readx; Just as the Qing army's western division continued to approach Xuanfu stubbornly, the blue flag south route division led by Prince Su Haoge also advanced to the southwest. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As the eldest son of Huang Taiji and the most promising Manchu nobleman to succeed him, Hauge naturally had a stronger interest in Duoli's military exploits than others*. This time, the two partial divisions attacked Xuanfu and Baoding respectively, which was from his suggestion.

And for Huang Taiji to let him lead the blue flag to attack Baoding alone, Haoge was also satisfied. Because he knows, don't look at the Zhenghong Banner and the Red Flag together have more troops than him, but the Jingshi to Xuanfu is mostly mountainous, sparsely populated, and the roads are rugged and difficult to travel. Xuanfu is also stationed in the Xuanda border army of the Ming Dynasty, if the Ming army can't hold out, Daishan and Yue Tuo may not be able to bargain.

But his journey is different, from Beijing to Baoding is a horse Pingchuan, which is the most suitable for the activities of the Eight Banners Cavalry. Moreover, the villages in this area are dense and populous, and they can be looted at will. Even if you can't capture Baoding Mansion, you can grab enough loot. It would be even better if he could meet the Ming army in the field, and he was fully confident that he would annihilate it in one fell swoop.

The first three days of marching were exactly as Hauge had expected. Jingshi and Baoding are less than 300 miles apart, along the way there are Wanping County, Daxing County, Zhuozhou Prefecture, Xincheng County, Dingxing County and other prefectures and counties, all of which are rich places. On the first day of the army, the blue flag occupied the two county towns of Wanping and Daxing.

In particular, Wanping County, although it is a small county town, has a history of nearly 1,000 years, as early as the Tang Dynasty began to take shape, there is a Lugou Bridge built in the Jin Dynasty across the Yongding River, since then, "Lugou Xiaoyue" is known as one of the "Eight Views of Yanjing".

Now all the households in the county have either fled to Jingshi, or fled west to Fangshan and other deep mountains, which has long been an empty city, but most of the supplies have not had time to be transported. After the Qing soldiers entered the city, they looted on a large scale, especially in several large mansions, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, digging three feet into the ground, and even looting hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. As for grain, cloth, and so on, they are innumerable.

After loading all these things, Hauge ordered the Qing soldiers to set it on fire. A thousand-year-old city was burned down in this way, and the sky-high flames could be seen in the city without even climbing the city wall.

Hauge tasted the sweetness, and the next day ordered the blue flag to ignore the nearby villages and go straight to Zhuozhou, which was dozens of miles away. There were hundreds of Ming troops stationed here, but as soon as they saw the dust raised by the cavalry of the Qing army, they were so frightened that they abandoned the city and fled, and the Qing army occupied Zhuozhou City again without blood.

The people of Zhuozhou have also run away a long time ago, which makes Haoge feel a little disappointed. Because the Qing army not only looted money, food and materials, but also had an important goal of robbing the population and becoming slaves for them to drive. Not only can the slaves be brought back to Liaodong to plough for them and let them enjoy their success, but they can also use it on the way back to their divisions, at least to carry heavy materials for them in carts.

The blue flag looted the city of Zhuozhou as usual, but here, Hauge did not order the burning of the city. Because Zhuozhou was the hometown of Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, the Manchu nobles all liked "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and even studied this popular novel as a military work. There are Liu Bei Temple and Zhang Fei Temple in the city, and Haoge respects these two people very much.

Liu Bei was born in a reckless manner, and traveled from place to place for more than 20 years, from an unknown person to the throne as the emperor, creating a three-point world of Shu and Han, and Haoge believes that his experience is very similar to that of his grandfather Nurhachi. As for Zhang Fei, he has the courage of ten thousand people, and he can take the head of a general from the ten thousand horse army, and he is an idol worshiped by Haoge.

Therefore, instead of destroying it, he went to the two temples to offer incense and worship, begging these two heroes of the Three Kingdoms to bless him with victory and immortal feats. If Liu Bei and Zhang Fei really have the spirit of being in the sky, I'm afraid they will have to make Haoge angry, and they will not be able to bless the alien race to slaughter the Chinese people no matter what.

On the third day, the blue flag continued to march south. However, the autumn rain came unexpectedly, slowing down the advance of the Qing army. Xincheng County, which was originally located in the southwest, was only less than forty miles away from Zhuozhou, but this section of the road was muddy, and the Qing army captured so much loot that it took two days to walk.

Of course, as a battle-hardened general, although he did not take the Ming army seriously, he still maintained a relatively high level of vigilance when he was marching. Before the army moves, he will send scouts to reconnoiter first, and only after ascertaining the enemy's situation will he enter the army.

According to the report of Tanma, Xincheng County was garrisoned by about 500 Ming troops, and Dingxing to the south was an empty city, and the Ming army concentrated all the soldiers and horses of King Qin in Baoding Mansion.

Hauge laughed when he heard this, and said in his heart that the Ming Army was frightened. There are a total of 15,000 cavalry with the blue flag, although the siege may not be able to break through Baoding, but it is more than enough to wander around the periphery of Baoding. He had already learned from the traitors that the most elite troops in the Ming Dynasty were the border army, followed by the Beijing camp, and as for the officers and soldiers of the guards in various places, due to the long period of peace, they basically became peasants in Tuntian. Let such a force come to King Qin, even if there are 180,000, even if there is any ambush, as long as it is like the battle of Sarhu, "depending on how many ways you come, I will only go all the way", and the 15,000 army will move as a whole, and it is expected that the Ming army will not be able to stop the rampage of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.

Therefore, after the rain stopped, Hauge ordered the army to speed up, and soon the army was under the city of Xincheng. When the defenders of the city saw the arrival of the Qing army, they only put a few shots at the head of the city, and then abandoned the city again and fled from the south gate. Although the city gate is closed, how can this stop tens of thousands of Qing troops?

Just as Hauge was about to lead his army into the city, there was a sudden sound of killing due west, and a Ming cavalry rushed up with a shout, seeing that the number was about three thousand. Hauge couldn't help but perk up, thinking that the Ming army had finally come to meet him. He immediately ordered the blue flag to stop entering the city, and lined up outside the city, preparing to destroy this Ming army on the spot first.

However, the Ming army stopped advancing a mile away, and only a dozen horsemen stepped forward. The first member of the general was armed with an iron spear, sitting upright on a tall horse with black coat, with a grim expression and not saying a word. The dozen or so soldiers behind him also rode on strong horses.

Hauge didn't recognize who this Han general was, but as soon as he looked at the war horse that the other party was riding, he immediately remembered: This is the Ming army that encountered outside the Jingshi City that day! Because those war horses left a deep impression on him, this was by no means a Mongolian horse, nor a Dawan horse, but a breed he had never seen before.

Just as he was thinking about it, the general on the opposite side suddenly shouted loudly: "Varnate Tartar general, do you dare to come close and answer?" ”

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