Chapter 147: Annihilation of the Red Flag

The three brothers were eager for revenge, and desperately chased forward, but they chased after them. These three people are somewhat sober-minded, because they are also battle-hardened. They found that the road ahead was getting narrower and narrower, and their team of more than 20,000 horses was too long, and if something broke out, they would not be able to take care of each other. They were a little scared.

But by this time it was too late to be afraid. As soon as the rear of the chasing army passed, Liu Chenghuang's 200 musketeers and the 5,000 officers brought by Wang Gonggong, who were flashing to the side, came out and blocked the way back. This is a narrow junction that has been chosen long ago, and the sergeants carry the big trees that have been cut down, and the obstacles are set up in rows on the road to keep away the horses, all of which are prepared for those Manchu iron horsemen. After they lose the advantage of fast horse impact, they can only wait for the sword. Because the opponents who are waiting for them now not only have an advantage in numbers, but also in terms of firepower. There is also the first hand and location to take advantage of the ambush. Their fate has been decided.

Among the three elder brothers, Wuyue Le is the most intelligent, if according to the previous historical development, it is this old Wuyue Le who inherited the title of Abatai. He said to his two brothers: "We can't go any further, I think they seem to be leading us here, and this is a good place to set up an ambush." Here our cavalry has no advantage at all, so let's retreat. ”

In addition, the brothers also felt that today was a little bad, so they ordered the front team to be the side and the back team, and the back team changed to the front team and retreated. But when they retreated to the intersection where they had returned, they found that the intersection had been sealed.

At this time, countless soldiers appeared on the hillsides on both sides of them. After a while, countless bundles of firewood and grass rolled down from the mountain, and when these large balls of firewood and grass rolled to the middle of the road, the soldiers on both sides of the mountain shot down countless rockets and bombardment mines. The soldiers in the valley were immediately in disarray. The three brothers commanded the soldiers around them and shouted to them: "The only way to survive is to rush back." ”

They led the cavalry towards the blocked junction, but the horses could jump over the first few rows of obstacles, but they could not jump over the last rows of obstacles, and many of the horses were in the obstacle formation, unable to move. But Liu Chenghuang and they didn't watch the excitement here, they used muskets to unhurriedly knock down all the cavalry who rushed in.

The three of them saw that they couldn't rush out here, and when they wanted to turn back, they found that the team behind them had been divided into several sections by the enemy soldiers who had rushed down, and they really couldn't take care of each other. The three brothers glanced at each other, and the old Wuyue Le said: "Horizontal and vertical is death, let's rush back once, rush over, can't rush, let's go to see the second brother together." ”

The two brothers nodded as well. Then they gathered all the soldiers they could collect, Yue Le said: "Warriors, this time the three of us rushed together with the big guys, and it was our blessing to rush out, and if we can't rush out, we will die with everyone." ”

This time they had gathered more than 2,000 cavalry, and these two thousand cavalry joined into a rolling torrent on this narrow mountain path, and rushed towards the mountain pass, where they had the only way to live.

During the assault, the cavalry took advantage of the speed of their horses and shot rows of bows and arrows. When the horses rushed to the obstacles, they did not slow down, but directly hit the obstacles, they just wanted to use the speed of the horses to crash through the obstacles with their flesh and blood, the scene was thrilling. But when the flesh and blood slammed into those trees, it could only break the horse's leg and throw the cavalry to the ground. However, the cavalry of the front and the followers quickly formed a hill in front of the obstacle, but the cavalry behind stepped on this hill and rushed forward, without hesitation, and just like that, they used their horses to pave a path over the obstacle. However, although Liu Chenghuang and the others were shocked by this scene, they still did not dare to relax, and under the protection of the official and military shields of the prince, they knocked the approaching cavalry off their horses one by one with one shot. Two hundred muskets from a small mountain pass blocked the exit to death, and seeing that the cavalry in front of them was almost finished, the three brothers finally glanced at each other, didn't say anything, and rode their horses together to follow the team forward.

All three of them were shot by muskets and fell off their horses when they rushed to the top of a hill made of horses.

To say that the Manchu army can fight is really not false, those divided Qing army rarely surrendered, as long as a few people get together and do not kill them, they just do not surrender. The Qing army was divided into sections by a mass of fire on the road, with the prince's officers and soldiers holding shields in front, followed by musketeers at the kiln post and dismounted cavalry and infantry. The soldiers in front kept firing down the hill with bows and arrows, and the musketeers did not move. Because the general trend has been set, he has the advantage of initiative and numbers in this regard. So, the confidence of the musketeers is understandable. Only when they get close to the front, when they encounter a difficult problem, will the musketeers go over and give a shot to solve the problem. Those Han banner troops were easy to deal with, desperately resisting for a while, and when they saw that something was not good, they had already laid down their weapons and waited to surrender on the side.

The officials and soldiers brought by those princes and princes had just lost the battle, and what they didn't expect was that when they arrived here, they suddenly reversed. Now they are the victors. They felt strange, the troops and horses led by their general soldiers were no worse than the Qing army, the people were not less than the Qing army, and the weapons were stronger than the Qing army. But why can't they defeat the Qing army? When I came here, I saw that the Qing army also had a head and two hands, and the head fell off when the knife went down, and it was nothing remarkable. Why was he so afraid of the Qing army before?

The situation on the battlefield is certain, and it will be commanded by Liu Yun to clean up the mess.

Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, Ouyang He, and Wang Gonggong have already begun to study the next move.

Ouyang He said: "If it is really as the Qing army claims, they have dispatched 100,000 troops this time, then we have already destroyed a small half of them." Their army is no longer enough to operate in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and I am afraid that they will definitely start to flee after learning that this Qing army has been annihilated. We have to quickly clean up the battlefield, paste it, entangle them, and wait for the Ming army to come. We cooperated with them to destroy the remaining Qing army. ”

The battlefield was quickly and simply cleaned, and this time a total of more than 500 Qing prisoners, more than 7,000 Han Banner prisoners, and more than 17,000 horses were captured.

These war horses, Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He discussed all of them to the prince, because he had many people but few horses. This made the prince very happy, and he said, "I deserve so many war horses for us." The credit for this time is mainly yours, but the horses are given to us. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Without the 20,000 tiger and wolf army you led, how dare we ambush such a Qing army." The main battlefield is still yours to solve, so you're welcome. Now, let's not let these Qing troops escape, these two times, the Qing army has already been injured, and they will definitely be ready to escape. ”

Wang Gonggong said: "I said Zhang Dongjia, now the Qing army is still stronger than us." We won this time, but we still used ingenuity, and I will lose again if we hit it hard. ”

Zhang Zhimu called Li Jing and said, "Can you still hold on?" If it's okay, go out again to reconnoiter and see if the Qing army has any movements. ”

Li Jing said: "No problem, we didn't participate in the encirclement and annihilation of Fang Cai, we all hurried up to sleep." We know it's over, and it's time for us. ”

Zhang Zhimu was very happy, he liked Li Jing's cleverness, and said, "Then go quickly!" Stay safe. "Pay attention to safety" is pure nonsense, it just means that Zhang Zhimu cares about them.

As soon as Li Jing left, Li Zhi led Meng Si'er over, Li Zhi said: "I have just interrogated the prisoners and learned that this time it was Abatai's three sons who led the team, and that Abatai was seriously injured when we attacked the camp, and this time the whole red flag came, that is to say. The white flag and the red flag were extinguished by us. ”

At this time, Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He came over and said, "Mr. Zhang, let's act quickly, otherwise the Qing army will run away." ”

Zhang Zhimu didn't answer, and said to Li Zhi and Meng Si'er: "You must find out Abatai's three sons, I will be of great use." ”

Li Zhi and Meng Si'er agreed and went down.

At this time, Zhang Zhimu saw that there was no one else, and said: "We should go home, otherwise we won't be able to go back before the year." I still want to go home for the New Year. ”

Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He looked at each other, but they didn't understand what Zhang Zhimu meant.

Zhang Zhimu said: "These two battles have already damaged the vitality of the Qing army. Two of the Eight Banners were destroyed, and if they wanted to fight again, they would have to recover for a while. Our goal was achieved. Besides, the trapped beasts are still fighting, and we will catch up now, and the Qing army will inevitably fight to the death with us in order to survive. We have no choice but to fight hard. We're going to suffer a big loss. Leave the rest to the Ming army, those Ming troops will fight cheaply. Don't you know how rabbits and dogs cook? ”

Ouyang He and Chen Yufeng suddenly realized, and Ouyang He asked: "What does Mr. Zhang mean, now is not the time for the rabbit to die?" ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Exactly. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "Then you can't wait here, if they escape quickly, they will leave a lot of things, we will get some things and go back." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "They have cut off the waterway for the grain, and the grain cannot be missing. When we go back to those people, food is very important to us. But we'll get to where we're done. ”

All the prisoners of the Qing army have been handed over to the officials and soldiers of the princes, and the prisoners of the Han Banner Army are being dealt with in groups according to their original establishment. It's still the old way, let them expose each other, see who has killed someone, and killing people on the battlefield doesn't count. It mainly refers to those who have killed the people, and finally singled out more than two people, there are more than 4,000 people, more than 1,000 people who have killed one person, and more than 1,000 people who have raped women but have not killed people, and only more than 1,000 people have not done bad things, so it can be seen that these Han Banner Army helped the Qing army to do bad things.

The reason why more than 1,000 people have never done anything bad is because the generals surrendered, and they had no choice but to surrender. But they resolutely do not kill their fellow citizens. Zhang Zhimu personally visited them and expressed great sympathy for them.

Zhang Zhimu said: "It is commendable that you can maintain your innocence in such an environment. I salute you, your surrender is not your fault, your generals have surrendered, you cannot fail to obey orders, and the responsibility is not yours. But the imperial court will not care about this, you all know what will happen to you if you fall into the hands of the official army. Now I give you a chance, if you are willing to join us, we will provide you with protection. ”

Zhang Zhimu's words brought tears to the eyes of many people.

Then Zhang Zhimu told them about the kiln gang that he had memorized. More than 1,000 people happily agreed to join the team of the kiln. Liu Yun took more than 1,000 people to another place and told them the rules of the kiln. Then they were organized into a brigade, ten squadrons, a hundred squads. All the captains are from the current team. Some of the new Ming soldiers who had been captured by the Mongol army had not yet arrived in Yaogang, and now they began to hold certain positions.

Zhang Zhimu found the prince again and said to him: "These people who have killed 5,000 people will be taken away for you, and those who have not killed people will be taken away." Because I need a lot of people for my smelter mine, they are a lot of silver for me. Those captives are also silver to you. ”

The prince said, "Actually, go back and kill them as if you were here to kill them." These men will surely die when they return. It's better to kill here to save trouble. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I don't want to kill so many people. ”

The prince laughed and said, "No wonder the emperor said that you have too good a heart and no imperial heart." ”

When Zhang Zhimu heard this, he was very happy. It's great that this emperor doesn't doubt himself.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Princess, your contribution this time is too great. When you go back, the emperor will definitely reward you a lot. ”

Wang Gonggong said: "It doesn't matter if you reward it or not, just follow Zhang Dong's family out to do things happily." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Princess, this time there is a chance to make greater contributions to the emperor. Would you like to? ”

The prince said: "Yes, I just want to make more meritorious contributions when I come out of the palace." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Your army should rest quickly, and there will be news of the Qing army when Li Jing comes back in a while, and when the Qing army retreats, you will follow them with your team." Now immediately send someone to send a letter to the emperor, only he can urge those who hold military power to send troops, and you will accompany him in the back. My team has been fighting all the time, and it's time to take a break. ”

The prince said, "Don't mind. Such a good opportunity, it would be too boring if you didn't make a move. Now is the time for you to make meritorious contributions. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Princess, I am different from you. I don't have the money to fight with them. My people came out as soldiers, and they were all workers at home, and when one died, when they returned, even their families had to be arranged. Can I compare with the officers and soldiers? Their deaths and injuries were arranged with the help of the imperial court, and there was no way to worry about it. As I said, I came out to entangle them, and when the official army arrived, they would destroy these Qing troops. ”

When Wang Gonggong heard what Zhang Zhimu said, he was right, and said, "Oh, I didn't want to bring this layer." No wonder you have to take in some captives so that they can compensate you. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "After we say goodbye this time, you will have to follow the Qing army." I took a break and rushed back for the New Year. ”

Wang Gonggong said: "Why are you in a hurry for the New Year. Oops, you've forgotten that it's leap November, right? ”

Zhang Zhimu asked: "Is this really leap November?" ”

"Is this still fake?" Wang Gonggong said.

Zhang Zhimu said: "After saying goodbye today, I don't know when I will see you again." The prince went back and told the emperor that Zhimu had done his best. If I'm going to get involved, I don't have the strength anymore, so I'll have to go back to my job now. ”

The news that Li Jing Pegasus rushed back to report surprised everyone. It turned out that Li Jing found that things were not good, and the Qing army had already shown signs of action. So Li Jing hurriedly came back to report.

Originally, everyone thought that the Qing army would definitely get the news of the annihilation of these Qing troops before they would take retreat actions. Because the actions of tens of thousands of people do not move all at once.

Zhang Zhimu discussed with the prince that he must act now. Otherwise, it may not be able to keep up with the Qing army, but fortunately, the 20,000 people of the prince have horses.

Wang Gonggong said to Zhang Zhimu and Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He: "I am one step ahead, everyone take care." We have a long way to go. He turned around and walked away with someone.

Zhang Zhimu said: "We follow them. After they caught up with the Qing army, we began to receive supplies. ”

It turned out that after Abatai's two sons took away the troops, those Qing generals didn't know what to do and were very anxious. The deputy commander was also burned by the fire in Li Wei's attack, and although it was not life-threatening, it was also very serious. After he finished taking the medicine, he rested in a tent. He didn't expect that Abatai to be injured more seriously than him. After waiting for a long time, this deputy commander Turg felt that something was wrong, he was so seriously injured, that Abatai should come to visit him, how could he not even take a picture.

He asked his soldiers, who were accompanying him, what Abatai was doing. He was taken aback by the soldier's answer, it turned out that Abatai had been injured, heavier than himself, and was already unconscious. Originally, he saw that the Qing army's baggage was robbed, the white flag was annihilated, and the Qing army had suffered heavy losses. But unexpectedly, this Abatai himself was seriously injured. When he heard that Abatai's three sons, with 20,000 men and horses, had gone out in pursuit of the attackers, he felt like a thunderbolt and knew that something was wrong. The attackers were clearly lured into pursuit, and the 20,000 men were more than lucky. The originally weakened Qing army, more than 20,000 people are wiped out, then they will be even more dangerous. Because this is the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty after all. With such an army, they are in danger of being wiped out at any time.

Thinking of this deputy commander, Turg, he struggled to sit up and told his soldiers to call a meeting of the generals.

After the generals came to Turge's tent, Turg told the generals that Ma Shan quietly made preparations to withdraw from the Ming Dynasty, dropped all his baggage, and set off immediately when he was ready, otherwise the Ming army reacted, and none of us could leave.

Someone asked what to do with the man who went out in pursuit? Turg said: "If they act on their own, let it be the fate of heaven." He knew that it was unlikely that these people would be able to come back, and it could be seen from the methods of the attackers that these attackers were definitely not comparable to the ordinary Ming army.

Because they were afraid that the Ming army would pursue when they retreated, when these Qing troops withdrew from the camp, they all quietly and did not bring anything with them, but they rode alone and in pairs, with some food, and ran away in a hurry.

For them, their people were the most important, because the Manchu people were scarce, which was also their weakest point compared to the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, this Turg thinks that it is the best policy to minimize the loss of personnel now.

When the prince found out that the Qing army had abandoned the camp and fled, he immediately ordered the pursuit to begin, but to keep a distance from the Qing army.

After Zhang Zhimu and the others arrived, they went directly to their other baggage camp, which was full of food and other supplies. But there is too much grain here, one hundred and twenty thousand stones. Zhang Zhimu knew that he couldn't transport so much food by his own strength. So they gathered all the wagons and camels that could be used, and loaded them with as much food as they could. Later, Ouyang He saw that the Qing army's cowhide tent was also good, and began to install these tents and other supplies.

Chen Yufeng also found that there were a few cannons that the Qing army had not taken away, and wanted to bring the cannons with him. Zhang Zhimu said that those used as scrap copper are okay, and if they are not good to bring, forget it.

This time, it took a whole day of work to load the car. There were 3,000 wagons and more than 1,000 camels. More than 2,000 mules and horses. There are more than 1,000 young and middle-aged people and more than 200 women.

Everyone was so busy that Zhang Zhimu decided to rest for the night today and leave tomorrow morning. But I stayed here all night and caused a lot of trouble.

When he got up early in the morning, Zhang Zhimu sent people to contact the defenders in Hejian City and asked them to take over the grain that could not be taken away. These defenders also noticed that there was an unusual movement in the camp of the Qing army, and they did not attack the city for a day today. Hearing the news, the whole city naturally celebrated with joy.

After informing them, Zhang Zhimu's team marched westward. But they didn't go far before the team stopped. It turned out that the general army of Zhongshu Province led people to block the way. This chief soldier, when he was besieged in Hejian, he did not come out to support, but when he heard that the prince sent him a report that the Qing army had run away and asked him to send troops to follow the pursuit, he came to the spirit and led the army out, just blocking Zhang Zhimu's way. Zhang Zhimu asked Liu Yun to show them the bronze medal given by the emperor. But they said that people could be released, but that the seized goods had to be left behind. Zhang Zhimu personally went over to tell them, but it was useless to say anything.

Zhang Zhimu said that we should go back and go elsewhere. But they wouldn't let them go back.

There's no way, Zhang Zhimu thinks that these dog things won't work if they don't teach them a lesson. Even with the bronze medal in their hands, they dare to be so rude, so can ordinary people still be good when they meet them?

Zhang Zhimu asked Li Zhi beside him: "This place is very close to your house, it just so happened that we went to your house to have a look, what do you think?" ”

Li Zhi immediately understood and said: "Okay, it's good to go from my Hengshui to Zhending (now Zhengding), from Zhending to the west along the Hutuo River, and cross the Taihang Mountain to Xiurong." ”

After listening, Zhang Zhimu ordered Li Jing and Li Zhi to lead the way, and after Liu Yun and Li Wei broke off, the whole team pulled out. "Killed" by the interceptor.

This is equivalent to Zhang Zhimu giving a battle order. Liu Yun and Liu Chenghuang immediately broke off. Zhang Zhimu asked Li Wei to participate because he was ready to make a dead move.

These officials and soldiers who don't know whether they are alive or dead, they still have to press step by step, they feel that no one in the Ming Dynasty dares to do anything to them, because it is a crime of rebellion to resist them.

So they not only pressed step by step, but also prepared to come over and rob it.

Liu Yun saw that he couldn't do it if he didn't do it, he raised his hand and "touched" the first shot, and hit the sergeant who was about to do it. The shrapnel knocked this guy through a sieve.

At this moment, the officers and soldiers were in a mess and shouted: "It's the other way around."

These officers and soldiers drew their swords one after another and rushed over. Liu Yun's brothers had been waiting impatiently. The sound of muskets was remembered, and the officers and soldiers fell to the ground. The rest of the officers and soldiers ran away in fright. Liu Yun: They ran away and didn't chase after them. Just lead the team to follow behind the brigade and press the formation. After waiting for a while, another cavalry chased after him and shouted: "Be bold against the thief, dismount and die." ”

Liu Yun also shouted: "If you chase again, I will kill you." ”

But these arrogant guys didn't meet the Qing army very well. He saw that the procession in front of him was dressed up as some people, and he came to the head of the spirit. Brandishing a knife, he rushed over. Liu Yun and the others had no choice but to shoot again. At this time, more than half of the pursuers were defeated. The rest of the horses galloped back. Since then, no pursuers have been seen.

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By the way, I recommend "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty", similar to this article, it is also a "technology flow" through the novel, but it takes place in the Southern Song Dynasty, Yashan, Anti-Yuan, Restoration, and European World Wars.