Chapter 33: The Chaser
Just twenty miles away, on the official road, the flag of the brigade moved rapidly, dozens of Mongolian iron horsemen brought up the dust all over the ground, and in the fluttering flag behind it, a large flag could be vaguely seen, inlaid with a yellow flag, which said that Liu Liu, the deputy general of Zhejiang's expedition.
Thousands of Han army banner infantry followed, and after a while, another group of cavalry, this group of cavalry was wearing the armor of the original Ming army, but they wore Tartar official hats on their heads, and red tassels fluttered on their heads.
This large army moved rapidly, and after a while, a Mongol cavalry of about 1,000 men came out of the side of the path, the ground shook and the mountains shook, and the two sides paused for a quarter of an hour before making peace.
"The Mongolian Yellow Flag Chahar Department, the deputy general of Chahar visited the deputy general of the expedition, Lord Liu."
A Mongolian horseman, out of the horse, came to the dozens of cavalry of the Qing army Han army, although he greeted him as a subordinate salute, but did not dismount, but just put the same Qing Dynasty official hat on his head with a horse whip on the horse, and said a random word.
"Ha, it turned out to be Deputy General Cha, thank you Deputy General Cha for leading the army to help, I was waiting to pursue the remnants of Liukou He Zuo, I was worried about the lack of troops, and when Deputy General Cha came, I was more confident to catch He Zuo Liukou."
"Farewell!" Ignoring him, he turned and rode away.
There was a trace of anger on the face of the Qing general, but he didn't vent it after all, and a Qing general next to him, "My lord, these Mongolians are too ignorant, fortunately, you are also the person favored by the master of Baylor, if you want to talk about status, you are second only to Li Chengdong, or this time to conquer the main general of the Liukou, it is too faceless to do so." ”
Qing Jiang sneered: "What can I do? How do the Mongols say that they are also the brothers-in-law of the Jurchens, the status is above us, the Jurchens have always distrusted us Han people, don't look at me Liu Liangzuo's high status with him, but I am going to fall out with him, the above is not towards him, the Jurchens can do without us these generals, but they dare not do without the Mongols, the Mongols are the people they really trust. ”
The Qing general next to him said: "Alas, why is this country gone, we have to be slaves." ”
Liu Liangzuo said: "Don't say it, it's better to be a slave than to have no life, as long as a slave has the right in his hands and has soldiers, he will still be prosperous and rich, those who would rather have braids but no heads, what else can they leave?" Fame? If you don't have a head, what's the use of fame, hurry up, Liu Guangbi, urge those minions behind, we must catch up with He Zuoliu Kou today, get their heads, and our heads can be carried on our shoulders, otherwise, we will return in vain, wait for Lord Li Chengdong to cut off our heads, and ask Lord Baylor for guilt! ”
Liu Guangbi beside him didn't dare to delay, glanced at the Mongolian cavalry in the distance, turned his horse's head, rushed to the infantry team behind, and shouted loudly: "Quick, quick, run faster, catch up with the Liukou, cut off He Jin's head, reward three hundred taels of silver, and promote the official to the third level, delay the affairs of the adults, you all go to be the servants of the Jurchens." ”
By this time, the Mongol cavalry had already gone three or four miles.
"Taiji, aren't we waiting for the Han army flag?"
Cha Er said angrily: "Don't wait, will those slaves fight?" Catch up, exterminate the Liukou, we pay the order as soon as possible, go back to Nanjing to rest, we can't fight here again, if we continue to fight, our warriors will be lost here, the Ming people are too cunning, and there are too many people, far from what we can conquer. ”
The subordinate general beside him sighed, and a Mongolian subordinate general and this subordinate general drove side by side, and whispered: "Taiji is afraid that he was frightened by the Ming people, and the Ming people are just a bunch of two-legged sheep." ”
The general said: "What Taiji said makes sense, the Jurchens are using the Ming people to consume us, if our grassland was not conquered by the Qing people, I would rather go back to the grassland than come here." ”
The Mongol cavalry moved quickly, the scout cavalry was far away, and while talking, their scout cavalry had collided with He Jin's scout cavalry, and the two sides fought hard between the hills and river valleys, and one of the rogue cavalry left alone and ran towards the large formation formed by He Jin and Lin.
At this time, the formation formed by He Jin and Lin had already surrounded Zhang Qiang's formation, one left and one right.
Lin Chengcheng said to He Jin: "Big brother, after eating this local defender of the Ming army, we will have a lot more manpower, look at the armor on those people and the weapons in their hands, good things." ”
He Jin touched the beard on his chin, "Yes, good thing, look at the archers wearing bamboo armor, but holding a Manchurian bow, the wooden shields in the hands of those people can at least give us three hundred more shield bearers, and spearmen, holding iron spears, and firecrackers, if you want me to see, that musket is the best musket of the Portuguese, but the armor on their bodies is the best chain mail, and the chain mail on his general's body is more than the chain mail of our old battalion, if we take it down this time, our strength will be upgraded to a higher level." ”
Lin Yangcheng happily continued: "Yes, the strength is not only a notch, especially their dozens of cavalry, if we can have more than those dozens of cavalry, plus our cavalry, we can turn back to fight back against Liu Liangzuo's old bastard, maybe we can catch that bastard, eat those thousands of Han military flags, when the time comes, our reputation on the road will be higher, and there will be more people who vote for us, we can fight back against the Tartars, these days we are chased by the Tartars but embarrassed." ”
He Jin snorted, but said with some worry: "However, Liu Liangzuo's bastard is chasing too closely, otherwise I really want to eat the Ming army in front of me." ”
Lin Chengcheng looked up at him, "Big brother, don't you want to fight him?" ”
He Jin nodded, "Let's go, don't be unable to eat people, but you were caught up by Liu Liangzuo's bastard." ”
Lin Cheng shook his head in disappointment, at this time, the scout ran over, passed through the large group of men and horses from the rear team, shouted and broke into the Chinese army, and came to the front of the two people, "Report, the Mongolian cavalry is coming, eight miles away from our team." ”
"What?" The two men were startled, turned their horses' heads, and hurriedly ran up the nearby hills to look back.
I saw smoke and dust billowing behind them, the ground shaking, and the shouts were endless, and their scout cavalry fled far away.
"Withdraw the troops, withdraw the troops," Lin Chengcheng shouted.
For a time, the team of tens of thousands of people was in chaos, and the cavalry behind them fled one after another, and went away a mile away in the blink of an eye.
But many people were still wandering around in the same place, and the homeless people who followed the rogue in the brigade panicked in the same place, running all over the mountains.
The old camp of the Chinese army that He Jin and Lin cultivated was engulfed in it, but they couldn't move, and there were too many people.
At this moment, a vanguard cavalry of dozens of Mongols rushed in, knocking over dozens of homeless people in succession, they rode on horses, skillfully archery, and shot hundreds of homeless people in the blink of an eye, and their own losses were no more than one or two riders who accidentally missed their horses.
A brigade of Mongol cavalry appeared three miles away.
After forming the team a little, he let out a shout and rushed towards the old battalion of He Jin and Lin Chengcheng of the Chinese army.
Of course, Zhang Qiang also found that the situation had taken a turn for the worse, the spearmen and archers quickly recovered and shrunk into a ball, and the homeless people and rogues who rushed into the formation in a panic were killed in front of the battle without hesitation.
But Zhang Qiang did not order the musketeers and the musketeers led by Wei Wuji to fire, he wanted to hide his strength.
A thousand men guarded their positions, and the exiles bypassed them after hundreds of deaths, and the Mongol cavalry around them had scattered on both flanks, enveloping them all in and killing them with bows and arrows.