For example, Chu Fan asked the troops to fold the quilt every morning, fold it into a square shape, and evaluate it, and whoever folded it badly would be criticized and even notified within a certain range.

Before eating, you should line up to go, and before eating, you should sing collectively, and stand there and sing in a company, and whoever sings neatly and loudly will eat first, and sing again if you don't sing well.

At the end of the daily training, the results of the training should be evaluated, the problems should be summed up, and each regiment should organize a shooting evaluation at the lower levels every week, and the whole division should organize a shooting evaluation every month.

In the last elimination system, the battalion commander and regiment commander who are last in each evaluation must make a review, and the last one for two consecutive months, the regiment commander is demoted, the battalion commander is dismissed, and the junior officer is reduced to military salary.

Patriotic education, education and study are organized once a week, and a poetry recitation contest is organized every month, with the proposition of "I love my motherland".

Tactical analysis, organize officers at all levels to analyze the level and characteristics of various military forces in Mobei every week, discuss tactical coordination, and deduce tactics on the sand table.

Chu Fan completely applied modern military management theories to this army, striving to build a special force of the Ming Dynasty.

Soon, the characteristics of this unit were manifested.

Discipline is extremely strong, and all commanders are accustomed to strictly implementing orders in accordance with the instructions of their superiors, and there will no longer be a situation in which the leading generals have a hot head, or in order to grab credit, lead the troops to go deep and fight hard. The operational level is extremely strong, and through the weekly tactical analysis activities, the tactical level of commanders at all levels and the tacit understanding between various units have been greatly improved.

Through cross-country training and shooting training, the soldiers' individual combat ability has been greatly improved, shooting accurately, moving quickly, and having good mobility, and every soldier is able to complete a series of tasks such as shooting, reconnaissance, and logistical supply.

The political quality is extremely high, and through patriotic education, all the officers and men at all levels have fully realized that joining a soldier and fighting a war is not only to make money, but also to protect our own wives and children, and that only when the country is strong can we live a good life.

It's time to realize your dreams, it's time to show this tiger and wolf army, and it's time for Wara to taste Chu Fan's craftsmanship.

After nearly five months of intensive training, this unit marched out of Ganzhou with great vigor and vigour.

Before leaving, Chu Fan stood on the high place of the city tower, picked up the golden military flag, and waved it in the wind.

Qiao Feng picked up a bowl of liquor, threw it into the sky, and broke the wine bowl.

"Smack."

"Bang bang bang."

Each of the mid-ranking officers picked up their bowls, took a sip, and then smashed them to pieces.

The city gate was wide open, and the troops marched out of the city gate in an orderly manner, shouting the password as they went: "Defend the country and clear the war." ”。

Chu Fan rode a pure black high-headed horse, led the Chinese army, and slowly walked out of the city, Qin Hong on his side, wearing a black shapewear, lined with exquisite figures.

Shi Sen, who was standing on the top floor at the other end of the city wall, squinted at all this, and couldn't help but spit on the ground: "Phew, what's the big deal, the things that are strong outside and dry in the middle, will be these flowers, two thousand people are going to enter Mobei to fight Wara, hum, you are crazy, right?" I see how you have the face to come back to me when your nose is blue and your face is swollen, it's best not to come back, let the Wara people choose a good cemetery for you, and you can rest assured in Mobei.

Wang Zheng stood on the side of the road outside the city gate, and arched his hand to Chu Fan: "Brother's trip is difficult, but my brother knows that my second brother is clever and heroic, but you still have to be more careful when you go, you can fight if you fight, and if you can't fight, you will come back, we will plan later, and don't fight for your life, after all, there are still two daughters waiting for you to come back." ”

"Big brother, don't worry, although we don't have many people, but self-protection is not enough to worry about, you wait for my good news."

When the two gave up, Chu Fan suddenly felt a trace of warmth, and that day, under the drunkenness of Tianshui, he worshiped this half-old man in a daze and became brothers. I didn't have any ideas, I was polite, I never thought that Wang Zheng was sincere to people, and always cared about Chu Fan, after a long time, I really had some feelings, yes, I was a little sad when I said goodbye here today.

Don't pass Wang Zheng, the army embarked on a trip deep into Mobei, eating and sleeping in the open along the way, but the advance was slow.

There is a reason for slowness, the first is that Chu Fan sent twenty groups of scouts to reconnoiter in three directions every day to make sure that there is no danger, and then move forward, and the second is that Chu Fan divided the three regiments into three armies, front, middle, and rear, and advanced alternately, always keeping the team neat and cared for, and ensuring that they were not attacked and surrounded.

Therefore, the speed of the advance of the troops was very slow, and they only walked thirty miles a day, and when they reached the distance, they rested on the spot.

Chu Fan's two thousand people said that it was not much, and it was a lot less, but it also attracted the attention of the Warat Department, after all, it was an army, and there were thousands of people, although it would not subvert the rule of Warat over the Ejina generation, but after all, it had entered its own sphere of influence, and the tribes had also begun to exchange news and pay attention to this team.

The first to discover Chu Fan's team was a small tribe of Tile Thorns, the Suo Duobu.

As the descendants of the ancestors of Warat, they fought guerrilla warfare and met each other on all sides, so they survived from many tribal struggles, barely surviving, and no one dared to provoke, this time the spies found this small group of Ming troops, they did not act rashly, but chose to report the situation to the big tribe and Shuote.

When the leader of Heshute received this report, he didn't take it seriously, but he soon found that judging from the news that kept coming from many departments, the direction in which this group of people was advancing was the nest of his tribe, and he couldn't help but be a little panicked, after all, he didn't know where the other party's thousands of people came from, and how many troops there were in the follow-up.

In the early Ming Dynasty, there were differences with the then Mongol Great Khan, divided into two large tribes, Warat and Tatar, and later the Tatars occupied the eastern part of Inner Mongolia, and the Warat controlled the western part of Inner Mongolia.

Due to its geographical advantages, Warat conquered the Hami Kingdom and occupied an important passage of the Silk Road, so that it started business and developed and expanded, while the Tatars gradually declined and became less and less powerful, until the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, a large area has been occupied by the Jurchens.

After the growth of Wara, gradually expanded, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty launched a war against the Ming Dynasty, the most famous is the change of the civil fort, even the emperor of the imperial drive to conquer the emperor have been arrested, it can be said that the Ming Dynasty lost face, and later, and hit the edge of the capital, almost destroyed the Ming Dynasty, if it were not for Yu Qian, not to say that Yu Qian of cross talk, it was the famous minister of the Ming Dynasty Yu Qian, launched the battle to defend the capital, only to keep the Ming Dynasty.

Since then, the Ming Dynasty has been in a slump and has no time to launch an offensive against Wara, which has been occupying the trade route from the Ming Dynasty to the Western Regions to this day.

Warat is not afraid of the Ming Dynasty, what has he become? Dare to hit me? I don't beat you, thank God.

Therefore, in the Wanli period, Wara, who has become a big and powerful man, has to come down unscrupulously every year to snatch a wave, shake off his cheeks and eat until he vomits, and then he is willing to go home.

Over the years, the forbearance of the Ming Dynasty has gradually cultivated the laziness of Wara, anyway, as long as the number of people is enough, the Ming army will not come out, whether it will fight or not, whether it can fight or not, it doesn't matter anymore.

Therefore, although He Shuote was a little nervous, he just didn't know the purpose and number of the Ming army's attack this time, but when they only found these two thousand people from beginning to end, they couldn't help but be happy, what's the matter? Delivered? Do you want to send some dumpling soup after eating dumplings?

So, he was ready to annihilate this group of Ming troops near his lair.

But the two brother tribes have been informed, and they have moved closer to their side, and it doesn't seem very authentic to swallow it alone, so wait for them.

So, knowing that the two thousand men were attacking, Heshuot chose to stand still and wait for the Ming army to enter the valley and ambush him.

Soon, the troops of the Dzungar and Zhezhe tribes converged with Heshuot, assembled in one place, and waited for the Ming army to enter the urn.

Left and right, there was no Ming army, for more than ten days, just yawning on the hillside.

This group of Ming soldiers disappeared.

In the generation of Ganzhou Wei to Ejina, he first had to pass through a vast mountainous area, which belonged to the branch of the Qilian Mountains, and then the complex terrain of the vast desert and the Gobi Desert.

But later, the robbery of the Ming Dynasty got used to it, so he simply moved the nest to the south, so that he settled here.

The 2,000-strong army of the Ming Dynasty, from the moment they entered the mountains, was discovered by the spies of Wara, and after passing through the vast mountainous areas, they actually disappeared in the Great Gobi.

The so-called Gobi is a large plain where no trees grow, but there is no desertification, and only some low weeds can survive.

In this vast plain terrain, the troops disappeared out of thin air, which is really confusing.

That's right, how could Chu Fan be stupid enough to let the infantry fight with you on the plains?

In fact, when the Warat people discovered Chu Fan and them, Chu Fan had already discovered their scouts, after all, no matter how far you looked, was there a telescope given by An Duode? Chu Fan had already gained insight into the area where the three Warat tribes were ambushed.

So. Chu Fan came out of the mountains, turned around, and went back.

"Right here, dig, keep digging." Chu Fan pointed to a gravel field on the side of the mountain and instructed the soldiers to dig deeper.

"My lord, what the hell is here?" Qiao Feng asked puzzled.

"You just dig, and you'll know when the old grandson comes."

As Chu Fan's descendant, the excellent Liaodong Iron Cavalry Blacksmith Lao Sun Tou has been left in the capital to assist Shen Wei and them in real estate development, which is basically semi-retired, but as a result, Chu Fan was pulled to the northwest and became a mineral expert.

When the troops dug a big pit nearly ten meters deep, Chu Fan stopped, jumped into the big pit, and ate the soil.

"It's not the smell, and the particles aren't very similar, dig in another place."

This generation is located at the junction of the mountains and the Gobi, sometimes the mountains go out to the north, sometimes the Gobi extends to the south, but there is a general feature, there are many large particles of gravel scattered on the ground at the junction.

This kind of gravel is gradually blown up by the wind after the underground mineral is broken, so this ore must be nearby, and modern chemistry calls this substance "nickel." ”。

The reason why Chu Fan is looking for nickel ore is because nickel is an important element added to iron ore in modern steelmaking, and by adding nickel, the steel can be made harder and tougher, and it does not rust, which is an important material for the production of large-scale weapons and transportation vehicles in the future.

This place is located in Ganzhou to the northeast of about 200 miles, is the modern Gansu Province Jinchang City, the reason why to look for nickel ore here, is precisely because this place is known as the nickel capital in modern times, the surrounding has very rich iron ore resources and nickel, copper, silver and other resources, is an important metal mineral area in modern China, and here also produces a special nickel-iron alloy, is an important alloy used in aircraft, radar, ships, tanks in the future.

The troops dug more than a dozen places in a row, but no nickel ore was found, Chu Fan couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and kept thinking about the characteristics of nickel ore.

The color of nickel should be similar to that of stainless steel, and looking at the particles brought back by Qin Hong, it does have the color of alloy.

The nickel-iron alloy produced in China is mainly red arsenic nickel ore, so it should be stored in the laterite layer, but after digging these dozen pits, the soil is yellow, and there is no sulfur taste.

It should not be the red arsenic nickel ore to be sought.

When I was thinking about it, I suddenly saw the Danxia landform scattered on the bald mountain in the distance.

That's right, Danxia landform, Chu Fan slapped his thigh, isn't there a variety of colors in the middle? Will there be nickel ore in the red layer?

"Let's go, go up the hill."

With a group of people, along the foot of the mountain, climbed the steep mountain beam, walked for almost three hours, and finally climbed the laterite layer in the middle of the mountain.

The soil layers of Danxia landform were originally hidden in the depths of the mountain, but due to the proximity to the Gobi Desert, the soil erosion is serious, and the outer layer of the mountain gradually falls off, revealing the cross-section of the soil layer inside the mountain, which is to form a unique Danxia landform in the northwest, and it looks like it is artificially drawn from a distance.

It is also the gradual peeling of the mountain, the large particles of nickel-iron alloy ore, scattered everywhere here.

This time, I didn't have to dig it, I knocked down a piece of red ore directly from the mountain wall, and smelled it, and it was this smell, the smell of vulcanization.

"Great, this is it." Chu Fan almost jumped up.

Chu Fan was very excited, and everyone was very puzzled.

Isn't it a silver mine? What's there to be excited about?

"Qiao Feng, remember the location here, the whole army is cleaned up, and prepare to climb the mountain."

Qiao Feng arranged according to the order, and a group set up camp on the top of the mountain; The second regiment set up camp at the foot of the mountain, and the third regiment went to the bottom of the mountain to repair the wall.

Soon, the troops were moving.

The disciplined troops, doing everything very quickly, had just given the order, and a regiment had already climbed to the top of the mountain.

One regiment is arranged on the top of the mountain, one is lookout and guard, which is equivalent to a watchtower on flat ground, if the enemy is close, he can shoot directly from the top of the hill to protect the units below.

The troops of the 2nd Regiment stationed at the foot of the mountain were mainly the 3rd Regiment that protected the wall, and the 1st Regiment that protected the mountain, so that if the enemy troops approaching were missed from above, they could be discovered and blocked below.

As soon as everything was arranged, the 3rd Regiment began to dig trenches and build fortifications.

This time, in addition to bringing advanced guns, there are also stone mud and bricks, digging a little trench in the ground, laying bricks, pouring water on the stone mud, mixing evenly, and plastering it between the bricks, it only takes an hour to achieve the strength of blocking the cavalry.

The wall was being built in full swing, but the Warat army was dumbfounded.

What's going on? After the disappearance of the Ming army, the leader of Heshute sent dozens of waves of scouts to search everywhere, and finally found their traces on the third day, and this group of people dug a hole in the Gobi.

Then they disappeared again.

This situation is very troublesome, one will appear in the Gobi, and if it does not continue to advance, it will disappear into the mountains.

It's like you know that there's a thief coming to your door, and this thief has already gotten on the elevator, and when you get to this floor of your house, you're going to ambush him behind your door, but he doesn't come in, and he will appear in the elevator room for a while, and then he will run into the stairwell again, so that you can't find it.

Then you say, if there is still some shabby garbage in this elevator room that can be stolen, there is really nothing in the stairwell, what are you doing back and forth in that shabby place where there is nothing?

The bewildered Heshuot couldn't bear it anymore, and finally led the army to take the initiative to attack after waiting for an ambush for ten days without seeing the enemy.

The three tribes of Heshuot, Jungar, and Zhezhe began to drive towards the junction of the Gobi and the mountains in accordance with the formation of the front, middle and rear armies.

"Report." , the scout rushed into the big tent located on the mountainside and reported to Chu Fan.

"The army of Warat has reached the foot of the mountain ten miles away."

Chu Fan touched his chin and said to Liu Erli: "How is the wall down there?" ”

"Back to my lord, it has been fully fenced off at present, but the height is still a little short, the horse can't come over, and people can turn over."

"Well, then it's just the right time, the whole army is on standby, ready for defense."

Qiao Feng picked up the big flag, waved it up and down the mountain, and gave an order.

The 2nd Regiment was stationed at the foot of the mountain, and the 3rd Regiment climbed to the top of the hill to defend with the 1st Regiment.

The troops, having received the order, immediately entered the combat position and stood ready for battle.

The mountain elevation here is very suitable for shooting, to be precise, it is very suitable for shooting with a two-headed three-eyed eyeball.

From the ground to the top of the mountain, it was exactly about 200 meters, and the effective range of the Ming army on the top of the mountain was exactly 400 meters.

As long as the enemy is within 200 meters of the line of sight, it can shoot.

Soon, the Warat army approached, but they were clever and did not approach immediately, the scouts had already discovered the wall built by the Ming army here, and the Warat front army first stopped a mile away and prepared for battle.

The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.

The Warats were nomadic peoples, and cavalry made up the majority of the troops.

The advantage of cavalry is that it is fast and chargeable, and it is most suitable for fighting in the Great Plains, such as the steppe and the Gobi.

Therefore, the current characteristic is that the Warat army is deployed on the Gobi Desert and does not want to take the initiative to attack, while the Ming army is in the mountains and does not want to attack.