Chapter Seventy-Three: Ambush

On July 20, Huang Taiji's letter of peace was delivered to Cao Wenzhao, the governor of Yanghe, Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Yanghe, Hu Zhan'en, and the acting king Zhu Yi, asking all localities to raise grain, grass and silver, and hand over the murderer of the Jin Rite Department to Cheng Baduli after the shooting of Wangjiazhuang in Lingqiu County, and many other terms and conditions after the Jin army left the country. After the Jin soldiers did not capture, Huang Taiji attacked Xi'an Fort again, Ben Xiyanghe, Lingyi Daishan and others successively conquered Lingqiu, Laoxian, Xinzhou, the Ming army could not defend, attacked Baoding Zhubaokou, and Zhang Xiubing was defeated and died......

Two days later, Huang Taiji again submitted a letter about the public will go out of the city to fight to decide the winner, the Ming will not say a word, Huang Taiji saw that the blackmail was fruitless, so that all the soldiers and horses plundered after a period of leading the army to leave Yanghe, before leaving to break through the Wanquan left guard, the garrison Chang Ruzhong soldiers were defeated and killed, thousands of Ming troops were wiped out together, five days later, Huang Taiji from Shangfang Fort out of the fortress, due to the containment of Liaonan, Huang Taiji did not dare to go too deep into the interior of the Ming Dynasty this time, and did not capture the relatively densely populated states and counties, but the harvest was quite rich. According to the statistics of the aftermath, the army took a total of 76,200 prisoners, and the rest of the gold, silver, pigs, and sheep were countless.

After defeating the tentative reinforcements in the direction of Gaizhou, Li Dali ordered the whole army to be on guard, while sending a sentry cavalry to report to Yang Bo urgently, asking for instructions on the next move, when Li Dali was talking to everyone about the battle situation in Yulinpu, several people from the Military Discipline Department ran over in a hurry, and several junior officers of the cavalry battalion heard that Zhao Long was locked up and confined, and they came over angrily to rob people. Zhao Long took the opportunity to run back!

Hearing the news, everyone's faces changed greatly, and Li Dali jumped to his feet and said, "Take the warrant of the adult." Prepare my horses for me, I'm going to the cavalry battalion"

But it was already late, and the infantrymen who were repairing in place suddenly heard the sound of hooves on the left side vibrating, and countless cavalry rolled in, and everyone was startled at first, and after a commander looked at it with a clairvoyant mirror, he realized that it was the dragoon battalion that had started. Those cavalry were getting closer and closer, and the banner of the dragoon battalion was waving in the wind, and Zhao Long took the lead. He carried a flintlock pistol on his back, a large knife hung on the left and right sides of the saddle, and behind him were two standard-bearers, each of whom carried a long knife and a large spear. Surrounded by majesty. Seeing the frightened infantry, Zhao Long laughed and shouted at the top of his voice: "Brothers, get out of the way, watch our cavalry brothers kill the Tartars!" ”

Those infantry and low-level commanders didn't know that the cavalry battalion was disobeying orders, and when they saw the fiery red cavalry battalion flags sweeping all over the mountains, these infantry all raised their weapons in their hands, and the cheers were thunderous, and Zhao Long turned around and whistled. With the cavalry battalion from the mountains up the official road, they pursued in the direction of the Tartars' rout. When Li Dali arrived in a hurry, there were only horseshoe prints and billowing dust flying on the scene, and at this moment, a horse galloped over, waving his hand at Li Dali and shouting: "Your Excellency has an order, the cavalry battalion shall not pursue the Tartar rout, and the cavalry battalion shall not pursue ......."

"Inform all departments to immediately pull out the camp and form a battle formation to chase the cavalry battalion, hoping to catch up! In addition, quickly send a sentry to contact the cavalry battalion and order them to immediately stop the pursuit of the Tartars" Li Dali's face was full of anger, he was promoted to the acting commander of several battalions for the first time, but he did not expect to encounter the situation that the cavalry battalion did not respect the order, no matter what the final victory or defeat of the cavalry battalion, his prestige has been discounted, which made Li Dali, who was holding his breath and wanted to show himself in front of the adults, extremely angry.

"Zhao Long is also an old fighter, there should be no problem, right?" Wang Tiehammer had the intention to ease the atmosphere.

"Tartar is obviously just a temptation, can't Zhao Long see this at all? I see that his tail has risen to the sky since he captured Azig, and he is so proud that no one pays attention to him! Li Dali's old partner, Lan Xinshi, the military discipline officer of the first battalion, scolded angrily.

"It's useless to send a sentry cavalry, since Zhao Long dares to disobey orders, he is obviously determined to make meritorious contributions, and he is afraid that he will not be persuaded to come back, and we will not be able to pass through the area of Xishan when we reach the sentry cavalry, I am afraid that Zhao Long will faint and run into the ambush circle of the Tartars" Lu Xiaoqing, the instructor of the heavy defense battalion, said lightly, for the strong rise of the cavalry battalion, the commanders of many infantry battalions are not only unconvinced, but also jealous, red-eyed and other mentalities.

Li vigorously shook his head: "The top priority is to quickly respond to the cavalry battalion, and Pegasus is in a hurry to report to the lord, so there is no need to say anything else." ”

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Yang Bo was also surprised for a long time after receiving the news that Zhao Long's subordinates were pursuing without authorization, and hurriedly invited everyone to discuss.

Yang Bo pointed to the map drawn from Yulinpu to Gaizhou and asked, "If Abatai were to set up an ambush, which one would he choose?" ”

Everyone discussed in a low voice, and Zhang Quan of the third battalion stood up and said: "The terrain is narrow five miles north of Yulinpu, there is Xu Mountain in the east, and Xishan and Liaohai in the west, forming a natural pocket, and there is only one official road leading to Gaizhou, and the Tartars should choose here if they set up an ambush."

Wang Xiaoyu was still a little unconvinced of Yang Bo's judgment, and got up and said, "Abatai really dares to take the time to set up an ambush here for the defenders of Gaizhou?" Once they are entangled by us, how can they withdraw? Don't want Gaizhou? ”

Yang Bo shook his head: "Can't you see it yet?" The city of Gaizhou is tall and steep, Abatai is not afraid of our infantry attacking the city at all, he painstakingly set up a situation is to cripple our mobile force, once the cavalry battalion loses too much, we will have no strategic mobile force, no cavalry cover, this time to build a mill city, the strategy of besieging Gaizhou is a failure, who said that Abatai has courage and no strategy? This guy has a vicious eye, and he can see through our weakness at a glance? ”

Liang Bixing, the deputy chief of military discipline of the Thunder Division, said murderously: "The villain is willing to lead the gendarmes to chase the cavalry battalion and immediately detain Zhao Long and other rebel soldiers!" ”

Hearing Liang Bixing's words, everyone's hearts sank, Liang Bixing had already characterized Zhao Long as a rebellion, and I am afraid that this matter will not end easily!

He Jiu stood up hard, Zhao Long was pulled up by him, whether he wanted to or not, the cavalry battalion was branded by him He Jiu, and now it would definitely be impossible to make a round, He Jiu thought about it and interrupted Liang Bicheng's words and said: "Adults often say that as a general, do you have the ability to make decisions on the spot?" Besides, the Tartar ambush is just an idea, and the adults haven't spoken yet, what are you talking nonsense? ”

Liang Bicheng didn't dare to offend He Jiu. But he muttered unconvinced: "There is a representative commander in charge, and it is a big crime to disrespect the general's order......"

Fluffy!

Yang Bo slapped the table with displeasure on his face, and everyone immediately sat upright without saying a word.

Yang Bo said: "Order! The whole army stopped resting and recuperated, and converged with Li Dali's troops at the speed of a rapid march, and the logistics and artillery were left in Yulinpu, hoping that the blood capital under Abatai would not be too large, otherwise I would have to make him pay enough price if I fought the cavalry battalion! ”

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In Xushan, north of Yulinpu, a group of Houjin soldiers began to assemble, and there were two Niu Lu with yellow flags. They are stationed in Gaizhou and are very familiar with the terrain here, and some time ago they heard that Fuzhou was besieged by the Ming army attacking from Jinzhou, but they didn't expect that in just a few days, bad news continued. First of all, Fuzhou only held out for one day and then fell, and even the whereabouts of Beizi Azig were unknown, and then the Tunbao on the road from Yongning to Yulinpu was quickly lost, and the Ming army had already appeared in Yulinpu. So that Bel Abatai had no time to intercept in the area of Yulinpu. Now this Xushan is the last sniper line, once it fails to intercept the Ming army, the main force of the Ming army will besiege Gaizhou.

Among these ambushed vests, a Han man is particularly eye-catching, and that is Yu Xuezhong......

Ge Lilan took Yu Xuezhong from Dongqingmoyu all the way to the west, and rushed to Fuzhou, but he didn't expect to encounter the siege of the Ming army before he arrived in Fuzhou. Ben immediately decided to continue running north, he wanted to go to the fifty mile shop. There's a blue flag there.

Although Niu Lu, who led the troops, did not know Ge Lilan, but he heard that Ge Lilan was the flag man who fled back after the fall of Xiuyan, and there was a shortage of manpower, that Niu Lu promoted Ge Lilan to be a white armor soldier, the situation in Fuzhou was critical, and the sentinel for help kept passing by fifty miles to Shenyang and Gaizhou, that Niu Lu was a little panicked, Zhenglan Qi suffered several times in the hands of the guerrilla battalion, and lost most of it, he was sent by the master of Haoge to cover it this time, and failed to participate in the southern plunder, and was already resentful from the sky, and later received an order from Gaizhou Abatai to shrink the defense, That Niu Lu followed the armor soldiers of each tunbao and retreated all the way to Gaizhou.

Gree Lan stared at the movement under the mountain, while stroking the wrench hard, Yu Xuezhong beside him was holding a knife, and he also learned to lie on the side of the road to probe his brain, and there were also three Niu Lu ambushed on the opposite mountain, their task was that once the Ming army entered the ambush circle, they would rush down to cut off the retreat, they only needed to cut off the retreat, Abatai personally led the army to encircle and suppress the Ming army in the encirclement.

Gree Lan leaned over and looked at Yu Xuezhong's murderous appearance, and whispered: "If the Ming army arrives, don't be impulsive when you ride a horse and follow me, it's enough to follow the team to disperse the Ming army, remember to grab two horses, our horses are losing fat badly, and if we don't change horses, we're afraid we'll have to run."

Yu Xuezhong nodded again and again, the two helped all the way, and they arrived here after a lot of hardships, they were already as close as brothers, although he still called Master Grelan in public: "Master, you should also be careful, the firearms of the Ming army are too fierce, wait for them to finish a round and then go up"

Gree Lan touched his wrench and didn't answer, staring at the official road with his eyes.

At this moment, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves below, and the ambushed horse saw a few horsemen with yellow flags lying on the horse's back in embarrassment, constantly kicking the horse's belly, and from time to time turning their heads to look at the pursuers behind, the Ming army chasing behind was about 40 horses, they were biting the tail of the Houjin sentry horse, the speed was very fast, and the smoke and dust rose in the place half a mile behind the more than 40 horses, and the armor soldiers who were ambushed on the mountain could feel the shaking of the earth.

"It's coming!"

Everyone's hearts moved, and Gree Lan quietly put the jasper wrench on his fingers, and reached out to touch the step bow on his back.

Bang!

When the first Ming army sentry horse kicked twice, his mount suddenly accelerated over a few horses of his companions, and fired on the bumpy horseback with a gun in one hand, and a ball of blood suddenly appeared at the back of the horse, and after the gun, the Houjin sentry who fled on horseback suddenly fell into the air, and the war horse neighed a few times in a row, and the knight on his back flew out, and the Ming army behind him unabated, and passed by the tumbling horse in a thrilling way, and the knight rolled all the way, and finally trembled a few times on the side of the road and stopped struggling. Obviously, I can't make it.

The Ming army and Houjin fled and chased, and soon crossed the armor soldiers who were ambushed on both sides, and ran towards the center of the ambush circle...... (To be continued......)