Chapter 5: Night Attack!
Finally repelled the Qing army again, and the Longquan sword in Zheng Xinguo's hand was also missing a few openings in the battle.
Holding the sword against the female wall, he wiped the sweat mixed with blood on his forehead with his hand, and asked Lin Xishan: "What are the casualties of our army?" ”
Lin Xishan said with a little lonely look in his eyes: "Governor Dadu, our army has suffered heavy casualties in the past two days, and now there are less than 3,000 people left who can fight!" ”
Hearing that more than 3,000 people had been killed and injured in two days, Zheng Xinguo's heart suddenly burst and he hurriedly asked, "What about the casualties of the Tartars?" ”
Lin Xishan thought for a while and replied: "I don't know the specific number, but judging from the corpses, I'm afraid there are more than 2,000 people." ”
Zheng Zhilong claimed to have more than 200,000 troops, but in fact, many of them were improvised and forcibly recruited people, who had not undergone much training at all, and the quality of the soldiers was so bad that even the casualties of the Qing army in the case of defending the city could not reach one to one.
Now the casualties of the Ming soldiers and the Qing army are 3,000 to 2,000, and we have to find a way, otherwise Anping will be broken by the Qing army sooner or later.
Zheng Xinguo lowered his head and thought, and when he raised his head again, he looked at Lin Xishan with a serious face and said, "Go, gather all the war horses in the city, and prepare to go out of the city to kill the Qing army!" ”
Lin Xishan's heart suddenly suddenly, and he hurriedly said: "Metropolitan Governor, we have all suffered heavy casualties in defending the city, and if we fight in the field, I am afraid that we will not be the opponent of the Qing army!" ”
Zheng Xinguo sighed and said: "I also know, but now there are less than 3,000 soldiers left, and there is no way to take care of the defense of the four city gates, and if this continues, Anping will fall sooner or later." In that case, it's better to fight to the death. The Qing army has always looked down on our Ming soldiers, and they should be defenseless at night. If we sneak up on it at night, we might be able to break this deadlock! ”
Night attack on the Qing army!
When Lin Xishan heard Zheng Xinguo's plan, he looked at the soldiers with bandaged wounds at the head of the city, and said, "General, the last general begs for your permission to lead the army to attack the Qing army at night. In case of failure, he also asked the governor to flee at night and go to Xiamen to join Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai. ”
Zheng Xinguo shook his head and said, "With the current morale of our army, if it weren't for me personally leading the army. I'm afraid that these soldiers don't have the courage to take the initiative to attack the Qing army. So this stop, I have to go. ”
Lin Xishan thought for a while and said, "Then I want to follow the Metropolitan Governor!" ”
"Hmm!"
Although he has Zheng Sen's memory, he knows a little bit of martial arts and horseback riding, but there will be some difference between his memory and reality, and Zheng Xinguo needs Lin Xishan's help to lead the army for the first time.
The dim sky, the afterglow of the sunset on the horizon slowly faded, and the dark curtain fell.
In the north of Anping City, people are wooden, horses pick bells, Zheng Xinguo led a thousand cavalry to quietly go out of the city at night.
In a forest, dozens of secret sentinels were hiding in the grass, vigilantly inspecting the surrounding environment, and in the woods behind them, nearly a thousand cavalry were being repaired.
When Zheng Chenggong was grabbing a handful of dried beans to feed his mount, Lion Skull, a spy ran over and whispered, "Governor, there is the Qing army camp ahead, and the Tartars are resting." ”
When Zheng Xinguo heard this, he hurriedly said, "Take me to check." ”
Zheng Xinguo took a few personal soldiers and followed the spy to carefully touch the woods next to the Qing army camp.
Lying on the high ground, Zheng Chenggong stretched out his head to look over, only to see that there were several fires in the camp, and next to the fires were tents.
A large group of Qing troops were sitting around the fire, drinking wine and eating meat, talking and laughing loudly.
The generals of these Tartars despised the Ming army very much and did not think that the Ming army would dare to go out of the city to attack them.
The soldiers of the Qing army all showed ugly pigtails of money, and their weapons were also placed haphazardly.
The generals all hugged a disheveled woman, kissing her face with rancid yellow teeth, kneading it with their rough hands.
Those women were all captured by the Qing army, and they were bullied, but they didn't dare to resist, they just cried in a low voice, bitter and desolate.
In the camp lay the bodies of several women, all naked and distorted, apparently humiliated to death.
Even a few Manchu soldiers refused to let go of these corpses, and were doing all kinds of unsightly actions.
In a tent, Zheng Chenggong also found a group of women in tattered clothes. They were bound with ropes, and they looked terrified, and they all burst into tears.
At this time, a miserable scream pierced the sky, and Zheng Xinguo hurriedly looked over.
But it was a woman who couldn't bear the insult of the tartar, and struggled to push the tartar away.
In the midst of everyone's ridicule, the tartar suddenly felt ashamed, and a big slap slapped her, and the corner of her mouth immediately bleed.
The Qing army was still not satisfied, and the tiger pounced on her, tore her clothes, and humiliated her in full view of everyone.
She tried her best to resist, but was treated even more brutally by the Qing army.
The surrounding Qing soldiers laughed and pointed at the sidelines!
Seeing the situation in front of him, Zheng Xinguo was furious, and a wave of blood suddenly surged.
These god-damn Tartars dare to insult my Han people like this.
Zheng Xinguo gritted his teeth, held back his anger, and said in a low voice, "Go, go back!" ”
Zheng Xinguo ran back, immediately tore off his clothes, and shouted: "All the horses' hooves are covered with brocade clothes, and they are quietly approaching to kill!" ”
When a thousand cavalry approached the Qing army under the leadership of Zheng Xinguo, Zheng Chenggong shouted, "Kill!" I don't need captives! ”
Almost all of the Zheng Jiajun are Fujianese, and even there are many Anping people. When they saw the scene of their suffering, they were all indignant and shouted angrily: "No! ”
A thousand cavalrymen held pistols and sabers and slaughtered the scattered Qing troops like a storm with full of anger.
Although there are no high-quality war horses in the south, as the eldest son of the richest man in Fujian, Zheng Sen rode a good horse and rushed straight to Ordotai like a gust of wind.
'Capture the thief and capture the king first', Zheng Xinguo still understands this truth.
A stone's throw away, and it has rushed to it in an instant.
Zheng Xinguo clenched his sword and slashed at the enemy leader Ordotai, one side was unprepared, and the other side was galloping,
At close range, when Ordotai pulled out his saber in a panic.
Zheng Xinguo slashed at the opponent's knife with a sword and directly slashed it away.
The sword was slashed against the opponent's left ear, and Ordotai's entire ear was slashed off, and it was bloody, and his face and neck were dyed red with blood in a moment.
Zheng Xinguo is not experienced enough on the battlefield in the end, and he doesn't know how to use his strength to keep three points.
This sword is too strong, and there is no strength left to change the blade.
The sword slashed down his shoulder, and a piece of cotton armor was sliced off.
Erduotai suddenly felt a burning pain in his shoulder.
The burly body almost fell under the horse, but they all hurriedly grabbed the horse rope and stabilized their bodies.
Ordotai's weapons were all knocked out, and he could only dodge in all directions.
When the soldiers saw that the main general was in distress, they immediately gathered around to save the danger.
With a roar, Zheng Xinguo urged the war horse, like a tiger coming out of the mountain, slashing from the left, cutting off a Qing soldier from the horse, and stabbing the enemy off the horse with the right stab.
All the weapons of the capital were knocked out, and he could only dodge everywhere, and saw his own soldiers entangled with Zheng Xinguo.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, they all used spurs to knock the horse's belly fiercely, pulled out the horse and fled.
The war horse was in pain, jumped up, and rushed out for a few miles.
hacked to death a few Qing soldiers who rushed up, Zheng Xinguo shouted: "Kill!" ”
After that, he controlled the reins with one hand, held the sword, knocked his feet on the horse, and the horse flew like a fly, and went straight to the fleeing Ordotai in front of him.
Lin Xishan's eyes were straight, he knew that this Grand Governor had read the book of sages before, but he didn't expect to be so reckless on the battlefield.
Lin Xishan was anxious, and he couldn't care about anything else at this time, so he immediately waved his knife and shouted: "Follow the Metropolitan Governor, kill me!" ”
This Lin Xishan's arm strength is outstanding, and his riding skills are good, so he uses a three-foot-long horse chopping knife, holding the knife in both hands, and chasing the eldest prince Zheng Sen wildly.
More than 1,000 pro-soldiers saw it and had to chase after the horse's buttocks.
Seeing that Ordotai was about to flee, Zheng Xinguo picked up the bow hanging on the horse's back and bent the bow to pull his waist.
With a whoosh, the arrow was like a meteor, and it instantly struck Erdotai's back.
Ordotai screamed and fell off his horse, still recovering from the pain.
Zheng Xinguo caught up from behind, and the horse's hooves stepped down fiercely.
Erduotai boiled down a piece of his chest, spurted blood from his mouth, and after a few struggles, he kicked his legs and died!
As soon as the main general died, he was killed by Zheng Chenggong and his army.
Since the Qing soldiers went south to fight, they have never only fled when they saw them, and they have never seen such fierce Ming soldiers, who were rushed and killed for a while, and they were so frightened that they didn't care about the property they had snatched, and they were busy fleeing in all directions.
The Qing army, who were busy looting and enjoying themselves, had long forgotten where they had left their horses.
At this point, there is no time to find and escape. The two-legged one can't run four-legged, Zheng Xinguo led the cavalry to rush back and forth in the camp,
At this moment, the morale of the Qing army completely collapsed.
The Qing army suddenly became confused and fled.
When there was chaos, who still cared about maintaining the formation, Zheng Chenggong took the opportunity to chase and kill. The Qing troops, who were defenseless and unable to fight back, were cut down one after another, screaming again and again for a while, with many casualties.
Zheng Chenggong chased and killed for a few miles, and saw that his soldiers were about to get tired, so he reined in and returned to the city.
At this stop, Zheng Chenggong killed more than 600 Qing soldiers, seriously injured 300, and lightly injured countless people.