Chapter 010: Murhazy

Since Yuan Shizhong could think of using the snow to ambush and block these Jurchens, Chen Cao also thought of a plan on how to block or even kill half of these people.

Then he turned his head and stared at Zhao Xindao: "Zhao Xin, you go back in person, ask General Li Rubai to send troops to rescue, here is not far from Shenyang, the cavalry is coming quickly, at most an hour and a half, tell General Li that the opportunity to make up for the merits has arrived, the enemy cavalry is less than a thousand, and the leader is... Yes..."

I really don't know who it is, if I know that the leader is a general, Li Rubai also knows that he will take this opportunity to make up for his mistakes, Yuan Shizhong answered: "Tell General Li that the enemy leader Murhaqi personally led the army, and there were more than 800 people under the Zhenglan Banner. ”

Zhao Xin clenched his fists, turned over on his horse, and quickly left with his whip.

Most of the Jurchen's war horses come from Mongolia, Mongolian horses are explosive and have good perseverance, and Chen Cao is basically from the horses of Bazhou, Hebei, if they really run, they can be caught up by the Jurchens in half a moment, when the time comes, others will release arrows in the back, and the people running in front of the horse are live targets, the Jurchens boast that they are between the white mountains and black waters, and the riding and archery crown is unparalleled, compared to the Mongols, which is also the reason why Chen Cao is unwilling to run, rather than being caught up and slaughtered, it is better to take the initiative to attack.

Chen Cao turned his head to look at Yuan Shizhong and said: "Yuan Baihu, if you can win this time, Chen Mou will definitely have a good drink with Yuan Baihu, and I will hand over to Yuan Baihu to resist here, I will take Jinyiwei's brothers to ride around behind them, and when the time comes, I will be able to win all the battles with reinforcements from behind." ”

Yuan Shizhong nodded, and then handed over several scout cavalry of his team to Chen Cao, and the additional assistance could also be used as a guide: "Everything is handed over to Chen Zongqi." ”

Chen Cao turned over and shouted, "Jinyiwei, come with me." ”

In addition to leaving two responsible for taking care of Liu Lei, the rest of the more than 100 brocade guards got on their horses one after another, and left with Chen Cao and a few scout cavalry.

The leader of the call was Abucai, who personally led a Jurchen cavalry of Niu Lu to kill, however, as expected by Yuan Shizhong, Abu Cai was only about ten steps away from the dirt slope, and the war horse had already run, and could only hold a bow and arrow to shoot at the Ming army on the slope, the Jurchen cavalry was numerous, and Yuan Shizhong's men did not suffer a loss, more than 20 musketeers had no bullets, although it took a minute to shoot a lead bullet, but more than ten people fell off the war horse every time they fired, Abu Cai suddenly felt bad, and shouted loudly in Manchu to Dohala to attack from the left side of the soil slope.

Yuan Shizhong was only a thousand households at that time, although he was in Liaodong, but he only knew some Jianzhou dialect, unlike those in the Li family, most of whom knew Manchu, so Abu only understood the word attack when he ordered Dohala to make a detour, but he also knew that Abucai, who was riding on a war horse, was the commander of this Niu Lu, and immediately took the arquebus, lit the arquebus, and condescendingly aimed at Abucai.

Seeing that his master was about to be shot by a black gun, Abu Cai's own soldiers immediately flew over, and at the same time blocked Yuan Shizhong's fatal shot for Abucai, Abu was shocked when he saw this, and immediately moved his horse to retreat, at least to keep a certain distance from the musket.

Murhaqi frowned and looked at the battle in the distance, and said to the people beside him: "I remember that when I was in Sarhu, there were many musket battalions on the side of the Ming army, what did we capture?" ”

"Amma, it's all in the hands of the second brother."

The Manchurians' awareness of firearms should be calculated from Dolgon, because in the early stage, these people captured the firearms of the Ming army, and they would not use them, even if they could use them, they also thought that the arquebuses of the Ming army were too troublesome, and the time to shoot a shot on the battlefield, the Jurchen cavalry could shoot two arrows accurately, and the elite riders could even shoot three arrows, so the arquebus was like a chicken rib compared to the artillery in the early Qing Dynasty.

"These Ming dogs are really waste, they will only stay there, if they come out to fight, I will definitely be able to kill all these people." A really strong man scolded angrily.

"Shuo Biji, take a Niulu warrior and go to support Dohala from the left and let him attack." Murhazy said in a deep voice.

After Muerhaqi's third son, Shuo Biji, replied loudly, brandished his saber and led people to ride towards Yuan Shizhong's left side.

It was 600 people at once, but the slope was not big, and Yuan Shizhong's team left more than 100 people on it had already occupied the favorable terrain, plus the help of the snow, Shuo Biji and Dohala were blocked by bows and arrows on the left side, and the two sides shot up, and the Ming army covered with shields alternately, and it was not damaged at all, while Shuo Biji's side was beaten by the condescending Ming archers and a small number of musketeers, and forty or fifty people were killed and wounded in a short time.

These are the elites of the Zhenglan Banner, and everyone is a seed, Shuo Biji was furious, and shouted loudly in Manchu to Abu to attack with him.

At this time, Yuan Shizhong was a little overwhelmed, and the casualties had reached more than 30 people for a while.

"Brothers, prepare shields, engage them ..."

When Murhaqi arrived at Baitapu, he killed the only remaining people in the town, and then plundered, for the sake of safety, he specially left one hundred and fifty cavalry behind, led by his sixth son Gebala, when Chen Cao made a detour to Baitapu, Gebala was insulting a captured woman.

"Chen Zongqi, there are Tartar cavalry inside, and the number is about 100 people." A scout cautiously ran behind the snowdrift where Chen Cao was hiding.

Chen Cao looked back behind him, the Jinyi guards of Yishui, if they fought alone or in a group fight, these people were really not scared, but the Tartars in front of them used the kung fu of the battle array, but in Chen Cao's eyes, whether it was a battle formation or a solo fight, as long as it was not a duel, the war was a life-and-death brawl between the two sides, the difference was the number of people and how many people died.

"Brothers, since the slave chief Nurhachi rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, the Manchurians under his command have never regarded my Han people as people, now they only have more than 100 people, we also have more than 100 people, the Tartars have few people, one to one, even if we die, we will not suffer, today I Chen Cao will take you to make meritorious contributions, not afraid of death, draw a knife and follow me."

Immediately straddled the horse, pulled out the embroidered spring knife, the blade slapped the horse, stepped on the snow and left, the brocade guards behind him were deeply infected, and they also got on the horse one after another, and drew the knife later.

"Ming dog sneak attack, everyone be careful, Lord Ezhen, be careful..."

A Jurchen soldier in charge of guarding shouted loudly before he died, although Chen Cao couldn't understand what the man who had lost his head said, but with his loud shout, he could guess that he was reporting to others.

"Get on the horse, get on the horse." A bearded golden soldier ran out of a grass hut, urging his soldiers to mount their horses while straddle their swords.

(Note: The Manchu Qing Dynasty originated in the White Mountains and Black Waters, belonged to the Jurchen Division, and later Nurhachi established the Jin State in Manchuria, generally calling them 'Tartars', 'Manchurians', 'Jiannu', 'Jurchens', etc., in this book, except for specific occasions, they are collectively called 'Jin Bing'.) It is hereby explained)

There were only seven or eight people who hurriedly got on the horse, Chen Cao's physical strength was not weak, and he himself still knew how to ride and fight, so he led more than forty people under his command to ride fast, and the other party was overwhelmed, so he quickly dispersed this team of golden soldiers, and then rushed towards the village.

The Jinyi guards who followed behind were greatly encouraged, and while setting fires, they waved their knives to pick them up, and the rise of killing, all of a sudden, these people felt that the Jin soldiers were not so fierce, and the Jurchens were not devils.

"Lord Zongqi is right, the Tartar is just raised by his parents, hahaha..."Gao Chong, another henchman under Chen Cao's command, raised his sword and laughed, Zhao Xin was not there at this moment, so he led the team to follow Chen Cao's side.

Chen Cao didn't dare to lower the speed of the horse, once the speed of the horse on the battle formation dropped, it was no different from the infantry standing, and it was also a high target, at this moment he took Gao Chong and other fast horses to the center of the village, and Gebala who got the news didn't even have time to put on the armor, only wore a cotton armor, and got on the horse with a scimitar, just bumped into Chen Cao and others who rushed to his side.

"Minggou is here." Gebala was short but strong, with a money rat tail hanging on the back of his smooth head, and a lot of pockmarks on his dark face, even if he was far away, Chen Cao felt that the person in front of him was really disgusting.

However, there is one thing that is very easy to observe, Chen Cao knows that the person in front of him must be a general of the golden soldiers, Nurhachi is Li Chengliang's general, belonging to the Ming border army sequence, the armor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is the revision of the Ming border army, and the change is not too much, the lightning rod on the iron pocket of the two sides is very different, at least the Manchurian lightning rod has a tassel on it, the golden soldier in front of him not only has a heart guard on the cotton armor, but its full and fat armor is not something that ordinary gold soldiers can wear.

Chen Cao is not afraid of these people, the only thing he is worried about is the embroidered spring knife in his hand, after the slashing just now, the knife edge has collapsed in several places, I don't know when it will be completely broken, after all, the original intention of the embroidered spring knife is not to be used for war.

Gebala's courage is good, coupled with that figure, if the ordinary Ming army sees this formation, they must be afraid of a few points, and Chen Cao doesn't care about these, waving the broken embroidered spring knife and smashing it quickly, when the two horses are about to be handed over, Chen Cao suddenly took out a small crossbow arrow of Jinyiwei from his left hand, and pointed at Gebala is an arrow, the two sides are too close, Gebala is brave, this arrow came and was actually blocked by it, Rao is Gebala reacted quickly, Chen Cao's movements were not slow, it was at this critical moment, Chen Cao's right hand embroidered spring knife slashed out obliquely from the lower left, right in the middle of Gebala's head, I saw that half of his head was cut off by the embroidered spring knife in Chen Cao's hand, and red and white gushed out.

And the embroidered spring knife in Chen Cao's hand also broke in response, 'Huh...' Chen Cao immediately reined in the war horse, turned over and jumped up, landed next to Gebala's war horse, pulled out the Ming army Yanling long knife hanging there from the side of his horse, and then quickly got on the horse and retreated.

Ge Bala fell down violently, and the soldiers behind him were shocked when they saw this, and they roared angrily towards Chen Cao.

And Chen Cao's first thought was that he must learn Manchu well in the future, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to hear what the other party said.

"Kill..."

The battle ended after a stick of incense, Gebala died, this team of golden soldiers was leaderless, coupled with Chen Cao's bravery, for a time they were scattered as birds and beasts, but they were also killed by Jinyi Wei More than 40 people, and Gao Chong also captured a golden soldier with his life.

"Gao Chong, how are our casualties?" Chen Cao shook the blood stains on Yanling's knife, and then found a scabbard to put the knife in.

"Twenty-three dead, sixteen wounded, able to move."

"It's still high, it's basically proportional, the combat effectiveness of the Tartars is really powerful," Chen Cao thought to himself, he couldn't help but shake his head, taking the advantage, and it was still a sneak attack, his casualties were almost the same as those of the Tartars.

"Chen Zongqi, the one you killed just now is Murhaqi's sixth son Gebala, or the Jiala Ezhen of Zhenglan Banner, the head has been cut off, and the Tartar captive just now has been identified, and it is determined to be Gebala." A scout ran excitedly.

'What a general. Chen Cao nodded in his heart, and then got on the horse: "Don't worry about the dead brother, let's go to support Yuan Baihu first." ”

...

Yuan Shizhong's situation is not good, at this moment the Jin soldiers besieging him have reached 700 people, and there are only more than 100 people around Murhaqi, he frowned and looked at the dirt slope that has not been able to attack, and sincerely sighed that the Ming army still has powerful people.

"Lord Belle... Lord Baylor..."

Murhazy turned around, only to see more than two dozen horsemen behind him rushing towards this side, and the leading cavalry was shouting Murhazy.

"Ge Xian, why are you here, Ge Bala?" Murhazy wondered.

The Jin soldier, who was called Ge Xian, dismounted and knelt down and said: "Lord Belle spares my life, our army was resting in the village outside Baitapu, and suddenly it was attacked by a group of bright dogs, and the leading general killed Lord Ezhen. ”

Murhaqi felt a pang in his chest, Gebala was the most courageous person among his sons, and he was actually killed by the Ming army, not to mention that the people under Gebala were all elites in the Zhenglan Banner: "How many people are there in the Ming army?" ”

Ge Xian paused and said, "There are about two or three hundred people, and that general killed Lord Ezhen in just one round, and we can't resist it, so I ask Lord Belle to punish him." ”

"Your master is dead, you are embarrassed to run back, come here, cut off Ge Xian's head to pay tribute to my son." Murhazy said coldly.

"Lord Belle spares his life..."

"Lord Belle, we have fallen for the trick of the Ming dog," a personal soldier whispered: "lured us to attack Baitapu, knowing that our army would continue to attack, but cut off our rear road." ”

Murhaqi also understood in an instant, Li Rubai was questioned, and he wanted to use me to make up for his mistakes, so he would make so many famous halls, so that's the case.

Murhazy nodded, as if he had realized something, so he shouted: "The whole army retreat, quickly." ”

The horn sounded, and Shuo Biji and others, who were still attacking just now, heard the sound, and they didn't know why, but the military order was like a mountain, so they shouted at the bottom of the dirt slope, and they all retreated for a while.

Yuan Shizhong only had twenty or thirty people left, and all of them were wounded, he himself was shot by two arrows, and the blood flowed endlessly, and the soil slope was about to be breached, but the Jin soldiers retreated?

"Kill..."

Chen Cao took the lead and followed closely, followed by the remaining more than sixty brocade guards, one by one the morale was high, Yuan Shizhong could see clearly on the dirt slope, so he pulled out the arrows on his body, raised his knife and shouted: "Reinforcements are coming, brothers, kill them." ”

"Kill..."

If it is a general with a little IQ, what he has to do at this moment is to resist and retreat in an orderly manner, but Murhaqi saw that there were cavalry rushing out behind him, coupled with the death of Gebala, he suddenly felt that the number of cavalry behind him was definitely not much, and he was eager for revenge, so he drew his sword and slapped his horse, and led the team to rush towards Chen Cao.

As soon as the two sides fought, the victory or defeat appeared at that time, Chen Cao had few people, all of them were Jinyi guards, and compared with the Jin soldiers, the riding skills were completely in the ranks of the beaten people, if it were not for his own bravery, I am afraid that the people behind him would have been scattered long ago.

At this time, a large number of cavalry turned out from behind the slope, led by a man and a woman, quite young, and Zhao Xin followed behind the two, behind them were more than 500 cavalry, and a large group of foot soldiers were coming, and the distance was at most a stick of incense.

Chen Cao turned his head and looked, it turned out to be Li Shaokuan and Li Wan'er,, Li Wan'er?

That's right, Li Wan'er was dressed in armor, wielding a long sword in her hand, and she rushed into Shuo Biji's formation with Li Shaokuan, who was holding a spear, and the two sides immediately fought.

Women don't let the eyebrows, Chen Caoguan Li Wan'er is at most seventeen or eighteen years old, it is estimated that the ancestor is a military general.

"My lord, the brethren can't hold it anymore." Gao Chong was covered in blood, and he didn't know how badly he was injured.

Chen Cao saw it in his eyes, and saw a middle-aged bearded bald head rushing towards him under the escort of several golden soldiers, the person who came was Murhaqi, where did Chen Cao know, a burst of fire broke out, and there were fewer and fewer Jinyi guards behind him, and the murderous intent was detonated, brandishing the Yanling long knife and slapping the horse towards Murhaqi.

The fight above the battle array is unorganized, as long as the opponent can be put to death, any school of kung fu can be used together, Murhaqi is a rookie in Chen Cao's eyes.

The Murhaqi in front of him is in his fifties, and he is definitely not as good as Chen Cao in terms of physical strength, and the martial arts who fought with Nurhachi in the east and west when he was young are a little out of the way at this moment, but after all, he is a nation that made a fortune on horseback, and he is quite disciplined in every move.

Murhaqi slashed towards Chen Cao with a knife in the head, this move had a powerful power to split Huashan, so frightened that Chen Cao hurriedly put away the knife, rotated the blade and quickly blocked it with the back of the knife, and with a sound of 'poof', Chen Cao only felt that the hand holding the long knife was numb, and the Yanling knife almost fell out of his hand.

If you catch it with the blade of a sword, it will surely break. Chen Cao secretly said in his heart that he reacted quickly, but Murhaqi couldn't make a move, and then raised his knife and swung it at the neck of the horse on his side.

If the war horse is injured, Chen Cao falls off the horse, the only way is to be hacked to death by the guards around Murhaqi, in a hurry, Chen Cao also made a life-threatening fight, kicked the stirrup, and flew towards Murhaqi, the war horse under him was cut by Murhaqi, and he knocked Murhaqi on the war horse out with inertia, and the two fell into the snow together.

Chen Cao didn't dare to hold it up now, Li Shaokuan and Li Wan'er's reinforcements were still fighting with them in the distance, and they wanted to support and disrupt Shuo Biji's golden cavalry formation, so after falling into the snow, Chen Cao relied on his youth, regardless of the pain, and punched him straight to the door of Murhaqi's face.

Murhaqi, who was suddenly injured, was beaten and dizzy, blood suddenly flowed out of his nose, and he was powerless to resist, Chen Cao immediately picked up the long knife that fell in the snow, and looked at Murhaqi with a fierce swing.

'Snort...'

The minions of Murhaqi not far away shouted, but Chen Cao couldn't understand the Manchu language at all, picked up Murhaqi's head and quickly rolled twice, away from the attack range of those guards, and then with the help of Gao Chong, jumped on a war horse and rode towards Li Shaokuan's side.

Li Wan'er and Li Shaokuan have never seen Murhaqi either, but they recognize the hood, the hood of the owner of the blue flag is different from everyone else, the lightning rod is a little higher than anyone's, and the armor is made of gold, so at a glance, they know that the identity of the owner is not simple.

"Amma..."Shuo Biji watched Chen Cao carrying Murhaqi's head towards him in the riding formation, and couldn't help but feel sad, shouted, and led people towards Chen Cao to kill him.

Chen Cao was running for his life here, and suddenly saw another Jin soldier general killing him, and the evil was born to the side of the guts, and he also broke out, so he picked up the mutilated Yanling knife and killed Shuo Biji viciously.

Under the two phases, where is that Shuo Biji Chen Cao's opponent, that is, his brother Ge Bala, a warrior recognized by the blue flag, was beheaded by Chen Cao, not to mention himself, because of anger, although the knife that rushed to the horse cut off the Yanling knife in Chen Cao's hand, but Chen Cao was also weak, and his backhand hit Shuo Biji's cheek with Murhaqi's head, and Shuo Biji fell straight down.

Abu saw that his master was dead, and he also fought for his life to kill Chen Cao, at this moment Chen Cao had already run out of strength, so he could only hide, at the critical moment, Li Shaokuan held a gun and shot Abu Cai Shuo from behind, and the gun picked off the horse, and the Jin soldiers lost the generals one after another, and suddenly there was chaos, and they ran around, plus the infantry reinforcements led by Li Shaokuan and others had arrived, and only the remaining Jin soldiers were under the leadership of Dohala, and even the corpse of Murhaqi did not have time to clean up, and fled in a hurry.

Shuo Biji couldn't run, and the head of his old father Murhaqi beat him half to death, and after falling into the snow, he fainted and was captured by Gao Chongsheng.

Li Wan'er looked at Chen Cao, who was covered in blood, with an embarrassed expression, and then looked at the head in his hand, and was not afraid at all: "You... Okay? ”

Chen Cao didn't want to say anything superfluous, just nodded weakly, and then sat on the corpse of a golden soldier and gasped.

"Mr. Chen, you have made a great contribution this time." Li Shaokuan came to Chen Cao excitedly: "The captured Tartar identified that the Tartar general you beheaded was the brother of Jiannu, the enemy leader of the Blue Banner Murhaqi, and the head brought was his son Gebala, known as the first warrior of the Blue Banner, and the general who was beaten down by you was also Murhaqi's son Shuo Biji, in this battle, more than 400 Tartars were killed and 34 people were captured. ”

Li Wan'er looked at the weak Chen Cao, and regardless of Li Shaokuan's excited chatter, she stepped forward to support Chen Cao and whispered: "You can be regarded as revenge, I heard from my father that Murhaqi ambushed General Du's team in Salhu, presumably your father was also a soldier there." Now that you have killed him, it can be regarded as a great revenge. ”

Chen Cao looked up at Li Wan'er, let out a sigh of relief, and fell directly into Li Wan'er's arms.