Chapter 74: It's Lin Yi Again! One more
Lin Yi slept until three o'clock in the morning. By the time he woke up naturally, Xiao Ying had already gotten up.
Then Xiaoying flew around in front of Lin Yi like a swallow, helping Lin Yi get dressed neatly and finish washing.
Then Lin Yi went to the outside of the tent, punched, moved his muscles and bones, and when he was sweating slightly, Xiao Ying had already put the food on the table.
After breakfast, Lin Yi took Xiaoying, Zhang Hua, Erhu, He Tao, Wang Qi and others to inspect the defense.
At this time, Zu Keyong and Wang Jian and others were already busy, and the brothers were reinforcing the camp defense, deep ditches and high fortifications, antlers, and arranging bows and arrows, muskets and crossfire, because this was a large camp built yesterday, and many places were not perfect.
Zu Keyong is a strong general of the Ning Yuan Army, and he has a very good set of command operations, and he does not need Lin Yi to worry about the selection of camps, camps, and layout of city defenses.
The strange thing is that the Tartars did not come to attack in the past two days, it is said that Zu Kuan was injured and the generals were damaged, and there were about 2,000 people left in the 6,000 men and horses.
However, they stopped the attack, giving Zu Kuan a chance to breathe, and when Lin Yi and the reinforcements arrived, they set up camp, everything was ready, and the Tartars were still indifferent, this should not be the style of the Tartars.
Lin Yi knew that the Tartars had not faded, the Great War would definitely come, and they must be accumulating a larger-scale attack.
In particular, the commander-in-chief of the Tartars on the opposite side was the famous King Azig of the Great Qing Dynasty.
I know Azi Greenyi very well, and I know that he is one of the god of war figures in the Qing Dynasty, the pillar of the early Qing Dynasty, second only to Dolgon in terms of fame and status. Dorgon made his fortune on the three brothers of their mother, and Azig was the eldest brother of their three brothers.
Therefore, Lin Yi has been fully mentally prepared. In the face of Azig's thirty or forty thousand horses, Lin Yi and Zukejia only had four or five thousand people, and they were outnumbered, and they were camped in the wilderness, and there was no strong city to defend.
All this shows that this is not just a tough battle, but a bad one.
Fortunately, Lin Yi's troops were all elite, the Ningyuan Army, and the Tianxiong Army, which were all the strongest armies in the late Ming Dynasty.
Lin Yi not only heard of their prestige, but also saw it with his own eyes, in terms of combat effectiveness, it was not ordinary tough.
There are not many soldiers, but they are fine, so Lin Yi is confident in this battle.
In order to know himself and his opponent and not be defeated in a hundred battles, Lin Yi sent spies to the Tartars who had not attacked for the past two days......
Azig led an army of 40,000 and encountered Zukuan's men and horses when he drove to Qianxi.
Zu Kuan doesn't look at his bad character, but he is very capable of fighting. Lu Xiangsheng spoke highly of this person, as early as three years ago, Lu Xiangsheng participated in the suppression of Li Zicheng and other peasant armies, and was promoted to the right deputy capital of Yushi, the prime minister of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Huguang, Sichuan military affairs, and the governor of Huguang, and later promoted to the military department of the army, and then moved the military department of the left servant, the governor of Xuanfu, Datong, Shanxi and other places.
He wrote in his memo to Emperor Chongzhen that in the process of exterminating the thieves from all walks of life, the soldiers who came to the aid were the strongest under the command of Zu Dale and Zu Kuan, and the most thieves were killed.
This is evident from this.
The battle of moving west was very fierce, Zu Kuan's Ning Yuan army was not in vain, in the Liaodong battlefield outside the pass, and the Tartars fought many times, and later the Emperor Taiji besieged the Beijing Division, Yuan Chonghuan led the Ning Yuan army thousands of miles to help, to the Tartars to a heavy blow.
This time, Azig was attacked head-on for the first time since entering the customs, and as a result, Azig's army of 40,000 was stopped, and the two sides fought fiercely for two days and two nights.
The Tatars' men and horses suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, Zu Kuan's casualties were also very heavy, and there were only about 2,000 people left in the 6,000 Ning Yuan army, and he couldn't hold it anymore.
Azig was about to eat Zu Kuan in one fell swoop and take Qianxi when bad news came, and his seventh brother of the Seventh Emperor Army, Abatai, was defeated and seriously wounded.
Azig was shocked, this time the 70,000 Tartars marched eastward, mainly for two strategic purposes, one was to wash Yongping in blood, seize Lin Yi to avenge Yue Tuo, and go back to give Huang Taiji an explanation.
The second is to piggyback on Lu Xiangsheng's men and horses entrenched in the Yuyang area by the way, so as not to obstruct Lu Xiangsheng.
For these two strategic purposes, they divided their troops into two routes, Azig and Amin led 40,000 troops as the main force to the east, and Abatai and Tan Tai led 30,000 horses and horses to the southeast to the east of Yuyang City to ambush Lu Xiangsheng's men and horses.
Then they still left a certain number of troops to hold Changping and Shunyi, ostensibly looking at the Beijing division, but in fact this was their back road, and the Tartars had already retreated.
They managed to win seamlessly, but they didn't expect that so quickly, Abatai would be defeated and returned, and he was seriously injured. The strength of their men and horses is not weak, in terms of leading troops to fight, Abatai and Tan Tai are both brave generals who can fight habitually, and there are more than a dozen cannons to cheer, and they have found out that Lu Xiangsheng's men and horses are not many.
But they were defeated so quickly, and they were defeated so badly, that both Azig and Amin were not calm.
Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and Abatai's injury is nothing, and there will naturally be casualties in the war, no, the god of luck will not accommodate Abatai because he is Huang Taiji's own brother.
These can be accepted by both Azig and Amin, the key is that their men and horses are defeated along the way, Azig is equivalent to giving the flank to the Ming army, if Lu Xiangsheng leads the army from Zunhua diagonally, Azig will still be defeated and returned.
Azig and Amin, who were very strategic, saw this very clearly, so they had to suspend the attack on Zukuan, retreat for several miles, set up camp and set up camp, judge the situation, and then make plans.
Amanger visited Abatai's wounds, which were severe, but not fatal, and the shot did not blow him up, except that his horse was overturned, and he fell off his horse, causing a broken lower back and leg and a minor concussion.
The military doctor has already diagnosed and used medicine, but it will take at least two or three months to recover, and he will definitely not be able to fight the battle in front of him.
Azig inquired in detail about his fiasco, and Abatai and Tan Tai were ashamed, and the two of them complemented each other and told the truth about what had happened.
"It's Lin Yi again!" Azig couldn't help but take the case.
First Yue Tuo, then Amin, and now Abatai, these founding heroes of the Qing Dynasty, famous royal nobles, were planted in the hands of an unknown young frontier army one after another, no wonder Azig was shocked to annoyed.
"Seventh brother, the younger brother must bring Lin Yi's head back, let's take care of his injuries first."
After Azig comforted Abatai, he sent an Ezhen, with a Niu Lu's soldiers and horses, and got a chariot, to escort Abatai back to Xifengkou first, and when they returned victoriously, they returned to Shengjing with Yue Tuo's coffin.
After sending Abatai away, Azig handed over all the more than 20,000 horses of Abatai to Tan Tai's command, and then adjusted the strategic deployment.
Azig, Amin and Tan Tai had a meeting, since their enemy Lin Yi ran to Lu Xiangsheng again, what are you doing in Yongping?
They decided to put the main battlefield in Zunhua, fight to the death with Lu Xiangsheng here, and clean up Lin Yi, they have found out that now Lu Xiangsheng has only a few thousand men and horses, and he has arrived near Zunhua. Liu Zhaoji's thousands of men in Yuyang would definitely not dare to act rashly. Azig They now have a total of fifty or sixty thousand horses, annihilate Lu Xiangsheng here, and seize Lin Yi to take revenge, they have the strength to do so.
But these are still two battlefields, Zukuan in Qianxi is still lingering, and this nail must be pulled out, and then Lu Xiangsheng, who is surrounded and annihilated in Zunhua, must be removed.
But Azig was very cunning, and he asked Tan Tai to immediately attack Zunhua with more than 20,000 horses, putting on an inevitable appearance, in order to contain Lu Xiangsheng.
He didn't fight this part of Qianxi for the time being, because he knew that as long as the ancestors of Qianxi were not destroyed, Lu Xiangsheng would definitely not sit idly by, and he would send reinforcements from it to support Qianxi, so as to disperse Lu Xiangsheng's forces.
Lu Xiangsheng's men and horses were already pitiful, and if they were divided into two fronts, it would be easier to annihilate them.
After Tan Tai led his headquarters to kill Ben Zunhua, Azig temporarily did not send his troops and paid close attention to Qianzukuan's men, although he didn't fight, he couldn't let them run.
In addition, Azig sent people to keep an eye on Lu Xiangsheng's movements, and as expected, Lu Xiangsheng's main force was stationed in Zunhua and sent a reinforcement team to help Qianxi.
When he had to report that the reinforcement team was only 2,000 people, and the leader of the team would be Lin Yi, Azig was overjoyed with excitement: "It's this kid again, it's really the bad luck of the man surnamed Lin by providence, this time the king must let him have no return!"
After Azig got the accurate news, he was full of ambition and immediately sent an order to raise the account, the horn whined, and soon the generals under his command were all gathered.
Azig was fully armed and looked at these mighty and majestic subordinates, "Everyone, this king has received the exact news, Lin Yi took 2,000 men and horses to reinforce Zu Kuan, who moved to the west, he is really a ghost who doesn't know how to die, but this kid is quite a ghost, and he has already camped next to Zu Kuan, and their two big camps are about ten miles apart, and they are horns." If you want to use this to fight against the king's people and horses, you are really a mantis arm as a car, and you can't do it. This king sent troops in two ways, so that they could not take care of the end, and Shuo Bel Amin, this king ordered you to lead 10,000 troops, storm Zukuan's camp, the rest of the men and horses are personally led by this king, pull out Lin Yi's camp, tomorrow the fifth watch to make food, five more to set off, be sure to destroy the enemy of the two battalions, there is a battle to kill or capture Lin Yi, reward Baturu and two Niu Lu's soldiers and horses. Those who are timid or ineffective in fighting will be killed! ”
"Victory! Win! Amin and the others raised their arms and shouted, and the sound shook the sky.
The next morning, when the fog was thick and the sky seemed to be dawning, the Tartar soldiers divided into two roads and more than 30,000 horses and horses to touch the vicinity of the two Ming army camps.
Lin Yi's camp was quiet and did not move at all, and Azig sat on his horse and waved his war knife proudly: "Rush, kill them all for me!"