Chapter 166: Liu Zongmin Died in Battle (Medium)

It's just that in just about 20 breaths, more than 200 corpses were left in front of this mountain pass, which can be described as heavy casualties for the Eight Banners.

After a pillar of incense, with the arrival of the white flag and the white flag led by Duoduo himself, all the Manchurian iron cavalry and the Guanning army came to this mountain pass.

Looking at the more than two hundred Eight Banner warriors who died at the mouth of the valley, Duoduo's face immediately became gloomy, and his expression was full of anger when he stared at Tuo Yue, the master of the Red Banner Banner.

"Didn't this king say that if you encounter the musket battalion under Li Zicheng, you must not attack without authorization, you dare not listen to this king's orders!" Dodor said angrily.

"Tuoyue doesn't dare!" Tuo Yue held his breath in his heart, and did not dare to make any rebuttals.

In fact, it was not that Tuo Yue did not obey the order, but when he led the red flag to rush here, he saw the chaos of the Dashun army at the mountain pass, and knew that this was the musket battalion under Li Zicheng.

"Humph! This time the king will spare you, if there is a next time, do not blame the king for being ruthless! After Duoduo scolded, he did not punish Tuo Yue, after all, Tuo Yue is Dai Shan's eldest son, and his fifteenth brother Dolgon still needs to rely on Dai Shan's assistance in many places in the court, so he should give Dai Shan a face.

Wu Sangui was still surrounded by Duoduo, staring at Liu Zongmin's musket battalion guarding the mountain pass, his face expressionless.

"Summons, scouts check the terrain here to see if they can make a detour." Dodor ordered.

At a glance, Duoduo estimated that the number of the Dashun army at the pass should be around 20,000, including 12,000 musket battalions, and some others should be ordinary foot soldiers.

Because of Niu Jinxing's rebellion, Duoduo had long been aware of the situation and number of troops under Li Zicheng's command. It was known that Li Zicheng's musket battalion had 12,000 men and was led by his general Liu Zongmin. There are the battle reports from Linggu and Shandong, Duoduo understands the power of the intensive use of muskets, and does not plan to use cavalry to fight hard, here only need to send foot soldiers to besiege here, and the 20,000 Dashun troops blocking here are the turtles in the urn, and they can starve to death if they are hungry.

"Lord Qiqi, this mountain is more than 30 miles in circumference, if you want to detour, you need to go around about 60 miles!" Soon after, the scout inquired about the situation and returned to report to Dodor.

Hearing that it was necessary to dew sixty miles around, Duoduo immediately frowned.

"Lord Wang, my subordinates believe that they should send a part of the iron cavalry to immediately make a detour to pursue. Li Zicheng only has 80,000 remnants of soldiers left, and morale is low, only need to divide 20,000 or 30,000 iron cavalry to defeat it, and this mountain pass is now more than 10,000 musketeers to obstruct, it is not suitable to attack, rather than being blocked here, it is better to send a part of the iron cavalry to detour, and the 20,000 Dashun army in this mountain pass will wait for the Han Banner Army foot soldiers behind to come, and when the time comes, the Han Banner Army infantry will attack, and the Eight Banner Iron Cavalry will not have to suffer a single casualty. ”

"Lord Wang, my subordinates also agree!" Another Zhang Jing, who was inlaid with a white flag, also agreed.

"There's no need to be so troublesome, with this time, this king can strangle the Dashun army in front and pass through this mountain pass." Dodor shook his head and said.

"What is the prince's plan?" The white flag Zhang Jing asked.

Duoduo looked at the Dashun musketeers who were densely blocking the mountain pass, smiled coldly, very disdainful, in fact, he had thought of a way to deal with it long before attacking Tongguan, these musketeers could stop him for a while, but they would definitely be wiped out.

"To break through this mountain pass, it is not difficult to strangle the 20,000 Great Shun army. Passing on the King's Decree! Immediately transfer twenty general cannons from Xi'an City to this king, and this king will let Liu Zongmin and these musketeers die without a place to be buried! After Duoduo gave the order, he explained the way to deal with it in a word.

"Wow!" Immediately, a herald came to deliver the order.

Xijing City was originally called Xi'an, but it was changed to Xijing after Li Zicheng became emperor, and after Duoduo captured it, he changed the name back. The city of Xi'an is less than twenty miles away from here, and if you don't require a red-coated cannon that weighs too much, it will only take less than three hours to transport it here.

The 20,000 Dashun troops at the mountain pass were densely packed, and because the array was blocked there, almost all of them were gathered together, and if they were really bombarded by artillery, they would inevitably collapse.

All the generals of the Manchu Qing Dynasty realized this instantly, and looked at the 20,000 Dashun troops at the mountain pass one by one, revealing a cold smile.

The intensive use of muskets can indeed temporarily block the charge of the iron cavalry, but it is not omnipotent, as long as there is a defense, there are many ways to deal with it, and when the cannon arrives, they can still slaughter these musketeers like they used to slaughter ordinary Ming soldiers.

"Drive!"

Duoduo glanced at the Dashun army at the mountain pass with a cold face, suddenly stepped forward, came to a place about two hundred meters away from the mountain pass, and saw at the mountain pass: "The commander in front is the Marquis Liu Zongmin!" This king is the prince of Yu of the Qing Dynasty! ”

At the mountain pass, Liu Zongmin stared at Duoduo, and also came to the front with an expressionless face.

"Lao Tzu is Dashun Ruhou Liu Zongmin! What is the important matter for Prince Yu to find this marquis? ”

Duoduo looked at Liu Zongmin, although he had also seen Liu Zongmin before, but they were all quite far away, and he couldn't see it clearly, but now he saw that Liu Zongmin was burly, his sword eyebrows were cold, his face was calm, and the style of a general was fully revealed, so he couldn't help but nod approvingly.

"This king heard that the Marquis of Ru is the first general under Li Zicheng, and he admires it very much, and wants to persuade the Marquis of Ru to return to my Qing Dynasty. Duoduo's conditions can be said to be extremely rich, as soon as these words were said, many generals changed color, and even many of the soldiers of the Dashun Army on the opposite side also changed their faces, among which there were many henchmen placed by Li Zicheng, and they couldn't help but look at Liu Zongmin one by one, with an inexplicable expression.

Liu Zongmin was indeed slightly moved, and he had to say that Duoduo was too good at seducing people, and he had such courage to open such generous conditions to him, so that he almost couldn't withstand the temptation.

"Hahaha, Prince Yu looks at this marquis too much!" In the end, Liu Zongmin still withstood the temptation, and after laughing, he said coldly: "But although I, Liu Zongmin, am not a person of great benevolence and righteousness, but Your Majesty has the grace to save my life and the grace of knowing me, I, Liu Zongmin, would rather die in battle than betray Your Majesty, Prince Yu go back." ”

Liu Zongmin said firmly, and he didn't allow Duoduo to continue to persuade him, turned around and returned to the formation, otherwise he was really afraid that he would not be able to withstand the temptation and betray Li Zicheng.

Duoduo's eyes narrowed slightly: "This royal power Marquis still has to think clearly, otherwise he will inevitably die without a place to be buried!" "Duoduo didn't plan to send him the news of mobilizing the cannon, otherwise if Liu Zongmin didn't surrender, he would be prepared, and the cannon would not be able to achieve the effect of a surprise attack.

Liu Zongmin didn't look back, he didn't bother to answer Duoduo's words, he had to stick to his determination to fight to the death, and he couldn't be affected by Duoduo's words.

"Humph! I don't know the current affairs! This king is letting you live a few more hours! Duoduo's face was cold, he turned his horse's head and returned to his camp, waiting for the arrival of the cannon with peace of mind, anyway, it was only two or three hours before and after, and he would definitely take off Liu Zongmin's head with his own hands at that time!

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