When the sky was twilight, and the morning star was still bright, all the soldiers in the camp got up. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The battle was carried out by nine battalions of dragoons of the 9th Regiment, including a number of jumping soldiers, pikemen, musketeers, combat engineers, and cavalry artillery companies with the battalion.

The formation of the dragoons is still in progress, so the ninth regiment is actually not fully formed, if it is full, the ninth regiment alone will have a complete attack and defense force, and there are about 5,600 people, which is equal to the three main barracks of the Ming army, which is enough to have the strength to take charge of itself.

In the large battalion was not only the Ninth Regiment, but also a complete cavalry battalion, most of the chasseur battalion, and half of the dragoon battalion of the Ninth Regiment, adding up to more than 5,000 people, and nearly 5,000 baggage soldiers, but they were still three days away.

The journey was very hard, and by the ninth day, the food and grass of the brigade were already insufficient, and after Ren Jing discussed with the staff officers and military and political personnel, it was decided to reduce the ration of the soldiers, which was only half of the previous one every day.

In this way, it can hold out for about seven days, even if it is not optimistic, it will definitely be the end of the battle, of course, if the Khan Department avoids the battle, there is no way...... Dragoons are indeed infantry on horseback, but imagine that the cavalry is chasing and fighting fiercely, the lancers can't do it, only the chasseurs can.

If you are optimistic, in three years there may be more than a dozen battalions of chasseurs, as strong as they were at the beginning of the formation, with strong firepower and unparalleled mobility, so that they can pursue any enemy they want to pursue, and now there is no doubt that it will not be possible, no matter how strong the chasers are, take a few hundred men to ram the tens of thousands of enemies who are already armed and ready to fight, this is also something that cannot be done in any way.

If you can't fight, of course, you can camp in place and wait for the convoy of troops in the rear to catch up.

Ren Jing had to put a number of squadrons of chasers along the way, they were as alert as hunting dogs, and they would generally sentry out for more than two to three days, and found that a large force of enemy troops wanted to cut off grain and grass on the back road, they could not only give the main force enough early warning and rescue time, and even could use mobility and combat power to delay the enemy's attack, but in terms of organization, it is much stronger than the family, so the upper echelons of the military division, including the commander of the army, are not too worried about being copied back, which is also the reason and confidence for the main force to dare to leave the grain team for several days.

When the aroma was permeating, the troops began to have breakfast.

After dawn, there was a shout of killing from time to time, but the Khan sent more sentinels this time, the merchant army dispatched no more than 200 chasseurs, but the enemy in order to save morale but dispatched thousands of rangers to drive away the chasers near the camp, both sides kept breaking out shouting and killing, although separated by a long distance, but the soldiers in the camp still heard quite really.

The first thing the dragoons did was to take care of their horses before they began to eat breakfast.

Everyone is lined up according to the team to receive the meal, after the meal is cross-legged on the grass for breakfast, the breakfast is very rich, in the middle of the night the gang leaders began to prepare, steamed meat steamed buns and millet soup with salt and cold dishes, everyone is feasting.

There were almost no recruits in the 9th Dragoon Regiment, and the replenishment of soldiers in the past six months was quite limited, and more recruits were in Kuandian or Taiwan on Phi Dao, and almost all of them were veterans on the grassland.

After many years of war, every officer to soldier has rich battlefield experience, and some low-level officers have experienced it from dart division to bandits, they are quite experienced, and they patrol around when the soldiers are eating to see if there are any subordinates who are wrong, and at the same time, the loud voices of the military and political officers fill the camp, even if they are all veterans, the military and political officers have to make sure that there are no soldiers who have a psychological breakdown when they are about to fight.

When the soldiers finished breakfast, the officers began to check the battle attire, for the jumping soldiers had already been prepared, they had already sat cross-legged near the camp gate, dozens of pounds of equipment had been worn on their bodies, only the iron helmet in their hands or on their knees, long knives and shields on the grass, everyone seemed very comfortable, usually these soldiers were not good-tempered, there was a kind of arrogance, their salaries and lancers were of the same grade, slightly higher than the artillery, they were all proud in the army to have the opportunity to be selected, Although the number of these soldiers is small, these guys always think that they are the strongest group, and they also have the effect of fixing the sea god needle on the battlefield, so they usually walk with their nostrils facing the sky, except for retaining some respect for the lancers, basically they don't look at the rest of the troops.

At this moment, these guys are smiling softly, and many of them are grinning and telling jokes, and from time to time they burst into laughter, which forms a sharp contrast with their usual murderous appearance.

While waiting for the inspection, a firecracker saw the smiling heavy infantrymen who were leaning forward and back, and he looked at the shining iron armor glowing, mostly piercing armor, a small amount of iron scale armor, a layer of chain mail or cotton armor, a neck, arm guards, heart guards, shin guards, iron gloves, iron mesh skirts and other equipment, these soldiers are all iron men. Although quite a few dragoons were also equipped with chest and rear cuirass, which was only stronger than scale armor in terms of anti-stabbing and stabbing, most of them only wore front and rear cuirass and iron helmets, and musketeers only wore cotton armor or chain mail, and the cuirass was preferentially equipped with lancers, and then the dragoon pikemen, and there was still a shortage of two to three percent in the troops, which led to many pikemen only wearing chain mail or ordinary piercing armor.

Although the pikemen of the dragoons also had cuirasses, the warriors were really armed to the teeth.

"Don't look at it, boy, you are an honest firecracker." Deputy Squadron Leader Qin Bosheng patted the thin young man in front of him, compared to him, the other party's physique was indeed too far behind.

"Can we fire guns with breastplates?" The firecracker said to Qin Bosheng: "In this way, the vital points of the front chest and back are protected." ”

"No, the thick armor will affect our play." Qin Bosheng checked the other party's outfit very carefully, to see if the cotton armor was tightly tied, to see the amount of water in the kettle, to see if the cowhide belt was not fastened, and there were ammunition boxes made of cowhide of different sizes around the waist, which were loaded with gunpowder and ground round lead bullets, and then looked at the spare ammunition belt, and after reading it, it was tied and hung on the chest, and then there was a spare flint, once the flint of the flintlock pistol had a problem, the soldier should learn to replace it as soon as possible. Then he looked at the dry rations, the entanglements, the bayonets and daggers to be polished, and after the final inspection he patted the soldier on the chest, motioned for the other to get out of the way, and called the next one to come forward.

Looking at the musketeers who were still a little nervous, Qin Bosheng turned his head and smiled: "Don't worry, our musketeers just shoot the muskets, I guarantee that you can't see what the enemy is like, and this battle will be over." ”

"The captain is bragging again."

"But don't really say it, our firecrackers generally rarely get close to the enemy in close combat, first put it down, the enemy rushes up and it is the soldiers and pikemen who come forward to meet the enemy, let's retreat and reload and wait for orders, I have fought many times in the north, and I really didn't see what the enemy looks like."

"It's nothing if you're really desperate...... A few dozen taels of silver a year should be fought, retired as a soldier for ten years, to Tunpu as a town, to manage petty theft, every day in the fort is a day to pass, find a tavern to drink two glasses at night, go home to sleep, think about how beautiful this day is. ”

"Let's fight, let's fight." The firecracker, who was a little nervous at first, took a deep breath and said, "I can't wait. ”

"Don't pretend, you kid." Qin Bosheng turned his head and smiled: "You have only been a soldier for half a year, you are considered a veteran, you haven't caught up with the big battle, you see those soldiers, they collapse in peacetime, and they deliberately laugh and relax during wartime, the more nervous a person's spirit is, the more panicked he will be in the war, and it is easy to deform his movements, you remember, nervous people die early, relax your own mood, it is regarded as a training." ”

"Well, it's a training session."

A small group of firecrackers were all moved by Qin Bosheng's words, sure enough, those soldiers were the most relaxed, the soldiers rarely replenished, and they rarely transferred to other units, many soldiers would rather stay as soldiers than transfer to other units to be sergeant majors, so the proportion of veterans in the soldiers is quite high, and it is really the best to adjust the emotions before the war.

After Qin Bosheng finished inspecting the squad he was responsible for, he turned elsewhere, it took him a year and a half from a soldier to a deputy squadron leader, which was not fast, this rank was still temporary, because he had not graduated from the military academy for more than half a year.

Now the army is being reorganized, the number of officers is very small, the number of officers in Hutchison is very small compared to the Ming army, and it is even less pitiful than the officers and soldiers of later generations, Zhang Han believes in a turnip and a pit, there is no civilian in the army, civilians serve in the military department, and there are no officers in the army who do not go to the battlefield, each officer has to be responsible for a lot of affairs, the management of the merchant army is complex and professional, Qin Bosheng is the deputy squadron leader, he has to cooperate with the squadron leader to do a lot of officer work, and the whole squad is also under his sole responsibility, which is a kind of training, For temporary officers who did not come to the military academy and entered the military academy, the army is also a big classroom, and they can learn things that cannot be learned in school.

The dragoons have been converted into three squadrons, three squadrons and a squadron, three squadrons and a company, each company has its own standard-bearer and trumpeter, drummer, after Qin Bosheng announced that the squad inspection was completed, the rest of the various squads and squadrons were also inspected separately, and finally the company commander came to inspect, and after the completion of the report, it was reported to the flag upwards.

In Ren Jing's position, you can see the red company flag waving constantly, the sky is faint, the morning star has been dimmed, red and gray streams gushing out from the camps, the trumpets and drums are constantly beating, the flags are unfurled, all the soldiers stand under their own team flags, the squad stands under the squadron flag, the squadron flag and the company flag converge, and then the company and the battalion flag of each battalion converge, all the soldiers converge into a rushing river, forming a fairly dense marching army column, the chassars are actually very few, Most of the chasers are already miles away, after dawn, Ren Jing sent almost all the chasers out, now not only can you hear the sound of firecrackers, but also hear the sound of sporadic artillery, the chasers will carry small artillery, and after a long period of training, they can be loaded and fired in a few minutes, if you find the right firing distance under the premise that the northern captives are not on guard, it is very likely to bring heavy casualties to the enemy, of course, this opportunity is not easy to find, so if it is not besieged or sneak attack, The fact that the chasseurs opened fire only stated that the enemy was outnumbered and had to be dispersed with the help of artillery.