On May 28, the fifth year of Chongzhen, Mao time.

The third battalion marched briskly before dawn and went twenty miles deep into Jingou to rest.

The local guides and communications corps, who had arrived on horseback first, had already entered the mountains to reconnoitre.

For this battle, Sun Yi and Yang Ritian both agreed to avoid a head-on battle with the Manchurian soldiers, but the two disagreed on the specific way to fight.

Yang Ritian believed that the third battalion needed to find a dangerous area to block the attack;

Sun Yi believed that the reformed three battalions did not have artillery, but they were highly mobile, and they should choose the most difficult area to find fighters in the movement.

Yang Ritian asked: "If you don't stop the thieves, what should you do if the Manchurian soldiers rush into the golden ditch?" ”

Sun Yi replied: "If two to three percent of the Manchurian soldiers are wounded, they will naturally withdraw their troops." ”

So Yang Ritian agreed to Sun Yi's plan, and Sun Yi commanded the battle.

To be honest, Yang Ritian no longer knows how to command the third battalion. The Third Battalion is different from any other army in this era, there is no baggage, there is no camp, and the principle that Yang Ritian is accustomed to being invincible in combat is no longer applicable. So this time, Yang Ritian sincerely wanted to learn how Sun Yi commanded the third battalion.

Sun Yi was also dark-eyed about how to command the three battalions. He just improved the three battalions step by step according to logic, and as a result, the three battalions had some shadows of modern armies. However, Sun Yi did not understand how the Ming Dynasty army fought, nor was he familiar with the combat routes of the modern army. For the freak of the middle form of the third battalion, Sun Yi could only cross the river by feeling the stones.

After the expansion of a part of the local people, the total number of the three battalions was less than 400, and the main combat force was all infantry, including foot archers, bird guns, three-eyed guns, and sword and shield hands.

Infantry archers are the most skilled in the battalion. It takes a long time to make a bow, and the maintenance of the bow is also very particular, and the bows used by the three battalions are very miscellaneous, including the Mongolian curved bow, the Ming Kaiyuan bow, and the Manchurian bow. It takes several years of training for a good archer, and now he has to use a cicada ballista.

In the past, Sun Yi had a misunderstanding about bows and arrows, thinking that bows and arrows were a long-distance combat weapon. After a few battles, Sun Yi found that the archers were more likely to approach the enemy more than a dozen paces away and release arrows. This distance has a high accuracy and great power, and can easily pierce armor and shoot into the body, causing a lot of damage to enemies.

The Three-Eyed Gunner was the least skilled soldier in the battalion. The three-eyed gun is easy to build, a few books do not need special maintenance, and the hands do not tremble badly when fighting. Recruits become proficient in a few days under the guidance of veterans.

Sun Yi added a little explosive to the black powder of the Three-Eyed Gun, and the sound of the Three-Eyed Gun suddenly became louder, and the effective attack range of the Gun increased significantly, basically pointing anywhere within fifty feet.

Most of the bird gunners are veterans of the Daling River. The coalition forces did not have the ability to craft birds, and for a considerable period of time they had to rely on capture. However, the current bird guns of the third battalion all use the wooden plug lead bullet with the buttocks flowering, which is a little farther away than the original bird guns, and a little more powerful. Li Guang, the commander of the third battalion, and the first Wu Bird Gun used the coiling dragon bird gun with three rifling wires.

In addition to throwing wood and flying thunder, the sword and shield hand is not much different from the sword and shield hand of other armies.

In addition, the third battalion also had grenadiers, 10,000 opponents, signal troops, and sanitary troops that other armies did not have.

Ga Liguang, the commander of the third battalion, was full of confidence in Sun Yi's personal command of the operation. He was originally an ordinary soldier, and he had no idea how to fight, and he would fight as he pleased.

Another person who is full of confidence in Sun Yi is Niu Guangtian, a calf.

When Sun Yi called up the offline satellite map in his mobile phone and asked Niu Li'er for the specific location, Niu Guangtian looked at it for a long time and found that this was looking at Daqing Mountain from the sky, and immediately asked the same question as Wen Muzuo: "Did Tabu Sac come from the sky?" ”

Sun Yi gave the standard answer: "I am not an immortal." The calf's gaze was particularly meaningful.

The guides and communication soldiers in the front transmitted back information through binoculars and flag relays, and discovered the Manchurian soldiers! The Manchurian soldiers were climbing over a mountain ridge. Climb over this mountain, climb another mountain, and go down to a small valley to follow the golden ditch.

Sun Yi immediately ordered the third battalion to enter the small valley and march to meet the Manchurian soldiers.

The small valley is narrow and rugged, and it is full of knee-deep weeds after a short walk.

Sun Yi deliberately let the third battalion walk two miles in the grass, and then ordered that all of them must wear leggings.

The Third Battalion had already issued a pair of long strips of cloth to each soldier, three inches wide and five feet long, with one end branched into two thin strips. Leggings when walking, tourniquets when injured, and temporary tying of things.

However, the veterans of the third battalion have a lot of oil, and they all said that it is not easy to use the calf and stomach after beating the leggings. Seeing that the veterans did not use it, the recruits also rolled up the brand-new strips of white cloth and treasured them. In the third battalion, there were only some people from mountain people who took the initiative to tie leggings.

So Sun Yi deliberately made people who didn't wear leggings suffer a little.

The leggings played a great role in the modern warfare of later generations, and were the standard configuration of the troops of various countries.

The first function of marching leggings is to prevent blood accumulation in the lower limbs after walking, especially after climbing for a long time, causing soreness in the lower legs the next day, and the second is to prevent weeds and branches from hanging and mountain insects and locust bites.

Ordered, the veterans whose calves were covered with weeds and blood no longer thought that the leggings would make the calves bloated, and sat on the ground and took the lead in wrapping the leggings. Sun Yi unceremoniously kicked them up from the ground and made them stand and wrap their leggings.

Leggings are actually very particular, and one of the secrets is to wrap them up. Start with the upper and wrap it flat around the ankle to seal the cuff tightly, then turn the leggings over every one or two loops so that the leggings are flat against the leg and continue to work upwards until the leg is crooked, and finally tie a knot with two muslin straps at the end of the leggings.

When wrapping, the ankle should be tight, and the top can be slightly looser. If the leggings are too tight, you won't be able to take a step, and if they're too loose, they'll fall off easily.

All the personnel of the third battalion took on a new look after beating the leggings.

Everyone became white-legged and made fun of each other, but the speed of the march increased considerably.

When everyone got used to the white legs, some people slowly felt that the leggings with fiber helmets and armored chest guards were actually quite majestic.