Chapter 346: First Strikes is Stronger
Everyone thought for a long time, Hu Laosan proposed a proposal, that is, cavalry could be sent to pursue, but at the same time, it was also necessary to send a large-scale reconnaissance at night, and once they saw signs of a large-scale assembly of the Qing army, they should report it immediately, so that the cavalry could avoid it in time.
"No!"
As soon as Hu Laosan's opinion was put forward, Wu Chengfeng immediately retorted: "Lord Hu's words are wrong, when did our cavalry fall to the point where we had to rely on not collecting the enemy army to find the way even at night?" As the so-called soldiers are fast, if you go to war and take two steps to see what kind of battle you are fighting in three steps, just go home and hug the child! β
"Hey...... You kid, you're finding fault! Hu Laosan's eyes widened when he heard this: "There are still 70,000 or 80,000 main forces in the Tartars, and we only have a total of less than 10,000 cavalry, is it easy for the Hou Ye to save this little belongings?" You kid, don't give Hou Ye all the defeat! β
"You're!" Wu Chengfeng's eyes immediately widened when he heard this: "Master Hou trained these cavalry to fight, otherwise what would you want our cavalry to do?" Herding sheep? β
"You fart!" Hu Laosan stood up and was about to get angry, Yue Yang immediately slapped the table and shouted: "Shut up Lao Tzu!" β
"Look at you, look at your ......" Yue Yang pointed at Wu Chengfeng and Hu Laosan with a calm face and scolded: "You are all guerrilla generals now, but you don't look like a general, who are you?" You are all robes, brothers who share life and death, if I am not here today, do you want to perform a full martial arts? I tell you, if you make any more noise, you will fucking give Lao Tzu to the baggage camp as the head of the army! β
Yue Yang even came out with foul words like "Lao Tzu", over the years, as Yueyang's officials have risen and risen in strength, his majesty has become more and more powerful, and when he saw him angry, the generals were even more silent, and they didn't even care about the atmosphere, Yue Yang and Wu Chengfeng also lowered their heads and didn't dare to say anything.
Seeing that Wu Chengfeng and Hu Laosan had shut up, Yue Yang's anger eased, "There is a dispute in the army. It is normal to have different views on things, and they can be discussed, but they must not scold each other or even do anything because they have different opinions, if you have anger, you can send it to the Tartars, there are still 70,000 or 80,000 Tartars outside, and there are hundreds of thousands in Shengjing and Liaodong, if you have the ability, you can kill their men and rob their women, and the people not only do not scold you, but also have to give you a thumbs up. What kind of man is it to get angry with the robe here......"
Hu Laosan and Wu Chengfeng were so scolded that their faces flushed, and they could barely raise their heads, and finally heard Yue Yang say: "But what you said is actually not unreasonable, the infantry can't catch up, and the cavalry is risky to pursue alone, so what should I do?" In my opinion, it's very simple, let's chase the whole army and chase it all the way to Shengjing, I want to see what to do with the Tartars? β
"What...... Catch up with Shengjing? β
Yue Yang's words startled everyone. I didn't expect Yue Yang to be so bold and plan to chase after Shengjing, this is the rhythm of never ending.
"Hou ...... Master Hou, let's just order people. Can you fight to Shengjing? Zhao Yongxin, the commander of the artillery battalion, stammered a little when he heard it.
"What, scared?" Yue Yang snorted and glanced at Zhao Yongxin, "Don't you have a nickname called Zhao Cannon." You can break him with artillery no matter what, and now you can coax him? β
Zhao Yongxin was anxious, and hurriedly distinguished: "Who is afraid." The lowly position is afraid that we will be tired for a long time, and Shengjing is the nest of the Tartars, if we get there, if we are surrounded by the Tartars again, we will not even have a place to run! β
Yue Yang laughed: "Okay, what you said Ben Hou can't know, naturally it won't be really self-conscious to besiege Sheng Jingcheng, but this time Huang Taiji ran to beat us with great interest, and now he wants to run when he sees that he can't beat us, how can there be such a good thing in the world, if we don't send them off with the friendship of the landlord, wouldn't we be too sorry for them?" β
Speaking of this, at this time, a night man who strode in from outside gave a military salute to Yue Yang and said loudly: "Report to Master Hou, the villain was ordered to listen to the movements of the Tartars outside the Tartar camp, and found that the Tartars had begun to retreat in the direction of Shengjing at this time!" β
"Hahaha, as you expected!" Yue Yang was overjoyed and immediately stood up and said loudly: "The generals listen to the order!" β
"Brush!" With a bang, all the generals stood up.
Yue Yang's blazing eyes looked around in everyone's eyes for a moment, and then he said sharply: "Wu Chengfeng! β
"Here!" Wu Chengfeng immediately stood up and looked at Yue Yang with his hands clenched into fists.
You immediately count the men and horses, lead 5,000 cavalry after dawn to catch up with the enemy army immediately after dawn, hang on the tail of the Qing army to harass, eat him if there are few people, and get out of the way if there are many people, don't let the Qing army withdraw so easily!
"The last general obeys!" Wu Chengfeng was overjoyed, and after answering, he turned around and went out to start preparing.
Seeing Wu Chengfeng happily going out, Hu Laosan asked with some concern: "Master Hou, it's good to follow the pursuit, but what if the Tartar simply kills the carbine?" You must know that the main force of the Tartars is still alive. β
Faced with Hu Laosan's question, Yue Yang did not blame him, he was not arrogant enough to tolerate different opinions.
"Hu Laosan, you are right to be cautious, but have you thought about one thing, the Tartars are retreating now, but think about it, how far can they run in a day, the heavy grain and grass personnel are seventy or eighty thousand troops, they can't run back to Shengjing lightly, right? Otherwise, if they don't wait to return to Shengjing, their men and horses will have to lose at least thirty percent, unless the Tartars want to abandon all the baggage of those auxiliaries, otherwise they will definitely not be able to move fast, don't look at most of our army are foot soldiers, but if they rush to the road, they will never be slower than them. Speaking of this, Yue Yang's eyes narrowed, revealing a trace of essence from the slit in his eyes......
Just when Yue Yang arranged for his men to prepare for the next day's pursuit, Dolgon, Dai Shan and others also led the army to begin to retreat, and countless torches were lit in the dark night, forming an endless orange-red snake on the vast grassland.
In the early part of the procession, Dolgon, Daizen, and the others will be marching northeast next to a lavishly decorated cart.
In the dark night, everyone was silent and looked depressed, and everyone just hurried silently. After a while, a cavalryman galloped over and reported loudly: "Qi Qi lords, the main force of the Ming army did not chase after them, but their night was hung far away from us a few miles away, they were very alert, and the minions and others tried to take advantage of the night to get rid of them several times, but they were vigilantly avoided. Instead, some manpower was lost. β
"Useless minions!" Dolgon snorted coldly, and then said: "That's it, since that's the case, don't pay attention to them, let them follow if they like, anyway, the Ming army doesn't dare to follow at this time." β
The surrounding generals all agreed with Dolgon's words, they were all people who were used to fighting, and knew that it was very dangerous to pursue an enemy army in the dark, not to mention that there were many people suffering from night blindness in this era, and it was easy to be ambushed by the enemy when marching in the dark, and no experienced commander would give the order to pursue at night. These people are clear. It's the safest time at night, but it's the day when it's the most dangerous.
After sending the sentry away, the surroundings began to become silent again, and after a while, Dolgon rode to the cart and opened the curtains to look inside, and in the gloomy light, he could only see a figure lying quietly on the bed, motionless, looking at the figure inside, a cold glint flashed in Dolgon's eyes. He turned around and whispered to a person beside him, "Old Fifteen, follow me." "Finished. Dorgon rode his horse to the side, and Dorgon followed without thinking.
When Dorgon was more than a hundred paces away from the group, Dorgon whispered, "Brother Fourteen, what's the matter?" β
Dorgon was silent for a moment before he said, "Old Fifteen. Our strength has been greatly damaged this time, and after returning to Shengjing, the Eight Banners will have a meeting, and I will inevitably be held accountable. The Great Khan was unconscious at this time, and some people would surely jump out and shout for Hauge to ascend the throne. What should we do? β
"No......" Duoduo stood stunned for a moment before he said dumbfounded, "The Great Khan is still in power." β
"You know what." Dolgon sneered: "It is because the Great Khan is still reigning now that they are in a hurry to push Hauge to the throne, otherwise it will not be so easy for them to push Hauge up when the Khan is gone!" β
Although Duoduo is brave and brutal, he still has a basic IQ. As soon as Dorgon said this, he immediately understood, although Huang Taiji was in a coma most of the time, but there was always such a period of time every day when he was awake, and he naturally knew very well that his time was short, how could a person like him not arrange the aftermath before he died.
Huang Taiji has now given birth to a total of ten sons, of which the second, third and eighth sons all died young, and now only the eldest son Hauge has reached adulthood among the remaining seven sons, and the eldest of the remaining sons is only twelve years old, so only Hauge is eligible to inherit his throne.
The Heavenly Family has always been the most ruthless in the fight for this position, what father-son affection and husband and wife are all lies, the only thing that can be seen is only the sword and sword, with the ruthless nature of the Emperor Taiji, he will definitely pave the way for his son before he dies, and the two brothers Dolgon, who is the greatest threat to Hauge, must be the first target of his attack. Thinking of this, Rao couldn't help but shudder with Duoduo's bravery, and he quickly grabbed Dolgon's sleeve and asked.
"Brother Fourteen, what do you think we should do?"
"What else can I do, people's knives are about to hit our necks, for today's plan, the only way to do this is to strike first, and we must not let him return to Shengjing alive, otherwise we will all die and have no place to bury when we return to Shengjing!" There was a murderous air in Dorgon's words, and he took a small porcelain vase from his pocket and handed it to Dordor.
"Old fifteen, this is the poison that I specially spent a lot of money to get, and I can't find it out at the time, you have to find a way to feed him!"
"Okay, I'll do it!"
Duoduo's hand that took the porcelain vase trembled a little, but a trace of murderous intent also flashed in his eyes, and he said coldly: "This time, I just avenged Eniang's revenge." β
"It's good that you know, as long as he dies, Hauge's idiot won't be able to compete with us." Dorgon patted Dodor on the shoulder, "As long as I ascend to the position of the Great Khan, this country will be our brothers, and whoever owes us will all be paid back by us!" β
Duoduo clenched the vase, a gleam in his eyes......
The sky gradually brightened, and the light slowly spread over the land, and the sound of hurried horses' hooves resounded on the grassland, and a group of cavalry galloped on the ground.
This cavalry was numerous, and the thousands of cavalry at the front were an army dressed in a strange costume, with green helmets on their heads and a green dress on their bodies.
The 3,000 sets of stab-proof suits and helmets that Yue Yang got from modern times were also the first to equip Ye Bushu and Wu Chengfeng's cavalry troops this time.
Wu Chengfeng, who was galloping on the grassland, looked ahead, and from time to time lowered his head to look at the grass-green stab-proof suit on his body, and was very satisfied. When Yue Yang ordered the quartermaster to send the stab-proof suit last night, Wu Chengfeng thought they were joking with him at first, and then when Yue Yang put the stab-proof suit on a wooden pillar in front of him, and then ordered someone to shoot with a bow and arrow, cut with a knife and stab with a sword, it stands to reason that this dress must have been cut to a thousand holes after suffering so much torture, but this seemingly thin dress was still intact, which also frightened Wu Chengfeng, and then he was ecstatic. It is well known that the weight of a war horse is limited, and the armor of a cavalry is not as heavy as that of a heavy infantry. But seven, seven, eight, eight add up to thirty or forty catties, if these burdens can be subtracted, then the mobility of the cavalry will also be greatly improved, and the durability of the war horses will become more long, the benefits of this cavalry are self-evident.
Wu Chengfeng, who was excited, immediately occupied and hugged this pile of stab-proof suits and refused to let go, and the soldiers transferred a team of cavalry on the spot to move these treasures back, and today he ran in front of the cavalry who was newly changed into stab-proof suits.
Just as Wu Chengfeng was looking down to admire his new equipment, several Ye Bushu rushed from a distance and came to Wu Chengfeng and said loudly: "General Qiyu." At dawn, the Tartars left more than 3,000 cavalry as rearguards, and now they were slowly slowing down ten miles ahead. β
Wu Chengfeng frowned and asked, "What about the large army of Tartars?" β
Ye Bushu replied: "The large army of the Tartars is now more than sixty miles away from us!" β
Wu Chengfeng sneered: "Hehe...... They ran quite fast, and seventy or eighty thousand horses could sneak sixty miles away in one night, but it was really difficult for them. β
A Qian always asked with some concern: "My lord." What shall we do? Do you want to wait for the Hou Ye to lead the army to catch up before pursuing. β
"!" Wu Chengfeng was annoyed, "If you kid is afraid, go back to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu's cavalry battalion doesn't need cowards!" β
Mr. Qian, who was scolded so bloody, lowered his head and blushed with shame, the Yingzhou army has always had a tradition of fighting when encountering the enemy. This is also an idea that is instilled in the officers, in Yue Yang's view, a soldier's ability is not enough to cultivate, there is no knowledge to learn, but the brave mind is innate. Once a soldier has the idea of fearing the enemy, then this person's achievements will be extremely limited, and it is because Wu Chengfeng will be so annoyed when he hears the words of this Qian Zong.
In this sortie, Wu Chengfeng led 5,000 cavalry, and he had an advantage in numbers, as long as he could annihilate this enemy army before the Qing army could reflect it, there would be no danger of being surrounded by the Qing army.
Wu Chengfeng has always wanted to do it, and he said loudly to the communication soldiers around him: "You immediately tell the people behind sΓΉ and let them follow immediately, Lao Tzu wants to take them to eat meat, hurry up and follow." β
"Yes!" The communications soldier immediately took out his walkie-talkie and shouted.
Since Yueyang got a batch of walkie-talkies from modern times to equip the troops, the command of the troops has been greatly improved all of a sudden, in the era of cold weapons, the biggest suffering of commanding troops is that the commander's orders can not be delivered to the following troops in a timely manner, in order to facilitate command, the ancients used sound and vision to invent gongs and drums, horns, flags, fireworks and other various means of command and communication, but even so, how to make the commander's orders reach each unit in a timely manner is also an important criterion to measure whether a commander is competent. However, the emergence of walkie-talkies has solved this problem at once, and the communication range of walkie-talkies is enough for troops with a range of tens of kilometers to receive orders from their commanders in a timely manner.
Soon, under the command of Wu Chengfeng, the 5,000 cavalry formed a zigzag with a tacit understanding and rushed towards the more than 3,000 cavalry of the Qing army. However, to Wu Chengfeng's surprise, as soon as the broken cavalry saw Wu Chengfeng's cavalry catching up, they only resisted a little and scattered and routed.
Seeing that this broken cavalry was so unbeaten, many people were dumbfounded, and a thousand general manager asked in surprise: "My lord, why is this Tartar so unbeaten, could it be that there is a fraud in it?" β
"You kid is stupid, didn't you see that their banner is a man of the Eight Banners?" Wu Chengfeng scolded angrily, and then shook his head: "It seems that the Tartars still don't change their dead nature, and they still use those Mongolians to death, and they really respond to the sentence of sending you to death, and I will make meritorious contributions." β
"My lord, what should we do next?"
"You don't need to ask, keep chasing! Hou Ye said, our task is not to let the Tartars go so steadily, we want to drag them fat and thin to death! β
With the sound of horses' hooves, 5,000 cavalry chased in the direction of the retreat of the Qing army......
Since Wu Chengfeng's cavalry was also one horse and three horses, the speed of the pursuit was very fast, and by noon they had bitten the tail of the Qing army.
"What? The Ying Zhou army is chasing after you! β
After receiving the warning from the rear, Dolgon and other generals who were gathering for lunch and discussing things by the way were taken aback. (To be continued......)