Chapter 55 The soldiers besieged Zhuozhou City and annihilated the Mongolian soldiers

The information that Jiang Zhi got when he arrived in Yi County was all the information collected by people from all over the country sent by Li Zhi, and they could only point out to Jiang Jian the general range of the appearance of the Manchu army. However, after Jiang Zhu spread out the map in the command tent, he said to his generals: "Now, the Manchu Qing are very arrogant. Their forces are very scattered, especially since they don't know we're here. We look for an opportunity to annihilate them all the way and force them out. There is also information that is very revealing, they sent a lot of troops to guard the wall of Ziling and Jizhou, indicating that they left a good way to retreat, and also told us their way out. After we finish beating them, General Li Wei will block them again, and the Manchu soldiers and horses will be able to mess around. However, we do not know the information of the Manchus now, and each division has to send cavalry scouts. Remember, at the very least, you should go out as a company to avoid losses. ”

Jiang Jian knew very well that the cavalry army in his hand plus a cavalry division of the Datong Frontier Army, a total of four cavalry divisions, plus the attached artillery and logistics troops, a total of more than 16,000 people, dealing with the Manchu army armed with broadswords and spears was like hunting. However, it is necessary to destroy the prey at the minimum cost now, and not to be injured by the prey. It is said that rabbits bite when they are in a hurry, not to mention that some tiger and wolf soldiers are now surrounded and annihilated. So Jiang Jian still didn't dare to be too careless.

The reconnaissance company of the 1st Cavalry Division had a lighter task, they were to reconnoiter the situation in the direction of Zhuozhou, which was very close to Yi County.

A large number of refugees had already fled from Zhuozhou to Yixian, which had been occupied by the Manchu army. Some people saw the Manchu army, and according to their descriptions, it can be known that the soldiers who occupied Zhuozhou included Han troops, Mongol soldiers, and Manchu armies with red flags. The task of this reconnaissance company is to find out what is the situation in Zhuozhou?

Early in the morning, after breakfast, they left the camp in Yi County and headed east, marching towards the flow of refugees, and halfway through, the refugees on the road disappeared. The scout horses in front hurried back and reported that a large group of cavalry had been spotted ahead. Because he was afraid that the other party would find out, he didn't dare to go forward any further.

The company commander ordered a soldier to dismount, climb to a large tree in front of him, and look ahead with a telescope. The soldiers on the trees looked at it for a while and reported that there were more than a thousand cavalry in front, escorting the brigade along the road in the direction of Zhuozhou. It seems that there are a lot of cattle and sheep in charge.

The company commander, the instructor, and the deputy company commander discussed: "We are not afraid of more than 1,000 people. I guess it was the Manchu army who came out to loot and took the prisoners and belongings to Zhuozhou. We leaned on the past, and when we had the opportunity, we could take back people and finances. ”

The instructor was a little worried, "Company commander, our mission is to come out to investigate, I think it's best not to expose our whereabouts." Besides, there are more than 1,000 people on the other side, which is ten times that of us. That's also the division of tigers and wolves, let's not be careless. ”

"Our mission is to reconnoitre, but the mission is not specific. If we can catch some Manchu soldiers, can't we also ask about the situation? The company commander said, "I just want to meet these tiger and wolf divisions." Let's see how they beat the Ming army and run around. Also, we can't just look at the people who were captured. ”

The deputy company commander of this company is a student who graduated from a military academy last year, and the deputy company commander in this company is a probationary. He said to the company commander: "Company commander, I don't think we should fight with them. I have an idea. Then the deputy company commander said his thoughts.

After hearing this idea, the company commander said, "You kid has a lot of ghost ideas. Okay, I'll listen to you. ”

The instructor also said that he had no opinion.

After a simple mobilization, the cavalry reconnaissance company chased forward in smoke and dust.

After Dolgon commanded his army to take advantage of the artillery superiority and attack the wall ridge in a night battle, all the defenders of the wall ridge were killed. This made Dolgon feel a little uneasy in his heart, if the Ming army he encountered in the future was such a bloody battle, the soldiers they brought would not be able to fight much and would be consumed. But the Han generals came and persuaded him, "Lord Regent, don't mind this battle here. The defenders here are all the elite of the Ming Dynasty, and the armies elsewhere can't pay them, but they can pay them, and the armies elsewhere don't have food, but they have food. But if they escape, their whole family will be implicated. So they have to fight to the death. Officers and soldiers elsewhere will not be so desperate. ”

Sure enough, after crossing the wall, whether it was Miyun or Jizhou, it only took one day to capture it. Then many counties did not need to be attacked, and as soon as the army arrived, the officials, soldiers and civilians ran out.

Dolgon first carried out a sweep north of the city of Beijing, and then suddenly mobilized a large army and advanced south in three directions. The reason why he dared to disperse the army so much was also because the Ming army was vulnerable. They also encountered many Ming troops who came to intercept them, and most of those Ming troops made symbolic contact and ran away. Dolgon knew that these Ming troops were forced out by the emperor, and they compared it to show or see. Then report the results of the battle and hand over the matter to the emperor.

The attack along the western road was led by Shuobel Duoduo, with 10,000 Han Eight Banner Infantry, 10,000 cavalry, 10,000 Mongolian Eight Banner cavalry, and 10,000 Qing Army Red Banner and White Flag Cavalry. They swept all the way, and if they hadn't carried too much looting, they would have marched even faster.

On this journey to Zhuozhou, Duoduo ordered several cannons to be fired, and the defenders put up only symbolic resistance before abandoning the city and fleeing. Now the Manchu coalition army is very smart, and basically does not besiege the city when it encounters it, so that as long as the fight starts, the defenders can quickly abandon the city. It's easy to get the city.

Duoduo led his army into Zhuozhou for a day's plunder, and then handed over the task of cleaning up the rich households in the city to the Han army. He knew that the Han people had a way to deal with the Han people. The Manchurian cavalry went out of the city to plunder in all directions.

Today's scouts were confronted by a team that they were escorting the results of the robbery. This escort team consisted of more than 1,000 Mongolian cavalry and more than 500 cavalry with red flags.

These Manchu and Mongolian cavalrymen were talking on the road about the rape of several Han women last night, while driving cattle and sheep and captured Han Chinese. They knew that the Ming army had long been hiding far away and did not dare to harass them, and they did not have any worries about any danger on the road.

But suddenly there was a hurried sound of horses' hooves behind him, and then smoke and dust could be seen billowing from a distance on the road behind, and it was evident that a large group of cavalry had caught up. Although these Manchu and Mongolian cavalry did not pay attention to the Ming army at all, they still left 500 people to watch the spoils of war, and gathered more than 1,000 cavalry to prepare for a fight.

But the chasing cavalry, when they were a stone's throw and a half away, suddenly stopped. Apparently the opponent is watching himself.

At this time, the Manchurian cavalry also saw clearly the opponent who was chasing after them, and there were not many people, that is, more than 100 people. Judging from the attire of these people, they are not Ming soldiers, but they seem to be legendary kiln gang people. However, no, the people of Yaogang should be fighting Li Zicheng in Henan now. Just when they hesitated, the opponents who were chasing in front of them suddenly turned their horses and ran back.

The Manchurian cavalry understood that there were too few opponents coming, and they saw that their men and horses were far more than them, so they didn't want to suffer a loss when they saw that they were defeated, so they turned their horses and ran away. The proud Manchurian cavalry was immediately ambitious. How could they give up such a good opportunity. It is said that how powerful the kiln people are, that is, you are really as powerful as you say, and we can easily take you down with ten to one. Therefore, they knew that the time had come to make meritorious contributions, and more than 1,000 people quickly chased after them. On the ground, for a while, I remembered the sound of horses' hooves that shook the sky, which made the Manmeng cavalry even more proud, this is an invincible iron stream, no one can stop it. But just as they were chasing out not far away, suddenly two explosions "bang" came to mind, and at the same time, in the middle of their team, two black things were suddenly blown up five meters high. Before the Manchurian cavalry could see what it was, these two things suddenly exploded with a "boom". The violent explosion blew up the surrounding war horses, prefabricated fragments and steel balls, and blew up the cavalry within a range of tens of meters to either death or injury, and those cavalry were in high-speed movement, and the bombed war horses and cavalry quickly became rolling meat balls. The power of the explosion of the two things is too great, and they used to think that the power of the cannon they fired would be terrifying to death, but compared to this thing, it was simply too bad. The cavalrymen who were not bombed were stunned. But before they could come to their senses, the cavalry that had fled in front of them returned, and these Manchurian cavalry tried to lift their spirits, trying to fight the cavalry who rushed over reflexively. But the rushing cavalry did not give them a chance to come closer.

The Yaogang cavalry used two anti-infantry**, which was commonly used by scouts to prevent the enemy from pursuing when they retreated. Today, they used two at a time, just to rely on them to inflict damage on the opponent and cause psychological shock at the same time, and then suddenly kill back. It was they who rushed forward and paused at that moment. The Yaogang cavalry company lined up in a horizontal line and swept away the pursuers who had not yet eased up Shenmanmeng. With the sound of "pop pop" shooting, the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry who were not killed had no chance to resist at all, and they were all knocked off their horses. However, the Yaogang cavalry did not slow down, and then rushed towards the Manchurian cavalry who were guarding the prisoners and their belongings. At this time, seeing the approaching Yaogang cavalry, more than 500 Manmeng cavalry immediately panicked. There was the courage to draw a bow and shoot arrows at the Yaogang cavalry, but the Yaogang cavalry fired more bullets in the past. By the time the Yaogang cavalry rushed to their approach, there were not many more than 500 Manmeng cavalry left. Facing the muzzle of the black hole, there were more than a hundred Manmeng cavalry, kneeling and surrendering. When these Manchurian cavalry went into battle to fight, they might not shoot to death, but dying like this still made them frightened.

The young and strong women who were squatting on the ground and were taken prisoner, as well as the children, were about 2,000 people. They couldn't believe that these wolf-like and tiger-like Mongolian cavalry were easily killed by these people. A bold man asked the Yaogang cavalry: "Are you Yaogang people?" ”

The cavalry instructor went over and said, "Yes! We are the Kiln Gang Cavalry. You are saved, go home! ”

After listening to the instructor's words, the captives all stood up in a hurry. For a while, some cried and some laughed.

The company commander and deputy company commander were interrogating the prisoners, who were obedient after surrendering. There were people in the cavalry reconnaissance company who knew Mongolian, and they interrogated several captives and checked them to make sure that the captives were still telling the truth.

The people who gathered around the instructor said to him, "Don't keep the captives, for each of them does not know how many people they have killed." They kill the old, they kill the unstrong, and only when they look at it and think it is useful, they keep it and don't kill. Wherever they passed, all the houses were burned. They must not be retained. ”

After interrogating the prisoners, the company commander came over and discussed with the instructor, and decided to distribute the things looted by the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry to the captured people. At the same time, the captives were also handed over to them. Because it's not good to kill prisoners on a large scale.

The people were of course very happy to hear about this decision. Because now their homes have been destroyed, and they have nothing left. To be rescued and these things, they are like dreams.

When these young men who had been taken captive heard that the captives had been handed over to them, they went to look for sticks and stones. Those captives are not as good as those who were directly beaten to death by the kiln gangsters, and they were smashed into pulp one by one by the people who were so hated that their hearts dripped.

The people still felt that they were not relieved, so they went to the battlefield to find the wounded soldiers who did not die, and stoned them to death one by one.

Before returning to the Yixian camp, the cavalry reconnaissance company sent a telegram back to the camp. Jiang Jian didn't wait for the situation report of the other two scouts, and immediately decided to encircle Zhuozhou immediately, because according to Duoduo's plan, Zhuozhou would give up tomorrow and continue to advance south.

The four cavalry divisions quickly surrounded Zhuozhou from all directions. During the encirclement, several of their divisions encountered the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry escorting prisoners and booty to Zhuozhou. The Yaogang cavalry unceremoniously annihilated them all. However, Jiang Jian didn't want to attack the city, because the space in Zhuozhou City was limited, and the army of the Han Eight Banners was stationed outside the city. The camp is just outside the east gate of Zhuozhou City.

Because there is a camp of the Han Eight Banner Army outside the east gate, and the Han Flag Army frequently travels inside and outside the city, the east gate has always been wide open. Jiang Jian decided to suddenly rush into the city with cavalry from the east gate. Therefore, he ordered the cavalry division of the Datong Frontier Army, each with a part of the artillery, to surround the three city gates in the south and northwest, and the three divisions of the Fourth Cavalry Army to attack directly from the east.

The camp of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty is in the east of Zhuozhou City, which is equivalent to adding another city to Zhuozhou City, and the camp of more than 20,000 people occupies a large area. Because the Ming troops they encountered along the way were basically defeated at one touch, and they wanted to leave after they could search and loot here, and they didn't want to stay here for too long, so their camp was also a temporary camp, and it was simply circled around it, and the Dongying Gate was blocked by some horses. Now there are constantly Manchu and Mongolian cavalry who have gone out to plunder, and they are returning with a large group of prisoners and booty, and the rejection of horses is also half opened. For when the Manchurian cavalry returned, they could drive faster, or else they would be whipped by them. The Manchurian cavalry did not regard the soldiers of the Han Eight Banners as human beings at all.

In the afternoon, the sun is setting and it is getting dark. The soldiers guarding the east gate of the Han Eight Banner saw a group of Manchurian cavalry coming back from the east avenue. However, they did not have a large group of prisoners and carts behind them to transport goods. These Manchu and Mongolian cavalry came to the camp gate, and the Han army hurriedly pulled all the horses away, preparing to let the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry pass. However, they saw that the Manchu cavalry coming on horseback was a little strange, and before they could look closely, they could not figure out where these monsters were. These people escaped from their arms and smashed their heads out. Then the people who came began to stand guard for these Han soldiers. When the cavalry came from the east, these Manchurian cavalry cavalry mounted their horses and passed quickly from the Han Eight Banner camp, and when they came to the east gate of Zhuozhou, they found that the soldiers standing guard at the east gate were soldiers with white flags. For Dordor only believed in his soldiers with white flags.

These soldiers with white flags were also very bullish, and when they saw the Manchurian cavalry coming, they immediately stopped them. They originally thought that you would go out to get benefits, let Lao Tzu bask in the sun and stand guard, and when you come back, you should also give Lao Tzu some benefits. But one of the people they stopped this time, although he was wearing a full Mongolian costume, he couldn't tell how awkward he looked. Just when they were ready to ask, these people took out the **** and shot at them without saying a word. Then the men beat their horses through the cave of the city gate, and the soldiers with white flags inside the hole of the city gate were killed. They quickly rushed through the urn city inside the gate, and killed the soldiers with white flags who guarded the gate inside the urn city who didn't understand what was going on. Some men were left to stand guard in the doorway inside the urn city with a few machine guns. The others rode up the walls along the side paths on both sides of the urn gate. He rushed along the walls around the urn city to the east gate tower, killing the Manchu and Mongol soldiers who were dazed and had not yet figured out what was going on.

They rushed up to the city gate tower, killed the defenders on the city gate tower, and then set up their machine guns and aimed them at the city walls on the north and south sides of the city gate tower.

At this time, outside the east gate, the camp of the Han Eight Banners was also chaotic. The 1st and 2nd Divisions of the 1st Cavalry Corps rushed in first, but they did not stop, the goal was to go straight to the east gate of Zhuozhou, but when they rushed all the way, the automatic rifles in the hands of the soldiers continued to strafe the targets found on both sides. Some cavalrymen took advantage of the speed of their horses to throw their hands out.

Duoduo, who was in Zhuozhou City, got a report at noon today that there seemed to be cavalry of the Yaogang people around. Duoduo didn't take it seriously at all, and in the afternoon he felt that something was wrong, because tomorrow was the time to be pulled. The army that went out to plunder should know that it is now the time to return to the camp, and there is no movement at all from a few people. At this time, the scout horses they sent out came back and said that the cavalry of the kiln gang had really been found around. However, the cavalry found in the north, south and northwest directions were only more than 1,000 people. This left Dodor without much thought. He thought that this was a reconnaissance army sent by the Han Chinese, because they were too timid, and the reconnaissance team had more than 1,000 people, so it was not easy to be eliminated.

However, it was soon reported that there were Han cavalry approaching the three gates in the north and south. This made Duoduo start to pay attention to this matter, and remembering that there were still many soldiers and horses who had not returned, Duoduo, Duoduo began to be a little nervous.

At this time, the sound of explosions and crackling firecrackers could be heard in the distance outside the east gate, and Duoduo understood that it was probably the sound of the legendary firearms of the kiln people. Shocked into a cold sweat, Duoduo was thinking, how could the kiln gang people come.

At this time, someone reported: "Lord Belle, something is wrong. Someone has already occupied the east gate. A large number of cavalry had already rushed in. ”

There's no need to listen to the report at this point. There was a lot of gunfire in Zhuozhou City, and there were occasional "boom" explosions.

At this time, gunshots rang out inside and outside the city. The first and second divisions of the Fourth Cavalry Corps rushed into the city from the east gate. A regiment of the 1st Division, after entering the city, did not rush into the city, but drove horses to rush up the city wall, and then attacked along the city wall along both sides of the east gate tower. The cavalry that entered the city attacked along several main roads. Due to the large number of Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, most of them were crowded into the homes of ordinary people. In those places where the gate was closed and could not be entered, the kiln cavalry threw their hands into the courtyard.

The 3rd Cavalry Division did not enter the city, and they fought everywhere in the Han barracks.

Jiang Zhuo and several main leaders of the Fourth Cavalry Army took a guard company to watch the excitement outside the camp of the Han Eight Banners.

At this time, Duoduo, who was usually very domineering, began to be confused, and the few capable generals sent out disappeared when they went out. Later, someone said to him: "Lord Belle, there are still some horses around us, I will cover you and rush out first!" ”

"Shut up! I can't leave tens of thousands of soldiers and horses behind and go on my own. "That's right! We have tens of thousands of Manchurian warriors, and we must drive the Han people out of the city. ”

"Lord Belle! The firearms of the Han people are really powerful, and we almost lost our lives, so I rushed here to cover the death of more than a dozen brothers. Their firearms are too powerful, and our good martial arts are useless. A Gushan Beizi with blood on his head said: "We still have some horses, and the west, south and north gates are still in our hands, so I will cover you and rush out while there is chaos!" ”

At this time, Duoduo was very conflicted, how could it be like this all of a sudden. I haven't seen the enemy yet, is it possible that I will start fleeing for my life with tens of thousands of male soldiers? But the nearer gunshots and explosions didn't allow him to think about it too much. He didn't know what the situation was outside, but he knew that no matter how noble the head was, he couldn't leave if he didn't leave now.

Duoduo followed the Gu Shang Beizi who had sworn to save him, mounted his horse and led the men to the west gate. They wanted to rush out of Zhuozhou City from there. On the way, they met two Mongolian thousand households, and they also rushed towards the west gate with people. Usually when Dordor saw them, he often teased and teased them. But now that he was fleeing for his life like them, Duoduo had to bow his once noble head. After the two Mongol households gave the gift to Duoduo, they did not say much, and fled with Duoduo towards the west gate. They thought to themselves, look at your usual cattle, and now you have not met the kiln gang people and you have started to flee. Anyway, if we run away with Dord, no one can blame us.

And they came to the west gate. Enter the city and order the defenders to open the gates. But a solid mountain in the city said: "Lord Belle, there are Han people blocking the city gate!" You can't open the door! ”

Duoduo couldn't care about anything else at this time, he wanted to lead someone to rush out directly.

There was no way, the solid mountain in the city had to order someone to open the gate with a creak.

Outside the city gate was a cavalry regiment, with dozens of machine guns blocking the outside. When the regimental commander saw the city gate open, he rejoiced and said, "God has long eyes! We, the border guards, are all arranged to do odd jobs. I didn't expect it to be left for us to eat. ”

This kind of play is clearly written in the tactics book of Yaogang, and you don't need to use your brains to apply it directly. When the gates were fully open and some of the cavalry had already rushed out, they opened fire with light and heavy machine guns. All of a sudden, the cavalry that rushed out came and the men and horses were all beaten in front of the city gate, and even the men and horses in the hole in the city gate were not spared. Duoduo understood that the attacking Kiln Gang people were going to be killed.

At this time, the gunfire in the city is getting closer and closer, and the gunfire on the city wall is getting closer and closer, and if they don't leave, they will be blocked in the city, and then they will be slaughtered.

At this point, Dodor shouted, "Stay here and die, if you want to live, rush out with me, and don't stop until you die." ”

After shouting, Duoduo took the lead and rushed to the city gate, when they were not far from the gate. The light and heavy machine guns of the kiln men opened fire again. The blazing bullets, regardless of who it was, punched countless holes in Dord's body, followed by more heavy machine gun bullets, shattering his body to pieces.

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Mt. Fuji erupted, Japan was earthquaked. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".