Chapter 86 [Covering the Main Force]

When they heard the sound of the gun, the rest of the Daur stopped, bent down to pick up the dead people, and wept, and three of the brave people stepped forward and scolded, "Jurchen language: Why do you want to kill our relatives? But the Yakutsk Overseers ignored them, and instead had the soldiers capture the three men and tie them up hand and foot.

Began to hold their mysterious rituals, that is, (eating human flesh) This is the favorite thing of the Rakshasas, because the cold food in the northern region is not guaranteed all year round, which leads the Rakshasas to use the captured captives as food to satisfy their hunger in battle.

First of all, six Russian Cossack soldiers walked in front of the three Daur people who tied their hands and feet, and then loaded their ammunition and shot at them, and then found wood nearby to light a big fire, and burned them alive, the Rakshasas next to them looked at the Daur people in the fire and laughed, while the villagers below were a little indignant but did not dare to say anything.

I could only grit my teeth and clench my fists, watching the clansmen being burned to death, and under the burning fire, my body could still smell a burning smell coming to my nose, and the Yakutsk overseers of Tsarist Russia were looking at these frightened and honest villagers, and said happily, "Rakshasa language: Okay, today is just to punish those who do not cooperate, everyone is scattered, right?" I'll be here for you tomorrow. ”

The Daur tribesmen who had retreated reported the matter to the patriarch Degenzir, and when he heard the news, he opened his mouth and scolded, "Jurchen language: the damned Rakshasas dare to oppress my people, go and settle accounts with me." After saying that, he selected a group of elite sword and axe men and archers in the tribe, and walked towards the camp where the Rakshasas were stationed, and in case of emergency, the Daur patriarch also specially sent a letter to the neighboring Horqin of Southern Mongolia, after all, they were responsible for the garrison of the Hailar River and the Yalu River basin, and nominally belonged to the mobile force of the vassal state under the jurisdiction of the Qing court.

Therefore, the Daur patriarch sent a letter to them to let them convey to the imperial court to send reinforcements or directly dispatch the Horqin Mongol cavalry to help, and the heralds rode to Horqin on horseback, and after about half a pillar of incense, the Daur heralds came to the Horqin camp.

The herald first asked the Korqin guards to inform Prince Korqin Zasaktutu: Borzigit Badali, after receiving the news that the Rakshasas had invaded and killed the Daur people, Prince Korqin Zasaktushetu was not calm, and he immediately ordered to gather his troops and horses to go on the expedition.

At this moment, Wu Junzhen, who was guarded by Anton, went out of the city with Ma Wei and others, and discussed the next plan with the commander of the Ming and Shaanxi provinces, he thought that the Liukou could not be repulsed so easily, and he would inevitably find a way to counterattack, so he proposed to let the army set up an ambush nearby, once the Liukou appeared, they could be killed, and even the Ming Shaanxi political envoy right participated in politics: Ma Chengfeng, also persuaded and said: "The commander of the envoy must not take it lightly?" ”

Unexpectedly, the commander of the Shaanxi capital was such a willful person, he did not listen to persuasion at all, and still thought that the Liukou was just a rabble, so he scattered his troops in Zhenyuan County and Huating County, and just when the army was ready to move, a familiar figure rode a horse head-on.

Wu Junzhen looked at the person who came over to ride a horse opposite in surprise, but he didn't expect it to be the general soldier of Ming Yuan: Bai Guangen? He quickly dismounted and came over to report, "Report, Qiqi is in command, the lord is not good!" According to the soldiers who fled back, a large number of rogue flags appeared 300 meters away from the official road ahead, and the visual strength of the army was about 100,000 people? ”

As soon as the commander of the Ming and Shaanxi Metropolitan heard that there were so many people on the other side, he asked, "Who is the one who hangs the commander's flag?" Can you see clearly? I only heard the general soldier replied, "It's the power banner, and the last general thinks that it should be Liu Zongmin!" ”

At this time, Ma Wei said: "Liu Zongmin is brutal by nature, loves to kill innocents indiscriminately, and the army sent out before is afraid that something will happen?" The commander of the envoy also asks for your attention. Frightened, he thought to himself; He only brought 80,000 soldiers and horses, and at once the 30,000 Ming troops sent out died 13,000 people! Today, there are less than 60,000 of these 67,000 people, excluding those who transport grain and logistics, and those who manage grain.

So he planned to use Andongzhong's guards as a retreat point, leaving some soldiers in the city to be responsible for resisting the rogues to cover the retreat of the army, but this approach was not considered by Wu Junzhen and the Ming Aid Suppression Army, after all, this is a disguised practice of abandoning the city to preserve power, and where can it retreat? Antonzhong's guards are not guaranteed, and the next step should be to Guyuanwei.

However, the commander of the Ming and Shaanxi provinces thought that the Liukou were not good at jungle warfare, and wanted to lure the Liukou up the mountain to surround and eliminate them in this way, trying to stage the second "siege of the carriage gorge", so he selected the people behind the palace among the generals, and there was no suitable person to choose from far and wide, only the Ming Aid and Suppression General Army could take on this role, Wu Junzhen and Ma Wei and others were very disappointed when they saw that the commander made the Lord so unreasonable, so they had to decide to stay and defend the city together.

After the retreat of the army, there were less than 20,000 people defending the city in Andongzhong, most of them were still remnants of the defeated army and had no combat effectiveness, these people were either injured soldiers who could not go, or they were loyal people who were unwilling to retreat, and the heavy responsibility of defending the city fell on the general army of Ming Aid and Suppression, which can be described as very difficult!

He gathered the generals in the camp to discuss how to defend the city so that it could be delayed for longer. Liu Ruilin stood up and said, "If you want to hold back the enemy, the best way is to set up an ambush, but if you set up an ambush, our current strength is naturally not enough!" Then it's only from the organs, and when I walked the rivers and lakes, I learned some side ways, hoping to help the chief soldier? ”

Seeing that he has a plan, the people will not believe it, but they also want to hear what the plan is? He asked him to tell and Liu Ruilin did not hide anything, he walked to the sand table and said, "Everyone, please see that this is where we are, the south is the Sanguan River, and the north is the plain area, and the rogue attack will inevitably cut off our water source first, after all, he does not know that our main force is withdrawn, so all kinds of mines can be placed by the river, and the rogue in the plain area will definitely put heavy artillery here, we can dig a pit and set a trap in advance." ”

But Wu Junzhen thought that this plan would not work, and according to the speed of the Liukou's march, they might not have time to arrange, so Ming Huining would be a general: Shangguan Kang, so he temporarily proposed: "Since it is not possible outside the city, then set it up near the city gate, right?" As soon as he heard this, the Ming aid and suppression army suddenly thought of an allusion in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, that is, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty: Zhuge Liang, tricked the governor of Eastern Wu: Zhou Yu, and dug a big pit at the gate of the city when he entered Jingzhou, so that the Eastern Wu army that rushed into the city was defeated by ......the Shu army.

Thinking of this plan, Ming Yuan and the general soldiers felt that it was feasible, so they immediately ordered the soldiers to dig a big pit at the city gate, and also ordered the soldiers not to go to the main gate to the city tower, only to go through the side door, when the arrangements were made, the Ming Yuan and the generals went up to the city tower to inspect the military situation, Wu Junzhen stepped forward and asked, "Lord Bai, how did you escape in the previous battle of Tongguanwei?" In the face of his inquiry, Ming Yuan suppressed the general soldier a little embarrassed! He was embarrassed to say that he was defeated and fled! He lied and said, "At that time, when the general was going to fight a decisive battle with the rogues, the opponent was outnumbered and we could only resist with cavalry, so that the rogues at the gate of our city fled and killed hundreds of people, and then..." ”

Before the words were finished, thousands of rogue soldiers swarmed in, Wu Junzhen saw this and immediately looked outside the city, only to see that the one who rushed to the front was indeed the team of Shunjun generals hanging (the right flag), and behind them were the three rogue generals before, with a total strength of about 110,000 people.

At this moment, the Liukou army stopped, and General Shun Junquan asked the soldiers to come forward and shouted: "Listen to the Ming army in the city, you have been surrounded, quickly lay down your arms, open the city and surrender, and you can spare your life, otherwise the city will be broken and killed." ”

But Wu Junzhen and other generals on the city tower were not afraid but also behaved very happy, only the Ming aid suppressed the general soldier looked panicked, which made the general Shun Junquan under the city very angry and immediately ordered the whole army to attack the city, the overwhelming Shun army pushed the Lu bus to the city wall, the back artillery continued to fire, only a moment of effort to make the Ming army under pressure, at the critical juncture Wu Junzhen felt that it was almost time to pretend to be defeated, so he used his eyes to signal the Ming aid to suppress the general army and let him order the retreat, the siege of the city of the Liukou soldiers saw the Ming army on the city retreat, they were even more happy to climb the city tower to occupy the fortress, and the soldiers under the city used Lu Gong's car to crash open the city gate and kill the generals.

Due to the rapid impact speed of the cavalry of the Shun army, the team in front suddenly felt empty under their feet, and heard the rogue soldiers let out (Ah! In an instant, a large number of rogues fell into the pit, and a steady stream of rogues soldiers who couldn't hold the reins behind them also fell into the pit.

It was not until General Shun Junquan, who had just entered the city gate on horseback, that he forcibly grabbed the reins, stretched out his hand and shouted: "The whole army has stopped advancing, there is a deep pit ahead, and we have been ambushed by the Ming army!" As soon as the words fell, the retreating Ming army immediately turned around, raised their guns and drew their bows to shoot at the Shun army entering the city, and threw thunder to bombard the rogue in the pit, and only a short time to beat the rogue back out of the city.

At this time, the other three generals of the Shun army came up and said, "General Quan, I said a long time ago that the Ming army is cunning, and I am afraid that there will be ambushes?" After suffering a big loss, he originally planned to flee directly, but he was unwilling to think about retreating after a while.

The rogue on the top of the city tower was suppressed by the heavy firepower of the Ming army, and the fire gun team fired lead bullets in a row without interruption. Wu Junzhen asked the soldiers to throw the earth-shattering thunder they were carrying at the Liukou, and the (dong, dong, dong) explosion caused the flesh and blood of the Liukou archers who blocked the attack to fly.