When: Four days later, at one o'clock in the afternoon, that is, on March 24th, this side quest for Corn and the others was over, only a week away.

Location: The opening of Liaodong outside the Guan.

Or maybe it's a modern plane, and this belongs to the Tonghua region.

After looking at the number in front of him that far exceeded his expectations, he took a cursory glance at the fact that there were nearly two thousand people, and all of them were opponents of cavalry.

The Daqing Imperial Court, the commander of the largest unit in the Guanwai area, Sheng Bao, and his deputy, Hei * Jiang General Tepuqin, glanced at each other.

But from the other party's eyes, in addition to being dignified, he also saw an indescribable weird sense of ease.

The two of them had such a strange reaction, not that their mental state was already in some problems.

The fundamental reason is that God knows that they traveled all the way from Liaoxi to Liaodong, which is only a few hundred miles; With a large number of mules and horses, it took a full ten days to arrive.

What exactly did they go through in the course of such a 10-day process?

It was a hidden gun that was everywhere, beckoning them from any possible cover.

I even want to make it a little more convenient; As a result, they had just begun to untie their belts and release them, and a bullet would fly out and kill them.

Or maybe it's a bag of explosives like a thunderbolt, exploding around them and tearing them apart.

Because in order to beat them with black guns, the people of Sweet Water Ditch even risked being frozen to death, and hid under the snowdrifts.

After a shot, it's skiing and leaving.

Under such a crazy attack, anyway, in the past ten days, the soldiers of Daqing could not eat or sleep well, and even worse, they were under tremendous pressure in terms of spirit.

The original army of 5,700 people advanced all the way to the opening area, after the current nest of this sweet water ditch,

Now in the army, in addition to more than 400 seriously wounded, there are 4,600 soldiers who are not even injured at all.

On the whole, the number of attrition in the army is not very serious.

The key problem is that although in the face of the crazy harassment of Sweet Water Ditch, Katsuho, the famous commander of the five scum of the war, showed a fairly good command level.

Let your own guards, or go out yourself.

repeatedly told his soldiers one point: only to kill Liaodong, so that these people in Tianshuigou have to fight them head-on.

Then if you win the battle, you will be able to survive; If you run away rashly, you can only die faster in the hands of those people.

At the same time, the elite cavalry of the Eight Banners formed a warlord team and hacked to death all the green battalion soldiers who tried to escape.

Otherwise, in the middle of the way, the 3,000 green battalion soldiers would run almost one.

In the end, until now, the army has maintained so many troops.

It's just that just like the two army commanders of Shengbao and Tepchin, the soldiers under their command have lost a lot of weight because they are tired and hungry along the way, and many times they don't even have a hot meal.

The dark circles under his eyes are very heavy, and he looks extremely depressed.

Just by looking at it, you can see that the physical and mental state of these people is quite bad.

What's even more amazing is that when I saw the horse team of Tianshuigouzi, with 100 people as a small phalanx, formed a neat large phalanx, which appeared in the eyes of the Daqing officers and soldiers.

Including Katsubo, there was no panic on the faces of these people, only an eerie relaxed, even expectant expression.

The reason is very simple, in the army of Daqing, the strongest idea in the brains of almost everyone now is:

Let it all be over, it doesn't matter who wins or who loses.

Anyway, they have to open one eye to sleep like this, and the days when it is difficult to eat a hot meal, they are completely fed up and don't want to live anymore.

Fortunately, in such a rare and difficult environment, Katsubo, a Manchurian commander, actually broke out.

After taking a deep breath, he adjusted his decadent mood.

and shouted at the top of his throat: "Brothers, I won't tell you that behind the group of chaotic people in Tianshuigouzi, there are those rebels in the 'Xuange Camp'.

They are more ferocious than you think.

According to these people's saying that 'drive out the Tartars and restore the planting of flowers', as long as we are defeated in this battle, it will be quite difficult to ask for a happy death.

On the contrary, if you can defeat these henchmen of the imperial court, your majesty will definitely reward you heavily after you go back, and everyone can be promoted and rich.

Even if he dies in battle, he is also a warrior of the dynasty, and the court naturally has a pension.

In addition, everyone knows that the treasures that can be piled up in the Old Summer Palace were served by these rebels in the 'Xuange Camp'.

As long as I defeat them, Katsubo and I will make an oath here in the name of my ancestors, and whatever you can take, you will be rewarded with whatever you want.

Therefore, are you willing to be a defeated avatar who can't survive or die, or are you willing to go out and fight for fame and wealth. ”

In the above paragraph of Katsubo, the rather demagogic words fall.

Under the signal of his eyes, the guards around him immediately pulled their throats with great vision, and shouted in their mouths:

"Fight hard, fight with these rebels, and fight for fame and wealth."

I don't know if it was in Shengbao's words, the serious consequences after the defeat successfully forced out the ruthlessness in my heart; is still the legend, the treasures of the Old Summer Palace that were taken away by the Xuange camp aroused the greed in my heart.

Soon after, in the army of the Daqing side, whether it was the Eight Banner soldiers like the uncle, or the Green Battalion soldiers who were bitter haha.

They all followed others in their mouths, shouting: "Fight, fight~"

In their loud roar, Daqing, an army with low morale, actually had a significant improvement in morale......

*******

"Shengbao, this product, it seems to have something; It's not like the history records, it's a repeated, defeated, complete war scum. ”

After putting down the telescope in his hand, he gave such an evaluation in Yang Dongli's mouth.

After hearing this, the surrounding team members all nodded.

But recognition is recognition, but their indifferent expressions show that they don't care much about the soaring morale of the current army.

Mainly, a large part of them are members, although they have not gone to any military academies in a serious manner.

However, through the tempering of actual combat, the current war experience has been enriched to an outrageous level.

I don't know how to raise morale by relying on the sloppy means of death and money and other incentives, but it can't be maintained for too long.

So what they need to do now is that a head-on fight will bring them down.

When they wake up from their fanaticism due to heavy casualties, they will lose all courage to fight, and they will just take prisoners.

After thinking of this, they couldn't help but glance back at the cavalry team behind them, which were riding on war horses and mules, wearing a variety of clothes and equipment, but basically the same.

Thanks to the fact that even in the coldest month of the lunar month, these people did not stop the action plan.

Although I was choked by the cold, and my face and hands were covered with chilblains, it looked quite desolate, but the effect was excellent.

Now in the entire Liaodong region, all the locks are gone.

A small number of baskets, after the leader saw that it was not good, and threw away the nest with great wisdom and decisiveness, ran away from Liaodong and went to live in other areas outside the Guan.

It's just that in the big winter that can freeze people to death, the number of people who can make this kind of decisively throw away the nest and run away is only a very small number after all.

Most of the remaining locks are still reluctant to operate the nest for many years.

Then, under the continuous attack of Yang Dongli and others, they were wiped out one by one in the process of training; Personnel were replenished into the cavalry, and supplies and food were used for formation and training.

Let the Sweet Water Ditch Horse Team, after every day passes, the scale and strength can have a significant growth.

By now, the cavalry behind them had been organized into a cavalry regiment, with three battalions in size.

To be specific: each standard cavalry company has a staffing of 147 people.

Three cavalry companies, plus a number of battalion headquarters units, formed a cavalry battalion of 496 men each.

The three cavalry battalions, and then the guard company, communications platoon and other battalion headquarters units, the total strength of the regiment is 1,962 people.

The candidate for the head of the regiment is naturally Yu Hong, the former foreign commissioner of the Daqinglu Battalion Jiupin; The descendants of Tianshuigou have become officers at all levels above the company platoon.

These people naturally do not need the slightest suspicion when it comes to loyalty.

As for how effective they are, it depends on their performance in the next battle......

(End of chapter)