It is impossible for soldiers who only train on the battlefield and do not pull out wars to become elite soldiers. Xiong Tingbi has decided to restore Tieling City before the beginning of winter, which requires the cooperation of the army in Liaodong.

However, at present, Gao Shixin has to do one thing first. Once this thing is done, the money will come.

Outside Fushun Pass, this is a hilly area leading to Changbai Mountain from the Liaohe Plain. It was densely filled with jungles, and horse thieves of all sizes lived here. Some of them had already secretly surrendered to the Later Jin Dynasty. Huang Taiji took the means of winning over the Han people, giving some larger horse thieves benefits, asking them to stare at the caravan, and also serving as a detailed work for the Later Jin Dynasty.

Gao Shixin decided to first eliminate a group of horse thieves who had secretly surrendered to the Later Jin Dynasty.

After three months of training, it was a mule or a horse that pulled it out. Gao Shixin decided to send troops to wipe out a group of bandits located in the Xuehua Mountain area. There were nearly a thousand bandits, and the local jungle was densely covered with complex terrain. However, there were a few soldiers in the Liaoyang Xinzhen Army who were originally horse thieves. With them as guides, they could ensure that they could wipe out the entire group of horse thieves in one fell swoop.

"Mangui, Huang Degong, you two, lead the cavalry to block the mountain road between the big and small Beigou, and block their retreat! You can't let them go!" Gao Shixin explained to Mangui and Huang Degong.

"No!" The two of them took the order and retreated.

Gao Shixin turned his head again and ordered Zhou Yuji and Kong Youde: "Zhou Yuji, Kong Youde, you two lead 1,500 soldiers to attack from Jiuyanggou! Go back to the back of the bandits to launch an attack! I will lead 1,500 soldiers to launch an attack from the front!"

"No!" The two of them received the order.

The team set out from Liaoyang in a mighty manner. Man Gui and Huang De in front led 120 cavalrymen to take the lead. These cavalry were all veterans. Most of the war horses they rode were war horses seized from the hands of the Later Jin Dynasty. One man and two horses were well-equipped. Among the cavalry were Han people, Mongolians and Jurchens.

Gao Shixin, who led a large group of infantry soldiers, Zhou Yuji and Kong Youde, only the three of them had horses, and the rest were infantry.

There were three thousand infantrymen, one thousand of which were young soldiers, all of which were spearmen; most of the remaining two thousand infantrymen were Liao people and Liaodong military households, and a few horse thieves. The weapons of these two thousand soldiers were more numerous, including three hundred sword players, three hundred axe gunners, five hundred three-eyed gunners, one hundred turtle dove gunners, one hundred Franc gunners, three hundred crossbowmen and four hundred archers.

The number of infantry armor was not large, and the imperial court only provided one thousand armors, so there were only three hundred sword players in the top cards, four hundred long spearmen in the front row, and three hundred axe and spearmen who served as the backbone were armored, while the rest of the soldiers did not have armor and only had a mandarin duck battle jacket on their bodies.

The soldiers assigned to the armor placed the armor on the car.

This time, we brought a hundred two-wheeled carts, each with a Franco cannon. The car had four movable feet. After reaching the position, the four feet could be placed down and fixed on the ground, so that the Franco can open fire. When marching, these cannon cars were pulled by mules. After approaching the battlefield, they untied the mules, pushed the cart to the position with people, and they could open fire when they were set up.

In addition to one hundred and twenty cavalry and three thousand combat soldiers, there were also two thousand auxiliary soldiers who marched with the team. Those auxiliary soldiers were all Liaodong military households.

After leaving Fushun Pass, the weather was cold and there were few pedestrians on the road. The cold wind whistled past from time to time, making the surrounding wilderness even more depressed. The team drove all the way to the snowflake mountain. After three months of hard training, the formation was never chaotic when the marched. Such an army was already the most elite unit in the Ming Dynasty.

When the Ming army was walking, the general army had to stop advancing and reorganize the team after walking ten steps; even the Qi family army, which was known as the elite, had to stop and reorganize the team after walking fifty steps. However, after walking more than ten miles, the formation would not be messy.

As the way went, cavalry exploring the way forward came back to report. Everything was safe. The Later Jin side seemed to be preparing for a big move early next year. The Later Jin did not send anyone to guard the barren mountains at the junction of the Ming and Jin dynasties outside Fushun Pass. These places were areas where horse thieves from Han and Mongols were active.

After nightfall, the army climbed to a relatively gentle hill without trees to camp on the top of a small hill. The location of the camp was carefully selected, with a high position and water source. If the Later Jin army suddenly attacked, it would not be a problem to be able to hold on for the first half of a month with this terrain. Each soldier carried enough rations to provide him with seven days of food. The individual rations were made by Gao Shixin, a ration for a strong army in later generations - fried noodles.

The so-called fried noodles are not the fried noodles eaten in restaurants, but a fried flour. Moreover, this flour is not simply wheat white flour, but part of the wheat flour, mixed with buckwheat flour, soybean flour and sorghum flour. If you eat it directly, it will be very difficult to swallow and you can only eat it with water. It is not winter yet, it is just late autumn. If the weather is colder, you will have to eat it in the snow.

In addition to these individual soldiers' rations that are not easy to break, each Franchise machine cannon truck also carries cooking cakes, pancakes and other rations, and these easily broken grains are eaten first. In addition, the auxiliary soldiers also carry food. When fire is allowed, the auxiliary soldiers will pile up stoves, make fires and cook, take out grain bags filled with rice and flour, and provide steaming food to the team.

The conditions for the cavalry were much better. Each cavalry had a bag on the back of the horse, containing cooking cakes, pancakes, mutton pieces, and a kind of dry and hard bread. The war horse also carried another ration bag, containing black beans, bean cakes and other food for the war horses to eat.

The auxiliary soldiers dug trenches, cut down wood, and set up camps. Before it was completely dark, a barracks were done.

There was a huge map in Gao Shixin's central army tent, which was a detailed map of the area near Xuehua Mountain. This area was the jurisdiction of the Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County in later generations. Gao Shixin used the electronic map that he had in his mind through the system, opened it and enlarged it, and then drew this large map.

In fact, this function was discovered by Gao Shixin not long ago. He found that the system actually gave him a function! In this era, having a living map in his mind is more important than anything else.

Everyone gathered around the table, and Man Gui pointed to the spread map and said, "The Snowflake Mountain is only forty miles away from us, and you will arrive tomorrow afternoon! This time we went into the mountains to suppress bandits, and entered the mountains from Chenlianggou to the bottom of Snowflake Mountain. The terrain was smooth until the snowflake Mountain, and the mountain began to steep. In front of the thief's village, there were two passes. The first pass was not enough. The problem was the second. It was more dangerous and it was difficult to break!"

Gao Shixin said: "In fact, it is not difficult to break the parish. Don't we have a group of rockets? When we get outside the thief camp, we just ignite it and put it in it!"

"A swarm?" Man Gui shook his head.

The quality of these rockets built by the Ministry of Industry is extremely low-quality. Don’t say that they have no accurate results when launched. Some rockets will even turn around in the air and fly back to their own side after they are launched!

The small hole in the middle of the nozzle is in the middle. The craftsmen have been experiencing a lot of effort when rolling the nozzle, ensuring accuracy. If such a rocket is launched, the accuracy will be quite high. But the craftsmen working in the Ministry of Works of the Ming Dynasty have no enthusiasm? They have been craftsmen for generations, and they have lived the hardest days. They don’t have much money to pay for the Ministry of Works. They are purely corvee-service, so the firearms they produce are perfunctory, and it is normal to make shoddy.
Chapter completed!