Chapter 131: Reinforcements are in ambush

When the Qing army in Liaoyang City was suffering from the baptism of artillery fire by the Jiang army, the Qing army guards in Gaizhou and Guangning, who had received Feiyangu's request for help, were also preparing to send reinforcements to rescue Liaoyang.

The reason why the Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to rise from a savage tribe to dominate Liaodong in just a few decades, to fight Mongolia, Korea to bow down, and to fight the Ming Dynasty to abandon their armor, in addition to the strong combat skills and tenacious will honed in the white mountains, black waters, deep mountains and dense forests, the harsh military discipline is also an important magic weapon for its rise.

After seeing too much of the various divisions of the Ming army leaning into each other, intrigue and even seeing death and not saving it, the Manchu Qing Dynasty stipulated that if you don't save yourself on the battlefield, the punishment for the main general will be extremely severe, and the serious ones will be beheaded by themselves, the men will be exiled to Ningguta as slaves, and all the women will be rewarded with other nobles as slaves.

Therefore, after receiving a letter from Feiyangu asking for help, the defenders of both cities hurriedly sent reinforcements.

Among them, Quang Ninh sent 20,000 reinforcements, and Gaizhou also had about 20,000 men, almost one after the other.

In fact, each of the three cities in southern Liaoning was garrisoned by fifty or sixty thousand men and horses. However, because Huang Taiji is now seriously ill, in order to fight for power and profit and prevent turmoil in Shengjing, each banner has transferred its elite men and horses back to Shengjing, which has led to the air defense of the three cities in southern Liaoning.

Of course, the city's air defense is only relative. For the nobles of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they felt that defending a city with 20,000 or 30,000 horses was too much, and no force in Liaodong had the strength to conquer the three cities. So, in their eyes, there is not much difference between more people and less people.

Therefore, this led to the reinforcements sent by Quang Ninh and Gaizhou, which was about 20,000 at most.

Of course, if the defenders of these two cities knew that there was already an elite army of 20,000 people waiting for each of their two cities on the road to Liaoyang at this moment, they would probably not have sent reinforcements so neatly.

The sin of not saving yourself is on the premise that you have spare strength, but if the city you defend also faces a strong enemy, then of course you must protect yourself first.

It's a pity that they are still in the dark, on the one hand, because they didn't expect that the Jiang family's army had such a big appetite and marched so fast, that they had already set up a death trap for them to drill around the point and send reinforcements.

The second reason is that the Jiang family's marching route is secret, and they are all based on the hidden roads mentioned on the Liaodong map provided by Liu Ji before, if they didn't know in advance that there would be a large army passing through those roads and deliberately sent people to investigate, they would not have been discovered at all.

It can be said that Jiang Jiajun has been invincible from this point of view with his intention or not.

Guangning is a little closer to Liaoyang, and the Qing reinforcements in Guangning also set off a little earlier, so when the reinforcements from Gaizhou are still in a hurry, the Qing soldiers in Guangning have already encountered the left army of the Jiang family army that has already set up pockets on the road and is waiting for them to drill in.

According to the prior arrangement, Ran Wu hid most of his troops in the dense forests on both sides of the official road, and countless horse traps had been dug out on the official road, which were covered with leaves and loess, and there was absolutely no clue to be seen until it was close.

Then the remaining small part of the troops were blatantly placed on the official road, waiting for the arrival of the Qing army.

The Qing army marched very fast along the way, and did not have much time to reconnoiter the battlefield, but randomly shot a few arrows into the woods on both sides when the forward men and horses passed by to test whether there was an ambush.

I walked for dozens of miles and found nothing, so I slowly relaxed my vigilance.

Moreover, for the Qing army defenders in Guangning City, they did not think that the Jiang army still had extra troops to ambush their reinforcements on the road.

Because according to the information they collected, the strength of the Jiang family's army was not much. Even if 40,000 Ming army prisoners were recruited, it would only be 60,000 or 70,000 horses. And even if the troops are dispatched, they will have to leave 10,000 or 20,000 troops to guard the lair, so this time there will be only 50,000 troops at most.

Although Liaoyang is not a big city, according to the principle of the art of war of the Han people, which is to encircle it five times and attack it ten, if the Jiang army wants to besiege Liaoyang City, it must also have two Liaoyang City two or three times the strength of the city, so it is certain that all their troops are under Liaoyang City.

It is precisely on the basis of this judgment that the so-called battlefield reconnaissance of the Qing army is almost a formality.

So when they found the Jiang family army in formation on the road ahead, they were startled at first. But after careful observation, I found that there were not many of these people, that is, two or three thousand people, and their courage grew stronger.

After all, the Qing army at this time was also a strong army tempered after a long battle, although it was beaten by the Jiang family army after several battles, but it was not to the point of fleeing from the wind.

Therefore, seeing that the enemy was outnumbered and there was a advantage to be taken, the general who led the team ordered the cavalry to assault the array of the Jiang family's army.

In the face of the onslaught of thousands of cavalry of the Qing army, the phalanx of 3,000 Jiang Jiajun infantry stood still, the pikemen in heavy armor stood tall in front, and the crossbowmen calmly followed behind, quietly waiting for the order of the commander.

The cavalry of the Qing army were hideous, shouting loudly and rushing over, the war knives in their hands flashed a chilling light in the sun, and the horses' hooves burst into bursts, setting off bursts of smoke and dust, and the momentum was quite amazing.

Seeing that another charge of his own sword could cut at the enemy's head, the Qing cavalry became excited one by one, and the shouting was even more exaggerated and intensive.

The sudden change occurred, and the cavalry war horse that rushed to the front suddenly fell forward, throwing out the cavalry that was caught off guard at once, and threw it heavily on the ground.

Then, I saw that the cavalry of the Qing army went forward one by one to follow the horses, the horses fell, and the people were thrown out of the horses.

The cavalry behind saw the changes in front of them, and urgently reined in their horses, and for a while the war horses neighed, and their lives shouted, and there was chaos.

However, the sudden halt of the cavalry brigade in the midst of a high-speed charge would have been a disaster. The front one stopped, but the later one didn't know what the situation was, and the inertia of the high-speed gallop of the war horse made it impossible for them to rein in time at all, and as a result, they collided with the person in front of them all at once.

As a result, the entire cavalry queue suddenly came to a standstill, presenting a chaotic situation.

The cavalry of the Qing army was in chaos, and it was the fighter plane that the Jiang army was waiting for. And at this time, most of the Qing cavalry had already entered the range of bows and arrows.

Ran Wu smiled coldly and gave a categorical order: "Release the arrow." ”

"Put!" The captain of the crossbow battalion slashed down with his long knife, and thousands of wolf-toothed heavy arrows shot out suddenly, cutting through beautiful parabolas in the air, and heading towards the chaotic Qing cavalry with a roaring sound.

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