Fought a victorious battle, captured forty or fifty heads, so that the patrol department of the whole group of excitement, whether it is in the eyes of these recruits or in the eyes of the people of Xishan Town, the Mantar does not seem to be so terrible, nor as powerful as the legend, as long as everyone fights bravely, they can still be defeated.

However, in the eyes of the discerning person, this victory came too lucky, and it cannot be replicated. It was the invincible arrogance of the Mantars and Chen Yue who arranged the battlefield in advance and occupied the absolute geographical advantage, which led to a victory.

Such a victory can never be repeated, and with such a victory, to think that you are stronger than the Mantar fighting force must be arrogant and carried away by victory.

Was Chen Yue also carried away by the victory? Shan Minglei is not sure, maybe Chen Yue has already considered how to defeat the Mantars in Fangshan County, and through this victory, Shan Minglei no longer dares to underestimate Chen Yue.

Compared with sending troops to suppress bandits, defeating the Manchurians and recovering Fangshan County must be much more tempting. Not to mention the huge wealth seized after defeating the Manchurians, the recovery of the lost territory alone is enough to make Chen Yue an official and a knight, and it is not an exaggeration to seal a guerrilla garrison. And the huge wealth of the entire Fangshan County looted by the Tartars will make raising soldiers no longer have to worry.

But the question is, with the current strength of the Inspection Division, is it capable of recapturing Fangshan from the Mantars?

"Judging from the fact that there are only more than 100 Manchu Tartars attacking us, the number of Manchu Tatars in Fangshan will not be very large, at most there are only about 200 people, which is about the same as our number." Chen Yue analyzed, "But after this defeat, our details have been known to us, and we are afraid that they will be surrounded and annihilated by more Ming troops, and they will inevitably abandon Fangshan County and return to the division with the main force."

Of course, our strength is not enough to attack the city, and even a field battle with the same number of Mantar cavalry is a must-lose. But we don't have to fight them head-to-head, as long as we can judge the path of their retreat, and then ambush them, we will definitely be able to bite off a piece of meat from them. ”

"Isn't that too risky? Why don't we wait for the Mantars to give up Fangshan County, and then we will enter the city again, so the work of recovering Fangshan is still in our hands, why do we have to fight hard with the Mantars? Shan Minglei frowned.

Taking advantage of the Mantar to leave and occupy Fangshan, with these dozens of heads in his hands, he will definitely be able to regain the lost territory, and he can get great achievements without fighting, so why risk fighting?

"It's easy to make a big contribution, but it's also a lot less captured. The entire Fangshan County has been ransacked by the Mantars, how much oil and water can we get, and how can we feed the army if we don't capture it! Chen Yue sighed, he didn't know that it was too dangerous to fight against the Mantars, but if he didn't, how could he accumulate wealth as soon as possible!

At this moment, Chen Yue didn't know that in Beijing, his honeycomb coal business was in full swing and occupied most of Beijing's coal market. And he is still worried about the army's salary next month.

If you want others to sell your life to you, you must give enough benefits to others, Chen Yue still understands this truth, so he has always prescribed the best food for the family, and also issued more than one or two salaries to the recruits, which seems to be not much, and it is not even up to the average level of the Ming border army, but the salary of the border army can be paid three times It is good, and the capital will be in arrears, and Chen Yue has never intended to owe the soldiers silver.

That's why he made up his mind to attack Mantar in Fangshan County!

Seeing that Chen Yue had made up his mind, Shan Minglei stopped persuading and turned to prepare for the army's attack. When the army leaves Sicheng to attack Mantar, it will enter a state of marching, and it needs to eat and sleep outside, so it needs to prepare a lot of materials.

In order to make a fire to cook during the march, so a large number of cooked food that can be eaten at any time is needed, Shan Minglei summoned the people of Xishan Town to help, fried a large amount of wheat flour and sesame soybeans together, and then sewed slender cloth bags into it, and distributed a bag of each small flag before the march for ten days. It is also necessary to prepare tents, bedding and other marching materials, under the freezing weather, if you do not pay attention to the cold, the army may lose its combat effectiveness if it freezes overnight. In short, it all fell on Shan Minglei.

After making up his mind, Chen Yue sent Wei Yang and Liu Neng to each lead a team of sentry spouts around Fangshan County at night. Since the capture of a large number of war horses, Chen Yue expanded the number of people who did not collect at night to ten, and a team of five people was led by Wei Yang and Liu Neng respectively.

In two days, more than 20 carts were converted into chariots, and the right side of the chariot was uniformly installed with a thick wooden plank four feet high that could be removed, which could effectively protect against the enemy's bows and arrows, and the war workshop was connected end to end to form a movable city wall, which could effectively contain the impact of the Manchu cavalry.

According to Chen Yue's design, Lu Sanyou and other craftsmen converted the captured strong bow into a cross crossbow, which was equipped with a light door for aiming, and each small flag was issued with two pieces, which could be carried by soldiers on the chariot to fire at the attacking enemy.

The combination of chariots, crossbows, and firebolts can not only defend but also attack, and can effectively kill and injure the enemy's living force.

After defeating the Mantars who attacked Sicheng and seizing a large number of weapons and materials, the equipment level of Chen Yue's soldiers improved a lot. Now, in addition to a mandarin duck jacket, a quarter of the soldiers have armor, at least all officers above the rank of captain have a battle armor. The firebolt bows and arrows captured from the Mantars have increased the long-range attack power of the troops, and now each small flag has two firecrackers and two crossbow archers, and the configuration of the small flag has become more complete.

After the chariot was ready, Chen Yue immediately ordered the chariot drill to begin, the ditch outside the city was leveled, and the troops conducted drills inside and outside the city.

Each flag has a chariot, each chariot is equipped with a pack horse, when marching, the pack horse pulls the chariot to march, and when encountering the enemy, the pack horse is unwound, and the chariot is connected in pairs to form a chariot formation. The soldiers hid behind wooden walls to face the enemy.

This is a new tactic for Chen Yue's soldiers, and coordination in battle is extremely important, because you must quickly form a chariot formation when the enemy cavalry rushes over, and if you are slow, a slaughter awaits you.

In order to test the effect of the formation and simulate the actual combat, Chen Yue personally took more than ten personal guards, rode war horses to simulate the enemy army, and launched a surprise attack on the car formation from two miles away, requiring that before the cavalry arrived, the car formation must be completed.

On the third day of intense training, suddenly the news came back at night, a raging fire in Fangshan County!