In the early morning of February 25, the Wendeng battalion set out from Lushun and began the battle to attack Jinzhou.

Zhong Laosi mixed in the queue of the 4,000th headquarters of the reserve battalion, and drove out of Renhemen with the team, in front of them was the cavalry battalion, behind them were hundreds of ragged auxiliary soldiers, some pushed a group of wheelbarrows, some carried baskets, and then behind them were the 2,000th headquarters of the soldiers who pressed the formation.

Before leaving the city, Zhong Laosi returned to the company proudly, causing the soldiers of the third company to cheer, but Nie Hong came over immediately and announced that Zhong Laosi's confinement was not over, and it was temporarily suspended due to the urgency of the war, and the execution would continue after the battle in Jinzhou. Although the soldiers were still a little dissatisfied, they were still elated by Zhong Laosi's return.

Zhong Laosi also apologized to the military judge and discipline officer of the company in person, and his attitude was not very sincere, but Nie Hong and Huang Side did not say anything more, so they finally finished the procedure.

Zheng Sanhu came over and gave a briefing to Zhong Laosi, "There are about three or four hundred Jiannu in Jinzhou, about two hundred fish skin tartars, four or five hundred in Mongolia, two hundred strong men, and probably a few hundred coats, if Fuzhou comes to help, Zhenyi will reach about seven hundred; We dispatched the 2nd and 4,000 general and cavalry battalions, the Chinese light cavalry, and 800 auxiliary soldiers to transport armor and grain and grass, and another water operation to send a batch of grain and grass to the sea on the west side of Jinzhou. ”

Zhong Laosi asked, "What are we?" ”

"Today, we marched eighty miles, and camped forty miles away from Jinzhou, and tried to lure Jiannu out of the city to attack. If they encounter a battle on the way, they will fight in formation, and if they attack the city, they will go to the city to arrange. ”

After he finished speaking, he hurried back, Zhong Lao Si swaggered to the side of Brother Guan, and said loudly: "Guan fool, Lao Tzu is going to give you military merits, your kid is the first to get the first-class White Blade Assault Medal, and I went back to Wendeng to invite Lao Tzu to drink." ”

Brother Guan smiled stupidly, he didn't know what to say, at this time, the Qianzong flag behind was a little to Zhong Laosi's side, Zhong Laosi waved to the flag bearer, the flag bearer and each row responded to the flag, the drummer passed the military drum sounded, and the whole company stepped on the drum and began to march, and the avenue was filled with the sound of roaring neat footsteps.

Zhong Laosi rode his own miscellaneous horse, walking in the monotonous drum while looking at the map sent down, the map is very brief, their white spoon march route is roughly on the west coast of the Jinzhou Isthmus, where the terrain is relatively flat, formed by the mud and sand of the Hengshan and Chengshan mountain systems, after crossing the Hengshan Mountain, the road is hilly terrain, and a total of four rivers need to be passed on the way.

Zhong Laosi looked up at the beamed horses on the ridges around him, these were the sentinels of each thousand headquarters, and the entry of the Chinese army's sentinel cavalry had all been scattered to the north. The number of Jiannu is not much, Zhong Laosi is not too worried, this time the Wendeng battalion dispatched nearly 2,700 people, and the auxiliary soldiers are all the original Dongjiang soldiers organized by Lushun Temporarily, how much can these infusions work.

The instructor shouted in front of him, "The yellow sand is reckless, but when you hear the sound of battle, you are ready to sing......"

The soldiers sang the military song of Wendeng Camp in unison, and Zhong Laosi flattened his mouth, "this one again." ”……

On the eastern side of Siping Mountain on the Isthmus of Jinzhou, more than a dozen riders dressed in tattered Ming army clothes stopped on the southern slope of a hill, and the leader jumped off his horse, lowered his body to the top of the mountain, and crouched down in the knee-high barren grass.

Li Tao wiped it on his neck, grabbed out a lice, and threw it into his mouth. After a crunch, the lice return to bliss. He secretly cursed to himself, and the Chinese military department asked them to go north with the Chinese army sentry to investigate, and they were not allowed to wear the military uniforms of the Wendeng camp, and pulled out 1rì clothes from several Dongjiang soldiers, which were full of lice.

He twisted his neck and raised his telescope to look north, where the northern side was covered with hills, some of the hilltops looked desolate, and the grass and trees were lush near the bottom of the mountain, and the farmland in the plains was so overgrown with grass that even the official roads were almost submerged.

Seven or eight simple Mongol tents were set up in a valley miles away, a small river ran through the valley, hundreds of cattle and sheep grazing around, and there were some horseback riders on several hills.

"Beiyu." Li Tao muttered to himself nonchalantly.

Most of these Mongols came from the northern tribes such as Khalkha and Chahar, and after the Chahar moved westward, there were also some small tribes in Khalqin, Tumut and other places to defect to Houjin, and their white spoon preparation generally belonged to the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and Huang Taiji came to power after the left and right wings of Mongolia were separately listed, and Ping Rì was under the jurisdiction of the Eight Banners, and the expedition was commanded by two Mongolian Gushan Ezhen. Under the Houjin tribal system, each banner regarded the entrance as its own capital, and the eight banners still concealed part of the Dingkou, and now these entries are probably the Mongolian entry of the Zhenglan Banner, and they were placed near Fuzhou and Jinzhou in about eight years of Yaocong, and the Han Jin who originally lived here was either killed by the old slaves or moved to the north of Haizhou.

The Ming Dynasty's policy towards Mongolia was very practical, and Mongolia in this era did not have any national consciousness or the like, whoever gave benefits would serve whom, and when he became an ancestor, he recruited a large number of Tartar officials, and there was no difference in promotion and treatment, and there were many people who served in the Ming army.

Since the Later Jin occupied Liaodong, the Mongolian tribes bordering the Later Jin had many conflicts with them, and some of them had a deep hatred with the Later Jin. After Ji Si, Jin Shengwei was greatly inspired, and the Mongolian defectors entered more, these entry status is generally higher than that of the Han Dynasty, and they can also give priority to raising the flag when they have military exploits, and their white spoon combat power is not as good as Zhenyi, but the ferocity is not under Zhenyi. Every time the Wendeng battalion analyzes the form, it emphasizes that there is no distinction between the sources of Jiannu, whether it is Jurchen, Mongolian, Wuzhenchaoha, or Baoyi, and there is no difference in the battlefield encounters.

Li Tao was very careless when he saw that Mongolia had entered, and it was estimated that they did not seriously investigate in Jinzhou, but only went to Beishan to go through the motions.

He quietly retreated from the top of the mountain, rode his horse to the bottom of the slope, where there were more than a dozen Chinese army sentry horses, most of these into the original night do not collect, the first under the jurisdiction of the cavalry battalion, after the cavalry battalion positioning changed to the battle array impact, the sentry horses are changed to the Chinese army sentry cavalry, the current total number of more than ninety into.

In addition, there were also twenty cavalrymen in each thousand headquarters, who mainly assisted the infantry in combat, serving as sentry scouts, pond newspapers, and beam erections.

Li Tao called a few military commanders and said in a low voice: "There are Mongolians entering, let's beat them once, let some of them escape, and lead the Jiannu brigade out of the city." ”

Several sentinel commanders nodded at the same time, Li Tao took the stones and put out the northern hills, discussed a few times, each chose a route, and led his men to the north under the cover of the forest.

Half an hour later, a horn sounded, and the special service team and the Chinese light cavalry jumped out of the ridge from three directions at the same time, and more than 20 cavalrymen fanned towards the tent area where the Mongols had entered.

The Mongols on the top of the mountain were the first to find out, they roared loudly and jumped on their horses, and wanted to meet the battle to the south, some of them ran halfway and found that there were a lot of enemies, so they quickly turned around and fled for their lives, and the Mongols in the tent area also had children and women, they shouted and wanted to go to Qianniu and sheep after hearing jǐng, but the Wendeng sentry rode extremely fast, these men finally gave up their plans, jumped on horseback and fled, they were very good at riding, some horses were not even as good as putting on the saddle, they were still running like flying.

Li Tao rushed from the east side of the hillside, secretly admired in his heart, these talents are really young cavalry, the horsemanship of the Houjin soldiers is not comparable to them, there are seven or eight Mongolian people in front of him, these people wear fur hats, there is not even a cotton price on their bodies, holding a riding bow in their hands, only using their legs to control the horse, and riding the horse to Li Tao's side.

Ten special service members held the reins with one hand, drew a short gun with one hand, and prepared to attack after approaching, seeing that there were still dozens of steps, the opposite Meng Jin suddenly turned sideways, the riding bow in his hand collapsed and rang out, and the light arrow came at the speed of the horse, and the horse of a special service member was hit by two arrows, and the front hooves rolled to the ground softly, throwing the riding team members out a few steps away.

Li Tao scolded secretly, there was no jīng degree at this distance, so he had to ride his horse and chase after him, and those who were in the riding technique jīng zhan ran back and forth after running diagonally, and they even stood up on the stirrup, and turned their backs to Li Tao behind them.

The war horses that Li Tao waited for were also excellent war horses captured at the time of his own death, but their white spoon weight was heavier than that of the opposite Mengjin, and the riding skills were far behind, so they couldn't catch up at all for a while, Li Tao had to put away the short gun, and pulled out the riding bow from the bow insertion on the side of the horse to shè.

"Stop chasing!" Li Tao shouted, the focus of the special service team training is to sabotage and reconnaissance behind enemy lines, horseback riding is not very jīng, he can't tolerate such loss of the special service team trained by jīng, these Mongolian horses are good, and they are not opponents when they fight.

The Meng Ryin saw that the pursuers stopped, and also slowed down, and if they left, they planned to chase after them and continue to attack with bows and arrows.

"The second soldier dismounts and holds a bow." Li Tao pointed to the cattle and sheep in the tent, let's go there.

Several soldiers of the special service team dismounted and took out their foot bows, each wearing their own antler wrenches, and the strength of the riding bow was mediocre, and the effective shè was only twenty steps, and the armor piercing was far from being compared with the fifty effective shè of the foot bow.

However, they came violently, and in the blink of an eye, they became on the defensive side, and besides, the other party was still a herdsman, and it was impossible for these jīng rui to not harbor fire in their hearts.

Li Tao and the other two team members who fell off their horses rushed over, and they were even more angry when they saw the two gray faces, and turned their heads to look at the other side, the Chinese light cavalry was nowhere to be seen, and it seemed that they had gone to chase those who had escaped. Secretly scolded the group of light horsemen, and led the team members to the tent area, the five team members on foot covered behind with bows, and the few people behind seemed to be unwilling, following far behind, they also knew that they couldn't beat the bow.

Li Tao looked at those cattle and sheep, his eyes rolled, he was Liaodong, he knew a little about Mengjin, these cattle and sheep who survived the winter were their hope this year, and the taxes of Houjin were extremely heavy, and they would not be able to survive without cattle and sheep.

"Stay here, don't let them steal the sheep."

Li Tao also took out the infantry bow, now the time is on his side, as long as the Chinese light cavalry returns, these Mengjin can only escape.

Several of them hesitated, and then began to talk loudly, as if they were arguing. Li Tao watched the excitement calmly, and waited for half an hour, but those people still didn't make a decision, but there was a sound of hooves from the north.

Several bright helmets emerged on the top of the slope, and Li Tao turned over his horse and shouted: "The light horse is back, surround these Mengjin." ”

The other team members got on their horses one after another, and Meng Jin also found that the Ming army had returned, and they scattered without hesitation, some to the east and some to the west, intending to disperse the Ming army's pursuits.

Li Tao rode his horse in hot pursuit, firmly staring at the most happy entry just now, there were two light horsemen surrounded by the north, they also raised their riding bows and prepared to attack, that Meng turned left and right, constantly changing directions, Li Tao was engrossed in controlling the speed of the horse, bent on finding the field.

The two sentry riders in the north are not from Shanxi Town at night, and they are very experienced, knowing that Mengjin must want to run north, firmly guarding the route to the north, Mengjin was forced by them, and kept adjusting the route, the horse speed could not get up, and seeing that he could not escape from there, he actually rode his horse around, and went south towards Li Tao, and he easily shot to Li Tao.

This entry is like a loach that does not leave a hand, Li Tao's heart is on fire, seeing that Meng into the bow, the left hand of the iron arm hand to protect the door, the right hand to draw out a short gun, shè came to the light arrow clammed into the chest armor, Li Tao's upper body shook slightly, and then stabilized his body. Na Meng Cheng took the opportunity to escape from a few steps away, and he was ready to flee southeast to Chengshan, although it would be difficult to return to Jinzhou, but it was better than having his head cut off.

Seeing that Li Tao did not hold a bow, Meng Jin was glad that he had escaped temporarily, but when he heard a roar, a puff of white smoke erupted from the right hand of the Ming army, and the mount under him was short, and he fell to the ground with a bang, and he was also dizzy.

Li Tao rode around a small circle and shouted at the two Chinese military sentry riders: "Give me a favor, leave this to me." ”

The two sentry horses reined in slightly, scattered to both sides, Li Tao finished running in the circle, the direction was adjusted to the south, Nameng was staggering to stand up, Li Tao clamped the horse's belly hard, the mount immediately accelerated, and rushed straight towards Namengjin.

Li Tao pulled out the thick-backed saber, slapped it on the horse's stock with the blade, and the mount rose up and galloped on all fours.

Before he could draw out the scimitar, the horse passed by him with a roar, Li Tao leaned down and clenched the handle of the knife, and with a slight wave of his right hand, the thick-backed saber instantly cut off the neck with the speed of the horse, and the head and fur hat were carried high at the same time, and the remaining corpse fell to the ground with red blood spraying.

A kind of killing pleasure surged into Li Tao's heart, he rode his horse and ran slowly for a while before stopping, and examined the blade of the saber, a small gap opened on it, the price of this kind of saber made of Min iron is more than eight taels, much more expensive than ordinary firearms, but if it is a serious battle, it is almost time to change after a battle.

"You're shit, it's barely working." After Li Tao finished scolding, he put the knife in the sheath, looked up at other places, and saw that the other Mengjin were fleeing to the northeast, he remembered his task, and hurriedly pulled out his horn and blew it, and the light cavalry and the special service team withdrew one after another.

Li Tao looked at the backs of the few people who escaped, and couldn't help but feel a little worried, he injured a team member and lost two war horses, so a few Jiannu cavalry were so troublesome. This time it was an offensive operation, there was no city to rely on, if a large number of cavalry from Jinzhou and Fuzhou came here, it would be a large-scale field battle, and I don't know if the cavalry battalion could deal with it.