"Hou joins the army, save it."

Hong Chengchou has already figured it out.

"Ambushing gunpowder on the ice and blowing up the ice, this is all left over from the Ming army."

"Do you really think that the Ming army would think of using this to attack my Qing soldiers, but you didn't think that my Qing soldiers would also use this to attack them?"

"This ......" Hou Fangyu was speechless.

Meng Xueli glanced at Hou Fangyu and said, "Lord Ministry, what if?" ”

"Whatever, no whatever." Hong Chengchou shook his head and said, "Meng Zhizhi, you immediately lead the Juzi battalion to dig out the gunpowder in the ice, hurry!" ”

"Don't dig! The Ming army will definitely come! ”

Hou Fangyu was still lucky, or unwilling.

"Ignore him." Hong Chengchou said impatiently, "Immediately dig out the gunpowder and chase after the army." ”

"Chasing the army? Where is the Lord of the Ministry going to lead the army? Meng Xueli was stunned when he heard this, and Hou Fangyu also turned his head and threw a stunned target at Hong Chengchou.

"Go to Dagukou!" Hong Chengchou grabbed the pocket and put it on his head.

As he walked out, he said: "If nothing else, the Ming army will definitely change to the land route near Dagukou, in fact, from the beginning, the Ming army did not plan to take the water route." ”

"Is the Ming army going to go by land?" Meng Xueli couldn't believe it.

"By land?" Hou Fangyu asked even more in an extremely distempered manner, "Isn't the Ming army afraid of being cut off by us?" ”

"Of course I'm afraid, but the Ming army has already figured out how to deal with it!" Before Hong Chengchou finished speaking, he arrived outside the tent, "Hou Senjun, let's go back to the tent as soon as possible and pack up." ”

"Hou joins the army, you see?" Meng Xueli asked with some embarrassment.

Hou Fangyu sighed and said, "Do as Hong Butang said." ”

"Huh." Meng Xueli hit a thousand, turned around and hurriedly left the big tent.

Soon, the camp at the mouth of the Chaohe River resounded with the sound of drums and horns.

With the sound of drums and horns, groups of Qing troops marched out of the camp and began to line up above the wilderness, and then marched in a neat queue towards the mouth of Dagu.

……

At the same time, the Ming army was also advancing along the coastline in the direction of Dagukou.

Since the Ming army could march on the ice climbing plow, the speed was much faster, about a hundred miles from the mouth of the floating river to the mouth of Dagu, and the Ming army only took half a day to get there.

It's just that the Ming army did not go directly to Dagukou.

Instead, he was ready to go ashore more than ten miles away from Dagukou.

By this time, after the Ming army was continuously divided and garrisoned, there were still 4 infantry brigades, 3 mountain artillery brigades, 3 field artillery brigades and a cavalry town, totaling more than 50,000 people.

In this day and age, this is still a formidable armed force.

"Hooray, map." Gao Qiqian spread out the map very intimately.

Chongzhen immediately brought Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan, and Jiang Tianyi and other scholars around.

Xu Yingwei pointed to the map and said, "Shengshang, if everything is really as the minister guessed, Jiannu is going to ambush us at a certain estuary in the north, then this estuary is most likely the mouth of the Chao River. ”

Chongzhen smiled: "The hero sees the same thing, I also think it will be the mouth of the tide." ”

Xu Yingwei smiled and said: "Therefore, even if Jiannu knows that we have arrived at Dagukou, Jiannu stationed in Cangzhou, Chaohekou and other places will not act rashly. ”

"That's right." Chongzhen smiled, "They are worried that they will frighten us, so they don't go to the mouth of the Chaohekou." ”

Xu Yingwei took a corner ruler and measured the map, and then said: "It is about eighty miles from the mouth of the Chaohe River to the mouth of Dagu, and even if Jiannu comes in a hurry, it will take at least one day and night!" ”

Yan Yingyuan said: "In other words, there is at least one day and night that can be used to annihilate the Jiannu in Dagukou. ”

Jiang Tianyi: "According to the information provided by the defenders of Dagukou, there are about 10,000 Jiannu on the opposite side, and they are basically the Eight Banners Han Army and the Green Battalion soldiers, with weak fighting willingness and poor combat effectiveness compared to real slaves, so there is a time difference between day and night, which should be enough for us to annihilate the Jiannu on the opposite side of Dagukou." ”

Xu Yingwei said: "In this way, you can tear a big hole in the mouth of the Weihe River." ”

Chongzhen snorted lightly and said, "Youzhen, I'll leave it to you next, I just want the result." ”

"Commandment." Xu Yingwei waved to Chongzhen, and immediately hit the shore, Yan Yingyuan, Jiang Tianyi and other commanders or staff officers also followed ashore, and there were only dozens of eunuchs and hundreds of Praetorian Guards left on the ice.

……

At the same time, Zhu Cijiong also led more than 2,000 horsemen to climb over a low mountain beam.

Of the more than 3,000 new troops who followed Zhu Cijiong to envoy Korea, nearly 1,000 were killed in the Battle of Seoul, and the remaining 2,000 people have been reorganized into cavalry, and the horses are all horses sent by them.

"Dingwang, look!" Xu Wuniu pointed in front of him and said in a cruel voice, "This is the camp." ”

Zhu Cijiong looked in the direction of Xu Wuniu's finger, and saw that on the sunny southern slope on the opposite side of the valley, a large number of yurts were scattered dotted, adding up to several thousand.

"Haha, this is a large wintering camp."

Zhu Cijiong laughed and said, "We made a fortune this time." ”

In all wintering camps, cattle, sheep and horses are the most concentrated.

Because in normal times, cattle, sheep, and horses are scattered in various pastures.

"Send someone back to inform Xia Zhizhi, and hurry up with the infantry brigade to catch up and receive cattle, sheep and horses." Zhu Cijiong said and took out the Type 20 rifle in his arms.

He drew his bayonet and put it on the barrel.

"All of them, the Mongolian camp ahead of the target."

With Zhu Cijiong's low roar, the two thousand cavalry slowly unfolded their formation.

"Kill me!" The last word roared, and Zhu Cijiong shook off his four hooves under his crotch and stepped on the thick snow and rushed down the gentle hillside.

More than 2,000 cavalry followed Zhu Cijiong to gradually get up.

The opposite camp resounded with the sound of horns.

Amid the sound of trumpets one after another, herdsmen emerged from their yurts, grabbed their horses, and then gathered in a chaotic manner towards the front of the camp.

When the Ming cavalry came down from the hillside and reached the stream at the bottom of the valley, about 500 herdsmen gathered on the opposite side.

The cavalry of the Ming army was already close at hand, and as soon as the Mongolian nobles led by them whistled, they took about 500 Mongolian cavalry that had completed the assembly to meet them, and their courage was commendable.

However, this is of no avail.

When the two sides were still about 150 paces apart, the Ming cavalry in the first row opened fire first.

With the sound of gunfire, more than 50 Mongolian cavalry fell off their horses, and the already untidy cavalry formation became even more chaotic, and many war horses even collided together.

The formation of the Ming cavalry was not chaotic at all, the first row of cavalry immediately slowed down after firing their guns, and the second and third rows of cavalry passed through the gap between the first row of cavalry.

When the cavalry of the two sides were about a hundred paces apart, the second row of Ming cavalry pulled the trigger one after another.

Another burst of gunfire rang out, and this time the number of Mongolian cavalry who fell after being shot was even more, more than double that of just now, because the Ming army's hit rate also came up as the distance was closer.

Immediately afterwards, the third platoon of cavalry of the Ming army came up again.

By the time the dense gunfire rang out for the third time, the cavalry on both sides were already less than fifty paces apart.

This time, there were even more Mongolian cavalry that fell, and after three waves of volleys, there were only a few more than 100 Mongolian cavalry left, and the entire cavalry formation completely collapsed.

It's just that the Mongol cavalry finally shot a volley of arrows.

Unfortunately, the Ming army on the opposite side did not suffer any casualties.

Because the Ming army was wearing cotton armor and cotton coats outside.

The arrows of the Mongol cavalry were no threat unless they hit the Ming army in the face.

It was very helpless that the cavalry of the Ming army even wore a hundred forging armor on the front door.

More than 2,000 cavalry of the Ming army swept through the cavalry formation of the Mongolian cavalry like a tide, and the surviving more than 100 Mongolian cavalry had not even had time to draw out the scimitar on their waists, and they had been stabbed off their horses and crushed by the bayonets of the Ming army.

The men were defeated, and the women and children who remained in the camp panicked and fled in all directions.

"All of them." Zhu Cijiong put the rifle with the bayonet back on his right shoulder, pulled out a short gun from his waist and shouted, "Women and children are caught alive, they want to be caught alive!" ”

"The king has an order, catch it alive!" Xu Wuniu followed and looked up to the sky and howled.

The accompanying Ming cavalry roared one after another: "The king has an order, catch him alive!" ”

With the roar of the mountains and a tsunami, the Ming cavalry easily crossed the low earthen wall of the camp, dividing, surrounding, and then capturing the women and children fleeing in the camp.

By the time Ha Wan-chun led the infantry brigade and the Korean army to the camp, the battle had already been over for a long time.

"Brother Duan, we're rich, haha!" Zhu Cijiong laughed and said, "Guess how much this one has caught?" ”

Xia Wanchun glanced at the cattle, sheep and livestock in the camp, and asked tentatively, "Are there 100,000 cattle and sheep?" ”

"Guess again." Zhu Cijiong pointed to the top of his head, and said, "Guess more, use your imagination to guess." ”

"God, are there 200,000 cows and sheep? That's a fortune. Xia Wanchun was overjoyed and said, "By the way, horses, how many horses have you captured?" Are there 10,000 horses? ”

"Ten thousand?" Zhu Cijiong sighed, and said, "According to conservative estimates, we have captured at least 300,000 cattle and sheep this time, including at least 1,000 camels and at least 50,000 horses!" ”

"So much?" Xia Wanchun was ecstatic when he heard this, "We copied the nest of Horqin Mongolia?" ”

Zhu Cijiong said: "Even if this is not where the royal court of the old boy of Esen is located, at least it is also the old camp of one of the ten banners of the Horqin Mongols, and after this winter, this flag will be abolished." ”

With so many cattle, sheep, camels, and horses lost at once, the tribe was definitely finished.

After a pause, Zhu Cijiong continued: "However, I estimate that the strong men of this tribe are out, otherwise the cavalry left behind will not only have so many hundreds, so we must hurry up and prepare, maybe the main force of this tribe will soon return to the old camp, don't give us a happy and sad heart." ”

As he was talking, a loud military horn suddenly sounded in front of him.

"Alert!" Xia Wanchun shouted awe-inspiringly, "Enemy attack!" ”

(End of chapter)