantry, the eight sentry flintlock pistols only have live ammunition training once every three days, the cavalry is live ammunition training every day, and under the dense gunfire spray, the straw crowd with swords and shields was suddenly beaten, even if the wooden shield was broken, and the scarecrow was beaten to the fire.
The hoplite has always been the nemesis of the shock cavalry, the Ming army fought the most brilliant and tragic two field battles in Liaodong, one is the battle of Liu Ting's Western Route Army Qijia Army Salhu, one is the last swan song of the remnants of the Qijia Army and the white pole soldiers on the bank of the Liao River, both times, the rolling clouds of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry roared and rushed over, but they were killed and wounded under the spears of the Ming army, and finally in Nurhachi roared angrily The dense Jurchen archers pushed the big shield cart, relying on the numerical advantage and the consumption of bows and arrows, which broke the heavy infantry formation, The two elites of the Ming Dynasty were exhausted.
Equipped with bayonets, Mao Jue's flintlock musketeers have more than one meter six weapons in their hands, plus cotton armor, enough to take on the task of hoplites, long-range can also use muskets to shoot, although it is a primitive firearm, the performance of muskets is actually better than bows and arrows, otherwise Britain would not have issued a decree to abolish the longbow, with a more primitive arquebus to replace the longbow that has been used for hundreds of years, in this case, the function of cavalry charging and fighting has decreased a lot, and the task of harassing and protecting the formation is much heavier.
Mao Jue remembered a famous class of soldiers in later generations.
Dragoons!
The cavalry flintlock pistol is a short 70 centimeter model, although the effective range is much reduced, but the agility and speed on the horse can make up for it, the short barrel is better than the immediate reload, if properly trained, a hundred cavalry will be like a gadfly to the opponent to the trouble of attack.
However, the premise is that the training is proper, a round of musket bombardment, the scarecrow in the front is in a mess, but the back is basically fine, and the nearby trees are unlucky, many holes are hit, and someone obviously misses.
The angry Mao Jue scolded.
"It's been three days! Are you all pigs? Fighting stationary targets is like this, how will you hit the Jiannu Eight Banners with such a strong wind in the future? Come on, put a scarecrow, and then practice for Lao Tzu! You can't knock half of the bundle down, don't fucking eat dinner!"
This Liu Chong was also on fire, and he grabbed the two people who had just released the empty guns and slapped them twice, and he roared angrily.
"Aim and fight! Lao Tzu can't eat dinner, you just don't want to fucking sleep tonight, you can't beat half of it, and you will squat for Lao Tzu tonight!"
Now that the sense of honor of the troops has also been trained, the two commanders are angry, and the cavalry themselves are also on fire, restlessly and quickly reloading their ammunition, intending to carry out the next round of impact.
But at this moment, in the distance, a few cavalry rushed over, and Su Changmei was sweating profusely, acting as a herald.
"General, Mao Shuai will order, emergency military situation, recruit the general to return to Phi Island quickly!"
With a sigh in his heart, Mao Jue asked hurriedly, "Do you know what happened?" ”
"Back to the general, the war in Liaozhen has started again! The Liaodong Governor ordered the whole Liao to prepare for war, and there was a holy decree handed down, and Mao Shuai also set out as a whole army!"
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I couldn't take care of the training or anything, Mao Jue hurried to the port with a dozen cavalry, I was really not at ease, and sent someone to send an order to bring Zhao Cheng, Zhao Yong, Tian Tao and He Baobao together, and cross the sea by boat.
It has been several months since I returned to Phi Dao, and it seems that everything has changed here, it is really a big war imminent, more than 100 warships on the Dongjiang River have all sailed out, and the port is full of soldiers pushing fresh water food to fill the boats, and the usually lazy Ming army is also nervously mobilized, thinking that everywhere there are patrol phalanxes patrolling around with spears, and the manpower patrolling the town of Phi Dao is two or three times more.
With the general's order, he went directly into the town, the governor's mansion, and the main hall, the military meeting of senior officers has been going on for a while, and the deputy commander-in-chief Chen Jisheng, Shen Shikui, the general Mao Youde, Mao Zhongming, the guerrilla Liu family brothers, Li Jiucheng and other senior officers are not left behind.
was arranging the route to march, watching Mao Jue come in, Mao Wenlong suddenly turned dark and stretched out his hand in annoyance.
"My son came just in time! Rutieshan Town and Mao Youde's Ministry stayed on the Dongjiang River! There must be no mistake in guarding against the Japanese!"
Mao Wenlong's temper is really inexplicable, but his words made Mao Jue breathe a sigh of relief, now the pro-soldier team has not yet completed training, and more importantly, the new crops are cultivated, harvested, and the winter storage still needs him to preside, he is really afraid that Mao Wenlong will come to battle and pull him away.
Under Mao Wenlong's eyes that Lao Tzu cleaned up after a while, Mao Jue obediently hugged his fist: "The last general will obey the order!"
Then he shrank behind Mao Youde, who was a little listless.
This time Mao Wenlong's march route is still the same as in the past, take the waterway into Lushun, from Jinzhou to the north, waiting for the opportunity to harass Hetuala or Liaoyang Shenyang line, Mao Zhongming as the vanguard, Shen Shikui as the left road, Liu brothers as the right road, the light pole commander Chen Jisheng followed Mao Wenlong to the middle army, the rest for the rear army, this time, the Dongjiang River is really pouring out.
Looking at this configuration, Mao Jue also understands that there must be a reliable person to guard the house in order to reassure Mao Wenlong, Mao Youde's loyalty is visible to everyone, and he is his own son, so it is not surprising that they stayed behind, not because Mao Jue didn't know what to do to provoke Mao Wenlong to be left behind.
is worthy of being a veteran, he specified a few plans, and thought about how Jiannu would fight back, and Mao Wenlong waved his hand with satisfaction.
"The generals will immediately return to the camp to prepare, start tonight, and go straight to Jinzhou! Mao Jue, you stay!"
"The last general obeys!"
More than a dozen important generals stood up, clasped their fists and bowed, and walked in a blink of an eye, leaving Mao Jue standing alone in the lobby, looking at Mao Wenlong, whose old face was blackened, and couldn't help but feel numb in the back of his head and scalp.
It's really a blow beard and glaring, the wrinkles on the head are about to become a tiger, I really don't know what is so angry with this old guy Mao Wenlong roared in annoyance.
"Brute, don't come in with the old man yet!"
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"What's going on?"
In the study, a Liaodong official document was thrown in front of Mao Jue's eyes, and after looking at it twice, Mao Jue's old face suddenly twitched, no wonder, Yuan Chonghuan sold it to him!
This product is definitely revenge, revenge on Mao Jue's sentence Yuan Manzi himself, in the official document, he especially praised Mao Jue's foresight, but it is not a compliment, it is good, this is called killing!
It's strange that Mao Wenlong didn't get angry, he didn't tell himself about his own son's information, he told Yuan Chonghuan first, where to put his old face?
Scratching the back of his head, Mao Jue immediately became excited again and asked hurriedly.
"Father, what is the situation of this war, has Yuan Manzi ever ordered to march to Shenyang?"
Chongzhen's second year to Chongzhen's third year of Houjin's entry into the customs, is a catastrophe in the Ming Dynasty, almost more than 200 years, the first time to let foreign enemies hit the capital, and the vicinity of Gyeonggi was looted, hundreds of thousands of people, millions of silver taels, countless grains and grass were swept to Liaodong, weakening the Ming Dynasty while fattening the pockets of the slave owners of Houjin, but also the same drought of Liaodong Houjin, the difficulty passed.
But it's not like there's no chance here! Yuan Chonghuan's lack of handsome talent is also vividly reflected here, Huang Taiji poured out of the nest, and it was a detour to Mongolia, the entire Houjin country was the emptiest time, if you seize the opportunity to recover Liaoyang Shenyang, it is not impossible to drag the battle line back to Fushun Kaiyuan Tieling, and you can also wait for work when you turn back, and you can fight in the Guannei, and return with a large number of prisoners in the Jianzhou Eight Banners, the odds of winning are very great.
But in history, Yuan Chonghuan was depressed and waved his army into the pass, not only fighting an ugly pursuit and defensive battle with the Houjin Eight Banners on the North China Plain, but also annihilating the more than 4,000 backbone cavalry under Zhao Shuojiao in Zunhua, and the Liaodong Army, which had been built with heavy money, suffered countless losses. It aroused the suspicion of Emperor Chongzhen, and finally compensated himself.
So Mao Jue wrote to Yuan Chonghuan two months in advance, reminding him that the big move of Jiannu was about to happen, and reminded him several times in a row that Liaoshen was empty!
If Yuan Chonghuan can be ruthless this time, he will go straight to Huanglong! The entire history of the late Ming Dynasty can be rewritten! When he asked this question, Mao Jue himself felt his blood boiling, if this is the case, even if he does not finish training, he will invite himself to join the army, and he will fight Hetuara in his lifetime, what a glory.
It's a pity that Mao Wenlong's words were like a basin of cold water, splashed on Mao Jue's head.
"It has been found out that the night is not collected, the captive lord Huang Taiji has taken advantage of Mongolia and has approached Xifengkou, Yuan Manzi ordered that several towns in Liaodong gather at Shanhaiguan and enter the customs of Qinwang!"