"It's a May day, it's hot."

"This dog is not right every day!"

Liang Xing and Wang Changfu have the scorching sun on their heads, the right hand side is the endless mountain range, and the left hand side is the plain area from Li Zhuang to Guanzhuang Caizhuang, with only a few small hills.

The surrounding villages are undulating along the low hills, and the acres of fields and the houses of the villagers are faintly visible.

In front of them is a large plain area, a large official road straight to the north, that is the official road to Xinpingbao, there are several small roads staggered through, that is the intersection of the Acropolis of Zhenyu and the Acropolis of Tiancheng Yang and the Acropolis, which is much worse than the Daguan Road.

However, because of the proximity to Lizhuang, these roads have been rebuilt within a radius of dozens of miles, last winter Zhang Han saw that all the tenant farmers were idle, many people gambled and drank, of course, there were also a lot of strong laborers working in the workshop, but last year the scale was not large, the workshop could not absorb all the labor, so he paid for it himself, hired laborers to push stone grinds and related materials every day to renovate the roads, and now these small official roads have also been leveled, and they look completely different from other places.

The workshop in the core area of Li Zhuang is still in operation, and the sound of hammer forging is constantly heard, and black smoke is constantly rising from the sky above each workshop.

Behind them is a small river that flows very fast, this river is purely artificially artificial, under the auspices of Chang Jinquan and Kong Minxing and others, the river is artificially accelerated, even in the dry season, it is constantly diverted from the river to irrigate and drive hydraulic machines.

The whole vicinity of Li Zhuang, the first feeling to the newcomer is not like the place in the Ming Dynasty, everything in front of him is so strange and novel, giving people the impression that it is not only magnificent, but also a little strange.

Of course, this strange thing does not mean bad, but the reason why all kinds of wonders add up and give people a huge impact on people's perception.

As for Liang Xing and others, they have lived here for a long time, and all the changes are happening bit by bit in their eyes, for them, Li Zhuang is the place where everyone's soul is sent, and it is the most reassuring place for everyone, whenever someone is sent out by the public, after returning to Li Zhuang, there is a sense of relaxation.

It's so well run that everyone is like a big family.

Take the battlefield in front of him as an example, Li Zhuang's defense seems to be sparse, but in fact it is the most tight.

Mountains, rivers, canals, these things are the best natural defense, and the workshop behind them is also a sharp corner, overlapping diagonally, in such a place, it can only break through from the place where Liang Xing and others are stationed, it is completely impossible to make a detour or encirclement, only by choosing to break through from here, can you enter the core as quickly as possible, if it is a detour, it can only make yourself dizzy.

"Here we are." Duo'er, who was standing beside Liang Xing, had been listening attentively, and then he interrupted Liang Xing and Wang Changfu to remind everyone that the enemy had arrived.

Liang Xing perked up and said, "How many people haven't heard it?" ”

Duo'er said: "I can't hear this, but it's definitely not more than 10,000." ”

Listening to the number of people from the movement is the most basic reconnaissance skill, especially when the night does not collect the number of people who go deep into the grassland, they often have to listen to the number of enemies and the approximate distance from the sound of horses' hooves.

Wang Changfu said: "Respond to the banner and order the whole army to wear armor!" ”

The rumbling drum beat sounded, rapid and excited.

After a short drum beat, the flags of the general divisions of each division, the hundred flags of each bureau, the flags of each flag team, and the flags of the squad shook one after another, and the soldiers who were originally sitting and resting stood up one after another.

Most of the first row are jumping soldiers, that is, sword and shield soldiers, their iron armor is imitated from the iron scale armor that Zhang Han got from the nine sides, this kind of armor is very expensive, it takes a long time to make, and the weapon armor battle bureau takes a long time, and it is now less than 100 collars, fortunately, the number of jumping soldiers is not much, and there is only one establishment that is less than a bureau, and everyone can wear armor.

These iron armors weigh more than 30 catties, if you add the matching iron helmets, chain mail ton, arm guards, shin guards, iron mesh boots and iron gloves, etc., the total is more than 40 catties, close to about 50 catties.

The jumping soldiers are the first class of heroes in the army, the physical fitness must be the first class, but also the will, dare to rush to kill in the first row, and the fighting skills are outstanding, among which there are quite a lot of dart masters of the year, their personal martial arts and discipline in the army, this can be listed in the war team has a place.

For this reason, the salaries of soldiers are particularly high, and when they are transferred to the rest of the network positions, they will be biased towards military promotion.

It was not easy for the soldiers to put on their own armor, and the pikemen or the birdmen on the left and right behind them helped them to put on the iron armor on their bodies.

The pikemen and ornithmen also wore almost all iron armor, with the pikemen wearing domed helmets, and did not have armour guards and iron gloves like the soldiers, nor did they have iron masks, but only a layer of chain mail to protect the vital points.

It's the same with the birds, they have to keep their arms to play the birds, and they can't have arm guards.

The iron helmet of the bird hand is a round shape with a large brim, which is used to cover the fire door in rain and snow, and to avoid moisture as much as possible when loading the primer.

If you look down from the heights, you can see the flags unfurled, and the light of armor and weapons shines together, exuding a moving light.

Here, there is a whole team of nearly 3,500 archers from five divisions!

One of the Qingcheng Division and the Xinping Division is in Xinping Fort, the other has just been assembled and lurking outside the side wall, and the remaining five divisions, one division and two divisions are directly under the division, and they are also the two divisions with the most elite veterans and the most hard battles.

Then there is the Lingqiu Iron Field Division managed by Li Zhiye and the Lingqiu City Health Division managed by Li Laiye, and then there is the Tiancheng Division managed by Li Laibin.

With the cooperation of the Military and Political Division, the military order department first canceled the vacation of all the soldiers, ordered all the archers to assemble and stand by, and then with the cooperation of the military intelligence bureau to determine the enemy situation, and then Sun Yao's staff department deduced the march and battle plan of the northern captives, and then the military order department ordered the divisions to gather in Li Zhuang to prepare for the battle...... Almost all these things were carried out in Zhang Han's absence, of course, all military orders were also sent to Zhang Han, and they were implemented only after he confirmed it, and then even Sun Jingting and Li Dongxue went to Xinping Fort, and it was just after these people entered the fort that Xinping Fort was surrounded by the northern captives.

Because there was a plan for a long time, Li Zhuang was not panicked here, and besides, the siege of the northern captives was very loose, and the news in the fort could still be transmitted, Zhang Han's latest military order was that each division was commanded by Wang Changfu and Liang Xing, Li Zhiye, and Li Laibin, and on the battlefield, each division was directly commanded by Wang Changfu, and no one was allowed to disobey the military order.

Zhang Han, the battlefield commander of Wang Changfu, still believed that in the last battle to exterminate bandits, the south road was mainly besieged, but the east road was successively exterminated by more than 1,000 bandits, and there were more than 100 large and small battles, all of which were directly commanded by Wang Changfu.

At that time, Wang Changfu was also a petty officer in Jizhen, and participated in several actual battles against the northern captives.

Whether it is seniority or actual combat command and experience in front of the officers of various divisions, Wang Changfu is enough.

Even if Zhang Han was here, he didn't feel that his command of the battle would be stronger than Wang Changfu, and Zhang Han felt that he was definitely stronger than Wang Changfu in terms of firmness in grasping the overall situation and implementing strategic goals...... This family is his, and he will take on this responsibility if he is defeated, as for the command of a battle, he doesn't think that he will be stronger than Wang Changfu, and even Wang Yikui, Li Laibin, Li Zhiye and Sun Yao and others may be stronger than him.

The crowd on the battlefield was surging, and there were small-scale ups and downs and fluctuations in the entire long-line battle column, which was within the normal range, Wang Changfu observed the array, and made small-scale fine-tuning of some battle formations at the last moment.

The horses galloped back and forth in the reserved gaps of the array, bringing with them the latest commands.

After another quarter of an hour, the sound of horses' hooves became clear.

In a few moments, the tide of the North finally appeared on the horizon, and then it got closer and closer, and the number of people seemed to increase.

It is obvious that from Xinpingpu, in addition to walking through the mountains or farmland, it is the most time-saving and energy-saving way to spread and run along the official road.

If the Beiyu want to beware of the border army of Datong Town rushing over, taking Lizhuang in the shortest possible time and plundering the wealth, they will inevitably take the shortcut with the least effort.

The cavalry was very chaotic for a while, after all, the Beiyu may not have expected to encounter a large number of thousands of enemies here, judging from the experience of the two hundred years of entering the army, the Beiyu is not very wary of the local guards or there was no civil armed forces at all before, the Han people have never been as good as the Beilu in the civil armed forces, not like the Beilu is a middle-aged man can be regarded as a cavalry, the Han people usually do not hold a group, do not train, it is impossible to form a combat regiment to practice, and during the Taiping period, the imperial court will not allow or encourage the establishment of such an organization.

The invasion of the northern captives has always been to guard against the elite cavalry led by the Ming generals after the breach, rather than to prevent such a situation in front of them.

"It's a pity, our cavalry hasn't formed yet, and we didn't catch up with this battle." At the moment of the great enemy, Wang Changfu said with regret.

Duo'er is also related, and so is Zhu Dayong, who is beside him.

Zhu Dayong and the elite cavalry both put on heavy armor and became a part of the jumping soldiers, although the soldiers are also a great honor, but Zhu Dayong must have wanted to ride on the war horse, wear a stubborn and courageous advance, and slash the enemy on the horse with a sword.

Duo'er looked at Zhu Dayong and said, "My lord said that the new plate armor is being developed, and there is also the vest worn by the war horse, don't worry." ”

Zhu Dayong nodded and said, "I hope this battle is the last time our cavalry will be used as infantry!" ”

Due to the lack of restraint from the horses and cavalry, the northern captives were able to easily spread out the formation and reorganize the team, and the chaotic cavalry kept galloping back and forth, constantly reorganizing the queue half a mile away, if there were hundreds of elite horsemen rushing at this time, I am afraid that the Mongols would have spent ten times more time to reorganize the queue.