I saw three horsemen flash out of the forest, also with high helmets and red tassels, thick red armor with white trim, large heart guards on their chests, and huge tartar bows and heavy arrows on their bodies. Like Tun Dai and others, they are all vest sentries with red flags.

Seeing the embarrassed appearance of Tundai and Yanbuha, the three of them were very surprised, and asked in surprise: "Lord Tundai, why are there only two of you, Lord Tonggar, and Brother Ergen?" ”

Tun Dai sighed, Yan Buha angrily told his own experience, and the three of them were even more surprised: "There is such a Ming army? ”

The three of them were very curious, but obviously they had something more important, and the leader of the horse armor said to the two Tun Dai that he had received an order, saying that the war in Yanzhou was tight, and the resistance over there was very fierce, although the city should be trapped within the contact, it was best to turn back the horse armor soldiers who came out of the sentry.

In particular, Yanzhou is in great need of strong Bayala soldiers, and nearby counties such as Surabaya, Zou County, and Teng County also need sentry vests and Bayala turns. Although this group of Ming troops is strong, they can't miss a big deal, so let it go for the time being, and come back to deal with them later.

Tun Dai had no objections, although Yan Buha had a hard mouth, but he didn't want to face the group of people in Xima Mountain anymore, seeing that the head of the horse armor Ede issued another whistle arrow, so he waited quietly on the spot.

Soon about a dozen horsemen with red flag vests joined them, and then the Changyu Mountain also sent out a terrible whistle arrow, and soon there was a muffled thunderous hoof sound on the wilderness, and a large number of black cavalry came in the direction of Mantou Mountain, where everyone was.

Ede looked at it happily: "It's the vest of the blue flag." ”

Soon this group of cavalry rushed closer, about 20 people, dressed similar to Tun Dai and others, the same high helmet spear red tassel, painted iron helmet with neck guards, big heart guards, huge shoulder guards and horseshoe sleeves. The only difference is that their dense copper nails are nailed to blue placket cotton armor.

What made everyone happy was that there were five or six strong men wearing silver iron armor in this group of vests, all of them with long tails and red tassels on their helmets, and the slanted fire flags behind them like fire, and their exposed armor was shining with cold light, but they were the Bayala warriors of the blue flag.

These bayalas are all selected from the vests of each banner, and all of them are the elite of the elite. According to the proportion, each Niu Lu can only select more than ten people, all under the leadership of each banner Baya Laqi Zhangjing, according to the number of each banner Niu Lu, each banner of Baya La soldiers at most six or seven hundred people.

Their characteristic is a sparkling silver iron armor, all of which are made of iron, overlapping like scales, extremely heavy and thick.

If it is said that the average Qing army's iron-inlaid cotton armor weighs only 40 catties, the vest is double, and there is an iron short armor inside, weighing more than 50 catties. The triple armor of officers such as Da Zhuang, Pashiku, and Fende Pashiku, plus a piece of chain mail, weighed more than 60 catties.

Bayala's iron armor such as Mingguang armor, mountain armor, and chain mail in the inner part of the armor have a total weight of more than 70 catties, which is close to the weight of the spearman armor of the Song army's infantry armor.

They also have one more heart guard, two in front and one in the back, riding on horses like iron men, so that their horses are stronger, so that they can carry them and gallop into battle.

They rode over, and the momentum of five or six horsemen overshadowed the more than ten horsemen next to them, and the heavy hooves of the horses stepped on the snow, and the snowflakes were splashed.

Tun Dai and the others were all happy, and what surprised them was that there was also a helmet carved otter tail among the horses, and there was a two-foot flying tiger and fox tail flag behind it.

This is the Great Khan's own army, which was selected from the soldiers of various banners, and the number of soldiers in the whole battalion was only more than 1,700 people.

was surprised, the iron hooves roared, and more than 20 horsemen rushed to the front of the red flag armours with a fierce and ferocious atmosphere, and they all restrained the horses, strong and strong. In particular, the five or six horsemen, the men and horses were draped, the armor was mottled, and the eyes were bloodthirsty and killing, just like the savage warriors of the barbarian era appeared in the world.

Tun Dai hurriedly greeted him and saluted a stout Bayala: "I've seen Wuzhu Ketu Zhuangda." ”

Nawu Zhu Ketu's face was full of flesh, and the heavy iron armor was draped over his body, and his rough hands grasped the reins, nodded and said, "It's Brother Tundai." Come, let me introduce you, this is the famous warrior Korkun brother of the Kabush Camp. ”

Tundai Yirin, Kolkun he has not seen, but the name has heard a lot, he was originally a Beyl Abatai guard, when he was not crowned, he from Vachahar, North Korea, made great contributions, was selected into the Kabush Xian camp. In the fifth year of Chongde, from Fa Ming, besieged Jinzhou, and Niu Lu Zhang Jingsuo was trapped, and he rode dozens of horses under the command of Zu Dashou. In the sixth year of Chongde, Suo Hun was besieged, and Colquin rode out alone.

This year, the army of 100,000 invaded the Ming, and he and Baya Lajia Lazhang Jing Eshuo led dozens of cavalry to reconnoiter the enemy, and captured a Ming general in Hexi. All kinds of legends have spread throughout the army, and everyone says that it is only a matter of time for Colcoin to be named Baturu.

He looked at it in amazement, and saw that the warrior of the Kabush Virtuous Camp Korkunce came immediately, with iron armor and cruel and sharp eyes, just like the eyes of Hai Dongqing. Tun Dai was stared at by him, and the wild duck grouse was stared at by the falcon, and he felt uncomfortable all over his body.

He smiled reluctantly, and was about to salute, but Colcoin stared at his arm and said, "Are you hurt?" Ate a gun? No, it's not like the Nanban's firecracker. ”

He was a sturdy man, with a broad forehead and sunken eyes, and he was only in his twenties, and he stared at Tun Dai's left arm, with a playful look on his face: "Interesting." ”

There was a fire in Tundai's heart, but the Great Khan was in the army, and he was not easy to offend, Wuzhu Ketu also paid attention at this time, and said in surprise: "Brother Tundai, why are you injured, Tong Gar and them?" ”

Tun Dai didn't want to mention this matter, but when everyone asked, it was not good not to answer, so he had to talk about the battle in Xima Mountain, and he couldn't help but feel gloomy when he talked about the death of Tong Gar and others.

At this time, not only Colkoun, but also several Zhenglan Banner Baya Lama present showed interested expressions, and when he saw this, he hurriedly said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the war in Yanzhou is tight, and there is a herald that says, ......"

Before he finished speaking, he was stopped by Colquin, he stared at Tun Dai and said: "Yanzhou will be defeated sooner or later, Tun Dai, you still tell me what happened to that group of Ming troops." ”

……

Qian Sanniang and the others left Xima Mountain, galloped dozens of miles, found a secluded cave, interrogated the captive carefully, and finally got the information that their father-in-law wanted.

Although the Tartar captive is just a vest and doesn't know much, there is still a lot of information obtained after the torture, such as everyone knows that the Tartar master who entered the army this time is called Abatai, and the deputies are called Turg and Zhunta.

They divided their troops in Linqing into five routes, two of which went west to Shunde Mansion and Daimyo's Mansion, which had nothing to do with the war in Shandong. In the three roads, all the way east to Jinan Mansion, all the way east to Qingzhou Mansion, Dengzhou Mansion, Laizhou Mansion, and the last road to the southeast into Kou Yanzhou Mansion.

The Qing army of the Five Routes was divided into two wings, going west to Shunde Mansion and Daimyofu as the right wing, and attacking Shandong Zhulu as the left wing.

The strength and commander of each road, this Tartar vest does not know much, only knows that the main commanders of Yanzhou Road are Turge and Zhun Tower, with a strength of about 20,000, 15,000 civil war soldiers, and 5,000 miscellaneous soldiers.

Of course, when they attacked and plundered, their forces would not be concentrated together, and they would scatter in all directions as soon as possible, and they would divide their troops all the way down to the southeast, and each state and county would arrange troops to attack and plunder.

However, ordinary cities don't need many troops, generally a Niu Lu is good, he listened to the meaning of the above, this time he will follow the official road and fight all the way, and always enter the territory of Nanzhili.

The words of the Tartar captives made everyone frightened for a while, and sure enough, this time the Tartars had to fight all the way to Suqian, Shuyang and other places, but fortunately, Yang Xianggong was well prepared, and the Xin'an army could wait for work and calmly face the battle.

Qian Sanniang decided to turn around and take this Tartar alive to Tianyue Village, and then interrogate carefully to dig up more information.

They parted ways with Feng Yusheng at the foot of the Lion Rock and embarked on the road of turnaround.

The trip went generally well, the information he wanted was obtained, and he captured thirteen Tartar heads, and many of them were captured, and everyone was elated.

There are two roads for them to go back, all the way to the southeast, first to Tancheng, and then along the Beijing Avenue to Tianyue Village. One goes straight south and enters the territory of Pizhou.

But everyone has already met Tartars in Yi County, and they have to pass through the county seat of Yi County to the south, and there are probably Tartar sentry horses near the surrounding area.

And although the straight line southbound is closer to Yuwang Cottage, Yang Xianggong's army is stationed in Tianyue Village at this time, and there are still many roads from Yuwang Cottage to Tianyue Village. And the road is not easy to walk, it takes more time to get to Tianyue Village, and Tancheng is closer to Tancheng from the southeast, and everyone turns back along the road that originally came out.

They were like arrows, but Song Ge'er was unconscious, so in order to avoid the deterioration of his injuries, he couldn't walk too fast, but fortunately, he didn't encounter Tartars on the road, and everyone was more at ease.

In the afternoon, the horses crossed the river and entered the east bank of the river. For some reason, Qian Sanniang suddenly felt that someone was following her, and the tracker was like a seasoned hunter, Qian Sanniang and the others went around a few times, but they still couldn't get rid of the feeling of being followed.

Everyone wondered, could it be the Tartars from earlier? Aren't they crippled? Is there another person?

In order to send the information back as soon as possible, Qian Sanniang decided not to take the trail anymore, but to take the official road from Yixian to Tancheng and return as soon as possible.

……

On the 6th day of the first month of December, noon.

The snow has stopped.

From Yi County to Tancheng there are shops to hand five, Bian Zhuang shop, Liuzhuang shop, Furong shop, layer mountain shop, horse head shop, after the horse head shop, only 20 miles away from Tancheng County.

Matoupu is on the edge of the Yi River, there are bridges on both banks, and at this time a group of cavalry is running across the Matou Bridge and entering the east bank of the Yi River. The knights all have iron helmets, cloaks and fine armor, everyone has a handcuff around their waists, and they carry winged tiger guns behind them, riding strong horses, and they are fierce and sharp, which is Qian Sanniang and his party who turned back from Yi County.

Their faces were full of joy, and they entered the Tancheng realm, and after stepping on the official road, the feeling of being tracked disappeared, and everyone was relaxed.

Eighteen of them rode horses, and the accompanying horses and mules were a large group, and they themselves had 20 sentry sentry members, so they had 30 horses and mules, and now there were 17 war horses and horses of Yizhou sentry riding, and 38 horses and mules of the Qing army were captured, and the horse herd was as high as 85.

Many of these horses carried baggage, captured armor and weapons, and a few had human heads on them. The head of the Qing army was cut off, and the money rat tail was tied, and it was hung on the saddle, and a large number of human heads were swaying beside the saddle, which was quite spectacular.

And the Tartar captive, who had long since taken off his armor, was tied up with flowers, gagged, blindfolded, and put in a bag, and tied horizontally to the horse's back like a cargo.

In the end, two mules pulled the cart, carrying the dead Huo Ge'er and the seriously injured Song Ge'er, covered with felt blankets. But last night, everyone rested in an abandoned village and found two abandoned carts to pull people.

They entered the east bank of the Yi River, and not far ahead was Matoupu, built under a desolate mountain near the official road. At this time, the shop was abandoned early, none of the soldiers were gone, and the wedges, sundials, and ever-bright lights and candles in front of the shop also disappeared.

Two or three miles north along the river is Matou Town, which was originally a prosperous town with a wharf, but now it is also lifeless.

Suddenly, Li Ruwan said "Huh": "The shopkeeper of this inn hasn't escaped yet?" ”

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