On the afternoon of the third day, the sentinel team and the cavalry team came back one after another, and they all had gains. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The sentinel team brought back a live mouth, seven heads, and captured eight horses. Jiu Ye and the others were divided into a number of small patrols, some encountered thieves, some did not, a total of four live mouths were caught, beheaded fifteen levels, and twenty-two horses and mules were seized.

The most amazing is Qian Sanniang and others, she led the team out of the post twice, killed a total of 45 thieves before and after, seized 70 horses and mules, and also caught five live mouths, this news shook the army, even Yang He was alarmed, and personally met with Qian Sanniang and others to commend and condole.

Zeng Youyu and others couldn't help but be dumbfounded when they heard this, they thought that the sentinel team had made a great contribution, but they didn't expect that compared with this Qian Sanniang, it was still a big deal.

The news inevitably reached the ears of the officials and people of Suining City, although they did not understand the specific situation, but nearly 100 thieves hanging on the battlements of the city were visible to everyone, and the captured horses and mules brought back by the outposts were also seen, and immediately the inside and outside of the city were shaken.

The officials and the people were more confident in defending the city, and the people talked about the heroines, the brave and heroic men of the countryside on the north bank, headed by Zhou Mingyuan, the gentry beat gongs and drums, and carried pigs and sheep into the barracks to reward the soldiers.

Of course, there will inevitably be casualties when you are out of the post.

Although each of them is equipped with a sharp three-eyed flint new arm, and the mounts under the crotch are also fat and strong, and the horse is strong and fast, but the thief is fierce after all, and this death and injury cannot be avoided.

The sentinel team was okay, lucky, no one was injured, and no one died, on the side of the ninth master, one person was killed and seven people were injured.

Qian Sanniang also had casualties on both outposts, the first time one person died, one person was injured, the second time one person died, two people were injured, and three war horses were damaged, and one horse was probably crippled.

This makes everyone in the cavalry team complicated, although they admire her and follow her out of the sentry, they will definitely make great contributions, but there will also be casualties, which is really incompatible. Those who think they are unlucky should also weigh themselves.

Everyone's summary is that the handcuffs carried this time are very featherful, because with this sharp weapon, it is much easier to kill the enemy than hand-to-hand combat.

However, it is also necessary to approach the fight, aim to hit, and it is best to enter within ten steps, so that this novel firearm that can fire three shots can reflect its power to the greatest extent.

However, although there were casualties, after two days of brutal sentinel fighting, the temperament of the cavalry team and the sentinel team has changed a lot.

Yang He ordered the wounded to return to the camp to rest, and the medical team took care of them carefully, and there were regulations for rewarding and bereaving people. In this battle, each member of the outpost captured a total of 100 horses and mules, and in the future, he wanted to expand the cavalry sentry team and also had mounts, especially the war horses in the interior, which could not be bought with money in troubled times.

At the same time, the thieves who were captured live, and their interrogation was also in full swing, and finally Yang He learned some messy information.

After discussing with everyone, Yang He pondered, and some of the general information was relatively accurate, such as the thief leading the army eastward, and the main thief general on the front line of the Bianhe River was Li Zicheng's nephew, called "a tiger" Li Guo. There are also his generals, the former battalion generals in the future, Mianhou Yuan Zongdi.

Then there are Luo Rucai's subordinates, his personal general Yang Shenzu, nephew Wang Long and others.

At this time, the combined forces of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were almost the same as when they attacked Kaifeng for the third time in history, and the soldiers and horses basically reached the astonishing level of "30,000 horse thieves, 100,000 foot thieves, and nearly 1 million coercions".

They divided their troops to attack the cities, and the troops of Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, and Wang Long almost also had 5,000 horse thieves and 20,000 foot thieves, and they coerced the hungry people along the way.

However, their main energy is still on attacking Suzhou and Lingbi, and they only plan to capture Suzhou and Lingbi and then go down the Bianhe River to Hongxian.

Because of the complaints of the thieves, it rained for days, the road was muddy, and it was very difficult to walk, and the official road from Lingbi to Hongxian would be better.

However, Suining is in the northeast corner of Lingbi, close at hand, and the thieves will not let go, and will send a horse team of 1,000 people to Suining to take a look, and there are half of the elite horsemen inside.

Yang He pondered, I don't know whether this news is true or not, reliable or unreliable, but one person said that it was false, and the ten living people who were captured basically had this statement, and they were still interrogated separately, so this information was very true.

Moreover, many of the thieves and sentry riders who came out of the post are in the old camp of the thieves, and their news channels should still be well-informed.

According to them, the rain has stopped, and the horse team is coming to Suining, and it will be only a matter of these two days.

So what to do, a decision has to be made right away.

The generals are controversial, and the general Yang minister, the deputy general Yang Qianzong, Luo Xianjue and other manpower owners ambushed, and chose a good terrain in the field, with their strength, the thieves and thousands of horses can still eat.

The second general general Han Daxia, the Chinese military officer Zhang Songtao, the ninth master Qian Zhongyong and others felt that it was better to defend the city.

After all, the horse team is a horse team, and it is not certain whether they can eat it during the ambush, and the thieves are not paying attention to Sui Ning now, if they eliminate this thief horse team and attract their attention, it may attract the retaliation of their brigade.

Everyone is controversial, everyone has their own reasons, and in the end it can only depend on how Yang Xianggong decides.

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March 4, 15th year of Chongzhen.

Jing Mountain.

This is a small hill thirty miles southwest of Suining County, there are abandoned villages, and there are Zhenwu Temple.

There is Zhao'er Mountain about one mile to the southwest of Jingshan, there is Yunju Temple on the top of the mountain, there is Yangjiawei in front of the temple, there is pottery kiln in the north of the mountain, all are abandoned at this time.

Then Zhao'er Mountain is connected to the southwest with Peng Mountain, the mountain has Guanyin Hall, and then there is Songjia Mountain in the southwest three miles, there is Puji Temple on the mountain, and there is the axis mountain in the southwest three miles of Songjia Mountain.

These mountains are not high, the sea is at most one or two hundred meters, and some of the original populated ones are all abandoned at this time.

The official road winds through the foot of Pengshan, Zhao'er Mountain and Jingshan Mountain, the road condition is very bad, three or four meters wide, potholes, many days of rain make the road full of mud, the official road is very dense weeds on both sides, all the way to the mountains.

In particular, on the opposite side of Jingshan, on the south side of the official road, on the east side of Zhaoershan Mountain, in the north of the original Yangjiawei, pottery kiln, prosperous, there are a large number of fields reclaimed, and there are many ditches and ponds.

After days of rain, the ponds are full, forming large swamps and ponds, which are difficult for people and horses to pass.

At this time, there were many people on Jingshan, and a large number of soldiers were wielding hoes and iron picks to dig up the earth, and some officers commanded back and forth, asking them to dig two suitable ambush trenches on the hillside about fifty paces away from the official road.

In the end, Yang He decided to set up an ambush, but that day he personally led the cavalry team to inspect the terrain, and when it looked like it, he chose the location of Jingshan.

The official road is at the foot of the mountain, the place where thieves must pass, and the mountain is densely weeded, and it is easy to hide. A hundred steps south of the official road, there are continuous swamps and ponds, and it is difficult for thieves to escape. One mile southwest is Zhao Er Mountain, which can ambush the cavalry and attack from behind.

Then there is a small river in Jingshan East to Erli, and when there are suspicious soldiers there, the thieves will have the worry of attacking half-crossing, and just want to pass through this place quickly.

It seems that with his current strength, if the thieves come, it is best to set up an ambush in this place.

After the decision, Yang He acted resolutely, except for the baggage team in the city, early in the morning, he led all the troops to rush here. In order not to leak the news, he didn't say anything to any of the officials in the city, he specially explained to Sheng Santang, if the county asked, he said that he would go out of the city to drill and come back that day.

After arriving at Jingshan, in addition to spreading the sentry horse, he also ordered the construction of fortifications immediately.

At this time, he went back and forth to see the soldiers busy, digging two trenches on the hillside, which were more than half a man high.

This is for the firearms to conceal and shoot.

Out of lightness, flexibility and inconspicuous considerations, Yang He did not carry a shield cart when he came, after all, although the weeds on the hillside are high, there are not many rocks and trees, and the unobstructed, high shield cart is placed here, and it is really difficult to say whether it can be hidden.

But firearms need protection, so digging trenches is the most suitable.

It can be used as a shooting place or as a cover, and when a thief shoots an arrow, he can hide in a trench to dodge.

He consulted with the people and arranged two trenches, adjacent to each other, each parallel to the official road, each more than a hundred steps long, and could hide more than 100 people, so that the two general firearms soldiers could hide.

Moreover, the first trench was still gentle in some places, and the mud pits were not dug but were used for placing artillery.

This time, he also brought five Falcon cannons, one for No. 2 and four for No. 3, with 10 taels of lead shot and 5 taels of lead shot, weighing 375 grams and 187 grams, which were very fierce, and in order to deter the enemy to the greatest extent, there were live ammunition and shotguns.

These cannons weighed more than 100 pounds, and the road was not easy to walk, so they were all carried.

When Yang He was refitted at that time, he also considered anti-arrow, and each gun was equipped with a guard plate similar to that of the Makqin heavy machine gun.

These guns are not high, and it is easy to hide in the weeds, but for maximum cover, at this time, the guards of the guns, the wheels, are stuffed with weeds.

Yiyanghe stood on the official road and looked at it, and after this arrangement, it was very difficult for the enemy on the official road to observe the abnormality on the hillside.

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"That's how this battle was set up...... After the first row of gunners finished fighting the second row, if the thieves rushed up, they would shoot the artillery at a straight point and shoot live ammunition. The thieves did not retreat, and the first row of gunners did not load the medicine, so the grenadiers threw 10,000 enemies, and then the gunners hit two more rows. The thieves did not retreat, but rushed up again, the artillery fired shotguns, the grenadiers threw 10,000 enemies, and the gunners hit two more rows. It is impossible for such thieves not to be defeated, and the commandos can rush down and fight. ”

In the Zhenwu Temple, which was more than 20 steps away from the second moat, Yang He spread out a blank piece of paper on a desk with a missing leg, and he drew a simple topographic map on the paper with a pencil.

Pointing to the drawings, Yang He talked eloquently, "This is a frontal battlefield, with the bow and arrow firepower of the thieves, they can't break through our front." According to their habits, after encountering an ambush attack, they will definitely want to outflank and encircle from both wings, so the two general killer teams are arranged on both wings. ”

Yang He drew on the drawings with a pencil again, "Even the guards are counted, there are more than 200 soldiers in the two corps, more than 100 on each wing, with heavy shields and spears, arranged in two rows, arranged on both sides of the first trench, and the flags are silent and hidden in the weeds during the war. When the thieves suddenly appeared, they got up and fought bravely to kill the enemy, and slowly formed a formation and forced down the mountain. ”

Yang He looked at the drawings and pondered, in this way, he was equivalent to opening a battle line along the official road that was two hundred steps long, that is, three hundred meters long, which was enough to encircle all the enemies.

Of course, he only has these soldiers, and he can spread such a long front, after all, including the gunners, the total strength he brought this time is only about six hundred.

Yang He finally said: "The escort team and the sentinel team are stationed, where there is danger and first aid, see the opportunity to rush down the mountain." The medical team carried the wounded into the temple for medical treatment. On the side of the Ninth Master, you are ambushed in the ruins of Yangjiawei in Zhao'er Mountain, and as soon as you hear the sound of guns, you immediately attack the back of the thieves. ”

Everyone gathered around Yang He, the Chinese officer Zhang Songtao, the first general general Yang minister, the deputy general Han Guan'er and Yang Qian, the second general Han Daxia, and the deputy general Luo Xianjue.

Then guard Chen Qiuao, captain of the three-in-one assault military law team, Cui Lu, captain of the grenadier team, Li Jiale, captain of the medical team, Zeng Youyu, captain of the sentinel team, and Qian Zhongyong, captain of the cavalry team.

During the discussion, the deputy members of each team directly under the battalion headquarters were also qualified to participate in the audit, Qian Sanniang stood beside Jiuye, looking at the drawings curiously, and glanced at Yang He from time to time.

Everyone listened to Yang He's arrangement very carefully.

Although Zhang Songtao, Han Daxia, Jiu Ye and others were opposed to setting up ambushes for field warfare at first, it is not that they are cowardly, but they are more serious. Minister Yang and others are not afraid of tigers, but they think more, their own capital is so small, every time they fight, they must be cautious and cautious.

Just like the cavalry team has only been a sentry for two days, three people were killed in battle, and the team has 50 cavalry, and today they were not even seriously injured and brought to participate in the battle, but 42 cavalry, the soldiers are fierce and dangerous, and they are not casually talked.

But if you decide to fight, then go all out.

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Soon everyone dispersed, and each performed his duties according to the arrangement, especially the ninth master took the cavalry team to ride away.

Today, his task is very heavy, in addition to sending sentry cavalry to intercept and shelter when building fortifications here, so as not to have thieves to spy on the movement here, if the thieves come, there are also sentry cavalry sent to the other side of the river as suspicious soldiers, and finally he has to lead dozens of horsemen to assault the rear of the thieves.

Jiu Ye suddenly found that compared to the past, although it was a little dangerous, but the overall slow dart career, this was too exciting in the days of Xin'anzhuang.

After everyone dispersed, Yang He was accompanied by Zhang Songtao, a Chinese officer, and Chen Qiuao, the captain of the guard, and looked at the battle line again.

The two trenches have been dug up, they are mostly half a person high, the soldiers can hide in them, the overall is a little wet, fortunately there is no stagnant water, the dug mud is transported to the back of the Zhenwu Temple and piled up, in order to cover, but also allocated a lot of weeds to pile in front of the trench.

At this time, the firearms soldiers had already taken refuge in the trench, and everyone had prepared a fire fold, which could be kept for two days, and everyone had spare materials, which could be replaced after burning.

The grenadiers also hid in the second trench, and they numbered twenty-three men, each with a large basket beside him, filled with a round 10,000 enemies, and prepared a fire fold.

The convoy and sentinels are temporarily hidden in the temple, but if the thieves come, they will sneak into the weeds behind the two trenches, so that they can see where the danger is, and if the thieves burst up, they can also rush down and fight.

The killer teams on both wings also sat quietly in the weeds at this time, their shields down, their weapons flat, and their flags standing nothing.

From a distance, half-human-tall weeds completely obscured their figures.

They sat in two rows with heavy shields and spears, quietly facing the direction of the official road, and everyone had no armor, and the one who protected them was the heavy shield and leather shield around them.

Originally, these soldiers had javelin training, but because the shields in front of them were too high and heavy, blocking the view and hindering their movements, they were not equipped with javelins at present, but javelin training was carried out from time to time.

I've seen it everywhere, and the front is no problem, just wait for the thieves to come.

It's just that until noon, the official road is still quiet, Yang He stood in front of the Zhenwu Temple and looked, only to see the barren grass swaying, depressed and desolate.

Yang He frowned in his heart, will the thieves come, or will they not come today, come again tomorrow, or even come back in a few days?

Don't hide here for a few days, in order to avoid the thieves from afar to find out the fireworks and become suspicious, he doesn't even dare to make a fire to cook now, everyone eats dry food they carry, and it will soon dry up.

Do the thieves come? Even after coming, the number of people exceeded the original estimate?

For a while, with Yang He's mind, he was also a little apprehensive.

He has few soldiers and little strength now, and he is gambling a lot of the time.

The bet wins, and he makes a lot of money.

If you lose the bet, you will lose all your money.