Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume VI The Battle of the Northern Frontier

Chapter 3 is quite stale

Section 9 Han Cavalry Raid and Tartar Captivity (1)

Liu Yunwei frowned and thought for a while, then slapped the case suddenly, and said, "If my Han Wei Army wants to leave, how can Jiannu stop it!" I immediately led the Longxiang Iron Cavalry, as well as the cavalry battalions under the Feiyu Battalion and the Tiger Ben Battalion, to meet the trapped camp and the Eagle Yang Battalion; The battle here will be handed over to Lu Ying, and tomorrow morning, the Feiyu Battalion and the Tiger Ben Battalion will rush to the south of the city to meet with the pacesetter battalion, and continue to fight against the two white flag Jiannu! ”

Yuan Mingxuan calculated in his heart and said: "The iron cavalry of the Feiyu Battalion and the Tiger Ben Battalion plus the Longxiang Iron Cavalry, there are more than 8,000 soldiers in total, and it should be no problem to take the trapped camp and the Yingyang Battalion back." However, the little general still had to be more careful, and at the same time ordered the Changshui battalion to continue to delay the southward movement of the two red flags and the two blue flags, so as to prevent his troops and the two yellow flags of the Nu chief from meeting prematurely. ”

Liu Yunwei nodded, and when he sent someone to Lu Ying and Zhao Kaishan, he ordered the iron cavalry soldiers belonging to the Feiyu Battalion and the Tiger Ben Battalion to rush to the area of five miles north of Liaoyang to assemble and stand by; After that, he sent an order to Wen Poyu at night, ordering him to lead his troops to continue to delay the speed of the two red flags and two blue flags moving south.

Yuan Mingxuan asked suspiciously: "Little general, the soldiers have been fighting fiercely all day, should they set off again early tomorrow morning?" So that the soldiers can rest. ”

"No!" Liu Yunwei shook his head and said: "This time to take over the trapping camp and the Yingyang camp, we must hide from Huang Taiji, otherwise he will definitely try his best to warn Nurhachi, which will cause us a lot of unnecessary trouble." ”

"So that's the case, or the little general is thoughtful."

An hour later, Liu Yunwei led five thousand dragon horses to a dense forest five miles north of Liaoyang. At this time, there were many people in the dense forest, and a total of 3,500 soldiers from the cavalry battalion under the jurisdiction of the Flying Feather Battalion and the Tiger Ben Battalion were already waiting here.

When the two cavalry battalion commanders saw Liu Yunwei leading the army to arrive, they hurriedly ordered the assembly of soldiers and horses, and stepped forward to salute. Liu Yunwei inquired about the situation of the soldiers, and saw that all the soldiers were full of fighting spirit and high morale, so he decided not to stop, and ordered the army to set off immediately, and went north to meet the trapped camp and the soldiers of the Yingyang battalion to retreat.

At the same time that Liu Yunwei led the army north, on an unnamed field twenty miles north of Liaoyang, Nurhachi was commanding two Yellow Banner armies and 10,000 Mongolian iron cavalry to besiege the Hanwei army camp at night. Wu Xing and Gao Hongguang responded to the battle calmly, commanding the trapped camp, and the soldiers of the Yingyang battalion fought back, and the two sides were inseparable.

Seeing that the battle situation ahead was stalemate, and the Mongolian warriors under his command suffered many casualties, he said to Nurhachi: "Qi Ying Ming Khan, it is already late at night, and the warriors are already very tired. ”

Nurhachi glanced coldly at the short and strong Selen, and said: "Then Liu Yunwei calculated that my Dajin forces were scattered, and he wanted to attack Liaoyang first and then Shenyang, so as to defeat each of my Dajin warriors." However, Liu Yunwei still didn't calculate that my Dajin was able to reorganize the army in such a short period of time, so that the forces of the Hanwei army were scattered, and it was too late to regroup. Now is the best time for my Dajin to break through the Hanwei army, I must annihilate this Hanwei army in the shortest possible time, and then immediately rush to Liaoyang to fight Liu Yunwei's troops with the two white flags! The herald ordered the army to continue to storm the Hanwei army camp, and before dawn, I will definitely break through the enemy camp! ”

Seeing that things did not turn around, Se Ling had no choice but to take the order, personally rushed to the front of the battle to supervise the battle, and commanded nearly 10,000 Mongolian iron cavalry to continue to attack the Hanwei army camp.

At this time, the battlefield has been extremely chaotic, nearly 10,000 Mongolian iron horsemen roared around the Hanwei army camp galloping, the sky of arrow rain continued to fall in the camp, those Mongolian iron horsemen who were skilled in arches and horses also shot rockets from time to time, trying to ignite the debris in the camp, but they were all focused on by the birds of the Yingyang camp, and in a blink of an eye, they became dead corpses on the ground, so frightened that those Mongolian iron horsemen no longer dared to set fire to the camp.

The two yellow flag iron cavalry mainly helped in the rear, sending hundreds or thousands of iron cavalry from time to time to attack the weak links of the Hanwei army's defense, creating chaos for the Hanwei army's soldiers. However, under the calm command of Wu Xing and Gao Hongguang, the officers and men of the Hanwei Army guarded the camp very calmly, and successively attacked and retreated the two Yellow Banner Iron Cavalry.

After nearly two hours of bloody fighting between the two sides, the sky was gradually getting brighter, the darkness of the night was dissipating, and the dawn was coming.

Seeing that the camp of the Hanwei army was still as stable as Mount Tai, Nurhachi was very angry in his heart, so he concentrated 5,000 Mongolian iron cavalry to charge the camp for a bloody battle. Although Se Ling was very reluctant, he had betrayed Lin Dan Khan and taken refuge in Dajin, so there was no way out, only one way to go to the black, so he led the army to attack.

A horn sounded, and five thousand Mongolian iron horsemen rushed to the Hanwei army camp with a roar, and continued to fire salvos around the camp to disrupt the positions of the Hanwei army's soldiers; The five thousand Mongolian iron horsemen led by Se Ling used a hundred "crazy horses" tied together as arrows, and frantically rushed to the Hanwei army camp in front.

The distance of two miles was fleeting for the iron cavalry, and at this time, Gao Hongguang was commanding the soldiers of the Yingyang battalion to fight against the Mongolian iron cavalry that was riding around the camp, and Wu Xing was leading the soldiers of the trapped camp to meet the Seleng Division head-on.

I saw that 1,600 or 700 bird-gunners had formed a three-row horizontal formation, and a total of 60 Huzun guns from the two artillery battalions in front of the formation had also been gathered and loaded, and the soldiers could deal a fatal blow to the Tartars at any time.

Wu Xing calmly looked ahead, and saw that the Mongolian iron cavalry had entered the range of the Huzun cannon, so he ordered the artillery battalion to open fire, and concentrated his fire to shoot the "crazy horse" of the Mongolian Tatars.

"Ready! Put! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Clusters of dazzling firelight flashed, and sixty cannons smashed into the high-speed charging Mongolian iron cavalry formation, and instantly beat the Tartar cavalry formation to the back of the horse. The first to bear the brunt were the 100 "crazy horses", nearly half of which were killed after a round of artillery fire.

At this time, the Mongol iron cavalry was already less than two hundred paces away from the main camp, and Wu Xing immediately ordered all the Huzun cannons to be fired with scattered shells, and at the same time ordered the bird gunners to prepare to shoot.

"Swap the sons! Ready, put! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The tight barrage woven by sixty Huzun cannons instantly covered the Mongolian iron cavalry, and this steel storm suddenly cut off a layer of the entire Mongolian cavalry formation, and the front of the Hanwei army camp was full of bloody Mongolian Tartars, as well as war horses that did not die for a while. After the entire Mongolian cavalry formation suffered the blow of the Huzun cannon, the momentum of the charge suddenly stagnated, and the war horse had no speed to impact.

Seleng was also very unlucky to be beaten into a sieve in this salvo, and even the people and horses became rotten meat, and the Mongolian iron cavalry suddenly lost its command, and the Tartars of the front team wanted to escape, but the Tartars of the rear team were still charging, and the entire Mongolian iron cavalry was in a mess, and in front of the Hanwei army, it was like a large swarm of headless flies in the same place "buzzing".

Wu Xing couldn't help but laugh when he saw this, and seeing that the advance team of the Mongolian iron cavalry was less than a hundred steps away from the main camp, he ordered the bird gunners to open fire immediately.

"Get ready for the front row! Put! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"The front row is filled, and the middle row is forward! Preparation! Put! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

1,600 or 700 bird-gunners fired almost non-stop, and the Mongol iron cavalry, which had lost the speed of the charge, was severely wounded, and the Mongolian Tartars fled back screaming one after another, and even the 5,000 Mongolian iron cavalry who were riding around the formation seemed to be frightened and fled in a hurry.

Seeing this, Nurhachi was so angry that he scolded, where did these Mongols still have the courage to sweep the world back then? The Han Wei army was defeated as soon as it began to fire guns and artillery, and such a Mongolian iron cavalry would be in the way even if it was used as cannon fodder!

However, the thought of using the two yellow flag warriors he regarded as treasures to attack the rock-solid Hanwei army camp, Nurhachi's heart kept beating drums. It's not that Nurhachi is worried that he won't be able to defeat it, but he doesn't want the troops of the two yellow flags to be lost too much, after all, the Hanwei army is one of the few elite troops in the Ming Kingdom!

Nurhachi first ordered the Yellow Banner to send troops and horses to collect the Mongol rout, and assigned a 10,000 households to temporarily command the Mongol iron cavalry, and then began to think about the current battle situation.

"The soldiers and horses of the two red flags and the two blue flags can't be counted on, and it will take one or two days at the fastest for them to arrive, and with this time, Liaoyang is likely to be lost. I had no choice but to let the yellow flag go up and try it first. However, those Mongols still have to fight in the front and open the way for my Dajin warriors! ”

Thinking of this, Nurhachi ordered all the Mongolian iron cavalry to dismount and fight on foot, using large shields and temporarily modified carts to resist the firearms of the Hanwei army, and at the same time shooting the Ming soldiers with bows and arrows.

With Nurhachi's order, seven or eight thousand reorganized Mongol Tatars rushed forward with dozens of carts equipped with wooden planks and large shields holding high. At the same time, Nurhachi also sent 3,000 warriors with yellow flags to follow, on the one hand, they were responsible for supervising the battle, and on the other hand, they were ready to enter the Hanwei army camp at any time.

Wu Xing and Gao Hongguang looked at the approaching Tartar captives, and they both looked serious.

"It seems that the slave chief is determined to eat us, so I don't know what happened to the eldest brother." Gao Hongguang said.

Wu Xing smiled and said, "Jiannu's troops are just more than ours, and they want to eat us?" Think beautifully! At most, it's just a lose-lose situation. As for the eldest brother, I don't think there is any need to worry, the eldest brother is probably thinking about how to exterminate the entire Jiannu clan! ”

After speaking, Wu Xing drew his sword, pointed obliquely at the sky, and shouted: "Soldiers, beat the drums of war!" War! ”