For Huang Guangmao, Funiu Mountain is a strange place, and Songshan Village is a place he had never heard of before.

Although he led his troops to Lushan County to garrison in the first half of the year, most of the time he was stationed behind Luyang Pass. His main task was to support Luyang Pass nearby, ensure the logistics in the Luyang Pass area, ensure the safety of the rear of the pass, and occasionally lead troops to fight against thieves.

It was all the way to the superiors and asked him to wipe out the thieves in Funiu Mountain.

At that time, he began to pay attention to Funiu Mountain, but this understanding was limited to the surface, for example, knowing that this is a big mountain, there are thieves in the mountains.

But he didn't know the more detailed situation. Even how many people couldn't figure out the origin of the thief in Funiu Mountain.

After leading troops into the mountain, he once found the so-called Funiu Mountain bandits, and later chased these bandits and ran westward, almost running to the Lu family.

On the way, he also wiped out a group of bandits who were rushing into the mountains from the south, that is, the troops of Tianhu.

After the thieves who fled west disappeared, Huang Guangmao then returned to Funiu Mountain, trying to obtain enough food and other goods from the villages hidden in Funiu Mountain.

However, even at that time, he was not clear about the situation deep in Funiu Mountain, and he didn't know how many villages there were in the mountains, how many thieves there were, etc.

But he didn't care much about these things at that time.

It doesn't matter how many thieves remain in Funiu Mountain. Anyway, when he leads his army to kill them, he will wipe out all the thieves, and then put the entire Funiu Mountain in control, so that he can obtain enough food.

But what he didn't expect was that first he sent Fei Bingqing from the front station to wipe out the entire army, and even surrendered as a prisoner of war. Before seeing Fei Bingqing, he didn't know how Fei Bingqing's troops were destroyed.

When he personally led thousands of troops to Songshan, he was actually hit by hundreds of bandit troops. Moreover, these bandit troops were not ordinary bandit troops. Not to mention the large number of archers in it, they even had artillery.

This long-range firepower is stronger than the officers and soldiers he led.

Under such circumstances, Wang Jida was like a fool and forced him to launch a strong attack again and again, which eventually led to the destruction of the entire army.

After his defeat, for the lives of hundreds of soldiers under his command, he had no choice but to surrender and then became a prisoner of war.

After becoming a prisoner of war, it was the first time he climbed over Songshan and entered the depths of Funiu Mountain.

Songshan Village deep in Funiu Mountain is almost the same as he expected, just a remote village, and the villagers inside are refugees who fled from famine everywhere.

However, what is unusual is the so-called Funiushan Baoxiang Camp in Songshan Village.

When he first learned from the thief army that the number of this thief army was Funiushan Baoxiang Camp, he was still a little surprised.

The Baoxiang Camp in Funiu Mountain sounds too formal. It doesn’t look like a thief, but rather like some township brave organizations organized by the government.

After staying in the prisoner-of-war camp for a few days and learning more about it, Huang Guangmao felt that this rebel was unusual.

Still the same word: formal!

These thieves actually have serious staffing, and they are still standard camps and posts among their officers and soldiers.

I won’t talk about the organization. The key is that the tactics and tactics of these thieves are the same as those of officers and soldiers, and they can play more smoothly than their officers and soldiers.

It's just like what Huang Guangmao saw now.

After surrendering, Huang Guangmao, who had the title of senior staff officer of the Staff Office, followed An Yongdu and other thief generals with awkward look and watched the exercises in Baoxiang Camp ahead from afar.

Just a glance at the formation, he knew that these thieves were not simple. The formations of each unit were tight and neat, and there was no loud noise. The formations of each group of troops were very standard.

It gives people a very formal feeling.

Even among the officers and soldiers, it is impossible for many troops to list such neat and strict formations.

If you look closely, these thieves listed an inverted trapezoidal formation, with three infantry sentry arrays in front and two infantry sentry rear.

In the middle of the three infantry sentry arrays in front, each deployed artillery, and three 200-pound light cannons were deployed while deploying three 100-pound cannons. Huang Guangmao was very familiar with the three 100-pound cannons, because he brought Funiu Mountain and was finally captured by the thief army.

On a low slope to the right of the infantry and artillery formation, hundreds of elite cavalry were deployed, and on the top of the mountain between the cavalry and infantry array, two 600-pound long cannons were also deployed.

The three infantry whistles at the beginning are that the spearmen are arranged in front, archers are shooting archers behind, and swords and shields are covering or making up for leaks.

However, the formation of an infantry whistle in the second row is a bit special, with only a spearman in the middle, a musketeer on both sides, and a scattered combination of swords and shields in the back row.

As the formations were listed, after each drill command was issued, the first six hundred kilograms of artillery fired at a place more than 300 meters away in the distance.

Then came the six 200-pound cannons in the middle of the infantry array, and the 100-pound cannons opened fire one after another at the target 100 meters and fifty meters ahead.

After a bombardment, the archers in the front row began to shoot archers in front. Immediately afterwards, dozens of musketeers in the thief army also stepped forward to open fire, thus forming a firepower covering the distance of 350 meters and nearly 20 meters.

Under such powerful firepower, Huang Guangmao could hardly imagine any army that could rush over.

After the firepower attack, the spearmen in the infantry formation in the bandit army began to move forward.

These spearmen were holding spears about four meters long, with a one-handed waist knife around their waists, and a small round shield behind them. However, these spearmen now do not use shields or waist knives, but simply holding spears in both hands and approaching.

At the same time, some spearmen standing in the front row were wearing armor. At a glance, these armors were not good armor, which was just a few pieces of cloth armor with iron sheets. However, it was already very good to equip a group of spearmen with armor.

As the spearmen advanced, the archers and musketeers were also following up, maintaining the formation to complete while continuing to shoot forward.

At the same time, the cavalry on the flank also began to attack, and they saw them circling from the flanks and killing towards the predetermined target. If these thief cavalry just swung their sabers or spears, it would be fine.

But what made Huang Guangmao's eyes widened was that these thieves and cavalry did not rush to kill each other, but instead divided into three waves, rushing up one after another.

And instead of rushing up to kill directly with a saber, he started turning tens of meters away from the predetermined target, and during the turn, he bent his bow and shot arrows on the horse's back...

These hundreds of elite riders actually play difficult riding and shooting directly, and they play very smoothly.

After seeing this, people who don’t know think it was an elite cavalry in the border army.

Huang Guangmao is a professional general. He has led his troops for more than ten years and has seen countless thieves, but no bandit has ever been like these thieves in front of him, and has performed extremely formal and professional in all aspects.

How to say it.

The thief army in front of him gave Huang Guangmao the feeling that it was even more like soldiers than their officers and soldiers. Compared with these rebels, the thousands of Ming troops led by Huang Guangmao before were more like bandits...

The cavalry in front had completed a round of cavalry and shooting attacks, but they did not withdraw directly from the battlefield or watch, but instead temporarily retreated from the battle after turning and temporarily evacuating, they lined up again and pulled out the saber.

At the same time, the infantry spearmen had already begun to push forward a lot of distance. The musket book behind them was not firing, but instead stuffed a spearhead-like thing into the muzzle, and continued to advance with the spearman.

The archers also put down their bows and arrows, but instead replaced their waist knives and shields, and cooperated with the spearmen in front to make up for the imagined enemy.

A few minutes later, Huang Guangmao saw the thief cavalry who had already withdrawn from the battle lined up again.

Their formation was closer than before, and they did not use bows and arrows. They all carried sabers and instigated the horses before accelerating.

With the sound of horse hooves, these cavalry launched a intensive cavalry charge towards the open space in front, which was the direction of the imaginary enemy. One by one, the cavalry slashed at the wooden stakes that played the imaginary enemy with their sabers.

The charge launched by hundreds of cavalry is even more powerful and shocking than the momentum they brought when they were riding and shooting before.

Huang Guangmao couldn't help but open his mouth halfway, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Damn, the thief cavalry that ran out there, could play riding and shooting, and such neat saber charges, and they all swung their swords and chopped them sideways on the horse's back, making them extremely easy.

Even the official army rarely finds such elite cavalry!

If you want to find such elite cavalry on a large scale, you have to go to the border troops, Ji Liao or Yulin Datong.

Just talking about Henan, there are basically only hundreds of such elite cavalry under Zuo Liangyu and Chen Zhibang, and these hundreds of cavalry are basically regarded as the lifeblood of these two people and will not be used easily.

Huang Guangmao heard that in the summer, when his immediate boss Chen Zhibang led his army to wipe out a group of rebels, he used the elite cavalry under his command. It is said that dozens of people were killed and injured in that battle, which made Chen Zhibang heartbroken for a long time.

Huang Guangmao still doesn't know that the rebels who caused great losses to Chen Zhibang's elite cavalry were the predecessor of the Funiushan Baoxiang Camp in front of him.

After all, the predecessor of Baoxiang Camp was the Mutiny Border Army of Yulin. In the middle, hundreds of elite cavalrymen and a large number of infantry were chased by hundreds of elite cavalrymen, which caused Li Tonglin to die in battle. More than a hundred elite cavalry were killed and injured, and only a few dozen people were left. It was not something worth showing off. Naturally, no one would say this to Huang Guangmao if he had nothing to do.

In Huang Guangmao's amazement, the cavalry whistle had completed the intensive charge required during the exercise, and finally chased the enemy's defeated soldiers as required.

Yes, according to the exercise plan, the enemy was completely defeated by this time.

After all, everything is arranged.
Chapter completed!