Chapter 130: Capturing Li Guo Alive

The more than 1,000 original Han Banner officers and soldiers who joined the kiln gang team also made Liu Yun very satisfied, they turned out to be the elite of the Ming army, they were very well trained, and their personal skills were very good. In particular, many middle- and lower-ranking officers, in terms of personal ability, can be a top two. The middle- and lower-ranking officers of the Ming army were all selected according to their ability, especially the elite of the Qing army's combat front, and no one dared to be ambiguous in this regard, because incompetent officers would harm others and themselves on the battlefield.

In the past few days, Liu Yunzheng has led the officers and men to sum up the battle in addition to training. This is what Zhang Zhimu has repeatedly asked him for. Liu Yun also found this method to be very good, because it could well sum up the gains and losses in each battle and quickly improve the combat capability of officers and men. At the same time, according to Zhang Zhimu's request, Liu Yun also put forward the next step of the army's reorganization plan.

Because he slept a little late, Liu Yun felt as if he had just been confused for a while, when he heard an explosion from the direction of the kiln, followed by gunshots. Liu Yun, who woke up, immediately realized that something had happened to the kiln. At this time, Liu Yun complained to himself while getting dressed. He knew that Zhang Zhimu and Li Jing went to Lingshui Wharf, Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He went to Tongguan, and Yang Jing, the military cadre at home. In this case, I shouldn't leave the kiln for half a step.

However, at this time, Liu Yun was very sober, he knew that there were still 200 musketeers in the kiln gang, and more than 20 people in Li Jing were also on the side of the kiln gang. In a short time, a small number of enemy soldiers could not help them.

When Liu Yun went out, his officers and soldiers were running towards the horse fence one after another, and the first reaction of the cavalry was to find their own war horses, and they could only find confidence on horses.

At this time, Li Wei and Liu Chenghuang also ran over. Liu Yun instructed Li Wei not to leave this camp for a single step, to guard the gate of the cave, and no one was allowed to enter. He said: "If something happens to the food in the cave, these tens of thousands of people will starve to death in the winter." ”

Hearing Liu Yun's words, Li Wei, who originally wanted to ask for reinforcements from Yaogang, knew that he had to guard the grain in the cave.

Liu Yun and Liu Chenghuang brought a total of 2,000 cavalry to support the Yaogang side. Since the cavalry was dispatched, it was necessary to equip the saddle and form the whole team, so it was delayed a little. When Liu Yun arrived at Yaogang, he saw that the grassland fire in Gangbei was still burning, and there were fires burning in many places in the direction of the horse fence in the river. The people of Yaogang were already under the command of Lu Chengxiang and Yang Jing and began to put out the fire.

Yang Jing saw Liu Yun coming and said to him: "There are one or two thousand cavalry attacking, all of them are elite soldiers, we must not let them go, otherwise there will be endless troubles." You don't have to worry about the affairs here, keep up with them, and settle the battle when it is dawn. ”

Liu Yun knew that this Yang Jing was usually sober-minded, and now his opinion was very correct.

After listening to Yang Jing's words, Liu Yun said: "Thank you for the reminder, I'll leave it to you here." ”

Liu Yun left five hundred people to help deal with the affairs here, so he chased him out with the brigade.

When Zhang Zhimu and his party rushed back to the kiln, the fires in various parts of the kiln had been extinguished. But you can still smell burning. Look at the fires that burn here and there in the river. Zhang Zhimu could imagine how terrible the fire burned last night.

When Huang Yukun saw Zhang Zhimu coming back, tears couldn't stop flowing. Zhang Zhimu went over, hugged her and said, "It's okay, everything will pass." ”

Yan Boju and Lu Chengxiang also came over, just wanted to say something. Zhang Zhimu said to the two: "Come to my office and talk about it." ”

After the three of them went to Zhang Zhimu's office and sat down, Song Jiaxin and Yang Qinglian hurriedly brought water. Wait for the two girls to go out and close the door. Zhang Zhimu looked at Lu Chengxiang and Yan Boju's dusty faces and said, "It seems that our kiln gang has survived another catastrophe!" ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "No, it's too hanging." If something happens to Mr. Huang and the child, it's all over. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "As long as there is one person in the kiln, it will not be finished." ”

Yan Boju said: "Come on, don't talk about uselessness. Let's talk about the results. ”

After saying that, he took a big sip of water, and then said: "This time we have killed more than 700 people and injured more than 800. More than a dozen stacks of grass were burned. This time they were all Li Zicheng's soldiers, and a total of more than 800 of their cavalry were killed, and the seriously wounded were all returned to the dead, and more than a dozen wounded Zhang Bingchen gave them medicine, and Li Zhi's people also went over to ask, and they said, 'The details will be discussed when Li Zhi comes back.' knew that they were Li Zicheng's soldiers. The one who took the lead was called Li Guo. ’”

When Zhang Zhimu heard this, the leader called Li Guo, and he was shocked. He knew that Li Guo was a terrible character.

Zhang Zhimu took over and said: "If it is really Li Guo, it seems that Li Zicheng is doing our best." He is Li Zicheng's nephew and has followed Li Zicheng to rebel since he was a child. This man is both humanistic and martial, and has made many military exploits. ”

Yan Boju and Lu Chengxiang heard Zhang Zhimu say this, and they both wondered a little in their stomachs, how did this Zhang Zhimu know so much, and the two of them looked at each other in unison. Yan Boju said: "In this way, we will not be wronged if we suffer some of his losses. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I don't know if Liu Yun can deal with him, but I hope I can catch this guy." ”

Yan Boju said: "It seems that these people are very good at these methods of stealing chickens and dogs, if it weren't for the sneak attack, we wouldn't have suffered such a big loss." There were more than a dozen musketeers who died this time, and most of the dead were the workers who rushed up later and the newcomers, and these newcomers, who did not know where they came from, encountered the cavalry coming up, and went to fight hard. There were quite a few dead and wounded on the post. After those cavalry retreated, those young and strong tens of thousands of people under the post intercepted them with sticks, but only stopped a dozen people, but they cut more than 200 people with knives, miserable! These cavalry are all absolute elites, otherwise we would not have suffered such a big loss. The worst thing is that I feed the horses. Seventy or eighty of them were slain on the kang in the hut. The kang was full of blood, and I didn't dare to look at it. ”

Zhang Zhimu saw Yan Boju speaking for the first time with tears in his eyes.

Lu Chengxiang said: "Fortunately, our forage field was not completely burned. Thanks to Mr. Yan's strict view when he built the field, otherwise there would be a pile of ashes left today. ”

Yan Boju snorted noncommittally with his nose.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Mr. Lu, let's do it, if we don't have enough wood, we will buy some more, and we will make a coffin for all the brothers who died." They were all buried in the Martyrs' Garden. It seems that our martyrs' garden was left small at the beginning, and the hill in the east will be left to the martyrs in the future. Build a large cemetery, and we will all be buried there in the future, and we will all have companions at that time. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "We don't lack wood, and I will arrange someone to make the coffin tomorrow." I had the corpses of those enemy soldiers piled up by the river, and I had all our people carried back to the post, in a big shed, guarded day and night. ”

In fact, Lu Chengxiang still wanted to say, "More than 1,000 war horses were captured this time", but he felt that it was a bit inappropriate to say these things now, so he didn't say it.

Zhang Zhimu said: "When Uncle Chen comes back, we must hurry up and get out the construction plan and defense plan of the kiln gang, and we can't afford to suffer such a loss." ”

That night, Zhang Zhimu personally guarded the dead martyrs in the canopy, and Lu Chengxiang accompanied him. Zhang Zhimu asked Lu Chengxiang to go back and told him that there were many things waiting for him tomorrow. But Lu Chengxiang just didn't leave, saying that as long as Zhang Zhimu was here, he would always accompany him. Until the second half of the night, they really couldn't hold on, so Zhang Zhimu and Lu Chengxiang arranged for someone to take over. The two of them came to the bathhouse, and went down to soak in the hot water for a while before they could recover their strength.

At this time, some workers who were taking a bath after the night shift saw Zhang Zhimu taking a bath here, and they all came around.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Did you guys on the night shift have any losses last year? ”

One worker said: "Two of the people on the night shift last night were both cut. I went to see it, and after a few days of rest, I recovered, and the injury was not serious. ”

Another worker said: "Hearing the sound of ** and gunshots, we are on duty, and we are all guys going out." But Director Liu tried his best to stop him, but he didn't let him out. He said that it was important to keep the furnace, because if the furnace was damaged, the whole kiln would suffer. The workers on duty all copied the guys and stood by the fireside. If they dared to come in, our workers would pour them with molten iron and poke them with hammers dipped in molten iron. ”

When Zhang Zhimu and Lu Chengxiang heard this, they felt that this Director Liu was a person with brains, and said: "I think it's thanks to those cavalry that they didn't dare to deal with your iron-making furnace, otherwise they wouldn't be pleased." Ha ha! Zhang Zhimu finally relaxed a little.

A worker said: "Yesterday's incident came too suddenly, otherwise we don't need Liu Yun and them, and if we workers are prepared, we won't let them take advantage." ”

Zhang Zhimu's heart moved, and said: "Thank you so much to our brothers yesterday, many brothers sacrificed their lives for this matter. If it weren't for the brothers, the loss would have been even greater. ”

The workers gossiped and said: "Mr. Zhang, don't be sad, we all feel that if we died yesterday, we would not be wronged." No one treated us as human beings before, but after arriving at the kiln, I felt that we had lived in vain before, and this period was the life of people. For the sake of our kiln gang to die, at least we can have a coffin, enter the martyr's cemetery, and the ancestors will be glorified. ”

Zhang Zhimu was also moved by the workers' words. Lu Chengxiang said: "See, Mr. Zhang." The hearts of our kiln gang are all connected, and everyone bears things together. ”

Zhang Zhimu suddenly had the words "all the people are soldiers" in his mind, the people in Yaogang are united, but they are not well organized, and there is no emergency plan for accidents. Large-scale military cultivation is unrealistic now. In the past, the good habit of workers having to carry out military training should be adhered to, but now there are a bit more soldiers, and just take out some of them to participate in training as officers, and the rest of them will be half-army and half-work.

Liu Yun: They led the team back on the night of the second day after Zhang Zhimu returned to Yaogang.

That night, Liu Yun saw that Yaogang had suffered a lot of losses, and he was very self-blaming. His officers and men had won several victories in a row, and soon after they returned to the kiln, they suffered such losses that they felt as if they had been slapped in the face. Without Liu Yun's mobilization, everyone used the starlight to urge the horses to chase along the horse's hoof prints left on the snow.

But Liu Yun and the others chased until dawn and didn't catch up. But the horseshoe mark is obvious, and the target is ahead.

Li Guo was a battle-hardened and very clever general, and he knew that when he escaped in the snow, he could not disguise himself or take a detour, but he had to move forward as fast as possible, so as to widen the distance between his pursuers as much as possible. With intuition, Li Guo knew that the pursuers in Yaogang would not be too far away. But this Li Guo is not very afraid, he doesn't know how many times he has passed through such a thing. What's more, although he lost seven or eight hundred soldiers, he still had more than a thousand elite cavalry that were very suitable for field warfare. With these cavalry, Li Guo has a lot of confidence in his heart. He is now depressed that this carefully prepared operation failed, and he went back a little shamelessly to see his uncle Li Zicheng, this errand was won by his repeated efforts, and this time, his face was lost. He was even wondering if it would be to take advantage of the chaos in the kiln gang to kill a horse pistol.

When it was almost noon, Li Guo heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him. He thought to himself, since the opponent is here, he will meet them, and see what magical powers they have. He commanded his men to stop, lined up in several rows, and waited for the pursuers behind. This Li Guo is very experienced, and he found that the opponent's formation was very chaotic due to the rapid pursuit. He wanted to take advantage of the opponent's unpreparedness, kill the horse pistol, and disrupt the opponent at once. However, instead of sending all his men and horses to rush over, he sent five hundred cavalry to quickly rush towards Liu Yun's team.

Liu Yun brought out 2,000 cavalry this time, leaving 500 people in Yaogang, and he no longer had much advantage in numbers. But there were 500 musketeers in his ranks, which was also the basis for Liu Yun to dare to pursue boldly.

Li Guo's return to the horse gun can not but be said to be a ruthless move, if Liu Yun's team is suddenly disrupted, the cavalry behind Li Guo will directly press back and wipe them out.

However, Liu Yun led the team to pursue in front, and Liu Chenghuang was studying cavalry tactics every day. When he saw that his opponent was coming with such a move, he immediately stopped the team. When Li Guo's 500 cavalry rushed to the front of Liu Yun's team, they found that the pursuers not only did not panic, but also set up a strange formation. Several people gathered in a group, not rushing up, but standing in place. This made the attacking cavalry a little incomprehensible, but the rushing cavalry could not stop, so they had to continue to rush forward. But when they rushed closer, Liu Yun's musketeers opened fire, and the five hundred musketeers dealt with the five hundred cavalry at close range, each firing two shotguns together, and the torrent of impact was suddenly drowned in the smoke rising after a "bang" sound, and some of those who were not knocked off their horses by the muskets were pinned by several people, and they were all solved in a few moments. Li Guo, who was in the distance, felt nervous when he saw this scene, he was shocked by the powerful lethality of these muskets last night, but he didn't expect that the cavalry could still use muskets like this. Seeing that things were not good, he did not hesitate to pick up the horse and turn around, and ran away as soon as he said hello and took the lead.

Li Yun and Liu Chenghuang couldn't let them go, leaving a few people behind to bring back the ownerless horse pen that had run away, and the others continued to chase after them.

The operation was rigorously planned, and Li Guo's retreat route was to go south from Yaogang, along the Xiaoling River and then eastward, and then across the Xiaoling River to the northwest, where he was to cross the Fen River and then south to the Yellow River. In this way, you can avoid the place where the Ming army is stationed by the brigade, and you can also get rid of the pursuers of the kiln gang by turning a few times.

However, the pursuers of Yaogang entangled them, and those turning movements were useless, and they ran directly in the direction of the Fen River to the west.

Liu Yun and the others were chasing, and suddenly found that more than 100 war horses suddenly stopped in the fleeing team, and quickly formed a horizontal team to stop Liu Yun and their pursuers. Liu Yun knew very well that this was a small team sent by the other party, which was used to delay the pursuit of the soldiers. Liu Yun and Liu Chenghuang did not stop the horses, the musketeers rushed directly in front, as soon as they approached the musketeers, a row of guns shot over, few of the cavalry intercepted by this row could still be on the horse, and the remaining few cavalrymen rushed up with their swords, and Liu Yun and their two cavalry were also injured by them. The angry Liu Yun didn't leave any of them.

When Liu Yun and the others pursued further, they found that the other party had already divided into two ways. Judging from the horseshoe prints, there are as many people as the two groups, and it is impossible to tell which is the team with the headband. Liu Yun and Liu Chenghuang discussed and decided that we would also divide the troops, Liu Yun and Liu Chenghuang each led one road, and they also divided the team equally, especially the musketeers.

The direction of these two escapes is in the direction of the Fen River, but one road is directly to the west and straight to the Fen River, and the other road is slightly southwest, which is also in the direction of the Fen River. Liu Yunled the way to pursue the road to the west, and Liu Chenghuang pursued the road to the southwest.

Until the sun was in the west, when they were about to reach the Fen River, Liu Yun and the others finally caught up with this way. It was Li Guo who led the team along the way. Li Guo saw that he really couldn't go, so he stopped his horse, turned around to face Liu Yun and them, and shouted at Liu Yun: "This hero, why are you struggling with each other? ”

Liu Yun looked at this extraordinary person and said: "On a cold day, I don't want to come out and be cold, but if I don't come out, those unjust souls who died last night will not let me go, I'm afraid of nightmares at night." ”

Li Guo asked, "Who is this hero?" Can I get a name? ”

Liu Yun replied: "The rivers and lakes gave me a mixed name 'Out of the River Dragon', and Liu Yun is me." ”

Li Guo hugged his fists and said: "No wonder, it's the hero of the Huwei Dart Game." Under the tent of the king, 'a tiger' Li Guo. I don't think it's possible for you to spare us today. How about we take a gamble? ”

Liu Yun said: "I have heard of General Li's name for a long time. But your capital is about to run out today, so why don't you go back with me now, I will treat you well. Let's not bother so much? ”

Li Guo also wanted to be clever, and said: "You are also a famous hero, today you all rely on the fire in your hands to defeat us, we are a little unconvinced." Why don't we two divide the high and low in front of the brothers, and admit the loss no matter who wins or loses? ”

In fact, Li Guo is already a bit of a scoundrel, but he knows the weaknesses of these people in the rivers and lakes, and if they are provoked, they will take care of their face, and they don't care about anything else. But Liu Yun is not such a person, he doesn't pay attention to this Li Guo's kung fu at all.

Liu Yun said: "You are already the prey in my hands, and it is very unfair for you to say this." But in order to convince you, I will accompany you for a few laps, do you say we are riding or walking? ”

Li Guo said: "Let's not get off the horse, it's too troublesome." As he spoke, he took a spear from his horse and held it in his hand.

At this time, Liu Yun was also with a spear in his hand.

The men and horses on both sides were divided into two sides.

Immediately both of them were spears, they stood opposite each other, staring at each other, letting the cold wind of the setting sun blow on their faces, and neither of them moved, only the tip of the spear shone with a cold light, and the hair was shaking. As the murderous aura became heavier and heavier, the air seemed to be frozen, and the people on both sides did not dare to come out of the atmosphere suppressed by this dignified aura. The mounts of the two of them couldn't stand the oppressive atmosphere, and they couldn't stop curling their hooves and neighing.

Suddenly, both men urged their horses forward with their spears, and in a moment their spears collided with each other, and at the same time staggered their saddles. The two sides returned to the horse and fought again. At this time, both of them had already weighed out each other's weight, and only the two of them knew that although Li Guo had been in battle for a long time and was more than brave, in terms of skill, he was a big step behind Liu Yun.

As soon as the two sides fought, as soon as the two of them touched the big gun, Li Guo felt that his hands were numb, and the big gun almost came off. And Liu Yun could see that the opponent's strength was good, but the heat was still a little worse.

After the two sides stood firm again, Liu Yun shouted: "Are you still fighting?" ”

Li Guo smiled and said, "Have you ever heard that there are generals under King Chuang's tent who surrender without a fight?" ”

Liu Yun saw that it was getting late, and thought that he couldn't delay any longer, so he didn't talk, rode forward, and the two fought for another round, at this time Li Guo was already sweating profusely, this is still Liu Yun a little sympathetic, and his subordinates showed mercy. He wanted to capture this Li Guo alive. But Li Guo knew that he was already invincible, but he must not be captured, if that was the case, what kind of blow would be dealt to the camp of the king, he knew too well. But the desire to survive made him unable to make up his mind to break himself.

At this time, the soldiers in the camps of both sides had already seen the clues.

Liu Yun saw that the opponent had not given up, so when he looked at him again, he used his gun to knock Li Guo's spear away, and knocked him off the horse with the barrel of the gun. The soldiers on both sides rushed up, Li Guo's people wanted to take Li Guo back, and Liu Yun's people wanted to go over and tie Li Guo. The people who didn't wait for Li Guo to come forward, Liu Yun's musketeers, who had been waiting impatiently, beat them down half as soon as a row of guns passed. After the second row of guns rang out, Li Guo's cavalry only had a dozen horses and still men. At this time, Li Guo, who fell to the ground, suddenly jumped up, grabbed a saber on the ground, and wiped the blade towards his neck, the speed was too fast. But at this time, a musketeer happened to rush to Li Guo's side, and when he saw this, he almost put the muzzle of the gun against the arm of Li Guo's knife-holding hand and fired a shot. The shotgun knocked this arm to only a bit of flesh. Li Guo was also hit by a huge impact and fell to the ground.

Over there, when Liu Yun's cavalry was dealing with the remaining dozen or so cavalry, the original cavalrymen who had newly joined the Yaogang team shouted that they would not let the musketeers shoot again. Let them leave these few to them.

Although Li Guo's cavalry were all elite, now that their morale was in turmoil, they knew that they would not be able to escape today, so they could only fight hard. Liu Yun's cavalry was in control, and they just wanted to show their skills in front of Liu Yun, as if they were playing with prey. They surrounded the dozen or so men and told them that they could live if they dismounted and surrendered now. Otherwise, those who want to survive will come out one by one, fight one-on-one, and those who win can also live. These people are certainly willing to do it one-on-one.

On Liu Yun's side, the people who came out were all the original cavalry officers, and they were all extraordinary. At the cost of two wounded, these dozen people were cut off their horses.

At this time, Liu Yun had already bandaged Li Guo's wounds. Liu Yun ordered the scattered war horses to circle back and move south along the Fen River, in the direction of Liu Chenghuang's pursuit.

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