Chapter 1132: Chickens Fly and Eggs Fight
readx; That night, Hao Yongzhong divided the 200 Andalusian horses into four groups, and only dispatched one group at a time, and ran outside the Qing army camp to shoot at the Qing army with bird guns, while the other three groups rested in the back. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info as long as the Qing army moves, immediately turn around and run.
The Qing army felt that the artillery could not hit here, and they killed it angrily several times in a row. But as soon as I chased it, I realized that the speed of their war horses and the war horses of the Ming army was too different, and chasing three miles would make people pull away for a mile, and then they would chase a fart. But why did the Ming army's war horse suddenly run so fast, even if Amin wanted to break his head, he couldn't think of it!
After repeating this several times, the Qing army had no choice but to give up the plan of revenge, the camp gate was closed, and he became a turtle with a shrunken head, and no matter how harassed the Ming army, he refused to go out of the camp gate.
But the trees want to be quiet and the wind does not stop, and the Ming army has no intention of letting these murderous enemies sleep peacefully tonight. As soon as Hao Yongzhong saw that the Qing army was not coming out, he immediately merged the four groups of cavalry into two groups, each with a group of 100 people, and began to shoot from a distance of 100 paces from the Qing camp. Each time a salvo is completed, if the Qing army does not move, then press forward another ten steps. In this way, it didn't take much effort, and the Ming army had already pressed to a place only fifty steps away from the enemy camp, loading, shooting, reloading, and shooting, and that calm and unhurried momentum was just like usual training!
Because the range of the bird's gun was far greater than that of the bow and arrow against the wind, the Qing army had no choice but to try to stay as far away as possible from the camp fence, and there was no one near the gate. But this did not prevent the Ming army from looking for shooting targets, and the cowhide military tent was an excellent sighting. On a whim, Hao Yongzhong ordered all his subordinates to aim at a military tent to shoot, and after a burst of gunfire, the tent was smashed into a thousand holes, and the Qing army hiding inside naturally could not survive.
In this way, after beating more than 20 tents in a row, the Ming army ran out of ammunition. With a wave of Hao Yongzhong's hand, the hundred men and horses retreated, and another group of cavalry immediately rotated up. Don't look at such piecemeal shooting, but the Qing army "can't fight back, scold and don't fight back", let the Ming army open fire at will, and at least hundreds of people were killed and wounded overnight!
Although the big tent of Amin, the commander of the Qing army and the owner of the white flag, was shrunk in the deepest part of the camp and would not be beaten into a hornet's nest by the Ming army, Amin was at a loss for the tactics of the Ming army, so he could only blush and listen indifferently to the increasing casualty figures. Now he regretted it a little, and felt that he should not have listened to Kazhu's words and carried Yongping's spoils, but should have gone out of the customs directly overnight, so that he would not have suffered such heavy casualties.
But now that it's almost dawn, and I've been waiting for so many people and so many dead, retreating at this time is tantamount to a chicken-and-egg fight. Amin had to look anxiously to the southeast, hoping that Kaju would come back as soon as possible.
At the very beginning of the morning, that is, around five o'clock in the morning, the sound of people shouting and neighing horses was finally heard in the southeast. Amin perked up and said: "Kazhu is back, the whole army is on horseback, ready to pull!" ”
After that, he personally turned to the southeast, not so much to greet Kazhu, but to welcome those gold, silver, wealth and Han captives, which was the only thing that allowed him to save some face.
But Amin was immediately horrified to find that it was not an ordinary person shouting horses, but an increasingly approaching shouting of killing! Immediately after that, on the dark horizon, there appeared a group of cavalry rushing wildly, dressed as Kazhu's men; Behind them were two long fire dragons, which were the pursuers with torches! As for the car full of gold and silver and women that Amin most expected to see, there was not even a shadow!
"Hey!" Amin let out a long sigh and slapped his bald head fiercely with his palm, "I should have thought of it a long time ago, the Guanning Iron Cavalry is here, this must be the border army of Shanhaiguan!" ”
Amin guessed well, it was the main force of the Shanhaiguan border army, the 20,000 cavalry led by Man Gui and He Kegang.
Since Zhu Youzhen personally rescued the Liaodong border army back to Shanhaiguan, the governor of Liaodong, Gao Di, monopolized the power, and after checking the empty salaries and eliminating the old and weak, the border army was reorganized into 60,000 people, and 30,000 cavalry and infantry. Originally, Zu Dashou's generals held most of the military power, but now Gaodi is redivided, and the four generals Zu Dashou, Man Gui, He Kegang, and Zhu Mei each command a part of the soldiers and horses.
If it were in the past, Zu Dashou would certainly not agree, and maybe he would instigate his subordinates to engage in some small tricks such as mutiny to force Gao Di to submit. But now it's different, he almost surrendered to the Manchus in Dalinghe, although the emperor didn't treat him on the surface, but he must have a spectrum in his heart. Zu Dashou is too late to prove his innocence now, how dare he take the lead in making trouble?
Therefore, for most of the past six months, Zu Dashou has been ordered to honestly build the important city of Shanhaiguan. Not to mention, if you want to build a city, Zu Dashou still has a lot of experience, the current Shanhaiguan city has begun to take shape, and a large area of the original Guanbei is enveloped in, and the Qing army wants to knock on the pass and attack, and the difficulty is even greater.
Gao Di did not make it difficult for Zu Dashou, but asked the court for him to take credit, and Zhu Youzhen also generously named him the governor of Zhengyipin Zuo and Xingningbo, which was one level higher than Mangui and other generals. However, these rewards did not make Zu Dashou completely at ease, he still firmly held on to his standard camp, Wu Xiang, Zu Dale, Zu Dabi and other sworn friends were in charge of the army, and he himself never dared to meet the governor Gao Di alone, for fear of being suddenly taken down by the imperial court.
For such a general who was finally reduced in history, Zhu Youzhen could not rest assured. In the battle to defend Beijing, Zhu Youzhen delayed the Shanhaiguan border army to send troops, to a large extent, in order to let Man Gui and other generals contain Zu Dashou, so that he would never dare to make any changes. This time against the white flag, Zhu Youzhen also did not use Zu Dashou, and left Zhu Meibu in Shanhaiguan, only letting Man Gui and He Kegang fight.
Of course, the subordinates of Man Gui and He Kegang were not inferior in combat effectiveness to Zu Dashou's department. At this time, the two generals were taking the lead in pursuing the Qing army, He Kegang chased and released arrows, the arrows were not in vain, every time the bowstring sounded, a Qing soldier screamed and fell off the horse; Man Gui stared at his blood-red eyes, brandished his big knife and roared: "Dog Tartar has a kind of don't run, fight with your grandfather Man Gui for three hundred rounds!" ”
At this point, Amin was completely desperate, he knew very well that the cavalry of the Ming army was menacing, and his subordinates were demoralized to the extreme, and if they were forced to engage in battle, they might collapse instantly. Moreover, the Ming army is getting closer and closer, and if it does not move in place, it may be that the Ming army will directly crush the camp.
After weighing the pros and cons, Amin finally made a reluctant decision: "The whole army will be pulled out, bypassing Qian'an City to Baiyangyu, and exiting the customs through Baiyangyu!" ”
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