Everyone agreed with a bang, and even Li Rujing was enthusiastic. The chapter update was the fastest when he joined the command of Zhang Xianzhong's army of exiles at a young age, and he also fought in the south and the north in these years, but it was the first time he fought with the Eastern Tatars. For some reason, Li Rujing always felt that this battle was different from the past, and it seemed that this kind of battle could stimulate his fighting spirit more, as for the reason, Li Rujing himself couldn't say clearly.

The capital city of Dingzhou is actually Dingzhou County, which belongs to the general small city in Hebei, and it is only a stick of incense from the south gate to the main gate.

The land of Hebei is a wilderness land, and the farmland outside the city is barren for a long time, overgrown with weeds, and in this winter, it looks like the whole place is withered yellow. The market outside the north gate has long since been deserted, leaving a lonely area of thatched huts and adobe houses. In the distance is the Shuangfeng Mountain of the Tomb of the Zhongshan King of the Western Han Dynasty, and the woods at the foot of the mountain can be vaguely seen, more than 20 cavalrymen are lined up, pointing at Dingzhou City, and laughing arrogantly from time to time.

As soon as Zhu Ping'an raised his hand, everyone slowed down at the same time, and Zhu Ping'an turned around and smiled at Cheng Zhen to speak, and then took off the iron cavalry spear hanging on the saddle. "Cheng Zhen, let this officer see your training methods today, if you are not qualified, then you will have to stay in my high wall guard for a while longer!"

One sentence made the auxiliary soldiers laugh, they all knew that Cheng Zhen was Huang Gongfu's pro-soldier team, and he stayed in Fengyang for a year, learning the art of drills and leading the troops to practice, which is a figure that Huang Gongfu will use in the Baoqing Army in the future. Under his leadership, the auxiliary battalion has made rapid progress, and the only drawback is that it has not experienced the battle formation, Zhu Ping'an's joke. But the auxiliaries suddenly relaxed.

Cheng Zhen straightened his neck, "Look, my lord!" He greeted the auxiliaries, "Scholar, blind, divide into two teams to charge!" Not a single one to stay! ”

The fifty cavalry of the auxiliary battalion immediately divided into two teams, and under the leadership of Li Rujing and the blind man, they divided into two wings and outflanked the Tartar cavalry on the edge of the woods.

Li Rujing's face was still covered with a black cloth, and only his two eyes were as sharp as knives. The blind man still looked indifferent, urging the horses at the same time. With both hands, he quickly removed the longbow from his back. The feathered arrows were already on the bowstring.

For Zhu Ping'an, Li Rujing and the blind man are the two discoveries of this trip to Dingzhou, one is good at shooting, and the other is outstanding. Even in the barracks, he is a rare good hand. It seems that this Cheng Zhen is a discerning person. In time, this auxiliary battalion will definitely become an excellent supplement to the soldiers, but after a while, Cheng Zhen will always return to Baoqing. It's a pity.

The Tartar scout cavalry also discovered Zhu Ping'an's cavalry, but obviously did not take it to heart, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was not as good as a year after year, and even the famous Guanning Iron Cavalry had been cowering in the city over the years, and they did not dare to compete with the Manchu Qing Dynasty anymore, and ordinary soldiers were even more afraid of field battles, so they could only rely on the firearms of the city wall to protect themselves. Since entering Beizhili, whether it is the local garrison or the field elite soldiers, the combat power cannot compete with the Manchu army, therefore, the Manchu army is scornful of the Ming army and despises it very much.

At this time, seeing a small group of cavalry taking the initiative to come up, the Qing army scouts were overjoyed and couldn't wait to pat their horses to meet them.

This scout cavalry is a squad of the Manchu outpost, belonging to a certain Niu Lu under the inlaid white flag, and the yellow underwear is cotton armor on the outside, and the equipment is already sophisticated, and ordinary soldiers have no cotton armor to equip. The scouts are the forerunners of the army, so the selection is also a cavalry and archery master in the army, and they are also equipped with cotton armor that can resist the firearms of the Ming army, which shows that these Tartars do have some doorways.

Two hundred paces away, the two began to shoot arrows at each other. Zhu Ping'an once gave a special explanation to the officers and soldiers of the Manchu cavalry in the army. The Manchu longbow is about one and a half meters long. The bow power is strong, far exceeding the Ming army, and the Qing soldiers like to use heavy arrows, so the flat shooting distance can reach between 100 and 200 steps, and the throwing distance can reach 400 steps, even more than the European longbow.

Therefore, Zhu Ping'an deliberately promoted the use of Qing bows in the army, which greatly improved the bow and arrow attack ability of the Ming army.

As soon as the battle was made, the Qing army was taken aback, and this Ming army was not under them only for riding and archery. Especially the two leaders in the lead, the archery skills are even more amazing, just these two people shot five Manchu scouts in a short distance of 100 steps, and before the two sides could make contact, the Tartar scout cavalry lost eight.

There were also casualties on the side of the auxiliary battalion, and five people were shot off their horses.

Seeing that it was about to make contact, Cheng Zhen roared, the auxiliaries put away their bows and arrows, and the brigade immediately divided into left and right wings, and passed along the edge of the Tartar cavalry formation. At this time, each auxiliary soldier had an extra hand-made crossbow in his hand. Taking advantage of the moment when the two sides passed each other, the crossbow machine was launched instantly.

The Tartar cavalry obviously didn't expect this Ming army to be so well-equipped, and each of them even had a hand crossbow used in close combat, and they were taken aback, but the Qing cavalry was so experienced that as soon as they realized that the shape was wrong, they immediately dispersed the formation, and at the same time hid their bodies on the side of the horse's belly.

But the auxiliaries were all in unison with their crossbows drooping, and they aimed directly at the war horses under the crotch of the cavalry, and when they were launched, seven or eight Qing soldiers were thrown off by the war horses that were hit by the arrows, and they fell into a rut, and then they were cut off by Zhang Ergou and other personal soldiers who galloped behind.

The Qing soldiers had never seen such a tacit attack method, and they shouted angrily, and the remaining seven Qing soldiers were all bearded, and one of the leaders even ripped off his helmet, revealing a black and oily rattail braid, and howled and led the only six subordinates to kill Zhu Ping'an and others.

Zhu Ping'an and the others turned their horses' heads and quickly caught up. After the crossbow was fired, each of the auxiliaries took advantage of the blade and engaged the Qing soldiers. It is undeniable that the individual combat ability of the Qing scouts is still better than that of the auxiliaries, and four or five auxiliaries entangled a Tartar cavalry, and it was still difficult to completely annihilate them for a while, but the auxiliaries only suffered casualties, losing five or six soldiers.

Zhu Ping'an waved the iron gun in his hand and slammed it directly at the leading officer of the Tartar, and the leader of the Tartar also saw that Zhu Ping'an was the leader of the Ming army, opened his mouth to bite the braid, cut down the two auxiliaries who were blocking the way, and directly exchanged hands with Zhu Ping'an.

The blind man did not engage in battle with the brigade, and when he saw that the battle situation was in a stalemate, he deliberately withdrew from a distance of more than ten steps, stretched out his bow and set up arrows, and aimed at the Tartar soldiers in the war group, one arrow at a time, very cleanly.

And Li Rujing took advantage of this moment, jumped up from the horse, and jumped directly on the horse of the Tartar leader who was fighting with Zhu Ping'an, the Tartar leader was caught off guard, and was strangled by Li Rujing's neck, Li Rujing took out the dagger from his leg, and stabbed him through the neck, and blood spurted out for a while, and the Tartar leader fell off the horse in response.

Zhu Ping'an nodded approvingly at Li Rujing, and Li Rujing hurriedly jumped off the horse, for fear that Zhu Ping'an would recognize him, cut off the head of the Tartar leader, and tied it around his waist.

By this time, the battle was over, and the blind man shot down four Tartar scouts in a row, and as soon as the scouts fell off their horses, they became fish to be slaughtered, and they were instantly chopped into meat by knives and axes.

Looking at the losses on his side, Zhu Ping'an still sighed in his heart, in all fairness, the equipment on his side is definitely not inferior to the Tatar cavalry, and it is a tacit understanding to cooperate with the battle, but the ability to fight alone is still insufficient. It seems that in the future, it is necessary to strengthen training in this area, at least to use the martial arts training methods of the Qi family army in the auxiliary barracks, and train more outstanding soldiers.

After collecting the head of the tartar and putting the body of the dead soldier on the horse, Zhu Ping'an and the others came to the north gate of Dingzhou City with a whip.

When the soldiers and people on the city tower saw Zhu Ping'an and others returning victorious, they immediately thundered with joy, and Liao Jinda gave up his hand again and again.

As soon as Zhu Ping'an gave the order, the auxiliary soldiers turned over and dismounted, and arranged the head of the tartar in the shape of a hill at the city gate. Zhu Ping'an bowed to the city and pointed to the head of the tartar, "Zhu is not talented, fortunately the soldiers used their lives to have such a victory, specially dedicated to Lord Liao and the soldiers and civilians of Dingzhou City, with strong deeds!" ”

Liao Jinda was full of excitement and thanked him again and again. At this time, the cheers of the people suddenly stopped and they all looked into the distance.

Zhu Ping'an's heart sank, and he and the auxiliary soldiers looked back, the smoke and dust rose in the distance, and the colorful flags were faintly visible, and even the earth seemed to tremble rhythmically.

Liao Jinda's face changed, and he hurriedly shouted to Zhu Ping'an under the city: "Lord Zhu hurry up, it must be the main force of the Tartars who have arrived!" ”

Zhu Ping'an never expected that the main force of the Manchu Qing would come so quickly, it seems that the commander of this Tartar, Dolgon, is indeed the essence of using troops, I thought that he would not arrive in Dingzhou until the evening or early tomorrow morning at the earliest, but he didn't expect to come so quickly, it seems that he captured Qizhou in a hurry, and he rushed to Dingzhou without resting.

This shows the importance of Dingzhou to Dolgon.

Liao Jinda waved his hand at Zhu Ping'an, "Lord Zhu's defense line, please tell Inspector Lu that this official will do his best to protect Dingzhou, once there is no chance to turn around, this official will burn all the grain stocks in this city, so that Tartar Zikong will rejoice, haha!" ”

After speaking, Liao Jinda laughed loudly.

Zhu Ping'an's heart was gloomy, so he didn't say anything more, and arched his hand at the city, "Lord Liao cherishes, Zhu will leave!" ”

Under the leadership of Zhu Ping'an, the auxiliary battalion turned their horses' heads one after another and galloped towards the south.

Liao Jinda watched Zhu Ping'an and his entourage gradually walk away, and then breathed a sigh of relief, at this time, the people had already moved the rolling wood and stones to the city, and more than ten large iron pots were erected on the city, and the firewood was burned very vigorously, and the oil in the pot was boiled in a short time, bubbling and bubbling.

Liao Jinda looked at the soldiers and civilians around him, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "How can Liao Mou, how can he be, there are many people who are willing to follow me to live and die together, and to be an official so far, what more can I ask for!" (To be continued......)

ps: I apologized, I drank too much last night, threw up a day today, finished a chapter in a hurry, and my eyelids fought. Say sorry, I owe a chapter first, and I will pay it back! u