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Chapter 672 The Only Disadvantage Is Expensive

In a daze, Zheng Zhitai felt that everywhere his body touched was as soft as cotton, as if he was floating in a cloud.

"Am I in the sky?"

He asked himself more than once in his mind.

In a trance, my old mother, the virtuous mother-in-law of the family, and the son who is thriving reappeared in front of me again, but their images are not as clear as before, blurry... more and more blurred...

"Third brother, clean up everything, two tartar heads, one will die and the other will be caught!"

A young and rough voice came to his ears, and then he heard: "I don't know which camp's spies, it seems that they were ambushed by the Tartars. Quickly see if there are any survivors, don't dare to stay here for long! "

Zheng Zhitai heard it clearly this time: "Chinese, fluent in Chinese. My own... is the Ming army..."

His consciousness seemed to have recovered, and he tried hard to get up, but the touch was still soft and he couldn't exert his strength. He wanted to shout out in desperation, but found that he was as dumb as he could make a sound. .

Sweating profusely, the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't yell. Suddenly, he felt that his body was not floating like before, as if he was being sucked by something, and he fell straight down.

Falling, the tentacles were empty, and the surroundings were in darkness. When he was panicking and helpless, he suddenly felt his body shaking violently, and then a beam of light shone into his eyes.

Suddenly enlightened, first came a rough voice: "Brother, can you still breathe?"

"Ah...cough...cough cough..."

Zheng Zhitai yelled, he woke up suddenly, coughed heavily, gasped and said, "...Tarja...kill...kill Tartar..."

A big man came over and held him down, and then told everyone: "Look around, don't leave behind those who can be taken, and take all the injured brothers."

He got up and kicked the captured tartar's distribution Shiku, and said: "Except for this tartar's head, all the other ones are just the head!"

After hearing the order, everyone spread out to search around.

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This group of sentry cavalry of the Ming army who rescued Zheng Zhitai was the 34 elite sentry cavalry of the first team of the right sentry in the middle of the Tiger Guard Battalion under the command of Zhang Cheng, the deputy commander of Xuanzhen.

The team officer is Chang Zhengbiao. He has been following Zhang Cheng since the 12th year of Chongzhen, and it has been two years since he was born in Orion. With meritorious service, he has now been promoted to team officer.

At the beginning, the 24 cavalry in their village joined the army together, Zhang Cheng organized them into two cavalry teams, with Chang Zhengxiong, the boss of the Chang family, and Chang Zhengbiao, the third eldest, as team officers, and arranged for Lao Yebu to accept Liu Jinhai and Li Changsheng to practice them.

Chang Zhengxiong is the oldest among them. Before he joined the army, he was already the leader of the crowd. He is not only proficient in bow and horse, but also has a rough knowledge of writing. He also has his family's knowledge of battalion and military affairs. Now he has been promoted to the right post The boss whistle.

His clan brothers Chang Zhengfei and Chang Zhengcheng are now the chiefs of a team led by Chang Zhengbiao. Their cavalry formation is different from that of the infantry with 12 men and one armor. Furthermore, it is the formation of regiments, bureaus, divisions, and departments. .

Instead, it is based on a team of five people, with a team leader inside; why is the second team, with a senior officer outside, and 11 people in total; and a team of three officers, with a team officer outside, and a total of 34 people in the team ; The three teams serve as sentries.Then there is a sentry officer, four flag boarders and guards, and there are [-] people in the whole sentry.

According to the number of soldiers in each battalion, there are three sentries or five sentries as a unit, with one member of the thousand generals outside, and ten flag guards and guards.

For example, the light cavalry department under Zhang Guangda's cavalry battalion has five whistles, and the heavy cavalry department has three whistles.

Now Zhang Cheng’s Tiger Guards have 650 elite riders, which are divided into three divisions, and each division has only two guards for the time being.

Now the Liao troops from all towns are training together around Ningyuan, and most of the battalions are sent out to check the distribution and terrain of the slave troops between Songjin and Songjin.

However, only Wu Sangui, Zhang Cheng, Yang Guozhu, Cao Bianjiao and other generals under the command of Yebushou would go so far and risk their lives to come under the watchful eyes of the tartars.

And Yebushou under the command of Wang Pu, Ma Ke and others are just putting on a show around Tashan Fort, not even daring to step into the border around Xingshan Fort.

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Chang Zhengbiao led the team out five days ago. Thanks to their hunting experience, they have been hiding very well, and have never been discovered by the spies who captured the new army.

Among the 34 people in his team, 20 of them joined the army together in Changjiazhai, all of them are good bow hunters, cavalry and archers, and after two years of training in the camp, they are also extraordinary .

This time when they came out to spy, although they did not dare to hunt blatantly, but as veteran hunters, they were capable of setting traps and setting up tricks.

Every day is a small harvest, but they dare not light a fire. Since they drink blood and get fresh flesh and blood, they also get replenished in time for the physical strength they lost during the days of sentry.

They had already arrived at the area north of Xingshan Fort yesterday, because Zhang Cheng asked for a detailed investigation of Daughter's River Valley, they had already discovered that this group of Tartar sentries were moving around, but they were hiding in the distance to observe and never showed up.

Just because before leaving, Zhang Cheng specially instructed that this trip is only to investigate the terrain and mountains, as well as the arrangement of the slaves' troops and the location of their camps. If it is not necessary, try not to contact the Tartars, so as to avoid unnecessary casualties caused by exposure.

Therefore, when they encountered Tartar sentries many times, they always hid themselves and did not reveal their whereabouts. Moreover, Zhang Cheng's military orders were extremely strict, and since he clearly asked him not to take advantage of the opportunity to avoid casualties, he did not dare to commit corruption. heart of.

The sentry cavalry in charge of observation today found that a group of sentry cavalry from the Ming army was going to take the risk of outflanking the sentry scouts of the Tartars, so they hurriedly reported to the team officer Chang Zhengbiao to know.

Although he didn't want to expose his whereabouts and cause the sentry to end early, but the friendly army had to be rescued if he was in danger, so he resolutely decided to leave Sanshi Jingqi on the periphery to respond.

He led one or two dozen elite cavalry to outflank them, and when the Tartar sentries were fighting fiercely with the friendly army, he could not only cut them off, but also rescue the friendly army from difficulties.

Because they had to hide their whereabouts, so as not to be discovered before they got close, and the sneak attack strategy was in vain, and it took them some effort to reach the foot of the mountain.

Chang Zhengbiao led Chang Zhengfei's [-]st and [-]nd sentries to ride down the mountain, while Chang Zhengcheng led his [-]nd sentries to stay at the foot of the mountain to guard everyone's horses.

In order to make a quick decision, they also put side cards on their arms, holding a short pistol in their right hand, and a short pistol in each left hand. This thing is a sharp weapon in a dozen or twenty steps.

In particular, the Yunzhou-made short pistols they are equipped with are not only fine in workmanship, but also all the reeds are made of the best Sugang, coupled with good flint, the firing rate is surprisingly high, the only disadvantage is that it is expensive.

So fucking expensive!
But the pistols allotted to sentry cavalry are selected from the best, after all, they are used to save their lives in times of crisis.

(End of this chapter)