Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Hunhe River
He led the newly recruited soldiers back to the camp and happened to meet Cao Wenzhao, who was leading the troops to patrol the camp.
Chen Wang immediately ordered the whole army to stop, then dismounted and saluted, and stood aside to wait.
Cao Wenzhao's gaze swept over the group of recruits beside Chen Wang, his eyes moved slightly, and then moved to Chen Wang's body.
"Qi Jun's method of military selection?"
Cao Wenzhao's eyes were sharp, blazing, like a bright lamp, and seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts, and he could see at a glance that the soldiers selected by Chen Wang were in line with the selection method of Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness".
"Exactly."
Chen Wang lowered his head, his back bent slightly, and replied with his hands clenched into fists.
He didn't hide this problem, and admitted it bluntly.
"Ji Xiao Xinshu" is not a forbidden book, as long as you have money, you can buy it.
Although the Qi army had conflicts with the Liao army and the Jizhen border army, Qi Jiguang's military book was not banned from circulation.
In Liaodong's memory, there is a "New Book of Ji Xiao" in the study room of Chen's mansion, which is not untouchable.
"The New Book of Discipline is a good book, and it is written in great detail about the march and the engagement of the enemy......"
Cao Wenzhao's expression was complicated, and he had a lot of thoughts in his heart, and he remembered an old incident during the Apocalypse.
In the first year of the Apocalypse, there were two armies that traveled thousands of miles from the south all the way to Liaodong to help in the war.
One is a white pole soldier from Sichuan Shizhu, and the other is a Zhejiang army from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the leader is Qi Jin, the son of Qi Jiguang.
Jiannu besieged Shenyang, and the commander-in-chief Chen Ce and Tong Zhonghua were ordered to lead the white pole soldiers and the Zhejiang army to rush to the aid, advancing all the way to the Hunhe River, intending to flank the Houjin soldiers with the Ming soldiers in Shenyang City.
But by the time he reached the Hunhe River, Shenyang had been breached, so Chen Ce ordered the division to be returned.
However, the guerrilla generals such as Zhou Dunji repeatedly asked for war and were unwilling to retreat.
The crowd was indignant, and the generals in the battalion asked for battle one after another, saying: "My generation can't save Shen, what can I do in three years!"
Previously, there was a gap between the Qi army and the white pole soldiers, so when Chen Ce and Tong Zhonghua launched the formation, they divided the army into two battalions.
The front camp was dominated by white pole soldiers, led by Zhou Dunji and Qin Bangping to cross the river and set up camp in the north of the bridge.
Chen Ce, Tong Zhonghua, deputy general Qi Jin, and general Zhang Mingshi commanded 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers to set up camp in the south of the bridge.
Later, the Jin army saw that the reinforcements of the Ming army were coming, so they sent a large army to surround them.
The Houjin army thought that these soldiers were nothing more than a weak brigade, and only thought that it only needed a wave of charges to easily defeat them.
The former army rushed several times without success, and the latter Jin rushed into battle with the elite Bayala, but was also repulsed.
Nurhachi then sent his army to help, and surrounded him with tens of thousands of troops.
Under the leadership of Zhou Dunji, Qin Bangping and others, the white pole soldiers defended the bridge and fought to the death.
Thousands of the later Jin army rushed to the battlefield from the guns and crossbows, and the cavalry that followed the charging array also fell from their horses one after another.
The generals of the Sichuan soldiers and the Sichuan soldiers formed a formation to meet the enemy, with thousands against tens of thousands, all of whom bravely met the attack.
In the afternoon of the battle, the Sichuan soldiers first defeated two white flags, then two yellow flags, and killed two or three thousand fallen horses.
After the Jin army lost its troops and lost its generals, it was still unable to attack for a long time, and everyone was shocked from top to bottom, and even those who were defeated without a fight.
In the end, Li Yongfang, a rebel general who surrendered, found the captured Ming Dynasty gunner, and offered a reward of thousands of gold to order him to open artillery to attack the Sichuan army.
Hongyi artillery fired, and finally blasted away the Sichuan army's military formation.
The Houjin army then swarmed forward, even so, the Sichuan soldiers were not defeated at this time, and the generals under the leadership of Zhou Dunji and Qin Bangping still resisted stubbornly by relying on the remnants.
It's just that the Sichuan army has been fighting for a long time, hungry and tired, and it is difficult to support, and the army formation is broken.
Zhou Dunji, Qin Bangping, General Wu Wenjie, and garrison Lei Anmin all died in battle.
The army was scattered, the remnants of the Sichuan army rushed into the Zhejiang camp on the south bank, and Nurhachi drove the Eight Banners Army to take advantage of the situation to go south.
The 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers led by Tong Zhonghui and Chen Ce set up chariot and train camps five miles south of the Hunhe River to wait for the enemy.
The Zhejiang army led by Qi Jin was compiled and trained based on Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness".
The car camp was strong, and the Eight Banners Army could not rush forward, but was killed and wounded many people, and the dead pillowed each other.
The commanders-in-chief, Zhu Wanliang and Jiang Bi, led more than 30,000 reinforcements as the rear army, and marched to Baitapu to see the Eight Banners Army besieging the Zhejiang Soldier Battalion.
At that time, Cao Wenzhao was in the army, and he saw with his own eyes that not far away, the Houjin army surrounded the car camp of the Zhejiang soldiers almost impassable.
At first, there was a constant fire in the Zhejiang military vehicle battalion, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, but in the end, the fire disappeared and the smoke was no more.
On the march, carrying gunpowder can generally be used for several battles, but the Zhejiang soldiers actually defeated them all in the first battle, which is enough to see the tragedy of the war.
Cao Wenzhao now remembers the humiliation at that time, the 30,000 army was crushed at the touch of a button, and the Houjin cavalry was only 3,000.
Zhu Wanliang, Jiang Bi and others didn't want to save those Zhejiang soldiers at all, and he was just a guerrilla at that time, with only 300 horsemen under his command and only 2,000 soldiers under the battalion.
30,000 people were chased and fled by 3,000 people, which is simply a great shame.
As night fell, the Houjin army increased again, and the Ming army, which was surrounded by heavy siege, also fell into despair when they saw their own reinforcements fleeing.
No one surrendered, and no one gave in, at the last moment.
Chen Ce, Tong Zhonghua, Qi Jin, Zhang Mingshi, Yuan Jianlong, Deng Qilong and other generals, a total of more than 120 generals, none of them surrendered, and they all fought and died in battle.
"All of you are united, the mountains are ...... Shocking! ”
They sang the old military songs, held their heads high, and died generously.
Cao Wenzhao's heart turned a thousand times, and finally turned into a long sigh.
He has the intention to kill the thief, but he is powerless, and he has been climbing so hard to climb up, just because he doesn't want to encounter this powerless situation again.
Looking at these recruits recruited by Chen Wang, he remembered the Zhejiang soldiers he had encountered.
Cao Wenzhao patted Chen Wang's shoulder and said solemnly.
"Train well."
Chen Wang slowly raised his head, his gaze and Cao Wenzhao's gaze converged.
"After training the soldiers, kill back to Liaodong and take revenge!"
Cao Wenzhao's eyes were deep, his fists were clenched, and he said solemnly.
Chen Wang's hands clenched his fists couldn't help but tighten, and an unspeakable indignation rose from the bottom of his heart.
That emotion does not belong to him, but is latent in the depths of his heart.
That is the anger and unwillingness that belongs to another Chen Wang - Liaodong! Liaodong!
Relatives and families were slaughtered, and the places where generations had lived were occupied.
Far from his homeland, uprooted from his homeland, fleeing to Quang Ninh, all kinds of humiliation......
Chen Wang did not suppress the indignation in his heart, he could understand that indignation.
"Revenge."
Chen Wang clenched his fists.
He was unwilling to be unable to control his own destiny.
He knew very well that if he didn't make changes, in a few years, the beacon fire would burn all over the country.
Kyushu is split, and Shenzhou is sinking......
It is said that the building will be upside down, and it is not a tree that can support it.
The torrent of the times is irreversible.
But Chen Wang just wanted to give it a try.
He wanted to do what Wen Tianxiang wanted to do, but he didn't do!
Turn the tide and help the building to fall!