Ao Bai and Wu Sangui have similarities in many places.

Both of them are commanders in their respective courts, and they are both from generals. They are all characters who are appreciated and reused by their respective emperors, and who are young and ambitious.

Wu Sangui, who was born in Jiangmen in western Liaoning, and became famous at the age of thirteen to save his father naturally does not need to be said. And Aobai is the Guarjia clan who was born in the eight nobles of Manchuria. Uncle Fei Yingdong followed Nurhachi to raise troops in his early years, and was one of the founding fathers of the Qing Dynasty, and his second brother Zhuo Butai was also an outstanding military general of the Qing Dynasty. Ao Bai himself also followed Huang Taiji to conquer various places, and his military achievements were impressive, and he was his deeply relied on confidant.

In the eighth year of Tiancong, Ao Bai awarded Niu Lu Zhangjing the post, and in the second year of Chongde, Ao Bai crossed the sea for the forward to fight, and conquered Phi Island, Ao Bai took the initiative to ask for help, and advanced rapidly with light boats, and went straight into the key position in the northwest corner of the island. This path was the key to this attack, and together with Zhunta issued a military order to Azig: "If we do not come to this island, we will not come to the king." Pledge to return to the island. After conquering Phi Island, Huang Taiji was overjoyed and personally wrote a tribute to Nurhachi to comfort his father's soul in heaven. Huang Taiji believed that although Phi Dao was an island, the significance of conquering it was far above the occupation of important cities, so he ordered that the soldiers should be rewarded preferentially. Ao Bai was given the name "Baturu" and entered the third-class Mel Zhangjing. And Gaenga was hereditary six times, and quasi-twelve more times.

Aobai, the third in line, the second brother Zhuo Butai, the fourth brother Baha, the sixth brother Mulima and the uncle brother Tulai (Fei Yingdong's son), were all outstanding generals in the early Qing Dynasty, only the fifth brother Saha and the seventh brother Suoshan were not so obvious.

As early as the fifth year of Tiancong, he was the worship of Bayala Zhuangda. Led 24 soldiers to garrison Camel Mountain, and the Ming army robbed the camp for 400 nights, but was beheaded by Ao Bai and others for more than 200 levels, and got 16 horses, and was later promoted to Baya Lajia Lazhangjing.

The two young aspirants in their respective camps met fatefully on this Songjin battlefield.

In history, Wu Sangui has fought with Ao Bai twice. The first time was the Battle of Songjin, and the second time was the Battle of Miyun, but both times Wu Sangui was defeated, especially the Battle of Songjin, Wu Sangui simply fled back to Ningyuan City alone, and the whole army was really annihilated. You can't lose again. Defeat can not be defeated.

However, delving into the reasons, the responsibility for these two defeats cannot be completely put on Wu Sangui's head. The main reason for the defeat in the Battle of Songjin was that Hong Chengchou emphasized the power of the front and neglected the reserve, and was taken advantage of the opportunity by the Jiannu army to make a detour to the rear of the Ming army. cut off the Ming army's food route and return route. caused a collapse in the morale of the army. And Wang Pu and others took the lead in escaping when they agreed to break through at the same time, which led to the annihilation of the Ming army. In a sense, King Pingxi was a general. It is the victim of others who fled first, and of course cannot bear the responsibility for the failure of this strategic decision.

In the Battle of Miyun, Fan Zhiwan, the commander of the Ming army, was timid and afraid of battle, and did not dare to send reinforcements, so that the king of Pingxi could fight alone in front. At the age of thirteen, he broke into battle to save his father, and the king of Pingxi who was still famous before Ao Bai had great ability, and when he met a comrade-in-arms like a pig, he sighed in vain, and he lost as a matter of course.

However, this time, the two officially clashed for the first time under the noses of their respective commanders, but they wanted to show their respective abilities!

"It's a military horse with two yellow flags of slaves and thieves!"

Hong Chengchou, who was watching the battle in front of the Ming army camp, naturally someone introduced him to the number of the enemy army opposite.

Since the two armies began to engage in battle, Hong Chengchou and his subordinate Ma Ke Wang Pu Tangtong, Bai Guangen, Yang Guozhu, Zuo Guangxian and other general soldiers were stunned by the dazzling scene in front of them.

A series of wonderful and neat formation changes of the model brigade of Wu Biao's department, the soldiers kept falling down against the projectiles of the Han army flag, but they were able to march calmly as before, and walked until they were in front of the enemy formation, and the two sides kept firing at each other with firearms at a distance where there was almost no chance of survival.

Only two rounds of salvo fire, and Kong Youde and others, who had suffered heavy losses to the three Ming commanders, were beaten to the point of running away, and then they were bombarded with artillery, so that they could not be defeated.

Immediately afterwards, Wu Sangui's cavalry took advantage of Wu Biao's troops to gather troops to clean up the battlefield and clear the remnants of the enemy, and the brigade came out and cut down those defeated Han army banner soldiers under the horses like chopping melons and vegetables.

"Master Governor! General Wu Sangui reported that he had now won more than 1,100 heads of the Han army's banner soldiers! The armor and staff don't count! ”

"Master Governor! Our model brigade has already captured 17,800 thieves and firecrackers, and the captives are not among them, and the number of prisoners is being counted! ”

The continuous good news and the prisoners escorted down and the captured weapons and armor battles that were sent one after another made the eyes of the general lieutenants of the general army enthusiastic and their hearts beating.

"I knew this was the case, I should have rushed out with these two guys to kill the enemy!"

Almost all of the general soldiers were full of remorse.

Only Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu, was unmoved, just holding a telescope bought at a high price to observe the changes on the battlefield.

The soldiers and horses of the two yellow flags of Jiannu were thrown into the battlefield, which made the mood of these commanders change from regret for not being able to participate in the war to pick up the bargain, and suddenly turned into fear, mixed with a little schadenfreude.

"The! How can the two yellow flag soldiers and horses led by Huang Taiji, the chief of the slave, get along well? Two General Wu, let's ascend to the immortal realm as soon as possible! ”

Under the watchful eyes of the respective commanders of both sides, the two cavalry began to slowly approach.

Wu Sangui found the cavalry rushing from the foot of Rufeng Mountain, and immediately gathered his subordinates, lined up in formation and slowly greeted them. The thousands of family members around Wu Sangui were all wearing black cloaks, black iron helmets on their heads, breastplates in Nanzhong, and chain mail or cotton armor in the middle, all of which were wearing two layers of armor. A team of 1,000 people ran on the battlefield, and Yasai was a black rush. Wu Sangui's family team, on the battlefield of Liaodong, was privately called crow soldiers by both the enemy and us. It's because of their all-black outfits. However, although the armor is uniform, the equipment in the hands of the cavalry is quite complicated, from cold weapons such as bows and arrows, sabers, hook and sickle, palladium, and big sticks, to hot weapons such as three-eyed guns, and even beside Wu Sangui, dozens of pro-soldier saddles are still hung with double-barreled fine horse guns. What kind of weapons are available, what kind of battles will be fought, and weapons and equipment determine the tactical principles. These weapons require a lot of room to swing. Therefore, the formation of the cavalry could not be too dense, and Wu Sangui commanded his cavalry to form a sharp arrow formation, preparing to meet the two yellow flag cavalry on the opposite side.

The thousands of men and horses led by the two Aobai brothers are the elite of the two yellow flags. As the descendants of Huang Taiji, the two yellow flags are naturally the top of the eight banners, and they are a sharp sword used by Huang Taiji to deal with and suppress the other banners.

In recent years, Tong Guò has been smuggling with Shanxi merchants, and has purchased a lot of Nanzhong armor from the towns of Jiubian. Not to mention the armor in the flag, all of them are equipped with a Nanzhong cuirass on the basis of the full iron armor. I did it and wore three layers of armor. It adds another layer of protection to these veterans who have fought on the battlefield for many years, and ordinary weapons basically can't hurt them.

The two Ao Bai brothers touched their heads slightly, and then made a decision, and Ao Bai led two thousand cavalry as the vanguard. Turai led the rest of the men and horses behind him. As the two brothers said. The cavalry on the opposite side was no more than 2,000 men. Even if the yellow flag was inlaid, a thousand people also gave Wu Sangui face! What's more, it will press 5,000 people at a time?!

There is also some truth in the arrogance of Aobai, and behind him, the cavalry with yellow flags who are indifferently arranging their horses and weapons. Isn't that a figure with a lot of combat experience? All of them have been fighting for many years according to the standard armor of the Eight Banners! In fact, among the two yellow flags and the two white flags, there are no armored bannermen, and most of them are skilled in arches and horses, and they all have a set of iron-inlaid cotton armor on their bodies, and their combat effectiveness can even be compared with the family members in the Ming army.

Not to mention the hundreds of generals led by Ao Bai who had another layer of mercury on their breastplates, and the iron armor shining under the scorching summer sun was the elite of the elite, they were determined to fight to the death, and their power and combat power could not be underestimated.

Moreover, in this small battlefield, the five thousand cavalry could not be unfolded.

Besides, according to the experience of previous battles, the cavalry of the Ming army rarely dared to hedge with the Qing cavalry, and most of them needed the protection of the car battalion, or they could fight with the Qing cavalry under the cover of artillery fire at the head of the city, which was the so-called riding wall fight. Of course, there are people in it. There are also horses for the sake of it. In the Ming army, the matter of selling the horse material is already popular, how can the war horse rush if it is weak? In terms of dense formation, in fact, the cavalry of the Qing State was far stricter than the cavalry of the Ming army, after all, they were more highly organized and their horses were better.

Ao Bai looked left and right, and as far as his eyes could see, the Qing cavalry had their indifferent expressions, indifferent or calm eyes. It seemed that instead of fighting on the battlefield of life and death, but going to a relative's house for a banquet, or participating in a hunt destined for a rich harvest, a strong murderous aura permeated the entire array, and everyone was like a sharp blade in the scabbard that longed to drink blood.

"Kill slaves!"

"Kill the Bright Dog!"

Almost at the same time, Wu Sangui and Ao Bai roared, and commanded their cavalry to start charging at each other.

Wu Sangui's family members, under his leadership, waved the weapons in their hands and roared loudly and rushed towards the array of Qing cavalry.

Wu Sangui rode his horse and brandished his horse lance to rush at the front end of the sagittal array, and dozens of personal soldiers behind him closely followed Ben Fu to fight. A large banner with the character of Wu was violently danced in mid-air by the flag officer behind him, guiding the cavalry behind him to charge forward.

Similarly, in the midst of a roar that resounded in the air, two thousand Qing soldiers rolled away with Aobai, Aobai's left hand tightly grasped the reins, and his right hand danced a Jurchen heavy sword weighing more than 30 catties, taking the lead and rushing to the front. A house slave waved his banner and followed him closely.

Encouraged by this, the Qing soldiers also rushed to follow behind, with the heavy armor and Bayala soldiers in front, and the light armor and unarmored bannermen coming behind. They rushed in intensively, they didn't care about the battle formation, what they wanted was a bloody and brave spirit, and what they wanted was this power to intimidate the Ming army on the opposite side!

At two hundred paces, they still rode their horses and jogged, and slowly they urged their horses to run faster and faster, faster and faster, and finally merged into a torrent of shock.

Hoofs rolled, dust fell, and the earth seemed to tremble under the blow of iron hooves.

The heavy cavalry attacked, and the power was really extraordinary!

The two sides collided savagely, spear to spear, saber to sabre, without any tricks, all of them were hard-fought and hard-fought fights.

In the staggering of people and horses, the distance between death and life is instantaneous, and people on both sides scream and fall off their horses.

In less than a single face, at least 100 people from each side fell off their horses, and in the blink of an eye, they were trampled into meat by the hooves of galloping horses.

Blood was accompanied by screams and stumps of flesh flying everywhere, all at once. The front and middle formations of the two cavalry were pierced by the opposing cavalry!

Then they passed by, and fought with sabers and heavy swords, tiger spears, bone sticks, spears, hook and sickle spears, and palladium sticks.

Cavalry battles are faster than their hands and eyesight, and they are often stabbed off the horse by the opponent in one round. With horsepower, it doesn't even take much effort to kill your opponent. Even if you don't die and fall off the horse, you will soon be trampled into a pulp.

On the art of individual force. Wu Sangui's family members are no worse than the soldiers and horses with yellow flags. Really desperate, the force is not much different from those Bayala soldiers, even if you can't maintain a one-to-one casualty, the casualty rate will not exceed two-to-one.

And the array of clear soldiers. Actually, it's not a cavalry array. Rather, a line of mounted infantry. in each team. Or light armor on the wings or in front. The heavy armor was behind or in the middle, and when the two sides were twenty or thirty paces apart, they also shot arrows. Throw javelins, iron bones, etc.

This kind of tactic is naturally a hundred trials and tribulations against those ordinary battalion soldiers of the Ming army who are not fully clothed, and every weapon thrown will be rewarded. However, for these Wu Sangui family members who are also wearing heavy armor, the effect is lacking.

Even compared with the elite Bayara soldiers of the Qing army wearing three layers of heavy armor, Wu Sangui's cavalry morale may not be much worse.

Severed limbs and flesh flew wildly, hooves and roared like thunder, and thousands of elite cavalry of the Ming and Qing dynasties staged the most wonderful classical cavalry duel in front of the commanders of both sides.

On Rufeng Mountain, the relatives and nobles of Manmeng were a little frightened.

If all the units of the Ming army were so strong, what kind of tragic situation would the battle of Jinzhou become? The Ming army can afford to die, but my Qing soldiers are precious! What's more, the Mongolian Zasaks of the outer vassals secretly calculated in their hearts, if their cavalry encountered such a Ming army, what would happen to the battle? His cavalry did not have so much armor, at most he had stubborn horns, bows and arrows and scimitars, and there were very few people in armor.

"In the end, it is a big country in the Central Plains Celestial Empire, and the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, and it is unknown who will win and who will lose in this war."

For a moment, there was silence on the top of the mountain, compared to the laughter just now.

However, in order to break this awkward atmosphere, Huang Taiji began to order.

"Anping Baylor, that day, your two red flags were the first to fight with the Southern Barbarian Army in the Ming Kingdom, and you also said that the cavalry of the Southern Barbarian Army was fierce in the recital you sent. According to your opinion, how does the cavalry of Wu Sangui of the Ming Kingdom in front of him compare to the southern barbarian army that you and others met in Jinan? ”

Although the 10,000 alpacas in his heart repeatedly galloped and trampled, and greeted Huang Taiji's biological mother countless times, he was very dissatisfied with his naked face slapping behavior in front of the public, but how dare he not bow his head when he was under the eaves? had to bend down slightly, and there was still palpitation in his heart to make comparisons for everyone.

"Although this Wu Sangui cavalry is fierce in all departments of the Ming army, but the minions look at its military formation, compared to my Qing Dynasty Eight Banners Iron Cavalry is still far away, as long as we use it properly, the soldiers are brave, and it is not difficult to break it. However, the Southern Barbarian Army was different. ”

"Whew! I think you were killed by the Nanban! Here you are boasting about it, covering up your timidity! If this generation falls into the hands of this king, this king will definitely let them see how powerful I am with the blue flag! On the side, Huang Taiji's eldest son, Prince Su Haoge, snatched Du Du in a rough voice.

Du Du's face turned red, and in a blink of an eye, he turned pale again, and he wanted to say something, but he didn't dare, so he had to rise and fall in his chest, like a bellows. Shuto, who was beside him, grabbed his wrist and motioned for him not to say more.

At the foot of the mountain, the confrontation between the two armies has already experienced the peak of the first wave.

Both cavalry experienced a hedging collision, and their body and energy were reduced, and even the war horses under their crotches began to snort heavily, and some of the war horses that were not very well fed began to foam at the corners of their mouths, and their four legs began to tremble slightly.

The two commanders, Wu Sangui and Ao Bai, each shook the weapons in their hands and signaled their subordinates to regroup and prepare to attack again.

The cavalry regrouped at the sound of the horns, ready to repeat Fang Cai's charge again.

Ao Bai looked at the surrounding soldiers, and the fierce battle just now caused his two thousand cavalry to lose about two or three hundred people, and Wu Sangui on the opposite side should also be here. On the battlefield where the two armies fought just now, the corpses lying down, the wounded soldiers who were on the verge of death, the ownerless saddle war horses, and the broken bows and broken guns all over the ground all showed the tragedy of the battle just now.

In the two armies, they are all elite cavalry wearing heavy armor, so most of the damage to them is those copper hammers, bones, throwing axes and other long-range projection weapons and cavalry in the hands of tiger guns and mourning guns.

However, now was not the time to mourn and regret, and Ao Bai urged his soldiers to hurry up and finish the formation, and prepare for another battle with the crows on the opposite side.

Turai, who was in the back of the battle for him, sent someone to ask if he wanted to replace the soldiers and horses of the Zhenghuang Banner, but he was sternly rejected by Aobai, a joke! Against this Ming army, do you still need to get two yellow flags and 5,000 cavalry wheel battles?

After the cavalry of a cow was reorganized, there were too many war horses to consume, and they were quickly brought by the house slaves to replace the replacement war horses. (To be continued......)