Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

The first volume of Liaodong Shock

Chapter 3: Domestic and Foreign Difficulties and Schemes

The seventh quarter of the battle Qinghe

At the beginning of July in the forty-sixth year of Wanli (the third year of the Later Jin Heavenly Mandate), the Liaoyang General Military Mansion.

Early in the morning, Liu Ling called Liu Yunwei to the study, handed Liu Yunwei a copy of the military department's writings, and said: "The reward of the imperial court has come down: I gave you a guerrilla general, a battalion number, a battle armor, and horses. From now on, your Hanwei Battalion will be the barracks of the Imperial Battalion. ”

"Great! Now, the battalion that can get the number of the camp given by His Majesty is only my Hanwei battalion, right? Those boys in the camp can't go crazy with joy! I'll have to show off when I go out in the future, haha. Liu Yunwei shouted excitedly.

"Okay? In World War I, more than 4,000 Jiannu were beheaded! How many years has this been a great victory? Since the three major expeditions, there have been almost no victories in the country with more than 1,000 beheadings. The imperial court only gave a promotion? This is a humiliation to the soldiers! The more Liu Ling spoke, the more angry he became.

"Grandfather, don't be angry, it's not worth it if you're angry. After all, not everyone can encounter such a thing as a camp, okay, okay. ”

"Humph!" Liu Ling saw that Liu Yunwei was on the rise, so he didn't say anything anymore and sat on the chair and drank tea by himself.

Seeing that Liu Ling no longer complained, Liu Yunwei began to wonder how to use the money rewarded by the imperial court, whether it was distributed to the soldiers in the camp like those famous generals?

At this time, Liu Zhao suddenly pushed the door in, holding a red urgent letter in his hand. Liu Yunwei saw his father's anxious appearance, and his rare good mood disappeared in an instant, and his heart sank quickly. Something is wrong! In front of my grandfather, my father would never be so reckless.

"Father, urgent report!" As he spoke, Liu Zhao handed over the urgent letter in his hand to Liu Ling.

Taking advantage of Liu Ling's efforts to read the letter, Liu Yunwei asked his father what happened.

"Since last month, Jiannu divided his troops to capture the castles around Fushun City, and all the defenders in various places were defeated and retreated, and more than 300 forts of various sizes were destroyed. At the beginning of May, Jiannu once again assembled a large army and divided his troops to attack the city. At present, Jiannu has even Kefu'an, Leopard Chong, Sanchaer and other large and small eleven tunbao. So far, the east and north of Shenyang have all fallen into the hands of Jiannu. ”

Liu Yunwei said: "Don't we all know this? After the victory of Ma Xiangshan Fort, didn't Jiannu be born? ”

Liu Zhao glared at Liu Yunwei and said, "I haven't finished speaking, Yuan Mingxuan got an urgent report yesterday, and Jiannu attacked Yahu Pass with heavy troops. ”

"What!" Liu Yunwei frowned and fell into deep thought.

After reading the urgent letter, Liu Ling said to himself: "The two red flags of Jiannu have been hit hard, and it stands to reason that they should be dormant and recuperate, how long has it been, why did the war start again?" ”

"I don't understand, could it be that Jiannu quickly recovered his vitality through what means?" Liu Zhao said.

"Wild Maiden!" Liu Yunwei suddenly exclaimed: "I learned from the mouth of the Jiannu captives that Nurhachi would capture other Hu people in the deep mountains and old forests of Nuer Gandusi and use them as cannon fodder. ”

Liu Ling nodded and said, "That means that the results of the victory of the Horse Follower Fort will be greatly reduced." Zhao'er, write to the court again and urge reinforcements! ”

"Okay, I'll go."

"Not good!" Liu Yunwei suddenly exclaimed.

Liu Ling and Liu Zhao asked at the same time, "What!?" ”

Liu Yunwei walked quickly to the desk, took out the map of Liaodong, and said to the two: "Grandfather, father, you see, if Jiannu captures the Yahu Pass, where will the wild boar skin fight next?" ”

Liu Ling and Liu Zhao looked in the direction of Liu Yunwei's finger, and exclaimed at the same time: "Qinghe City!" ”

Liu Yunwei gritted his teeth and said: "The ultimate goal of Jiannu is to attack Qinghe City, and after defeating Qinghe, you can take Fushun City as the center and encircle Shenyang from the north and south!" ”

Liu Ling said: "We must rush to the aid of Yahu Pass!" ”

"Grandfather, I'll go!" Liu Yunwei asked Zhandao.

"The Hanwei battalion has just experienced a major battle, and it cannot be fought continuously. I'll send your Uncle Zu Tianding. ”

As he was talking, Yuan Mingxuan also entered the house in a hurry and said, "Old general, the urgent report I just got: Yahu Pass has been lost!" Just yesterday, Jiannu surrounded Qinghe City! ”

Qinghe City.

Adjutant General Zou Chuxian stood at the head of the city and observed the Jiannu army that was preparing to attack, and his heart was very desperate.

Just yesterday, Jiannu's 20,000-strong army broke through the Yahu Pass, and it only took half a day to break through to Qinghe City, and he and the more than 10,000 defenders in the city were caught off guard, and were surrounded by Jiannu in the city without any preparation.

Zou Chuxian thought that although he did not prepare in advance, with the strong city defense of Qinghe, there were more than 10,000 defenders in the city, and it should not be a problem to resist Jiannu, who was only twice his own strength. But yesterday's fierce battle completely shattered Zou Chuxian's illusions, and in less than a day's fierce battle, the Ming army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and Jiannu even climbed the city wall several times. If it weren't for Zou Chuxian supervising the battle in front and leading his subordinates to resist desperately, I am afraid that Qinghe City would have been lost yesterday.

The passionate war drums sounded suddenly, Zou Chuxian looked eagerly out of the city, the army of Jiannu had been completed, and thousands of Jiannu with blue flags pushed the shield cart as a cover, and rushed up with a ladder. At the same time, news also came from the other three city walls, and the Jiannu inlaid white flag, the positive red flag, and the positive white flag also launched an attack on the other three respectively.

"Attacking from all sides? Did Jiannu go crazy? Could it be that the wild boar skin wants to capture Qinghe City today? Before he had time to think about it, Zou Chuxian shouted: "Francie prepare!" Put! ”

With a loud bang, accompanied by clouds of black smoke, dozens of fireballs shot towards the Jiannu army.

I saw that the cannonballs hit the shield cart pushed by Jiannu one after another, but most of the shells were stopped, and only a few shells flew through the gap between the shield carts and smashed into the dense queue of Jiannu; Or break the shield cart and smash into the crowd behind. I saw that everywhere the shells passed were stumps and broken arms, and the flesh alleys that had been ploughed by the hot shells were presented.

Zou Chuxian saw that the effect of the shelling was not as good as he imagined, and shouted anxiously: "Hurry up and reload!" Archers ready! ”

In the interval between the loading of the artillery, round after round of arrows fell, but the Jiannu soldiers raised their shields one after another to protect, which also had little effect.

The siege of the city of Jiannu army with shields, pushing the shield cart quickly approached the city wall, the Jiannu array of wrappers, the followers quickly set up a ladder, the archers desperately to the city wall to suppress the Ming army at the head of the city.

"Ladder! Get ready for battle! Get ready for battle! Zou Chuxian shouted, pulled out his waist knife, and prepared to fight.

The Jiannu soldiers began to climb the ladder after paying some casualties, and the Ming troops on the city wall threw down the rolling wood and thunder stones, and the first wave of Jiannu soldiers who rushed to attack the city wall actually threw away their shields one after another, and braved the stone arrows to storm the city along the ladder.

The Jiannu who took the lead in the city were all dead soldiers wearing double heavy armor, these dead soldiers were all fearless of death, as long as they did not die, they would never look back, they howled and killed the surrounding Ming army, the Ming army gradually could not resist, and the battle line continued to retreat.

The Jiannu dead soldiers took the opportunity to occupy the battlements to cover the subsequent Jiannu soldiers to enter the city. After a while, there were more and more battlements that were lost, and there were more and more Jiannu on the city wall, and the Ming army was completely in a situation of being passively beaten.

Seeing that the Jiannu soldiers were so fierce, the Ming troops defending the city were all frightened, and some of the less courageous soldiers even began to retreat and prepare to escape. Zou Chuxian was shocked when he saw this, if the city wall is lost, then Qinghe is basically lost, what are these soldiers under his command like? It's okay to defend the city and engage in street battles with the wolf-like Jiannu? Joke!

"Don't go back! Don't go back! Those who retreat are immediately slashed! ”

Zou Chuxian shouted hoarsely as he fought against a Jiannu. But to no avail, as more and more soldiers of the Ming army fell under the sword of Jiannu, the morale of the Ming army was further shaken, and it was already on the verge of collapse.

Suddenly, there were bursts of cheers from the south of the city, Zou Chuxian slashed to death a fighting Jiannu, listened vaguely, and subconsciously thought that the battle situation might have taken a turn for the better. Suddenly, the Ming army broke up with a "coax", and they scattered and fled.

The incident happened suddenly, Zou Chuxian was still looking at the fleeing subordinates blankly, and he felt a pain in his shoulder, and suddenly turned around to see a machete slashed on his shoulder.

Zou Chuxian hurriedly turned to the side, but he dodged the second knife that came over, and swung the knife with difficulty to resist, and his injured shoulder was bloody.

"What the fuck happened!" Zou Chuxian shouted in embarrassment.

"The general's big thing is not good, the south wall is lost! Jiannu has already entered the city! ”

"What!"

Zou Chuxian quickly retreated after killing two more Jian Nu, his mind was in a mess, and he didn't know what to do.

Suddenly, a Jiannu general killed him, and a knife in his hand swept over. Zou Chuxian was shocked and hurriedly resisted with a knife. Just listen to the "bell!" With a sound, Zou Chuxian took a few steps back, his hands trembling violently. Looking down, he saw that the tiger mouths on both hands were all cracked, and the blood was dripping, and Zou Chuxian was horrified.

"If you can block Ben Baylor's knife, you can be considered a man." Amin said coldly.

After saying that, Amin swung his knife again and killed him. Zou Chuxian knew that he was going to die, and he also raised his knife to meet him, wanting to pull a cushion on his back when he was dying.

Amin was not surprised when he saw this, and slashed down from top to bottom. Zou Chuxian did not resist, and also slashed over.

Amin sneered, and suddenly flashed the waist knife that was slashed over on one side, and the knife in his hand instantly cut through Zou Chuxian's neck.

"Humph! Bite off more than one can chew! After speaking, Amin no longer paid attention to Zou Chuxian, who was lying in a pool of blood and convulsing, and ordered his subordinates to kill in the city.

Qinghe City fell into a sea of blood, and the Jiannu army that entered the city wantonly slaughtered the Ming army and the people in the city. The scattered Ming army, the panicked and fleeing people, and the inhumane Jiannu in the trenches are intertwined, depicting Qinghe as a scene of hell on earth.

By noon, the cries of killing in the city had subsided, and Qinghe had fallen.