Chapter 129 Hunter and Prey

Boyan regards Qi Jiguang as his prey, and Qi Jiguang also regards Boyan as a big fish. Hunter and prey roles are not sure now. As long as the dust settles, we can determine who is the hunter and who is the prey.

However, Qi Jiguang was always ready.

Although he had already decided to focus on infantry warfare, he still wanted 500 cavalry. These 500 cavalry were not more about fighting, but about reconnaissance, suppressing the dense surrounding Tartars' exploration of horses, and ensuring that the Ming army had a certain space for free movement.

Ma Jin won this opportunity. He led five hundred cavalry as a thousand households, and continued to investigate before and after Qi Jiguang's army to ensure that the brigade of cavalry could not appear suddenly in front of Qi Jiguang, leaving a certain time for array.

It seems that Ma Jin has a strong defense and no loophole to take advantage of. Perhaps it is because Boyan relies on four times the enemy's military strength advantage, and he led Xin Ai's troops. To put it further, it is the old team built by Altan. It is completely incomparable to the miscellaneous army in the Battle of Baideng.

In Boyan's stereotype, the Ming army infantry has always been a slim fish. Even though the Great Synchronous Slim is said to be very strong, it is a slim fish. If others can't beat it, it doesn't mean they can't beat it.

The only one who can deal with Mongolian cavalry is the Datong Iron Cavalry.

If the five thousand Datong cavalry came today, Boyan would never have only four times the gap in military strength. He would have gathered more troops to seek an overwhelming advantage. But it was enough to deal with infantry.

Therefore, Boyan did not cover up at all.

Without Ma Jin reporting, Qi Jiguang saw it.

First, there were slight waves on the calm river in the south. Then, after seeing the mountains in the north, there were high dust, which was the trace of the raid of a large group of cavalrymen. After a while, the Taurus cavalry bypassed the mountain pass and entered the valley.

The soldiers below were all shocked.

They reported to Qi Jiguang one by one, saying: "Report to the general, and found the Taurus cavalry in front." "Report to the general, and found the Taurus cavalry in the rear." "Report to the general, and found the Taurus cavalry in the north."

Qi Jiguang said in his heart: "Are they a new recruit?" He immediately passed the order and said: "Arranging the formation according to the plan."

The reason why Qi Jiguang chose the soldiers in the Beijing camp was also confident. Now it is his confidence.

At the command of Qi Jiguang, the soldiers of the Beijing camp were simply super-level and immediately unfolded here. A square array with a wide cross-section was arranged. Looking down from the sky, this military formation was a rectangle with a narrow north and south and wide east and west. The southernmost point was the Rabbit Maochuan. The northernmost point was close to the mountains. Although it was not on the mountain, the terrain had already fluctuated at the foot of the mountain.

Qi Jiguang was not polite to Zhou Mengchen. Among the five thousand people, there were many artillery preparations. At this moment, the artillery was arranged at four corners in southeast, southwest and northwest, protruding outside the square array. Another hundred-house guard and several vehicles as barriers formed a small array.

This is also the benefit of narrow terrain.

Four small formations, southeast, west and north, either rely on the river or have a high advantage. It is difficult for the enemy to capture it.

The entire formation changed from a marching sequence to a combat sequence. In a few minutes, in the eyes of the Tatars, they were rushing to the Ming army convoy from both ends, almost watching the Ming army transform successfully under their noses.

Qi Jiguang looked at the clock in the car on the side and whispered: "It's slow."

If the array change speed can be increased a lot during training. However, now it is a battlefield after all, and some people's movements are transformed.

Zhou Mengchen never thought that from last autumn to this summer, this Jing camp was in training. This was simply a weird thing in the Ming Dynasty. He had never trained soldiers like this in the Ming Dynasty. Even when the Jing camp was completely victorious, he had already been invincible in the world after three days of training.

In fact, in the eyes of Fengcheng Hou, it was almost done after training for three or four months. Zhou Mengchen passed the training for several months. In addition to the tense spring time, Jingying also sent to defend spring farming near Datong, and was always training.

Such intensity of training can reach the standard of full training in modern times, let alone that era. In addition, was Qi Jiguang a mediocre? No.

If Qi Jiguang had not been able to transform an army after such a long period of training, then he would not be Qi Jiguang, who has been famous for all ages.

Qi Jiguang ignored the Tartar cavalry outside. He rode on a horse and said in the open space in the middle of the military formation: "Brothers, I know that many of you are from Jingwei. Their ancestors were either from Chengzu's third guards, or from the powerful troops who won the Jingnan era. Or, they were from Nanjing Jingwei who followed Taizu to conquer the world. I was from Dengzhou Wei. When my father was there, he said that my Qi family's ancestors were also old people who followed Taizu to conquer the world. But the most regrettable thing about him was that he was not selected into the Jingwei. Instead, he went to Dengzhou Wei."

"At that time, all the whole country was proud of the capital and guards. They were pillars. What did they look like now?"

"Before I came, I expected that the Tartars would definitely come to attack. But the governor said, "Why should we transfer a garrison from Datong, he was worried that we could not fight?" Maybe some people think it doesn't matter. But there is one thing that you must be interested. Your Majesty intends to revive the Jingying Camp. Restore the Jingying to the beginning of the country to shock the world. Do you think it is a good thing for you? Not necessarily. Your Majesty wants a Jingying Camp that can fight. The quota for management is also strong. If some people cannot fight, they still want to occupy the position of the Jingying Camp as before, hahaha. Do you think it is possible? Anyway, I heard that the governor has always been worried about Datong's lack of people. If you can't support the wall, then you are ready to be Datong."

As soon as this statement was spoken, many people breathed rapidly. However, due to military law, they did not dare to speak more.

There are about three parts of the seventy-two guards in the Jingying camp. One part is the three guards of Emperor Chengzu, who were already garrisons near Peking, which was the old team of Emperor Chengzu. The other part is the Nanjing Jingwei, and the garrison outside the Great Wall moved to Beijing.

But that was all the old almanac from more than a hundred years ago.

Over the past hundred years, these soldiers in Beijing were born and raised in Beijing, and wanted to be buried in Beijing even after they died. Letting them go to Datong was simply a fetter for them.

"But everyone is relieved. As long as you fight during training, the Tartars will not become a climate." Qi Jiguang said: "I dare to bring you here, so that you will be sure to win. As long as you win this battle, let the people of Datong know. The enemy they can't beat in Datong, my Jingying can be the best in the world. Your Majesty knows, how can you let you garrison outside? Moreover, the rewards from the Jingying have always been more than those of the foreign army. Think about those who made a fortune in the Battle of Baideng. Where is the Tartars opposite, that is silver."

Qi Jiguang spoke without letting go of the Tartars.

Seeing that the Tartars found that the raid failed, they had a little time to reorganize the team and now they were ready to launch an attack.

Qi Jiguang naturally stopped talking. However, Qi Jiguang's words have already explained the importance of this battle. The soldiers in the Beijing camp either won this battle and returned to Beijing in triumph, or they would station in Datong for a long time. Let the soldiers in the Beijing camp grit their teeth one by one, not daring to be negligent.

At this moment, a man came from the Tartars and shouted loudly: "Listen to the Ming army opposite, you have been surrounded. Now the Khan attacks all over the line, listen. The Khan has fought on the other side? If you don't have reinforcements, it's better to surrender quickly. The Khan has a lot of rewards. If you don't surrender, you will definitely die."

Qi Jiguang pricked up his ears and listened for a while, and sure enough, in the southeast direction, a faint sound of cannons sounded.

Qi Jiguang said in his heart: "Boyan has a big appetite. He not only wants to take me down. He also wants to wipe out the arrangements of the government troops north of the Khahukou. I wonder if there is such a good tooth."

In Qi Jiguang's view, this is good news.

Indeed, Qi Jiguang's opinion, his 5,000 elite troops in the Beijing camp were enough to withstand the attack of the brigade of cavalry. But there was still pressure. If this was the case, the Tartars would divide the troops. Qi Jiguang faced much less pressure.

Qi Jiguang did not mean to let him speak more. He immediately signaled that several archers rushed out the caller.

At this point, the war officially began.
Chapter completed!