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Several guides gathered together and said their next move in front of the Yusheng officers.

In fact, the merchant army also has a detailed map, but the map is dead, since there are living guides, listen to their words and then refer to the map, it will save a lot of effort, and you will never go the wrong way.

As the guides spoke, they kept looking at the resting soldiers.

Even in the shadows, people kept sweating and drinking water, and no one violated the rules, no one complained, and no one dared to complain.

Because of the need to save spit, the military order forbade unnecessary small talk, and most of the soldiers made eye contact, and some clever ghosts took off the blankets and spread them on the ground, and lay on the ground to rest, even if it was the same heat, lying down was much more comfortable than sitting.

This is an army that is forbidden by order, an army that is silent......

The guides shuddered, the army in front of them was really terrifying.

"Let's ...... in this location now" Bai Yin's finger pointed at the north end of the desert area on the map, and his hand pointed diagonally to the southeast, and said: "This is the Red Salt Pond, more than eighty miles away from us, through this desert, rest from the Red Salt Pond, go directly to the direction, and then walk thirty or forty miles to the messy well, and then to the southwest is Changdong Fort, which is also where the side wall is, and then go straight to the west is Hong'er Mountain, Gray City, and ten miles to the south is Baoning Fort." The Yulin Acropolis, that is, the town city, is in the side wall between the two forts, if the Ordos Wanhu and the suite want to attack the side wall, they will not think about attacking the town city, and the gains outweigh the losses. They will go directly to the border wall from the Baichengzi area, break Jinglu Fort, go to Qingyang Mansion in the west, and Yan'an Mansion in the east, it is much easier to grab these state capitals in the south than to grab border towns, the casualties are not serious, and the harvest is great. ”

Zhang Wenming said happily when he heard this: "If this is the case, we can save a lot of physical energy, and the soldiers will suffer a lot less hardship." ”

Li Laibin stared at Bai Yin for a long time, and saw that the other party was not unusual, judging from the map, it was true that the idea provided by Bai Yin was the most reasonable route, and it was indeed the best route for each invasion of the Beiyu.

Yansui and Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town, these towns are different from Jizhen, the side wall here is not very good, the number of military forts and passes is not very much, just like Yansui Town, only more than 30 military forts and more than 20 passes, and Jizhen has more than 300 military forts and more than 270 passes, the side wall in the early years of Wanli after Qi Jiguang's reorganization and repair, built a large number of hollow enemy platforms, just from the defensive buildings, these towns in the west add up not as much as a town in Jizhen.

Of course, Jizhen is the most important town to defend the Beijing Division, Qi Jiguang was appointed as the training prime minister of Jizhen as a general of Baisheng, and then the imperial court did not make up its mind to train the troops, and the resource rationing was not in place, so Qi Jiguang could only be called the prime minister of Jizhen, and Qi Jiguang was not able to break the monopoly of the northern generals on the army...... In the popular words of later generations, it is a system problem, with the size of the Ming Dynasty, the soldier is the tradition of the general, and it is inevitable that the door will be in charge, if this tradition is not broken, how Qi Jiguang tosses is only to toss his direct Zhejiang soldiers, how can the family and personal soldiers of the gate be handed over to him for training?

No matter how good the defense system is, if there is no strong army to defend it, it will be breached sooner or later, this truth is actually understood by everyone, but before being defeated, I am afraid that no one will be willing to admit that they are weak.

Different from Jizhen that has been peaceful for decades, Yansui and Guyuan and several towns in Ningxia are fighting a war every few years, and a big battle is fought every ten or twenty years, the soldiers of these towns are all with the heritage of the Qin people, Shen Yi, simple, brave and good at fighting, the Qin army can also be said to be the backbone of the Ming army, the real fall of the Ming Dynasty is that part of the elite of the Qin army lost in Songshan and Tashan, and the last embers were annihilated by Li Zicheng, the Qin army died, and the Ming Dynasty was over.

Due to the frequent wars, the Qin army is naturally much more elite, but the military system of the Ming Dynasty is too poor, what is the general army to guard the town, and then divided into left, middle and right three deputy generals, there are a number of generals in several acropolis, and there are guerrillas on all roads, once there is a police, these generals will lead the troops to battle.

Logically correct, but the number of soldiers and horses directly under the command of each general is too small, as much as 3,000, and as little as more than 1,000 to 2,000.

In this way, the Mongols came to hundreds of thousands, and a little containment could penetrate into the border towns, according to historical records, the towns of Yansui and Guyuan were often broken, and Altan Khan spied on the three sides in the Hetao area, and the Ming army was tired of coping, and everywhere was broken deep. This system of the Ming Dynasty, unless there is a strong and knowing the army of civil officials, in the war to gather the generals, gather elite soldiers and horses, so that the fighting effectiveness of the weak Mongols is also a great threat, the trilateral governor Zeng Mill had gathered troops and horses to recover the Hetao, successfully forced back Altan Khan, so that it withdrew from the north of the Yellow River, but unfortunately Jiajing misjudged, killed the first assistant Xia Yan who supported the set, poisoned the border generals, arrested Zeng Mill, and the great opportunity was buried by Jiajing.

It is not thick to gather elites, separate roads, and the defense system is far inferior to strong towns such as Jizhen, and Yanfen is full of loopholes, and there are insufficient troops everywhere.

"It was decided." Li Laibin finally decided: "According to what Baiyin Taiji said." ”

Li Laibin said to Bai Yin again: "After this battle, I will show your merits to the big man, so that you will not be much worse than the silver ingot Taiji in the future in Heyusheng." ”

Bai Yin bowed down and said: "I only wish to return to the pasture after the war, spend my leisure life, and I don't want to compete for fame and fortune anymore." ”

"I can't help you then." Li Laibin laughed when he heard this.

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"Huang Hu, it's time for you to be on duty."

A young man who was less than twenty years old was woken up, his eyes were wide open, and the cold glint in his eyes made people feel frightened when they saw it, and the border soldier who woke him up was a burly man, but he was startled by this person.

The anger on this person's face and eyes is very obvious, even in the brave and ruthless military camp, it can be regarded as a rare ruthless character.

After being woken up, the young man came out of the bunk, did not yawn, and directly entered a very sober state, the border soldier who woke him up yawned, glanced at the beard on the face of the yellow-faced young man a few times, turned around and went into the bunk to sleep.

Huang Hu's figure is very tall, and what is not commensurate with his tall figure is that Huang Hu's body is very thin, but his thinness does not look weak, but very capable. His facial skin is dark yellow, yellow face is a very obvious feature, so his nickname in the military camp is also called Yellow Tiger, he is not very old, but he has run a lot of places, not yet twenty years old, the beard on his face is more than a foot long, which is also a very rare beauty at that time.

It can be seen that Huang Hu is very concerned about his beard, and he hangs a silver hook around his neck, which is usually used to fix his beard, so that his beard will not be stained with oil and water when eating and drinking.

The nights in Yulin City are very cold, which is very different from the scorching heat during the day. This is also a phenomenon unique to the area where vegetation is destroyed, due to the early development of northern Shaanxi, there are bald mountains and barren mountains everywhere, there is no water and soil moisture, and there is no storage of heat during the day, and the wind blows at night, which makes people feel very cold.

Huang Hu shuddered, the spear in his hand was very obstructive, so he simply leaned the gun against the battlement, and then walked to the edge of the city wall, lifted the corner of his clothes, and happily soaked in urine.

After peeing, Huang Hu slowly tied his belt, this time was the end of the hour, it was the middle of the night, everywhere was quiet, there was silence in Yulin City, only a few places on the city wall had bright lights, and the rest of the places were dark and dull.

There was a crescent moon in the sky, which emitted a not-so-bright light, and a starry sky overhead, which seemed to be very close to itself.

Huang Hu was not interested in any of this, he just felt very hungry.

He has read books for a few years since he was a child, he recognizes some words, but it has not changed his rude and unliterate character, his father saw that Huang Hu is not a reading material, he has long taken him out to run business, the two have walked through a lot of places, and have done a lot of small business, this year people have left their hometowns cheaply, things are expensive to leave their hometowns, and it is impossible for businessmen who come out to run small businesses without suffering, because they are bullied everywhere, they have developed a brave and ruthless character of Huang Hu, and his face is full of anger, which is the imprint left when he struggled with his father when he was a teenager.

In addition to being a businessman, Huang Hu also worked as a fast catcher for a period of time...... When catching fast is also an errand that costs money to get it, a serious errand will definitely not be able to do it. Huang Hu is doing the work of the ruffians and scoundrels, helping the serious errands, hanging a name for catching fast, mainly doing miscellaneous things, and his income is very limited, and his personality is the second in the world, and there are many times when he drinks two bowls of wine, and even the boss may not admit it...... Of course, this character didn't work long when he was a fast catcher, and he soon ran out to be a soldier again.

The soldiers were more constrained, but the brave and ruthless people in the barracks ate openly, but they ate very poorly, every day there was no oil and water wheat rice, no vegetables, no oil, there was no oil and water in the intestines, the monthly grain was still deducted, not to mention the insufficient quantity, and mixed with all kinds of moldy grain and small stones and other things, the food was not enough to eat, and the salary was also insufficient, and the monthly salary of one or two silver was often delayed for two or three months before being sent once, and the silver in hand was all black, the purity was poor, the color was rotten, the portion was insufficient, and a part of the bribe was given to the team officers, the little silver left is not enough to feed the soldiers themselves, and even so, there are still many border soldiers who have to use this thing to feed their families.