On a hill on the side of Jinzhou, more than a dozen cavalrymen wearing tattered clothes in the style of the Ming army stopped next to a hill.

The leader jumped off his horse, told everyone to hurry up and rest, replenish their water, and eat some dry food, and then he himself lowered his body to the top of the mountain, and quietly poked his head out to observe carefully.

He tore open the marching rations in his backpack and slowly ate the water in the kettle while watching.

As soon as he saw someone looking at this place, he immediately retracted his head, hid for a while, and then changed places and continued to observe.

There is no way, the hills are bare in winter, and he can't help but be cautious, in this environment, once the range of movement is a little larger, he will be seen.

Moreover, he is now wearing the clothes of the Ming army, which is extremely poorly concealed, and if it is seen by others, it is a clear image, and it cannot be disguised at all.

He sighed silently in his heart, there was no way, this time, the command ordered them to disperse and explore to the north, and they were not allowed to wear the training uniforms of the Chinese Army or even camouflage nets, which was to attract the attention of the enemy army as a Ming army, if the purpose of the campaign was exposed because of the dress problem, it would really be a death.

Looking at the surrounding scenery, he slowly calculated the distance between several landmark buildings, and slowly looked for similar coordinate points on the map.

After a while, he saw similar terrain on a large-scale map, and after careful confirmation, he nodded and said, "This should be the southern slope, that is to say, just now we have crossed the hilly area of the Great Wilderness Mountain and the Little Wilderness Mountain, and came to the periphery of the Jinzhou Plain. It's about to come into contact with the Houjin Tartars. ”

At the foot of the mountain, in the team eating military rations, Zhang Damin untied his neck, grabbed a lice with a wipe on his chest, and pressed it hard with his fingernails to kill the lice, relieving a little hatred in his heart.

However, immediately, the other place itched again, and Zhang Damin finally couldn't help but hammer the ground irritably, and the old clothes pulled from several Dongjiang soldiers were full of lice, which really made the scouts suffer.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift. These soldiers of the Chinese Army have been living in the barracks with extremely strict sanitary conditions for many years, although they have been out and about for reconnaissance all year round, but with the help of insect repellent drugs, they have not had lice for a long time.

Now, in the face of the biting lice that they used to use, they can no longer adapt to it.

At this time, Zhong Shixin on the top of the hill retracted his head again, and when he saw his appearance, he couldn't help reminding, "Lao Zhang, bear with me, don't make too much movement, I see signs of people on the side of the hill." ”

Lao Zhang is also a veteran, and he knows the discipline when performing the task, so he immediately agreed, "Yes, platoon commander, don't worry, I will be patient." ”

Zhong Shixin smiled, and quietly grabbed a lice from inside his clothes and pinched it to death, and then raised the telescope to look around.

Because of its proximity to Golden State, the hills in front of it have gradually begun to become scarce, and the only mountain tops are extremely desolate, and even the farmland near the bottom of the mountain is overgrown with withered yellow weeds, and I am afraid that if it were not for the winter, even the official road would have been submerged.

In a clearing, there was a small fire that was about to be extinguished, and wisps of green smoke were rising. Zhong Shixin concluded that there were people here because of the fire.

You must know that this is a confrontation zone with the Lushun Ming Army, it is impossible for ordinary people to live here, and only some people who are accustomed to nomadic life and play a warning role will haunt here.

Zhong Shixin searched carefully, and suddenly, eight simple tents appeared in his field of vision.

The tents were set up in a valley a few miles away, and a small river that had froze most of it ran through the valley, and on the sides of the tents there were two cattle sheds, and a few half-sized men were driving the hundreds of sheep locked up inside.

And these sheep also showed impatience, and when they came out of the shed, they gnawed the grass roots on the ground and destroyed the ground.

On the hills around the valley, there are also figures on horseback that disappear and wander.

Zhong Shixin recognized the clothing and living habits of those people, and muttered to himself? It's the Mongols. ”

Nowadays, the Mongols are already standard in the Later Jin army.

In the beginning, most of these Mongols came from northern tribes such as Khalkha and Chahar, and after Chahar moved west, some small tribes in Khalqin, Tumut and other places defected to Houjin.

At the beginning, their establishment belonged to the Jurchen Eight Banners, and after Huang Taiji ascended to the throne, in order to consolidate power and disperse the forces of the other Baylors, he organized the left and right wings of Mongolia separately, which were under the jurisdiction of the Eight Banners in peacetime, and when it came to the expedition, he was commanded by two Mongolian Gushan Ezhen.

Later, with the increase of the attached Mongol tribes, the Mongol power gradually grew, and Huang Taiji established the Mongolian Eight Banners as a huge supplement to the military power of the Later Jin. Of course, now, with the arrival of Chen Xin, history has been changed beyond recognition, and the Mongolian Eight Banners have died before they have appeared.

Under the post-Taurus system, each banner regarded the population as its own strength and capital, and each department of the Eight Banners secretly concealed part of the Dingkou.

At present, these entries are probably the Mongolian entries of the Zhenglan Banner, and the Han Enters, who originally lived here, were either killed by the old slaves, or moved to the north of Haizhou. This created an emptiness in the area, and then they were resettled in the vicinity of Fuzhou and Jinzhou.

The Ming Dynasty's policy towards Mongolia was very practical, Mongolia in this era did not have any national consciousness and the like, whoever gave benefits would serve whom, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di recruited a large number of Mongolian officials, and there was no difference between promotion and treatment and Hanchen, so the number of Mongolians who served in the Ming army was not small.

Since the Later Jin captured a large area of eastern Liaodong and drove the Ming army to the Jinzhou area, the Later Jin had direct contact with the Mongol tribes.

Neither side is a good-tempered master, and the Houjin is also used to talking with knives in the conflict with the Ming Dynasty, so there are constant conflicts between the Houjin and the Mongol tribes.

Some Mongolian tribes have a deep hatred with the Houjin, but they can't defeat the Houjin with a few small tribes alone, so they can only seek other ways, so there are a large number of Mongols in the Guanning army, and there are even high-ranking officials like Mangui at the general army level.

The Jisi Revolution (the official name of the first Later Jin Invasion of Kou Daming Incident) greatly boosted the prestige of the Later Jin, and more Mongolians defected, and the status of these Mongols was generally higher than that of the Han Chinese.

Moreover, when they have military exploits, they can also give priority to the quota of carrying the flag, their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Jurchen Tartars, but under the strict battlefield discipline supervision of the Later Jin, their ferocity is not under the Jurchens.

At every situation analysis meeting of the General Staff, it was emphasized that no matter where the Houjin Tartars came from, whether they were Jurchen, Mongol, Bayala, Baoyi, or Aha, after encountering them on the battlefield, as long as the enemy had weapons in his hands, they would strike indiscriminately to the end until the enemy was powerless to resist.