Chapter 159: When the Tartar Meets the Liar (Third Shift, Monthly Pass)
"Spearmen obey orders, guard inside the door!"
"Archers on guard!"
"Knife Soldier Go Open the Door"
Even if the password was aligned, the guard in the wooden castle did not relax much. More than 20 soldiers were under the command of a team named Zhang Wenjue, and while arming the defense, they opened the wooden door.
Coming in from outside the door was indeed the secret sentry of the new army, not one team, but two teams. The team that had been on guard on the North Shore, and the team that had replaced them, all came back together. The leader is a young man surnamed Tian, a native of Tianjin, who has studied and won a show. However, in this troubled world, Xiucai is not worth much, and after the battle of Tianjin Wei, because of the broken family road, he came to Dagukou with him. He originally wanted to go to the Jinyi Guard, but because the Jinyi Guard quota was full, he was drawn to the Sentinel Association of the New Army and became a secret sentinel.
"Tian Xiucai, what's going on?"
Yu Daren knew Tian Xiucai, he and Tian Xiucai's father were classmates, and they were both scumbags who couldn't even pass the exam. However, the Tian family is rich, and they are engaged in private salt trading, so they married a wife and had children without Xiucai, and gave birth to this young man named Tian Qingyi, and he was also a prodigy, and he became Xiucai at the age of thirteen. It's a pity that he is a talent in troubled times, and he can't get into the exam, so he only became a spy for the new army.
"There is a brigade of three or four thousand people, all of them on horseback, under the banner of 'Deputy Marshal of the World's Soldiers and Horses on behalf of the king', as well as the banner of the Governor of Jiliao, the command flag of the three armies and a pair of royal order flags."
"Where's the color?"
"The color of the clothes is also right," Tian Xiucai said, "from a distance, they are all officers and soldiers." β
"Then you can't be wrong, it must be that the king of Daiwang Chitose didn't dare to go to Datong and came to us." Yu Daren looked at Tian Xiucai and said, "Why did you bring all the people back?" β
Zhu Cihong's appointment of Zhu Cihuan as the acting king was made public and was reported in the newspaper. Yu Daren is not a talent, but he is also a scholar, so he naturally cares about national affairs, so he also knows.
"Because the flag is wrong!" Tian Xiucai's voice trembled a little when he spoke, "When did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince make the third prince the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses?" That's what he called himself, how dare he use such a banner now? β
"Yes," cold sweat dripped down Yu Daren's forehead.
How brain-dead does acting king Zhu Cihuan have to come to see his brother under the banner of "deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses"?
"If it's not the king Chitose, who is it from?"
"Who else could it be?" Tian Xiucai said, "It's either a Tartar or a rogue!" β
"He's n," Yu Daren gasped, "It's a good time for them to come!" Today is the day when the prince takes a concubine, and many officials have gone to Haisha Island to eat and drink! β
Tian Xiucai gritted his teeth and said, "This is our chance to perform!" As long as you can delay for a while, it is the first achievement, and when you get to the south of the Yangtze River, you can't have a big reward of hundreds of acres of land? β
"Yes, the prince has clear rewards and punishments!" Yu Daren rubbed his hands, "It's likely to be a tartar!" β
O Tartar!
That's a demon-like enemy, just these brothers under Yu Daren's hands, how can they stuff people's teeth?
"Don't be afraid!" Tian Xiucai gritted his teeth, "Isn't it a tartar?" We can't beat the Tartars, can't we make the Tartars cheat? β
"Liar Tartar? How to deceive? Yu Daren frowned, thinking: I read the books of sages, and I won't deceive people!
"Listen to me!" Tian Xiucai smiled, "I'm good at deception!" β
He is a prodigy, a thirteen-year-old talent in the middle of the show, his IQ is not low, and his family is a profiteer who sells illicit salt, and he is not a good family when he thinks about it, and the thing that bragging and lying must be a family school.
"So what am I doing?" Yu Daren asked.
"Of course you're in charge of killing the Tartars!" Tian Xiucai smiled, "Why do you have to kill him for two or three hundred, right?" β
"Two or three hundred?" Yu Daren rolled his eyelids, "That's a tartar!" β
To the north of the Dagukou pontoon bridge, heavy rain turned all sides into mud.
3,000 and hundreds of men and horses were looking for their way in the rain. It was getting darker and darker, and they didn't dare to put up torches and light balls. The speed of the march could not be faster.
Moreover, Dagukou has been an important coastal defense town since the time of the Wanli Aid War, and many fortresses and camps have been built around it, and now I don't know if there is anyone stationed there? Although this team was not afraid, they were not willing to entangle with the Ming army and delay the trip. So I took a detour all the way and avoided these strongholds far away.
It was precisely because they wanted to avoid the stronghold where the Ming army might be stationed, so after approaching the Dagu Pass, this team of men and horses avoided the official road with relatively good road conditions, and rolled in the mud all the way, which can be said to have suffered enough.
And this team of people and horses was discovered by Tian Xiucai and them, under the banner of "Deputy Marshal of the World's Soldiers and Horses".
They are not rogues, but Tartars! It's not all real Tartars, but eight or nine hundred elites with a white flag plus a Han army with a yellow flag in their early two thousands. Among them were forty Bayala warriorsβwarriors carefully selected from various cows!
They are also divided into white and red bayala, that is, white armor soldiers and red armor soldiers. Among them, the white-armored soldiers are one in a hundred, and only ten people are selected for each Niu Lu! And the red armor soldier is a cow to recruit forty or fifty people, and he is also a hero with excellent martial arts.
The leader of the team was none other than Dolgon's Baya Lajun Zhangjing, the first warrior of Manchuria, Niu Hulu Duolong!
The current first warrior of Manchuria did not wear the terrible white armor, but a long armor worn by a Ming Dynasty general, with dozens of strong men dressed like him, riding in the middle of the ranks.
About half a horse in front of him, there was a man in his forties, tall, dignified, wearing the python robe of the Ming Dynasty, this person was Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun, one of the three Shun kings of the Qing Dynasty.
Geng Zhongming was shrewd, and when he was in trouble in Dengzhou, he used a trick to eliminate the troops of Sun Yinglong, the general of the Tianjin Navy who came to persuade him to surrender, and annexed some of Sun Yinglong's subordinates. Therefore, there were some Tianjin guards in his troops, who were familiar with the terrain and knew some water warfare. That's why he was sent by Dorgon to raid Dagu with Doron.
Since Geng Zhongming is the prince and has a noble status, he is the nominal general, and Duolong has to let him a little when he goes side by side.
A knight of the Guanning army who did not accept his costume at night came back from the front, he was Geng Zhongming's righteous son who was collected from the captured officers and soldiers of the Tianjin Weishui Division, named Geng Zhongjin. He was a native of Tianjin Wei and was familiar with the terrain, so he led the team to explore the road in front.
Geng Zhongjin, who rushed to Geng Zhongming's side, wiped the rain from his face, and said with a happy face: "Father, Duozhangjing, I found a pontoon bridge, which is more than ten miles away, and the defenders don't seem to have much, but they just built a wooden fort north of the bridge. β
"Built a wooden fort?" Doron frowned, he was here to sneak attack! I didn't bring any siege equipment, how to deal with a wooden fort?
"Zhang Jing," Geng Zhongming said with a smile, "There is nothing to be afraid of, as long as the banner of the Great Qing Dynasty is played, it will scare the weak soldiers of the Zhu thief away." β
Duolong snorted: "Isn't the prince afraid of scaring Emperor Chongzhen and the prince of Fujun away?" When the time comes, the prince will sail to the sea to catch up? The warriors of Manchuria are invincible on land, but they can't go to sea! β
"Zhang Jing," Geng Zhongming frowned, "if we want to storm the wooden fort, we will also startle the snake." β
"Well, you don't know how to use tricks?" Duo Long touched his beard and said with a smile, "So-and-so, the No. 1 warrior in Manchuria is also good at using tricks, but he can memorize the world's No. 1 military book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" backwards!" β
Geng Zhongming immediately changed his face of admiration, picked up his thumb brother and said: "That's, that's Zhang Jing, but he can memorize "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" backwards." β
Duolong laughed: "Do you still need to use the strategy in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to deal with a wooden castle of the Zhu thief? He pointed at Geng Zhongming, "Just with this python robe of the prince, it is enough to outwit the pontoon!" β
Can it really work? Geng Zhongming was actually very skeptical, but he didn't dare to refute the face of Duolong, the first warrior of Manchuria, who was both wise and brave! He's a celebrity in front of Dolgon's tent!
"Ouch, ouch," Geng Zhongming smiled all over his face, and carried the soaked python robe with one hand, "Why did you forget, it's really confused." β
Duolong laughed, waved his hand, and said, "Then let's go!" He said to Geng Zhongjin again, "Zhongjin, you are also from the Southern Dynasty, you know the rules, go and report it first!" β
"Scum!"