Chapter 336: Fatal Blow
"Let Qin Jun see the power of our Guan Ning Army!"
At this time, amid the rumbling cannons and siege shouts, another voice sounded on the edge of the battlefield. At first, the sound was not clear, even slow, like a giant cowhide drum beating.
Then the sound grew louder and clearer, and became a dense and heavy sound of war drums, and gradually the sound of war drums turned into dull thunder.
A cavalry group appeared.
This cavalry battalion of the four banners of the Qing army under the banner of the Qin army, under the leadership of Shi Tingzhu, formed a wedge-shaped formation, with a total of 3,000 horsemen.
In front of them, the red flag was fluttering, and the soldiers were all wearing red battle robes and cotton armor, but on their bright helmets and cotton armor arms, there were still white cloth belts. Their horses were all armoured, and each cavalryman wore an iron armor under his cotton armor.
They roared and galloped towards them, ignoring the command of Ning Yuanbing, who came to greet them. Several Ningyuan officers came to guide these Qin brothers to the other side to rest and recuperate on the order of Wu Sangui, but these cavalry turned a blind eye and began to speed up instead.
Their horses are getting faster and faster, trotting to galloping, and they are fierce tigers.
Shi Tingzhu held his sword high and led the team straight towards the Ningyuan artillery position, which was constantly spraying shells.
The soldiers of the two towns of Ningjin looked at the cavalry who were rushing faster and faster in a daze, and they didn't understand why these soldiers of the Qin army were running so happily, did they still want to rush directly into Yizhou City to grab the first merit?
The vast majority of the vigilant Ningjin soldiers on the periphery of the battlefield could not have imagined that this cavalry under the banner of the Ming army's Qin soldiers and wearing the uniforms of the Ming army would be the enemy. They couldn't believe that Wu Dashuai had already surrounded Yizhou for dozens of miles, and more than a dozen fortresses on the periphery were their soldiers and horses. Even if the Qing army came, it would be impossible to bypass it.
It is impossible for them to pretend to be the Ming army and swagger over like this, it is simply impossible.
When Ning Jinjun thought it was impossible, the most unlikely thing happened. In this way, Shi Tingzhu led 3,000 light horsemen, all the way under the banner of the Ming army, wearing the military uniform of the Ming army, and rushed to the city of Yizhou.
Just like when Huangtaiji surrounded the Daling River, he also did this once, in order to make the Ming army in the city desperate for Zu Dashou and others. Huang Taiji besieged the city and sent reinforcements at the same time, and also seized the air and pretended to be a reinforcement to lure Zu Dashou to lead the army out of the city to respond to the attack, but he was embarrassed by Huang Taiji's fake Ming army and ambush soldiers, and suffered heavy losses.
After ten years, the Qing army used this trick again, and many Jinzhou soldiers who had been fooled in the city of Yizhou were also fooled again.
Shi Tingzhu's target was the artillery position of the Ning Yuan army, which was also the thing that posed the greatest threat to Yizhou City.
Hundreds of artillery pieces of various sizes have crumbled the city of Uiju. The Qing army in the city of Yizhou was helpless against this artillery position that was only 300 steps outside the city, in front of the southern city of Yizhou and the artillery of the Ming army. There were 3,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry stationed there, ready to intercept any of their troops and horses rushing out of the city, and as long as they were delayed for a moment, more Ming troops would come from both wings.
To take out this artillery position, on the surface, it is simply impossible. In the words of Ning Yuan's staff officers, it was impossible for the Qing army to attack this artillery position, whether they attacked from the city or from outside. It is impossible to break through to the front of the artillery position, and don't even think about touching the artillery.
Theoretically, it does.
But at that time, these young staff officers could not have imagined. Shi Tingzhu would take an elite cavalry of the Han army banner and wear the military uniform of the Ming army under the banner of the Ming army, and approach all the way to the battlefield from the south along the Daling River and posing as Sun Chuanting's troops.
When Shi Tingzhu led his troops to charge the artillery array, they were less than a thousand steps away from the artillery array.
It seemed far away, but it was actually very close, and it was only a moment under the cavalry charge.
As the cavalry group charged, the shaking of the iron hooves against the ground grew louder and stronger, and one spear and saber lit up. One by one, the cavalry bows were aimed at them, and at this time, Ning Jin's soldiers and horses finally reacted, even if the cavalry in front of them was under the banner of the Ming army and wearing the clothes of the Ming army, they would definitely not be the Ming army.
But before this fake Ming army and artillery array. There was no army that could be intercepted. The nearest few thousand paces of cavalry were between the artillery array and the city of Yiju.
Shi Tingzhu and his subordinates roared towards the artillery group, getting closer and closer, closer and closer.
A military academy galloped to the flag of the Chinese military marshal and anxiously reported the mutation to Wu Sangui.
"Marshal, the cavalry under the banner of the Qin army doesn't seem to be the official army of the imperial court, it seems to be a Tartar soldier pretending, they don't obey our arrangement, and they also show their swords and soldiers, and they are rushing straight towards the artillery array!"
"How is this possible?" Wu Sangui was shocked, "There are so many ranger sentry scouts and fortress sentry posts along the way, haven't any of them found anything wrong?" ”
"Hurry up and deploy troops to intercept," Zu Dashou was also shocked when he heard the news, "We must not let the Tartars rush into our artillery group." ”
It's a pity that it's too late at this time, although Shi Tingzhu is led by the Han army, but it is the elite of the Han army banner that has followed him to the east and west for many years, and this Aliha Chaoha battalion is the elite of the elite of the Han army banner, which is equivalent to Wu Sangui's 5,000 cavalry. They rushed unstoppably towards the Ming artillery array, and along the way, several small groups of Ning Jinjun found that something was wrong and wanted to intercept them, but they were all directly rushed away.
The Ningyuan artillery, who was fighting Huan, also discovered this rushing cavalry.
They were quite happy when they hit the city of Yiju, and they bombarded the city from afar, watching the walls of the Tartars fall one by one, watching those unlucky Tartars being fried into meat sauce, but they were not in any danger.
But now, all of a sudden, a large group of cavalry was about to be killed, and they panicked. The artillerymen were even armed with only a waist knife, and their escort mounted mounted on the other side.
Although the cannon was sharp, it could not be turned immediately, and the cannon could not be equipped with a spear bayonet.
There are still dozens of steps away, Shi Tingzhu has taken the lead in firing arrows at the artillery position, these elite cavalry can charge on the one hand, and on the other hand, they can also shoot arrows on horseback, and the ability to shoot on horseback is not weaker than the real Tartar at all.
Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou hurriedly mobilized cavalry to intercept them, but it was too late.
Far water is difficult to quench thirst near and near.
Shi Tingzhu didn't care how many soldiers and horses there were in Yizhou City, so he took 3,000 cavalry and crashed in with an unstoppable momentum.
The sound of the artillery in Ningyuan has stopped, and there are panicked soldiers everywhere. Some of the gunners were trying to turn their gun positions and bombard the incoming cavalry. Some were on the run, while others, restrained by the officers, drew their swords and tried to hold the cannon against the cavalry.
Shi Tingzhu's face showed a crazy look, and the riding bow in his hand was fired in succession. Arrow after arrow was fired at the artillery array.
"Rush, hack them to death!"
3,000 to 100,000, also moving forward bravely.
At the head of Yizhou City, as soon as the artillery stopped, Zierharang immediately felt that something was wrong, the artillery of the Ming army was regular, although the fighting stopped, but every burst of artillery and the time of stopping were relatively fixed. But now this round of artillery has just begun to fire, and it has stopped.
"Has the wall been blasted out of the breach again?" The first thing that came to Zilharang's mind was that the walls had broken again.
Then. An officer at the head of the city ran over excitedly, "Lord Wang, good news, the Ming army is infighting, and their own people are fighting with themselves." ”
"Infighting? At this time? "Zilharang doesn't believe it at all, there is no reason.
The officer saw that Zilharang's face was unhappy, and hurriedly said, "It's true." A cavalry suddenly rushed into the artillery of the Ming army and was slashing in all directions. It's a pleasure, those cavalrymen are crazy. ”
Crazy? Impossible, never. There must have been some accident, Zilharang hurriedly climbed to the top of the city, holding a clairvoyant mirror and looking at the artillery array, sure enough. The artillery emplacement was in disarray.
Thousands of cavalry had already entered the Ming artillery array, which had been beating him unspeakably, and was slashing and slashing everywhere. The Ming gunners fled for their lives, screaming and screaming. There were also many Ming cavalry and infantry who were surrounding the artillery from all sides.
In the clairn mirror, this cavalry that slashed and killed the gunners of the Ming army was indeed the uniform of the Ming army. Red Flag Red Clothes. However, when he looked closely, he noticed the difference, these cavalrymen had strips of white cloth tied to their helmets, and strips of white cloth were also tied to the arms of the cotton armor.
"This will never be the Ming Army." Zilharang muttered, his face beginning to glow with excitement.
"It's our people." Duoduo had also been looking down with a clairvoyant mirror, and at this time, he saw an old acquaintance, Shi Tingzhu, who was riding a horse and slashing wildly.
"Han Four Banners Gushan Ezhen Stone Pillar!"
"Sure enough, it's him, this minion, and he's really daring." Zilharang also found Shi Tingzhu and praised loudly, "Good minion." ”
"Let's get to the city to meet them!" Duoduo shouted excitedly.
Zilharang held the clairing mirror in one arm and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, we can't miss it." Duoduo, we not only have to meet them, but also take the opportunity to counterattack, we have to destroy the artillery of the Ming army, give an order, open the south gate, and our whole army will be killed and killed. ”
"Kill them!"
"Reinforcements are coming, out of town!"
The Qing army, which was beaten by the Ming army and couldn't raise its head and was extremely aggrieved, completely exploded at this time with the long-pent-up anger. One by one, they howled, and they quickly brought their war horses and assembled in the southern city.
The south gate slowly opened, and the drawbridge was lowered.
Ning Jinjun, who was still attacking the city, was stunned for a moment, still thinking about how the city gate was opened.
Then, only to hear one shout after another, it broke out and went straight to the clouds. A large number of Qing cavalry were roaring out of the city, one after another feathered arrows flew out, and the bright sabers were dazzling.
The siege army in front of the south gate was instantly knocked out of a big hole by the cavalry led by Duoduo, and after breaking through, Duoduo did not stop, and led the team to kill the artillery position three hundred steps away.
There, the thousands of Ming army infantry that had been guarding the artillery array finally turned around and killed, together with Shi Tingzhu's thousands of men and horses.
"Kill, kill them." Duoduo shouted, and an arrow knocked down one of Ning Yuan's soldiers.
On the artillery position, at this time, the battle was already chaotic, the four banners of the Han Dynasty, the Ningyuan artillery, the Ning Jin infantry cavalry, and the cavalry killed in the city of Yizhou were killed in a group.
"Shi Tingzhu, it's good, when you turn back, the king will ask the emperor for credit for you!"
Shi Tingzhu also saw Duoduo, and said with a laugh, "Thank you to the Ten Kings, the last general will be late to rescue, and the Ten Kings are already content if they don't blame." ”
"You came in time, especially when you stabbed the Southern Army. Shi Tingzhu, let your people blow up the cannons, the cannons and the artillery carts, the tools of the cannons, and the explosives. Dodor shouted.
"Oh, what a good cannon, it's a pity to blow it up."
"Anyway, we can't take it away, let's blow up the cannon first."
The Qing army began to bomb the artillery, but at this time they found that in the face of thousands of pounds of artillery, they did not know how to damage it. These thousands of catties of artillery cannons can't be cut with knives or hammered.
In the end, Shi Tingzhu proposed to Duoduo that he simply stop blowing up these cannons, and directly blew up the artillery truck, without which these cannons would not be used for a while.
Duoduo was right to think about it, and he was also reluctant to use these guns in his heart, and finally ordered to destroy only the gun carriages, and by the way, those artillery tools.
The Qing army continued to fight out of the city of Yizhou, and the Qing army in the city of Yizhou basically retreated from outside the city of Jinzhou, with nearly 30,000 men. Before, they withdrew from Jinzhou to Yizhou, and were caught up by Wu Sangui's more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, they didn't want to rush into battle with the Ming army, but now, these Qing troops poured out.
Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou led the men and horses, and they also met them fearlessly. To the south of the city of Yiju, the two armies of the Ming army fought fiercely and rushed each other.
"The Tartars are gaining momentum, don't attack the city first, transfer Wang Pu and Ma Ke's soldiers and horses from the east and west first, let's press these Tartars down first." Zu Dashou found that the Qing army was attacking extremely fiercely, and he was busy with Wu Sangui.
"Come on, immediately pass on our military orders to Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, and Ma Ke, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and ask them to immediately lead their troops to the south of the city to gather and destroy the Tartars."
After receiving Wu Sangui's military order, Wang Pu, the general soldier of Datong in the east, muttered for a while, but did not order to go to the south of the city to rescue, but ordered the soldiers and horses of his headquarters to continue to strengthen the attack on the eastern city.
"Lord Chief, doesn't seem like a good thing?" A general said worriedly.
Wang Pu said calmly, "Three thousand Tartar Han army cavalry disguised as officers and soldiers to the south of the city, raided the artillery array of Wu Junmen, and the Tartars in the city went out of the city to respond, and now the two armies are fighting fiercely." It's just only 3,000 Tartars, and we can't make any waves, so let's take advantage of the Tartars to go out of the city to meet the cavalry, and we just capture the East City in one fell swoop and enter the city. ”
"But Wu Junmen's military order?"
Wang Pu shook his hand, "Wu Junmen also transferred Ma Ke to lead his troops over, it is enough to have them, could it be that the 90,000 soldiers and horses in the three towns of Guanning and Jin, can't they kill 20,000 Tartars?" ”
"Send the order to go down and step up the siege of the city, we must take this opportunity to attack the city in one fell swoop." Wang Pu looked at the east city wall of Yizhou and sneered. As long as he takes the lead in breaking through the city at that time, the first merit will be his, and as for Wu Sangui's military order, it doesn't matter if he violates it. He is the general soldier of Datong, and Wu Sangui is the commander of Guanning Jinsan Town, and he can't control his head.
Ma Ke, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan in the west, received Wu Sangui's order, but he did not hesitate, but he did not bring all the soldiers to the south, but left half of the men and horses to continue to attack the city, and he himself led 10,000 horses to the south to reinforce Wu Sangui. (To be continued.) )