The practice of the Later Jin Dynasty was completely different from those of these people when they were in Liao Town. In Liao Town, not only did no one feed the war horses well, but they would even secretly take the horse materials to resell them to supplement the family plan. Only the well-fed servants would treat their war horses well. During the battle between Liaoyang and Shenyang, the Ming Dynasty court plundered more than 80,000 war horses from multiple military towns, but thousands of them died of illness and starvation before the war started. After the war, more than 30,000 war horses were captured by the Later Jin side. Now the horses led by Li Mingli and others should be the harvest of the Later Jin side in previous wars.

It was just late spring, and although the most exhausting period of war horses had passed, the war horses everyone was still slightly thin. Li Mingli and others were very nervous, fearing that something might happen to the war horses. The body of war horses was much more arrogant than that of humans. If you are negligent, it would be a disastrous consequence.

The Later Jin Dynasty was extremely strict in the management of war horses. Every month, special managers would come to see the situation of war horses. Not to mention raising the horses to death, even if they were obviously tired and thin, the owner of the war horse would be severely punished. At the least, they would be whipped and beaten and killed at the worst. There was no possibility of lenient debt.

Half a month ago, Dai Shan and Amin were summoned to Liaoyang and then vowed to go on a war, because this time, in addition to expelling the Mongols who threatened the food route, they also had to search for the remaining Han people in Yizhou, Guangning, Jinzhou, and bring them back to Liaodong.

In addition, we must break through the Thirteen Mountains as much as possible, calm the resistance of the 100,000 soldiers and civilians on the mountain, and after breaking through the Thirteen Mountains, we will bring the captured Han people back. Therefore, this expedition is very important. Although it is not as good as the expedition of Guangning the previous year, Nuerhaci still paid homage to the temple himself, and took the beile, the capital, the general, the Mongolian Taiji, the Han generals out of the city to see him off, sent Daishan, Amin and others ten miles away, and then returned to Liaoyang.

There are twenty-five Niulus in Zhenghong Banner, and thirty-three Niulus in the blue Banner. The predecessor of Zhenghong Banner was the black Banner led by Shuerhaqi, the younger brother of Nuerhaci. At the beginning, the only black Banner of Nuerhaci started in the Later Jin Dynasty. Later, more and more tribes were annexed. Lao Nu established the Red Banner and led the black Banner to Shuerhaci, and then established the yellow Banner, and Nuerhaci personally commanded the yellow Banner.

After the Hada tribe was annexed, because the Hada tribe was the majority and the original two flags could not be accommodated, the White Flag was established and handed over to Nuerhaci's eldest son Chu Ying.

This is the origin of the four fronts of the Eight Banners. Later, due to the struggle for power, the White Banner's owner Chu Ying was killed, and the Black Banner's owner Shurhaqi was also killed. The White Banner was divided into three, and the Black Banner was also divided into three, the twenty-five Niulu of Daishan's Zhenghong Banner and the thirty-three Niulu of the blue Banner, all of which were divided into the black banners that year, including the twenty-six Niulu of Daishan's eldest son Yuetuo, which also originated from the black flags that were first established by Nuerhaci.

The Niulu of these three flags can be said to be the first to serve, have the most significant military achievements, and have relatively many elite soldiers and generals. Of course, it is still slightly worse than the Niulu of the Khan's personal Niulu. After all, when the Yellow Banner was established, it was later divided into Zhenghuang and Huanghuang. The most famous war general of the Later Jin Dynasty was still in the Two Yellow Banners. Among them, the Khan's personal soldiers were the elite among the strongest elites selected from each Niulu. Later, this elite soldier was handed over to the Khan's youngest son Duoduo, who followed him to fight south and north, and finally fought all the way to Nanjing.

During this expedition, the fifty-eight Niulu of the two flags each had twenty guards, forty Mian-armored soldiers and followers, and each flag had several more coats. Aha, plus more than 3,000 Han troops and their coats, a total of 12,000 people went on the expedition. This was also a relatively large-scale dispatch in recent times. With the thousands of soldiers and horses that were originally left near Shisanshan and Guangning, they could gather a team of nearly 20,000 people.

The Han army walked silently, and few people spoke because too much talk might bring unexpected disasters.

They were the lowest-ranking existences in the Later Jin army with a status of only higher than that of Baoyi, and even in the eyes of Zhen Manchu.

The Jianzhou Jurchens had the highest status, followed by the annexed Manchu tribes, and then the Jurchens were born, followed by the Mongolians, which were later incorporated into the left and right wings of Mongolia, and then the Eight Mongolian Banners.

The next step is the Han army, namely Li Mingli and others.

"Hear? There is a horn sound."

"Why are you asking for help?"

Hearing the sound of trumpets in the distance, Niu Lu Zhangjing, who brought more than 20 people including Li Mingli, immediately ordered: "Each person will get on the horse, three in front and five in the back, and the rest will be placed on both sides. If the Mongols attack, dismount and fight in a staircase manner, first use heavy arrows, then use a spear and a big knife to meet the enemy."

In addition to this Niulu, there are quite a lot of Han troops nearby, so there is no need to worry about being attacked. Everyone immediately got on the horse as per Niulu Zhangjing's order. Li Mingli threw down his bags and backpack and handed them to Lao Ding who was following behind. The following soldiers were mainly used to do various auxiliary soldiers' work. There were only two bows and arrows inserted into the bag, a spear and a hand axe on the horse, and the shining knife helmet he was wearing and a long iron spear helmet he held. This outfit, coupled with his blue arrow suit, a double-breasted cotton armor on his outer cover, and a small braid on his head, was like a standard Jianlu Zhenyi. Only people inside the Eight Banners knew that they were Han soldiers at a glance. If the Ming army cut off their heads, they would have to spend some energy to distinguish them from Han soldiers and Zhenyi.

The horn sounds in front of him very quickly, about three miles apart. Li Mingli was in the middle formation and he was very proficient in archery, riding, and gunshot skills. After several years, from the ignorance in the forty-seventh year of Wanli to the current old soldier on the battlefield, he already had a clear killing aura on his body.

The ones surrounded in front should be the garrisons who were originally stationed near Guangning, because from the armor and flags, they were obviously the soldiers of the Zhenghuang Banner. The soldiers stationed in Guangning and Jinzhou were mainly Zhenglan and Zhenghuang, and the small number of soldiers of the Zhengbai Banner. Together with the flags, there were only five or six thousand people. However, these few thousand people made the Guanning soldiers, who had tens of thousands of war soldiers, dare not help the Thirteen Mountains, let alone recover the Jinzhou and Guangning areas.

"It's indeed a Mongolian." Niu Lu Zhangjing, who was riding his horse and galloping beside Li Mingli, shouted. There were about seventy or eighty northern barbarians in front of him shooting arrows in circles. There were less than ten people surrounded by Zhenghuang Banners. The arrows fell like rain. The surrounded flag soldiers kept shooting. Some of the Mongolians were constantly shooting off the horse, but they were too many. Although the surrounded flag soldiers kept shooting, the situation was still in danger.

Seeing Li Mingli and others riding horses, the Mongolians on the opposite side shouted, and about fifty or sixty cavalry and northern captains rushed towards this side.

"Dropping off the horse, fighting in the field!"

In terms of cavalry, even the Zhen Jurchens were not the opponent of the Mongols. The strength of the Eight Banners was that they were lined up in infantry battles, with spears and halberds advancing like walls, soldiers fought for the first time, and the infantry formation broke through the formation, and then used cavalry to chase and kill the results to expand the battle. Li Mingli and others were in the Later Jin army for many years. Although they were all Han army, they were the elite of the Han army. The Later Jin set was originally learned from the Ming border army when they were in the prosperous period, but they were more barbaric and better at riding and shooting, with the fighting talent of the fishing and hunting nation itself, and the formation fighting and training methods learned with the Ming army. Li Mingli and others had been in the Eight Banners army for many years, and had already practiced their skills. After hearing the order, everyone immediately dismounted and formed a very solid round formation.

There were two accompanying strong coats to pull the horse away, not too far away. This was also the habit of the Eight Banners soldiers. After infantry battles, they could defeat the enemy and then go up to pursue them.

However, this trick may not be of much use to the Northern Barbarians. They are not mostly infantry than the Ming army, but all cavalry, and they are very skilled in cavalry. Once they are defeated, they will quickly escape, and it is difficult to capture or kill them.

When there were two or three hundred steps away, someone from the Northern Barbarians whistled, and the cavalry immediately divided into two teams, running towards the left and right sides of the circular formation.

"Sixty steps, straight forward, lean back, and shoot!"

The Beilu cavalry bows were useless outside sixty steps, so they did not shoot first. The Han army also held the iron-tied arch bow. This bow grew solid and used very exquisite materials. It took half a year to make a bow. It also had to be carefully maintained. Like war horses, if the Han army dared to break the longbow, they would definitely get a very severe punishment. In the Later Jin Dynasty, in addition to arable land, they also had to fish and hunt, pick fruits, catch birds, collect ginseng, and pick pine cones and other dried fruits in the forest. At the same time, there were blacksmith camps and bows and arrow camps, which specially made armor weapons and longbows. Because the military law was very strict, both weapons and armor were extremely sharp and solid.

The quality is excellent. The stair bows in the hands of the Han army are also rare fine. With diligent practice day and night, after a command, everyone calculated the distance of the Northern Lu cavalry and the degree of movement of the horses, and also had to care about the wind. These calculations cannot have clear numbers, but this is a skill mastered after years of hard work. Almost in an instant, everyone aimed at the target. Then they loosened their fingers, and everyone's bow strings burst out. More than 20 arrows were shot out by the tight bows. More than a dozen to twenty forces were standard rations for the Jurchen bow. The strength was far above the Beilu cavalry bow, and the arrows made sharp roars in the air and flew into the distance.

Several moving Beiliu were shot at the first time, either on the side or on the back. They made painful roars, fell off their horses, and rolled on the ground. Some people tried to pull out heavy arrows, but after reaching out, they almost lost their strength. The heavy arrows shot by Li Mingli and others were very heavy, not sharp, nor triangular, but polished into a flat shape, like a small shovel, breaking through the skin of the human body and entering the human body. The killing was very powerful, far from being comparable to ordinary arrows. These Beiliu were never worn with iron armor, and one arrow could be fatal.

Several horses were shot, and the Beilu on the seat rolled and fell to the ground. The most life-threatening injuries were not serious. They rolled and crawled away. Most of them fell seriously injured or died on the spot after rolling and landing.

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