Chapter 42: The Battle of the Dragon Gate II

Since Jin Shenghuan agreed, he tried his best to do it.

Just when Cao Zongyu and Geng Jimao confronted each other in Longmen, the two sides clashed constantly.

Cao Zongyu had more than 10,000 cavalry under his command.

Among the Xia army, needless to say, the gold of the cavalry is expensive, even if there is secret trade with Wu Sangui, the cavalry of the Great Xia is only about 40,000.

Among them, more than 10,000 riders are on Cao Zongyu's side, and it can be seen that the relationship between Zhang Xuan and Cao Zongyu can be seen.

In the past few days, in order to cover up Jin Shenghuan's whereabouts, thousands of cavalry of the Xia army took the initiative to attack, and the Qing army was naturally not to be outdone, and also sent cavalry to attack, and the two sides fought several times on the bank of the Yishui River.

And the rest of the cavalry followed Jin Shenghuan over the mountains and mountains, and assaulted behind Longmen Pass.

Almost overnight, Jin Shenghuan appeared in the north of Longmen Pass.

For a time, the Qing army was taken aback.

Geng Jimao was still very nervous in the face of the cavalry challenge of the Xia army, but after a few battles between the two sides, he put his mind at ease. Because the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Xia army was quite good.

It was even better than the cavalry combat effectiveness of some Qing troops.

There are two main reasons, the first is to be well equipped.

Handcuffs have been popularized among the cavalry of the Xia army, and even many cavalrymen have bought several at their own expense.

This greatly increased the combat effectiveness of the Xia army.

Secondly, because of the small number of cavalry of the Xia army, in order to fight against the cavalry of the Qing army, Zhang Xuan's training of the cavalry of the Xia army was quite strict.

So there is a situation of less but fine.

However, the number of cavalry of the Xia army was defective, but it could not be repaired.

The cavalry of the Qing army may not be able to defeat the Xia army one-on-one, but although the Qing army can recruit a lot of cavalry to besiege it, the Xia army is invincible with both hands and four feet.

Geng Jimao felt that as long as the current battle situation was maintained, when the Qing army arrived, he could counterattack, so that Cao Zongyu could not return to Nanyang.

It's just that I never thought that Cao Zongyu would do this, and suddenly force both sides to a dead end.

A great war broke out between the two sides immediately.

Geng Jimao was besieged on both sides, sandwiched in the Yishui Valley Road, although there was no shortage of food, but the morale of the army was shaken, if the connection with Luoyang was not opened as soon as possible, I don't know what happened.

And Cao Zongyu knew that this opportunity was too rare, it was simply to gamble the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers on the outcome of this game, and he naturally couldn't give up this opportunity.

What's more, Cao Zongyu is not just preparing Jin Shenghuan's hand.

Jin Shenghuan didn't know all of Cao Zongyu's plans.

But now, he didn't have time to think about it.

In the situation of the Qing army being attacked from both sides, set up a camp,

But it's not an easy thing to do.

Jin Shenghuan took the lead and led 5,000 cavalry to fight with Geng Jimao's cavalry, Jin Shenghuan repeatedly broke the Qing army's battle formation, and forced the Qing cavalry back to the camp.

The foot soldiers of the five battalions behind him were doing a thing at this time, burying the human-height timbers carried out of the mountains on the ground, and in just one day, they built a low wall.

The low walls are all made of wood.

And in front of the low wall, a trench was dug.

So resist the possible impact of the Qing army.

And Jin Shenghuan just breathed a sigh of relief, when he heard someone come to report, but it was the south gate of Luoyang that was wide open, and the Qing army came here, waving the flag of Sun Zi.

This is Kong Youde's old department, headed by Sun Yanling.

That is, Kong Sizhen's husband in history, he didn't know that he had this fate in history, but after Kong Sizhen entered the palace, Kong Youde's old department had a backbone, and they moved closer to Shunzhi one by one.

Now Shunzhi is pro-government, and these people are bent on making great contributions, so that Shunzhi can see them.

So it's the most positive.

If it weren't for Kong Youde's subordinates in the Battle of Xiangyang, the backbone had lost too much, and it was not enough to stand alone, maybe the person who confronted Cao Zongyu at Longmen Pass would be Sun Yanling.

Now, Jin Shenghuan's department has only built a wall, and it is useless to resist the enemy who suddenly appeared in the north.

Jin Shenghuan watched from a distance, but found that the other party had more than 10,000 cavalry.

However, the leader is a little arrogant.

But he saw that the Qing army commander took the lead. With the song part, he rushed over.

Jin Shenghuan knew that he had no respite at all, and met him again.

At this moment, Jin Shenghuan secretly selected five hundred warriors, all of them were stored around for his own view, and as soon as the confrontation began, he rushed towards the banner of Sun Zi with his own guards.

First bombarded with hand-grenades, then fired three rounds of handcuffs, and then slashed in.

Jin Shenghuan is a sharp arrow, as if a hot knife cuts butter, and directly splits the Qing army's headquarters from the middle, Jin Shenghuan's long knife is as fast as lightning, Sun Yanling can't fight, and a knife is like Bai Lian, like Sun Yanling's neck.

A pillar of blood rose into the sky, and the look of surprise on Sun Yanling's face had already solidified on his face before it had time to disperse, and immediately a personal soldier dismounted, found a spear, inserted Sun Yanling's head, and shouted loudly: "You wait for the main general to be awarded, if you don't descend at this time, but when." ”

Poor Sun Yanling, from the beginning to the end, Jin Shenghuan didn't know what Sun was and what his name was.

But even so, the brigade did not choose to surrender.

For most of the Qing soldiers, the general trend of the world is too far away for them, and they may feel that life is getting worse and worse, but they can't tell which of the Qing army and the Xia army has the advantage.

Therefore, most of them fled back to Luoyang City.

Of course, there were a group of unlucky people who were stopped and couldn't escape, so they surrendered.

However, there are only a few hundred people.

After Jin Shenghuan returned to the camp, he saddled and dismounted, sat on the ground, carried a pot of wine, and gave a big order, half to build the camp, half to rest, and wait until the evening to change shifts. Construction continued day and night.

The so-called soldiers are brave.

Seeing that Jin Shenghuan was so relieved, the soldiers were naturally relieved.

But I don't know that Jin Shenghuan has hardly closed his eyes since he set off, let alone fighting viciously several times a day, all of them are rushing to the front and retreating behind.

My physical strength has long been overdrawn.

My whole body was sore, it was indescribable, and I didn't dare to move.

At least tonight, he didn't really have much strength to fight again.

He gulped down his drinks, not for the sake of alcoholism, but for the sake of the soldier's heart. The wine was like a stimulant, making him forget about the pain in his body.

The mind is becoming more and more alert.

He secretly said in his heart: "Three days, today is the first day." But I don't know how many people will be able to hold out until the third day. ”

Jin Shenghuan is not fighting here, and Geng Jimao and Cao Zongyu are also fighting. 、

Almost since Jin Shenghuan inserted, the artillery fire in the Xia army has not stopped.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the sergeants of the brigade rushed directly to the camp of the Qing army.

It's just that although the Qing army camp was built temporarily, there should be trenches, antlers, artillery, and all kinds of firearms for defense.

It's a hard bone.

And Geng Jimao seems to have prepared a lot of knife cars.

But the artillery of the Fanxia army opened a big hole in the Qing army camp, and Geng Jimao ordered to push over a few carts, and there was only a solid wooden board on the cart, and outside the wooden plank, there were many sharp blades, which looked extremely sharp.

In this way, the place that is blocked by the knife cart is actually more difficult to hit than the wall. And this knife cart can open the passage at any time, so that the Qing cavalry can kill it and counterattack the Xia army.

In the morning, when a battalion was retreating, it was accidentally bitten by the cavalry of the Qing army, and suffered heavy casualties.

After a day of fierce fighting, both sides suffered a lot of casualties.

Geng Jimao was relieved.

In such a war, he had no problem persisting for ten days and half a month. It seems that Xia Jun's detour back behind him is not as serious as imagined.

However, although Geng Jimao felt that Jin Shenghuan's troops were not to be afraid, he did not tolerate Jin Shenghuan being making trouble all the time, so he was ready to send people to Luoyang City to discuss with the various armies in Luoyang City.

Dispatched troops together, responded from the north and south, and ate Jin Shenghuan's troops in one go. Thinking about it, Xia Jun will naturally retreat.