Lord of Ming Dynasty

"Lieutenant, lead your crossbowmen, why are only a few of your crossbowmen dead, don't make excuses, we have lost so many crossbowmen, people died, but the weapons are still there, go to the folks to pick people, Go to the young and strong to select personnel, find out those who have been soldiers before, or those who are flexible in mind and strong in body, and then add them to your team. Your task is to defend this mountain.

Prepare more rolling logs and rocks, set up tripping ropes at narrow intersections, dig horse pits, and then cut off the road surface, so that the enemy cavalry can only pass under the mountain peak, you stay on top, first use rolling logs and rocks To deal with the enemy, if the enemy dismounts and fights on foot, you shoot the enemy with crossbow arrows. If the enemy rushes up the mountain, you draw out your waist knife and fight the enemy desperately. My order is that you are all dead, but you must block the enemy for me, and you cannot hear the assembly No, you can't retreat, understand? "

"You need more civilians, otherwise you won't be able to complete the mission, no, I will arrange the final battle field for the civilians and young men of the brigade, and I can't leave it to you. You only have the right to use some of the civilians, and I will take the rest of the civilians. Use, okay, I will give you an hour to use it, and let them come back to report after an hour, but you can't take too many people away, except for adding civilians and young adults who went to fight, I will not give you one more civilian and young adult , Of course, if you can find a way to find it, I will not block it, my order is that the enemy must be blocked for a certain period of time, and you can't retreat until you are dead or my assembly number sounds."

It took Tian Xian half an hour to assign all the tasks. The manpower he could command was his remaining 600 soldiers, [-] cavalry, and [-] Green Battalion baggage soldiers, all of whom surrendered. Soldiers, as for the civilians who have no combat effectiveness, maybe two thousand civilians have to be buried with them, but what he wants to block is [-] to [-] Mongolian cavalry. This is simply hitting a stone with a pebble, so he has to hurry up and deploy.

Chapter 598 The Two Armies Meet

This area is a piece of hills, a piece of flat land that is not too open, and a piece of lake and mountain forest. Small splits of flat hilly flats, followed by small lakes, rise slightly as the terrain narrows, higher in the west and lower in the east.

When we reached the place where Tian Xian arranged in front, it was less than five miles wide, and on both sides were continuous upward hills, which became steeper and more difficult to walk. It is impossible to pass smoothly in the case of enemy harassment. Maybe the infantry can fight there, but the cavalry is definitely not as flexible as the infantry on the mountain road. The rocks, trees, bushes, thorns, and various faults on the hills will greatly hinder the passage of the cavalry. Just use your brain Normal people will definitely not give up the relatively flat terrain and take a detour here.

And as the terrain rose, the hills turned into canyons and peaks. Maybe these peaks were not too high, no more than a hundred meters, but this was definitely not the terrain that cavalry should walk on.

So there are three small roads in the middle, and the four-mile-wide hilly plain area of ​​an official road has become the terrain that must be passed. Both sides are like this, stretching for hundreds of miles. Maybe some places may be wider, and there are about twenty miles of relatively flat land. The narrowest place here is only one mile, just behind the place where Tian Xian and the others fought the Mongolian cavalry.

The original battle area was four miles wide, the front was three miles wide, and the front was five or six miles wide.

So Tian Xian ordered these peasants and even some soldiers to set up some traps at a width of five or six miles, trap horse pits, ambush a small number of crossbowmen and musketeers, dig trenches and cut off avenues, and set up a seemingly loose line of defense here. , so that the Mongolian cavalry can only advance along a winding road. If they don't want to advance along the winding road, they must pass through small lakes, woods, or jump up the mountains, which greatly reduces the speed of the enemy's impact. And the force of the impact.

Here the Mongolian cavalry was divided into a large force along the main road, and five or six small streams of small troops, to bear the blow of Tian Bin's army lying in ambush on a wide surface of five or six miles.

Back a mile, here is narrower, only four miles wide, here will be dug potholes, so that the cavalry can not charge up, and then be attacked by musketeers and crossbowmen of the Heavenly Army with only shallow trenches in three sections.

There are three main relatively high hills, the hills are 30 meters high, and the hills are surrounded by some southern dwarf trees, mainly thorns and orange trees.Under the hill there is a grove less than 30 meters wide, and the depth is only 60-60 meters. In front of the 400-[-]-meter forest, there is a [-]-meter-sloping flat land between the two hills. Musketeers and crossbowmen only need to guard these three Between the woods and the woods under a hill will do.

However, it seemed too wide here, and Tian Xian's troops couldn't take care of it at all, so it could only be said to be able to withstand it for a while.

Tian Xian's purpose is to put all the troops on the front line, and then quickly withdraw the troops after fighting for a while, to defend the second line, which is here.

Spend time with the enemy here, invest troops to deal with the enemy here.

Of course, we can't lose troops, because they can't afford to lose, but the remaining 8000 main troops, and the 3000 cavalry that Wang Dong mobilized for him, and the [-] civilian husbands, even if the young and strong people in the surrounding villages are added, There are only [-] troops in total, and the actual combat power will not exceed [-], so he feels that this place will not last long, and may lose a lot of troops.

Tian Xian has a headache.

At this time, Tian Bin led two new armies adapted from the Huaxia Army system, as well as supplies, cavalry, and a total of [-] troops slowly approaching Duolong's main force.

Ever since Duolong lost five thousand cavalry, he was very frightened by the combat effectiveness of Tian Bin's troops, and couldn't help being very suspicious. He sent two thousand cavalry to surround Tian Bin's main force and divided them into [-] groups for investigation, surveillance, and brigade The men and horses approached the enemy slowly, not walking fast. It took a long time to walk ten miles, and they were still twenty miles away from Tian Bin's troops.

In order to defeat the enemy as soon as possible and get rid of the pursuit from behind, Tian Bin only stayed for an hour on the battlefield where Tian Xian's vanguard fought against the attacking Qing Mongolian cavalry. Taking care of the troops, Wang Dong entrusted the luggage to Tian Xian, and led the soldiers to follow them five miles behind. The two sides stopped on the side of the lake about ten miles away, and the two sides faced off across the road on the side of the lake, and the two armies were separated by about five miles.

The cavalry from both sides attacked quickly, colliding and fighting. Generally speaking, Tian Bin's cavalry was small, but there were only more than 1000 cavalry, and it was difficult to resist the opponent's thousands of cavalry.

These cavalrymen were quite tired. They had traveled thousands of miles and fought countless times with the Mongolian cavalry. They were exhausted physically and mentally. They fled thousands of miles in the name of rebels. Those intelligence agents were fine. Everyone knew that they belonged to the Huaxia Army, and they also knew that their superiors had notified Huaxia. The army will send people to respond, and the prestige and record of the Huaxia Army make them feel proud. Knowing that this is a return and going home, everyone is more excited and their morale is like a rainbow. Jia Qikou followed Tian Bin's army to the south, involuntarily, seeing that they were getting farther and farther away from home, and as soldiers, they couldn't decide their own destiny, so they couldn't help but feel sad and their morale was low.

So even though they were Chasers and Dragoons, they were somewhat different in combination and were more advanced than the opponent's army, but their morale was not high, and they could not show their prestige and combat effectiveness, so they were completely suppressed.

But Tian Bin didn't think that way, he arranged the soldiers to spread out.

The cannons were pulled to the highlands and hills on both sides. Naturally, the following artillery engineers and civilians dug the ground, dug out the place for the cannons, put down the cannons, and fixed the cannons on the ground with wooden wedges. position, measure.

Other soldiers guarding the cannon formed formations on both sides of the cannon to protect the cannon. There were not many cavalry protecting the cannon. They cruised tens of meters behind the cannon, slowly warming up. Rush up and deal with enemy cavalry or infantry attacking artillery.

The cannon is mounted on a high ground, and its firing range has been increased. Moreover, the cannon is one mile away from the army, and it is about three miles away from the enemy, nearly four miles away.

After the army formation was set up, Tian Bin slowly ordered the Chinese army to start advancing. The newly reorganized new army led by the two Chinese army advanced to a distance of about [-] meters in the middle behind the cannon, and did not move forward to wait for the military order.

Chapter 599 Time Is Life

Wang Dong led a new army town to follow behind the Chinese army. When he arrived, he immediately dispatched his cavalry to break through to the two wings of the artillery for protection, and he lined up behind the Chinese army. As well as a small number of transportation units carried by the Chinese army, a battalion of about 200 recruited township braves, and more than 100 civilian officials in the army.

On both sides of the general's guard is a line of thousands of spearmen and a line of thousands of swords and shields.

In front of the general's guard are two Xinjun Town troops, the front row is a horizontal crossbow squad, about 2000 people, and a 1000-man crossbow troops in Xinjun Town.

Behind the crossbowmen are sword and shield troops, also thousands of people, to protect the crossbowmen from being killed by the enemy's crossbow arrows and infantry.

Behind the crossbowmen are 2000 pikemen and 4000 musketeers.

A Xinjun town has 1 people, and 8000 people have already lined up in front of it. A Xinjun town has 8000 people and a 2000-person artillery unit. The heavy artillery of the artillery unit is placed on the high ground on both sides of the Xinjun town. The cannons imitated by the Huaxia Army were placed on the flanks in front of the long spearmen, and the small cannons were placed in the open space behind the crossbowmen and sword shield soldiers in the middle of the two new army towns, which means that once the enemy attacks with cannon fodder, Then let the crossbowmen and sword-shield soldiers deal with it. Once the enemy cavalry or artillery musketeers or Manchu infantry and cavalry attack, then these crossbowmen and sword-shield soldiers will withdraw and quickly switch to the back of the musketeers through the gap between the queues. standby.

The musketeers and artillery go to the other side, and wait for the enemy to come to the front. They are running up and fighting the enemy. If the troops in front collapse, the spearmen, sword shield soldiers, and general guards will face the enemy, or make other adjustments. , and Wang Dong's troops are purely used as a reserve team and to prevent the rear positions from being broken after being broken through.

At this time, Tian Xian's side is purely abandoned cannon fodder.

Tian Bin, Wang Dong, and Tian Xian all understand their current situation and their responsibilities, because they are all intelligence agents trained by the Huaxia Army, and they all know that if they work in this industry, they will never go back alive. Soldiers were buried with them.

But it didn't reach the point where they had to die. They obviously didn't want to die here. There were interceptions in front, and chasers in the back. Maybe they knew they shouldn't divert, but this was their only hope. It is obviously impossible to reconcile and continue to complete the mission of their intelligence agents. At present, defeating Duolong and getting rid of the enemy's Mongolian pursuers, returning to Henan Province is their only way to survive.

A group of three people, hiding and shimmering, walked on the country road, walking on the paved stones from time to time, and poured a layer of earth-lime glutinous rice cake and other local method cement on the stones.

This makes the road have the appearance of cement and the hardness of stones. Although it is not very beautiful, it is stable and firm when walking on a cart. The key is to accelerate the speed of pedestrians running on the road, which is far faster than Dirt roads are much faster and much cleaner than dirt roads, because Daming does not have cars that weigh dozens of tons like later generations. Even if there are carriages for transportation, they will definitely not exceed a few tons in weight. As far as the road is concerned, it is more than enough. This is the change that Zhang Qiang brought to this era.

It can't be said how advanced or advanced it is, but it is absolutely convenient.

And with the increase of R&D personnel, it is mainly because the Huaxia Army has added other industry exams on the basis of the imperial examinations, 360 lines, and there are exams for all walks of life. Low-level personnel can get a government-certified industry qualification certificate. With these certificates, you can engage in research in related industries, and sell the research results to the government, and the government pays a certain amount of money to buy the research results.

This is the qualification certificate for all people in the industry. It is an honor to have this certificate, just like a scholar who has been admitted to Tongsheng. In the village, you can also get the reception of the village head, the head of the security, or the head of the township, and let everyone look at you highly. In these low-level administrative positions, you can also get a good income and a basic monthly salary.

People in the village read a letter, recognize a character, or build something, find an authority to authenticate it, and they will come to you, or the price of what you come up with is higher than the price of other people who have not been authenticated. I have to find you when dealing with the government.

Zhang Huangyan walked all the way, passing through the countryside, and learned about these things through the mouth of the young guide who led the way.

Low-level certification does not require you to be literate or have read books, as long as you can get something in the industry and get government approval.

And can get the qualification to go to adult night school for free. If you graduate from the night school, that is to say, you know ten Arabic numerals and more than one hundred characters, you can take the qualification certification level two examination.

These exams are all focused on industry leaders. If you can speak clearly about farm work and record it with the help of others, and if you can understand it yourself, you will be able to obtain a second-level qualification certification.

These people were all requisitioned by the government to help solve problems such as going to the countryside to count the amount of farmland, how much it produces, how much iron can be smelted, how much iron can be hammered in a day, whether some things made by carpenters meet the standards set by the government, and help the government solve the problems of contact with people in these industries. Task.

Of course, these people do not need to receive wages. They will be paid when they are requisitioned.

When you want to go one step further, the government has launched a three-level qualification certification. These people must be able to speak well and be able to count and write. These people are generally veterans or businessmen's buddies, old officials in the government, or have been famous for a long time Some of them are directly recruited by the government and given to a clerk. These clerks spend more than half of their time working in the government, and they are called the low-level clerks of the government.

They have no possibility of being promoted to government servants, but they can assist the government in doing things, even put forward some good suggestions, and develop good things. The government will sell their suggestions and research and development at a high price. This is the government's achievements. The civil servants above have to rely on them if they want to be promoted to higher-level section officials.

The fourth level is usually those who have read books and have profound attainments in the industry. They also have the heart of being an official. Members can be promoted to official positions, and can be promoted to positions such as clerks, document offices, book books, etc., which are equivalent to the assistants of township heads and town heads.

These people who can read books and study skills in various industries will eventually become deputy township heads, deputy mayors, or research officials. More senior officials can take the imperial examination and then enter a higher research institution.

This is Zhang Qiang cultivating talents for the few smart scientists in his hands.

We can’t always let Sebastian and Francois do research, they need helpers, and it’s too slow to rely on them to train some apprentices, which is not good for the technological development of the Huaxia Army, so Zhang Qiang has to find those folk talents from Huaxia Come out and send them to their research institute, let them learn while helping and inspiring the two of them, so as to speed up their development.

The new carriage was made under the inspiration of Zhang Qiang and with the help of old carpenters and blacksmiths.