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With Zhangde Mansion as the center, within a radius of 100 miles, the tension is extreme. Everyone knows that a big war is just around the corner. It is that the birds and beasts all go away, lest they be killed by the pond fish and become the victims of this group of two-legged guys biting and killing.

When the sky was still hazy and white, people were already shouting and neighing for dozens of miles.

The sun was frightened in the sky showing half of its little face to spy on the movement here, looking from the air to the southeast of Zhangde Mansion, from the city of Zhangde Mansion to the east, all the way to the direction of the Yellow River, it was visible that there were ants everywhere.

The battle flags of both sides, the red battle flags, the white battle flags, the blue battle flags, the yellow battle flags, the solid colors, the borders, countless flags were blown by the cold wind blowing on the land of northern Henan on this early winter morning.

On the west side of the battlefield twenty or thirty miles away, there was also the sound of hooves, and the feathers were like fire. The scouts and sentinels of the Dashun army, with dozens of horsemen as a team, kept approaching the battlefield to investigate, peep, and tell the general post Liu Ye about the situation here at any time.

What puzzled the Dashun army was that it was clear that the strength of the Dashun army and the Qing army was almost the same, and it was a new defeat to the Qing army, which was the moment when the morale of the Dashun army was the lowest.

"Donkey balls! What kind of calculations are these Tartars doing?! ”

Surrounded by hundreds of personal soldiers, Liu Zongmin couldn't hold back the anxiety in his heart, and personally went to the edge of the battlefield to observe the battle between friend and foe.

The fierce horse galloped, and the cold wind met him, blowing the big red sable cloak on his body like a sail, blowing through the two layers of armor on his body, and blowing a chill in his heart.

The topography of this area of Zhangde is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, leaning on the towering and steep Taihang Mountain in the west, and connecting the endless North China Plain in the east. It borders Shanxi in the west by the Taihang Mountains, faces the ancient city of Handan across the Zhanghe River in the north, adjoins Puyang in the east, and connects with Hebi and Xinxiang in the south. The Wei River, the Zhanghe River, the Huan River (Anyang River), the Tang River, the Qi River and other rivers are in the dry period, and the dry rivers are crisscrossing along the northwest highlands and going eastward, forming the Zhangwei South Canal water system. In peaceful years, these rivers would irrigate this endless stretch of fertile land.

Now it has become a place of desolation and depravity.

Along the river upstream, the terrain from low to high, the east-west river channel draws deep ditches on the earth, and spreads to the city of Zhangdefu.

From Liulin in the north, along Yonghe, Wadian, Caiyuan Town, Rengu Town, Wagang, until Wuling and Dougong, the Qing army began to dispatch and lined up on this line.

Judging from the fluttering banners, the first line of formation are the two Jiala, the eight banners of Manchuria inlaid with white flags, more than a dozen Niu Lu of the Han army flag, and several general soldiers of the newly surrendered Han army. Among the Eight Banner Soldiers, there were only three or four thousand armored soldiers. The rest are Yu Ding, Bao Yi Aha, auxiliary soldiers and the like. However, these are also wearing cotton armor, and many of them also have thousands of horses coated with Aha, and their combat effectiveness is not much worse than that of the newly surrendered Ming army.

On the Pingchuan land in the southeast, there are densely packed with the banners of the Ming army of various departments, the banners of the Nanyue army, the banners of the soldiers and horses of Shandong and Denglai controlled by Li Huayu, and the people and horses that are pouring out like a tide, as if they are about to fill the area between the mountains and the river.

"Tick tock, tick tock! Dada! ”

Under Li Huayu's command, the trumpet waved, and with the ups and downs of the trumpet, the trumpet sounded in the middle of the Chinese army, and with the loud and high-pitched brass trumpet, the various military formations responded with the trumpet, or shook the flag. A blood-pumping atmosphere rippled, and the whole army looked at the position of the Chinese army and stirred slightly.

"Boom!"

After the sound of the trumpet, in the Chinese army, a big drum in a drum cart sounded, and the sound of the thick drum immediately spread throughout the four fields, shocking people's hearts. The drummer's upper body is bare-striped, Rao is the weather of early winter, and his back is densely covered with beads of sweat, and the thick drum hammer in his hand keeps beating the huge drum surface.

Under the beating of the drummer, the drum surface is made of a whole piece of fine buffalo skin, and three rows of copper nails are densely arranged around it, making a dull thunderous sound, and the beating shocks everyone's hearts.

With the sound of drums and horns, Liu Zongmin and others, who were on the edge of the battlefield, also vaguely felt a slight tremor from the ground under their feet, and at the intersection of the sky and the earth in the east, a black line faintly appeared, and this line quickly turned into a crowd of people who kept jumping and jumping, the iron helmet on the head, the armor on the body, in the early winter morning sun, beating with the reflection of metal. With this rolling torrent of steel, the strong murderous aura carried by it filled the heaven and the earth, making people feel a burst of breathlessness in their chests, feeling out of breath, and they wanted to rush to the battlefield immediately, shouting, waving the sword in their hands and slashing and killing, or being cut down to the place!

A northerly wind blew, dispersing a layer of mist that hung between the two armies. The offensive formation of the entire Nanyue Army was thoroughly displayed in the sight of the Qing army. Layers are like forest knives and guns, dense like forest flags. The fiery red armor, the fiery red flag, and a sea of red neatness slowly moved towards the position of the Qing army in the west.

In the huge military array composed of tens of thousands of people, the red flame Daxu embroidered with the word "Li" on one side is particularly eye-catching. This is Li Huayu's handsome banner, making a silent explanation to the officers and men of the whole army, Lord Governor, the eldest son of Liang Guogong, is with us. This is a huge morale incentive bonus for the Southern Yue Army and the Ming Army.

Under the handsome flag, Li Huayu held a gold-inlaid horsewhip, wore a brocade cloak, and wiped his forehead with gold, looking at him like a god. He instigated the big horse under his crotch and walked first, followed closely by hundreds of soldiers with red cloaks behind him. Tens of thousands of troops on the left and right, with the passionate drumming, walked densely.

Rao is Qing army has already relied on the river and the city of Fucheng to build a series of ditches and low walls, but in the face of this huge pressure, the Qing officers and soldiers at the front feel that these fortifications in front of them seem so thin.

The layout of the earthen walls and ditches of the Qing army is mainly the type of two ditches and three walls, which are arranged layer by layer along the direction of the river. There are trap spikes in the trenches, which are similar to the Ming army, the Qing army, and the Shun army. However, the difference between the earthen wall of the Qing army and the breastwork of the Nanyue army is that the breastwork of the Nanyue army was set up for the convenience of firearms shooting and the cover of shooters. The earthen wall of the Qing army is a kind of walled wall, similar to a small city wall, about one zhang high. It is built by digging and ramming the terrain. In the gentle places of the mountains, the walled wall is as high as the city wall, and people can climb the walled wall to fight, and there are many walled gates. The wall of the village is slightly shorter at the critical point, and at the chest of the person, the defenders patrol mainly.

This kind of walled wall is regarded as the main wall, and in front of the main wall, there is a deep trench dug, so that the walled wall is actually about more than one zhang to more than two zhang high. , every short distance, there are artillery emplacements.

In front of this walled ditch, two smaller trenches were dug at intervals. These two ditches were slightly shallow, about eight feet deep, and were either backed by low walls, or with horses and stakes on the sides. On top of the wooden stake, a rope is tied, and a bell is hung on the rope, and a large dog is arranged next to the bell to prevent someone from sneaking into the trench at night.

In the winding trench, there is a bunker not far away, in addition to the reserved firing port of the gun, the bunker is also installed with light artillery such as the general and the Franc machine. These measures were taught by Li Huamei with rockets and countless cannonballs when he was in Tower Hill.

Looking at the tens of thousands of troops slowly advancing in front of him, the crowd was surging, the earth was trembling, the banners covered the sky and the sun, and thousands of troops and horses came like a wall.

The sound of hooves was like thunder, and tens of thousands of iron hooves pounded on the hard ground. Stir up smoke and dust that soars into the sky.

Unlike the cavalry of the Southern Guangdong Army, which had the impression that the Qing army was not skilled in equestrianism and would only line up a cavalry wall and adopt the rogue tactics of advancing like a wall, the thousands of cavalry who came on the way opened an extremely wide cavalry battle line, divided into north and south wings, and thousands of horses rushed in.

The riders on the horses are all heroes with superb equestrian skills, and the configuration of one person and two horses allows these heroes wearing heavy armor not to worry about horsepower, but only urge the horses to come north. After walking for a mile or so, he rode his horse and galloped wildly. The iron hooves shook the ground violently, and thousands of fat and strong war horses fed with millet bone meal and fine salt eggs converged into a galloping torrent and rolled forward!

With the help of telescopes, the physique and face of these cavalrymen were very clearly presented in front of the Qing army generals.

The round big face plate, the horizontal flesh on the face, the thin eyes, and the money rat tail braid that was deliberately visible under the iron helmet made the two Jia Lazhangjing jump to their feet and scold.

"These damned Nikans! Actually let them play the striker! ”

From the facial features and the body deliberately did not remove the armor marked by the blue flag, the tiger tooth knife, tiger spear, eight banner spear, fine iron sickle, long-handled knife and other weapons in the hand, people can know at a glance that these cavalry are from Liaodong!

On the banners of the cavalry on the north and south flanks. It is a "E" character and a "picture" character. Under his own flag, Tuhazema galloped. The galloping war horse did not affect him in the slightest, and after swallowing a piece of beef with satisfaction, he poured down a sip of soju.

Gradually, the cavalry on the north and south flanks converged, and thousands of horses stopped abruptly under the action of the horserider pulling the reins with all his might. Outside the range of the Qing army's forward artillery fire, they formed a neat cavalry formation. This hand alone is breathtaking.

"I am the commander of the forward horse team battalion of the Nanyue Army! Ekui! His real name is Ecuador! ”

"I am the commander of the Nanyue Army's forward horse battalion! Tuha! It turned out to be Niu Lu Zhangjing of Zhenghuang Banner Manchuria! ”

Okui and Tuha shouted loudly under their respective flags, announcing their names and official positions. Every time they shouted a word, the riders around them repeated it aloud in a neat manner. Thousands of people shouted in unison, sending every word clearly into people's ears.

What's even worse is that what they are shouting is an authentic Manchu language. Let those soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria understand it.

"Please come out and speak, General Duoduo, the owner of the White Flag!"

"Please come out and speak, General Duoduo, the owner of the White Flag!"

With the sound of a volcanic wave, the general of Pingnan and Prince Yu Duoduo, who were clustered in the Chinese army like a moon under the weaving golden dragon, surrounded by the stars of the banner lord Wang Ye Baylor, turned pale. The chest is also a volt together. Jing Luo Hong Chengchou next to him secretly shouted: "Bitter!" He knew that Dodor was enraged.

Sending Tuha and Ekui to lead the Liaodong cavalry to the Qing army's formation, first showing off their might, and then calling the battle in standard Manchu language, and asking Duoduo to come out and speak, this is a move arranged by Li Huayu.

In order to be able to provoke Duoduo to the greatest extent, Li Huayu specially told E Kui and others not to call Duoduo's official titles, any general, Prince Yu and the like, all of them are hypocrisy. Only call him the more neutral position of the white flag master.

In order to provoke Duoduo and let his main force come out of the field fortifications and fight a decisive battle with the Nanyue army. Obviously, this tactic had an initial effect, and Duoduo was indeed angered by Li Huayu's cavalry composed of the Liaodong Sauron troops and the defectors of the two yellow and blue banners, and called the battle in Manchu before the battle.

He shook the reins of the horse with both hands, and was about to urge the war horse under his crotch, but was stopped by Hong Chengchou: "Lord, what are you going to do?" ”

"What to do? Didn't you hear that this group of Nanban was asking the king to go out and answer by name? Duoduo replied to Hong Chengchou with a blushing face.

"Master! Can't go! This group of dog thieves was originally going to provoke you, master, if you go, you will fall for Li Huayu's trick! Cao Zhenyan jumped off the horse, grabbed the bridle of Duoduo's war horse with both hands, and lamented bitterly.

"General Duoduo, the owner of the white flag, would have been Ecuador of the Sauron Department, and the Chinese name Ekui was Ecuador! Ben is your brother's benefactor, why don't you come out to talk to your benefactor and meet him? ”

Although the north wind was blowing, Ekui's words were still clearly delivered to everyone's ears.

"In Heilongjiang that day, it was the general who hit Huang Taiji with a bang! Let him die of his injuries, not only to help your brother avenge the murder of his mother, but also to let you monopolize power. How about not coming out and saying thank you? ”

Okua's words ignited the anger in Duoduo's chest.

Not only was Duoduo's anger ignited, but the emotions of the generals and princes of the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han banners in the entire Qing army camp were mobilized. People looked at Dordor with anger, doubt, or worry. Some people use the perspective of conspiracy theories to analyze the past in their minds.

In the entire Qing army front, they began to be restless and impetuous.

"Cao Zhenyan! You are a slave of the master of Duoduo, do you still want the master to run for this kind of thing?! You thing that hasn't grown! Don't go yet! Hong Chengchou saw that Duoduo picked up the horsewhip and was about to beat Cao Zhenyan, who was pulling his horse's head and preventing him from facing Ekui and others, so he rushed forward and scolded. The envoy who went out to talk to Ekui was handed over to Cao Zhenyan.

Cao Jueluo is worthy of being the ancestor of several generations of weaving descendants and famous talents, and he is really clever. Even when he rolled on the ground and avoided Dord's whip, his mouth kept saying, "The slave should die!" Minions are stupid! Minions, let's go! So saying, he straddled his horse and galloped away.

A scolding battle mixed with Manchu and Chinese, which could be understood by more than 100,000 people present, unfolded through thousands of throats between Cao Zhenyan, Ekui, and Tuha!

"Betrayal of the Lord and traitor! Shameless rats! I actually dared to swagger in front of my Qing army array, it was really shameless to the extreme! Cao Jueluo, who is familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, took the lead and copied Zhuge Liang's tricks of scolding Wang Lang to death. Even the vocabulary is copied from Luo Guanzhong.

"Haha! Lao Tzu and your master are both from the eastern Liaodong clan, why do you betray the lord and not betray the lord? It's their group of bullshit Jurchens who came out of nowhere, and they came to our Sauron tribes to capture the mouths and kill the people. Drove those Ding Zhuang to withstand the artillery fire for them, braved the white blades to fight everywhere, and caused countless tribesmen to decline and gradually wither, are you still embarrassed to speak out here? Cao Zhenyan's rhetoric is still useful if it is used to treat the people of the Zhenglan Banner. However, Ekui, who was born in the Sauron Department of Liaodong, didn't care about him.

He pointed at the Qing Army's Eight Banners Manchurian Army formation with the long knife in his hand: "Brothers from Heilongjiang on the other side, I am Ecuador of the Sauron Department, and now I am called Ekui!" Our Sauron woman, Ao Lei Yilan, is now the Fujin of Liang Guogong, and she is the Fujin who has been canonized by the emperor! Our Sauron people are Liang Guogong's mother's family! Why didn't his relatives fight for his relatives, but instead worked for these Jurchens? His words were repeated by his Liaodong cavalry in standard Manchu characters and sent to the ears of every soldier in the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

No matter what the effect is, those Jia Lazhangjing, Niu Lu Zhangjing, Pashiku, Divide Pashiku, and Zhuangqiang all observed the dead soldiers and heavy armor of their subordinates from various departments in Liaodong with puzzled eyes. lest they become the second Blue Banner Manchuria.

And Tuha's words made Duoduo and Hong Chengchou's hearts sink down.

"Lao Tzu was born in Manchuria with the Yellow Flag! Eight hundred on the three flags! The emperor's army! Lao Tzu's old master is the Qing Emperor! Later, the Qing Emperor made peace with Liang Guogong and Governor Li, and became a vassal of Nanzhong. According to the terms of the peace agreement, Lao Tzu was sent to Shandong to become the slaves of the eldest prince, and Lao Tzu now serves Liang Guogong and the eldest prince Li Huayu, who is the traitor? ”

"It's you dog minions! The next work forgot about Ben's tartar! The former killed the master of Haoge, and today he resisted the master of Li's master, which is really a great rebellion. According to the rules of the Eight Banners, when the descendants will be slaves forever. Now that the master is benevolent, it would be good for your family to go to Nanzhong to dig coal for 20 years. ”

"You lowly Nikan! Lao Tzu is the Jueluo of the Qing Dynasty! It's a red belt clan! Need you to be pitiful?! ”

A scolding over the wrong script ensued between the three men.

Two standard Liaodong Tartars, an authentic Han Chinese, accused each other in this way.

What is shocking is that the Liaodong Tartars scolded the other party as a Tartar, and the Han people scolded the opponent for being the lowly Nikan.

Finally, the two sides were no longer satisfied with the exchange of words.

"Today, Lao Tzu will let you, the lowly Nikan, know how Lao Tzu's cannon overturned your master Li Huamei in the first place, and how he sent the traitor Haoge to see his Amma!" (To be continued.) )