Chapter 141: Meteor

Before the negotiation of Gao Hongzhong's plan began, Dengzhou Town turned from defense to attack amid the rumbling of artillery, and selected a key attack on the left, center and right. Each banner sent its own cavalry to respond, and the troops left behind by the earthen wall began to retreat one by one, and the retreat in front of the enemy, which Huang Taiji was most reluctant to, began.

The mixed battalion on the far left was the first to withdraw, forming a formation two hundred steps behind the earthen wall, and then receiving the retreat of the left flank. Then there is the blue flag men, the confrontation of Dengzhou town sent a detachment, constantly biting the people and horses who were behind, forcing the retreating blue flag men and horses to return again, the two sides on the earthen wall several times, the blue flag guards collapsed, leaving behind the armor and baggage all over the ground and retreating.

The biggest difference between a defender and a striker is that a striker can count on the main force's response, and persistence is promising, while as a defender, the main force is moving away from him, and once he is dragged is a dead end. In the face of the attack of less than 200 people in the four detachments, the combat power could not be exerted at all, and the white armor of them ran faster than the first soldier, and the first soldier and Yu Ding immediately ran wildly.

The Dengzhou detachment ascended the earthen wall from the position with the blue flag, two of the detachments on the east side followed the rout, and the other two detachments advanced along the wall and condescendingly attacked the blue flag on the flank. Liu Pojun's banner at the head of Lushun City waved, and the Dengzhou Army on the whole line began to send detachments to attack the earthen wall, and all kinds of artillery and rockets fired intensively, and the momentum was like a general attack.

The Zhenglan Banner suffered heavy losses in the offensive a few days ago, and the fighting spirit was very low, and the collapse of the flank quickly caused a domino effect.

The confusion on the right flank was quickly transmitted, and the 2nd Guards Division in the center attacked with the detachment, and the momentum was even greater than elsewhere. A group of mandarin duck formation battle groups crossed the passage and pursued the retreating Houjin soldiers.

The Houjin soldiers of the middle road had no intention of rescuing, the defense line of the two red flags, Wuzhen Chaoha, and Tianyou army collapsed like an avalanche, and the Houjin soldiers of the earthen wall gave up all the remaining baggage and fled, and there were no horses here in the earthen wall, and they were all on foot. Some of the coats left behind were like headless flies, and some of them had already been prepared to hide in the trenches, and as soon as the Dengzhou soldiers appeared in front of them, they immediately came out and shouted surrender.

Look down from Xiguan Mountain. Thousands of ants ran wild in the wilderness below the mountain, and the ground was covered with fallen armor. Huang Taiji's carefully planned retreat turned into a big rout, and the remaining earthen wall of men and horses was about 10,000 Zhenyi and Mongols, as well as about 5,000 coats, according to Huang Taiji's plan. It was supposed to be evacuated at night and take away all the useful baggage, but now all of them were lost to Dengzhou, and many armor soldiers even threw away their armor in order to flee for their lives.

Finally, there were the two white flags on the right flank, and after being reprimanded, Dorgon had just replenished some of the armor soldiers. Immediately after this collapse, Dolgon was anxious, and on the road between Xiguan Mountain and Lushun earthen wall, the cavalry of Dengzhou was already gathering. They will kill the retreating two white flags at any time.

Just when Dolgon's heart was pounding, the Houjin soldiers in charge of the right flank responded to the artillery fire of Xiguan Mountain and lined up under the mountain, with as many as 3,000 cavalry, led by Hauge himself. The direction of their formation was facing the direction of the gap, and Huang Taiji did not give up the two white flags. Both Dorgon and Dodor breathed a sigh of relief.

Receiving the influence of the middle road, the two white flag defense lines also quickly collapsed, and Dengzhou Town, which had been attacking the right flank of Houjin, reacted quickly, and the First Guards Division and several detachments quickly appeared on the earthen wall and passage, filled the Houjin's trench with piles of dirt bags near the barrage ditch, and then began to line up behind the Houjin earthen wall.

Dengzhou's cavalry formation maintained its formation, with a game as the front, and slowly walked out of the sandwich road......

Chen Xin's handsome banner appeared in Xiguan Mountain, there was a shortage of soldiers and horses under the mountain, Lushun cheered, many red figures chased behind the rout, all the way to shoot the backward Houjin soldiers, the large-scale battle was always to the invincible Jiannu, and suffered a heavy defeat under the city of Lushun.

Due to the blockage of the horse ditch and the Houjin earthen wall, the pursuit of Dengzhou Town was not effective, and the killing and wounding were not strict, but this time the main force of Houjin was here, and that kind of rout would be transmitted to the whole army of Houjin, so that they would lose their psychological advantage when facing Dengzhou Town in the future, and Dengzhou Town would have an advantage, and this subconscious influence was more effective than the instructor saying it a thousand times.

"My lord, in fact, you can let the thousands of headquarters of all sides unearth the wall and line up, is Liu Pojun more conservative?" Dai Zhenggang put down the telescope and said to Chen Xin, "The Houjin siege city has been sleepy for a month, and now the defense line has collapsed and the army's heart is shaken, and our army can fight with it." ”

Chen Xin looked at the mountain carefully, shook his head slightly, and said: "Houjin soldiers are really as many as 30,000, our army is only in the early 10,000s in Lushun, and the cavalry in its array has exceeded 10,000. ”

Dai Zhenggang took a look at the positions of several Houjin cavalry, there were about 3,000 under the banner of Huang Taiji at the foot of the North Mountain, 3,000 cavalry on each wing, and 2,000 cavalry on the opposite side of the northern slope of Xiguan Mountain. Dai Zhenggang also knew that he could not achieve a big victory, and looking at the more and more red figures on the earthen wall, he had already achieved the effect of inspiring the morale of the army, and he also gave up the beginning of the construction.

The six artillery pieces on the mountain fired two rounds in a row, half of them hit the Houjin cavalry under the mountain, causing a lot of confusion to those cavalry, the two white flags under the mountain were retreating, the Dengzhou cavalry appeared in the gap, the first cavalry division began to charge, and the Houjin soldiers were also scattered, one of which guarded against the Dengzhou infantry who crossed the earthen wall.

Dai Zhenggang continued to play the banner, and after the Dengzhou infantry formation on the left flank was completed, he advanced forward, with a mandarin duck formation division and five detachments, and the detachments were deployed on the two wings and the rear formation; Xiguan Mountain also sent two detachments to move down the eastern slope of the mountain, and these two infantry would contain the strength of the Houjin cavalry and prevent Haoge from dealing with the Dengzhou cavalry with all his might. The actions of these two infantry forces forced Hauge into a passive situation, and Hauge was also prepared, and reacted quickly at this time, sending three Beizi to lead the troops, and the cavalry of 3,000 people was divided into four groups, covering each other and retreating. Dorgon and Dorgon also led more than 100 white-armored soldiers to respond.

Under the cover of infantry on both sides, the Dengzhou cavalry spread out into the front of a division outside the gap, and the four cavalry divisions will carry out four rounds and three rows of attacks, and Dolgon, who had encountered the cavalry formation, was frightened, at this time tens of thousands of routs blocked the middle of the battlefield, and the two cavalry on the middle road and the east side of the Houjin road could not come to help, and the west side could only rely on Hauge.

Hauge showed good commanding skills, and several Houjin Beizi were experienced and kept moving on the west flank. Even suddenly galloped to the middle, forcing the pursuing Dengzhou infantry to retreat, covering the escape of Houjin's entire right flank, and the formation of his body was still very good.

The cavalry began to accelerate, charging at the Houjin cavalry in front. The infantry on both flanks also took the initiative to attack the Houjin cavalry, and thousands of horses galloped under the mountain, but Chen Xin did not have the excitement when he saw the cavalry clash for the first time.

The Houjin cavalry also knew that there was no way out, and regardless of the casualties, they hedged against the Dengzhou cavalry, and the four cavalry divisions of Dengzhou Town attacked four rounds in a row, although they penetrated the front, they could not get rid of the flank of the Houjin cavalry. After a few golden shells, he has been on the battlefield for a long time. For cavalry warfare, he used it flexibly, attacked the flank of the Dengzhou cavalry in turn, and constantly sent small groups of rangers straight into the infantry formation, forcing the infantry to stop advancing. After more than 1,000 people lined up on the northern slope of Xiguan Mountain, the golden cavalry came to help. Liu Pojun Mingjin withdrew his troops.

Chen Xin shook his head on the hill and looked at the rest of the battle line, the rout had already gone away, and the Houjin cavalry on the east side sent cavalry to swim around the battlefield. Taking advantage of the tactical mobility of the cavalry, the scattered Dengzhou pursuers were threatened, and the red dots all stopped the pursuit. Falling back to the earthen wall. Chen Xin smiled at Dai Zhenggang and said: "These savages have a few brushes, our cavalry has been found by them to be weak, if there are not enough numbers, pinning down the two wings can make the cavalry formation stop advancing, and if you fall into a melee, you will not have the slightest advantage." ”

Dai Zhenggang replied in a low voice: "The exit here is narrow, it is inconvenient for foot and cavalry to coordinate, and the earthen wall blocks the artillery, so Houjin can block this place." ”

Chen Xin smiled: "Yes, but it can also be seen that Haoge is flexible in using troops, if I have 5,000 cavalry today, Huang Taiji will not be able to return to Liaodong, this is the case today, retain the combat power of the cavalry, and use it for pursuit." ”

"Is there going to be a night attack that night?"

"Of course, from now on, until Jiannu withdraws back to the state, we can't let them have a moment of peace. It's time for Huang Taiji to take a look at our new toys tonight. ”……

When night fell, the two sides of the fierce battle for a day died down, Dengzhou Town sent part of the detachment to station the Houjin Tu Wall, the trench dug by the Houjin soldiers was in the north of the Tu Wall, and after the Tu Wall was occupied by Dengzhou Town, Lushun was equivalent to another line of defense.

At this time, in the north of the western section of the Houjin Tu Wall, hundreds of soldiers were quietly gathering, and Chen Ying was at the forefront. He is now a hundred generals of the First Guards Division, Zhong Laosi once wanted to transfer him to the fifth battalion, but Wang Changfu did not agree, so Chen Ying has been staying in the guards battalion and has been stationed in Lushun for a period of time.

Although he was not promoted as quickly as the fourth in the middle school, the army generally believed that the Guards Battalion had stronger combat power and a higher rank than the average officer of the same level, which was reflected in the treatment, his monthly salary was one or two more than that of the ordinary hundred generals, and the Guards soldiers were five cents more than the ordinary soldiers, which was still a lot higher in a year. What's more, there are more opportunities for promotion, whenever a new battalion head is formed, the most drawn are the officers and non-commissioned officers of the Guards Battalion. Therefore, Chen Ying was also very relieved to stay in the guard camp.

The First Division of the Guards has been serving as a tactical reserve in Lushun, and has repeatedly fought with the Houjin soldiers who rushed into the earthen wall, and today they are arrayed outside the earthen wall to fight with the Houjin cavalry, and the total losses have been as high as thirty percent, Chen Ying has more than 60 people left in this bureau, although the losses are heavy, but because of the continuous tactical victories, the morale of the soldiers is very high, in addition, there are also the simple ideas of fighting the Tartars to protect the family and defend the country, which makes the Dengzhou soldiers more tenacious than the Houjin soldiers who came for the plunder.

Without the Houjin earthen wall, Dengzhou could harass the Houjin camp. Today, Dengzhou Town changed the practice of attacking in the second half of the night, and selected soldiers who could walk at night, ranging from 150 to 200 people in each detachment, a total of 15 detachments.

These people were reduced to three musket squads and two mandarin duck squads, and they were arranged to be on standby at the Houjin Tu Wall this evening, and after dark, the Qian headquarters came with an order, and their squad strengthened the detachment of the thousand headquarters, totaling about 150 people, to carry out night harassment, and at the same time there were more than 10 squads from other battalions.

Chen Ying was not very optimistic about the effect of such a small-scale night attack, and most of them would be discovered by Jiannu's Fulu army halfway. However, Vice President Qian said very firmly, that is, he continued to shake the morale of Jiannu's army, making them more likely to collapse during the retreat, and the task given to Chen Ying was not to directly attack the camp, but to cover a team of strange people. There were only twenty men in this group, carrying long things, which seemed to be several wooden shelves laid flat, but in the darkness they could not see clearly, and they did not know what they were. They were followed by a group of guards, carrying a long thing in pairs. The leader of the team was a young officer, Chen Ying saw that he was at most seventeen or eighteen years old, and he was very capable when he gave orders to his subordinates.

There was a bamboo whistle from behind the earthen wall. Chen Ying sent the order behind him, and the few people behind him passed it back one by one, and the password was passed to the end of the team, and then returned to the signal that the order was completed, and it was passed until Chen Ying ended here. He got up and walked forward.

The nearest camp of the Houjin soldiers was five miles away from Xiguan Mountain, and they had to walk ten miles back and forth every day, because of the storage of artillery on Xiguan Mountain, which made Houjin shrink everywhere, so the first place they chose to attack was Xiguan Mountain, but the defense of Xiguan Mountain was too tight, and the influence of the mountain. They could not use heavy shield chariots to cover, and neither the Mongols nor the Han soldiers had enough fighting will to complete the mountain attack, so they could only dispatch Zhenyi, and the expected heavy losses were expected. made Huang Taiji unable to make up his mind to attack, causing Houjin to be passive in the attack.

A team of killers crossed the brigade and took on the task of clearing the way ahead, and the sound of Suo was heard in the darkness. Chen Ying looked back at the team from time to time, especially those who carried the shelves. Mr. Qian explained again and again that he must protect those people and cover them to enter the predetermined place.

After walking two miles like this, Chen Ying ordered the whole team to stop, and counted the number again, two garrisons fell behind, and he didn't know where he went, so he had to let the guards go back to look for it.

While waiting, several arrows sounded on the east side, and the sharp chirp spread far away, relaying in the direction of the Houjin camp, and the horn soon sounded in the camp in front of the Houjin.

Chen Ying scolded in a low voice, knowing that the other detachments were discovered by Houjin's Fulu Army, and the Houjin soldiers were ready, and it would not have any good effect to attack the camp directly, but under the new defeat of Houjin, they should not dare to attack the camp, and would only stick to the camp. Even if they came to fight at night, Chen Ying was not afraid, because they couldn't ride horses in night battles, and Houjin soldiers didn't have the courage to come out with torches at night.

The young officer came over and whispered to Chen Ying: "Mr. Chen Bai, just walk another mile, let's hurry up, don't wait for those who are left behind." ”

Chen Ying nodded, and gave the order to set off again, this time walking about a mile, and expelled three groups of ambush troops on the way, these ambush troops are generally two or three people together, where can they stop so many Ming troops, after they fired arrows, they fled backwards.

Chen Ying stopped here, and the young officer thought that the distance was enough. Chen Ying observed the camp of the Houjin soldiers, estimating that it was about more than two miles away, and under the camp south of Houjin was a dark camp, and the lanterns were wrapped in black cloth, and occasionally a little bit of light could be seen leaking out.

The team stopped and immediately began to work, digging some pits in the ground, and then propping up the wooden shelves they were carrying and fixing them in those small pits.

Then those auxiliaries put the long thing they were carrying on the top of the fork, Chen Ying looked at the long thing, and then looked at the Houjin soldier camp in the distance, he couldn't help but be a little surprised, he was very suspicious that this long thing could hit so far, two miles away, even the field artillery couldn't hit.

There were five shelves in total, each with only one thing long, and when the young officer saw that he was ready, he kept the soldiers in cover farther away.

Chen Ying hid more than twenty steps away, and the soldiers reported in groups, and then there was no movement, Chen Ying could see that one of them opened the tinder jar and lit a slow-burning arquebus.

After waiting for a while, two red fireworks rose in the middle of the road, exploding bright red in the night sky, Chen Ying squinted at the two fireworks, which were probably the signals of these strange soldiers.

On the field outside Lushun City, dozens of bright red fireworks suddenly appeared, and under Chen Ying's surprised gaze, they let out a scream, dragging a long tail flame into the sky quickly, crossing a bright trajectory, like a meteor shower, rushing towards the Houjin camp two miles away.

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