On May 30 of the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), the newly released Qing Emperor Huang Taiji sent 100,000 soldiers from the Eight Banners of Doluo Wuying, including Azige, the king of the Imperial Prefecture, to attack the Ming. On June 27, the Azig soldiers entered Xifengkou and Dushikou by three routes. Ming patrol pass imperial history Wang Zhaokun refused to fight, defeated and died, the Ming army retreated to Changping, and the Qing soldiers invaded Juyong and Changping North Road again.

At the beginning of July, martial law was imposed in Beijing. Chongzhen urgently ordered the eunuch Li Guofu to guard the Bauhinia Pass, Xu Jinzhong to guard the Fallen Horse Pass, Zhang Yuanheng to guard the Longquan Pass, and Cui Liangyong to guard the Pass. A few days later, he ordered Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, to inspect the border passes. On the 5th, the Qing soldiers entered Juyong Pass in Yeonqing, Gyeonggi, and on the 17th, the Qing soldiers suddenly appeared under Changping City from behind Tianshou Mountain and attacked Changping City. The Mongol soldiers of Duoyan responded internally, the Qing soldiers fell into Changping, the Ming general soldiers Chao Pichang surrendered, the heads of the household department Wang Gui and Zhao Yue, and the judges Wang Yuzuo and Hu Weihong were killed.

In July, the Qing troops entered Gyeonggi, and after capturing Changping, they successively captured Liangxiang and besieged Shunyi. Ming Shunyi Zhixian Shangguanxin and guerrilla rulers all commanded Su Shiyu and others to resist the city and hold on. The city fell, and the national weapons, the rain and so on all died. Taking advantage of the situation, the Qing army captured Baodi, Dingxing, Ansu, Daeshiro, Xiongxian, Anju and other prefectures.

The Gyeonggi area is erosive for a while!

Chongzhen issued an edict to summon Lu Xiangsheng to lead the army into the Weijing Division, and gave Shang Fang the sword again. Lu Xiangsheng led the army north to help!

Hexi Wu Town, Wuqing County, is located in the Yuan Dynasty Guo Shoujing presided over the digging of the North Canal, due to the unique location advantages, Hexi Wu jumped into the Gyeonggi fortress, Cao Yun throat, money customs and taxes, water and land post stations are all available. The village is full of shops and prosperous.

However, the invasion of the Eight Banners of Jiannu. It's a hell on earth.

"Smack!"

A crisp long whip sounded, and several Jiannu cavalry galloped through Daliuzhuang in Hexi, and the horse's hooves were stained with blood of unknown people.

From the all-red cotton armor with copper nails on their bodies, it can be known that these Jiannu cavalry are subordinate to the Zhenghong Banner. A lightning rod was raised high on his helmet, and one of them carried a two-foot square flag on his back and a spear in his hand. At the head was a knight dressed in silver iron armor, with a long tail and red tassels on his iron helmet, a colored flag stuck in his back, and even his horse was covered with cotton armor, and he held a four-foot long knife in his hand.

A few people in the room didn't know what to talk about in Jurchen language.

In front of their horses. There were dozens of Ming people running in terror. The villagers are both male and female. There were old and young, everyone was panicked and cried, with a look of despair on their faces. At this moment, it is the mouse under the claw of the fat cat in the eyes of this group of Jiannu cavalry, which can be used for their cruel entertainment.

A few villagers ran forward along the street. Suddenly. A crossroads appear in front of you. Just as he was about to turn a corner and flee into the alley to escape, an arrow suddenly flew from behind and shot the villagers led by him to the ground. The force of the arrow was so powerful that it nailed him to the ground.

The cavalryman with the flag behind him put away his bow and arrows, and said a few words to his accomplices with a triumphant grin, causing everyone to laugh.

Undiminished, he caught his legs between the horses, and the horses rushed forward with the wind.

He stabbed all the way with his gun, and within a few dozen steps, he actually stabbed three people to death, rushed to the front of the group of villagers and circled back to the horse, facing another stampede in the crowd. This time, his target is no longer the adult villagers, but a baby in his mother's swaddling clothes.

A shot was stabbed, and the mother and the baby were pierced together! With a force of both hands, the mother's body was thrown out, leaving only the baby's swaddling clothes on the tip of the spear. The baby's breath was still breathing, and he was crying and moaning on the tip of the spear.

The cries and screams caused the cavalry to laugh wildly.

Maybe this group of guys is happy enough, and they feel that the oil and water of the group of villagers in front of them have been squeezed dry, and there is no need to take them away as slaves. The cavalry led by him shouted a few words, and the people began to ride their horses and slash through the crowd.

Leaving the streets full of corpses, the butchers licked their scarlet lips, led their horses, and carried the looted bags of belongings, and drove away.

Such a scene is being staged in the villages around the town of Hexiwu in different ways.

"Tartar is so ruthless!"

"Don't talk nonsense, look at the teeth of those corpses, turn around and cut them down and take them to the top to repay the merits!"

More than 100 Ming troops in fat jackets broke out, and they didn't know which unit they belonged to, and under the leadership of a thousand generals, they broke into Caozhuang Village, which had just been slaughtered by Jiannu.

The routs searched the burning villages, trying to find the belongings and food that the Jiannu cavalry had not had time to find or take away. In the courtyard, from time to time, you can see the dead bodies lying on the ground, the bodies of several women, naked, distorted, obviously suffering greatly before death, and one body was nailed to the hands and feet by large iron nails. Nail alive on the door panel.

The routs searched carefully in the courtyards, and from time to time there was the sound of the tattered house being overturned and broken, and occasionally there were a few muffled sounds, which were to cut off the heads on the corpses of the villagers with knives and axes, ready to be used to report to the officials after cleaning up.

"My lord! My lord! ”

A general manager hurriedly came from outside the village and reported to the general manager who was resting in a house.

"There's a troop of cavalry coming this way!"

This sentence shocked the more than 100 people who immediately fled outside the village, lying behind the embankment by the river, and peeping at the group of cavalry coming from the opposite side through a tributary of the canal.

It was still Jiannu who came, but he was wearing a pure white armor, which was the military horse under the banner of Jiannu Zhengbai.

The leading officer immediately saw the group of routs on the other side, and he didn't bother to pay attention to them, so he just ordered him to dismount and rest.

Seeing that the Zhengbai Banner Jiannu on the opposite side had no intention of crossing the river to pursue, this group of Ming soldiers stood up from the wet and cold mud ground and looked at the opposite side as if the emperor had granted amnesty.

This small river is not wide, only about forty or fifty steps, and it can be seen very clearly at this distance, the Tartars on the opposite side are all stout and sturdy, their faces are shiny with oil, not to mention, they all have bright helmets and dark armor, which should be inlaid with iron leaves inside, and each person's cotton armor is nailed with thick copper nails, and on the chest of the general, it is a shiny and bright heart guard. In addition to the tall iron helmet and red tassels, the pure white cotton armor is neat and new. One of the officers at the head also wore a cuirass that appeared to be made purely of steel. Sparkling in the sun.

Behind the queue, there were more than 100 fat war horses, and from time to time there were bursts of laughter and low crying behind the war horses, thinking that the people who had been plundered were crying there.

This group of Ming army routs are mostly battalion bastards and soldiers in each battalion, and their ability to fight is not necessarily strong, but their kung fu is not weak. Seeing that the enemy on the other side had no intention of crossing the river, and that he looked much richer than his side, he scolded him uncleanly, nothing more than a father and a mother.

The officer with the white flag on the other side listened. The wave of his hand stopped the cheers and drinks of his subordinates. A messenger came to the order.

"The Woods have listened!"

The general scolded the Ming soldiers here in a Liaodong military hukou voice: "Look who this is!" ”

The soldiers with white flags dodged out of formation, and from behind, a group of women, dressed in tattered satin dresses or torn muslin trousers, were driven from behind by the guards with whipping ropes. Most of them are women from good families. There are girls. There are also women.

"This is the woman that our Qing soldiers plundered near Beijing, including your sister and your sister. Or maybe your mother! It's been our Qing Army's day, and the grass is also grass! If you don't accept it, just come and fight! ”

The officer translated the words of the leading officer sentence by sentence, and when the officer finished speaking, he pulled a woman beside him over, tore off her dress, took off her armor, and violently assaulted the woman on the embankment.

Behind him, the group of cavalry also did the same, each snatched a woman, and then prostituted on the embankment during the day, and in an instant, the cries of the women on the embankment and the smug laughter of the Jiannu soldiers were intertwined.

When the routs of the Ming army saw such a scene, they didn't dare to move, but their Adam's apple squirmed up and down from time to time and swallowed their saliva.

After a while, the Jiannu officer who was the leader stood up from the ground, and the Aha auxiliaries behind him helped him put on his armor, he shouted to the left and right, and the group of Jiannu with white flags let out a strange cry, and each put on their armor and rushed down the river loop, and rushed straight to the embankment here.

When the soldiers of the Ming army saw the enemy rushing over, they immediately shouted and rushed all the way away under the leadership of the thousand generals.

Fortunately, the purpose of this group of soldiers with white flags was only to make fun of these routs, and when they saw that the men and horses of the headquarters had not yet crossed the river, they were so frightened that they threw away their armor and left, and suddenly there were bursts of rough laughter by the river, and then they dismounted and ordered the accompanying Aha auxiliaries to drag the horses to drink water and eat some grass.

The group of Ming soldiers heard that there were no pursuers coming behind, but they didn't dare to turn back, and ran straight out for several miles, and then they were shocked.

The thousand households threw the sword in their hands to the soldiers who accompanied him, and ordered someone to untie his cotton armor and spread it on the ground, and he lay on the ground panting, his eyes blinking, thinking about his own thoughts.

Suddenly, he felt a slight tremor on the ground, as if a team of horses was rushing towards him! Immediately a carp jumped up, "Armor!" Armor for Lao Tzu! ”

From the east, a formation of more than a dozen war horses was evacuated and rushed towards this side.

The horses' hooves swept over the dry, hard official road, raising a fine puff of smoke and dust, which was then blown away by the wind. The knights on the horses were all helmets, armor, and spears hung from the flaming horse bird ring under their crotches, and long knives hung from the other side. The red helmet and red fat jacket are very dazzling against the shiny armor. The cloak behind him was blown by the wind as the war horse ran, and someone behind the leader held a recognition flag.

"South Central Army? I don't know which adult's family it is! ”

The eyes of the thousand households were also quite sharp, and when they saw the Chinese characters on the recognition flag, they suddenly put a heart in their stomachs, thinking that this was also the emperor Lao'er who recruited King Qin from everywhere. He lazily removed the half-draped cotton armor and continued to lie down in the shade of the tree.

In a few breaths, another wave of cavalry appeared behind the knights, and then, on both sides of the eastern road, along the northern canal, dotted red with the same banner and cloak.

A few miles away, there was even more smoke and dust, and I think there was a large group of people hurrying towards this side.

As he spoke, the cavalry scouts who appeared first had already come to the front of the Ming army's rout.

Mr. Qian looked at the riders in front of him, and saw that they were generally short, but they were all very strong, and their foreheads, noses, and cheeks were glowing red, and they seemed to have plenty of oil and water on weekdays. The war horse behind him is even taller and stronger, with shiny hair. I want to come to the daily feeding is also very careful, and there is no resale of horse material like the general Ming army.

"Which general's subordinate are you?"

Seeing that the cavalry led by Qian couldn't stop looking at himself, he took the lead in asking questions in an official tone, and the cavalry he saw was full of armor, swords, and guns, although the style and appearance were weird, and the armor on his body was also weird and abnormal. I saw that these dozen or so cavalrymen, the armor on their bodies was somewhat similar to that of the night guards, and they were not wearing the traditional eight-petal hat iron pointed helmet of the Ming army, but a hemispherical iron hat. The body is neither the standard armor of the Ming army, nor the mandarin duck jacket. Rather, it resembles a tartar coat. There is a cuirass on the front of the upper body. The cuirass seemed to be made of a single piece of steel, with no blades of iron in sight.

"We? We are under the command of the general of the Nanzhong Army, and we have come to the capital to defend us! ”

The cavalry at the head of the cavalry proudly straightened up and jumped off their horses.

That's right! This is the army of the South Central Army!

From Lin Wenbing's Jin merchants, he heard about the day when Azig was ordered to enter the court. He ordered the clipper to send the news to South Central Hue station by stop. When Azig led the Eight Banners and claimed to be 100,000 people at the Xifeng Pass. Li Shouhan in Hue received this document. The troops were ordered to board the ship and go to Tianjin.

More than ten days of sea speed, so that the Han was miserable, but fortunately, along the way, there were generals stationed everywhere to send ships to send fresh vegetables and fruits to supply the fleet. This allowed the soldiers to have no health problems.

After landing in Tanggu, he met with Lin Wenbing, the shopkeeper of Lin Da, who was stationed in Beijing and has now become a hot figure in the business field, and his admiration for Shouhan has reached an unprecedented height.

"My lord, according to your orders, more than ten sets of maps have been drawn in various parts of Gyeonggi, are they handed over to the battalion officials?"

"Give it to Commander Wang Bao!"

Under the guidance of Lin Wenbing's meticulously drawn maps and guides, more than 3,000 people guarding the Han Dynasty came to Beijing along the lines of Baihekou, Beitang, Ziya River, and North Canal.

But I don't want to bump into this scene here today.

"What Nanzhong Army, I haven't heard of it!" The thousand households pursed their lips, and their eyes only looked at the armor, swords, guns, and horses behind the hands of the cavalrymen, they were all good things! You have to think of a way to get some of it yourself!

However, the team that came from behind made him smack his tongue greatly!

Far from the east, a puff of dust suddenly appeared, advancing along the course of the North Canal. The dust rose higher and higher, getting closer and closer, and in the smoke and dust, there were bursts of horses' hooves, mixed with the neighing of war horses, and the sound of the horn that served as a liaison, thick and loud, in this land full of death, killing and plundering, people felt a burst of excitement for no reason.

The sound of the trumpet stopped, a gust of wind rose, the smoke and dust cleared, and a strong cavalry galloped in the arid land.

The cavalry, numbering about 300 men, disembarked at once, dressed in the same attire as the scouts, with the same spears, sabers, helmets, armor, cloaks, and flags. The soldiers are strong and strong, neat and mighty, and the horses gallop forward under the sun, like a silver mountain galloping towards them.

Led by a jujube horse, the officer on the horse, under a huge red flag, raised a telescope, inspected the distant terrain, and observed whether there was anything unusual. This thin officer is none other than Huang Yishan, the battalion officer of the horse team who accompanied the Han guard into Beijing!

"Order the left and right sentinels!" Huang Yishan turned his face and gave the order backwards, "Send side guards on both sides, five miles away, to search for suspicious terrain." Prevent the Jiannu cavalry from raiding! ”

The trumpeter behind him blew a loud brass trumpet on his horse, and before the trumpet sounded, two small groups of cavalry, one to the left and the other to the right, rushed away like eagles spreading their wings.

"Maintain formation and escort the advance of the Chinese army!" Huang Yishan issued another command.

"The outpost should pay attention to gathering personnel to prevent falling behind!"

His command was quickly passed backwards by the trumpeter with a loud and crisp trumpet, and the speed of the brigade was faster than before, and the momentum was more fierce than before, and it flew towards this side like a dragon.

Not far behind him, a large group of infantry appeared on the field, and it drove westward.

Surprisingly, even the infantry was in armor! In good spirits, he was still able to maintain his formation during the long march, and he was not scattered. Occasionally, a few laughs would erupt in the ranks, and then disappear to the cheers of the officers and sentinels. Only the spears that the soldiers carried on their shoulders still glistened in the sunlight, almost making the eyes of the thousand presidents dazzle.

The sound of rumbling wheels crashing over the ground was heard, and there was a neighing sound of mules and horses, and the Chinese army drove with a large number of vehicles. The four-wheeled vehicles made of steel crushed the potholed ground of the official road, so that the drivers could not stop shouting at the horses pulling the carts, and the goods piled up high on the carts were thought to be food and other things consumed by the army, and from time to time some grains of rice were bumped out.

What was even more surprising was that the wheels were different from the usual vehicles. It was not made of wooden wheels but made of steel, and there was a black thing on the outside, I don't know what it was, and it was just a rustling sound when it ran over the road.

These black things in the eyes of the soldiers of the Ming army are the results of the tear tree that the Shouhan spent ten years of hard work to complete, that is, the rubber we are familiar with. Although it is a tire made of raw rubber that has not been vulcanized, it also gives wings to the march of the troops.

These four-wheeled transporters, all the wheels are equipped with such raw rubber tires! The fly in the ointment is that the service life is shorter, and I am afraid that if I walk more than 1,000 kilometers, it will be worn out. However, Shouhan has ordered the gentlemen of the Maple Ridge Laboratory to test the rubber with sulfur, and they must make the original vulcanized rubber! (To be continued......)