No one noticed that on the high mountain in the southwest direction of the oblique side, a small group of merchant soldiers was lying on the back of the mountain beam, silently observing the situation here. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At this time, the distance was closer, and the entire team could see the Great Wall winding like a long snake above the lofty mountains.

Zhang Xianzhong held the binoculars and muttered: "Not far to the west is the Gubeikou, the mountains are higher, the terrain is more dangerous, the Great Wall is rebuilt by Qi Dashuai when he was in office, there are three urns in the Gubeikou, the east is not far from the general's building, from the mouth into the south straight into the direction of the capital, to the east is Jinshanling, Dapankou, Sima Tai, Wangjing Tower, the terrain is dangerous, the mountains are like gathering, there are mountains everywhere, and it is very precipitous, the Great Wall is built along the mountain, there are enemy platforms and Tibetan military buildings everywhere, the Great Wall here has been rebuilt during the Jiajing period, Rammed earth covered with bricks, majestic and unusual, not comparable elsewhere. ”

The squadron leader smiled: "Huang Hu, you said that you can't read a few words, now listening to you, how can you look illiterate?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong was stunned at first, then patted his leg and said with a smile: "It's true, we ourselves can speak so methodically and eloquently without realizing it." ”

"Wen Cai is a fart, give you a ladder and you will go to the room." The squadron leader took the binoculars and looked over, and the scene outside the gate happened to be clearly visible.

"The door is closed." Zhang Xianzhong said: "Urn City, closed gates, city towers, at least two or three thousand people, along the other towers there are soldiers and horses stationed, the north has no chance to attack hard, I heard that from Jizhen to Xuanda are under martial law." It's funny to say that we have always only played three points of our strength in the north, but in the imperial court, it is like a great enemy...... It's obvious how strong and weak you are. ”

The squadron leader smiled: "You fucking sergeant, it's the right thing to do when you analyze the general situation." ”

"To fight or not to fight?" Zhang Xianzhong said: "We are about 400 steps away, and the terrain is dangerous, but with the range of our artillery, it will be in vain." We were to get closer to within three hundred paces, and we were to be exposed on the march, and we were to go down from the top of the slope to the halfway point of the slope, and if the northern captives rushed at us, we would be embarrassed. ”

The team officer frowned and said, "What do you have in mind?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong said: "You still have to use the strategy of doubtful soldiers, I have a thought, I will listen to you, and it will be successful, and if it doesn't work, we will go back to restore our lives." ”

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Both sides wanted to complete the delivery of the silver as quickly as possible, the Ming army was not very pleasant, and the governor was still waiting for the return, the Mongolian mood was not very good, I wished to take the silver and leave as soon as possible, count clearly, take the receipt, the Ming army began to return to the city to wait, and the Mongolian side began to carefully tie the silver box to the horse.

Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, it takes time to tie up, and both sides can only wait patiently.

Behind both sides are their respective back-ups, neither of them nervous, but their actions are relatively urgent.

At this time, everyone heard the loud sound of military trumpets.

By the slanting glow of the twilight, everyone saw a silhouette on one side of the valley.

A soldier of the merchant army stood on the slope with the endless mountains behind him, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone behind him, and the warrior began to blow the trumpet with one hand on his waist and the other in his hand.

"The merchant army is a chassar!"

"Oh my God, those demons!"

Although the Chahar people are sluggish, and their understanding of the merchant army is far less profound than that of the Mongolian tribes in the west, the two sides have been fighting for so long, at least the merchant army has a few branches, and what are the characteristics of each army.

For many of the shepherds of Mobei, the chasers are their terrifying memory. Compared to the performance of the Lancer Regiment in the Tumut Division, the performance of the Chasseur Battalion was firmly superior to that of the Lancer Regiment.

Beneath the red military robes are the unscrupulous devils, sharp attacks and merciless fighting style, the chaser battalions passing through each tribe are like a hurricane blowing, and each tribe that has been patronized by the chaser battalion will leave the most painful memories.

It didn't take long for the Chahars to hear about it and actually comprehend it, as long as the tribes that had been attacked by the chasers were far more miserable than the rest of the merchant army, and they had reached the point where the Chahars were shocked and frightened when they saw it.

The Mongols who came to receive the silver were out of touch with their brigades, more than a hundred silver boxes had been mostly loaded on horses, but the riders were not in place, and most of the northern captives were in a semicircle facing the Ming army who closed the gate and went out of the pass to send the silver, although they were not afraid of the Ming army's remorse, but they still had to be just in case.

The herdsmen were carrying the silver chests, and when they saw the trumpeter in the big red army uniform appear on the top of the hillside, all the herdsmen froze, and they couldn't help but stop moving, and their eyes were wide and they looked at the hillside in amazement.

After the top of the slope, there is a high slope, the mountain peaks are layered on top of each other, the sun begins to slant to the west, and the golden sunlight shines on the soldiers in the uniform of the Great Red Army, as if it is a sacred and nameless statue.

The winding Great Wall is on the peaks behind the red-robed soldier, as if it has been guarded by this red-robed soldier since ancient times.

With the sound of the military horn, several military flags slowly but firmly appeared behind the slope.

The flag bearer is the standard red army robe of the chaser battalion, and the mountain wind is very strong, and the general's robe is blowing backwards, and the knight against the background looks heroic.

"It's them!"

At this moment, even the high-level officials of the North who were big in the brain were shocked.

They couldn't imagine how these chasseurs had passed through the mountains, through one Chahar tribe after another, and raided from thousands of horses.

The soldiers of the Ming army were shocked, they didn't know who arranged the army in such a deep mountain, on the top of the mountain, and they didn't know who arranged for them to put on such a state of surprise attack?

The imperial court gave the silver, and the governor of Jiliao waited for the return of the northern captives to withdraw to the depths of the grassland after taking the silver, and the elder Sun Ge of Liaodong Jinglu only considered his own one-third of an acre of land, and had no way to move the Chahar Department westward, or even paid no attention to it at all...... Historically, during the period when Chahar moved west and even attacked Datong, the border officials of the Ming Dynasty were indifferent, leaving only a few records of debate about whether to take food out to help the poor Mongols...... From the Apocalypse years, the disaster on the grassland is particularly serious, from the Chahar people in the east to the Tumut people in the west are the same, the long-term drought without rain and freezing disasters on the grassland has no harvest, the pasture has withered in a large area, the large-scale death of livestock has become very serious, and the situation of the Mongolians' lack of food has become very serious, and it is almost freezing and starving in the Chongzhen years, from the Apocalypse to the Chongzhen year, in addition to Lin Dan Khan's request for the city reward originally given to the Tumut Shunyi King, The Mongol tribes from the east to the west had asked the Ming to give grain or reopen the horse market, and the Mongols were willing to trade in exchange for grain.

As a result, several border chiefs could not make a decision, and the court was also in dispute.

To give grain is to buy the Mongol tribes so that they do not cooperate with the Houjin, and there are disadvantages of the enemy because of the grain resources.

In case the grain is given, the Mongols still choose to stand aside with the Houjin, so isn't the Ming court a wronged grandson, not only to suffer the immediate loss, but also to ridicule the future generations, and become a joke that has been passed down for thousands of years?

And insist on not giving, it is directly and affirmatively pushed the Mongolian ministries to the side of the Houjin, the original ministries were under the coercion of the Houjin and swore an oath with it, but there may be sincerity, hypocrisy and falsehood, if the attitude of the Ming side is cold and ruthless, these northern captives dare not rob themselves, and cry and beg, then they can only follow the Houjin to use force against the Ming Dynasty.

This is a military account and a political account, but none of the Ming court and frontier officials have calculated it clearly, and it is a confused account until death.

How could such a military and political officer really understand what kind of existence the Shang Tuan Army was, and be able to clearly know the characteristics and dress of the various arms of the Shang Tuan Army, and let his subordinates understand that there was really a new force on the grassland, which was completely different from the previous Northern Captives, who were born in the Ming Dynasty, and in fact had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty?

Behind the silhouette of a few flag-bearers, a large cloud of smoke and dust rose from it, and then a whole group of red-robed cavalry appeared at the top of the hillside, each armed with a long gun, and several officers with shiny swords, all the cavalry officers pointed their guns or sabers at the bottom of the hillside hundreds of paces in front of them.

All the Mongols felt threatened, the herdsmen began to run around, and the soldiers were also in disarray, today they dispatched more than a thousand people, most of them stayed outside Lixu, originally to reassure the Guan Ming army, but now it seems that they have harmed themselves.

A dozen guns were pushed forward again, and in full view, the guns began to rapidly push down the hill from both wings, and when they reached the halfway point of the mountain, the red-robed cavalry also began to slowly pour down the hillside, and behind them, there were still large patches of smoke and dust.

Under the eyes of everyone, the gunners began to fix temporary gun emplacements...... This thing is also very simple, the small sample Franc machine weighs more than 150 pounds, and it can be fixed with a few sandbags carried with you.

The tiger squat cannon is only 36 catties, and the tiger squat cannon of the merchant army is slapped with a long abdomen, which can be loaded with more gunpowder to expand the power, and the front claw fixes the gun position, which is quite convenient and fast.

In the past, the artillery of the Ming army was not slapped, and the belly was short, and the medicine was weak and weak, and later Qi Jiguang improved the artillery body tube and lengthened the belly of the gun, in fact, it can have a greater impact force, strengthen the gun body, plus the cannon slap, it can withstand more charges, add the front claws, and can quickly fix the gun position.

To the north, the land is vast and sparsely populated, the opponents are all cavalry-based northern captives, the battlefield is vast, the cavalry moves extremely fast, erratic, the small cannon is not very useful, and the quality of the artillery made by the Ministry of Engineering is getting worse and worse, and now the Ming army in Jizhen has five hundred people and a tiger squat cannon, which is really useless.

The chassars had four Tiger squat guns and two Franc machines in each squadron, plus seven Franc machines added to the battalion headquarters, and more than a dozen guns were placed in full view, and the gunners began to load the medicine......