Chapter 771 Night Attack

Just when Zhao Hu called the door at Gubeikou, the Manchu escape team led by Shunzhi had already run to Lizhou, a hundred miles away, and from here they went to Guangning and then returned to Shengjing.

Although Shunzhi and the others went out of Beigukou, it was too close to the Great Wall, and if the troops defending the city made a move, it would be too much of a threat to themselves. Therefore, after Shunzhi got out of the pass, he immediately ordered all the men and horses to speed up the journey, and strive to stay away from the Great Wall as soon as possible.

Now most of the men in Manchukuo are dead on the battlefield in Guannei, and most of the remaining people in the clan are women and children, where have these people suffered this kind of suffering, plus now that they are out of the Great Wall, they are afraid that the strength of the Ming army's pursuit will be loosened, and these people began to fall behind and find a place to rest.

When Shunzhi saw this, he ordered to use a whip to drive, but those people had been driving for five or six days, and now they were completely relaxed, where could the whip be driven. There was no way for Shunzhi to abandon these guys who had fallen behind, and he took the troops directly under him, as well as some men and horses from Shangsanqi, to protect the Queen Mother's Luan, and traveled all night, and then arrived in Lizhou after a day and a night.

Lizhou is the later Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, which has entered the eastern part of Liaoning. When he arrived here, Shunzhi breathed a sigh of relief, it was more than a hundred miles away from Gubeikou, and it took some effort for the Ming army to catch up.

Shunzhi came to the Queen Mother and asked for Andao: "Queen Mother, this way has made the Queen Mother tired!" ”

Xiaozhuang was born in the Mongolian tribe, and he is not a pampered person, but he can't stand it for five or six days without rest, but fortunately, he finally escaped, and Xiaozhuang is very happy in his heart.

"Emperor, now that you're in Lizhou, where do you go next?"

"Queen Mother, Erchen wants to go to Quang Ninh and then go back to Shengjing!"

Xiaozhuang sighed in his heart when he heard Shunzhi say this, this kid still didn't trust his uncle.

"Emperor, Shengjing is now in the hands of the Ming army, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to go, it's better to go to Horqin to find your uncle!"

Shunzhi was a little unhappy when he heard the old lady mention going to his uncle again, now he has less than 10,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and they are all old, weak, sick and disabled, what if his uncle Wu Keshan wants to annex himself?

"Queen Mother, Erchen has a contract with the Ming Emperor in his hand, and I believe that the Ming army in Shengjing can't stop Erchen! After all, there are more than 100,000 people in Shengjing, and these people are the capital of the son's comeback! ”

Xiaozhuang heard that his son was determined to return to Shengjing, but he had no choice, so he nodded speechlessly.

Lizhou is only a small county town, with a population of less than 10,000 people, and Shunzhi did not enter the city, so he ordered people to camp outside the city, preparing to rest here for a night, and set off tomorrow morning.

Shunzhi led the elites of the Three Banners, but they were also people, and no one could stand running wild for hundreds of miles in this kind of ice and snow. If it is still the same as when it was outside the Guan, but in the past seven or eight years, the Eight Banners of Manchuria have been almost eroded by the extravagant life of the Han people in Guanli, and there is no longer the momentum of Nurhachi's army.

Now that they had been ordered by the emperor to rest, these people quickly took out their sheepskin mattresses, found a dry place and lay down in a deep sleep.

These guys are sleeping, Qi Tai, the commander of the guard camp, does not dare to sleep, although he is far away from the Great Wall now, but just in case, Qi Tai still arranges for people to keep vigil. After all the arrangements were made, Qi Tai also took out his outfits, found a leeward place to make a snow nest, and then lay down to rest.

The first half of the night was uneventful, but in the second half of the night, Qi Tai was awakened by a slight tremor on the ground. Qi Tai was originally the hunter of the White Mountain and Black Water, and he had followed Huang Taiji to fight all his life, so he was too familiar with this kind of vibration, which was the sound of a large number of cavalry in action. At first, Qi Tai thought it was the horse team of the Eight Banners people who were following behind, but as the shaking became louder, Qi Tai realized that something was wrong. This kind of vibration is low and neat, it is the vibration of the march of the heavy cavalry, and it is absolutely impossible for the scattered clansmen behind to ride horses, it must be the Ming army chasing after them.

Qi Tai hurriedly crawled out of the sheepskin mattress, and at this time some veterans in the guard camp had also woken up, and Qi Tai asked his deputy Hui Tu, "Did you hear that too?" Was it a cavalry operation? ”

Huitu is also a veteran, nodded and said: "Commander, I also sound like a cavalry, the people behind are not armored, and the pace of the horses can't be so heavy!" ”

"Okay, Huitu, hurry up and let the soldiers get up, and I'll go to the master for instructions!"

Qi Tai heard the tremors from the ground still five miles away, but he forgot that there had been a heavy snowfall a few days ago, and the ground was covered with snow half a foot thick, and stepping on it was like cotton, which naturally reduced the footsteps of the horses.

Just as Qi Tai got up to look for the emperor, a row of fires suddenly appeared a hundred meters away, followed by a dense burst of gunfire, and the Ming cavalry arrived.

This Ming army is the 10,000 vanguard led by Zhao Hu, Zhao Hu called the door to open and close the door at the Gubei entrance, and rushed out of the pass with the vanguard troops, and chased down the route of the Manchu Eight Banners to escape. Because there were people from the Eight Banners along the way, they pointed out the route for Zhao Hu to flee to Shunzhi, and Zhao Hu did not take the wrong path, and chased straight along the route of Shunzhi's escape.

At this time, it reflects the strong national strength of the Ming army, and the 50,000 horses of the Ming cavalry are fed with good soybeans and eggs, and the horses have a lot of endurance. And on the Manchu side, except for the emperor's personal guards, the horses all eat grass, and people can't eat, and the horses still want to eat grain? Therefore, Zhao Hu was able to lead the cavalry to chase after him non-stop.

Ten miles away from Shunzhi, Zhao Hu eliminated a group of Eight Banners, and after the confession of the captives, the Shunzhi Emperor was in front, Zhao Hu was overjoyed, if he could catch the Manchu Emperor, it would be a great achievement! Thinking of this, Zhao Hu ordered his subordinates to speed up the march, and they must not let the little emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty escape!

Followed by Shunzhi are the nobles of the Three Banners, including a large number of princes and county kings, these people and a large number of family members are accompanying them, and now they are suddenly attacked by the Ming army, and the entire Manchu camp is in chaos.

The little emperor of Shunzhi was extremely tired from running away all the way, and was dreaming of re-entering the customs, when he was woken up by Qi Tai. As soon as Shunzhi woke up, he heard the sound of killing outside, and at the same time the sound of musket shooting, Shunzhi asked in surprise: "Qi Tai, what's the matter?" ”

"Master, the Ming army is coming, let's run!"

"What? Ming army? Didn't that Emperor Shenwu promise to let me go back to Liaodong? Why are you sending pursuers again? Do you see clearly? Is it really the Ming Army? Didn't the surrounding Mongol tribes take advantage of the fire to rob? "Lizhou is the territory of Duoyan Sanwei, although Duoyan Sanwei has surrendered to the Manchu Qing, but who knows what they have to think carefully at this time!

Qi Tai is a military general, he only knows that the group on the opposite side has muskets, and the Mongols are poor and have very few iron weapons, where did the muskets come from!

"Master, there are a large number of muskets on the other side, it should be the Ming army!"

Shunzhi was right when he heard it, only the Ming army was equipped with a large number of firearms, thinking of this, Shunzhi couldn't help but scold, scolding Zhu Hongsan for not paying attention to credibility, obviously he had signed a contract with himself, why did he regret it?

Qi Tai saw the emperor scolding here, and hurriedly asked, "Master, what should I do now?" ”

Shunzhi looked at the fire outside, sighed and said, "What should I do?" Run! ”

With the emperor's order, Qi Tai hurriedly took hundreds of guards to protect the emperor out of the imperial chariot, got on a horse and prepared to run away.

Shunzhi shouted: "Go quickly, bring the Queen Mother too!" ”

Qi Tai looked at the big camp where the fire was all around, at this time the Ming army had all rushed into the camp, set fire to kill on all sides, and in the firelight, he could only see the Ming army everywhere, and he couldn't see how many people there were at all.

Qi Tai thought that if he went to save the Queen Mother at this time, he would not be able to rush out at all, so he had to say to the emperor: "Master, it is dangerous now, so we can only run first!" The Queen Mother will definitely escape! ”

Shunzhi couldn't help it when he saw this, at this time, only his own life was the most important, so he had to escape from the siege under the protection of the guards.

The Ming army was also in chaos here, each company was fighting separately under the command of the grassroots officers, and it was now the middle of the night, and no one noticed that this team of hundreds of people rushed north and fled.

The fighting outside the city of Lizhou lasted until dawn, when the men of Shangsanqi were almost killed, leaving only women and children, old and weak, at this time Zhao Hu ordered his subordinates to gather the army in their hands and see how the results of last night's battle were.

Under the identification of the captives, three of the lower five banners of the Eight Banners died, two of the crown prince's sons who were still alive died, and a large number of other princes were bailed, and countless treasures were seized.

Zhao Hu didn't want to kill many Manchu Prince Baylor, he wanted the little emperor to live or die, and finally checked twice, and finally learned that Shunzhi did not die in the chaos, and someone saw Shunzhi fleeing with the guards. However, Shunzhi fled, and his old lady, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, Empress Meng Guqing, and all the concubines of Huang Taiji, underage daughters, and dozens of other people, became prisoners of the Ming army.

Zhao Hu looked at the capture of the Manchu royal family, looked into the distance, sighed, and finally failed to catch the Manchu little emperor, which made this very classic night attack battle a little flawed.

Lizhou is already the edge of the Yanshan Mountains, more than ten miles to the north is the Mongolian steppe, where a horse is flat, Shunzhi they only have hundreds of horses, they can go anywhere.

Zhu Ren is Zhao Hu's cronies, and he knows that Zhao Hu is not dead, but his soldiers have been chasing after him for several days, and he is really sleepy and lacking horses.

"Lord, now the Manchu Empress Dowager and Empress have been caught, although the little emperor of Shunzhi has run away, but the Manchu jade seal has also fallen into our hands, and we should be able to deal with the emperor!"

"But this king is still a little unwilling!" Zhao Hu knew that he was Zhu Hongsan's nephew, and now that the big war in China has ended, as long as he returns to Beijing, he will be stripped of his military power like his father and become a rich prince, so this night attack is his last battle, and Zhao Hu doesn't want to make the rest of his life full of regrets.

"Lord Wang, the soldiers under him have been chasing for many days, and the people are sleepy and tired, so it is really not suitable to chase!" Zhu Ren kindly reminded by his side.

Zhao Hu looked at his subordinates, and had no choice but to say: "Collect the prisoners and return to the division!" ”()

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