open sea

Chapter 1059
The overwhelming sound of horseshoes followed the black line on the horizon, and the vanguard of the Ming army had arrived at the old Hamlin River.

Old Hamu Forest was only called in the Ming Dynasty. From the Qin Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, it was called Wuhou Qinshui, Laohe, Tuhe, Tuhe or Shenhe. It is [-] miles north of Xifengkou and Qingshankou.

The change of the name shows who the people living on this river bank are. The name comes from the transliteration of the Mongolian Old Hamulun, and 'Lao Ha' means iron in the Khitan language.

Crossing this river means that the Ming army is only 120 miles away from Daning City.

Daning City was once the royal city of King Ning of Sai in the early Ming Dynasty, and also the center of the capital of Daning.The land under its control has a semi-arid climate, suitable for farming and animal husbandry.

To the west is Qilaotu Mountain, to the east is Nulu Huer Mountain, and the Laoha River, the source of the West Liaohe River, flows from the west and south. The north controls the upper reaches of the Liao River, the east controls the Daling River Basin, and the west connects with Xuanfu , south of Yanshan Great Wall.

No matter whether the Han people immigrated to the north or the grassland peoples went south, this is the place they must pass through.

In the past, the north of Daning City was the ranch of Wuliangha Sanwei, but now... this place belongs to the Khalkha tribe who occupied Tainingwei.

On the night of April 27th, Qi Jiguang's heavy-duty ex-army battalion rushed to the south bank of the old Hamlin, felling wood in the forest and repairing the bridge. It took three days to build four roads on the river to accommodate two Set up a bridge with chariots parallel to each other, and then garrisoned by the camp on the river bank, waiting for the chariots and horses transporting grain and grass behind.

Old Hamlin is a long river, running hundreds of miles from north to south, turning to the west in the south of Daning City, and Qi Jiguang's troops have just crossed this river at this time.

Theoretically, they could reach Daning City by walking all the way along the south bank of the river, the place where military strategists must be upright, but in practice they couldn't.

The mountains on the south bank of the river blocked the car camp, so that the Ming army did not have to worry about attacks from the flanks.

The [-]-mile northward journey out of the pass is not to be buried in the road. They raided all the way. The nomadic tribes living in this land have been integrated with Jurchen and Haner for a long time, forming a unique custom of half-agriculture and half-pastoral. They have both horse farms for grazing and Cottages are used for living, and fields are used for farming.

Usually people think that the people of the two ethnic groups who are closer to the border are better at fighting, but in fact, the tribes living outside the mouth are just as bad at and happy to fight as the guards living inside the mouth.

Because whenever they planted and raised something, the Ming army would sweep them over. Being hostile to the Ming army was not good for their long-term livelihood. They were people who lived in the cracks.

Therefore, after only a few battles, when the many tribes living in the mountains, plains and grasslands realized that the scale of the Ming army's outing of the fortress far exceeded the previous hundreds of horses, they surrendered one after another and fell to the Ming army.

Qi Jiguang himself and the troops of the two battalions were still behind, and the Prime Minister of Jizhen sent Wu Weizhong back to the border to maintain his sanity for allocating armaments and quelling his anger; .

He didn't want to waste his elite troops on things like maintaining law and order in the occupied area.

The vanguard general of the Qi family’s army, who has been racing all the way outside the Great Wall, is named Hu Dayu. He has followed Qi Jiguang for nearly 20 years since Yiwu. From miners to Zunhua Zuoying guerrillas, he is illiterate, but he can recite "Ji Xiao New Book" and "Records of Military Training" "The whole article is about a vulgar man who spends half his life with weapons and struggles.

But now that he is a general, he led a battalion of chariots to garrison the south bank of Old Hamlin. In the early morning of May [-], the scouts who had spilled out rushed back from the bridge and reported that a large number of enemy troops appeared on the north bank forty News inside and out.

Made him frown.

The reason for frowning is that the location of their camp is good for defense. There are mountains and forests on both sides. Looking back is the way they came from, and looking forward is a river. If the Mongolian soldiers want to fight over, they have to cross the bridge they built. This book is a good thing.

But they didn't come to border the Mongols with the river.

The bad thing is that this place is not conducive to attacking. He didn't even need to look at the map of the battle. He just climbed up to the watchtower of the camp and raised his hand and said to himself: "If the cavalry confronts me on the north bank, there will be a lot of people coming from the back tower." We can't get through, we must cross the river first and get off Checheng on the grassland on the other side, and fight the enemy in the field."

After finishing speaking, he rubbed his face, put his hands on the waistband and muttered: "The imperial court gave us this hard-working general to do this."

He hammered the wooden railing of the watchtower with his fist, stepped down the watchtower, and said to the messengers who followed him: "Beat the drums to gather the soldiers, play the swan sound, once to stay behind, and to cross the river three times."

The organization of the chariot battalion is five levels, each battalion has four strokes, each stroke has two scales, each scale has four vehicles, and each vehicle has four vehicles, a total of 120 eight chariots. The chariots are divided into light and heavy. Heavy vehicles for twenty soldiers use tanks with two Franco machines.

The troops led by Hu Dayu were equipped with three heavy vehicles and one light vehicle with 110 nine chariot soldiers. In addition, there was an infantry battalion.

Qi Jiguang's infantry battalion consisted of 12 people, divided into a firearms team and a killer team. The firearms team had a captain, ten bird gunners, and a fireman; Two wolfwhips, two long spears, two boring handles, and two big sticks each.

Among them, the musketeer is also a long knife, the boring handle is also a rocket, and the spear is a big stick and a bow and arrow. Only the gunner with a copper pot uses an iron pointed pole for self-defense.

The third team of the Buying is one banner, the three banners are one bureau, and the bureau has a hundred generals; the four bureaus are one division, and the division has a general; the two divisions have one department, and the department has a thousand generals; the three departments have a middle battalion, and the battalion has a general. , one in the Chinese army, with a total of 690 nine posts.

However, the actual strength of Hu Dayu was more than six thousand, because there were northern generals in the infantry battalion, and they all brought their servants.

In addition, the imperial court spared no expense in the emperor's ambition, and all the infantry were mounted infantry.

The normal establishment should also have a cavalry center battalion and a heavy battalion of the same formation. The four battalions of vehicles, cavalry, infantry, and supplies work together to be the real vehicle battalion, which has both offense and defense.

But right now the battle line is very long, the horse battalion can't be dispatched in time to suppress the subordinate tribes, and the supply battalion can't return in time to transfer food and grass in the rear.

The enemy army had come to attack, Hu Dayhou didn't want the army to be blocked by the Old Hamlin River due to his own reasons, so he immediately assigned two heavy vehicles, one light vehicle and the infantry battalion to cross the river.

And ordered the scouts to tell the general who was coming from the rear that Lou Da had the news that the forward had encountered the enemy.

After issuing orders to the officers at all levels of the subordinates, after a brief period of leading the horses to pull out the battalion, the infantry saddled the horses, and the chariot soldiers led the horses to the shafts.All the troops were ready to count the number of people, and the guns were fired at the head of the bridge, and the battalion flag was erected on eight sides, which meant that the troops were divided into eight roads and four bridges.

The chariot is getting on the chariot, the infantry is on the horse, the drums are beating, and the soldiers and horses in front of each bridge cross the bridge in two teams.

The first to cross the bridge was the northern general Sun Shoulian leading the servants of all the tribes, each riding brightly armored and armed with long soldiers, walked slowly across the bridge, opened up the formation in the wilderness where the weeds grew wildly on the other side of the river, and met the servants who were also acting as scouts from afar.

Then the army began to pass.

Although the bridge can accommodate two vehicles in parallel, Qi's army has strict regulations on marching. On the fourth bridge, a pair of chariots pass first on the left side, and the right side is followed by mounted infantry with one flag; On the right lane, change to a pair of chariots, and go up the bridge alternately.

On the other side, the horses are in the middle, the chariots and soldiers are connected to get off the chariot city, connected by iron hooks and cables to prevent conflicts, and the north side of the Fourth Bridge is completely surrounded. Set up the refusal horses and thorns on the car, lay mines and arrange tiger squatting artillery positions.

After the gate was tied up, Qi's Pioneer banner stood high in the middle of the car camp, and the scattered Mongolian horsemen in the distance gradually approached.

　Good morning!Today's Chapter 2.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)