A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 810
In the Ming Dynasty, the trumpet was blown, and the trumpet was blown as the applause. The first time it was the number one, people packed their luggage and made meals.Half an hour later, the trumpet was blown for the second time to ask people to eat and pack up and go out.After blowing the horn for the third time, it is time to get up, enter the line of defense or prepare to march.

The Chinese army had already blown the horn twice before, and when they blew it again at this time, there was a yell from the officers: "Assemble, enter the line of defense", and the trumpeters responded one after another, and a tense atmosphere spread.

Soldiers on the No. [-] defense line of A left their jobs one after another, and the Yi A team assembled and lined up.Slightly different from the Jingbian army, their team officers also have flags, but they carry one side of the flag.

They usually train in formations, so when they gather, it looks like the battalion is relatively tight, and only the formation of those battalions looks messy.

Of course, in the eyes of these battalion soldiers, the ranks of the new army are just silver-like wax spearheads. When they were fighting, they were still breastfeeding, so they naturally refused to accept it.

Everyone has the same expression, that is, a war is about to be fought, and there is a nervous look on their faces, regardless of new soldiers or old soldiers.

Seeing that the [-] soldiers had assembled, Mr. Yang Qian and Gao Guerrilla took a deep breath, looked back at Han Kaihui, the supervisor of the Jingbian Army behind him, Han Kaihui waved his hand, and Gao Guerrilla shouted: "Enter the line of defense! "

He took over the kitchen and took over Mr. Yang Qian's work, and added: "Brothers, do a good job and kill all the thieves!"

Immediately, the battalion soldiers under his command, carrying their own weapons, roared and jumped from the slope of the intersection to the slope of the plateau, all of them with momentum like a rainbow.

Looking at their appearance, Mr. Yang Qian didn't say anything, just said: "Let's arm yourself."

The soldiers under his command shouted in unison, followed Team A's defense line, and descended to the plateau one after another.

The same is true for other troops. Amidst the sound of "entering the defense line", the soldiers of the Ming army on the southern plateau poured down like a torrent. The waves of red armor and the sound of rushing footsteps stirred up dust and mixed together. The momentum spread.

The commotion on the opposite plateau was even louder, and a troop of cavalry was galloping. In order to better command the battle in Yuanwanggou, Sun Chuanting set up a flag on the edge of the plateau. In the middle section, it is easy to take care of the entire gully defense line.

He took out his beloved binoculars and looked at the opposite plateau. He saw a crowd of people moving towards the edge of the plateau. The armor in the north section was yellow, and the armor in the south section was red. Battalion of soldiers and horses.

Their drums and shouts were endless, and their flags were fluttering. It seemed that they were all on the twenty-mile-long plateau. Not to mention Gao Jie and others' faces changed, even Sun Chuanting took a breath of air, and subconsciously looked at Wu Zhengchun and others beside him. people.

Seeing that the generals of the Jingbian army still looked calm, Sun Chuanting was slightly relieved, and he said in a deep voice, "Let the superintendent's team enter."

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The No. [-] defenders have already set their positions. There are many low walls on their side, and the first low wall is the most important. There is a large oblique wave in front of them. It winds up until it reaches the second cliff wall after more than a hundred steps.

Not only is there a trench in front of the first ladder cliff, but there are also some small slopes of earth cliffs of varying heights on the slope, which is inconvenient to pass through. Therefore, if you want to go up to the plateau, it is best to take the road. within the threat range.

Of course, if there are any mountain climbers among the thieves, they may be able to avoid the road and push them all the way to the low wall of the second ladder.

In addition, above the first ladder cliff, there is another ladder cliff near the slope, which is one zhang high, and the three ladder cliffs form an intersection.

Inside the first low wall, there is a general guard of the new army and a hundred bird guns. The gunmen wear red cotton armor, while the spearmen wear armpits and iron inlaid cotton armor, and are equipped with iron helmets.

This kind of equipment is different from the red waist armor and red tasseled felt hat of ordinary soldiers, but it is important here, guarded by the elite spearmen in the department.

There are more than 200 battalion soldiers guarding the low wall, the same total strength.

There are 300 or 400 soldiers in the Shaanxi battalion as a division, and a commander should have a total of 400 or 200 troops. However, the division has only more than [-] people, but it is because of the lack of pay.

They have dozens of three-eyed guns, more than ten bird guns, and more than fifty bows and arrows. Half of the archers are missing, but the number of rocket players has greatly increased, reaching more than a hundred. Iron and palladium.

The armor of these battalion soldiers is different. There are iron helmets and felt hats, long armor and short armor. Some even wear antique armor with pieces of armor exposed. The red paint is coming off.

No matter whether the new army or the battalion, after arriving at their own defense line, they were busy loading their own ammunition and sorting out their equipment. The officers behind the low walls also supervised back and forth.

They knew that the Jingbian Army of the Supervision Battalion would come to supervise and inspect the battle later. These people were cold-faced and ruthless during training, let alone when they were fighting now. If they were caught in the wrong place, they might lose their heads. Danger.

Sure enough, the Jingbian military supervisor team came soon, accompanied by some patrol flags from the Gao guerrilla battalion, all of them with stern faces and serious expressions.

In fact, each battalion of the Ming Dynasty did not have a special guarding soldier. The troops they supervised and inspected were called patrol flags.

Han Kaihui had two teams of soldiers at No. [-] Jia, one team supervised the battle, and the other team served as a reserve team. When they came to the first low wall, there was a man from Jia Jia. They checked the ammunition and equipment of each soldier one by one, and they were meticulous. Both the new army and the battalion have one heart.

There is also a loud Zhenfu shouting over and over again, conveying the military law of combat: "...anyone who dares to retreat before the battle and retreats first against the enemy will be killed! If one person retreats, the other will be killed, the whole armor will retreat, and the whole armor will be killed." All armors will retreat, and the whole team will be beheaded! The commander-in-chief, the leading generals, and all the officials will sit together like this!... If the armored commander does not retreat, the army will retreat, and the killed armored commander will receive a generous shirt, and the rest of the soldiers will be beheaded. Those who retreat to the death of the captain will be sympathized with the captain's family, and all the captains of the team will be killed!..."

The stern voice echoed in everyone's ears, against the background of the thieves and horses coming from the opposite plateau, the atmosphere seemed to be suffocated.

After the stern pacifiers finished shouting, it was the voice of a comforting officer with a gentle but provocative voice: "Brothers in the Qin Army, the thieves are here. They have finished wreaking havoc on Henan and Huguang, and they are coming to wreak havoc on Shaanxi again. These thieves Wherever they go, dogs and chickens will not stay. If they are allowed to enter Shaanxi, they will definitely become a piece of white land like Henan and Huguang. They will definitely take away your cattle, eat up your sheep, and take away your entire family. , just like the refugees on the opposite side, they were finally forced to fill in trenches and attack the city, and there was not even a grave after death!"

The battalion soldiers are alright, the faces of the new army are full of anger, not as easy to deceive as when the rogues first emerged, many people have already understood the nature of these rogues, especially the essence of the thieves.

It's not that they can't survive, but they're used to being thieves, getting used to a life of plunder and getting something for nothing, and they don't want to settle down and dig the soil and become farmers in peace.

Like thieves big and small, when has the government not recruited them?Pardoned?But how many times have they surrendered and rebelled?
If the first rebellion of the thieves is justifiable, they may not be able to survive, but in the end, it is their ambition and desire that are at work, and it is not just a matter of rebellion if they cannot survive.

Just like Luo Rucai openly said that he likes to be a thief, and being a thief is good!
These thieves are hypocritical, under various names, but in fact they just make people who can survive in the first place unable to survive!

The thief also joked that when the King Chuang came, he didn't pay the food, and he didn't pay the food.It is so difficult for Sun Duchen to support these new troops. How can the so-called fellow Li Zicheng on the opposite side support so many soldiers and civilians under his rule?
He has only one way, grab it!He has already robbed Henan and Huguang, and now he wants to come to Shaanxi to rob, so as to destroy his hopeful little days and make his family, wife and children suffer?Never agree!

With the agitation of the appeasement officer, more and more new soldiers shot out raging anger in their eyes, and suddenly a high-pitched voice came from the front: "Never let the thieves enter Shaanxi, kill all the thieves!"

"Kill all the thieves!"

This sound immediately aroused echoes and roars from the upper plateau and the lower plateau. Not only No. 20, but also all the soldiers of the new army brandished their weapons on the more than [-]-mile-long defense line of Yuanwanggou, shouting hoarsely. The thieves on the move are all suffocated.

Amid the sky-shattering shouts, the high-pitched voice shouted again: "My Qin army is mighty!"

"Mighty! Mighty!"

For a moment, all the soldiers were roaring wildly. At this moment, no one was afraid anymore, and that majestic voice shook the sky even more!
"fire!"

A sharp trumpet sounded, and suddenly there was a loud blast of cannons. In the sound of "booming", large puffs of white smoke rose. The Taojiazhuang artillery position, and some generals who could fire in the remaining places opened fire, and iron bullets It roared out, and slammed viciously at the opposite plain.

Immediately, a large cloud of smoke and dust rose from that side, mud dust flew up, and some cannons even fell into the crowd, bringing up a large group of flying limbs.

The thieves on the opposite side were already crowded. Although the edge of the plain was staggered, and some cannons were fired on the cliffs and ravines, there were still cannons hitting the crowd, knocking them out of their wits.

Especially the Taojiazhuang artillery position, the distance between the two plateaus on this side is only more than 100 steps. The artillery placed on the east gate kept bombarding the opposite plateau, causing the bandits gathered on the other side to flee one after another, shouting that they should not gather troops in disorder.

Sun Chuanting paid close attention to the movement on the opposite side, the power of the artillery was extraordinary, even if it wasn't the Hongyi cannon, as long as it could hit the general's cannon on the opposite field, it would bring unimaginable pressure to the thieves on the opposite side.

Especially out of consideration for the morale and supervision of the army, the bandits arranged the infantry camps on the edge of the front plateau. These people all had at least uniforms, and the numbers of the battalions were marked on the letter. They were considered regular troops, and the back was the forest of spears of hungry soldiers who only wore turbans. , these cannons do more real damage to the thieves.

However, there were more bandits after all, and they also responded. The bandits on the front side spread out more, using the terrain to protect themselves, and the hungry soldiers behind were also urged to speed up, making the crowd on the opposite side more crowded.

The field on the opposite side was already crowded with people, and the dense flags and weapons were so dense that it was visually suffocating. Suddenly, the big drum on the opposite side was beating, and all the thieves shouted together, and the sound even overwhelmed the sound of the artillery.

A dense crowd of bandits poured out. These bandits were all in ragged clothes, only wrapped in turbans, and most of them held spears. They separated into infantry formations and emerged from the rear one by one.

They roared and shouted, with distorted and fanatical expressions on their faces, and charged down the Yuanjian path.

For a while, the plateau slope was full of their figures, and they rolled down like a torrent.

(End of this chapter)