Songshan is not a mountain, but a fortress only twenty miles from Jinzhou City.

The terrain on which Matsuyama Fort is located is in a low-lying area. It is twenty miles away from Jinzhou, separated by Rufeng Mountain in the middle, and Loess Ridge in the southeast, both of which are important places, but are occupied by the Qing army besieging Jinzhou.

After Wu Bengui led the Ningyuan army of his own town to Songshan Fort, he did not occupy an advantageous advantage.

However, twenty miles behind Songshan is Xingshan, and then there are Tashan, Bijia Mountain and Ningyuan, among which there are many fortresses, in this narrow corridor of western Liaoning, unless the Qing army conquers city by city, it is not conducive to the attack of cavalry.

Now Jinzhou is besieged, there are nearly 30,000 Qing troops outside, and there are tens of thousands of Tartars in the east led by Huang Taiji himself.

Wu Sangui just got the information sent by his uncle and ancestor in Jinzhou City, and the grain and grass in Jinzhou City can last for about a year, but the firewood is a little insufficient. Zu Dashou knew that his nephew Wu Sangui had already entered Songshan, and especially warned him not to attack the enemy on the periphery of Jinzhou easily, but to fight steadily and continue to follow the Tartars. Waiting for the Chu army in southern Liaoning to launch an offensive, the Qing army will naturally not be able to withstand the retreat.

But Wu Sangui didn't want to wait.

During this time, he sent teams of scouts to gather intelligence, inquire about information, and look for opportunities to fight. Since Hubei got a large number of firearms, Wu Sangui is now a big self-confidence, and he is eager to fight with the Tartars.

Wu Sangui selected 5,000 of the most elite cavalry from the soldiers and horses in Ningyuan Town, and divided them into 50 teams with 100 people as a team. Each team has a cavalry officer, totaling 50 people. He wrote the names of the fifty horsemen on fifty bamboo slips, put them in a bag and tied them around his waist, and when he used them, he took out one of them and called the commander of the horses. The cavalry leader commanded the cavalry and rushed out to kill according to the order.

The 5,000 cavalrymen were all equipped with double armor, leather armor inside and cotton armor outside. Each cavalryman was also equipped with two cavalry short guns, one flying dragon gun, and a saber purchased from Hubei. A spear, and a bow and arrow. During this time, this cavalry practiced firing every day, and it has already begun to bear fruit.

At the beginning, Wu Sangui paid a high price in order to get these short guns, one riding gun for a war horse, and five thousand horsemen had to pay Liu Jun 10,000 war horses. It can be seen that after seeing the power of riding, Wu Sangui finally gritted his teeth and bought it.

In addition, Wu Sangui also transferred 5,000 soldiers from the infantry army and equipped them with flying dragon guns. A musket team of 100 people. With two hundred-step spear teams.

Many tiger squat and other cannons purchased from Hubei were also equipped with a large number of infantry troops, and mortars, Fulang machines, Hongyi and other artillery were erected on Songshan Fort.

After this period of training, Wu Sangui thought that with these firearms, he could fight the Qing army. If the Duke of Chu can win the battle, isn't it all because of the benefits of these firearms, he can make contributions to a martial artist, but can't he be a disciple of a dignified general?

Wu Sangui has been looking forward to a battle to prove himself.

These days. Wu Sangui has been planning how to lure the Qing army out to fight. After a long time of planning, he finally came up with a plan.

A few days ago. Wu Sangui's exploration of horses found that there were about 100 Mongolian Dorote herdsmen living in Wulitai between Songshan and Xingshan, about 500 or 600 people, and they secretly made an appointment with the Qing army to come and ask the Qing soldiers to come to meet them and protect them from being intercepted by the Ming army in Songshan.

After discovering this. Wu Sangui did not immediately send troops to arrest these Mongols. He thought it was the opportunity he had been waiting for, and now it had finally arrived.

"Keep an eye on these people, this is our bait, we're going to catch a few big fish this time." Wu Sangui said excitedly to the generals under his command.

"Report!"

"Report to Lord Commander, the Tartars have been dispatched. They took the bait. Zhang Cheng, the Dusi who was in charge of keeping an eye on the bait, hurriedly came to report, "It's a big fish, and the Tartars were personally led by Prince Zheng Jierharang, Dorobelle Duoduo, and Adali, the king of Doro County, to meet this group of Mongols. ”

"Great." Wu Sangui slapped his palm on his thigh, stood up, walked to the map and looked carefully. "The Tartars really don't have anyone in their eyes, and they don't take us seriously. But this is just right, as long as they dare to come, this time they will have to shed their skin if they don't die. ”

Hearing the names of the three leading Tartars, Wu Sangui was very excited, this is a real big fish. Of the four princes of Huang Taiji, there is a Zilharang here. Zilharang is Prince Zheng and Huang Taiji's cousin, who has been raised in the palace for Nurhachi since he was a child, and has the closest relationship with Huang Taiji.

And Duoduo is the brother of Huang Taiji, ranked tenth, and one of the four princes, Prince Rui Dolgon, is a sibling. Originally, he had also been named Prince Yu, but after invading Guannai last year, he was considered guilty and demoted from prince to Dorobelle.

As for Abali, he is the grandson of Prince Daishan, one of the four princes.

If these three people can be taken down, it will be a great credit.

"Send more scouts and keep an eye on these Tartars for me, I want to know their movements clearly, remember, don't startle the snakes."

On September 17, in order to avoid the interception of the Ming army, the Qing soldiers stole through Songshan City in the middle of the night, and before dawn the next day, they successfully arrived at Wulitai, and then escorted the Mongols to return quickly.

On the way back to Rufeng Mountain in Jinzhou, Wu Sangui had been waiting for a long time.

As soon as the blue-white dawn appeared in the east, and the faint full moon was still hanging in the sky in the west, the soldiers and horses of Ningyuan Town had already driven onto the battlefield in groups.

Wu Sangui, Dong Yongxian, Yu Shou, Zhang Jian and other deputy generals of the general army of Ningyuan Town, all wearing helmets and armor, wearing their whole bodies, rode up a raised dirt slope, and looked forward with serious expressions.

The long-awaited moment of the great war has finally arrived.

For this battle, Wu Sangui's elite was exhausted, in addition to the thousands of men and horses left behind in Songshan Castle, Wu Sangui transferred 5,000 elite cavalry, 5,000 firearm infantry and 10,000 ordinary infantry, and a full 20,000 horses were ambushed here.

The faint morning mist gradually dissipated, and the military formation of Ning Yuan's army also appeared in the dawn.

The figure of the three thousand Qing troops had already appeared in the sight of the Ming army, and they saw a piece of black crows in the wilderness two or three miles away.

Until now, the Qing army had not discovered Ning Yuanjun.

Maybe the Qing army didn't think that the Ming army would dare to go out of the city to intercept it, let alone expect that their whereabouts had already been mastered by Ning Yuanjun. Perhaps they thought it was an open area suitable for cavalry charges. The Ming army did not dare to leave the city to intercept it.

In short, now the Qing army's 3,000 horsemen are swaggering back to Jinzhou.

Wu Sangui reached out and pulled out a bamboo slip from the brocade bag on his waist.

"Cavalry Officer Wang Yi!"

"Humble duty!" A burly military general in iron armor strode forward.

"You take your headquarters to lure the enemy."

"Yes!"

The cavalry of the Qing army is good at impacting and slashing, people borrow horsepower, and horses help people. This open land was very favorable to the Qing army, but Wu Sangui did not intend to miss this opportunity, although the Qing army was very strong in cavalry and shooting. But Ning Yuan's cavalry is also not weak, not to mention, he is also equipped with a fire gun this time, this is not a three-eyed gun, but a cavalry short gun, two guns per person, plus a long gun, which will definitely make the Tartar want to die.

What's more, he still has 15,000 infantry troops. Of these, 5,000 are equipped with the new Wyvern Gun.

General Dong Yongxian rode over on a black horse and said to Wu Sangui, "This time, we will definitely be able to fight and become famous all over the world." "Dong Yongxian turned out to be a guerrilla general, the commander of Wu Sangui's family, and he was very brave in battle, and he commanded the Wu family's troops when he was in Wu Xiang.

In the morning light, a hundred horsemen led by Wang Yi suddenly appeared in the field of vision of the Qing army.

In the eyes of the Qing army. The sudden appearance of the cavalry seemed to be a patrol cavalry of the Ming army, and they were also surprised when they discovered the Qing army. Then, as expected, he began to turn around and run.

"Do you want to run away if you bump into it?" Zilharang laughed, "With a wave of the horsewhip, "Kill them, don't let them go back to report the news!" ”

More than 200 cavalry members of the Qing army began to divide and began to pursue.

The appearance of this small group of Ming cavalry not only did not make the Qing army more vigilant. On the contrary, it made them more and more relaxed. Looking at the appearance of the Ming army just now, you know that the Ming army does not know their whereabouts at all.

Wang Yi just took his subordinates and kept running away, and did not fight back, and the more than 200 Qing cavalry in pursuit kept riding and shooting behind.

"It's coming!"

In the distance, Wu Sangui kept holding a clairvoyant mirror and watching. I was very satisfied to see more than 200 rides.

"Ready, eat these two hundred horses first."

The pursuing Qing army saw that it was getting closer and closer, but suddenly found that the Ming army began to turn around with a roar. At this time, there were sudden shouts of killing, and countless Ming Riders suddenly poured out from behind the mound in the morning mist on the left and right.

Under the guidance of the red flags one after another, under the leadership of the cavalry officers one by one, the cavalry teams were killed.

Seeing that the Qing army was not flustered, they shouted more and more fiercely, and drew their sabers to prepare to hedge.

Wu Sangui led his own soldiers to charge forward, he controlled the horse with only his legs, and held a short gun in each hand. The Qing army on the opposite side was getting closer and closer, Wu Sangui aimed at a Tartar holding a flag, and when the two sides approached about thirty paces, he raised his hand and shot a shot at the Tartar face door in the middle of the door, and directly shot the Tartar off his horse.

The flag fell, drowning in the herd of horses.

The two sides rushed closer for more than ten steps, and at this time, an arrow from a Tartar came and hit Wu Sangui's shoulder, but there was a double layer of armor on his body, and the arrow was not even broken, but it was just shaking and piercing on it.

Wu Sangui raised his hand, and the remaining loaded short gun slammed and shot a Tartar who was less than twenty paces away from him and had already raised his saber high from his horse.

Two shots were fired, and Wu Sangui quickly inserted the gun back into the gun bag and took off the Daguan knife. Wu Sangui likes to use a big knife, not a gun, and he prefers to slash at the enemy.

With a loud roar, Wu Sangui slashed obliquely and cut off a Tartar from his horse. Several other Tartars saw that he was gorgeously dressed and armored, and knew that he must be a general, and they all swung their knives to cut them, but the elite soldiers around him had already rushed up and shot them down with chopping belts.

Ning Yuan's cavalry rushed through the battle, Wu Sanguile turned his horse's head, hung up his broadsword, and took out two more handcuffs from the saddle bag. Rushed up again.

In the distance, the Qing army heard the sound of guns in front of them, and Duoduo and the others couldn't help but change their faces greatly.

"It's a brigade of Ming troops, hurry, rush up and kill them all!"

The cavalry quickened and galloped up.

But when they rushed to the battlefield, they found that the battle was over.

In front of Zilharang and the others were corpses all over the place, and none of the more than 200 horsemen they sent to pursue them survived at this time. Zilharang's face changed greatly, and the two hundred cavalry were killed so quickly.

"Damn!"

At the other end of the battlefield, Wu Sangui had regrouped, his Guan knife was still dripping blood, and his battle robe was stained with blood.

"Hahaha, it's a pleasure to kill, this riding gun is really a sharp weapon to kill Tartars, Chu Guogong is honest and doesn't deceive me! Hahaha! Wu Sangui laughed.

"Come, Tartars, let's fight today!" (To be continued......)

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