Chapter 145: Snatching the Baggage

Li Jing's special forces took advantage of the fact that the sky was not bright, and after eliminating all the sentinels on guard around them, they sent out a signal. At this time, according to the plan, Liu Chenghuang should take 200 people to occupy the mountain pass, cut off the connection between the Qing army and this baggage base, cover Liu Yun and they get rid of the defenders, and transport the baggage away. But Liu Chenghuang saw that the people in the baggage camp had just woken up and were cooking on a fire, so he didn't pay attention to what anyone was doing outside. It was also the art master who was bold, and Liu Chenghuang ordered the 200 people who acted with him to get on the horse and line up, and walked to the mountain pass unhurriedly. The soldiers in the baggage camp saw a group of men and horses walking towards the mountain pass, and at most they looked up and did not pay any more attention. In this way, Liu Chenghuang and the others generously occupied the mountain pass, and then sent a signal to inform the commander-in-chief Chen Yufeng that they had arrived smoothly. In fact, there is no need for Liu Chenghuang to send a signal, Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, Ouyang He and others have already seen Liu Chenghuang's feat. At this time, Chen Yufeng issued an order, and Liu Yun and Yang Jing each led a team of men and began to accelerate towards the camp. By the time the people in the camp noticed that someone had rushed in, it was too late to get on the horse. The cavalry that charged the camp was basically an ordinary cavalry with a musket cavalry, and at this time, the cavalry of the Ming army could use their means, and the cavalry had almost no suspense against the infantry under the horse. Even if a few Qing troops found horses, they would become targets for musketeers when they got on the horses. The musketeers who stormed the camp were basically shotguns. When encountering a single infantryman, there are cavalry to solve it with sabers. When encountering a large number of people, the musketeers went over to "bump" and knocked down a piece with a shotgun. This time, the teams led by Liu Yun and Yang Jing were hedged from two directions, and when the two sides converged, there was not much left of the Qing army and the Han Banner army in the camp, because these Qing troops and the Han Banner army were too concentrated, so they were easy to annihilate. All that's left is to search for the remnants of the enemy. Those captured young and strong people did not dare to act at first, but when they also saw that the Qing army and the Han Banner army that escorted them had been almost wiped out. These people, who had been suppressed by hatred for a long time, picked up the sticks in their hands and began to hunt down the Qing army and the Han Banner army who were hiding. Now the whole camp will be in chaos, and the living Qing army will be beaten to death by all of them, who are red-eyed by hatred, and those who can't find the ones alive will take out their anger at the dead Qing army. They had seen too many of their fellow citizens killed by these brutes. I finally got a bad breath today.

The battle was surprisingly short, and the situation was quickly brought under control. The trouble is that these captured young people, they are still angry after killing the Qing army, and they want to kill these materials, and some people even want to set fire to these things. Liu Yun and Yang Jing fired several shots into the sky before the situation stabilized. Liu Yun told them loudly, the Qing army of the brigade is next to it, you are in such a mess, the Qing army will come over for a while, and no one will be able to escape. Hearing this, these people quieted down. Liu Yun said loudly: "Now that the weather is cold, if you run out like this, you will starve to death, why don't you go back to Yaogang with us, where you can give everyone a place to eat and stay, and when the weather is warm, everyone will go there if they want to go there." ”

As soon as these people saw that they had no other choice, they all agreed and were willing to go to the kiln.

Liu Yun began to arrange for these people to set up and load the car, and slowly divided them into groups. Those who wore it took off the clothes of the Qing army and put them on. What made Zhang Zhimu and the others feel strange was that no one from the Qing army besieging Hejian on the other side of the mountain pass came to ask what was going on here. Maybe it's a small valley and the sound can't be heard, or maybe it's because, in their opinion, the Ming army is only beaten, and has lost the courage to attack, so they don't think that the Ming army will attack. After all the cars were loaded, Zhang Zhimu saw that there were still a lot of cooked meat of the Qing army and the Han Banner Army in the pot, Zhang Zhimu told these young men and women to hurry up and eat something, and then bring all the pots. Only then did these people remember that they were hungry, and Ma Shan came over to grab something to eat.

When these people were ready to set off, Zhang Zhimu found that there were a lot of cattle, sheep, mules, horses, etc. in the fence over there, which were all stolen by the Qing army all the way. Zhang Zhimu told Liu Yunyi, Liu Yun asked loudly if these young and strong people knew how to ride horses, and many people came to say that they could ride horses. Liu Yun called over hundreds of people who could ride horses, let them ride these mules and horses, and drove away all these cattle and sheep.

Of the 200 infantry who escorted them, twenty of them set off first, and they waited for a long time before the back of the line was dispatched, which was too long. Fifty infantry men were the last to press into formation. Zhang Zhimu told the team leader that he was not in a hurry to sort out the team, and tried to move forward as much as possible, even if there were some losses in the middle, he would not care about it, and then the team would be formed when the team was far away. Just put those boxes of valuable things and arrange for your own people to take care of them. Zhang Zhimu estimated that the wooden boxes containing dozens of heavy truckloads were either gold or silver, but there were too many people here to open them. I had to let the person who went back take care of it, and then talk about it when I got to the kiln. Due to sufficient time, the camp was evacuated cleanly. Everything else was withdrawn, and Chen Yufeng left a few cars of black ** and fierce fire oil behind. Li Wei came over to help arrange the burial site of **, fortunately, there are many pickaxes in this camp, and it is much more convenient to plow the ground. Zhang Zhimu said, the black ** in the camp doesn't need so much, we can take some of it away, these fierce fire oil is not easy to bring, we take some of it, and leave the rest here to set fire. When the sun had risen very high, only a few horses came over from the Qing army. Seeing this, Liu Chenghuang let go of these horses, and waited for them to come to the mountain pass before surrounding them. These people were still very knowledgeable, and when they saw that there were too many people surrounding them, they all dismounted and surrendered. It turned out that it was set yesterday to send ** to the front early this morning, because the ** for siege artillery ran out yesterday. But they waited in front of them all morning, and without **, they couldn't open fire, and the attack couldn't be carried out. I couldn't wait, so I sent them over to urge ** to come.

Zhang Zhimu knew through interrogating the prisoners that what happened here was unknown to the Qing army in front. But now is the time to let them know, Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He have all come to the mountain pass occupied by Liu Chenghuang, and look south, they can see from afar, and in front of them are the tents of the Qing army that cannot be seen. There seem to be a few cannons in the distance. Zhang Zhimu said: "Our next task is to bring the Qing army over. Then retreat to the mountain pass in the north to block the Qing army, so that the Qing army will concentrate in this valley, and we can exert the power of **. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "I think we sent a musketeer with a ** bag, and suddenly rushed over while they were unprepared, and blew up their artillery." Then they withdrew, and if there were few people coming, they were at this pass, and if there were many people, they were to be withdrawn directly to the mountain pass to the north to stop them. ”

Ouyang He said: "After Liu Chenghuang and them start, we will set a little more fireworks in this valley to let them know that their baggage has been set on fire." They'll definitely send someone back. ”

When the plan was set, everyone retreated to their respective positions.

Liu Chenghuang was still in the old way, and led 200 cavalry out of the mountain pass in an unhurried line and walked towards the Qing artillery position. When the distance was too close, the Qing army felt that something was wrong, and Liu Chenghuang's musketeers began to exert their might. Suddenly, the muskets rang out. These artillerymen don't have much combat effectiveness in the first place, they are the opponents of these people, and more than a thousand people will be defeated. Liu Chenghuang stuffed the prepared ** bags into the muzzles of several red-coat cannons, and put the remaining ** bags on their shell piles. At this time, the Qing soldiers had already galloped over on horseback in the distance, and Liu Chenghuang ordered the fire to be lit, and everyone lit the fire together. Then get on the horse and gallop back. When the Qing cavalry who came to support arrived at the artillery position, they saw that the artillerymen had fallen to the ground, and they were shot and died one by one. This time it was a Niulu cavalry who came to the rescue, they were the closest to here, and suddenly heard the sound of "fire guns" that they thought they thought, they thought that the Ming army's Shenji battalion had come to attack the artillery position, and they couldn't organize a lot of troops to support at once, so they sent the nearest Niulu cavalry. When they arrived at the artillery position, the attacker had already left, and they were just about to chase forward, when a soldier suddenly found that there was a **twist burning, and shouted "**! ”。 Before anyone else could figure out what was going on, it exploded. The cannon barrel full of ** was shattered, and the shells were also detonated by the ** bag, causing a chain explosion, and the rumbling explosion blew up the entire 300 cavalry of Niu Lu, a Niu Lu who came to the aid this time.

This explosion not only blew up the cavalry of Niu Lu, but also frightened the cavalry that came later, their armored cavalry. It turned out that after sending this Niu Lu, their Jia Lae Zhen sorted out the rest of the team and followed. There is a reason why the Manchu army was able to win the war, and with their rapid reaction ability and sense of responsibility, it was not comparable to the Ming army. They didn't wait for the order from the higher level before they took the initiative to rush to help.

But the explosion in front of him made this Jia La's forehead really clear. Because not only did the artillery position in front of him explode, but the baggage camp in front also emitted billowing smoke, he said that it was not good, and he hurriedly sent someone to deliver a message to his Gushan Ezhen, and at the same time suppressed the team and did not dare to attack rashly. His solid mountain Ezhen is also Abatai's second son, Bo Hezhen, he has already formed a team to participate in today's attack, and he was waiting impatiently, when he heard the explosion behind him. After receiving the report, his heart sank, he knew that the attack on the baggage was not trivial, and at the same time he sent someone to report to his father, he took his Gushan seven or eight thousand people, and ordered more than 20,000 Han Banners who fought with him to follow him back to the baggage camp.

When Bo and Zhen came to the artillery position and saw the tragic situation of broken corpses in one place, his eyes were red with anger, he had never encountered such a defeat since he set out on the expedition. He immediately led his army to chase after the mountain pass. Liu Chenghuang, who was on the mountain pass, saw that a large group of pursuers were coming, and he wanted to drink honey happily. He knew that today's task was accomplished. Seeing that the pursuers were very close, he led his team to the north pass of the valley and rode away. The Qing troops who chased them to the mountain pass saw that the camp had been swept away except for a few fires, discarded supplies and dead bodies. Seeing the one or two hundred people still running wildly in front of him, Bo and Zhen jumped like thunder and ordered the pursuit. The cavalry entered the valley from the valley pass to the south, and when they reached the mountain pass to the north, they were in trouble. The mountain pass in front has been made of broken carriages, broken wood, large tree trunks, etc. At this time, Bo and Zhen understood that the opponent was prepared. Despite this, this arrogant Bo and Zhen did not think that they had been deceived. He believed that it was the opponent's fear of the pursuit of the blockade position. But in the face of these rejections, it is not possible to rush hard. They had no choice but to restrain their horses and send their horses to drag down the obstacles using the tactics they were accustomed to, but the bows and arrows that came down from the mountains on both sides of the pass shot down the cavalry who came up to drag the horses one by one. As soon as Bo and Bao delayed in front, a large group of people and horses behind poured into this small valley.

The Han Banner Army, who came in together, first found out that they were going to be fooled, but they didn't dare to say to the Qing Army that if these Qing Army masters were unhappy to hear it and cut off their heads in a rage, it would be easier than killing chickens.

Chen Yufeng, who was standing on a high place, saw that the Qing army brigade had already entered the valley, and he gave a signal. The crossbowmen led by Li Wei lifted off the camouflage on their bodies together, ignited the fire oil mine, and each of them shot out the fire oil laser according to the assigned location. These Qing soldiers were a little panicked when they found that there was an ambush around. But the perennial victory made them panic but not chaotic, and they were about to counterattack, and a batch of smoking things were shot from both sides. Although these Qing soldiers didn't know what they were shooting, they knew that good things would not be shot at them at this time. When these fire oil mines exploded with a "boom" and sprinkled the fiery fire oil on them, they knew that this was not good. As the fire oil mines continued to fall, countless horses and personnel were ignited with unquenchable fires, and in this small and crowded place, these horses began to collide and trample on each other. Immediately after that, the ** that was detonated by the oil mine exploded one after another, and each explosion was four hundred pounds of **earth-shattering. Those who were close to the explosion point were blown away, those who were a little closer were also killed by the explosion, and those who were farther away were also deaf by the shock wave. The explosions in turn ignited the fuel that had been left in the camp. The fire then burst into flames.

This time, Li Wei led people to bury two thousand catties of black **, and buried them in five places. One of them is buried next to a cliff not far from this mountain pass on the north side, this cliff is facing the valley, and Zhang Zhimu personally commanded the burial here. **It is buried in the root of the cliff, and it is full of stones on the black**, which can play the role of orientation**. It was the explosion of this black ** that killed this arrogant Bo He.

The shock wave of this 400-pound ** explosion sandwiched the stones, and swept the group of people and horses led by Bo and his relatives in front of the mountain pass in the north.

After the explosion of more than 2,000 catties of black **, there are not many Qing troops who can stand.

At this time, while the smoke of gunpowder had not dissipated, Liu Yun and Yang Jing rushed into the valley with their cavalry. Charging back and forth twice, there were no more Qing troops and Han banner troops standing in the valley. Chen Yufeng ordered, find the body of the boss, take it, and retreat immediately. At this time, Chen Yufeng didn't know that this person was Abatai's son, but he only knew that this was a big official with teeth and claws. This time, Li Zhi's men also lost no time in capturing two prisoners, one from the Han Banner Army and the other from the Qing Army.

Chen Yufeng knew that the Qing army in the rear brigade would chase after him immediately. Therefore, he ordered not to clean up the battlefield, but to retreat immediately, not even the war horses. Because firstly, there was no time, and secondly, the horses were injured by the explosion and were likely to die after not walking far.

Another purpose of this retreat was to lead the Qing army in the opposite direction of the withdrawal of the baggage team. Otherwise, the baggage team will go slowly, and it will be easy to be caught up by the Qing army.

The route of this retreat was chosen a long time ago, it was a path along a small hilly valley, although the road condition was not very good, but it was not afraid of pursuit, and no matter how many people there were in the opponent, it would not be able to show it.

The defender of the team is a special forces led by Li Jing, who always maintains contact with his opponents, so that he can understand the situation well.

On the way to retreat, Li Zhi suddenly ran to Zhang Zhimu's car and knocked on the door. Zhang Zhimu opened the car door, and Li Zhi got into Zhang Zhimu's car wrapped in a cold wind. As soon as Li Zhi sat down, he couldn't wait to say: "Mr. Zhang, this time we can make things bigger, you say, who is this general we killed this time?" ”

Chen Yufeng said: "Don't sell it, say it quickly." ”

"This guy who died is the second son of the commander of the Qing army, Abatai." Li Zhi said excitedly. It turned out that Li Zhi had begun to interrogate the prisoners in his car.

Zhang Zhimu knows this history very well, and it was this Bo He who followed Dolgon into Shanhaiguan and defeated Li Zicheng at a stone. Now that he's dead here, it looks like history is going to be rewritten.

Hearing the news, Ouyang He said, "Great, now we can hold Abatai's nose." ”

Zhang Zhimu and the others waited until it was almost dark before they set up camp near a village. In the camp, Zhang Zhimu asked everyone to cook meat to celebrate and have a good night's rest.

The commander of the Qing army, Abatai, has been too smooth since he entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty. First defeated Bai Tengjiao, the general soldier of Jixian County, and Bai Guangen, the general soldier of Ma Lanyu, and then he was invincible, but he was delayed in this river for a few days, and he thought that he could take this nasty place with one blow today. When you take this place, you will definitely kill all the people here to relieve your hatred. Unexpectedly, it was about to attack, and the artillerymen said that the ** that should have been sent yesterday was not delivered. The team on standby is waiting for **. This Abatai thought to himself that these heavy soldiers must have wasted too much energy on women, and they couldn't get up in the morning, and they even forgot about the military plane. After the war, they have to kill a few more to teach them a lesson. But before the ** was delivered, an explosion came from the position on the north side, and later it was reported that the artillery position on the north side was blown up, and many people died. It's been a rough day. In fact, what worried him more was the baggage camp, because the gold and silver equivalent of the silver they had stolen were there. Fortunately, his second son Bo and Zhen rushed away, and this Bo and Zhen have always made him feel very relieved. This child is brave and not reckless, and has made many military exploits, which is his hope for the future of Abatai.

Seeing that such a big thing was happening in the back, Abatai had no choice but to order to suspend the attack today. He went back to his big tent and waited for news from Bo and He, and the taste of waiting was very uncomfortable, because there were so many things in the camp that he couldn't help but worry about it. He wondered where these Han people got all these good things, as if they would never be able to grab them. He was waiting uneasily in the big tent when suddenly there were several loud bangs in the direction of the baggage camp. Abatai seemed to suddenly understand why he had been restless. He hurried out of the big tent, lit up his troops and horses, and ran in the direction of the baggage camp.

When they arrived at the baggage camp, the camp was full of dead bodies, and people couldn't get off their feet. Abatai was going crazy all at once, and he ordered Bo and Fu to be found out immediately. But I searched every corner and didn't find Bo He. This made Abatai feel a little lucky, maybe Bo and Zhen were still alive, maybe they were captured. If I get captured, I can find a way to exchange.

This Abatai can be the coach of Zhengming, definitely because he is a man with brains. Therefore, he did not mess up when he suddenly changed, and he did not immediately start a pursuit. He believed that since the Ming army dared to raid his baggage, they must be fully prepared, otherwise their Ming army generals, who were as timid as mice, would not dare to attack easily.

However, when he carefully examined the battlefield, he found that most of the soldiers who died this time were still killed, and a few were beheaded, wounded by sabers. There were also some of the wounds that were terrible, could it be that they were wounded by the musket according to the report sent back by the secret agents. This made Abatai a little worried.

If this was really a musket wound, it is likely that the Shanxi merchant came here to intervene. However, he looked around at the horseshoe prints and felt that the opponent did not have many people, and if it wasn't for the ** ambush sneak attack, his own people would not have missed. In this way, he felt that the legend about this Shanxi merchant was greatly exaggerated, and there was nothing remarkable, otherwise they would not have run away without even cleaning the battlefield after the big victory.

At this time, the scouts sent out came back to report that the Ming army had retreated to the hilly and mountainous areas, and had not caught up after a long chase. Abatai knows that the most difficult to deal with is like this, they fight it, grab it and leave, so that you can't guard against it. Abatai did not order a pursuit, but ordered the bodies of the victims to be cremated, the ashes of the Qing army to be taken away, and the Han Banner army to bury them on the spot.

When Abatai returned to the Great Horde, he summoned all the generals for a meeting. He commanded that from now on, we must take precautions at night and not be careless. Have a good rest today, and take the river tomorrow. Use the heads of the people in the city between the rivers to pay tribute to the dead warriors.

Abatai didn't sleep well that night, and as soon as he closed his eyes, the bloody faces of Bo and Bao appeared in front of him. At this time, Abatai was extremely angry, so he simply did not sleep and sat until dawn.

In addition, in Hejian City, because of the fear of the Qing army slaughtering the city, the army and the people were united and desperately resisted the onslaught of the Qing army for several days. But this is a small city after all, and it is difficult to support it without reinforcements from outside. The whole city felt that this was the last day, and the soldiers and civilians were ready to burn the jade. However, after getting up in the morning, the Qing army lined up and did not attack. Later, I heard the direction of the north of the city, and from time to time there were rumbling explosions, and many of the Qing troops in front of me ran towards the north of the city. This greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city. They knew it was reinforcements arriving.

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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.