The iron hooves were rolling, and those blue flag tartars finally ran to Zhongwu Village, they ran around the military village, and some even turned to the east gate.

Soon they found a problem on the ice, and turned back to the west gate, hovering on the north and southwest sides of the military village, constantly spying on the situation in and around the village.

They howled like wolves and wild boars.

And at this distance, Zhang Songtao and others in the village also saw their appearance and equipment clearly, all of them were blue iron-inlaid cotton armor nailed with dense copper nails, big heart guards, painted iron helmets with throat guards, helmets and guns with red tassels high, huge shoulder pads, and hands pulling the reins hidden under the horseshoe sleeves.

The cotton armor on their bodies is heavy and thick, and some of them have stronger armor, obviously the kind of vest with double armor inside, and they are all superb in riding, riding horses and galloping like flying, and their bodies are full of bloodthirsty and murderous atmosphere.

Most of the people in the village saw the living Tartars on the battlefield for the first time, and they were all frightened when they saw their murderous, savage and ferocious appearances.

Zhang Songtao was also in his heart, he looked at the blue flag tartars outside the village, there were about dozens of horses, and the vests and infantry were different. But looking at the official road from afar, there are black dots looming, obviously the ninth master said that there is a bull record in the blue flag going south, this news is true.

He didn't dare to slack off, and ordered the whole village to be on strict guard.

The Zhenglan flag tartars outside the village were still roaring, and even a few horsemen swaggered across the official road and ran to the trench not far to watch.

There were also a few horsemen roaring back, apparently to report news and information on the official road.

At this time, on the Tongjing Avenue, many horses' hooves were stepping on the snow and splashing, and a group of people and horses followed the Shuhe River, and went south to Suqian and Huai'an's official road, and they rode on foot, with more than 300 people.

The two poles fluttered high, the team was dressed in blue armor, most of them rode horses, among which there were about dozens of armored soldiers, all wearing heavy iron-inlaid cotton armor, and even some of them had heavier armor, obviously the horse armor of this Niu Lu.

In fact, they can be regarded as cavalrymen, all of them are superb in horsemanship, they can immediately chop, and even ride and shoot, and they are sharp under their horses.

Their treatment is not ordinary, there is a rule when the old slave is a slave: "One Niu Lu Jiashi 100 people, each Niu Lu has 40 horses, 40 horses and 40 horse armor to take it." "Whatever the armor and horses must be given priority.

Although many of the rest of the infantry armor are exquisite in riding, strictly speaking, they are only mounted infantry, and they are only called horse infantry armor, which cannot be regarded as elite cavalry.

But Manchuria has risen for many years, and these armored soldiers are all elite, and the gap between them and the vest is not large, and everyone has a war horse, but they are just waiting for leisure.

They all wore large double-pierced bows and quivers, or bows and quivers on the left and right sides of their bodies, or quivers tied behind their backs and bows and pots on the left side of their bodies, or bows and pots hanging from their saddles.

In addition to strong bows and arrows, many armored soldiers also carry bags or javelin bags with throwing weapons such as throwing axes, iron bones, and javelins.

They were murderous, and their expressions were full of confidence in a hundred battles.

In addition to the armored soldiers, there are also about 100 unarmored bannermen in the team. In the Eight Banners system, three dings wear one armor, one ding flags distribute armor, and the remaining two dings need to be brought by themselves. Although the Eight Banners won victory again and again, and captured a large number of armor and equipment of the Ming army, they still couldn't put on armor for everyone.

Those who did not remove their armor showed their own powers, and equipped themselves with various kinds of armor, including cotton armor, leather armor, iron armor, and so on. Even many people do not wear armor, but only wear arrow-sleeved robes with horseshoe sleeves, which does not affect archery and can keep warm at the same time.

They often wear warm hats, which are also called bowl hats because they are shaped like bowls, and have warm items that are attached to the throat.

The unarmored bannermen were also the warriors, and even the main force of the various Niulu archers, who used large bows, large bows, wide bows, and generally ten-force bows, and used long and heavy arrows or crescent arrows in close combat.

The second also uses the eight-force bow, which is already a 100-pound strong bow according to the bow strength of later generations.

They mostly use goose-winged knives with swords, and their faces are also confident and full of anger.

There are more than 100 people in the team and Yu Ding and Bao Yi, these Yu Ding, or not old, are not old enough to become flag soldiers. Or there are too many dings in the family, and it is not their turn to become the flag ding. But to fight and loot, this is a matter of thick oil and water, and they all try their best to fight.

They accompanied the army as auxiliaries for the first soldiers, and after the victory, they could loot a lot of booty, and the Qing soldiers entered the customs several times, and each time they looted richly, so that the remnants of the banners flocked to it.

They are also quite combat-ready, the Eight Banners have strict training, they entered the reserve at the age of thirteen, registered as a soldier Yu Ding, can buy horses, bows and arrows, and sabers to enter the city, and then take exams every three years. If you reach the standard, you will be a guard, then an infantry armour, and then a horse armour.

They also generally wear warm hats, some have armor, some have none, some have horses, all of them are high-spirited, wearing goose-winged knives or goose-feathered knives, and using large bows of varying strength.

They escorted the coated laborers to walk behind, carrying all kinds of baggage, carts, shield carts, etc.

Most of these coatings are the Dingkou captured from Shandong last time, and some of them have a family, they have been in Liaodong for a few years, and their psychology has also changed, and they no longer care about their home and country, they just want to win the favor of their masters. I hope that the masters will grab too much and give them some meager rewards.

Even with the victory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty again and again, many people felt that the Qing Dynasty was more promising, acting for the tiger and riding on the heads of the people as a prestige.

For example, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the well of the Jingshi was controlled by the coat captured from Shandong that year, and it was sold according to the well, and a load of water cost 80 yuan, and even 160 yuan in drought. In the Ming Dynasty, most of the Jingshi wells were public wells, and the residents drew freedom.

As slave coolies, their clothing has also changed, all of them have money rat tails and wear Manchurian robes. They did not have warm hats and horseshoe sleeves, but only wrapped their heads, faces and hands with strips of cloth, and desperately pushed heavy shield carts and other objects.

In addition, there are more than a dozen blacksmiths and saddlers in this cattle record, and they are also captured Ming craftsmen, and their treatment is better than that of Baoyi.

More than 300 people have been going south along the official road, and they are murderous, as if they have entered a no-man's land.

The development of the Eight Banners to the present is the most arrogant and self-confident time, swaggering, and ignoring no one in the Ming Dynasty.

Not far from Zhongwu Village, suddenly the horse's hooves were rolling in front of him, and several horses were galloping, which was the vest elite rider who had chased Jiu Ye and others earlier. They rushed to the official and rode loudly: "Report to Niu Lu Zhangjing, those dozen or so horsemen have fled to the walled fort." ”

He pointed to Zhongwuzhai in front of him, and the people under the official looked at him, their eyes as sharp as eagles.

One of them, Ming Helmet and Ming Armor, Sen Sensen, with a carved otter tail on the helmet tube, and a flying tiger and fox tail flag on his back, with a sturdy figure and cruel and sharp eyes, was actually a Kabush Sage warrior Korkun who had fought with Qian Sanniang and others.

Next to him was Niu Lu Zhangjing, about thirty years old, with short mustaches, bulging on his body, and extremely heavy armor, even wearing triple armor. The innermost chain mail, the outer layer of iron short cover armor, and the outermost inlaid iron cotton armor, with a total weight of more than 60 catties.

He stood side by side with Colkoin, his eyes as cruel and sharp, and cautious, but he was the Blue Flag Niu Lu Zhang Jing Suohun.

He had become acquainted with Colcoin and had charged together many times, and even Colcoin had saved his life.

And he is also a brave general, many times for the Eight Banners born and died, after entering the customs in history, he had defeated Li Zicheng, and attacked Jiang Xuan, with the accumulation of merit for Baya Laxu Zhangjing, and the Ministry of Servants, awarded the flag solid mountain Ezhen. Later, in Fujian, he was defeated by Zheng Chenggong and deposed because he did not practice water warfare.

Hearing Ma Jia's reply, Suo Hun was neither happy nor angry, and only looked at Colquin beside him: "Brother Colkun, the group of Ming army sentries you said also fled into this walled fort?" ”

Colcoin stared at Zhongwu Village, as if recalling the battle of the inn that day, and he said coldly: "That group of Ming army sentries did flee into this fort, and soon continued south, and it seems that there is their lair to the south. Today, this group of southern barbarians fled into this village like horses. They were very good and fierce, and I am sure they were all Southern Barbarian warriors from the same group. ”

After the first battle of Matoupu, Zhenglanqi Baya Lazhuang Dawu Zhuketu, inlaid red flag and others turned back to Yanzhou, but Korkun stayed.

He secretly followed Qian Sanniang and the others, watched them escape into Zhongwu Village before turning back, and then met Suo Hun and others who were traveling south near Tancheng, and went south with this Niu Lu soldiers and horses.

Hearing Colcoin's reply, Suohun became interested: "Go and see." ”

……

Suo Hun's soldiers and horses converged in the wilderness to the west of Zhongwu Village, and Zhong Wu Village was separated by an official road.

Gathering the vest infantry that pursued earlier, at this time Suohun Niulu had about 100 armored soldiers, 30 inner vests, and 70 infantry armor.

Compared with the post-Jin period, the original white-armored soldiers and Katash soldiers of each Niu Lu are gone, and even the number of horse armors is not as good as the original.

However, in the eighth year of Tiancong, the Later Jin Khan Huang Taiji reformed the military system and built the "Gebush Xianchaoha Battalion", "Bayala Battalion", and "Aliha Chaoha Battalion". The Bayala soldiers in each Niu Lu were drawn to the "Bayala Battalion".

In the past, there were 40 vest soldiers in each cow, and 20 of them needed to be sent to the "Aliha Chaoha Battalion", and the shortfall needed to be replenished by themselves.

Huang Taiji's move perfected the military system, allowing the Manchurians to truly get rid of the tribal military system and have the appearance of a national army. But is it so easy to replenish the shortage of soldiers? Each Niu Lu tried his best, but he could only ensure that the number of a hundred armored soldiers remained unchanged, but the ratio between the horse armor and the infantry armor was difficult to say.

Suo Hun used all his strength, and his current vest in Niu Lu was only thirty people.

At the same time, Huang Taiji also perfected the official system, setting up a secular position and a real official, there can be many people in the secular position, and the actual official can lead the army, similar to the difference between the officer of the central guard of the Ming army and the general of the battalion.

It's just that the world position set up by Huang Taiji is similar to the name of the actual official, which has caused a lot of inconvenience, such as Suo Hun's world position is Niu Lu Zhangjing, and his real official dispatch is also Niu Lu Zhang Jing, which is quite confusing.

Therefore, in later generations, Dolgon and Shunzhi changed their names successively, and it was not until the seventeenth year of Shunzhi that the official name of Chinese characters was determined, Gushan Ezhen was determined as the capital unification, Meler Zhangjing was the deputy capital commander, Jiala Zhangjing was the staff leader, and Niu Lu Zhangjing was the assistant leader.

However, the reform of Huangtaiji did increase the combat effectiveness and mobilization power of the Eight Banners. Now the Niu Lu Quanding who went out to fight came, and the Niu Lu Quanding who stayed behind stayed behind, with clear responsibilities.

More than 300 soldiers and horses stood in the snowy wilderness, armored soldiers, unarmored soldiers, and Yu Ding were clothed, with clear layers. There was not a trace of noise in the entire military formation, occasionally the war horses neighed, and the men and horses spewed thick white gas. At this time, it was also the peak of the Eight Banners' discipline combat power.

The sound of hooves was mixed, Suohun and Kolkun rode their horses to the side of the official road, followed by two Goshkha, and there were two vests to get the Pashku, two Pashku to the foot armor, some vests, etc.

They looked at the military village in front of them, more than 100 steps away Zhongwu village towered, built on the snow-covered mountain bag, the winding Shu River passed through the east of the military village, and the ice had already been completely frozen.

After looking at it for a while, and listening to the information from the detective from the horse armor next to him, Suo Hun frowned and said, "This village is strange. ”