Although Gao Qiqian is a eunuch, but after all, he has been in charge of the military power many times to participate in the suppression of civil strife, Chongzhen five years, Gao Qiqian's governor Beizhili and Shandong generals pacified Kong Youde's rebellion, and later supervised the Liaozhen military horses, entered the customs to crusade against the Liukou, and thus fell into the reputation of a soldier. Although the record is lackluster, it is already a standout among the ranks of eunuchs. This is also the main reason why Gao Qiqian, as an ordinary internal official, can rise quickly and compete with Cao Huachun, Wang Dehua, Wang Chengen and others who were born in Chongzhen's Qiandi.

What's more critical is that today's Chongzhen is full of suspicion about the civil and military officials in the court, and Gao Qiqian, as a representative of the internal officials, naturally gained more trust.

However, Gao Qiqian is not an absolute wine bag and rice bag, and his immersion in military affairs for so many years has also made him more or less a general of the army, but this courage is really worthy of his status as a eunuch.

This time to reinforce Julu, he completely handed over the command to his son Wu Sangui, and the reinforcements were mainly Liaozhen soldiers and horses, and Wu Sangui naturally had no objection to being the commander. Gong Yonggu, a concubine from the capital, served as his deputy, and Wang Mengbi naturally became a supervisor with Gao Qiqian. With Gong Yonggu and Wang Mengbi watching, although Wu Sangui suffered a big loss in the hands of Cao Wuxian, he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to obediently lead the troops to set off.

After arriving at the foot of Julu City, the Ming army immediately launched an attack and stormed the rear flank of the Qing army with superior forces. The Qing army Dolgon and Abatai also got the news of Ji Ze's troops at this time, but it always takes time to adjust, not to mention that the two white flag troops as the main force are fighting fiercely with Lu Xiangsheng's troops who are defending the city.

Therefore, the Qing army was somewhat ill-prepared in the face of the Ming army's reinforcements.

Weighing the pros and cons, Dorgon decisively ordered a retreat north.

The strongholds of Fan's trading houses, which were originally scattered on the Hebei Plain, were wiped out by Zhu Ping'an, and this alone brought huge trouble to the Qing army. First, it has lost the channel for collecting grain and grass; The second is the severance of news. Fan's firm has no stronghold in Hebei, and Zhu Ping'an's layout in the court, Zhou Yanru, Cao Huachun and others' plans are limited to the central cadres, etc., so He Youling and other chess pieces in the court can't play a role, not to mention, Yang Tinglin and others went south in the starry night, quickly got Gao Qiqian, forced him to quickly set off to rescue the giant deer, and waited for Fan's news to reach the Dolgon army, it was already a little late.

Therefore, in the face of Gao Qiqian and Lu Xiangsheng's internal and external attacks, Dolgon could only choose to retreat bitterly.

The Qing army's war immediately fell into passivity. Although the Guanning army in Liaozhen has been squeezed into the limited city outside the pass in recent years, it does not mean that its combat strength has declined. The Guanning army comes from Sun Chengzong's strategy of "guarding the Liao land with the Liao people", and its main body is also the family Ding army of the local generals of Liao Town with Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang as the core, and the soldiers and horses are all fine, and two-thirds of the military salary and armor staff of Liao Town are used on these soldiers and horses, plus the training of the Liao town generals for the family ding, so the Guan Ning Army is definitely the elite division of the Ming Dynasty at this time.

What's more, in order to defend Gao Qiqian this time, the generals of Liaozhen even sent 10,000 elite horsemen led by Wu Sangui, which is the treasure of the Liaozhen generals at the bottom of the box. There is no other reason, it is just because Liaozhen and Gao Qiqian's interests are closely related, and they are already connected.

After several rounds of firearms roared in succession, the main force of the Qing army suddenly adjusted its direction and suffered a lot of losses. Next, they had to face the joint onslaught of 5,000 Xuanda cavalry and Guanning iron cavalry, and for a while, the Zhenglan Banner and Zhenghong Banner troops, which were the troops behind the palace, could not support it.

The two yellow flags and two white flags were hurriedly withdrawn from the siege battle, and they had not returned to the camp, the giant deer city was already a trumpet cannon in the sky, the south gate and the east and west gates were wide open, Lu Xiangsheng personally led eight thousand soldiers to rush out, although most of them were foot soldiers, but they were blocked by the Tartars in the city for several days and stormed, and they saw the bloody battle of the two camps in the south and north of the city, and the army was holding back a wave of anger and grief and indignation.

And Zhu Ping'an led a thousand recuperated cavalry to quietly wait for the opportunity, a chance to hit with one blow.

From Fengyang to Hebei, there are 2,000 Fengyang soldiers, and now there are less than 600 left. Zhu Ping'an asked himself that there was no problem with the entire planning and layout, but he never expected that the war would be so tragic that it would be so fierce. originally thought that if Lu Xiangsheng was willing to retreat into the land of Sanfu, he could rely on the geographical advantages, people, and Tartars, but he didn't expect that Dolgon would go hand in hand, plunder the Sanfu, and directly surround Lu Xiangsheng's army in Julu.

Through this, Zhu Ping'an's heart couldn't help but blame himself, he still trusted the advantages he had crossed too much. But when it really came to the battlefield, the shape shì was changing rapidly, and the enemy commander was a famous Manchu general, and Zhu Ping'an himself was too optimistic about the whole shape.

The repeated battles of the court, the response of Dolgon, and the overly superstitious belief in the firearms unit were all reasons for such heavy casualties. Maybe Lu Xiangsheng and the others don't think there is anything about this, but as a person who has crossed over, facing the comrades and brothers who accompany him day and night are constantly falling in front of him, this kind of pain cannot be described in words. What's more, as the commander of the First Army, Zhu Ping'an, when he thought that the team he had worked so hard to pull up became what it is now, he couldn't help but have the urge to vomit blood.

That is, from the moment he woke up, Zhu Ping'an began to repeatedly scrutinize his layout. In all fairness, compared with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the thieves and even the Ming Dynasty, his strength is simply worlds apart, and because of this, this expedition to Hebei, Zhu Ping'an began to plan the layout a year ago, but when it came to the end, he still suffered huge losses, which Zhu Ping'an could not accept anyway. He found himself a little overconfident.

The team of 1,000 people quietly gathered near the east gate, and everyone sensed that the fighter plane was coming.

Lu Xiangsheng attacked from the north to the south, while Wu Sangui attacked from the south to the north, and the Qing army fought on two fronts, so it could only stand firm with a solid defense and slowly retreat to the northeast.

Dolgon hurriedly dispatched Temur's Mongol army to reinforce the Mandahai Department behind the palace, while he himself led the Chinese army to slowly move closer to the northeast.

Due to the fierce battle, the two yellow flags have been returned to the Chinese army because of heavy losses, and the two white flags resisted Lu Xiangsheng's onslaught, and they were also in a state of stalemate, and the two blue and red flags led by Man Dahai barely resisted the attack of the three Xuanda troops of the Guanning Army with the cooperation of the Mongolian Department, and it was difficult to withdraw for a while, and the formation of the Qing army slowly became a little disjointed.

Zhu Ping'an patted the wall tiles, "Go!" He took Yue Jinfeng and the others to quickly step down the city wall, turned over and got on the horse, and the two broken city gates at the east gate slowly opened.

There were no cannons, no golden drums, and the cavalry of a thousand men went out of the city quietly, and there was nothing but corpses everywhere on the battlefield outside the city. The cavalry let go of their horses and slowly accelerated.

To the northeast of Julu, is the Zhanghe River, because of the drought for many years, the water level of the Zhanghe River has dropped rapidly, and it is the middle of winter at this time, so the shallow river water has already frozen into ice.

Dolgon led the Chinese army to quickly move closer to the east bank of the Zhanghe River. From the moment his second son, Bo and Zhen, died in battle, Abatai lost his composure as the commander of the first army, and fell into a state of madness and grief, crying and crying to go to the front line with his sword, stabbing the enemy, and finally being stopped by Dolgon, but at this time it was no longer suitable to take command of the army. Therefore, Dorgon, who was not in good health, had to take over the command of the army again.

Hauge on the side did not speak, and the fierce fighting for days made the two yellow flags of the left wing army greatly damaged, in his opinion, this is clearly Dolgon borrowed the Ming army to weaken the strength of the two yellow flags, but the two white flags have also been bloody battles recently, Hauge did not dare to say anything, just muttered to Ao Bai and the generals under his command.

Hauge knew in his heart that the Left Wing Army had set a precedent for the defeat of the Qing army, and that after returning to the division, his Emperor Ama would definitely use this to weaken the strength of his two white flags, and he could sit back and watch the jokes of the Dorgon brothers. You can also think about how to strike at the arrogance of these two brothers again.

Dolgon looked in the direction of the battlefield with a worried face, as soon as Jizawa's reinforcements arrived. Dolgon knew that the overall situation of this battle had been decided, and the things that were originally certain had suddenly changed, and it must have been repeated in the Ming court. The right-wing army Yue Tuo's department swept through Shandong, heard that the battle was successful, and he also captured the prince of the Ming clan, in contrast, his own left-wing army fell into the quagmire of bitter fighting in Hebei. Think about it carefully, if he didn't advocate exterminating Lu Xiangsheng first, but instead went east to join Yue Tuo, what would be the current result? Will Lu Xiangsheng be surrounded and pursued, and will the Qin Wang of the Ming Dynasty flock to him?

But there is no "what if" in this world, and Dolgon thought that he was not wrong when he considered it at the beginning, but when he returned to the gate, his fourth brother might not think so.

Thinking about all this mess gave Dorgon a splitting headache. But at this moment, someone not far away suddenly shouted: "Be careful, there is an enemy attack!" ”

When Dolgon looked up, he quietly killed a cavalry from the direction of Julu City, which seemed to be as many as a thousand people, perhaps the horses' hooves were wrapped in cloth or weeds, so they ran silently, and the armor they wore was almost iron gray, which was very similar to the color of the earth, so it was not discovered until it was more than a thousand paces away from the Qing army's central army brigade.

The main force of the Qing army and the Ming army Julucheng and reinforcements are in a melee, no one expected that there would be a surprise attack of the Ming army in this Zhanghe, Rao is the Qing army can fight habitually, and can not help but be a little in a hurry.

"Don't mess around, release the arrows first!" Duoduo on the side hurriedly shouted.

There was no shortage of strong soldiers and elite cavalry in the Qing army, and when they heard the rumors, they opened their bows and arrows one after another, in order to block the speed of the Ming army's approach.

But before the Qing army could shoot the first round of arrows, the Ming army had already rushed to a distance of no more than 400 paces, and in an instant, it was the Ming army's arrows that shot first.

The rain of arrows poured down, and a large area of the Qing army's formation suddenly fell. Dorgon gasped, "When did the Ming army's archers have such archery skills?" ”

After experiencing panic in the Qing army, they finally shot some arrows sparsely, but the effect was sparse.

The two yellow flags were on the periphery of the Chinese army's formation, and Hauge didn't pay attention, he was hit by an arrow on his back, and he lay on the horse's back in pain. Ao Bai beside him was shocked, and hurriedly called for his personal guards to protect Haoge, while he himself gathered more than 200 cavalry and rushed towards Zhu Ping'an's brigade, intending to block the offensive of the Ming army.

Ao Bai saw Zhu Ping'an, who was dressed in iron armor at a glance, and knew that he was the main general of the Ming army, so he rushed straight towards Zhu Ping'an, shouting: "Kill the general of Ming Dog first, and they will naturally disperse!" ”

With a charging distance of more than two hundred steps, Aobai's horses had not yet exerted their strength, but Zhu Ping'an had already rushed to the front, and what caught Aobai's eyes was clearly a teenager who had not yet grown up, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart, and waved the big knife in his hand and slashed at Zhu Ping'an.

Zhu Ping'an didn't care about it, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and the mount under his crotch suddenly rushed forward, and he had already come to Aobai's body, and the spear in his hand thrust forward.

When Ao Bai was stunned, Zhu Ping'an had already flashed his horse, took out something from Ao Bai's back, and continued to rush towards the Qing army.

Ao Bai was sitting on a horse with a knife in both hands, and the oncoming Ming soldiers saw him, and their faces revealed a trace of mockery and disdain.

Ao Bai was strange, and suddenly felt a cold in his chest, and then a sharp pain continued, and when he looked down, in front of his body in cotton armor, there was already a wound the size of a child's arm, and blood gushed out.

It turned out that Zhu Ping'an's spear had passed through Aobai's chest and abdomen.

Ao Bai looked at his wound in disbelief, and muttered to himself, "So fast! ”

He then turned over and fell off his horse, and the follow-up Ming cavalry galloped past his corpse, leaving only a pile of flesh and blood that could not be seen clearly. R1152