"Raise the fire!"

With Zhang Shixiong's military order, the chaser battalion lit up a large number of torches. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This is the end of the Yanshan Mountain Range, a large area of mountains in the south, the winding mountain range has the Great Wall and a hollow enemy platform, there is a large area of Duntai military fort in it, and occasionally you will encounter the Ming army's night sentry here.

More than 100 years ago, this will be an important part of the Ming Dynasty nine border army town to prevent autumn, every year to the end of summer when the border army will dispatch a hundred miles away, a large number of burning grassland, open up a considerable isolation zone, if the north captives go south, they will encounter considerable difficulties in the autumn zone, in the case of the border army is strong, the generals are responsible, the method of burning autumn is enough to make the northern captives unable to go south in large numbers.

After twilight, the mountains are like monsters lying on their stomachs, full of knee-deep half-withered weeds, and the terrain is undulating, showing a mixture of flat grasslands and hilly and mountainous terrain, and near the mountains there is a fairly dense woodland, the trees are very high, and the leaves rustle with the gentle dance of the breeze.

It was dark, the moon had not yet risen, the stars were dim, everywhere there was a feeling of not being able to see their fingers, and the chassars felt the heat of their mounts...... After a long run, they received orders from the ruined capital to the north, all the way to the vicinity of the monolithic fort, where no large force of northern cavalry was found, and after dispersing some small northern captives, the chasseur battalion was ordered to move east along the mountains and hills, and after nearly two hundred miles deep, the small northern cavalry gradually increased, and the chaser battalion began to hide in the hills or forests during the day, and continued to march at night.

"We seem to be in the middle of the North." Li Sushen, deputy commander of the battalion, said to Zhang Shixiong: "It is considered to be in the encirclement. ”

Zhang Shixiong smiled and said: "Our chasers were originally able to operate behind enemy lines, and such a loose encirclement is nothing. ”

All the officers nodded lightly, and the people were very calm, especially Zhang Shixiong, who had a lot less murderous aura. It is also strange to say, the more battles are fought, the more enemies are killed, these men are not like other troops to break the strings tightly, the team is a little loose compared with other troops, when the officers speak, the chassars casually control their mounts into a semicircle, people light torches one after another, illuminating a large area, the sentries scatter sentries in the distance, they do not play torches, only occasionally there is a specific rhythmic whistle sound, indicating that there is no warning of the enemy situation ahead.

The soldiers' demeanor was a little lazy, there was a small talk with each other, and the officers were not too forbidden, and there was no explicit order to march silently, so there was no need to worry about this idle matter.

Some of the soldiers were still eating, and they had rested all day in the forests and valleys during the day, and for several days they had not eaten hot food, and everyone ate cold food.

Zhang Xianzhong sat on his big green horse, gnawed on a large piece of mutton jerky, and smiled at his comrades-in-arms: "You love to eat that canned food, but in fact, it is cooked and then packed, and no matter how it is, it will lose its taste." It's still good for this jerky, and it tastes good. ”

"Huang Hu, it's so good for you to have such teeth."

"But no, this jerky in Beiyu can be chewed by ordinary people."

"And the cheese, which smells weird, and it's also a loss for the Beiyu's mouth."

"We don't have the Yellow Tiger here, and it's not much better than the Beiyu."

The chasers were giggling, not taking their current situation seriously.

These days, he has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the enemy area, and although there are not many northern captives, there are several camps that have been copied, and a considerable amount of northern captives have been supplied.

Large pieces of tea bricks, piles of mutton jerky and goat milk milk products, these things are not very accustomed to eating it, many people directly lose it, and some people feel that eating large pieces of meat is better than eating canned food and dry food.

"Let's go to war." After eating a long strip of jerky, Zhang Xianzhong was wiping his mouth with his backhand, but he didn't dare to wipe the military uniform, as a newcomer who joined the merchant army for only a few months, although he has been out of the category of the new army, Zhang Xianzhong is not very accustomed to some habits in the merchant army, such as the importance and maintenance of military uniforms and military boots, the copper buckle on the military uniform must be wiped every day, the chest label and badge must be dismantled and washed once in a while, and the military uniform is several sets, wipe clean, oil, polish...... Zhang Xianzhong was elated every day, but when he sorted out his housekeeping and participated in cultural classes in the evening, he felt that life was worse than death.

In the past few months, Zhang Xianzhong, who was almost illiterate in big characters, has already recognized several big characters, and it is estimated that it is impossible to become an officer, from a team officer-level sergeant all the way to a battalion-level sergeant major, it is estimated that Zhang Xianzhong's road to join the army is the end.

If you fail the cultural class, no matter how significant your combat achievements are, you can't be an officer, this is the iron law of He Yusheng, and no one can make an exception.

The ambitious Lao Zhang was frustrated, but there was no resentment in his heart, this regulation was not aimed at him alone, there was nothing unfair, he couldn't learn it himself, and he had to blame others. At this time, Zhang Xianzhong didn't have much anger...... At this time, Lao Zhang is a young man who has traveled through the rivers and lakes when he was a teenager and has seen a lot of the world. He has learned too much injustice, has some innate cunning and wisdom, has a natural magnanimity, loves to make friends, and dares to make decisions.

"Huang Hu, the boss called you over!"

"Yes!"

Hearing that it was the battalion commander's call, Zhang Xianzhong did not dare to slack off, drove the war horse with his legs, and quickly galloped towards where Zhang Shixiong was.

"Huang Hu, do you mean you walked through Da Pankou?"

"Yes, battalion commander." Zhang Xianzhong said with his head held high: "In the forty-fourth year of Wanli, my subordinate and my father went to Dapankou to sell goods, when we were selling dates in the area from Zhangjiakou to Kill Hukou, and later my father planned to sell goods from Zhangjiakou to Santunying and Dapankou. Later, I felt that I was not familiar with the people here, so we went to Sichuan, who knew that his mother's Sichuan people were even worse......"

"Alright." Li Sushen smiled at Zhang Xianzhong and said, "You have to think about bitterness again." ”

"It's not about singing bitter songs." Zhang Xianzhong said with a serious face: "Those big gentry and grain are good and bad, and of course the people are good and bad, but they are all fucking bad to outsiders, and our masters have really suffered too much and suffered too much in Sichuan." ”

"Hmm." Zhang Shixiong nodded and said, "Since you are familiar with the path over there in Dapankou, I have an important errand for you to do, and I want to shuttle behind enemy lines, do you have the courage to do this?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong grinned and said, "Isn't the commander bluffing us?" Aren't we behind enemy lines right now? ”

All the officers laughed when they heard this, and Zhang Shixiong also laughed a few times, but then he said with a straight face: "It's different, we only have a few Beiyu here, and the camp can be withdrawn at any time, you have to go and see what the Beiyu are stirring up on the side of Dapankou, what kind of mystery is being made, so you have to go deeper, you may be surrounded by the Beiyu brigade, it is much more dangerous than following the brigade." ”

Zhang Xianzhong said: "The small group of people is actually not afraid, the grassland is big, this side is close to Yanshan, there are strange peaks and rocks everywhere, drill into the ravine, it is difficult to hide if there are many people, and it is easy to hide if there are few people." ”

"Okay, in that case, this mission will be assigned to your own squadron, and you will be a sentry sergeant." Zhang Shixiong said: "In addition to your squadron, I will add you seven more small sample Franc planes to accompany the team, and allow you to abandon heavy weapons at a critical moment, whether it is urgent or not, it is up to you and the officers of this team to judge." ”

"Yes!" Zhang Xianzhong saluted and said very decisively: "I must complete the task!" ”

"Don't be greedy." Zhang Shixiong said: "The lives of the brothers are more important than the merits. ”

"Yes!" Zhang Xianzhong's heart suddenly felt moved, with what he saw and heard in his early years, as well as his experience in the Ming army, Shangguan who could say such things was really unique except for the merchant army.

In the darkness of the night, the entire squadron was quickly ready...... If the belongings are not necessary, they are all as light as possible, everyone's bedding, blankets, lunch boxes, canned food and other supplies are left on the main side, and everyone only brings simple marching dry food and a water bottle...... Bring as many firearms and ammunition as possible.

Almost everyone is a long and a short two firearms, the original chasers all use the cavalry, after the encounter between the cavalry and Houjin, the power of the cavalry is not great, the problem of shooting can not reach far is exposed, the chasers quickly replenished the rifle at the first time, the power of the rifle is enough, but it is not easy to put it immediately, so the chasers still keep the cavalry, and even each person is a match of two cavalry with a rifle, as well as a handtool, a short crossbow, a short axe, a spear and other throwing weapons at far and close range......

Every chaser was armed to the teeth, and most of them were battle-hardened soldiers, and it took less than a quarter of an hour for the entire squad to be ordered to set off lightly, and almost all of them were ready.

The squadron has 56 people, plus 14 temporarily transferred Franco-gunners, a total of 70 people, and the squadron itself has two tiger squat guns, which has surpassed the Ming army by one bureau in terms of firepower.

The cavalry formed a line of twos, with Zhang Xianzhong and another experienced horse thief-turned-sentry in front, the team members and the Francophone artillery in the middle, and the squadron leader and several other small guns in the back.

People walked eastward along the mountains, shuttling between meadows, dense forests, and hills, and occasionally the sound of gurgling water, which should be a tributary of a large river, but no one wanted to find out, and the river meant fertile pastures, and it was likely to encounter the pastures of the northern captives.

Towards dawn, the chasers dived into a small valley, hiding themselves by the weeds and shrubs that were half a man high, while feeding and resting their horses.

The cavalrymen, with the exception of the officers on duty, rested after feeding their horses, lay on the ground, fell asleep soundly smelling the smell of dirt and weeds, and soon their cries rang out.

At this time, the squadron leader handed Zhang Xianzhong a telescope, and the latter began to observe nervously.

There were endless mountains within a few miles in front of him, and finally Zhang Xianzhong found a hollow enemy platform on the mountain, and after finding a gray defense line that was winding like a dragon and snake along the hollow enemy platform, Zhang Xianzhong let out a sigh.