Chapter 1653 No book can be written without coincidence
This Qing army that suddenly appeared is not small.
If there were still people in the original Xuzhou garrison controlled by Azig who were loyal to the Qing court rather than Azig personally, it was only him - Luo Koduo, the king of Doro Pingbi County.
At the age of twenty-eight, Rocoduo was entrusted by Bumu Butai to protect Prince Doni (Dord's son) under the liquidation of the remnants of Dolgon in the Manchu Dynasty, originally wanting to hide in the army to avoid this limelight.
Unexpectedly, Azig did not follow the will of the imperial court to lead the army to reinforce Xuzhou at that time, but stayed in Fengyang Mansion, intending to preserve his strength and fight against the imperial court.
Roccodor's repeated exhortations were fruitless, and he could only remain silent.
But privately, exchanging news with the imperial court, naturally, after a long time, it will definitely not be able to escape Azig's ears and eyes.
In this way, the situation between the two is like water and fire.
Rocodo was worried about the safety of Doni around him, and he was afraid that he would be entrusted with Bumu Butai.
He had long intended to break away from the Azig army and return to Gyeonggi.
It just so happened that Li Guoguang Xinwei made a change and attacked Linhuai.
In the previous battle of Tianchang, the Qing army suffered a loss, and Shi Kun's department reinforced Tianchang "bandits", which could not be hidden from Azig.
Naturally, Azig also thought that Tianchang's enemy army's intention was Sizhou, which was why Azig sent reinforcements to Linhuai while sending another support army to Sizhou.
Taking advantage of this Azig rush to deal with the war, Rocoduo took the initiative to ask for battle, expressing his willingness to lead him with 900 cavalry with white flags to detour from the south of Duliang Mountain to Hengyang Town, cutting off the rear route of the enemy army attacking Sizhou, so as to cooperate with the Qing army in Sizhou and form a situation of internal and external, front and rear flanking attacks.
Azig didn't want to agree, he wanted to circle Rocodo and Doni because it was another bargaining chip for him to compete with the imperial court.
But right now, although Azig has no shortage of soldiers in his hands, he lacks generals.
Rocodo was a great general, handsome.
The point is that Rocodo only took his white-flaged cavalry to the action, which moved Azig and finally agreed to Rocodor's request.
The cavalry inlaid with white flags under Rocoduo is actually only a part of the inlaid white flags, and the number is not large, only two Niu Lu and six hundred horsemen.
The real main force with the white flag, which is guarding Gyeonggi, is naturally impossible to come to Fengyang Mansion.
This is also the common composition of the Qing army at this time, often a small part of the Manchu and Han flag armies, and then rationed a large number of Qing army, or the newly recruited Han new army, known as the flag army, to achieve the effect of intimidation, and to solve the problem of insufficient Eight Banner Army.
But Rocodor's cavalry is indeed full of cavalry, although there are only 600 cavalry, but if it is really tough on the frontal battlefield, the combat power must not be underestimated.
Rocoduo led this cavalry and galloped all the way.
Do not stay in any key pass or town.
Naturally, he will not deliberately alarm the people along the road, in fact, Rocoduo's purpose is very simple, to occupy Hengyang Town, cut off the retreat of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and after winning this battle, it will no longer be built, but from Hongze Lake north of Hengyang to Xuzhou through the Grand Canal waterway, Dolbo is Doni's cousin, as long as he goes to Xuzhou, Dolbo can naturally protect Dorney.
But Rocoduo never expected that he encountered a strange thing that he had never encountered in his life, which directly led to the death of the sixteen-year-old Doni outside Hengyang Town, and followed his father Duoduo, who had been dead for many years.
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Rocodor's cavalry was light cavalry, and its speed was lightning fast.
In addition, this dispatch was decided suddenly, and few generals in the entire Fengyang City knew about it, so it was impossible for natural information to leak out.
Rocodo would not have thought of being ambushed, and besides, who could have ambushed such a fast light horseman?
If you really want to encounter some thieves who don't have long eyes, six hundred horsemen can wipe them out in minutes.
Therefore, Rocodor's team was only urging the team to speed up, and not sending multiple scouts to reconnoiter and slow down as in the actual battle.
When crossing the river at Dabaikou, Rocoduo also said to Doni beside him: "...... The Han people are weak and timid, but they are good at strategy and do not have to be afraid, and if they are scared and beaten down, they will be as docile as cattle and ......sheep. ”
Doni didn't seem to agree with Rocodor's words, he looked at the river melancholy, and said, "But Shaoxing Mansion...... There is a Wu Zheng. ”
Luo Keduo said sharply: "You are the heir of the heir, the successor of the Prince of Yu Duoduo...... Prince Yu was not killed in battle, but was killed by the trickery of the southern barbarian! Avenge your Amma, cut off the head of the southern barbarian, and honor your Amma's spirit in heaven! ”
Speaking of this, Roccodo pointed to the direction of Hengyang, which was not far away, and said loudly to Doni, "It's a small town there, and there are thousands of Han people...... You go to the front team, you go to the town, go kill them, practice your courage! ”
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The trail is only five feet wide, and it is enough for three riders to drive side by side.
More than 600 riders, lined up in a long serpentine shape.
It stands to reason that a battle-hardened veteran like Roccodor's should be aware that this kind of march is the most vulnerable to attack and easy to take care of.
But this smooth march all the way, coupled with the confidence in Rocodor's heart, he was careless.
In fact, from the ferry to Hengyang Town, it is less than ten miles away.
But more than half of the less than ten miles of the road is traveling around the mountains.
It is said that it is a mountain, and for the north, it is a hill.
Moreover, in the south, there are basically no trees on such a mountain, and if there are, they are small trees, and at a glance, except for the shrubs, they are gravel.
So, Rocodo was even more careless.
The procession moved quickly, turning the corner, and could already see the curling smoke of the town in the distance.
The Qing soldiers all breathed a sigh of relief, and even showed a hideous smile on the corner of their mouths.
Because there are towns, especially the towns of the southerners, for them, it is the gold rush cave and the gentle township.
The long serpentine procession is about 20% of the time it turns a corner.
The mutation happened.
A violent explosion directly overturned seven or eight war horses, and even two or three horsemen were torn apart by the explosion, and the scene was miserable.
Qingqi reacted quickly, the rear of the horse stopped, the front began to accelerate and continue to move forward, near the explosion range, panicked into the paddy field.
Rocodo was shocked, but he didn't panic, and even shouted loudly, "There are not many casualties, what are you panicking about...... Spread out, rush forward, and ask for the enemy! ”
At this time, Rocodo reacted to one thing, and that was that Doni was in the front army.
Rocoduo was a little anxious at this time, and shouted at his own soldiers: "You guys, go forward to visit the prince for safety...... Bring him back! ”
It is said that no book is made without coincidence, and it is precisely because of coincidence that there is a legend!
Poor Doni, who entered the forward position for the first time in his life, could not be favored by his father's ghost.
Among the cavalrymen who were overturned by the previous explosion, he was among them.
It's not the most pitiful, the most pitiful thing is that Doni is among the three or two people who were torn apart by the explosion.