Yulin paved Xu Mountain, Zhu Guobin calmly rode his horse and stood on the hill, surrounded by the first general soldiers of the fourth battalion, these soldiers were surrounded by squads, and the rich dead branches on the top of Xu Mountain provided abundant firewood. After the Houjin soldiers under the mountain appeared in the field of vision, the soldiers were skillfully prepared for battle, and most of them looked relaxed.

On the field three miles north of Xushan, more than ten groups of hundreds of Houjin cavalry galloped back and forth, chasing and fighting with the Dengzhou sentinels, four miles away was a cavalry formation of 1,000 people, and farther away was the Houjin rangers, they ran around in the wilderness, surveying the bushes and the ruins of the villages, although there were only thousands of cavalry, but it seemed to be all over the mountains.

At this time, the heavy snow has weakened, Zhu Guobin can clearly see the mobilization of the Houjin soldiers, they already have some experience in dealing with the Dengzhou cavalry formation, unless they have to do so, they will never clash with the Dengzhou cavalry head-on, use a small force of cavalry to contain the two wings of the Dengzhou cavalry formation, and seek opportunities to attack the weak flanks, which can often be effective in small-scale battles.

The purpose of these three or four thousand cavalry is to stabilize the battle line and cover the camp of the Houjin soldiers, Huang Taiji seems to be unwilling to walk fifteen miles directly to fight, he hopes to be closer to the battlefield, which can save the soldier's body, of course, he will not be too close to Yulinpu.

The operational staff officer of the Second Brigade of Southern Liaoning came to Zhu Guobin's side and whispered: "I found that a group of 500 Jiannu cavalry went to the road of Shidaokou Mountain, and the sentry cavalry just brought back the news, and the Jin cavalry began to cross the river after the brigade, and the ones that have been visually confirmed are the Zhenghuang Banner, the Blue Banner, the Zhenglan Banner, and the Mongolian Left Wing. ”

Zhu Guobin nodded and asked, "Did Lord Chen reply to the letter?" ”

"Lord Chen has personally led the main force to the north, and today the garrison is the first line of Zhanggezhuang as planned, and the cavalry battalion will soon arrive at the battle line to stabilize the dìng, and the sixth battalion of our brigade will stay at one thousand headquarters in Gongtoupu as planned, and the other phalanx thousand headquarters will cooperate with the cavalry to go to Shidaokou Mountain, and the headquarters of the Mandarin Duck Formation will be under the direct jurisdiction of Lord Chen, which is a tactical reserve."

Zhu Guobin turned his head to look south, and he could already see the blackness of the cavalry in the distance, and the two armies were closing the final distance.

Zhu Guobin raised his head, and he was greeted by snowflakes flying in the sky, Zhu Guobin let those snowflakes fall on his face, and looked at the dark sky with some distraction and said eagerly, "It would be good if it didn't snow tomorrow." ”……

Five miles south of Yulinpu, the main force of the Dengzhou cavalry battalion was completed, and the two thousand cavalry headquarters were each equipped with a dragoon thousand headquarters, forming a cavalry formation with both offense and defense, which could not only drive out the enemy's large cavalry with a regular dense cavalry formation, but also rely on the firepower of the dragoons to drive out those archery rangers.

Three miles after the cavalry formation, a series of fiery red rivers came from the south, among which there were constantly queues leaving the official road and marching towards the flank, and the horses were running back and forth, and the townsmen on horseback laid signs on the road, and the advance team of each battalion set up flag positions in the north to guide the men and horses of each battalion to camp according to the standard.

Dengzhou's phalanx infantry is similar to Gustav's Swedish phalanx, more like a line formation, for large-scale operations for a longer formation time, and not as flexible as the flintlock pissingers, Gustav is used to adjusting the formation of the troops at night, and when the camp is advanced, it is a combat formation, and the advantage will even take offensive actions at night, Chen Xin also adopts this method, but the winter night in Liaodong is extremely cold, and he does not plan to attack the highly alert Houjin army at night in this climate.

Chen Xin has arrived at Zhanggezhuang first, the abandoned village next to the official road has now become a temporary stronghold, Dengzhou soldiers built a defense line with the materials in the ruins, and a two-zhang high lookout platform was built in the north position, Chen Xin immediately jumped off the horse after arriving, and stepped on the ground with his feet, the snow layer is not deep, at least it has little impact on the march, he immediately climbed the high platform to observe, and the smoke on the top of Yulinbao Mountain can already be seen in the telescope.

Liu Pojun stepped on the wooden ladder to climb the lookout, and Chen Xin asked without looking back: "Has the main force of Houjin crossed the Qinghe?" ”

"The last time the report was played, the Houjin cavalry was crossing the river, only to receive the latest sentry cavalry report, Houjin's horseless Yu Ding has crossed the river, is crossing the river is two yellow flags and two blue flags Wuzhen Chaoha, the north bank is waiting for about 2,000 people of the Tianyou Army, nine Hongyi cannons have been found, and about fifteen Houjin bronze cannons similar to our army's three-pounder cannons. There are about 12,000 Houjin cavalry soldiers who crossed the river, and the vanguard is the main force of the blue flag and a part of the white flag, and there is the banner of the main flag of the blue flag, Belezir Harang, and about 500 cavalry people went to the mountain road on the east side of the Phoenix Mountain, as if to sentinel whether there are ambushes near the stone crossing. ”

"Their camp."

"The camp is six miles away from Yulinpu and is being set up camp."

Chen Xin did not hesitate and immediately said: "According to the plan of the military order department, the battalion is arranged, and the battalion officers of each battalion are told that the position of the battalion is the combat position, and the camp must be strictly in accordance with the flag position, pay close attention to the weather at night, and wake me up immediately whenever the snow stops." ”……

"There is still a war on a snowy day, dog Tartar." Kong Youde muttered and scolded.

Six miles north of Yulinpu, the wilderness was full of encamped Houjin troops, on the side of the sea, a black military flag fluttered in the wind in the weakened snow, under the banner was a newly arrived army, the queue was full of spears and arquebuses, and at the tail of the team were two Tianyou Assisted General Cannons dragged by ten oxen.

Kong Youde walked on the left side of the queue with a calm face, and the army next to him was the Tianyou Army, which was also the capital of his life in Houjin for many years, this is an army based on the former Dongjiang rebellion, and after arriving in Houjin, it was placed by Huang Taiji in the populated and barren Gaizhou Acropolis, which is no different from history, but the strength is far inferior to the original history, so Kong Youde's marshal was changed to the chief military officer.

Dengzhou town then landed in Lushun, a qiē changed again, the Tianyou army suffered heavy losses in the Fuzhou ferry and the city attack and defense battle, Kong Youde Li Jiucheng was greatly injured, the next two years relied on the Kou Xuan Dahui fù some strength, followed by the battle of Lushun again hit the head and broke the blood, after the Jin collapsed thousands of miles, from the outside of the city of Lushun all the way to defeat back to the state, followed by even Xiuyan, Zhenjiang Fort and Fuzhou were captured by Dengzhou Town, Dengzhou Town's power continued to extend in southern Liaoning, and finally the army came to Gaizhou City.

Since then, Gaizhou has not been clean, Dengzhou has launched two large-scale offensives every year, and the sentinels and raids are continuous, the west coast of Gaizhou is an excellent environment for them to sneak into, it is difficult to cultivate around Gaizhou, and the land that has been opened is barren again, most of the food of the Tianyou Army has to be supplied by the Houjin Household Department, and often receives the exploitation and deduction of the Eight Banners nobles, Kong Youde has had a very hard time in the past two years, and many of the soldiers in the queue are yellow-faced and thin.

After the start of this autumn offensive, the Houjin was fully mobilized, and the banners desperately wanted to ensure their own food, and the supply of the Tianyou army was even tighter, but fortunately, it finally waited for Huang Taiji to go south, if Huang Taiji delayed for a while, I am afraid that the Tianyou army would collapse without a fight.

At this time, a horse galloped past him, and Li Jiucheng's back shook in front of him, only to hear him loudly agitating the soldiers and asking them to cheer up and go down to the camp. Kong Youde sighed softly, and when he was about to fight the horse, a Chinese voice came from the side, "The big war is imminent, Master Kong sighed at this time, if Baylor knows, it will not be good." ”

Kong Youde listened and turned his head to look, sure enough, it was Tang Yingtai who was assigned to the Tianyou Army as a combat skills teacher, this person was a soldier from Dengzhou Town, it seemed that he was still a captain or something, he was happy all day long, he saw everyone with a smiling face, and his temper could still match Kong Youde's appetite, both of them were born in the army, Kong Youde was a little in awe of the soldiers in Dengzhou Town, and often asked Tang Yingtai about Dengzhou training, and the two had a good relationship in private.

Kong Youde shook his head and smiled bitterly and said: "This official doesn't have to hide it from you, Tang Jiaoxi, you are from Dengzhou Town, no one knows the combat power of Dengzhou soldiers as well as you, tens of thousands of Dengzhou soldiers are ten miles away, can this official still laugh if he doesn't sigh?" ”

Tang Yingtai pointed to Li Jiucheng's back, "Then why is Master Li working so hard?" ”

"He has a grudge against that Chen Xin, Chen Xin captured his son and sent him to Jingshi to be killed, and Lao Tzu has no son who was killed by Chen Xin, and it is just a matter of loyalty to the monarch to fight."

Tang Yingtai suddenly let out a long sigh, "If you want to say that you can defeat the Dengzhou soldiers, you will have to kill a lot of people, not to mention that 10,000 golden soldiers are going to die, even if you kill more than half of the Dengzhou soldiers, there will still be tens of thousands of Dengzhou soldiers coming next year, they are training too fast." ”

"Whoever says it's not, it's just a few more years of delay." Kong Youde looked left and right and said in a low voice, "Brother Tang, if you tell Lao Tzu the truth, we can be sure of winning." ”

Tang Yingtai smiled and looked at the family behind Kong Youde, and after signaling Kong Youde, Kong Youde hurriedly pulled the reins of Tang Yingtai's horse head and walked aside.

Tang Yingtai looked around and said with a smile: "Our Dajin doesn't even have a chance to win." ”

Kong Youde has fought with Dengzhou Town many times, and he himself has long lost his self-confidence, but he hopes that Tang Yingtai can say something nice to encourage himself, and he can't help but be extremely depressed at this time.

Tang Yingtai suddenly whispered: "But Master Kong, you have a 10% chance of winning, it depends on what you do." ”

Kong Youde raised his head in astonishment, Tang Yingtai's face had already put away a smile, and his eyes looked at Kong Youde smartly.

"Brother Tang, you, what do you mean? Are you ......" Kong Youde reacted suddenly, and his right hand immediately touched the hilt of the knife.

The army next to him was rolling away, and there were large forces of Houjin cavalry not far away, but Kong Youde felt that he was suddenly alone on the dangerous battlefield, he stared at Tang Yingtai, Tang Yingtai did not make any moves, but Kong Youde's knife was never pulled out.

"Master Kong, I advise you to think twice." Tang Yingtai's face remained unchanged, "I wait for the one who asks for it, wealth and fame, but the first thing is to have a life to enjoy, you have already made a wrong step, if you kill me again at this time, it is a chance to kill your own life, if you really want to kill, you can wait for Huang Taiji to win and then kill me?" ”

Kong Youde's eyes kept turning, he didn't have any feelings for Houjin, he just chose when he was cornered, now is the opportunity in a desperate situation, he is actually excited, but he is still judging whether this person will be sent by Huang Taiji to test him.

"Lord Chen said that when the fishing village was separated, you hugged his fist at him, and I didn't know what you meant, so I asked the villain to ask for an understanding."

Kong Youde was immediately relieved, his movements were very hidden at that time, and the people on the same boat couldn't see it at all, Tang Yingtai must be someone sent by Chen Xin Undoubtedly, his hand slowly left the handle of the knife, "Good means, when the battle in Lushun was so fierce, Lord Chen buried a secret hand like Brother Tang, Lao Tzu had to obey, you say, what does Lord Chen want me to do?" ”