The cheers continued for an unknown amount of time before they gradually subsided, and the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army, who had vented a little, fell asleep one after another, and in their dreams there was no doubt that they had killed the Tartars to establish a meritorious deed or a scene of bliss.

And their opponents, this night can only be spent in anxiety and nightmares! For the Great Mongolia, Chen Dexing is a nightmare, and this nightmare is clearly just beginning.

When the dawn light pierced the darkness, the two brightly lit camps were noisy at the same time. Both the Northern Expeditionary and the Mongol generals began to eat breakfast, which was probably the last meal of their lives, so they were more abundant than usual. On the side of the Northern Expeditionary Army, there is wine and meat, and the meat is a large piece of beef and mutton, which was cooked last night, and it feels very good to chew it with sauce. The wine is shochu - hot wine, and each person can get half a gourd, which is to give courage to the soldiers. However, the Han soldiers or the Eight Banners of the Northern Expeditionary Army were all highly moraled, and they didn't need to be brave at all.

They are all professional aristocratic soldiers, and there is also the brainwashing of the Heavenly Dao Sect. In the words of later generations, it is a reactionary army armed with feudal superstition! Although it is extremely reactionary ideologically, this kind of army is often very strong in combat effectiveness when it is first rising!

The big war is coming, and everyone looks like they don't care, munching and swallowing while talking to each other about cheering up. Some of them are claiming to cut off the heads of several Mongols, while others are some kind of "see you in the court of bliss". Others had red eyes, like wild beasts about to roar, presumably with a blood feud with the Mongols.

Zhang Hongfan, who had been in charge of the concentration camp for several months, is now eating breakfast in the camp. He has now been transferred from a righteous instructor to a commander, serving as the commander of the 7th Infantry Brigade, commanding more than a thousand generals. It's almost equivalent to the head of a thousand households on the Mongolian side. Before he was captured by Chen Dexing's army, he was the head of a thousand households under the Wanhu Mansion on Shuntian Road. Now it is finally "official reinstatement".

However, he felt that his future on Chen Dexing's side was far greater than that on Shuntianfu Road. Not to mention how long his father Zhang Rou's army manager can be in charge of ten thousand households. But he is in the ninth ranking of Zhangjiaxing. It was decided that it would not be his turn to do the position of 10,000 households (historically, it was 10,000 households). On Chen Dexing's side, his position is becoming increasingly important. Among the graduates of the first phase of the Army Military Academy, he is one of the best mixed people.

As far as he knew, when the Ming King pacified Liaodong, the army of the Northern Expeditionary Army would be expanded, and his brigade would be expanded to more than 3,000 people. And how old is he, but he is only twenty-three years old, and he will be qualified to be a master in the future, which is equivalent to ten thousand households!

And on Chen Dexing's side, he is the founder of the country! Wait for Chen Dexing to calm the world. Can he Zhang Jiu have one less generation of princes?

Zhang Jiu's mind became hotter and hotter, and he swallowed a meatloaf in two bites, and poured two sips of soju. He stood up suddenly, his red eyes swept around, and most of the soldiers around him had finished eating. Zhang Jiu roared angrily: "Brothers, have you eaten enough? ”

"I'm full!" The people below shouted in unison.

Zhang Jiu roared: "Armor! Hold on to your arms! Get ready to kill the Tartars! ”

"Kill the Tartars!" The generals roared and got up one after another to take their armor. The platoons were formed, and when the formation was complete, the soldiers helped each other to put on their armor.

Due to the fact that it is infantry. The generals are all wearing dozens of pounds of foot armor, and it is a little difficult to put them on. After the generals finished putting on their armor, the platoon commanders of each platoon had to inspect the soldiers' armor equipment and dry food one by one according to the regulations of the Northern Expeditionary Army. When he was done, he reported it aloud. The whole process looks like a hassle. But it was completed quickly, after all, most of the officers and soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army are well-trained veterans who have also been on the battlefield.

Seeing that all the troops are ready. Zhang Jiu roared again and said, "Let's go!" Kill the Tartars! ”

"No!" The armies will respond loudly.

Zhang Jiu has also been draped neatly, the same step armor. It's just that the helmet is more elaborate and different from ordinary soldiers. There is also a golden star in the center of the helmet to indicate military rank - the Northern Expeditionary Army now has a simple rank system. It is divided into three grades: general, colonel, and lieutenant, and each level is also divided into upper, middle, and junior grades, with a total of nine levels. Zhang Jiu's brigade commander is already a major general, the division commander is a lieutenant general, and the army general is a general. As for Chen Dexing himself, of course, he is a king listed above the generals, and he has no military rank.

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"Eight Banners is the Yellow Banner Leader Yang Axi Ji Gong once, you can exchange for one hundred and fifty acres of Eight Banners Grange three plus three banner slave households, and at the same time be promoted to one level as a staff leader!"

"The Eight Banners are the Red Flag Leader Jin Amin who has a meritorious record, and he can be exchanged for three hundred and fifty acres of Eight Banners Grange plus three banner slave households, and at the same time he will be promoted to the first level as a staff leader!"

"The Eight Banners are white flags and territorial waters Dawei remember the merit once, which can be exchanged for ......"

The Eight Banners who were preparing to go out of battle gathered at this time according to Team A, and the leaders of each team read out the "Meritorious Reward Notice" loudly. The notice of merit reward is a unique system of the Northern Expeditionary Army, that is, the merit reward promotion is made public. Whoever has made what meritorious service and what reward he has received will be announced to the whole army. The purpose of this is, on the one hand, to convince the public - whoever wants to be unconvinced can raise it with the righteous instructors, and can go beyond the level and reflect upwards until the Ming King Chen Dexing.

Another purpose of the public merit reward is to motivate the war! Yesterday, he was still a poor bastard who had nothing but strength, but because of his meritorious service, he had a grange, a serf, and an official position in the blink of an eye...... How not to make people jealous?

This envy and red-eyed are the source of meritorious service in combat!

In addition, corresponding to this set of military merit reward system, it is the light of martial arts and scholars.

Contrary to the ancestral system of the Great Song Dynasty and the landlords and scholars, the basis of Chen Dexing's military and political group is the Han warriors! The distribution of interests naturally revolves around military merits, and land, serfs, and officials are all linked to military merits! For the various Tartars in Liaodong who were included in the Northern Expeditionary Army system, serving as soldiers and fighting was the only way to rise.

If they don't want to be serfs for generations, then they can only be selected as the Eight Banners with their martial arts, and then be rewarded for their meritorious service, and fight for wealth with one knife and one gun!

After the leaders of each banner finished reciting the merit reward notice, the eyes of the eight banner soldiers of each team were red, and the people who received the reward stood up one after another and shouted hoarsely: "Long live King Ming!" Hooray! ”

"Long live King Ming!" The Eight Banners soldiers who had not been rewarded in this round also stood up one after another and shouted along with them. In the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army, there were once again fanatical cheers, and the entire military camp was boiling again.

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When the slogan sounded, Chen Dexing had breakfast in the big tent of the Chinese army, which, like ordinary soldiers, was meat, bread and wine. Last night, he had only slept for two or three hours, but now he was in a surprisingly good spirit, and he was in an inexplicable excitement.

Because he knows that by tomorrow at the latest, he will be the master of the Liaodong Peninsula and Goryeo! A true lord of a nation!

The voice of Zhu Sijiu, the commander of the Guards Division, sounded outside the door: "King, the vanguard of each division has set off, and the Guards Division is ready, please show the king." ”

Chen Dexing stuffed the last small piece of meatloaf into his mouth, swallowed it, then stood up, took his sword and hung it on his belt, and then walked to the door and opened the curtain, Zhu Sijiu and Zhang Xizai appeared in front of him, Chen Dexing said softly: "Out of battle!" ”

At the sound of the order, the sound of trumpets and drums followed one after another, and groups of stubborn armor soldiers lined up from the various camps and marched towards their respective target areas. The staff officers of the divisions and brigades had already arrived there ahead of schedule, and they also carried the standard-bearers of each department -- the current combat units above the battalion (including the battalion) of the Northern Expeditionary Army -- all of which had their own military flags, all of which were numbered by the unit number and various animal or weapon patterns. As long as the officers and men of the various units find the flag, they will be able to reach the designated position.

This time, it's a military formation of 30,000 people! Not only infantry participated in the battle, but also artillery, heavy cavalry, light cavalry and many other arms. According to the words of later generations, it is a multi-arm combined battle! It's certainly a bit complicated to command. Fortunately, the training of the Northern Expeditionary Army was strict, and it also practiced from time to time, so that it would not be chaotic when things came to an end.

By the time the infantry arrived, the cavalry in front was already fighting. It's not a big battle, it's the respective light cavalry fighting. On the side of the Northern Expeditionary Army, three auxiliary teams of the Eight Banners were dispatched, and the Mongols dispatched five hundred-man teams, flying back and forth in the center of the large array of the two armies. They were to cover the layout of their respective formations. Without the addition of the Eight Banners, it would be difficult for Chen Dexing's infantry to be calmly arranged, unless it was early in the dark and the arrangement was completed under the cover of darkness. Fortunately, now, Chen Dexing already has a light cavalry that can compete with the Mongol cavalry.

The infantry brigade commanded by Zhang Jiu had completed its deployment, with two battalions of crossbowmen in front and one battalion of pikemen in the rear. In addition, a platoon of repulsors was deployed before the crossbowmen. And the location of this infantry brigade is the middle of the entire large array. Behind them was an array of guards divisions, bright red coats and banners forming a sea of red, and a sun and moon symbolizing the Ming King stood tall. Farther behind, a huge hot air balloon is slowly rising into the sky, the balloon is embroidered with the full sun and crescent moon, the sun and the moon are bright, here is the symbol of the Ming King Chen Dexing!

However, in the basket under the balloon, it was not the white-clothed fairy Mo Yingniang, but the non-commissioned officer and student of the cadet class of the Northern Expeditionary Army Academy, whose task was to observe the battlefield condescendingly with another staff officer, and then record it on paper, put it in a bamboo tube and throw it on the ground.

And the goddess Stick Ink Shadow Niang also went to the front line, but she was dressed in white, without armor, riding a white horse, and followed closely behind Chen Dexing. A pretty face was full of holy and solemn expressions, as if it was not a woman on earth, but an immortal in the sky, and there were no seven emotions and six desires at all. It's just a pair of bright eyes, occasionally revealing a hint of excitement and eagerness.

After today, King Ming will be the lord of Liaodong and Goryeo, and it won't be long before the banner of King Ming will be planted all over the land of China! (To be continued......)