The first to catch up was a thousand cavalry led by Li Shutai, in the battle of Qingzhou, Li Shutai lost his troops, and was severely punished by Dolgon after returning, thinking that his father and son had served the Qing Dynasty for both generations, and Li Shutai's wife was the daughter of the grandmaster, so he was lightly dismissed. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but also dismissed the position of deputy commander, demoted to Jiala Ezhen, and sent to serve in front of the Duoduo army of Prince Yu. In the battle of following Duoduo to attack Tongguan, Li led Tai to take the lead in fighting bravely, led the army to defeat the troops of the Shun army many times, beheaded several generals of the Shun army, accumulated merit and re-sat in the position of deputy commander, and led the Han army of the Blue Banner to follow Duoduo south to attack Ming!

Li Shutai's father and son both worked for the Manchus, and they had long regarded themselves as members of the Manchus, and did not identify with their ancestors' former Han identity, and Manchurian magnates such as Duoduo also regarded him as their own.

Therefore, among the Duoduo army, it is also the Eight Banners Han Army, if you talk about the degree of trustworthiness, Li Shutai must be above Kong Youde Geng Zhongming. However, Kong Youde Geng Zhongming was a Manchu Qing who surrendered with an army, and he came to vote when the Manchus were quite difficult, and he had been treated favorably by the Manchus, and the two were respectively awarded the titles of King Huaishun of Gongshun, but their status was far above Li Shutai, which made the young and vigorous Li Shutai quite dissatisfied.

Therefore, the Ming army that was sent to pursue the attack should be headed by Gongshun Wang Kong Youde, but Li Shutai did not pay attention to Kong Youde at all, and took his own cavalry to chase down the avenue until he reached the river.

After arriving at the river, Li Shutai quickly judged that it was here that the Ming army got on the boat and fled, rather than crossing the river and fleeing to Yangzhou by land.

This group of Ming troops actually came by boat! This surprised Li Shutai, although his subordinate cavalry was strong in cavalry and shooting, they could only gallop on land, and could not cross the water to fight the enemy on the ship.

But you can't just let go of this group of Ming troops, otherwise you won't be able to explain to the prince.

After a short period of thought, Li Shutai resolutely led his army east along the river and pursued along the riverbank. This river originates in the mountains in the west and joins the canal in the east, and the Ming army must have gone to the canal by boat. While pursuing, he sent someone to report to Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming. Li Shutai knew that it was impossible to leave all the Ming troops behind, because the Qing army that had just arrived in Yangzhou did not have a naval army, but the responsibility for the enemy's escape could not be borne by himself, and he had to let Kong Youde and the two share it.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's cavalry were mixed, and the proportion of infantry was much more than that of cavalry.

Although the two are nominally the King of Gongshun and the King of Huaishun, and their status is equal to that of the commander of the army, Duoduo is the son of the old Khan King Nurhachi, the half-brother of the regent Dorgon, and the uncle of the current Shunzhi Emperor. And he is just a general, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty won the title of king in order to encompass the Han people who surrendered.

If you are a king, you will be crowned a king, and you will be crowned with a submissive king, and you will not treat the two of you as your own from the name. Therefore, although you are the prince, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming themselves do not regard themselves as a dish at all. Both of them knew that they were just two flags erected by the Manchurians for the rest of the Ming army, and their status was not so important at all.

Even Li Shutai, a little cub, didn't dare to offend, who let the family surrender early, and was regarded as his own by the Manchurians.

So since they voted for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, these two people basically crossed the river with their eggs in their hands, cautious, for fear of taking a wrong step, and they were not as wanton and arrogant as they were in the Ming Dynasty before. There was also a little friction between the two from time to time, for fear that the Qing court would think that the two of them were complicit.

"Why is this little cub so kind?" When he received a report from Li Shutai that he had found traces of the Ming army, Geng Zhongming smiled and said to Kong Youde.

Among the two, Kong Youde has always been the leader, and since the surrender of the Qing Dynasty, whether it is fighting with the Guanning army, or conquering Korea, or entering the customs to attack the Shun army, the two have never been separated.

"Where is his kindness, it's just that he sees that the bones are hard to gnaw, and he just wants to pull us back." Kong Youde sneered.

Having said that, Kong Youde still ordered the whole army to follow Li Shutai towards the Ming army. Ordered Jiala Ezhen Song Guofu to be the vanguard, and led 2,000 cavalry to pursue first. The two followed closely behind with the infantry.

By the river, Li led the Thai army to pursue the Ming army on the boat, but looking at the warship moving in the river, Li Shutai couldn't think of any good way, so he could only order to shoot arrows on the boat.

Li Shuotai's 1,000 cavalry were all veterans who were good at riding and shooting, and when they heard the order, they immediately took off their bows and arrows and shot them into the river.

Thousands of feathered arrows continuously crossed the narrow river and shot at the Daishan army on the riverboat. As early as when the Qing soldiers caught up, the officers and men of the Daishan Army were already ready, and large shields were erected on each ship to cover the soldiers.

Because of the narrow water surface of the river fork, the Daishan army took a small boat that was only two zhang long. Each boat carried more than thirty soldiers, eight of whom were oarsmen, and four were responsible for rowing.

Of the remaining soldiers, two-thirds were pikemen. Now that they didn't need their spears, they took up their shields and protected everyone on board. The remaining one-third were musketeers, and when they saw the Qing soldiers chasing after them, they loaded their gunpowder and fired at the Qing soldiers on the shore under the cover of their shields.

The sound of "bang, bang, bang" muskets rang out continuously, accompanied by Qing soldiers falling from their horses to the ground.

Li Shutai was shocked to find that in the confrontation with the Ming army in the boat, his own side could not take advantage at all. The Ming army on the ship was protected by shields, and it was difficult for their bows and arrows to cross the shields to hit the enemy. The target of their own cavalry was too large to escape the fire of the opponent's muskets.

Moreover, in the face of musket projectiles, even cavalrymen wearing armor are useless, except for white-armored soldiers wearing three layers of armor, the thickness of the armor may be able to withstand the penetration of musket bullets.

And these cavalry under his command only wore a layer of armor and even most of them were leather armor, and there were no white-armored soldiers who were not afraid of musket bullets. Not to mention the war horses under the crotch, in Li Shutai's rays, he saw that there were constantly war horses being hit by muskets, neighing and falling to the ground, after all, their huge bodies were the best targets for shooting.

"Retreat!" Seeing that in a short period of time, dozens of cavalrymen had fallen under their horses, and Li Shutai had to give the order to retreat. All the cavalry moved away from the river bank, out of range of the Ming army's muskets.

However, being out of the range of the musket meant that the bows and arrows of the Qing soldiers could not threaten the Ming army on the ship, so could they just watch this group of Ming troops leave?

At this moment, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming arrived with a large army. (To be continued.) )