Chapter 718: Borrowing a Knife as Well
Let's say that Qin sent Yan Hongdian to send a three-way army, with a total of nearly 50,000 horse infantry troops and nearly 1,000 artillery pieces, and swept out of Malian Fort. After that, the left and right armies and horses first dispersed and marched, Yan Hong and Yang Shun stood side by side in the middle of the army, and the rest of the more than ten generals served on both sides. Yan Hong said: "When marching and fighting at night, you need to divide the order. I have heard for a long time that Uncle Yang's standard camp is very elite, so how about being a pioneer? ”
When Yang Shun came to the end, he regretted it again. I want my standard battalion to take the lead, and this is not a small danger. When he agreed, he always felt that he was at a loss, but he had to refuse, Yan Hong had already explained the way in the fortress before, and he didn't know how to phrase it. Yan Hong stared at Yang Shun's eyes and added a few words softly: "Uncle Yang, although our army has many soldiers and horses, we must always order unity." This Tartar is a well-known rival of the Celestial Empire, if you send those useless guards to take the lead, you are afraid that you will collapse at the first touch, but you will impulse the formation behind, so you must choose the elite as the vanguard. The only elite troops in the middle of the lane are my Qincha Guards and your uncle's Governor's Battalion. If you feel sorry for the standard camp and refuse to send it, then you have to lead the escort team with my little nephew and me. It's just that my escort team has been fighting in Malianbao for several days before, and has suffered two or three percent casualties. Uncle's standard camp is now alive and well, and the theory should also contribute to the heavenly family. Otherwise, how to explain it when you turn around? Even Liang Zi, who killed Shen Qingxia, always has to have some blood to resolve it, isn't it the best way to kill the enemy before this battle? ”
Yang Shun was so little by Yan Hong, and he knew that he couldn't hide from it. But I still have some apprehension in my heart. Yan Hong said again: "Uncle doesn't have to worry too much. After several days of bloody fighting, the Tartars were already badly injured and burned with forage. The amount is hard work. It may not be better than your uncle's standard camp. In case it doesn't work. I picked up the army and then came. Not to mention that there are two military horses on the left and right, this battle is foolproof, it is to give my uncle a cheap credit. ”
Although Yang Shun doesn't know soldiers, he is not an idiot, how can it be so cheap to fight with the Mongols. But I understand that this drudgery can't be escaped, and Yan Hong made it clear what he said before, your standard battalion must fight a big battle and die some soldiers and horses. I'll be able to obscure your immobility when I go back and tell you. Therefore, he had to grit his teeth and say: "What the boss of Qincha said is that Yang personally led the standard battalion as the first battle, and asked Qincha to send reinforcements to respond." "Arching his hand towards Yan Hong, galloping into his own standard camp team, an order, the standard camp died down and marched north.
Yan Hong saw that Yang Shun was gone, and secretly sneered, so he gave an order to make the three thousand military horses of Ma Jin's department the second formation. Yu Dayou's car battalion was the third formation, which was dispatched in turn. And he commanded it again. These two groups of soldiers and horses do not need to move too fast, and must send scouts to listen to the situation of the Governor's standard camp in front at any time, as well as to probe the surrounding enemy. The tiger driver and the two hundred brocade guards were arranged in the team of the Ma Jin Department and walked together. The remaining more than ten generals, guerrillas, Qianhu and other generals followed the two wings of the Majin team, and one battalion after another lined up with wild goose wings, waiting for the generals of the Qin Mission, and the camera moved.
The order was handed down, and the armies set off one after another, quietly sneaking in this dark night. Although the quality of training of these soldiers varied, they all knew that this night attack on the Mongols was a risky work, and if the enemy discovered it by making a sound, it would cause the whole army to lose their heads. Therefore, apart from the muffled passphrase, there is very little small talk.
Yan Hong's side, under the protection of the regiment of two hundred brocade guards and cavalry, marched on the right flank of the Majin army array. Wang Ting, Liu Lian, Yun Chuqi, Ye Zhengfei and other backbones of Jinyi Wei are all in the team, but only Zhang Qingyan is around. The two left legs were next to the right legs, rubbing against each other, biting their ears and talking as they walked.
Zhang Qingyan said softly: "Xianggong, Yang Shun's standard camp has passed like this, or it won't be long before he has to fight with the Tartars." But I don't know how this Xin Ai Huang Taiji will deploy troops. ”
Yan Hong said: "If I loved Huang Taiji, I would have retreated a long time ago." It's clear that you can't win the battle, and the forage is gone, so what are you doing? Just waiting for others to make mistakes to pick up the leaks, this is the same as trying to make a fortune by throwing dice. However, since Huang Taiji had been in the north of Malianbao for so long, he must have been reluctant to fight the previous battles. Today, I deliberately let go of the White Lotus Sect disciple Zhao Lei and asked him to bring a message back, just to provoke Xin Ai Huang Taiji. Xin Ai Huang Taiji listened to my message, this battle is even more important, just ask him to fight to the death with Yang Shun first. Qingyan, this is still your strategy, forcing Yang Shun to fight with Huang Taiji, hehe, now I am two heads of light, Yang Shun won is to remove the Tartars, Yang Shun defeated the national thieves, anyway, I don't suffer. ”
Zhang Qingyan covered his mouth and smiled: "Xianggong is really rich and lucky, and he will not suffer any loss." Although Yang Shun's standard battalion was elite and had to meet with 20,000 Mongolian cavalry, it was still far behind. If he really wants to fight, I think he can count it as luck if he is not completely annihilated. I'm afraid that Huang Taiji will see your army counterattacking, so he will retreat, and instead of fighting, he will pick up a ready-made for Yang Shun. ”
Yan Hong said: "Yang Shun's luck is really good to this point, Huang Taiji actually fled without a fight, and gave him a credit for winning without a fight, then I have nothing to say." If this is the case, after returning to Beijing, I will report Yang Shun to the charges of ineffective rescue, arson to the enemy's escape, and lax control of the standard camp, murder and arson, and let my grandfather and father demote him, and then put his gang of sub-standard camps in order. But I think he's probably going to have to give the Tartar a solid fight. When the time comes, let this gang of robbers also taste the strength of the Tartar formation, lest these bastards only know how to bully the common people and the general border army in the rear. ”
According to the documents he snatched from Shen Lian and the results of his own investigation, including some information provided by Yang Ye of Shanxi Jinyi Wei Qianhu, Yan Hong knew that Yang Shun's group of people in the standard camp had a very bad character. Speaking of which, at the beginning, the standard camp of Liu Cai, the governor of Shandong, although it was infiltrated by the White Lotus Sect, even the standard general Shen Yu was the master of the White Lotus Sect, it can be said that it was completely deteriorated, and in the end, he almost killed Qin Cha directly. But these fanatical cultists are anti-court and anti-court, but they don't harass the people much, and the military discipline is quite good in peacetime. Therefore, after Yan Hong quelled the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect and killed Shen Yu, he smoothly incorporated the remaining standard battalions into the city defense team, and also made great contributions. But Yang Shun's standard camp is completely different, relying on the power of the governor on weekdays, he is rampant and domineering, not only brutalizing the people, but also bullying other border soldiers and their families, like the Yuanmen He family who is now accepted as a servant by Sun Yuerong, her experience is only one example among tens of millions of people, and it is a relatively mild case. And another thing is that Yang Shun was in Xuanda for a few years, the Mongols invaded the war four times, and there were no less than dozens of small battles, and this standard battalion actually did not go to the battlefield once, but after each battle, Yang Shun reported to the imperial court in the music that inevitably bragged to them.
Yan Hong himself entered the big sauce jar of Ming Dynasty officialdom, and he was in the house of traitorous ministers, so he naturally would not be confined to any benevolence, righteousness and morality. But there are still joys and wrongs in some places. For example, Yang Shunbiao's behavior of not killing the enemy, but blindly killing innocent and weak people, was very unbearable for him. In addition, Yang Shun himself was bold behind his back in this trip to Xuanda, and dared to want to kill Young Master Yan with the sword of the Mongols, so don't blame Young Master Yan for being unkind. Yan Hong made up his mind to cut off this Governor's Standard Battalion. Well-trained soldiers are important, of course, but you have to be able to use them to my advantage. And the actions of the Governor Standard Battalion, in Yan Hong's view, are rotten from the roots.
In the Mongol military camp north of Malianbao.
The eldest son of the Great Khan of Western Mongolia, Xin Ai Huang Taiji, sat in the big tent and kicked the wine bowl away. He had drunk no more than a pound of mare's milk wine, and now his head was full of coaxing, but the anger in his heart was not only not extinguished by this wine, but seemed to burn even more. The wine-colored smell on his face, coupled with that resentment, accumulated on the face of the flesh and flesh, making this ugly face even more ugly. And the murderous aura in Huang Taiji's eyes strengthened the chilling sense of oppression.
Recalling that this time I sent troops to Malianbao, I really came while I was in good spirits and returned in defeat.
Xin Ai Huang Taiji was born lustful like a tiger, and at the beginning of the 37th year of Jiajing, because of the absconding of Taosong Village, he angrily sent troops to attack Xuanda. Later, I heard that the adulterer and adulteress fled, and finally followed the horse's hoof prints, but only found two corpses in the valley that were gnawed by wolves. Who knew that at the end of the year, Yan Ru, who was an undercover agent of the White Lotus Sect, sent a letter, saying that he had found out that Taosong Village was actually not dead, and had been used by the newcomer Yan Hong. This makes Huang Taiji how not to be angry. Li Zixin, an elder of the White Lotus Sect, said that this Yan Hongnai was the eldest grandson of Yan Song, the head of the Ming Dynasty, and the first favored courtier in front of Emperor Jiajing. Therefore, Huang Taiji once again raised the army and set out to fight the Ming Xuanda Border Pass.
Listening to the undercover narration of the White Lotus Sect, Yan Hongqin sent all the way to Malian Fort, and Huang Taiji immediately mobilized heavy troops, preparing to capture the dragon and behead him, and eliminate the young minister favored by the Ming Emperor. This is a matter of nine out of ten, so Huang Taiji braved the cold and froze to mobilize tens of thousands of cavalry, of which almost 30,000 were used in Malianbao, which is also a big deal for Western Mongolia. When sending troops, many of his father's ministers under Altan Khan did not agree and thought it was too much of a toss-up. It was Huang Taiji who stood alone in front of his father, and even drew a knife to be ruthless, which was in exchange for this opportunity. In the winter, there were thousands of horses that froze to death and starved to death, which was really a bloody investment for Western Mongolia. (To be continued......)