While talking, the squad leader did not forget to call on the soldiers to hurry up and dig the bunker, once the fight started, the degree of completion of the bunker largely determines the survival rate of the fighters, so, even if it is a chat, as a squad leader born as a non-commissioned officer, he will carefully supervise the excavation progress of each soldier.

"Let's continue from the topic just now, in terms of regular soldiers, Ming Guo and Hou Jin rely on helmets to identify, and in others"

At this time, a recruit raised his hand, and the squad leader temporarily stopped talking, "What's wrong?" ”

"Squad leader, I don't quite understand, didn't the Jin side say that it was divided into eight banners, and the colors of the armor and flags also changed according to their respective affiliations? Why didn't I hear you talk about the color of this armor? ”

The squad leader smiled, "I knew you would ask that, hehe, do you know how many soldiers are there in the Eight Banners?" If everyone's armor had to be re-dyed, where would they have so much dye? Do you think this is a place where the dyeing and weaving industry is developed in the Ming Dynasty? ”

"Huh? So, is this statement wrong? ”

"No, it can't be said that it is wrong, the owners of their eight banners, as well as the part of Bayala that directly belongs to the banner owner himself, and at most some of the officers, the armor of these people is indeed dyed according to their respective affiliations.

As for the rest, just those poor ghosts in Houjin, hehe, you know. ”

Everyone nodded abruptly in understanding.

The squad leader continued to explain, "After talking about the regular army, next, there are those irregular troops.

On the side of the Ming Kingdom, in addition to the professional battalion soldiers recruited, there are several different military forces, such as the guard soldiers, and then the border soldiers in the Nine Border Region and so on.

You also know that as early as the Jiajing period, it was unusable, when Qi Jiguang was handsome, he denounced the combat effectiveness of the guard and established the world-famous Qi family army.

However, the guard was set up by Zhu Chongba, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and it has been passed down for hundreds of years, and it is not that it can be withdrawn.

These guards who served as laborers and could not fight, in the name of soldiers, were always pushed out as cannon fodder at early and critical moments.

In addition, there are the nine-sided soldiers, these soldiers, in the early years, were still known as the elite of the nine-sided army, but most of the troops, with the financial constraints of the Ming State, could not pay military salaries and gradually began to collapse.

Similar to the guards and nine-sided soldiers of the Ming Kingdom, there are also such a part of the Houjin side, that is, the Eight Banners Yu Ding, and the clothed soldiers.

The way to distinguish these armies is also very simple. The first thing is to look at the head, the guy who has shaved his head and combed the ugly money rattail pigtail is the one who is post-gold.

Oh yes, money pigtails, you know? It's the kind of long, slender braid at the back of the head that can pass through the eye of a copper coin, which is extremely ugly.

If both sides are wearing helmets and can't see the door, then there are other ways to tell the difference.

The best way is to distinguish by clothing, because the system collapsed, the military families were poor, and basically dressed like beggars.

The soldiers of the Nine Frontiers are a little better, at least, when the finances of the Ming Kingdom improve, they will find a way to reissue a little money and food, so most of them can still wear the Mandarin Duck Battle Jacket of the Ming Kingdom.

On the Houjin side, the remnants of the Eight Banners are all messy and wear everything, which mainly depends on what kind of clothes their fathers and brothers grabbed when they went out on the expedition.

Whether it is the flower jacket of the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law, or the long shirt of the rich family, as long as it can keep them warm and keep them warm, these remnants will not care about what style or anything like that.

The coaters are even more miserable, most of them are draped in a sack or quilt, and in winter, they put the grass in it to keep warm, which is very easy to recognize. ”

The squad leader's words stunned everyone who listened to them, and they simply subverted the three views.

"Squad leader, this, this, how do you sound like you're talking about a story? That's a bit exaggerated, right? ”

"Hey, that's an exaggeration? You must know that the reality is often much more exaggerated than that commentary, and when you take on the Houjin side, fight a few rounds, and capture the prisoners, you will know what exaggeration is.

Do you think, why did Houjin be able to fight the Ming Kingdom turtle and didn't dare to go out in the city? Is the Houjin Eight Banners really invincible as they say?

Joke, we have been fighting with them for so many years, when have we ever seen the so-called invincible?

Isn't it because the Houjin side is poor and unsuitable for survival, and if you want to survive, you can only risk your life to fight and rob, and hundreds of thousands of robbers have gathered together to create their current military advantage in the face of the Ming Kingdom.

The desperate fighting style of these robbers, when they encountered our bullets, they were beaten like mice, and the year before last, 20,000 gold tartars came to commit crimes, and they were not disabled by us. ”

Everyone looked like they were being taught.

On the other side, just a few words from a row of chats, the sergeant major had already mounted his horse to the Houjin scouts.

This team of 5 Houjin scouts, one of them has already untied the reins of the horse, turned over on the horse, saw that there was actually a person rushing on the side of the Huaxia army, and immediately greeted his companions to hurry up and get on the horse, and he ordered another cavalryman who was already on the horse to outflank him with him to solve the Huaxia army that was coming.

The horses of the two sides quickly approached, and just outside the range of the Houjin army's habitual cavalry shooting, the sergeant major took the lead in opening his bow and arrows, and two feathered arrows were shot out one after another.

The little leader of the Houjin Sentinel on the opposite side was not weak, although he was surprised by the distance of the Huaxia soldiers on the opposite side, but he was not careless, and subconsciously shrank his neck.

Then, with a whoosh, the sound of breaking through the air passed through his head, and then quickly moved away, and not far from him, the scout who had outflanked him let out a scream and fell off his horse.

The little boss was scared out of a cold sweat when he landed, what the hell? At such a distance, how did the guy on the other side shoot so accurately? Even the best archers among the Mongols did not dare to shoot their bows at such a long distance.

The sergeant major didn't care about the psychological activities of the little leader of Houjin on the opposite side, and when he saw an arrow shooting in the air, he didn't stop, and the remaining three feather arrows in his hand shot one after another, hitting the Houjin scout who had just mounted on the horse on the opposite side and was about to accelerate to support this side.

After three screams, the three scouts fell to the ground.

And the frightened scout leader was the only one left, and he was about to meet the sergeant major.

With a "poof" sound, the saber was unsheathed, and the scabbard made of good iron was deliberately used to sharpen the knife in peacetime training and combat, and the sagre of the sergeant major was sharpened extremely sharply at this time.

This is a method that can only be used by veterans of cavalry units, and it must also be veterans of a hundred battles who have survived many years of bloody battles, and those ordinary soldiers still use the kind of leather scabbard that cannot play the role of rubbing the blade.

There is no way, fighting on a war horse, it is extremely dangerous, and in the case of high speed and high concentration, it often hurts yourself or the war horse under the crotch.

The faster the saber is sharpened, the more convenient it is to fight, but once there is a mistake, the damage will naturally become heavier, so not to mention that few people in the entire Marine Corps can use iron scabbards.

Even among the cavalry units, the veterans used swords with open blades, and few dared to assemble iron scabbards.

The use of an iron scabbard means that this person has absolute confidence that he will not hurt himself on his horse. Throughout the ages, there are really not many people who have this kind of self-confidence.

Before Chen Xin crossed, the information he read showed that some of the regular cavalry under Napoleon had learned this habit, and in the end, there were not many who could stick to it, and most of the cavalrymen who played with swords all year round gave up this way of showing their self-confidence for various reasons.

Gossip aside, at this time, seeing that the Huaxia soldier on the opposite side drew his shiny long knife, the leader of the Houjin scout would not sit still, temporarily suppressed the fear of the powerful archery skills of the opposite person, and also pulled out the scimitar.

The moment the sergeant major and the Houjin scout leader staggered, the two of them swung their strongest blows at the same time.

In less than a second, the war horse staggered, and a round head fell from the ground, and the slender braid clearly indicated the identity of the head.

It took several minutes for the two sides to get closer, but it didn't take even a second to fight and decide the winner, which is the cruelty of this powerful class of cavalry.

Historically, the countries that can train strong cavalry are all nations with strong folk customs and martial spirit, and countries like sissies will never be able to train real cavalry.

The sergeant major came to the scouts who had fallen to the ground, calmly mended the knives one by one, and then, wiped the blade on the brightly colored women's jacket of an enemy, which was regarded as a tribute to the original owner of the clothes.

Then, naturally, he led the Mongolian horse, which had lost its owner, unloaded the bullets from the chamber of his rifle just in case, turned off the safety, and walked slowly towards his camp.

Over there, the second batch of engineering units planned to land is already transferring tools to the shore.