"You are their squad leader, and after the rotation, you have to find the documents of the battalion headquarters, write down the specific situation, and the relevant departments will take care of the families of the martyrs." Major Li patted the reconnaissance squad leader opposite him with praise, "Everyone should be more careful in the future, you are going back and forth at night, so, that means that the current Tartars, even at night, will send cavalry to patrol?" ”

The reconnaissance squad leader thought carefully for a moment, and reported, "Yes, Major, the Tartars seem to have discovered the path we take most often, and have set up an ambush near that path.

According to the combat situation, these Tartars are all very tough, not only are they not afraid of death when fighting, but their personal combat skills are also very good, they walk like flying in the mountains, and we are similar to the scouts who have been trained in the mountains. ”

"Well, I already know about this matter and will pass it on to all the other reconnaissance squads, you go down and have a good rest, and you don't have to take that path again.

Today, the brigade commander issued a new order, our task has changed from reconnaissance to guerrilla and sabotage, and after the Tartars have passed through this area, we will lurk in the mountains to specifically attack the enemy's grain routes. After Major Li finished speaking, the reconnaissance squad leader beat his chest and saluted before leaving the tent.

Major Li rubbed his somewhat numb face with his hands, judging from the transfer of troops in the Tartars during this period of time, among the Jurchen Eight Banners, the two yellow flags that arrived in the front line area, plus the number of men and horses with the positive white flags were the largest. These are Dolgon's men.

Then, the Houjin side will definitely dispatch the main force, and the number of Houjin scouts in the Fuzhou area is simply too large.

Movement was also detected in the flank direction, and the blue banner of Zilharang began to restore the fort post station in the northeast direction.

The order issued by the brigade headquarters shows that the commanders also judged that the Tartars would attack Jinzhou in a big way, so they were not willing to lose more elites to test Houjin's movements.

After all, they already know the enemy's target, and it is not easy to cultivate elites, and since the beginning of this year, their reconnaissance battalion alone has lost more than 20 people.

According to Major Li's own estimates, there is no doubt that the Tartars will attack Jinzhou City in a big way, but it is still difficult to say how many people the Houjin army will dispatch.

At present, in the vast area between Fuzhou and Gaizhou, the Houjin army should have nearly 10,000 people, and further north of Gaizhou, it is already the hinterland of Houjin, where extremely strict restrictions are now in place, and it is impossible to send scouts to investigate.

Since the Houjin army landed in the Dalinghe area, it has suffered heavy losses many times, and it is impossible for the Houjin Tartars to attack the Jinzhou City garrisoned by the Huaxia army with less than 10,000 people.

Once the Houjin cavalry marches eastward, there will definitely be more men and horses behind them.

Therefore, he also understood the significance of this order issued by the brigade headquarters, the official road from Fuzhou to Jinzhou that has been repaired is a key point in this battle, and the subordinate units of the special service regiment and the scouts of the reconnaissance battalion now need to delay the enemy's forward advance as much as possible on this road, so as to buy more time for the retreat of Jinzhou City.

Major Li is still very proud of the overall performance of the troops under his command, and since they began to carry out the sabotage war on Fuzhou last year, they have caused a shortage of food in the city.

That series of actions made it impossible for the Tartars to supply the food used for the march of the army, otherwise, the Tartars probably would not have needed to transport food and hoard along the way, and then added a large number of scouts who came to encircle and suppress their own scouts, and then the General Staff and the intelligence department deduced the intentions of the Houjin Tartars.

If there is contact, there will be intelligence, and these things are summed up by Major Li himself during this period of time, and the 1st Mixed Brigade of the Huaxia Army has not only attacked the Houjin Army through continuous attacks, but also obtained a large amount of important military information.

"Battalion commander, there is a large amount of smoke and dust in the distance, judging that there are at least more than 1,000 cavalry on the march!"

Major Li turned his head to look over, it was a squad leader of the second platoon, he was running here from the direction of the observation stone platform on the flank, and the rest of the team members around him also looked over one by one.

Major Li immediately stood up, he subconsciously, as he used to be, lifted his backpack at his feet, and quickly caught up with the squad leader, neither of them spoke, and in a blink of an eye, he ran a distance of several hundred meters and arrived at the observation stone platform.

Major Li raised his binoculars, and his somewhat scratched lens showed the situation in the distance, and on the official road to the west, a large cloud of yellow-brown smoke and dust was raised, among which there were some black dots flickering from time to time.

"The Tartars are really here! Seeing the enemy like this, it seems that he wants to quickly besiege Jinzhou City with a rapid marching posture.

It's a pity that the Tartars miscalculated, and those young staff officers at the brigade headquarters have already calculated your actions.

Heralds, hurry up, first use the falcon to send a message to the troops in Jinzhou City, and then tell the scouts behind me to give all the things that the sappers handed over to us to Lao Tzu, I want to see how fast the Tartars can run. ”

After a loud "boom" sound, a puff of gunpowder smoke rose from the official road, and the dirt and small pebbles in the sky flew everywhere in the explosion, and even jumped dozens of meters away.

The Houjin cavalry behind the explosion site, in this explosion, tightened the reins violently, stopped and turned the horse's head, so as not to be injured by the flying stones, which caused a lot of chaos in the Houjin cavalry ranks.

Under the reprimand of the officers, the whole team calmed down a little, and a group of post-Jinba Yala, escorting more than a dozen Yu Ding of various flags, stepped forward and let them walk in the front to open the way.

This is a method that the Houjin army has thought of in the confrontation with Huaxia for so long, that is, to use people as a meat shield for mine clearance, these Yu Ding, as long as there is a slight pause, there will be a feather arrow "whoosh" behind them, and the Yu Ding can only speed up again and continue to move along the demarcated road.

Yue Tuo was two hundred paces away, looking at the situation in front of him with a blank face. He was the chief general of the vanguard army in this campaign, among which there were more than 500 Bayala of various banners, and these elites wearing bright silver armor were very conspicuous.

They were scattered in the queue, with different colors of back flags on their backs, or small flags hanging on the barrels of their guns, representing their respective flags, these Bayala elites were the confidence that Yue Tuo was able to surround Jinzhou City with a few thousand people.