At dusk, on the south bank of the Daqing River.

Manchurian Red Flag Niu Lu Zhang Jing Sergu paced back and forth irritably, roaring loudly at his subordinates from time to time.

Since the general was ordered to go north, the banners packed up the looted population, money, food and materials, and marched north behind the main force of soldiers and horses. All the seizures with red flags were escorted by Niu Luzhang Jing Sergu.

When the army marched to the bank of the Daqing River, the bridge across the river was in disrepair, and the army did not pass much before there was a dangerous situation, and the various departments of the Qing army had to show their own powers, or cross the river by riding horses, or use the cowhide raft they carried, or swim directly over, anyway, the weather is hot and rainy this year, and the amount of water in the Daqing River is already very small.

However, the more than 300 people brought by Sergu could not cross the river, after all, they were escorting the capture of Manchuria's red flag. More than 300 Qing troops are okay, but the thousands of Ming people who were captured and plundered, as well as dozens of truckloads of money, grain and materials, could not swim through, and could only wait for the ships to transport them.

In this way, Du Du ordered Sergu to lead his troops to stay here, send people to search for ships to cross the river, and then chase the main army and horses.

"It's been a day, where is the ship!"

After waiting for a long time, Pashku, who had been sent out to look for a ship, rushed back in a sweat, but could not find even a single ship.

"My lord, there are not even people in this radius of dozens of miles, let alone ships, and the small ones are really hard to find."

Sergu roared angrily: "Without a boat, what will happen to these captives and money and food, and throw them all into the river!" ”

"My lord, it's better to build a bridge, although it is slower, but it is better than waiting."

Selgu thought for a while and said, "It's okay, go cut down the trees and build a bridge immediately!" ”

More than 300 soldiers with red flags were busy working one after another, and under the scorching sun, these Tartar soldiers cut down trees shirtless, sweating like rain, and then threw the trees into the river, and some Tartar soldiers who knew how to water jumped into the river, inserted sections of wooden stakes into the riverbed, and built wooden bridges little by little.

Sergu found a shady place, sat under a big tree, and took off his armor, but he was still sweating, and he dragged a pig's tail on his bare head, and the beads of sweat kept coming from his pigtails, and soon a puddle of sweat accumulated on the ground.

At this time, Napao Shiku came running and said with a flattering face: "Look, my lord, the bridge piles have been made one after another, and if you wait, you can start laying the bridge slabs." ”

"Well, hurry up."

"Huh!"

Napashiku said: "My lord, this place has not yet left Shandong, should you send some scouts out to prevent the Ming army from raiding?" ”

Sergu disagreed, and said, "What are you afraid of! Liu Yan and Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates have returned to Jinan Fucheng, except for the two of them, where do other Ming troops have the courage to carry out surprise attacks? ”

"That's—that's right."

"The rest of the Ming army are soft-footed shrimp, so there is nothing to worry about."

"Your Excellency!"

Sergu looked at the sky, and then said, "Go over there and find a few beautiful Han girls." ”

"Hey, hey!"

Pashku smiled and said, "The little one understands, the adult later." ”

Then Pashku walked towards the place where the people were being held, and beckoned a few Baoyi and said loudly: "You guys, hurry up and set up a tent for the adults, hurry!" ”

When Pashku came to the place where the people were being held by the river, there was a commotion among the thousands of people, and many women bowed their heads and curled up behind their companions.

Pashku looked around, and then found a few young and beautiful girls in the crowd, pointed in the crowd, and a few foot armor behind him immediately rushed into the crowd, and roughly dragged a few girls out.

"Help!"

"Dad, save me!"

The surrounding people stepped forward to stop them, and more people watched all this, their eyes full of fear.

"Bastard Aha, look for death!"

A step armor was hugged by the old man beside him, and the old man kept begging for mercy, hoping to let his granddaughter go.

But such a move angered the Qing army's infantry armor, only to see that infantry armor pulled out a knife, stabbed the old man's head, blood splashed, and the surrounding people were sprayed with blood all over their faces, and suddenly frightened the surrounding people screaming and retreating.

The girl who was dragged by the step armor let out a miserable scream, and threw herself on the old man's headless corpse and cried bitterly.

"Let's go!"

Bujia ignored it, grabbed the girl's long hair, and strode out, the people along the way no longer dared to stop them, or angry, or sad, everyone looked at the crying girl, and no one dared to step forward again.

Suddenly, there was a roar in the distance, and the infantry looked south in surprise, only to see an army of iron cavalry appearing on the periphery at some point, and was rushing at full speed.

"Ming Army!"

At this time, there were only a dozen red flag-inlaid Tartar soldiers on the periphery, and when they saw thousands of Ming army iron cavalry, they were already stunned, and they shot a few arrows one after another, and then turned around and ran.

Na Pao Shiku shouted, and ran away in a panic with a few Tartar soldiers who had robbed the beauty, gathering men and horses along the way, preparing to form a formation to resist.

And thousands of people were dumbfounded when they saw this, where did these officers and soldiers come from, and they dared to take the initiative to attack these Tartar soldiers?

"Wan Sheng!"

Suddenly, a common man raised his arms and shouted, followed by thousands of people cheering, and dozens of Tartar soldiers on guard shouted angrily, constantly beating the people around them with weapons in their hands.

"Folks, the official army is here, and they are fighting with the dog Tartar!"

"Kill the Tartars!"

Thousands of people saw the Ming army killing, and immediately had confidence, and instantly surrounded dozens of Tartar soldiers with red flags, although the people were unarmed, but under the punches and kicks, after paying the price of hundreds of people, they actually knocked down all the dozens of Tartar soldiers, and under the punches and feet, dozens of Tartar soldiers also became dozens of stinky pools of rotten flesh and blood.

At this time, Xu Ming, the general manager of Qian, led more than 1,000 cavalry battalion soldiers to rush in, directly penetrating the temporary camp of more than 300 Qing troops, so that these Qing troops had no chance to succeed in the formation.

At the same time, General Lu Huaiying led the 3,000 iron cavalry of the Governor's Battalion to thousands of people and rescued them on the spot.

The general Xu Tonghui led the 2,000 iron cavalry of the Fubiao battalion to the other side and began to encircle and annihilate more than 100 Tartar soldiers with red flags guarding money, food and materials.

Sergu was stunned to see the thousands of Ming army iron cavalry killing, especially when he saw the banners of the Lingshan Wei New Army, the Governor of Shandong, and the Governor of Shandong, he immediately exclaimed: "Lu Xiangsheng, Liu Yanbu!" ”

Sergu didn't have the courage to face the battle at all, and there were only more than 300 people, even if they were all horse armor and Baibaya soldiers, it was difficult to attack with the thousands of elite iron cavalry of Lu Xiangsheng and Liu Yan.

So in the dense sound of birds and fighting, Selgu gave the order to retreat. The remaining more than 100 Red Banner Tartar soldiers gathered on horseback, and it was impossible to cross the river at this time, so Sergu immediately made a decision and led the remnants of the army to flee to the west.

But everyone didn't run far, and they saw a large army in front of them, and the strict phalanx formed was pressing towards this side, and the banner was the left battalion of the Lingshan Wei New Army.

And in the south, more Lingshan Wei new army soldiers also formed a phalanx to kill, at this time Sergu's department has been completely surrounded, there is no way to enter the heavens and no door, everyone's faces are very ugly, and they all look at Sergu.

"To the north, swim across the river!"

Everyone rode their horses to the Daqing River, and more than a dozen Tartar soldiers who ran slowly were killed on the spot by the Zhongying bird gunners who rushed to the scene.

When Sergu turned over and dismounted and came to the river, there were only sixty or seventy men left with him, and his men were long gone, and I don't know whether they were killed or if they had taken advantage of the chaos to run elsewhere.

At this time, everyone did not speak, they took off their armor one after another, and even discarded their weapons one after another, and then jumped into the river like dumplings in the pot.

Immediately afterwards, Teng Jianghe, the right general of the middle battalion, led his troops to arrive, and more than 400 soldiers saw the armor and clothes all over the ground, as well as dozens of Tartar soldiers fluttering in the river, and they laughed one after another, pointing as if they were watching the excitement.

Selgu looked back, only to see hundreds of Lingshan Wei new troops laughing recklessly on the shore, his face suddenly red and white, he followed the banner master to fight in the south and the north, he had never seen any scene, he had never been so embarrassed as today, as if he was a cattle, and was teased by the Ming army!

However, Sergu's hands and feet did not stop, but accelerated a little, because Tengjianghe had already gathered more than two hundred bird-bearers on the right to form a line, and then aimed at the Tartar soldiers in the river and began to fire a volley.

"Ready! Put! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Reload!"

"Put!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

Round after round of volleys, the river suddenly splashed in all directions, as if it was boiling.

Sergu and other dozens of Tartar soldiers who were swimming across had nowhere to hide, and were shot in the river one after another, and in the blink of an eye, the river was stained red with blood, and dozens of people, including Sergu, sank into the river one after another and disappeared.

Seeing this, Teng Jianghe said regretfully: "It's a pity, there are dozens of heads, and they have all sunk." ”

At this time, the battle was over, and Liu Yan led the Lingshan Wei battalions to rest in place, and then rode their horses to the river.

General Lu Huaiying appeased the people, and sent someone to count the number of people. On the other side, General Xu Tonghui was also leading people to count the seized money, food and materials.

Liu Yan rushed over, Lu Huaiying and Xu Tonghui came over, and their faces were full of joy.

"Hehe, Commander Liu is here, look, this is another big victory!"

Xu Tonghui also smiled and said: "Commander Liu, look at these seizures and population ......"

Liu Yan looked around, and then asked in a low voice, "I don't know how the two generals counted?" ”

Lu Huaiying and Xu Tonghui glanced at each other, and then Lu Huaiying took the lead and said: "There are more than 7,400 people who have been captured by the thieves here, and the specific situation, how many men, women, and children, it will take time to further count." ”

Xu Tonghui said: "The people and ointment looted by the slaves are all here, and the time is limited, and now only more than 129,000 taels of silver, more than 300 taels of gold, 194,000 stones of grain, and the rest of the cloth, jewelry, clothes and other materials are not counted. ”

Liu Yan nodded, looked at Lu Huaiying and Xu Tonghui's expectant expressions, and said with a smile: "In this battle, we have won more than two hundred and twenty slave and thief heads, and I think they are all counted on the two generals." ”

"Haha, that's embarrassing."

"Commander Liu is really noble, admired, admired!"

Liu Yan exchanged a few words with Lu Huaiying and Xu Tonghui, and then said: "As for the money and food, I don't want Lingshanwei, but the two generals have worked hard and made great achievements, and they will go back with some of them, which can be regarded as a reward for the soldiers." How about taking the rest of the inventory and taking it back to the business? ”

Lu Huaiying and Xu Tonghui suddenly became excited, Liu Yan is really generous, the two of them still want to take Liu Yan to keep some silver together, and now Liu Yan directly said that he doesn't want silver, so what does he want?

Lu Huaiying asked, "What does Commander Liu mean?" With so much silver, it doesn't hurt to take some. ”

Liu Yan smiled and said: "Forget the silver, but those captured people, I want to bring them back to Lingshan Wei." The two generals should know that our Lingshan Wei people are few and the land is poor, and these people are needed to open up the wasteland and farm. ”

Lu Huaiying said: "Commander Liu, rest assured, after I go back, I will definitely suggest to the governor that all these people be moved to Lingshanwei to be settled." ”

Xu Tonghui said: "At present, the surrounding area of Jinan Mansion City is poisoned by the army of slaves and thieves, so naturally it is impossible to settle these people. After I go back, I will also suggest it to Lord Futai, and Commander Liu will rest assured. ”

Some people died, but not completely......