The beginning of May in the lunar calendar is already close to the midsummer season. Although the weather in Dagukou, which is close to the sea, is cool, it often rains. In the evening, the heavy summer rain came down again, making everything around the area confused.

Visually, it seemed that the entire land of Youyan was enveloped in a violent storm.

And this scene of wind and rain covering the earth also coincides with the complex situation in Beizhili today. The Ming Dynasty has not yet died, Dashun still exists, and the Qing Dynasty is still covering up and has not thrown away the gauze of shame. No one knows what is going on.

After the bloody storm, who will be the master of Yandi!

More than ten miles west of Dagukou City, a pontoon bridge was erected at some time to connect the north and south of the Weihe River. The pontoon bridge was made up of many cano boats, and the boats were nailed together with strong wooden boards.

A lot of mud was applied to the west end to prevent fire.

A bridgehead was built at both the north and south ends of the pontoon. They were wooden forts, but very strong. Each fort was guarded by a soldier from the New Army to overcome difficulties. The person who led the troops to guard the northern fort was Tianjin Wei Nanchang Street

A former junior officer of the Tianjin Town Army who joined the New Army after the bloody battle.

This young officer named Yu Daren was born in a hereditary military household of Tianjin Guard. His ancestors were from Hunan. In the early Ming Dynasty, he followed the Northern Expedition all the way to Yan, and he also held an official position with a hereditary family of 1,000 households. However, it was passed down to Yu Daren.

His generation was completely in decline, and he did not get any official positions. Instead, he gave up martial arts and studied literature, hoping to get a job. However, he failed to pass the exam for ten years! In the end, he had to join the army and work hard with his strong body passed down from his ancestors.

. But it was not satisfactory. He was already forty years old, and he had just become a flag general. His official title was only Xiaoqi of the Shuaifu, and he was in charge of more than eighty brothers.

But he still cherishes this position very much, because the captain of the new army can really get a military salary of four taels of silver a month, and every penny is a lot!

The prince's control was very strict. When paying, the officers of the military and political guards and the officers of the division command department would go to the camp together, and then the pay would be paid by roll call in public.

In addition to being paid well, they also eat well, with plenty of rice and noodles, and meat and fish every now and then. The food of ordinary soldiers can catch up with the servants of General Cao Town in the past.

In addition, there are paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River waiting for the officers and soldiers of the New Army to take them! Yu Daren is just a small flag, but he also has 80 acres of farmland, and it is still the paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River... As long as he gets to the south of the Yangtze River, he will

We have land and a house, and when the time comes to ask for a wife, she must be under eighteen, and she must be a yellow-flowered girl!

These days, he is so busy! He is so busy today, but military discipline is really strict!

The mountain of military law is not an issue in the New Army. The New Army not only has officers at all levels in charge of military discipline, but also has an independent military law and war supervision system! The top level of this system is directly under the Fujun Generalissimo's Office.

The middle level of the Military Justice Department is the military law offices located in each division of the New Army, and the basic level is the military judges located at the league and battalion levels. Among them, the military justice offices and military judges are not subordinate to the division commander, association commander, and battalion general.

Instead, it is under the jurisdiction of the Military Justice Department, which is responsible for maintaining military discipline and supervising operations and training.

These men in charge of military law are either from the Jin Yiwei or the Pure Army. They are all as fierce as tigers and as evil as wolves, and they just try to torment people to climb up! They not only have to take care of the law and discipline in the military, but also take care of training, combat readiness, and management.

On duty... I heard that the Crown Prince also gave them a target to hand over people every day!

Anyone who commits a crime in their hands will be beheaded in the most serious case, beaten, locked up in a dark room, or demoted in the least serious case! It will be extremely uncomfortable for him...and it must be serious!

This kind of military discipline and law probably didn't even exist at that time, right?

On one side are strict military disciplines and laws, and on the other side are generous pay and attractive offers. Therefore, in the past twenty days, junior officers like Yu Daren have all been energetic and did not dare to slack off. The superiors have given instructions.

I don’t dare to discount the training and garrison tasks that have come down. The training consists of two exercises a day, and one exercise lasts an hour. You must practice for two hours every day! One hour is for formation training, and the other hour is weapon training.

The eighty-man banner under the command of Yu Daren was based on the Ming Dynasty's preliminary hundred-man army. Among the eighty-man soldiers, there were forty spearmen, twenty archers, and twenty swordsmen. They were not equipped with firecrackers. Among them, they were equipped with muskets.

The spearmen with a three-foot-long (one foot three, equivalent to more than four meters) spear are the absolute main force. Therefore, the spearmen form a team to attack or form a defense, which has become the main method of warfare. The battle between archers and sword soldiers,

It all revolves around the pikemen.

For Yu Daren and his men, this kind of warfare method that existed in the early Ming Dynasty was no stranger. Most of them were born in Tianjin Zhenbing. Almost all were children of military families. They could not draw a hard bow and could not lift a big gun.

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The Generalissimo's Mansion now equips the troops with a large number of long spears. In fact, there are also factors that make them easy to train. Without an arm strength of tens of kilograms, it is difficult to use a walking bow. It is not easy to play well with swords. Only long spears are the easiest, just sprint and shoot.

As long as they can form a spear formation, they can still be very lethal.

As for Yu Daren's flag soldiers, they are almost all ignorant, they are not good at swords, guns and bows, and their formation is not neat. If we sum up the weaknesses, they are lack of training and discipline!

So after twenty days and a total of forty hours of rigorous training, this flag soldier was actually able to play the spear formation properly.

In addition to training, there is still the task of guarding the pontoon bridge to be completed, and there must be no slacking off! In the last battle of Tianjin Guards, because the pontoon bridge was burned, the officers of the bridge guarding force were demoted to the lowest level of Shuaifu guards!

So Yu Daren now sleeps with one eye open, fearing that the bandits from Tianjin Wei will come and kill him again.

By the way, the function of this pontoon bridge is actually to block the Wei River and prevent the thieves' fleet from raiding Dagukou and Haisha Island Pier.

In the heavy rain, Yu Daren once again began a routine inspection. He wore a raincoat over his cloth-covered iron armor. Instead of a helmet, he put on a rain-proof bamboo hat and carried a long spear with the tip wrapped in oilcloth.

, wearing a pair of non-slip straw sandals over his boots, he walked from the wooden fort on the south bank across the pontoon bridge, checked all the sentries on the bridge, and then boarded the wooden fort on the north bank to wait for the return of the secret sentries placed on the outside of the north bank.

Now the north bank of the Wei River is an area where Ming, Shun and Qing have no regard. Bandits are rampant, and many powerful people have formed strongholds to protect themselves. It is very chaotic. But what really worries Zhu Cixiang is the sudden southward movement of the Tatars in the north!

It was only more than three hundred miles from Yongping to Dagukou. The cavalry and horse teams could complete the journey in two days. Prince Zhu did not dare to take it lightly. Even though today was a good day for him to take in concubines, he still sent a large number of hidden sentries to the north bank.

These hidden sentries are directly under the command of the New Army to overcome difficulties. They are all soldiers from Tianjin Wei. They are very familiar with the terrain on the north bank of the Wei River. When dispatched, they will disguise themselves, either as traders or refugees. Every time they are dispatched,

It needs to be rotated every day.

About four hours ago, a group of secret sentries disguised as salt traders passed the pontoon and headed north, and now it was almost time for the secret sentries they replaced to return.

As soon as Yu Daren boarded the wooden fort, the sound of horse hooves trampling on the muddy water suddenly sounded over there. He didn't know if the whistle had returned?

He quickly shouted to the soldiers on duty on the wooden fort: "Be alert!"

The soldier responded: "Yes."

Then he took out a gong and beat it with a wooden stick, making a harsh sound of "dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang."

Faced with iron armor, they picked up their weapons and got into fighting positions. The door of the wooden castle had been closed tightly, and at this time, they even raised the door bars, as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

After a while, I saw a group of "traders" wearing raincoats, carrying wooden sticks, carrying bamboo baskets and pulling donkeys, running towards the wooden castle.

"General Banner, you are one of our own!" the team member who had just boarded the wooden castle said to Yu Daren.

"No!" Yu Daren was very alert, "There aren't that many people... there are situations!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Tianjin dialect came from over there: "Two or five eyes!"

This is a curse word, and it is also a secret command to cross the bridge.

Yu Daren immediately replied: "Crooked!"
Chapter completed!