Chapter 548: Rabbit: We'll see! (ENDS)
PS: Well, it seems that I should ask for a monthly pass.
Several streams of red cavalry swooped down like sharp arrows towards the ranks commanded by Gurmahun!
"Quick! Shoot the arrows! Rush up! ”
As if waking up from a dream, seeing the facial features of the Ming cavalry who could already see the vicious rushing over, the men under Gurmahun woke up from the joy brought to them by the retreat.
However, it seems that it is too late!
Wang Pu and Li Fuming had a fearless cavalry charge, because there were 100 cavalry borrowed from the model brigade in the queue, and the two said to Wu Biao that they would borrow 100 and return 200. This is even more ruthless than the so-called interest of nine out of thirteen.
One hundred cavalrymen each held their sabers and swooped down on the Qing army's marching column not far away, regardless of whether their comrades were shot by the oncoming arrows or hit by the helmets with ropes, they fell off their horses with a muffled grunt, and just gritted their teeth and pounced on the marching brigade opposite. They knew very well that as long as they rushed into the opposite team and cut off this huge and chaotic team, the battle would be won!
The red cavalry rained down with arrows, bones, javelins, throwing axes, spinning knives, broadswords, sickles and other weapons, and pounced forward.
Two huge cavalry teams, Yue Le's Qing army troops cut into three sections, although it is said that the division is irrepressible, but that refers to the team with high morale, at the moment Yue Le's team, it can be said that most of the soldiers are thinking about how to return to Xiwang Fort to have a hot meal, and then think of treating the injuries on their bodies.
Looking at the cavalry of the Ming army marching like a wall on the opposite side, the familiar dense formation, almost people to people, horses to horses, knees to knees. This kind of unreasonable and shameless tactics made these Mongolian soldiers who were conceited and the best riders in heaven and earth cowardly! How to fight? Do you want the two sides to collide? If it's a talent. Before announcing the retreat, the Liaodong rebels may still have the courage and consciousness of cavalry hedging, but now they just want to go back to rest, but they have lost that courage.
Although the number of horses arranged in front of him into a cavalry wall was small, behind the few hundred and ten horsemen. But it was more than a thousand war horses galloping, which seemed to be sandwiched with overwhelming momentum, which made these Qing troops who had lacked fighting spirit look discolored, and many people's faces were as if they were dead, and they had previously learned that they had changed from domestic slaves to the pride and pride of their subordinates disappeared with the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, and some people even turned their horses to escape.
However, it's too late!
In the sound of iron hooves like a storm, on the gray and yellow wasteland, the red cavalry torrent was like a knife cutting into butter. Rushed into the red and blue variegated team.
"Sigh the law......" The horses neighed loudly, the sound of the collision of weapons, and the screams of the soldiers on both sides who were injured and fell from their horses, and the screams made by the impact and dismounting. All kinds of sour-toothed and cold sounds continued, broken knives, broken guns and bows and other damaged weapons continued to intertwine and fly in people's sight, and the red blood mist created by various weapons on the human body was constantly sprayed and diffused, and there were even flesh and blood fragments mixed in the blood mist.
Although the battle of the cavalry was extremely cruel, it was the cavalry of the Ming army that had an advantage.
The reason is simple. The difference between the two sides is not in weapons, not in horses. Not at the technical and tactical level, but in an invisible and intangible thing, momentum! This thing allowed the Nurhachi family to go all the way from Hetuara to Shenyang, through the Salhu River, and if nothing else, they would cross the Shanhaiguan Pass into the city of Beijing. But today. In the past, the Ming army, which was cowardly before fighting, switched positions with the arrogant Liao thieves!
How can the Liao thieves who want to escape compare with the Ming army who want to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions?
The first to storm the advance ranks were still the vanguard of the horse battalion. These riders, although their riding skills are not as good as the Qing army, but they are densely arrayed, and most of them are wounded Qing cavalry and domestic slaves who have just carried the flag. Seeing this formation is a headache, it can be described as cowardice before the battle, horsepower, momentum, and queue have not been released, not to mention that behind these urgent vanguards, the cavalry of Datong Town and Shanxi Town of the brigade rushed like a storm!
In the earth-shattering sound of killing, the cavalry of the horse battalion passed over like a wall, just like the field after the harvest of a huge sickle, colliding with the already chaotic retreating formation of the Qing army more and more chaotic, the horses that were knocked away, the vehicles that were knocked down, and the burning baggage, made the subordinates of Gurmahun, who were already lacking in fighting spirit, even more cowardly. What's more, they had to face the onslaught of nearly 3,000 cavalry from the two towns, which were quite a bit of a fox and a fake tiger!
The cavalry of the two towns had already looked after the wounded soldiers in the ranks who were lying on their carts and staggering on horseback, and in their eyes, these people were about to become their own swords and become white silver!
"Rush! Rush over! Rush the formation of the Tartars to Lao Tzu! ”
Having learned the lesson of not long ago, Wang Pu kept shouting, urging and scolding his subordinates who planned to pick up cheap and cut off people's heads, and be sure to disrupt the formation of the Tartars first.
On the other side, Li Fuming shouted the same, and in the blink of an eye, the front team and the Chinese army of the Liaodong anti-thieves were rushed into three pieces, and they couldn't take care of each other.
Pity those Liao thieves who walked in the front and thought that they could escape alive were seriously injured, but in the blink of an eye, they were cut to different places by the Datong Town cavalry whose eyes were red with silver dollars, which can be regarded as an end to their careers in Liaodong and slaughtering Guannei.
It's always easy to deal with injuries, and Wang Pu and Li Fuming's plan is to let their subordinates eat meat first and then gnaw bones, the so-called eating persimmons and picking up soft pinch. After nearly 1,000 seriously wounded were brutally and inhumanely killed in dishonor of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, the two turned their greedy gaze to the Chinese army under the personal command of Gurmahun, where there were also a large number of lightly wounded.
(How can this shameless behavior compare with the aristocratic and gentlemanly behavior of Western European and American armies?) Have you ever been able to cash out the certificates of deposit from Swiss banks 250 years ago and cash them out in Swiss banks now, and not shoot Washington in the back during the Civil War? )
"Brother, what should we do?!"
Looking at the swarming Ming cavalry with red eyes, he couldn't help but make Gurmahun's younger brother Guogai a little flustered, with the enemy rushing over in front and the enemy behind him. Although behind the enemy were their own troops, the rumbling sound of gunfire showed that Yue Le and the others were also too busy to take care of themselves, and it was difficult to come to the rescue quickly.
"Rush! Follow Lao Tzu fiercely! Gurmahun whipped his brother Gogai, and there was a burning pain in his arm. Most of these cavalry were the border troops of the Ming Kingdom, and they left all their baggage behind. It's good to be able to rush over and rush back to Xiwang Castle! ”
Following his order, all the Qing troops in the Chinese army who were still able to gallop through the horse immediately rolled up a gust of wind and swooped towards Wang Pu's troops.
"Spread out! Disperse! Don't fight hard! "Being good at checking the style is a major characteristic of Wang Pu, and it is also a major characteristic of Datong Town. Seeing that Gurmahun was menacing, even if there was an officer leading the team, in line with the principle of encircling three and missing one, the command quickly opened an opening that could make more than ten horsemen pass through Guò.
Gurmahun took the lead and rushed out with hundreds of men.
"Fence it off!"
I saw Gurmahun rushing out. The more than 1,000 people who followed had no intention of fighting, and only wanted to break through the siege and leave.
"Want to go? Stay! ”
Seeing that the remnants of the Qing army had no fighting spirit and just wanted to escape, Wang Pu couldn't help but sneer, and ordered the officers on the left and right to press up from both wings and quickly close the gap, and be sure to leave the remaining more than 1,000 people to Lao Tzu!
On the other side of the battlefield. Yue Le and Nikan were beaten by the Model Brigade and the infantry of Datong and Shanxi towns.
Compared to the rogue tactics of cavalry marching through walls, the tactics of infantry are complete bullying.
The chariots were in front of the battle, and the large and small francs were pressed into formation. Gunners lined up in the gaps of the chariots. Pikemen and shield men take cover behind the firecrackers.
After a round of artillery fire, the firecrackers went out to the front line, and knocked the Liao thieves who rushed into the range of the firearms to the ground one by one, and then stopped in place, and the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers went forward to set up defenses, just waiting for the next round of attack of the Liao thieves.
Wait until the chariot is towed to the front of the battle. It was another round of headless bombardment, and the firecrackers continued to bombard.
After repeating this twice, the officers under Yue Le were a little unbearable. Those who planned to retreat, but were afraid of being pursued and killed by the Model Brigade and Datong Town and Shanxi Town, the taste of artillery and guns raining down from behind was extremely uncomfortable.
Just when Nikan and the others were hesitating. Someone found that Gurmahun's banner had crossed the front of the two Ming armies and was far away, and he couldn't help but make Nikan scold.
"This evil seed of Amin! Sure enough, I didn't call the wrong name! It's really faster than a rabbit! Then came a flurry of vicious words from Manchu, Mongolian, and Chinese.
Gurmahun, in Manchu, originally means rabbit. I don't know if it's because of its own low cultural heritage, or because of factors such as the worship of the natural environment, many of the names of the wild boar skin family are named after animals. From wild boar skins (Nurhachi) to yellow wolves (Huang Taiji), from rabbits (Gurmahun), badgers (Dolgon) to gray finches (Dudu). There seem to be bears and hedgehogs. It is like a wild animal lineage in eastern Liaodong.
Seeing the chaos of the flags in the distance, Wang Pu and Li Fuming's soldiers and horses were beating up those minor and serious injuries that were thrown by Gur Ma Hun, Yue Le nodded slightly, "The poisonous snake eats the hand, and the strong man breaks his wrist." Gurmahon knows how to make trade-offs! Although more than 1,000 people were left behind, it was a good thing that the main force of soldiers was preserved! ”
"My Baturu people of the Qing Dynasty, come with me!"
Yue Le pulled out the iron and steel sword at his waist, clamped his legs between the horse's belly, and led the remnants of nearly 1,000 people to quickly break away from contact with the model brigade, and rushed straight towards the edge of the scene where Wang Pu and Li Fuming's cavalry surrounded and beat those wounded soldiers.
The action was too fast, so that Wu Biao couldn't catch up, so he had to order the artillery to carry out a fierce bombardment in the direction of Yue Le's escape, which could be regarded as a fire pursuit. In a trance, someone could see clearly that a cannon hit the hind leg of a Liao thief general's mount, and the horse was in pain, so he fell to the ground and overturned the rider on horseback, which immediately caused a small commotion to break out in the team.
Later, according to the prisoner's confession, the general who was shot down from his horse was Nikan, who had fought with the three departments for several rounds, but the prisoner did not know Nikan's whereabouts.
"Falling off a horse, and being injured by himself, there are not many people who want to live!"
"It's a pity that we haven't seized his body and banner, and we can't report it to the court!"
After the war, Wang Pu, Wu Biao, and Li Fuming checked the results of the battle and prepared to report the victory to the imperial court. But it's enough, the battle is slashed, the pseudo-anti-righteous Red Flag, Manchuria, Gushan, Ezhen, Fei Yangwu, father and son. And there are corpses, armor and other objects as evidence, and more than 2,000 heads, thousands of mules, horses, camels, and vehicles have been seized, and such military feats are enough.
Different from the happy smiles of Wang Pu and Li Fuming, in the Xiwang Fort that was completely won without blood, Wu Biao's face was very ugly.
There is no other reason. Wang Pu and the others could not pursue in time when they found Yue Le and the others fleeing from the edge of the battlefield. Instead, he was obsessed with bullying those wounded and sick soldiers, and only when he had to cut off these heads did he think of pursuing forward. Unexpectedly, when he almost saw the wall of Xiwang Fort, he was stopped by someone and slapped him again. Beat Wang Pu straight in front of his eyes.
Those who responded to Yue Le and Gurmahun were the Qing army's Kabush Xian Galayi Angbang Shaerhuda and his son Bahai.
Sha'er Huda and Bahai, does the name of the father and son sound a little unfamiliar? However, if the author tells the story of the father and son's life exploits, I believe most people will be in awe.
Shahrhuda. He was born in the twenty-sixth year of Wanli and died in the sixteenth year of Shunzhi. A Manchurian with a blue flag, surnamed Guerjia, who lives in Huerha in the middle reaches of Heilongjiang. After his father Guile joined Nurhachi, he conferred the title of Niu Lu Ezhen. Later, he was promoted to the leader of the striker and won every battle. In the ninth year of Shunzhi, he was ordered to lead the division to garrison Ningguta in the northeast. In the following year, Ningguta and Shengjing were divided into two to consolidate the mountain. He was the first Ningguta Angbang Zhangjing (General Army, Yipin).
Ningguta Angbang Zhangjing ruled a vast territory north of Shengjing (present-day Shenyang) in the Qing Dynasty – from the eastern shore of Lake Baikal in the west. It extends to the southern foot of the Outer Khing'an Mountains in the north, Kube Island and the Sea of Japan in the east, including today's Jilin Province, Heilongjiang Province, Inner Mongolia Xing'an League, Hulunbuir City, and the Russian Far East in the Heilongjiang and Ussuri River basins. The station Ningguta (Old City), in the ancient city village of Ninggu Terrace in Changting Town, in the middle reaches of Hailang River, a tributary of the Mudanjiang River, shouldered the heavy task of defending the northeastern territory of the Qing Dynasty.
At this time. At a time when Tsarist Russia was frantically expanding into the Far East and Siberia, Khabarov, Stepanov and others led bandits to invade the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River many times, burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of evil. Shaerhuda led the military and civilians of Ningguta to defend the country's territorial sovereignty and the compatriots of ethnic minorities in the Heilongjiang River Basin. It carried out the anti-aggression struggle, marched many long distances, counterattacked the Tsarist Russian invaders in the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and won victories one after another. In the fourteenth year of Shunzhi (1657), the Stepanov bandits invaded to the north bank of the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River, Shangjian and black, and Shaerhuda commanded the Ningguta Eight Banners to meet the attack, and the Russian bandits were defeated and fled. In June of the fifteenth year of Shunzhi (1658), Shaerhuda detected that Szepanov led Russian bandits to invade the middle reaches of Heilongjiang. He ordered the Jilin Shipyard to build military ships, and requisitioned Manchu and Mongolian troops in Shengjing, Horqin and other places. In July, he led his army down the Songhua River by boat and blocked the Russian bandits who were about to invade the Songhua River at the mouth of the Liangjiang River (the confluence of the Songhua River and the Heilongjiang River). After four days of water fighting, Sharhuda skillfully used the southwest wind to carry out a fire attack, blew up 20 Russian ships, killed and captured nearly 300 Russian bandits, and killed the criminal bandit leader Stepanov, known as the "man-eating devil". This was a major victory of the Qing Dynasty against the invasion of Tsarist Russia, and the Russian bandits, intimidated by the prestige of the military and civilians of Shahrhuda and Ningguta, withdrew from the area east of Lake Baikal.
After his death, his son Bahai succeeded his father and continued to guard the frontier, even during the battles of Yaksa and other places. It's a pity that in the pen of a certain famous writer of martial arts novels, his exploits in Yaksa and elsewhere were stolen by a slippery clown.
"Why don't you go into the West King Fort and let the minions rest for a while?"
Gurmahun took a breath and commanded his troops and horses to join the battle group, frantically attacking Wang Pu's cavalry, and receiving Yue Le's subordinates who came after him. One opened his mouth to ask Sha'er Huda, who was also under the banner of Manchuria with the blue flag.
"Prince Zheng's master has an urgent military situation, and he ordered me to quickly withdraw to Jinzhou after receiving the masters, and the stockade of Xiwangbao must be abandoned!"
Prince Zheng's deployment of Jierharang, Gurmahun naturally did not dare to question it, so he had to fight hard to tear Wang Pu and Li Fuming's team apart, so that Yue Le and the seriously injured and unconscious Nikan and others stood out.
Ignoring the need to talk more, Sha Erhuda ordered his son Bahai to lead his subordinate white-armored soldiers to guard at the end of the team, and after he and Yue Le and others hastily greeted each other, he conveyed Ji'er Harang's military orders to several masters.
As members of the Nurhachi family, Yue Le, Nikan, Gurmahun and others would not have pretended to be a friend of Shaerhuda, who was born in the Su Wan Department, but at this time, Shaerhuda's father and son had the merit of helping him at the end of the road, and they came on the military order of Jierharang, so they had to say a few polite words.
"Rank master, this is not the time to be polite. Listen! Sha'er Huda motioned to Yue Le and the others, and in the direction of Tashan in the distance, there was a faint burst of cannon sound.
"From dawn today, the soldiers and horses of the Ming Kingdom have been under the supervision of Li Huamei, the lord of Hejing, and they have continuously bombarded Tashan with heavy artillery, and the military situation of the prince Rui is urgent. In the direction of Jinzhou, there is this Ming army disturbing, and Prince Zheng is worried that the masters will be taken advantage of, so he ordered the servants to come to respond. The army returned to Jinzhou to hold on! ”
Hastily lit a few fires in the Xiwang Fort, and the armies of Yue Le, Gur Ma Hun and others passed through the wall, looking at the red flag of the Ming army not far away, like a forest, and couldn't help but grit his teeth secretly.
"Don't rejoice too soon! We'll see! (To be continued......)