Chapter 472: The Battle of Jiangbei (3)
Zhang Jinyan was originally the leader of the cottage, but after Ling Jingyang arrived, he turned him into the deputy leader of the alliance and made him the subsequent governor.
It seems to be majestic, but compared with the book of the Ministry of War, this is not enough at all, and they are all leaders with no real power.
He also did not go to Suizhou to take office, and was always taken by Ling Jingyang, from the sky to the earth, he was very dissatisfied.
This time the Qing army invaded De'an Mansion, Zhang Jinyan thought that this was a good opportunity, he didn't want to look up to people, let alone be a scattered idler, no matter who the master was, he had to climb up.
In order to achieve the goal of persuasion, Zhang Jinyan asked Ling Jingyang to lead Wang Guangshu and other soldiers to Yingshan County to deter the Qing army.
Ling Jingyang didn't blink his eyes, and ordered Wang Guangshuwei to be the chief soldier and led the soldiers to escort Zhang Jinyan to Yingshan County.
Zhang Jinyan was overjoyed, this is a great gift to him, not only can he surrender the Qing army, but also be able to surrender with the troops, which is a million benefits.
Ling Jingyang had already seen through that Zhang Jinyan was an old fox, and this time he went to persuade him to surrender, in fact, he was going to surrender, and he secretly sent a military order to Wang Guangshu.
Ordered Wang Shuguang to enter Yingshan County and complete two tasks, one was to escort the people of Yingshan County to the fortress group, and the other was to exterminate the Qing army.
According to the information sent back by the Special Bureau, the number of Qing troops entering Yingshan County was not large, and with Wang Guangshu's 3,000 soldiers and horses, it was more than enough to eliminate the previous Qing army.
Although this move will expose the strength of the Ming army in De'an Mansion, Ling Jingyang has the world in mind, and Lu Sheng is the general soldier of Suizhou to resist the Qing army from Xiangyang Mansion to aid De'an Mansion.
This move was opposed by most of the generals, especially Li Rufeng and Lao Mantou, the two of them were Ling Jingyang's descendants, and they were the first to jump out, strongly opposing Ling Jingyang's small loss, but Ling Jingyang asked them, have you forgotten the spirit of the Dashun Army?
Since the beginning of the Dashun Army, it is not just for the people who can't survive, they can survive, isn't it that everywhere they go, there are people who follow it, and the team is getting bigger and bigger, no matter how they are defeated by the official army, they can be resurrected at one time.
How to become an official soldier, he forgot his true nature, and he did not have the sense of responsibility to defend the territory.
The words made Li Rufeng and Lao Mantou ashamed, and the two asked themselves, as if they had lost that simplicity, Lao Mantou and Li Rufeng returned to the barracks and practiced the troops day and night.
Ling Jingyang also began to issue mobilization, he divided the fortress group into three major battle groups, specifically the eastern fortress group with Jiuliguan as the banner, He Zhen as the commander of the eastern fortress group, under the jurisdiction of the land department.
The Western Theater has Li Rufeng as the commander, the flag fortress is the Loess Pass, the subordinate Wang Guangshu Department, and the other departments are the central fortress group.
The central fortress group flag fortress is the Great Victory Pass, Ling Jingyang is the governor of the five armies, the subordinate troops, the Iron Fist Legion, Zhang Shun, the artillery battalion four armies, all four of them are the general soldiers, and Wanliyun is the commander of the same knowledge, Zhou Yuan is the matter, the armed forces that came to defect were dispersed to the various armies, and the people were also dispersed to the fortresses under the command of Wang Mu.
Zhang Jinyan pretended to say in Dashengguan and Ling Jingyang that the strong man would not return, and Ling Jingyang was also playing tricks with him, and he was in a hurry Before Zhang Jinyan set off, Wang Bao was chased and killed by the Qing army on the way to escort some of the people to retreat to the fortress group.
Without waiting for Wang Guangshu to attack the Qing army, the Qing army actually hit the door, Ling Jingyang decided to use these Qing troops to train troops, and ordered Lu Sheng and Wang Guangshu to attack the Qing army from the north and south.
There were more than 5,000 soldiers and horses in these two divisions, and Ling Jingyang thought that more than 5,000 people would attack 1,000 people, not to mention that they could achieve a annihilating campaign, at least they could defeat the Qing army.
Before the battle, Wang Guangshu and Lu Sheng were arrogant, thinking that the Qing army was just a partial division, how could they confront several times the official army?
Lu Sheng used to be a thousand generals, and knew how to arrange troops, and the five thousand allied troops were waiting outside the city, and the Qing army did not wait for the Ming army to set up the formation, but rushed up directly, relying on the strong impact force, and beat the two soldiers and horses to lose their armor.
Most of the 5,000 Ming troops were new recruits, and they were defeated by the Qing army in a battle, and the deserters on the battlefield were routed everywhere, and the Qing army killed the Ming soldiers, and finally Lu Sheng and Wang Guangshu were left to lead hundreds of people to retreat.
Such a result surprised the generals of the Ming army, and Ling Jingyang was even more angry with his chest, this is 5,000 soldiers, and he was defeated by the Qing army.
After Wang Shuguang and Lu Sheng returned, Li Ningyang ordered the two to be thrown to Jiuli Pass, and the remnants were scattered to various units.
Lu Sheng and Wang Guangshu also hated it in Jiuliguan, they obviously had superior forces, how could they be defeated by the Qing army?
The two of them became the thousand presidents under He Zhen in Jiuliguan, and the two of them were not angry, who couldn't beat the Qing army?
Ling Jingyang wanted to mobilize superior forces and eat the thousand Qing army, but the Qing army defeated the 7,000 Ming army and went all the way to the south.
In the face of the Qing army's attack, the Hanyang rebels set up a position outside the city, wanting to defeat the Qing army in the field, the rebels had an Achilles' heel, there were almost no professional soldiers, and the Qing army fought in the field battle, and was easily defeated by the Qing army.
Defeated by the Qing army in the field, Jiang Tianyi was forced to garrison Hanyang, the Qing army defeated the Ming army of the two routes, and the strength of the army in De'an Mansion increased greatly, recruiting and surrendering troops, pulling Zhuang Ding, there were more than 8,000 people, and the 8,000 Qing army was like no one in the south of De'an Province.
This aroused Ling Jingyang's great curiosity, who is this leading general, and how can he be so powerful?
He asked the Special Bureau to go to the hall of the Qing army, and the Special Bureau lived up to his high expectations and sent information to Ling Jingyang in less than a day.
Ling Jingyang listened to Fang Xiaoyan and reported to him, the general of the Qing army was a guy named Li Chengdong, who used to follow Gao Jie, Gao Jie was defeated by the Qing army, Li Chengdong, Gao Jinku and a large number of Gao Jie's subordinates surrendered to the Qing army, Gao Jie died in battle, and this group of people completely became the lackeys of the Qing army.
I heard that it was Li Chengdong, Ling Jingyang was relieved, this person is very good at fighting more with less, capturing and killing two kings in history, from Fujian to Guangdong, and beating the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty is painful, this person is fighting with the righteous army in De'an Mansion, just like a strong man beating a child.
At this time, Li Chengdong was in high spirits, he surrendered to the Qing army, but was not reused, and was sent by Dolgon to Wu Sangui and became the Guanning army.
In the Guanning Army, he was an outsider, and Wu Sangui ignored him, and asked him to lead a thousand people to De'an Mansion, who knew that he defeated more than 10,000 Ming troops in De'an Mansion with a partial division, and Bingfeng threatened Hanyang.
Jiang Tianyi guarded Hanyang with 20,000 soldiers and horses, but Ling Jingyang felt that Jiang Tianyi couldn't hold it, so he ordered Li Rufeng's troops to rush to help Hanyang.
Li Rufeng got the army
Ling, thinking that Ling Jingyang was crazy.
He rode a fast horse and ran from Muling Pass to Ling Jingyang's mansion in a rage, and did not give Ling Jingyang face, and said: "Dudu, there are only more than 8,000 Jiannu, Jiang Tianyi has more than 20,000 people in Hanyang, and he is guarding the city, why do you want us to go to reinforcements from Muling Pass?" ”
Listening to Jingyang smiled and said nothing, of course Li Rufeng didn't know that Li Chengdong was good at surprise attacks, and he didn't pay attention to Li Rufeng's anger, and in the name of the governor of the five armies, he asked Li Rufeng to immediately lead the western fortress to gallop to help Hanyang, and collect more troops and baggage along the way to meet the attack of the Qing army in the near future.
Li Rufeng was unhappy in his heart, but the military order could not be disobeyed, he led the western fortress group of 5,000 soldiers and horses, in order to avoid being defeated by Li Chengdong, Ling Jingyang deliberately re-enabled Gao Ding, appointed Gao Ding as Li Rufeng's deputy general, and the two led 5,000 soldiers and horses to Hanyang.
At this time, Hanyang was surrounded by the Qing army, and the Qing army's commander-in-chief, Li Chengdong, was leisurely under the city.
After entering De'an Mansion, he led his troops to defeat the two Ming armies, even down several cities, and learned two pieces of information from the prisoners, one was that there were tens of thousands of Ming troops in Hanyang Mansion, and the other was that there were tens of thousands of Ming troops in the fortress group near Dasheng Pass.
He resolutely gave up the attack on Dashengguan, led his troops to continue to attack to the south, and broke through Hanyang Mansion, so that he could attack Jiangxi in the west, and coerce the Hongguang Imperial Court in Nanzhili.
The generals were a little worried about attacking Hanyang, and the army of Guan Ming would attack south, but Li Chengdong said to the generals: "Do you really think Bolo is a vegetarian? ”
At the same time as Wu Sangui attacked Xiangyang Mansion, the Boluo army increased the troops to Duoduo, and hundreds of thousands of Qing troops attacked Kaifeng Mansion.
Li Guo was forced to abandon Kaifeng Mansion and led the army to retreat to Runing Mansion, and the Qing army continued to attack Runing Mansion, Li Guo was defeated and was forced to lead the army to continue to retreat south, and even retreated all the way to the junction of Runing Mansion and Huguang.
happened to come to Ling Jingyang's territory, Li Guo didn't know that Ling Jingyang was in Dasheng Pass, and thought that Ling Jingyang had already gone to the central region of Huguang, he led more than 4,000 remnants of the defeated army to Muling Pass, most of the soldiers in Muling Pass followed Li Rufeng to reinforce Hanyang, and it was Chen Yidao who was stationed in Muling Pass at this time.
Three days ago, he was transferred by Ling Jingyang to Muling Pass, serving as the guard general of Muling Pass, he once again became the main general of the first army from He Zhen's general, he was very depressed in his heart, and he was also stationed at Muling Pass wholeheartedly.
When a subordinate reported to him that a troop had come from outside the city, he did not hesitate to think that Qingju could fight him, and ordered the beacon fire to be lit, and the archers, fire gunners, and gunners were in place, waiting for the Qing army to come and die.
He stood proudly on the city wall, watching the "Qing army" outside the city getting closer and closer, raised his right hand, and put down the water to give the order to attack.
But the "Qing army" did not attack, but a man rode a war horse to the city and shouted with him: "Dare to ask if the city is a Ming person?" ”
Chen Yidao scolded.
"Lao Tzu is not a Ming man, is it you Lao Tzu?"
The city was suddenly full of gunpowder, and Chen Yidao scolded him not contemptible people, or Li Guo, he led his troops to withdraw to Muling Pass, but found that there was an army stationed here, he held the attitude of giving it a try, and prayed that the army on the city wall would not be the Qing army.
Being scolded by Chen Yidao, Li Guo finally breathed a sigh of relief, the city was not a Qing army.
He said to Chen Yidao: "This general, we are the Dashun army, and we lost the battle with Jiannu and were forced to retreat. ”
Chen Yidao couldn't see the deserters the most, thinking that the Dashun army was being pursued here by the Qing army, and asked Li Guo to go back very unceremoniously.
"A bunch of embarrassing things, don't let Lao Tzu go back, and fight with Jiannu."
Li Guo was stunned for a moment, if he hadn't had many soldiers and horses, and there was a Qing army behind him, he would have ordered an attack on Muling Pass, he endured his anger, and Chen Yidao said: "Brothers, we are also Ming people, and the soldiers under our command are also men who fought with Jiannu in Jiangbei. ”
This is a heart-wrenching statement, but in Chen Yidao's opinion, it is a sunny day, he looked at Li Guo, and suddenly remembered that under He Zhen, chatting with other generals, he learned that Lingdu Governor was indeed close to the Dashun Army in Jiangbei.
He said to Li Guo: "Which Ling Jingyang are you talking about?" ”
Li Guo said with some pride: "The five armies of the Ming Dynasty are all supervising Jingyang. ”
This is the water that washed the Dragon King Temple, Chen Yidao was a little hesitant, at this time to ask Ling Jingyang, at least half a day, but if the city gate can be opened through thousands of Dashun troops into the city, it is true that the Dashun army is okay, if the fake Dashun army uses this trick to deceive the city gate, he Chen will be cut into two pieces with a knife.
At this moment, a subordinate general suddenly pointed to the distance and said, "General, do you see that?" ”
Everyone looked in the direction of the general's finger, the dust was flying in the distance, the pennant covered the sky and the sun, and a large Qing army was killing here.
Li Guo also noticed that the Qing army behind him, seeing that the city was slow to open the door, he gritted his teeth and returned to the headquarters of the army.
He summoned his subordinates and resolutely said, "Everyone, don't be an old sick man and kill Jiannu with me. ”
kill
Thousands of remnants of the Dashun army burst out with the last courage and strength, under the leadership of Li Guo, rushed towards the Qing army, watching the Dashun army kill the Qing army, Chen Yidao understood that he was wrong to blame the Dashun army, this group of people is really a man who fought with the Qing army.
Geng Zhongming, the vanguard of the Qing army, led 20,000 people to pursue the Dashun army, especially the pursuit of Li Guo, the general of the battalion system after the Dashun army, and eliminating Li Guo was like cutting off a finger of Li Zicheng.
Li Guo's subordinates were almost completely lost, and were forced to put up the last resistance of the Qing army at Muling Pass, Li Guo led his army to rush to the Qing army, and Geng Zhongming ordered the whole army to rush up and destroy all the Dashun army.
The Dashun army is like a wounded male division, rushing into the Qing army's group of wolves, and the separation is to slap the Qing army, giving the Qing army great damage, but the male division was injured, and the wolves were bitten to death, and then rushed up and went even further.
Li Guo forgot how many of his own soldiers he had killed, he only felt that his strength was getting smaller and smaller, and in the end, hundreds of people were left to protect him, and there were tens of thousands of Qing troops around them.
Geng Zhongming looked triumphantly at Li Guo, who was encircled, flung his horsewhip forward, and the Qing army launched a general attack.
At this moment, Cong Ran rushed out from the side of Muling Pass and launched an attack on Qingju You, and the sudden enemy army made Geng Zhongming
Startled, he hurriedly mobilized a group of soldiers and horses to resist the enemy army, and still continued to encircle and suppress the Dashun army.
Li Guo also saw the arrival of reinforcements, and led hundreds of steps to resist hard, although the Dashun army had hundreds of people, but the Qing army could not eat in a short time.
Geng Zhongming personally went on the field and wanted to eliminate the Dashun army, but at this time, a large group of Ming troops rushed out from the south side of Muling Pass, and the number was more than the previous Ming army. It is suitable for Ling Jingyang to lead the central fortress group of soldiers and horses to gallop away from Muling Pass in the starry night.
Ling Jingyang was stationed in Dasheng Pass, but he did not ignore the intelligence of other places, especially the war reports in Henan, Huguang and other places, Kaifeng Mansion, Nanyang Mansion, and Runing Mansion are the gateways to Dasheng Pass, and the soldiers of the Special Bureau are basically in these three places, and the intelligence of these three places is also continuously sent to Dasheng Pass.
Ling Jingyang half a month ago, he got the news that Li Guo was defeated by the Qing army in Kaifeng Mansion, and retreated all the way to the south, he Genxiang led the army to respond, but Wan Liyun persuaded him not to go out of the city to respond, and waited until Li Guo retreated to the fortress group, and responded with the advantage of home combat, and was able to defeat the Qing army pursuing behind.
Ling Jingyang sounded that thousands of soldiers and horses of Lu Sheng and Wang Guangshu were defeated by Li Chengdong, and he suddenly became not very confident in the combat effectiveness of the newly expanded army under his command, and he readily agreed to Wanliyun's strategy, and ordered Chen Yidao to lead his troops to enter Muling Pass, and the artillery battalion even set off to Muling Pass one day in advance.
He assembled his troops at Dasheng Pass, and the night before Li Cheng's retreat at Muling Pass, he led his direct troops, the Iron Fist Legion, and Zhang Shun's three troops to come to reinforcements.
Li Guo fought fiercely with the Qing army under the city, and Ling Jingyang finally arrived at the battlefield, and after a little rest, he entered the battlefield.
The heavy artillery troops under Ling Jingyang's command, the artillery battalion had actually arrived at the battlefield a long time ago, but it had not launched an attack, but had been ambushed in the woods on the north side of Muling Pass.
The Ming army suddenly entered the battlefield, so that the Qing army was tired to cope, and Chen Yidao, who was an assistant in the pass, was also arrogant, leading the garrison troops out of the city to reinforce, and the number of Ming troops was comparable to that of the Qing army.
But the Qing army consumed a lot of troops and physical strength in the siege of the Dashun army, and in the face of the fierce attack of the Ming army, the Qing army only lasted for a short time, and was stabbed by the Ming army.
More and more Qing soldiers threw away their weapons and scattered on both sides of the battlefield, and Geng Zhongming's horsewhip waved around, but it could not prevent the troops from disintegrating.
He was so angry that he vomited blood, he was going to destroy the Dashun army, how could the Ming army suddenly kill out, he immediately thought that there was a Ming army stationed in this Muling Pass, thinking of this, he immediately ordered a retreat, and Duoduo and Bolo reported that there was a Ming army in Muling Pass, and asked the two princes to send reinforcements, he and his subordinates nodded, and his subordinates immediately ordered to stick to the sound of the retreating military drum.
The Qing army that was still fighting heard the sound of retreating gongs and drums, and immediately followed Geng Zhongming to retreat north, on the way to Geng Zhongming's retreat, Lao Mantou ordered the artillery battalion to fire, and dozens of cannons adjusted the firing angle, and bloomed artillery sparks on the way for the Qing army to retreat.
Dozens of shells smashed down, smashing the Qing army dizzy, the cavalry of the Qing army rode on war horses to quickly pass through the artillery coverage area, but the speed of the infantry was slow, and the two shells could not run from the sky.
Geng Zhongming, escorted by a group of cavalry, retreated frantically, he had already rushed out of the area covered by the artillery fire of the Ming army, and there were hundreds of cavalry who withdrew with him, he looked back and saw that most of the Qing soldiers were still retreating north.
He smiled with his subordinates, there were not many war horses in the Ming army, this time it was just defeated, and most of the soldiers who were scattered returned to the team after two days.
His subordinates also echoed him, and at this moment, nine black muzzles appeared in the grass two hundred meters away, and Xu Shengli looked at a Qing army general from the provincial capital, this Qing will be protected by a group of Qing soldiers, it should be the main general of the Qing army, as long as this person is sniped, the Qing army can be leaderless.
This time, he still used the covering sniper tactic, aiming the nine-shot rifle at Geng Zhongming, and he shouted in a low voice: "Release." ”
Nine bullets shot out quickly, because Xu Sheng and the others did not have professional sniper training in Sohu, and they were sniping in the mountains and forests, and they were easily affected by the wind, only one of the nine bullets hit the target, and the other eight bullets hit Geng Zhongming's general.
For a while, Geng Zhongming and his nearby subordinates were shot one after another and fell straight to the ground, which frightened the others.
The Qing army hurriedly picked up Geng Zhongming and retreated further north, but some Qing cavalry wanted to find a sniper, but at this time, the Ming army chasing behind had already caught up, forcing the Qing cavalry to give up and escort Geng Zhongming to continue retreating.
Xu Sheng completed the sniper mission, and immediately rolled to another bush with his subordinates, and then retreated, at the edge of the woods, there were nine fast horses, they rode fast horses, and disappeared into the depths of the jungle without looking back.
This is a project that Ling Jingyang deliberately asked Xu Sheng to train, every time the mission is over, regardless of whether it is successful or not, he must retreat as soon as possible, Xu Sheng always takes it to heart, and when he withdraws with the sniper team, he also takes the bullet casings away.
In this battle, Mingju Nian won a big victory, Li Guo also walked around from the UI Gate and came back, he sat on the ground, not because he didn't want to thank Ming Jun, but he didn't have any strength, and he didn't see it until Ling Jingyang came over.
"Ling Jingyang, aren't you going to Huguang?"
Ling Jingyang laughed at him: "Isn't this Huguang, but it's the northern part of Huguang." ”
Ling Jingyang pulled Li Guo up and invited him to enter the city to rest, Li Guo entered the city and deliberately glanced at Chen Yidao, who was lined up at the city gate.
Chen Yidao also saw Li Guo, and lowered his head in embarrassment, Li Guo and Ling Jingyang said: "Ling Jingyang, your general is a little interesting." ”
Ling Jingyang didn't know that Chen Yidao insulted Li Guo, and said to him proudly: "General Li, this is a fierce general of our army, helping me in Kaifeng Mansion, if it weren't for him and his subordinates, I would still be fighting with stragglers in Kaifeng Mansion." ”
Li Guodao didn't think Chen Yidao was hateful, if it were him, he would be like that, and said to Chen Yidao: "It's good, you also went out of the city to fight Jiannu just now, not a bad seed." ”
Chen Yidao was very impactful in the battle just now, he regarded Jiannu as a demon, and he was eager to kill and invade Jiannu, and rushed to the forefront in the battle, his personal ability was not outstanding, but he was victorious.
In the battle with the Qing army, if his subordinates hadn't desperately protected him on both sides, he would have been hacked to death by the Qing army.
Li Guo had actually seen him rush to kill on the battlefield a long time ago, because Chen Yidao screamed the loudest in the battle, and he didn't kill anyone, but Li Guo admired it.
This is also because he did not insult him with a wild monster Chen Yidao, but said good things for him in front of Ling Jingyang, Ling Jingyang heard what Li Guo meant, and then he remembered that Chen Yidao and Gao Ding recruited troops privately, and he was still very uncomfortable, and later Chen Yidao gave up the army, but he had an independent tendency after all.
This also made Ling Jingyang dare not reuse, and let him serve as the guard of Muling, which also allowed him to restore some confidence.