Chapter 9: A Gift of War Horses

After killing people, they dug a pit and buried Steward Zhang, so that his body would not be thrown into the waste. In ancient times, people were very taboo about this.

Lu Hongsleeve even planned that if she had the opportunity in the future, she would come back to help him set up a pi.

Lu Yan went to the river to wash the blood stains on his body, and a few hours ago he was an ordinary college student in his previous life.

A few hours later, he had already experienced a life-and-death battle, and he had just killed someone.

Lu Yan looked at his hands, a little unbelievable about his changes.

Is it really that adaptable to human beings?

Lu Yan smiled bitterly!

At this time, he remembered the battle merits he had just obtained, and he never thought that he could gain battle merits just by killing some of the nurses.

Just now, every nurse gave him 10 points of merit, and even Xue Wendeng gave him 5 points of merit.

Seeing that the battle feats had risen to 100 points, Lu Yan felt a burst of relief.

Will he become a butcher who slaughters civilians in order to gain military exploits?

Looking at the surging muddy river, Lu Yan fell into deep thought.

He secretly made up his mind that he would not become a butcher like that no matter what.

If he succeeded in ascending to power by massacring civilians on a large scale, then what is the difference between him and the Manchu Eight Banners.

As for this hundred points of exploitation, he planned to use them up immediately.

The Jurchen cavalry was not far behind, and they had been delayed for so long, maybe they would run into the Jurchen cavalry at any time.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to this, he quietly resurrected the three cowards on the other side of the river.

Then he returned to the crowd as if nothing had happened, and at this time he found that Zhang Xiaoyi had started to make money again, Lu Yan could only shake his head and smile bitterly, and he didn't bother to care about him.

Mozhigen and Suhe began to gather those ownerless war horses, war horses were a very important resource in ancient times, especially in this time of great war, whether it is for their own use or for sale.

After discussing with Cao Wenzhao, it was decided to divide the newly acquired 6 war horses into five, Lu Yan got 3, and Cao Wenzhao got 3.

Cao Wenzhao knew that he had taken advantage of it, and he was quite satisfied with Lu Yan's initiative to show goodwill, and even his dissatisfaction with Lu Yan just now was reduced a lot.

When everything was cleaned up, they set off again.

Zhang Xiaoyi vacated his war horse and came to drive for Lu Hongsleeve.

As soon as they arrived at the bridge of the Hunhe River, they found three people and six horsemen standing proudly on the opposite side of the bridge.

Cao Wenzhao clenched the spear in his hand, but soon he relaxed again, and this scene seemed to have a sense of déjà vu.

Sure enough, Lu Yan's voice came from his ears.

"Don't worry, it's your own."

After speaking, Lu Yan immediately patted his horse and galloped forward.

When the three people saw Lu Yan coming, they immediately turned over and dismounted, and were about to bow their heads.

Lu Yan hurriedly stopped them and whispered something to them.

Cao Wenzhao's face became confused, what kind of person is this guy, how could there be so many Mongolians willing to defect to him.

It didn't take long for Lu Yan to signal them over.

So the group walked slowly across the bridge.

"These are friends of Sukh's tribe, and now they are homeless, and they have decided to be my family for the time being."

Lu Yan said succinctly.

Sukh's face shuddered, but he didn't say anything.

Cao Wenzhao's face was strange, and in the end he was noncommittal about it.

"Young Master, what the hell is going on? Why are there people coming to run again? ”

Zhang Xiaoyi is a person who can't hide his words, and he has a feeling of unsteadiness about the Mongols coming to vote one after another.

And these Mongols kill people like hemp, no matter how you look at it, they don't look like good people, he doesn't like these Mongols from the bottom of his heart.

Lu Hongsleeve also opened the curtain and looked at Lu Yan with a puzzled expression.

Just now she heard that Lu Yan had accepted two Mongolians as housekeepers, and she still didn't believe it, but she didn't expect that it would be not long before she would accept three Mongolians as housekeepers.

"What are you doing with so much, young master, aren't you happy that I will accept the family."

Lu Yan pretended to be dissatisfied.

"It's not...... I just feel like they'......"

Zhang Xiaoyi felt a little aggrieved, he just cared about the young master, worried that the young master had accepted some indiscreet people, what if he would rebel against his master in the future.

"Don't talk about this, let's hurry up, maybe the Jurchens will chase after us in a while."

After saying that, he walked forward in a hurry, and those cowardly Xue also followed.

Seeing this, Zhang Xiaoyi could only hold back his words to his heart, and then drove over.

Lu Hongsleeve gently lowered the door curtain, her intuition told him that Lu Yan seemed to be hiding something, and she felt that she should find an opportunity to talk to Lu Yan properly.

When they crossed the Hunhe River, they found that the Ming army's scouts suddenly increased. Seeing that they have such a large horse team, and many of them are armed with strong bows and crossbows, they are very vigilant when they don't collect at night.

But after seeing the carriage in the middle of the team, they had a rough guess about the identity of Lu Yan's group.

Not long after, after a few nights of uncollected horses, they came running this way, and one of them said to them, "Stop, who are you?" ”

Hearing his words, Lu Yan was a little surprised, because his accent turned out to be a Sichuan accent.

Hearing a Sichuan accent in Liaodong is a very rare thing.

Cao Wenzhao stepped forward and said: "Cao Wenzhao is guarding under the command of General He in Shenyang, these are the friends I met on the road and his family members. Shenyang was defeated, and we had to retreat to Liaoyang. ”

Hearing his words, a trace of contempt flashed on the face of the night that did not close.

"It turned out to be a defeated general, do you have any evidence to prove your identity?"

Hearing his words, Cao Wenzhao felt a burst of anger.

Can he be blamed for the defeat of Shenyang?

If it weren't for He Shixian's rash advance, how could the tens of thousands of male soldiers in Shenyang be defeated so quickly.

On the battlefield, he has been fighting hard to kill the enemy.

But to some extent, he is right, he is indeed a defeated general.

Cao Wenzhao held back his anger and said: "This is my number plate, I think this should prove my identity." ”

After saying that, he threw his dog tag to the night.

After taking the dog tag that night, he took a few closer looks, and then compared it with Cao Wenzhao's appearance to see if there was any difference.

"Alright, you can get over."

This night does not accept and said, "But I suggest that you better go to the tent of Lord Yuan in Liaoyang to listen to it, otherwise you will be careful of being cut off as a deserter." ”

"I will."

Cao Wenzhao said coldly.

Lu Yan kept thinking about the origin of these nights, and after the Battle of Shenyang, it was the Hunhe Field Battle.

A reinforcement army composed of Sichuan and Zhejiang armies, under the leadership of the commander-in-chief officers Tong Zhonghua and Chen Ce, advanced to the front line of the Hunhe River, intending to flank the Jurchens with the Ming army in Shenyang.

It's just that he didn't expect Shenyang to be quickly captured by the Jurchens, which made this army a little unable to advance or retreat.

However, the fall of Shenyang did not frighten the Sichuan and Zhejiang Ming troops who went to the aid, but aroused the blood of the Ming army to aid the Ming army, and the generals were angry and begged for war, and the general Zhou Dunji was the most anxious to ask for war, so the chief soldier Tong Zhonggui ordered him to cross the Shenyang Hunhe River with the Sichuan army with Qin Bangping first.

**Hachi suddenly encountered a foreign enemy and urgently ordered the four banners on the right flank to attack. wanted to annihilate the Ming army in one fell swoop before the Ming army ended the camp, but he didn't expect to be attacked head-on. The Eight Banners were repelled by the Ming army several times, although the number of these Ming troops was less than the Eight Banners, but they were not afraid of death, the organization was strict, and the Ming army was different from the usual Ming army, so that the Eight Banners Army was extremely unaccustomed, and the elite Red Bajia La Army was defeated after a vicious battle, and immediately retreated, and the Eight Banners Army was shocked!

The cavalry was invincible, ** Ha Chi was anxious to "help the rear army" ("Qing Taizu Records" volume 7), and the Sichuan soldiers were not afraid of life and death. According to the records of "A Brief Record of the Whole Side" and "Records of Hearing and Seeing in the Mountains", the Sichuan army continuously repelled the strong infantry and cavalry onslaught of the Eight Banners, and the Eight Banners strong brigade carrying the victory of capturing Shenyang was actually "thousands of people who died from guns and crossbows" under the resistance of the Sichuan infantry, and the follow-up cavalry was also beaten to the point that "they fell off their horses one after another", and the commander of the white pole soldiers, Qin Bangping, and the Ming generals Zhou Dunji, Wu Wenjie, and the garrison Lei Anmin all died in battle, and the remaining remnants had to retreat across the Hunhe River to join Tong Qiu's Ming army.

The battle is here, and it's not over yet. The bloodier battles have just begun.

The Eight Banners Army crossed the river and attacked, quickly encircling the Ming army several times. The Zhejiang soldiers and the Sichuan soldiers who withdrew from the north bank rose up to meet the battle.

** Ha Chi ordered the left wing of the four banners to attack Chen Ce's Ming army Zhejiang soldier position, the battle was very fierce, the Ming soldiers of the Ming army "surrounded several heavy", the Ming army "firearms in the battalion, more killing, and the gunpowder has been exhausted, short soldiers", Houjin suffered major casualties, and more than 3,000 people fell from their horses. The two sides engaged in a fierce battle.

At this time, 30,000 people, including Li Bingcheng, the chief soldier of Fengji Fort, and Zhu Wanliang, the general soldier of Hupiyi, entered Baitapu, and the general soldier Tong urgently sent people to ask for help, but they stopped marching after the forward defeated the 208 banner scouts led by Yasong. So that the main force of the right-wing Huang Taiji and Yue Tuo was able to take the opportunity to pounce while besieging the Sichuan and Zhejiang soldiers. Zhu Wanliang's Ming army retreated after a little fighting, and was pursued and killed by Huang Taiji all the way along the way, with more than 3,000 casualties.

Later, Jurchen reinforcements continued to arrive, and Tong Zongbing kept asking Liaoyang City for help.

However, Yuan Yingtai had been frightened by the Jurchens, and refused to send troops on the grounds that Jin Qiangqiang could not turn the tide of the battle in the future.

In the end, Tong Zhonghui saw that the reinforcements had not arrived, so he and all the soldiers had a benevolent heart, and decided to return to the horse to kill the Houjin army several times larger.

In the end, except for a very small number of officers and soldiers who were spared to return to Liaoyang, Tong Zhonghui and more than 120 generals and colonels such as deputy general Qi Jin, generals Yuan Jianlong, Deng Qilong, Zhang Mingshi, and Zhang Dadou all died without hesitation and tragically. The other Ming troops in Liaodong on the periphery adopted a wait-and-watch attitude, allowing this thousands of miles to go to the aid of Liaodong, and the most elite troops of the Ming army were annihilated.

And this battle is known as the first bloody battle since the use of troops in Liaodong.

Thinking of the tragic end of the loyal and brave men of these countries, Lu Yan felt a little blocked in his heart.

Seeing that they were about to leave, Lu Yan suddenly stopped them: "Wait." ”

Those who didn't close the night were about to leave, but after listening to Lu Yan's words, they quickly reined in the horse's head, glanced at Lu Yan and asked, "What else do you have to do?" ”

"I don't know if you need a war horse?"

Lu Yan asked.

Listening to his words, those nights did not stop feeling a wave of surprise.

They looked at each other, then nodded and said, "Of course, are you going to sell us your warhorse?" ”

They came from Sichuan and Zhejiang, and it was impossible for them to obtain a large number of war horses through mutual markets like Jiubian.

"Nope! I'm going to give you five horses free of charge. ”

Lu Yan said calmly.