Chapter 479: Sentinel Rider
"The Tartars' actions are very strange, are they going to capture Jinzhou or not?"
Jinzhou has Muye Mountain in the east, East and West Hongluo Mountain in the west, Xingshan Mountain in the southwest, Rufeng Mountain in the southeast, and Daling River and Xiaoling River in the east. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoShamao Mountain and Putuo Mountain are more than ten miles west and northwest of Jinzhou City.
At this time, in the forests of Putuo Mountain, there were several Jingbian Army sentry camps that did not collect at night, holding clairvoyant mirrors, looking at Jinzhou City under the mountain.
Feeling the strangeness of what happened in Jinzhou, Wang Dou mobilized a large number of nights to conduct detailed detectives on the local area, and without enough intelligence support, he never acted rashly.
As early as before the battle of Loess Ridge, there were a large number of nights that did not collect, and under the leadership of Wen Daxing, the commander of the sentry battalion, they scattered to Jinzhou to reconnoiter in all directions. They crossed the Xiaoling River, the Daughter River, and the Daling River, and had a wide range of activities, including Jinchang Fort, Shahe Fort, Daling River Fort, and all over Yizhou, all of which were the targets of their reconnaissance.
However, compared with previous wars, hundreds of thousands of troops in this battle were entrenched in a narrow area, and the scope of activities was inevitably smaller, and the danger was greater, because the Qing army had strengthened the intensity of hunting and killing against the Ming army's sentinel cavalry, especially against the Jingbian army's night retreat, and many Jingbian troops had been killed at night.
At this time, these nights are not closed, all dressed like local people, only wearing chain mail inside, and carefully not letting the reflection of the clairvoyant mirror reveal their location.
These are the lessons of blood, and there was once a brother in the sentry camp, because he held a clairvoyant mirror in the sunlight and looked out, but was detected by the Tartar Baya sentry horse, and finally was outnumbered and killed in battle, and even the corpse could not be recovered. Therefore, the sentry camp summed up the lessons and lessons, did not look out in the sun, tried to be in a dark place, and also avoided the clairvoyance mirror being illuminated.
Putuo Mountain is called the first Buddha Mountain outside the country, the scope is vast, the strange caves and strange stones are continuous, there are many places to hide, but these nights are still cautious, the mountain is not far from the camp of the Tartars, it can be said that the enemy is surrounded, if you are in the tiger's lair dragon pool, you can't be careless.
And because the enemy horses galloped on all sides of Jinzhou during the day, they all went out day and night, trying to act at night.
When he returned from Liaodong, because of his military exploits, he was promoted from the original general to a thousand generals, and he was also rewarded with a meritorious service worth 200 points, and if it was exchanged for land, it would be 200 acres of fertile land outside the Saiwai.
Beside him, there is also Yu Mao'er, the official who does not collect the team at night, and similarly, Yu Mao'er also obtained military merits because of his exploration of Liaodong with the second post of Long, and was promoted from a commander to a team officer, and he was rewarded with a large number of meritorious deeds.
Beside Yu Mao'er, there was also Qian Hai, a sergeant who had just joined the Jingbian Army, who wore a shabby cotton jacket and a folded scarf.
He snuggled quietly beside a large tree, his emaciated body seemed to merge with the shadow of the tree, and he clearly knew the trick of getting out of the whistle.
In fact, the military uniform that the Jingbian Army does not collect at night is a short-bodied crimson armor, which does not have arms and hands, and is mainly fast and light. However, if you go out of the outpost, this dress will inevitably be eye-catching, which increases the danger of exposure, so if it is not for the outpost detectives, everyone will dress up in disguise if they go out at night.
At the foot of the mountain was the great camp of the Tartars, and everyone was very careful, and the mouths of each horse were chewed, and the hooves were wrapped in cloth. The old rule, every night, has three horses, so that they are extremely mobile, relying on many excellent horses, when encountering a large number of enemy horses, they can often escape.
They are the arms with the most horses in the Jingbian Army, in fact, a qualified cavalry also needs three war horses, one for the main horse and the second for backup. Wang Dou really wanted to equip his cavalry battalion with three war horses per person, but such a battalion of cavalry would require 10,000 war horses, and at present, he could not afford to raise them. …,
Long Erhan squatted beside a big rock, so that the shadow of the big stone wrapped his whole person, he held a clairvoyant mirror, and looked down the mountain with a smart look.
Looking down the mountain, the Xiaoling River is like a cloth belt, meandering between the brown and yellow fields to the south.
On the south bank of the Xiaoling River, is Jinchang Fort.
On the north bank of the Xiaoling River, in the northwest of Jinchang Fort, at the foot of the south of Putuo Mountain, there is Shahe Fort.
And from Putuo Mountain to the east, more than ten miles away, is Jinzhou City. Jinzhou is located in the ancient tower area of the later generations, and it is not very far from the place of Longer, and from the clairvoyant mirror, you can clearly see the situation over there.
In the clairvoyant mirror, it seems to be boundless, and the tide-like Qing cavalry is storming Jinzhou City.
The sound of artillery, the shouting of the besieging party and the defender of the city, is faintly heard even in the distance. There are also dense Qing soldiers with service, who are going in and out from Jinchang Fort and Shahe Fort, transporting heavy wagons and horses back and forth.
Xiaoling River into Shahe Fort, through the southwest of Jinzhou City, although it has dried up, but it is not a section of people and horses that can wade through the water, just see the section of Jinchang Fort, across both sides of the Xiaoling River, densely build a pontoon bridge, on the bridge deck, there is a flow of people like ant colonies.
In Ryuuji's opinion, although the Qing army's attack on Jinzhou City was huge and fierce, he vaguely felt that they didn't seem to be doing their best.
These days, he also observed that the Dasheng Fort and Dafu Fort Qingqi in the west of Putuo Mountain have continuously gathered in the area of Jinchang Fort and Shahe Fort, and the defenders of several forts have been withdrawn. Before the Battle of Loess Ridge, Long Er had sentry into several forts over there, and each fort was defended by at least a few thousand soldiers and horses, and now it is empty, what does it mean?
Although the personnel who went out of their outpost only collected reports, and the suspension in the inner was analyzed by special personnel, Ryuuji still couldn't help but ponder the meaning of the Tartar in the inside, and he also observed that the Tartar soldiers in Jinchang Fort were in frequent contact with the Tartar soldiers in Baimiao Fort, and there seemed to be a conspiracy in it.
"What are the plans of the Tartars, it's better to grab a few live mouths and ask."
Ryuuji thought so, but compared to before, now the Tartars are not easy to catch, and they are all in groups when they are sentry, and the lone Tartar soldiers are almost gone.
This made it much more difficult for the Jingbian Army to obtain intelligence.
"This time, we must find out the specific information of the White Temple Fort!"
When he was on the horse, Xie Yike thought so.
At this time, he led a team of Jingbian troops to stay at night and was galloping on the field leading from Daxingbao to the Daughter River.
The sound of hooves roared, although there were only fifty people in the group, but each person had three horses, and most of them were fat war horses, and the sound of hooves hit the yellow earth, causing a lot of momentum.
The terrain is flat, with the occasional hilly, very gentle, and along the way, there are some small rivers that can be seen from time to time, but most of them are dry, and the iron hooves rush by, stepping on the shallow water, and rattling.
At this time, it was already unitary, and there was still some time before it got dark, which was just right for Xie Yike, and when he arrived at his daughter's river, it was just getting dark, so he could touch the river while it was dark. There is no way, the Tartar soldiers are on both sides of the Daughter River, and the guards are too tight. If it was broad daylight, it would not be possible to avoid the endless sentry cavalry of the Tartar soldiers.
They even guarded dozens of miles up along the Daughter River, and also arranged a large number of hunting dogs, so that the sentinels of the Ming army could not outflank them from upstream. Of course, the Ming army's sentry cavalry is not impossible to outflank it upstream, but it is inevitable that it will be outflanked too far.
Because the Qing soldiers were heavily guarded, in order to reconnoiter the intelligence of Baimiao Fort, the Jingbian army did not accept them at night, and had already lost many manpower, and every time Xie Yike thought of it, he hated it in his heart, so he decided to go out in person. …,
During this time, he stayed in Daxing Fort, in addition to the local soldiers and horses in Liaodong, there was also a part of the new army of Wang Tingchen, the general soldier of the former Tun Guard, and the castle was not far to the south, which was the Wudaoling Mountains.
Like the Changling Mountain defense line of the Jingbian Army, a three-dimensional upper and lower firepower attack defense line was also set up in Wudaoling Prefecture, and the new army under the command of Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen stayed in the mountains.
Xie Yike has an active temperament and likes to make friends, and during this time in Daxingbao, he can be said to be in harmony with the local guards. Of course, there is also Xie Yike who is a general of the Jingbian Army, and he is also the brother-in-law of Uncle Zhongyong, and everyone deliberately makes good friends.
When he came out of the fort, the guards in the fort also sent him off warmly, and before leaving, he also entertained Xie Yike and others with a sumptuous dinner.
After everyone left the fort, they traveled all the way, the four fields were depressed, and there were few people in the wilderness, and a faint desolation was coming.
In fact, before the battle of Jinzhou began, from Daxingbao to the daughter river area, it was also considered to be a dense tunbao, after all, the soil quality in this area is excellent, there are many rivers everywhere, drinking water and irrigation are very convenient, but hundreds of thousands of people are fighting together, and the military households of each fort have to avoid the major forts, and these tunbao are temporarily abandoned.
Everyone passed through these forts, and in many places only the remnants of the houses and broken walls, and the surroundings were dazed and silent, and there were few traces, as if Xie Yike and them were the only living creatures left in the wilderness of this heaven and earth.
However, Xie Yike didn't have so much emotion, when the horse was galloping, his mood was happy, ah, this is the life he likes, nervous and exciting.
At this time, although there was only one team of people who followed him to investigate, among these dozens of people, there were many generals who did not end at night, which can be said to be more officers and fewer soldiers.
Wen Daxing's entire sentry camp is only 600 people, divided into three thousand generals, although Xie Yike is a thousand generals, he is only in charge of 200 people. At this time, in addition to him, the general manager of the team, there was also a general manager Ma Ziren, but when Chongzhen was in the ninth year, he used to sentry with him at night.
Thinking about the extremely peculiar fate, Xie Yike was the captain back then, and took Wen Daxing, Li Youde, Huang Guozhen, Ma Ziren and others out of the whistle.
A few years have passed in a blink of an eye, Wen Daxing has become the commander of the sentry battalion, Xie Yike has become his subordinate, and Ma Ziren has also been promoted to the general, and after Xie Yike returned to the sentry camp, he returned to his command. It is a pity that the brothers of the same team back then, Huang Guozhen, Li Youde and others were all killed in the battle.
The brothers of the first sentinel detectives, each of them has a very different fate. )