The Houjin Sentry rode his horse slowly closer, and more mounted figures gradually appeared behind him, and they came two hundred paces away, no longer approaching. About 50 horsemen were distributed around the Wendeng camp position, but it seemed that the Wendeng camp of more than 2,000 people was surrounded.

There were still two more teams in front of the breastwork of the Wenden camp, and there were twenty-two people left, and these elite elites selected by the whole army were full of courage and confronted the increasing number of sentinels on the opposite side.

The sea dog brought the red embroidered shirt, Chen Xin raised his hand and asked the sea dog to help him tie it to his shoulder, and the sea dog then checked his guarded feet, tun items and circlip straps again, and then said to Chen Xin: "My lord, I will help you put on the iron arm hand first, and I will wear it myself soon." ”

Chen Xin nodded, the sea dog put the iron arm hand on Chen Xin, Chen Xin's hand stretched out and moved slightly, adjusted the position, this set of mountain armor is more than 30 catties, the production is very sophisticated, and the nail leaf is a bit similar to the logo shape of a Mercedes-Benz car. Densely connected, it is lighter than ordinary iron scale armor, and it also has better protection. In addition to the nail leaf, the body part also has a round heart guard on the chest, a copper leopard head-like belly guard on the abdomen, arm guards on both shoulders, guard feet on the surface of the feet, and iron arms on the hands, completely a shining iron man.

Chen Xin touched the improved Qi family knife hanging on the belt, and secretly prayed that he would not use it, just thinking about it, the sea dog inserted a dagger into the sheath of the belt, Chen Xin's eyes were white, if he used the dagger, it would be over.

"Dog, is that thing ready?"

"Okay, just hide under the carriage, a hundred pounds of gunpowder. I've got all the medicine threads packed. ”

Chen Xin himself was wearing the tie of the Dou Bang (Shanwen armor helmet), and whispered to him: "In case of defeat, don't let the Tartars take me away, if I can't move, you can help me detonate the gunpowder, Lao Tzu will not be a slave of the Tartars if he dies, even if you can't live." ”

The sea dog smirked and said, "Brother Chen, I'm with you anyway." ”

Chen Xin looked at the sea dog with some emotion, he was already an adult, he was still so stupid, he was not afraid of anything, nor did he pursue anything, but it was very happy, Chen Xin had been forcing the sea dog to learn to write, and now he suddenly felt that it might be better for him to let him be a happy soldier for a lifetime.

Chen Xin's own suicide note has been left in Tianjin, without him, that little thing in Weihai will sooner or later be in the mouths of all the adults, and maybe Liu Min will have a life. So if he is defeated and dies, he hopes that Liu Min will go to Taiwan as he originally thought, or take those people to a small island and live his life freely.

After the sea dog dressed Chen Xin, he got off the stage and went to wear his iron arm, and Chen Xin began to slowly look at his position.

On the left and right sides of his camp, the first and third thousand headquarters each opened a round to the sides, the fronts on both sides were narrow, and they had to be attacked from the city wall from both wings, although Chen Xin estimated that the city wall was very weak, but Jiannu might not dare to take the risk.

So the focus of a qiē is on the front. The height of the breastwork wall has been specially designed, and the ground is splashed with water and frozen fifty to sixty steps outside the breastwork, which is the most conducive to the distance of the bow and arrow, as long as the ground is slippery, Jiannu cannot borrow the strength of the feet, and the power of the bow and arrow will be greatly reduced.

In front of the breastwork were twenty tiger squat guns, and the gunners themselves had built a low shield against arrows out of the door panels, and two gunners crouched behind, each of the main gunners had prepared their ignition forks, and the other had prepared the fire and ammunition, which would provide fire replenishment at a distance of forty to eighty paces.

Behind the breastwork were four rows of firearms, behind which were four rows of killers arranged in a column, and thirteen rounds were spread out on the frontal first line nearly two hundred paces wide, and behind each of them there was a reserve of the bureau. The two Turtledove detachments formed a small phalanx of ten rows and ten columns in the left and right corners behind the frontal breastwork, and they were to use the long range of the Turtledove to provide oblique fire support and suppress the maneuvering of the opposing flanks.

The Central Guards and Cavalry are the general reserves. The whole army is a thick and dense formation, and Chen Xin expects that Jiannu has no artillery, so he is not afraid of being dense.

Huang Side's instructor has arrived at the front line of defense, observing the soldiers' situation, Zhou Shifa took the sergeant to patrol everywhere, the carriages on both sides of the command platform are the Chinese army flags, the trumpets and drums are under the command platform, Liu Pojun's staff officers are by Chen Xin's side, Nie Hong took three Chinese soldiers, each with a long card, ready to block Chen Xin's arrows at any time.

At this moment, there was a slight vibration from the body, and a muffled thunderous sound gradually sounded from far and near in the distance, and a black line began to appear on the horizon.

Chen Xin retracted his thoughts, took a deep breath, and said to Liu Pojun beside him: "Start to respond to the flag." ”

"The thousandth headquarters of the infantry team, the blue flag of the Chinese army, began to respond to the flag."

The blue flag on the platform was erected, heading towards the 1,000th headquarters, and the 1,000th headquarters in the distance, Lu Chuanzong, and the flag-bearers of the 1,000th headquarters stood up, and the first blue flag was erected, a little in its own direction, and the red flag and the black-hearted and white-edged flags of the Chinese army began to correspond to the flags of the second and third thousandth headquarters.

After the three thousand flags should be flags, they began to raise the general flags, six flags, and then began to respond to the flags, this time eighteen hundred flags were raised, and the eighteen flags began to respond to the flag captains, and the flag captains stood up one after another, took off the back flags behind them and waved, and suddenly a flag fluttered on the array, like countless butterflies.

The people on the city tower looked stupidly in a daze, they saw the appearance of the regular army for the first time, and it turned out to be like this.

After the three thousand general flags returned to the Chinese military flag, Liu Pojun said to Chen Xin: "My lord, the flag is over." ”

Chen Xin said to Liu Pojun: "The whole army stands up!" ”

"The Chinese army is holding the trumpet and sounding Polo."

A low Polo horn sounded, and with a bang, more than 2,000 infantry stood up in unison, as if the original array had suddenly grown taller.

"Tiger!" The whole army shouted in unison, and all the people on the city wall were startled by this sudden shout, and the mounts of several Houjin soldiers who were close were also frightened, and they turned their heads and ran back.

"Full armament, inspection of equipment."

After the flags were conveyed layer by layer, each team began to check their equipment, and the musketeers of the firearms team had already loaded their ammunition, and at this time they circled the fire rope around their hands, and the captain lit them next to each other and clamped them to the dragon's head.

The musketeers in the first row all stepped forward and stood behind the breastwork.

The musketeers took the best view, Shi Pingli, the deputy general of the 1,000th headquarters, was in the first row, responsible for commanding all the firearms teams in front of the headquarters, he felt the vibration under his feet, stood straight and looked ahead, the Houjin army on the opposite side was like a black tide overflowing the earth, the sound of tens of thousands of horses' hooves trampling the ground was like rolling thunder approaching in the sky, and the white gas spewed out by people and horses merged into one, although there were only thousands of people, there was indeed a feeling of thousands of troops and horses.

Two staff officers from Dongjiang of the Chinese army successively confirmed two Mongolian Gushan flags and one Zhenglan banner Jiala banner, as well as some Mongolian tribal soldiers, and some clothing was mixed in the middle of the Manchurian headquarters army. It is estimated that the total number of people is more than 3,000, but the strongest Houjin headquarters is only about 2,000 soldiers, of which 3 or 400 are Jurchen Zhenyi.

The Houjin army finally stopped two hundred paces away and began to calmly assemble the team. Both sides looked at each other, weighing each other's pounds.

Liu Pojun looked at the thousands of people on the other side, and smiled at Chen Xin: "Don't dare to attack Jiannu." ”

Chen Xin smiled: "Then think of a way." ”

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Unag looked coldly at the military formation opposite, and was a little hesitant in his heart, he had participated in almost all the major battles of Nuer Hachi, and he was very experienced, and the military formation on the opposite side was strict and orderly, and it was by no means easy to deal with.

Originally, the sentry horse reported that the city of Gu'an was broken and could be conquered, so he led the army to come, ready to conquer and invite the master to take credit, but the sentry horse encountered the other party many times during the march, although there were not many exchanges between the sentry horses, but the other party showed a vigorous attack**, as long as there was a chance, these people wanted to come and take a bite, not at all like other Ming troops to the Houjin army and fled, as a result, he had to send more than 200 people to the sentry horse, only to force the other party back.

Now looking at the opponent at close range, it is still mainly infantry, behind a low wall, the front row is red, and their weapons are not visible, and the back row can faintly see the ironclad melee class.

This Ming army gave him a strange feeling, as if he had seen it, but he couldn't say where he had seen it. Although he is the chief military officer, but he is very afraid of big casualties, because he has self-knowledge, the two wings of Mongolia under the command of this time are actually not separately compiled, are drawn from the Eight Banners of Manchuria Mongolian Niulu, these forty Mongolian Niulu are divided into eight Jiala, belonging to the Eight Banners of Manchuria, so he is not really the owner of the banner, not even a solid mountain, after Huang Taiji came to power, he improved the treatment of Mongolia, and wanted to separate the Mongolian Niulu, but it was not yet possible to do it completely, so he thought of a compromise method, that is, let them form an army alone when they went out.

Unag said to a Jurchen beside him: "Lord Jiala's Ezhen, what do you think of the military formation on the other side?" "Although Unag's name is higher than that of this Jiala, but he is a Jurchen, Unag still understands, and he has to ask the opinion of this overseer's Jiala's Ezhen every time he decides on a major matter.

The blue flag of the armor really looked at it carefully, and said: "It doesn't seem to be easy to attack, that wall is very hateful, you look closely, the musket can be fired, I am sure that the front row of them must be a musket." But we can't shoot so high, unless we raise our hands in front and back, but if we do that, we are powerless, and if we rush to the wall, our bows and arrows are useless. If you shoot from a distance, most of them will be blocked by the low wall. And it seems that water has been splashed on the wall, and I am afraid that it will not be able to be pushed down for a while. ”

Both of them are experienced in battles, and at the same time discovered the use of that low wall, although they are both barbarians, but they only have one thing in their lives, how many years, the battlefield observation they have cultivated is very good, so military geniuses often appear among barbarians, and the energy of smart people in civilized societies is often distracted by other cultures, so they often lose against barbarians in the era of cold weapons, which is also one of the reasons.

Unag nodded and said, "If you can't break this military formation, Gu'an won't be able to attack." ”

Jiala Zhenye also said: "That's natural, if you attack from the other three sides, they will go directly to the city and go to the city wall, we will arrive before they arrive, if you must take this city, it is better to break the army formation first." Neither of them expected that the magistrate of Gu'an would not allow reinforcements to enter the city, and with their knowledge, of course they would not understand the unique theory of the magistrate of Gu'an.

Unag looked at the military formation carefully, and flinched a little, he knew the tiger squat cannon in the front row, this cannon was a terrifying thing under the use of qualified gunners, no matter how many layers of cowhide shields could not stop it, and the death was quite miserable.

He said tentatively: "The old Khan once instructed us not to attack the fortified city in vain, and if we fail to attack it, it will ruin my prestige. This Ming army is mostly an infantry army, and it is better to lead it to the plains to besiege it, what does Lord Jiala think? ”

Na Jiala also agreed a little in his heart, but looking at the Gu'an County behind him, he was a little reluctant in his heart, after all, Jiannu had not been defeated since he entered the customs, and his spirit was very high, and even Guan Ning and Xuanda Jingcai were not their generals, not to mention this inexplicable infantry.

Unag saw him hesitating, and didn't speak on the side, anyway, he threw the question to him, and it was up to this Jia La to decide whether to fight or not. In case there are real deaths and injuries, there are also people to share.

Jiala is also a little afraid that the loss is too great, they are hanging into the army, the most afraid of too many wounded, it will become a heavy burden on the march, just about to agree to retreat, a person suddenly hung upside down on a carriage at the position of the Chinese army flag opposite, the carriage slowly lined up from the position of the Chinese army, Jiala's eyes were really good, and at a glance he saw a thin braid hanging under the man's head.

Jia La's face really became ugly, needless to say that this was a Jurchen who was caught, and the surrounding Houjin army was also in a commotion, they had been hundreds of people chasing the Ming army since the time of the old Khan, and no Ming army had ever dared to provoke so much.

When the carriage reached the gap in the low wall in the front row, it finally stopped, and several strong Ming soldiers untied the captive and knelt on the ground, and a Ming soldier with a full face of flesh held a big knife on the prisoner's neck, and looked at this side with a cruel smile. The Houjin soldiers could all see it clearly, and there was a buzzing sound in the queue, if it weren't for the strict discipline of the Houjin army, I am afraid that they would have already been scolded.

The Ming army gestured for a while, swung up suddenly, the knife flashed a human head to the ground, the Jiannu was finally consumed, the Ming army with the knife triumphantly lifted his braids, held his head high and swaggered outside the low wall, and the Ming army array sounded a burst of "Kill Tartar!" Cheers.

Jia La's forehead gritted his teeth and watched, and finally squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Chief Officer Unag, if the Great Khan knows that we are leaving, what punishment will the two of us receive." ”

Unag looked at the proud Ming army on the opposite side, and said fiercely to the soldiers behind him: "Let the three Taiji of Korqin's Xina Ming'an Daiqing, Yi'er Duqi, and Bird Keshan come to the Chinese army to receive the order, and the left and right wing armor soldiers dismount and put on armor, and the firearms soldiers prepare firearms." (Note 2)

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Note 1: "Manchu Old Files" Tiancong third year October file, "Khan led Zhu Beile and a small number of followers, looking at the place of attack, clouds, and entering the strong team." What good does it do if my sergeant is wounded? In short, this is a rout, so what is the trouble for us? Then the army was returned. "In fact, Jiannu is most afraid of attacking fortifications.

Note 2: Jiannu is not a fully cold weapon, they have always had some firearms in the army, and the six-year-old slave of the Mandate of Heaven demanded that "those who cannot wear bows should be ordered to carry three-hole cannons and guns". When Huang Taiji attacked the Deshengmen Xuan army, he was very cunning, "Let my gunners fire closely." After the enemy's artillery was finished, the Mongol soldiers and the Red Banner Army attacked from the west, and the Yellow Banner Army rushed in from the flank. ", luring the Ming army to shoot with their own firearms, and then take advantage of their reloading to launch an assault.