Chapter 11 Catching a Turtle in an Urn

The danger of the soldiers is a taboo in the army. Among the many taboos, the most fatal is that the commander falls to the ground, which not only means that the coach cannot achieve immediate command of the battle situation, but also the possibility that the coach will be beheaded and assaulted.

You can't go without a commander in the army for a day, especially in the battle, which can be said to be indispensable for a moment and a half. When the handsome flag falls to the ground, the drama of the collapse of the whole army is often staged, which is the least uncommon in China's military history. In the Ming Dynasty, it was difficult for Cheng Zujing to encounter such a situation many times, and it was very dangerous. It's just that every time Shuai Qi falls to the ground, it is his opponent......

The Qing army in Qiongzhou moved south, but the opponent they faced was an army that had never been heard of, and even sounded a little ridiculous at first glance. This absurdity, even if it is synonymous with thieves, cannot avoid being engraved in their hearts. When Shuai Qi fell to the ground at this moment, they were even more amazed.

However, Shuai Qi fell to the ground, and the next scene was not the collapse of this thief team. The new handsome flag was erected, far away, and the Qing soldiers were basically illiterate, and it was not as quick as Liu Bolu to realize the trap here, but since the opposite side was making a show, it would naturally be done comprehensively, and before Liu Bolu's scolding began, the Ming army over there took the lead in highlighting a horse, holding an iron horn and shouting at them.

"The right attendant of the Ming Military Department and the right of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Palace, the governor of Zhangquan Chaohui, the commander of military affairs and the management of food and salary, Chen Kai, the elder of Chen, personally led 100,000 Ming soldiers and 3,000 huge ships, aiming to recover the Qiongzhou government. You and others are all sons of the Han family, why bother to open your eyes for the Tartars. Today, I will tell you and others that those who abandon their weapons and surrender will not die, and those who resist the king's master will be killed, and they will surrender early! ”

With the sound of early surrender, the Ming army behind the knight also shouted in unison the coercion and temptation of "early surrender, early surrender", which startled the forest birds flying on the mountain near the left.

Chen Kai!

This name is very familiar to the Qing army in Guangdong, even the auxiliary soldiers who have just entered the camp also know that there is a Zhuge Kongming-style civil official in the Ming army, whether it is the Chaozhou Mansion of the year, or the later Guangzhou, or even Hong Kong and Haifeng last year, his prestige is based on the tragedy of the losers who were calculated by him to lose their soldiers and even lose their lives. Among them, there are not only thieves like Che Renzhong and Xu Long, but also marshals like Huang Yingjie and Zhang Daoying, as well as big figures like Du Yonghe, the former governor of Liangguang and Xu Degong, the chief soldier of the left wing of the Jingnan Domain, and even the prince of Jingnan, who is now just a waste man with a good breath.

"Chen Kai, it's Chen Kai, why is he here, why is he here!"

"Didn't you say that it was Song Jun, didn't you say that it was Zhang Shijie's descendant, how did you become Chen Kai?"

"Fooled, fooled. There are no 100,000 here, there are always 50,000 or 60,000, the one surnamed Chen has never been a fuel-efficient lamp, this time he is specially here to calculate us! ”

"It's over, it's over, is there anything else that Chen Kai calculated? The old prince lost his troops and lost his generals, and the little prince was even more miserable, not to mention those commanders, even his life was gone, we are just some pawns, so we can still end up! ”

“……”

The reputation is outside, although it is not as good as His Royal Highness the King of Xining, but Chen Kai is the old opponent of the Qing army on the battlefield in Guangdong, and the past of eating deflated again and again has made the Qing army have to give birth to the panic of falling into Chen Kai's trap, especially if you look at the surrounding terrain, they are all mountains, and the limited opening has been stopped by the Ming army, and the other is behind them, but it is much narrower. There is one word that best describes their current situation.

That is, catch a turtle in an urn!

It's not a good word, especially for them who are trapped in it. At this moment, Liu Bolu is still trying his best to explain, claiming that the Ming army in Fujian and Guangdong together does not have 100,000 soldiers and horses, which is a bluff and cannot be counted. However, the soldiers below didn't listen to him, and only thought that Liu Bolu tricked them into being a backstop.

The Ming army shouted a few times, regardless of whether the Qing army's heart was shaken, only to see the handsome flag pressed forward, and the army pressed straight up.

The two are not far apart, the battle formation of the Ming army has moved, and the Qing army has not eased up in shock. The panic of knowing that "I had been tricked" spread rapidly throughout the entire Qing army, from the general soldier Liu Bolu to the auxiliary soldiers who had just been forcibly pulled over, all of them were not immune to the slightest or serious impact. At this moment, the Ming army launched an offensive, but their reaction was more than half a beat slower than usual, in fact, it is not surprising, it has been tricked, and it was calculated by a legendary figure who is famous for his wisdom, and it was not immediately in an uproar, and it collapsed by itself in an instant, which has already shown the heritage and cohesion of a regular army.

However, even so, the general fear and apprehension in the heart will inevitably affect the reaction and tactical movements.

The Ming army gradually pressed on, the artillery bombardment of the Qing army sounded, according to the historical order, the Franc machine gun fired first, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, obscuring the vision, the Qing army was busy replacing one after another Zi Gong, and then lit the fuse again and again, with the sound of the cannon ending, Zi Gong was all used up, and when the smoke dissipated, where he saw, the Ming army from afar seemed to have not been damaged in the slightest!

It is not the steel and iron bones of the Ming army, and if it is hit, it can continue to fight lively, but it is really that the Qing army is in turmoil, and the Qing army has already run away when the Ming army is still outside the effective firing range. After that round of artillery bombardment, the Ming army had not yet entered the effective firing range, but the Qing army used up the Zigong first.

Such scenes were common in the Ming and Qing wars, but the opponent who was busy firing before the range was often the Ming army taken by the prestige of the Eight Banners Army, not the current situation. However, such a scene appeared in front of him, and the rumors that the Ming army was not afraid of artillery bombardment spread far and wide, and the next step bow shooting, and even the tiger squat cannon strafing filled with iron sand and stones was also panicked, and it started before the Ming army entered the firing range.

The purpose of long-range damage before the battle is to inflict casualties as much as possible, and the significance of causing casualties is to overdraw the opponent's ability to resist casualties as soon as possible. However, in this confrontation, the Qing army behaved quite ugly because the army was in turmoil. These are all seen in Liu Bolu's eyes, and the pessimistic feelings are growing vigorously in the bottom of his heart.

The poor performance of the Qing army continued, and as the Ming army got closer and closer, the performance of the more panicked Qing army became worse and worse. Soon, the Ming army, which was pressed up with air and a small number of arrows, entered the white-knuckle battle stage with the Qing army.

Striving to win the battle, Chen Kai did not hesitate to send Zhongchong Town as a sharp arrow. There have been years of training in new tactics, but it is the first time that they have really confronted the Qing army in a dignified manner. Even in the last Lufeng Twin Fort Defense Battle, Zhongchong Town, as the second wave of Ming troops to attack, when they entered the battlefield, they could only follow behind the butts of Houzhen and Qianchong Town to pursue the Qing army.

This is the first time, but this dignified moisture is still a little big. Once the two sides clashed, the well-trained shield array of the Ming army cooperated with the tacit understanding to launch a fierce attack on the Qing army, but it was the Qing army's side, which was distracted, and it was not possible to use half a point of ability, just as soon as they met, they immediately fell into a situation of passive beating, and the casualties rose sharply.

This is not a way, but in such a terrain, the cavalry cannot be deployed, and the artillery has already been embarrassed, once the two sides enter the white-knuckle battle, Liu Bolu has no bargaining chips to turn the tables, and can only hope that I will be able to drop a meteorite and directly smash Chen Kai to death.

Only in this way can the tide of battle be reversed.

It's a pity that God doesn't seem to hear the inner prayer of him, a descendant surnamed Liu, or feels that he is no longer worthy of the surname Liu with Tartar, so he is still cloudless.

In less time, the battle formation of the Qing army unexpectedly retreated, and then quickly collapsed. At this time, Liu Bolu's years of experience in fighting began to play a role again, and he quickly cut down the handsome banner, and fled north without hesitation, all the way away without the slightest hesitation.

Once he entered the stage of abandoning the army and absconding, Liu Bolu's mind was far clearer than Fang Cai. was calculated by Chen Kai, coupled with the fact that the Ming army was indeed able to fight, and when the defeat was decided, it was better to flee back to the capital of Qiongzhou as soon as possible.

Like the Ming court, the Qing court's center of rule in Qiongzhou was also in the northern region with the capital city as the core. Seize all the time to flee back, mobilize the people to strengthen the defense, and at the same time ask the Qing army in Gaozhou Mansion and Leizhou Mansion to seek reinforcements. As long as the city can be defended, the Qing army will have a fulcrum on this island, and after Shang Kexi drives away the old thief, he will naturally send a large army to help, and everything will still be able to turn around.

To die for the country, or to preserve strength, whether it is for public or private, this does not need to be considered further. Now the worry is nothing more than how to hold the city, how to hold on until the reinforcements arrive, Liu Bolu is a general, experienced, and more than a dozen ideas quickly flashed in his mind, those are the lessons he has learned from fighting desperately, and this is the time for them to play a role.

Behind him was the crying father and mother's running and begging for mercy, seeing that the handsome flag fell, and did not stand up a new one again, the collapse speed of the Qing army exploded in only this instant. There were soldiers and auxiliaries fleeing everywhere, and a large number of Qing troops remembered the shouts of the Ming army before the war, and they threw down their weapons and knelt down to surrender.

Zhongchong Town will not pay attention to these Qing troops, and still chase after those routs, and the self-owned Quanzhou soldiers in the back - those who surrender are directly tied up and detained, and those who resist stubbornly or just hesitate to the orders of the Ming army will be executed immediately, and there is no room for hesitation on the battlefield.

The rout was still being pursued by the Ming army, and Liu Bolu, who had already fled on horseback, quickly rushed through the narrow place between the Boundary Ridge and the Great Jianling with most of the cavalry. The Ming army did not set up an ambush here, and naturally there was the credit of the Qing army's horse exploration, but Liu Bolu could not help but feel glad for the rest of his life.

The next step, naturally, is to flee back to Wanzhou along the Sun River. After returning to Wanzhou, whether to flee back by boat, or let the fleet go first with the baggage and everything that could be looted here in Wanzhou, while he continued to flee north with the cavalry, but he was not in a hurry to decide for a while.

The war horses galloped wildly, and Liu Bolu estimated that the cavalry of the Ming army behind them was also chasing them, but in that terrain, especially in the narrow place between the boundary ridge and the big jianling, it was inevitable that the speed of the Qing army's rout would be delayed. This delay is not something that can be easily caught up.

With the cavalry, Liu Bolu quickly turned in, and soon saw the turn of the Sun River in the distance. Continuing to advance northeast along the Sun River, the rout and pursuers were naturally thrown farther and farther away. Next, in Longgong Bay, there is a river whose name he can't remember meets the Sun River, and it needs to be crossed. Crossing the river will inevitably affect the speed of escape, but according to the current situation, it is not important to delay for a little time, because as long as the Ming army does not catch up during his crossing of the river, then the river will also become a natural barrier to prevent the Ming army from pursuing.

Liu Bolu has rich combat experience and is well aware of the impact of this geographical trend on the battle situation. To do this, he forced himself to remember every distance he had traveled, especially the mountains, hills, rivers, villages and towns, and even every well he had seen, because these could be the difference between life and death.

At this moment, the road that Liu Bolu wrote down was about to save his life, and even the rule of the Qing court in Qiongzhou Mansion inevitably rose a sense of pride in his chest. However, just as he rode his horse and vaguely saw the unknown river that flowed into the Sun River, the first thing he saw was a cavalry team waiting there, as if it was waiting for them!

"Appeal ......"

After stopping the war horse, Liu Bolu looked at it from afar, and the flag on the opposite side was not very clear, but the color was correct. Ming Chonghuo virtue, the color is still red, and the color of the old army is mostly red. The cavalry on the opposite side was dressed in light leather armor, which was different in color, but from a distance it was still possible to see the little bit of red.

It was the Ming army that was intercepting them, this was obviously Chen Kai's calculation again, that guy actually calculated every step of his thoughts, once he thought of this, Liu Bolu was in a cold sweat, and he only gave him goosebumps.

Behind is the chasing soldiers of the Ming army, although there is still some distance, but sooner or later it will follow; They fled along the Sun River, where the coordinate confluence was to the south; To the north are the mountains of Wuzhi Mountain, and it is impossible to find another way out!

This is not the most fatal thing, the most important thing is that the cavalry on the opposite side seems to be much more than he has brought. Coupled with the scattered along the way, Liu Bolu looked left and right, more than two hundred horsemen, regardless of the horse, were gasping for breath, tired and nervous, and the Ming cavalry on the opposite side estimated that there would be four or five hundred horsemen, and it was obvious that they had accumulated a lot of physical strength to wait here, just waiting for them to come to the door.

The brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, Liu Bolu doesn't know this, but with experience, he also knows that at this moment, he can only rush to the past - not to be able to break the opponent's superior cavalry, as long as they can break through to the river and cross the river directly, it is more or less a way to survive, it is better than spending it here, and it is better to wait until the Ming army's pursuers and interceptors complete the encirclement of them.

"Sons, rush over, cross the river to Wanzhou, our boat is waiting for us there!"

The war horse had a little horsepower, and time was not waiting, Liu Bolu hurriedly boosted his morale, and immediately issued the order to attack.

This distance was enough for his cavalry to complete the acceleration, and even a lot of surplus. At this moment, he couldn't take care of it, Liu Bolu led the team to run wildly, and the more than 200 Qing cavalry also rolled up billowing smoke and dust, which was completely unstoppable.

In the distance, where the cavalry of the Ming army was, Li Jianjie, the chief officer of the hussar battalion, watched the iron flow of the Qing army, still silent. In terms of horsepower, his subordinates are far superior to the Qing army, at this moment sitting and watching the Qing army galloping, Li Jianjie just silently estimated the distance between each other, and when it was almost over, he gave an order, and the cavalry of the Ming army had already lined up, and rushed up against the cavalry of the Qing army.

The speed of the horse is very important, Li Jianjie estimated the distance between each other and the time for the cavalry under his command to accelerate, and when the cavalry of the two sides clashed, the cavalry of the Ming army was at the peak of the horse speed, and even if the Qing army was taken by surprise.

When he came, Liu Bolu had already noticed Li Jianjie's banner. He knew very well that Li Jianjie was one of the most capable cavalry generals under Li Chengdong's command back then, and he immediately understood the color of a guerrilla who was born as a pro-soldier captain. The two of them rushed straight to the Ming cavalry general in bright armor in the distance, the two compartments were staggered, one stabbed the waist and abdomen, and the other split the neck, riding spears and swords to take the famous Ming cavalry general.

The two of them attacked left and right, and it was clearly a nirvana. Liu Bolu and the guerrilla had a tacit understanding, and many of his opponents died under the cooperation of the two of them.

At this moment, it is very thrilling. Unexpectedly, it was too late, it was fast, and it was a good Li Jianjie, just waiting for the moment when the spear was stabbed, an iron plate bridge gave way to the flanking of two weapons. The war horse passed sideways, and the riding gun in his hand unequivocally pinned the leg of the war horse under Liu Bolu's crotch, and the latter immediately turned on his back alone. In the next second, as soon as the waist strength tightened, the whole body sat up straight, the legs were clamped, and the good horse under the crotch slowed down and turned, and then this person and horse chased the tail of the Qing cavalry, and went straight to Liu Bolu, who had fallen off the horse.

"Father-in-law trusts me to dream, let me send you, the deputy general of Nangan, to ascend to heaven!"

Riding a spear and stabbing straight through, Liu Bolu, who had fallen into a lot of meat and eight vegetarians, had not yet stood up, and a riding spear passed through his chest, even if he was too dead to die anymore.

It is still far away from revenge for Li Jianjie, but taking the life of this accomplice first is what he is most willing to do. It's just that at this moment, his task is not only to take revenge, but more importantly, to solve this Qing cavalry, so that no one of them can escape, this is the task given to him by Chen Kai.

Seeing this, Li Jianjie did not hesitate to exert his arms, and he had the strength of ten thousand catties. With just a shout, Liu Bolu's body on the spear was picked up. Even if it is not high, it is enough for those Qing troops to see clearly.

"Liu Bolu is dead, there are those who dare to resist stubbornly or intend to escape, no matter the ends of the world, they will not be able to escape Chen Fujun's Wuzhi Mountain!