Chapter 15: The Daling River is ambushed
Huang Chongzhen said, went back and picked up Rondo's huge head, without looking at the Jurchen soldier with a broken leg, and after a while, he had come to the southwest edge of the woods.
The big black horse is obediently waiting for his master here, and he doesn't even have to tie the reins.
When it heard the sound of its owner and the tiger and the black bear, it couldn't help but stand up and hiss happily.
Huang Chongzhen stepped up, went south in the direction of the Daling River, and rode away.
In the breeze, in the snow, the young man carried a longbow cross-body, carried a sword, held the reins in his left hand, held a spear in his right hand, and hung two hideous money rattail pigtails on the horseback.
The half-sized black bear and the tiger, one left and the other right, ran and moved in tandem with it.
What a stubborn, resolute, and unyielding southbound teenager.
And in the woods that were getting farther and farther away, the calf was pierced by a sharp bamboo and began to pretend to be dead, and then the remnants of the Jurchen soldiers who could not stand Huang Chongzhen's agitation could only bury all the grievances in their stomachs, and then dragged his master with all his strength and walked north with difficulty.
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In 1621 AD, that is, the first year of the Great Ming Apocalypse, and the great year of the Later Jin Mandate of Heaven, Ming and Jin fought two major battles in Liaodong - the Battle of Liaoyang and the bloody Battle of the Hunhe River.
In this war, which can be made together and written separately, the Ming Dynasty was hit hard again, Yuan Yingtai, the Liaodong Economic Strategy, committed suicide and martyrdom, and the elite troops such as the Qi family army and the white pole soldiers were almost wiped out.
The Ming army did not collect at night and other special arms were lost, and the so-called two factories and one guard were even more far away, and the whole line retreated into the Shanhai Pass, completely surrendering the vast land of Liaodong to the Jurchen fine work - Karen Sentinel Detective.
The Nu chieftain led the army to take advantage of the situation, and there were more than 70 cities north of the Kehun River and east of the Liao River.
And crossed the Liao River for the first time, deducted the Liaoxi Corridor in the west, and wanted to directly attack the Shanhaiguan Pass.
The mountains and seas are dangerous, and the slave chiefs know that they can't overcome them overnight, so they destroy all the cities they pass, and create a vast no-man's land and a strategic buffer zone between the Ming Dynasty and the Houjin.
In order to prevent the re-infiltration of the Ming scouts, and also to prevent the resurgence of the special forces that had suffered so much from the departments outside the Guanwai.
The Nu chief ordered all the Karen outposts to cross south and west, and set up fixed outposts on the Liaoxi Plain to investigate the Ming army.
However, most of these Karen sentinels, who have made great contributions to the excellent intelligence work in every previous war, have developed pride because of the destruction of the night and the violent retreat of the two factories and one guard, and only regard the rich Liaoxi Plain as a happy land for enjoyment.
There were only a small number of sentinels, but they still had an enterprising spirit, and did not hesitate to enter the mountains and seas, the hills and the undulating terrain, and the terrain was dangerous, to communicate with the Ming Dynasty, an important channel for the control of the Guanwai departments - the Liaoxi Corridor, in order to continue to spy on the military situation.
Sun Chengzong's intention to order Yuan Chonghuan to supervise the construction of Ningyuan to build the Guanning defense line was under such circumstances, and they spied on it, and at the same time, there were many sabotage moves.
Sun Chengzong, who was old and serious, did not pay much attention to this, and only ordered Zu Dashou, Zhao Shujiao and other newly recruited generals to take strict precautions to avoid the occurrence of complications in the great cause of Liao.
Yuan Chonghuan, who was strong in blood, was very angry about this, and immediately selected a large number of elite scouts in the army to train them as scouts, so as to engage in-for-tat.
After achieving certain results with geographical advantages, Yuan Chonghuan ordered the scouts to go north to the Jinzhou area along the western Liaoning corridor, and then went east, and conducted a series of reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, hunting and counter-hunting with the Karen sentinels on the vast western Liaoning Plain.
Most of the Cullen Sentries act alone on the basis of their athleticism, physical strength, and reconnaissance skills, while the Ming Scouts are mostly in small units, or in groups of five, or in teams of ten.
Zhou Ji, the commander of Ningyuan's army, and his four subordinates were one of them.
After several indirect contacts and rounds of testing with the Cullen Sentinel, Zhou Ji decided that with the strength of his team, it would be very difficult to snipe a Cullen Sentinel in this vast plain.
Therefore, he chose a very compromise method, which was to choose a relatively hidden place, prostrate it, set a trap, set up a tripwire, and spread a net to wait.
This kind of hunting method of waiting for rabbits has a low probability of success, but it is safe enough.
Zhou Ji thought of the four young men who were obviously five big and three rough, but they were very greedy for life and afraid of death, even if they were taking every step of the way and even to the point of being in a bag, they still looked extremely nervous, and shook their heads helplessly.
"Probably, it is precisely because of my relatively steady combat method that I can barely command these veteran oilers." Zhou Ji thought silently.
But thinking of the destroyed old city of Jinzhou, as well as the Liaodong Zhucheng that was in a state of embarrassment, and then looking at the Ming army that would either be swept away or collapsed again and again, Zhou Ji always felt that there was a thick flame burning in his heart.
It was painful for him, but there was nothing he could do.
Because in the Ningyuan Army, which is full of middle and high-level generals, he is just a captain and a small soldier.
And in the open war between Ming and Jin, which lasted for more than ten years, and even longer, even the Ming chief military officer with the highest military rank couldn't help himself.
Countless generals were killed in battle, and many governors and governors were also imprisoned.
"Listen! There is the sound of horses' hooves! Just as Zhou Ji was briefly immersed in thought, the oily young man on the upper left who was holding a stumbling horse suddenly shouted in a deep voice.
"Is it Jiannu's meticulous work?" Zhou Ji was excited, and instantly cheered up his full spirits, looking at the winding path that stretched from the Daling River in front of him.
Indeed, the sound of the clattering horses' hooves was faintly ringing and quickly becoming clear.
Just listening to the heaviness of the horse's hooves hitting the ground, Zhou Ji had quickly come to the conclusion that there were people immediately, and they were fully armed and extremely strong.
According to Zhou Ji's knowledge, in order not to lose to the Jurchen sentinel cavalry in terms of speed, the Ming scout cavalry mostly went out lightly, while the Jurchen sentinel cavalry often traveled fully armed, just to kill a few more Ming soldiers in the process of spying on the military situation.
Therefore, Zhou Ji thought that most of the people who came were the Jurchen Karen sentinels, and his heart was excited, so he turned his eyes to the small high slope with a groove in the right front, where a veteran soldier was prostrate as a battlefield observer.
"Chirp! Tweeted! Tweeted! ”
Three crisp bird calls came into his ears, but Zhou Ji was stunned when he heard them.
According to the previous agreement, one birdsong is the enemy's army, two is our army, but what is the situation of three sounds? Can't be sure?
"Captain?"
The sound of horses' hooves became clearer and clearer, and Zhou Ji carefully raised his eyes to see a figure galloping towards him at an extremely fast pace, and the two subordinates who were holding Ma Suo with their hands were also nervously and anxiously whispering questions.
"No matter! Let's take it first! Zhou Ji immediately made a decision, and waved his raised right hand down.
The scorching breath of the war horse was accompanied by a strong wind, and the few ambushers who were hiding in the snow and did not dare to look at it immediately determined that this was definitely a good horse, so they tightened the tripwire fiercely.
Zhou Ji's fists were also clenched due to tension.
This rider is naturally Huang Chongzhen.
After ambushing all the pursuers sent by the Nu chieftains on the south bank of the Hunhe River, he made his way south, avoiding as much as possible from being detected by the outposts of the Cullen sent.
Therefore, this section of the road, which was already very close to Ningyuan, became the slowest journey since the southbound journey.
It wasn't until he sneaked to the bank of the Daling River that Huang Chongzhen gradually realized that the Jurchen sentinel's control over this river basin was rapidly weakening, which was due to geographical reasons, as well as factors such as Ningyuan scouts who were not afraid of sacrifice and repeatedly hunted with them.
He'd seen many of these battlefield ruins along the way.
The two sides won and lost each other, and this scout battle was inseparable, and it was extremely stale.
Occasionally, Huang Chongzhen would secretly help the Ming scouts who did not retreat from the bloody battle, but he did not dare to be blatant, because with his dress, it would really cause misunderstanding between the two sides.
If both sides are regarded as enemies and are chased and killed, then it will be a big trouble.
Therefore, Huang Chongzhen changed the arrogance north of the Hunhe River, sneaked as low-key as possible, and waited until he reached the bank of the Daling River, and finally found the opportunity to ride a horse and gallop.
It just so happened that a ray of sunlight drilled out of the thick clouds at some point, so that Huang Chongzhen bathed in it, and the cold wind was broken by the resolute face of the Chinese character, and then whirred away in his ears.
This kind of galloping experience in close contact with nature has made this special forces from the high-tech century have an unprecedented sense of exhilaration, and they almost want to sing loudly.
Suddenly, a violent trembling sound caused by the rapid tightening of the rope reached his keen senses, and listening to the movement, it seemed to be under the two muscular front hooves of the big black horse.
Huang Chongzhen's reaction was extremely fast, and he immediately snorted lightly and pulled the horse's reins heavily.
The big black horse full of game was also really angry, and at the moment when he was about to be tripped by the tripping horse, he combined his two strong hind legs with the muscles of his whole body, and made a quick and small leap into the air.
The two stumbling veterans only felt a black shadow flash in front of them, and no matter what the outcome was, they all crawled backwards.
"This ...... How can it be! Zhou Ji, who was in the back, had a full view of this scene, and for a moment he stayed on the spot, and even the thick body of the veteran who was holding a harpoon according to the plan was frozen on the snow mound.
"Lao Tzu was actually ambushed on the bank of the Daling River, which is extremely close to Guanning?" On the other hand, Huang Chongzhen, after the big black horse landed, he pulled the reins of the horse to slow down the speed.
When he turned around and saw these guys in Ming army uniforms, he immediately understood what was going on, but he still said angrily: "What are you doing? If you break Lao Tzu's BMW, can you afford to pay for your little salary? ”
Wages? What's that? It seems that when did the grandfathers have it again?