Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Puppet Army is the Vanguard

Since the first victory in Shijingshan, Zhu Cihong was not satisfied, and ordered Long Xiang to disperse the reconnaissance without collecting four outposts at night, paying attention to the dynamics of the surrounding Qing army.

Since he knew that Yang Qili, the head of the first post, had been taught a lesson by the crown prince, Long Xiang had become more serious in his investigation.

On the second day, the second post of the night did not collect a large number of Qing army exploration horses near Liangxiang. After the news came out of the second outpost, the other three outposts quickly closed in the night, and the reconnaissance activities near Liangxiang City became more frequent.

At the same time, the Qing army scouts were cleaned up, as soon as the nearby Qing army scouts appeared, they were immediately discovered by Long Xiang and secretly killed.

In the big tent of the Yongwei Battalion on the east side of Shijingshan, the main generals of the Yongwei Battalion gathered together, and Zhu Cihong was looking at the map of Gyeonggi on the main seat.

At this time, Mr. Qian, who did not accept the second post at night, returned to the camp and reported to Zhu Cihong in person: "Your Royal Highness, the Tartar army has broken through Fangshan and Liangxiang, and the slave chief Azig is heading south in the direction of Zhuozhou, leaving only the 10,000 people under the slave general Yangguli to stay in Liangxiang City. ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, then looked at the map, and said, "You can set off with the whole army and march to Liangxiang City!" ”

The night of the second post does not collect Qian, and the general said: "Your Highness, those who stay in Liangxiang City are the elites of the Eight Banners of Jiannu!" ”

Before Zhu Cihong could speak, Huang Degong on the side shouted: "Lao Tzu is fighting the elite!" ”

Zhu Cihong immediately glared at him, and Huang Degong thought that he had said foul words in front of the king, so he hurriedly smiled.

He didn't know that Zhu Cihong was annoyed because he grabbed his lines, and Captain Li's words were very coercive, and now he finally had the opportunity to say it, but he didn't expect to be preempted by Huang Degong! How could Zhu Cihong not be angry?

Zhu Cihong was angry and said: "Let the artillery battalion go back to the capital to ...... the Italian artillery No, pull the Franco cannon and the Hongyi cannon over, Lao Tzu is going to bomb the fuck! ”

The generals in the tent all looked at Zhu Cihong blankly when they heard this, and no one expected that this Si Sven crown prince would actually speak foul language....... I like it, though!

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The Eight Banners Army was composed of three Banners: Eight Banners Manchuria, Eight Banners Mongolia and Eight Banners Han Army, and many people mistakenly referred to as the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Army.

This time the Qing army dispatched a total of 100,000 troops, not only the Eight Banners of Manchuria, but also the Eight Banners of Mongolia, as well as the Eight Banners of the Han Army, which had not yet been formed.

In the camp of the Qing army in Liangxiang, thirty miles away from Shijingshan, Yanguli's right eye jumped very much, and he hadn't received a message from Tan Taibu for two days.

Because of waiting for the convergence of Tan Taibu, Yanguli had already been separated from the Azig Department for two days, and it was not until the third day that Yanguli couldn't help but send someone to Shijingshan to inquire about the whereabouts of Tan Taibu.

Yanguli took off the outermost layer of cotton armor and kept wiping the sweat from his forehead, such a hot day made him very uncomfortable wearing three layers of heavy armor.

After capturing Liangxiang and plundering Liangxiang City, the Eight Banners Army stationed the camp on a high ground outside the city, and only sent a few Qing soldiers to guard the looted property in the city.

Yanguli's own soldiers found a mat snatched from a wealthy merchant nearby, spread it on the ground and asked Yanguli to rest for a while, and brought a bowl of cold water.

Yanguli had just sat down, and before he could take a sip of water, he saw a Qing soldier scouting Ma come to report: "Report that Shijingshan's rear team of men and horses have been completely wiped out by the Ming army." ”

Yanguli was excited, sat up straight, and said, "Nonsense, where did the Ming army come from?" How is it possible to completely annihilate the rear team? ”

The Eight Banners Army was invincible along the way, and the Ming army retreated, even if some resisted they could not withstand their powerful attacks, and they abandoned the city and fled.

If Tan Tai's men and horses meet the Ming army, they can only be the men and horses of the Beijing camp, but according to Yanguli's understanding, the Ming State Beijing camp is all waste, how can it be possible to completely annihilate Tan Tai's 3,000 Eight Banners elite?

"The minions don't know which one they are, but from a distance, their banner is a red dragon flag." This Qing army detective horse had palpitations.

Many of them died outside inexplicably, and he finally escaped with his life.

"Red Dragon Flag...... That should be the pro-army of the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, what about Tan Tai? Yanguli suddenly said in a deep voice.

"Lord Tan Tai has died in battle, and the Ming army cut off his head and picked it up on the flagpole......"

Yanguli clenched his fists, the blue tendons on his forehead were exposed, and he roared angrily: "These barbarians of the Southern Kingdom, I will definitely wash them in blood and avenge my brother Tan Tai!" ”

Not long after, another explorer reported that a group of Ming troops was coming here in the direction of Shijingshan, only two or three miles away from the camp.

Yanguli looked in the direction of his finger, and then climbed the high platform to look, and before long he saw a large group of men and horses coming towards him in the distance.

Yanguli was a little skeptical, how could this Ming army have a maximum of 5,000 people, how could it be possible to completely annihilate Tan Tai's 3,000 men?

His master, Huang Taiji, once said that the Ming army needs 10,000 people, the Eight Banners Army only needs 1,000 people, the Ming army needs 1,000 people, and the Eight Banners Army only needs 100 people, which is enough to win.

Yanguli is also a person who has experienced a hundred battles in the end, and when he saw the Yongwei Battalion in the distance, he knew that he must have some strength. So he immediately ordered the whole army to line up and prepare to meet the Ming army. At the same time, they sent a message to Azig of the former army, telling them that the Ming army was already targeting them.

The Qing army fought all year round, and it was indeed well-trained, even if it was repaired, it was not chaotic at all, and quickly lined up after receiving Yanguli's military order.

At this time, the brigade of the Yongwei Battalion had also arrived, and Zhu Cihong observed the surrounding terrain and finally arranged the Yongwei Battalion on a small hillside one mile away.

The hill was not steep, the slope was only about a dozen degrees, and the Yongwei battalion stopped when it had formed a formation and gradually advanced fifty paces down the distance.

In the same battle formation as when he fought against Tan Tai, the Yongwei Battalion was still in front and rear, but the musketeers in the front line had changed from the previous three rows to five rows, and Zhu Cihong took advantage of the terrain of the hillside to enhance the firepower and strike density of the musketeers.

When he first saw this formation, Yanguli, like Tan Tai, felt inexplicably strange that the Yongwei Battalion had actually discharged such a formation with no depth.

Yanguli couldn't figure it out, how could these rows of musketeers be able to withstand the impact of the Qing Iron Cavalry? Did they think that small hill could hold back the cavalry?

Tan Tai would actually be defeated by such a Ming army, and he also lost his life, which must be a little inexplicable.

Yanguli decided to use the Han army as cannon fodder first, so he ordered the transfer of a Han army with a total of more than 1,800 troops, including 300 cavalry, to attack the Yongwei battalion.

After receiving the order, the Han army's Jia Lazhangjing had no choice but to bite the bullet and lead the men and horses out of the battle to approach the Yongwei camp.

As soon as the Qing army was dispatched, the Yongwei battalion immediately raised their muskets, each looking for their own target, and waited for the Qing army to approach a hundred paces before shooting.

Seeing that the formation of the Ming army had not changed, Yanguli was even more depressed, did this group of Ming troops come to send them to death or did they really have the strength? This kind of tactic is too much, it's completely useless!

Zhu Cihong didn't bother to study any tactics, and just used the experience that later generations had explored for nearly two hundred years and had been proven by history to operate.

At this time, the Eight Banners Han Army of Jiala had broken away from the main formation of the Qing army and began to attack the Yongwei battalion.