Abatai was the seventh son of Nurhachi, but he was a concubine. When Nurhachi was alive, he was not welcomed, and when Nurhachi died, his status fell even more sharply. At that time, he was just an ordinary Baylor, and even lower than the status of Yueto, Zilharang and other juniors.

When Huang Taiji held a banquet, he usually sat in the back seat. Although Abatai was able to fight well, his status in the Manchu Qing was really not high. And because he is a concubine, he can't pee in the same pot with those brothers from orthodox backgrounds. The young Doze became the banner master, but he was nothing. Huang Taiji also often hit him, and even forcibly separated Abatai and his Fujin.

It's the same this time, after Dorgon loses his usefulness in Abatai. And they sent him out. He didn't have his share in the great merit of fighting Ning Yuan, but it fell on his head to block the reinforcements. Sending reinforcements has no benefit except for being able to catch some coated minions. This shows the status of Abatai in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Speaking of Abatai, there is a person's name that has to be mentioned. That is, in the five thousand years of China, Li Yongfang, a traitor who ranked first and foremost in the second minister's biography list and had a great reputation. This big traitor is Abatai's son-in-law.

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The initial contact between the two sides was a skirmish between the Ming army's night retreat and the Manchu reconnaissance cavalry. The number of cavalry in Gaoyang's new army is not small, and the number even reaches tens of thousands! Although Gao Yang can't bring horses directly from modern time and space, he has silver, so much silver that he can't use up at all.

Although he has always looked down on the profiteers who betrayed the interests of the country and the nation, this large-scale purchase of horses really relied on the efforts of these profiteers to successfully complete the matter. For these profiteers who dared to accept the bloody silver sent by the Jianjun who were mercenary and looted after breaking the customs, it was not a matter at all to accept Gaoyang's silver and go to Mongolia to buy horses.

Through the Jinzhong firms in Zhangjiakou that had ties to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Gao Yang purchased thousands of horses from Mongolia on a large scale! Gao Yang got tons and tons of industrial silver in modern time and space, directly stamped them into large ingots, and then brought them here for use. To him, it wasn't even a cost. After he made the request. The countries of modern time and space took the initiative to help him make things well, and just bring them over and use them directly.

Those Jinzhong firms, which were later named imperial merchants after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, were completely fed by Gao Yang with silver. Gao Yang didn't care about this either, and he would take it back when he had his hands free to clean up these profiteers. At this time, it is just for them to keep it for the time being. Anyway, these Jinzhong firms don't have overseas accounts.

After the horses are there. The selected sergeants soon began to receive cavalry training. Gao Yang's definition of these cavalry is not charging cavalry in the traditional sense, they are actually mounted infantry fighting on horseback. The mode of combat is also not cavalry hedging. Instead, muskets and handcuffs were used.

Except for a small number of elite sergeants who really knew how to ride horses, they were organized into night troops. The rest of the cavalry with short-barreled flintlock pistols were all dragoons. The number of horses was sufficient, in addition to meeting the needs of the cavalry, the number of pack horses pulling four ** carts with spring shock absorption systems was also sufficient. This greatly solves the problem of logistics and transportation. After all, Gao Yang's storage space cannot be used for a lifetime.

There is no shortage of legume feed to feed the horses, nor is there a shortage of medicines to treat various diseases. Coupled with the advanced training methods of modern time and space, the dragoons soon formed a preliminary combat effectiveness. Great material abundance is a vital thing for an army!

Gaoyang has brought a large number of hydraulic stamping equipment from modern time and space, as well as simple lathes, milling, drilling machines and other equipment that can be called artifacts in this era. The powerful Ferguson flintlock pistol and Napoleon gun were produced on a terrifying scale. Moreover, it adopts standardized operations, and the quality rate is extremely high.

This is a model in which Gao Yang brings production equipment and raw materials and drawing technology, and the local natives are trained by the biochemical warriors for production. The impact on the space-time channel is far less than that of Gaoyang, which is directly from the modern space-time belt.

And there is. This era can be regarded as the age of gunpowder. As long as the technological leadership is not too much, the impact of the munitions produced here on the space-time channel is not serious.

Gao Yang has been fighting in the south and the north in recent years. He certainly understood how important morale and the belief in fighting to the death were to an army.

After the establishment of the New Army, Gao Yang took out a large amount of silver to buy a terrifying scale of land near Jingshi and Beizhili. At the end of the three-month recruit training, each qualified recruit was temporarily allocated hundreds of acres of land! Although the fields of Beizhili are far inferior to the fields of Songjiang Mansion, for these new soldiers, who were mostly poor ghosts before, this is something that they can't even dream of.

Gao Yang set up a formal seal for all qualified sergeants. As long as the sergeants have served for ten years, they have either made great achievements, or died in battle, or are severely disabled and cannot continue to serve. The land will be officially transferred to their name. Before that, it was rented, but there was no rent. There are no taxes to pay. The latter one is the benefit that Gao Yang brought to Emperor Chongzhen.

As for whether Gao Yang can say that he can do this, there are good practical examples to prove it. During the training, a very small number of non-commissioned officers were injured or even killed due to explosions, improper operation, and so on. Gao Yang divided the land for each of them, and also gave the family a large amount of funeral pension silver! When Gaoyang recruits soldiers, they all choose to have families, so that soldiers will have concerns when they go out to fight.

For the time being, the land was being tended by the relatives of the sergeants. Many of the previously poor sergeants who could not marry their daughters-in-law were married soon after the news spread. These previously unpopular idlers suddenly became wealthy landlords. And every month there will be an extremely generous salary! They soon became the sweethearts of matchmakers everywhere. in recent months. A lively wave of marriage swept through the New Army camps.

After seeing the benefits, countless hands wanted to reach into the new army to earn some benefits. What ministers, officials, relatives, families, and squires all wanted to take a share of the new army, and eat empty pay and labor. There were even people who begged Emperor Chongzhen! Gao Yang didn't have a good face at all for these people, and all those who dared to reach out were chopped off their claws. This was also an important reason why he was subsequently attacked by a group.

When the new army was recruited for the third time, it was really crowded. Countless people broke their heads and wanted to join the new army. However, this time, Gaoyang strictly limited the conscription criteria, as long as he was born poor and had a family and parents. What children of the family, what veterans don't want at all!

For those peasants-turned-sergeants, there was nothing more powerful than the land to make them desperate. They are willing to risk their lives to protect their land!

During lecture time that will be there almost every evening. The cyborg soldiers have been constantly instilling in the New Army sergeants that if they are defeated on the battlefield. Then your land, your house, your wife and children are all yours. If you don't want your children to be subordinate for generations to come, then you have to use your lives to guard your property and your future hopes!

These recruits may not be sufficiently trained. Maybe they will be timid on the battlefield, maybe they are not brave enough. And they're all afraid of death. But they are even more afraid to back down. Because once he retreated, he was charged with desertion. Except for his own death, everything he had before will be taken away. After getting what they dreamed of, no one could accept this brutal result.

Returning to the battlefield, the elite armor soldiers under Abatai's subordinates who were doing far-sighted reconnaissance were surprised to find that this army, which had never been in contact with before, was so brave?! Regardless of the circumstances, none of these Ming troops escaped. Even if they were lured into an ambush, these Ming troops would rather all die than surrender! It's not like the Ming army in their impression at all. It's just that this information has not received the attention it deserves, and the Manchu Qing's contempt for the Ming army has been deeply rooted.

The brief contact and battlefield cover soon ended. When Gao Yang personally led the main force to the vicinity of Ningyuan Zuowei Fort, Abatai led his soldiers and horses to meet him, and the battle was about to begin.

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The dark night gradually faded, and the white of the fish belly began to appear in the distant sky, and the morning sun was about to rise. On the bank of an unknown small river more than ten miles before Ningyuan Zuowei Fort, a clear and loud wake-up call sounded in the huge military camp that stretched for several miles. The sergeants, who had rested all night in the barracks, began to get dressed and get up. They took out their toiletries and lined up outside the tent, took water from the auxiliaries who got up earlier and went to the river to fetch water, and immediately began to wash up seriously.

By this time, the sergeants were able to use toothpaste, towels, soap and other toiletries very proficiently. They knew that the things in their hands were worth a lot of silver in the Jingshi. These novelties are very attractive to the wealthy. Many of the ministers, officials, and wealthy people in the capital wanted to get some to enjoy.

It's just that Gao Yang didn't think about making money from them, because he didn't need to. He also has no plans to carry out people's livelihood undertakings in Daming, and lack of time is one thing. On the other hand, it is too much trouble to invest too much in the foundation. Gao Yang's main focus is currently on the war, and the matter of people's livelihood will not be considered until all the hostile forces have been resolved and the surrounding areas have been subdued.

The rich people couldn't find a source of goods, so they had to hit the big guys with their ideas. Spend a lot of money on consumables that are ordinary for sergeants. There was once a poor man who could not resist the temptation and sold these rations for silver. (To be continued)