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Chapter 675
Even in midsummer, the night wind in the mountains is cooler than other places. After everyone has finished eating and drinking, the charcoal fire has been completely removed, and the cool breeze blowing in through the broken windows makes people extremely comfortable.

Zheng Zhitai had the word embarrassment written all over his face. One must know that there was much competition between the town generals of the Ming army, and they seldom cooperated. They chose to preserve their strength in every battle, because they were afraid that if they lost, they would be suppressed by other generals. Shuai annexed his subordinates.

And if there are any sharp weapons in the armies, most of them are kept privately, and they will not easily show them to others.

He was just out of curiosity. Although he hadn't seen the power of this gun, it was the first time he had seen such a novel sharp weapon. In addition, he had just heard that this gun was a self-fired fire, and he didn't need a matching match to ignite it. Once you can play it, you can't help but be curious.

It is a common problem for everyone to be happy when seeing hunting.

As soon as he spoke just now, he felt a little regretful, but now he saw Chang Zhengbiao and asked himself, but he didn't know how to answer. He was in his thirties and replied a little shyly: "If it's inconvenient, I just don't read it, don't read it. Strange."

"Hahaha……"

Chang Zhengbiao burst out laughing, and said, "Why do you take offense? You and I are brothers from the same family, and we all came to kill the Tartars."

He took off the holster together and handed it over casually. Zheng Zhitai was a little dazed. After he took the short-handed blunderbuss, he remembered to smile at Chang Zhengbiao.

He also said: "I haven't thanked you for your great kindness. It is indeed rude to take the liberty to look at the sharp weapons in the regular army."

Chang Zhengbiao didn't take it seriously, and said: "Why bother to be so polite. The advantage of this blunderbuss lies in its quickness. When facing the enemy, it can be fired in case of danger. But the disadvantage is also obvious. If you hit it once, it will be useless. It needs to be reloaded with sub-drugs.”

However, Zheng Zhitai didn't listen to what he said, his attention was all focused on the short pistol, he held it in his hand and looked up and down carefully, then murmured: "Amazing, amazing!"

Seeing him like this, Ma Zhenyuan also looked expectant. He looked at Chang Zhengbiao and said, "Brother Chang, can you..."

Seeing his hesitant to speak, Chang Zhengbiao smiled, and took off another short pistol and handed it to him.

"This gun doesn't have a match, so how do you light it?"

Faced with Ma Zhenyuan's doubts, Chang Zhengbiao just smiled. Chang Zhengfei, who was at the side, saw that the third brother was winking at him, so he went up to explain the principle of the short pistol to Ma Zhenyuan.

After a while, Ma Zhenyuan reluctantly handed back the short pistol to Chang Zhengbiao, saying: "If there is such a sharp weapon, how can we be killed by the Tartars?"

"Ugh……"

Zheng Zhitai also let out a long sigh, handed the short-handed gun back, and said: "This gun is really exquisite, and it can be used at a critical moment. I don't know, but everyone in your department is equipped with this gun?"

"Where. In our army, only our brothers from the Tiger Guards and the Cavalry Battalion are allotted two pistols, and the rest of the infantry are allotted one pistol only to the generals and above." Chang Zheng quickly He replied quickly.

"Ah, there are actually two sharp weapons under Chang Tou's command, no wonder just now he was confused and heard the sound of 'cracking' so densely, this gun is indeed a sharp weapon for close combat, it is much stronger than the Tartar bow in a short range .” Zheng Zhitai looked envious.

…………

Everyone chatted for a while, then returned to the topic, and agreed to leave this place early tomorrow and withdraw directly to the Ningyuan camp.

Ma Zhenyuan said with a solemn expression: "The Tartars have suffered a great loss at the hands of Brother Chang's Xuanbei Army, and I am afraid they will not let it go."

Zheng Zhitai also nodded and said, "Tartars have sharper noses than hunting dogs. Many of them are veteran hunters who have fought for more than ten years. Even if there is rain and snow covering their tracks, it will not affect them from tracking their prey. Will track it down here!"

Everyone in the hall was also a little nervous. Although they easily won the battle and looked down on the Tartars' combat power, the general was indeed very afraid of them.

Before sending troops to Liaodong, I specially found some old soldiers who had fought against the Tartars, gave them repeated lessons, preached the power of the Tartars, and reminded them to be careful when fighting the Tartars, and to strike with all their strength as soon as they met. , must not spare any energy and be killed by the Tartars.

Hearing too many vicious names of the Tartars, and the example of Ma Zhenyuan and the others before his eyes, the eighteen elite sentry cavalry met with a similar number of Tartar vest sentry, and almost all of them were cut off.

If there is really a large group of Tartars chasing after them, I am afraid that a fierce battle will be inevitable.

Qian Yusheng interjected at this moment: "Why don't we escape to Daxing Castle at night?"

Chang Zhengfei and the others looked at him contemptuously when they heard the words, but didn't say anything.

But Ma Zhenyuan shook his head and said: "This place is near the Tartar camp, if it's already night, Daxing Fort is hard to distinguish the real from the fake, I'm afraid they won't open the door to let us and others in."

"Humph!"

Chang Zhengbiao snorted, stood up abruptly and said: "It would be best if the Tartars come after us, and throw ourselves into the trap, and I'll give him an ambush here, so that he can know that I, Daming, are not alone!"

Chang Zhengfei also said: "Third brother, I will watch the first half of the night, and Zhengcheng will watch the second midnight. I will never let the tartars touch us."

Chang Zhengbiao nodded and said: "That's fine, you can go and change Sanshi's brothers first and come back to eat some hot food. Remember, the whistle should be spread farther, and we should use the method of our family to send messages with the sound of birds. In case of emergency, you can call Gun warning."

Chang Zhengcheng said: "How dare the Tartars attack me in the dark?"

Chang Zhengbiao was taken aback when he heard the words, and he couldn't make a decision for a while, so he turned his head to look at Ma Zhenyuan and the others.

I only heard Ma Zhenyuan say: "Just now I heard from Brother Chang that the panicked appearance of the two fleeing Tartars must have been due to the sharp roar of the guns. I don't know how many people from my army came, so they hurried back report."

He pondered for a while, and then said: "Since the Tartars know that our firearms and guns are sharp, but we are not sure how many people we have, even if we pursue revenge, they will definitely not come with only a dozen people.

But when the large group came, it was difficult to hide their whereabouts, so it was guessed that they would not attack in the dark. "

Chang Zhengbiao agreed with this, but he couldn't be careless, so he relaxed his vigilance and taught them: "We must despise the enemy strategically, but we must pay attention to the enemy tactically."

He no longer worships Zhang Cheng, but almost worships him, so he always keeps this sentence in mind.

At the moment, just to be on the safe side, he sent someone to catch up with Chang Zhengfei, and asked him to set up whistles within two miles to the south of the ruined temple. If he found a tartar, he only needed to warn him, and he didn't need to stop him.

At the same time, arrange Chang Zhengcheng's sentry cavalry within one mile of the east and north sides of the ruined temple, and each arrange a team of troops to deploy in secret, because the south slope is the slowest, while the west is a steep wall, and the Tartars will not enter from here.

However, although the hillsides in the east and north directions are slightly steeper and the forests are denser, they are not impossible to climb, so five sentry cavalry are sent to guard these two sides.

And after Sanshi came back to eat, he set up an ambush inside and outside the ruined temple. With such an arrangement, even if the Tartars took advantage of the darkness to sneak attack tonight, they would not gain much advantage.

And tomorrow morning they will go straight to Ningyuan, as long as it is safe tonight, they will not be afraid!

(End of this chapter)