Later, the golden soldiers' conch horns whined, and the Jiala's true banner moved to the north, and some of the white armor and pashiku hissed and howled, allowing others nearby to follow the banner. There were more than 300 Houjin soldiers who were surrounded between the Wendeng infantry and cavalry, and there were hundreds of Houjin guerrillas on both wings who began to fight. After the approach of the infantry phalanx, Mongol rangers began to flee far away from the flank.

Later Jin Zhenyi among the guerrillas was even more powerful, they ignored the entanglement of the Ming army's rangers, dismounted with casualties and attacked the two wings of the Wendeng cavalry formation with a foot bow, they knew that the long-distance damage to the scale armor was not great, and they were all aimed at the horses on the horse, so that the edges of the two wings of the Wendeng cavalry array were seven or eight into the shè down.

The hundred-step distance quickly disappeared, and in the midst of the neighing of the horses, another round of cavalry collision, Jiala Ezhen took the assembled two hundred cavalry to concentrate on the assault, these veterans of a hundred battles have learned from the previous experience, and the interval between the front and back is larger, so as to avoid being blocked by the chaos caused by the collision.

Jia La's real personal lead, a group of white armor as the front, life for life to open the gap, the other Wendeng cavalry still maintain the formation of the body, do not fight with them, staggered high speed, the follow-up Houjin soldiers did not dare to block its front, only the edge of the cavalry with a cavalry bow shè out of a wave of dense light arrows, the accuracy of the head is also very bad.

The Wendeng rangers in the fourth row got out of the way, and aimed their short guns at the Houjin queue to beat them indiscriminately, and the Houjin soldiers fired back with a wave of light arrows, and the large array broke away and fled north without stopping.

The speed of the three columns of cavalry in the main formation of Wendeng did not slow, and they crossed the hillside like iron brushes, and the Houjin soldiers who were dragged in the formation by those Wendeng rangers were already powerless, and they almost became a single soldier. The wall of three columns of cavalry swept away the remnants of the Houjin cavalry in the middle, and then retreated north to the battlefield for the follow-up infantry to come and clear it.

More than 200 of the Houjin broke through the horse and fled to the north, and they only came from there a quarter of an hour ago, and the Houjin stragglers on both wings saw that they were abandoned, no matter how strong they were, they did not dare to stay, and they jumped on their horses and galloped lifelessly. The Mongol soldiers, on the other hand, ran faster, realizing that the situation was not good as soon as the first round of assault was completed, and many Mongol soldiers were intimidated by the indomitable ferocity of the Ming army, and fled north on both flanks early.

Several staff officers of the Chinese army rode out on horseback and loudly ordered the chief officer of the sentry cavalry that all the rangers of the Ming army abandoned the Jiannu who had fled scattered on both wings, and pursued the main force of Jiannu along the official road. The 4,000th Headquarters of the Reserve Battalion rushed to the battlefield, ignored the beggars of the nearby Houjin wounded soldiers, killed them one by one, and then began to carry Wenden's own wounded.

The cavalry battalion withdrew to the north slope and restarted the whole team, and the two rounds of the shock were more than 270 years behind the golden cavalry, and more than half of the Jiannu's aggressive main formation was damaged in a blink of an eye, plus the losses of those guerrillas, this Jiannu lost nearly half, and the rest were also bent on fleeing for their lives, and it was no longer an organized combat force in the short term.

The soldiers of the cavalry battalion howled loudly excitedly, and the Ming cavalry battalion was killed and wounded and fell more than 100 times, and the thin three columns of the front made all the soldiers in a state of confrontation at any time.

After a moment of relief, Zhu Guobin ordered the remaining trumpeter to blow the assembly horn and wait for Chen Xin's order. Sure enough, Tangma arrived quickly, and he said loudly to Zhu Guobin: "General Chen Dajin ordered, Zhu Qianzong of the cavalry battalion immediately pursued the whole team, and cooperated with the sentry cavalry to bite the enemy's tail, so that he did not dare to enter the city." ”

Zhu Guobin agreed, led the Chinese military flag to run along the array, and gave a loud order to his flag captain, and after running a lap, he found that there were only eight flag captains left, and the other four were injured or killed, it is not known, and the team has also become sparse, and the length of the queue of each flag team is different. He saw too many dead and wounded, and he had no time to be sad at this time, so he temporarily appointed several squad leaders of those flag teams as flag captains to supplement the command system.

Although the lack of formation has damaged their combat power, they are now in full swing. In the future, the arrogance of the Jin soldiers, they must have come with the whole division this time, and the number of this day has exceeded those unreliable intelligence, Zhu Guobin believes that the main force of Jinzhou Jiannu has been broken, and now it is necessary to expand the results in the pursuit.

The sentry cavalry reported at the beginning that there was a batch of coats, these were useless in the field, but defending the city could cause casualties to the Wendeng battalion, they had no horses, at least they had to destroy this group outside the city, if there were only a few hundred demoralized Zhenyi left, they would not be able to hold such a large city.

A marching horn sounded, and the cavalry battalion returned to silence and marched north in pursuit......

Soldiers from the 4,000th headquarters around the battlefield were coming and going, carrying Wenden's wounded and corpses twenty paces away for the medics there to care for them. Although there is a lack of more effective medicines, as long as the wounds are properly cleaned, their white spoon survival rate will be much higher than that of other armies of this era.

With a pop, Zhong Laosi stabbed a wounded soldier in the chest with a flag gun, and the Houjin soldier squirmed in pain for a while, and finally stopped. Zhong Lao Si stepped on his chest with a big kick and pulled out the flag gun, and the blood on the chest of the Houjin soldier spurted out and sprinkled on his shoes.

"Fuck you!" Zhong Laosi kicked Na Jiannu on the head, and Brother Guan, who had just transported a Wendeng wounded soldier beside him, smirked: "It's all dead, company commander, what are you kicking him for a thousand miles." ”

"Lao Tzu loves to kick him twice." Zhong Laosi rolled up his trouser legs, grabbed the sleeves of Jin Bing's shirt and wiped them around, "Stain the pants that Lao Tzu just changed again." ”

After listening to him, Brother Guan also came up and kicked a few times, Zhong Laosi glared at him and scolded: "What are you kicking when you die, go and see if anyone else is pretending to be dead." ”

"Oh, it's all poked." Brother Guan touched the sweat on his forehead and said.

"You're fast." Zhong Laosi scolded.

Senior Brother Guan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at the wounded Wendeng cavalry around him, stopped and asked Zhong Laosi, "Company commander, what do you say...... If a cavalry battalion comes to fight us like this, can we withstand it? ”

Zhong Laosi pouted, "Can it be the same, let's enter a station in a few rows, at least three or four spears are on top, haven't they tried it when they practiced together, the horse doesn't move forward, the cavalry battle is different, no matter how dense it is, there are gaps to pass." ”

"Then you said that if Jiannu dismounts and fights on foot, what will they do with a foot bow."

Zhong Laosi smiled and shouted loudly: "There is no accurate head for the step bow throwing, the flat shè is fifty steps at most two rounds, and the riding formation is here in a blink of an eye, and they are still holding the bow in their hands, aren't they looking for death." If Jiannu wants to fight, either rely on the cavalry or hedge, or dismount the big sword and spear array, then we should use our infantry, and use Lao Tzu's tactics for Chen Dajin to build yì, the foot bow is a ball, can we have a white spoon three-pound cannon and firearms? Their cavalry battalion is all packed, where are our infantry going to eat? ”

"Zhong Laosi, shut your dog's mouth."

Zhong Laosi looked back and saw that it was Zheng Sanhu, the commander of Qian, who came over on horseback, when Wang Changfu was the captain in the past, Zheng Sanhu was the captain of the army, one level higher than him, and later rose all the way to the reserve battalion Qianzong, and now he and Zhou Shao'er are the lowest level, a captain of the battle flag and a company commander of the reserve battalion, two or three levels lower than entering the family.

Zhong Laosi had to salute: "Yes!" Please give an order. ”

Zheng Sanhu did not dismount, and said loudly after returning the salute: "After transporting the wounded, immediately gather and set off, and rush to camp under Jinzhou City." ”

Zhong Laosi asked, "What should I do here?" ”

"Leave it to the auxiliaries." Zheng Sanhu was about to leave after speaking, and Zhong Laosi suddenly asked, "Mr. Qian, why did you run over and pass the word yourself?" Where's your pond horse? ”

Zheng Sanhu glared at him angrily, "Except for you company commanders, all the horsemen on horseback have been transferred to pursue, I won't give the order to anyone, don't talk nonsense, the whole team will set off after transporting the wounded." ”

When Zheng Sanhu rode his horse and ran away, Zhong Laosi asked the guards to give orders, and when the soldiers returned to the formation, the 2,000 headquarters of the soldiers assembled on the southern slope neatly opened the battlefield from the side, shouting loudly and hurried to the north, and Chen Xin's Chinese military flag also followed them.

Brother Guan said enviously: "Company commander, it's still a fierce soldier." ”

Zhong Laosi glanced at the Jiannu and dead horses all over the ground, gritted his teeth and said: "What is so fierce about the soldiers, Lao Tzu has not been a soldier, it is obviously a fierce cavalry, this riding battle Lao Tzu's heart is beating wildly, and he beats more than his daughter-in-law." ”

As soon as the two entered finished speaking, they only heard a sharp howl coming from the top of the mountain, and the two entered were frightened, and turned to look, but it was the group of ragged Dongjiang soldiers, they held the rudimentary weapons in their hands and distorted their faces, cháo rushed through the gap in the fourth general like water, and found the wounded soldiers of Jiannu and slashed wildly, and if they didn't find it for a while, they turned over the piled corpses to find out if there were any wounded Houjin soldiers below, and they really couldn't find the wounded, so they slashed and smashed the corpses wildly, and the flesh in the corpse group flew. Others, who had no weapons, pulled the clothes of the corpses of those Houjin soldiers with hideous faces, and put them on themselves despite the blood dripping from them.

Zhong Laosi put his hand on his chest, and only said cautiously after half a ring, "The soldiers and cavalry are not fierce, and these auxiliaries are the fiercest." ”……

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the main force of the Wendeng battalion arrived in Jinzhou and surrounded the three gates of the southeast and west and camped.

The fleeing Houjin soldiers fled for their lives, and were killed by the Wendeng sentry cavalry on the way, and some of the horsepower was insufficient, so they broke away from the official road and fled to the hilly areas on both sides, and some were chased too close by the Wendeng sentry cavalry, and fled in the direction of Fuzhou before they had time to enter the city, and the Houjin soldiers who fled into the city were less than two hundred, plus a small number of old and weak who were originally left behind, the total number was only three or four hundred, and each city wall could only be divided into more than one hundred.

Chen Xin walked around the south wall with the guards, and Zhu Guobin and Dai Zhenggang accompanied them to inspect the city. It was found that the city of Jinzhou was very tall, far from being comparable to a large manor like Lushun, and the height of the city wall was three feet and five feet high like the big city in the north. In his heart, he was secretly glad that the golden armor was really arrogant, if he couldn't shrink back, it would be difficult to fight for a while.

This city is the original Liaodong Prefecture under the jurisdiction of the Jinzhou Health Office, is a simple military guard, established in the eighth year of Hongwu. The city of Jinzhou was earlier than the guard, and the commanders Ma Yun and Ye Wang built the Ming Hongwu for four years, and the command made Wei Fu pack bricks. Around five miles two hundred and sixteen steps, three zhang five feet high, one zhang seven feet deep, six zhang five feet wide, in the Ming Dynasty is the big city in the southern Liaoning region, its scale far exceeds the same as the south of the four guards of Fuzhou.

Jinzhou is located at the northernmost point of the Jinzhou Isthmus and is also the narrowest part of the Jinzhou Isthmus, which is strategically important in southern Liaoning. If this place is in the hands of Houjin, then the role of Lushun will be greatly reduced, and it is impossible for the Wendeng battalion to attack Liaodong by land, and Chen Xin's strategy of southern Liaoning can only go ashore like Mao Wenlong. If there is no wharf ashore by sea, it is impossible to project a large number of cavalry, and the infantry is greatly insufficient to move deep into the land.

After eight years of death, the Jin Dynasty almost killed the Han people along the coast of Nansiwei, leaving only some strongholds with the collection of various banners and stationed on horses, which is equivalent to the border guards of the Later Jin, if Chen Xin simply transports infantry, then they have nothing to break outside the city, and they can't attack the city.

Nurhachi, who has ten great merits, used massacres and violent migration to turn the rich land of Southern Siwei into a wilderness without thousands of miles, and Gaizhou further north did not have the strength to regain its strength until the sixth year of Yaocong, which forbade the sea to be extinct, but it was indeed effective in preventing the Ming army from infiltrating and disturbing. It can also be seen that the forbidden sea of Kang Mazi later has excellent genes.

Therefore, Jinzhou is an equally important part of the strategy of southern Liaoning, and to seize Jinzhou, the Wendeng battalion can be tuntian in the entire Jinzhou isthmus, reducing the logistical dependence on Denglai, and then Jin needs to fortify in a wider area, so as to achieve Chen Xin's goal of containing southern Liaoning.

But Jinzhou is a few miles away from the sea, if Chen Xin tosses too happily, Huang Taiji is ruthless, and then the whole Jin division comes, he will still dig a trench and besiege it, Chen Xin will have to face a decisive battle, and he doesn't have that strength at all. At that time, Zu Dashou would not attack Shenyang to save Wendeng Ying, and Huanglong would not come from Phi Dao to rescue Jinzhou. These two are not very good with Chen Xin, and they may applaud happily.

Therefore, Chen Xin is still hesitating, if the number of troops invested is too small, it is meaningless to defend a fortress, the role of the fortress is to provide support, and the strength of the troops is the core of controlling the periphery. If it's just shrunk inside a turtle's shell, it won't serve as a fortress. It is impossible for most of the fortresses to completely cut off the road, and the Houjin soldiers will always have a road to bypass the city and disturb the rear, and there will be no barrier on the Jinzhou Isthmus. If there are too many troops stationed in Jinzhou, it will not be easy to retreat, and once it is besieged by the Houjin army, the entire Wendeng camp will be trapped in passivity, just like this Daling River.

Zhu Guobin looked at Chen Xin's face, as if he knew what he was worried about, and said in a low voice: "Da Jin, Jiannu has besieged Daling River for half a year, and they can't afford to go out with the whole division this year anyway, and the number of troops that can be drawn will not be at most three or five thousand, we can deal with it." ”

Chen Xin nodded, lowered his head and pondered, Dai Zhenggang took over the conversation and asked: "If it freezes in winter, Jiannu will definitely be able to come from the ice, and then there will be nothing to rely on one hundred and twenty miles behind." ”

"It's possible to get from the ice, but it's not far from the shore, so it's no different from going around the city. And in the winter, the autumn grain has been harvested, and it doesn't hurt for them to come. Let's garrison a garrison in Jinzhou, guard the official road, and then build a castle between Lushun and Jinzhou, and garrison a cavalry to come to the rescue, which can break the enemy's attack and disturbance, if the enemy is a large army, we will abandon Jinzhou and retreat to Lushun. ”

Dai Zhenggang muttered: "Such a garrison, at least more than 3,000 troops, as well as thousands of local military households, between Jinzhou and Lushun are all abandoned land for many years, don't think about how much harvest there is in a year or two, so it is quite difficult to transport grain from Dengzhou." ”

Chen Xin raised his head and said: "Tentatively Guobin's method, but the castle in the middle doesn't have to be built too high, it can only be used as a cavalry garrison, which can defend against the opponent's cavalry raids." A garrison of more than 3,000 troops is necessary, and you don't have to worry about the number of soldiers, suppressing the Dengzhou rebellion and winning this cavalry battle, there are hundreds of Jiannu heads, Guobin, Zhenggang and Lu Chuanzong, this official is ready to give you three meritorious services, so that you can be appointed as the deputy general of Lushun, the general of Wendeng and the deputy general of the Qibing battalion. ”

Zhu Guobin and Dai Zhenggang were both overjoyed and hurriedly thanked them. With these hundreds of Jiannu in Jinyao, Chen Xin's promotion to the chief soldier of Dengzhou Town is a certainty, and they all know that they have gained a lot of land this time, and their power will definitely expand to the entire Denglai, and now add another Lushun, it is a matter of course to divide troops to garrison after the expansion of the army, so that it can also reduce the difficulties of logistics.

Chen Xin himself was promoted to the chief soldier, so naturally he also had to find opportunities for the subordinates to be promoted. The Wendeng battalion was expanded once at the beginning of the year, but only the reserve battalion was increased, and the soldiers have been maintained at the scale of Chongzhen for three years.

"Guobin is Liaojin, this official intends to let you be the deputy general of Lushun, and you are just the general of Wendeng, although it is said that the rank is lower, but in my Wendeng camp, you are of the same level, and each department is a combat battalion."

"Understood." For Chen Xin's arrangement, there is no resistance between the two.

The Wendeng battalion is a reinforcement battalion, and it must be a staff general, although it is one level lower than the other two, but the fool also knows what the status of the stationing Wendeng is, and he does not think that the Wendeng staff general is lower than the deputy general of the Qi barracks.

Chen Xin also arranged this way after thinking, Zhu Guobin, Dai Zhenggang and Lu Chuanzong were the initial core of the army, and they were also the oldest entries, and Dai Zhenggang's utilitarianism was lighter. The level of command is different, the best of which is Zhu Guobin, but the other two have been honed for several years, and the command level is also decent.

Chen Xin's own plans for the future army are very large, but he must first digest the results of this battle and absorb the displaced people to take refuge. With a large number of troops, the total strength will be expanded to about 20,000, and a ladder structure of soldiers, reserves, and militia will be formed; the soldiers will be responsible for the main operations and have the ability to maneuver on the outside line; the reserve force will still rely on the tunpu system and must have the ability to mobilize quickly; the militia will come from the remaining cantonments and factories, and will be responsible for defense and logistics during operations on the inner line, and will be able to assume the auxiliary function of mobile on the outside line after intensive training for a short period of time.

In addition, the division of functions will still be maintained, such as military law, quartermaster, and discipline, and the post of staff officer will be added at the level of the 1,000 headquarters to provide corresponding assistance to the chief officer. According to the system of the imperial court, although he was the chief soldier of Dengzhou, he could not control the military salaries of the deputy guerrilla generals below, and the orders issued in peacetime were useless, and he could only command other departments when he was fighting. Therefore, Chen Xin must control the troops through these functional institutions, and then control the families and fixed assets of all the soldiers through the guòtunbao, and the whole system will be as stable as Mount Tai. There will be a large number of positions in this system, and if you arrange these first, the others will be arranged.

For Chen Xin, the most difficult thing is how to hide his system under the system of the imperial court, which corresponds to the fact that every officer will have two identities, one is the military position of the imperial court, and the other is the position of the internal system. The local Shangguan in Dengzhou will notice the difference somewhat, but with his current good relationship with Lu Zhi and Wang Tingxuan, it is okay to tacitly understand each other.

After Chen Xin finished speaking, he said with a smile, "These things are still early, and you also know that the court will not be able to come down in two or three months, so it is better to conquer this city first." ”

Zhu Guobin's department is cavalry, and Dai Zhenggang naturally knows that the siege is his own business, so he hurriedly said: "Jinzhou City is more than 200 steps in Friday, and Jiannu plus Baoyi is only 3500 in, less than 100 on each side, and more than 2,000 in my battalion, plus more than 3,500 auxiliaries, contain both sides, and attack one side." ”

At this time, Liu Pojun came over and said: "Da enter, the cavalry camp has caught more than 300 coats, what to do with those enters?" ”

Chen Xin looked at the sparse Houjin soldiers on the head of the city, and said with a smile: "Aren't these coats going to make shield carts for the tartars, let them start doing it immediately, and prepare the things that make holes, and let them push the shield cart to dig the city wall." Sue them, whoever makes the shield cart will push it himself, and if he wants to live, he will be stronger. ”

Dai Zhenggang said loudly: "The second general manager will definitely break the city with one drum." ”

Chen Xin shook his head, "We haven't practiced the ant attached to the city, and we may not be able to compare with other departments, gather warriors among those Lushun auxiliaries, give the clothes and armor captured today, and tell them, if they are excellent, they will be given priority when recruiting." ”