Chen Jiujing was indeed like going home, and the Xiyong Battalion under his command was no longer familiar with the roads here, and the soldiers and horses from all walks of life quickly dispersed to do what they had to do.

He led Margaret and the 800 Jurchen horsemen of the White Mountain Battalion and the 1,002 Korean bird gunners to pull the field artillery, and slowly advanced towards Bordeaux in the north.

Kanguru's cavalry, most of the horses in the army are Spanish Andalusian horses and French Perche horses, and most of them are wearing plate armor, and some of them still have freshly repaired bullet holes.

But those who have heavy armor are called Tiefutu, and those who wear light chain mail and piercing armor are called kidnapping horses.

As for the hard-working Xiyong battalion, they took the new equipment they had purchased in the Spanish seaport, the small carts, and scattered at the beginning of the landing to raise food and grass for the army.

During the march, Margaret couldn't help but be curious about Yang Ce's troops, and while resting through a lush vineyard, Queen Navarre raised her face armor and asked while wearing her armor and eating grapes, "Those Han black slave soldiers, I have never heard of such a unit in your country, they look too strange." ”

Her rustiness is not that she wears a hand armor, but that she has leather gloves under the hand armor, which is very flexible.

The rustiness comes from eating grapes by herself like Chen Jiujing, which is very novel to her.

"In the Ming Dynasty, slaves are not prosperous, and the Han State should not be prosperous, they are the African Army under the command of General Yang of the Han Kingdom, and they can make up for our military disadvantage against the Wang Army, they are all good sailors, is it strange?"

"Troop inferiority? All right. Margaret made a simple addition and subtraction in her mind, subtracting ten thousand from fifteen thousand, and then nodded: "They have no armor, no helmets, only knives, axes and muskets, and they have not dispersed since they disembarked, and they have to line up to rob them...... I've heard that they have to line up to go into the tent to sleep. ”

Before she finished speaking, Chen Jiujing had already laughed: "You can't catch up with the heat when you eat." ”

Yang Ce brought a full 5,600 African troops, except for the 1,000 warships left in the coastal sea, the others were scattered by 100 households with a long line led by ten small flag officers after docking to look for battle profits, but where could their slow maneuver compare to the more loose Xiyong battalion?

"I didn't expect General Yang's troops to be like this."

"Actually, neither of us is the elite of the Ming Dynasty, and I don't understand why my father-in-law let the best flag troops rest in the New World, maybe the Spaniards who were guarding against it. The process of training our elite is very complicated, unlike you who directly recruit troops to fight, General Yang is an excellent officer, but there is an old saying that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. Chen Jiujing nodded one after another with a deep groan, sighed and said, "I understand him very well." ”

Chen Jiujing can understand.

Yang Ce had neither the energy nor the time, so he trained his subordinates according to the Ming Dynasty drill code to become the elite of the five disciplines of infantry, artillery, water and cavalry like the ideal Nanyang Banner Army.

He didn't have the resources to buy armor and decent heavy weapons for each soldier, let alone take care of the casual nature of African soldiers, and he really couldn't think of any qualities that could arouse the honor of the soldiers' family and country by kidnapping nobles for a living.

However, the endless tribal warfare in Africa provided him with a far larger source of troops than the Han State, and his loose nature could be restrained by strict military law, and the poor and embarrassed African soldiers only needed a well-fitting purple cloth uniform to be grateful to him in a short time, and the extremely short training time allowed him to let the soldiers master as few necessary talents as possible.

"Their officers are all Nanyangs, and the soldiers are Africans, and they will only line up, in horizontal formations, in columns, in phalanxes, and they will move forward, backwards, turns, and they will stand and shoot on the move, General Yang said, although some people do not have muskets, but every soldier can."

Chen Jiujing spread his hands as he spoke: "Other than that, the officers don't teach anything, and they don't know anything...... Grass cares about human life. ”

"So whatever you do, you have to line up, and without formation, his soldiers don't know how to fight, and the soldiers can understand the orders of the officers, but because they don't understand each other's words, it's easy to break up in a hurry."

In Chen Jiujing's eyes, this is a disabled army, which is only suitable for the possible battles with the indigenous people in Africa, and without that, this army is a waste.

Marguerite also noticed this problem, she opened her exaggerated big eyes, waved her hands and said: "But he has no horses, no cavalry, and not many spearmen, and it is difficult to turn in line, and only a hundred cavalry can break them up by thousands, especially the French cavalry." ”

"That's why I asked Toledo to go to Bordeaux, I can't go to Billund."

One of the three marshals canonized by the French king, Baron Billun, who came to deal with King Henry of Navarre, this official title was automatically translated as Chief Officer Billon in Chen Jiujing's mind, and then wantonly speculated about the changes in the battle situation, and said: "Tomorrow the Spanish army still has not retreated, Bordeaux will send someone to deliver a message sooner or later, if Billund's army can be brought over, the danger of Cahors City will be solved." ”

With Chen Jiujing, the very inconspicuous thing is that Margaret has always been able to learn new idioms, she reminisced about the meaning of the solution, and nodded happily: "Henry said that Billon has 10,000 troops, how will you deal with them?" ”

Chen Jiujing knew that the queen was very curious about war, and she tried to learn every bit of knowledge she could hear, so he raised his hand and pointed in the northeast direction, and whispered: "Carlos, the general of my Xiyong battalion, said that the Dordogne River in the north is very wide, and it flows five hundred miles from east to west, and it can split their retreat, and they cross that river, and I will try to keep them here." ”

In Margaret's eyes, Chen Jiujing said this in an extremely subtle and cautious manner, as if calmly stating a fact that had happened, which was different from her pre-war harsh words in this land, and she had great self-confidence.

But what country and which general in the European continent dared to say so confidently that he would leave 10,000 elite royal troops behind when he was commanding a similar force?

To her, such Chen Jiujing looks very charming!

"But what if Baron Billund is a clever and seasoned soldier who is good at commanding cavalry and artillery?"

"Huh? Not coming? ”

Margaret stopped Chen Jiujing.

Chen Jiujing frowned, to be honest, he really didn't think about what to do if Billund didn't come, he had already preconceived that Bordo's radius of 100 miles would be the next main battlefield, because he really couldn't figure out the reason why Billund gave up Bordeaux, the most important and prosperous province in Guienne Province.

"Bordeaux is much more important than Cahors, would he give up protecting an important town that is still in his hands in order to regain a castle that has been lost?"

In the end, the young General Chen didn't think of a solution, so he had to point in the direction of Bordeaux in the north and spread his hands: "If he really doesn't come, then I will compensate you for Bordeaux." ”