Afterwards, Yang Chao talked to Lao Jin.

Lao Jin summed up his experience and said that he was careless, if he had added bird soldiers and archers to the battle at that time, and killed them from a distance between stands, Wang Pu would not have won so easily.

At the same time, he also said that the mandarin duck formation is strong in changing formations, and if the formation cannot be expanded, it is useless.

He also said that the drill was not a real formation after all, if it was a real formation, before Wang Pu rushed away from his front, he would have been killed and wounded and many people would have been scattered, and this was how the Qi family army defeated many Mongols in the past.

Although what Lao Jin said was reasonable, Yang Chao felt that Lao Jin seemed to be looking for an excuse.

For a while, Lao Jin's status in Yang Chao's heart dropped sharply, or to return to the truth, he was just a member of the Qi family's army, just a veteran.

After Qi Jiguang's death, the Qi family army was inherited by Qi Jiguang's nephew Qi Jin, and was invincible in the Japanese invasion of Korea and the Ming Dynasty's aid to Korea.

Later, the last Qi army was annihilated by Nurhachi in the Hunhe River, when Nurhachi's eight banners could not shake the chariot formation of the Qi army, and finally opened the camp formation with artillery bombardment, and then annihilated the Qi army with heavy cavalry charge.

Although the Qi family army was defeated, it also caused the Eight Banners to lose tens of thousands, and was known as the most tragic loss of the Eight Banners.

Afterwards, the Ming Dynasty still dispatched Zhejiang soldiers, with the method of Qi's army, but unfortunately the source of Zhejiang soldiers Yiwu and other counties ordered the emperor to write to the emperor that the local soldiers were transferred too much, resulting in no one cultivating the land, lonely widows and no one to support, asking the court to give up the recruitment of Zhejiang soldiers, since then the Qi army officially disappeared.

The bloody battle of the Hunhe River, it was already the first year of the Apocalypse (1621), and twenty-one years have passed since the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642), Lao Jin is in his early fifties this year, and he is in his early thirties that year, and he is not expected to be too big an official. Combat experience, command experience, at most, is the experience of the general level.

Yang Chao was also suppressed by Qi Jiguang's name before, and was frightened by the Qi family's army's battle exploits of beheading 150,000 Mongolian soldiers. A superstitious feeling arose, so the confidence in Lao Jin was too great.

The so-called impermanence wins. Water is impermanent, didn't the Qi family army also be defeated by Nurhachi in the end.

Therefore, it is not impossible for Lao Jin to lose to Wang Pu, in the final analysis, the most important thing to win is courage, Wang Pu's people dare to fight, there is a basis for winning, he has to go to great lengths to find the weakness of the Mandarin Duck Array, and the Mandarin Duck Formation was compiled by Qi Dashuai back then. Before Qi Jiguang's death, he did not encounter defeat, and he ran rampant for an era, and Wang Pu broke this formation, although it was only commanded by Lao Jin, it was enough to be proud.

The disadvantage is that Wang Pu is afraid that he will be proud for a while, and it seems that this kid's arrogance still has to be hit.

In the following month, Wang Pu still often confronted Lao Jin.

But slowly Lao Jin moved back to a complete disadvantage, and in a one-on-one situation, he could basically reach a tie. And when it was two-on-two, Lao Jin completely pressed Wang Pu to fight, and when it was three-on-three. But it's still losing.

The reason is that the two teams of mandarin duck formations do not have the problem of unfolding, all the soldiers attack reasonably, if Wang Pu does not break through the formation for a while, waiting for Wang Pu can only lose, but the three teams have a problem of expansion, Wang Pu can always use the fastest speed to impact, the three teams can best show the advantages of the wall array simple, efficient and fast, so they can be suppressed before the mandarin duck array unfolds.

Since then, Lao Jin has continued to ponder and change formations. Wang Pu pondered this broken formation, and Lao Jin kept thinking of some of the actual combat experience of the Qi family's army back then. And with Lao Jin, an expert in the Mandarin Duck Formation, feeding Wang Pu, Wang Pu's command ability has also improved rapidly.

The skirmish escalated to a hundred-man confrontation. Wang Pu became the general commander, with three flag teams and a number of 100 people.

But at the level of a hundred people confrontation, it was originally more difficult for the Mandarin Duck Formation to unfold, but Wang Pu began to lose more and win less, because as a wall formation, after all, it was a newly figured thing, Wang Pu had rich experience in commanding three or four teams of people to fight against Jiang bandits, but he lacked the command of Byrne's scale.

When it came to the scale of 100 people, even a simple wall formation encountered a problem of troop deployment.

Wang Pu could only try his best to make a move with Lao Jin, and many teams in the army were giving Wang Pu ideas, because many people actually didn't like Lao Jin, and felt that this person who was not smiling and full of veteran pride in his bones was not easy to deal with.

And Wang Pu has been with those captains for a few months, not to mention familiar with them, and has fought side by side with many people, so the soldiers are generally biased towards Wang Pu, and there is also a refreshing feeling of defeating the authority of the Mandarin Duck Array.

Yang Chao originally thought that this kind of days of training, making money, and being promoted could last until the Manchu Eight Banners went south, and at that time, he should also accumulate merit and be promoted to deputy general, and there would be three thousand headquarters and six general divisions under his command.

But Yang Chao stuck in the position of the thousand general and couldn't be promoted, Wang Pu successively killed more than 30 levels, Zhao Kang later replaced Wang Pu to run the eastern route, and also killed more than 10 levels, Yang Chao, the commander of the thousand general, has 50 levels of success, and should be promoted, but the deputy general Yu Chengwu at the top is like Mount Tai pressing on his head, Yu Chengwu can't be promoted, and Yang Chao can't be promoted.

Xiong Mingyu only gave Yang Chao a bonus title, and added a guerrilla title, and Yang Chao is now a thousand commanders with guerrilla ranks.

Guerrilla is commonly known as a guerrilla general, and with the addition of a guerrilla rank, Yang Chao has the right to call himself a general, but there is no practical benefit.

Yu Chengwu is different from Jia Shilu and Cui Wei, a veteran like Youzi, Yu Chengwu was born in Jiangpu Guard, hereditary hundred households, became the deputy general of the Shangshui Battalion by relying on real military merits, and Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army has fought for many years, and he is also different from Jia Shilu and Cui Wei's style, after becoming a deputy general, he lived in the camp honestly, never left the military camp half a step, and looked conscientious.

Therefore there is no reason to move him, and it is not easy to remove him unless he can be placed in a higher position from above.

Of course, Jia Shilu is also old, he is in his fifties, and when he reaches Huajia, he can be given an old age and allowed him to go to work, so Xiong Mingyu persuaded Yang Chao to wait patiently for a few years, in Xiong Mingyu's opinion, Yang Chao is only a teenager, and his qualifications will definitely be able to survive Yu Chengwu, and it is not a good thing for Yang Chao to be promoted too quickly.

Yang Chao became a thousand presidents in his teens, which already made Xiong Mingyu very stressful, if he was made a deputy general, it would be difficult to explain, no matter what Yang Chao's military exploits were, there would definitely be a royal history to impeach him at that time, Xiong Mingyu didn't want to cause trouble.

Xiong Mingyu also gave Yang Chao a chance, that is, to transfer Yang Chao out of the water camp and to serve under Ma Shiying in Fengyang, Xiong Mingyu guaranteed Yang Chao's position as a deputy general.

Ma Shiying was fighting fiercely with Zhang Xianzhong at this time, and there was a huge shortage of soldiers under him, so some people went to him and couldn't ask for it.

But Yang Chao thought about it and refused.

Fighting with the peasant army, Yang Chao always has a little pimple in his heart, fighting with the peasant army should be a civil war, and he also knows that these peasant armies are composed of peasants who can't survive, and they can't be killed, if Yang Chao confirms that he can suppress it, then kill a few people ruthlessly, so that the Ming Dynasty can breathe a sigh of relief, but Yang Chao knows that he can't kill at all, he can't kill endlessly, and if the system of the Ming Dynasty is not changed, he can't eradicate the power of rebellion.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have not failed without failure, five years ago Li Zicheng was beaten and only 18 people were left to hide in the mountains, but after hiding for a while, they still quickly pulled up more than 100,000 troops as soon as they came out of the mountains.

Therefore, to kill these peasant armies, Yang Chao can also dye his black gauze hat red.

It is not good for the survival of the country and the peace of the people.

And these peasant armies are not the biggest enemies in Yang Chao's heart, the biggest enemy is still outside the pass, but these peasant armies have become the main force to resist the Qing army in the future, and when the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty rushed to surrender, these people raised the banner of resistance.

Therefore, whether it was to preserve the strength of the rebels in the future, or not to stain too much unnecessary blood, Yang Chao did not want to kill the peasant army, unless it was absolutely necessary, Yang Chao did not want to put the butcher's knife on the heads of his compatriots.

As a result, at the end of the year, Yang Chao was still only a thousand generals, but the news of the Qing soldiers going south came.

It's not that history has changed, the Qing soldiers are here to rob, it's a loot with nomadic habits.

In November, the Qing soldiers entered the fortress in a big way, divided into the road of the wall, the boundary ridge and green mountains, the three rivers of Liao'an, and the time of the division of the road into the big way, one tends to Tongzhou, and one tends to Tianjin from the willow stream.

Jiaxu, the head of the platform of Tun Yongping.

Yihai, attacking Tongzhou, Jingshi was under martial law, and the lords guarded the nine gates, and the eunuch Wang Chengen supervised the city to guard.

Wu Yin, enlist the town to help. (To be continued)