Abatai gave the order, and immediately outside Jizhou City, people shouted and horses neighed, and it became a bustle.
Groups of Jianlu and Mongolian Tatars began to gather and set off.
Such a big movement has already alarmed Jizhou City.
The commander-in-chief Bai Tengjiao and the imperial envoy Yan Yingyuan were both observing the movement at the top of the city, watching the Jianlu and Mongolian Tatars heading south in groups, leaving behind a pile of rubbish.
After watching for a while, Bai Tengjiao asked in surprise: "Could it be that the imperial reinforcements have arrived?"
When Yan Yingyuan came, he had already told him to stick to Jizhou, wait for reinforcements from the imperial court, and encircle and annihilate the captives under the city.
Nowadays, Jianlu attacked the city for a day and then left without taking it. This is not in line with Jianlu's urinary behavior.
However, to say that Jianlu had just begun to attack Jizhou, and the imperial reinforcements arrived at the rear, also made him feel a little incredible, so he confirmed the situation with Yan Yingyuan.
After hearing this, Yan Yingyuan looked at the movements of the enemies outside the city. To be honest, he felt a little weird.
Obviously, the reaction speed of the imperial army was too fast.
However, he quickly remembered that in the past, he would have been rushed to the capital by eight hundred miles and entrusted with important tasks. This would have been incredible!
Also, it is unbelievable that the War Bureau can actually produce a large amount of fine steel armor, as well as improvements in gunpowder, and so on!
There have been so many incredible things this year, and it doesn’t seem incredible that the imperial reinforcements could arrive so quickly!
Thinking like this, he nodded and answered Bai Tengjiao: "Yes, the imperial reinforcements must have arrived. And, for sure, both the Yongwei camp and the Jing camp have arrived, otherwise, all the Jianlu troops would not have gone south to fight!"
After hearing this, Bai Tengjiao was overjoyed at first, and then said worriedly: "All the Jingying camps are newly reorganized, and the Jianlu troops are so large, I'm afraid it will be difficult to fight, right?"
He didn't dare to tell the truth, because in his opinion, how could the newly-organized Beijing camp defeat Jianlu? This was Jianlu!
After hearing this, Yan Yingyuan smiled immediately, withdrew his gaze and looked at Bai Tengjiao. Seeing his worried expression, he asked him: "The Jingying camp is composed of the former soldiers of the Yongwei camp, the heroes of the Xiaoyuan camp, and the water workers."
, not all of them are new recruits. And now I can tell the commander-in-chief that the Jingying Camp and the Yongwei Camp are all fusiliers, and what new armors are equipped with them. Do you think Jianlu will be surprised?
Can we fight a battle?"
Bai Tengjiao didn't know the full strength of Jing Ying and Yong Wei Ying until this moment, and he was stunned.
He was familiar with how strong and light the new armor was. For this reason, he got rid of the original Shanwen armor on his body and got a set of new armor brought by Yan Yingyuan for himself.
Now I didn't expect that such a good new armor, the Jingying Camp and the Yongwei Camp would actually have a pair of them. If it were in the past, even if he were killed, he would not believe that such a thing existed!
After a long time, he came back to his senses. He seemed to be asking Yan Yingyuan, but in fact, he was probably saying to himself: "Did the Emperor turn stone into gold? Or did he have a cornucopia and throw a piece of armor into it?
, can you take out countless armors?"
Industrialized steelmaking, assembly line operations, and substantial increases in productivity are something that people of this era, or people in agricultural societies from ancient times to the present, have never seen before. It is not surprising that Bai Tengjiao has such an idea.
Therefore, they really cannot understand how it is possible to produce so many good things in just over half a year.
When Yan Yingyuan heard what he said, he still answered him: "It's not a treasure tray, but science, the knowledge given by Emperor Taizu!"
"What? What knowledge?" When Bai Tengjiao heard this, he was a little confused and suspected that he heard wrongly.
"Science!" Yan Yingyuan saw him like this and said emphatically, "Science, do you understand?"
"I don't understand!" Bai Tengjiao shook his head honestly after hearing this.
"I don't understand either, but the emperor understands anyway!" Yan Yingyuan listened and did not pretend to understand. After explaining, he looked up at the dwindling Jianlu army outside the city, and then said to Bai Tengjiao:
"Remove the sandbags blocking the city gate!"
"Huh?" When Bai Tengjiao heard this, he came back to his senses and turned to look outside the city. At the same time, he asked a little doubtfully, "Move away so soon?"
After hearing this, Yan Yingyuan turned back to look at him, nodded seriously and said: "The person commanding the Beijing Camp and the Yongwei Camp must be Sun Benbing. He is a man who knows soldiers. He must know that the biggest advantage of the imperial army today is to build captives.
I don’t know the true situation of Jingying Camp and Yongwei Camp.”
Having said this, he paused, raised his voice, and emphasized: "If my prediction is correct, Sun Benbing will definitely launch a full-scale offensive as soon as he comes into contact with Jianlu, so as to catch Jianlu by surprise. Otherwise, Sun Benbing will definitely launch a full-scale offensive as soon as he comes into contact with Jianlu.
If they are dragged down and the Jianlu know the true situation of the Jingying Camp and the Yongwei Camp, it will be difficult to fight!"
After hearing this, Bai Tengjiao thought about it seriously, and then nodded with a serious expression: "It should be like this. If it were anyone else, they might be afraid of Yu Jianlu's reputation, and might be cautious. However, Sun Benbing has led troops for many years, so naturally
Know how to adapt to changes!"
Seeing that he agreed with his opinion, Yan Yingyuan grinned, turned to look at the Jianlu and Mongol Tatars heading south outside the city, and said at the same time: "If I am not mistaken, tomorrow morning will be the time for the decisive battle. We will
You must be prepared to beat up the drowned dog and earn a military honor!"
Bai Tengjiao was not a person who was afraid of death. When he heard this, he was immediately happy, immediately agreed, and went to prepare.
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Jizhou is located at the transition point between the Yanshan Mountains and the North China Plain. Therefore, to the south of Jizhou is the North China Plain, which is just suitable for large regiments to fight.
By the afternoon, the main force of the Kou Jianlu led by Abatai and its forward had already merged with the previous Horqin and Aohan tribes, and faced the Ming army's forward directly.
The two sides did not fight directly, but launched a scout war. In other words, the Jianlu's Tanma and the Ming army's Ye Bushou began to compete for control of battlefield news.
Especially on the Jianlu side, they have always wanted to find out who is leading the Ming army on the opposite side, how many troops there are, what equipment they have, etc.
However, it is a pity that the Ming army did not gather as far as the front army, and they were all in groups, so it was not easy to capture them alive.
As the main forces arrived one after another, two armies began to gather about forty miles south of Jizhou.
As soon as Abate arrived at the battlefield, he went to observe the situation of the Ming army, and at the same time summoned Wu Keshan of the Horqin tribe to ask questions.
Looking at the Ming army in the distance ahead, which seemed to be formed into three large camps in the shape of a pin, and watching the Ming army galloping around at night, Abatai asked Wu Keshan at the same time: "How is the situation?"
"Go back to Mr. Beile!" Upon hearing this, Wu Keshan quickly replied, "This Ming army is very strong. As soon as we met, our Horqin tribe lost more than a hundred people. If I hadn't seen the opportunity and retreated quickly, the losses would have been huge.
Got it!"
At this point, he felt a little shameless, so he immediately added: "Forward on the opposite side, the flag is Yongwei Yingzhou. According to the news, it is the Ming general Zhou who met Ji Nasi. He was named Zhongwu Bo by the Ming emperor. He is indeed well-deserved.
, much more powerful than the average Ming army!"
The forward is Zhou Yuji from the Yongwei camp. If they fight against the Horqin tribe, they will indeed be more powerful.
Abatai was thinking in his mind and asked Wu Keshan: "Who is the coach of the Ming army?"
"We didn't capture the prisoner, so we only knew it was a man named Sun!" After hearing this, Wu Keshan replied with a little lack of confidence.
There were few people in his army who knew Chinese characters, and even less knew about the Ming army. Before they got close to the main force of the Ming army, they were often picked up or driven away by the Ming army at night, so no more information could be obtained.
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But Kong Youde, who was standing next to him, heard this and quickly interjected: "Maybe it's Sun Chuanting, the Minister of the Ministry of War!"
He asked the Guan Ning Army prisoner a lot of questions in detail. For example, the Guan Ning Army prisoner still knew about the fact that Sun Chuanting was appointed Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty.
Kong Youde saw that Abatai's expression didn't seem to change, so he quickly added: "This Sun Chuanting is really capable. He once led troops to fight and almost wiped out the bandits in Guan Nei. His ability to lead troops is comparable to that of Hong Chengchou
That guy... compares."
When I was habitually referring to Hong Chengchou as that guy, I suddenly remembered that Hong Chengchou had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and was on his side. It seemed a little bad to call him that, so I hesitated.
However, he found that Abate didn't seem to care about this title at all, so he felt relieved.
Abatai listened to Kong Youde's words and didn't pay much attention to it. Hong Chengchou, the most capable fighter in the Ming Dynasty, has surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, so what about Sun Chuanting? At worst, he is the second Hong Chengchou! Maybe he is far inferior to Hong Chengchou, because
I have never heard of Sun Chuanting's name.
If you can win against those rogue thieves, what's there to brag about!
Guan Ning's army was as afraid of the Qing army as a tiger. If any one of them was transferred into the pass, wouldn't they be chasing the bandits?
However, he did not deny everything Kong Youde said.
Because from what he observed about the Ming army on the opposite side, he did not see the panic of other Ming troops when they saw the Qing army. There are also rules and regulations for the formation, and the military formations are interconnected and supported by each other. Judging from these, then
Sun Chuanting is not the kind of person who talks on paper, but he is still somewhat capable.
Thinking of this, Abate issued a military order to rest the entire army, restore the physical strength of men and horses, and go out to fight tomorrow morning.
In ancient times, wars, especially between Jianlu and Mongol Tatars, relied mainly on cold weapons. Therefore, it was appropriate to recover one's strength before fighting after a long march. Unless there were special circumstances, one would go into battle regardless of fatigue.
On the Ming army's side, the commander-in-chief was of course Sun Chuanting. He also issued a similar order to Abatai, telling the entire army to rest and wait for the next day.
The main reason why he rested the army was different.
It is closer from the capital to Jizhou than from Jianlu to Jizhou. Originally, the imperial officers and soldiers would definitely arrive at Jizhou earlier than Jianlu. However, Sun Chuanting slowed down the speed. There are four reasons for this.