Niu Wancheng, the registered deputy general, was born in the personal army of Dong Xueli, the governor of Huguang.

followed Dong Xueli, who was the deputy general of Minghua Machi, first voted for Li Zicheng, and then descended to the founding prince of the Qing Dynasty, Azige, and in 20 years, he was mixed from a pro-soldier to a registered deputy general, no matter how you look at it, it is also a good mix.

Since the Qing court launched the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army in Kuidong, although the Qing army in Huguang on the eastern front suffered a great defeat under Li Laiheng, in the case of the overall superiority of the Qing army, the Qing army in Huguang did not "fear thieves like tigers" because of the defeat, but was very active in continuing to encircle and suppress the Ming army.

It responds to the words "repeated defeats and repeated battles".

Among them is Niu Wancheng.

In addition to the righteousness of reversing thieves for the imperial court, the promise of the Admiral to ask the imperial court for the general army was also very stimulating to Niu Wancheng.

This time, he took the initiative to ask Ying to cooperate with the general Ma Tengyun to enter Wushan to suppress the thieves.

In addition to cooperating, there is also the intention of supervising the Ma Ministry, which Ma Tengyun actually knows.

It's just that there is one thing that Ma Tengyun doesn't know, that is, Dong Xueli, the governor of Huguang, privately taught Niu Wancheng a trick.

That is, to consume the surrendered army commanded by Ma Tengyun as much as possible.

The reason is that Ma Tengyun was not born in the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, but from the Dashun army led by Li Zicheng.

Although the Qing Dynasty had been surrendered, Dong Xueli, who was a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, was still hostile to the Shun army that destroyed the Ming Dynasty, or discriminated against.

Even if the governor has asked the court for Ma Tengyun to be the governor of Zuodu, Dong Xueli still wants to get rid of Ma Tengyun.

Dividing the generals into two backgrounds, the Ming army and the thief army, so as to treat them differently, is also a tacit matter for the Qing court.

Sun Kewang, who was born in the Great Western Army, was crowned King Yi after he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and he was not shot to death by a group of Manchurian children as a live target.

What's more, Ma Tengyun, an "old thief" from the Dashun Army.

But this kind of thing must not be done too clearly, otherwise it is easy to let those Ming generals who have not surrendered fight to the death, which is not conducive to the encirclement and suppression of them.

It will also ruin the Governor's general policy of suppressing and appeasing both.

Therefore, the method that Dong Xueli thought of was consumption.

In his words, it's dog eats dog.

It is best for Ma Tengyun to persuade the Ming army on the western front to surrender, if he can't, let him fight with the Ming army, and Niu Wancheng will be in the back as the supervising team.

In the fight, Ma Tengyun's strength will definitely be damaged.

If he doesn't fight, he will be condemned to surrender and rebel, and the crime of not having a firm position will be solved by Niu Wancheng on the spot.

In short, Dong Xueli didn't want Ma Tengyun to live.

At least, he didn't want his gang of thieves to live.

With the opportunity of the Admiral, his subordinates reported that after receiving the warning signal from the Ma Ministry, Niu Wancheng did not lead his troops to move closer to the Ma Bu at the first time, but continued to eat and drink in the town to pass the time.

His subordinates all Si Qi Yikui did not know the inside story, and reminded the deputy general out of kindness that the enemy situation was unknown, and if Ma Tengyun was defeated by the Ming army, it would drag them down.

"What kind of Guoyi general was Ma Tengyun under Blind Li in the past, known as one of the eighteen heroes, who can fight very much, what are you afraid of? Let him fight with the thief for a while, and then we'll go over. ”

Niu Wancheng ignored it.

What he wants is for Ma Tengyun to fight with the Ming army, so that he can easily get the credit after leading the troops over.

As a result, within half an hour, the people sent by Ma Tengyun to ask for help arrived, saying that the attacking Ming army was extremely strong and numerous, and they could no longer hold on, so they asked Adjutant General Niu to quickly lead troops to reinforce.

"Fuck, Ma Tengyun is so useless! The thieves are at the end of the road, how can there be any soldiers who can fight! Lao Tzu looks at him and just can't work! ”

Having said that, but considering that Ma Tengyun would also have an impact on himself if he was really defeated, Niu Wancheng did not dare to delay any longer, and ordered his subordinates to gather troops and rush in the direction of Ma Bu.

The distance is not far, only five miles, but these five miles are not plains, but mountain roads, which are very difficult to walk.

It will take at least an hour to get to the place where Mabe is.

Niu Wancheng had only walked half the way after setting off, and a group of routs in front of him rushed to Hulala, who were not in good clothes and armor, and even lost their weapons.

Seeing the Qing army with the green flag appearing, the group of routs rushed up crying and shouting as if they had seen their father, mother and son, and almost broke up the front line of the green battalion.

Niu Wancheng was furious when he saw this, and ordered his subordinates to suppress the defeated soldiers, so as to stabilize his position, and at the same time, he was also frightened, and he didn't think that Ma Tengyun would really lose to the Ming army!

You must know that there are more than 1,600 people under Ma Tengyun, and they are all Ma Tengyun's carefully selected pawns, but they were defeated by the Ming army in less than an hour, so how many people do the Ming army have? !

It made Deputy General Niu feel a sudden attack, neither advancing nor retreating.

More and more defeated troops retreated, including Ma Tengyun's subordinate Ge Jinbao.

He was brought to Niu Wancheng for the first time.

"What, Ma Tengyun is dead?!"

After listening to Ge Jinbao's stammering narration, Niu Wancheng was stunned, thinking that Ma Tengyun was defeated, but he didn't expect that this old thief would even lose his life.

"How many people are there in the Ming army, and who is leading the troops?"

Du Siqi Yikui was frightened and hurriedly asked Ge Jinbao for details.

Ge Jinbao couldn't say anything when he squeaked, only said that the Ming army didn't want to die, and they didn't care about the impact of human lives and casualties like crazy, and they couldn't hold it anymore after fighting hard for a long time.

"The trapped beast is still fighting!"

Niu Wancheng thought that most of the Ming soldiers who were not afraid of death were loyal battalion people, that is, the old battalion soldiers who were often called thieves.

If it was really these people, he couldn't help but retreat.

After all, he's here to pick up fruit, not to gnaw bones.

I really want to fight hard with those old thieves, even if I win, I am afraid that I will break my muscles and bones.

After thinking twice in his heart, it was better to withdraw, and when he was about to give the order to withdraw to Dachang, another defeated army ran back, but this time the news was that the army had withdrawn to the stronghold in the west.

"How did you evacuate?"

Niu Wancheng had a question mark in his head, and immediately ordered his soldiers to bring the map.

The map is the approximate deployment map of the Ming army in the Kuidong area, which was presented to Zhang Changgeng, the governor of Huguang, after Ma Tengyun surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

The map shows that there are two Ming army strongholds in the west of Dachang, one is the lock mouth hole; The other place is Wujiayuanzi in the northwest of Suokou Cave.

"My lord, if the Ming army retreats to the lock hole, our army should immediately march to block it at the lock mouth, so that the Ming army in the two places will fall into our east and west attack."

Du Si Qi Yikui thought that this was a good time to completely solve the Ming army on the Western Front, after all, it was the main force of the Sichuan army commanded by Zheng Jiaolin, the governor of Sichuan, who dealt with the Ming army of Wujiayuanzi.

They didn't have to storm the locks, as long as they set up barracks so that they couldn't break through from the east.

Qi Yikui's analysis is very reasonable, Niu Wancheng was greatly moved, marching to encircle and kill the Ming army is meritorious, and retreating to Dachang is not only futile, but also may have been.

Because Ma Tengyun died too quickly, and he was too close to Ma Bu, if someone who turned around wanted to join him in the crime of sitting back and watching the army be wiped out and not being saved, it was the Admiral's intention to get rid of Ma Tengyun, and this black cauldron might have to be carried by him first.

But there are still doubts in my heart, that is, why the Ming army did not march to Dachang after the victory, but retreated to the lock.

Is it possible that the Ming army wanted to lure him deep and fight his ambush?

In order to ensure that the Ming army was not tempting him, Niu Wancheng had an extra eye and ordered someone to interrogate the Ma soldiers who had fled back alone.

The result was unified, the Ming army did retreat, the reason for the retreat was that they did not have many troops, and they suffered heavy casualties in the battle with the horses, so that they did not have the strength to fight again.

Niu Wancheng was not gullible, and called Ge Jinbao again and asked him to tell the battle situation in detail.

“... The last general was ordered by General Ma to hold the high slope on the right side, and he was well guarded, who would have thought that the Ming army organized a death squad to seize the high ground on the left..."

Ge Jinbao didn't dare to hide it, and told the fact that Mabu was defeated by the Ming army.

But he hid the fact that he took the initiative to order a retreat, and only said that he led his troops to rescue Ma Tengyun but failed and was forced to retreat.

After Ge Jinbao went down, Niu Wancheng asked the generals what they meant.

Some said that the army was frightened and retreated after knowing the existence of their green battalion, and some said that the Ming army had no strength to fight again and was forced to withdraw, and they did not think that with the current strength of the Ming army, they would dare to fight with them.

Qi Yikui said: "Your Excellency, you must not hesitate, since the thief army has retreated, our army should now take advantage of the situation to pursue, if you can eliminate the other party on the way, you can capture the lock without a single soldier, and completely cut off the back road of the Ming army of Wujiayuanzi, and then the adults will persuade them to surrender, and they think that most of the Ming army will fall." ”

"Good!"

The generals had the same opinion, and Niu Wancheng of course no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered the whole army to march towards the lock hole.

It's just that the horses are a little tricky.

You can't kill them, but if you don't kill them, let them follow and make trouble.

Qi Yikui suggested that Ge Jinbao, the deputy general of the Ma Department who had fled back, organize the defeated troops to fight in the front to fight in the vanguard, so that if the Ming army really had an ambush, this group of cannon fodder could also help them attract firepower.

"That makes sense!"

Niu Wancheng thought so and immediately adopted it and asked Qi Yikui to do it.

Soon, the Qing army set off again, this time leading the team with hundreds of remnants led by Ge Jinbao.

It may be that the Green Battalion soldiers are behind, and these remnants who fled back from the Ming army are actually a little more courageous.

After walking for more than half an hour, the Qing army finally arrived at the place where Ma Tengyun died in battle.

The battlefield had apparently been cleared by the Ming army, and useful ordnance had been taken away, leaving behind corpses and inconsequential things.

Only the corpses are not only the surrendered army of Ma Tengyun's department, but also the Ming army.

"The Ming army retreated in a hurry, and there was no time to take their people with them!"

Qi Yikui knew that the old battalion of thieves was the most important comrade, and he would not discard the corpses of the war dead until he had to, so he judged that the Ming army learned from the prisoners that the green battalion would arrive immediately, and he hurriedly withdrew for fear of being defeated.

Niu Wancheng nodded slightly, and his gaze fell on a dead horse in front of him.

There was a corpse held in the snow by a spear.

It was Ma Tengyun that the Admiral wanted to get rid of!

The remnants of Ma Tengyun's subordinates also saw the corpse of their old marquis, and they were a little sad for a while.

Niu Wancheng snorted slightly, and ordered not to pay attention to the corpse here, and the team continued to set off, making sure to catch up with the Ming army.

More than an hour later, at about three o'clock in the afternoon (three or four o'clock), Niu Wancheng came to the front to report, saying that he had found the Ming army's baggage team.

Ge Jinbao and his people are in pursuit.

"Oh?"

Niu Wancheng looked around, turned over and dismounted, climbed to a high place surrounded by a group of officers and personal soldiers, picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked ahead.

In the camera, hundreds of people are fleeing to the west in the distance, and Ge Jinbao is chasing after him with a group of remnants.

There seemed to be women and children in the ranks of the fleeing Ming army.

I can vaguely see that the fleeing Ming army keeps throwing away their baggage, and some women even untie the burden on their shoulders and throw it away.

Further ahead, there was silence, and there was no trace of the Ming army, indicating that the main force had gone away.

"A thief is a thief, and when it is critical, the wife and children become a burden,"

What Niu Wancheng saw in the clairvoyant mirror made Niu Wancheng completely let down his guard, and waved his hand: "Tell the brothers, the woman wants to catch it alive!" Chase, chase me hard! ”