Section 337
The scout brought back a man from Hexi, who was in his fifties, dressed in a shabby Mongolian cotton robe, and was holding Mozhige's cigarette stick to smoke hard, and when he saw Li Yu enter the big tent, he immediately lay on the ground and kowtowed three times.
"Master Dajinong, the slave's name is Black Sheep, he is the person of the master of Chahard Shenzhuang, I have seen your dignity in Jinlianchuan, I want to defect when I see the ancestor's Sulu ingot during the day, but unfortunately I can't get out, the Qing soldiers woke us up at night and immediately opened up, the master of Deshenzhuang told me to take advantage of the chaos to escape and report to you, master, the Qing army wants to sneak attack your back road!" The old man was helped up by Li Yu and said with a nervous expression.
Mo Zhige nodded on the side and said: "The scout just came to report that the Qing army suddenly left the camp, the number is not less than 10,000, everyone has livestock, but the whereabouts are not clear, the Flying Tiger Battalion has sent a team of people to investigate." ”
"They are going to the direction of Jinan, the number of people is about fifteen thousand, of which the armor soldiers of the eight banners and Xianding, Aha is not less than 5,000, we Mongolians also have more than 3,000 people, the rest are Liaodong Nikan, and the troops are inlaid with yellow flags and white flags of the two solid mountains Ezhen Baiyintu and Turge, which was told to me by the old man of Deshenzhuang himself." Black Sheep hurriedly added.
"Uncle, do you know who the commander of the Qing army is?" Li Yu asked.
The black sheep scratched his head and replied: "I heard that it was Yue Tobel, but during the daytime battle, I saw Abbatebel sitting on the platform, and at night the Qing soldiers said that it was Prince Rui who ordered the promotion, and the servants were also a little confused. ”
Li Yu's heart moved, waved his hand to let Mo Rige take the old black sheep down to rest, and then laughed loudly in the big tent - Yue Tuo must have had an accident, which led to the confusion of the command of the Qing army, and it was only Abatai who commanded the battle during the day, and it must be Dolgon who played the ghost trick of sneak attack, and the little white-faced Dolgon couldn't hold his breath, and wanted to divide the troops to cut off my back road, since I sent a dish to the table, then I was not welcome.
Du Wenhuan and Mao Yuanyi rushed to the big tent, and after hearing the news, they high-fived each other, and Du Wenhuan slapped it heavily on the map: "Qi He, they must want to sneak attack Qi River, Yuzi, I will stay in the big camp to contain the Qing army, you take the main force to set off immediately, destroy this sneak attack of the Qing army, and the whole battle situation will be alive." ”
"No, leave an empty camp for the Qing army, our army will concentrate all the main forces to intercept and kill the enemy who is sneaking up, this battle must be a complete victory, Dolgon is dead this time!" Li Yu slammed his fist into the table.
The sky was bright, and the Qing army scouts found that the Fengzhou army camp was abnormal - the flags and camp tents on the other side had not changed, and there were also cavalry patrolling along the river, and occasionally the sound of military trumpets could be heard, but the camp of tens of thousands of people was quiet, and even the smoke could not be seen. After hearing the news, Dolgon ran to the river to observe for a while, and ordered the Qing army to cross the river to try, but only to meet a thousand Fengzhou cavalry, and the other party hit them with horses, bows and arrows for a while, and then laughed and slipped away - this was an empty camp, and Dolgon's face turned white at once.
The Toyoshu Army disappeared, where did it go? I don't know - the generals of the Qing army panicked, and bad ideas came out one after another, Haoge was very sure that the Fengzhou army must be going to intercept and kill Turg and Baiyintu and his gang, and advocated that the whole army should be rescued quickly, and Abatai immediately reminded that the looted population and property were by the canal, who would take care of the army when it was far away, and should it be returned to the Ming Kingdom? Du Du was already completely stupid, jumping and learning to bark among the generals. Dolgon's mind was blank, and he couldn't make up his mind at all, so he cheekily asked Abatai to take over the command of the army again, but Abatai of course refused, and when he was making noise, someone came to report that Yue Tuo had woken up, and everyone rushed to find Yue Tuo again.
Yue Tuo had just woken up when he heard the bad news, and for a while he was filled with grief and indignation, and he picked up the medicine bowl and smashed it at Dolgon, and then vomited a few mouthfuls of blood and passed out. After waking up again, Yue Tuo thought for a long time with tears in his eyes, and motioned to Aha to bring a pen and paper, and issued a military order with a pen: the army immediately withdrew to Cangzhou, and Haoge led five thousand iron cavalry to quickly rescue Turge and Baiyintu, but if it can be saved, it will be saved, and if it can't be saved, it will be quickly withdrawn.
Turge and Baiyintu are both battlefield veterans, and they don't agree with the strategy of dividing the troops, but Prince Rui finally came up with a clever plan, which slave dared to pour cold water, so he could only take the order on the road. There are more than 16,000 people in the hands of the two, including 8008 banner iron cavalry and 3,000 Mongolian cavalry of foreign domains, there is no problem with the Ming army, but it will be bad when encountering the strong Fengzhou army, fortunately, the Qiding and the Mongols have horses, and Nikan also has at least one donkey or mule, and has the ability to seize the Qi River - that small county town has some errands at most, and the people are strong and defend the city, almost at their fingertips, and the city is easy to do with the city in hand, and the Fengzhou army is long in the field, and the siege ability is not as good as the Qing army.
The Qing army felt the darkness and hurried desperately, the speed of the march was not slow, that is, the life was unfamiliar with the place and walked two forks in the road, stumbled under the Qihe City, the sky was already bright, and before I had time to rejoice, there were Fengzhou scouts around - the rivals came so fast, Turge, Baiyintu didn't have time to think about it, and immediately gave an order, and the Eight Banners immediately urged Nikan to set up a cloud ladder to attack the city, and the Mongolian cavalry of the outer domain blocked the Fengzhou army, and those who took a step back were immediately beheaded.
Sure enough, there were only a small number of errand soldiers and people on the city wall, who were desperately beating gongs and drums, probably wanting to call the people to go to the city to help in the war, and the Han people of Liaodong easily climbed the city wall. Turg and Baiyintu's hearts are almost jumping out, hurry, just kill those ordinary people and open the city gates, and you're done.
At this moment, the neat and dense sound of horses' hooves came, and then a black eagle flag appeared, Turg and Baiyin were like ashes, the Mongols must have had an accident, otherwise the Fengzhou army would never have fought so quickly.
The Mongols were laughing, the left battalion of the Chahar of the Fengzhou Army had just appeared, Deshenzhuang immediately led his subordinates anyway, the Chahar people on both sides rushed up and hugged each other, the old black sheep was so excited that he burst into tears, raised the Sulu ingots and ran back and forth, and the Mongols of other tribes saw this, and gathered under the spears of the Sulu ingots to submit to Dajinong - Zhushen has been rampant and domineering on the grassland for decades, and this time he was played by the Mongols.
"Erlu is ruthless enough, all the Fengzhou soldiers have been transferred, there are tens of thousands of cavalry alone, the battle can't be fought, withdraw!" Bai Yintu shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"It's not easy to retreat, we are not familiar with life, we can only rush back along the same road, forget it, how many can escape back, I will take the cavalry to take the lead, you take the banner to cover with guns, Nikan will follow behind and resign to fate." Turg bit his fingers vigorously, put on his helmet and mounted his horse.
The Eight Banners were twisted into a force to kill back, and the Fengzhou Iron Cavalry did not dare to block head-on, but tightly clamped the Eight Banners from both wings, and while walking, they continued to hit and consume the opponent - this kind of tactics of holding others to fight while walking is a bit like a cat playing with mice, the Eight Banners know that the other party has sinister intentions, but the cavalry strength is too weak to get rid of the entanglement. After being beaten all the way for about ten miles, there was a blockade from the Fengzhou infantry in front, and Turge and Baiyintu understood that there was no hope of escaping, so they seized a barren mountain nearby, set up camp and waited for the main force to rescue. Before the Qing army could fight a decent battle, there were only 5,000 soldiers left, and they were surrounded by regiments, and they were simply defeated.
Liaodong Han people also had an accident, they followed the Qing army to go out mainly as a people's husband, by the way to make up the number of people to scare the Ming army, only equipped with simple swords, spears, shields, almost no combat power, Fengzhou Iron Cavalry easily cut off the tail behind the Qing army's buttocks, and then a burst of random arrows dispersed the matter - for these people who don't even have armor, bows and arrows, the Fengzhou army really didn't take it seriously, the strange thing is that the people are really desperate, as long as they gather together, they will impact the encirclement of the Fengzhou army, and try to get into it to meet the Qing army, This kind of clumsy attack was very impatient, and Jin Guoding took Liu Shuangxi's infantry battalion to scare them out of the country.
When the Fengzhou army went away, the scattered Han people of Liaodong regrouped, hugged each other and cried loudly - the Eight Banners are hateful, but without their protection, no one wants to go home, here is more than 2,000 miles away from the side wall, the Liaodong people are Hanyi and spies in the eyes of the people in the Guannei, and no one will let go of their heads.
"Let's surrender, the commander of Fengzhou is also from Liaodong, maybe he can give us a way to live." Someone suddenly shouted.
"That's right, some people also say that he is a member of the Li family in Tieling, anyway, he is dead before and after, as long as he takes us in, we will give him his life." Immediately a lot of people responded.
Li Yu's life experience has not been clear, the old Zhushen always thinks that he is a Ula person, of course, it may also be a Yehe person, but it must be a hardcore Zhushen Erlu, but the Han people in Liaodong think that Li Yu is a Han from Zhushenhua, Li Yongfang whispered that Li Yu may be a member of the Li family in Tieling - anyway, Li Yu is one, everyone takes what they need and expresses themselves, Li Yu is definitely unwilling to be a family with Li Chengliang, but this kind of absurd rumor has also become a lifesaver for the people at this time.
The Han people of Liaodong sent representatives to catch up with the Fengzhou army, making it clear that they were cornered, and since the commander of Fengzhou was also from Liaodong, he should take in the villagers who were exiled in a foreign land, and they promised that they would serve with all their hearts in the future - they were not embarrassed to say surrender, and a group of ordinary people did not even have the qualifications to surrender.
"You hand over your weapons and go with us, it's no problem to find some work in the big camp to eat," Jin Guoding, the commander of the Artillery Right Association, is also from Liaodong, and he was embarrassed to refuse when he saw this group of poor fellow villagers, but he was very interested in the rumor that Li Yu was from the Li clan in Tieling, and he rolled his eyes and said to the people, "Well, I already knew, don't go out and talk nonsense, you must keep it secret." ”
Jin Guoding dragged Liu Shuangxi, who almost jumped up, and left, and several representatives of the Han people in Liaodong looked at each other - it turned out that the commander of Fengzhou was really a member of the Li family in Tieling!
The Mongols surrendered, the Han people of Liaodong also took refuge in the new master, and the 5,000 and 8 banner soldiers were surrounded by more than 40,000 people from the main force of the Fengzhou army. The opportunity to beat the water dogs is rare, there are Fengzhou Army's guns, bows and arrows cover, Hu Dawei, Yang Guozhu's Shanxi, Xuanfu Ming Army, Xu Sheng's Shanxi People's Army have appeared on the stage, repeatedly attacking the Qing army, its courage and tenacity made the Qing army also amazed, can only take out the whole body to resist desperately.
"First, first, Lao Tzu still wants to give the court the merit to atone for his sins, sons, rush up and kill these Jiannu." Hu Dawei and Yang Guozhu shouted and shouted, and led thousands of people to fight hand-to-hand with the Qing army.
Shanxi People's Army is trained by the Fengzhou Army, and Fengzhou's Yi soldiers are often mixed together, not only psychologically not afraid of the full soldiers, but also from the Fengzhou soldiers stained with some wildness, fighting more vigorously than the official army, Xu Sheng led the charge of the first soldier, this guy's martial arts are good, the Qinglong Yanyue knife in his hand continuously slashed the Eight Banners Armor Soldiers, and the soldiers under him also screamed and rushed desperately, but the Eight Banners soldiers were not vegetarians, Xu Sheng and a group of outlaws entered the Qing Army several times, and were driven out by others several times, and the Xuanda Ming Army also only blossomed and did not bear fruit, The two sides fought and stopped, forming an offensive and defensive tug-of-war.
Let these guys practice their hands, just let the brothers take a break, maybe the reinforcements of the Qing army are about to arrive - Li Yu is very leisurely watching the excitement, but the two solid mountain flags of Turge and Baiyintu give him a little headache, these two guys are from Manchurian nobles, and they have some influence in the Eight Banners, Turge is still the eighth child of the Yidu family, and it is even more troublesome to kill these two people and capture them alive, Fengzhou can start a war with the Qing State, but it is best to let them escape back alive.
When the sun was in the west, the reinforcements of the Qing army finally arrived, but Hauge felt weak when he saw this battle, the main forces of the other party were placed here, he just showed his face, but he didn't dare to compensate the five thousand elite horsemen. The Qing army waved their flags and shouted when they were far away from the Fengzhou army, but let Li Yu make a full gesture and even gave way to a passage, this guy didn't come close to life or death, and even retreated.
The soldiers of the Eight Banners in the encirclement saw hope, Turge and Bai Yintu led the elite cavalry to take the lead, desperately rushing outward, the Fengzhou infantry formation seemed to be a little inadequate, and a gap was punched, and the two rushed out on the spot, but when they looked back, they found that the infantry was sealed again, and there were only about a hundred cavalry rushing out. Turge and Baiyintu were ashamed and angry, turned the horse's head to find Li Yu desperately, but Haoge in the distance was overjoyed, and led a thousand iron horsemen to rush over and drag Turg and Baiyintu to run away - Haoge is not stupid, the enemy is not stupid, I am outnumbered and killed in the past, snatching back these two big treasures is enough for him to make a difference, Fengzhou Iron Cavalry has appeared on both wings, hurry up and run for your life!
Sun Fuhu and Meng Ke had just returned to the flank of the Qing army's iron cavalry, and before they could start, Haoge had already run away, and the two chased after the Qing army's buttocks, killing and capturing five or six hundred people behind the Qing army along the way, and chased until it was dark before stopping, and Haoge finally managed to escape.
The Qing army camp under the night was as silent as death, and the air also revealed a sad atmosphere, the reinforcements went away in vain, the two main generals were gone, the Qing army was unable to break through on its own, this battle was inevitable, maybe everything would end as soon as dawn dawned. The soldiers of the Qing army were in mourning, and the officers were also at a loss around the campfire, and the cries of the Mongols of the outer domain and the Liaodong Nikan to surrender sounded from time to time around the camp, and the noise made their hearts tremble. The officers discussed in a whisper all night, and before dawn they sent people straight to the Toyosu military camp opposite.
"Erlu, I need a guarantee from you, we will not kill, fight, or collect property after we surrender, and if you want to go home, you will go home after the battle, and if you want to do it with you, you will do it as you like, can you do it?" Iron Spear was a representative sent by the Qing army, staring at Li Yu's eyes and asked.
"The Fengzhou soldiers and the Eight Banners soldiers put down their swords and spears and are hard-working farmers, they should get along like brothers, I don't accept your surrender, but will treat you as brothers who come to the door, Brother Iron Spear, do you need me to swear to the sky?" Li Yu replied solemnly.
"No, I believe you," Iron Spear smiled on his face, and then said with a long sigh, "This battle should not have been fought in the first place, how many Fengzhou's brothers and old Zhushen died here, and the bones can't return to their hometown, I'm old and don't want to fight anymore, this should be my last battle." ”
"Brother Iron Spear, you are not yet fifty, you are not old, come back with me and enjoy a few years of Qingfu," Li Yu smiled and pulled Iron Spear and sat down.
"People who have suffered for most of their lives can't enjoy Qingfu, I should leave after dawn," Tie Spear shook his head, seeing Li Yu's face change, he stood up with a smile and said, "There is no precedent for people from Baijia Bayala to surrender in battle, I must not start this, the old brothers have discussed, if we want to finish the last battle, please send us the last ride." ”
"No, this is how Brother Hei Niu went in Weining Haizi, I feel distressed when I think of him, you can't die, old brothers let's go, I can let Turg and Baiyintu go, and I can let you go." Li Yu stood up abruptly and yelled.
"Forget it, I can't afford to lose my age, I have a brother like you in this life, I'm content, it's dawn, I should go." Iron Spear laughed and strode out of the tent.
"Iron Spear, are you willing to give up our friendship for almost twenty years? You are not my good brother," Li Yu shouted with tears in his eyes, pointing to the back of the iron spear and ordering the guards, "leave those two children behind, they can't die." ”
Wutai and Guitu were immediately pressed to the ground by the guards, the two of them cried and struggled hard, the iron spear turned his head and wiped a handful of tears, stared at the two children and said solemnly: "You all remember, the affairs of our older generation have nothing to do with you, after I leave, Uncle Erlu is your elder, do what he tells you to do." ”
At dawn, the Qing army was in front of the camp, standing with the Fengzhou army infantry army, iron spears and dozens of officers walked out of the big formation, they were wearing neat woolen military uniforms, but they were not wearing armor, and they saluted Li Yu together and shouted "Erlu Batulu", and then stepped on the war horse and pulled out the war knife, slowly accelerated and rushed towards the Fengzhou army, and the Qing army's military horn immediately sounded to see them off.
"Salute the warriors of the Qing Kingdom." Li Yu drew his sword and pointed forward, and the Flying Tiger Banner and Black Eagle Flag of the Fengzhou Army leaned forward three times, and the infantry and horse guns were fired into the sky at the same time.
"Send these warriors away!" Du Wenhuan waved his hand, the black rain of arrows flew out, Iron Spear and his companions fell one after another, and Wutai and Guitu broke free from the guards and ran to their dead relatives in tears.
The Qing army cried sadly for a while, then threw down the military flag and weapons, and walked slowly towards the Fengzhou army.