Forty miles south of Jinzhou City, a large number of auxiliary soldiers were sweating and digging trenches, and several instructors were loudly agitating to let them speed up. These auxiliaries were all the original Lushun cantonment or ordinary battalion soldiers, a total of more than 700 people, under the instigation of the instructor and the lure of food, they all signed up for the temporary auxiliary battalion, nearly 800 people were divided into 16 flag teams, and the heavy soldiers of the Wendeng battalion were temporarily served as flag captains, each flag team was five teams, one team of 10 people, and the captains were recommended by these soldiers themselves as usual.

"Everyone has worked hard to build the camp firmly, and the Jiannu will not be able to harass us. When we hit Jinzhou, we will recruit regular soldiers in the excellent auxiliary soldiers, one or two and five dollars of silver in a month, food and accommodation are out of the public, there is meat and wine every day, no, there is no wine and steamed cakes and steamed buns, and there are five yuan of retirement silver every month, and the quartermaster department of the military department in zài, and when you are discharged from the army in the future, you can buy a big house and marry a daughter-in-law. ”

The thin auxiliaries screamed strangely, the yearning for a better life is the indelible nature of human beings, even if they have almost lost hope in many years of hardship, but when hope reappears, vitality also comes back to them.

Zhao Xuan shook his hand proudly, he liked this moment the most. In the past, when he engaged in the Red Sun Sect to fool people, he knew that he was telling lies, and he was always worried about being exposed, but now he is justified.

"My lord, can we have land? In case you are disabled, there is no way to live. An auxiliary soldier asked while digging in the soil, and Zhao Xuan turned his head to see that his clothes had been rotted into strips, revealing a bony body in the holes that could be seen everywhere, but his face was full of sunlight.

Zhao Xuan nodded slightly, and said a little distractedly: "There will be land, our Wendeng camp has a tun land in Dengzhou." Those who are disabled and retired will have ten acres of land in the future, and those who can't do work will be helped by the ten households in Tunpu to help a wounded soldier, and you will have a way to live, not only for you to live, but also for all the miserable people. When Liaodong is recovered in the future, I will give each of you 30 acres and 50 acres of land. There is no shortage of food and clothing for the whole family. ”

The Dongjiang soldier smirked, lowered his head and dug hard, Zhao Xuan suddenly remembered something, lifted his backpack and rummaged through it, and found a jacket. That was made for him by his daughter-in-law before he left the house last year. He hesitated, and finally gritted his teeth and handed it to the Dongjiang soldier.

"What are you doing here, my lord." The Dongjiang soldier was full of panic.

"Dress you, it's still cold at night, don't freeze."

The soldier froze for a moment. He knelt down and kowtowed to Zhao Xuan with a pop, crying loudly.

The surrounding auxiliaries all stopped working, and Zhao Xuan hurriedly helped the soldier up and said to the surrounding soldiers: "When I came this time, I transported military rations, and Lord Chen has already sent an order to the Wendeng Water Battalion." The next batch must be brought in with clothes, and everyone will have new clothes. ”

The soldier cried loudly: "We have never been given clothes by the officials, and this clothes are still pulled from the clothes of the dead. ”

"Lord Chen lives a long life."

"Lord Chen was promoted to make a fortune!"

The auxiliaries shouted chaotically, and the voices spread far away, and the auxiliaries from other places looked over here inexplicably.

Chen Xin was on the small hill of the middle military position, and he couldn't help but smile when he saw this, these auxiliaries were all ordinary military households. There were no officers and family members of the original Lushun. A piece of clothing can make them feel grateful and show how difficult it is for them to survive. Those who can survive until now are the most resilient part, as long as they are used well, they are the most resolute strong army in the war against Jiannu, but it is a pity that in the original time and space, these Liao people who suffered a lot because of Houjin. In the end, he was forced to take refuge in Houjin.

He is also quite satisfied with Zhao Xuan, although this person was originally from a cult, he still has a kind nature. Some of his little things are often more admired by the soldiers than Huang Side's mouth, and the only weakness is that he is still too bold.

"Your Excellency. The military situation reported by the Chinese military sentinel. Wang Mafu's voice sounded in the back.

Chen Xin hurriedly took one, and the sentry cavalry had a cavalry battle with many groups of Mongolian soldiers in Siping Mountain and other places today. Wounded five people and killed one, killed and captured 11 enemies, and captured more than 200 cattle and sheep, the Houjin soldiers in Jinzhou should have received the news, but they have not yet encountered the Zhenyi of the Houjin Zhenglan Banner.

"Wang Mafu, do you think Jiannu will come out?"

"Subordinate, this, should come out."

"Reason!"

Wang Mafu scratched his head, "Because we didn't play the banner of Wendeng Camp, the sentry stopped them from spying on our brigade, and they must have thought that it was Lushun soldiers and horses who came out to rob cattle and sheep." Jiannu ...... Don't be afraid of these Lushun soldiers. ”

Chen Xin laughed, "It makes sense, whether they dare to come tomorrow, if they really come out, Mang Gurtai should have blood in his heart again." ”……

On 26 February, the army of the Wenden battalion set out for the rising sun, and the auxiliaries marched side by side with the soldiers, using their thin and tough bodies to help the soldiers carry their armor.

At the end of the arrival of Chen, the front sentry horse urgently reported the appearance of the Jiannu brigade, which was coming to the south, they were all cavalry, and the Chinese army sentry cavalry could not approach, and it was roughly estimated that there were about seven hundred cavalry, and two or three hundred coats, they were coming very fast, and the distance was still ten miles.

Liu Pojun, who came out to fight with his guilt, still followed Chen Xin's side, riding a thin miscellaneous horse collected by Lushun, and he asked in a low voice: "My lord, do you want to send more sentry horses?" ”

"It's rare that they dare to come out and let the sentry drag them down." Chen Xinyi pointed to a gentle hill on the side of the official road three miles ahead, "Hurry up and seize the top of the slope, let the 4,000th headquarters of the cavalry battalion and the reserve battalion line up on the north slope, and the second battle soldier will always line up on the south slope, and the second general must not cross the ridge unless I order it." Unleash all light cavalry and cover the cavalry and infantry formations. ”

Liu Pojun thought about it, and estimated that Chen Xin wanted to lure Jiannu into battle, and deliberately let the first general hide in the southern slope, and immediately called Guotangma to let them give orders to the various departments.

The order was soon executed, flags flew in the ranks, and the junior officers under the flag commander gave a loud order, and more than 2,000 infantry began to march briskly, and the auxiliaries also quickened their pace, following their designated soldiers, and the armor on their backs made a rattling sound.

The cavalry battalions of the front team climbed on horseback one after another, and rumbled forward under the guidance of the thousand general flags.

Chen Xin led the guards and staff officers to gallop on horseback, quickly crossed the infantry, followed the cavalry and rushed to the top of the mountain, after crossing the ridgeline, the undulating hills in the north appeared in front of him like waves.

Two or three miles down the slope, some figures on horseback were chasing each other, smoke and dust billowed from the direction of the official road covered by the hills, and there was a faint sound like thunder, obviously a large number of cavalry were approaching. The light cavalry that followed the Wenden battalion continued to rush down the gentle slope and plunged into a cavalry battle two or three miles away. Cover the Wenden camp formation.

Chen Xin was inexplicably excited, turned his head to the right, dense horses of various colors spewed out from the ridge, the command of the cavalry battalion continued to sound the horn of the array, and the dense cavalry rumbled past Chen Xin. Skillfully begin to line up on gentle slopes.

This was the only cavalry battalion of the Wenden battalion. There were only 400 people, and since the end of Chongzhen's third year, they have been stripped of their reconnaissance functions and specially trained for the charge of dense battle formations, which is the seed force prepared by Chen Xin for the large formation of cavalry. To match their three-row array tactics. The organization was also reorganized, and the four hundred men were divided into four cavalry bureaus, each with three flag teams, and each flag team with three squads, each of which was in a line. Each team used only one kind of weapon, and the weapons used were adjusted several times, and it is now determined that the front row is a spear, a second row of boring palladium, and a third row of thick-backed waist knives, and the cavalry with waist knives is also equipped with a short gun.

This is the first real combat operation of the Wendeng cavalry, the cavalry is still the king of war in this era, the strong mobility and impact force determines the initiative on the battlefield, even if the infantry of the Wendeng battalion is strong, it can only dare to shake the Jiannu in two battles relying on the city and one island. He didn't even dare to leave the city wall of the capital division for a while, because of the lack of strong cavalry support.

He placed high hopes on this small cavalry, and asked Zhu Guobin to train strictly according to the superficial knowledge he knew, and today it was time to verify the level of his half-military fan.

Retro cavalry attack tactics were also emerging in the West at this time, with the success of the Spanish and Dutch systems. Let the infantry revive in Europe, the well-organized infantry could effectively fight the cavalry, the knights were driven out of the battlefield, and the European cavalry became the role of muskets for a time. It is no longer the decisive force for victory or defeat. The revival of cavalry unexpectedly took place in Sweden, and Gustav abandoned the once popular cavalry rotational musket tactic. Return the cavalry to the path of the Cold Weapon Retro Charge. The greatest improvement was the emphasis on dense formations and strict discipline as in the infantry, in which individual prowess was no longer important.

From then until the Napoleonic period, European cavalry tactics continued to evolve along this path, resulting in a modern cavalry system that eclipsed all the once glorious nomadic cavalry.

For the first time, the Wenden cavalry battalion appeared on the battlefield in a separate formation. This cavalry unit of only 400 men trained for a year, and they spent more than a full 1,000 headquarters on the daily training. But their record is lackluster, the cavalry unit of the Wendeng battalion belongs to the role of playing soy sauce in the battle of Jisi, only doing some things to explore the Liangtang newspaper, and the later Shenmi Island and Dengzhou battles did not play an important role, Zhu Guobin, as the chief officer, also needs a chance to prove himself.

In the distance, dense cavalry emerged from the hills, and they roamed the hillside under the guidance of their blue bull flags, and more and more Houjin cavalry joined the battle between the rangers.

Most of the rangers of the Houjin front army are Mongolian, they control the horses flexibly to come and go, gather and scatter with the cavalry bow to attack the Wendeng rangers, the sound of the fire gun and the ringing of the bow string of the riding bow came from afar, the rangers of the Ming army reinforcements also rushed to the battlefield, the white smoke of the short gun continued to spew out, from time to time there were people on both sides of the horse off the horse, and the fight was more intense.

After the Houjin rear formation approached, the sentinels of the Ming army began to fight and retreat, the two sides fought lively, the losses were not large, the accuracy of the short gun in the fierce chase was miserable, and the power of the riding bow was low, it was difficult to penetrate the chain mail of the Ming army at close range, but it could cause damage to the unarmored mount.

However, the superb cavalry of the Mongol soldiers gave them a big advantage, Chen Xin raised the telescope, and the Ming army's sentinels lost more than ten people, most of whom were shot down and hacked to death by the opponent. The remaining dozens of sentinels also looked very passive, and were retreating towards the big formation, and the distance was only one mile, and Houjin's rangers were in hot pursuit, constantly harassing them with their riding bows.

The cavalry of the Houjin soldiers all crossed the north hill at this time, showing in front of Chen Xin, in addition to the rangers, there were more than 500 people, they also found the Ming army formation here, and began to set up the formation two miles away, the Chinese army is a positive blue flag A La'e Zhen Recognition Flag, the conch and trumpet in the queue are endless, and it looks like they are preparing for a war.

The cavalry battalion was in formation, and the instructors were mobilizing in front of the formation, which from time to time aroused bursts of enthusiastic responses.

Chen Xin clamped the horse's belly and came to the cavalry battalion under the banner of Qianzong, Zhu Guobin was waiting for the order, but he didn't expect Chen Xin to come in person, he arched his hand with some excitement: "My lord." ”

Chen Xin pointed ahead, "Our rangers can't beat them, and the infantry can't catch up, so it's up to you this time." ”

Cavalry warfare is unpredictable, and the commander does not have the preferential treatment of the infantry commander, they must follow the advance of the soldiers, often have to command in the front row, and personally engage the enemy, so they become the target of the opponent's key attacks, and the danger of each engagement even exceeds that of ordinary cavalry.

Chen Xin also knew this, so he personally came to give Zhu Guobin an order, and he saluted Zhu Guobin and said: "Deputy Battalion Officer Zhu, my thirty guards cavalry will also give you command, defeat the Jiannu on the opposite side, and tell them that the men of the Han family are just as good at riding and fighting, and their courage is far beyond their ability." ”

Zhu Guobin returned the military salute and nodded to Chen Xin, the great array of Houjin had begun to advance, and Wendeng's rangers were getting closer and closer.

Zhu Guobin took a deep breath, "Tan Shen, Advance!"

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