In the past, when Qi Jiguang was guarding Jizhen Town, he also led troops up and down the canal many times, and the elders here in Qingxian County have seen it, but no one took this old man's words seriously, so naturally there was no turmoil.

Although this atmosphere is very much like a spring outing, but Zhao Jiajun is already tense at this time, after all, Qingxian is too close to Jinghai, and now it is close to Shuntianfu, the hinterland of Beizhili, the distance between the county seat and the county seat is very close, and it is all a horse Pingchuan terrain, the distance from Qingxian to Jinghai is only a few hours of fast horses, and it is easy for the other party's cavalry to raid.

To Zhao Jiajun's surprise, the first to come from Jinghai County were not the scouts of the official army, but the gentry and people who fled from Jinghai County, some were controvans, and some were walking with luggage, they didn't come to defect to Zhao Jiajun, they just wanted to stay as far away as possible from the current Jinghai County.

According to the people who fled Jinghai, the current Jinghai county has become a mess, and the city and outside the city are miserable, and the Jizhen border army entered the city first, occupying the best place in the city, and then the Xuanfu border army also arrived, they were naturally unwilling to live in the corner, and the two border towns had contradictions with each other, and they almost caught fire in the city.

At this time, the two towns of Beijing and Beizhili Baoding and Zhending have not yet arrived, but there are already nearly 30,000 officers and soldiers in the city, so many soldiers can not be restrained at all, the first night there are several wealthy families in the city who are killed, the money is gone, and the female dependents are ruined. The gentry and common people immediately began to flee.

In the hearts of the escaped Jinghai refugees, the official army is still like a wolf and a tiger, and the thief army is not even more of a beast, but at the moment there is no way to go except along the canal south, the east is the sea, and the official cavalry activities are very frequent in the west, and many of those who go there are directly killed as spies, and their property is looted, and they can only come over tremblingly, hoping to escape from the periphery of the camp of the Zhao family.

They can't even avoid the inspection of the official army, how can Zhao Jiajun escape here, the people who are caught are on the verge of despair, and even the women who fled the family took the initiative to come out and dedicate themselves, asking the army to let go of the whole family's drama, but Zhao Jiajun is a decent reaction, and after the investigation, he let himself go, in addition to going back, he was self-sufficient, which was quite surprising, and the formal and strict bearing was even more shocking.

The question of "who is the official and who is the thief" is being talked about by more and more people.

When the refugees appeared, the reconnaissance horses of the officers and soldiers also began to appear, in the combat power of the cavalry and the su zhì, the officers and soldiers had a slight upper hand than the Zhao family's army, so at the beginning, the Zhao family army did not scatter their light horses and the officers and soldiers did not collect the horses at night to fight one-on-one, but sent their own horse sergeants according to the team as a unit, only in the Zhao family army camp within ten miles of the sweep, constantly killing and wounding the elite cavalry of the official army, although the number of kills was not much, but after all, it caused damage to the enemy.

Zhao Jiajun is currently only staring at the surrounding ten miles, because the official army brigade will inevitably face the battle in Jinghai County, and there is no suspense at all.

Early in the morning of April 21, the Zhao army dismantled the camp fortifications and began to march northward, the boiling and busy outside, the people who were staring at Qingxian County naturally noticed, and there were more gentry and heroes secretly contacted the total, and when the official army won a big victory and the thieves were defeated, Qingxian County must have a reaction, and organized the Minzhuang regiment to practice intercepting the back road of the thieves and soldiers, and reaping some benefits on the one hand, on the other hand, it is necessary to close the city gate at any time, if the official army is allowed to enter the city, the disaster will be great.

In any case, the Qingxian side did not think that the Zhao family army would win, although they also felt that the official army was a pure scourge.

When the Zhao Jiajun Brigade began to move north, the officers and soldiers who were spying and watching around began to distance themselves and began to pass news back and forth, and all the brigades and regiments of the Zhao Jiajun were also ready to engage in battle at any time, but the officers and soldiers never moved.

No matter how the imperial court urged, no matter how the people judged each other's strength and weakness, the superintendent Wang Zaijin and the main general Zhang Jixian still made the most secure arrangements, relying on the Jinghai City, outside the city to face the Zhao army, for the Zhao army, if you want to approach the capital along the canal, this Jinghai is a pass that has to be crossed, and you can only fight a decisive battle under this city.

Moreover, Jinghai is very close to Tianjin, you can get the grain and grass support there at any time, and the border soldiers of Jizhen and Liaozhen are also backing, which can make the morale of the army stable and high, but if you go further, it is far away from the big granary of Tianjin, with the bad baggage logistics of the official army, a slight delay is the floating of the army's heart, in case of a mutiny, and before the war with the anti-thief, your own family will be in chaos first, then there is no need to mention anything.

Zhao Jiajun's response is also decent, the officers and soldiers are numerous, and they rely on Jinghai County to move, and Zhao Jiajun's grain and grass logistics should start from Linqing, take the longer and longer canal route north, if you meet a master on paper, you have already given Zhao Jiajun countless clever plans, according to what outsiders think, I also feel that Zhao Jiajun should be a soldier at this time, etc., but Zhao Jiajun's reaction is more "wooden" than the official army, since you set up a good position, then I will go to the head-on decisive battle.

After walking along the canal for two hours, the sergeants and soldiers of each brigade began to take turns to eat dry food and drink water to replenish it, and at this time, you could see the smoke and dust rising from the north, and the horses in front of them returned, and more than 4,000 officers and cavalry were rushing towards this side.

In the process of marching, the enemy uses cavalry to harass and impact, and it is very likely that the enemy army will be directly crushed or defeated, and the officers and troops will take out more than 4,000 horsemen at a time, at least seventy or eighty percent of the horse's strength, and more than 4,000 cavalry will have a huge advantage over the team surrounded by nearly 20,000 foot soldiers.

Zhao Jiajun had already planned for such an enemy cavalry attack, and the artillery regiment and the fire gun company began to move to the outside of the marching queue at the first moment, but he didn't expect Zhao Jin to give the order: "The artillery will not move, block it with firearms, and the horse team shall not pursue!" ”。

During the march, the enemy cavalry harassed, often if there is cheap, it will rush to kill, there is no cheap to make is to dip and leave, will not be so regardless of rushing in, in this case, if you want to give the enemy enough killing, you must use artillery, not to mention that the artillery of the Zhao family army is enough, sharp enough, I didn't expect Zhao Jin to give such an order.

But the commander's order is beyond doubt, not to mention that Zhao Jin led everyone to win so many victories, after the order was issued, preparations began immediately, the spear company began to protect the artillery company, and the fire company ran to the outside, the total number of fire gun sergeants of several brigades and regiments was close to three thousand, it was enough to protect the periphery, not to mention that the spear sergeant array was like a mountain, not afraid of the impact of the enemy cavalry.

From the most basic sergeant of the firearm to the above several regiments and brigades, everyone was a little excited, because such a large-scale use of firearms was the first time for Zhao Jiajun, and I don't know what kind of firepower wave it was when the time came, but Zhao Jin's next order stopped such a spectacular scene, and the firecrackers were not allowed to fire volleys, just force away the enemy cavalry

The order looked difficult to force, but it was the most in line with the current situation, and under Zhao Jin's instructions, the Zhao family army began to change formations to meet the enemy.

The smoke and dust in the distance are still approaching, the Zhao Jiajun brigade has stopped advancing, the boats following the canal have begun to retreat, and the chariots, horses and artillery marching with the army have begun to fine-tune their positions, with the chariots, horses, artillery and baggage as the center, one by one the regiments are arranged in a phalanx around this center, while the cavalry and horse team of the Zhao Jiajun are retreating, maintaining strategy and excitement.

One by one, the phalanx was formed, the sergeants were loading ammunition, the company was checking the equipment and queue of the sergeants, the atmosphere had begun to be tense, but the speed of the officers and cavalry was not as fast as expected, and with the continuous reports of the light cavalry sentries, everyone knew that the officers and cavalry slowed down about four miles from here and began to regroup.

"The officers and soldiers have taken our artillery into account!" Zhao Jin judged.

When the official cavalry reappeared, it was already dozens of cavalry or hundreds of cavalry as a team, scattered very open, and the speed of approaching forward was also very slow, and you could also see light cavalry running back and forth in these squads, a rough look at the past, you can feel that these cavalry are much stronger than the Shandong cavalry, and they are flexible and skilled in gathering and scattering.

Before and after the attack of the official army horse team, the sentry detective cavalry has been almost cleared, and the official cavalry did not expect that the Zhao family army would respond like this, but such a scene looks shocking enough, relying on a strict queue to form a defensive formation, this is the "city" composed of soldiers.

The sporadic light cavalry of the official army began to accelerate forward, and the cavalry of the Zhao family army was still on standby in the distance of the large array, and only a few rangers were observing the maneuver, but they did not participate in the battle.

When these light cavalry will be transferred to the official brigade, the speed of the official cavalry can be seen to start to increase, but the pattern of scattered squads has not changed.

"This is to see that it is impossible for the artillery to go out over the human wall, so we rush forward, before our Zhao Jiajun appears, it is estimated that no one in the world can think that the infantry formation can resist the horse team, even Qi Jiguang's elite has to rely on the van, seeing our formation, they always can't help but try." Zhao Jin commented with a smile.

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