No one noticed that on the steep mountains and ridges in the oblique southwest direction, a small team of merchants were lying on the back of the ridge, silently observing the situation here.

At this time, the distance was closer, and the entire team could see the Great Wall that was winding like a long snake on the steep mountains.

Zhang Xianzhong held up his telescope and murmured, "It's not far from the west to the Gubeikou. The mountains and ridges there are higher and the terrain is more dangerous. The Great Wall was rebuilt by Grand Marshal Qi during his tenure. There are three urns at Gubeikou, and the General Tower is not far from the east. From the entrance to the south, it is the direction of the capital. To the east is Jinshanling, Dapankou, Simatai, and Wangjing Tower. The terrain is dangerous, and the mountains are gathered, and there are mountains everywhere, and it is very steep. The Great Wall is built along the mountain, with enemy platforms and Tibetan soldiers everywhere. The Great Wall here was rebuilt during the Jiajing period. It was rammed earth and bricks, which are extremely majestic and cannot be compared with other places."

The squadron leader smiled and said, "Huang Hu, you said you can't recognize a few words. Now, listening to your words, how can you be illiterate?"

Zhang Xianzhong was stunned at first, then slapped his legs and smiled, "It's true that we can speak so well without knowing it."

"You're so literary, give me a ladder and you'll get into the room." The squadron leader looked over with a telescope. The scene outside the door was clearly visible.

"The gate has been closed." Zhang Xianzhong said: "The gate is closed, and the city tower is at least two or three thousand people. There are soldiers and horses along the other city towers. The Beilu has no chance to attack by force. I heard that the martial law from Jizhen to Xuandadu is in danger. It is funny that the Beilu, who has only used three-pointers to attack, is like a great enemy in the court... The strength and weakness are very obvious."

The squadron leader smiled and said, "Your damn sergeant is very wise when analyzing the general trend."

"Want or not?" Zhang Xianzhong said: "We are about four hundred steps away, and the terrain is almost at a high position. However, with our artillery range, it will be useless to attack. If we get closer to three hundred steps, we will be exposed during the march, and we will have to go down from the top of the slope to half the slope. If the Beilu rushed over, we will be in a mess."

The team officer frowned and said, "What's your idea?"

Zhang Xianzhong said: "We should use a trick of doubting the army. I have a thought and say, "If you succeed, we will go back and report if we fail."

...

Both sides wanted to complete the silver as soon as possible. The Ming army was not very happy, and the governor was still waiting for a reply. The Mongolians were not in a good mood. They wanted to leave with the silver as soon as possible. They counted it clearly and got the receipt. The Ming army began to return to the city to wait, while the Mongolian side began to carefully tie the silver box to the horse.

It takes time to tie more than 100,000 taels of silver, so both sides can only wait patiently.

Behind both sides are their respective supporters. They are not nervous, but their movements are relatively urgent.

At this time, everyone heard the loud military horn.

With the slanting light at dusk, everyone saw a silhouette on the side of the valley.

A soldier from the merchant army stood on the slope, behind him were mountains with endless peaks and mountains. The afterglow of the setting sun shone behind him. The soldier put his hands on his hips and held the trumpet in the other hand, and began to blew the trumpet.

"The Shang army is a hunting cavalry!"

"Oh my God, it's those demons!"

Although the Chahars were slow and their understanding of the Shang regiment army was far less profound than that of the Mongolian troops in the west, the two sides had fought for so long, and at least several branches of the Shang regiment army had. What are the general characteristics of each branch? If you don’t understand this, then the Chahar tribe might as well hit and die head-on.

For many herders in Mobei, the hunting cavalry is their terrifying memory. Compared with the performance of the Lancer regiment in the Tumot unit, the performance of the Hunter battalion is steadily higher than that of the Lancer regiment.

Beneath the red military robe is a devil without any scruples, with sharp attacks and ruthless fighting styles. The hunting cavalry battalion that passes through each tribe is like a hurricane blowing, and every tribe visited by the hunting cavalry battalion will leave the most painful memories.

It did not take too long for the Chahar people to experience it. As long as the tribes attacked by the hunting cavalry were far more miserable than the rest of the merchant army, it had already reached the point where the Chahar people were frightened when they heard about it and were frightened when they saw it.

The Mongolians who came to collect the silver were out of touch with their brigade. Most of the more than 100 silver boxes were already on the horse, but the riders did not take the position. Most of the Northern Gate faced the Ming army who closed the door and went out to give the silver. Although they were not afraid of the Ming army's repentance, they still had to be in case.

The herdsmen were carrying silver boxes. When they saw the trumpeter wearing a big Red Army robe appearing on the top of the hillside, all the herdsmen were stunned. They couldn't help but stop moving, opened their eyes wide and looked at the hillside in amazement.

There are high slopes behind the top of the slope, with peaks stacked endlessly. The sun began to slant westward, and the golden sunlight shone on the soldiers in the Red Army uniform, as if it was a sacred and nameless statue.

The winding Great Wall is on the scattered peaks behind the Red Robe soldiers, as if it has been guarded by this Red Robe soldiers since ancient times.

With the sound of the military horn, several military flags appeared slowly and firmly behind the slope.

The flag holder was the Red Army robe of the standard hunting cavalry battalion. The mountain wind was strong, and the general robe was blowing back, and the knights looked extremely heroic.

"It's them!"

This time, even the senior leaders of Beiluo such as Daming Da were shocked.

They could not imagine how these hunting cavalry crossed the mountains and ridges, how did they pass through one Chahar tribe after another, and raided here from thousands of troops?

The soldiers of the Ming army were extremely shocked. They didn't know who arranged the army to be in such a deep mountain and a steep mountain, and who arranged for them to take this kind of surprise attack?

The imperial court gave silver, and the governor of Ji Liao was waiting for the reward for the Northern Lu to take silver and then withdrawing back to the depths of the grassland. The Liaodong governor Sun Ge Lao only considered his own acre of three-point land, and had no choice but to move the Chahar tribe westward, and even had no attention at all... This was true in history. During the period when Chahar moved westward and even attacked Datong, the border officials of the Ming Dynasty were indifferent, leaving only a few records of debate about whether to use food to help the poor and the Mongols... Since the Tianqi period, the disaster on the grassland has been particularly serious, from the east

The Chahar people on the border to the Tumote people on the west were the same. The long-term drought, rainless and freezing disasters caused no harvest of pine ground on the grassland, withering large areas of pastures, and large-scale deaths of livestock. The situation of Mongolians withering food became very serious. By the Chongzhen period, it was almost frozen and hungry. From the Tianqi to the Chongzhen period, in addition to Lin Dankhan's request for the city reward originally given to Tumote Shunyi King, Mongolian tribes from the east to the west had requested the Ming Dynasty to give grain or reopen the horse market, and the Mongolians were willing to trade for grain.

As a result, several border chief officials were unable to make a decision, and the court also had a dispute.

Giving grain means buying Mongolian tribes so that they do not cooperate with the Later Jin Dynasty, and there are also disadvantages of being enemies due to food and resources.

If the Mongolians still choose to stand aside with the Later Jin Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty court would not only suffer the loss, but also be ridiculed by future generations, becoming a joke that has been passed down for thousands of years?

If they insisted on not giving, they would directly push the Mongolian tribes to the side of the Later Jin. Originally, the tribes had vowed with them under the coercion of the Later Jin, but they might have been sincere, false and false. If the Ming Dynasty was cold and ruthless, and these northern enemies did not dare to rob them themselves, they cried and begged, they could only follow the Later Jin to use their strength against the Ming Dynasty.

This is a military account and a political account, but none of the Ming court or the frontier officials understood it, and they were all confused until they died.

How could such a military and political official really understand what kind of existence the Shang army is, and clearly know the characteristics and dress of the various branches of the Shang army, and make his subordinates understand that there are really new forces on the grassland, which is completely different from the previous Northern Barbarians. They were born in the Ming Dynasty, but in fact they had nothing to do with the Ming court?

Behind the silhouetted flag bearers, a large area of ​​smoke and dust appeared, and then a whole team of red-robed cavalry appeared on the top of the hillside. Each of them held long guns and several officers held shiny sabers. All the cavalry soldiers pointed the muskets or sabers in their hands at the hillside hundreds of steps away.

All the Mongolians felt the threat, the herdsmen began to run around, and the armored soldiers were in chaos. Today they dispatched more than a thousand people, most of them stayed inside and outside, originally to call Guan Mingjun to rest, but now they seem to be hurting themselves.

More than a dozen cannons were pushed forward again. In front of everyone, the cannons quickly pushed down the hill from both wings. When they reached the middle of the mountain, the red-robed cavalry began to slowly surge down the hillside, and there was still a large area of ​​smoke and dust behind them.

Under everyone's eyes, the gunner began to fix the temporary gun position... This is also very simple. The small-shot Bolang machine weighs more than 150 kilograms and can be fixed with a few sandbags carried with him.

The tiger squat cannon is only 36 kilograms. The tiger squat cannon of the Shang Tuan Army is slapped with a belly length, so it can be equipped with more gunpowder to expand its power. The claws in front of the front are fixed, which is quite convenient and fast.

In the past, the Ming army's artillery was not slapped, and the abdomen was short, so the shots were weak and weak. Later, Qi Jiguang improved the cannon barrel and lengthened the cannon abdomen. In fact, it could have a greater impact force, strengthen the cannon body, and add the cannon slapped to withstand more charges. The front paws were installed, and the cannon position could be quickly fixed. Dozens of tiger squatting cannons were fired together, which could suppress and attack Japanese pirates mainly in infantry, which was a powerful tool.

When we arrived in the north, the land was vast and the population was sparsely populated, and all the opponents were Beilu, which were mainly cavalry. The battlefield was vast, the cavalry moved very quickly and was unstable, and the small cannons were not very useful, and the quality of artillery made by the Ministry of Works was getting worse and worse. Now the Ming army in Jizhen has organized 500 people and one tiger squat cannon, which is really useless.

However, each squadron of the hunting cavalry had four tiger squat cannons and two folang machines, plus seven folang machines added by the battalion headquarters. More than a dozen cannons were opened in full view of the public, and the gunner began to load the medicine...
Chapter completed!