On March 20 of the sixth year of Jiajing, the wind and sun were beautiful over the Xilin Gol prairie, and the sky was blue like washing, on this day, the 70,000 Northern Expeditionary Army led by Xu Jin finally arrived at the upper reaches of Luanshui, and set up camp in a place about ten miles away from the Yuan Shangdu, where the Khan Court of Yuan Shangdu was located.

At this time, a group of men and horses quietly climbed a high slope on the left side of the Ming army camp three miles, the number of people is not much, only about fifty or sixty horsemen, very low-key, the leader is a young man of about twenty-five or six years old, dressed as a scholar, born with red lips and white teeth, calm and elegant temperament, it is the commander of the Northern Expedition Xu Jin.

"Grandpa Yasukuni, please see, there is where my Tatar Khan's court is, when the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty Kublai Khan the Great built a city here, it was for the capital of the Yuan, you see, the capital of the Yuan is north of Longgang Mountain, the south is adjacent to Luanshui, as far as the eye can see, there is an endless grassland, the momentum is so magnificent, there were once Han Taoist priests asserted that the mountains and rivers are embraced here, the Ming Hall is open, the court is far and near, there is a royal spirit rising, it is the land of Longxing!"

Chilu introduced without frowning, and Isana next to him also showed pride, and interjected: "When you start a war with me, I hope that the Duke of Yasukuni will restrain his subordinates and not destroy the buildings in the city, let alone bombard the city." ”

Xu Jin raised his binoculars noncommittally and observed, but Huang Jin, the prison soldier next to him, was a little unhappy, pursed his lips, and said in a weird manner: "Ouch, even this dilapidated small city can be called magnificent?" It's just the scale of a radius of two or three miles, which is about the same as my ordinary city in the Ming Dynasty, and compared with the north and south of my Ming Dynasty, it is not even worthy of carrying shoes. ”

Isana couldn't help but be angry and said: "Gonggong Huang, your capital today in the Ming Dynasty was also the capital of the Yuan Dynasty in the past, and the ancestors of our Tatars also ruled the entire Central Plains, what is there to show off." ”

Huang Jin was born in Xingwangfu, and was the companion eunuch of the prince Zhu Houxi, and under the influence of his ears and eyes, there was still a little ink in his stomach, and he immediately sneered: "So what, the Mengyuan regime has ruled the Central Plains for only a few decades, and in the end, it was not that I was beaten by Taizu and escaped from the Central Plains, but Yao, even the Yuan capital in front of me was also captured by my Ming Dynasty, and Kaiping Wei was set up here." ”

Isana was immediately speechless by the rebuttal, snorted coldly and turned her head away, ignoring Huang Jin, who looked triumphant, like a victorious fighting.

Xu Jin couldn't help but be speechless, people sterilized pets in order to prevent pets from becoming aggressive during estrus, and eunuchs are the opposite, after missing a part below, they become more aggressive, and because of psychological imbalance, they usually have a dark and perverted personality, for example, a large number of very perverted eunuchs emerged in the Ming Dynasty, and many of the tortures of the whole person in the factory guard were invented by eunuchs, but Huang Jin is okay, this product is not evil except for greedy silver and playing prestige.

As the saying goes, standing high and seeing far away, where Xu Jin is standing at the moment, he can clearly see the Yuan Shangdu in the distance through the telescope. I saw a city built at the foot of the mountain, the scale is indeed two or three miles in a radius, the terrain in front of the city is open and flat, the yurts are one after another, the city is guarded in a half-moon shape, countless flags are waved in the wind, a team of cavalry comes and goes frequently, the momentum is very huge, it is estimated that I have gathered 100,000 troops here.

"Dashuai, I replied that this time he was quite calm, we all came under our noses, and there was no movement yet, strange, could it be that he was waiting for us to attack first?" The captain of the pro-soldier Zhao Datou scratched his head and said suspiciously.

Xu Jin didn't answer, took back the binoculars, turned his head and asked Chilu Buhua: "It is said that I am not used to living in the city?" ”

Chilu Buhua nodded and said: "Back to Grandpa Yasukuni, I have never lived in the city, nor let the soldiers under his command live in the city, he once said to his soldiers that only pigs and sheep will be imprisoned by themselves, and the warriors on the grassland should gallop unrestrained." ”

Xie Qing, the old man who had never spoken much next to him, actually opened his mouth and said approvingly at this time: "I agree that this person is worthy of being a famous hero, thinking about how powerful the Mongolian cavalry was at the beginning, and as a result, he lived a comfortable life in the Central Plains, and lost the ability to eat in just a few decades, and the combat power of the cavalry plummeted, otherwise he would not have been driven out of the Central Plains so easily." ”

"Our family thinks it's because my Ming firearms are powerful, and I am the nemesis of the cavalry, where is Meng Yuan's opponent, it is natural for him to be driven out of the Central Plains." Huang Jin raised the bar again, but Xie Qing was originally a man of few words, not to mention that he didn't bother to argue with a eunuch, so he kept his mouth shut and stopped talking.

Huang Jin was bored, coughed lightly with a sneering expression and asked Xu Jindao: "Grandpa Guo, how should this battle be fought?" ”

Xu Jin smiled and said: "Gonggong Huang just said, our Ming firearms are powerful, and they are the nemesis of the cavalry. ”

Huang Jin's face stiffened slightly, he only thought that Xu Jin was teasing himself, and sneered: "That's what I said, but the Tatar cavalry is not weak, and there are more troops than us, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to attack head-on, right?" ”

In fact, Xu Jin is not ridiculing Huang Jin, after the last Jedi counterattack, not only the morale of the Ming army is high, Xu Jin himself is also greatly confident, with the current equipment advantage of the Ming army, with 70,000 against 100,000 Tatar cavalry, there is no need to tie his hands at all, and taking advantage of the division of 100,000 troops in my answer, now is the best time to break the Khan Court in one fell swoop.

"General Xie, Chuan Ben Shuai ordered that the whole army prepare to attack early tomorrow morning." Xu Jin ordered directly at Xie Sangun.

"Order!" Xie Sangun replied loudly.

Only then did Huang Jin understand that Xu Jin was not teasing himself, but was really planning to fight me head-on.

At this time, I saw Xu Jin turn to Isana and ask, "Lord Isana, how are the two Etoks in Chahar's headquarters thinking about it?" Have you been contacted? ”

Isana shook her head with a tense face and said, "They must see Mentu." ”

Xu Jin said coldly: "Then let them see the power of my Ming guns first, after our army defeats me, even if they surrender, this commander will not accept it." ”

Isana and Chilu Buhua's complexions changed, if it weren't for the terrible firearms of the Ming army that they had seen with their own eyes in the Jedi counterattack before, the two might have thought that Xu Jin was bragging at the toad, but after witnessing the Ming army defeating the 100,000 cavalry of the Ming army with only 50,000 people, the two of them did not dare to have any contempt.

Chilu said cautiously: "Can Grandpa Yasukuni give a few more days?" We'll contact them again to persuade one or two. ”

Xu Jinyi waved his hand and said: "Tomorrow the war starts, you still have one night's time, whether it is surrender or battle, it is up to them to go!" There was a strong confidence in his tone.

Chiru Buhua and Isana glanced at each other, but they were silent.

"Be careful, the Tartars have spotted us." Xie Yidao suddenly reminded loudly.

Everyone looked up, and sure enough, they saw a Tatar ranger appear outside Lixu, about a hundred horses, probably found Xu Jin and others on the hillside, and were trying to approach this side.

"Let's go back!" Xu Jin turned his horse's head and returned to the camp under the escort of his own soldiers.

When the Tatar rangers saw Xu Jin and the others turn around and leave, they didn't dare to chase and kill, because this hillside was very close to the camp of the Ming army, and if they chased and killed the hundreds of people, it would be easy to turn into a head.

At this time, the sun has been in the west, but see the sparkling waves in the Luanhe River, the golden light, take a closer look, there are groups of swimming fish floating out of the water to swim, the dense turns of ten thousand heads surging, the fish scales reflect the sun, like countless gold flowing in general, extremely spectacular.

"Wow, there are so many fish in this river, if only there were fishing nets, and the brothers could add vegetables tonight." Zhao Datou licked his lips and said slanderously.

Huang Jin said happily: "The sparkling ten thousand points of gold, ten thousand fish floating up to congratulate, this is a great auspicious omen, tomorrow will definitely be able to fight a beautiful victory." ”

"Hehe, that's what I said, it's still Huang Gonggong who has insight." Zhao Datou said with a smile, and the pro-soldiers were also happy, no wonder, the ancients believed in ghosts and gods, and when they looked at such a spectacular and rare scene in front of them, they naturally thought it was an omen.

Xu Jin frowned, everything has its own reason, he doesn't believe in any auspicious signs, there are three reasons why the fish fish are not hindered, one is foraging, the second is temperature, and the third is oxygen.

Foraging does not need to be explained, the so-called thermogen, that is, when the underwater temperature is too low, the fish will float to the warmer water surface activities, generally occur in the morning of spring and autumn, and oxygenotactic is because the oxygen dissolved in the water is reduced, so the fish have to float to breathe, which generally occurs before the rain.

It is now the second half of March, the temperature in the afternoon is still quite warm, the water has been very warm for most of the day, it is estimated that the fish are unlikely to be warm, as for foraging, I don't see food on the water......

Xu Jin was pondering, and Xie Qing suddenly said, "It is estimated that it is going to rain." ”

"Hey, how so?" Huang Jin asked curiously.

Xie Qing said: "A certain family has been fishing in Poyang Lake all their lives, in this case, it may rain a lot, if you add ants to climb high in groups, within a day, a heavy rain will definitely not be able to run." ”

Huang Jin exclaimed: "That's a big deal, if it rains, our firearms will be bad!" ”

Zhao Datou looked up at the cloudless blue sky, scratched his head and muttered: "If it can rain this day, it will be hell, it's impossible!" ”

Xu Jin thoughtfully glanced back at Longgang Mountain in the distance, and said lightly: "Go back to the camp, in fact, it rains, it may not be a bad thing!" ”

Isn't it a bad thing to rain, is it a good thing? Once it rains, even if the flintlock pistol has a rainproof device, the power will be greatly reduced, if the rain is too strong and the rainproof device fails, the flintlock pistol will become a useless burning stick, not to mention the Franc cannon, even if it rains lightly, it will wet the lead of the gun, completely dumb fire.

Everyone followed Xu Jin back to the camp in confusion, but fortunately, until the sun went down, there was no sign of rain, and even the moon and stars appeared in the sky.

The night was getting deeper, the evening breeze was blowing, the insects were chirping on the grassland, and occasionally one or two wild wolf howls could be heard in the distance.

The camp of the Ming army was brightly lit, and the patrol gate on duty was watching over and over again, and in a tent of the Shenji Battalion, the chief sharpshooter Guo Jindiao was wiping the medicine pool of the flintlock pistol.

Lao Guo's expression was very focused, and he cleaned it very carefully, he scraped the medicine pool with a medicine spoon over and over again, scraped the medicine residue inside, and then poked the cloth into the medicine pool with a medicine spoon and stirred it vigorously.

The coarse black powder is very easy to slag, generally put a dozen guns, the medicine pool will be filled with slag, if not cleaned up, it will greatly reduce the firing rate of the flintlock pistol, in addition, the flint of the flintlock pistol should also be polished frequently, or it will also affect the firing rate.

"Hey, Boss Guo is bathing his daughter-in-law again, poking so hard, be careful to break it." A brother from the Shenji Battalion who had changed shifts walked in with his tent and saw Guo Jindiao maintaining the flintlock pistol, so he immediately quipped obscenely.

"Fuck off!" Guo Jindiao glared at the goods and continued to clean the barrel.

The brother smiled, lay down next to him and prepared to rest, and suddenly turned to Guo Jindiao and said, "Boss Guo, sometimes I think, our flintlock pistol is too troublesome to reload in front of it, if it can be replaced with a Franc cannon, with rear reloading, the speed of the gun will definitely be faster." ”

Guo Jindiao said lightly: "That's a rear-loading smoothbore gun, Miss Zhi'er is already trying to make it, it is said that with the addition of rifling or something, the shooting distance can be increased by three times, reaching six hundred steps, or even farther!" ”

"Really? When will it be built? The brothers lying in the tent sat up and said in shock.

Guo Jindiao rolled his eyes and said, "Lao Tzu is not Miss Zhi'er, how do you know when it will be made." ”

"Hehe, anyway, Miss Zhi'er is really a baby, she alone can be worthy of our Divine Machine Battalion, no, it is ten Divine Machine Battalion." One brother lamented.

Guo Jindiao nodded thoughtfully, not to say anything else, just the mines and grenades made by Miss Zhi'er helped a lot.

Click......

Guo Jindiao pulled up the hammer of the flintlock pistol, and then took out a paper bullet from the magazine, yes, it is a paper bullet, this is a quantitative paper bullet, the surface is a paper tube made of a layer of waterproof paper, which is filled with gunpowder and lead bullets, when used, as long as you bite through the bottom of the paper bullet, pour a small amount of gunpowder into the medicine pool, and then stuff the paper bullet into the barrel to be excited.

This kind of quantitative paper bullet is naturally invented by He Zhier, which can greatly improve the speed of reloading, and can also be moisture-proof and waterproof, with the rain cover of the flintlock pistol, it can be used even in rainy days, of course, provided that the rain is not strong!

Guo Jindiao skillfully filled the paper bullets, covered the lid of the medicine pool, and put on a rain cover.

The rain cover of the Ming army's flintlock pistol is mainly used to cover the flint part of the medicine pool, as long as the medicine pool is not wet by the rain, it can be fired smoothly, of course, if the rain is too strong and the rain flows in with the barrel, then there is no way.