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Yue Le led less than 50,000 Qing troops to be harassed by the rogue tactics of the Ming army for more than half a month, and when he saw Feicheng in front of him, he was naturally overjoyed. Yue Le secretly swore in his heart that when the supply of Feicheng was completed, he would definitely let those southern barbarians see how the cavalry fought!

Hope is good, but according to Murphy's Law, if there is a chance that something will go bad, no matter how small that chance, it will happen. Translated into what Yue Le can understand, it is that when you eat thin when you are on your back, you can stuff your teeth! Yue Le and his group of Qing troops rushed to Feicheng with confidence, and five miles away from Feicheng, they found that there was a team outside Feicheng in the distance, and the banner was not clear, but the military uniforms they wore were the same as the Ming army that was chasing after them, all of which were red and blue.

Yue Le was mentally weakened by the Ming army in the past half a month, and after seeing the Ming army on the opposite side, he asked the people around him: "Look at it, is it the Ming army outside Feicheng City?" ”

Do you still need to look at this, the blind man knows that the opposite side is the Ming army, and the soldiers beside Yue Le said: "Lord Wang, it is the color of the Ming army, what should we do?" ”

Yue Le had nothing to do at this time, although the Qing army had good battlefield intelligence, but after all, it was a foreigner, and he really didn't know the geographical situation of going to the interior of the Central Plains to fight guerrilla warfare, otherwise Yue Le would not have been able to plunge headlong into the Feicheng Basin, which was like a dead end.

Yue Le looked at the Ming cavalry who were chasing after him, and said with a long sigh: "It seems that I am really waiting for the death of the heavens!" ”

Ao Bai was covered in injuries in the battle for the past few days, and then said on the side: "Lord An, there is a Ming army in front of you, it is better for us to go back and fight to the death with the cavalry behind, than to be trapped here and die!" ”

Yue Le thought about it and could only do this, after more than half a month of pursuit, the Ming army behind was already sleepy, and the Ming army on the opposite side was waiting for him. Now it's better to go back and fight to the death, it's better to fight a bloody way, it's really not good, it's better to die on the battlefield than to be captured alive by the Ming army.

"Okay, pass the order, each Mongolian Taiji will fight for itself, if you rush over, you will go to Pingyin to make peace, if not, you will have your own destiny!"

After Yue Le finished speaking, he took his remaining three thousand Manchurian Eight Banners, turned his horse's head and rushed towards the Ming army behind.

The Qing army was extremely tired, and Li Yuanyin's cavalry was similar, and they were even more difficult than the Qing army. Because most of the Qing army were Mongols, riding horses was the daily routine of the Mongols, and some of them were skilled in equestrianism and could even sleep on horses, but the Ming army was not good, and the Ming army was purely supported by willpower in the past half a month.

Li Yuanyin accompanied the Qing army five miles away with the cavalry, and suddenly found that the Qing army stopped in front, and then turned their horses and rushed towards him. For half a month, the Ming army was chasing the Qing army, and now the Qing army suddenly stopped running and wanted to come over to play for his life, and Li Yuanyin didn't know what was going on for a while.

Zhao Hu looked at the front and said: "Dashuai, ten miles away is Feicheng County, and the Qing army suddenly ran back probably because they met our people in front!" Be careful, the Qing army is the last fight now, don't be intimidated by them! ”

Li Yuanyin nodded, and immediately ordered all the cavalry to dismount again, form a defensive phalanx, and then wait for the Qing army.

How do you know that now the Qing army is also learning from ghosts, and instead of fighting a frontal battle with the Ming army, it sent less than 3,000 people to contain the Ming army, and then the large army bypassed the phalanx of the Ming army and went in the direction of Pingyin from afar. At this time, the shortcomings of the Ming cavalry's Franc machine gun were revealed, this kind of cannon had a range of only 500 meters, and it couldn't hit the Qing army a mile away.

Li Yuanyin saw this jumping in the army and scolded the Qing army, but there was no way, the weapon couldn't hit, you could only do it in a hurry, Li Yuanyin had no choice but to let his subordinates get on the horse again after cleaning up, and follow the Qing army.

Feicheng is only more than 30 miles away from Shiheng Town in Pingyin Mountain Pass, and after the Qing army, there are chasing soldiers who quickly whip up their horses, and it took two hours to rush to Shiheng Town in Shankou.

There were originally five or six hundred households in Shiheng Town, but with the war in the Central Plains, Pingyin, which is close to Henan, has also been affected, and Shiheng Town, which was originally quite good, has long been uninhabited, leaving only hundreds of dilapidated houses in front of the mountain pass.

The galloping horses of two hours could no longer bear it, and as soon as they stopped here in Shiheng, a large number of horses in the Qing army could not afford to fall to the ground, and many of them were foaming at the mouth.

Yue Le's own horse was a good horse in a million, but this half-moon trek coupled with the fast running of the two hours just now, he couldn't hold on, and his four legs only trembled.

Yue Le looked at the mountain pass in front of him, the official road was only a few meters wide, only enough for three people to walk side by side, the surrounding mountains were very dangerous, this kind of place was really a good place for ambush.

Yue Le didn't plan to go from Pingyin, but there was no way, if he didn't go here, he would have to take a detour and go back to Dongpingzhou, and then pass through Anshan Lake to go back to the Daimyo's Mansion, and the distance would be five or six hundred miles more. Yue Le looked at the Qing army around him, who were sleepy and lacking horses, and now he really didn't have the energy to turn back, so he could only go through here, hoping that there was no Ming army stationed in Pingyin on the official road.

Yue Le said to the captain of the personal soldiers beside him: "Daishan, you take five hundred people to go in first, go five miles to see if there is an ambush, and if there is any situation, come back immediately and report it!" ”

Yue Le planned to send someone to take a look at the situation in Pingyin on the other side first, but who knew that as soon as the reconnaissance team was sent out, the Ming cavalry behind would be killed. Now the situation of the Qing army is very critical, most of the war horses have lost their combat effectiveness, the Mongols do not have horses, many people will not walk, where can they continue to fight, seeing the Ming army chasing behind, regardless of whether there is an ambush in front of them, they have rushed into the official road of the mountain pass.

Seeing this, Yue Le had no choice but to take his own soldiers into the mountain pass with the crowd, and the mountains in Pingyin were the remaining veins of Mount Tai extending westward, in a southwesterly direction. There are more than 800 large and small mountains in the county, of which 16 are above 400 meters above sea level, 75 are 300 meters above sea level, and the rest are below 300 meters. Among them, there are many peaks of more than 300 meters on this official road, such as Baoyu Mountain, Weizi Mountain, Hulu Mountain, etc., and the Taishan Mountain Range is different from the deep mountain old forest of Changbai Mountain outside the Guan, there are not many trees on the mountain, they are all stones, and they are very steep, and the cavalry cannot be used at all.

Yue Le looked at the surrounding mountains while walking, and secretly said in his heart that the Buddha blessed, don't have an ambush!

It was probably because God saw that Yue Le had been unlucky for more than half a month, and decided to help him, and finally sent Yue Le good news.

The reconnaissance team sent by Yue Le came back an hour later and brought good news that there was no Ming army in Pingyin County outside the mountain pass opposite, and the gate of the county town was wide open, and there were no soldiers guarding it.

Yue Le was overjoyed when he heard this, it seemed that he could keep the clouds open and see the moon, and this time it was finally Lao Tzu's turn to take luck! Yue Le, who received the good news, immediately ordered his men to speed up their march and strive to get out of this Jedi before dark.

Yue Le's personal soldiers were right, there was not a single soldier in Pingyin County, but it didn't mean that Zhu Hongsan was unprepared.

After Zhu Hongsan and Li Yuanyin broke up, he took his more than 8,000 people to pack up their weapons and equipment, and went to Pingyin County the next day.

Pingyin County is still a Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the local county order is to demote officials in the Ming Dynasty. This guy had already received the news that the Ming army had begun the Northern Expedition, and he made up his mind that as soon as the Ming army arrived in Pingyin County, he would immediately open the city gate and surrender, and he could not hesitate at all.

Zhu Hongsan rushed to Pingyin three days later, and the county commander saw the arrival of the Ming army, and hurriedly opened the four city gates to go out of the city to greet him.

After Zhu Hongsan came to Pingyin, he had a detailed understanding of the local geographical situation and found that this place was really a good place to set up an ambush. The official road comes from Feicheng, enters the mountains in Shiheng Town, and passes through many peaks, the road is narrow, the mountains are dangerous, it is really Jedi!

After watching it, Zhu Hongsan nodded again and again, and said to Hou Sui beside him: "Mr. Hou, do you watch the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?" ”

Of course, Hou Sui of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has seen it, but Hou Sui doesn't know why the emperor is asking about this? Didn't you say that the emperor was illiterate? Why have you watched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

"When I was a child, my family was poor and I didn't have money to listen to the play, so I could only listen at the door of the teahouse! I still remember that there was a play called "Burning Huluyu", which played Zhuge Liang to burn Sima Yi to death, and then it rained, and Sima Yi got a way to live! I wonder if Mr. Hou has seen it? ”

Hou Sui is a university scholar, and he has studied history, poetry and songs, and of course knows this kind of opera.

"Your Majesty can you say that this time "Upper Gu Sima is trapped in Wuzhang Yuan Zhuge Xing"?"

"Yes, it's this play, in the end, Sima Yi ran away, Zhuge Demon Dao didn't help him when he saw God, and he died of anger when he didn't come up in one breath!"

Hou Sui is here to listen to Zhu Hongsan nonsense is not like that at all, but Hou Sui is old in officialdom and knows when to say something. After waiting for Zhu Hongsan to finish speaking, Hou Sui nodded with a smile and said: "Your Majesty is erudite and talented, and history is just as Your Majesty said!" ”

Yao Qisheng is also a person, although he is not as knowledgeable as Hou Sui, but he knows that there are many discrepancies between the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and history, and there is no upper valley in the official history "Three Kingdoms". But seeing Hou Sui talking nonsense with his eyes open here, he wrote a big word in his heart! It's no wonder that Hou Sui can be a big official, and this shameless strength is enough to learn for a while!

Zhu Hongsan was overjoyed when he heard Hou Sui echo him, and pointed to the official road and said, "Look, isn't this another upper valley!" I decided to set up an ambush here and kill Yue Le's bastard in one fell swoop! What do you say? ”

In addition to the strategic aspect, the tactics of ancient Chinese warfare were rarely used, because the battlefield was ever-changing, and it was not possible to estimate it in advance, so Zhuge Liang's clever plan could only appear in it. Zhu Hongsan also knew this truth that according to the normal battle, Zhu Hongsan should guard the county seat, use his firearms advantage to block Yue Le's cavalry, and then wait for reinforcements to arrive, and finally wipe out the Qing army.

But to put it simply, Zhu Hongsan has a total of less than 8,000 people in his hands, and the weapons and gunpowder are only half of the usual, which has to face 40,000 or 50,000 Qing troops, and he may not be able to win. So after careful consideration, Zhu Hongsan decided to use some tricks!