On the sixth day of the 11th month of the fourth year of the Yongli calendar, as we got closer and closer to the fifth year of the Yongli calendar, the weather began to be overcast and cold.

After learning that Chen Wen was about to lead the Nantang battalion as the queen of the evacuation team, many people rushed to thank these soldiers who fought for their escape, and the relatives of these soldiers also rushed over to say their final goodbyes.

Thank you and cry tears. For a time, the hands of the soldiers were full of eggs, melons and fruits, bacon, copper coins or silver taels sent by the people to express their gratitude. And every soldier who accepted the gift said as much as possible that he would not disappoint the high expectations of his family and fellow villagers, fight bravely to kill the enemy, and never let the Tartars break through this line of defense, and then slaughter and maim the people.

Looking at the people who sincerely thanked them, the reluctant relatives, and the soldiers of the Nantang Battalion who were inspired by the sense of mission and were full of glory, Chen Wen seemed to see those scenes that had appeared in the movie in a trance.

The red sun shines all over the east!

The god of liberty is singing!

Look!

Thousands of mountains and ravines, iron walls and copper walls!

The anti-Japanese beacon fire is burning on Taihang Mountain!

Arrogant!

Listen up!

The mother told her son to fight the East, and the wife sent her husband to the battlefield.

We are on Taihang Mountain, we are on Taihang Mountain;

The mountains are high and the forests are dense, and the soldiers and horses are strong!

Wherever the enemy attacks, we want it to perish!

Wherever the enemy attacks, we want it to perish!

Yes, art comes from life and is higher than life. Looking at the reluctant backs of those distant people, as well as the already passionate fighting spirit of the soldiers of the Nantang Battalion, Chen Wen firmly believed that the invincible heroic division he dreamed of rebuilding had completely regained its soul.

"General Chen, let me stay, we are willing to kill the thieves with our comrades in the Nantang Battalion!"

More than two dozen men kneeling in front of Chen Wen looked at Chen Wen with fiery eyes, longing for the general in front of them to allow them to stay.

All of these people were defeated in the Battle of Siming Lake, and even before that, most of them were sharp soldiers in their respective battalions, otherwise there would not have been nearly 300 defeated soldiers who were collected by Chen Wen, but only these 20 or so insisted on staying. Chen Wen knew very well that the reason why these people wanted to stay was not just as simple as killing thieves together, and the purpose of their stay might be more to wash away their shame.

"My Nantang camp is full, if you are willing to redeem yourself, go back to assist Wang Vice Xian to cover the retreat of the people."

Hearing this, most of the men who were kneeling on the ground showed reluctant looks. In the past few days, they have been scorned by the people and the soldiers of the Nantang Battalion because of their bad deeds in the Battle of Siming Lake, and every time they think that they can't raise their heads even in front of their families at this moment, their hearts seem to be gnawed up.

You must know that most of them were sharp soldiers in their respective camps earlier, and they were respected by their superiors and praised by their comrades in the camp, and they were praised in front of the people.

But since the defeat of the army in that battle, they fled back to Dalan Mountain, and collected for Chen Wen, and there is no longer the glory of the past. Discrimination, contempt, disdain, and even more spit and throw things at them, but on the one hand, the evacuation team was extremely tightly controlled, and on the other hand, they were really ashamed of their behavior when they reflected on it, so they did not make a fuss as they were humiliated in the past.

Shame is shame, and it must be washed away with the blood of a tartar!

"Please, General Chen, I can do whatever I want, as long as you allow us to kill the enemy again." The man at the head of the group threw his head on the ground after speaking, and the others followed suit.

Forget it, make an exception.

"My Nantang battalion is full, since you are willing to leave the shame, then serve as a temporary auxiliary for the time being."

"General Xie Chen's great grace, Xie General Chen's great grace."

The sharp soldiers in the army fell to the lowest level of auxiliaries, or temporary auxiliaries, but these men did not complain at all, they excitedly thanked Chen Wen, and then got up and waited for orders, as if they had returned to the time they had been in the army.

At the same time, there were also Lu Laolang and some people who would leave after arranging the battlefield and catch up with the people's team; And Lu Lao Langzhong said that he would stay anyway, in the words of this stubborn old man, Chen Wen was fulfilling the previous oath to save Simin, and he, Lu Henian, was also fulfilling the promise he had made to Chen Wen.

Seeing that the people had already gone away, and the team that had evacuated Siming Mountain had also begun to move south again, Chen Wen ordered the battlefield to begin to be arranged to prepare for the battle against the Zuo Battalion.

From the perspective of "The Art of War", there are five aspects that have a greater impact on the outcome of the war:

First, Dao, from Chen Wen's understanding, it is human, which his Nantang battalion already has, and the Qing army's standard battalion will probably enhance its combat effectiveness for the purpose of plundering the people, which can be regarded as four or six openings.

Second, the time of day, this point should be the same between the two sides, there is a breeze here, no rain or snow, and I stop and wait for the Qing army, and it will probably be less than two hours before we meet, and it will not be at night, five or five.

Third, the location is advantageous, Chen Wen's Nantang camp is lined up in the north, and the left side is a cliff, although it is only a few meters high, but both sides cannot use it; The place where the formation was was the highway, which had been blocked by the four sentinels; On the right side is the stream, which is no more than two feet wide, and the deepest part is only knee-deep, which is obviously not enough to act as a barrier, so Chen Wen arranged for six squads of the Chinese army's firearms team to lurk in the bamboo forest behind the stream, providing long-range fire support on the flanks, and arranging two more sentry posts for its cover.

Since there were no other roads around, the Qing army had to break through the defense line of the Nantang camp if they wanted to pass.

The fourth is the talent of the military general, this problem is something that Chen Wen can't face but has to face, although he has never heard of the name Li Rong in modern times, and he doesn't know that this person resisted the thunderous blow of the male No. 3 Geng Jingzhong during the rebellion of the three feudatories, but since this military general was able to achieve the promotion of the deputy general of the battalion in the fourth year of Yongli to manage the guerrilla affairs of the left battalion, there must also be two brushes; And himself, it's better to skip it first.

The last point is the system, since the end of July, the Nantang battalion has gone through more than three months of history, during which Chen Wen has always relied on military law and systems to enhance the cohesion of this army, and he did not hesitate to personally torture.

By this time, the initial results had been achieved, and along the way, not a single soldier dared to disobey the military law, nor did any soldier dare to rob the people, and everyone carried out the military orders like marionettes under the command, and did not dare to disobey in the slightest, but it was difficult to say how many points were left in the battle array; On the other hand, the Qing army is an old battalion that has been in the army for more than ten years, and it must not be far off.

In this way, due to the large gap in experience and ability between the commanders of the two sides, as well as the absolute superiority of the Qing army in terms of strength, and the fact that the weapons and armor of the Qing army are more sophisticated than those of the Ming army, the probability of victory of the Qing army is much higher than that of the Ming army.

However, Chen Wen felt that since he had already entered the battlefield first, there was no reason not to dirty the Qing army. You must know that soldiers are sophistry, this is a wise saying that Sun Wuzi and his old man said, so it is not immoral to play tricks when fighting.

After determining the exact position of the column, Chen Wen asked the men and the people who stayed temporarily to start a fire to make rice, meat dishes, rice, and a soup, and the soldiers must always have a good meal before the war.

At the same time, the Chinese army's engineering corps and the temporary auxiliaries who had volunteered to stay behind and fight alongside each other began to dig horse pits and arrange thistles.

Since the Nantang battalion only had forty cavalrymen, and they were all new soldiers who had just been trained for a few months, he was ready to rely on the horse pit on the battlefield to restrain the charge of the opponent's cavalry. As for thistles, they are not only arranged in the dangdao, but also many will be placed near the streams on the flanks, which should be enough for the Qing army to drink a pot.

While the sappers were digging a pit, Chen Wen asked an archer to shoot an arrow, and then he told Zhang Jun to run over, and drew a straight line across the road with lime powder at the place of the arrow, and inserted a wooden board on which he had written two lines of words on the side of the road near the straight line, and used it as a warning slogan.

Chen Wen began to talk to the soldiers who were eating, as if he was in the camp on weekdays, one was to relieve the tension, and the other was to boost morale.

The sentinels kept passing the information back, and Chen Wen also ordered Yin Yue to lead the troops on the flank attack mission to cross the stream with their trouser legs and go to the predetermined ambush site to standby.

After about half an hour, Li Ruixin also led the cavalry team to rush back, because the cavalry of the Ming and Qing armies had just fought in the previous mountain pass, the Qing army did not take any advantage, and did not chase after it at this moment. It's just that when Li Ruixin was about to ride his horse back to the formation, the captain of the Chinese army engineer team standing outside the line asked to stop one by one.

From the beginning of the formation of this Chinese army engineer team, Li Ruixin felt that it was a waste, this kind of work was done by auxiliary soldiers in the Ming and Qing armies, digging a pit and putting some thistle terrestris should not be as simple as plowing and sowing seeds for those auxiliary soldiers who dig food in the land. Is it enough to set up such a team and receive the salary of the soldiers?

It's just that as a subordinate, Li Ruixin still chose to keep his mouth shut, just as a toy when Chen Wen was bored, there was no need to go against the will of the general for this little thing.

At this time, the captain of this "toy soldier" dared to block the way of Li Ruixin, the first cavalry general under General Chen Wen, which really made me a little unhappy. Just looking at the road dug like the surface of the moon between the guy and the location of the mandarin duck array killer array, Li Ruixin hurriedly stopped.

"Dig so fast."

Looking at Li Ruixin's surprised expression, the captain of the "toy soldier" only felt that all the grievances he had been suffering in the past few days were released in an instant.

When the Nantang Battalion was formed in July, he was a deputy captain of the firearms team, and later expanded after the school competition, but he thought that he could be promoted to captain, but because he was good at arranging traps, Chen Wen was transferred to this new unit as the captain. Although there were twenty soldiers in the Chinese Army Engineer Corps in the Nantang Battalion, nearly twice as many as the squad of the Firearms Corps, which was only twelve captains, he was still quite dissatisfied with the fact that this was regarded by everyone as an auxiliary work.

Seeing that there is no way to change positions, in order to get rid of the fate of this branch of the army being called an auxiliary soldier by his comrades, this captain can only figure out how to dig a pit every day to be fast and good, in order to reverse his impression through professionalism. To this end, he tried various types of pits, and finally settled on the current new type of trap. In his words, not to mention horses, even cows can get into them.

Recently, the captain of this "toy soldier" has heard Chen Wen mention that there are elephant soldiers in the southwest, so he has been thinking about what kind of big pit can pit the elephant into, and how many steps it takes to pit the elephant.

It's just that because he has never seen a real elephant because he has grown so big, there is no reference comparison, so this pit has never been able to design the size, depth and shape, and this new large trap has not come out.

"Trouble Li Qian always take the brothers of the cavalry team to go around from the side of the road, the humble and his brothers have just arranged the dark pit in front of them, and there is only a layer of straw paper on it, and some dust is sprinkled, which is really not easy to move."

Hearing this, Li Ruixin swept it carefully and indeed found a few hidden pits that had been covered up, which were really arranged in an extremely insidious manner. Leaving aside his contempt for this low-minded guy, he had no choice but to lead the team to dismount and pass through this "mine" area according to the captain's command.

"Captain Zhao, then you have to bring Mr. Ben Qian and these sons over."

"Well, the lowly post is waiting here to bring our own brothers back to the battle." Between the words, it was full of the pride of being a soldier.

It's just that the captain of this "toy soldier" doesn't know, in fact, when Chen Wen chose the captain of this new unit, the reason why he chose him was mainly because of the problem of surname, who called Chen Wen had been pit by many pit kings who had dug pits and not filled them before, such a far-reaching and hundreds of years of resentment is not a joke, it is necessary to find a place to vent.

As for him, if he wants to get out of this situation, the only way is to find another person who is better at digging holes, and this guy must also have the surname Ao, otherwise it will be difficult for him to get out of this situation. But unfortunately, he didn't know this trick at all, so he still had to continue to dedicate his life to this promising pit digging business.

Just as the cavalry team returned to the battle, the Qing army's probe horses also caught up. The arrogant Qing army Tanma noticed that the Chinese cavalry team in the Nantang camp had returned to the battle, so he tried to rush to a slightly closer place to observe the military situation. It's just that although they did spot the pitfalls in the distance, they didn't notice the well-covered pits as they galloped.

The two war horses that rushed to the front rushed through the line drawn by lime powder, and fell to the ground without running two steps, and threw out the unprepared Qing army exploration horses.

Seeing that there was still a hidden pit behind the line, the remaining scouts of the Qing army hurriedly pulled the reins and tried to stop the war horses, but because of inertia, there was still a scout horse that was thrown out after the war horse fell.

After the three horses of the Qing army did a Mohs somersault, Bi's turn and Thomas maneuver in the air, they fell directly to the ground because there was no high and low bar to grab, and destroyed several pits during the forward rolling, thus completing the perfect transformation from a gymnast to a mine sapper, which is definitely a monument in the history of reemployment at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that the three Qing army's scouts either fell to the ground and wailed, or were simply thrown silently, the other Qing army's scouts hurriedly dismounted to rescue, but the Ming army occupying the battlefield was unmoved, and did not take the opportunity to win three kills at the beginning.

Just as these scouts dragged the wounded back behind the line, the main force of the left battalion of the levy also caught up.

After learning that the commander of the Qing army was trying to block the flag of the commander of the Qing army just a stone's throw away, and after noticing that the road was densely covered with horse traps, Li Rong sneered and began to command the army to line up, preparing to crush the Ming army on the opposite side in one fell swoop.

It's just that when he noticed the ink writing on the wooden sign standing on the side of the road, Li Rong, who still maintained a contemptuous sneer, gave up his plan to wait for the tiger squat cannon to be arranged, and immediately ordered an attack.

At both ends of the battlefield, on one side is 1,000 soldiers, 1,005 auxiliary soldiers, and has been in the army for more than ten years, and has just won the first battle, and on the other side is less than 500 soldiers, only 20 auxiliary soldiers, and the remaining Nantang Battalion of the Dalanshan Ming Army is only more than three months old.

There is a big gap between the two sides in terms of troops, weapons, armor, etc., but as Chen Wen said, the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road, and only the truly brave can win a real victory in this battle.

PS: It's finally started, are there any readers who can guess what Chen Wen wrote on that wooden card, and what they think can be posted in the book review area.

PS: Tomorrow will continue two more, making up for the third of the four chapters owed last month.