Chapter 117: Attack

After several days of rectification, not only the ordinary soldiers complained about this, but the officers of the company platoon were even more stressed. Shen Jia www.biquge.info the three Mongolian companies and all the veteran companies were scattered and incorporated into each company to avoid mass incidents due to ethnic issues. Shen Jia forbade calling Tartars in the company, even against the Jianzhou Jurchens. Since the Mongolian refugees have been accepted to join, the daily details must be paid attention to, and Shen Jia does not want to create unnecessary contradictions internally.

At present, there are a total of thirty companies, which are extremely inconvenient to manage, and Shen Jia ordered the reorganization of six battalions. The battalion commander appointment did not use the recommended method, and Shen Jia directly promoted the veteran company commander to the battalion commander. In the results of this company and platoon election, in addition to Zu Ming, the commander of the sixth company, other veteran company commanders such as Liu Wu, Li Fulai, Hong Cheng, Zeng Shishi, He Dong, and Niu Dayong were all elected with high votes, which is also an important reason why Shen Jia was able to successfully complete the battalion system. The strength of the six battalions is definitely beyond the establishment of a regiment, Shen Jia can't find a more suitable commander now, and the army can't fake others for this kind of thing, Shen Jia simply makes up for life first and slowly excavates good seedlings.

Chen Ce and He Shixian allocated 2,500 war horses for the new regiment. Most of these horses were captured in the Battle of Fushun, and after months of recuperation, the burned horses were able to cope with daily riding. The animal husbandry industry outside the customs is developed, and Shen Jia invested in the purchase of 1,000 mules and horses. The time for the formation of the army was too short, and the cavalry was a luxury for Shen Jia, and Shen Jia's purpose was to use horsepower to move quickly and use flexible tactics to make up for the lack of firepower and field warfare of the Ming army.

In terms of equipment, Shen Jia racked his brains, mainly using swords, shields and spears, with a small number of crossbow machines. The crossbow machine has a slow rate of fire, it takes time to manufacture, and large-scale equipment is unlikely, so Shen Jia tries to pick up ready-made ones as much as possible. In addition to carrying weapons with him, Shen Jia also equipped a small number of soldiers with improvised sapper shovels for quickly constructing trenches. Of course, grenades are indispensable, and the firepower of the offensive at the moment mainly relies on grenades. But the grenade has a fatal weakness, that is, it is difficult to play a role against moving targets. For example, when the Jiannu cavalry was moving quickly, the role of grenades was extremely limited.

In the past five days, Shen Jia summoned six newly appointed battalion political commissars to emphatically expound on the importance of ideological training. Shen Jia ordered Liu Wencai to collect a large number of black materials about Jiannu, which were mainly from folk rumors and had a high degree of authenticity. Shen Jia didn't deliberately screen, he even made Liu Wencai's portrayal more impactful. Like ** captivity, killing the old and the young, this is the image that Shen Jia deliberately prepared for Jiannu. Three consecutive days of discussions, speeches and speeches showed that the hatred of the displaced people outside the Guanxi for Jiannu was far deeper than Shen Jia imagined. It's just that most of the displaced people, who have lived in this land for generations, are kind and simple, and they lack a strong organization to resist.

Shen Jia provided an opportunity to portray each warrior as a grassroots hero, and he called the confrontation between a group of Jiannu and civilization against backwardness, and good against evil. Hermes-Epitek has created thousands of years of glorious history, culture and wealth, while Mongolian compatriots have created their own unique cultural characteristics, such as Mongolian long tunes and bards. But Jiannu, their words were stolen, their identities were also robbed, and even the land they live on now was looted in the process of migration. A predatory people, who will not create, will not engage in social production, and will live under their rule, where ideas will be imprisoned, hands will be bound, and in their eyes all men will be slaves. Are the great Han people, and the descendants of Genghis Khan, willing to live in the shadow of others and be a minion?

When Shen Jia spread this information downward through the political commissars of each battalion, a ball boiled. These ordinary warriors, no one realized in the past that they themselves were the heroes who saved the common people. When Shen Jia made these clear, the soldiers suddenly found that their fate seemed to be changed by their own hands. And on the other subject, how to survive and survive decently, most people think that in a group they already feel what honor and respect are.

Shen Jia actively urged the political commissars of each company to carry out military honor education, and achieved good results. Although since the Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the idea of a good man not being a soldier has spread among the people from time to time, Shen Jia has carried out drastic reforms in the army through the dual encouragement of material and spiritual honor. He forcibly abolished all corporal punishment and replaced it with training punishment, and at the same time constantly strengthened ideological and understanding education, and in addition, instilled as much as possible the characteristics of training in the modern army. This series of changes caused a regiment to be very different from other units from the beginning.

For the deep water area, like loving the country and loving the emperor, Shen Jia did not go to it. The Apocalypse is still the era of the Imperial Martial Arts with Literature, and if you do this, you will backfire on yourself. Shen Jia simply changed to love Liaotu and save the world. Tearing through the blurred window paper, tying the interests of all with the victory in the military struggle, invisibly boosted the morale of the training.

Just when Shen Jia was carrying out internal rectification, the investigation work east of Fushun was also in full swing. According to the intelligence during this period, Houjin has learned a lesson and has been building a temporary beacon for interrogation, and at the same time setting up a large number of police posts.

This is a good opportunity, just as Shen Jia was about to act, Huang Taiji suddenly sent a letter, the content of which turned out to be to discuss peace. Chen Ce, He Shixian didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly beckoned Xiao Ji, You Shigong, Shen Jia and others to discuss.

Of course, Shen Jia knew what kind of person Huang Taiji was, in his reign, this trick had been played many times, and it cost a lot of people's lives. However, most of the Fushun generals and officials were unaware of this new opponent.

"Mr. Chen, do you still need to discuss this? If you can get Fushun back after negotiation, then why do you need the army! ”

He Shixian praised Shen Jia's words, and he followed: "Lord Chen, no matter what tricks Jiannu plays, it has nothing to do with us, our duty is to fight. ”

Chen Ce looked at Xiao Ji, and Xiao Ji said solemnly: "In the two hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, when did you sit down and negotiate with the barbarians?" If the old man receives this letter, he must tear it in front of him and return it to the sender! ”

Xiao Ji's words were so righteous that it was impossible to question them, and those who later expressed their views were opposed to the peace talks. Chen Ce saw that everyone had set the tone for dealing with it, so he stood up and said that the Fushun garrison would never negotiate peace with Jiannu, and would fight with Jiannu to the end.

At the end of the discussion, Xiao Ji personally wrote four words: "What is the flow", and then sealed it and sent it back by the Jiannu envoy. Shen Jia couldn't figure out what this meant, so he secretly asked Xiao Ji. Xiao Ji finally caught the handle of ridiculing Shen Jia, how could he let it go in vain. In front of everyone, Xiao Ji scolded Shen Jia for not learning and not knowing, and he was embarrassed to say that he was a master, a fart master, which was simply insulting to the thousand-year-old Chinese heritage.

Shen Jia is not good at repaying the price, and Chen Ce, He Shixian, You Shigong and others on the side are all holding teacups to watch the excitement and watch from the wall. Shen Jia was very annoyed, and stayed in the barracks for three days in a row, and he couldn't excuse anyone who came to invite him.

After more than half a month of comprehensive rectification, both the discipline and the results of training have greatly improved, and Shen Jia decided to take the opportunity to pull out for training.

After many rounds of repeated disputes with He Shixian and Chen Ce, on the evening of the fifth day of the eighth month, Shen Jia sent a sharp knife company to secretly infiltrate in the direction of Tiebei Mountain. Under the leadership of Zhao Changshun, the sharp knife company brought enough rations and quietly disappeared into the twilight. In the early morning of the sixth day of the eighth month, Shen Jia personally led the first and second battalions to rush out of the city in the direction of Salhu. In the past half a month, a group has to go out of the city every morning to train, Shen Jia deliberately made a huge noise, and the people of the whole city knew Shen Shoubei's special habits. Therefore, Shen Jia led the army out of the city, and everyone thought that this was just an ordinary training.

At noon, the Ming army arrived in the Houjin-controlled area. The Ming army did not take the official road, but went around to the hills on the north side, and quietly moved towards Yingpan Town under the cover of trees.

Before leaving, Shen Jia borrowed twenty shooters from He Shixian, which was his only long-range strength, Shen Jia had no bottom in his heart, but thinking of the grenade that was attached, Shen Jia was slightly relieved. For a small group of soldiers equipped with crossbows, Shen Jia believed that their rate of fire, firing range, and movement speed were too slow, and it was difficult to play a role against fast-moving targets except for fixed-point attacks.

Under the leadership of Zhao Changshun, most of the recruits had already learned about the terrain on the north bank of Salhu and had accumulated preliminary combat experience. When Shen Jia ordered silence, the entire team silently walked through the forest on the north shore. The procession stopped and went, and at about four o'clock in the afternoon, a thousand Ming troops arrived at several outposts in Houjin.

These outposts were newly established by the Later Jin Dynasty to prevent the Ming army from infiltrating and harassing them. The perimeter of the stockade is surrounded by a one-meter-high wooden fence, and two watchtowers of five or six meters high are distributed on both sides of the stockade. Shen Jia sent the second battalion commander Li Fulai to plan the attack, and the only requirement was that the other party must not be allowed to ignite the beacon fire.

Li Fulai sneaked up with two companies. With the help of the marksman, Li Fulai took out the guards near the beacon and knocked out the lookouts on two watchtowers. The second company swarmed in and slashed all the soldiers of the Eight Banners in the village who had no time to resist. In the face of a large number of Ming troops, the battle was almost one-sided. A quarter of an hour later, the second battalion ended the battle, while also capturing eight prisoners.

Li Fulai asked the captives about the arrangement of the guard posts on the north bank, but the Houjin captives looked at each other angrily and refused to compromise at all. Shen Jia gave a look and walked out of the tent. After the eight captives were pushed to the stockade, Liu Wu, dressed in blood, came over with a scolding and swearing. Shen Jia asked the reason, and Liu Wu said that these grandsons didn't speak until they died, which was really tough. Shen Jia didn't speak, he looked up at the night sky, it was clean and clear, he breathed a long sigh of relief, trying to soothe the discomfort in his heart. Compared with the safety of the 1,000 Ming army, Shen Jia didn't care about the fate of the eight captives at all, it was just the imprint of modern education, which made him more or less uncomfortable.

There was some grain in the stockade, and Liu Wu found a secret cave to bury it on the spot. The corpses and bloodstains were cleaned up and buried, and Shen Jia left a battalion and a company to garrison, while the others continued to march towards Yingpan Mountain in the dark.

Yingpan Mountain is on the north shore of Salhu, facing each other across the lake from Salhu City, and the two places are about ten kilometers apart. Yingpan Mountain is a 100-meter-high hill that was an important military stronghold of the Houjin on the north bank. According to previous intelligence, there were about 308 banners stationed in Yingpanshan, which was mainly responsible for guarding against anomalies in the river valley and warning the city of Salhu on the other side of the lake at the first moment.

The military stronghold built by virtue of the slope of the mountain was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the first few times the Ming army was forced to have no choice but to sneak around. This time, Shen Jia planned to take this place, but he didn't plan to attack hard. When they arrived at Yingpan Mountain, it was already about nine o'clock in the evening, and Shen Jiasa sent spies to quickly reconnoiter the surrounding enemy, while the others rested on the spot to fill their stomachs.

From time to time there was an owl's call in the woods, eerie and quiet. The Ming army lurked in the forest, gnawing on dried meat and dry food, and some soldiers couldn't wait to attack, and they couldn't close their eyes and rest in excitement. Shen Jia's face was full of sorrow, the outpost battle in the afternoon showed that the combat skills of the recruits were weak, and many of them forgot the regulations in their daily training, and completely used the fact that there were more people to bully the Houjin soldiers who had fewer people. To this end, Shen Jia convened a meeting of seven company commanders in the evening, and repeatedly demanded that the commanders must control their respective teams, and no matter what, the formation must not be chaotic.

At about eleven o'clock in the evening, Shen Jia ordered Liu Wu to lead the first battalion to move slowly up the mountain, while the second battalion stayed at the bottom of the mountain to be responsible for blockade and vigilance. The road up the mountain was originally shrubbed and densely wooded. It's just that since Jiannu was stationed in Yingpan Mountain, all the mountains and forests in front of the village have been cut down, and even a wide blank area has been left on the main road on the south side to improve the observation distance. The remaining three sides are 100-meter-high cliffs, which are extremely difficult to climb. Fortunately, Zhao Changshun has reconnoitred here many times, and he found a narrow sheep intestine path, which can reach Yingpan Cottage from the back mountain.

Liu Wu's plan was simple, he sent a platoon to attack from the back mountain. The rest followed him and attacked from the front. Liu Wu asked Wu Kuisheng, the commander of the first company, to lead people to crawl close to the gate from the front, and blast them with explosives at fixed points, paving the way for the attacking first and second companies, and the third company was responsible for the flank and rear. After the arrangement was completed, Liu Wuyi waved his hand, and each company began to arrange tasks according to the battle plan.