Chapter 41: Dolgon Gambling on the Fortunes of the Nation

"Kill!"

Sukh Saha suddenly roared angrily, urging the war horse.

Of course he knew who it was.

The elite cavalry of the Eight Banners Manchuria behind him also knew who it was, at this moment, this demon who killed Azig, slaughtered Niuzhuang, beheaded Li Guohan, and washed Jinzhou in blood, this executioner whose hands were stained with the blood of innocent people in the Qing Dynasty, this uncommon enemy who slaughtered their relatives and destroyed their homes, just stood in front of their horses. And behind him is Jinzhou, which was burned by him, and next to him is a woman with the head of the Eight Banners around her neck, and he is there like a symbol that attracts hatred, and it can be said that at this time all the Qing troops are already angry, and they follow their commander, like a pack of crazy hungry wolves, rushing forward......

Uh, two rides in parallel!

Yang Qing stood there with a smile, holding his favorite giant mace, wearing more than a hundred pounds of armor, like an iron tower stuck on a narrow road.

To his left was a mountain forest that stretched sharply upwards.

To his right is the steep bank of the Xiaoling River.

It's the perfect battlefield for him.

In the blink of an eye, Suke Saha, who was in the lead, came to the front, and the power of the cone spear and the war horse galloped straight into his chest, although Suke Saha at this time was not like Sony, Ao Bai was the leader of the Qing army's young Zhuang faction, but it was also the young generation of budding Jia La, one of Dorgon's cronies, at this moment, the cone spear full of hatred in his hand with the reflection of flames instantly touched Yang Qing's mountain armor.

But at the same time, Yang Qing turned sideways like a ghost.

The tip of the spear slashed with sparks.

In the obvious friction sound, Yang Qing suddenly let out a violent roar, and at the moment when Sukh Saha's war horse swept rapidly in front of him due to inertia, the mace on his shoulder swept out of Sukh Saha's chest with a dull roar like a swinging bat.

The next moment, Sukh Saha flew straight upside down.

Poor Sukh Saha was hit in the chest by this mace weighing nearly 100 pounds, and his chest was shattered from the ribs to the sternum, and more than five triangular nails were driven into his body at the same time, chiseling through his lungs and heart, and the moment he flew upside down, blood spurted out of his mouth under the pressure of the impact. He opened his mouth and screamed, dragging the blood rain out of the blood, and slammed into the body of the cavalry behind him, and at the same time that the cavalry was knocked down, Yang Qing's mace hit his horse's head, and the war horse was overturned by this frenzied force before it could even scream......

"Phew! Is this also a celebrity? ”

Yang Qing, who had withdrawn his mace, said disdainfully.

There was already a crowd in front of him.

The Qing army that was crowded on the mountain road and ran wildly collided with each other like dominoes, and the original momentum of the charge was chaotic in an instant, and the chaos was still spreading backwards rapidly, and even some Qing troops who subconsciously avoided it slipped down the river bank and fell into the water of the Xiaoling River, and then were shot by the birds on the river warship.

So this is the perfect battlefield for Yang Qing.

The Qing army, who was carried away by hatred, believed too much in their impact, and also didn't know their opponents too well, Yang Qing who didn't ride a horse and Yang Qing who rode a horse were not at the same level, the latter was a fierce general at most because of the weight limit, but if he didn't ride a horse, he was stacked with a lot of armor, and Yang Qing, who was carrying a giant mace, was a monster, and put this monster in such a battlefield environment, it was completely a raging Tyrannosaurus rex......

Sukh Saha or something, it's not enough to see at all!

Not to mention that it's not just him.

On the surface of the Xiaoling River next to it, there are warships full of soldiers, this group is not the previous sailor soldiers, these boats are all veterans of the Shun army, just after the charge of the Qing army was stopped by Yang Qing, the sharp arrows in their hands immediately shot out, densely flying towards the crowded Qing army on the shore. The latter had little to resist, and the front end was blocked by the unknown companions who were constantly pushing forward, squeezing them on the narrow road so that they could not even turn around. And they are not heavily armored infantry, and the thin cotton armor on their bodies has limited protective ability, and the arrows shot from dozens of meters away are enough to penetrate, and the result is that nearly a thousand Qing cavalry are squeezed on a road less than two miles long, and then wait for the arrows flying from the side to fall like lambs to be slaughtered.

Some of the clever ones immediately dismounted and rushed desperately towards the nearby mountains and forests, but at this moment, a nightmare roar came from the front.

Yang Qing finally had enough of the excitement.

Heavily armored, he then stepped forward with the dead corpse of the Qing army under his feet, and the mace swept left and right without any skill, like smashing a dead snake from head to back, constantly smashing the Qing army and even the war horse in front of him into pulp. Those frightened Qing soldiers fought back in vain, but even their iconic heavy arrows could not help Yang Qing's hundred-pound heavy armor, mountain armor, cotton iron armor and even chain mail, under the protection of layers, even bird guns and bullets were difficult to penetrate, let alone bows and arrows. And the cavalry of the Qing army didn't even have a bird gun, in fact, even the Qing army infantry didn't like to use this, compared with their hard bow and heavy arrows, the bird gun was too chicken, as for the later Eight Banners liked the bird gun, it was because they couldn't pull the hard bow of the Eight Banners at this time.

They couldn't stop Yang Qing at all, and they could only run away in terror like ducks in front of this monster's mace at this moment, and then they were shot by the elite of the Shun army on the ship.

Their dead bodies are piling up from front to back.

Their blood flowed down the banks of the river into the Xiaoling River, staining the river red.

Their screams echoed through the night sky.

……

The massacre lasted half an hour, and more than 700 elite Qing soldiers died on the banks of the river, and when an hour later, Ao Bai led another Qing army to arrive and saw only their corpses, and of course, Jinzhou in the distance, reduced to ashes.

And Yang Qing and his subordinates had already evacuated.

Not only the infantry, even his cavalry has completed boarding and leaving, Yang Qing's blockade at the foot of Bauhinia Mountain is to buy time for the cavalry to retreat, and the retreat of the infantry is very simple, these cavalry must go to the downstream dock to take those large warships, their war horses must rely on the dock to load, you must know that Yang Qing also captured a large number of war horses in Jinzhou, although he also captured a few stranded Jin merchant ships at Beiling Wharf, but there are still some that can't be slaughtered, and Li Laiheng is distressed.

But the distress has to be killed.

In the end, the iron-faced Ao Bai led his subordinate Qing army to find a total of 13,000 dead bodies on the banks of the Xiaoling River and in the city of Jinzhou, most of which were burned into sparrow-shaped charcoal in the city, and the flames killed faster than Yang Qing's soldiers, and a large part of them were the next generation.

These dead bodies made the Qing army angry.

It is said that their population is still not large, a total of only hundreds of thousands of genuine banner people, these 13,000 corpses represent, is a piece of bloody flesh cut off the body of the Qing Dynasty, and even if nothing else, they will not be able to make up for it within ten years, if you count Niuzhuang and other places, it is not an exaggeration to say that Yang Qing has cut off an arm on the body of the Qing Dynasty.

The next afternoon, Dorgon arrived.

But he couldn't help it.

The Qing army could only stop advancing.

They can't move forward anymore, along the way they carry the grain is exhausted, just waiting in Jinzhou to replenish, but Jinzhou's grain stocks have become coke, let alone continue to go south, even in Jinzhou he can't feed the steady stream of 70,000 troops coming behind, only Guangning can still provide a small amount of food in this area, but it is absolutely impossible to feed the 70,000 army, let alone support the continuous operation of such a large army.

So Dorgon simply ordered the old and weak slaves to be killed for food.

This is his only solution at present, compared with slaughtering war horses for food, it is obviously more cost-effective to slaughter slaves for food, but this method can also not maintain his battle, because when he arrives on the battlefield as a slave of the dead soldier will definitely defect, he can only wait in a charred Jinzhou city, waiting for the follow-up grain to arrive, but the destruction of the Sancha River pontoon bridge, coupled with Yang Qing's coastal raid, so that his grain transportation can only take the northern route, that is, from Shenyang to the west to Chaoyang and then to Jinzhou.

Although this line is far away, and all of them have to rely on land transportation, it can ensure safety, Yang Qing can not play at all without leaving the ship, and the warships of the Ming army and sailors will not be able to drive upstream no matter what.

Even in the lower reaches of the Liao River, it has to rely on the tides.

And the cavalry attack is to bring him food, there is the territory of the Horqin people, Da Yu'er will let Yang Qing know the consequences of provoking her, her mother's family will teach Yang Qing, who only has a maximum of 2,000 cavalry, to be a man, and the remaining section of the road has the barrier of Yiwu Lu Mountain, Yang Qing's cavalry can't go through it at all, and in the end Dolgon only needs to protect the lower reaches of the Daling River Valley, that is, the section from Daling River Fort to Jinzhou, and his 70,000 troops are enough to do this.

Although the use of Shenyang's grain reserves will cause starvation in the entire rear, but fortunately, this is only temporary, as long as he can reach Shanhaiguan and open the gate of the Central Plains, then the grain plundered from Hebei and other places will be transported back to Shenyang.

It doesn't actually need to be that much of a hassle either.

As long as he can defeat Li Zicheng, then the Eight Banners in the Northeast still need to continue to suffer in this bitter cold land, and just move inward directly to enter the Central Plains like the Jin State back then, so this issue is not important, this is the battle of the Qing Dynasty, no matter what, he can't lose, even if he gambles, he has to gamble.

But in any case, he was not able to go south until the rations arrived.

As for Wu Sangui......

Then hold on first!

Fortunately, there are still 7,000 Qing troops led by Adori in Shanhaiguan! Not to mention Wu Sangui's tens of thousands of people, even without them, Ai Duli's own 7,000 Qing troops are enough to hold Shanhaiguan, and there are people from Tunqi outside, plus reinforcements from Jinzhou and Ningyuan, Tunqi also has 5,000 men and horses, which is enough to contain it on the periphery, besides, does Wu Sangui have any other choice?

Unbeknownst to Dorgon, however, he had no chance.