After repeated defeats and heavy losses, the follow-up sentinels did not dare to approach, and went around a few times a day, going back and talking nonsense, and there was no real information to report back.

This will make no one in the Ming Dynasty value the sentry cavalry more than Zhu Gaoxu, and he established the first professional sentry cavalry team of 200 people from the time of his martyrdom.

The sentry cavalry has to ride and ejaculate, and there are some ways to learn to draw maps in the later stage, and each place first, first understand the local terrain and landforms, and when fighting, drive the opponent's sentry cavalry to prevent them from approaching the army.

Under Zhu Gaoxu's meticulous training and arrangement, the sentinels of the rebel army had the upper hand, and specially aimed at the Ming army's sentinel cavalry of 10 to 12 people, and arranged a team of 20 people, regardless of ability and number, they were all superior.

On June 23, Sheng Yong and Ping'an rode horses and led a team of relatives to the south bank of the Sila River, east of Puding County.

A large plain east of Puding County, with a space of dozens of miles along the river bank, is very suitable for cavalry movements.

Xue Lu chose this place, probably thinking that they had more cavalry and could have an advantage.

"You are a special mother, Sheng Yong, you are fighting too yin like King Han-—— but-I like it, hahaha." Ping An laughed at this time, and his expression was excited.

Sheng Yong is very scheming, so he usually looks a little yin, Ping'an didn't like him very much when he was in trouble, and later fought together and slowly developed feelings.

Sheng Yong let most of Ping'an's cavalry unload their armor and dismount on foot this time, and followed the army all the way to Puding County, and at that time let thousands of Tusi servants follow the cavalry.

In addition, 5,000 cavalry were allowed to escort outside, so up to now, Xue Lu did not say that the sentry cavalry was not close to the rebel army, even if it was close, he might feel that the rebel army was only 5,000 cavalry.

"Intrigue on the battlefield is not necessarily useful, and in the end, it is necessary to fight it out with real strength." Sheng Yong said with a smile: "Xue Lu is a smart man, he must understand this truth, even if he knows that we have 20,000 cavalry, he will definitely dare to come forward for a decisive battle." ”

Xue Lu's courage itself is big, and then he is sure that more than half of Sheng Yong's side are Tusi soldiers, so he is quite confident.

Ping An looked at the turbulent river and suddenly sighed: "After the Jingjing, we haven't joined forces for a long time. ”

"This time will inevitably be different from before, the history books and the King of Han will prove everything for us." Sheng Yong said.

When Ping An heard this, the expression on his face became hideous: "Teach these dogs a good lesson." ”

"Let's go." Sheng Yong waved his hand, his expression full of confidence.

Early in the morning of the 24th, it was just dawn.

Woo, with the sound of the horn of the official army, the forward of Xue Lu's army has slowly approached Puding County.

Xue Lu was also very cautious in his use of troops, and the whole army walked along the south bank of the Sila River, so that the north side of the army did not need to be defended, and no one could cross the river to attack.

His soldiers and horses set out on the 23rd, rested for a night, and arrived at the 20th 20 miles east of Puding County, which was an active attack, and ran to the door of Sheng Yong's house.

At the same time, Sheng Yong's soldiers and horses also slowly went into battle, and the 50,000 Tusi soldiers were divided into three large pieces and five small pieces.

On the left side of the river and on the outermost right side are 20,000 Tusi soldiers who have not been trained in a queue, and in the middle and in the rear are Si's Tusi soldiers who have been trained for nearly three years.

Of the 20,000 cavalry, 5,000 cavalry rode on the far right periphery, guarding the infantry battalion, and another 5,000 cavalry did not come out in Puding County.

Another 10,000 were carried by Ping'an, who left the camp last night and swam outside.

Ping'an will go around to Pudingwei, pass through the old Anshun City, detour for a hundred miles, and go behind Xue Lujun's farts and drums.

This trick is often used by King Yan in Jingjing, and Ping An is now a tooth for a tooth.

At this time, Xue Lu was on the top of the tower of the Chinese army, watching the rebel camp.

Don't say it's a bit of a coincidence today, Xue Lu asked his subordinates to make a tower out of wood, and then he climbed the tower and looked into the distance.

This trick was used by Ping An back then, and Ping An made a high tower in the Jing disaster, and then climbed the height and commanded firearms to bombard the dense area of the Yan army.

At that time, the Yan army was defeated.

Xue Lu, this guy actually learned it, and first climbed to a high place to see the formation of the rebel army.

It's okay not to look at it, but when I look at it, I grin.

The front and back of the rebel army seem to be full of Tusi soldiers, because the Tusi clothes are different, colorful, and varied, only the outermost 5,000 cavalry is the standard armor of the Yunnan Ming Army Guard.

He took a cursory look, Mao estimated that there were more than 60,000 people on the opposite side, and the sentry riders came back one by one to exaggerate more than the other, some said 100,000, some said 200,000, now look at it, it is only 60,000 or 70,000, and the Tusi soldiers are the mainstay.

"It seems that this side is not the main force of the rebels, it is all Tusi soldiers, and it is definitely not Zhu Gaoxu on the other side." Xue Lu said excitedly.

King Han won a hundred battles, although he was not convinced, but he was always a little jealous, but after saying this, he immediately said: "It's a pity that you can't fight Zhu Gaoxu, it seems that you have to wait until you enter Sichuan and Guangxi." ”

The subordinates hurriedly said: "The Marquis of Yangwu has made outstanding achievements and is invincible, even if Zhu Gaoxu comes, he is also vulnerable." ”

Xue Lu looked proud, and after a while, he immediately waved his hand: "The rebels take Tusi as a soldier, and order the forward Zhao Kai to directly attack the opponent's middle army, and Xiang Cheng on the left will fight the rebels on the right side, Yang Tianbao, Ling's cavalry will look at the opponent's cavalry, let's praise their infantry battalion, and the rebels will be useless." ”

Xue Lu arranged them one by one, and his subordinates received orders one after another, and soon the generals left the camp.

The officers and soldiers of the brigade began to move with various orders, and tens of thousands of officers and troops slowly unfolded, and the formation became larger and larger, which was very spectacular.

The horn sounded continuously at the scene.

At this time, from the high sky, the two infantry battalions were approaching, and on the south bank of the long Sila River, the overwhelming banners and troops of the two armies were densely arranged.

The officers and soldiers are usually old-fashioned, and the guards are together.

There are more than 5,000 people in one guard, basically in a range, and the formation of more than 5,000 people still looks relatively heavy.

Sheng Yong's side is a phalanx of hundreds of people, a phalanx is moving side by side, and there are scattered Tusi soldiers and horses on both sides, and there is no discipline.

But halfway through the march, Sheng Yong's military order moved.

The Tusi soldiers on both sides of the periphery ran inward, and the phalanx inside spread outward.

Suddenly.

Look, look, look, there was a neat and uniform sound of footsteps at the scene, which started small, then became louder, louder and louder.

In the end, the sky was full of footsteps, and the neat movements and sounds of the 30,000 Si Tusi soldiers caused a huge shock at the scene, and many officers and soldiers on the opposite side were dumbfounded.

In fact, the 30,000 people of the Si clan have not been trained in the queue, and they have been trained for nearly three years.

At the same time, the elite of the Ming army also practiced a small practice every three days and a major training every five days.

Si's natives are willing to endure hardships and can train, and they have been trained by Sheng Yong for three years, which is equivalent to decades of training time in the Ming army, and they are already very disciplined.

Their phalanxes are level and neat, although they are far inferior to the military parades and military exhibitions of later generations, but compared with this era, it is already very shocking.

"Mother's." Xue Lu's face changed slightly when he was standing on the high road, and the Tusi soldiers were so elite, which really surprised him.

But it is impossible for him to order a withdrawal now.

He had more troops and horses than Tusi, and the order to attack went down, and if he gave the order to retreat now, it would immediately turn into a fiasco.

"The order, the rebels are more elite in the middle, and the right army will help Zhao Kai and fight the rebels in the middle together."

"No."

Xue Lu hurriedly dispatched troops and sent troops forward.

His military order was still on the way, and the forward Zhao Kai's soldiers and horses were less than a mile away from the vanguard of the rebel army.

On the huge battlefield, the two sides are getting closer and closer, and each can see each other's boundless human heads.

The toast soldiers were expressionless, carrying spears in the front row, and were slowly moving forward.

The officers in the formation were shouting: "Don't panic, keep the formation, when you encounter firearms, you can't mess up, as long as the formation is dense, it's useless for their cavalry to come, everyone is going to be scattered, and they will be unlucky." ”

The scene was full of shouting, and the officers were usually shouting, but now they just listened to it over and over again, as if brainwashing.

Therefore, almost everyone knows that the infantry formation must not be scattered, it must not be chaotic, the denser the better, after all, there must be no artillery at the end of the Ming Dynasty at this time, and some of them are also on Zhu Gaoxu's side.

Si Cangmu is in the middle of the first row, he is a member of the Si clan, currently serving as a hundred households, receiving ten taels of silver from the King of Han every month, as well as salt and sugar, life is delicious, far more than other Si natives.

At the beginning of the training, he was a little unaccustomed to it, and almost wanted to escape back, but after persevering for the first three months, he slowly adapted, and by now, he has become extremely elite and can train his clansmen.

His platoon of more than 400 people, a total of 20 rows, each row of 22 people, sandwiched between some small leaders, such as the small flag, the general flag, and the trial hundred households (100 households deputy).

Si Cangmu is holding a hard bow, with two quivers around his waist, he walks on the far left of the big array, and the far right is a test hundred households, every time he calls a sentence, the test hundred households will repeat a sentence, and then there is a general flag retelling before and after, and the whole phalanx can be heard.

At the beginning, they walked more scattered, the formation was a little wide, and as the back got closer and closer, the upper part required the formation to compress, but when they reached two hundred steps with the other side, everyone in the phalanx was side by side, and it was already very dense.

At this time, the distance between the first row of phalanxes and the phalanx was about twenty paces.

But if you pass through the middle of the two phalanxes, the back row of phalanxes is not level with the front, so you will face another phalanx, impassable.

On the other side, Zhao Kai also saw a gap between the Tusi soldiers' phalanx and the phalanx: "Haha, these Tusi also learn from our Han people to set up the formation, what kind of formation is this, brothers, go in, give them a little bit of power." ”

The generals laughed, not paying attention to the Tusi phalanx at all.

"Beat the drums, attack."

At this time, in the rear of the big array, the big drums of the officers and soldiers were already rumbling, and the officers and soldiers stepped on the drums, their morale increased greatly, and they began to speed up.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and soon they were within a hundred paces.

Si Cangmu raised his eyes and saw that there were more officers and soldiers than them, and the front phalanx was more than 5,000 people.

(End of chapter)