On the outskirts of Beijing, columns of cavalrymen with distinct armor galloped on the official road. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The info leader is Zhou Renyuan, who is dressed in gold armor, and Wu Xiang, a veteran. Zhou Renyuan's golden armor was given to him by Chongzhen.

Thinking that he went to the palace to resign, the concubines in the palace were very worried, and even Tian Guifei, who was sick in bed, told him on the couch. Especially Queen Zhou couldn't bear it, told him to be careful with red eyes, and complained that Chongzhen should not send the young fourth brother to the battlefield.

Chongzhen can't say if he suffers, it's all because these four brothers have to go on the expedition, where did he force him to go? In order to show his gratitude, he took out his own set of gold armor from the arsenal and gave it to Zhou Renyuan, and specially took out a set of gold silk soft armor and put it inside.

Zhou Renyuan was overjoyed, after all, he was on the battlefield. Multi-layered protection is multi-security, thank you immediately. And the crown prince Zhu Cihong took his hand and was very reluctant, and repeatedly admonished, "Fourth uncle, you have to return safely!" ”

When Zhou Renyuan left the palace, Princess Changping clasped her hands together in the Buddhist hall of Empress Zhang Yan of Ci'an, and silently prayed, "Buddha bless, Changping sincerely prays, may the fourth uncle return safely as soon as possible!" ”

Wu Xiang's words interrupted Zhou Renyuan's thoughts, "Lord Wang, the last general knows that you are in a hurry, but with such a speed of cavalry, within three days, the war horse will have to lie down." Cavalry to maintain a certain speed is the best way to save foot strength and not delay the journey. ”

Zhou Renyuan nodded, "I was negligent, thank you General Wu for reminding me." Tell the order to go down, and the cavalry will slow down and keep moving at a constant pace! ”

The cavalry brought by Zhou Renyuan were all dressed in red cloaks, trimmed with gold, and all wore iron masks on their helmets. This was the knowledge he had learned from the knights of the West, who were extremely damaging when faced with bows and arrows by their faces without facial protection. Therefore, when in Hengzhou, whether it was cavalry, infantry or artillery, the helmet had an iron mask that could be pulled down. It makes people feel murderous and overwhelming.

At this time, in HB Zhending Mansion, Yue Tuo's 20,000 troops with red flags and Dolgon's 20,000 troops with the white flag had converged. This time, the receipt is quite large. Twenty-six cities were plundered, 200,000 Han men and women were captured, and countless gold and silver treasures were captured. Hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep. Dolgon was talking to Yue Tuo in the big tent, "Prince Cheng, this expedition, I thought that I would be able to return to Shengjing after receiving so many goods, but I didn't expect to meet Lu Xiangsheng here, this is a pie in the Tianshan Mountains!" ”

Yue Tuo, who had a beard, also smiled and said, "Prince Lian is right, I heard that Lu Xiangsheng was called a victorious general by the Ming Dynasty, and now he is a governor, if we can defeat him this time, then the Ming Dynasty will not hear that my Qing warriors will be frightened, and there will be no resistance at all!" ”

At this time, there were several women's cries in the tent on the side, Yue Tuo couldn't help but shake his head, this voice came from the tent of his subordinate Niu Lu Dellen, this Dellen is brave in battle, bloodthirsty and killing, he is a tiger on the battlefield, but he is too good a woman, this is not defiling the captured Han woman in his tent? You are defiled, you are defiled, and you should not have done things while I was talking to Dorgon!

I only heard the cry of "ah" from Dellen, and then the sound of the knife coming out of its sheath, and the sound of the continuous servant's knife chopping, and there was no sound in the tent.

"What happened?" Yue Tuo shouted.

After a while, Dellen, who was wearing heavy armor, came in with his bleeding neck and scolded, "Damn, that Han woman dared to bite me, and I hacked them all to death!" ”

Yue Tuo's face was not good-looking, but Dolgon smiled and said, "General Dellen is happy to take revenge, and it is not a loss to my warrior of the Qing Dynasty!" ”

Dellen smirked a few times, "It's a pity, that little girl is so white-skinned!" ”

Yue Tuo said angrily, "Don't get out yet, don't embarrass this king here!" ”

Dellen went out with a disapproving smile, he was often scolded by Yue Tuo, he was used to it, and he admired Yue Tuo when he said it. Among the Manchu ministers, Yue Tuo was upright, and often worked against Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji was very jealous of him, but Yue Tuo had a very high prestige in the army, and Huang Taiji didn't take him for a while.

"As soon as I was disturbed by this bastard, this king doesn't even know what he just said?" Yue Tuo smiled, "By the way, Prince Lian, will Lu Xiangsheng fight with us?" But don't forget that there are more than 30,000 troops in the east. ”

"Don't worry about high diving, he won't take the initiative to attack us." Dolgon smiled, "According to our eyeliner, now Gao Qi is as timid as a mouse, and he is cowering in Jizhou. Of course, in order to prevent him from sneaking up, I will arrange for 5,000 cavalry to monitor him. ”

"That's good!" Yue Tuo said, "Let's march to Julu tomorrow, defeat Lu Xiangsheng, and defeat this governor of Xuanda." Haha--"

Five days later, the army of Dolgon and Yueto reached Hengshui, "The march was too slow!" Yueto said to Dorgon.

Dolgon said helplessly, "The looted people and supplies have slowed down the march, but you tell the warriors to throw them down, they are very reluctant. So let these armoured slaves escort these people and materials to stay in Hengshui, and stay in the two thousand people to defend. When we get back, we'll go back together and then go back to Kannai. ”

"But the emperor has news that the dynasty has sent troops from Shanhaiguan to surround us, and the Ming Dynasty's sailors are also attacking my Juehua Island, this matter is not very good!" Yue Tuo worried.

"What are you afraid of, the Ming Dynasty has made an old mistake again, can it be better than beating people with a fist when sending troops from multiple ways? When we clean up Lu Xiangsheng and then go back to clean up Wu Sangui, we = we don't need reinforcements to defeat the Ming army. Dorgon said confidently. Look at the high dive in front of us, do the 30,000 elite soldiers dare to start a war with me, and don't they cower and follow Lu Xiangsheng behind him? ”

Three days later, the Qing soldiers and guards of Hengshui City were drinking and having fun in the Hengshui Mansion, "Dance quickly!" He held a wine glass in one hand and shouted to several Han women. The Han women writhed helplessly, "Haha---" The guard laughed wildly, "Yes, that's it, haha--" said and threw a few pieces of meat to these women, these women hurriedly went up to snatch them, gobbled them up, and one of them choked on the cough after eating too quickly.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves shaking the mountains came, and the hearts of the people were panicked. "What happened?" The guard shouted, put on his armor and ran out of the yamen. Several foot soldiers in leather armor came running in a panic and called "Ming Army!" A lot of Ming troops! It's all cavalry!"

The guards hurriedly climbed the tower, only to see a red torrent rushing towards the city wall. "Quick, archers get ready for the wall!" He screamed. The archer hurriedly pulled up his bow and arrows, and who knew that strange things had happened. This brigade of cavalry just skipped Hengshui City and ran towards the west without stopping for a moment.

"What's going on?" The Qing army guards were stunned, "Not good! They were heading towards Julu, quickly, and sent two of them to report to Prince Cheng and Prince Lian. ”

"Lord Wang, why don't you fight Hengshui?" Shen Tieshan asked.

"Our first priority is to go and meet with Governor Lu, Gao Qiqian! We can't delay work here, and besides, we are all cavalry, and we don't have siege weapons, how can we fight? Wait for us to turn around and clean them up. You go and send ten brothers, lie in ambush by the roadside, and kill the messenger sent by Hengshui. Zhou Renyuan said hatefully.

Sure enough, not long after, two pigtailed soldiers appeared on the road on fast horses, only to hear two "whoosh" and "whoosh" sounds, and two crossbow arrows from the grass shot two crossbow arrows in the head, and the two of them fell off their horses without snorting. Shen Tieshan looked at the corpses of these two people coldly, and ordered, "Take the horse away and bury the corpse!" Then after the processing was done, a group of ten people went to chase the large army.

Juehua Island is the largest island in Hulu Bay in eastern Liaodong. Mao Wenlong, the general soldier of the Ming Dynasty who was originally killed by Yuan Chonghuan, has been entrenched here for a long time, often sending troops to harass the rear of the Manchu Dynasty. Huang Taiji has always regarded this place as a major problem, so on his second expedition to the Korean class, he finally took advantage of the extremely cold weather that year and the sea was frozen, and went to the island to eliminate the Ming army on the island.

Therefore, the place was extremely important, so 2,000 troops were stationed on the island, and the supplies transported to the island were sent by fishing boats near Hulu Bay.

The facilities on the island are still very complete, there are barracks, and there is fresh water on the island. The current guardian is a Jiala Ezhen named Soha of Huang Taiji's eldest son, Haoge ZLQ. Because the sailors of the Ming army never appeared near Juehua Island, his life was quite beautiful, and he inspected once a day in the morning, noon, and evening, and there was nothing else to do, so he spent all day messing around in bed with a few young Han women who were snatched from the Ming Kingdom last time. No, two of them are pregnant.

This morning, it was also thunderous, and it was time to patrol. Soha climbed the highest mountain on the island with a few soldiers and looked south.

"General, look, there's a situation there." A soldier said, pointing to the sea.

Soha narrowed his eyes and looked carefully at the sea, a row of black shadows getting closer and closer, "It's not good, it's a naval warship of the Ming Dynasty!" Soha exclaimed. Go and light the beacon fire! ”

The warship was getting closer and closer, and the Qing soldiers on the island had never seen such a tall warship, with a height of more than ten zhang, rushing towards them like a behemoth.

There was a big "Zheng" flag erected on the warship under the command of the Chinese army, and Zheng Chenggong was on the deck of this ship, "Report to the Major General, our fleet is less than five miles away from the island!" The sentry at the bow of the ship shouted.

Zheng Chenggong said solemnly, "Playing the flag, the fleet is lined up in two ways, and the east and west directions are bombarded with artillery. ”

After a while, the warships were staggered and lined up, and Zheng Chenggong ordered, "Fire!" I saw twenty warships roll out red-coated cannons from their sides, and the muzzles of the guns flashed, and the cannonballs smashed into everything on the island.

The Qing army on the island was bombed and scurried around, and Soha shouted, "Find a place to hide!" Many soldiers ran into the barracks to take refuge, only to see dozens of shells suddenly hit the barracks mountain, and the barracks collapsed suddenly, crushing many soldiers to death. The soldiers, who were lucky enough not to die, groaned in pain under the rubble of the barracks.

Soha didn't care about his women, and shouted as he ran, "A bunch of rice buckets, run with me up the mountain." A few clever people hurriedly followed him and hurriedly ran towards the mountain. The rest of the Qing army also came to their senses, and the mountain was not bombarded, and more and more people ran towards the mountain.

Zheng Chenggong held a clairvoyant mirror and saw more and more Qing soldiers gathered on the mountain, and ordered, "All artillery angles are raised and bombarded on the mountain." Ready to land! ”

Soha was panting from the top of the mountain to watch everything under the mountain, and everywhere the Qing soldiers who lacked arms and legs were crying wolves, and lamented in his heart, "It's all over, and my child who didn't have an accident can't be saved." ”

I heard another burst of cannonballs, countless shells smashed on the mountain, and one of his own Niu Lu shouted, "General, be careful!" He pushed him aside as he spoke, "Ah! With a scream, Niu Lu's head was smashed to pieces by a cannonball.

"Urmu, my good brother!" Soha cried bitterly as she hugged Niu Lu's corpse.

The guns of Zheng Chenggong's warship fought for half an hour before stopping, and after the artillery fire, all the buildings on the island were in ruins, and the sound of wailing filled the whole island. "Login!" Zheng Chenggong ordered. Pieces of landing planks were lowered from the ship's side.

At the time of the two pillars of incense, the two thousand sailors had all landed, and they did not encounter resistance at all.

A team of sailors stepped on Juehua Island, and saw the corpses of Qing soldiers and wailing soldiers everywhere, and if the Qing soldiers did not die, the sailors would come forward to make up for them, cut off their heads, and it was considered to help them get free.

"Report to the Major General, there are less than 300 people from the remaining Tartars on the mountain who are resisting stubbornly, it seems that the Tartar guards are inside, and our search team has killed several brothers." A sailor came to report on the general report.

"Gather all the musketeers and archers in front, and the foot soldiers in the back, and annihilate them all for me!" Zheng Chenggong ordered.

Soha still had less than 300 soldiers on the mountain, and he saw the Ming army pressing towards the mountain step by step. Anxiously shouted, "Archer!" Archers shoot me! ”

"General Suo, we only have thirty archers, and now we're running out of arrows!" The soldier on the side shouted.

"The musketeers and archers of the Ming army are here, general, what should we do?" An observing sentry hurried to report.

Soha made up his mind and said, "Break through!" Everyone rushed down with me and fought with those bright dogs! ”

Soha led less than 300 men to rush straight towards the Ming army at the bottom of the mountain, and the sailor general looked at them contemptuously and said, "Look for death!" Musketeers, archers shoot! A rain of arrows accompanied the sound of firing guns, and all 300 people led by Soha were shot to death halfway up the mountain. The general stepped forward and cut off Soha's head, and said happily in his heart, "Now I can be promoted to a higher level and rewarded with a hundred taels of silver." ”

Zheng Chenggong stood on a flat ground and listened to the report of his subordinates, "This time there are 2,120 enemies, including one chief general, five deputy generals, and 23 prisoners, including one deputy general," They can't understand the Manchu officials and people in FJ all the year round, but they can only distinguish the approximate level of the position from the armor.

"Kill them all! I'm going to give the heads of these Tartars to Huang Taiji! Let him see that no one cares about me! Zheng Chenggong said murderously. Tell me that all the remaining supplies on the island can be moved to the ship, and if I can't, I will burn them down! Let's go, take all the heads of the Tartars and Ben will give gifts to Huang Taiji!