Chapter 218 [Encounter of the Front Army]
This is a very wonderful plan! That is, can the intention of Dashun to unite the Ming army? It can also allow the Ming army to go according to its own arrangement, and he can still control the overall situation.
For this kind of plan to kill two birds with one stone, the Manchu emperor's father regent was more liked, and he did not hesitate to order: "Jurchen language: pass on the will of Gu, and immediately reply that Lone represents the Qing Dynasty and is willing to borrow troops and the three brothers of the Wu family, but they must reserve the Shahe Post of the Imperial Thousand Households in Guangning to join Gu's army, otherwise, the Qing Dynasty will refuse to send troops!" ”
Of course, when the envelope was delivered, the Manchu Emperor's father, the regent, also specially told the Manchu herald that the letter must be handed over to the Ming Ning Yuanwei General Soldier to read first, because the letter was wrapped in a small note?
In addition, the regent of the Manchu emperor also asked the soldiers to go north, and added another line to the letter of transferring troops, that is, he ordered all the troops coming from Shengjing City to rush to Shanhaiwei at a high speed of 200 miles a day, and if necessary, they were allowed to make a detour through the Karaqin Department of Southern Mongolia in southern Mongolia, and there was no need to come to their headquarters again.
After the plan was arranged, the two Manchu heralds retreated, but the Manchu Han scholars seemed to feel that there was one more thing to solve? That is, they had to advance quickly, and the army would press the reserve of the Imperial Thousand Households in Quang Ninh, and force the three brothers of the Wu family to enter the Qing army camp for formal negotiations, and then it would be logical to complete the plan.
At this moment, walking in a row of Changli County, Yongping Prefecture, Beizhili, wearing armor, cloth armor, chain mail, and mountain armor, the Dashun army and the Ming army were walking, but there was a galloping sound of horses' hooves in the distance?
Everyone is still moving forward, but the Dashun Ruhou in the army: Liu Zongmin, vaguely noticed that something was not right? He rode up to take a look, and heard the soldier shouting, "Report!" Lord Marquis Qiyu, the general soldier of the Daming Ning Yuanwei outside the Shanhaiwei Pass, the commander of the Qiantun Guard of Guangning, and the Qianqian Reserve of Guangning, the three brothers of the Wu family reported that they did not plan to surrender to my Dashun! ”
After hearing this news, Dashun Ruhou instantly exploded! He grabbed the herald's armor collar and asked, "Did you see it clearly?" Are you sure you didn't lie about the military? ”
The herald looked at him calmly and replied, "Back to the words of the Marquis, the little one will not dare to lie!" I also asked the Marquis to go and tell His Majesty the Emperor that the little one had retired. ”
Feeling that something was serious, he immediately went crazy! With a roar, he was about to lead his troops to Shanhaiwei to destroy the three brothers of the Wu family, but the generals around him knew that something would happen, so they hurriedly stopped him from being so impulsive.
After calming down, Dashun Ruhou felt that he had to report the matter to Emperor Dashun, so he rode around and went to the Chinese army, and when he arrived at the royal car to report the news, although Emperor Dashun was a little angry when he learned about the matter, he could consider that acting rashly would definitely backfire.
And things are far from reaching the point where soldiers meet, so Emperor Dashun held back his anger and asked the generals next to the royal car, "What do you think?" I am here to appease the old ministers of the Ming Dynasty, not to see each other! ”
As soon as the words fell, the secretary of the Dashun Ministry of Labor: Gu Junen, immediately stepped forward and persuaded, "Your Majesty! The minister thinks that the top priority is not to send troops to fight against the three Wu brothers, but to try their best to win them over, and give them another chance, first, to show the benevolence of the Son of Great Shun, and second, to announce to the world that the three Wu brothers have failed to my Great Shun, whether they accept it or not? Your Majesty has a reason to exterminate them openly. ”
Emperor Dashun, who has always liked to listen to the arrangement of the military advisor, was like having taken a sobering pill, his face instantly became happy, and he smiled and said, "Well, what Gu Aiqing said is reasonable, okay, then I will give them a chance!" Someone's coming! The three armies of the Wu family accelerated their advance. ”
On April 21st, the three brothers of the Wu family and the general soldiers of the Ming Shanhaiwei who were looking forward to the good news on the top of the Shanhai Acropolis Tower with confidence received the letter submitted by the Dashun herald and the Daqing herald, and the Ming army guarding the city looked at the messenger under the city, and felt a little funny, and the time difference between the two sides was almost not big!
Of course, the general soldier of Mingning Yuanwei already had the answer in his heart, and he also persuaded the eldest brother and the third brother, so this time he did not hesitate to let the soldiers go out of the city to receive the letter from the envoy of the Eastern Prisoner, but this move made the general soldier of Mingshan Haiwei feel that something was wrong?
He thought to himself; Since it was a borrowed army, why did the Qing court send envoys? Is there any agreement?
Next, the general soldiers of the Mingning Yuanwei asked the soldiers to open the city gate to meet the Dashun envoy in the pass, but still like last time, he pulled out his saber when he went out of the city and killed people, and directly cut down the Dashun envoy and his entourage in a pool of blood!
The three brothers of the Wu family, who were full of confidence, set up a banquet and treated the envoy of the Eastern Prisoners, who was wearing a square scarf and a full suit, and was proficient in Jianghuai official dialect. ”
The envoy picked up the wine glass and nodded, "That's right! On the orders of His Royal Highness the Regent, the father of the Qing Dynasty, I have come to convey the agreed place where you and others will join our army, please see this map. ”
The three brothers of the Wu family, who took the map and watched it carefully, vaguely noticed the clue? The route drawn on this map is the reserve of the Imperial Thousand Households in Quang Ninh outside the Shanhaiwei Pass?
Is this clearly to get them out of the pass to join the Eastern cavalry? It seems that Dongyu doesn't trust them very much at the moment, and once they get out, it will be a big risk! And what about Shanhaiwei?
But if you don't go out of the pass, the Dashun army will attack at any time, once you don't go out of the pass, it is tantamount to refusing to borrow troops from the Dongyu, then it is likely to anger the Donglu and Dashun, causing both of them to attack at the same time, so that even if the Shanhai Acropolis Pass is unbreakable, but the food will be eaten up after all! So the general soldiers of the Mingning Yuanwei decided to go alone and let it go.
He explained his strong relationship with the two brothers, and tried his best to persuade them to get out of the customs on the grounds that his father was beaten, his family was arrested, and his wife was humiliated. Anyway, it's a death horizontal, so it's better to try it. ”
So the three brothers made up their minds to reply to the Dongyu envoy and let him go out of the customs first, they set off immediately after they were armed, after sending off the Dongyu envoy, the Ming Ning Yuanwei General Soldier personally knelt down to the Ming Shanhaiwei General Soldier and asked, "Gao General Wu has something to ask you today, I implore you to be sure to guard the Shanhaiwei to protect my Ming checkpoint, I will be very dangerous to wait here!" If the East Tatars break their promise, then we will definitely have no return! Besides, I'll wait here to go, if the rogue attacks, be sure to defend the city. ”
The frightened Mingshan Haiwei soldiers pretended to clasp his hand and persuade, "Don't worry! I will make sure that people are in the city, and people are dead in the city! Even if you have your last breath left, you will have to fight the rogue to the end. ”
After that, the three brothers of the Wu family said goodbye to the general soldiers of Mingshan Haiwei, went to the barracks to gather troops and began to point troops to march.
After confirming that they were gone, the general soldier of Mingshan Haiwei looked at the Guan Nei with a heavy heart, silently closing his eyes and waiting for the arrival of the Liukou army!
Soon a vanguard unit came on horseback outside the city, and the soldiers in front held high the Shunzi flag and the Tang character flag. The general soldier of Mingshan Haiwei was very nervous, he wandered left and right, and his mind didn't know what he was thinking?
General Ming Shanhaiwei, who had read through his thoughts, asked, "Lord Commander, why are you doing this?" Are we going to open the door to meet the rogues? But didn't you say you were going to fight the Rogue? ”
Seeing through his thoughts, he glanced at it and said, "What do you know!" Before, I asked you to peek at the three brothers of the Wu family writing letters, just to know what they were going to do? I didn't expect them to really listen to the slanderous rumors of the Dongyu Tartars and go out of the customs to converge? What a joke! ”
The general soldier of Mingshan Haiwei, who turned around, continued, "If I let the general choose, then I would rather surrender to Dashun, at least the Han regime, surrendering to the barbarians will only leave a stench for 10,000 years!" ”
The reprimanded subordinates understood the situation, and he hurriedly ordered the city gate to be opened to welcome the general army of Dashun Miyun: Tang Tong, enter the city and inform the three brothers of the Wu family that they had left the city.
As soon as he entered the city, he was told the situation by the Ming soldiers at the gate of the city, and without hesitation, he immediately asked the Ming Shanhaiwei general to dispatch 30,000 Xiangyong near the local guard, and waited for his dispatch to cooperate with the Ming army to pursue the three brothers of the Wu family, leaving only 10,000 Guanmen troops to continue to garrison Shanhaiwei.
Most of the 20,000 Ming troops and 30,000 Xiangyong who went out of the pass to pursue were Liaodong war horses, and the Guanning iron cavalry and the Ming army were also riding battle-hardened Liaodong war horses, so the two sides pursued very quickly, and the other advanced quickly ran like this for an hour.
At noon, the Tang Tong Department of the Dashun vanguard force found the traces of the Ming army in Xiluo City, the territory of the Qiantun Guard in Guangning, and the ecstatic Dashun Miyun General Army immediately ordered 20,000 troops to fight, and took a shortcut from the left flank to the direction of Shaheyi in an attempt to cut off the Ming army's advance path, and the remaining 10,000 Ming troops and 20,000 Xiangyong prepared a surprise attack from behind.
Before the attack, the general soldiers of Dashun Miyun asked them to use a strong crossbow to fire three arrows in advance, adjusted their positions, and began to shout under the instructions of the leader of the flag waver riding and waving the order flag. ”
In an instant, tens of thousands of arrows flew through the air at a particularly fast speed, and when they were parallel to the air, the speed at which the feather arrows fell along the wind direction was particularly fast, and at the back of the horses were the soldiers of the Quang Ninh Central Reserve Thousand Households, and they just heard the sound of (whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~)?
But before he could react, many comrades-in-arms around him had already been killed by arrows one after another, and some soldiers had just seen the arrows flying in the sky in their eyes and had fallen from their horses and died!
After the arrow shooting, the Ming army sped up, replaced the three-eyed gun and the five thunder god guns from a distance, and hit the armored Liaodong war horses and the Ming army on the back of the chain mail like a live rake.
As a result, the Ming Guangning in the back prepared the imperial flag: Hua Jinlu, and had to let some of the soldiers change their shields to the rear of the palace, and turned back and forth with lancers to resist and stab the Ming army.
Some of the Ming soldiers who were loading their horses were stabbed down and trampled to death without defense, and some of the quick-eyed ones put away their firearms and drew their sabers to resist the spears that stabbed them, while the Ming troops who were shooting and were interrupted either continued to shoot, but most of them were stabbed to death by the Ming army, or they raised their firearms and smashed them at the other side.
Taking advantage of the heat of the battle between the two armies, the Xiang Yong who pursued him also changed to a lancet, and rushed up to slash and slash with the Ming army behind the palace, and this group of Ming troops was wiped out immediately! Almost all of them were slashed dozens of times to death, and visible blood stains could be seen everywhere on the armor.
The Ming army of the front team who took a shortcut was also waiting for the arrival of the Ming army's Guanning iron cavalry on the hillside, and the Ning Yuanwei Ming army, who was walking in front with the Vermilion Bird Flag and the High Banner, stopped his pace as soon as he saw a figure on the hillside, grabbed the reins, and reported to the Ming Ning Yuanwei General Soldier and the Ming Guangning Qiantun Guard Commander behind him: "Two adults, look, someone is waiting for us?" ”