Sun Sike was more cautious, and the officers under his subordinates were a little eager to try when they saw that the Qing army's strength was inferior to their own. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

These officers are all the original Eight Banners of the Han Army with Sun Sike anyway, and the original fear of the Manchurian soldiers was all seared in their bones, but now the Qing Dynasty is not good, and the Manchurian soldiers have suffered defeats in recent years, and even with these Han troops, they have a little courage not to take the Manchurian soldiers in their eyes.

His subordinates are eager to fight, Sun Sike is also a little moved, he has not made any contributions since he cut his braids and surrendered to Wu Sangui, so after observing for a while, he found that there was no Qing army ambush near the left, and he pondered that he had brought more than 1,000 cavalry, and the Qing army was only a few hundred people.

"Get off the horse and get ready!"

Sun Sike gave an order, and half of the cavalry he brought with him were equipped with the three-eyed guns used by the original Ming army, which was the same as Wu Sangui's descendant Guan Ning army. Wu Jun quickly dismounted, checked the gunpowder loading, and refueled the war horse, so that the war horse could maintain sufficient horsepower in the upcoming battle. Horses have spirituality, and many war horses snort, and their hooves are restlessly swaying on the ground. The Qing army on the opposite side found that after the Wu army was preparing to charge, more than a dozen strong banners galloped around outside the formation, shouting something. The two sides were far apart, and they couldn't hear clearly, and many Qing soldiers could be seen raising their long knives and longbows in their hands from a distance, making a boom posture there.

After about half an hour, both the Wu army and the Qing army entered a state of battle, and both sides were slowly pressing forward with their horses. In terms of troops, the Wu army had the upper hand, but the Qing army could not passively defend there, because both sides were cavalry. If the cavalry formed a defensive line like infantry, it was something that even the most stupid general could not do.

The Qing army's Jiala Ezhen Tuzhan was born in the red flag, originally a slave on the Daishan Mansion of Prince Li, this person is also considered to be talented, brave and abnormal, in the early years, when he broke into the camp with Prince Azig of Ying, he made a lot of fame in the Eight Banners. On the most violent occasion, Tuzhan and seven men scattered hundreds of invading troops, and the regent of the time, Dorgon, praised him.

It's just that today's picture is not as good as it was back then, and the wrinkles on his face and his white hair confirm that the years are unforgiving. Tu Zhan is old, and the Eight Banner officers of his generation have long since died, but he still has to put on armor and go into battle, which cannot but be said to be the sorrow of his Tu Zhan, and even more the sorrow of Manchuria. There was no one in Manchuria, this is a fact that everyone knows, and no one can deny it, otherwise, the emperor would not have carried so many Han troops and green battalions into Manchuria. This time, the Eight Banners Forbidden Brigade brought to Henan by Ao Bai can be said to be the last family foundation of Manchu and the Qing Dynasty, if they lose again, the Eight Banners of Manchukuo will have to be completely renamed the Eight Banners of the Han People.

Among the more than 700 Manchurian Red Banner cavalry that Tu Zhan carried, there were actually only more than 100 real Manchurians, and the rest were the Han army and the green battalion that were carried back. The flag is still the same as before, but the people have changed. Tu Zhan felt a little sad in his heart, but he kept his mission in mind, and as for the current composition of Manchuria, it was not something he cared about and valued. Strictly speaking, wasn't Manchuria also composed of a mixture of ethnic groups at the beginning? Now it's a big deal, it's the same as Taizu Taizong's, it's not a big deal. These newly raised flags have met and run in a few times, and naturally they are really Manchurian.

When he was hundreds of steps away from the Wu army, Tu Zhan pulled out his knife and roared: "Manchurian sons, follow me to kill the thief!" ”

Baizhen Manzhou subconsciously whistled, tightened the horse's belly, and rushed forward. After a brief hesitation, the Han soldiers and the Green Battalion soldiers who had carried into Manchuria also brandished their sabers and rushed towards the other party's ranks. The Wu army that rushed over from the opposite side also broke out shouting and killing, and the two sides collided together like two black clouds, one large and one small. With a "bang", Wu Jun's three-eyed gun sounded on the horse, and a Qing soldier who rushed up was blasted open with a big hole in his chest and fell under the horse. The sound of guns, arrows, swords and horses, and wails resounded in the wilderness.

The Qing army, which was at a disadvantage in strength, was quickly disrupted by the Wu army, although from the outside, the Qing army that was carried into Manchuria was no different from the real Manchuria, but when they saw that the real Manchurian continued to fall, and the Wu army was on all sides, they quickly scattered in all directions. Tu Zhan tried his best to resist and fight, but in the end he had to fight Ma Dong.

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Sun Sike won the first battle, cutting more than 300 ranks, and he was very happy, but he didn't know that at the moment when he was fighting with the Qing army, there were as many as six or seven battles of such a small scale in the area of nearly 100 miles to the left.

The battle reports sent from all over the country made Xia Guoxiang and Guo Zhuangtu realize that Ao Bai was organizing soldiers and horses to test the defense line of the Wu army, and the long-accumulated battle between the two sides had begun.

Xia Guoxiang would not just let Aobai test his weakness, he really ordered Guo Zhuangtu's entire army to advance to Zhongmu and contain Aobai, and he moved to Kaifeng with Wang Pingfan, Hu Guozhu and other departments, either cut off Aobai's back road and surrounded him in the Zhongmu area, or forced Aobai to retreat to Kaifeng, so that the war situation returned to the starting point. Either way, it will be fatal to Aobai.

Wu Sangui received a report from Xia Guoxiang, agreed to Xia Guoxiang's deployment, and entrusted the front-line war to his eldest son-in-law. At the same time, Ma Bao and other troops were ordered to immediately reinforce Xia Guoxiang, and even he had asked Hu Yuxuan to organize people to practice the ritual procedures for enthronement in Kaifeng.

Xia Guoxiang led more than 30,000 troops to advance north of Zhongmu. The two days went smoothly, and they successively routed two Qing troops and beheaded hundreds. On the eighth day of the first month, Zhao Liangdong led more than 4,000 soldiers from Shaanxi, Gansu and Gansu to meet with Xia Guoxiang. The next day, Tabai, the general of Xi'an, who surrendered, led 2,000 soldiers and 4,000 soldiers brought by Wu Zhimao under the command of Xia Guoxiang, which expanded the Xia Guoxiang Department to nearly 50,000 people.

The Qing army seems to have discovered the purpose of the Xia State Prime Minister's Department and tried their best to intercept it, but they were never able to delay the Xia State Prime Minister's advance towards Kaifeng. Guo Zhuangtu, who was in front of Zhongmu, bit Aobai like a wolf again, and several attacks almost shook Zhongmu's defense line.

On the 11th, Wu Zhimao's troops encountered the Qing army in the area of Xuanwuwei, and within half an hour of the battle, the Qing army could not resist and retreated frantically. Looking at the fleeing Qing troops all over the mountains, Wu Zhimao was hesitating at first whether to pursue, but after hearing the captured prisoners under his command say that Jia Hanfu, the governor of Henan, was in this Qing army, Wu Zhimao did not hesitate to order the pursuit. Sun Sike, Zhao Liangdong, Wang Pingfan and other troops who arrived immediately after not knowing the situation ahead also joined the pursuit team after learning that Wu Zhimao had caught up.

The Qing army was indeed in a rout, and no one doubted it, because the Qing army itself did not know that they were playing the role of bait.

After seeing that Wu Jun finally entered his encirclement, Ao Bai, who had half of his white hair, finally breathed a sigh of relief. In order to lure Wu Jun, he paid too much, and it is still unknown whether the final outcome will be as he wishes.

Tanma continued to report the forces of the pursuing Wu army, and when it was confirmed that there were tens of thousands of Wu troops who had caught up, not only Aobai, but also the hearts of those Manchurian Ezhen and Dutong under him were beating wildly. They were worried that there were too many Wu troops chasing after them, and if they didn't get it well, not only would they not be able to eat the other party, but they would be stabbed through the encirclement by the other party.

Ao Bai, whose face was cloudy and uncertain, was also very hesitant, he staged an empty city plan in Zhongmu, and the Zhongmu camp was actually an empty camp, but in order to make the Wu army in front of him not suspect that there was a fake, he still left 8,000 Manchurian Eight Banners and more than 10,000 green battalions, which made him only 30,000 soldiers and horses available for the deployment of ambush circles. If the Wu army chased only tens of thousands of horses, Ao Bai had full confidence to eat them, that is, the other party had 20,000, and he was very sure, but he didn't expect the bait to attract 30,000 or 40,000 Wu troops, and even Guo Zhuangtu, the general of the Wu army, might be among them, which made Ao Bai feel bottomless.

However, this is no longer the time for Ao Bai to think about it, the arrow is already on the string, and it has to be sent. Either go about it as usual, or you just walk away.

"Command the ministries, do what I command! Dare to have trespassers, military law engaged! ”

Ao Bai gritted his teeth and handed down the order, and he put all his hopes on the secret weapon he had obtained from the Taiping army with thousands of taels of gold. The scenes of the Yangzhou battle left a deep impression on Ao Bai's mind, and he believed that the weapon that made him suffer a big loss could also make Wu Jun suffer a big loss.

Ao Bai has never been a conservative person, among the Manchurian magnates, he is a very enlightened person, he admires sinicization, advocates the unity of Manchu and Han, and deliberately learns the strengths of the Han people, especially in terms of weapons. In the past, the firearms of the Ming army were dispensable in the eyes of Aobai, but now he attaches great importance to them. In order to get the kind of iron cannon used by the Taiping army in Yangzhou, he personally sent people to the south of the Yangtze River to carry out activities, and after trying his best to get a physical object and drawings, he immediately organized those craftsmen in the original Han army banner to imitate it.

Just as the master is ready to sign a contract with the red-haired ghost, "to control the Han with razing", Ao Bai admires "the master uses Han skills to control the Han", in his opinion, the Han people are cowardly in their bones, and the reason why the Taiping Army was able to suppress the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners relied on those strange weapons. Therefore, as long as the Qing Dynasty is also equipped with these weapons, then in the future, on the battlefield, it will be able to successfully suppress the opponent, at least offset the damage of those weapons to the Qing army, and then rely on the bravery of the Manchurian soldiers to crush the cowardly Taiping army in their bones and restore the glory of the Qing Dynasty.

Now, this is the first use of this secret weapon, and Ao Bai has high hopes for it. He has no way out, no chance, he can only be nailed here, if he loses again this time, he will never see his master again.

Unaware that there was an encirclement ahead, Wu Zhimao's troops plunged headlong into the pockets of the Qing army, and they only cared about chasing and killing the Qing soldiers who were panicking, completely unaware of the existence of an ambush around them.

Seeing that the road in front of them was blocked, but the sound of the hoofs of the pursuers behind them could be heard clearly, hundreds of green battalion soldiers climbed the hillside in horror. After crying and screaming on the slope, a green battalion soldier was stunned, and he noticed that there seemed to be someone in the grass on the slope. He opened his mouth wide and was about to scream, but a sharp arrow pierced his throat, leaving him unable to say anything. No one noticed the death of this soldier, the Qing soldiers under the slope were fleeing for their lives, and the soldiers on the slope were also fleeing for their lives.

Miao Chenglong, the chief soldier who was standing behind Yonggui, the commander of the Yellow Banner of Manchuria, was worried all the time, because many of the green battalions that were fleeing for their lives at the foot of the mountain were his subordinates, but he couldn't tell them the truth.

"Yudutong, the cavalry of the Wu army has rushed in!"

"Probe, how far are Wu Jun's foot soldiers!"

Yonggui waved his hand and ordered to explore the horse again, and his frowning brow never let go. It was only after Tanma once again came the exact news that the Wu army's infantry entered the encirclement, and Yonggui breathed a sigh of relief and looked to the east. He was waiting, waiting for a signal from Aobai. Finally, the sound of drums came from the eastern sky, and Yonggui turned his head and ordered: "Prepare to fire!" ”

With Yonggui's order, he saw that the ground around him, which was originally densely covered with dead grass and branches, suddenly moved in unison, and then a large black iron tube was revealed.

Yonggui had seen the power of these big iron cylinders, and he knew that the Taiping Kou called this thing "no conscience". He had also seen with his own eyes the corpses of soldiers who had been killed by "no conscience", a terrible weapon with all their organs shattered.

"Fire!"

With a "whoosh", a large medicine bag tied with a wooden tie was bounced into the air, and then hung down the slope, and the fire rope burned in mid-air.