There were originally tens of thousands of residents in the Kuandian area, and there were many large and small roads that were opened up, but there were no decent roads in the Suzi River Basin and Ya'er Kuizhai area, and even if there were, they had long been abandoned and shrubs and weeds grew up. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Last night, people watched the cavalry composed of dozens of horses move forward slowly, camels carrying supplies, the Ming army-like people used machetes to cut the road in front, the speed was very slow, but no one would think about chasing them, as far as the eye could see, it should be five or six miles away, but to climb over more than a dozen mountains, and the road was blocked by shrubs and dense forests, it was impossible to pursue on horseback, only the locals could find the roads in the woods and mountains, and when they found it, those Ming troops who had left early did not know where to go.

Huang Taiji watched the team slowly leave, and the Ming army seemed to see them, but they didn't care, these people slowly disappeared from sight, like silhouettes, until the sun and shadow fell in the west, as if they could still see them shuttling through the mountains and forests.

Huang Taiji is a little strange, why the Ming army will rush supplies from north to south, the north is the hometown of the Dong Ebu of the Suzi River, and it is not where the original tile city is located, and there are no large number of residents, I don't know what the materials of the Ming army are.

"Today's Ming army, it is estimated that it is the letter from the group of people last night, they came to ambush us." Dismounted and hiked up a higher steep slope, Huang Taiji really saw that there were about 400 Ming troops on the bank of the river outside Lixu, they were standing on a dirt slope on the west bank of the river, the grass was knee-high, the armor was shiny, and the red flag seemed to be hunting under the east wind.

"This Ming army is quite elite." Huang Taiji commented: "The armor is distinct, it seems to be the best iron armor, the banner is strict, no soldiers move, no one talks to each other, not like the ordinary Ming army, the array is chaotic when the battle is in battle, the flag is unknown, the words of the soldiers are boiling, the rumors spread very fast, once my division cuts through the flanks, the Ming army is in chaos, the generals can not stop their soldiers from fleeing, the soldiers do not ignore the banner and walk, only know how to run, and are pursued and killed by my Dajin cavalry one by one, the most distinctive is the battle of Shaling, 60,000 Ming troops and all my eight banners are equivalent to Dingkou, But almost all the soldiers who were killed survived, and the main reason was the chaos in their own positions. Looking at its array today, although there are more than 400 people, the array is quite neat, and the atmosphere is strict, this is a strong enemy. ”

Huang Taiji commented with great interest, but at the same time, he ordered his subordinates to gather immediately and prepare to go to the river to invite battle.

The two sides are not separated by miles, and the Ming army is in Hexi, so there is no intention of retreating, if this is the case, of course this battle will be fought. Although Huang Taiji feels that the other party's array is neat and the atmosphere is strict, and the armor is excellent, it must be the elite of the Ming army, this battle is not easy to fight, but no matter how difficult the battle is, as long as it is encountered, it must be fought, the Jurchens have been fighting from the forest and the mountains for decades, Huang Taiji has experienced the battle formation since he was able to get on the horse, and he doesn't know how many battles he has fought in the past few decades.

The Ming army had the advantage of being in front of the formation, and fighting near the river, which was a strong bonus if the will was strong.

Huang Taiji began to dispatch soldiers and horses, he decided to use the curved array to engage the Ming army, he and the guards were divided into four strands, fan-shaped at both ends, there were a small number of the most elite dead soldiers in the middle as guerrillas, and then put on the vests of each Niu Lu after the guards, Dolgon's soldiers and horses He decided to put them on the far right side of the curved array, and this part of the soldiers and horses would not be used until the last resort.

The curved array is a very strong attack array, and the later Jin soldiers were originally used to use the dead soldiers in front, the elite vests impacted, and the white armor supervised the camera and moved, and then the ordinary infantry armor and flag soldiers shot arrows before the formation, and turned around when rushing into the formation, not fighting with the enemy.

In this way, it can be guaranteed that every battle will be won, and even if the ordinary flag soldiers and infantry armor, as long as they often win battles, and the management is quite strict in peacetime, the distribution of the spoils of war soldiers is also inclined to the elite, everyone is brave, and everyone wants to be an elite soldier, as long as this system operates normally, the elite soldiers will continue to be produced, and if the war puts the ordinary battalion soldiers in front as cannon fodder, and the generals and elite family members hide behind the battle, then most of the battle formations will collapse at the touch of a button, but it will be counterproductive.

Nuerhachi is really a good student of Li Chengliang, in fact, many of Houjin's tactics come from the Li family, kicking the formation with elites, and sweeping and killing after breaking the formation, which is also Li Chengliang's famous skill.

After the Jin soldiers began to climb over from the side of the mountain, they were composed of white armor and more than 300 vests and bannermen recruited by the bulls, they were led by the flag to the left side of the fan-shaped formation, the right side was led by Dolgon inlaid with white flags of more than 300 people, the front of the fan-shaped formation was also divided into left and right, the soldiers and horses were divided into four strands, composed of less than 200 elite guards and heavily armored vests, when crossing the mountains and going to the riverside grassy beach, the Houjin soldiers were abandoned horses and walked, they began to put on armor when they were hundreds of steps apart, and the Ming army was infantry, The sentry saw that there was no sign of an ambush within a radius of several miles, so the Houjin soldiers could approach calmly, and then abandon their horses and put on their armor.

The guards and the white armor are all wearing silver bright armor, all of which are polished quite dazzling iron scale armor, these battle-hardened Jurchens began to calmly put on the thick armor on their upper bodies, helping each other to tie it tightly, their bows and weapons are placed at their feet, once the armor is completed, they hold the soldiers and bows to stand in their own position in the formation, they have experienced a hundred battles, know how to swing out, how to arrange, each squad knows their position, Bashiku and Bashiku stand in their own position, Zhang Jing and Niu Lu Ezhen are standing in front of the array, under their command the guards and vests quickly put on their armor and swing out, the sharp soldiers are in a state of swimming, the armor is completed early, in front of the fan array into a positive arc and reverse arc small array, a large array will be completed, these sharp soldiers will rush forward, with this small array to interfere with the Ming army's large array, or counter the Ming army sent by the guerrillas.

Except for the twelve-year-old Dolgon and a few Baoyi, every Jurchen present is a battle-hardened formation, this time they have more than 800 people, and the Ming army is only more than 400, which is completely in a state of more strikes and fewer blows, and the Houjin soldiers have quite a lot of elites, and the Ming army looks good, it should be the personal soldiers of an important general in Dongjiang Town, but that's it, many girls and real people encourage each other to kill this group of barbarians in the shortest possible time, although it is impossible to grab food or gold and silver, But the iron armor worn by these Ming soldiers in front of him is also a good harvest.

In the country of the pure military system of the Houjin, armor and fine iron weapons are also extremely important wealth, the Ming army is all iron armor, a collar of good quality iron armor is worth at least tens of taels or even a hundred taels of silver, for a soldier who often goes into battle to kill, there is nothing more important than armor.

When the Houjin soldiers lined up, the Ming army on the opposite side did not move, and the whole array was like a lifeless rock, this kind of scene made many Jurchens feel faintly uneasy in their hearts, in their memory, even the most elite general Neiding, when facing against the superior Houjin soldiers, there will be emotional fluctuations, or angry scolding, or commotion, there has never been a Ming army to give people such a cold and stable impression.

The Sichuan army array at the time of the bloody battle of the Hunhe River was also like a rock, so that the Eight Banners had no way to start, but the angry scolding of the Sichuan soldiers and the fluctuations of the array were still quite obvious, after the artillery bombardment, the white pole gun array of the Sichuan army was also declared broken, as for the Zhejiang soldiers who set up the camp array, the toughness was worse than that of the Sichuan soldiers.

The Sichuan soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers were already the Ming army that had made a deep impression on the Eight Banners, and the performance of the rest of the northern border troops was quite unbearable. For example, He Shixian during the Battle of Shenyang, Yulin Jiangmen was born, the family was mainly from the Western Army, and most of the troops were the Ming Army of Liaodong, when He Shixian took the initiative to lead 30,000 subordinates to fight, He Shixian killed a number of Houjin soldiers with super high martial arts, including Bai Jia, his subordinates also fought bravely to kill the enemy, and their momentum was not weaker than the Eight Banners.

But when the Eight Banners are surrounded by superior forces, whether it is a battalion or a family, the only thing to do is to escape, the battlefield of cold weapons, tens of thousands of people on the battlefield to slash each other, the possibility of encountering the enemy at the first time is not very large, often when the soldiers on both sides do not know what is going on, the victory and defeat have been divided, it is very simple, one side maintains the array, the other side is chaotic, the victory and defeat are immediately separated, there are no exceptions, there is no resistance without the array, and personal martial arts are meaningless.

When the Houjin soldiers lined up, they only had one feeling, there was an unshakable rock on the opposite side, and they did not take the opportunity to attack because they were afraid, but because they were fearless.

It is also like a fierce beast squatting on the ground, its whole body is tightened, its four claws grasp the ground, and it is ready to jump up at the most opportune time to give the opponent a chance to fight.

Huang Taiji's face also became solemn, he was at the front end of the fan array on the left, beside him was the white armor or guards wearing silver armor, the horse armor soldiers were a little ahead, both wings were a mixture of the white armor and the horse armor, a small number of horse armor and most of the infantry armor flag Ding at the bottom of the fan, this is a standard attack formation, both sides such as pincer and hit, with more strikes and less hits, the opponent is sandwiched in the middle of the fan formation, if you break through smoothly, you can smoothly sandwich the opponent's main formation in the middle, both wings strike together, the enemy formation is easy to be defeated.

Originally, Huang Taiji could also use a straight formation, and the Eight Banners used a straight formation to destroy the front and break the formation, and the round formation was used with less strikes and more time, and the phalanx and the circle formation were also set up for defense when camping, and the curved array was a formation to lure the enemy, and the enemy could be defeated by attacking deeply on both sides.

Today, with more strikes and fewer strikes, of course, it is impossible to use a phalanx or a circular array, but the Ming army camped on the mountain, and the array was quite neat.

If the Ming army was inexperienced during the attack and tried to advance to drive away the attacking Eight Banners, it would be the end of the Ming army.

The Ming army is a standard phalanx, defensive formation, the front is divided into ten teams, four corner guerrillas, ten teams on each wing, the middle should be a command array, there is a military flag standing, the red military flag is flying high, but the emperor Taiji and the sentry cavalry can not see the name of the general written on the red flag, if you look closer, you can only see a red flag without words.

Huang Taiji looked at it for a while and said: "They don't use the flag as a flag, but according to the size, the largest one is the middle, the team of more than a dozen people has a small flag, and then there are dozens of people who are larger, and more than 100 people have a flag, and the flag of the Chinese army commands more than 100 people, and the banner of more than 100 people commands the flag of dozens of people, and then commands the flag of the squad. ”