Li Yuanyin and Xia Wanchun glanced at each other, and Li Yuanyin said, "It's our flintlock pistol that has gone off...... It should have been an encounter with the cavalry of the Eastern Captives, you bring someone to support! If you encounter a brigade, then quickly retreat. ”

"Whoa!"

Xia Wanchun answered, and immediately took the two platoons under his command, changed into war horses, and took the archers as the lead, and galloped towards the place where the guns rang out.

And Li Yuanyin raised his hand, called a few heralds, and then said loudly: "Summons all battalions, prepare for battle!" ”

Li Yuanyin is now leading 3 battalions, a total of 1,500 cavalry, deep into the vicinity of Dacheng County at the junction of Hejian Province and Shuntian Province, so he naturally has to be careful and be ready to go to war or slip away at any time.

And the reason why they are so bold to go deep is to clear the wilderness in the south of North Zhili!

How can 1,500 cavalry clear the wilderness?

It can be done!

Because the southern part of Beizhili has not been peaceful in recent years, although the Ming army did not enter Beizhili during the last Northern Expedition, it was also under the Ming army, so there were also many "villages".

And these villages and the Qing Dynasty are not of the same mind. After all, the Qing Dynasty's rule in these places lasted only a few years, and there was no system that could communicate up and down, such as the imperial examination or anything - although Shunzhi announced that it would take the imperial examination, it was not really implemented.

Therefore, once the local centers of Qing rule, the state and county seats, were broken by the invading Ming army (unless it was a fortress, it could not stop the black spear and mule soldiers who belonged to the artillery Ming army), and the traffic in the countryside was controlled by the mule cavalry, and these villages were "independent".

It's a very natural thing to close the village and protect yourself!

Once the villages in the south of the north and south of the country are closed to protect themselves, then the rule of the Qing Dynasty will also collapse!

Although the Ming Dynasty may not be able to get these villages into their hands immediately, the Qing Dynasty will definitely not be able to continue to obtain resources from there.

If Emperor Shunzhi still does nothing and watches the rule of the north and south of Zhili collapse, then it won't be long before the Qing Dynasty will really become the "Great Liao Dynasty".

If he is not willing to become a "Liao State", then he will have to send troops from Beijing!

As long as Shunzhi sends troops, Shi Kefa's goal will be achieved.

......

Xia Wanchun had already taken two platoons, a total of more than seventy cavalrymen (slightly reduced in the previous battle) to the front of the ongoing firefight.

It was a long-abandoned village, full of ruined walls and over-burned houses, next to an unknown river that had frozen over, a broken bridge nearby, and a forest on the other side.

A platoon under Xia Wanchun was crossing a small river from the ice when it was suddenly attacked by the Mongol cavalry rushing out of the woods.

Fortunately, the Mongols liked to shoot arrows on horseback, and they were too timid to rush too close, so the first wave of attacks did not cause any casualties, but rather startled the snakes.

The standard for the march of the "mule soldiers" of the Ming army was that the archers opened the way, the black spearmen were in the center, and the lancers were behind. The first wave of the Mongols' attack hit the Ming army archers who opened the way, these archers were experienced veterans, reacted quickly, and immediately took out the Kaiyuan bow to counterattack - their bows and arrows are all high-quality, the bow is a Kaiyuan bow with a lot of buffalo horns, and the arrows are three uneven arrows, which are far better than the bows and arrows in the hands of the Mongols. And they didn't spare any effort, they shot with a series of beads at the beginning, and the 9 archers shot more than 50 arrows in the blink of an eye. Although not a single Mongol was killed, five Mongol horses were shot (they shot horses), and the Mongols did not dare to come forward for a moment when they saw that they were shooting arrows so fiercely.

It was this hesitation that led the 19 black spearmen behind them to get off their mules, and handed over their horses and mules to the lancers behind the palace and led them into the village. Dismounted, the pikemen stood in a row on the bank of the creek and loaded their bayonets. They were done, and the archers in front of them just retreated. When the Mongols saw that the Ming archers were about to run, they rushed up in disarray, and after a flurry of guns, they retreated, leaving four or five corpses and three horses lying on the ground twitching and wailing on the ice of the river.

Seeing that the Mongols had retreated, the archers who had just withdrawn and the 8 lancers who had returned from the village (the village also left two lancers to guard the livestock) launched an attack together, and the 17 cavalry rushed to kill, and actually drove all the thirty or forty Mongol cavalry into the woods, and also cut down and overturned six people!

Just when they thought that the battle was about to end, and these Mongolian cavalry who couldn't help but fight would soon run away, the Mongolian cavalry suddenly rushed out of the woods, there were always hundreds of people, but the more than 30 Ming army mule soldiers were frightened, and they hurriedly ran to the abandoned village by the river - they didn't think about guarding the village, but some of their war horses and all the mules, as well as a lot of salutes, were there, and if they lost it, they would suffer heavy losses.

As soon as they entered the village, the Mongols outside rushed across the river like a tidal wave, and as they were about to surround the village, the gunfire suddenly rang out again, and then the Mongols who came in like a tidal wave retreated over the frozen river like a low tide.

It turned out that Xia Wanchun arrived with more than 70 "black spearmen", and he saw hundreds of cavalrymen in Mongolian leather robes running around a ruined village from a distance, and they also let out strange screams from time to time, so he knew that his men were surrounded inside.

Because of the large number of people on the other side, Xia Wanchun didn't dare to fight hard, he just wanted to bluff and scare the Mongols, so that his subordinates could break through. So he ordered the "black spear and mule soldiers" to get on their horses and scare people with the tactics of riding horses and releasing guns.

But who knew that as soon as more than 30 flintlock muskets fired, hundreds of Mongol cavalry fled like frightened sheep.

Seeing this scene, Xia Wanchun hurriedly ordered his lancers and archers to charge, and dozens of Ming cavalry chased four or five hundred Mongolian cavalry for a while and drove them across the river.

The more than 30 Ming cavalry who were originally hiding in the village saw that the Mongols had retreated, and thought that their own brigade had arrived, so they rushed out in a hurry, and when they arrived at the river, they found that Xia Wanchun had arrived with two platoons.

"Company commander, what about our brigade?" The one who asked was a platoon commander under Xia Wanchun, surnamed Niu, who was a hero who overcame difficulties, but his official luck was not good, he had been in the army for so many years, with ups and downs, and he became a company commander several times, but in the end he was demoted to a platoon commander, so he was nicknamed "Steak".

"Still to come!" Xia Wanchun said, "That's all for us...... How many enemies are there? All Mongols? ”

"Shall we even do it?" The steak didn't respect Xia Wanchun very much, muttered, and then stood up in the saddle - this is real kung fu! Xia Wanchun will not.

Standing on horseback, with his palm on his eyebrows, and looking into the distance for a while, the steak turned his head and said to Xia Wanchun: "It's amazing...... It seems that there are tens of thousands of riders! There was no movement just now, but now they are all out, divided into several shares, and they are all coming to us! ”

At the same time, another experienced archer had already dismounted, lay on the snow and listened, and after a while also shouted: "Company commander! There are so many! The sound of the horse's hooves was so dense that it was all in one place...... I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of horses! ”

The "steak" is seen as snow dust, and the veteran listens to the sound of hooves.

The situation reported by the two is about the same, so it's eight or nine and ten!

This time, I met a large number of Qing troops!

"Let's get out!" No sooner had the steak chief said his words than a low trumpet sounded from the woods on the other side of the river.

Then I saw more Mongols rushing out of the woods, and this time they did not rush up, but lined up at the edge of the woods, and they came in a steady stream, and soon their numbers broke a thousand.

Xia Wanchun shook his head and said with a wry smile: "These Mongolians really look up to us!" Thousands of people have dealt with more than 100 of us...... Send two people to report the news, and the others will follow me, and let's fight and go!" ”