Now, Lu Xiangsheng has been promoted to the post of Xuanda Commander-in-Chief, nominally the governor of the world's soldiers and horses, fully responsible for the defense of the capital and the war against Jiannu, and has become the de facto military commander of the Ming Dynasty. （）

There were 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers in the two towns of Xuanda, and there were more than 10,000 under Lu Xiangsheng. In addition to staying in the town, these three troops and horses can dispatch about 20,000. Coupled with Guanning, Jizhen, Jingying and the troops that came to reinforce from all walks of life, it was already a field group of unprecedented scale.

Fighting a war is actually about money and food, and I think Governor Lu is having a headache at this time, right?

When he came to see Lu Xiangsheng this time, Sun Yuan received an order to assemble troops and stand by, and only wait for the Qing army to fight under the city of Beijing, and then rush to the battlefield to join Lu Xiangsheng's troops and fight a decisive battle with the enemy.

Sun Yuan is actually very poor now, and he didn't get a penny of food and salary after coming to Juyong Pass. However, Governor Lu promised to replenish the troops with some gunpowder, which was not without a small supplement

。

As for Huang You's reminder that Sun Yuan's Bohai Institute was very close to Yue Tuo's army, and this time he had to go back to his headquarters to guard against encountering the enemy's scout cavalry halfway, Sun Yuan didn't take it to heart.

According to his foreknowledge of history, it is still some time before the Qing army attacks Beijing in a big way.

The two armies of the Qing army will not be merged until the middle of next month, and it is now the beginning of October, which is still early.

During this time, the Gyeonggi area was still very calm. It can be described as a crisp autumn atmosphere.

After a day's delay in Juyongguan, there was no way to rush back to Bohai on the same day, and Sun Yuan had no choice but to rest overnight in a small village in Shunyi. Early the next morning, I was back on the road.

This is the core area of Gyeonggi, and the Qing army has just broken through the Qingshan Pass, which is more than a hundred miles away. No matter how big Yue Tuo's reconnaissance circle is, it is impossible to spread it here. Therefore, when Sun Yuan came, he only brought four guards.

Sun Yuan does not support his family, unlike other Ming Dynasty troops, the guards of the main generals are all first-class elites in the army, and the four people around him are not strictly speaking the essence of the army, but the secretary office, the main task is to deal with paperwork and housekeeping for Sun Yuan, and they are all fourteen or fifteen half-old children.

A main general like Sun Yuan doesn't have to charge into battle now, and the guards around him don't need to have much combat effectiveness.

Sun Yuan's original plan was to wait for these people to learn to read and write by his side, and then wait until their muscles and bones grow up, and then put them in the front-line combat troops to hammer for a few years, and then they can be of great use. That's right, to put it bluntly, being his guard is actually even if he enters Sun Yuan's teaching team, and because he is a person trained by Sun Yuan, his loyalty is also extremely high, and his future future is naturally not small. For example, Shao Wei and Wei Qinghua in the past.

It was also Sun Yuan's carelessness, this time he went to Juyongguan, because the weather was hot, everyone was wearing thin sleeveless cotton armor, and they only carried a goose feather knife on their bodies. As for long-range firing weapons, one person has one handgun. In this way, it is easy to go all the way.

Speaking of these four people, they are all natives of Beijing, when Chongzhen entered the Qing army in the ninth year, his parents and family died in the war, and they were later taken in by Sun Yuan.

These four people are all half-grown children, and they don't have the kind of young adults who are good men who don't serve as soldiers, and they don't have the mind to be nailed. They can't eat, and military households and civilian households are meaningless to them.

stayed in Ningxiangjun for a year and a half, stayed by Sun Yuan's side all day, but learned a lot of words

。

After all, he was a child, and the first time he accompanied General Sun out of the house, he was extremely excited along the way.

By noon, the four of them lit a bonfire early to tidy up Sun Yuan's lunch.

A hare was set on the fire, roasted to the point of squeaking oil, sprinkled with large salt particles and peppercorns, and the smoke of the cooking stove rising, but it had a strange fragrance.

"Yu Xiang's cooking skills are getting better and better." A guard laughed at Sun Yuan, who was washing the mane of the war horse by the stream at Yuanchu, and subconsciously lowered his voice: "Our general is good at everything else, he just loves to eat, and every two or three days, you have to change the trick for his old man." Fortunately, with you, we don't have to worry about the general's diet. ”

The man who was called Yu Xiang unconsciously straightened his chest, his slightly chubby face was full of pride, and said: "I have chewed dry food every day for the past two days, although the general doesn't say it, but I can also see that .cc [marshmallow] is okay, and he shot a rabbit generously, and he can finally let the general have a good meal." ”

"Indeed, the generous arrow is shot really accurately, a hundred paces away, the arrow is not missing, it is really admirable." The other two praised at the same time.

I praised this as a proud thing, but the man named Dafang snorted, and removed the rough bowstring from the compound bow and replaced it with a new one. Then he put his bow arm on the ground and stepped on it like a full moon with his feet: "Yu Xiang, we are learning skills by the general's side." Since your cooking is so delicious, you don't have to leave the army in the future, it's good to enter the room, and it's your talent to be a soldier. ”

Yu Xiang was so sarcastic by Dafang, his slightly chubby face suddenly turned red, and he couldn't speak. Dafang, the eldest of the four and a half children, will be sixteen in two months, and according to the rules set by Sun Yuan, the Ningxiang Army only recruits soldiers over the age of sixteen. Therefore, it is difficult to say that he was the first of these four to enter the army.

This man has a strange temper, does not love to talk, and is very impulsive when he speaks. In the beginning, the other three children asked him to fight a few times, but unfortunately none of them were his opponents. Until now, I was a little afraid of him.

A guard couldn't look at it, and said in a low voice: "Generous, they are all their own brothers, Yu Xiangren is good, what do you mean by saying such things." ”

"Whoever is your own brother, when it comes to reading and writing, and eighteen kinds of weapons, I am not better than you. You can't even compare to me, so why should you be my brother? The general left me to wait by his side so that we could learn the real skills, not to raise waste

。 In the future, if you go to the battlefield, maybe Lao Tzu will also be dragged down by you. ”

Dafang still looked scathing, except for Yu Xiang, the other two guards were immediately annoyed. lowered his voice: "Dafang, when we return to the Bohai Institute, let's find a secluded place to reason." ”

Dafang sneered: "It's up to you, okay, when I go back, I will accompany you at any time...... Worst! ”

Private fighting is forbidden in the Ningxiang army, but most of the men in the barracks are strong-blooded. If they encounter contradictions, they will often choose a place where no one is there to fight, and even if the officers know about it, they will turn a blind eye.

There is only one, and no victory is allowed to lose. Otherwise, after returning to the camp, damn it, you wait to receive military justice, who told you to lose the face of our troops?

Suddenly, he ran over and kicked the rabbit to the ground, which was about to be roasted, and lifted the water bladder and poured a skin of water into the campfire.

"Phew!" A large stream of white water steamed.

The three of them exclaimed in a low voice at the same time: "Dafang, what are you doing, are you crazy?" ”

Dafang: "Enemy, enemy is coming." ”

The three of them stood up at the same time, and when they looked back, they saw that Sun Yuan had already loaded the saddle and bridle of the war horse with his hands and feet, and shouted loudly: "Ten miles ahead, Jiannu scouts, the number is about twenty, get on the horse quickly, go!" "A face has turned iron-blue.

Just now, when he was washing the war horse, Sun Yuan also heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from in the distance, and his heart suddenly tightened, and he called out unlucky: Huang You, you crow's mouth, actually told you right? It must have been Jiannu who saw the smoke rising from the bonfire just now, so he came over.

No matter what unit it is in, the scout cavalry is a person with outstanding martial arts and equestrian skills, which can be described as the essence of the essence.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Ting was already struggling when he ambushed fifty Mongolian soldiers. And now he only has five people and five horsemen, and the four guards are still half-grown children, and the strength is very different, so there is no need to fight this battle.

"Yes!" The four of them hurriedly saddled their horses, and the sound of the enemy's hooves had begun to become clear.

Sitting on horseback, as far as the eye can see, there is a row of small black dots on the horizon. Jiannu's team ran loosely, but it was well organized. Some rushed forward, while others outflanked in both directions.

"What to do, what to do?" Yu Xiang was so shocked that his fat face was full of beads of sweat

。

"What are you afraid of, it's a big deal to fight with Jiannu!" The other two guards were full of excitement, because it was the first time to go to the battlefield, and the two had already drawn their broadswords, but their right hands trembled slightly because of the excitement.

Dafang sneered: "Desperately, don't forget, our duty is to protect the general, it doesn't matter if you die, if the general has three longs and two shorts, you can rest assured even if you die?" ”

After speaking, regardless of the three companions, he rode to Sun Yuan's side: "General, not far from here, there is a fire pier of my Ningxiang Army. There is a river outside the pier, which is quite deep. There is only one path at the entrance of the pier, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it is better to go there for a while to avoid it. Jiannu are all scout cavalry, and they should not have brought weapons, so it is impossible to capture the fire road pier. ”

The so-called fire road pier is the guard post built on the border by the military rammed earth of the Ming Dynasty, which is about ten meters high, surrounded by a wall of up to 30 meters, and there are usually five to seven soldiers stationed in it, which is a small military fortress.

Sun Yuan was thinking about countermeasures, and when he heard that this half-sized man's proposal was exactly what he wanted, he couldn't help but nodded: "Ben Jiang is going to do this, by the way, how do you know that there is a pier platform here?" ”

Dafang: "Back to the general's words, the little one saw it on the map when he was serving the general at night school." ”

Sun Yuan: "You are careful. ”

Dafang: "For generals, when you know astronomy, geography, mountains and rivers, you must naturally pay attention." ”

Sun Yuan nodded: "Okay, let's go, go there to avoid first." ”

As he spoke, he set off with the horse's belly, and Yu Xiang and the others also followed the war horse and rushed out quickly.

Dafang began to scold his mother in the back again: "Yu Xiang, look at you scared like that." There are still forty miles from here to the pier, so run, and it won't be long before the war horse will run away, and Jiannu is a man with two horses. Damn, hold down the horse's speed first. ”

Hearing this, Sun Yuan couldn't help but glance at him again: This kid is a person who knows how to fight, and he can also calm down. Unlike the other three, Yu Xiang doesn't look like a soldier except for cooking deliciously. As for the other two, as soon as they saw the enemy, they first became excited, but they didn't know the reason why they were all in one go, then they were in decline, and then they were exhausted. Two months passed...... In this battle, simply hand him over to Shao Wei or the donkey, and they will see blood on the battlefield.

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