Chapter Eighty-Seven: Midnight Raid
Although Wang Zhenyuan knew Mongolian, he couldn't hear anything clearly from dozens of steps. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, the brazier lit outside the tent, under their careful observation, also made them see some differences.
Standing outside the tent was two other men in cotton armor, one of whom also wore a pointed helmet.
Wang Zhenyuan whispered to the other two: "The two people beside Qinggeltai are by no means Karaqin, and Karaqin does not have such armor and clothing. ”
Chen Guowei whispered: "Those two people look like Jianyu's people, could it be that Jianyu also sent someone to Karaqin?" ”
As soon as these words came out, the three of them looked at each other, and they were all full of shock. Hu Yikui said softly: "If it is not the person who built the captivity, then it is likely to be someone from Horqin or Ao Hanbu." In short, they are all enemies of my Ming Dynasty. If we let them know that we are also here, Lord Chen and I may be more than lucky. ”
Wang Zhenyuan is not only a skilled martial artist, but also a wealthy businessman who travels south and north, hearing this, he felt reasonable, so he immediately made a decision, let Hu Yikui and Chen Guowei continue to stay in this hidden place to monitor, and went back to report to Chen Renxi.
Along the way, Wang Zhenyuan relied on the advantage of being able to speak Mongolian and passed through the patrol posts leading to his camp.
As soon as he returned to Cao Wenzhao's account, he told what he had discovered.
Chen Renxi and Cao Wenzhao were taken aback when they heard this, and then the two glanced at each other, and each knew each other's thoughts.
Since the Han Dynasty, in the face of the situation encountered when Ban Chao was envoy to the Western Regions, the descendants of Yan and Huang all knew what to do.
Cao Wenzhao quickly called his younger brother Cao Wenyao, his nephew Cao Changjiao, and another general Ying Shisheng, and several people were dispatched, and they went out to greet their subordinates to get on the horse.
The shepherd slaves led by Wu Liji who monitored Cao Wenzhao's department had naturally been disposed of a long time ago.
Chen Renxi, Wang Zhenyuan, and Cao Wenzhao led 600 cavalry out of the camp quickly, first all the way to the south, then to the east, then to the north, sparing a circle, and after half an hour, finally returned to the small hill where they had first arrived at the Karaqin Taiji station, and in the distance they could see the lights in the Burhatu tent.
Chen Renxi said in his heart, very good, the banquet is not over yet. Chen Renxi was very self-aware, and although he liked to talk about military affairs, he knew that he did not have the slightest combat experience, so he simply handed over the command of the raid on the Burhatu Tent to Cao Wenzhao, who was good at cavalry assault operations.
Cao Wenzhao was not polite, and soon recruited Cao Wenyao, Cao Bianjiao and Ying Shisheng, and arranged the tactics properly in a few words, Cao Wenyao led a hundred horsemen as a reserve, and then led the remaining five hundred horsemen, shouted out a "go" word in a deep voice, clamped the horse's belly, took the lead in starting, and rushed down.
Wang Zhenyuan also took the lead, like Cao Wenzhao, holding a big gun and wearing Mingguang armor, galloping down.
Under the escort of Cao Wenyao, Chen Renxi, who stayed in place, suddenly became nervous in his heart, as if his heart was about to jump out of his throat, his head was blank, and he just looked at Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao, Ying Shisheng and Wang Zhenyuan who were galloping away, and the torrent of iron horses that followed closely behind him.
The reason why Chen Renxi is so nervous is that the success or failure of this matter is really important, once the surprise attack fails, even if they can escape, their mission will be regarded as a complete failure, and the Karaqin Department will definitely fall to the Horqin people and the Houjin behind them next. All of their fears before they left Karaqin would come true, something that Chen Renxi did not want to see.
Of course, the reason why Chen Renxi was worried about failure was purely because he didn't know Cao Wenzhao and others. If he knew these people as well as Emperor Chongzhen did today, he wouldn't have worried about failure.
Cao Wenzhao is definitely a god of war among the generals in the late Ming Dynasty, and his best combat is cavalry assault, often with a thousand cavalry, he dares to charge against tens of thousands of rogues, and always wins more with less.
The Chongzhen Emperor in history, in fact, among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, was already considered to be good at knowing people. Cao Wenzhao, who was born in the Datong military household, joined the army as a teenager and went to Liaodong to fight, and accumulated merit all the way to guerrilla for more than ten years.
In the winter of the second year of Chongzhen, after the Jin invasion, Cao Wenzhao followed Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dashou, He Kegang, all the way into the pass to rescue the Beijing Division, Cao Wenzhao was still a guerrilla at that time, after the battle, he made meritorious contributions, and was immediately promoted to a general, four months later, he made meritorious service, and was promoted to the deputy general of Yansui Town, and less than a year later, he was promoted to the general army of Lintao Town because of his merits. In the face of Cao Wenzhao's life experience, can you say that Emperor Chongzhen is blind, mediocre and incompetent?
As for Cao Bianjiao, not to mention, he was also a tiger general in the history of the late Ming Dynasty. Cao Bianjiao is Cao Wenzhao's own nephew, after Cao Wenzhao died in battle, he carried the banner of Cao Wenzhao, continued to lead the army to fight against the Liukou, and defeated Li Zicheng many times with fewer victories. Until the spring of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, following Hong Chengchou to fight against the Qing army in Songshan, at that time, many general officers were not optimistic about the prospects of the Songshan Campaign, and at the last moment of the war, they fled one after another, including Wu Sangui was on the run, and Cao Bianjiao was the only Ming army commander who knew that he was invincible and still had to resolutely resist.
In the end, Songshan fell, Cao Bianjiao and his younger brother Cao Dingjiao were captured at the same time as Hong Chengchou, and finally even the superintendent Hong Chengchou was lowered, and the ancestor Dashou who didn't know how many times the big name of Cao Bianjiao's brothers also fell, but Cao Bianjiao's brothers still preferred to die rather than surrender, and were finally killed after the Battle of Songshan.
As for Ying Shisheng, he is also a tiger general, but his experience is even less known. Ying Shisheng followed Cao Wenzhao to fight in the south and the north, until Cao Wenzhao died in the battle in the post of the general army in Shanxi, some of the troops were exiled to Shanxi and were collected by Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi at that time, and Ying Shisheng was one of them.
In the spring of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Ying Shisheng followed Cai Maode, stubbornly resisted the attack of Li Zicheng's army in Taiyuan, and finally the city of Taiyuan was broken, as Cai Maode's Chinese army general, Ying Shisheng, did not compete to surrender Li Zicheng like the Taiyuan defenders, but after Cai Maode committed suicide by hanging the beam, he felt that the Ming Dynasty had gone, returned home calmly, killed his wife and children, and then returned to Cai Maode's hanging beam to commit suicide and was martyred for it.
This is the three tiger generals who have just led five hundred cavalry to rush down. With these three tiger generals, why worry about the surprise attack and not winning?
Just when Chen Renxi was nervous and a little dazed, Cao Wenzhao and others had already rushed down the hill and rushed into the camp of Karaqin Taiji, and Qinggeltai, who was standing outside the gate of the Burhatu tent, heard a sound of horses' hooves from far and near, and he didn't know why, when he saw hundreds of horsemen galloping not far away, he was shocked, and was about to open his mouth to shout, but the back of his head was suddenly hit hard, and then he fell to the ground and passed out.
The other two men in cotton armor were stabbed to death with a knife and a sword before they could figure out what was going on. The knife is an embroidered spring knife, and the person who stabbed them to death with a knife is naturally Hu Yikui. And that sword is Chen Guowei.
These two people were originally hiding under a haystack dozens of steps away, after Wang Zhenyuan left, although the two of them were not very bright, but they still wanted to get closer to the big tent and listen to some more information, just as the two took advantage of the darkness of the night, crawled forward on the mud floor, and got closer and closer to the big tent, they were highly alert, suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and turned around to see Cao Wenzhao, Wang Zhenyuan and others galloping in the distance, the two did not hesitate, jumped up, and quickly ran towards the entrance of the big tent.
At this time, the guards at the gate of the big tent were stunned by the cavalry galloping in the distance, and they didn't notice the rapid approach of the two people at all.
At this time, although there were guards outside the big tent, it was late at night, and after all, they were a little slow to react after eating wine and meat, and the other two more vigilant cotton armor generals were just about to speak, and they were immediately attacked by Hu Yikui and Chen Guowei.