"This tartar runs faster than a rabbit."

Watching Yibai get on his horse and escape, Tian Bo said with some regret.

Yu Guozhen laughed: "That's true, the Tartars come and go like the wind, not only to say that they plundered, but also that they fled." Tell the order to go down and clean up the battlefield quickly, and we must move immediately, lest the Tartars come to us for revenge. ”

Tian Boguang's face became a little more serious, and he nodded.

Although the performance of the guards in this battle is remarkable, to a greater extent, their victory depends on strategy and equipment, rather than the combat effectiveness of the guards themselves. The Tartars were induced to gather and lose their vigilance with wine, and gunpowder was used to kill and burn half of the Tartars, thus creating a balance in numbers. Then, with the advantage of the range advantage of the Huwei B musket far superior to the musket at this time, it began to attack from a distance of thirty zhang, and the rain of bullets formed by the three rounds of firing and the firing frequency of the new musket offset the advantage of the cavalry charge to the greatest extent.

And the Tartars are worthy of being a strong army that has given Daming a headache for many years, and the fighting spirit and fighting skills they show are far superior to Gao Yingxiang's Liukou group. Without the advantage of firearms and steelmaking, the Tiger Guard faced the same number of Tartars, and although they could inflict tragic casualties on the opponent, the final result would probably be defeat.

This is just a vassal of the Mongols, not the real Jiangu!

Thinking of this, Yu Guozhen realized that he was still a little too proud because of his repeated victories and overwhelm the officers and soldiers at the same time, and his estimation of the difficulties he faced was still insufficient.

Even if you go to war next, you must be more cautious, the news of Jinyiwei can only play a reference role, only after you send scouts to confirm, you can take action, even if you lose one or two fighters because of this, you don't hesitate!

The main purpose of cleaning the battlefield is to collect belongings and cut off heads, a process that is already familiar to them. At this moment, Yu Guozhen heard a cheer, but it was Wang Qinian who dragged a person with a rope and ran over.

What he dragged was Jiao Yubiao.

The guy fainted drunk, didn't get killed, and not even the explosion woke him up. Wang Qinian did not capture Yibai, but found him when collecting the war horse, and dragged him to Yu Guozhen with a rope to show his merits.

"Hard-boiled eggs in sugar, hard-boiled eggs in sugar!" He said to Yu Guozhen.

Yu Guozhen couldn't help but smile when he saw Jiao Yubiao, who still hadn't woken up: "Qi Nian, don't worry, I will remember the boiled eggs in sugar water for you, this guy is worth ten days of boiled eggs in sugar water." ”

After they had cleaned up the battlefield, an hour later, a large army of Tartars swept in frantically, but it was the fleeing Ibai who made a comeback.

"This ...... This ......"

Perhaps it was out of Tian Boguang's bad taste, or perhaps it was the unintentional act of the guards, the corpses of the Tartars who had been cut off were all piled up in one place, forming a Jingguan composed of corpses. Before Ibai came to this Kyoto temple, his face was unprecedentedly ugly.

This is a great humiliation to him!

On the way to escape, he met his own brigade of men and horses, and immediately returned with these thousands of cavalry to retaliate, originally thinking that he could take the opportunity to kill this army that was a huge threat to their Qing Dynasty, but the other party acted extremely quickly, so that he had no chance to retaliate.

"Eshan Guzhen, let's chase after it!"

"Without a guide, how can I chase it?" Ibay glared angrily at the speaker.

"We are the best hunters, follow the horseshoe prints, and it won't be long before we can catch up with them!"

Ibay was extremely angry in his heart, and the more his subordinates actively asked for battle, the more would it prove that he had just fled in a hurry to be cowardly?

"Let's go, catch up with King Wuying, this Ming army...... King Wuying must be reminded! He didn't bother to argue with these arrogant subordinates, and gave the final order.

On the 18th of July, Ibai caught up with Azig's army, and when he heard Ibai mention this Ming army with great caution, Azig laughed.

Although he was just thirty-one years old, he repeatedly fought and attacked, followed Nurhachi to attack the Chahar Mongolian tribes, followed Tiancong Khan, which is today's Qing Emperor Huang Taiji, and attacked Korea. Therefore, he did not have any psychological disadvantages against generals like Abatai, Yanguli, and Ibai.

Even if he doesn't mention his status as the king of the county, in terms of military exploits alone, he definitely deserves the position of commander of this southward expedition.

But Azig also understands that because of his age, a considerable number of his subordinates may not be convinced.

"Yibai, you were broken by the Ming people, it was just a small defeat, I will not hold you responsible, why do you want to boast about that small team of Ming people as if they were divine soldiers?" After laughing, he said, "You go down, think about why you don't follow my orders, come to join me earlier, and divide your troops and plunder!" ”

Yibai's face blushed for a while, and he said loudly: "King of the county, although the slave is not a weapon, the priorities of the matter can still be distinguished. The minions have fought for decades, and they really haven't seen a Ming army like that...... If the Ming army has that kind of combat power, no, as long as one-third of the Ming army has that kind of combat power, we will not want to take a step forward in the Qing Dynasty! ”

"Enough, I don't want to hear you grow the enemy's ambition here, I'll pay attention to that Ming army." Seeing that he was still pestering the Ming army, Azig immediately sank his face.

Yanguli next to him coughed: "King of the county, Yibai's worries may not be unreasonable, there are many people in the Ming Kingdom, and the products are abundant, and it is normal for a force to appear that can fight." ”

"Only more than 200 people are nothing, it's not that we haven't fought with the troops that can fight in the Ming Kingdom, the Guanning Army is known as the first elite of the Ming Kingdom, and we haven't lost the battle in our hands?" Azig's gaze suddenly became fierce, he looked at Yanguli with some suspicion, and Abatai, who had been sneering and silent: "Before Your Majesty let us go south, on the twenty-seventh day of May, what we said when we were in Fengxiang Tower, do you remember?" ”

Yanguli suddenly became embarrassed, and Abatai's gaze became equally fierce.

Bai Yintu, Tan Tai, Ye Keshu, Ah Shan and others, who were qualified to participate in the deliberations, also felt embarrassed. At the beginning, Huang Taiji summoned everyone together and explained the two major strategies that must be adhered to in this expedition. The first of them is to ask everyone to act with one heart and not to argue, and if the argument is not resolved, it will be cut off by Azig, the king of Wuyingjun.

Azig moved out of this article at this time, clearly warning everyone. Abatai's eyes were full of disbelief, but Yanguli and the others had to stop fighting, and no one wanted to go back to see being sued by Azig, so even Abatai, who was still eager to try, had to shut up in the end.

"However, what Ibai said is not entirely wrong, this Ming army, I will pay attention, I have already asked people to inquire about their identities." Seeing that he had subdued everyone, Azig also retreated half a step back and said: "Now, the most important thing for us is to break through Dingxing City!" ”

Just as they were discussing how to attack Dingxing City, among the Jingshi and in the Forbidden City, Cao Huachun's fat body shuttled between the palaces with an unexpected lightness.

When he came to the door of the imperial study, he saw that Chongzhen was discussing something with several ministers, Cao Huachun didn't go in to disturb, but Chongzhen saw him appear and cast an inquiring look, so he pouted.

"The key to military affairs is diligence, and now I will discuss with Zhu Qing, you Aiqing will do it after you go back, and you must not slack off. Stand down. ”

Chongzhen casually sent away this group of civil and military officials guarding the city gate, and then nodded to Cao Huachun and said, "Cao Banban, what's the matter that is in a hurry to see me?" ”

"Your Majesty, great joy, great joy."

As soon as Cao Huachun opened his mouth, Chongzhen was reassured, he originally thought that it was bad news, and he was going to let him deal with it urgently. He couldn't help but smile on his face: "What can I be happy about at this time...... Could it be that Yu Guozhen has done something again? ”

"Your Majesty, you really guessed it." Cao Huachun danced with his hands: "The slave maid was scared today...... Yu Guozhen entrusted the fan of Jinyiwei to send several carts of gifts to the slave maid, although the slave and maid were greedy for money, but they also knew that they could only be greedy for those corrupt officials in the court, but they could not chill the heart of this kind of person who was loyal to His Majesty, so the slave and maid had to refuse. But he said that Yu Guozhen knew that the slave and maid would refuse, and said that the gift was to ask the slave and maid to look at it first and then transfer it to His Majesty. In this way, it is difficult for the slave to refuse...... At first, the slave maid thought that Yu Guozhen had made money again and gave the money to His Majesty, but when he lifted the curtain, His Majesty, what do you guess the slave and maid saw? ”

He beat around the bush this way, if he changed Wenchen to do this, he would have to be scolded by Chongzhen. But he is a eunuch and an internal official, Chongzhen just laughed and scolded: "You old goods, what are you selling, come quickly!" ”

"Human heads, human heads...... The emperor, the slave and maid were so frightened that they were going to scold, but then they said that all the people sent were real Tartar heads, not those traitors last time! ”

When Chongzhen heard that the head of the Tartar had been sent, he immediately became excited, and the person also stood up from the throne: "Really, can you send someone to inspect it?" ”

"It's been tested, it's tested, it's really a tartar, there is no mistake!"

"How much?"

"It's a total of two hundred and eleven achievements, but the one sent by Yu Guozhen said that there are more than that, this is the gunpowder that was planted and killed, so many Tartars turned into powder, and they can't take their heads to make contributions." Cao Huachun smiled from ear to ear.

"Good, good!"

Chongzhen is really happy, he is also relatively pitiful as a son of heaven, and the battle reports he has received are mostly defeats, occasional good news, and only a few beheadings, dozens of achievements can already be called a big victory, and this time he actually killed more than 200 achievements, which is undoubtedly a great victory.

"In this way, Yu Guozhen fought another battle with the Tartars in the south of the Beijing Division, I don't know how Yu Guozhen's own casualties were?" Thinking that Yu Guozhen only had less than 200 people, and he could behead more than 200 Tartars in one battle, although he learned from Cao Huachun that Yu Guozhen used a strategy, Chongzhen still quite appreciated Yu Guozhen's combat effectiveness.

"Yu Guozhen did not report his own casualties, but he will not be small." Cao Huachun said: "Emperor Shengming, Jian Ba Yu Guozhen and others are in the recklessness, Yao Shunyu soup, but that's it!" ”

"Random slapping...... By the way, did you ever talk to him about the assassination? Chongzhen was full of joy, but there was another thing that made him unhappy.

"Without the emperor's order, how dare the slave and maid tell me?"

"Let's not talk about it yet...... After a while, I said that after the matter was dealt with, I would say to him again. After thinking for a while, Chongzhen said quietly.

(To be continued)