Chapter 372 Lao Tzu Shu Dao Mountain

Huang Taiji underestimated the Ming army too much, and also underestimated Lu Xiangsheng's courage, breaking through to the north, which means that the north is the strangest environment and a colder place. The Ming army of the Northern Expedition had almost no cotton clothes, and if they broke through to the north, they would only die faster.

But the problem is that Lu Xiangsheng broke through to the north, and he really caught the Jiannu army off guard.

"Attack with Ben Shuai!"

The Mo knife in Lu Xiangsheng's hand pointed forward, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and rushed towards the Guanning army, behind Lu Xiangsheng was a dense Ming army cavalry, at this time the Ming army formed a huge hollow array, the front was the Tianxiong army under Lu Xiangsheng and the Liaoxi army under the command of Zu Dabi, and finally the Tianxiong army under the command of Li Chongzhen. The middle part is the Minfu and the Chongzhen Emperor.

The Ming army that was charging fell to the ground, and the soldiers of the Ming army behind them did not hesitate and continued to press up, especially the pikemen who were the middle force, densely packed, almost next to each other, such a tight formation, but made the Guan Ning army like a dog biting a hedgehog with nowhere to start.

They could shoot, but the problem was that when they retreated and wanted to open the distance, Lu Xiangsheng and Zu Dabi were left and right, like two huge horns, fiercely entering the military formation of the Guanning army.

Wu Sangui roared at Zu Dabi: "Second uncle, are you crazy? Your wife and children are still in Jinzhou, don't you want it? Aren't you afraid that your uncle will be angry and destroy all the door?"

Zu Dabi's eyes cracked, and he roared: "I'm afraid!" But I'm even more afraid that I won't be able to enter the ancestral grave if I die! ”

With a twist of his wrist, Ma Lance and Wu Sangui's saber turned in a circular arc, and then suddenly exerted force, whirring the saber away, and stabbed obliquely. At the most critical moment, the guards around Wu Sangui stood in front of Wu Sangui. With a sizzle, a deep, long wound stretched from the name's right shoulder to the left rib, and blood and internal organs poured out, and he was instantly unable to survive.

Wu Sangui rolled on the spot to avoid Zu Dabi's lance, and when Zu Dabi wanted to kill Wu Sangui again, it was too late, so he rolled on the spot, and more Wu family soldiers rushed up and drowned Zu Dabi.

"Second General Zu, don't fall in love with war!"

Lu Xiangsheng gave an order to Zu Dabi, listening to the sound of drums in his ears, Zu Dabi could only give up his plan to kill Wu Sangui, and he led the cavalry of the Liaoxi Army towards the Guanning Army and the Manchu cavalry.

Seeing that the Ming army was about to break through the encirclement in the north, the cavalry of the Qing army was not vegetarian, and they spared no horsepower to prepare to block the breakthrough of the Liaoxi army.

It's just a pity that their four or five thousand people have just completed the assembly, and before they have time to launch, dozens of fire dragons rushed into the sky, turned into meteors, and pounced on the Qing cavalry array, and these Qing cavalry were instantly overwhelmed by the shock wave of fire traps and explosions.

Subjected to such a fierce shelling, the Qing cavalry inevitably panicked, but the Ming cavalry was like a rainbow of morale, crashing into their array with a devastating momentum and opening a killing spree!

Huang Taiji's fists were clenched so that his muscles were exposed, and his knuckles were white. No one told him this truth, but after the brave and warlike Manchurian iron cavalry was smashed by the Ming artillery like a hammer smashing beetles to the ground, he deeply understood that if he was backward, he would be beaten!

Of course, the Qing army would not sit idly by and watch the Ming army break through easily, they outflanked from all directions, and the rolling iron cavalry made the Sanshen Mountain boil.

More than 100,000 soldiers and men of the Ming army formed a huge phalanx several kilometers wide, bearing wave after wave of impact, strong crossbows and compound bows were firing, muskets and cannons were roaring, rockets were flying through the air, and swords were shining with cold light.

The iron cavalry rushed like a torrent, the infantry phalanx collided head-on, the sound of killing resounded through the field, and the battlefield that stretched for twenty miles was shrouded in bloody wind and rain, swords and swords, and sharp arrows that were shot covered the sky, this scene was so magnificent, and it was so terrifying!

The Ming and Qing dynasties fought for more than 30 years, and such a tragic bloody battle was unheard of. From using the room to agitating the generals, and then to luring the enemy, Huang Taiji has always been very successful, and mobilizing the Ming army is like mobilizing his own army, so to speak, he is infinitely close to success.

However, no matter how perfect the script is, there will be accidents, he still underestimated the bloody nature of the Ming army in a desperate situation, or rather, he underestimated the energy that an ancient nation that has been inherited for thousands of years, has survived countless nomadic invasions, and is still standing and proud of the crowd in the face of adversity, and underestimating the enemy made him pay a terrible price.

Huang Taiji watched powerlessly as his troops were wiped out one by one, and one by one they were crippled, and finally the angry torrent broke the dam, poured out, and surged to the northwest of Sanshen Mountain......

At this time, countless Qing soldiers sat on the snow and gasped violently, so tired that they couldn't stand up.

Looking at Jiannu behind him, Zu Dabi laughed loudly, untied the wine jug on his waist and poured a few sips, threw the wine jug to Lu Xiangsheng, and yelled repeatedly: "Happy, happy!" After living for most of his life, it is the first time that Lao Tzu has found that he is so planted! ”

Lu Xiangsheng also took a few sips: "It's not time to rest yet, important town, drink a few sips!" ”

Li Chongzhen took the wine and laughed: "The scenery is so beautiful, even if you enter the ancestral tomb, Lao Tzu can look at people with his nostrils!" ”

The soldiers of the Ming army broke out of the encirclement and laughed one after another, and the laughter was tragic and heroic, but with a smile and a smile, countless soldiers cried.

Of course, this is crying with joy, they survived, this was originally a certain death situation, because of Lu Xiangsheng, they came out alive.

Although Lu Xiangsheng led the Ming army to break through the siege, however, it was only a fierce battle for more than an hour to break through, and the Ming army fell 30,000 or 40,000 people.

The tenacious combat effectiveness of the Ming army made the Qing army instantly feel that the Ming Dynasty was not as easy to deal with as they imagined.

The road ahead does not seem to be easy.

However, the road of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty was even more difficult to walk, and the Ming army that broke through staggered and struggled to advance in the direction of the Hot Spring Valley. The clothes of the dead battle robes, the fur of the animals, and even the banners of the enemy army, they had already put on everything that could keep them warm, but it was still cold, and some people kept exhausting the last trace of heat and fell on the way to break through.

A huge arrow paved with corpses starts from Panjin and extends all the way in the direction of the hot spring valley, looking at each other from end to end, which is shocking.

The first to fall is the people, the treatment of the people is very poor, the necessities of survival such as clothing and food are not comparable with the army, under the ravages of cold and hunger, they have become the first victims, not one after another, but thousands of fallen, every morning, when the Ming army struggles to get up, there will always be a large circle of corpses around.

And the soldiers of the Ming army were not much better, their clothes were much thicker than those of the people, but those with armor and armor had a great physical exertion, and the limited food could not be replenished at all, they quickly became exhausted, and many people slept forever every night and could not open their eyes again.

Those who were still alive soon developed frostbite, and even their fingers and toes were necrotic and had to be cut off with daggers, and the cries of the frostbitten soldiers echoed in the queue, and they must have envied the dead.

The small cavalry of the Qing army has been haunting the Ming army like a pack of wolves, and they can't get rid of it. At the beginning, the cavalry of the Ming army will take the initiative to attack, go to expel them, with more and more horses frozen to death and frostbitten, the Ming army gradually does not have this strength, the Qing army loves to follow them, as long as they do not pounce on the attack of the large army, the Ming army is too lazy to pay attention to them.

Behind the small force of cavalry was a large force, and once any Ming army was left behind, the Qing army immediately pounced on it like a hungry wolf longing for fresh meat, and surrounded it.

After surrounding, they did not attack, they surrounded like this, and the people in the encirclement froze to death, starved to death, and they all died, and then they went to pick up the spoils, and after a few days of competition, the equipment of the Qing army in charge of the pursuit was changed from head to toe.

The Qing army sometimes overtook the Ming army, set up an ambush in front to block the Ming army, and did not fight hard, and immediately withdrew after a delay for most of the day, so that the Ming army had no strength to use. Under the constant attacks and obstructions of the Qing army, the Ming army could only walk at most forty miles a day, and as time went by, it became slower and slower.

Eighty or ninety miles of breakthrough road, there is no way, more and more soldiers are freezing to death and frostbitten, and the loss of mules and horses is countless, and many materials can only be carried by people, can the speed not be slow?

Seeing the thousands of soldiers and people of the Ming army falling, Chongzhen cried bitterly. Now he finally understands the meaning of "the Son of Heaven is angry, the blood flows thousands of miles, and ten thousand households are vegetarian", and he really did it, but he shed his own blood!

Just because he was angry, hundreds of thousands of lives disappeared, and countless unjust souls circled and whistling in the autumn wind, lingering, turning into terrible nightmares that woke him up from his dreams again and again. His gray hair increased at an alarming rate, and his whole person aged extremely fast, and his whole person was about to collapse.

If Chongzhen knew about the situation in the Guannai, he might have completely collapsed. The news of the defeat of the Ming army soon spread throughout the pass, and the hundreds of thousands of troops were afraid that they would not be able to come back, and the north and south were all shocked, and the fear of Jiannu that penetrated deep into the bone marrow was once again awakened by this unprecedented fiasco, and both inside and outside the government and the opposition were shocked.

"Haven't we been victorious and good news in the past few years?"

"Isn't Jiannu firmly suppressed, unable to move, and only one breath more than the dead?"

"How did you eat hundreds of thousands of troops of the Ming Dynasty all at once, even the Son of Heaven and the Imperial God of War Champion Hou ......"

Some horrific rumors spread quickly.

"There is such a fiasco, not because the Ming army can't fight, but because the Ming Dynasty has exhausted its strength!"

At first, these rumors began to flow from the mouths of some gods who liked to pretend to be gods, but they soon spread throughout the capital, spreading to the whole country at an alarming speed, setting off monstrous waves everywhere they went.

Officials, Qingliu, and gentlemen jumped out one after another to add fuel to the fire, raising their pens and waving their pens, laughing and scolding all into articles. Why did Daming suffer this catastrophe?

It's all because Chongzhen is a villain, a distant virtuous minister, trusts Cheng Shijie, a misguided minister, and denounces the righteous men and gentlemen in the court, and can't listen to the advice of the contrary!

Cheng Shijie, who was in Liaodong, was innocent and innocent, of course, the scribes and officials began to revisit the old things: "It's all because Cheng Shixing is a cheap business, farming far away, reusing evil villains, abusing gentlemen, obsessed with strange tricks and tricks, and despising moral articles, which is thousands of times worse than Wei Zhongxian and Liu Jin, and has exhausted the Qi of the Ming Dynasty in just a few years." ”

"Such a person really deserves death! Only by making up our minds and putting things right can the people of the Ming Dynasty see the light of day again! ”

I have to say that the influence of these officials, Qingliu, and gentry in the Ming Dynasty is indeed terrifying, reversing right and wrong, the pen is as sharp as a knife, and every sentence is heart-wrenching, which has stirred up the situation to the extreme.

The common people can't believe that a pillar of the empire has become a traitor to the country? However, now that most of the elite divisions of the Ming Dynasty have been lost, and the Qing army may enter the customs at any time, many people are panicked and listen to these nonsense.

Qingliu gritted his teeth and shouted: "Ning Haijun is the minions of the rebellious ministers and thieves, and the great harm of the Ming Dynasty!" If the Ning Navy is not removed, there will be a disaster of national extinction! ”

Of course, the Qingliu people actually didn't know that the Ming Dynasty and the Ning Navy in their eyes were advancing vigorously and entering Liaoxi. At this time, Liaoxi was harvesting in autumn, although the Guanning army received more than 900,000 stone grain and grass from the imperial court, of course, these grains and grass were not enough for hundreds of thousands of Guanning troops to eat, in addition to the Guanning army's food, they also had more than one million family members.

So, when the southern Liaoning began to Tuntian, Zu Dashou also began to Tuntian, copying the operations of southern Liaoning, and when the Ning Navy crossed the Liao River and the troops entered western Liaoning in six ways, they saw a busy scene.

Cheng Shijie has nearly a thousand officials around him, most of these officials are young students, and some of them have only been in school for two years.

Seeing this scene, Sun Zhili frowned slightly: "Marshal, although the Guanning army is reversed, these people are harvesting in the autumn, it is better to postpone it for half a month, otherwise, these people may suffer heavy losses!" ”

"No, this battle has nothing to do with them, it can't be fought!"

"Can't fight?"

Li Xin was a little unconvinced.

However, when the people of Liaoning, who were busy in the fields, saw a large number of Ning Navy officers coming over, the local people were not afraid at all, and even waved their hands to say hello, and Ning Navy officers also waved in response. It's a strange scene of harmonious coexistence.

Li Xin asked in great bewilderment, "Why aren't these people afraid of us at all?" ”

"What are they afraid of us for? Everyone often comes and goes, and they are more familiar with each other, and they all know that the Ning Navy soldiers in black uniforms never bully others, buy things and give money, and speak kindly, so they are naturally not afraid at all. ”

Sure enough, I didn't go far, and I encountered a fort, the Guanning army originally had more than 300 small forts, but now there are more than 100 old, weak, sick and disabled people standing in Lala, they have no defense, and they don't even have any intention of guarding.

A general manager of the Guanning Army lined up with everyone to greet him, and the Guanning Army greeted Cheng Shijie, the commander of the Ning Navy. ”

Li Xin was even more speechless, Ning Haijun is going west to Liaoxi and grabbing territory, why don't you also come up with some of the qualities that a rebel army should have? Are you not nervous at all, not afraid?

In addition to thousands of officials around Cheng Shijie, but with the seventh brigade that Ning Haijun has just formed, this is the Guards Brigade, the Guards Brigade is not the same as the main battle force brigade, because this brigade has eight regiments, four of which are cavalry, all of which are the original cavalry divisions, of which the 37th Regiment is Qi Yan as the commander, and more than 1,000 people under his command fought in Lanzhou to the end, leaving only fifty-three people, of whom eleven are disabled, Qi Yan proved his loyalty to Cheng Shijie with his behavior.

With more than 20,000 troops, even Jiannu is not their opponent, and Huang Taiji will be as big as a fighter when he sees it.

However, now the equipment of the Ning Navy seems a bit unusual, such an army of more than 23,000 people is not without shield soldiers, but there is only one company of shield bearers, serving as Cheng Shijie's personal guard, but the pikemen of the Ning Navy have been canceled, and there are no crossbowmen, one person has a Chongzhen eight-year bolt-action rifle, plus a bayonet is over.

Everyone is still carrying a large bag of luggage, the bedding basin or something is all inside, and there is a one-meter-long sapper shovel hanging outside the duffel bag.

If you don't use him for hand-to-hand combat, use it to dig bunkers, chop wood, cut cabbage and open watermelon, and even fry a steak is also competent and pleasant, as for digging a big hole on the road, it is even more meaningful. There are also four wooden handles in the waterproof sleeping bag on the waist, which is really the only one of the Ming Dynasty.

"But Cheng Shuai in person?"

"It's Ben Shuai!"

"I don't know, Cheng Shuaihu is here, he has missed the distance, forgive the sins, forgive the sins!"

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "Ben Shuai doesn't have the kung fu to give you, either Kaicheng surrenders, or Lao Tzu enters the city and you surrender, choose yourself!" ”

Mr. Guan Ningjun smiled faintly: "I don't know if what is written on this is true?" ”

"Are you blind?"

Cheng Shijie said angrily: "It is covered with the big seal of Ben Shuai, and Ben Shuai naturally speaks!" ”

"We are still a military household, give us a land?"

"The old, weak, sick and disabled enter the Tuntian military households, and the skilled military households enter the engineering military households, young and strong, and only after passing the assessment can they become soldiers of the Ning Navy!"

"Alright, let's surrender right away!"

Speaking of this, the Bai general waved his hand, and a garrison with rags in his mouth was carried over by two Guanning soldiers: "Cheng Shuai, this is Zu Shuai's personal soldier, the ancestral family's diehards, anyone can surrender, but he won't surrender......"

The garrison had just gained the freedom of his mouth, and said with a sad face: "Cheng Shuai, I am willing to surrender, and I am willing to surrender......"

In this way, this garrison fort was taken in this way, and then the Armed Forces Bureau of the General Staff of the Ning Navy immediately began to screen these soldiers of the Guanning Army.

Cheng Shijie led the army in this way, all the way directly to Jinzhou City, and the castles along the way surrendered one after another, and they surrendered faster and faster. These castles also knew Cheng Shijie's habits, and not only quickly cleaned up the garbage in the castle, but also cleaned the streets and pavements very cleanly.

The personnel roster, all kinds of equipment and all kinds of materials were all prepared and received directly, which was very smooth, which made Li Xin feel unbelievable and like a dream.

There are still more than ten miles away from Jinzhou, Li Xin said worriedly: "Dashuai, do we have to wait any longer!" ”

"What are you waiting for?"

Li Xin said: "Our artillery is still behind, now I am afraid that the gate of Jinzhou has been closed, and there is no artillery, how can we take the fortified city of Jinzhou?" ”

"Jinzhou doesn't actually have to fight!"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly.

As early as the Battle of Chongzhen Baliwan, Cheng Shijie began to lay out the Guanning Army, an army that can be won over by interests, Jiannu can be wooed, and Cheng Shijie can also be wooed.

Although it is said that the equipment of the Ning Navy is better than that of the Guanning Army, and its combat effectiveness is also stronger than that of the Guanning Army, as long as the battle starts, the Ning Navy will suffer casualties to some extent.

If you can't fight, you won't fight, because it's not necessary. If something can be solved with silver, it is actually not a problem for Cheng Shijie. In the Ming Dynasty, even in later generations, money is irresistible to most people.

In fact, not only Cheng Shijie is putting chess pieces into the Guanning Army, but Zhu Weiyuan is also using her identity to influence the female dependents of the generals of the Guanning Army.

Unlike Zhu Weiyuan, Cheng Shijie is wooing most of the ordinary Guanning soldiers, whether it is Zu Dashou or Wu Xiang, their money is actually not enough to feed all the officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army, and only one-third of the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army belong to the level of family soldiers and enjoy good treatment.

And more than two-thirds of the ordinary soldiers of the Guanning Army, they are only slightly better than the guards, that is, they are in a state of starvation and hunger.

Because the Ning Navy often dealt with the Guanning Army, especially the more than 8,000 soldiers from Liaoxi in the Ning Navy, they would tell their relatives and friends about their treatment in the Ning Navy, as well as their welfare and various policies of the Ning Navy.

When the Guanning Army did not rebel, the Ning Navy would not open its door to recruit soldiers from Liaoxi, so all along, the Guanning Army and the Ning Navy have been at peace, in fact, there has been too much resentment within the Guanning Army.

When the time comes, this resentment will erupt.

When Cheng Shijie arrived in Jinzhou City, the Guan Ning army in the city closed the city gate early, and the black pressure on the city wall was full of human heads, and countless heads were moving, pointing at Ning Haijun.

As Ning Haijun arrived at the foot of Jinzhou City, Cheng Shijie beckoned.

Hou Shi stepped forward: "Dashuai, please command!" ”

"Microphone!"

Hou Shi suddenly realized, he hurriedly asked people to prepare the dozen or so big guys, turned on the speakers, and Cheng Shijie rode his horse to the city, less than a stone's throw away.

"Handsome, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall!"

Cheng Shijie tried the microphone, and then shouted towards Jinzhou City: "Lao Tzu Shu Daoshan one or two ......"

Before Cheng Shijie's three words were spoken, the gate of Jinzhou was opened in an instant.

Sun Zhilan was dumbfounded.

Li Xin was dumbfounded.

PS: I'm late from work today, only one shift, a little headache, go to bed first, don't wait any longer, continue tomorrow.

(End of chapter)