Volume 2 Heroes in Troubled Times Chapter 157: Grain and Grass (2)
Niu Guangtian looked at the Dashun army, less than a thousand people, dared to rush out of the field battle from the Black Stone Ridge, thinking that it was also an iron-blooded army, but he didn't want to go to war with the Dashun army, after all, grain and grass are more important, and in his heart, these Dashun troops are not so hateful, a few months ago, Jiang Zongbing led everyone to surrender to the Dashun army, and the generals did not have much discomfort, they were all Ming people, but they were just changing an emperor.
However, the Dashun army was defeated at Shanhaiguan, and the atmosphere in the army began to become different, many generals were not convinced by this group of mud legs, there were many reasons for the surrender of the Dashun army before, some really couldn't fight, and there was also a lack of soldiers and food, and there was no military pay, especially the Dashun army broke through the capital, forcing His Majesty's life and death to be unknown, and some generals in the army suddenly hated the Dashun army.
In Li Zicheng's hasty withdrawal from the capital, this sentiment finally broke out, Jiang Zongbing re-erected the Ming banner at this time, and was supported by many generals, but then Jiang Zongbing did an eye-catching thing, even mixed with the Qing army, and secretly let the Qing army envoy come to the army, learn the customs of the Qing people, and shave the hair of the whole army, which made many generals dissatisfied.
They followed Jiang Hao anyway, they wanted to re-erect the Ming banner, not to surrender to the Qing army outside the Guan, although the Qing army was brave and good at fighting, but everyone still didn't adapt, Niu Guangtian didn't say it on the surface, but there was still some blood in his heart.
This is also the reason why he did not attack Heishiling and let Murong Tu and other Dashun troops leave, but Murong Tu actually led a group of Dashun troops to kill from Heishiling, if Niu Guangtian continued to avoid the war, his subordinates would be dissatisfied, and he would not be able to obey the public, and there were even rats who told him, saying that he was passive in the battle with the Dashun army.
He ordered the grain cart to be in the middle, and the troops scattered near the grain cart to prevent the Dashun army from failing to raid, and burned the grain and grass with a fire.
The rebels soon formed a circle near the grain cart, and when Ling Jingyang saw it, he rode forward on his war horse, and said to Niu Guangtian in a place where he could not be hit by bows and arrows and firearms: "I have seen General Niu, I am Ling Jingyang, the left mighty general of the rear camp of the Dashun army." ”
Niu Guangtian held a shiny head on his head and returned to the camp to Ling Jingyang: "General Ling, is it your department that raided my forward army in Heishiling?" ”
"Ha, it was your army that attacked Heishiling first, if we hadn't led reinforcements to arrive, I'm afraid there wouldn't be a living person in this Heishiling."
"Shaft, I see that you don't want to live and want to die, so I'll send you to the western sky."
Niu Guangtian pulled out his waist knife and slashed forward, thousands of rebels launched an attack on the Dashun army, and Ling Jingyang led his troops to retreat to Heishiling.
Murong Tu looked at Ling Jingyang's approach, and couldn't help complaining: "General Ling, are you trying to kill each other?" ”
Ling Jingyang said to him: "Grind, grind, wait." ”
The Dashun army soon withdrew to Heishiling, and the entrance was heavily guarded by subordinates, and the rebels would not be able to attack the entrance for a while and a half, so they had to climb the mountain to attack, and were condescendingly beaten by the Dashun army.
Niu Guangtian did not give up, and he had many soldiers and horses, so he regrouped his team and attacked again, this time the rebels went head-on.
Behind the rebels, a Dashun army suddenly appeared, this team was Zhang Luofu and Leng Rutie's troops, and after the two troops escorted the four major families to the local area, they also followed to Heishiling.
They didn't follow the Lingjingyang road, but also thought that there was grain and grass in Heishiling, and rushed here with their troops, but they saw that the rebels were besieging Heishiling, and the banner on Heishiling was the Shiying military flag.
The two didn't say a word, and led the troops to lurk in the rear of the rebels, and saw Dong Daqi riding a war horse galloping towards Wei County.
Zhang Luofu asked Mei Shifeng to bring Dong Daqi over, Mei Shifeng is also a man with a big waist and a round waist, and he made a stop in the middle on the road where Dong Daqi was galloping.
"Dong Daqi, don't go back."
Mei Shifeng's behavior of blocking the road almost scared Dong Daqi to death, and after he saw that it was Mei Shifeng, he said very politely: "Mei Shifeng, your turtle son get out of the way of Lao Tzu, General Ling is fighting with the rebels in Heishiling, and Lao Tzu is going to Wei County to ask for reinforcements." ”
"Big man Dong, we are here, what reinforcements are you going to ask for, when you come back with reinforcements, the daylilies will be cold."
Zhang Luofu carried a spear and got up from the grass, and with him were more than 1,000 soldiers such as Leng Rutie.
Dong Daqi hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up and support the general, there are thousands of rebels, and if you don't go to the general, you will be besieged by the rebels." ”
Zhang Luofu asked Dong Daqi to roll aside: "Don't you see us lurking here?" Halfway through the attack, we launched a surprise attack to make the rebels' assholes bloom. ”
Dong Daqi's heart was full of white water, he was too lazy to talk to Zhang Luofu, and whipped the horse's buttocks with a horsewhip, and the war horse continued to gallop towards Wei County.
There are thousands of rebels, more than all the Dashun troops near Heishiling, Leng Rutie and Zhang Luofu discussed how to raid the rebels, Leng Rutie suddenly looked at the battlefield of Heishiling not far away, and felt a little strange.
"Zhang Luofu, you see that these rebels are weak in attacking, is General Ling deliberately luring the rebels to attack?"
Zhang Luofu looked at the past, it seems that it is also, these rebels are fighting hard, and every time they attack, they are repulsed when they are halfway through, the general is doing this, is he trying to play with the rebels?
Ling Jingyang is really playing the rebels, the vanguard army with the strongest combat effectiveness of the rebels was killed in the previous battle, and the remaining thousands of rebels, the vast majority of them are armed civilians, and only a few soldiers can be regarded as soldiers.
He led his direct troops to garrison on the west side of the Black Stone Ridge, Murong Tu led the troops to defend the mountain pass, and Li Daoli took his own soldiers and quietly went to the north side of the Black Stone Ridge.
There is a small road on the north side, you can detour behind the Niuguangtian rebels, Li Daoli watched hundreds of rebels protect near the grain truck, this point of people and horses raiding the rebels is not much effect, but you can choose to attack with fire, use fire to ignite the dead grass and grain grass under the rebels' feet, so that the rebels can catch fire in the rear.
The soldiers used saltpeter fire folds on their bodies to ignite the dead grass, and the fire soon burned the grain and grass, which frightened Niu Guangtian a lot, and hurriedly ordered to stop the attack and take his subordinates to put out the fire.
Li Daoli's fire attack tactics really worked, Ling Jingyang watched the rebels panic on the hillside, and said to Murong Tu: "These rebels are real..."
"What the hell?"
"A real rabble."
Although Murong Tu did not despise Niu Guangtian for surrendering to the Qing army, he did not allow Ling Jingyang to say that his former comrades-in-arms were a rabble.
"They just followed Jiang Jiu to surrender to the Qing army, but they are not a rabble."
"Then why don't these rebels learn from you, do you look at Niu Guangtian's soldiers, and there is still a little bit of elite division?"
What Ling Jingyang said was very reasonable, and it also pierced Murong Tu's heart, because Jiang Hao had surrendered repeatedly, and the Ming army of Datong Mansion had long been shameless, and whoever gave the silver would give his life.
How many people with lofty ideals in the army are also confused by Jiang Huang, a moment of Daming, a moment of Dashun, and a moment of Daqing, who is going to fight the world, it doesn't matter in Jiang Jiu's opinion, what he wants is his glory and wealth.
Murong Tu still didn't give up, and said: "I heard that Jiang Zongbing not long ago, but he supported the inheritance ceremony of the Zhu family vassal king, raised the banner of restoring the Ming Dynasty, and later surrendered to the Qing army, maybe he was forced, right?" ”
It's okay if he doesn't say it, as soon as he says this, Ling Jingyang becomes more and more disgusted Jiang Jiu, he doesn't have any political acumen, and he even mixed into the pivotal position of the chief soldier of Datong Mansion, I really don't know how Zhu Youzhen knows people?
The rebels retreated, Niu Guangtian no longer had the confidence to fight with the Dashun army, his subordinates, only one hundred and ten families had the strength to fight, and the rest were all shabby military households, these military households were not like the green battalion soldiers who surrendered to the Qing army, and after getting supplies, they recovered their combat effectiveness.
In order to survive, many of his military households have sold their armor and weapons, and as for military drills, they have been abandoned for a long time.
Many military households don't know that they should go to the formation, even after surrendering to the Dashun army, they are well fed and warmly clothed, these military households have lost their desire to fight, and they have to get by.
Niu Guangtian and his generals said: "You can't go to Wei County anymore, let's go back to Yimaling." ”
Yima Ridge is as far away from Heishi Ridge as Heishi Ridge and from Heishi Ridge to Wei County, Niu Guangtian decided to defend Yima Ridge to the death, and asked his subordinates to go to Wei County and nearby Lingqiu to ask for reinforcements.
At this time, he still thought that Wei County was still in the hands of his own people, and as long as he received reinforcements from Lingqiu and Wei County, these grains and grass could be sent to Andong Zhongtunwei.
Arriving at Andong Zhongtunwei, the whole army waited on the spot for Jiang Zongbing to lead the troops south to attack Taiyuan Mansion, not only him, but also other rebels in Datong Mansion were also scavenging for grain and grass in order to attack Taiyuan Mansion and welcome the arrival of the Qing army.
The rebels quickly dragged the grain cart to Yimaling and retreated, Ling Jingyang and Murong Tu said: "You are the guard general of Wei County, you are very familiar with this area, what places can be defended to the south?" ”
Murong Tu told him that only Yimaling was easy to defend and difficult to attack, maybe Niu Guangtian took the rebels to Yimaling, Ling Jingyang smiled, and said to the old steamed bun: "You take people to wait on the road, I estimate that the rebels don't know that Wei County has been captured by our army, maybe the rebels will have scouts to go to Wei County, and a rebel scout is not allowed to return to Wei County from the main road." ”
Lao Mantou took more than 100 soldiers to the nearby horse to set up defenses, Ling Jingyang led the other troops back to Heishiling, Li Daoli also came back with his own soldiers, everyone decided to spend the night in Heishiling, just entered Heishiling, Zhang Luofu and Leng Rutie arrived with soldiers and horses.
Ling Jingyang was a little surprised, why did they come, it was Dong Daqi who rushed to Wei County, but even if Dong Daqi rushed to Wei County, this time, he didn't invite reinforcements so quickly.
Leng Rutie was embarrassed to talk to Ling Jingyang, they also thought of the grain and grass in Heishiling, so they brought the troops over to take a look, which made Ling Jingyang angry and laughing, but with the arrival of Leng Rutie and Zhang Luofu's two soldiers and horses, Ling Jingyang did not have to wait for reinforcements from Wei County, he had the strength to lead the troops to attack the Yimaling rebels and grab the grain and grass.
It's just that it's getting late, Ling Jingyang still decided to rest in Heishiling for one night, and Li Daoli told him what if the rebels withdrew overnight?