Huang Taiji noticed Fangfang's behavior and felt a little happy in his heart. However, given the low status of women in the Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji also knew that even if he provoked her again, there would be no results.
At this moment, the Jurchen commander's horn sounded again. Huang Taiji, Ma Xiaoquan and other Jurchen leaders all raised their heads and turned their attention to the training ground.
"Woo...Woo..." The sound of the long horn resounded throughout the training ground, causing Ma Xiaoquan's eardrums to swell.
Fangfang, who was sitting next to Ma Xiaoquan, subconsciously covered her son's ears. She bit her lip and silently endured the sound of the long horn.
Fortunately, the sound did not last long. After a while, the Jurchen soldiers who blew the long horns put down their horns uniformly.
A burly man, with his upper body naked, walked slowly to the central stage. He first made a respectful one-armed chest-crossing salute to Huang Taiji, and then saluted the other leaders of the Jurchen tribes present. Finally, this
A big man saluted Ma Xiaoquan, but his actions were full of frivolity and contempt.
Ma Xiaoquan narrowed his eyes slightly. Why did the expression between this big man's eyebrows look a bit like a person's?
"This is..." Ma Xiaoquan asked Huang Taiji.
Huang Taiji chuckled and said, "Oh, this is my soldier with the yellow flag, his name is Cato Arla."
"Cato?" Ma Xiaoquan snorted and murmured, "Why do I feel like he looks a bit like a person I've seen?"
"Haha, Master Ma, are you talking about Batu?"
Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "Exactly. If you look carefully, Batu and Cato have similar names."
"Haha, Cato is Batu's younger brother, three years younger than Batu. Well, next year he can officially participate in the intra-clan martial arts competition. By then, Gato should also be able to become Batuulu, haha."
"That's what I said..." Ma Xiaoquan nodded, secretly cursing me.
During the battle in Ningyuan City in the past, Ma Xiaoquan opened his bow and shot Batu, and Cato was Batu's younger brother, so it was only natural that Cato was frivolous and contemptuous of Ma Xiaoquan just now.
Under the central stage, Cato raised his chin and loudly asked Ma Xiaoquan in blunt Chinese: "Are you the person sent over there?"
Cato's tone was very abrupt, which could be said to be rude. He called Ma Xiaoquan directly "you" and referred to the Ming Dynasty as "over there", which proved that he did not pay attention to the Ming Dynasty or even Ma Xiaoquan.
Ma Xiaoquan grinned. He had already expected that Cato would treat him like this, but it didn't matter. Anyway, the other party was just talking. Who cares if a mosquito bites an ox horn and it doesn't hurt or itch?
"Haha, I, yes, I came from there~" Ma Xiaoquan said with a smile.
Cato was stunned for a moment, thinking that his words would make the other party hold his breath, but unexpectedly the other party responded to him with a smile and admitted that he was from "over there."
Huang Taiji chuckled, stood up and smoothed things over: "Okay, Cato, get ready to start."
Cato hummed, then turned around and made a gesture to start.
Directly in front, stood several teams of Jurchen soldiers, each with slightly different equipment. Among them, the most eye-catching one was naturally the Jurchen cavalry team.
As the vanguard troops, ace troops, and cavalry troops of the Jurchens in attacking cities, they were naturally the troops that received the most attention from Huang Taiji.
Huang Taiji stood up, walked to the front of the central stage, stretched out his right hand, and made a downward movement. Then, the cavalry team walked neatly towards the central stage.
Ma Xiaoquan's eyes widened and his ears listened carefully to the sounds of the cavalry as they advanced. What surprised Ma Xiaoquan was that the hoofbeats of the horses under each cavalry seat as they moved forward were all uniform.
This... is terrible, I can say, very terrible...
Ma Xiaoquan squinted his eyes, and his originally relaxed expression became serious at this moment.
No wonder the Jurchens were able to finally seize the world, and no wonder the Ming Dynasty was finally defeated. Putting aside the reasons for the corruption of the court, judging from the battle between the two armies, the Ming army had already lost more than one step.
Huang Taiji saw Ma Xiaoquan's seriousness out of the corner of his eye, and felt secretly happy in his heart.
"Haha, Mr. Ma, how are you?" Huang Taiji asked Ma Xiaoquan with a smile.
Ma Xiaoquan nodded, his tone no longer frivolous, but full of admiration: "The Jurchens are really amazing for having this kind of talent."
Huang Taiji laughed, waved his hand, and continued: "This is just the beginning." After saying that, Huang Taiji nodded to Cato in the center stage.
Cato received the order and shouted his clan language. After receiving the order, the cavalry immediately began to change into different battle formations, and finally settled on a conical battle formation.
Cone-shaped battle formations are mostly used by cavalry, and the terrain requirements are not as great as other battle formations.
If it is in an open area, the attack power of the conical battle formation cavalry is definitely the most powerful.
Several Jurchen cavalrymen at the front of the battle formation were naked from the waist up and chanting slogans in their ethnic language. Under their common slogans, the formation behind them always maintained a staggeringly neat formation.
"Isn't the battle formation very beautiful? Does Mr. Ma also think that it might be of no use to you?" Huang Taiji asked again with a smile.
Ma Xiaoquan said nothing.
"Haha, it seems that Mr. Ma is indeed suspicious. That's right. You, Ming Dynasty, only like to play things for the sake of appearance. To be honest, you can't do that!"
Insult, this is a direct insult.
Huang Taiji looked at Ma Xiaoquan proudly, secretly hoping that Ma Xiaoquan would be angry.
Ma Xiaoquan raised the corner of his mouth slightly, then he smiled and said: "We are not all good at it, but there are many things that we are good at. For example, the iron pot that everyone eats with can make a lot of things, but the Jurchens cannot make this.
What should I do if I can't do it? Can I just..." At this point, Ma Xiaoquan did not continue. He knew that if he said the word "rob", he would be ashamed of the Jurchens on this occasion.
What's more, whether they are Jurchens or Han people, in the near future, they will merge together to form one kind of people, that is, Chinese people.
Why are we so anxious when we are born from the same roots? Ma Xiaoquan understands this truth, but Huang Taiji definitely doesn't. It would be unwise to argue with someone who doesn't understand.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoosh..." Just as Ma Xiaoquan finished speaking, several leaders of the Jurchen Ministry sitting behind him suddenly stood up. Everyone's expression was angry. It could be seen that,
They understood what Ma Xiaoquan said and guessed the word that Ma Xiaoquan didn't say. They were angered by Ma Xiaoquan.
Ma Xiaoquan didn't care about those people at all. Although they held military power and even gave Huang Taiji a bit of sympathy, in Ma Xiaoquan's eyes, they were nothing.
"Hmm~~" Huang Taiji snorted and looked at the tribal leaders with a look. Although the leaders were dissatisfied, they still had to respect the majesty of the Khan.
"Huh~~" Several people snorted in unison and sat back obediently.
At this time, the cavalry's cone-shaped assault formation was ready, and behind them, simulated Ming army defenses had been built using Jumajiao and straw men, especially the flag with the word "Ming" written on it.
, it’s very big and conspicuous, as if I’m afraid others won’t see it.
Ma Xiaoquan sneered in his heart. He understood that Huang Taiji had done this deliberately, and he also knew that Huang Taiji wanted him to watch. The next flag with the word "明" written on it would be broken by the impact of the Jurchen cavalry.
Ma Xiaoquan smiled slightly and turned his attention to the simulated fortifications in front. It was a bit far away and could not be seen clearly. However, overall, it was indeed not much different from the Ming army's usual defenses, especially the ones that refused to accept the fortifications.
Horse horns, those sharply sharpened horns are very dazzling.
Cato mounted his horse, pulled out the saber from his waist, licked his lips, and grinned energetically.
"Drink~~" Cato raised his saber and shouted loudly.
"Drink~~~" The Jurchen cavalry around them also shouted, the shouts were loud and the momentum was majestic.
Cato stretched his saber forward, pointing toward the sky, and the cavalry roared towards the fortifications ahead.
In just an instant, the defenses at the rear were completely knocked to pieces by the Jurchen cavalry. Although the process was a bit fast, Ma Xiaoquan stood on the central platform and could see everything clearly.
"Okay~~" Ma Xiaoquan nodded and couldn't help but admire him.
Huang Taiji was extremely proud and asked: "Master Ma, don't you think it's good? Haha, based on your personal experience, are our Jurchen cavalry powerful?"
Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "Of course they are powerful, but the Jurchens have cavalry, and the Ming Dynasty has the Shenji Battalion, so..."
"Shenji Camp? Haha..." Huang Taiji smiled slightly, "Although the Shenji Camp is powerful, I think it is not invulnerable, right?"
"That's true..." Ma Xiaoquan nodded cogently.
...
After the impact, the Jurchen cavalry quickly returned to their positions at the moment when Huang Taiji and Ma Xiaoquan were talking. When Ma Xiaoquan and Huang Taiji turned to look straight ahead again, the cavalry were already standing neatly in front of them.
Cato jumped off his horse. Although he had not directly participated in the charge drill just now, he used no less strength than other cavalry. On the contrary, in order to command the cavalry, Cato had already shouted at the top of his lungs.
Enduring the severe pain in his throat, Cato respectfully walked up to Huang Taiji, half-knelt on the ground, crossed his right hand across his chest, saluted, and said a few hoarse clan dialects.
Huang Taiji hummed and responded in his ethnic language. At the same time, he did not forget to translate for Ma Xiaoquan.
After listening to Huang Taiji's translation, Ma Xiaoquan applauded the Jurchen cavalry very approvingly.
All the leaders of the Jurchen tribes present were stunned by Ma Xiaoquan's clapping action. They had rarely seen this kind of behavior, or at least in Shenyang, this kind of behavior was not allowed.