The spring morning mist floats slowly on the Luanhe River, shrouding the river that flows through the mountains of the Yanshan Mountains in haze.
It was quiet all around, except for the sound of the river flowing.
Wu Sangui was already lying in the dewy grass, looking around with a telescope for a long time, looking extremely nervous.
The official rank of this trusted guard who has followed Zhu Youjian into many battles has been promoted from the fifth rank to the rank of deputy Qianhu in front of the tent. (Since the rise of the military camp military system, the traditional military officer of the guard station has gradually been used only to indicate the identity of the military attache. Rank, reduced to rank officer, the same is true for the rank of the Zhangqian Army), and he also learned a lot of strange military tactics from the little emperor, and it was enough to commission a battalion of guerrillas.
However, Zhu Youjian only gave him one platoon commander, and also sent him to serve under his "old rival" Li Zicheng, who was already the platoon commander.
The current military structure of the Zhangqian Army is as follows. The largest group below the army is the regiment. The leader of a regiment is called the general or regiment commander (if a regiment is under the jurisdiction of a civil officer, he is called the regiment commander); below the regiment are two battalions, one is the commander-in-chief. The leader of the battalion is called the guerrilla or battalion commander; below the battalion are four teams, and the leader of one team is called the QianZong; below the team are three platoons, and the leader of one platoon is called the commander.
Wu Sangui now holds the title of Deputy Thousand Households from the Fifth Rank, but the Commissioner is only responsible for thirty or forty people, which is a bit small.
But Wu Sangui has nothing to complain about, because Zhu Youjian's young guards who are sent out to lead troops start from the lowest level and become the general manager. The little emperor said, this is called internship experience!
Work as a general manager for a period of time, and then go back to work as a bodyguard after completing your duties as a general manager, and continue to learn the art of war from him. After learning the art of war for a period of time, go to work as President Qian. Once you are done as President Qian, you will go back to the emperor to study...and then go on to work as a guerrilla. Only when you have done well in guerrillas can you make your debut. If you work well, you can become a general, deputy general, or commander in the future. If you have enough merit, you can even be knighted and become a noble!
The future is really bright!
However, he has a bright future in the future, but now he has to risk his life and go deep into the front line for the night... This time he crossed the Luanhe River with his immediate boss Li Zicheng, and he was still lying in the wet grass waiting to be shot. !
"Black gun tactics" have now become one of the several standard tactics of the Zhangqian Army. After the Battle of Tangzhishan in the first year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian issued an order to Xu Guangqi, Minister of Industry, and Tang Ruowang, Inspector of Qin Tian, ordering them to supervise the production of a batch of Lumi guns. The funds for making guns are all allocated from the internal transportation treasury, and a Rumi gun is priced at 15 taels of silver. After enough money is given, the quality requirements are of course extremely high. Every Lumi gun delivered will be personally inspected by Zhu Youjian.
By the end of February of the second year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian had received more than a hundred brand-new Rumi guns one after another. In addition to the Rumi guns that had been equipped to the troops before and were not damaged, the pro-army troops in front of the tent had equipped more than 550 guns. Zhilumi gun.
Among them, Zhu Youjian's personal guards were equipped with more than a hundred guns, and the rest were divided among 9 regiments, each of which had about 50 Lumi guns. These Rumi guns are then assigned to the most basic teams. Each team can have six or seven, all concentrated in one platoon. And this platoon is a black gun platoon that specializes in shady people. Wu Sangui is now commanding a black gun platoon.
"coming!"
A deliberately low voice sounded in Wu Sangui's ears, "Zhengbei, at least a hundred riders, coming along the river valley!
The speaker was a panting man, wearing an arrow suit, who ran all the way down from the top of the hillside where Wu Sangui was.
There were quite a few enemies coming, but Wu Sangui still didn't hesitate at all and loudly ordered: "Load the bombs, light the match rope... Those who don't have muskets should prepare their Kaiyuan bows and shoot them!"
After giving the order, he took a few steps forward with his Lumi gun. The cat arrived behind a towering tree and quickly lit the match rope and loaded the ammunition. After a while, the black gun was set up!
At this time, the sound of horse hoofbeats had broken through the sound of running water and reached Wu Sangui. Together with the sound of horse hoofbeats, there were also sounds of yelling and cursing, all in Mongolian.
"It's Beilu again..." Wu Sangui muttered, and at the same time he breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, the northern captives are not as difficult to defeat as the slave thieves. Although their heads are worthless, they are better than being safe.
Thinking of this, Wu Sangui had already seen many cavalrymen galloping along the road beside the Luanhe River. He quickly picked up the musket and took a look at the first cavalryman, and found that the man was his immediate boss Li Zicheng... ...Li Zicheng wore ugly blue foam-studded cotton armor, and wore a wine cup helmet with a leather neck protector on his head. It looks no different from the ordinary Ming Dynasty border troops who stayed away at night.
For some reason, at this moment Wu Sangui actually had the urge to fire a blunderbuss! He always feels a little unhappy when he sees this Li Zicheng!
Of course, you wouldn't dare to shoot Li Zicheng with a black gun... The army in front of the tent has excellent military skills, and Li Zicheng is also "the most loyal in the Ming Dynasty", so loyal!
Wu Sangui held the fire blunderbuss without moving, and Li Zicheng quickly ran past the mouth of his blunderbuss, followed by twenty or thirty cavalrymen, all dressed as frontier soldiers who stayed at night. Behind them were seventy or eighty cavalrymen dressed in red. The Tatar cavalry in cotton armor looked like slaves and thieves of the Eight Banners, but they were shouting and cursing in Mongolian.
At this time, Li Zicheng and others had already reined in their horses, turned around, took off the spears on their shoulders, and formed an impact formation on the road beside the Luanhe River.
The seventy or eighty red-armored Tatar cavalry seemed a little frightened when they saw Li Zicheng and others setting up a charging formation. They stopped their horses dozens of steps away from Li Zicheng and others, and their position was right in front of Wu Sangui and others. Under the gun.
Wu Sangui was already used to shooting black guns. Without hesitation, he immediately pulled the trigger. The match rope ignited the gunpowder in the medicine room. A burst of gunpowder smoke spurted out, followed by a crackling sound - seven black guns fired almost at the same time!
The Lumi gun is a highly accurate matchlock gun that is said to be both poisonous and cruel. Although the penetrability was not very good, the Mongolians chasing Li Zicheng did not wear thick armor. The thick armor that could withstand Lumi's gun was not light and was inconvenient to wear when performing patrol and search missions in the wild. So after a burst of gunfire, the four Tatar cavalry fell off their horses.
After Wu Sangui finished shooting the gun, he did not reload it. Instead, he took out a suona and started blowing it hard. When the suona sounded, the soldiers in front of his tent who did not have muskets began to shoot arrows. Each person has a Kaiyuan bow and shoots a series of arrows.
Although there were only about 20 people shooting arrows, the arrows were still raining down, and the shots were quite accurate. In the blink of an eye, they shot down seven or eight Mongolian cavalry.
The Mongols, who were hit by fire blunderbuss and arrowheads in turn, were immediately in chaos. Li Zicheng was waiting for this opportunity. He shouted immediately, straightened his spear, rushed forward on his horse, and led his men into the charge.
The Mongols on the opposite side were already in disarray, and now they were attacked by Li Zicheng's cavalry. They didn't even think about resisting, so they dispersed, turned around and ran away.
Li Zicheng and others did not dismount to cut off the heads, but galloped in pursuit. At this time, Wu Sangui's men had put away their guns, bows and arrows, picked up their swords and round shields, and went up to capture the prisoners with shouts. The main task of their cross-river reconnaissance was to find out the true and false status of Ma Mengshan's state-building army!
A Mongolian beiyu who was holding a red flag was quickly dragged to Wu Sangui, and he was still cursing: "Damn Southern Barbarians, don't be proud, the Great Khan has arrived at Mameng Mountain... Just wait, Great Khan The heavenly soldiers have arrived at Mameng Mountain!"
Wu Sangui was stunned when he heard this, and then asked in Mongolian: "Which Khan? Which Khan came to Ma Mengshan to die?"
"Of course it's the Great Khan of our Great Jin Kingdom!" Bei Yu, the leader of Mongolia's red flag, shouted with red eyes, "The Great Khan has arrived, and the death of you guys is not far away!"
Huang Taiji has actually arrived at Mameng Mountain! Wu Sangui said in his heart: The army of slaves and thieves came very quickly!
