On the eleventh day of the twelfth month of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, more than 5,000 Ming troops encountered the Qing army at the Julu Artemisia Water Bridge, and after a fierce battle, they defeated the enemy army and entered Jiazhuang.

In the middle of the night, dark clouds cover the moon and the cold wind is blowing.

After a day's fighting, the Ming soldiers gathered around the fire and leaned on each other to keep warm, and because the governor Lu Xiangsheng ordered them not to enter the houses, they had to sleep in the cold and windy streets.

Lu Xiangsheng himself was no exception, he refused the invitation of many people and insisted on sleeping outside with his soldiers.

Looking at the thinly dressed soldier Lu Xiangsheng under the glittering firelight, the corners of his wrinkled eyes were damp for a while, these people in front of him looked all yellow-skinned, thin, malnourished, all hungry and hungry, fighting for the imperial court, how could they be so ruthless?

Gao Qiqian, the director of the army who was close to Jize, first refused to send troops to help, and then transferred Wang Pu, the general soldier of Datong at both ends of the first rat, and Baoding Mansion fell into the ground when he saw this: neither food nor acceptance.

Zhang Qiping, the governor of Zhending Mansion, was okay and gave some silver taels that could not be eaten or used, but where did they buy food in this chaotic place?

All these days they have been fighting with the Tartars are eating grass roots and gnawing bark!

Thinking of this, he felt that his mouth was dry and bitter, so he pursed his cracked lips a few times and looked at the enemy cavalry outside the village, which was dotted with stars and swimming like fiery snakes.

The other party has been coming for a while, and they tried to attack once, but they were shot back by random arrows.

"Crazy fox!" Lu Xiangsheng, who was leaning against the half-broken earth wall, called in a low voice.

A young man with half of his chain mail dyed red and a wire mesh skirt around his waist turned from behind with a broken hood, and the soldiers around him also leaned in twos and threes.

Lu Xiangsheng looked the other party up and down a few times with thick eyebrows, this person is seven feet tall, in his early twenties, although his face is black and gray, he still looks heroic.

"Governor Lu, mark Chu with the wind." The young man walked up to the other and clasped his hands into fists and gave a military salute, and the red armor on his body rattled for a while.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't say much, raised his hand and pointed outside the village, and said coldly.

"I want you to kill you! Can it be done? ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a commotion all around, and they all knew that there were tens of thousands of skilled Qing cavalry with bows and horses outside the village, and they might not be able to go out together, let alone Chu Suifeng alone.

The Manchu soldiers who lived outside the fortress were brave and good at fighting, repeatedly attacked the border of the Ming Dynasty, killed people and plundered the people, and the Ming army was afraid of them like tigers.

Not long ago, the other party even entered the mainland and ransacked the surroundings of Gyeonggi.

The emperor hurriedly ordered troops from all over the country to fight in Beijing, and Lu Xiangsheng, as the governor of Xuanda, led his army to Beijing to defend against the enemy.

Due to the fact that the superintendent of the army and the troublemaker Lu Xiangsheng of the cabinet scholar Yang Sichang were elevated, tens of thousands of Guan Ning elite cavalry stopped in Jize, fifty miles away, and he could only command the five thousand tired soldiers under his command now.

Chu Suifeng looked at the Manchu cavalry dotted outside Zhuang and frowned: The Ming army had already lost this battle, and he didn't understand what the other party asked him to kill.

Lu Xiangsheng saw that Chu Suifeng didn't answer, and snorted heavily in his nose, pouting and saying.

"It was said that several large armies marched together to meet the potential, why was our army attacked, and the other roads were missing? And what did his high-diving rear army do?! ”

With that, he slammed the long sword in his hand into the corpse of a Manchu soldier, turning the cyan hilt and making a clicking sound.

The soldiers behind him hung their heads one after another, knowing that they had been sold by Gao Qiqian and made dumplings. According to the previous Tanma, only they advanced as agreed, and the other roads did not move.

"Cowardly? Crazy fox, don't you have a bright mind and a lot of ideas for fighting? Could it be that the name of the mad fox was blown out? Seeing that the love general he held in his hand was still silent, Lu Xiangsheng smiled sadly and pointed at the other party's nose and scolded.

Back then, the other party was still a bastard from another world full of nonsense, and if he hadn't brought this person into the army, he would have been killed by the rebels.

If it weren't for his careful cultivation, how could the other party have grown from an extremely ordinary soldier to a hundred generals with both wisdom and courage in just two years!

The military system of the Ming Dynasty was very unique, and the expedition was separated from the garrison.

Generally speaking, the garrison is guarded.

Each guard is about 5,600 people, under the jurisdiction of five thousand households, 1,120 people per thousand households, one person per thousand households, five products, two deputy thousand households, from five products.

Qianhu and deputy Qianhu are in charge of military affairs, with one person in charge of palm seals and one person in charge of books.

Zhenfu two people (Zhenfu is an official in charge of military discipline, and when there is a shortage of 100 households, he can exercise his authority on behalf of 100 households), from the six products.

Peng belongs to a person who has a servant. It has jurisdiction over ten hundred households, with 112 soldiers per hundred households, divided into two general flags.

Each flag commands 56 soldiers. It is divided into five small flags, and the small flags govern 10 soldiers.

The battalion sentry system is adopted, with five people in the team and a team commander;

What is the second army, and what is the long; The second is the team, with a captain;

The five teams are sentinels and set up generals; Ten whistles are the total, and there are thousands of generals; The three general camps are set up with staff generals.

Therefore, as a rule, a battalion is three thousand people.

"Dashuai, what do you want your subordinates to do?" Chu glanced at the other party with the wind, and the corners of his mouth smiled at 45 degrees.

"Kill it! Send this letter to Zhou Zuo, the superintendent of the imperial historian! A hint of relief flashed in Lu Xiangsheng's eyes, and what he admired most was the madness of the other party: no matter how strong the enemy army was, he still moved forward when he received the order.

Lu Xiangsheng said, untied the black armor on his chest, took out a yellowish cowhide envelope from his arms, and handed it over.

Chu Suifeng took it with both hands and found that the envelope had been sealed, and it was written on it, supervising the imperial history and business brother Zhou Zuo personally opened a few big characters in seal pen, and he knew that the other party had already written it.

After he stuffed the envelope, he clenched his fists and bowed at Lu Xiangsheng.

"Why don't you break through together! There is a strategy to retreat with the whole army! ”

Lu Xiangsheng's eyes lit up, and his face showed surprise.

"Tell me."

Chu looked around with the wind, and said in a low voice.

Until he finished speaking, the man's face turned pale for a while, and he kept changing, and he let go of the hand with the cyan sword hilt, held it, held it and let it go, and after repeating it several times, Lu Xiangsheng looked up to the sky and sighed.

"Lu is a scholar, and he was promoted by His Majesty's wrong love, and now he is defeated and can only die in battle to repay the court. It's a pity that I couldn't kill the foreign captives and the inner criminals with my own hands! Hateful, hateful! ”

Chu lowered his head with the wind for a while, and understood the external and internal troubles in the other party's mouth, since the captive chief Nurhachi broke the Jurchen tribes, he launched an attack on the Ming Dynasty, and Huang Taiji changed the name of the country to the Qing Dynasty and moved more frequently.

Under the "efforts" of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, thieves Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng have risen up to attack cities and conquer cities, and have been a disaster to the country for more than 10 years.

Today, there are Manchu iron cavalry burning and killing outside the Ming Dynasty, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are the thieves inside, so the country has not been peaceful in recent years.

Just as he was thinking, a pale hand slapped Chu Suifeng on the shoulder.

"I understand what you mean, but you can't be this bait, the Tartars are targeting me, and this letter can only be delivered by you."

Speaking of this, the other party paused, and then said word by word.

"And, if possible, rebuild the Tianxiong Army!"

Chu Suifeng's heart was hot before he could speak, the other party's face changed, he pulled out the long sword on the corpse, and shouted impatiently.

"Get out! Do you hear that? Use your strategy to bring fifty people out of the back village at once! ”

Chu bowed deeply to the other party with the wind, turned around and waved his hand to the side.

"Changzhou Yixing's listing!"

More than two dozen soldiers sitting around looked at each other for a long time before squatting in a row in the designated position.

Lu Xiangsheng's body trembled when he heard this, and he looked at Chu Suifeng with gratitude, because he was also from Yixing.

Chu Suifeng saw that there were few people, and with a slightly injured brow, he frowned and shouted in displeasure.

"The only son is out of the list of the other language! Split into two teams. ”

More than a dozen soldiers squatted in the queue, and split into two teams from the previous twenty or so.

Chu Suifeng saw that it was almost there, and whispered with me, and the forty or so people followed with a short body.

Just when everyone thought that Chu Suifeng was leaving, the other party pulled out a single knife with a puff and turned around and strode towards Lu Xiangsheng.

Everyone including Lu Xiangsheng was stunned, and when they were about to react, they saw Chu Suifeng grab the opponent's robe and slash it down with a knife.

"Dashuai, you still need Dashuai to do this as a last resort......"

******

Lu Xiangsheng on horseback looked at Chu Suifeng and the others who had braided their long braids in the distance, and then looked at the piles of bonfires rising outside the village, with a strange smile on his face, and waved his hand.

"Point!"

Sneer~

I saw that the medicine twists on the top of several bronze cannons were ignited, and a series of shining sparks rose, and the surrounding soldiers hurriedly turned around and stuffed their ears with their fingers.

Boom!

Knock knock!

After the earth-shattering sound, a series of explosions flickered in the dark night in the distance, and the cries and shouts and curses arose!

"Kill!" Lu Xiangsheng waved the 100-pound knife in his hand, sat down with his legs between his legs, and killed him first!

"Kill!" Thousands of thinly dressed Ming soldiers rushed to the opposite side with swords and fierce tigers.

At this time, the other side was somewhat relaxed, except for a small number of troops in the inner periphery to be on guard, and most of the troops in the periphery had already dismounted and rested.

was caught off guard for a while, and before the random arrows were released, they were broken in by this group of "outlaws".

After a chaotic sound of ping-pong, the east side of Jiazhuang was flickering, and thick smoke rose into the sky, and there were screams and cries inside.

As soon as Jiazhuang's side was attacked, Chu Suifeng's side was also a little chaotic, and the people in the Qing army camp neighed and shouted, and the torches moved to the other side like long snakes.

"Up!" Chu Suifeng, who was hiding in the back village, waved his hand, and more than forty soldiers in costume generously held their weapons and walked towards the enemy camp.

It turned out that his strategy was to break through at night after attacking the east and west.

A Qing soldier who was in charge of defense on the opposite side found Chu Suifeng and the others walking in the shadows, shouting in the dark, and at the same time pulling the open bow in his hand.

More than a dozen Qing soldiers who were in charge of guarding around him immediately pulled out the scimitars on their waists and aimed them at Chu Suifeng.

"Do you speak Tatar?" Chu Suifeng whispered to a soldier behind him.

Syllable!

As soon as the man nodded his head, he received a crisp slap on the cheek, which was extremely hard, and half of the other party's face was actually red and swollen.

The man was also extremely clever and shouted in the other party's language that he was wronged, Chu Suifeng saw that he understood and slapped him a few times, and then pulled the man's shoulders and fell to the ground with one back!

This abrupt scene confused both the enemy and us.

Chu Suifeng beat the soldier while touching more than a dozen people on the other side, those people observed for a while, and saw that it was their own people who relaxed their vigilance, and there was a warm-hearted one on the side who kept persuading.

Opportunity!

Chu took out a single knife with the wind and slashed at the neck of a Qing soldier beside him, and the other party tried to cool his neck for a while before he could scream, and after the severe pain, the fire was dark......

"Lord Baihu, what now?" Dozens of cross-dressed soldiers stepped forward and asked after cutting down the remaining Qing soldiers.

Chu Suifeng looked at the glittering firelight on the opposite side, gritted his teeth and smiled darkly.

"Grab the horse!"