Chapter 366: Across the Grassland
As the sun set over the earth, the shocking stains of blood stained the black earth.
Zhang Yuan annihilated all the 10,000 Tartars, but in fact, these people were not elite. Dolgon's elite is only 30,000, and the rest are just some miscellaneous soldiers. These miscellaneous soldiers are naturally not as powerful as the elite of the White Tiger Legion. Because of the help of the muskets, the casualties of the Tiger Brigade were minimized.
The Tiger Brigade was the most powerful army when Liu Xia started, and so many years have passed. The combat effectiveness of the Tiger Brigade did not rank among the top three in the Pingbei Army.
If the Eagle Guard is the first, and the Pro-Guard Brigade is the second, then the Tiger Brigade is the third. He is not only an old qualification, but his combat effectiveness has risen to a higher level under Zhang Yuan's training.
"Set all the corpses on fire, let's hurry up."
Zhang Yuan roughly calculated his casualties, and killed 1,000 people in the battle, and 3,000 were wounded. Occupies half of the Tiger Brigade. However, what made Zhang Yuan relieved was that in addition to the 1,000 people who died in the battle, the 3,000 injured people were not seriously injured, and they only needed to recuperate for a few days.
"We can't wait any longer. We must hurry to the Shanhaiguan Pass to coerce Dolgon. At this moment, Dolgon almost knew the news of the destruction of Shenyang City, and he didn't know what his expression was. This annihilated nearly 20,000 of his reinforcements today, which should reduce the pressure on that side. ”
What Zhang Yuan must do now is to leave here first, and then return to Jinzhou to recuperate the soldiers of the guards, and then go to Shanhaiguan to kill.
Zhang Yang doesn't have to be back then at this moment, he is already the commander of a legion at the moment, he can be said to be a commander of ten thousand soldiers, a real general, and now he is the commander of the Fire Phoenix Legion. In addition to a part of the logistics, all the combat soldiers of the Fire Phoenix Legion are cavalry, most of these war horses were brought from the grassland by Zhang Yang in the past, after a few years of breeding, many war horses have bred the next generation, and now Liu Xia is not short of war horses. So a cavalry army was quickly formed for Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang's biggest advantage is his ability to command immediately, he relied on Feng Xiangwei's 5,000 cavalry to cross the grassland, and no one dared to reach the steppe Tatar who killed him, even if it was a Tatar child, he could be frightened to stop crying when he heard Zhang Yang's name.
Although several years have passed, the reputation of the steppe has not been forgotten by the Tatars. When Zhang Yang led more than 20,000 soldiers to step on the grassland again, Zhang Yang couldn't help but shout: I, Zhang Yang, are back again!
Zhang Yang's task is very difficult, he has to raid the lair of the Horqin Mongols, so that those Mongols can not support Dolgon, and by the way, he can also completely annihilate these Mongol cavalry. This task is indeed very resolute, in the flamboyant army, except for the original Feng Xiangwei, most of the rest of the soldiers are new recruits. Although many of them have been withdrawn from the Guards Brigade, the soldiers at the grassroots level are all new recruits, and they have just come out of the new barracks, and they have not even been on the battlefield and killed people.
"These are new recruits, and they have to be made to see the blood."
Zhang Yang thought about it and felt that a strong army must come out of the rain of swords and arrows, and must have killed people, and in the new barracks, he also let those soldiers see the dead, see the blood, kill pheasants, and slaughter sheep. But that's not really a killing. You can't be a real soldier at all without killing a person with your own hands.
"Someone, go and find out if there are any Tatar tribes around here, and report as soon as you find it." Zhang Yang licked his lips, reading the blood in his eyes as the scout looked.
Zhang Yang is famous for his murderous treatment of the Tatars, and which of his soldiers has not killed countless enemies?
After a while, the scout came back and said respectfully to Zhang Yang: "Returning to the commander, I found a tribe thirty miles away, about three or four thousand people. ”
Zhang Yang said coldly: "Brothers, go!" I'll give you a taste. The old rule is that the women stay and the others are killed. ”
"Drive, drive, drive"
Soon, more than thirty miles was not a distance at all for the cavalry. That tribe is just a small tribe, these years because of the publicity is no longer in the grassland, and there is no Liu Xia sent people to guard the grassland, and it has become a borderless land again, and some of the Tatars who fled to Mobei have returned.
Soon, Zhang Yang had already seen the yurt. One by one, they look like graves.
The people of the tribe were already in a panic, and 20,000 cavalry were rushing forward, and the ground was already shaking, like an earthquake. Those Tatars have lived in the steppes since childhood, where do not know what this means.
"Run! Run! ”
"Kill !!"
The prancing horse rushed into the tribe and cut off the head of an oncoming strong Tartar man.
"Kill me, brothers! If you say that you are cowardly, you will immediately go back to Lao Tzu, let alone the soldiers brought out by me Zhang Yang. ”
Five thousand people is simply too few for their 20,000 people, but in a moment, the entire tribe was in shambles, and the yurts, large and small, were basically trampled and collapsed to the ground. It was stained with splattered blood. The cry was indecisive, four or five thousand Tatars, three thousand of whom were women, most of whom were predatory Han Chinese, who were snatched into the Tatars, humiliated by them, and bred for them, and some of them even served five or six husbands.
"General, what about these women?"
Zhang Yang said indifferently: "The old rule, send a battalion of people to bring it back, women are a good thing, they can create a large number of offspring for us Han people, you can't just kill them." ”
Zhang Yang already has a lot of women, and he doesn't have any of these women.
"Let's take a break and move on."
Beijing
When Dolgon learned that Shenyang North had broken through, his eyes were black and he wanted to faint, but fortunately, his strong psychological quality made Dolgon support him.
Soon the news spread throughout Beijing, and many of the princes and nobles who thought that they would be safe and sound if they sent their families to Shenyang were angry and vomited blood. Some fainted directly to the ground.
"Shenyang has been breached? How is this possible. How can it be. How did the Pingbei Army pass, impossible, absolutely impossible. ”
"What Shenyang has been breached! What about Fujin! Where is Fujin? ”
"How so, how so. If I had known that I had let them stay in Beijing, there would have been so many things to do in Beijing. ”
In less than a day, the whole city of Beijing became lifeless, and even if a lot of reinforcements came, it did not greatly increase their confidence. Shenyang has been breached, what is the use of more reinforcements?
Soon, there was an endless stream of people who asked to see Dolgon, most of them were those who had sent their possessions and families to Shenyang, and now that the city of Shenyang was broken, and the family was taken by others, it was no wonder that they were not nervous.
Summons begin to appear. If it was only a woman who was arrested, they wouldn't care so much, many of them were very old, and when they were old, they naturally hoped that their children and grandchildren could live well, and now that their children and grandchildren were taken away, how could they be in the mood to do anything else.
Dolgon was directly ill by these people, and no one was seen. It is not clear whether it is a real life or a fake disease.
"Liu Xia! Liu Xia! ”
"Liu Xia really didn't expect you to dare to send troops to fight Shenyang, I really underestimated you."
Dolgon also sent part of his family to Shenyang, and now the city of Shenyang is broken, which means that his family has also been captured by Liu Xia, although his own children and grandchildren are also in Beijing, but-
"Someone Coming"
Walk in a Dolgon's cronies.
"Have you found out? How did Liu Xia's soldiers and horses appear in Liaodong? ”
The guard said: "I found it clear, it was from Jiaozhou to Lushun by boat, and then from Lushun to Jinzhouwei quietly went to Shenyang, and then the coaters in Shenyang City assisted the outside to open the city, so that Shenyang City was breached." ”
"Baoyi - these dogs, this king will definitely not spare them."
"When the king's army comes, he will kill Luoyang and behead Liu Xia's dog!"
The guard stood by and did not dare to speak, and now Dorgon was furious, believing that if he spoke, Dorgon might be angry with him. For the sake of his own life, he felt that it was better to be silent.