Chapter 328: Wu Sangui (Text)
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It is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers.
Zhai Zhe took advantage of the retreat of the cavalry on the right flank of the Qing Dynasty, covered up for a while, and retreated to order: "Break through to the left flank!" ”
Feng Qin commanded the grenadiers to throw out a powder bag and, in the midst of a deafening explosion, urged the birds to mount their horses and kill the left flank of the Qing captives. At this point, the two armies and horses circled around the smoke in the middle, confronting each other from northwest to southeast, and then confronting each other from north to south, so that the official road to the east gave way.
"Breakout!" Zhai Zhe ordered the soldiers to blow the horn, revealing his true purpose, and he could see in his sight that the banner of the pursuers was already more than ten miles away, and it was too late to leave at this time.
"To the east!" The heralds galloped.
Meng Kang scolded: "Rat pigtail thief, grandpa spares you from death." Although he was arrogant, he was not slow at all, and led the cavalry to flee to the east after Zuo Ruo.
In a panic, Qing Yu suddenly felt a sudden decrease in pressure, and when Duoduo came to his senses, he saw that Han was fleeing in the direction he was coming from.
"Fooled!" Duoduo's face was always hot, and he roared, "Pursuit! ”
Qinglu's pursuit was quite fierce, Zhai Zhe's cavalry ran away, and Duoduo waited for work, and the two teams of cavalry bit to death. Dorgon was so angry, from contempt to panic to humiliation, he seemed to feel Dolgon's cold gaze staring at him, full of disappointment.
Xiao Zhiyan's arms were sore, the quiver was empty, and there were more than a dozen Qing captives who died under his arrows today. The light cavalry was powerless to stop the attack, Zhai Zhe ordered the two teams of light cavalry to go first, retreat in the direction of Liaodong, and lead the slightly better Chinese army to break the rear, and fight and retreat. The wounded soldiers and horses slowly could not support themselves, and they fell behind and were overwhelmed by the Qing army.
Zhai Zhe personally went into battle to block the attack, no blood could be seen on the dark waist knife, and there was no blood on the cyan clothes, but his heart was bleeding.
"What the hell is this fighting, besieged by the Qing captives under the capital!" Every fallen soldier was his brainchild, and it was hypocritical to say that he treated those people as brothers, but he would never want them to die like this.
The two teams of cavalry were tail-to-tail, only two or three miles apart, and the oppression made Zhai Zhe almost suffocated, so he had to escape. Had it not been for this situation, he would have even had the hope of defeating Dodor's six thousand cavalry.
It wasn't until it was getting dark and almost reached the boundary of Jixian County that Duoduo received Dorgon's order to withdraw his troops and retreat.
Zhai Zhe collected the remnants of the army with the help of the remaining light in the snow, and lost more than 500 cavalry in the battle.
Found a sheltered place to camp at the foot of the mountain, the atmosphere in the army was depressing, the soldiers were empty, and the hunger was unbearable. It is a miracle that Liu Suifeng's clumsy equestrian skills can hold on and not be left behind on the way.
Zhai Zhe inspected the army and ordered, "General Xiao, go to Jixian County to collect grain and grass!" ”
"Yes!" Xiao Zhiyan led more than 200 cavalry away. There are only thirty miles of road here in Jixian County, and the Qing captives attacked several county seats, and Jixian County escaped the clutches of the devil by luck.
The nights in winter were cold, and the soldiers who had experienced the cold winter of Saibei also felt a little unwell after consuming a huge amount of body. More than an hour later, Xiao Zhiyan replied empty-handed: "Jixian County doesn't open the city gate, no matter what I call it, the defenders don't agree to provide food, saying that they are not sure whether we are the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty." ”
"In addition to the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, will there be Han cavalry here?" Zhai Zhe tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart.
"Wait for dawn, don't blame the defenders for not daring to open the door in the middle of the night!" Liu persuaded with the wind.
What can you do if you don't wait, do you want to capture the county seat of Jixian County? Zhai Zhe turned his head to the army to appease the soldiers, eighty percent of these cavalry were taken by him from outside the fortress, they were as docile as sheep in front of him, and it was not a big deal to be hungry for a day.
The soldiers gathered the dead branches in the woods, lit them with smoke balls from the firearms camp, and made bonfires to keep them warm.
Endure the cold, and wait for the sky to brighten, Zhai Zhe was about to go to Jixian County to ask for food, and the scout came to say: "There is a soldier and horse on the official road in the east. ”
Zhai Zhe didn't dare to be careless, and ordered the sergeant to get on the horse and stand by, and he took Xiao Zhiyan to Gaopo Mountain to look into the distance. I saw a cavalry in the east of Jixian County, with a clear banner, and the "Ming" and "Wu" flags were waving in the wind.
"Liaoning Qinwang's soldiers and horses are here!" Zhai Zhe's spirits were a little lifted, and he ordered the sergeants to play the banner.
Soon the cavalry on the opposite side also appeared to them, and a column of thirty or forty cavalry rushed straight over, greeting from afar: "Is the person who came from Xuanda Town's soldiers and horses?" This is General Wu of Ningyuan Town. ”
"Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Ningyuan!" Zhai Zhe read it silently, and he still had some impressions of this name. He beckoned his own soldiers to Wei Fang to accompany him, urging the jujube red horse to gallop forward to greet him, after all, his official rank was one level lower.
"I am Zhai Zhe, the deputy general of Datong." Zhai Zhe stepped forward to report to his home.
The leader of the cavalry who came was slightly surprised, and led Zhai Zhe to the army. When he was about three or four hundred paces away from the cavalry of the brigade, thirty or forty horsemen flew out of it, one of whom had a fair face, a hooked nose, a knife and a shaved face, and a tiger's back and a wolf's waist, and arched his hand: "Vice General Zhai?" In the lower Wu Sangui! ”
"Mr. Wu! Exactly under it! Zhai Zhe returned the salute. He was curious about what this long-standing soldier looked like, and he couldn't help but look twice. Wu Sangui is surprisingly young, and he is even younger than him in appearance. In fact, Wu Sangui is indeed younger than Zhai Zhe, if Zhai Zhe's twenty-nine-year-old deputy general is rare in the Ming Army, then Wu Sangui was promoted to Ningyuan General at the age of nineteen, and he is the only one in the army.
"Long admiration!" Wu Sangui's face opened, dissipating a gloomy aura that came with it.
"Vice General Zhai, has this ever engaged with Qing Yu?" Wu Sangui looked concerned.
"Exactly, the Qing captives surrounded the Changping Imperial Mausoleum, I was ordered to rescue, and I was pursued here." Zhai Zhe smiled bitterly.
"Is the Qing army ahead?" Wu Sangui's upper body leaned forward slightly.
"Qingyu retreated yesterday and is now stationed in Tongzhou!" Zhai Zhe told him the truth, he thought about it and said: "The cavalry in our army is chased ****, people are sleepy and horses are lacking, there is no food and grass, can General Wu help him." ”
Wu Sangui was stunned for a moment, and agreed: "Of course you can, they are all soldiers and horses of the imperial court." ”
Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda, was the governor of the world this time, and Wu Sangui certainly would not embarrass Xuanda soldiers and horses in such trivial matters.
After receiving food and grass relief from Ningyuan Town's reinforcements, Zhai Zhe's soldiers immediately buried the pot and cooked.
Hearing that there might be Qing soldiers and horses in front, Wu Sangui also stationed on the spot, waiting for the cavalry to follow. Wu Sangui didn't seem to want to get too close to Zhai Zhe, and after sending grain and grass, he ordered Guan Ning's army to be stationed about three or four miles away from Zhai Zhe's department. The Guanning cavalry was a famous arrogant general in the Ming Dynasty, and with Zhai Zhe's new defeat, Wu Sangui didn't look down on him very much.
During the casual chat, the sergeant heard that 30,000 cavalry from Guanning Town had come to King Qin this time, and Zhai Zhe's heart was a little calm. With so many cavalry in Guanning Town, plus nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses in Xuanda Town, it is not impossible to win the battle with the Qing Dynasty, after all, the battlefield is in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
After eating his stomach, Zhai Zhe said goodbye to Wu Sangui in the afternoon and led the army to Changping to try to advance, after all, he was the soldier and horse of Xuanda Town, and he still had an order.