The cavalry team slowly dispersed again, and the cavalry of the fire battalion lined up in a long line of long snakes. The infantry behind them put on iron armor and helmets, and clenched their spears tightly. The armor of the Musketeers had their sleeves removed, which made them a little more flexible and did not have much of an effect on their ammunition, and they finally checked the chamber of the gun, loosening the bag containing the gunpowder and pellets and hanging it on their chests.

The officer blew the whistle and walked to the front row of the line in high spirits, and behind them was a large number of small formations of twenty men wide and six men deep, leaving gaps between the small formations of the Chinese front. Horses are very spiritual and timid animals, and the small gap left is so that when the horse is unable to get on his feet, there can be a gap to pass through the guò, and not to hit the spear forest in desperation.

The soldiers of the Xuanfeng Battalion also put on their armor, but the eyes of Zhang Fat Cat and his own soldiers were not here, since the firefighting battalion opened the burden and began to put on the armor, his eyes could no longer leave the sea of metal. His greedy gaze swept over the iron armor of the soldiers in the fire battalion, and the fat cat's own soldiers and family members also looked at the armor of the ordinary soldiers in the fire battalion with jealousy, and from time to time someone touched the equipment on their bodies aggrievedly, and their eyes were red and about to erupt fire.

The teams of the Selector Battalion slowly spread out to the wings, while the teams of the Fire Battalion remained in the center. More than 9,000 auxiliaries carried all kinds of baggage and retreated behind the generals' flags, hiding behind the battle line as much as possible in order to be protected by the combat troops.

After the four infantry teams finished lining up one after another, their officers' flags were also erected straight, Huang Shi nodded, and the guards immediately shook the red flag of the second general.

After He Dingyuan gave the order, the cavalry on the front line turned their horses' heads and slowly returned, rearranging themselves into a formation behind the generals in Huangshi. Beside the horse team was the last infantry group, and the four hundred soldiers were all pikemen. Yellowstone was left behind the general's flag as a reserve.

He Dingyuan rushed to Huangshi's side after arranging the horse team: "The adult horse team has completed the formation to cover. The last general has come to pay the order.

"Got it. "Yellowstone had already seen the smoke and dust rising in the distance. The rolling army of the Houjin continued to leap into view from behind the barrier of dust, and they seemed to be a little surprised when they saw the Ming army waiting for them, and they slowed down from three miles away, and began to slowly concentrate into a tight formation.

Fifty cavalrymen had dispersed to reconnoitre. Among them were twenty members of the Selective Battalion. These dozens of cavalrymen gathered and scattered in the eyes of tens of thousands of people in the open space of more than three miles in the center of the two armies, and from time to time made a posture of chasing and attacking each other. Huang Shi also watched these brave Ming army sentries at this time, and they either suddenly rushed forward or broke away from the pursuit of the enemy, causing the soldiers in front of Huang Shi to burst into bursts of colorful sounds.

This familiar scene reminded Huang Shi of the situation when he had led an outpost in the Quang Ninh army four years ago to scout the horses, and hundreds of people cowered in a group, unable to detect the enemy's situation or drive away the enemy horsemen. The Arthur Army fought for many years. Since the second year of the Apocalypse, he has lived a life of licking blood with a knife, and this spirit is not inferior to He Dingyuan's son, and he also nodded again and again when he looked at Huangshi.

At this moment, a Lushun cavalryman suddenly leaned back and dodged a cold arrow that was fired, and suddenly there was a loud cheer. Huang Shi was also slightly shocked when he saw this thrilling scene, and then praised: "Governor Zhang, your soldiers are quite good." ”

"Thanks to Lord Huang's compliment. Zhang Fat Cat was also overjoyed, and he hurriedly added: "This is a lowly family member who has made great achievements in the past three years." Today, I heard that Lord Huang, who is powerful in southern Liaoning, is of course even more energetic here. ”

"Good. Don't overdo it, though. "The main job of these scouts is to bring back the news before the reconnaissance, so it is only a dangerous game for the scouts on both sides to attack each other. It also inspires and boosts the morale of the party, and in the final analysis, it will not really fight to the death.

"Lord Huang, rest assured, the children know the importance of the ground. ”

As the Houjin army slowly approached, the scouts who had already inquired a lot about the military returned one after another. Only three of the fifty horsemen were lost.

"Lord Huang's ......"

The first one was the Tanma of the Lushun Army, he half-knelt on the ground and finished what he had seen, Huang Shi smiled at Zhang Fat Cat beside him: "Zhang Dusi, this is your person." ”

Zhang Fat Cat hurriedly bowed his hand: "It's all up to Lord Huang." ”

"Reward him. ”

As soon as he gave the order, Hong Antong, who was behind Huang Shi, threw over a dime of silver, and the soldier was busy picking up the increased amount of broken silver from his feet and putting it into his arms, while expressing his gratitude: "Lord Xie Huang, Lord Xie Huang." ”

The fire battalion's scout also came to report to Huangshi after listening to it and waved his hand. Hong Antong threw the silver in the past, since he rewarded other people's subordinates, of course, his own people must not be less, but how they want to spend it is not a problem in Huangshi. Anyway, Changsheng Island does not allow merchants to do business directly with soldiers, and everything has to change hands through Yang Zhiyuan.

The soldiers of the fire battalion also had doubts in their hearts. He Dingyuan glared at the bewildered soldiers, signaling that they would disappear from front of them immediately, and they hurried back to the horse team behind the general's flag.

Small traders have also followed Dengzhou merchants to Changsheng Island, but they are only fire camps, and the system of "unified purchase and sales" is strictly enforced, even if it is the red hijab of the bride and the small wooden toys for babies, they are all purchased by logistics officers, and soldiers and merchants are absolutely not allowed to have direct contact with them. Huang Shi believed that after these contacts were cut off, the equipment and the number of soldiers in the fire battalion would not be casually taken away by outsiders, and Yang Zhiyuan and Bao Jiusun had been repeatedly vaccinated, and they also formulated detailed regulations for logistics officers. All the materials that need to be purchased will be bought at random, and one or two percent will be bought at random, and it is better to throw them into the sea than to use precise numbers when making transactions. If the vendor is curious to ask an irrelevant question, the answer will always be "no comment".

This time it was Zhang Fatten's family who came up, that is, the kid who had just dodged an arrow. His posture of rolling and dismounting from the saddle is quite graceful, and his words are very organized, and the content is very rich. After listening to him smoothly report the flags and equipment he saw, Huang Shi also felt very satisfied. The soldier seemed to feel Yellowstone's satisfaction, too, and he boldly looked up with eagerness.

Huang Shi looked at him condescendingly without waving his hand to let Hong Antong throw the silver: "What reward do you want?" ”

The soldier also seemed to have a good idea of this question, and he replied excitedly: "I don't dare to ask for extravagance." I just begged Lord Huang to reward me with a suit of armor. After finishing speaking, he hurriedly added: "It's the body of an ordinary soldier under Lord Huang's command." After speaking, he looked at Huang Shi's face and said in a very pitiful tone: "That's it." ”

"You little monkey. Zhang Fat Cat hurriedly scolded. But this is too weightless, isn't it? It's just a disguised encouragement.

"Good. Huang Shi laughed when he heard this, this little monkey is really shrewd, his set of iron armor is worth a hundred taels of silver, but this guy said that what kind of ordinary soldier's armor, if Huang Shi does not agree, it seems to be so stingy, and he is reluctant to give it to the tattered that is not worth two pennies: "I promised you." When I get back to Golden State, I'll give you a set. ”

"Lord Xie Huang. The little splash monkey also made a volley, a somersault, and he led the horse back to Zhang Fat Cat and stood behind him, and his companions were all smacked with envy.

......

At the same time, the other side of the battlefield is also listening to the return of the Tanma.

"There is no doubt that on the opposite side is the most elite unit of the Ming army in southern Liaoning, the fire battalion of Changsheng Island and the Xuanfeng battalion of Lushun are all here, and we will wipe them all out today. ”

Mang Gurtai looked at the silver front in front of him with some confusion, and the equipment of the firefighting battalion shocked not only the friendly troops. Hou Jin gave the same surprised gaze to this luxurious ironclad torrent: "If it weren't for seeing the snake flag of the fire camp, I would have really thought that I would have met the forbidden army of the Ming Kingdom." ”

"I'm afraid that the forbidden army of the Ming Kingdom does not have such equipment," Huang Taiji also admired the dazzling iron armor on this group of heavy infantry. Under the illumination of the sun, the cold light flowed on the battle formation of the Ming army on the opposite side, like a silver snake twisting its body slightly: "There is nothing terrible about iron armor, I heard that there are also copper cannons." But even with iron armor and bronze cannons, there is nothing to be afraid of. ”

"I heard you've seen that Yellowstone, how is he?"

"The book is angry. Huang Taiji made a very brief comment.

"That's good, this batch of iron armor is ours. Manggultai clapped his hands and laughed. The pride was overflowing: "This time we came to Lushun to see a lot of money." ”

Huang Taiji smiled and said to the minions beside him: "Pass the order to go down and get a half-way forward for the Huangshi level." Capture Yellowstone alive to meet Ben Baylor's four futures. ”

It only takes twenty-four years to go from coating to sealing Baylor. Mang Gurtai was stunned when he heard this: "Didn't you say that he was a scholar?"

"Scholars also have the use of scholars. ”

......

The Houjin army on the opposite side began to deploy two miles away, and Huangshi also quickly concluded: "There are about 4,500 soldiers of Jiannu on the opposite side, which is equivalent to our strength. Jiannu's advantage is that half of the cavalry has it, while our horsemen have only 200 soldiers. There were 6,000 to 7,000 auxiliaries behind the Jiannu array, and our army had a strength advantage over 12,000 Jiannu in this battle. ”

He turned sideways and said to Wu Mu: "Gonggong Wu knows that as long as our army can hold out until dark, it will be safe." ”

In this era, the night is so dark that you can't see your fingers, and there are a large number of people on both sides who suffer from night blindness. You can shoot torches when marching at night, but once you start a night battle, whoever shoots the torches first will be called looking for death. Naturally, neither of the two sides is willing to cheapen the opponent, so the night battle of the army is a real melee, and the probability of being slaughtered by their own people is no less than that of the enemy. In the dark night of this era, the life and death of a soldier, his skill and level of battle have nothing to do with his character, and the victory or defeat of a large-scale night battle has nothing to do with command, training, and morale, but only with the character of the commanders on both sides.

"So the goal of our army is to hold out until dusk. ”

Now it is the first month of the first month, in the cold night of Liaodong, the night battle is going to become more dangerous, and a small wound with little blood may make a strong man die. Huangshi estimated that after evening, the Jin and Ming armies could only collect their troops and return to their camps.

Wu Mu smiled trustfully and nodded again and again: "As soon as you go, it will be handed over to General Huang." We don't talk much. ”

Huang Shi's gaze reached over Wu Mu's shoulders and shot at the two brocade guards: "What is the matter above the battle array, it is possible for the county to give birth to two brothers, and you must protect Gonggong Wu." ”

Chen Ruike and Zhang Gaosheng clasped their fists together on the horse: "General Huang rest assured that we will be able to ensure the fairness and safety of Duke Wu." ”

Wu Mu pulled his horse and walked to the general's flag, and then opened a distance from Huangshi, indicating that he had completely delegated power. also sent a sentence leisurely: "General Huang doesn't have to think of our family and command with peace of mind."

After the overseer and the brocade guard walked away. Huang Shi cleared his throat and was about to talk to Zhang Fat Cat, this guy finally withdrew his eyes from the iron armor of the fire camp, and now he was rolling sweat beads down his head, and his eyes were nervously rolling up and down.

But before Huang Shi could speak, He Dingyuan opened his mouth, he finally learned this time, and waited for the prison army to go away before giving his opinion: "What the lord said." The last general will not think so. Our forces are equal, and the goal of our army should be to defeat Jiannu, how can we say 'hold out until dusk'?"

Victory is of course the best, but if you can hold until dusk, you are undefeated, but Huang Shi was unwilling to dispel the sharp spirit of his subordinates: "To the prison army, let's not talk too much, hum, Jiannu obviously has losses in Lushun." And they also have to cover the heavy grain and grass, so they can't come from the three banners, and many of the horses are left in the rear team to trailer, hum, but their main force does not sweep the remnants of the army, just wait here for us to take the bait, but it is really courageous and courageous. ”

Just now I heard that the Houjin army had four or five thousand soldiers, and more than half of them were cavalry, and Houzhang Fat Cat kept sweating, and after Huangshi and He Dingyuan began to answer, they were even more sweaty, listening to the meaning of these two madmen, it was obvious that they were going to fight against the Houjin army. He opened his mouth wide and asked, "This, I'm afraid that the Jiannu on the other side has six or seven hundred white armors, right?"

Yellowstone closed his eyes. Usually, the information sent by Li Yunrui passed through his eyes like flowing water. After a second or two, he opened his eyes and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that more than the elites of the Three Banners are here, there should be more than eight hundred." ”

Zhang Fat Cat stammered, "Huang ...... Lord Huang Mingjian is humble and desplicing...... There were only thirty family members and seven personal soldiers. ”

Huang Shi laughed loudly: "Ben will not have any of them. He proudly said to Zhang Fat Cat, "But there will be a battalion of two thousand warriors. Ben will be the battle of Jinzhou and Gaizhou. It was all a battle of three or four hundred people, and the Jiannu must have thought that there would only be a few hundred families. ”

Although it is inconceivable that there can be three or four hundred generals, all the Dongjiang officers who saw the Tang Newspaper, including Bao Huazhang and Fat Cat, thought that Huangshi had a skill in collecting money (in fact, they did not guess wrong), and they also estimated that Huangshi deducted military salaries and deducted them very much (this is actually true, Huangshi's own share was deducted), so the scale of the family members and pro-soldiers was particularly large, and it was four or five times more than that of ordinary generals.

He Dingyuan on the side also smiled: "My lord's command is just an ordinary soldier, and it was not carefully selected at that time. ”

Zhang Fei's cat's eyes bulged out, and he stammered and gestured twice towards the four teams in front of the fire battalion, and then pointed to the team behind the Huangshi General Banner: "Are these soldiers the elite level of Huang Dajin, Gai, and the two wars?"

"Even if it's not, it's not far off. The array of the Houjin army was lined up, and time was pressing, so Huang Shi didn't plan to talk nonsense anymore, he pointed to the two thousand infantry deployed by the enemy army in the center and smiled lightly: "It's another flank outflanking, it's boring to break through the center." ”

The Houjin army has already put out a bullhorn formation, and the Ming army is still a full moon formation that is mainly infantry, and it is inevitable to use. The ironclad soldiers of the fire battalion occupied the central line, and the soldiers of the front battalion tried their best to extend the two wings, and they dragged back slightly to form an arc. The goal of the Ming army was to break through the center, cut the Houjin army apart, and then attack one by one and disrupt the command center in the center of the opponent's formation. The two wings can collapse, as long as they can hold out until the center completes the breakthrough, it will be a success.

Although the three flags have been dispersed, the flag in the center behind the opposite formation is the positive blue flag. Huang Shi understood that this meant that the commander of the other party was not the Fourth Beile Huang Taiji, but the Third Beile Mang Gurtai, and he asked the two generals beside him: "Which wing of our attack did you say the Jiannu Guild Master attacked?"

"Left wing!" He Dingyuan and Zhang Feimao replied in unison.

"Not bad. ”

The left flank of the Ming army relies on the sea, if the Houjin army chooses to break through from the right flank, the Ming army can use reserves to counterattack, and it is easier to plug the gap. And maybe they can take advantage of the situation to divide the enemy army and go down to the sea.

The banner of the left wing of the Ming army, that is, the right wing of the Later Jin Army, was white, and the right wing of the Ming army was facing the red command flag, after all, there were still quite a few Niu Lu left in other areas of southern Liaoning. In addition to the main force in this place, there were also some escorts to the main force of Lushun, including the most ineffective Han army.

Just as Yellowstone expected. Since the Houjin army did not sweep the surrounding area of Lushun, it had to guard against the attack of the remnants of Lushun. If you lose most of your baggage. After tens of thousands of dollars, the Jin army will be hungry.

Later, the Jin army began to move forward, and Huang Shi said in a calm tone: "Zhang Dusi, the left flank of our army will be handed over to you." ”

"Lord Huang is assured that his humble duty will definitely live up to his mission. The horizontal flesh on Zhang Fatcat's face trembled, and he waved his hand vigorously. The soldiers of his Elective Battalion moved towards the left flank.

"Governor Zhang. ”

"Humble in office. ”

"You are adding guerrilla ranks, Guan Xuanfeng Battalion, this battle is over, and you will look at the word 'plus' to remove it. ”

"Lord Xie Huang is humble and dares not to do his best. ”

There are two wooden poles in front of the battle, and an officer of the fire battalion artillery team is measuring the distance, he is a very famous feng shui master and fortune teller, nicknamed "Iron Mouth Divine Calculation", and was later convicted of deception and deception. It's a boss now.

"My lord, the six-hundred-meter Jiannu has already entered the farthest range of my six-pounder gun. ”

Huang Shi has been looking at the Zhengbai banner on the left flank, and the hidden worries in his heart have never dissipated: Can I really defeat this heroic man in history? Can I really fight against the battle-hardened Jiannu Baijia elite with so many recruits under my command for several months?

"Your Excellency, please give an order. The herald's eyes burned in Yellowstone's face with fiery fire - these soldiers trusted me, for I had never failed. Gonggong Wu, Brother He, and the soldiers of Xuanfeng's camp also trusted me, and they were all convinced that as long as they followed me, Huangshi would never fail, and I couldn't let them down.

"Ricochet attacks. ”

The herald shouted with all his strength, "Yes, my lord." "Turned around and ran desperately towards the artillery team.

The twenty-third day of the first month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse. The Ming army, with a total of nearly 30,000, and the Houjin army were about to start a battle outside Nanguan, and the Ming army was 4,400 elite soldiers subordinate to the fire battalion and the Xuanfeng battalion, plus more than 9,000 auxiliary soldiers, for a total of 14,000 troops. After the gold side, there were 4,500 soldiers under the blue, white, and red banners, plus 12,000 unarmored soldiers. The soldiers of both armies stepped into the battlefield with the belief of victory, especially the Houjin army. It is also with great enthusiasm and courage for this battle.

In the past ten years, the Jianzhou Jurchens have been invincible, hundreds of thousands of Ming troops have been wiped out, and a Jurchen bandit group of more than 5,000 people has also grown into tens of thousands of Houjin with armored soldiers. From Sarhu to Quang Ninh, they were invincible in battles with more than 10,000 people, and this great prestige made the Guanning army, the most powerful field group of the Ming army, dare not set foot in Hexi.

Three years after the Apocalypse, although they were defeated by the Dongjiang Army in the field battle of 10,000 people in Lushun, Zhendian and Lianshan, the Later Jin Army continued to give the Korean Dongjiang Army and the Kuandian Dongjiang Army a devastating blow in the first month of the fifth year, and broke Lushun and Zhangpan to avenge the revenge in Xiaoheishan, Lushun and Jinzhou.

At present, the last elite of the Dongjiang Army, the Lushun and Changsheng coalition army, is in front of us, and this Ming army has also fallen into a desperate situation in the planning of Houjinnao.

The Houjin army has no doubt that the time has come to solve the problem of southern Liaoning, and today will be the end, which is called once and for all!

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"Lower the muzzle......" Duncan shouted hoarsely, and the gunner next to the two six-pounder guns turned the cranks quickly, driving the screws on the ground in the gun carriage, and there were wooden screws under and on both sides of the cannons, which allowed the gunner to easily adjust the muzzle to the left and right directions and the height with the cranks.

The muzzle of the black hole slowly lowered, and a group of tomb robbers and fortune-tellers stood on both sides of the cannon body, and they were now the most valuable artillery talents of the fire battalion.

These scum were wearing majestic red cloaks one by one, with one hand behind their waists, the other straight forward, their thumbs raised high, their left and right eyes closed in turn, and the distance was estimated using the parallax method.

"Six hundred meters. ”

"Five hundred and fifty meters. ”

"Five hundred meters. ”

"Four hundred and fifty meters ready. ”

"400 meters ......"

A gunner was about to ignite when he heard the sound, and Duncan suddenly shouted, "Stop!"

As soon as he snatched the torch, Duncan pressed it towards the fire door with all his might, and at the same time shouted, "This is my honor!"

At three o'clock in the afternoon of the twenty-third day of the first month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the colored officer Duncan fired the first shot in the Battle of Nanguan.

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