Shi Kefa knew something was wrong a long time ago!
When he took Zhu Youjian's internal funds and took the officers and soldiers sent by the Royal Horse Supervisor to take office in Zunhua County, he knew something was wrong.
Of the many county magistrates in the Ming Dynasty, how many of them came to office with officers and soldiers from the imperial horse supervisor? How many people will get the 50,000 taels of money handed down by the emperor? How many of them will get the edict to organize a group training with RMB 3,000? These things put together can only explain one problem: Shi Kefa's term as Zunhua County Magistrate may die with the city.
After he took office, he went to the Great Wall in Ji Town on the border of Zunhua County for a few rounds, and he realized how terrible the official position assigned to him by the little emperor was.
He originally thought that Donglu was over there in Liaodong, far away from Zunhua!
Unexpectedly, everyone has already arrived outside the Great Wall in Ji Town, which is separated from Zunhua County by a wall!
Moreover, there are not many guards on the wall next to Ji Town. If the slave thieves attack, it will be terrible!
So while he was working day and night to guard the city, conduct team training, stock up on grain and fodder, and prepare military supplies, he was also prepared to commit suicide. As early as June, Shi Kefa adopted a son from his family, and he had a successor (Shi Kefa is not young, but he has never had a son). Then he prepared two taels of high-quality crane crown red for himself and carried it with him in case of emergencies. Finally, there is a high-quality nanmu coffin... This coffin is now carried by four grown men from the Zunhua regiment training camp. After that, they have changed into cloth-covered iron armor and mounted short-legged Mongolian horses. The great county magistrate Shi Kefa and Shi were wandering around Zunhua County together. Along with this coffin and Shi Kefa himself, there were a total of 500 Zunhua regiment members also wearing cloth armor.
Shi Kefa's 3,000 Zunhua regiment members were all carefully selected, and they were all pretty strong! Except for the officers and key personnel sent down from above, everyone else was all Zunhua natives. They are all simple farmers or mountain people with innocent wealth. They are not wanted by the urban residents in Zunhua County. And you have to have a family, you can't be alone. After you are selected as a member of the regiment, your family will also have to go to Zunhua City with you - if you want to die, you must die together!
As for the treatment of the regiment members, although it is not as good as the regular soldiers of the Jizhen Army, it is not too bad. The monthly ration is one stone, plus five coins of monthly silver. Among them, the monthly grain is raised by Zunhua County itself, and the monthly silver is first spent from the internal funds allocated by Zhu Youjian - whether it is grain or silver, Shi Kefa personally distributes it to people without any deductions!
In addition to the monthly grain and silver being under the control of Shi Kefa himself, and being able to distribute them on time without any deductions, Shi Kefa, the great county magistrate, was also responsible for purchasing the armor and weapons of the Zunhua regiment. Each person is wearing a cloth-covered iron armor and an iron flying saucer helmet. They are all made from samples received by the Royal Horse Superintendent. They must not be shrunk in the slightest. Weapons include lancets, swallowtail cards, spears, Qi's guns, Kaiyuan bows, three-eyed blunderbuss, and the bed crossbow mounted on the head of Zunhua City. Of course, there are also rolling logs, stone beatings, and thunderbolt fireballs that are necessary for defending the city. Equipment like this...can't be said to be all high-quality, but at least they are still usable.
I saw Zunhua regiment members wearing cloth face armor, flying saucer hats, and carrying various weapons walking neatly through the street. I also saw the magistrate Shi Kefa, who had just taken office not long after Xinguang took office, carrying out the coffins. The folks in Zunhua County also know that something is wrong. If you still don't understand what's going on, Magistrate Shi Da has already arranged for a loud-voiced yamen servant to beat the gong and shout at the same time.
"The slaves have broken through the wall and invaded! The officials, gentry and the people are united in resisting the slaves!"
"The slaves were brutal and massacred countless people. They had to fight tooth and nail to save their lives..."
"The county town is closed, the streets and alleys are under martial law, and strong men from every household are going to the city to help guard!"
To defend the city, it's not just a regiment, but the masses must be mobilized! Shi Kefa no longer reads the books of saints and sages these days. He spends all day studying "City Shou Lu", "Xiangyang Shou Cheng Lu", and "Wu Jing Zong Yao Shou Cheng Pian" for self-study. I dare not say that he is proficient, but he has learned a lot He had few methods, but he also knew that in order to block the possible invasion of the Donglu army from Zunhua County, he had to mobilize all available forces and use all available dirty tricks!
Seeing that Magistrate Shi Da was well organized in training his troops and defending the city, the gentry and common people in Zunhua County finally felt a little more at ease.
Just a little bit of peace of mind... After all, it was the ferocious Donglu who came in this time!
It's at the moment when people's hearts are either in chaos or in peace. He saw a fast horse riding from the east gate of Zunhua. After finding the official badge of Shi Kefa who was patrolling the city, he came on flying horse. There was an older veteran on the horse. When he arrived in front of Shi Kefa, he didn't dismount. He bowed his hands on the horse and said, "Your Majesty, the leading horse team of slave thieves has arrived ten miles east of the county seat!"
"Well done!" Shi Kefa tried hard to suppress his panic, nodded heavily, then glanced around with stern eyes, and raised his voice, "This county will go out of the city to fight with the slave thieves!"
What? Out of town? So fierce?
The people of Zunhua who were watching the excitement were shocked. The originally lively streets suddenly fell silent.
Shi Kefa pointed at the nanmu coffin and shouted: "This county is going to carry the coffin out of the city... and let the slave thieves see the courage of the Ming Dynasty's land guard!"
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The Hou Jin Army's most elite white-armored soldiers have always been the vanguard in field battles. Of course, they were not the first to charge into the battle, but walked in front of the army as scouts.
They have three main tasks. One is to attack the enemy's light cavalry troops - to knock out the enemy's ears and eyes scattered on the battlefield!
The second is to search for the enemy's main force, detect the enemy's defenses, and provide intelligence support for subsequent main force actions.
The third is to seize grain and grass supplies and at the same time attack the enemy's grain routes.
If these three tasks are carried out well, the Jin army will have the upper hand and become invincible even before the main decisive battle is fought.
On the afternoon of the eighth day of August, it was Beiyu Duolongduo of Zhengbai Banner's Baya La Camp who rushed out of Zunhua City with a group of white-armored soldiers.
Even though he only brought thirty white-armored soldiers (plus thirty-one for him), he didn't care about the three to four hundred ordinary Ming army infantry. And since he entered the border wall of Da'ankou and charged all the way to the east of Zunhua County, not to mention three or four hundred Ming troops, not even thirty or forty were seen. Even if they saw a handful of Ming soldiers, they would all run away. No one dared to fight Master Duolondo at all!
There is no place for this kind of martial arts, Duo Londuo is a little anxious... Isn't Da'ankou the headquarters of the Ming Dynasty Ji Town's general army?
Where are the soldiers?
Have they all taken the space? Not leaving a few for Mr. Da?
When he was depressed, he had already arrived outside Zunhua City, and saw a group of about two to three hundred Ming army soldiers wearing blue cloth masks, carrying long guns and holding shields, swaggering across the pontoon bridge, which was a bit wide. A rare moat was arranged in a chaotic array outside Zunhua City.
Do you think this means fighting the white-armored soldiers of the Kingdom of Jin?
Duolondo couldn't believe his eyes! There really were infantrymen in the Ming Dynasty who did not believe in evil! He took another closer look and couldn't help but feel happy. Because he found that the man commanding these Ming troops was actually a civil servant wearing a green robe and a black gauze on his head, and there were several strong men beside this civil servant carrying a coffin!
Haha, this is a Ming Dynasty civil servant who knows nothing but plays with his own life!
If you can't even set up an infantry formation of two to three hundred people, it's useless for you to carry a coffin!
Dorondo raised his whip, pointed forward, and said loudly: "My sons, form a formation and charge! Take advantage of the enemy before they can form a formation and overwhelm them!"
Just as he was shouting, the white-armored soldiers following him had already started to gather together and formed a formation that could charge into the formation (it was actually relatively loose). They turned around and launched an attack from the flanks of the two to three hundred Ming troops.
A group of thirty-one white-armored soldiers charged. How could the Ming army, which had two to three hundred companies with poorly deployed formations, be able to block it?
Duolongduo seemed to have seen himself beheading the Ming Dynasty civil servant with his sword, and then rushed into Zunhua County and burned him to death. But just when he leveled the carbine, tried hard to urge the war horse, and launched a fierce charge at the highest speed... the war horse under his crotch suddenly missed a hoof, and then his whole body sank. Before Dorondo and his horse could react, several sharpened bamboo poles pierced the horse's body and stabbed Dorondo's thigh. !
It hurts so much!
