Gu Ying never expected that what he thought was an easy errand turned out to be a big heel outside Chaoyang Gate!

When Gu Ying was embarrassed and told the news that he was beaten head-on in the east barracks outside Chaoyang Gate to Li Zicheng, who had already entered Yuyuantan and Sanlihe outside Changyi Gate, everyone in his entourage couldn't help but be surprised!

"Zijie, what did you say?!"

The first one to express disbelief was Ruhou Liu Zongmin!

Gu Ying is also an old man who broke into the camp, a senior general who grew up from a low-level officer step by step with Li Zicheng in the southern and northern wars. Although his military exploits are not as prominent as Li Guo, Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi, Hao Shaoqi and others, they are also the second most prominent figures such as breaking into the camp.

"I hung the people all the way and was invincible, why did I have such a fiasco when I went outside Beijing?"

After listening to Gu Ying's loss of soldiers and horses, Li Zicheng couldn't help but be quite surprised, Gu Ying's thousands of soldiers and horses actually killed hundreds, seriously injured and captured more than 1,000 people, and lightly injured hundreds of people, nearly half of the war horses were lost. Such a loss was something he had never had since he left Luoshan.

"General Gu, which Ming army did you encounter? Isn't it Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Army striker who has arrived? ”

The first reaction of Song Xiance, Li Yan and others was that the Guanning army gave up Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan and other places, and the army Qinwang arrived in Beijing, and Gu Ying happened to meet the advance of the Guanning army, so there was a defeat.

"Nope! Not Guan Ningjun. The accompanying military camp bandaged Gu Ying's wounds, and Gu Ying waved his still good left arm a little angrily, "Judging from the banner and armor, this group of dogs is the Beijing camp of the Beijing Division!" ”

"Zijie, let's talk slowly." Li Zicheng stopped Gu Ying's movements, looked at him as if countless words were pouring into his mouth, but he was crowded with an indescribable expression for a while, and ordered someone to set up a stool and motioned for him to sit down and speak.

Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Liu Tichun, Yuan Zongdi and others who accompanied him also sat around one after another, and Luo Hu, who was responsible for guarding the royal driver, and Zhang Nai, who led his artillery team to set up artillery positions in the area of Changyi Gate, stood silently outside the crowd and listened quietly.

Gu Ying led four or five thousand elite horsemen of his subordinates, along the walls and moats of Beijing City, swept from west to east like a hurricane.

Changyi Gate, Fucheng Gate, Xibian Gate, You'an Gate, Yongding Gate, although there are defenders and cannons on the city, but looking at the cavalry team under the city, none of the defenders dare to use artillery to attack and harass. Instead, they retracted behind the battlements and peeked out through the arrows to see the cavalry's movements. Seeing that their target was not their own, the defenders gradually breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Gu Ying's brigade had just galloped through Dongbianmen and was about to go to Tongzhou along the Tonghui River, but they ran into a cavalry that was coming from Chaoyang Gate, escorting countless baggage vehicles along the Shuiguan Wharf.

"The cavalry of the thieves!"

"Ming Dog's cavalry!"

The sentinels of both armies spotted each other at the first time.

The cavalry that Gu Ying found was the cavalry of the new army in Beijing. Luo Mingzu, who was the leader, was responsible for escorting the various archives and documents stored in the palace, the six ministries, and the cabinet to Chaoyangmen Wharf to board the ship. Tan Chery's infantry escorted the archival documents along the way to Tongzhou, where they were transported along the North Canal to Tianjin and embarked.

This is the evacuation plan agreed upon by Wang Chengen, Wang Dehua and Lin Wenbing in Wang Dehua's mansion that day. Under the pretext of transporting archival documents, the attention of civil servants was diverted. When the documents and files were almost shipped, Chongzhen's family left. When leaving, an edict was issued to the ministers in the city, telling them that the emperor had gone on a southern tour, and that they should hurry to escort them!

"Uncle! To the southwest came a large troop of thieves' cavalry! A general in charge of guarding the west turned slightly pale, and hurriedly rode his horse in front of Luo Mingzu.

"Panic what!" Luo Mingzu is also a figure who has seen a big battle in the end, he grabbed the horse's head and took the telescope handed to his hand by his own soldiers, and looked westward, but saw that in the smoke and dust, thousands of elite horses came on horseback, and the general led by him seemed to have the word "valley" on the flag.

"Humph! It doesn't matter if you're millet or sorghum! As long as it's not Liu Zongmin, Hao Shaoqi and Brother Luo! Luo Mingzu snorted coldly in his heart, and handed the telescope to the cavalry beside him.

"Drum Officer!"

"Mark it in!"

"Beat the drums, line up, and get ready to meet the enemy!"

"Order someone to report to Uncle Tan, saying that we are going to move our muscles and bones with the cavalry activities of the thieves, and ask Master Tan if you want to come together!"

When the flag and drum officer quickly told Tan Chery, who was supervising the Cao gang on both sides of the Tonghui River to put huge camphor wood boxes on the boat, Tan Chery couldn't help but crack his mouth and laugh.

"How can this kind of thing be less talked about than we keep talking? Boys! We have also seen blood with the real swords and guns of the Tartars in Shandong, no matter how strong the cavalry of the thieves is, can they be stronger than the cavalry of the Tartars? Let's use the firearm in our hands to tell this group of thieves, let them know the interests and disadvantages of our heroes in Beijing! ”

The sound of the brass horn sounded one after another on the wharf, and the infantry of one sentry and one battalion of one battalion gathered and moved towards the southwest in the area of Dongbianmen and Zuo'anmen.

Tan Chery led hundreds of his own soldiers to ride their horses and go straight to Luo Mingzu's Chinese army.

"How about it, Lao Luo, do you have an idea?" The war was imminent, and Tan Chery couldn't help but return to the days when he rode side by side with Wang Long and Luo Hu in the land of Qilu, and the black words he learned from the two little brothers involuntarily came out of his mouth.

"It's okay! It's Gu Ying. It's not a hard hand! My horse team rushed, and it probably collapsed! Luo Mingzu was also not modest, waving his whip and motioning to talk about Chery to look at Gu Ying's cavalry opposite.

Gu Ying is a little overbearing. Originally, he thought that the soldiers were fast and wanted to insert themselves into Tongzhou to cut off the passage between Beijing and the outside world, so they rushed all the way and spared no horsepower. But he didn't expect that after running for dozens of miles, he met the cavalry and infantry of the Beijing camp here. The most surprising thing is that these Ming dogs are not panicked or confused, and they are lined up here, ready to have a fight with the Dashun army!

It's something I haven't seen in days.

"General! What's going on?? The leader of the pro-soldiers beside Gu Ying pulled out his sword with a look of eagerness. Our horses are a little tired, so we're here to grab some horses to replace! ”

The handsome flag in Gu Ying's team shook a few times, and the team gradually slowed down their pace, and began to assemble with the handsome flag as the center.

His plan was not much different from what the leader of the soldiers had said. These bright dogs are blocking the way here, but they are just some local chickens and tile dogs, and they are just about to collapse at the touch of a button. I just grabbed their war horses as a replacement, so I rushed to Tongzhou early!

Most of the war horses under Luo Mingzu's command were the servants of the Imperial Horse Prison. The middle-level generals rode all the royal horses. As the highest organ in the country that controls horse politics, the so-called ship has a bottom when it is broken, and there are still 3,000 nails when the bottom is broken. In order to build a new army, Chongzhen, Wang Dehua, Wang Chengen and others all invested at the expense of blood, and almost all the good horses in Taifu Temple were given to the new army.

These fat, fat, and oily war horses are undoubtedly the best trophies in Gu Ying's eyes.

He did not notice that these horses, under the command of the horsemen, gradually formed a long column, numbering nearly a thousand horsemen, and one column after another, totaling as many as five or six columns.

On both sides of the cavalry, Tan Chery's infantry team also came in a rapid movement, using the dry grass and bushes as a cover, pretending to be suspicious soldiers. In fact, he used thousands of firecrackers to firmly protect the two wings of his allies and brothers, and by the way, when the Dashun army attacked, he could beat sticks and smash black bricks on both sides.

What kind of generals will bring out what kind of troops, the new army in Beijing is very disdainful of the tactics of lining up and shooting hard, but this kind of ambush in favorable terrain and shooting a large number of enemy soldiers is very good.

Looking at the undulating figures among the grassy trees, Gu Ying smiled disdainfully, this behavior of the Ming dogs is tantamount to selling water by the river. I don't want to think about how our Dashun got to where it is today? How are you little tricks our opponents?

With the sound of the commands of the officers of each battalion and each team, the cavalry tactical formation customary for breaking into the camp has taken shape. Several sharp arrow formations of different sizes, arrows facing the horizontal column of the Beijing camp, at the top of each formation, under the banner of the flag bearer, the generals of each battalion stood on horseback, acting as the vanguard of the charge.

"The thieves are going to break down our cavalry wall with a sharp arrow array! Don't they know that our cavalry wall is the most favorite of such enemy formations? Luo Mingzu had a cruel and smug sneer on his face.

"Lao Luo, don't panic, when they rush over in a while, I will first let the sons and daughters fire two rounds of artillery on both sides, and welcome them with cannonball shotguns first! Make their formation a little more scattered......"

"Then my cavalry will march forward again!"

The two guys smiled at each other's tacit smiles.

"Don't be busy, I'll transfer another thousand firecrackers to your horse team, and let these firecrackers use projectiles to kill the thieves' sharpness!" Tan Chery sneered, and ordered his staff to open a formation in front of the horse team, and the front of the team to prevent Gu Ying's cavalry from charging into battle.

The sound of hooves was like thunder, and the hooves of Gu Ying's four or five thousand cavalry and tens of thousands of horses pounded on the frozen ground like a storm, and there were faint bursts of thunder rolling across the ground.

The huge smoke and dust, like a sandstorm raised in the flat land, shrouded in the fluttering Dashun flag, under the flag corner, are full of knights wearing iron armor and cotton armor, looking at the boundless posture, it seems that the four or five thousand cavalry under the command of Gu Ying are galloping wildly, and for a while there is no sound between heaven and earth, only the sound of horses' hooves like rain and thunder.

In front of me, I could already see clearly the words of the banners of the cavalry and infantry of the Beijing camp. According to Gu Ying's previous experience in fighting with the Ming armies of the Central Plains, as long as the two sides come into contact, within a few rounds, these Ming dogs will run away with their heads in their hands.

"Brothers, follow Lao Tzu! These dogs have good horses and armor! Gu Ying shouted loudly in the charging ranks under the escort of more than 100 veteran elite cavalry.

"General! You see! Gu Ying's personal soldier leader was sharp-eyed, and at a glance he saw the firecrackers who were lining up behind the rejection horse in front of the direction of his charge, and at the same time, among the trees and long grass on both sides, there were also people who pushed out cannons and hurriedly signaled to Gu Ying to see.

When almost all the cavalry found that cannons appeared on the left and right flanks of their shock formation, all the gunners in the Beijing camp shouted with all their strength: "Open the cannon!" ”

Immediately afterwards, the musketeers who were guarding the artillery team repeated in a louder voice: "Fire!" ”

An earth-shattering artillery salvo sounded, and the earth trembled with a huge wave of sound, fifteen big Buddha machines, twelve six-pounder guns, and all shotguns were used! Large expanses of white gunpowder smoke rose above the artillery, and a dense rain of bullets composed of countless shotguns rushed towards the cavalry of the Shun army, which was rapidly attacking!

The dust that had been stirred up by the hooves of the cavalry of the Dashun Army turned into a cloud of smoke stained red with blood and minced flesh in an instant! On the road of the charge, like the wind blowing wheat waves, the cavalry of the Shun army was knocked down a large area, and all of them were blurred with flesh and blood, and they were covered with dense blood holes. No matter how many layers of armor they wore and how many years of glorious battlefield fighting experience they had, they all turned pale in the face of gunpowder and steel!

The best range of the shotgun of the Big Franc is about 100 paces, and the six-pounder gun is higher. And the position of these big Buddha cannon columns is only more than 120 steps away from the Shun army's shock formation, and the firing distance of those six-pounder guns is only 100 paces, which is within the best firing range! After the shotguns pierced the armor, pierced the human body, and overturned the horses, they rushed into the form of the rolling new force!

When he landed, this round of artillery fire caused Gu Ying's charging formation to stagnate.

"Stop!"

"Stop!"

Gu Ying is also a battle-hardened old man, and even if he gives the order to stop advancing for the time being, he must first send away these nasty ghosts who are beating sticks and smashing black bricks on both sides before he can deal with the cavalry in front of him. Otherwise, how many people come forward to feed the shells in vain.

However, how can the tacit understanding between the two be successful?

In the thick of trees and grass on both sides of the horse team, thousands of people appeared on board, arranged in several rows, squatting in the front row and standing in the back row, with the thorns on the fire guns in their hands shining with cold light.

"Front row, aim! Get ready to shoot! ”

"Turn back in the back row, reload!"

The high-spirited command sounded in the ranks of the musketeers, and the soldiers made methodical movements at the sound of the officer's command.

The sound of the password was transmitted to Gu Ying's ears by the north wind, and looking at the strict formation in front of him, Gu Ying couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive. He didn't dare to use these thousands of cavalry to charge the opponent's guns and artillery, the loss of soldiers is one thing, if he really loses too many soldiers and horses here, delaying the emperor's deployment, it is not easy for him to go back.

Just as Gu Ying was hesitating, Jingying's horse team began to move.

With a team of 100 cavalry, marked by the pennant on the spear in the hands of the commander and the officer, the cavalry was assembled.

"Run up in a moment, look at the tip of my gun, don't go past the tip of my gun!"

The officers said to the cavalry with a tiger face one last time. The captains carefully checked the distance between the horses, almost all of them were about one meter apart, and there were a hundred war horses. Pulled open a hundred-meter-wide front.

The horn sounded, and the horse team of the Beijing camp began to move.

At first, the horses walked forward slowly in small steps, and then gradually turned into a jog.

With the gradual acceleration of the horse team. The whole platoon gradually became larger and larger, but the distance between the horses was still controlled within two meters.

Looking at the cavalry of the Beijing camp who were staggering on the horse, Gu Yingdang couldn't help but grin, "Damn dogs! There is a way in heaven that you don't go! Dare to fight cavalry with Lao Tzu! Brethren, mount and press on! ”

However, as soon as the two of them came into contact in the form of cavalry, Gu Ying's heart sank suddenly!

Although these cavalry of the Beijing camp were not good at horsemanship, their tactics and military discipline were quite rigorous. The huge platoon composed of hundreds of horsemen, no matter what the terrain, always pulls into a horizontal row and rushes over, all the way to the impact of those Shun troops who are running around the wounded and defeated generals, from time to time someone is knocked to the ground by the jogging war horse, and then trampled into a dead person by the horse behind.

What's even worse is that Chongzhen really invested in this new army at any cost. Almost all

The cavalry's swords were made of iron and steel, and with a little force, they could cut through the enemy's armor on a horse. However, these cavalrymen of the Beijing camp also have a trick that is lazier and less technical.

Using the mutual support between the war horses, out of the reins, stretching out the arm with a knife in one hand, and the blade outward, such a tactic, only need to control the running direction of the horse team, rush towards the enemy, use the speed of the war horse to run, hit the knife on the enemy, and then gently follow the trend, the speed of the war horse, the weight of the knife, the angle of the cut and many other factors are combined, and the enemy's body can be easily cut along with the armor.

The army came from thousands of miles to fight, although it was invincible, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted. However, in terms of physical strength and breeding of horses, it is far inferior to the Jingying horse team in front of them. At least in theory and supply standards, there is not so much supply of beans and salt, only general forage.

Because of its proximity to Tianjin, the officers of the Jingying camp could easily purchase a large amount of soybeans and salt to feed the horses. The experience in Shandong has made these young masters very clear that if you fool the horse on weekdays, the horse can kill you in wartime! Therefore, the behavior of withholding horse materials, which was common in the Ming army, was very rare in this army.

However, on the contrary, Gu Ying's cavalry not only marched thousands of miles, but the supply of forage and beans for the war horses was insufficient, and what was more serious was that Fang Cai's galloping for dozens of miles all the way made the war horses physically consume a lot. In this way, the gap between the Jingying and the Shunjun war horses appeared.

Another point is that it is not enough for outsiders.

The current new army in Beijing is in response to that sentence, "Poor Kou Mo pursues the division and does not stop it." "They are bent on leaving the capital as soon as possible and fleeing south, but you Gu Ying came to block their way, it's no wonder that these masters don't play with you!

As a result, Gu Ying was covered by Luo Mingzu for more than ten miles, and it was not until he met Li Guo's subordinate sentry that he escaped from Shengtian.

Li Zicheng never thought that under such a smooth journey, he would plant such a big heel under the Jingshi City! (To be continued.) )