stubborn thief

Chapter 347 Horse Camp
The heavy and chaotic sound of horseshoes echoed in the valley.

The frontier troops from the three towns came under pressure, bringing the deepest blood suppression to the Dafan soldiers of the Marshal's Mansion.

Most of the Mongols under Liu Chengzong's command, the main opponent in this life is the Ming army, but in his lifetime, any Mongolian soldier has never seen the scene of the Ming army spreading the whole valley.

The Mongols are used to fighting with thousands or even tens of thousands of shepherds. They will encounter thousands or even hundreds of frontier troops inside and outside the southern wall of Monan. If they can be defeated before the reinforcements of the Ming army arrive, they will continue to loot; If it cannot be defeated, the troops will be withdrawn on the spot.

There has never been a confrontation between the two armies.

As for the other part of the Mongolian soldiers and Fan soldiers who had never fought against the Ming army, the most terrifying opponent they encountered before was Liu Chengzong's old frontier army.

Therefore, Liu Chengzong's plan to use the Mongolian soldiers to attack first was in vain. Those pale-faced Mongolians were not enough to undertake such a task, so they had to change their tactics before the battle, and said to Yang Yao: "It seems that you need to attack first, kill the enemy's spirit to boost morale , let Xie Erhu take care of it."

Yang Yao hugged his helmet and laughed, put on his bowl and cupped his fists and said: "The last general takes orders."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to Huang Shengxiao who was standing at the top of the city directing the artillerymen below the city to adjust the angle of the cannon: "Xiao Huang, watch carefully, don't hit my head with the cannon... Do you want Taiji to play with me? "

Ji Tutaiji, who was watching the battle at the top of the city, shook his head like a rattle. He was playful, but not stupid.

He wasn't the kind of Xie Erhu who spent half his life gnawing on Rhodiola rosea. He suffered a lot at the hands of Xuan Da's frontier army, and he was beaten by He Huchen who was on the opposite side all the way west.

As much psychological shadow Liu Chengzong left on He Huchen, He Huchen left as much psychological shadow on Ji Tutaiji, the area is the same.

"I, I will study next to the commander-in-chief. I wish General Yang the best of luck. You... Be careful of Yulin You lunatic and Ningxia He Manzi."

Ji Tutaiji took a deep breath. Following Liu Chengzong's eastward expedition to attack the city and break the fortress, annihilating the local soldiers in an instant, he has completely corrected his mentality. He is not a guest of the Marshal's Mansion, nor is he the younger brother of the Mongolian Khan.

He is just an ordinary envoy of the Han Dynasty stationed in the Marshal's Mansion in Qinghai, just like the envoy stationed in the Marshal's Mansion in Turpan, it is good to be a battlefield observer.

Yang Yao smiled and patted Jitu Taiji on the shoulder. To him, Taiji of the Han Dynasty was more fun than those Mongolian nobles in the past. The relationship between the two of them was good on one side.

The so-called one-sidedness means that Ji Tutaiji is particularly grateful to Yang Yao, because General Yang gave him a pox.

Yang Yao vaccinated him, but he had no good intentions.

Ever since he took the mission of cultivating vaccines in Liu Shizi's place, wherever Yang Yao walked, anyone who gasped for breath had to be vaccinated.

Yang Yaoxin said that he would vaccinate the Mongolian soldiers sooner or later, but the Mongols are not my kind, and they have never been vaccinated. What if the reaction is severe and they die?The Mongolian soldiers in the fishing battalion and the supply battalion are also the soldiers of the Generalissimo, and their lives are all their lives.

While thinking hard, Yang Yao saw Jitutaiji who couldn't play with Liu Shizi and was wandering around the mouth of the river. At that time, General Yang's eyes were straightened, and his mood was happier than that of leading the army in Guyuan.

Hey!It's a coincidence, isn't it—there's a fucking outsider here who doesn't care about death.

He went to ask Liu Shizi if he could also put a pox vaccine in Ji Tutaiji's nose.

Liu Shizi agreed, and Yang Yao was very happy, thinking that the commander-in-chief really thought the same as himself, and he didn't feel sorry for the death of outsiders.

But in fact, the thinking process of the two people is different. Yang Yao thinks this is dangerous, so he wants to vaccinate Pitutaiji; Liu Chengzong thinks it is not dangerous, so he agrees to vaccinate Pitutaiji.

He didn't think about the danger at all, he just thought about the impact of inoculating Jitutaiji on the Chuhan Department.

Later, Tutaiji was arrested by Yang Yao, and he responded well, no longer afraid of smallpox.

Ji Tutaiji didn't feel much about this process. Didn't the Generalissimo also stuffed a ball of cotton in his nose, he got a ball and I got a ball, what does that mean?
It shows that both of us have a very high status.

Until now, Ji Tutaiji didn't know that he was one of the experimental materials in the history of mankind's fight against smallpox, which was worthy of a special mention, and its importance was second only to the monkey caught by Li Wanqing.

He confirmed that the human pox implantation is effective as long as the object is human, regardless of race.

The monkey proved that the target of vaccination does not necessarily have to be a human being, it is more important than him.

Yang Yao went down to the city to assemble the horse battalion generals. The [-] cavalry had been assembled under the leadership of Qianzong Wei Qian'er, Han Shiyou, and Yang Chengzu. He immediately led the army to cross the bridge from the south and lined up on the east bank of Huangshui River Bend .

Not long after, Xie Erhu also led the Mongolian cavalry to cross the river. Six thousand Mongolian herders were divided into two groups, located behind Yang Yao's horizontal formation.

Ji Tutaiji listened to the drums and horns contending, and the densely packed horse army lined up in the east of the river a hundred steps away. He said to Liu Chengzong with emotion: "General Yang's horse army is well-organized, and they are really fine... The enemy is approaching, why doesn't the commander-in-chief use it?" That mirror."

Liu Chengzong smiled, he was afraid of comparison, Yang Yaoce rode in the middle of the opposite bank, and behind him, Mr. Qian and Mr. Ba knew where he should stand. They each rode two horses and stood four steps apart. Of course, they looked neatly .

Xie Erhu's Mongolian soldiers looked like an army of 6000, and all of them had been selected. They were all people who had mastered certain combat skills, but they were only familiar with team exercises at the centurion level. Not a whole.

He knew that the mirror that Pitutaiji was talking about was the telescope in his hand.

Liu Chengzong shook his head, smiled and handed the telescope to Ji Tu and said, "You can play with it, I won't need it anymore."

He has already seen the enemy's troops with a telescope. They are marching in columns with cavalry in front and infantry behind. The infantry carry chariots, and the chariots must be equipped with artillery, but what is certain is that there are no heavy artillery weighing more than [-] jin. .

This is enough information for Liu Chengzong, and there is no need to use a telescope.

If he is asked to march, he will generally not put the cavalry in the front. There is only one possibility that the cavalry is in the front, and that is that the infantry is weak, so the cavalry will be used in the front, so as to quickly seize the fortifications in the encounter. The purpose of infantry leaving enough formation time.

This also confirms from the side the news that Dai Daozi's Tang Qi received from the captives. previous reasons.

This is beneficial to Liu Chengzong.

Therefore, no matter whether he or Huang Shengxiao, there is no need to use binoculars. He needs to use the naked eye to accurately judge the distance of the enemy.

This is the experience learned from the long-term battle, and it can only be accurately judged with the naked eye.

After a while, he and Huang Shengxiao shouted one after another: "One thousand steps!"

At this distance, they could see the outlines of the enemy, but they still couldn't tell if they were cavalry.

The prepared pond soldiers under the city waved their flags immediately, and the small yellow flags waved alternately in the west and east of the Huangshui River.

Xie Erhu's Mongolian cavalry got on their horses immediately, and then they saw Yang Yao's cavalry still sitting in formation and getting off their horses.

"Eight hundred steps!"

Already able to distinguish the enemy's cavalry, and can see the waving flag.

Twelve heavy cannons were lined up on the mound high in the east of the city. The artillerymen slowly adjusted their shooting angles according to the distance. Huang Shengxiao was also adjusting the shooting angles on the city. Lang cannon.

There is nothing special about this cannon, but it uses a two-wheeled cannon carriage. According to the inscription on the body, it should be a Hongyi cannon donated by Tianqi for five years, but the cannon has gone to nowhere. Franco's gun carriage.

But this cannon carriage is very useful to the Marshal's Mansion, because its design is very strict. It has a ground plate and a body light wheel, and the range is marked. This is the experience that the Marshal's Mansion cannon can draw.

The news came that the enemy army had approached [-] paces, Yang Yao nodded and still led his men to sit where they were.

The Mongolian soldiers behind them couldn't stand anymore. The city said [-] paces, but it was actually close to [-] or [-] paces for them. The dragon pattern on the chest of the mask can be seen indistinctly.

The Ming army was still advancing, when suddenly the sound of horns sounded, and Liu Chengzong could see clearly from the city that the cavalry of the official army remained the same, but the pace of the infantry behind them accelerated sharply.

He knew that this was the preparation before the cavalry attacked, and the infantry stepped up to prevent the cavalry from getting out of touch after the cavalry attacked.

At this moment, Yang Yao stood up, got on his horse, reined in his mount and turned around, facing his subordinates.

The guards behind him rolled up their banners, and then the [-] cavalry of the Marshal's Mansion stood up in groups from front to back, and from the center outward, like undulating waves in the eyes of the people in the city.

Liu Chengzong took a last look at the officers and soldiers who were still marching in the distance, turned to Huang Shengxiao and said, "It's all right."

Huang Shengxiao raised his arms, and behind the earth-mountain position at the foot of the city, the artillery commander waved the flag and shouted: "Artillery is ready!"

The messenger carried a red flag on his shoulders and waved, and galloped ten paces horizontally from behind the artillery position. The commanders of the twelve artillery groups raised their flags one by one and stood at the position where the horsemen galloped past.

After the commander-in-chief of the heavy artillery waved the flag again, the twelve small flags waved down one by one, and then the heavy artillery roared, the flames soared into the sky, and the gunpowder smoke filled the ground. Over the heads of nearly ten thousand horse soldiers, they bombarded the enemy formation in the valley at a high angle.

Yang Yao didn't say anything, just sat upright on the horse's back.

When the cannonball passed through the air, he pulled the reins and turned around, and the hair on his neck stood up through the bowl. He lightly knocked on the mount with his feet, and moved forward slowly with the bridle.

Wei Qian'er, Han Shiyou, and Yang Chengzu got on their horses, and the [-] cavalry of the three thousand headquarters rose and fell like waves again. The red tassels in the bowl and the Zhangba riding spear in front of the formation were like a huge wild rose, slowly pressing forward go.

Liu Chengzong watched the shells fall into the enemy's line, but did not take away the telescope that brought infinite freshness to Pitu Taiji. It was within his expectation that the shells missed the front enemy, and in fact this was also his purpose.

When they observed the distance from the city, it was farther than the artillery position. The artillery fired at an angle of [-] paces, and the shells would pass over the front horsemen of the army and bombard the infantry line.

Under the threat of artillery, Liu Chengzong could feel the panic of the officers and soldiers even at a distance of [-] steps.

The footsteps of the infantry were suffocated, the officers hurriedly regrouped, and the pace of the cavalry was completely disrupted. Some accelerated and others stopped.

Liu Chengzong supported the thick earth wall battlements, muttering in his mouth: "Suppress, suppress..."

Behind Yang Yao's horse camp, the pace of the cavalry was getting faster and faster involuntarily, but the officer held him back.

Starting from Yang Yao, who was at the forefront of the army formation, he drew out his Yanling Saber and moved sideways to the right. After that, the three Qian Zong who were a little behind also drew their sabers one by one, and waved their sabers to signal the subordinate officers to hold down the footsteps of their mounts.

Immediately, one by one in the army formation, the chief, the hundred chiefs, and the chiefs showed their swords one by one, so that the cavalry formation still kept a distance of four steps.

The cavalrymen at the front of the army sighed. They shook their shoulders, shook off the shoulder rope of the Zhangba riding spear, held the spear shaft in their hands, hooked the tail rope on their toes, and slowly raised their spears. go ahead.

They are the army that the Marshal's Mansion has studied for the longest time in the training camp, and every soldier can learn the purpose of the battle from the general's behavior.

The cavalry of the officers and soldiers moved forward, and the infantry had not yet formed a large camp. Their tasks fluctuated with the battle situation. Shuai's request is just to kill the spirit of the enemy army.

So it will be a battle of frontiers against frontiers, horsemen against horsemen.

Yang Yao pressed his bridle and walked slowly, and saw from the side that the pace of the army formation had been suppressed by hundreds of steps and stabilized. Then he waved his hand and rested the Yanling saber on his right shoulder. Come, but he smiled contemptuously with a cold face.

Immediately, veins popped up on his forehead, and his expression changed: "Where are the Yansui soldiers?"

Hundreds of soldiers in Maying shouted: "The Yansui army is here!"

Yang Yao asked again: "Where are the Guyuan soldiers?"

Hundreds of soldiers from Ma Ying chanted again, and even Yang Yao also chanted: "The Guyuan army is here!"

Yang Yao asked again: "Where are the Ningxia soldiers?"

In the horse camp, hundreds of soldiers marched slowly and shouted in unison: "The Ningxia army is here!"

After only shouting fifteen words, Yang Yao's voice was already hoarse, and he finally raised his voice and asked, "Where is the frontier army?"

"The frontier army is here! The frontier army is here! The frontier army is here!"

The sound echoed in the valley, even suppressing the hooves of thousands of cavalry running three hundred steps away.

Yang Yao lightly knocked on the horse's belly with his feet, and the horse started to walk quickly. The whole body was bumped up and down with the mount, and the bright Yanling knife leaning on his shoulder reflected the sunlight, and he pointed forward slowly with his arm.

The army formation behind him also began to change as it marched.

Among the three army formations of one thousand generals, the left commander was the first to accelerate past his respective thousand generals, and then the six hundred cavalrymen came out in front of the formation one by one.

The three left headquarters were divided into five divisions, and the three left headquarters continued to accelerate, forming the first wave of three collision formations in front of the formation.

Rows of cavalry soldiers with spears and vests crossed Wei Qian'er, Han Shiyou, and Yang Chengzu in a not-so-standard straight line at intervals of four steps.

At the same time as they passed Yang Yao, these highly skilled cavalrymen slightly retracted their jaws, and stared at the approaching enemy cavalry with their eyes under the shadow of their eyebrows.

A cavalry spear slowly falls in the palm of the horse soldier, or advance with one arm holding the spear, or let go of the reins and advance with both hands holding the spear, and launch a charge while the horseshoes trample.

Yang Yao maintained the posture of raising his sword forward, he knew that cavalry seldom confront each other.

But this time, only the real frontier soldiers can go forward!

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)