"Good! This time there are war horses and cavalry, Li Denggao, you have to manage your life well, settle these 3,000 households well, remember to be in our hands, so that you can live and live, and take them in your heart as soon as possible! ”

In Chunxian County, Shanxi, after receiving Guo Sheng's receipt of this batch of war horses and people, Li Jing commanded with great ambition. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"The lower officials must ask these 3,000 households to integrate into the begging army as soon as possible, so as not to cause the lord any trouble."

At present, in order to deal with the Jurchens' possible southward movement at any time, Li Jing not only dispatched troops to Daizhou to garrison, but also implemented strict fortifications and cleared the fields in the local area.

During the ten days of waiting, all parts of Shanxi were mobilized, and on the southern front, the soldiers and horses were basically stationed in the same place, and the remaining officers and troops and rogues were able to kick them off, and everything made way for the northern front.

Almost all the main forces of the begging army are gathered on the first line of Ningwuguan in Daizhou, and the main force of the second town is deployed in Yanmen, Fanzhi on the first line, and goes north to Datong Town with a small force.

Once the cavalry towns were replenished with these Mongol cavalry, plus the cavalry battalions drawn from various departments, the total strength would break through to 15,000 men, and after being equipped with new bird guns and horse guns, it would also be supported by a full eighty artillery pieces.

The third and first towns were also transferred eastward, as the last reserve of the army, and the same was true of the fourth town.

It is no exaggeration to say that the entire line of defense, like an iron wall, is waiting for the Jurchens to go south and hit their heads and break the blood.

On May 22 of the fifth year of Chongzhen, after Jin Huang Taiji led Manchuria, Mongolian Tatar soldiers 890,000 people, hoarded the naturalization city, with 20,000 partial divisions, entered the left guard of Wanquan, and formally invaded the Ming Dynasty, its main force was led by Huang Taiji himself, the army was stationed inside and outside the Great Wall, and the forward soldiers pointed directly at Zhangjiakou and Xuanfu Zhongwei.

On the left flank, about 12,000 people were led by Zilharang and Sakhalian in Manchuria and the first part of the Mongolian Eight Banners, and went south to Datong from between the Zhenlu and Huai'an guards, while on the right flank, Yue Tuo, Abatai led the Blue Banner and the first part of the two red flags and about 15,000 people in the Mongolian Eight Banners, and from between the Wanquan Left Guard and the Central Guard, they went south to Datong.

The soldiers and horses on the left flank went straight to Datong Mansion, but although the Ming army could not fight in the field, it relied on the tall city towers and the advantages of artillery, so the Jurchen Tartar soldiers did not fall into the city, and avoided the fort, and only plundered the wealth of the local population.

Then, Huang Taiji sat in Daqingshan, and then sent Zhenglan Banner Dege to lead an army of 5,000 to enter the customs from Xinping, in order to cover the looted goods Dingkou to withdraw to the nearest pass.

The right-wing Yuetuo, Abatai, went deep into the hinterland of Datong Town, frantically plundered, and pointed directly at Guangyi, Hunyuan Prefecture, Yingzhou and other places.

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"The Tartar army is flourishing day by day, and the soldiers and horses of Datong Town in the imperial court can't shrink out, cowardly as a mouse, sitting back and watching the people of Li suffer, where under May, there are three or five hundred, or one or two thousand, each captured by the Tartars, there are brave resistance, and they are slaughtered by the whole village, and the people of the court are miserable!"

Wei Xiaobao took the battle report sent back from the secret agent of Datong Town, and his voice was a little deformed, it was really infuriating, there were more than 100,000 registered soldiers in Datong Town, and no one dared to go out of the city to fight, so that three or five hundred soldiers and horses in Houjin dared to attack a county, and twenty or thirty people dared to loot a town, almost like entering a no-man's land.

When Li Jing heard this, he waved his hand and said in a deep voice, "The imperial court is the same, and the military equipment of the Xuanfu is useless, and there are almost no people who dare to go out of the city to engage in battle, but we are begging for the army, not for the sake of watching!" ”

rushed to Liang Sijiu, who returned ahead of schedule, "Now, how is the cavalry?" ”

"Back to the lord, three thousand Mongolian iron cavalry joined, and the cavalry battalions of each department were built, and the elite cavalry of the former trilateral cavalry joined, and now there are seven or eight thousand on the horse, and seven or eight thousand on the horse and seven or eight thousand, all of which can be fought!"

Liang Sijiu knew that Li Jing was going to take the initiative to fight, and it was good to think about it, now the forces of the Houjin Tartars are in the stage of dispersion, if he can concentrate his forces and eat a few small Houjin soldiers, first, he can weaken the total strength of the Houjin Tartars and combat their arrogance, and secondly, he can accumulate a lot, be familiar with the combat methods of the Houjin Tartars, and avoid rushing into battle when the main force is fighting on a large scale, after all, knowing himself and knowing that the other side can win a hundred battles.

"The advance sent several elite cavalry teams out of Yanmen Pass, so that we can ambush the inner line, pass on the military information, and choose the opportunity to eliminate one or two Houjin Tartar soldiers, please remember, don't underestimate the enemy, don't be greedy for merit, once you encounter the enemy's superior forces, return immediately, and don't fall in love with the war."

It can be seen that Li Jing's estimation of the Houjin Tartar is very cautious.

With the main force of their own beggar army, it is still difficult to fight against the main force of the trilateral Ming army, and the trilateral elite against the Mongolian Tartars, if the command is right, the three armies can maintain undefeated and undefeated, but according to Li Jing's limited memory, the Tartar soldiers often dispatch more than a thousand, thousands, and can defeat several times their own Mongolian soldiers.

It shows the discipline and combat effectiveness of the Houjin soldiers, and then look at the main force of the Guanning Army in Liaodong, one of which Cao Wenzhao is almost invincible in Shaanxi, no matter which way the thief army encounters, it cannot be spared, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry, known as the first elite of the Ming Dynasty, encounters the Houjin soldiers and horses, but it is rare to win.

Although there is also the idea of Liaodong Jiangmen to preserve his strength, but when he fights sincerely, the Guanning army is not necessarily comparable to the Shanghou Jin Zhen Tartar in terms of morale and combat quality.

Therefore, in terms of discipline and organization, Li Jing thinks that he is not afraid of the Houjin, but in terms of combat effectiveness and equipment, the lack of begging troops may not be comparable to the Houjin soldiers and horses.

Although the national strength is scarce, but the plundering of the Ming Dynasty's money, food, population and other material supplements, on the contrary, makes the Houjin Zhen Tartar equipment better than ordinary Ming soldiers, the key is that the Houjin control and vassal tribes can provide a large number of war horses, which makes the mobility of the Houjin soldiers also strong, and the idle Ming army is by no means their opponent.

But the beggar army in this point, also did not do badly, through and Datong town and captured the armor of the three sides of the soldiers, so that the number of the beggar army individual armor increased rapidly, now entrenched in Daizhou and Yingzhou and other places of the beggar army of 40,000 horses, there are 3,000 iron armor, 11,000 cotton armor, almost two people have a pair of armor.

Moreover, the new type of firecracker, under the condition of Li Jing's personal responsibility, with water conservancy drilling, the yield and pass rate have surged, and now among the 40,000 troops, there are more than 10,000 new-style birds, and it has also been supported by more than 300 artillery, and even the siege of the city with as many as 6 generals.

Later Jin soldiers and horses, all the troops to fight, in the Nurhachi era, are captured private, so everyone fought desperately, to the Huangtaiji period, first changed to the collection of each banner of the public middle, and then changed to the central distribution, but at this time, the Hou Jin soldiers and horses on all fronts have won the victory, captured a lot.

Therefore, each banner and each Niulu are also stronger and stronger in the war, and the looting is basically much greater than the loss, so on the battlefield, the Houjin Tartar soldiers are more brave in battle, because the war can make them throw themselves into the land, promote and make a fortune.

As for the begging army, the army is built with the military merit title system, everything is recorded with the enemy's first level of merit, the first battlefield is to fight for warriors, and the places where soldiers are recruited are almost all poor places, most of the soldiers used to be from a bitter background, they have not seen much of the world, they don't have much culture, and they are constantly brainwashed day and night, most of them have a pathological belief in the beggar army and Li Jing.

In addition, the training is simply an assembly line for later generations, first recruit people and horses, stuff them into the recruit training camp, and after three or five months, receive a set of military uniforms, issue a spear or bird gun, and with the obedience and exercise learned in the training camp, they will soon become a qualified member of the battle array, and with uninterrupted brainwashing, they can also make do with it.

These are all summed up by Li Jing with the documents and staff of the General Staff Department, that is, the soldiers and horses of Houjin, the population base is there, if there is one death, there will be one less, and the reality is that Houjin cannot afford to fight a war of attrition.

As for Li Jing, although the pension silver is set at a high level, it exempts the sergeants from worrying about going into battle, even if 10,000 are killed in this battle, at most hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and Li Jing confiscated the silver obtained from the Shaanxi palace and localities, which is as much as millions of taels, and there is no shortage of food.

Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Li Jing simply set up an iron bucket array, first consumed Houjin's military morale and physical strength, and then sat back and waited for the consumption, and used the troops with simple training and equipped with birds to consume the lives of Houjin's soldiers and horses with their lives, even if they could achieve a five-to-one consumption, Li Jing could bear it.

The third town is exhausted, not afraid, even if the guards, teachings, and cavalry towns are all exhausted, he can still master the fourth and fifth towns, as well as the garrison town of Shaanxi, these soldiers and horses can still allow him to quickly pull up a larger army, and the five or six hundred people in the areas controlled by Shaanxi and Shanxi are his best foundation.

"Fight steadily and steadily, fight back locally, once the situation is not right, immediately shrink the troops, play a protracted war with Houjin, fight a tough battle, the task of the cavalry town is the heaviest and the most dangerous, we must carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of hardship and death, Liang Sijiu, do you have confidence?!"

"Yes! Please rest assured, my cavalry town below me, battalion leaders at all levels, and school captains, have all made their last words, vowing to break their bones for the great cause of the begging army, and they will not give up! ”

"Good!"

With the belief that he would win, Li Jing ordered all the departments of the cavalry town to open one after another, except for the four battalions that went north in the early stage, the remaining five battalions were concentrated into two fists, which were assigned to the third town and the personal guard teaching town, as a sharp weapon in the final decisive battle of the whole army, this battle will definitely be a battle that will determine the future of China, and there will be no defeat! (To be continued.) )