Cao Rong is not very old, since he was a child, his father Cao Xiyuan followed the regent Dolgon to fight in the south and the north, and was not at home all the year round, so he and his brother Cao Xi are also dependent on each other, so the brotherhood is very deep. Now that his brother has a son and a nephew himself, Cao Rong is of course very happy. Since I learned the news, I have been thinking about being able to go back to Beijing as soon as possible to visit my little nephew, and by the way, I also want to do some filial piety under my father's knees.

The ancestral home of the Cao family is Liaoyang, speaking of which the ancestor is the famous general Cao Bin of the Northern Song Dynasty, the distant ancestor Cao Jun was the commander of the Shenyang Zhongwei of the Ming Dynasty, and this official position is a world official, so for more than 200 years after that, the commander of the Shenyang Zhongwei has been inherited by the descendants of the Cao family for generations. Now, the Cao family is no longer guarding the Ming Dynasty, but has become a dragon hero who worked hard for the founding of the Qing Dynasty. Cao Rong didn't feel anything bad about the family's change from the regent's palace to the emperor's internal affairs office, but was complacent, because the coat was a slave, and since he was a slave, of course, there was no glory compared to being a slave to the emperor, and it was the children and grandchildren who were slaves to the emperor.

Just ask the whole world, what glory can be more fortunate than the children and grandchildren who come to the emperor as slaves, who have face, and who comes with pride?

Brother Cao Xi is a second-class guard in the palace, which is a good job to see the emperor every day, Cao Rong is very envious, so he also wants to enter the palace, so since Zhao Butai, the general of Zhengnan, went south, he has worked quite hard. However, this future is not something that can be achieved by hard work alone, but also depends on luck. Since going south, the Ming army of Yungui has really not been beaten, and often the Han army and the Manchu army have not yet been dispatched, and the green battalion in front of them has played a triumphant song. So until now, the credit accumulated in Cao Rong's name has not had half a future. The Qing Dynasty's military exploits are based on the future, and half of the future is the lowest title of Tuosha Lahafan, which is called Yun Cavalry Captain in Chinese. has half a future, plus he is from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it must be a sure thing to enter the palace as a guard of the Han army. The two brothers entered the palace as guards together, and coupled with their father's military exploits back then, it was difficult for the Cao family to be underdeveloped.

Cao Rong wanted to make meritorious service and think about half a future, so he followed up and invited this horse striker to serve as a striker. Now, he was observing the cavalry of the Ming army opposite, and when he saw that they didn't run or talk, they dismounted and lined up, and couldn't help but wonder, could these Han people have broken their brains?

Cao Rong was not afraid of the Ming cavalry on the opposite side, when he competed with the Ming infantry with the banner of the word "Qi", he was also messed up, and ran with the defeated soldiers, but these cavalry in front of him were obviously not the Ming army just now, and they were holding weapons similar to their own, so he didn't think how difficult it was for the other party to fight, and he looked down on the Ming army on the other side, thinking that they were not worthy of being called cavalry at all.

Cao Rong's Liaodong-born Han cavalry thought the same thing as their leaders, and their horses were hung with long knives and spears, which were intended to be used to charge and slash. There are also people who carry large bows on their backs, and looking at their skillful posture in taking bows, you know that they are all first-class marksmen. From top to bottom, the Qing army looked down on Wei Zhong's group on the other side, but they didn't know that the Ming army on the other side didn't look down on them at all.

"A bunch of two Tartars are quite pretending to be uncles, and I don't want to think about how many of their masters' heads are cut off for us." A soldier from the Chaozhou regiment next to Wei Zhong couldn't help but laugh when he saw that the Qing army on the other side seemed to look down on them.

"The two Tartars are also Tartars, the brothers are all cheering up, the other party is no less than us, and they will be more accurate when they start fighting, but they can't be broken."

"Wu San, you and Erzhang will go back immediately to report, since the Qing army has appeared here, then their brigade must be behind, send the news back, and let the town generals know it."

Wei Zhong reminded his subordinates not to take it lightly, and at the same time arranged for the two of them to go back to report the news, after all, their main task was not to fight with the Qing army, but to pass on information. Now that the Qing army has appeared in Songjiawolou, but there is still no trace of the C Brigade, it only means one thing - the C Brigade is likely to be finished, and the Qing army's brigade is behind.

Seeing that there were two Ming troops running back on the opposite side, and there was no other trace of the Ming army around, Cao Rong also sent someone to pass the news back and gave an order to attack. A group of Qing soldiers immediately aligned their formations, put their spears flat, took their bows and arrows, drew their swords and sabers, and prepared to charge and kill.

The cavalry of the Ming army is also preparing to meet the battle under the command of Wei Zhong, although it is not as good as the two Tartars, but the other party is also a cavalry after all, and the number of people on both sides is not much different, so there will definitely be casualties in a real fight. However, the men of this cavalry team are usually raised by the town general Zhao Ziqiang as a descendant of the army, which is similar to the personal soldiers raised by the general soldiers of the other Ming army, and they are considered dead soldiers. On weekdays, they eat and drink well, and the picture is that they will be able to sell their lives, and most of these people are deeply accustomed to the rivers and lakes, and they will not show their timidity, and they will take people's money to eliminate disasters for others, and the town will be interesting enough to them, and the Taiping Army has preferential treatment for military families, so they have no reason not to sell their lives.

Soon, the Qing army moved.

With Cao Rong shouting, the Qing army's war horses began to advance, and the speed of the horses gradually accelerated. The Ming army gave up rushing to kill Cao Rong on the horse, and if they really wanted to hedge the loss, it would not be less. He ordered his subordinates to gradually approach the Ming army with horses, trying to create psychological pressure on the other side, so that the Ming troops with fire guns could play the first round outside the firing range, and then the Qing army's horses quickly accelerated their charge, and they could defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop. This trick, no matter where it was in the past, the Qing soldiers were tried and tested repeatedly.

However, the horses of the Qing army rushed past thirty steps, and the Ming army on the opposite side still maintained their posture there, which made the Qing cavalry feel that something was wrong, but they could not be allowed to think about it too much, and the speed of the war horse under the crotch still maintained an accelerated trend.

Out of caution, Cao Rong opened his mouth and ordered loudly: "Rush another twenty steps, and if the firearms on the opposite side don't shoot, let's spread out to both sides!" "The horses turn in the galloping motion, which only a very well-skilled cavalryman can do, and as for the distance of forty or fifty paces from the Ming army, that is to judge empirically. According to previous experience, the Ming army's ground firearms were killed and injured within 50 steps at most, as long as they were outside this distance, they would not be hit tightly, and the lead would not kill people, at most they would scratch their fur.

Although there were only a few dozen people in the Qing army, dozens of horses rushed forward in line at the same time, and the momentum was also amazing. According to common sense, the Ming army on the opposite side should have fired fire guns in a panic, but they just endured it and didn't fight. The speed of the horses of the Qing cavalry has actually slowed down, and the Qing soldiers on the horses are all controlling the speed of the horses, preparing to turn at fifty paces. On the battlefield, no one will not take their lives seriously, and no one wants to be a tragic ghost.

The distance was almost fifty steps, Cao Rong could see that the Ming troops on the opposite side had put together one by one on the fire hammers, and he was sure that as long as the other party finished this round of firearms, they would be able to rush over and slaughter them cleanly, and by the way, leave two more alive to ask where the Ming army with the banner of "Qi" had gone.

"Boom!"

More than thirty fiery guns were fired, and in this quiet and empty twilight, they were particularly loud, and the weighted lead bullets flew out with a whistling whistle. The result of a salvo was to knock sixteen Qing soldiers off their horses. The smoke of the black powder after it burned, and the loud sound of the fire when it was fired, frightened the horses. Except for the horses on both sides who were about to slow down, the rest of the horses of the Qing army were all neighing and twisting, and many people were thrown off their horses by surprise, or fell to the ground with the horses. The smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated, and more than a dozen Qing cavalrymen who had not been affected rushed over, but because of the disturbance just now, there was no speed to talk about, and the impact of horses was impossible to talk about, but it was still condescending.

The sky was dim, the smoke was obscured, and the vision was extremely poor, except for the Qing soldiers who rushed to the front and slashed down a Ming soldier who couldn't dodge, the rest of the people quickly dodged. The Qing soldiers who fell to the ground because of the disturbance of the horses also got up in a daze, knowing that this meeting was a narrow road, and they didn't care about anything else, so they scolded and pulled out their weapons and stepped forward to cut them. More than 30 Qing cavalrymen who were still on horseback, just found the target on the side, but found that the Ming army on the opposite side actually rushed straight over with weapons. The Qing soldiers secretly scolded the other party for looking for death, and turned around to take the knife and was about to chop it, but the Ming army on the other side didn't care about the long knife he cut from a high place, but just stabbed it diagonally. (To be continued.) )