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Chapter 776 The focus of the emperors of the two countries

Daming's night not accepting, originally started from the piers and outposts in various border towns. They were actually sentries.

These pier sentries are also called "dunye" or "direct dial and horizontal dial".

"Dun" refers to the Dunjun, also known as "horizontal dial", which is mainly responsible for the task of standing guard on the pier and its surrounding areas.

"Ye" has to be "night sentry", also known as "direct dial", specifically referring to those who "can go deep into the captive camp to detect the truth", that is, sentries who can go deep into the enemy's territory for reconnaissance activities. This is the early "night does not accept" .

And because of the gradual expansion of the scope of action, they often have to stay away from piers, abutments, and border forts, and even do not return for several days and nights, so there is a difference between "far sentries are not accepted at night" and "long whistles are not accepted at night".

"Long Whistle and No Reception at Night" refers to sentries whose departure range is roughly between [-] and [-] miles; Among the elite.

However, with the evolution of the military, the Da Ming Ye Bu Shou has also developed from the military intelligence investigation and delivery in peacetime and wartime to include espionage, camp robbery, burning land, persuading surrender and other tasks, and even harassing enemy camps and engaging in beheading operations. Become one of the responsibilities of not accepting at night.

However, Ye Bu received or sentry patrols, or went deep into the enemy's territory for reconnaissance, they were the first enemies to pose a threat to each other, and they were in the first situation of conflict with the enemy.

Therefore, Yebushou of Ming Dynasty also became the first target of the enemy to kill and plunder, which made them the first to be "caught alive" by the northern captives and Tartar thieves.

Although the treatment and preferential treatment given are also generous compared with other armies, if you want to survive the extremely dangerous special missions such as reconnaissance posts, you must have a strong body and work hard immediately.

Therefore, Daming's Yebushou can also be regarded as the fighter with the best individual combat skills. In terms of starting and ending battles, they may not be the strongest, but their individual combat power is absolutely excellent, and they are also excellent in small-scale encounters. Very outstanding.

After all, they have been together for a long time to go out to check, and they have a tacit understanding with each other. Moreover, in the late Ming Dynasty, most of the town camps on each side formed a separate battalion for centralized management. Get up, thinking that you will work hard before the battle.

The same is true for the Yebushou of the Huwei Camp of the Xuanbei Army. They are all skilled in equestrianism, and they can control the horses under their crotch with only their legs, so that their hands can be freed for fighting.

Chief Qian Li Changsheng also checked his equipment, and soon he held a gun in his left hand and a tiger gun in his right.

Looking around, the weapons used in each night are also varied, both long and short, but there are two weapons that are relatively common, one is a short pistol, and the other is a tiger gun.

Now, the standard cold weapon of the Tiger Guard Battalion and the Heavy Cavalry Department of the Xuanbei Army is the tiger gun.

Equipped heavy cavalry rushed up like a wall, while tiger spears lined up like a forest, standing in front of the formation, not only to deter the enemy, but more importantly, the spear points in front were aligned, and it was also easy to maintain the rhythm when charging into the formation, so as to inflict powerful damage on the enemy.

But for the Tiger Guards camp, although the standard cold weapon is the tiger gun, it is only limited to when the Tiger Guards camp fights in formation, and it is still used according to personal proficiency when going out for sentinels like today.

The tiger gun is actually a great weapon for immediate fighting. Unlike the spear, the barrel of the tiger gun generally has extremely good elasticity.

In this way, when the horse is charging and stabbing the enemy, the gun shaft will bend upwards slightly to absorb part of the rebound force caused by the impact, and then the gun shaft will rebound instantly without breaking, and at the same time, it can also use the rebound force to knock the enemy away. The body bounced away, acting as a buffer for protection.

Otherwise, when the hard spear shaft charged and hit the enemy, the huge impact force might have acted on the knight's hand, and if he was not careful, his hand would be useless.

This is the difference between Eastern weapons and Western weapons, which can avoid the one-time use of Western knights who have to discard long weapons and replace them with long swords to continue fighting due to the huge impact.

Of course, the tiger gun is so good, it is not easy to make it.

The gun shafts of the tiger guns are all made of broken bamboo into strips. After twisting into a small rod, they are painted continuously, painted layer by layer, dried in the sun, and then painted again. The paint is dried until it is suitable. The required length is made into a gun shaft.

Then install the gun head, and then install the copper ingot on the gun tail, and hang the rope from the tail to the third of the body, so that the gun body is balanced, and a tiger gun is produced.

It is precisely because of its complicated production that even in the Xuanbei army, there is not much equipment. Looking at the entire Ming army, it is generally only used by generals from a family of generals.

Of course, those inferior tiger guns cannot be counted!

Although the ash rod also has some advantages of the tiger gun, compared with the tiger gun, the ash rod is indeed more rare.

Natural ash rods are soft and not suitable for use as gun shafts. Only those specially planted can be used, and they need to be straight, without scars and insect eyes. Their preciousness is only possible for some high-level generals in the Ming army. .

The Xuanbei Army Cavalry Battalion and Tiger Guard Battalion are already the most widely used tiger spears in the Ming Dynasty, and none of them.

In fact, this tiger gun was first used by the Tartars outside the pass, and they gradually developed it when they were fighting fierce beasts in the mountains and forests.

As the Qing Dynasty on the original historical line, the Tiger Gun Battalion, one of the Forbidden Army formed during the Kangxi period, only had an establishment of 600 people, which shows the difficulty of preparing tiger guns and the difficulty of selecting brave and loyal men!
The tiger gun has been developed to the present, and has become a sharp weapon for fighting on horseback. It's just that the soldiers of the Xuanbei Army are not like Tartars. They use these similar iron guns to hunt and kill ferocious beasts.

But the Xuanbei Army's Ye Bu Shou had weapons in their hands, and suddenly changed to tiger guns, which was somewhat inconvenient, so they were allowed to use other weapons when they went out together.

It is said that the head of this tiger gun is made of iron, with a sharp front and a rear, with a ridge in the middle, and there are many blood grooves inside.

The head of the shaft is wrapped with cloth and painted with large paint, and steel wire is wrapped around it. Two deer antlers are tied horizontally on both sides of the bottom of the gun storehouse. The gun head is also attached with a leather sheath. Compared with the long gun, the tiger gun has a longer and thicker gun shaft.

The tip of the tiger gun is also different from that of the long spear. The blade of the gun is roughly gui-shaped, with ridges in the blade, and the iron pipe connecting the iron gun head and the gun shaft is also extremely long, which effectively protects the gun from being cut off by the enemy's sword. head.

The most peculiar thing is that there are a section of antlers on the left and right sides of the gun blade, and two long leather straps hang down from the bottom. In addition, a suspension rope is added to the tiger gun, which is used to hang the suspension rope on the shoulders when charging. For better stability and balance of the gun body.

Moreover, the blade of the Tiger Spear is sharp, even if the enemy is wearing double armor, it can pierce through it with one blow!
There is also a spear with a blade on the head, and the blade is ridged. After piercing the enemy's body, the blade is like a knife. Even if the enemy is fierce and the armor is thick, it can still cut through the flesh and blood.

There is an antler stick on the left and right of the gun blade, which is fastened with a leather strap to prevent the spear from being too deep when stabbing, making it difficult to pull out, and being injured by the enemy instead.

However, the use of tiger guns is also very technical. Aiming and preemption during fast movements, detachment after stabbing the target, depth and angle of stabbing, etc., all contain a lot of knowledge. The real power of the tiger gun.

Even in the Xuanbei Army, only the Tiger Guard Battalion and the Heavy Cavalry Division, the elite troops of these two cavalry units are equipped, while the general cavalry is not allowed to be equipped.

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Seeing that the Tazi soldiers on the opposite side were not far away, there were still less than two hundred steps away.

At this time, the sky was getting brighter, and they could be seen more clearly. Under the painted copper and iron helmets, there were pairs of violent lights.

They also held all kinds of weapons, such as tiger guns, pick knives, maces, heavy swords and iron whips, etc. They also had huge bow bags and quiver bags at their waists.

The yellow double-breasted foam nail cotton armor on everyone's body is full of various oil stains and sweat stains, which are very clear. This is because years of sweat and oil can effectively strengthen the protective power of the cotton armor.

So many Tazi soldiers, they seldom wash their cotton armor for many years, but those soldiers of Bayala and Gebush are different, they all have bright armor.

Looking at those Tartar soldiers who are facing the Yellow Banner, they are truly worthy of being soldiers of the Three Banners. Not to mention they are all tough, and their equestrian skills are even more excellent. It must be a fierce battle today.

Li Changsheng yelled fiercely: "You son of a bitch!"

He looked back at the brothers beside him, all of them were ready. They looked at the Qing army captive cavalry rushing across, with a hint of grin on their faces, murderous, and none of them showed nervousness or worry.

Even the young player Zhang Jintai, even though he experienced such a big scene for the first time, did not show any fear, instead he looked eager to try.

It was only at this time that Li Changsheng realized that he had mixed into the cavalry formation again, but at this moment there was no time to persuade him to leave.

Seeing the fiery light in Zhang Jintai's eyes and his excited expression, he also knew that he couldn't persuade Zhang Jintai, so he could only tell him, "Little Jintai, this is no ordinary tartar, he will follow closely after a while." Be next to us, don't stay away, lest we can't take care of you."

"Hmph. This is the kind of tartar that we want, so we can try our tiger-hunting skills!"

Li Changsheng looked helpless, but there was nothing he could do. He naturally knew that Zhang Jintai and Zhang Chengfang had hunted a white-fronted tiger in the snow last winter, and offered the entire tiger skin to Zhang Cheng.

But he still felt uneasy, so he gave Wan Guangjin, the sentry officer of Lao Ye Bu Shou, a look to tell him to take good care of Zhang Jintai. After seeing Wan Guangjin's understanding, he turned around and shouted loudly: "Brothers Let those tartars on the opposite side see how powerful I am, a hero of the Xuanbei Army!"

He screamed wildly: "Kill the slave... Kill the slave!"

Li Changsheng exerted strength on his legs, urged the horse under his crotch, and rushed out in the first place.

"Slave killing... slave killing... slave killing..."

A crowd of Yeburen roared, horseshoes rolled, and more than [-] people followed closely beside Li Changsheng, riding out.

Among them, Liu Shouzhu followed closely on the right side of Li Changsheng, while Wan Guangjin focused on guarding the young player Zhang Jintai on the left side.

Regardless of how young Zhang Jintai and Zhang Chengfang are, since they worshiped Zhang Cheng as their adoptive father, they all rose up and practiced martial arts and riding skills without saying a single bitter word.

All the officers and generals of the Xuanbei Army, especially the veterans who had followed King Zhang Chengqin, all of them watched and loved them very much. Even if Li Changsheng didn't give orders, Wan Guangjin would not let Zhang Jintai charge alone .

Unlike everyone holding a gun in one hand and a cold weapon in the other, Liu Shouzhu still held a hammer and shield, and he was more used to cold weapons.

Although he was a bit unimpressed with the use of short-handed firearms, he did not reject them. He had a short-handed firearm stuck in his waist, and another in the pouches on both sides of the horse. The medicine can be shot at any time.

The smoking guns, blacksmiths and others who stayed behind the charging cavalry surrounded their horses in a circle one after another, and they hid behind the horses and the baggage circle.

All five of them held up the excellent second-style Yunzhou guns, the muzzles were outside, and they were on guard. Even the lightly wounded people in the inner layer also took out their own hand guns, held them in their hands, and were also on guard.

At this moment, the Tazi soldiers who came rushing towards them seemed to feel the difference from the Ming army, and their galloping speed also began to slow down.

There was a desperate look of doubt in their eyes: Why didn't the Ming army on the other side escape?
In their eyes, if more than a hundred Mingqi met them, none of them would run away!
Not to mention more than a hundred Ming cavalry, even three hundred or four hundred just met each other, turned around and ran away, letting themselves chase after like a rabbit, and most of them were caught and killed in the end.

But now they couldn't help but not be puzzled. The number of sentry cavalry from the Ming Dynasty they encountered today was not much different from their own. They didn't turn around and run away, but dared to confront themselves?
Among the Ming officers and soldiers in the Songjin area, whether they were under the command of Cao Bianjiao, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, under the command of Wang Tingchen, or under the command of Liu Zhaoji, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, none of them dared to fight against each other when there were equal numbers.

Even the subordinates of Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Ningyuan Regiment, who was known as brave and was specially commended by the Ming Emperor, had never acted so boldly.

Even sometimes the number of Ming soldiers outnumbered them by two or three times, and they ran away when they heard the news, and the Ming army in front of them...

Are they still the Ming army?
More than fifty Tartar cavalrymen gradually slowed down and began chatting in Tartar dialect.

Suddenly, a Tartar Ba Yala soldier spoke in Tartar dialect: "It's the Xuanfu army, it's the sentry cavalry of the Southern Kingdom Xuanfu army!"

Immediately, these Qing soldiers appeared to be in a commotion. Indeed, they were really sentry cavalry of the Xuanfu army, and only if the Xuanfu army refused to accept them at night, would they not be afraid of their sentries from the Qing Dynasty and dare to fight against them? war.

They have always been foolishly unclear about the Xuanfu Army and the Xuanbei Army. They always thought that since Zhang Cheng was the deputy general of the Xuanfu, he would naturally belong to the subordinates of Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu, so they called them the Xuanfu Army. .

And the reason why there was a slight disturbance when mentioning the sentry cavalry of the Xuanfu Army was only after the Songshan War.

In the Battle of Songshan, although both sides suffered heavy losses, the most intense battle was undoubtedly the Xishimen battlefield. The Xuanfu general of the Ming army died on the battlefield, and the Qing Dynasty also lost two Gushan Ezhens in the battle.

It was precisely because of this that the Xuanfu Army, the armed force of the Daming border town, had officially become the focus of the Qing army.

Zhang Cheng's name also replaced Zu Dashou, Wu Sangui, Yang Guozhu and others, and entered the sight of the Qing emperor Huang Taiji, which also made Zhang Cheng one of the focuses that attracted the attention of the Ming and Qing emperors!

(End of this chapter)