On the bottom of the dungeon is the lookout hall house and the lamppost military flag, there is a more than three miles long horse wall around the dungeon, there is a trench dug outside the wall, the ditch should be diverted, but there is no water source nearby, Zhang Han saw some sharpened wooden stakes placed in the ditch, the pointed end is facing up.

When Zhang Han was observing, there were also soldiers looking out in the dunker lookout hall, so that the dungeon fort near Xinping Fort, the garrison should be pure soldiers, and the number should be about fifteen people, while Zhang Han observed them, the people in the dunker were also looking at them.

Zhang Han waved his hand, and Jiang Yi beside him understood, and ordered several special service cavalry to ride their horses and run in the direction of the horse blocking wall.

"Stop!" A person stood above the dungeon and shouted: "The person who came reported the number, the intention, the password to enter the fort!" ”

A few agents on horseback ignored it and continued to move forward, the man shouted a few more times, and his voice changed slightly, and after a few calls, the man saw that it had no effect, so he rang the gong in his hand.

In the sound of dangdang, there were suddenly more than a dozen people running up under the dungeon, and there were perforations on the upper and lower floors of the lookout hall, and it was obvious that these people could be seen holding muskets in their hands, and then a man said in a rough voice: "If you don't show your intentions, report the order, we will shoot!" ”

One of the cavalry shouted: "Can't you see that we are Heyusheng's people? ”

Another said: "What kind of bird password, we just come in to get some supplies, and behind me is Lord Sun of the General Staff Division." ”

"What the hell do you care about, Lord Sun!" The voice in the bunker became violent, and the man shouted: "Dare to go one step further, there are tiger pier cannons and Franc machine cannons in the fort, you can try it!" ”

As if to confirm this sentence, one of the soldiers in the bunker pulled the trigger and fired a shot at the heads of several cavalrymen.

Only a few dozen steps apart, the lead flew over everyone's heads, as if they could hear the sound, the faces of several special service members changed, they did not dare to continue to move forward, there were also trenches and horse barriers in front of them, and there was no way to go further.

There are winding paths between the trenches and the barrages, which can pass people and carts, and are used to transport supplies to the bunkers, and there are traps on such paths, and outsiders do not know where the pit is, so it is easy to trigger the mechanism and fall down, and in the pit there must be sharpened stakes waiting for them, and if they fall, they will surely die.

"My lord," Jiang Yi said, "Do you want to show your identity and go into the dungeon to have a look?" ”

"No need." Zhang Han said with a smile: "I just want to see how well the soldiers are guarded, now it seems that they have not trained in vain, so they can defend for a few months, and they can experience some actual combat, and there are many people in it who can be selected as soldiers." Entering the bunker is nothing more than to see what they eat and how they live, and it is not very interesting, and I will not rob the work of the military and political officers. Besides, I don't know the password, and if this guard really enforces the rules, and I won't let in without the password, it will be really embarrassing. ”

Under Zhang Han's system, there is no password to maybe he, the supreme commander, will not be able to enter, this is also a matter of maybe, and Zhang Han also encourages such devotion to duty, he has called people to publicize several times, such as being blocked by the sentry at the gate of the camp, and not being able to enter the barracks without a password.

It was the first time for Tang Ruowang and others to see with their own eyes how the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty guarded the fortress, in front of them were cleverly designed small fortifications, and the fort was also a small arquebus and small artillery, the soldiers were obviously well-trained, this group of priests from Europe showed admiration on their faces, Frederick from the Duchy of Prussia said: "In the past, there were many priests who rumored that the soldiers of the country lacked training and a sense of honor, and now it seems that the soldiers of the Ming Kingdom are also very strong, and they are not under the professional soldiers of Europe." ”

Tang Ruowang said: "It was not long after you came, the southern Ming army was indeed negligent in training, and the northern Ming army was the elite of the Ming Dynasty, they were responsible for defending against the barbarian invasion, and there were wars all year round." ”

"Beyond the long borders are murderous barbarians." A young priest drew a cross and exclaimed, "The Ming is truly a great nation, it is they who defend against barbarians and keep more kingdoms from harm." ”

"This Lord Zhang seems to be taking the initiative to attack the barbarians." Frederick said: "I think so, defense alone cannot destroy the enemy. Daming is a civilized country, but unfortunately its army is too heavy on defense and too lack of aggressiveness, this Lord Zhang is really an outlier. ”

Frederick still looked a little proud, he was from Prussia, and now he was an army power, and decades later, the Duchy of Prussia had repeatedly defeated strong enemies and became the leading army power in Europe.

"I hope you can show off what you are good at." Tang Ruowang said with a serious face: "You must also protect yourself on the battlefield, although we only operate and use firearms, but it is just as dangerous." ”

"May the glory of the Lord be with us." Everyone drew a cross together.

Before the team continued to move forward, the whole team was composed of cavalry, and there was no supply cart, Zhang Han ordered some horsemen to carry a small amount of supplies by using the method of one person and two horses, and this team of more than 300 people went straight to the direction of Jining Haizi.

After a day's journey, the number of bunkers increased significantly, and it was not necessarily a straight line, some of the bunkers were built next to the water source, and some were built on small mounds, or next to the river, which were the necessary places for some Mongols to go south, the more abundant the water and grass, the more dense the bunkers, after sixty miles from the side wall, the number of bunkers changed from one to three li, and after every quarter of an hour of running, another bunker appeared in front of you.

In addition to the dungeon, there is also a military platform with solid bricks, the horse wall outside the military platform is five or six miles, the trench is also as long, there are some military platforms near the water source river are still full of water in the trench, and the drawbridge is built to enter and exit, the military platform is also much larger than the military platform of the Ming border army, some military platforms on the nine sides are large and small, and the small ones are similar to the dungeon, the difference is that the bricks are wrapped, and the military platform built by Yusheng on the grassland is much larger, the base is high and thick, there are a large number of perforations, and the remote firearms in the peripheral fortifications and the military platform are borrowed, a military platform with a radius of dozens of steps to one hundred and fifty steps, it took considerable casualties to attack it.

Zhang Han knew that the number of military platforms and forts was still too small, and the Xuanfu defense line was more than 1,300 miles, and there were more than 1,000 forts alone, hundreds of military forts, and the Great Wall, so that it could become the overall defense line.

He Yusheng's defense line is currently only two lines, and there is no Great Wall in between, but Zhang Han's confidence lies in using the army as the Great Wall.

The elite soldiers are above the Ming army, the soldiers are comparable to the Ming army, and the future cavalry is even more than the Ming army's cavalry can not catch up, plus the ration of all kinds of firearms, strong mobilization ability and flexible command, the entire military system left the northern captives far behind, such an army is far more effective than the Great Wall defense line.

In the eyes of the missionaries, so far away, everywhere there are vast grasslands, herds of wild beasts can be seen everywhere, and there is no one in the wilderness, such a place has built so many military fortresses, which in their eyes is an out-and-out military miracle.

After all, this is the territory of nomads, and it is far more difficult to build forts and occupy land here than it is for the Spaniards to go ashore by boat and shoot away tens of thousands of Indians.

Three days later, the garrison of Jining Fort knew that Zhang Han was coming, and the fort guard officer Li Shouxin led his troops to greet him, and at the same time the cavalry of Li Xuan's department, who had just rested in the fort.

Zhao Shiwen, who was in charge of the army, was also in the fort, and he came to greet Zhang Han with Yang Mingyu, the deputy director of the Military Command Department, and others.

As soon as he saw Li Xuan, Zhang Han said, "Where is Zhu Dayong now?" ”

Li Xuan saluted and replied, "General Zhu is now on the side of Xiaoheihe Fort, and Zhou Yao's department is also over there, they are going to attack and harass the Kou and relieve the pressure on Yansui Town." ”

"What about Xuanfu?"

"On the Xuanfu side, I have been taking the troops of the two bureaus, with the cavalry of the first division of the Duoer General, we have a total of nearly 800 people, and we have been protecting the trade route from Zhangjiakou to Jizhen, Xuanfu and Jizhen here, the pressure is not too great. Baihong Dataiji took most of the herdsmen and soldiers to cruise around Xinghe Fort and Daqinghe Fort, and we encountered them several times, and they all suffered great losses, and now they are shrinking very much. ”

Zhang Han looked at the cuirassiers including Li Xuan.

Zhang Han hadn't seen Li Xuan and them for more than three months, before that, these cuirassiers had been training in the barracks, in fact, there was little training in the camp, they would go out from Li Zhuang every day, and pull all the way to the vicinity of the outer mountains of Zhenyuwei, and they had to come back dozens of miles every day. The number of horses was sufficient, and the feeding was good, enough for these cavalrymen to toss.

Each cuirassier had a basic level of horsemanship before entering the camp, and then it was practiced all the time, and then practiced, and every day was a high-intensity practice.

Even in winter, these young men are practicing with dark faces, and their skin is so dark that they can't see what people originally looked like.

Detours, shooting, retreating, detours, shooting, and also practicing with the charge, but that's not the point.

When the cuirassiers were transferred, Zhang Han happened to see them going north, the cuirass were dazzling, people were singing military songs, and they drove to the north with high morale.

Now the cuirass of the cavalry has been dimmed, and the long-term battle has made people have no leisure to polish, there are many blood stains on the cuirass, the cavalry have dark faces and calm expressions, and many people are wounded, and there is a young man next to Li Xuan who is wearing a strap and hanging his left arm on his chest.

Judging by it only from the outside, this is a group of defeated cavalry, bleak......

But judging from the breath of each person, there is already an obvious feeling of being elite in a hundred battles, the cavalry in the past is a sword that has just come out of the box, and it is sharper than others, but now they have a heavy sword without a blade, but it gives people an incomparable sense of trust.