Chapter Ninety-Four: The Hunt
He Jin sneered, "Now most of the Daming rivers and mountains are occupied by the Tartars, the rebel army is wandering around, Li Chuang is nowhere to be found, Zhang Xianzhong is strangled by Duoduo, and the rest of the troops are surrendered, the Dashun army is working hard for He Tengjiao, the governor of Hunan in Yongli, but it is not happy, our current situation is already the best, at least this has not been focused on by the Qing army, if we don't take the opportunity to expand the territory and raise more troops, when the Qing army comes over, surrounded on all sides, is there a place for you and me?" ”
Lin Chengcheng said helplessly: "In this case, just listen to you, let's mix in this kid's team, when the Qing army comes, and then find a way, to be honest, I don't want to leave the army to be an idler, it's better to have power and money than to hide all day long and be searched." ”
He Jin looked at the retreating Jinhua Righteous Army, and ordered left and right, "Rest for a while, attack the city again, attack overnight tonight, and never give up if you don't take the state capital city." ”
The soldiers shouted in response and retreated into the woods in the distance to recuperate, while some continued to build siege engines.
A cavalryman came galloping from a distance, Lin Chengcheng looked at the cavalry galloping in the distance, frowned, and muttered: "The scout is to reconnoiter the movements of the Qing army in Songyang County, and he is so panicked at the moment, could it be that the Qing army in Songyang County has come out of the city to rescue Taizhou Fucheng?" ”
Sure enough, "My lord, there are more than 1,000 Qing troops in Songyang County, only twenty miles away from our army. ”
Another cavalry galloped over, "My lord, there are more than 2,000 Qing troops in Qingtian County, coming to the aid of Fucheng." ”
It didn't take long for another cavalryman to gallop over, "My lord, 1,500 Qing troops from Yunhe County are coming to help. ”
Lin Chengcheng turned his horse's head and said to He Jin: "Withdraw the troops, there are 2,000 Qing troops in the capital city of the prefecture, and 2,000 people are strong, which is enough for us, this day, we have lost our troops and generals, and we have not even touched the city wall, so we have lost 500 troops, and the two of us have joined forces, only more than 3,000 troops, and now there are 4,500 Qing troops coming, not that we can resist, if we lose our troops, even if we flee back, we will be punished." ”
He Jin said to Lin Yangcheng: "Take your troops to block the Qing army in Songyang County, and leave the rest to me." We can't come for nothing. ”
Lin Cheng looked at him resolutely, "Okay, just fight this time, if you don't withdraw the troops, I'll leave first." ”
Lin Yangcheng took more than 1,200 people from his headquarters to intercept the Qing army reinforcements from Songyang County.
He Jin asked the generals around him, "How many soldiers and horses do we have?" The subordinate general next to him said cautiously: "My lord, there are still 1,000 troops, plus 500 people." ”
He Jindao: "Gather troops and prepare to attack the city, I will personally lead it, and I will never withdraw my troops if I do not take the capital city of Taizhou." ”
The general said anxiously: "My lord, no, lose the troops, how do you let us survive in the righteous army." ”
He Jin waved his hand resolutely, "Never compromise, prepare to attack the city." ”
On the city wall, the prefect of the Qing army and the county seat of the state capital, two people saw the movement of the Jinhua Righteous Army on the city gate tower, and Lishui County ordered: "My lord, it seems that our reinforcements have arrived." ”
The Qing army on one side guarded and said: "Lord Prefect, it is better to let the last general lead the men and horses of the headquarters out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army, their troops are less than ours, and I heard that our army's reinforcements have arrived, so they must be demoralized, and go out of the city to fight back, which will help improve the morale of our army." ”
The prefect appointed by the Qing army said: "Okay,"
He Jin led his troops to attack the capital city again.
At this time, Zhang Qiang's large army entered the mountains and advanced towards Songyang County with difficulty.
Eight soldiers laboriously carried the cannon shaft of the Fran cannon with their poles, and the commander shouted, "Be careful, watch your step, pay attention to your balance," and turned around, "Quick, divide the things on the donkey, don't count on the beast,"
A donkey stubbornly allowed the soldiers to whip him, but he stood on the post road in the mountainside and did not walk, blocking the marching team behind.
Zhang Qiang also rode a war horse, carefully walking on the post road halfway up the mountainside, less than one meter on one side, there is a canyon dozens of meters deep, although there are a few cloud pines on the steep slope of the canyon, but no one wants to go down to try whether those cloud pines can block your falling body.
It's not that Zhang Qiang doesn't want to find a good way to go, but this time the troops are too hasty, He Jin and Lin Yang's troops he doesn't want to lose, the important thing is that he can't lose two generals at this time, He Jin and Lin Yang CD used to be famous rebel generals, and he still wants to reuse them, it's better than these inexperienced subordinates under his own promotion.
Maybe in this land of two provinces, the subordinates are very capable under their own leadership, but when it comes to the experience of fighting with the Qing army, it is more reassuring for the two of them, at least if the Qing army does not have superior forces, it will not be able to help these two rebel generals who have almost become elites.
Zhang Qiang didn't want to give them too many troops, because they couldn't get their trust yet, and they didn't want to give them elite troops, because their elite troops couldn't be allocated, and at this moment they hurriedly went to attack the state capital, and they would definitely be taken out of there by the well-prepared Qing army, and then defeated with superior forces, so they could only take a shortcut from the mountains to rescue them, and they couldn't help themselves slowly detour to Jinyun County by land or water to rescue them.
He marched the mountain roads until evening.
Across the Wanzhong Mountain, on the southwest mountain road in Songyang County, a group of Han Army Banner soldiers and a team of Ming Army soldiers were in a bloody battle, a carriage escaped less than half a mile, and suddenly fell into the chaos, a wooden wheel flew out of the car body when the pack horse ran forward with all his strength, "Miss-" A miserable scream, two women flew out of the sedan chair, fell on the mountain road, and suddenly blood flowed from their foreheads, staining their faces red.
"Xiancui, you go, leave me alone." The woman pushed away the maidservant who wanted to drag her.
A group of war horses broke away from the battle and rushed towards them, "Xiancui, what's wrong with Miss?" ”
"Uh-huh, miss, miss, she's bleeding." The handmaiden cried to the cavalry on the war horse.
The cavalryman jumped off his horse and walked up to the woman, "Miss, are you alright?" ”
The woman sat up and covered the wound on her forehead with her sleeve, "It's okay, Huzi, you take Xiancui and leave, I'll stay here, what they want is me, not you." ”
"No, miss, my lord said that I would escort you to Jinhua Mansion," Huzi said anxiously.
The woman lowered her face, "I won't Jinhua Mansion to see that despicable villain who bewitched my father." ”
Huzi was anxious to spin in place, a scream came from behind, Huzi looked back, dozens of cavalry, and less than a dozen people, gritted his teeth, grabbed the woman on the ground, put it on the war horse, and picked up Xiancui's maidservant, put it behind the woman, and patted the horse's buttocks hard, "Go, protect Miss Go back to Jinhua Mansion, find Lord Zhang, and tell him that this is what Lord Zhu said." ”
After speaking, he took a little foot, picked up a big knife on the ground, red eyes, and went back to meet the Han army flag cavalry.
A Mongolian cavalryman rushed over from the side and slashed at his body, "Ah-" Huzi let out a terrible shout, covered his arms and fell to the ground, another Mongolian cavalryman ran over from the side, and an arrow hit Huzi's forehead, Huzi was shocked, his pupils dilated, he lost his spirit, his head fell to the ground, in the distance, dust was raised, and more Mongolian cavalry rushed to the battlefield.
Received a hard slap from the tiger, the war horse ridden by the tiger was in pain, jumped a little, and then rushed out, the maid fairy Cui pulled the reins fiercely, controlled the war horse, the two did not fall, the war horse aimlessly galloped towards the front, away from the battlefield.
Several Mongol cavalry followed in hot pursuit.
The Mongol cavalry brigade stopped and took part in the siege of the remaining Ming cavalry.
In less than a meal, except for a few clever Ming cavalry, all the Ming cavalry were killed.
A Han army banner cavalry commander said to the leader of the Mongolian cavalry: "Report to Lord Tai, most of the cavalry of the Ming army who reported the news this time have been surrounded and killed, and only three or five horsemen are left to escape, do you want to continue to chase and kill?" ”
The Mongolian Taiwan attack, you can recognize it if you look closely, this person is Cha Er, who was hit twice by Zhang Qiang's army in Jinhua Mansion City, lost most of the tribes, and finally fell into the Wujiang River and fled.
He looked coldly at the commander of the Han Army's banner cavalry, gritted his teeth and said: "Zhu Dadian's daughters haven't been caught yet, catch them for me, if you don't catch them, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart, I want to make Zhu Dadian and Zhang Qiang regret being born in this world." ”
The commander of the Han army's banner cavalry frowned, but he didn't dare to disobey this Mongolian, in the Qing army, the Jurchen Tartars were the first people, the Mongolians were the second people, the Han army flag was the third people, and the Han people were the fourth people, he couldn't provoke this guy, although this guy's tribes and herdsmen were sent to other troops as slaves by the Qing regent Dolgon, he was already a lost dog without the tribe, but this was not something he could provoke, Chahar still had three hundred loyal Mongolian cavalry to follow him, Li Chengdong also saw that he was a Mongolian and took him in.
Everyone knows that this guy hates the imperial court, but he hates Zhu Dadian and Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Righteous Army even more, and it is they who caused his current fate.
"Yes, sir." The commander of the Han army had no choice but to ride his horse back to his team, gather the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and then follow Zhu Panpan in the direction where they fled.
The warriors of the Mongolian tribe stood beside Chahar, "Tai Zhen, do you really want to catch Zhu Dadian's daughter and exchange the Jinhua Righteous Army for Sunit Tai Zheng?" ”
Cha Erdao: "Yes, I can't let him fall into the hands of the enemy, his tribe is still there, not to mention, his cavalry is still there, if you exchange him back, our team will have a thousand troops, the sooner the better, we can't let the Han people kill them as consumables for the Ming army." ”
The warrior shook his whip fiercely, "Damn Han people, the most insidious." ”