The practice of Houjin is completely different from these people when they were in Liaozhen, when they were in Liaozhen, not only did no one feed the war horses well, and even they would secretly take the horse material to resell it to supplement the family's income, only the well-paid family would treat their war horses well, in the battle of Liaoyang and Shenyang, the Ming court looted more than 80,000 war horses from a number of military towns, and as a result, thousands of them died of disease and starvation before the war, and more than 30,000 war horses were captured by the Houjin side after the war, Now the horses led by Li Mingli and others should be the harvest of the Houjin side in the previous wars. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Just arrived in the twilight of spring, although it has passed the weakest period of the war horse, but the war horse led by everyone is still a little too thin, Li Mingli and others are very nervous, lest something happen to the war horse, and the body of the war horse is far more arrogant than humans, and the slightest negligence is a disastrous consequence.

Houjin's management of war horses is extremely strict, every month there will be special managers to come to see the situation of the war horses, not to mention raising the horses to death, even if it is obvious to see that the fatigue, the owner of the war horse will be severely punished, the light is whipped and reprimanded, and the heavy is beheaded, without the slightest possibility of leniency.

Half a month ago, Dai Shan and Amin were summoned to Liaoyang, and then swore to go on an expedition, because this time in addition to driving out the Mongols who threatened the grain route, they also had to search for the Han people who remained in the area of Jinzhou, Guangning, and Yizhou, and bring them back to Liaodong.

In addition, it is necessary to break through the Thirteen Mountains as much as possible, quell the resistance of 100,000 soldiers and civilians on the mountain, and then bring back the captured Han people after breaking through the Thirteen Mountains, so this expedition is very important, although it is not as good as the expedition to Guangning the year before last, Nuerhachi still personally worshiped the Tangzi, and took the Beyler, Dutang, General Soldier, Mongolian Taiji, Han Army generals and so on out of the city to see off, Daishan and Amin and others were sent out of ten miles away, and then returned to Liaoyang.

There are twenty-five cattle in the red flag, and there are thirty-three cattle in the blue flag, the predecessor of the red flag is the black flag led by the younger brother Shuerhachi of Nurhachi, and the black flag of Nurhachi was only the black flag of Nurhachi, and then the tribes that were annexed gradually increased, and the old slave established the red flag, and gave the black flag to Shuerhaqi pipe belt, and then set up the yellow flag, and Nurhachi personally commanded the yellow flag.

After the annexation of the Hada Ministry, because the Hada Ministry, the original two flags could not be accommodated, and the White Flag was established and handed over to Chu Ying, the eldest son of Nurhachi.

This is the origin of the first four flags of the Eight Banners, and later because of the struggle for power, the white flag owner Chu Ying was killed, the black flag owner Shuerhaqi was also killed, the white flag was divided into three, the black flag was also divided into three, the twenty-five Niu Lu of the positive red flag of Dai Shan, and the thirty-three Niu Lu of the blue flag, all of which were divided from the black flag of the year, including the twenty-six Niu Lu of Yue Tuo, the eldest son of Daishan, also came from the black flag established by Nurhachi.

Red, red, blue, these three flags of the Niu Lu can be said to be the earliest, the most significant military exploits, the elite soldiers are also relatively more than the three Niu Lu, of course, it is still slightly worse than the Great Khan's personal leader Niu Lu, after all, in the establishment of the Yellow Flag, later divided into positive yellow and inlaid yellow, the most famous generals of the Houjin are still in the two yellow banners, among which the Great Khan's personal soldiers are the elite of the strongest combat power selected from the Niu Lu, and later this elite army was handed over to the young son of the Great Khan, Duoduo, with its southern expedition to the north, and finally hit Nanjing.

In this expedition, the two banners and 58 Niu Lu each sent out 20 guards, 40 cotton armor soldiers and followers, and each banner produced a number of coats and ahas, plus more than 3,000 Han troops and their coats, a total of 12,000 people went out to fight. This is also a large-scale dispatch in recent times, and together with the thousands of soldiers and horses originally left in the vicinity of the 13 Mountains and Quang Ninh, nearly 20,000 troops can be gathered.

The Han soldiers walked silently, and few people spoke, because talking too much was likely to invite accidents.

They are the lowest existence in the Later Jin Army whose status is only higher than that of Bao Yi, and even in the eyes of True Manchuria, they are the same as Bao Yi.

The status of the Jurchens in Jianzhou was the highest, then the annexed Manchurian tribes, then the Jurchens, followed by the annexed Mongolia, which was later organized into the left and right wings of Mongolia, and then the Eight Banners of Mongolia.

Then came the Han army, that is, Li Mingli and their group.

"Do you hear that? There was the sound of a trumpet. ”

"Asking for help."

Hearing the sound of the horn in the distance, Niu Lu Zhangjing, who was carrying more than 20 people including Li Mingli, immediately ordered: "Everyone get on the horse, the first three and the last five, and the rest are lined up on both sides. ”

In addition to this Niu Lu, there are also quite a lot of Han troops in the vicinity, so there is no need to worry about being attacked in an ambush, everyone according to Niu Lu Zhangjing's order, immediately get on the horse, Li Mingli left his bags and backpacks, and handed them over to Lao Ding who followed behind. There are only two bow and arrow pockets and a throwing spear and a hand axe left on the horse, and the other is the shun knife he wears and the long iron spear he holds, this dress, plus his cyan arrow coat and the placket armor of the outer cover, the cherry helmet on the top of his head, plus a small braid exposed at the back of the head on the top of the head, is the standard Jianyu Zhenyi appearance, only the people inside the Eight Banners know that they are the Han army at a glance, if the Ming army cuts off their heads, it will take some effort to identify, in order to distinguish the Han army and Zhenyi.

The horn in front of him was very urgent, about three miles apart, Li Mingli was in the middle position, he was very proficient in archery, horsemanship, marksmanship, and a few years, from the ignorance of Wanli in the forty-seventh year to the current battlefield veteran, his body already had an obvious killing atmosphere.

The front should be surrounded by the garrison that was originally stationed near Guangning, because from the armor and flag, it is obvious that the soldiers and horses of the Zhenghuang Banner are Zhenghuang, and the soldiers who remain in the area of Guangning and Jinzhou are mainly Zhenglan and Zhenghuang, as well as a small number of soldiers and horses with Zhengbai Banner, together with the Qiding Baoyi, there are only five or six thousand people in total, but it is these thousands of people that make the Guanning soldiers of tens of thousands of soldiers dare not help the Thirteen Mountains, let alone recover Jinzhou and Guangning.

"Sure enough, it's a Mongol." Niu Lu Zhangjing, who galloped on Li Mingli's side, shouted, there were about seventy or eighty Beiyu shooting arrows in a circle, and there were less than ten people in the encircled Zhenghuang Banner, and the arrows fell like rain, and the encircled flag soldiers kept shooting, and the Mongols also kept being shot off their horses, but there were too many of them, and although the besieged flag soldiers kept shooting, the situation was still precarious.

Seeing that Li Mingli and the others were riding horses, the Mongols outside the other side shouted, and about fifty or sixty horsemen rushed towards this side.

"Dismount, foot fight!"

On horsemanship, even the real Jurchen is not the opponent of the Mongols, the strength of the Eight Banners lies in the formation of foot combat, spears and halberds like a wall, the soldiers strive to be the first, after the formation is broken, and then the cavalry chases to expand the results, Li Mingli and others have been in the Houjin army for many years, although they are all Han troops, but they are the elite of the Han army, the Houjin set was originally learned from the Ming border army in its heyday, but they are more savage and better at riding and shooting, with the fighting talent of the fishing and hunting nation itself plus the formation battle and training method learned by the Ming army. Li Mingli and others have been in the Eight Banners Army for many years, and their skills have long been practiced, and after hearing the order, everyone immediately dismounted, and formed a very solid circle formation in front and back, left and right.

There were two accompanying sturdy coats to lead the horses away, and they were not too far away, which was also the habit of the Eight Banners, and after the foot battle was defeated, the enemy army could be remounted and pursued.

However, it may not be of much use to the northern captives, they are not more infantry than the Ming army, but all cavalry, and the riding skills are excellent, once defeated, they will flee quickly, it is difficult to capture or kill.

When they were two or three hundred paces away, there was a whistle from one of the northern captives, and the cavalry immediately divided into two teams, the left and right, and rushed towards the left and right sides of the circle.

"Sixty steps, forward and backward, shoot!"

The riding bow of the northern captives is useless at sixty paces away, so they did not shoot first, and the Han army is also holding an iron-tired step bow, this kind of bow is long and solid, the materials used are very exquisite, the time to make a bow takes up to half a year, and it is usually carefully maintained, and the same as the war horse, if the Han army dares to break the longbow, it must be a very severe punishment, in Houjin, in addition to arable land, but also fishing and hunting, fruit picking, bird hunting, ginseng picking, pine cones and other dried fruits in the forest, at the same time there are blacksmith battalions, bow and arrow battalions, Specially made armor weapons and longbows, due to the harsh military law, both weapons and armor are extremely sharp and solid, and the quality is excellent. The infantry bow in the hands of the Han army is also a rare boutique, plus day and night diligent practice, after an order, everyone calculates the distance of the northern cavalry and the speed of the horses, but also calculates the wind speed, these calculations can not have a clear number, but this is the skill mastered after years of hard work, almost instantaneous, everyone aimed at the target, and then the fingers loosened, everyone's bowstring made a crashing catapult sound, more than 20 arrows were shot out by the tight bow and arrow, more than a dozen to twenty forces are the standard ration of the Jurchen bow, The strength was far above the bow of the northern captive, and the arrows made a sharp whistling sound in the air, and flew quickly into the distance.

Several moving Beiyu were shot at the first time, or in the side, or in the back, they let out a painful roar, fell off the horse, rolled on the ground, some people tried to pull out the heavy arrow, but after reaching out, there was almost no strength, Li Mingli and others shot out of the heavy arrow arrow is very heavy, not sharp, not triangular, but polished into a flat shape, like a small shovel, breaking through the human skin and penetrating into the human body, the damage is very powerful, far from ordinary arrows can be compared, these Beiyu have never been wearing iron armor, An arrow can be fatal.

A few horses were shot, and the northern captives on the seat rolled to the ground, and the injuries were not serious, and they even ran away with rolling and crawling, and most of them fell to serious injuries or died on the spot after rolling to the ground.