Chapter 193: Death is extremely fast
"What if it goes on like this!"
"No, the new army of the Ming Dynasty is about to rush into the city, and we have to find a way to survive before we can go to school."
The soldiers of the garrison who are located in the upper and lower areas of the city wall of the West City Gate, about 10,000 people, some of them are even fantasizing at this time that if they still have a chance to escape today, they will be far away from these killing gods of the Ming New Army in the future.
Huang Chengyong, the banner owner of the Han army with a blue flag, has such an idea.
At this time, this hardcore traitor understood that he had to make a choice.
He must make a choice that will allow him to survive before the soldiers of the Ming New Army can capture him or kill him.
It's not easy to do that.
He knew that he was a guy full of evil, and he was burdened with too many crimes.
The initiative to commit treason alone is enough to exterminate his family, not to mention that after he surrendered to the Tartars, there have never been good things, but bad things have been done.
Huang Chengyong shook his body a little, and at the same time, the electric light flashed in his mind.
Although he was quite scared now, he subconsciously looked at the people who had just stood up under the city wall and hurried towards the north gate to beat their horses and gallop wildly.
If you want to live, or die a decent death, you can only make up your mind from Mang Gurtai and Kupilon.
There is no doubt that there is no suspense in this battle between the two sides and the victory of the Ming New Army.
The key is that Mang Gurtai and Kupilon will definitely not let themselves fall into the hands of the soldiers of the Ming New Army alive, and they will not be captured alive in front of Lu Xiangsheng, the commander of the Ming New Army.
For Huang Chengyong, who is greedy for life and afraid of death, the only hope is to follow behind Mang Gurtai and Kubilong and escape from this hellish lonely mountain fort.
To be alive, of course, is better than to die, not to mention that you don't want to die at all!
Thinking of this, Huang Chengyong's eyes flashed, and he made up his mind in an instant.
"Su Bin, quickly take our team and retreat immediately!"
He shouted to Su Bin, the captain of the musket team who was squatting on the edge of the corner not far from him, "This lonely mountain fort is completely finished, if you don't run now, you won't have a chance to run again." ”
He shouted, turning over and jumping out of a dilapidated battery where he was hiding, and running towards the barracks not far away.
He knew that it was okay to run away now, but he had to find the War Horse Academy
The stable with his own blue flag is in the temporary military camp not far away, where more than 3,000 war horses of the Han army with the blue flag are stored.
This time it's a good thing, seeing his flag owner Huang Chengyong take the lead in running away, the rest of the soldiers were in an uproar!
"Run!"
"That's right! Even those Tartar lords and the main generals have run away, are we still here to be cannon fodder and wait to die? ”
"Humph! Whoever likes to be cannon fodder should go, anyway, Lao Tzu won't do it! ”……
A moment later, a chaotic army of Tartars and those cannon fodder minions suddenly scattered in all directions, rushing desperately in the direction of the east gate and the north gate!
As Lu Xiangsheng and Xiong Ba predicted, this Lonely Mountain Fort City had just been breached, and the enemy had already lost his fighting spirit and had completely collapsed.
As soon as Xiong Ba rushed into the city with his soldiers, he saw that the enemy army had collapsed, and he immediately ordered the soldiers to chase after him, ignoring all those who surrendered along the way, and making them kneel on the ground and wait for the follow-up army to escort them away.
Don't really, these people didn't run away when they saw that they weren't killed after surrendering, and they honestly knelt on the ground and waited.
The traitor slave soldiers, who were not physically strong, experienced two big battles, although they were only two crushing battles, they were also a little exhausted.
They were exhausted, and they didn't have much strength left, and a large number of soldiers of the Han army with blue flags, seeing that their companions were fine, also dropped their swords and guns and knelt on the side of the road.
These Ming New Army pursuit troops who had just entered the city had already had a lot of routines for treating prisoners.
They were not indifferent to the clothed minions of the Han army with blue flags who surrendered on their knees, and loudly ordered them to lay down their weapons, wait on their knees, and then pursue them without stopping.
Now that the main enemies are those murderous Tartars, then there is time to fight these traitors?
If you don't shoot them right away, even if you are merciful, it is important to hunt down the Tartars who have fled from the city for their lives.
At this time, Huang Chengyong, the banner owner of the Han army with a blue flag, if he had a little guts, pulled the team that had just followed him into the barracks and had changed from infantry to 2,000 cavalry, and pulled it to the flanks to avoid the crowd that was running away, and maybe there was a chance to fight back.
However, this thing has now lost its fear, and it wants to escape from the Lonely Mountain Fort City as soon as possible, where is the courage to come to the counterattack and fight to the death?
There were too many prisoners of war, and after a while, a large number of prisoners gathered in this area, and Xiong Ba was worried that something would go wrong, but these people were very honest and had no intention of running at all.
He didn't have the leisure or time to serve them, so he left a battalion of soldiers to watch over these clothed minions, and selected some prisoners of war who looked more well-behaved to temporarily manage these accomplices.
Xiong Ba hurriedly sent someone to report to Lu Xiangsheng, at this time, he found that this lonely mountain fort was basically an empty city, and most of the Tartars ran out of the northern city and fled to the northwest.
Unexpectedly, he was the first to attack the city, but he captured about five or six thousand prisoners one after another, but he was run away by Namang Gurtai and Kupilon.
In this regard, although he was so angry that he jumped on the spot, it was useless.
Because their third division is the vanguard force, both brigades are now infantry, and there is no good way.
The main thing is that the time of this battle has been carried out too shortly.
I never thought that the former Blue Flag Tartar Army was also a strong army with a great reputation, and everyone expected before the war that it would be a tragic and bloody fierce battle.
As a result, Nima's two sides fought, and what was even more ridiculous was that these Tartar soldiers with the blue flag couldn't withstand a few rounds of blows and were defeated.
It is such a large group of Tartars, in the great northeast of the Ming Empire, tossed for decades, defeated the Ming army that came to encircle the Ming army many times, until the border army of the Ming Dynasty was embarrassed, and almost the entire northeast region was lost.
At the north gate of Gushan Fort, about 2,000 cavalry and horses rolled in, before Mang Gurtai led the Tartar army out of the city, and the open city gate did not have time to close.
Huang Chengyong, the banner owner of the Han army with blue flags, immediately led two thousand soldiers of the Han army with blue flags to rush out quickly, and soon disappeared without a trace.
These guys had just escaped and disappeared, and 10,000 cavalrymen in black clothes and black armor were rolling in, this was Huang Weiguo, the brigade commander of the cavalry brigade of the 3rd Division who was arranged as a hidden ambush, leading 10,000 cavalry soldiers to arrive.
It turned out that these Tartar armies never thought about defending the city to the death, and naturally they didn't think about defending the Gushan Fort, and now there are less than 1,000 clothed slaves left in the city.
Huang Weiguo led the soldiers, and without much effort, they rushed into the city, holding back a breath of wanting to slash and kill, but there was nowhere to vent.
10,000 cavalry had rushed into the city in a moment, and the four city gates were soon in hand, Huang Weiguo met with Xiong Ba, the commander of his third division, and briefly discussed a few words.
"Wei Guo, you lead the soldiers to go out of the north gate immediately, follow the trail of the Tartar army, and pursue the enemy."
Xiong Ba was now anxious and depressed, and of course he was overjoyed to see the arrival of the cavalry brigade of his division.
He hurriedly explained to the brigade commander Huang Weiguo, "Governor Lu Dadu, I have long expected this scene to happen, and when the artillery brigade attacked the city, he took two cavalry brigades to the direction of the north city of Gushan Fort and chose a place to intercept the Tartar army.
Later, seeing Huang Weiguo and the soldiers of the cavalry brigade rushing out of the north gate of Gushan Fort and disappearing, Xiong Ba breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, although the first battle was successful, it looked like a joke and a farce.
Fortunately, the soldiers of his cavalry brigade arrived in time, not only helped him control the whole city in time, but now he went to pursue the Tartar army, and he had to make a great achievement.
He was not worried at all that his cavalry brigade would not be able to catch up with the Tartar army.
After all, with Lu Xiangsheng, the guy who anticipated the enemy's opportunity, he had already led two cavalry brigades to the place where the Tartars in front of him must pass, and ambushed and intercepted the other party.
For the time being, he didn't have the heart to do anything else, so he quickly ordered a team of 1,000 people to clean up the city and screen the prisoners, so as to completely control this lonely mountain fortress city.
Don't look at the hesitation of the Tartars' cavalry army when they attacked before, but when they fled, Mang Gurtai and Kupilon and others were not slow, and the cavalry brigade of about 20,000 people quickly threw off all the figures behind them.
In the process of running away, Mang Gurtai also took a special look and found that almost all the generals of the Zhenglan Banner were by his side, and he felt a little relieved.
The 5,000 warriors who disappeared must have died honorably in the bombardment of the Ming New Army.
Now, if you want to run as fast as you can, you must cross this river that passes through Lonely Mountain Fort City, flows to the west, and then turns north after running out of the northern city of Lonely Mountain Fort.
The two wooden bridges in the northwest of Gushan Fort could not allow the cavalry of the brigade to cross quickly, and they had to find a section of the river suitable for the cavalry army to cross the river
And this section of the river, only about twenty miles ahead, the very open bend of the river, is the most suitable for the army to cross the river.
This year is another spring drought, the river is not deep, at the bend of that section of the river, is a very vast sand and gravel area, the army does not need to stay, as long as the speed is slowed down, you can easily cross the river, and then go towards Shengjing City.
Thinking about it this way, Mang Gurtai immediately discussed it with Kupilon and the others a little, and reached an agreement.
Then several scouts took the lead, and the speed of the cavalry brigade, which had just slowed down slightly, recovered, and the sound of "rumbling" horses' hooves went straight to the destination.
They didn't know that the scheming Lu Xiangsheng had already led the soldiers of the 20,000-strong cavalry brigade to ambush there.
Historically, the most feared thing for the army to cross the river was to attack half-crossing.
And Lu Xiasheng hit this idea.
After all, the cavalry of the Tartars is too powerful, once the two cavalry armies charge against each other, even if they have 20,000 cavalry soldiers, they will not be able to stop them, and they will cause heavy casualties among the soldiers.
Therefore, the choice of the Tartars now is to rush to death at a rapid pace.