Chapter 37: Before the Battle of Yingzhou

Datong is foggy in autumn.

At the beginning of the fifth watch, the entire camp was in a state of chaos.

Zhengde also began to patrol the camp at this time. Zhu Houhuang and Zhengde inspected the entire camp together, but at this time there was fog, and the dense white fog blocked people's vision more than the night, and it did not slowly disperse until three poles after the sun, and at this time, the army officially left the camp.

This time all the soldiers were draped and armed, and I don't know how many were sent out at night, and from time to time there were sentry cavalry reporting the situation from all directions.

With each battalion as a combat unit, they were densely packed and neat, lined up in a queue, and were preparing to leave the camp.

The red flag is fierce, and the swords and guns are distinct.

It's just that at this time, no one noticed that not far from the barracks, a group of knights was only a few dozen horsemen. I was looking at the army from afar.

"Father Khan, it's too dangerous here." Ah's anxious forehead was sweating.

Although Dayan Khan was gray-haired, his courage had not diminished, and he actually brought dozens of guards to the Zhengde camp to observe.

Dayan Khan saw that the Zhengde army was pulling out the camp, and it was actually orderly, and there were already several teams that did not collect at night and galloped by him, and even two or three nights did not collect and had already found Dayan Khan and his party, but the people who followed Dayan Khan were all first-class warriors among the Mongols, and these people who found that their night was not collected had turned into corpses. It's just that if it goes on like this, it will always be discovered.

Dayan Khan said, "Let's go. He took a deep breath and said, "Zhengde is still very cautious, it seems that it is not easy to find a vacancy." ”

Even though Zhengde has shallow military experience, there are many generals around Zhengde. He was no stranger to marching and fighting, Dayan Khan also wanted to see if there were any loopholes in the Zhengde march and battle, and he also learned first, so he attacked suddenly and defeated the other party in one fell swoop. However, Dayan Khan looked at Zhengde's arrangement, but found that there was no such opportunity, and only the upright division was left, and he defeated the opponent in one fell swoop.

Dayan Khan took a deep look in the direction of the Ming army, turned around and left.

"I am overjoyed to hear that Your Majesty is coming north, and I am willing to hunt with Your Majesty on the banks of the Sanggan River."

Zhengde slowly chewed on this sentence in his mouth and said, "Dayan Khan wants to invite war. How could I not allow it. He picked up a brush stained with ink from the case, and wrote the words on the battle post: "If you want to fight, you will fight."

These six ink dripping, there are big teeth and claws, broken paper and flying, Zhengde consciously wrote cursive in his life, no more than six words, for a while did not want to return this battle post, hesitated slightly, threw the war post on the kneeling on the ground, still arrogant and refused to bow his head in front of the Mongolian envoy, said: "Go back to Dayan Khan and say that I have already prepared the mansion for Dayan Khan in Beijing, and I have been waiting for Dayan Khan for a long time." ”

The Mongolian envoy said: "The Great Khan explained before he came that he had been waiting for His Majesty for a long time, and he wanted to enjoy the scenery with His Majesty. ”

Sent away the Mongol envoys, Zhengde and Zhu Bin, Xu Tai, and other generals discussed a good strategy for tomorrow's enemy. Zhu Houhuang is just standing beside Zhengde, and he doesn't even have the point to interject, but judging from Zhu Houhuang's shallow military knowledge, there is only one evaluation for tomorrow's match, that is, a dignified and upright teacher, and there is no opportunism.

However, this is the first time that Zhu Houhuang has seen tens of thousands of people fighting from beginning to end, and it may be the last meeting, Zhu Houhuang is engrossed, keeping everything firmly in mind, and after going back, he will write down all the things one by one, and then figure it out slowly.

The night passed quickly.

The next day, the weather was a little gloomy and not a good day.

The army made food on the fifth watch, and as soon as the day dawned, they started and lined up in the big camp.

Fighting after battle has always been the criterion for judging whether the army is a rabble.

Zhu Houhuang's more than 300 people are in the Chinese army. Next to Zhengdeok. Zhengde rode on a tall horse, and the warriors on both sides lined up on both sides, extending into the distance, and there was a feeling that he couldn't see the edge. It's not that the Ming army is really boundless and can't see the end, but the visibility at the moment is not high, which affects everyone's eyesight. The end of the queue seemed to be obscured by a thin morning mist.

Zhu Houhuang is under the tall dragon flag, which can be said to be the most middle position in the whole army, and not far in front of him is Zhengde.

Even so, Zhu Houhuang's sight savages could not cover the entire battlefield. All you can see is flags erected.

In other words, no one can control the battlefield within a radius of several miles.

A door tiger squatting cannon, firearms, a swarm of bees, all placed at the front of the queue, there are side van guards on both wings, and the side vans are equipped with fire door guns, but compared to Zhu Houhuang's improved musket, it is too much worse, it can be seen as an iron pipe with bamboo knots, and there are many inexplicable firearms, which opened Zhu Houhuang's eyes.

At this time, Zhu Houhuang knew that Mr. Lu Xun was a liar.

Mr. Lu Xun's assertion about gunpowder misled Zhu Houhuang, although Zhu Houhuang knew that there were firearms in the Ming army, but what kind of firearms they were were not too clear, and it was also during this expedition that Zhu Houhuang understood that the Ming army was full of dazzling and all kinds of brain-hole firearms. Let Zhu Houhuang have a feeling that the people of the Ming Dynasty really know how to play.

Of course, firearms were in the Ming army, but they were only auxiliary roles. What really plays a decisive role is still cold weapons, bravery and fighting.

There are more than 30,000 cavalry around Zhengde, all of which are the four outer armies, and more than 10,000 foot soldiers, these foot soldiers protect the Chinese army camp, by the way, Zhu Houhuang's 300 people are also in the Chinese army, so they protect Zhengde closely.

I don't know if Zhengde looks down on Zhu Houhuang's soldiers and puts them in the safest place, or looks down on Zhu Houhuang's soldiers and puts them in the most important position.

Zhu Houhuang is Zhengde's Chinese army guard officer, responsible for Zhengde's security.

The Mongol cavalry arrived a little late.

It was almost noon when the desolate horn blew suddenly.

With the sound of a desolate horn, all the Mongol cavalry spread from the horizon like a tide, and a Sulu ingot was held high, not much different from the height of Zhengde's dragon banner. With a boundless torrent spreading.

The Mongol queue was loose, as if there was no basic queue at all, and the cavalry slowly spread eastward with the Sulu ingots, and their speed was not fast, but there was a tendency to be overwhelmed by Mount Tai.

How many times has Zhu Houhuang seen such a powerful scene, but it is all on TV or in movies. Although in film and television works, although magnificent, they are far inferior to these Tartar cavalry.

These people wore tattered furs, or some were able to wear ill-fitting clothes, and they did not even have neat weapons, and although each of them had a blade, each of them had a personal touch. There is no such uniformity at all, and the swords reflect the magnificence of the sun.

But Zhu Houhuang felt a chill that penetrated deep into the bone marrow, before Zhu Houhuang couldn't feel what killing intent was, and he didn't quite understand, why Wu Ming kept saying that these three hundred people had not seen blood, and they were not the real elite, but at this moment Zhu Houhuang suddenly understood.

This kind of indifference to life and not taking one's own life seriously, this kind of indifference to killing people as a habit, is something that Zhu Houhuang's 300 recruits do not have. What is lacking, no matter how much you train, you can't train it.

That's tens of thousands of outlaws.

Zhu Houhuang couldn't help but get nervous, his hand was on the hilt of the sword, tight and loose, loose and tight. Slowly, the hilt of the sword had already been infiltrated by the sweat of Zhu Houhuang's palm, and over again, so that the white cloth that Zhu Houhuang wrapped around the hilt had already turned a pale yellow color. He found that he was not the only one who was nervous, the three hundred recruits around him were already tense, and the muscles of his body collapsed as if they were an iron plate.

"What's wrong? Nervous? ”

Zhengde suddenly turned around and said.

Zhu Houhuang swallowed his saliva and said, "Don't be nervous." ”

"Brother Huang, don't worry, it's okay, wait a while, just sit and watch my great tomorrow soldiers break the enemy."

Zhu Houhuang suddenly found that Zhengde's fingers were also pressed on the hilt of the sword, and the five fingers had already been pressed extremely pale, and he couldn't wait to be able to press his fingers to bleed, it turned out that Zhengde didn't know when, and he was also very scared.