There is still a difference between people.

There was a slight smell of wine at the banquet, the sound of other barracks sleeping like thunder, and the sound of patrols outside, which distinguished the people.

The wine is a pleasure, and after a few drinks, it is not open to drink.

Ning Zheng only ate a piece of pork bone at the beginning of the banquet and left the banquet in the middle of the banquet.

Tonight's defense line doesn't seem to be very stable.

"Tom tom!"

At the banquet, Zhu Di was eating with Zhang Liming, and the avant-garde war drums suddenly sounded.

Immediately after that, there was a commotion outside, and the soldiers who were sleeping soundly in the barracks were woken up and urgently assembled.

As the drums of war became more and more urgent, everyone at the banquet could not sit still.

There was the sound of arrows outside.

"Your Highness, your Excellency!" As soon as Zhu Di probed from the barracks, Liu Song stopped at the door, "It's dangerous outside." ”

"Ning Zheng, what's the situation outside?" Zhu Di asked.

"There was a small group of cavalry raids, and the general led his troops to pursue them." Liu Song replied quickly.

Before Liu Song's words fell, with a whoosh, a rocket burst in front of the gate and was blocked by the shield.

Looking ahead, the avant-garde at this time was in chaos and orderly, rockets were fired in from the outside, and the soldiers organized to extinguish the fire, but did not cause a fire.

"Boom, boom!"

Before he could see clearly, there was a sudden sound of cannon fire on the town wall in the distance.

Meteor-like light burst out of the town walls and smashed into the distant ground.

"Take us to the city walls!" Zhang Liming was not timid, and also walked out of the barracks and said.

"This!" Liu Song looked embarrassed and said, "There can only be four or five people to go, and the shield is not enough to protect everyone." ”

Zhu Di slashed at Zhang Liming, which naturally let Zhang Liming decide.

Zhang Liming turned his head to look behind him, and then said, "Brother Zhu Ying, Brother Jie Ying, how about going together." ”

"That's very good." Two fellow legations replied.

Only four of them made their way to the city, and when they were sure of their number, they quickly left the barracks and walked towards the city walls.

The military town was full of water tanks, and the Yuan Cavalry stopped for a moment after a round of rocket fire.

Quickly, the group came to the city wall.

At this time, the moonlight is mild and gradually dim, although the field of vision is not as good as the daytime, but it is also like the light of the sky, and you can see far away.

Distance.

The firelight was in full bloom, flickering around the Qinchuan Basin like fireflies.

"Gollum!" Zhu Di clearly heard the sound of swallowing saliva coming from Zhang Liming's throat.

Not only Zhang Liming is swallowing saliva, but Zhu Di is also there.

"Is this a small share?" Zhu Di squinted at Liu Song.

At this time, the Qinchuan Basin was fighting at night, and at least 10,000 cavalry were crisscrossing this battlefield.

It was only at a distance and the sound of war drums that no movement was heard in the barracks.

Standing on the city wall, you can feel the shocking breath in your face.

The firelight formed a long dragon on the Qinchuan Basin.

Because it is too far away to see the specifics, but you can clearly see the pursuing and fleeing fire dragons.

That's the situation on the battlefield from afar.

At the location of Qinchuankou, the firelight of the significantly reduced number of people is chasing after me.

"Whoa!"

An unfamiliar cavalry approached, rushing straight into the avant-garde town, and at a distance of a hundred paces, it began to fire rockets into the town.

Peng's snort.

A rocket was shot at the iron shield in front of Zhu Di, making a sound of gold and iron.

"Whoosh!"

On the city wall, there was the deputy commander of Hezhou Wei, who quickly counterattacked.

But it's not rockets, it's arrow feathers that shoot out one by one and you can't see a trace.

It was obvious that the number of rushing Yuan Riders was decreasing.

When he rushed close to fifty paces, Yuan Qi suddenly turned around and began to retreat like a tide.

"Chase again!"

A rumbling sound sounded in the military town, and the deputy commander in charge of the avant-garde defense gave the order again, and a cavalry rushed out of the north gate and stuck to the cavalry.

The large-scale cavalry battle was dozens of miles away, near the Qingshi River.

In the avant-garde is just the Yuan Rider who leaked down.

Every time a cavalry comes, the avant-garde leads a cavalry to pursue.

"Chirp!"

Suddenly, a flare emerges from the battle in the basin in the distance.

Signal flares are like fireworks, and like tracer bullets, illuminating the sky, and a large lump appears in the vast field.

"The muzzle is five high, three to the right, three shots!" There was a loud shout at the head of the city, followed by a repeated sound next to the general cannon erected at the head of the city.

Just a few breaths of time.

The sound of a rumble sounded above the city, and the earth shook like a mountain.

Cannonballs burst out of the city walls like meteors, streaked across the sky, and smashed into the place where the flare was raised.

Three bursts were fired, and twenty-seven shells fell on the place where the Yuan cavalry gathered.

I couldn't see the specific reaction, but the firelight scene of the Yuan Rider was more scattered.

The cavalry chasing behind not only caught up with the Yuan cavalry, but also seemed to have a tendency to separate the Yuan cavalry.

Whether it was Zhu Di or Zhang Liming, they all stood on the city wall and didn't say a word.

The dreary darkness of the night is suffocating.

It was the first time Zhu Di had seen a large-scale cavalry battle, and although he couldn't see it clearly, his heart was still shocking.

The real war is far faster than you think.

In the era of cold weapons, there was no artillery fire, heavy machine gun fire, and air combat bombing.

Only a dull cavalry charge and an iron-blooded defense.

Execution will become the only criterion by which an army is measured.

The execution of the Yuan Cavalry is very strong, and wave after wave beats the military town, and it is about to turn around before it hits the military town.

The avant-garde soldiers are several grades stronger than the soldiers of the palace military town, and there is no need to supervise the battle, with the order of the deputy commander conveyed, wave after wave of cavalry rushed out to pursue the Yuan cavalry, and round after round of arrow arrays forced the charging Yuan cavalry to turn around.

The foot soldiers standing on the city wall were expecting the Yuan cavalry to attack the city, but it seemed that the Yuan cavalry did not have the courage to attack the city in this dark night.

There was no disorder or wailing, and the soldiers on the walls did not make a sound when no orders were given.

The battle seemed to be coming to an end, and the fires in the field began to retreat.

The first to retreat were the cavalry that rushed to the vicinity of the avant-garde, gathering north to join the large force of cavalry.

Immediately after, the drum cavalry began to meet the pursuing cavalry head-on, and after crossing and shuttling, they began to roll towards the direction of the Qingshi River like a tide of fire.

Gradually, only sporadic fires could be seen.

The avant-garde drums stopped beating abruptly and stopped.

The cavalry pursued from Lanzhou Wei converged with the cavalry of Qingshichuan and pursued Qingshichuan together.

Dozens of cavalry went out, and only two cavalry returned to the military town.

"The whole army is out to collect the wounded." With the end of the battle, the deputy commander quickly gave the order.

Groups of foot soldiers began to walk out of the military town with torches and clean up the battlefield.

And the cavalry that turned back did not disperse and began to count military merits.

Zhu Di has actually always wanted to figure out how to count military merits, although Guo Ying told him more than once about the method of military merit statistics.

Cut your ears!

This is the most authoritative method of military merit statistics, cutting off the left ear.

There is a life-and-death fight on the battlefield, there are enemies everywhere, where is there time to cut off ears.

And tens of thousands of people fighting, or even hundreds of thousands of people fighting on the battlefield, tens of thousands of deaths in a big war, how to count military merits.

But at this time, Zhu Di saw it.

A complete guard house, under the tuntian system, has a lot of officials.

Among them, the chief and deputy commanders, one is in charge of the army, and the other is in charge of military merit records.

In addition, there are two commanders who are in charge of training troops and tuntian.

The four commanders are in charge of logistics, internal affairs, housing, weapons, tuntian, the wounded, medicines, and adjustments.

Needless to say in wartime, once they come down from the battlefield, they begin to heal the wounded, count the wear and tear of weapons and armor, and the wear and tear of war horses.

And the biggest military record is among them.

The first military merit measurement standard is the first merit system, the military merit of cutting the ear, that is, one ear and one military merit of thirty taels of silver, recorded in the book and reported to the verification will be issued to the immediate family members of the soldiers along with the Yulu, and the soldiers are not retained for their own use.

But this is only a method of recording military exploits, and many times in a battle to the death, especially the cavalry, it is impossible to stop and separate the ears, in order not to let the soldiers lose their lives in order to cut off one ear.

Therefore, a lot of speech work will be carried out afterwards, that is, big data integration work.

The first is to cut off the ears after the war, how many enemies are killed, how many ears are cut by the real name, which team kills the enemy's route, how many enemies are killed along the way, and finally it is counted as a banner.

The second is that the soldier who kills the enemy does not cut off his ears but kills the enemy, and will tell the process of killing the enemy, and put the head on the individual through the method of corroboration.

In the end, only when the total number of enemies killed and the total number of military merits match, can the statistical military merits be over.

It is a capital offense to take the lead in military merit, and for an army with strict military discipline, it is much faster to count military merit.

So at this time, Zhu Di saw that some of the cavalry who went out to fight lined up excitedly in front of the recording officials who recorded their ears' military exploits, and took off the cloth bags hanging on their bodies to count their ears.

The recorder will check the ears one by one, the right ear will not record military merits, the left ear will record military merits, and the doubtful right ear will have doubts about military merits, and wait for the order to clean up the battlefield for verification.

For the soldiers who recorded in this way, there was no trouble, and after the record, they gathered with the companions of Yiqi.

The other is the record of speech and merit, Xiaoqi told the whole process of charging and fighting, combined with the battlefield situation, and cleaned up the battlefield after the war to confirm this part of the military merit.

The process was very interesting, most of them were vaguely inexplicable, and the recorder slapped the table and glared at the side.

Of course, in addition to this, there is also an encouragement of military merit.

Be the first!

The first merit is much higher than the first merit, and it is in the first queue for promotion to generals.

And the so-called first is the credit for rushing to the forefront when the army charges.

If you survive, it is possible to worship the marquis.

At the end of a major war, the number of people in advance must not exceed five, and it needs to be audited.

Another situation is that the main general asks from afar: 'Who is that little general, so brave and brave', then congratulations to the little general who was asked and survived, and won the first merit.

As for the commander, the deputy commander, the thousands, and even the hundreds.

Unless you personally kill the enemy and cut off your ears, you already belong to the level of a general, and you don't pay much attention to this kind of military merit statistics.

Hundreds of households went to battle, commanded and led the merits of the troops, how many battles were played, how many returned, how many were wounded, how many losses were lost, how many enemies were killed, what kind of results were achieved, and what kind of strategic significance was it to the entire military operation.

This is the military merit pursued by generals at the level of 100 households and above.