Chapter 164 [Ambush by the Enemy]
However, the general army of Ming Xuanhua, who had already seen through the situation, had the intention of surrendering? At this moment, the defenders of the city, that is, the Yanqing Weiming army who had fled before, hurriedly arranged the city defense and opened artillery to return fire.
Emperor Dashun, who was watching the battle from afar, watched the defenders of Juyong Pass counterattack, he was a little angry, and directly asked the flag waver to go up to surround the left and right gates of Juyong Pass, and ordered the Shun artillerymen to pull the mortar up and aim at the city tower to throw solid cannonballs to explode (dong, dong, dong), and a heavy cannonball hit the city wall and exploded.
In the fierce battle, the commander of Ming Yanqingwei: Shi Baitang, while commanding the soldiers to shoot the Liukou under the city, while commanding the soldiers to carry materials and pull the wounded, because the batteries in Juyong Pass are covered by long-range artillery, so it almost does not pose any threat to the Liukou army under the city, which makes the battle situation very unfavorable to the Ming army defending the city!
In order to quickly capture Juyong Pass, Emperor Dashun personally led two heavy armored soldiers of the Shun army to climb up with flying claws from the city gates on both sides, and pulled out his saber in front of the soldiers to slash the Ming army that resisted in the city.
The main force of the Shun army under the city saw that the Great Shun Emperor went up to kill the enemy and was more brave, and directly placed the cloud ladder at the front gate of the city and began to approach the city wall, and the Shun army gunners and the Shun army crossbowmen swarmed up, standing on the cloud ladder and constantly shooting the Ming army on the city wall, after a strafing shot, the Yanqing Wei Ming army was almost wiped out!
Even the commander of Ming Yanqing Wei was seriously injured, he covered his chest, was supported by the soldiers, and was about to retreat, but unexpectedly was supervised by Ming Juyong: Du Zhizhi, who appeared at a critical moment, also led the troops to the city and blocked the way, he asked: "Commander Wei, where are you going?" Evacuating the position without authorization and losing the city is a capital offense according to the law of the Ming Dynasty! ”
The commander of Ming Yanqingwei, who was questioned, asked rhetorically: "Then what should I do with the opinion of the Du Prison Army?" ”
Who knew that Ming Juyongguan Supervisor laughed three times, and said to the rogue soldiers around the city wall, "Everyone, stop, our family is not the one who oversees the guards and commands the envoys to start the war!" Life in the world to think far to see the open, the so-called people who know the times for Junjie, our family is willing to surrender Dashun to protect the peace of the people. ”
Hearing that Du Jianjun was going to surrender, he was immediately angry, and the commander of Ming Yanqingwei was furious, he quickly pulled out his saber and shouted: "Du Eunuch thief eats this general!" ”
Suddenly, from a distance (bang) came a hammer that pierced the chest of the transparent Yanqingwei commander, causing him to vomit blood and die, frightening the eunuch surrender faction: Du Zhizhi, and knelt on the ground and wet the ground.
At this moment, the generals of the Ming army who were still resisting under the city, while fighting back against the Liukou, asked the commander of the Ming Xuanhua army where to go? Knowing that he is not an opponent of the rogues, he feels that if he runs away now, he will die, and if he doesn't leave, he will die! simply surrendered to the rogue.
At the same time, the herald of the court on the other side also rode quickly south to Jiujiang Mansion of Jiangxi Chengxuan Political Division, and entered the camp of the Zuojia army, the herald looked at the (left) flag hanging in front of the camp, he did not dare to be careless and hurriedly dismounted and walked up, took out the copper plate of five coins and handed it to the defenders.
The heralds who got the passage went to the tent of the Chinese army to announce the decree as soon as possible, and the soldiers of the Zuojia Army patrolling the battalion hurriedly ran to report the news when they saw someone coming.
The Ming Ping thief general who was wearing regular clothes in the Chinese military tent: Zuo Liangyu, was still seriously looking at the military book and thinking, when he saw a soldier break in and report, "Report, General Qiping thief has a court herald soldier arrived!" ”
As soon as he heard this, he immediately asked General Mingping to put down his military book and asked, "Go out quickly and pick up the driver." ”
As soon as he lifted the curtain and walked out of the tent, he saw the herald holding the holy decree in his hand, and saw that the general of the Ming Ping thief hurriedly knelt down to receive the decree, and the herald began to read, "Fengtian carrier, the emperor said; Ping thief general: Zuo Liangyu, both ability and political integrity to kill thieves meritorious, today the special seal of the thief general for Ning Nanbo, another eldest son: Zuo Menggeng, awarded the seal of the thief general, ordered him to go north quickly to the king of Qin must not be mistaken. ”
Knowing that it was the edict of King Qin issued by the imperial court, Ming Ning Nanbo: Zuo Liangyu, I readily agreed! But there is something that makes it difficult for him? That is the previous Ming Prefecture Jiangxi Provincial Supervision Imperial History: Zuo Maodi was also ordered to send troops to recover Hu Guangcheng to announce the Wuchang Mansion of the Political Division, so in this way, he received two holy decrees at the same time?
However, in fact, the first holy decree of sending troops was reported by local officials, and then the military department drafted the decree to the emperor and stamped it, and then issued by the general administration department.
Therefore, in order to prevent the two holy decrees from delaying the military situation, Ming Ning Nanbo immediately asked the soldiers to draw up a plan for sending troops according to the year, month and day, and asked the herald to submit it.
But the herald still asked, "Dare to ask when the Earl plans to leave for King Qin?" ”
Ming Ning Nanbo, who didn't dare to offend the heralds of the imperial court, only replied euphemistically: "Please rest assured, Earl Ben will pack up and straighten out the soldiers and horses, and set off immediately, and the special envoy will take the first step!" Someone's coming! Drop-off. ”
The sensible herald had to ride his horse to take his leave.
At this time, the generals in the barracks asked, "Lord Earl, dare to ask our army if it wants to change its plan?" Heading north to Gyeonggi? ”
Mingning Nanbo, who hesitated for a moment, wanted to say go, but there was a person walking behind him? He shouted in this direction, "Father.... The generals next to him hurriedly turned around and moved out of the way.
I saw a delicate young man dressed in Confucian clothes running over and saluting, "Father, I heard that a herald from the imperial court is coming?" I don't know where now? ”
The generals replied, "I just sent it away, I don't know why the prince asked about it!" By the way, the imperial court also named Gongzi as a general of the thief. ”
Despite this, General Mingping Thief: Zuo Mengeng, was still not very happy, because he saw that his father didn't have much smile on his face, so he asked, "Father, is this something on your mind?" Why don't you be happy for your children? ”
With a sad face, he pointed to his son, General Mingping, and said, "You can't hide anything from Geng'er's eyes!" That's right, being a father is troublesome and can't be solved. Immediately, Ming Ning Nanbo pulled General Ming Ping into the camp tent to talk in detail.
At the same time, on the side of the southern Qinwang Ming army, Liu Chao, a rebel general who quickly gathered soldiers and horses, took 100,000 soldiers and horses to join the 20,000 Liukou army, and sent troops together to intercept the road of the Qinwang Ming army in the north near the Shangsizhuang Patrol Division Wharf in Xintai County, Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province.
Unfortunately, the Ming Southern Zhili Military Department Shangshu thought that he had repelled the local invasion of the Liukou army before, and ignored the generals who mainly gathered troops, after all, the task of the Ming army was to go north to the king of Qin, not to strangle the local Liukou, so the Shangshu of the Ming Southern Zhili Military Department did not expect that the Liukou would take the initiative to intercept his way.
At this moment, 50,000 Liukou rebel troops were stationed on the other side of the river, that is, near the pier on the northward road of the Ming army, and three hundred meters away from the pier, two magic cannons, eight tiger squat cannons, and six bowl cannons were set up, and two rows of musketeers and three rows of archers were also lined up.
On the main official road from Xintai County in Shangsizhuang Patrol Division is the 70,000 main army led by the rebel general Liu Chao and the two Liukou generals, following the rear of the Ming army of King Qin, in order to successfully drive the Ming army into the ambush circle and beat it hard, the rebel general Liu Chao decided to come to a plan to attack the west?
That is, let the two Liukou generals take the lead to attract the Ming army, and then the rebel general Liu Chao will send the main force to attack its vital points, after all, most of the Ming army will definitely go to the Liukou first, then the main general will definitely be exposed.
Although this trick is feasible, the two rogues always look at each other and feel that this move is very risky? Once the main force is covered, the troops and horses will be wiped out by the Ming army, and secondly, in case of failure? Or if the rebels don't come to the rescue in time, then the whole army will be wiped out, so the two rogues are always hesitant!
Of course, the rebel general Liu Chao also knew this, so he gave a bargaining chip, if this move could kill the prestige of the Ming army, he was willing to cede Jining Prefecture, Juye County and other places south of Yanggu County, Yanzhou Prefecture, to Dashun.
When they heard this bargaining chip, the two rogue generals were barely moved, but they still went to ask the Dashun Dongping Brigade: Huang Qichao, see what his opinion is?
He has always been adventurous, he nodded and agreed without saying a word, and the two sides hit it off and began to divide the troops, Liukou Dongping led the soldiers to prepare for war in the west, and the rebel general Liu Chao continued to advance very far behind.
The two armies kept a distance of four hundred paces, and after about a cup of tea, the rogue army to the west began to move.
The Dashun Dongping Brigade with archers and firecrackers in front of the Ming army unexpectedly launched a strafing shot, and before the Ming army could react, he ordered the Shun troops behind him to throw the wind and fire, thunderbolts, thunderbolts, and thunderbolts, and the smoke around them was blown up.
The Ming soldiers who were blinded were panicked! Among them, the Ming Fujian General Army and the Ming Ningbo Wei Commander, in a hurry, let the soldiers gather together to fight back against the Liukou, fortunately, the Ming Nan Zhili Military Department Shangshu made the right approach in time, he sent a team of Taizhou Mansion Ming Army to kill the past to impact the Liukou formation, and the two armies were shooting at each other in front of the formation.
Immediately after that, the commander of the Ming Fujian Xingdu ordered the Fujian infantry cavalry to outflank the left and right sides to cut off the long-range attack of the Liukou, which frightened the general of the Dashun Ding Tao Department and the general manager of the Dashun Pei Department to fall to the ground on the spot, and commanded the soldiers of the Shun army to shout, "Quick, stop them!" ”
As soon as the words fell, the Fujian infantry cavalry quickly rushed over and slashed the Shun soldiers in the shooting, and some of the Shun soldiers with arrows and armor were directly cut off their necks and died, which instantly made the Dashun Dongping Brigade feel that this battle was dangerous! He pulled the soldier next to him and ordered, "Quickly send a signal flare to inform Brother Liu and them." ”
The soldiers of the Shun army hurriedly ran to the grass behind them, aimed at the sky and fired a signal flare, and after seeing the signal, the generals around the rebel general Liu Chao persuaded them: "It seems that the rogues can't hold on!" Do we want to support it? ”
Liu Chao, a rebel general who pouted and smiled, immediately ordered, "The whole army will start attacking." ”
Soon Qin Wang Mingjun was bombarded by ten second general cannons behind him, (booming) bursts of gunpowder smoke and dirt, and tens of thousands of soldiers wearing blue cloth armor appeared? However, instead of wearing a large cap or helmet, a cloth was wrapped around the head, and some enemies wore (felt hats) on their heads
The overall look is more conspicuous and the enemy who fought before should be the same kind of guys, so the general soldiers of the Ming Aid and Northeast Water Division in the Qinwang Ming Army dispatched the headquarters of the fire team to shoot, and the Ming Nan Zhili Military Department on the side also asked the soldiers and horses of the Chinese Army Governor's Mansion to resist, so that the rebel soldiers who originally rushed over were suppressed at once! But at that moment, a group of rebel soldiers in felt hats suddenly appeared from the east.
In the chaos, Wu Junzhen could vaguely see the army with the (Liu) flag hanging high in front of the enemy army killed, and he hurriedly worked with Liu Ruilin and the rest of the generals to protect Lord Shangshu of the Nanzhili Military Department from being poisoned by the enemy!
This rebel army was more ruthless, and they rode horses with maces to kill in the direction of the commander (the commander of the three armies), and the Ming soldiers could not resist their impact at all, and the Ming army was stabbed to death and trampled to death under the horses, no less than a thousand people!