After leading the newly recruited soldiers back to the camp, they happened to meet Cao Wenzhao who was leading the troops to patrol the camp.
Chen Wang immediately ordered the entire army to stop, then dismounted, saluted, and stood aside to wait.
Cao Wenzhao glanced at the recruits beside Chen Wang, his eyes moved slightly, and then moved to Chen Wang.
"Qi Jun's military selection method?"
Cao Wenzhao's eyes were sharp and piercing, like a bright light, which seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts. He could tell at a glance that the soldiers selected by Chen Wang were in line with the selection method of "Ji Xiao Xin Shu" written by Qi Jiguang.
"Exactly."
Chen Wang lowered his head, bent his back slightly, and answered with his hands clasped in fists.
He did not hide this issue and admitted it straightforwardly.
"Jixiao New Book" is not a banned book, as long as you have money, you can buy it.
Although Qi Jun had conflicts with the Liao Army and the Jizhen Border Army, Qi Jiguang's military books were not prohibited from being circulated.
In Liaodong's memory, there is a "New Book of Ji Xiao" in the study room of Chen's mansion, which is not out of reach.
"The "New Book of Ji Xiao" is a good book. It writes in great detail about marching troops and engaging in battle with the enemy..."
Cao Wenzhao looked complicated and had many thoughts in his heart. He remembered an old incident from the Tianqi years.
In the first year of Tianqi, two armies came all the way from the south to Liaodong to help in the war.
One is the white pole soldiers from Shizhu, Sichuan, and the other is the Zhejiang army from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The leader is Qi Jin, the son of Qi Jiguang's clan.
When Jiannu besieged Shenyang, the generals Chen Ce and Tong Zhongkui were ordered to lead the Baigan soldiers and the Zhejiang army to rush for reinforcements and advance all the way to the Hunhe River, hoping to attack the Hou Jin soldiers with the Ming soldiers in Shenyang city.
But when they reached Hunhe, Shenyang had been captured, so Chen Ce ordered the troops to return.
However, the guerrilla generals such as Zhou Dunji repeatedly requested fighting and were unwilling to retreat.
The crowd was furious, and all the generals in the camp asked for battle, saying: "We can't save Shen, so what will we do here for three years?"
There was a gap between the Qi army and the Baigan soldiers before, so Chen Ce and Tong Zhongkui divided the army into two battalions when they deployed their formation.
The front camp was mainly composed of white pole soldiers, led by Zhou Dunji and Qin Bangping to cross the river and set up camp in the north of the bridge.
Chen Ce, Tong Zhongkui, deputy general Qi Jin, and staff general Zhang Mingshi commanded three thousand Zhejiang troops to set up camp in the south of the bridge.
Later, when the Jin army saw reinforcements from the Ming army arriving, they sent a large army to encircle them.
The Hou Jin army thought that these soldiers were just a weak brigade, and thought that they could be easily defeated with just one charge.
After several attempts by the former army to charge to no avail, Houjin's elite Bajala charged into the formation, but was also repulsed.
Nurhachi then sent his rear army to help and surrounded him with tens of thousands of troops.
Under the leadership of Zhou Dunji, Qin Bangping and others, the white-pole soldiers defended the bridge and fought to the death.
Thousands of Jin soldiers who rushed into the battle were killed by crossbows, and the cavalrymen who rushed into the battle also fell off their horses one after another.
The generals of the Sichuan soldiers formed a formation to meet the enemy, numbering thousands against tens of thousands, and they all fought bravely.
The battle lasted until the afternoon, when the Sichuan soldiers defeated two white flags and then two yellow flags, killing two to three thousand people who fell from their horses.
Later, the Jin army lost troops and generals, and was still unable to attack for a long time. Everyone was shocked, and some even lost without fighting.
Finally, the surrendered rebel general Li Yongfang found the captured Ming Dynasty gunner, offered a reward of a thousand gold, and ordered him to fire cannons to attack the Sichuan army.
Hongyi's artillery fire finally blasted open the Sichuan army's formation.
Later, the Jin army swarmed forward. Even so, the Sichuan army was not defeated at this time. The generals led by Zhou Dunji and Qin Bangping still resisted tenaciously relying on the remaining formations.
However, the Sichuan army fought fiercely for a long time, was hungry and tired, and found it difficult to support them, so the army formation was broken.
Zhou Dunji, Qin Bangping, general Wu Wenjie, and guard Lei Anmin all died fighting.
The military formation was broken up, and the remnants of the Sichuan Army rushed into the Zhejiang Camp on the south bank. Nurhaci drove the Eight Banners Army to take advantage of the situation and go south.
Three thousand Zhejiang soldiers led by Tong Zhonggui and Chen Ce set up a chariot train camp five miles south of the Hun River to await the enemy.
The Zhejiang Army led by Qi Jin was compiled based on the "New Book of Ji Xiao" written by Qi Jiguang.
The carriage camp was strong, and the Eight Banners troops could not rush in. Instead, many people were killed and injured, and the dead were among each other.
Commander-in-Chief Zhu Wanliang and Jiang Bi led more than 30,000 reinforcements as the rear army. They marched to Baitapu and saw the Eight Banners Army besieging the Zhejiang Army Camp. They actually waited and watched without fighting and were afraid to move forward.
Cao Wenzhao was in the army at that time. He saw with his own eyes that not far away, the Hou Jin army surrounded the Zhejiang soldiers' carriage camp almost impenetrably.
At first, there were fires and smoke filling the Zhejiang Army Car Camp. Finally, the fires disappeared and the smoke disappeared.
In marching battles, carrying gunpowder can usually be used for several battles, but the Zhejiang soldiers actually defeated them all in one battle, which shows the brutality of the war.
Cao Wenzhao still remembers the humiliation at that time. The 30,000-strong army collapsed at the first touch, and the Hou Jin cavalry could only number 3,000.
Zhu Wanliang, Jiang Bi and others had no intention of rescuing those Zhejiang soldiers. At that time, he was just a guerrilla, with only 300 horsemen and 2,000 soldiers under his command. He wanted to rush to rescue, but he was powerless. In the end, they can only flee with the masses.
It was extremely humiliating to have 30,000 people on the run being chased and killed by 3,000 people.
As night fell, the Jin army increased again, and the Ming army, which saw its reinforcements fleeing and being heavily surrounded, also fell into despair.
No one surrendered, no one surrendered, in the final moments.
Chen Ce, Tong Zhongkui, Qi Jin, Zhang Mingshi, and Du Si Yuan Jianlong, Deng Qilong and other generals, a total of more than 120 generals, none of them surrendered, and they all died fighting for their country.
"When we unite as one, the mountains... can be shaken!"
They sang old military songs, held their heads high, and died generously.
Cao Wenzhao's heart turned over and over again, and finally turned into a long sigh.
He wanted to kill the thief, but he was unable to do so. He had been working so hard to climb up because he didn't want to encounter such a powerless situation again.
Looking at the new soldiers Chen Wang had recruited, he thought of the Zhejiang soldiers he had encountered.
Cao Wenzhao patted Chen Wang on the shoulder and said solemnly.
"Practice well."
Chen Wang slowly raised his head, and his eyes met Cao Wenzhao's.
"After training your troops, fight back to Liaodong and take revenge!"
Cao Wenzhao's eyes were deep, he clenched his fists and said solemnly.
Chen Wang couldn't help but tighten his fists, and an unspeakable feeling of indignation rose from the bottom of his heart.
That emotion didn't belong to him, but was hidden deep in his heart.
That was the anger and unwillingness of another Chen Wang - Liaodong! Liaodong!
Relatives and family members were massacred, and the places where they had lived for generations were occupied.
Far from home, leaving home, fleeing to Guangning, all kinds of humiliation...
Chen Wang did not suppress the anger in his heart, he could understand the anger.
"Revenge."
Chen Wang clenched his fists.
He was unwilling to be unable to control his own destiny.
He knew very well that if no changes were made, in a few years the war would be raging across the country and throughout China.
Kyushu was torn apart, and the land of China was sinking...
It is said that a building is about to collapse and cannot be supported by a single tree.
The tide of the times is irreversible.
But Chen Wang just wanted to give it a try.
He wants to do what Wen Tianxiang once wanted to do but failed to do!
Turn the tide before it falls, and support the building before it collapses!
