"Captain, tell me why Yingzheng and the others suddenly sent out so many hatchets and short spears to everyone. Is there going to be a war?"
The speaker was a cavalry member of the armored cavalry battalion, named Tong Erxing. He was originally a horse bandit on the grassland, and later joined the Tiger Banner with his boss. Now he is a cavalry member of Tusha's squad.
"How the hell would I know." Tu Sha replied impatiently.
After Huang Hong left, he noticed that something was wrong in the atmosphere in the camp, and he also doubted whether their armored cavalry battalion was going to attack someone.
However, this is just a guess in his mind.
As for whether there is going to be a war and with whom, no one will tell him anymore.
When he followed Tu La before, he was always the first to know about anything, and he also had more than a hundred subordinates around him to listen to him.
Now in Tiger Flag, he is just a squad leader, with only dozens of subordinates left under his command. He no longer has the same response as before. What do the people in the camp think? As a squad leader, no one will come to him for discussion. .
This made him feel a little disappointed, and his mood also became bad.
Tong Erxing said with a flattering look on his face: "Captain, you are the closest to Deputy Tu Yingzheng. It's convenient for you to inquire about anything."
Tu Sha glanced at the other person and said coldly: "You have forgotten the rules in the camp. You are asking around randomly. Be careful with the whip you have."
Hearing this, Tong Erxing shrank his neck.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
In the camp, drums suddenly sounded.
When Tusha heard the sound of the drum, he stood up quickly and shouted to the people in the yurt: "Gather, everyone, move faster."
As he spoke, he picked up the coat on the bed, put it on, tied his belt, strapped on a gun, and quickly rushed out of the yurt.
Each captain of the cavalry squad has a blunderbuss that he can carry with him.
The cavalrymen who lived in the same yurt with him rushed out after him.
From other yurts, cavalrymen rushed out from time to time and ran towards the open space outside the yurt.
The second tom sounds.
No one ran out of the yurt anymore, and the open space was filled with teams of cavalry, standing in neat formation in the open space.
The third tom sounded.
Ma Yunjiu and Tu La walked over and came to the wooden platform that had been built.
Behind the two people, a young and strong man followed them onto the high platform.
"The First Cavalry Brigade has assembled." Tan Zaiwang walked under the high platform and shouted loudly.
Another cavalry brigade captain also came under the high platform and shouted: "The second cavalry brigade has assembled."
Ma Yunjiu nodded and said, "Return to the team."
The two men took two steps back and trotted all the way back to stand in front of their own cavalry brigade.
Ma Yunjiu glanced at the hundreds of cavalry in front of him and said loudly: "I believe many people have been talking privately in the past two days, speculating whether our armored cavalry battalion is going to fight."
Having said this, he paused for a moment, glanced around, and then said: "Yes, there will indeed be a battle next, and it will also be the first battle after the establishment of our armored cavalry battalion."
As his words fell, the cavalrymen of the armored cavalry battalion in front of the high platform began to whisper among themselves.
A buzzing sound came from hundreds of people.
Although a single person's voice is not loud, so many voices gathered together make it very messy and noisy.
Ma Yunjiu on the high platform frowned slightly, with a hint of dissatisfaction on his face.
If it were the cuirassiers he had trained with his own hands, there would never have been such unruly comments.
Tu La, who was standing next to Ma Yunjiu, noticed his ugly face and knew why he had such an expression. He immediately shouted to the many cavalry below: "Shut up, everyone. Who allows you to discuss in private? Even the military regulations Have you forgotten all about it?”
Unfortunately, there was a lot of noise around him. He shouted three times in a row before the voices in the cavalry queue gradually stopped.
Some of the cavalrymen in the queue had frightened looks on their faces.
The military regulations of the Tiger-Character Banner are very strict. As early as a few months ago, some horse bandits who joined the armored cavalry battalion like them were directly executed because they repeatedly failed to abide by the military regulations of the Tiger-Character Banner and contradicted their superiors. Without military discipline, the grass on the graves has grown three inches high.
"Law enforcement team!" Ma Yunjiu shouted.
Many cavalrymen in the queue below trembled when they heard these three words.
"My subordinate is here." A young and strong man trotted to the bottom of the high platform.
Ma Yunjiu said expressionlessly: "Remember, each team captain has twenty lashes, the squadron leader has 10 lashes, and the squad leader has five lashes. They will be executed after the war."
"Yes." The young and strong man agreed, turned and stepped aside.
Ma Yunjiu looked at the many cavalry in front of him again and said: "In the next battle, the target is the Hatan Department. This battle can only be won but not defeated, otherwise you will not have to stay in the armored cavalry battalion."
Upon hearing this, the expressions of the cavalry below changed.
Many people thought of the horse bandits who were the first to leave the armored cavalry camp. Not even the last of those people could leave alive, and they all died on the grassland.
Those horse bandits who violated military regulations and contradicted their superiors still have their graves, but those who left the armored cavalry camp were buried in the wilderness.
If they were driven out of the armored cavalry camp, they would end up dead in the wilderness.
Ma Yunjiu ordered: "The captains of each team will lead their men to receive soldiers, armor and horses. After half a stick of incense, they will gather outside the camp."
Two cavalry captains led the team away.
Tu La looked at the cavalry walking away and said to Ma Yunjiu: "The strength of the Hatan tribe is not weak. After this battle, I don't know how many people will come back alive."
"You have so little confidence in our armored cavalry battalion?" Ma Yunjiu looked at Tu La.
Tu La said: "When we were horse bandits in the past, we would never dare to provoke powerful tribes like the Hatan tribe. Even if we plundered those small tribes, we would have to kill many horse bandits to capture the Hatan tribe. It’s not that small tribe, there are five to six hundred string control warriors, they are all Mongolians who grew up on horseback, and their riding and shooting skills are definitely better than the cavalry of our armored cavalry battalion.”
Ma Yunjiu said calmly: "The cavalry in the armored cavalry battalion are all covered in iron armor. If they can't take down even a mere Hatan tribe, there will be no need for the armored cavalry battalion to exist. I will personally go back to Lingqiu to apologize."
"I'm not worried that our armored cavalry battalion won't be able to take down the Hatan tribe. What I'm worried about is that after this battle, the cavalry in the armored cavalry battalion will suffer too many casualties." Tu La looked worried.
Ma Yunjiu said: "You underestimate the armor produced by the Tiger Flag's workshop, and you underestimate those northern captives too highly."
"The soldiers in the Mongolian tribe are not like the horse bandits on the grassland. They are much more powerful than the horse bandits." Tu La reminded.
As a horse bandit who has been running rampant on the grassland for many years, he knows very well that those Mongolian tribes are not easy to provoke, otherwise the Mongols would not have been fighting with the Ming Dynasty for so many years, and the two sides have always been unable to do anything to each other.
The Tiger Flag had only been in the grassland for a short time and had never fought against the Mongols. They had only fought against horse bandits on the grassland.
He felt that Ma Yunjiu was too contemptuous of Mongolian tribes like the Hatan tribe, and believed that Mongolian soldiers were as easy to bully as horse bandits.
