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I didn't expect that two miles away from the army formation, they could be hit by the artillery shells of the Jingbian Army, their firecrackers without arquebuses were already very fierce, and with this artillery, they didn't let people live?

Quickly, the horsemen, who had been sitting on the ground, drinking water or eating dry food, jumped on their horses one by one, and those who were quick to whip their horses were about to flee from this place, but the cannons rumbled, and the shells whistled, and many of the cannons with a sharp whistling sound, and they had already smashed their heads and faces.

The screams of the people, the neighing of the horses, the blood mist between the severed limbs, and the flying fragments of weapons and armor, many unlucky, slow-moving Mongolian knights were beaten to pieces by the men and horses.

The rest of the men were terrified, and one by one they fled out of the range of the artillery, and some of them even ran three or four miles, or even five or six miles away.

Before he stood still, he saw the bright cavalry in the formation, and there was a tendency to chase it out, and after a few strange whistles, many cavalry who were originally densely trapped in the formation immediately scattered in all directions, or scattered into the hills, or scattered into the woods and mountains, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

They originally had a series of plans, but they were afraid of the artillery of the Jingbian Army, but they immediately put it on hold.

When the Mongolian cavalry was defeated, the Han Dynasty ordered the cavalry to pursue, but the tactics of the steppe cavalry, "If you win, the enemy will attack and kill, and you will not be allowed to escape." If they are defeated, they will scatter and run away, and they will not be able to catch up", they have many horses, they are familiar with the terrain, and after chasing for a while, they have not won much.

Soon. This area has returned to calm, if it were not for the traces left by the battlefield, it would be as if those harassing Mongolian horsemen had never appeared, quite a sense of coming and going, but without a trace.

In this battle, more than 200 Mongolian horsemen were killed, more than 160 good horses were captured, and more than 50 casualties were killed and wounded by the Xuanwu army, because of good armor protection. Most suffered some minor injuries. Only a few were seriously wounded, and a few were killed.

The short battle also gave the Xuanwu Army a preliminary glimpse of the tactics of the steppe cavalry, but it suffered a big loss in the face of the Jingbian Army's military formation. They will be more cautious in the future. I want to win like the one I have in front of you. Maybe not easy.

On the same day, the army arrived at the place where it was supposed to be established, but it was blocked by the cavalry. It was expected to arrive in the afternoon, but it arrived at the unitary hour.

The area selected by the Intelligence Division has a wide valley and flat terrain, with only a few hills and undulating hills. On this side of the river, there are mountains not far from the northeast, and there are large forests, densely covered with white yang, coniferous forests, birches, the leaves are golden and fiery red, and yellow sheep, roe deer, rabbits and other things can be seen from time to time.

Looking at the other side of the river, the same large area of Pingchuan meadow, with a wide field of vision.

Han Chao and the others were very satisfied, and took advantage of the large army to set up camp, and went around with all the generals in the army and the officers of the baggage battalion.

"Captain, this place is blessed, there are many arable lands around, and there are large areas of grassland and woodland, if you can set up a castle, the surrounding hundreds of miles are under control."

Xie Shangbiao shouted and said, people say that it is bitter cold outside, and now it seems that there are many fat places.

"The construction of the city can only be left for the future, and now we can only build a wooden village."

An officer of a baggage battalion in the army shook his head: "It takes too long to build a fort, ramming walls, quarrying, and burning bricks are not a day's work, and there is no glutinous rice syrup in the army......"

He shook his head, building a city requires professional craftsmen, not only wood, but most importantly, stone.

There are also green bricks or something, which consumes a lot of work, and there are no such craftsmen in the army. Besides, without glutinous rice paste filling the gaps between bricks, stones, and other building materials, the city will not be strong. There is no steel bar, and the hardness of cement in this era is also very average, far inferior to the rammed wall mixed with egg whites and glutinous rice milk, and the cement has not yet been produced.

He just shook his head: "In the current situation, the only thing that can be done is to build a village and build a castle, which will take a long time and consume a lot, and now is not the time." ”

Building the city is a major event, when Lu Xiang repaired the Xuanda Great Wall, accommodating calculations, each zhang will have to be 30 taels of silver, and repairing the 300 miles of the Great Wall, counting silver needs 1.6 million taels. Wanli year Qinghe garrison Wang Weiping built a new fort in Gushan, on Tuesday, the city is high and three feet five feet high, all of which are covered with bricks and stones, and the fort guard's residence and sergeant barracks are one hundred and seventy-three, sharing seven hundred and seventy taels of silver, and six hundred and ten stones of grain, which is still the price at that time, and now it costs more.

Han Chao also felt regretful, but setting up a wooden village was the only thing that could be done at the moment.

At this time, it was getting late, and there were professionals in the baggage battalion, and they surveyed overnight and came up with a series of plans, and the next day, the whole army started together, cutting wood, building houses, and digging wells, and they were in full swing.

The most important thing in building a military village is a granary, a forage field, an arsenal, a stable, a barracks and other buildings. Wells were also important, and although the village was not far from the river, it was clear that a few wells were necessary within the walled city for a reason.

Before the construction of the village, this predetermined site also lit torches to burn out the deep grass, shrubs and so on, to prevent pests and diseases, etc., in fact, when burning, from the grass and shrubs, there are quite a lot of messy things.

Because of the professional planning and the large number of people, the construction of the village was very fast, and many soldiers went out in all directions, went into the jungle to cut down trees, and after a steady stream of them, they were either formed into logs or split into planks, and large groups of people erected wooden fences along the planning site.

The fence is erected as a prismatic shape, every hundred steps a protrusion, along the outside of the fence, dig a deep trench, in general, the stockade is rectangular, long from north to south, short from east to west, set up two gates in the north and south, leave a passage road, and have a suspension bridge.

A hundred steps in front of the two gates, there is also a triangular fence in each, and the sharp corners in front and on both sides, the same trench is dug, and the road passes obliquely through the side of the triangular fence.

The west side of the military fortress is close to the water, and the east side may be the focus of the enemy's attack, but there are some hills on this side, and when the fence on this side was erected, it was deliberately planted along the edge of the hills, and on top of the hills, several long wooden houses were built.

On the second floor of the wooden house, there are windows perforated, and together with the fence, three layers of firepower are formed. At the four corners of the stockade and on both sides of the gate, there are also tall sentry towers.

The Mongols who accompanied the army all participated in the construction of the village, and they felt that this kind of crooked shape of the village gave people an indescribable taste, as if it was very beneficial, but they couldn't say where it was powerful.

Lemenger also frowned, and he thought in his heart, even if this village was defended by five hundred people. He led five thousand of his own troops. Even if 10,000 people attack, they may have to meet and break the bloodstream, thinking of this, he felt a chill in his heart. This Jingbian army is really getting more and more eccentric. There is a lot of mess.

When the village was built. The Korean Dynasty paid great attention to the planning of the city, and if the castle was built in the future, it would definitely be expanded according to this shape. In view of the cold winter in the Northland, wooden planks were laid under each barracks, and there was some distance from the ground.

In fact, the entire construction of the village is made of wood. The walls are rough logs, the roof is planked, and the floor is all wood.

The next morning, the military village named "Yuanyang Village" was completed, and there were advantages of being large and powerful, as well as the merits of obeying discipline and enduring hardships and standing hard work among the officers and men of the Jingbian Army.

Looking at this stockade, the sweaty officers and men of the whole army were full of pride, and in more than a day, a stockade was completed. Although the stockade is not large and a little rough, it is better than sturdy and sturdy, and the stout logs, which are more than one person high, are deeply inserted into the soil and closely connected to form a dense fence.

This kind of continuous, tall, sturdy wooden fence, the arrows of the Tartars shoot at it, and at most they are shallowly inserted into it. On the fence, there are dense openings, so that the enemy outside cannot see the reality clearly, but the defenders inside can calmly shoot outward and defend effectively.

Not to mention, on some hills or high grounds, there are still places for artillery fire, which can be described as impregnable.

This village into one, the rear can be a steady stream of grain and grass to transport, put here for storage, this is also one of the five predetermined villages, if the five villages are standing, go out to the army, and then there is no worries.

Of course, because of the hurry, there are many imperfections in the "Yuanyang Village", such as the fact that there is no paved gravel road inside, and there is no canteen and bathhouse for the garrison sergeants, but at present, the wood cut in the village is piled up, and the defenders can slowly improve it by themselves.

When the village was built, the Han Dynasty also noticed that there were some Tartar sentry horsemen in the distance of the army, and they were expelled by the night guards, or perhaps the battle that day made them feel uneasy, and they did not dare to snoop too much.

In the afternoon, after the whole army had lunch, Han and the DPRK left a group of nearly 1,000 second-class sergeants to defend, as well as some grain and grass, five Hongyi cannons, assembled the team, and prepared to set off.

At this time, it is the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, not far from the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather in the hinterland of the Central Plains is suitable, but the grassland is quite cool, a gust of wind blows, a black edging of the sun and moon wave flag hunting sound, the surrounding weeds and woods, also swaying.

Looking at the dense team, Han Chao looked around with a serious expression, raised his hand, and shouted: "I'm Xuanwu Army." ”

"Mighty!"

The soldiers' loud shouts echoed over the grassland.

Han Chao waved his hand again: "Let's go!" ”

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Great earthquake tremors.

The feathered cavalry in the army, as well as the Mongolian cavalry of the naturalized battalion, came out in advance, like a torrent rushing through the grassland wilderness overgrown with wild grasses and wild flowers, followed by a large group of second-class battalion sergeants, soldiers of the baggage battalion, driving dense carriages, pushing mighty wheelbarrows, carts, etc.

After the battle that day, according to the analysis of the praise painting in the army, if you encounter the enemy in the future, I am afraid that it will be more cavalry battles.

The Tartars of Guihua City will definitely not attack the well-defended and fierce Xuanwu army formation, but they are entangled like kraft candy, that is for sure. The officers and men of the Xuanwu Army who conquered the west naturally could not allow them to harass and entangle and slow down the journey, and there would inevitably be cavalry battles between the two sides.

Having seen the tactics of the steppe cavalry, the Han Dynasty was confident that the two sides would not fall behind in the cavalry duel, and completely exempted them from the attempt to infantry troops.

And before leaving the fortress, the Jingbian army and the Datong army had an agreement, the two sides converged at the Jining Haizi side, this battle Wang Pu sent 6,000 troops, more than 3,000 cavalry in the main barracks, and the coalition army had nearly 10,000 cavalry, and the mobile force was sufficient, so it was possible to draw some out to guard the grain road.

The biggest lesson is the Guanning defense line, no matter how strong the castle is, but there is no field force, you can only stay in the lonely city, sit back and watch the Qing cavalry gallop in the field, no matter how strong the city is, it has become a lonely place to die.

Especially on the grassland, they are guest soldiers, the enemy is familiar with the terrain, and there is a man with many horses, coming and going without a trace, and relying on infantry alone cannot ensure the smooth flow of grain routes.

The night of the sentry camp with the army was not closed, and the sentinel had already probed far away, and even got in touch with the Datong army out of the fortress, and at this time, behind the army, a new base was built, and everyone was much more at ease.

The mighty army only forced forward, and the sun, moon and waves were waving in the wind. (To be continued.) )