Chapter 009: Jurchen Baylor

In order not to embarrass himself, Chen Cao moved out of the Li Mansion the next day under the pretext of various reasons, and went to live alone in the post station in Shenyang City.

"Zhao Xin, do you know what that tartar looks like?" Chen Cao rode his horse and asked slowly.

Zhao Xintou shook like a rattle: "No, my subordinates have been in Nanjing for decades, even if they are the farthest away, they have been to Tianjin to command the envoy Yamen, if they don't follow the adults, where can they come to Liaodong to suffer." ”

"You bastard..."Chen Cao turned his head and shouted.

"My lord's anger..."Zhao Xin sneered: "I heard people on the road that this tartar is all hanging with a money rat tail, and my subordinates have really never seen it, by the way, my lord, you are well-informed, do you know what kind of tail the money rat tail is?" Isn't it true that people hang a rat's tail? ”

Chen Cao had only seen pictures on the Internet in his previous life, or they were painted by others, and the yin and yang braids in the Qing palace drama in the later generations were all like the late Qing Dynasty, which could only be called the money oxtail, at this time, he really hadn't seen the rat tail, but it was no problem to say big things: "Ahem, although this general banner rarely comes to Liaodong, but my father is in Liaodong, as you said, the so-called money rat tail is the hair on the back of their head braided, to be able to pass through the copper coin hole, and because it is too thin, like the tail of a mouse, it is called a money rat tail." ”

"My lord is really insightful..."Zhao Xin and the people behind him all clapped their hands and patted their ass.

People say that the Jurchens are not satisfied with 10,000, and they are invincible, and Lao Tzu's official position is too small now, but don't meet those Tartar soldiers. Chen Cao thought silently in his heart.

In the Baitapu Station, Liu Lei eats the unique shabu-shabu hot pot in Liaodong, and the staple food is mutton: "I heard that this is the way of eating the Jurchens, and it has been improved by our Han people." ”

The meal of mutton shabu first came from the Mongols, and then after they became in collusion with the Jurchens, this way of eating was taken by the Jurchens, and then spread to Liaodong.

"My lord, Li Rubai has replied that he will not go back until after the beginning of spring, do we have enough time?" Liu Zuo put in a large piece of meat and chewed it vigorously, obviously not cooked.

Liu Lei showed a cold smile on his face, according to his investigation for many days, he finally had some eyebrows, and after learning that he was very likely to be thrown on the street by Chen Cao and them outside Shanhaiguan Town, his hatred for Chen Cao was obviously strengthened a lot: "Li Rubai actually didn't detain Chen Cao, knowing that he would go to the capital and never return, he was still so calm, I really overestimated the Li family." ”

Of course, if Liu Lei knew what Chen Cao said at the reception, he would probably be angry to death.

...

"Third master, the Jurchens have promised to send troops, but I don't know how many people will come."

Li Ruzhen looked around, and then pulled his cronies Li Cheng and said, "Have you seen Murhaqi?" ”

Li Cheng nodded and said: "I saw it, but his cronie Abu didn't believe us, and it was really unclear whether there would be any variables in the end." ”

Li Ruzhen nodded, and then ordered: "Hey, it's too late now." ”

Li Cheng looked dazed: "Third master, what's wrong?" ”

"My second brother has promised to go to the capital in the spring, Chen Cao can't kill it, now it's difficult to ride a tiger, this group of brocade guards can't do anything, if the Jurchens kill them, they must be blocked, forget it, I'll go and tell the second brother about this matter in person."

Li Cheng didn't expect things to change so quickly, he was sent out to contact the Jurchens early in the morning, how did he know that Li Rubai changed his mind at dinner that night, Li Ruzhen forgot about this matter, and now Li Cheng came back to give a business, and it happened that the Jurchens also agreed, but things have changed.

...

Chen Cao was in Shenyang City for three consecutive days, eating, sleeping, eating, of course, he was not so idle, he inquired about many things in Liaodong from the post station, and he had a lot of knowledge.

There are also Jinyi guards in Shenyang City, called to sit on the detective, the leader is a thousand households, with more than 1,100 people, but they have been killed in the battle of Salhu, and the Jinyi guards of the prison army are also dead and wounded, and the largest official position that is alive now is a hundred households, and his subordinates are only a general flag department of Jinyi Lieutenant, and there are 35 cavalry members.

(Note: In the Jinyi Guard, the serious Jinyi Guard is only from the commander to the captain, except for the small flag officer of the small flag department, among the remaining ten people, only five are Jinyi captains, and the remaining five are called Tiqi, that is, temporary workers, who belong to the supernumerary personnel of the Jinyi Guard.) In a hundred households, there are 50 Jinyi captains and 50 Ticai, but in the Jinyi Guards in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, the Jinyi captains in the Jinyi Guards are basically temporarily recruited Tiqi, except for officials at all levels. This is also the reaction of later generations to Jinyiwei's TV movies, many Jinyiwei's detectives are either ruffians or beggars, and these people are all horsemen. ）

Coincidentally, the chief flag officer who escaped back happened to be in the army of Chen Cao's father Chen Fei, so the two chief flag officers with the same official position met each other like brothers and talked all night.

On the night of the night, a group of Jurchen cavalry braved the wind and snow to go south from Fushun and approached Baitapu from the southwest of Shenyang, which was only forty miles away from Baitapu.

However, the news soon spread to the city of Shenyang.

The Jinyi Guard, who was in charge of the transmission of the news, and the scouts in Shenyang City passed on the information one after another, but it was not so simple.

Li Rubai was woken up in the middle of the night, and the meeting was attended not only by the generals in the army, but also by the officials of Shenyang and the people of Jinyiwei.

"General, the Tartar soldiers are divided into two routes, one is directly south from Tielingwei, and the other is a rapid breakthrough, attacking Baitapu from the southwest, which is only forty miles away from Baitapu." The scout said on his knees.

Li Rubai's head is big, and he doesn't want to fight with the Jurchens in his heart, however, their arrival is more or less because of his own reasons, so the expression on his face is ugly: "How many people are there in the two directions?" How many real tartars are there? ”

"There are more than 7,500 people on the south side of the road," a brocade guard added: "The southwest road is riding lightly, nearly 1,000 people, and the Jurchen Blue Banner is all Jurchen." ”

'Not even the Mongols?' Li Rubai was shocked: "Murhaqi? ”

Nurhachi's second brother, named Murhaqi, belongs to the Manchurian Blue Banner, and was the owner of the Blue Banner during the Nurhachi period, and was knighted as Baylor, which was equivalent to the prince of the Ming Dynasty in the early stage. Murhaqi was able to fight well, was extremely brave, and had a very good relationship with Nurhachi.

"I don't know if the thief leader has personally gone out." Li Ruzhen said worriedly.

Lu Hua, the prefect of Shenyang, a jinshi in the forty-sixth year of Wanli, has just been appointed as the prefect of Shenyang, where has a weak scholar experienced war, and he did not insert a word from beginning to end.

"If the situation is true, all the troops of the Zhenglan Banner should be dispatched, and most of the Murhaqi are among them," Li Rubai said: "The order will go down, and all the departments will be prepared to prevent the Tartars from sneaking attack, and quickly send the order to the surrounding forts, ordering them to quickly lead their troops back to the city." ”

"Order..."

Saying that, Li Rubai turned his head and looked at the people around him: "There are only one hundred households in Baitapu, if the people in the southwest are the forwards, Baitapu will bear the brunt, you quickly send someone to inform Chen Cao, let him inform the Qincha team, enter the city quickly, and also, go and tell the people in Baitapu to pack up and go back to the city." ”

"Yes..."

Chen Cao was woken up in the middle of the night, the warm quilt is the difference between heaven and hell compared to the cold outside, if he was not shocked by the news behind, it is estimated that Zhao Xin would be thrown into the snowdrift by Chen Cao to pile up a living snowman.

"My lord, let's go quickly." Zhao Xin reminded.

However, Chen Cao turned around, yawned and said, "What's the hurry, wake up and talk about it, I'm not a hundred households." ”

Zhao Xin watched with wide eyes as Chen Cao closed the door and went back to the room to continue sleeping, but thinking that the sky was falling, a tall man resisted this sentence, so he also nodded and went back to sleep.

In a village forty miles southwest of Baitapu, the Han people in the village have all been killed at this moment, and the Jurchen cavalry are all playing in the village, if it is placed in the spring and summer, it only takes half an hour, and the cavalry can kill Baitapu, but in addition to the heavy snow in Liaodong in winter, it will snow in the middle of the night, if it is not for all the cavalry, replaced by infantry, there is no ten days to absolutely not reach the outside of Shenyang City.

"Baylor, the investigation is clear, it is reported that there are indeed officials of the Ming Court stationed at the post station in the White Tower, and I heard that it is still a Qincha team." Abu exhaled hot air and said in a deep voice.

Murhaqi clasped his hands together, and then ordered: "Order all the subordinates to rest on the spot, and when the sun comes out tomorrow, we will set off again." ”

"Huh..."

Liu Lei and Liu Zuo don't know these situations, they are guests, where do they know the situation in Liaodong, the spies are at most placed within a radius of ten miles, and the hundred households stationed in Baitapu are different, Baitapu is one hundred households Yuan Shizhong, originally scheduled to Liaoyouwei Qianhu, Salhu battle, the department followed Juniper to fight, basically the whole army was wiped out, but Yuan Shizhong led the troops to resist desperately, but the army was defeated like a mountain, and was coerced by the rout to retreat, the apocalypse ascended the throne, chasing the responsibility of the Salhu Juniper Department, thinking that Yuan Shizhong was fighting to the death at that time and did not retreat. was given the punishment of demotion and transfer, so he became the town guard of the hundred households of the Baitapu Hundred Households.

After Yuan Shizhong got the news, he immediately gathered the entire section of soldiers and horses, gathered his soldiers in one place, and then packed up his bags, preparing to fight an ambush on the Tartars in Baitapu now, and then withdraw.

"A few months ago, I suffered a loss from the blue flag, and this time I will definitely get it back." Yuan Shizhong repeated this sentence several times when he lectured his subordinates.

The soldiers of the hundred households where he is are are all subordinates who followed him before, all of them are elite soldiers, and they know that they are coming from the Zhenglan Banner Tartars, and they are also gearing up, although the number of people on his side is not dominant, but he can ambush the Tartars according to the terrain of the white tower shop, and it is not too late to run after giving kills.

Yuan Shizhong led his troops to ambush, Liu Lei and they were still sleeping, who would get up in the middle of the night to pay attention to the affairs of the military camp, and waited until dawn, after all parties began to act, Chen Cao took his team slowly and leisurely into the Baitapu Station.

On the way, Chen Cao set up a variety of pictures that could kill Liu Lei in this situation, but he was reminded by Zhao Xin's words: "My lord, although our Jinyi Wei is different from other guards, if something happens to Liu Baihu, we will also be punished." ”

'That's right' Chen Cao almost forgot about the sit-down system, of course, there are other situations, for example, when the big war starts, the main general flees from the enemy, and the deputy general leads the team to fight to the death, and then ......

Chen Cao unconsciously laughed out of the pig cry, but then when he thought about it, he felt that he was stupid, this kind of thing can be said to be encounterable but not sought, usually he can just think about it, but now it is serious.

"My lord, pack your bags and enter the city quickly." Chen Cao saw Liu Lei and his party standing outside the post gate, so he dismounted and pretended to shout: "The Tartar cavalry is coming." ”

What?

Liu Lei suddenly felt dizzy, his hands and feet were weak, and his limbs were cold.

Liu Zuo hurriedly stepped forward to help him and asked, "Is this really the case?" Seeing Chen Cao nodding, Liu Zuo said to himself: "No wonder all the soldiers in the shop are gone," and then shouted in hindsight: "Quick, come on, help the adults get on the horse, and leave quickly." ”

Chen Cao was a little gloating, but now was not the time to see the jokes, the Tartar cavalry came, if he couldn't get out quickly, let alone give Liu Lei bad medicine, he would have to plant himself in it.

Baitapu is only thirty miles away from Shenyang City, according to the usual footsteps, at most more than half an hour can reach the city, according to the current conditions of heavy snow to close the road, how to take more than an hour.

In the northeast direction of Baitapu, on the way to Shenyang, there is a low slope, because of the heavy snow, it has been raised a lot, suitable for ambush, Yuan Shizhong led the team to wait here, ready to give the Jurchen cavalry the first blow.

The first to arrive was Chen Cao and his party, it is said that it is right to go directly, how do you know what Liu Lei has gotten crazy, and he is not willing to leave anything, which makes people cry and laugh, this guy said that he was dizzy and couldn't sit on the horse.

There were accompanying medical officers in the Jinyi Guard, but in Shenyang City, Liu Lei was ill at this time, Liu Zuo was so anxious that he shouted and ordered people to go to the city to ask for reinforcements.

Chen Cao dismounted and asked with concern, "Do you feel dizzy, weak limbs, cold hands and feet, and rapid heartbeat?" ”

Liu Lei opened his eyes, although he didn't like Chen Cao very much, and made up his mind to go around to get Chen Cao away when he returned to Nanjing, but now his situation is really dangerous, and his condition was actually told by Chen Cao, so he nodded and said, "How do you know?" ”

Hey, look at your body, I don't believe you don't have high blood pressure and diabetes.

Chen Cao said a little profoundly: "I have seen a lot of this disease before, and it is easy to treat, but not now." ”

Liu Lei searched for famous doctors in Nanjing, but no one could be sure, so he could only treat him with various yin deficiency syndromes: "Chen Cao, do you have a way to treat it?" ”

"Now is not the time to talk about this, my lord, get on your horse quickly, the Tartar cavalry is killed, and we won't be able to escape." Chen Cao didn't want to die here.

Yuan Shizhong stood up with his gun and sneered: "A group of old soldiers, what ability do you have except to arrest people, and now you can't leave if you want to." ”

As soon as the words fell, a shout sounded not far away, accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves stepping in the snow, Chen Cao hurriedly stood up and saw that it was the Tartar cavalry who followed them in the distance.

Rao is Chen Cao had already been mentally prepared, and he couldn't move at the moment, it was the first time he had seen this kind of battle.

"Brothers, get ready, the Tartars are coming." Yuan Shizhong shouted, then lowered his body, his eyes looking at the prey in front of him like a falcon.

The Ming army began to decline after Sarhu, which was unanimously recognized by later generations, but before the four years of the Apocalypse, the Ming army in Liaodong had the courage to take the initiative to meet the Manchurians, and there was always a chance of victory.

Liu Lei said that he was not too much of a gentleman, and his performance at the moment was to curl up in the crowd and tremble, not only afraid, but also for his own reasons.

Chen Cao was okay, he stood still because he was afraid of the first time, and he was carried by Zhao Xin to the back of the slope and squatted, so he reacted.

'Muskets? Chen Cao looked up and saw the weapons held by Yuan Shizhong's soldiers, and when he looked at it, it was still an arquebus, not a three-eyed gun commonly used by northern soldiers.

As a Manchurian nobleman, Murhaqi had been fighting for many years and had a certain sense of danger, and he held the reins less than a mile from the ambush point.

"That's..."Yuan Shizhong thought he was dazzled, and couldn't help but rub it vigorously, and then said with a slight trembling: "Murhaqi..."

Murhaqi learned that there was a Ming Tingqin mission in Baitapu, so he decided to personally bring troops to Baitapu, and his son led another road as bait.

"Dohara, your scouts go check it out."

"Huh..."

"Oh no," Yuan Shizhong saw that the Tartars had divided their troops and stopped, and then sent a small number of people towards his side, he knew that the other party was already alert, and then made up his mind to kill one of them: "Prepare with muskets, kill all the dozen or so Tartars who are exploring the way." ”

The scout captain Dohala was very envious of his fellow scouts who had scared off Li Rubai's army at Yahu Pass, and scared Li Rubai's more than 40,000 people with just over 20 scouts.

Just as a dozen people in Dohala entered the firing range of the arquebus, the alert Dohala saw the little black barrel in the snow, and was immediately shocked, shouting in Manchu 'There is an ambush, retreat quickly'.

"Put..."

There was a burst of beans, and the muzzle of the arquebus erupted with Yuan Shizhong's anger, and lead bullets quickly flew out of the muzzle and hit Dohala and the others.

Although the range of the arquebus has been criticized, it can still kill people directly within 50 meters, and seriously injure the opponent within 100 meters, Chen Cao looked at the musketeer at the bottom of the slope, and couldn't help shaking his head, at this moment it was too late to leave, so he stood up decisively, ran up the dirt slope, and looked around.

it...

I didn't want to scold my mother, but looking at the opponent's formation from a distance, just scolding is not worth it at all, Chen Cao is the first time to see the Jurchen cavalry, and it is the same as described, the Jurchen who fell after being shot really had braids with money rat tails, and the appearance is not ordinary hateful.

"What, you Jinyi Guards still have the guts?" Yuan Shizhong did not ridicule, but stated the facts.

In the early stage of Hongwu, Jinyiwei came from the pro-army Gongwei Division, which was a good man who had been on the battlefield, after the failure of Ji Gang's rebellion, Jinyiwei was completely reduced to a tool to use, and the people in the guard basically did not go to the battlefield, except as a guard of honor to catch people, and it was not of great use.

Chen Cao squinted at Yuan Shizhong, his stomach was full of ghost fire, but it was not good to attack at this time, so he could only suffer a dumb loss, and then looked coldly into the distance and said: "The arquebus has a range of up to one hundred and fifty meters, and I see that there are only twenty arquebuses under the hands of one hundred households, and the opponent's cavalry should be more than eight hundred, if it is hard fighting, the whole army will be annihilated." ”

"I was going to hit them by surprise, but I didn't expect it to be discovered, no matter what, Salhu Laozi should die, and now I can kill a few more Jurchen Tartars, and I won't lose if I die."

'Is your head so iron, brother?' Chen Cao secretly slandered in his heart, but then reacted: "Dare to ask this brother's name? ”

"Yuan Shizhong, Baitapu guards 100 households."

"So Yuan Baihu also participated in the Battle of Sarhu?" Chen Cao asked curiously.

However, Yuan Shizhong did not answer, because Murhaqi's side had already reacted, and a Niu Lu's men and horses rushed towards him and began to shoot towards the breakthrough horse.

Mounted archery was the essence of the Manchurians, compared to the Mongols, and several people were killed by arrows at the moment.

Chen Cao had to bow his head, but he heard Yuan Shizhong say: "I think you still have a little courage, but the Tartars have already been killed, you are the Qincha, or go quickly, I will take it here." ”

When Liu Lei heard this, he didn't know if it was a return to the light, so he didn't use Liu Zuo's support, pouted his buttocks, and shouted: "Quickly protect me and evacuate." ”

Liu Zuo beckoned the general flag of the team to leave, how do you know that Chen Cao strode down, with the instinct of the body of memory, the right hand pulled out the embroidered spring knife, with a condescending and Mount Tai pressure on the top, pounced on Liu Zuo, who was greeting people, lightning and flint, Liu Zuo's head fell to the ground, Chen Cao landed on the neck of Liu Lei, and shouted angrily: "You wait for the food king's Lu, you will run away before you meet the enemy, I am Chen Cao, the chief flag officer of the Fusi of Jinyi Weinan Town, and I have the right to supervise the war in case of war, Liu Zuo is timid and afraid of death, and the army is disturbed, and now I am punished according to the military law of Weizhong, Can anyone be unconvinced? ”

The knife is still dripping blood, and Liu Lei's previous strength has been completely dissipated, and his legs are not trembling from high blood pressure and high blood sugar at the moment, but from the heart.

Although he is Chen Cao's boss, Chen Cao's words are not flawed, even if the lawsuit hits the Jinluan Palace, the emperor will also say that Chen Cao did the right thing.

"Mr. Chen, calm your anger... Rest angry..."Liu Lei said tremblingly.

Chen Cao glanced at Liu Lei and said coldly: "Lord Baihu, if you want to live, just stay and don't move." ”

After speaking, he didn't care about Liu Lei's reaction, and said loudly: "Brother Jinyiwei, in the past, others said that my Jinyiwei was a villain who relied on power, and he had long lost the bloodiness of the Taizu period. ”

Zhao Xin and other cronies reacted, they all pulled out embroidered spring knives, raised their knives and shouted 'kill the enemy', Yuan Shizhong was shocked by the sudden change for a while, and then his attitude towards Chen Cao changed greatly.

However, there was not much time left for them, a Jurchen cavalry of Niu Lu was only a hundred meters away from the dirt slope, however, their speed had become slower and slower, and this was all in Chen Cao's eyes.

The thicker the depth of the snow accumulation, the slower the galloping speed of the war horse on it, Chen Cao carefully distinguished the thickness of the snow here on the soil slope, at least one meter or even more, that is to say, this group of cavalry to the bottom of the soil slope, in the end can only dismount and fight, otherwise, it is a live target on horseback, Chen Cao subconsciously glanced at the middle-aged man in front of him who had some vicissitudes, but he also admired it.

"I've got an idea..."