Chapter 268, Defeat
Hong Chengchou is very satisfied with the current situation, although the progress is slow, and even many times there will be no progress in fighting all day, sometimes even being repulsed for a while, and many times even advancing a little bit for several days, as a result, the Qing army was beaten back with a counterattack. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info But Hong Chengchou is still very satisfied.
This is first of all because Zhang Ruoqi, who has been urging himself to fight, is no longer in the barracks, which makes his ears a lot quieter and has a lot less constraints to do things. Two days ago, Zhang Ruoqi urged Hong Chengchou to attack on a large scale, and Hong Chengchou dragged him to the front line to supervise the battle. As a result, when Jianshen counterattacked, he rushed all the way to a place where they were only a stone's throw from where they stood, and the light arrows thrown by Jianshen's archers could already fall on them piecemeal. However, at this time, Hong Chengchou had already seen that the momentum of Jianqi's round of counterattack had passed, and it was unlikely that he would really rush in front of him, and when he saw Zhang Ruoqi's face pale with fright, the two were fighting, so he deliberately came to a "big shouting battle", but he didn't retreat, and even proposed to continue to move forward. said yes: "Those who are ministers should kill themselves to serve the country, and the horse leather shroud, only to move forward, how can there be a reason to retreat?" The generals listened, if anyone dares to retreat, it will be me, and I will be slashed with a knife! As a result, after the war, Zhang Ruoqi found an excuse, saying that he wanted to supervise the grain and grass, and then ran to Beacon Mountain.
Another thing that made Hong Chengchou satisfied was that after these battles of small scale every day, the fear of Jianxuan in the army was greatly reduced. In fact, the families of the Ming army, in terms of combat effectiveness alone, are no longer under the general soldiers of Jianxuan, and those of Cao Bianjiao and Wu Sangui, especially those of Wu Sangui, because of their excellent equipment, even if they are against the white-armored soldiers of Jianxuan, they will not necessarily fall behind. Hong Chengchou knew that the army in his hands was still inferior to Jianshen on the other side in terms of overall combat effectiveness, because in addition to these families, the combat effectiveness of the ordinary soldiers in his army was still far from the armor soldiers on Jianyan's side. However, in such a positional attrition, this defect was covered up as much as possible.
Hong Chengchou knew that in such a war of attrition, the losses of his own side would be greater than that of Jianxin, but he felt that Jianyan's ability to withstand casualties was far lower than his own. Therefore, he felt that the possibility that the Manchus would take the initiative to break the siege also existed. However, if Hong Chengchou knew how many Qing troops there were in front of him, he might not think like this. These days on the battlefield, they have also captured some Manchu coats or something, from them, the Ming army also roughly knows that each banner of the Manchu Eight Banners has people to participate in the war, but how many people participated in the battle, these coats naturally do not know. If Hong Chengchou had a more modern intelligence team in his hands, he would definitely be able to find more from the confessions of these captured coats. But Hong Chengchou didn't have such a team in his hands, so he always thought that there were at most seventy or eighty thousand Jianxuan on the opposite side. Unbeknownst to him, more than 120,000 people had actually gathered across from him.
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"The one who defended the rear of the Ming army was Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, and we also had some dealings with him." Huang Taiji's face showed a mocking look. And the other Qing generals around him also let out disdainful laughter.
"Hong Chengchou was in a hurry to break the siege, so he pulled everything he could to the front, and all that was left behind was a vulnerable waste." Huang Taiji continued, "Tomorrow, it is estimated that Hong Chengchou will still attack as usual, let's let him attack first, and ...... by noon."
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Sha Zilong stood on the wall, looking into the distance.
"Big brother, have you seen anything?" Another soldier said.
"Sansheng, you're here too, what do you see? If you don't see it, I can see it? "Sand Dragon Road.
"Who doesn't know that big brother, your eyes are better than our brothers. In the past, when we were walking darts, those hairy thieves who cut the path couldn't escape the eyes of the eldest brother when they hid in the bushes. The soldier replied.
Sha Zilong originally opened a dart game in Shaanxi, relying on a one-handed marksmanship, he broke into the name of "Sharpshooter Sha Zilong" on the rivers and lakes, and then later, the Liukou made trouble, and Sha Zilong and several of his executioners were coerced into Liukou. Later, the court suppressed bandits, Sha Zilong saw a gap, and took a few executioners to join the official army, because he could fight, he also had several of his brothers, such as Wang Sansheng next to him, who became Wang Pu's family.
"What's over there?" Sha Zilong said suddenly.
A group of people came up on the official road in the distance, because it was far away, and it was a little difficult to see clearly.
"It should be a team delivering grain and grass, and there should be a team of people coming over today." Wang Sansheng said.
At this time, the convoy had also gotten closer, and Sha Zilong could already see the flag on the convoy, which was indeed the flag of the Ming army.
"It's our people." Wang Sansheng said.
At this time, there was a sudden commotion in the distance.
"What for? Isn't it time to collect the troops and eat? What are you yelling about? Wang Sansheng muttered.
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Ao Bai also heard the commotion coming from the front, and he knew that this was a large-scale counterattack by the Qing army against the Ming army. His task was to disguise himself as a Ming army, approach the rear of the Ming army, and take the gate of Wang Pu's camp.
"Steady, don't let them see the flaws." Ao Bai said.
The convoy gradually approached the barracks. A man named Zhang Zhongqi, who was wearing the military uniform of the Ming army, walked over first and shouted: "Open the door quickly, the old men are dying of exhaustion!" ”
"Brother, wait a minute!" Wang Sansheng shouted, "Let's go and open the door for you!" ”
"Hurry up! I'm starving to death! Zhang Zhongqi shouted loudly. At the same time, other grain trucks gradually approached.
After a while, a thousand generals arrived at the camp gate and shouted to Zhang Zhongqi: "Order! ”
"Fuyuan!" Zhang Zhongqi also responded without hesitation.
"Not bad." That Qian Zongdao, "Open the door." Great work, brothers! ”
A few soldiers went over and opened the door.
Sha Zilong squinted his eyes and stared at the convoy opposite, the convoy was normal and couldn't see anything wrong, but Sha Zilong just felt his heart beating hard for no reason. Sha Zilong is very superstitious about his own feeling, when he was walking darts on the rivers and lakes, I don't know how many times this feeling saved his life. The people in the convoy didn't seem to have any problems, their clothes, their weapons, their armor, and their orders. But...... But...... Sha Zilong's pupils shrank suddenly: he saw that the problem was coming, these people, except for the one who called the door, the others were all thick and strong, and they all had kung fu! How could the grain transport team have so many men and horses that were enough for the commander to be in charge?
"Wait, don't open the door......" shouted the sand dragon.
But by this time the door had been half opened. The soldier who opened the door heard Sha Zilong's shout and paused for a moment, but did not close the door immediately, but turned around to look at the Qianzong.
"Those people have problems! Close the door! The sand dragon shouted as he ran over.
A heavy arrow suddenly appeared in the face of the soldier who opened the door, and the soldier fell to the ground without a snort, and then the two soldiers next to him were also shot to the ground. Then the sand dragon saw several guys wearing armor and holding swords and shields rushing in.
The sand dragon let out a loud shout, and with his spear, he rushed towards the guy who was taking the lead, and stabbed the man in the head with a single shot. The man raised his shield to block it, but what the sand dragon wanted was for this man to raise his shield. The shield would obscure the man's own vision, and the sand dragon slammed his hand, and the silver tip of the spear made a beautiful arc towards the man's calf. By the time the man found out, it was too late, and the sand dragon's spear was pierced straight into his left knee, and the man screamed and fell to the ground.
Sand Dragon withdrew his spear and prepared to kill the man, but suddenly heard the sound of the bowstring vibrating, and Sand Dragon didn't care about hurting the enemy again, so he quickly flashed to the side, and a heavy arrow grazed his head and shot over. A cold sweat suddenly broke out on the sand dragon's body, if this arrow hit, it would definitely be fatal.
An arrow missed, Ao Bai pulled his bow again, and the arrows shot towards the Ming soldier with a spear over there. That Ming army is a good hand, just now we met with only one move, and put down a white-armored soldier, if he hadn't hurried an arrow over, the white-armored soldier would have already confessed.
The sand dragon dodged left and right, and retreated sharply, apparently the farther away from the archer, the easier it was to dodge such a deadly heavy arrow.
Ao Bai shot three arrows in a row, but they were dodged by the Ming army, who was as thin as a gibbon, but the Ming army also retreated a long way. Ao Bai stopped shooting arrows at him, but turned to the Qian Zong, who was about to organize the others to fight back. He opened his bow and shot an arrow into the chest, and the heavy arrow pierced the thin chain mail on the Qianzong's body at once. That Qian always clutched his chest, struggled for a while and fell to the ground.
At this time, there were more and more Qing soldiers rushing in, and there were almost more than 100 people. More than 100 white-armored soldiers easily defeated the unprepared Ming army nearby. At the same time, an exclamation came from the wall on the other side: "Tartar, Tartar is here!" Then a large number of Ming troops fled from the eyes of Aobai.
Ao Bai knew that the Ming army who were screaming saw the follow-up troops that were hurrying forward, and his task was to control the gate before they arrived. Take the gate, and they win. Judging by the current situation, this should not be difficult. He resisted the urge to pursue these men and stopped the pursuit of his men.
"Raise our flags! We guard the gates! Ao Bai shouted.