Chapter 499: Reinforcements (2)

After Li Chengdong finished speaking, he turned the horse's head and prepared to take people to bypass Moling Town, which made Li Yuanyin beside him anxious, he knew that his cheap father's decision would basically not change, but he still had to save his father-in-law, what should he do?

Thinking of this, Li Yuanyin gritted his teeth and rushed into Moling Town with his three thousand cavalry.

Li Chengdong hadn't walked out for 500 meters, when a personal soldier behind him came back and said: "Big marshal, it's not good, the young marshal rushed in with 3,000 people from his headquarters, and the Qing army has already been handed over!" ”

Li Chengdong's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he picked up the whip and slapped the head and face of the pro-soldier, scolding while smoking: "Why don't you bastards stop him?" What's the use of raising your bunch of waste? ”

That pro-soldier couldn't say that he was suffering, and he dared to stop the young marshal. In the end, Yang Dafu on the side said: "Big brother, don't you know that your son, can a personal soldier stop him?" ”

Li Chengdong sighed and stopped the whip in his hand, he likes Li Yuanyin's adopted son very much, and he, Li Chengdong, is almost fifty years old, and he can't give birth to a child, so all his hopes are on Li Yuanyin, hoping that Li Yuanyin can inherit his family business after his death. Now that his son is disobedient and runs to fight with the Qing army, he, who is a father, must be saved, or won't his years of training be in vain?

Li Chengdong made up his mind and ordered all the troops to turn their horses around and rush to Moling Town, and they must rescue their son Li Yuanyin.

Li Chengdong gathered a team in the back to save his son, and here Li Yuanyin had already rushed into the town and fought with the Qing army.

The Manchurian Eight Banners in the town were the Nanjing Garrison Eight Banners led by Li Shutai, and after they sacked Lishui County, they took more than 20,000 people out of the city to chase Hong Chengchou's brigade. However, the 20,000 people were not soldiers, and the march was very slow in the heavy rain, and Li Shutai had no choice but to let the soldiers cut and kill many people, so Li Shutai's 5,000 banners and 20,000 people advanced slowly in the rain.

The county seat of Lishui is forty miles away from the Qinhuai River, and Li Shutai hurried to Moling Town on the edge of the Qinhuai River in the middle of the night. At this point, Li Shutai found that there were more than 10,000 people left in the 20,000 people, and the others either ran away in the dark or died under the knife of the Manchu Eight Banners.

More than 10,000 people is really not enough cannon fodder, Li Shutai had no choice but to stop here in Moling Town, and let Zarafona take 3,000 people into the town to arrest some more people, so as to make up enough for 20,000. Unexpectedly, at this time, Li Yuanyin's 3,000 people suddenly appeared and slashed and killed the 3,000 people led by Zalafenga.

At first, Li Yuanyin took advantage of the night to really cause some damage to the Eight Banners of Manchuria, but as the Qing army reacted, Li Yuanyin was not an opponent and began to be slowly surrounded by the Qing army.

Outside the town, Li Shutai saw the people rushing in under the banner of the Ming army, thinking that it was the stragglers of the Ming army, and watched Zarafona fight hard, and took his remaining 2,000 people into the battle, preparing to quickly deal with this group of Ming troops.

At this moment, there was a shocking sound of horses' hooves outside the town, and Li Shutai was also a veteran of the battlefield, and as soon as he heard this sound, he knew that the enemy brigade was coming, and this time there were tens of thousands of cavalry. Li Shutai was about to order his men to guard against the onslaught of the cavalry, but it was too late, and Li Chengdong and the cavalry had already rushed to the front.

Li Chengdong has been on the battlefield for many years, and his combat experience is much stronger than Li Yuanyin. He did not lead his troops into the town like Li Yuanyin and fight with the Qing army in a muddy battle, but led a large group of cavalry to circle around the town and set all the houses in the town on fire. As soon as they left the town, they became the target of the surrounding cavalry, and the scattered Qing army was no match for the formed cavalry, so the Manchurian Eight Banners of 5,000 people were wiped out by Li Chengdong piecemeal. Of course, tens of thousands of ordinary people in Moling Town were also unlucky and died tragically under Li Chengdong's knife.

Li Yuanyin was burned by the fire in the town, found a gap and escaped with his men, and saw that less than half of his 3,000 men were left. Li Yuanyin came to see his father with a disgraced face, Li Chengdong breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his son was fine, and at the same time he was angry in his heart, but now is not the time, the war is important.

"Don't give me a retreat yet, wait until the battle is over and see how I clean you up!"

Li Yuanyin didn't dare to speak, so he only took his own people down to bandage his wounds.

30,000 people fighting 5,000 people, or the enemy was unprepared, although the Qing army's combat effectiveness was good, but the number was there. Li Shutai saw that his 5,000 people were getting fewer and fewer, and there were less than 2,000 people left, and the more than 10,000 people who were captured in Lishui at the same time were almost gone. Li Shutai saw that there was really nothing to do, sighed, and fled north with five hundred personal soldiers.

As soon as the official left, the remaining Qing army was even more leaderless, and was quickly wiped out by Li Chengdong.

Li Chengdong ordered his subordinates to clean up the battlefield, and at the same time grabbed a living person and asked where the Qing army came from.

The news soon reached Li Chengdong, it turned out that this was the Eight Banners of the Nanjing Garrison, and they followed Hong Chengchou out to sack the county seat of Lishui, preparing to drive these people to attack the Ming army camp. At the same time, Li Chengdong also got the exact location of Hong Chengchou, that is, north of the Qinhuai River, less than twenty miles away from here.

Li Chengdong was overjoyed after receiving the news of the Qing army, and now the Qing army must be fighting against the Ming army, and he will definitely be able to copy the back road of the Qing army when he rushes there, and he will be a great achievement at that time. Li Chengdong, who had made up his mind, told the soldiers to rest for a while, and immediately got on his horse and rushed to the Qinhuai River, preparing for a decisive battle with the Qing army.

It is not as good as the coincidence that Li Chengdong appeared in the rear of the Qing army when Hong Chengchou could not attack for a long time, and at first Hong Chengchou thought that these cavalry were Li Shutai's people, but when he thought of it, he found out that this was the Ming army.

Hong Chengchou saw Li Chengdong's banner and knew that today's general trend had gone, and he came in a hurry and did not bring a horse or a stumbling horse, and now this is a plain, except for a small forest There is no danger to defend, and his side has just finished a night of melee because people are sleepy and lacking horses, and there is no way to survive the cavalry of the Ming army.

The facts are similar to what Hong Chengchou thought, the exhausted Qing army was the opponent of the Ming cavalry, and it was torn apart by the cavalry as soon as it was fought, everyone knew that today must have been a failure, and some generals grabbed their horses and fled. And the ordinary Qing army also did the same, scattering and fleeing.

The cavalry of the Qing army was consumed in a large number of melee with the Ming army last night, and now it is impossible to organize effective resistance, only a few hundred people spontaneously organized together to resist the Ming army, but this team of hundreds of people is the opponent of 30,000 cavalry, and soon disappeared into the sea of cavalry like a mound of sand.

At this time, two regiments had just been organized in the camp of the Ming army to go out and continue a bloody battle with the Qing army, when suddenly there was a shocking sound of fighting in the distance.

Zhu Hongsan was covered in blood after a night of scuffle, and he didn't care about going back to change his clothes at this time, so he found a section of the wall that had not been destroyed, and climbed the road to see it in the distance.

Now that it was getting a lot of light, and the rain had stopped, and the sun was out, I looked carefully at the situation beyond Erli. In the distance, a large number of cavalry wearing iron armor rushed into the ranks of the Qing army and slashed in all directions, and the Qing army was able to resist at first, but after a while, it lost its combat effectiveness and fled in all directions.

At this time, Tong Yangjia and Zhang Huangyan also boarded the Yongdao and looked outside together. Tong Yangjia was in exile when he was young, Zhang Huangyan also organized a righteous army to resist the Qing Dynasty in eastern Zhejiang, and neither of them was a powerless person, so they had the courage to come up to see what was going on, and Qian Qianyi and Jiang Yueguang were pure literati, where had they seen this kind of battle in the sea of corpses and blood, and they were so frightened that they hid in the tent and couldn't come out.

Zhu Hongsan said to the two: "Two, look at the situation on the other side?" Is it a trick of the enemy? ”

Tong Yangjia took Zhu Hongsan's monoculars and looked at it and said: "It doesn't look like this, the Qing army is indeed being chased and slashed, if this is a trick, the price is too great!" ”

Zhang Huangyan said after reading it: "Your Majesty, Lord Tong, there is the banner of the Ming Army on the opposite side, and the handsome flag of the word "Li", is it our team?" ”

Zhu Hongsan shook his head and said: "Impossible, we don't have so many cavalry at all, Zhang Jiayu has tens of thousands of horses in Ganzhou, but cavalry is not like musketeers who can train for a month and go to the battlefield!" ”

"Your Majesty, they won the Li Ziqi, did they go north with Qian Yong to Fujian Li Chengdong's department?"

Tong Yangjia's words reminded Zhu Hongsan, yes! Li Chengdong has a large number of cavalry in his hands, but he received the news a few days ago that Qian Yong and the others had just arrived in Wuhu, which was one hundred and fifty miles away from here, how did they come here? Anyway, no matter who it is, it is fundamental for one's own side to respond to all changes with the same and to protect one's own camp.

After Zhu Hongsan made up his mind, he asked Zhao Guodong to start treating the wounded soldiers, and then prepared muskets and artillery, ready to continue working in case it didn't work.

Just when Zhu Hongsan was preparing, the Ming army two miles away divided into a cavalry, with more than 500 people, and went to the front of the Ming army camp under the leadership of a general.

When the soldiers guarding the camp saw the gang entering, they quickly shouted, "Stop! What are you! It's time to fire the cannon without stopping! "After saying that, he pushed a cannon to the firing hole and loaded it with a shotgun, just in case.

The general came to a stop five hundred meters in front of the Ming army's camp, and shouted loudly: "Please tell His Majesty Emperor Shenwu that we are under the command of Li Chengdong, the king of Jianning County, Fujian, and the last will be Princess Yuyang's concubine, Li Yuanyin, the prince of Jianning County!" ”

The soldiers guarding the gate did not dare to slack off when they heard this list of names, and hurriedly came down to report the news to the officials.

At this time, Zhu Hongsan was changing clothes in the big tent, although he was not injured, but he was covered in a lot of blood. And Zhu Hongyi can change clothes at this time, he is much worse than Zhu Hongsan, the outermost layer of the three-layer heavy armor has been broken, but fortunately, there are two layers of chain mail below. But just like that, Zhu Hongyi also has a lot of wounds on his body, the heaviest one is on the thigh, this knife is deep enough to see the bones, fortunately the apron of the armor blocked it, otherwise this is enough to remove half of Zhu Hongyi's leg.