On the twenty-first day of the first month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Changsheng Island ushered in another early morning.

The horses were being pulled to the small boat with great difficulty, in order to help them board the sea, the small boats were also specially equipped with a walking board, when the sky was bright, there were still fifty horses left on the shore, Hong Antong led the internal guards to stand beside Huangshi, he looked at the sky, and glanced at the direction of the old camp, and asked in a low voice: "Your Excellency, do you need your subordinates to urge the He guerrillas?"

Yesterday the officers led a large number of troops out of the artillery team, and the team also set off under the leadership of Duncan, today is the last and most troublesome horse team, and the last batch of baggage will also be carried away.

In the past, He Dingyuan would always be the first to go, but this time he said that since the horse team would be the last to go, he also wanted to be the last to go. Huang Shi agreed to his request after a little thought, but he himself definitely wanted to be the last to go to the old camp on Immortal Island, and he had to explain it. Fortunately, there is also Wu Mu, the prison army, he took two Jinyi guards and left first, anyway, the temporary place of the army is Jinzhou, there is a strong fortress defense, and there is no large Houjin army nearby.

"Let's wait until the horses are all on board, and we'll wait. Huang Shi thought with some envy about He Dingyuan's current situation, and there was a woman who cared about him and put on a battle robe for him.

For a military general like He Dingyuan, the firefighting battalion still gave some convenience, and his wife could spend the last night before the expedition with him in the old camp.

When the auxiliaries began to load the last of their baggage onto the boat, the long-awaited Huang Shi turned to see He Dingyuan coming out of the old camp, and a woman followed him half a step in the same direction.

He Dingyuan walked towards Huangshi with his helmet in his arms, stopped ten meters away and said to his wife, "I'm leaving." Then he turned around and put on his helmet, and while tightening the helmet sling, he asked, "Your Excellency is not late, is he?"

"Not very timely. Huang Shi pursed the corners of his mouth and said lightly: "Let's get on the boat." ”

"Yes, my lord. He Dingyuan replied loudly. He strode forward two steps, hesitated, and finally replied, "Be careful of the child in your belly." I'm leaving. ”

Mrs. He lowered her eyebrows and replied, "The master can rest assured that the concubine will send the master on the expedition." ”

Huang Shi's impression of Mrs. He is very good, this impression is from the first sight of this woman, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the hereditary generals also began to learn from the luxurious wealthy. They have wrapped their daughter's little feet. By the late Ming Dynasty, half of the Jiangmen's daughters were also small-footed. For example, Yellowstone's former fiancée is. But He Dingyuan's wife is Tianzu, and Huang Shi thinks that this is because the Ganxi border army has been fighting hard with foreigners for 200 years, and the generals of the Qin army have not been infected with extravagance.

Huang Shi turned around and walked towards the boat, He Dingyuan was only half a position behind him, the two of them and the guards further back stepped out of the neat heavy footsteps, coupled with the sonorous roar of the armor on their bodies, still couldn't suppress Mrs. He's soft voice: "Concubine, I wish my lord a victory, and the horse will be successful......

The female voice in the wind whispered what the wife of a military attache thought she should say. Huang Shi also secretly shouted in his heart for this: "She really deserves to be the daughter of Jiangmen." Recalling the history of the late Ming Dynasty in his previous life, the Qin army, whether it was against Ordos, Mongolia, the Qing army, or the peasant army, was the well-deserved No. 1 elite army of the Ming Empire.

During the decisive battle of Jinzhou, which decided the luck of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Liaoxi military generals with Wu Sangui took the private army and took the first step without saying hello, and the Guan Ning army, which escaped from the battle, returned to Ningyuan unharmed, but this led the Ming army of 100,000 troops to bomb the camp. This kind of anecdote of 100,000 soldiers being defeated together has never been heard of in Chinese history. At that time, only 30,000 Qin troops remained unmoved in the rolling torrent of southern flight. Later, the momentum of the decisive assault of hundreds of Qin troops could also frighten the guards of the Yellow Flag of the Imperial Camp of Huang Taiji to flee, forcing Huang Taiji to almost draw his sword himself. After the danger, Huang Taiji scolded angrily: Even if you are defeated, even if you are crushed, even if you run away, even if you run away, you don't know how to call the police, can this be regarded as the imperial guard? Unfortunately, there are too few Qin troops. If the 130,000 troops led by Hong Chengchou were all Qin troops, then it would definitely be time for Huang Taiji to return to the village crying.

Just as Huang Shi stepped on the pedal with his right foot, a scream suddenly came from behind him: "My lord." ”

Huang Shi, who was stunned, saw Mrs. He's heroine running over quickly, and the young woman knelt at Huang Shi's feet without even lifting her skirt, and her generous voice turned into a woman's sad voice: "My lord, for the sake of my concubine, I ask my lord to protect my lord." ”

"Nonsense. Before Huang Shi could speak, He Dingyuan became furious, and he waved his arm vigorously and drew a large circle from his wife's bun: "How did you teach you at home? How did I teach you? Go back and don't show your eyes here!"

The young woman trembled in fright and bowed again: "The concubine has lost her words, which makes the adults laugh." She stood up and took two steps back in cringe, biting the corners of her mouth that trembled gently, and there was already a glint in her eyes.

Huang Shi turned around and faced He Dingyuan's wife, he tore away He Dingyuan in front of him, and let this guy with a changing expression on his face stand aside: "Brother and sister, Brother He is just like my brother and sister in Huang Shi, just rest assured, go back and live in peace." ”

"The concubine thanked the lord. ”

He Dingyuan said impatiently: "Go quickly, don't show your eyes, otherwise your reputation will be ruined." ”

The rude He Dingyuan blasted away his wife and boarded the ship with Huangshi. When the two of them looked at the boat, Huang Shi sighed coldly: "It's good to know that there will be someone in the family who cares." ”

"The woman's head is long and her knowledge is short, which makes the adults laugh. After He Dingyuan finished speaking, Huang Shi turned his head to look at the expression on his face, which made He Dingyuan's face turn red all of a sudden: "The woman's opinion is really ...... Alas. He Dingyuan shook his head, and then looked up and saw that Huang Shi was still staring at him, his face was still that strange expression, and his face suddenly became even redder, and finally he couldn't help but laugh to himself, and said in a low voice: "It's good, alas." ”

The general and his guerrilla were silent for a while, and the guerrilla broke the silence again and said, "My lord. The subordinates have something to ask for. ”

"I don't want to hear it. Huang Shi knew what He Dingyuan wanted to say, and he also knew that this was feudal superstition. But now he also hated to listen to bad words, and no one in the army liked to hear them. Huang Shi added: "If there is anything to say, we will wait until we go back to Immortal Island." ”

But He Dingyuan chattered and said: "When my lord's subordinates were very young, my family sued me, since I was born in a military general's family. Then don't think about dying in bed, and the elders of the clan will die on the battlefield seven or eight times out of ten, so the subordinates have long had the consciousness of the horse leather shroud......"

Huang Shi's eyes looked forward, silently listening to He Dingyuan's rambling with his ears and heart, he wanted to drink He Dingyuan's nagging at first. But thinking that He Dingyuan had followed him for so long since Guangning, eating bread with coarse grains and chewing wild vegetables from the ground. Drinking boiled alfalfa soup with salt, eating pork occasionally during the New Year's holidays, he also accused He Dingyuan of grabbing ribs with his hands and gnawing them, and finally grabbing bones and sticks to suck the marrow, looking like a demon reincarnated.

It's been a long time, and he hasn't let He Dingyuan live a good day and enjoy a day of happiness. Although Huang Shi was just joking without malice at the time, now that he thinks about it, he can't help but feel guilty in his heart, and he can't bear to interrupt He Dingyuan's confession.

“...... As a military general, his subordinates don't know what will happen tomorrow today. Besides, on the first day of junior high school, there are still fifteen subordinate children, and the adults are asked to take care of them more. He Dingyuan gritted his teeth and said in a hoarse voice what Huangshi strictly forbidden: "It's really that day." The subordinates implore the adults to deign to accept their children as their righteous sons, and then recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors after they become a family. Please also ask the adults to train him into a dignified general, and don't let him fall into the style of my He family's ancestors. ”

Huang Shi just sighed, but didn't say anything reproachful, and He Dingyuan, who was encouraged, felt that this was already a tacit approval: "If it is a girl, I implore the adults to accept her as a righteous daughter, and then choose a capable son-in-law for her subordinates, so that their mother and daughter can be supported...... If so, if it dies...... That's also a subordinate successor, as long as you keep the incense. ”

Huang Shi felt that He Dingyuan was really a mother-in-law today, no wonder it was said that women are like wood and men are like earth, marriage is not only a problem, but the soul will also begin to blend, and now He Dingyuan is worried in his heart.

Today, He Dingyuan also felt a little inexplicable, and unconsciously poured out all the hidden worries that had been hidden in his heart. But the words had already been spoken, and when he saw that Huang Shi was silent, he called out in a low voice: "My lord." Then Huang Shi, who was still silent, took a step and his voice trembled a little: "My lord, but I have allowed my subordinates?"

At this time, Huangshi's eyes flashed in front of him, and the scenes since he met He Dingyuan: an arrogant and untamed ordinary soldier in Guangning fought bravely on the expedition to Liaodong, fought bravely along the way, and was attacked by Kong Youde on the night he waved his gun in front of him, and captured the flag in the Battle of Lushun......

These pictures made Huang Shi blurt out: "Brother He, you have been doing a very good job, very good, I really owe you a lot." He was about to agree to He Dingyuan's request, but a mysterious fear suddenly appeared, which made the atheist Huang Shi change his words and say: "But I will not agree to this request, you go and raise your children yourself." ”

As soon as these words came out, Huang Shi felt inexplicably relieved in his heart, He Dingyuan's words just now added a faint worry to his chest, as if it was blown away by the sea breeze, Huang Shi quickly let out a breath, and when he spoke again, his tone became very light, and the words he said were like a prophecy: "Brother He, you will definitely be able to personally glorify the lintel of your ancestors, make your home full of glory and benefit your descendants, I am convinced of this." ”

The tone and wording of this passage made Huangshi himself stunned for a moment, which evoked a memory hidden in his heart: four years ago, in Guangning City, there were also people in Guangning City who predicted Huangshi's fate in the same conclusive tone as a fortune teller, and the fortune teller described Huangshi's meteoric prosperity and ended with "I am convinced of this" - if the prophecy will come true, Brother He, this is what I, Huangshi promised you.

Fort Golden State is finally in sight.

Being young is already a characteristic of the Dongjiang Army, and in front of them, two young Dongjiang officers knelt down on one knee in front of Huangshi, respectfully with a little admiration and worship in their tones: "Humble Li Chengfeng, Dongjiang Garrison, Governor of the Department of Command, Jinzhou Fort, see Lord Huang." "This Golden State guard looks dignified and talented.

"Humble Zhang, Fat Cat, Dongjiang Governor, plus guerrilla rank, Guanxuanfeng Battalion, see Lord Huang. "This commander of the Xuan Feng Battalion is five short statures. Strong is strong, but not fat at all.

The Xuanfeng battalion had already tried to relieve Nanguan, and the road from Jinzhou Fort to Nanguan was a little longer than he had originally thought. The damn Ming map is so imprecise. The two are about twenty-four or five miles away, but there are about 4,000 Houjin troops in the middle, and nearly half of them are soldiers.

"How about building a slave camp?"

"Back to Lord Huang, I Jinzhou has always been stuck in the road of Jiannu, and there is no baggage to pass, so there are only some simple tents. There were no strong barracks or trenches. ”

"Therefore, as long as our army wins the field battle, the siege of Nanguan will be lifted. ”

Zhang Fat Cat hummed and whispered, "Lord Huang Mingjian." ”

There were only more than 500 soldiers in Nanguan Fort, but more than 7,000 auxiliaries were covered, so it was impossible to take the initiative to break through at all. To the delight of Huangshi, their morale may not have collapsed, so the soldiers did not leave their auxiliaries and risk breaking through, of course, they may not be able to break through. But this also shows that Nanguan at least maintains basic military discipline and order, and there is no fear of the crazy Cheng dù. So there's still a chance.

"Jiannu captured Fort Arthur three days ago, and there are more than 100 miles of land from Lushun to Nanguan, and the road is very difficult to walk. This is about a distance that requires cavalry to walk for a day and a night, but Jiannu needs to carry Lushun's baggage, without these baggage, they can't capture Nanguan, and ......" Huang Shi smiled miserably at his subordinates: "After Jiannu breaks through Lushun, it will inevitably be slaughtered, which will also delay them for a night or half a day." Therefore, the 23rd is the deadline, and we will go out early tomorrow morning to relieve the siege of Nanguan, and then retreat to Jinzhou. ”

Staff officer Huang Shi did not bring the technology and means of communication from the end of the Ming Dynasty this time, and could not support the emergency operations of the staff headquarters. Huang Shi only had a dictatorship this time: "The whole army has a good rest tonight, tomorrow Li Chengfeng will take 200 troops to defend Jinzhou Fort, and the rest of the Xuanfeng battalion, the soldiers and the firefighting battalion will attack together, and the main force of Jiannu should not have time to rush back, and even if it can, there should be only a small number of elite cavalry." Our army is also enough to meet the battle. ”

In the early morning of the next day, in a noisy land, Jinzhou Fort mobilized the entire military household in the city, because there were not many horses, so all the livestock had to be requisitioned and collected by the military households, ploughing cattle, mules and donkeys, of course, needless to say, Li Chengfeng originally wanted to drag the dogs out and pull the cart, but now it is really not possible, and he regrets it later: "I knew that I would have slaughtered them all yesterday, and I could also give the soldiers more meat, hey, it was too late to come out." ”

The strong women of the Jinzhou Fort military households were also mobilized, and finally they gathered nearly 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, who either carried cable trailers with cattle, or pushed some one-wheeled or two-wheeled wooden wrenches, and some carried the armor and baggage of the soldiers. Duncan's artillery team also followed the march with ease, and the six bronze cannons made the Selector Battalion very envious, and they dispatched hundreds of auxiliaries and carefully dragged the cannons behind the column.

The soldiers then marched out in formation, and on the way, the officers and men of the fire battalion carried only their spears or muskets, and the helmets were also carried behind them, while the horses were fully armed at the front of the line.

After more than ten miles of travel, the horse team at the front quickly dispersed into a long column, and Huang Shi was about to give an order, and the infantry at the front was in armor, when he saw the vanguard He Dingyuan's herald coming: "Lord Jiannu has retreated." ”

So the whole army continued to march into Huangshi, with the escort team to catch up with the forward, Zhang Feimao also took his own soldiers, followed closely behind Huangshi, when they arrived in front of the army, He Dingyuan first glared at Zhang Feimao, and then bowed to Huangshi on the horse and said: "There are no two thousand soldiers, that is, more than a thousand batches of armor! Jiannu still has more than 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, and there are almost no horses, and they quickly retreated after seeing the banner of my fire battalion." ”

Zhang Fat Cat didn't dare to speak, just shrank his head, and He Dingyuan no longer looked at him, but asked, "Do you want to pursue?"

The banner of the Houjin army in the distance was still tight, but their storage zài blocked the reconnaissance cavalry of the fire battalion, forming a military barrier, Huang Shi muttered for a few seconds, and then ordered: "The whole army continues to advance, and you can stop when you reach the flank of Nanguan, as long as our army covers the friendly retreat to Jinzhou, it is already a victory." "I knew that the Houjin army was so easy to retreat, and I didn't know how to transport some food? But this idea was to stay for a while, and when Huangshi saw the rudimentary Nanguan Fort, he gave up this idea, and with Lushun's heavy food, the Jin army only needed to build siege equipment, and it was more difficult to hold on to Nanguan, which was not completed. The defenders of Nanguan had already seen the vast contingent of the Ming army, and quickly sent people out to contact Huangshi, ordering that they should not run away indiscriminately, but should be neatly arranged, and the chief officer led the team to leave, which team was neatly lined up first, and which team left first, and the women from Jinzhou returned immediately. The soldiers in Nanguan were handed over to Zhang Feimao to return to the building. Along with the fire battalion, it was broken.

In addition, there were more than 9,000 auxiliary soldiers from Jinzhou, and it was not easy for the Ming army auxiliary soldiers to complete the rectification, and the two battalions of nearly 5,000 soldiers slowly followed and withdrew after the huge column.

After dozens of years, the Jin army silently tossed around the Ming army for a morning, and Huangshi tried to expel them from the battlefield several times, but failed, and they followed behind the Ming army without leaving. He Dingyuan built yì with cavalry charges, dragged them down, and then sent out infantry to attack in an all-out way. But Yellowstone refused to expend its precious cavalry, nor did it want to be dragged further south. Therefore, it was denied that there were too few cavalry to build a fire-fighting battalion, which was very inconvenient.

At noon, the Ming army had slowly broken away from Nanguanbao, and the firefighting battalion horse team that was originally the vanguard was now changed to the rearguard. He Dingyuan leaned over again and asked, "Do you want to burn Nanguan?"

"No need, anyway, if the slaves are going to be burned, let them burn them, if they don't burn it, we can also save some energy when we build Nanguan Fort again." ”

As the Ming army slowly retreated, the Jin army also quietly followed. They suddenly rushed towards Nanguan, and the first to rush into the city shouted violently.

He Dingyuan and Zhang Feimao both squinted at the actions of the Houjin Army, and Wu Mu, who accompanied the action, couldn't help but open his mouth and said the doubts in his heart: "What is Jiannu doing?"

Huang Shi, who had just woken up from a dream, laughed: "Isn't it the kind of siege that must be stopped? They have been waiting for us to burn the city or retreat." It seems that the more than 20-mile road from Nanguan to Jinzhou Jiannu doesn't want us to finish it well. ”

In Yellowstone's loud laughter, the people around him turned to ashes one by one. Huang Shi, who was laughing unabated, waved his horsewhip and guided the party in the air: "The main force of Jiannu must be within ten miles, but at most fifteen miles away, and after our army leaves Nanguan, if the castle is burned, it will give them a signal to attack." Now, although our army did not burn the castle, it only allowed our army to safely walk less than five miles more, and there are still more than ten miles to go. ”

Everyone looked at Nanguanbao, and fireworks were rising into the sky......

"Since General Huang saw through Jiannu's cunning, why don't you give the order to go down and march?" Wu Mucai shouted, and was pulled by Zhang Gaosheng behind him. Wu Mu rolled his eyes and coughed embarrassedly: "Our family has lost its words." ”

Under the road conditions at the end of the Ming Dynasty, if the army was let go and these 14,000 people came to play a marathon together, it was estimated that most of them would be tired and lie down in Jinzhou before they reached Jinzhou. Moreover, if the army is in a state of confusion, it will inevitably trample on itself, even if it is a fire-fighting battalion, only the cavalry may escape safely, and the remaining infantry will not be caught up and run to death by themselves, and the two thousand infantry in the whole battalion will survive, I am afraid that there will be one out of ten.

Wu Mu was shocked at first glance. After he came to his senses, he followed up and asked Huang Shidao: "Will Ji An come out?"

Huang Shi laughed three times: "Gonggong Wu raised the last general, where will the last general have any plans, and the last general will not rely on strategy to fight. From Liaoyang to Shaling, and then through the expedition to Lushun all the way, Huangshi felt more and more that he was not worthy of conspiracy in front of the heroes of this era, and he resolutely shouted to the guards around him: "Order the whole army to stop." ”

After listening to this order, Wu Mu also understood Huang Shi's plan: "Is it the only way to go?"

Huang Shi only said two words briefly: "Yes." When the troops had stopped, they shouted loudly: "Order the soldiers to line up in armor!"

- Strategically, I, Huangshi, have already been defeated, and the opponent is expecting the enemy's opportunities everywhere, but I am at a loss...... But in any case, the final result will depend on tactics and battles, right? Huang Taiji is going to let you see the positive strength of my fire battalion today.

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