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The two of them, the two of them, led the Qing army of 2,000 elite soldiers, from the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, through the frozen Tatar Strait, and went straight to Sakhalin Island.

Just as Ye Keshu led the whole army to cross the strait and set foot on land, the already cloudy sky began to snow. Feathery snowflakes fall from the sky, covering the already snow-covered fields with a thicker layer of white. It also makes this extremely cold weather, which is more than minus 20 degrees, even more extremely cold.

Ye Keshu, who led the army all the way forward in the wind and snow, was cut with blood marks like deep ditches on his frozen red face. And his pair of rat eyes were also blown by the biting cold wind mixed with large snowflakes, and he could barely open his eyes. Even his nose was almost frozen to the point of unconsciousness, so he could only turn his head from time to time, open his mouth to exhale, and through the thick fox fur covering his mouth, his lungs could still maintain enough oxygen.

"Xingne, how far is it from the nearest Chingai tribe?"

Ye Keshu gasped, wiped a handful of snow foam on his face, and asked loudly to Xing Ne, who was also half-frozen on the side.

"My lord, our army has just crossed the strait, but it is still more than ten miles away from the nearest Hezhe tribe. It's just that it's snowing heavily now, and your lord, look, is our army 。。。。。。 Xingne replied in a thick, nasal tone.

Ye Keshu waved his hand, and then said categorically: "There is no need to say more. Ben knew that marching in this extremely cold and snowy weather would be a demoralizing move. It's just that our army has been exhausted all the way, and the snow doesn't know when it will stop, if we don't quickly go to the barbarian tribes in the chingai area to find a place to stay, our army is very likely to collapse on its own in the heavy snow! ”

Xing Ne sighed softly, and silently agreed with Ye Keshu's words. Isn't it a joke that going out on an expedition in the snowy region is a very dangerous move, and you can't turn around now and go back.

In the end, Xing Ne let out a long sigh, and shouted to the 2,000 soldiers who followed silently behind him: "Sons! Leave your hard work, hurry to the nearest tribe of the Hezhes, kill their men, steal their livestock, and take possession of their women, where the big guys will have a good time together, and let those native women warm up our brothers! ”

Xingne's words made the morale of the soldiers who were originally quite low suddenly boosted, and the officers and men of the whole army let out a roar like a wolf's howl, and many people's eyes flashed with greedy and yearning eyes, and they all accelerated their pace and marched forward.

The whole army braved the wind and snow, and continued to march in the heavy snow for about an hour, before finally reaching the mountain forest in the Chingai area. At this time, the whole army was extremely tired, so Ye Keshu ordered the whole army to eat some dry food on the spot, rest some strength, and then enter the mountains to suppress the rebel tribes.

Ye Keshu was a cautious and experienced general, and when the soldiers of the whole army began to gnaw dry food and horses chew bean feed, he hurriedly sent sentry cavalry to explore the valley to prevent ambushes in the valley, which was unfavorable to himself.

Although according to the previous experience of fighting with the natives, these barbarian tribes can only attack their own armies like stragglers, and have not yet learned the difficult combat skills of concentrating their forces to set up ambushes in the valleys, but there is a way to be careful sailing a ship for ten thousand years, and it is better to be cautious on Sakhalin Island, which is unfamiliar with the place of life.

It was only a quarter of an hour after he sent out his sentry that he heard the sound of shouts and the clatter of deerskin drums in the valley, and the sound of great noises sounded very alarming.

Ye Keshu, who was originally sitting on a piece of dead wood and munching on frozen dry and hard jerky, jumped up unconsciously when he heard such movement.

At this time, he quickly saw that among the more than 20 sentinels he had sent out to investigate, only three sentinels who had fallen off their helmets and looked embarrassed had fled from the path into the mountain.

Seeing the three sentinels who escaped in embarrassment, Ye Keshu felt his heart sink immediately.

Oh no, there is an ambush in the mountains and forests here!

"What's going on?! What about the rest of the sentinels?! ”

Xingne, who was also stunned, shouted at the three sentry riders who were galloping wildly.

The three sentry riders rushed to a distance of five steps away from Ye Keshu, then rolled the saddle and dismounted, kneeling on the ground: "My lord, in this forest, if there are natives in ambush, I was caught off guard and suffered a big loss. Only the three of us didn't go deep enough to take the opportunity to escape. The rest of the brothers were killed by his arrows. ”

"Huh? When did these natives know how to gather their forces to ambush and fight like this? ”

The expression on Xingne's face was very stunned and complicated, and he subconsciously looked at the main general Ye Keshu and found that he was frowning with a serious face.

"Lord Mailer, what should our army do now?" Xing Ne asked in a low voice.

Unexpectedly, before Ye Keshu could answer, he suddenly heard the horses' hooves rumbling in the south, and it seemed that there were soldiers and horses coming.

Soon, Ye Keshu and the others were shocked to see that about 120 indigenous warriors of the Hezhe tribe were wearing felt hats, wearing ridiculous-looking fish skin clothes lined with thick cotton cloth, and each of them was holding bows and arrows, and was roaring towards their own military formation.

"Enemy forces are coming! Get ready for battle! ”

Although there were only more than 100 people coming, Ye Keshu, who was cautious by nature, still loudly gave the order to prepare for battle.

The 2,000 elite Qing troops immediately formed a military formation and prepared for battle.

Soon, the more than 120 cavalry native warriors, approaching, began to throw arrows one after another, messy arrows, shooting on the armor and shields of the Qing army, making a clanging sound.

Obviously, the projectiles of these natives can inflict very limited damage on the elite Qing soldiers with thick armor and good protection, and they fired three rounds in a row, but only six Qing soldiers were slightly injured.

The native cavalry on the opposite side temporarily continued to shoot, but was an arrow away, standing still, as if they were resting their arm strength.

Taking advantage of the fact that the other party was no longer shooting arrows, Ye Keshu picked up an arrow from the snow and looked at it carefully.

He saw that the arrows of the native people were very rough and simple, they were arrows made of birch wood and arrows made of animal bones, and the feathers at the end of the arrows were very messy, and a contemptuous smile suddenly swept across his face.

"These natives, after all, are still backward barbarians, so there is nothing to worry about." Ye Keshu snorted, broke the shaft of the arrow in two, and threw it on the ground.

"Oh, why did you say that, my lordship?"

Ye Keshu sneered: "Xingne, look at these natives, although they set up an ambush, they didn't know how to hide it, and they were easily detected by our army's sentry cavalry, resulting in the ambush being completely useless. From the general's point of view, their original intention was to ambush our troops after entering the valley, and at the same time send these cavalry to attack from the mouth of the valley behind, and to sandwich our army in three loaves, so as to wipe out all our troops in this snow-covered valley。。。。。。 ”

"My lord, I understand. It must have been because the natives were not well coordinated and coordinated, and the cavalry, who had been in ambush and outflanked, saw that our army had not entered the valley and ruined its plan, so they had to throw arrows to deter our army from attacking. ”

Before Ye Keshu finished speaking, Xing Ne interjected with a sudden expression, and then hurriedly said: "Then the lord plans to enter the valley to suppress, or to destroy this group of more than 100 native cavalry first?" ”

A hideous color flashed on Ye Keshu's face, and he said sharply: "Hmph, it was said in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that there is a way, the way to use soldiers, the virtual is real, and the real is virtual." In this valley, our army has lost nearly twenty sentry horses, and the situation is unknown, so it cannot be moved lightly. But these more than 100 indigenous cavalry, isolated in the open snow field, with no support outside, are really the first choice for our army's attack. Moreover, if we do not get rid of this cavalry first, although they are not lethal enough, they will be like flies attached to their tails, and they will also cause considerable trouble for our army's next move. ”

After Ye Keshu finished speaking, he immediately shouted an order: "The whole army turns around, all the cavalry assaults, and the infantry follows up, and the first to destroy this group of native cavalry." ”

"Huh!"

The 500 cavalry of the Qing army immediately roared, brandished their swords, held bows and arrows, and rushed towards the native cavalry one arrow away.

These cavalry are all battle-hardened warriors, including more than 80 white swing tooth cavalry, another more than 200 horse armor soldiers, the rest are infantry soldiers, auxiliary cavalry such as follow-ups, but there is no one. In Ye Keshu's opinion, with five times the number of indigenous cavalry on the opposite side, their own elite cavalry should be like a knife killing chickens, destroying the native cavalry on the opposite side with one blow.

Seeing the Qing cavalry rushing forward, those native cavalry were obviously very panicked, and they pulled out their horses one after another and turned around and fled south.

Seeing these cavalry turn around and flee south, Ye Keshu was a little suspicious, but he also saw that looking south from here, there was a vast expanse of snow and no traces, but there was no terrain such as mountains, forests and hills that could allow the natives to set up ambushes to lure the enemy, so Ye Keshu also put his mind at ease and shouted loudly to order the whole army to chase after him.

For more than half an hour, the native cavalry who were familiar with the local terrain retreated all the way to the south, and the Qing cavalry who pursued fiercely behind always kept a distance of an arrow from them, unable to catch up, and the arrows on both sides hit each other, which could cause losses to the other side, and it was extremely limited.

The infantrymen who followed behind were even more out of breath, everyone was exhausted, and the whole formation was very scattered.

At this time, the heavy snowfall that had been falling for a long time had gradually stopped.

But a bad premonition, suddenly, hit Ye Keshu's heart.

He felt more and more that these indigenous cavalry, who were constantly retreating south, did not seem to be fleeing, but more almost luring the enemy.

It's just that since the pursuit has reached this point, it can only be carried out in one go, and continue to attack, and there is no reason to let it go.

Ye Keshu commanded 2,000 Qing troops, gritted his teeth and continued to pursue for about a quarter of an hour, at this time, the entire field gradually showed undulating terrain, and a gray-black building suddenly appeared on the white horizon.

Ye Keshu's eyes widened when he saw this building that seemed to appear out of thin air.

"My lord, there's a castle in front of you!" Xingne's words on the side were full of disbelief.

Ye Keshu quickly took out the clairvoyant mirror, pinned and looked at it, and his face suddenly changed greatly.

That's right, the building that appeared from the horizon was a castle, but above this castle, there was a huge sun and moon double dragon flag, and an equally huge tiger roaring sun flag.

Ye Keshu suddenly understood everything in his heart.

Originally, he had been wondering how the northern natives, who had only been suppressed last year, could have begun to rebel against the rule of the Qing Dynasty so quickly after only a year, and it turned out that it was the arrival and secret support of the Ming army that made these originally subjugated and honest indigenous tribes rebel again.

"We have a plan in the army!"

Ye Keshu put down the clairvoyant mirror with a disillusioned face, and shouted loudly to Xing Ne on the side: "Our army has been planned, and the front is the castle of the Ming army." Immediately notify the chasing cavalry to return, and the whole army should withdraw quickly, so as not to fall for the tricks of the Ming army! ”

Xing Ne, who looked frightened, nodded again and again, and then ordered his subordinates on the side: "Hurry up and let them come back quickly!" ”

"Whew, the minion obeys!"

It's just that I want to escape now, it's not that easy!

The sound of gold was loud, and the cavalry that was pursuing in the distance was about to pull out their horses and return, but they were horrified to see that from the south position, a large number of Ming cavalry, including heavy cavalry wearing heavy armor, light cavalry wearing cotton armor, and all kinds of indigenous cavalry, were in one place, attacking and killing in their own direction.

When he saw the number of enemy troops on the opposite side, which was more than three times the number of his own cavalry, Ye Keshu's face turned pale.

Before he could give further orders, the combined force of the Ming cavalry and the indigenous cavalry had already surrounded the 500 chaotic Qing cavalry and immediately strangled them.

Under the combined attack of up to three times the enemy's army, these Qing cavalry were elite for a long time, but they could not reach four hands with two fists, how could a tiger fight a group of wolves, in a sword and gun shadow, in a piercing shout of killing, the sound of sword strikes and the screams of the wounded were mixed together, one after another Qing cavalry, screaming and falling off the horse.

"My lord, the cavalry is surrounded and cannot break out, so you need to order the infantry to attack and rescue it quickly!" Xingne's voice rose in rapid terror.

Ye Keshu's teeth were gritted loudly, and he swallowed his saliva, but it was difficult to make a decision for a while.

Do you really want to send the infantry who should have been evacuated immediately to rescue the cavalry?

Besides, now that the cavalry has been surrounded, if the infantry loses again, they will become sinners of the Qing Dynasty.

"My lord, if you don't make a decision, such a cavalry will only be difficult to escape! If the cavalry is completely wiped out, how can our infantry escape the pursuit of the enemy cavalry! Xingne's voice was frightened and eager, with a hint of pleading.

"!" Ye Keshu scolded hatefully, and finally ordered loudly: "The whole army is attacking, be sure to defeat the enemy and rescue our cavalry!" ”

"Huh!"

The sound of the gold was gone, and in its place was the sound of the swan trumpets of the whole army attacking. The 1,500 Qing infantry, led by more than 100 white tooth soldiers, roared loudly, trampled on the thick snow, brandished their swords, and rushed forward.

It's just that, as if anticipating that the Qing army would be desperate, the Ming army was also on the conch horn, the war drums were rumbling, the flags were flying, and the dense gun and shield battle array formed by more than 4,500 spearmen and shield soldiers also stepped on the same pace to attack the Qing army that rushed over.

On both sides of the gun and shield battle array, there are two parts, each wearing three layers of armor, holding heavy weapons such as heavy tiger knives, tiger guns, long-handled knives, thick-backed military sickles, etc., and heavy infantry like mecha monsters, also roaring towards the Qing army battle formation.

Seeing that the formation of the Ming army was so vast, Ye Keshu's heart, which still had luck, suddenly sank to the bottom of the ice abyss.

And at this time, he quickly understood which Ming army was fighting with him.

Such a well-equipped, rigorous battle, and fierce Ming army that is not afraid of death, is not the damn Li Xiao's army, and which Ming army can it be!

Li Xiao!

On the vast white snow, the infantry of the two armies screaming forward to attack quickly collided like two gray-black mobile steel castles.

Under the gray and gloomy sky, on the cold and bone-chilling snowy wasteland where the cold wind raged, the Ming and Qing dynasties, a pure competition of courage and fighting spirit with cold weapons and fierce battles officially began.