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Chapter 726
In the wilderness to the west of Songshan Fort City, tens of thousands of troops were waiting in formation, with swords and guns like forests, densely covered banners, and hunting in the wind.

Chen Jiugao, the commander-in-chief of the Shenji Battalion, also led the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to the central army formation, behind Yang Guozhu and Wu Sangui's formation.

The artillery of their Shenji Battalion will be led by Chen Jiugao, the general soldier, to attack the West Shimen with Yang Guozhu, and Fu Yingchong, the deputy general, will attack the East Shimen with Wu Sangui.

Shenji Battalion in Daming still exists like the emperor's own soldiers, with banners and banners like other towns, and the armor is bright, needless to say.

I saw that all the soldiers in their battalion were wearing cloud-winged helmets, long dark red armor, and excellent iron arms, with brass belts around their waists, and there were hems around their waists. It also picked up two bright red pompoms, which looked really mighty and majestic.

All the Lumi guns held by their soldiers were flintlocked. The equipment and weapons of the Beijing camp were indeed incomparable to the armies of the border towns. They used the entire arsenal of the Ming Dynasty to decorate it!

The children of the Beijing camp are not as difficult as the frontier army. The officers among them, regardless of their official positions, many of them have inherited military positions for several generations, and each family has their own armor inheritance.

Of course, they also paid more attention to their appearance. During this battle, everyone trimmed and wiped their armors again and again, so that they all looked taller and more majestic, with fresh clothes and angry horses.

However, this appearance is indeed superior to other armies, but is it really powerful?

I'm afraid it still depends on the actual performance on the battlefield, you can't kill the enemy with words or bright armor!

What's more, the army array and chariot array formed by the Shenji Battalion are all straight in a straight line. Just talking about the image of the army array, people who don't know it will think that they are the strongest army in Ming Dynasty.

In fact, since the Shenji Camp set off from the capital, there have always been people on the road who couldn't bear the hardships, secretly became deserters, and ran back privately. A total of nearly a thousand people dispersed.

However, those who can persist to the front line of Songshan all show some vigor. If they can go through the baptism of war again, they may not be able to become a strong army and restore the grandeur of their ancestors!
The front battalion of the Shenji Battalion went to Liaodong this time. The army brought 26 rocket vehicles, [-] light vehicles with Franco cannons, nearly a thousand large rockets such as Shenhuo Feiya, and [-] Shenwei General Cannons. Fifty large-caliber mortars and nearly a hundred small-caliber mortars were also pulled out. Wherever they passed, the soldiers of other armies watched and cheered.

The tens of thousands of soldiers gathered by the King of Ming Dynasty in the wilderness west of Songshan Mountain were all looking forward to the artillery fire from the Shenji Battalion!
Especially those Shenwei Great General guns, the doors are extremely heavy, and each door requires ten, even twelve, or fifteen strong oxen to pull the cannon carriage. Few people are in awe.

Looking at these cannons and giant cannons in front of me, I feel that it is easy to hit ten-pound cannons, even if they are fifteen-pound or twenty-pound cannons, there are not a few of them.

Most of these cannons are made of iron, and occasionally there are a few made of bronze. Looking at the way those strong oxen struggled to pull the cannon carts, the ground rolled over deep ruts wherever they passed. How difficult it is to transport artillery thousands of miles to Liaodong.

In fact, in order to transport these cannons, the Shenji Battalion was exhausted on this journey.

Chen Jiugao's Shenji Battalion has more than [-] soldiers, although only less than [-] regular soldiers arrived in Songshan, but in order to supply the Shenji Battalion with gunpowder, cannons and other supplies, there were many civilians and military leaders who acted as pullers from the capital. Posts follow their peers and are used as the supply team of the army, and they also enjoy the treatment of supply soldiers.

In the midst of all the attention, the commander-in-chief Chen Jiugao led the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion and gathered into the Chinese army formation. He also enjoyed the high-profile feeling.

At this moment, Fu Yingchong, the deputy general of the former battalion of the Shenji Battalion, also rode his horse behind the head of the chief soldier Chen Jiugao. He was also like Chen Jiugao, with a happy face, holding his head up slightly and couldn't stop smiling and nodding.

Fu Yingchong, who is good at making friends, actually likes to show off more than Chen Jiugao, but he is a lieutenant general after all, and he can't stand out by surpassing the general soldier, so he has always restrained himself.

In the past month or so, he has already been familiar with the lieutenants, generals, and guerrillas under the command of the generals in various towns. It can be said that he has a wide range of friends. Even Wang Pu, the general soldier of Datong, and Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Ningyuan, call him brothers. .

But now it is the same as in the past, he straddles the tall white horse, he only feels how mighty and powerful he is at the moment, so much attention is paid to him, he thought to himself: "Okay, just wait. We must call you Take a good look at the power of the Shenji Camp artillery!"

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In terms of the position of the Chinese army, Zhang Cheng, the commander in chief of aid and suppression, Liu Zhaoji, the commander in chief of Liaodong, Hong Chengchou, governor of Jiliao, Zhang Ruoqi, governor of Liaodong, Qiu Minyang, governor of Liaodong, Ma Shaoyu, Zhang Dou, and other generals and officials have all arrived.

When Zhang Cheng sent troops from Yongning, he brought two general command vehicles along with the army. He put his golden gun top and big banner flag on one of the general vehicles, and used it as his own command vehicle. March to Ningyuan.

Hong Chengchou, governor of Jiliao, was also stimulated by Zhang Cheng's handsome flag chariot. Before he sent troops from Ningyuan, he also built a big chariot and hung his own flag on it. In the car, it was fluttering in the wind and making noise.

In addition, the Chinese army array is also full of all kinds of chariots, including single-wheeled, two-wheeled, and standard box-shaped chariots brought by Zhang Cheng, which are the standard chariots used in Qi Jiguang's era. The weight of the car alone is more than [-] kilograms.

On the chariot, there are countless small cannons such as Flang machine guns, rocket boxes, extermination guns, Baizi blunderbusses, tiger squat guns, etc. There are even flying cannons brought by Zhang Cheng from Xuanbei. Sincerely looking forward to it.

In addition, there are all kinds of equipment for attacking difficulties, such as rolling carts, punching carts, curtain carts, trench bridges, light ladders, etc. There are tens of thousands of people and soldiers pushing and pulling small carts, which are filled with soil baskets and sandbags. , to be used as trench filling.

There are also many people carrying hoes and pickaxes inside. They are preparing to dig the walls of the Tartars' village, or to dig trenches for the Ming army's attacking troops.

The masters of the Ming Dynasty gathered more and more, and the whole wilderness was covered by a sea of ​​people. When the morning breeze blew, the only sound was the fluttering of flags and the sound of hunting.

In this situation, anyone would be full of pride, full of chest and abdomen, Zhang Ruoqi smiled softly, looking at the majestic army formation in front of him, his face was full of relief, and he even muttered to himself from time to time, which looked abnormal Excited.

Surrounded by his staff and officials, Hong Chengchou, governor of Jiliao, climbed onto the high platform set up in advance, and looked at the surrounding army formations in front of him with a reserved expression.

Qiu Minyang, Governor of Liaodong, whispered something to him beside him, but Hong Chengchou remained calm, only nodding his beard occasionally.

After the generals of the towns and their troops arrived, they went to Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, to repay him. Finally, all the Ming soldiers and horses who fought in Shimen Mountain and Rufeng Mountain were all there.

There was silence in the continuous army formation, and a murderous air filled the audience. Even the soldiers who pushed the carts, dug the walls, and filled the trenches were intimidated by the momentum of the army, and all of them were silent and solemn. color.

Occasionally, a few war horses neighed, piercing through the empty wilderness, and reaching the ears of the soldiers, it was particularly pleasant.

(End of this chapter)