Since Wu Xing took the people of the Qin Law Department and threw himself into the arms of Li Huayu, the officials of the Kejia Department led by Niu Jinxing quickly filled the vacancy left by them, and in one fell swoop controlled the civilian positions in the Dashun military system, completely controlling the daily administrative power. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

That is, because the waist is stiff, Niu Jinxing's confidence in speaking in the Dashun army is also a lot tougher. echoing with the local officials of the Dashun court, they are each other's appearances and insides, and they are faintly already the identity of the prime minister of the current dynasty, and they ignore the justifiable prime minister Li Yan.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Yan was also born in a famous person, and he had made many friends all over Henan at the beginning, he was famous among the literati, and he had the identity of the son of Guijie, and his influence far exceeded that of him, a person from Lushi County, Niu Jinxing was afraid that he would have found a way to knock Li Yan down from the position of prime minister and replace him. But he couldn't. Because, after he was arrested and imprisoned by the Ming Dynasty government because he was accused of colluding with Li Zicheng, Li Yan used his identity and influence to run for him and contributed money and efforts to rescue him.

This incident is quite famous in Shilin in Henan and Shaanxi, and it is also rumored to be a good story. If he ousted Li Yan from power, he was afraid that he would be scolded as ungrateful. At this point, he Niu Qidong Niu was unwilling.

However, although he is not the prime minister, the weight of his speech in the Dashun Dynasty is different.

In his letter to Liu Zongmin, he clearly pointed out that if the Tartars were defeated in the first battle, then the Dashun army would compete with the Nanyue army for the world. That is, the general is brave and invincible, if the Nanyue army uses endless money and food to confront our army, can the general have a way to break the enemy? ”

Therefore, Liu Zongmin can only spy here today, hoping to seize the most favorable opportunity for the Dashun army and give the Qing army in the north a ruthless blow!

"Go back and go to the camp to put your troops and horses in order. Let's wait until the two of them are exhausted, and then we will suddenly go out and help Master Li kill this Tartar. "After all, Li Huayu and the Dashun Army still have a rescue agreement there, and with a loan of tens of millions of silver dollars, how much material and rice can be purchased? After Wu Xing's defection, the reason why the two families did not turn their faces was because Li Zicheng considered that the trade activities between the two sides would be a great help to the Dashun army.

"Please rest assured! The sentinel's brothers had already figured out where the grain and grass of the Tartars were piled up. This time, we are not only going to break the army of the Tartars, but we also have to grab all the baggage of the Tartars! Several members of Liu Zongmin's side patted his chest and assured him.

On the battlefield, Guo Dingbei's troops had gradually fallen behind.

Liu Zongmin nodded with satisfaction at the statements of his subordinates. The Dashun Army, which was born out of the peasant army, has never done anything about annexation and annexation in the years of warfare. Big fish eat small fish and small fish eat dried shrimp, not to mention Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, even Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin have done it. What kind of pole, the annexation and annexation activities of the bandits, are all played handy. The most recent fire merger was the annexation of Luo Rucai's Cao Ying, which made Li Zicheng a dominant family among the peasant army.

This kind of robbery while the fire is even more expert.

At that moment, Liu Zongmin's order was conveyed by more than a dozen personal soldiers Pegasus back to the camp.

He continued to hold up the telescope and observe the changes on the battlefield.

On the battlefield, the situation is very embarrassing and weird.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the Dongfan soldiers and several garrison brigades pressed Cao Zhenyan's soldiers and horses as the vanguard to retreat step by step, and Tuha and Ekui kept leading the Shandong cavalry to advance from the flank like a torrential rain, tearing apart the Qing army line on the flank, and letting the follow-up troops divide and encircle them and annihilate them.

The counterattack of the Qing army commanded by Guo Dingbei, in the face of the fierce offensive of the Nanyue army like a mad tiger, gradually fell behind, was broken four formations in a row, and the soldiers and horses gradually retreated to the edge of the trench.

In order to maintain the physical strength and morale of the soldiers and horses, the Nanyue Army adopted the method of rotating into battle, and the constant sound of trumpets sounded in the Chinese army, which was relayed by the trumpeters, and the soldiers and horses were mobilized to move forward, withdraw, and rotate.

Li Huayu knew very well about the sharp weapons in his hands, and he also hated some of their bad habits. For example, the Dongfan soldiers, which are composed of soldiers with strong tribal colors and still at the end of the primitive society, are between the ancient army and the modern army. However, it is necessary to find ways to maintain strong physical strength and morale.

Feng Yuxiang commented on his ally Hu Jingyi's troops in his memoir "My Life": Fighting a war is like a northern peasant cutting wheat, and he can capture seven mountains in a row in one morning, but once he hears a shout from behind, "Eat!" And immediately he threw away all the seven hills like the ebb tide of the sea, and returned to eat. When he had eaten and drunk, he picked up his scythe, oh no, it was the rifle that recaptured the seven hills.

Li Huayu's Dongfan soldiers also belong to this situation.

At the sound of the trumpet, several battalions of Dongfan soldiers withdrew from the battlefield with some unsatisfied feelings, and the troops of the garrison brigade immediately took their place, and the soldiers of the two regiments of the garrison brigade also withdrew to the position before departure.

In their original position, there was already a fragrant smell and smoke filling.

The cooking cars of the battalions are lined up here.

The knives and spoons are rattling, the stove is red, the hot soup is churning in the cauldron, and the steamer is spitting white smoke outward, carrying the aroma of rice.

In front of the cooking trucks, the firefighters wrapped large buns with their hands and feet, stuffed with beef, and each large bun with four taels was placed on the frying pan. In the sizzling sound, the fragrant buns attract people's sense of smell, and people greedily stir their noses to absorb as much fragrance as possible.

The firefighters opened the lockers of the cooking cart and brought out wooden boxes and large baskets made of wattles and wicker, which were full of meat porcelain jars and all kinds of bacon, chicken, ham, salted eggs, etc. Open the meat porcelain jar, take out the sliced livestock meat mixed with salt and wheat flour seasoning, and fry it on the oil pan slightly, and the thick fragrance spreads, making people salivate.

Boiling a pot of broth, in this early winter weather, drinking a big bowl of steaming broth sprinkled with pepper, sweating profusely, is extremely comfortable.

In this battle, Li Huayu has also been planning for a long time and has prepared a large number of materials. Relying on the convenience of waterway transshipment, Li Huayu mobilized enough grain reserves for 100,000 people to eat for more than half a month in the battalion, and even replenished the grain and rice that was constantly transferred from Shandong every day.

In order to allow the soldiers to have sufficient physical strength, in addition to preparing a large number of chicken, salted fish, cured meat, salted duck bacon, bacon, ham, salted eggs and other meat that is easy to carry and preserve, but also to buy out pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks within a radius of more than 100 miles to ensure that there is a supply of fresh meat.

In this era of constant wars and starvation, people can kill people at the cost of a full meal, let alone meat and fine grains?

Whether it is the Dongfan soldiers or the garrison brigade, they line up in front of the cooking car according to their own rules and regulations, receive dishes and chopsticks, and enjoy the four beef fried buns for each of them, a large bowl of rice and broth, and a large piece of meat.

The hot food and soup and buckets of hot tea allowed these soldiers to quickly recover their strength and maintain their high morale.

Here, the Nanyue army took turns to rest and eat to recover their strength, but Guo Dingbei over there was miserable.

A general with a scarred face, although he was stabbed in the leg with a bayonet, his body shook and almost fell to the ground, but he unexpectedly struck hard, roared, his body rushed forward, and the long-handled knife in his hand slashed diagonally to the opposite side.

The blood mist rose into the air, and a soldier of the Nanyue Army Garrison Brigade on the opposite side had his right arm cut off by his elbow! The heavy, sharp, narrow and curved knife castrated endlessly, slashing the soldier's breastplate from the side, and the blade entered the entire upper body.

"Your grandma is a bear!"

Several roars of grief and indignation rang out in the small corner of this battlefield. The one, who had no idea from the pain of the wound in his leg, was about to turn his head to find the source of the roar, when a sharp spur pierced through his throat! Blood gushed out of the air, bubbles of pink bubbles bubbled around his neck. The sudden blow caused him to fall backwards and roll heavily to the ground.

His eyes were scattered, the blood on his neck spurted out like a fountain, and the bloody fragments of his mouth kept pouring out. Stained his neck guard red, as well as the nail leaf on his chest. He struggled to crawl up, but soon several spurs stabbed him hard, cursing incessantly, and with each rise and fall of the spurs, they took a part of his life. Until the black wings of the Grim Reaper completely enveloped this handle.

"Thorn!"

The pikemen in the Eastern Barracks swarmed in and took over the offensive momentum of the garrison brigade. After the formation was formed, the pikemen in command shouted.

"Kill!"

In the roar, more than a dozen soldiers of the new annex army had not yet come to their senses, and there were already multiple spears stabbing at them on the left and right.

These soldiers under Guo Dingbei have exhausted their courage after a few formations, and now they are struggling to support. Originally, I planned to retreat into the trench and hold on, but when I saw these barbarians rushing up again, how could I be in the mood to resist again?

At this time, there was a strange scream from behind, but Cao Zhenyan saw that Guo Dingbei was a little struggling, so he gritted his teeth and sent hundreds of sword and shield soldiers and tiger spearmen, and more than 100 Baya soldiers came to the front to help him stop the attack, and buy some time for repairing and renovating the fortifications in the trench. By the way, it also plays the role of a prison army!

Originally, those who could serve as sword and shield soldiers and tiger spearmen in the Eight Banners Army were at least dead soldiers or vests of each banner, and even elite Bayala. However, after entering the customs, the battle line of the Qing army was too long, the strength was not enough, and it had to guard the capital, so many sword and shield soldiers were filled by Yu Ding and the banner-carrying cloth. However, these Yu Ding and the flag-carrying coat are also experienced in battle, and when they see the formation of the eastern soldiers in front of them, they immediately have a way to deal with it.

The big sword shield against the spear, first of all, is not to panic, do not move first, the gun will enter with the gun as soon as it pokes, and the head of the gun will be retracted and stopped. When you move forward, you don't have to defend against people, the card covers the gun, and the knife cuts at the person, which is also what Qi Jiguang emphasized.

Although these Eight Banner soldiers have not read Qi Jiguang's military book, the combat methods of swords and shields are all the same. They glared fiercely at the eyes and shoulders of these spearmen in front of them, and did not look at their spear heads, obviously with extremely rich sword and shield combat skills.

"Thorn!"

With a loud roar, Rulin's spear stabbed forward!

A stout soldier with a heavy wooden shield and a large axe also let out a roar, and in an instant, when the shoulders of the two Eastern spearmen on the opposite side had just moved, he had already taken a big step and narrowly slipped over a spear that stabbed him in the throat.

With a loud thud, the shield dodged a spear that stabbed him in the leg, and the heavy axe in his hand was about to slash at the head of a pikeman.

This sword and shield soldier is really not trivial, and he bullied the old man with two spears at once, and saw that the spearman was either dead or wounded.

"Poof!"

A thorn silently pierced his throat like a poisonous snake, twisting and twitching, and a stream of bloody arrows suddenly rushed out from the neck of the sword and shield soldier like a fountain, and he fell to the ground with disbelief in his eyes, and twitched desperately.

In the corner of the eye. He saw one of the Eastern soldiers on the flank, holding a blood-dripping spur, smiling at him with his thick lips smugly, and then retreating to stand in his place. However, it was the tactical cooperation of the Eastern soldiers, using the spurs of the fire guns to provide protection for the pikemen. This Qing saber and shield soldier only defended the two spears on the left and right of the front row, but he did not prevent the stab from the dislocation of the flanks.

Life and death are just a moment, no matter how unwilling he is, he has no use for a bird, so he has to die with hatred.

The most feared thing about the spear is to use the old. It would be a tragedy if you did not stab the enemy and were approached by their swords and shields. Although there are also methods for long and short use, most of them are not used well.

The spears of the Eastern soldiers also had this shortcoming. Therefore, the method of misalignment and coordination between the pikemen and the musketeers on the front and rear flanks was adopted, that is, there was a gap between the pikemen in the front row and the musketeers in the rear row, and the musketeers in the rear could use the spears to greet the enemy to cover their comrades. Of course, this requires the soldiers to be familiar with each other on a daily basis and to be able to cooperate closely with each other, because the fighters are only in a split second.

These Dongfan soldiers are often formed in tribal units, and they are often related to each other, and they are fighting on the ground in the Central Plains, thousands of miles away from their hometowns, and they are even more closely united. After years of training and battle formations, they have long been cooperative, and they are as free as eating and drinking.

Poof, poof, the muffled sound of the tip of the spear and the spear piercing into the body, blood flowing down the tip of the spear. In the blink of an eye, these Qing sabers, shields, tigers, and spearmen, all of them were either dead or wounded, although they were brave, but how could they stop the front and a few spears and spurs on the left and right sides from stabbing at the same time? They did not have three heads and six arms, and in the unwilling howl, one by one their bodies fell to the blood-soaked ground.

A short, stout soldier like an axle let out an unwilling roar and threw his precious tiger spear hard, nailing a firearm to the ground a few paces away from him. But then, a blood flower shot out from his neck guard, and with a dense bang, streams of blood mist shot out from all over his chest and abdomen.

Bayala opened his mouth and roared, but he couldn't make a sound, he was shot in the neck, his trachea leaked, he wanted to roar, only to let the blood in his neck spray faster. In the end, Bayala was angry and unwilling, so he fell straight on his back and died.

The war was short and brutal. In the blink of an eye, the soldiers of the Eight Banners sent by Cao Zhenyan to support Guo Dingbei were few killed or injured.

In particular, there were two Eight Banner soldiers who were punctured through their internal organs, but it was difficult to die for a while, they just rolled desperately on the ground, they couldn't even scream in pain, they only picked the ground with both hands, and even turned their nails over.

Looking at the situation in front of him, Guo Dingbei was a little dumbfounded. Although he had psychological expectations for the combat effectiveness of the Nanyue Army, he did not expect that these barbarians and those soldiers of the garrison brigade who had obviously just put down their hoes for a long time would actually kill their thousands of veterans who had been in battle for a long time.

He held his sword in his right hand, and he didn't know where the flag he had left in his hand. On his body, several wounds from spurs and spears were dripping and bleeding from the gaps in the nail leaves. Most of the few remaining soldiers and soldiers around him were also scarred. Their physical strength was exhausted, and they could hardly even grasp the knives, guns and axes in their hands.

looked at the soldiers beside him who no longer had the strength to fight, and then looked at another wave of new forces of the Nanyue Army in the distance and rushed up with a roar, and all they could see were spears with guns. Guo Dingbei didn't know if it was timidity or because of blood loss, the whole person was like falling into an ice cave, and it seemed that he was about to smell the strange smell of white smoke mixed with blood, and suddenly he howled, turned around and left!

One of them roared loudly: "I can't fight anymore!" If you continue to fight, the old book will be exhausted! Stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood! ”

With him, more than 1,000 remnants of the newly surrendered Qing army turned back together, dragging their armor and dragging their troops towards the first trench not far away.

In the trench, there were artillery of the Qing army, guns to carry, food to drink, and medicine to treat wounds. What's more, jumping into a trench is tantamount to picking up this life.

Dozens of paces behind them, the soldiers and horses of the Nanyue army were pressing closer, and the distance was getting closer and closer.

"Quick! Come on! Guo Dingbei panted hard, and gave intermittent orders to several soldiers around him who were protecting him.

"Quick! Come out and meet us! Guo Dingbei had already seen the muzzles of the guns raised in the row of black holes on the earthen wall next to the trench, and he suddenly felt a lot more settled. He didn't care about the chapped throat and the pain as if he had been beaten with sandpaper, and tried to use the maximum volume to call for help to the Qing troops in the trench.

"Damn it! Command mistakes, ineffective operations, thousands of men and horses were lost in less than half a day! There is also a face to ask Bengawra to send someone out to meet him! Cao Zhenyan jumped to his feet and scolded in his cantonment cave.

"The official doesn't let him cut himself, it's already very sympathetic, this dog thief actually wants to hit the trench! I really don't know what military law is! ”

Not far away, Guo Dingbei's remnants had reached the edge of the trench, and the Dongfan soldiers who were chasing behind him were not dozens of steps away from the trench.

"Pass on the military order! Bombard with guns in turn! Beat back these dog thieves who intend to lure the Nanban to attack our army's trenches! ”

Those who erected their guns on the earthen wall finally found the best stage to display themselves, and began to shoot projectiles at the crowd in front of them. The remnants of Guo Ding's northern army, which were crowded on the edge of the trench, were defeated and bloody, and the screams were endless. The dense projectiles killed almost all of Guo Dingbei, who had little left, and they couldn't figure out why their teammates who were desperately covering in the face of the sudden flying lead bullets became life-urging ghosts in the blink of an eye. In fact, this matter is not surprising, which of the saints of the ages did not sell his teammates to start a business, this kind of thing King Wen has done, Confucius has done it, Zeng Guofan has done it, he Cao Zhenyan, naturally he can do it.

In the roar of raising the gun, Cao Zhenyan sat on the ground with his butt in his head, his eyes full of tears.

Benjue has a very close personal relationship with Guo Dingbei, and he took the initiative to ask for battle, sorting out the back road for the whole army and blocking the pursuers. If it weren't for the ruthlessness of military law, I wouldn't have done this. Cao Zhenyan wiped his tears and learned enough from the performances of Cao Cao and Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms.

On the western edge of the battlefield, people shouted and horses neighed, and flags waved. According to Liu Zongmin's general order, tens of thousands of troops of the Dashun Army have been mobilized from the camp one after another and assembled on the west side of the battlefield. The generals of each battalion reported to Liu Ye, the commander of the battalion, and asked for an order to lead the army.

Liu Zongmin was not in a hurry to give orders, but just let his subordinates take a look at the situation on the battlefield in the east.

"This group of Tartars is no match for the Nanban. It depends on whether the trench can be defended. You also remember to our Lao Liu, in the future, fight with the Southern Barbarian soldiers, don't fight in the wilderness! (To be continued.) )