Ming Zuo

Chapter 172 Li Banghua

The Dorgon brothers led the two yellow flags and continued eastward.

Dodo is the happiest person.

Because he saw Hauge hurt.

"Hao Ge is a good-for-nothing, and he was injured against a group of useless smart dogs. After returning, Huang Taiji will be ashamed."

Dorgon was not happy.

"Do you think this Ming army is very simple?"

Dodo pouted.

"The left and right are just a bunch of smart dogs. After all these years, haven't we fought less?"

Dorgon shook his head, looking at the vast mountains in front of him, quite worried.

"You can say that Hauge has no brains, but you must not underestimate Hauge's ability to fight. Among these generals, there are not many who are better than Hauge. He is still leading elite soldiers. It seems that this group of Ming soldiers Quite unusual."

Dodo also calmed down.

"Let's chase this way, can we catch up?"

Dorgon couldn't help shaking his head as he looked at the long cavalry on his side.

"This group of Ming troops is very weird. They are trying to drill into the mountains. We are all cavalry, so we can't go in. The chance of finding them is too slim."

Dorgon guessed right.

The rear camp was not to the east at this time.

After retreating to Xiaoxitian and resting for half a day, Zuo Menggeng immediately decided that the whole army should go west.

In guerrilla warfare, how to jump out of the enemy's encirclement is a technical task.

Zuo Menggeng decided to give it a try, taking advantage of the small number of Houjin people.

The troops headed north all the way, and then turned west against Qingshan Pass in the night.The next night, we crossed Xifengkou and returned to the north of Zunhua again.

The whole operation went very smoothly without disturbing anyone. Hao Ge and Dorgon searched in the mountains to the east for three days, but they had no choice but to retreat and went to join Huang Taiji.

In the following time, the war has nothing to do with the rear camp.Zuo Menggeng watched a play while organizing the army.

After Hauge's night attack, the last trace of underestimating the enemy in the rear camp was gone.

Sometimes it's like this, no matter how much the boss says, it's hard for people to listen.It's like teachers and parents earnestly persuading students to study hard.

Only after being severely beaten can people wake up.

This time the night attack did not cause much damage to the rear battalion, but the fright it caused was not small.

This also made the whole battalion understand.

Their opponents were not wood, let alone idiots, but beasts that tried their best to put them to death.

If you don't want to die, then cheer up and sharpen your tactical level better.

With this thought in mind, everyone's enthusiasm for training was extremely high, which saved Zuo Menggeng a lot of thought.

boom……

Watching the target a hundred steps away fall in response, Wang Siyi cheered endlessly.

"I hit it, Zuo Menggeng, if you see it, I will shoot it too."

After seeing the power of the cap gun, Wang Siyi suddenly found that her two hammers seemed not so good.After the troops stopped to rest, she pestered Zuo Menggeng to learn the shooting skills of muskets.

It has to be said that people with fighting talents are different.

Many soldiers have practiced for more than half a year, and they can't hit three out of ten shots at a [-]-meter target. She was able to achieve seven out of ten shots in just five days.

"Zuo Menggeng, your firecrackers are so powerful, why don't you fight with the Jianzhou people?"

Zuo Menggeng randomly found a reason.

"We have few people."

When Wang Siyi heard this, she couldn't help showing a contemptuous expression.

"Heh, you are just like those guys in Liaodong, you know how to preserve your strength."

Zuo Menggeng smiled and did not explain.

He didn't want to sacrifice his life for the old Zhu's family, so why should he send his own soldiers?
On the other side, Huang Taiji was also inquiring about the situation in the rear camp from Hauge.

"How many people are there in the Ming army? Who are the generals?"

Hauge shook his head depressed, and answered half of the answer.

"The black lights are blind, the child can't see clearly. But there must be not many people, at most two or three thousand. As for the generals, I still don't know."

Huang Taiji was angry.

"You bastard, you've all been in close combat with others, and you still don't know who the general is? Don't you know how to read the banner?"

Hao Ge anxiously said with a pale face: "Father Khan doesn't know something, this Ming army is very strange, and they don't have a banner at all."

"No banner?"

Huang Taiji didn't think Hauge would deceive him, so he was even more confused.

An army without banners...

Then how to fight?

Seeing that he was not so angry anymore, Hauge hurriedly said something.

"The weirdness of this group of Ming soldiers doesn't stop there. Father Khan, please see, this is a fragment of the military uniform we seized."

Hauge presented a large piece of broken Ming army uniform to Huang Taiji.

That was Wang Xiangdong's military uniform.

After he detonated the grenade and died with the enemy, the military uniform was not completely destroyed, and many fragments remained on the scene, so it fell into Hauge's hands.

"There are no iron pieces in the cotton armor of this group of Ming soldiers. It doesn't seem to be a strong army."

For people in this era, the most intuitive way to judge the level of an army is to see whether it is armored or not.

Those who wear armor are elite soldiers, and those who do not wear armor are cannon fodder.

Because on the battlefield of this era, the protective effect of armor is really good.

For example, the firecrackers of the Ming army could not penetrate the Eight Banners soldiers wearing three layers of armor at all.

Since they can't die, the courage of the Eight Banners soldiers can be imagined.

Seeing that there were no iron pieces in the "cotton armor" of the Ming army, Huang Taiji couldn't help but put down his attention and began to care about Hauge's injury.

"I heard that you were wounded by the fire guns of the Ming army?"

Speaking of this, Hauge couldn't help gnashing his teeth.

"The boy is also unlucky, and was injured two hundred steps away. Looking back, I have to teach those lazy craftsmen a lesson."

Well, Hauge thought that he was injured because the craftsmen cut corners on the armor they provided him.

Why didn't he expect that the guns of the Ming army were unusual?

Because the Mines bullets that came out of his shoulders had long been deformed, it was a soft mass, and if you didn't look carefully, it was almost the same as the deformed round lead bullets.

Haug didn't realize at all that the projectiles used by the Ming army were fundamentally different.

This negligence allowed Houying to live a stable life.Otherwise, once Huang Taiji realizes that there are new weapons on the battlefield, which are still so powerful, he may have to abandon other places and deal with the rear camp with all his strength.

During this period of time, the wars between Ming and Jin were mainly concentrated in Shanhaiguan, Luanzhou, Yongping, and Qian'an.

On the whole, it has become a tug of war.

Zu Dashou's defense did a good job, trying to keep Shanhaiguan from losing.After Jin attacked several times, they all retreated in frustration.

The imperial court on the western front was also unable to make progress, and could only watch the fierce fighting on the eastern front.

Sun Chengzong was still in Tongzhou to organize the army.

The old man's views on war have never changed, and the army in his hand will never send troops until it is strong enough.

Chongzhen urged him several times, but Sun Chengzong remained unmoved.

Obviously, he regarded Zu Dashou as the second Mao Wenlong.

I count on Zu Dashou to fight desperately over there to delay Hou Jin and buy him time.

During this period of time, the armies of Qin Kings from all walks of life came one after another, and Sun Chengzong had more and more troops at hand, and the day of counterattack was getting closer and closer.

Chongzhen was very annoyed, thinking that Sun Chengzong was timid and avoided the war.

Only Huang Taiji felt the pressure and crisis, and had already started planning to withdraw from the army.

At the same time, there were new changes in the court.

After seeing Qian Longxi's predicament, the old fox Han Yu realized that it was not suitable to stay for a long time, so he immediately wrote to Chongzhen to resign.

Seeing that he was so good at coming, Chongzhen immediately agreed and rewarded him with things.

Han Yusheng was afraid that there would be more troubles, and he didn't want any rewards, so he went all the way back to Puzhou, Shanxi.

At the same time, a person also left the capital, preparing to return home.

When I arrived in Tongzhou, I met Sun Chengzong and Hou Xun.It's really old friends meeting each other, with tears streaming down my chest.

This person is Li Banghua, the former governor of Tianjin, one of the Liaodong Iron Triangle back then.

"Today's imperial court, if you do more, you will make more mistakes. If you don't do well, it's not a place to put it to good use. I will go. The old man will bear the difficulties alone. I hope you will cherish it."

Sun Chengzong paused.

"Meng An's talent, I know all about it. How can Your Majesty abandon the talented?"

Li Banghua shook his head, he had made up his mind to go.

He was extremely disappointed in this court.

Let's just talk about the defense of the capital that just passed.

When Hou Jin called, Li Banghua made multiple preparations.He knew that if he wanted to defend the capital, he couldn't just hide in the city.

So thousands of reinforcements were sent to Tongzhou and Jizhou successively.

If he hadn't sent [-] people under Cao Minglei, Yuan Chonghuan wouldn't even be able to defend Jizhou.And Hou Xun relied on the three thousand soldiers and horses he gave to evacuate Zhangjiawan in one day.

Li Banghua not only took the initiative to send troops, but also personally led the troops out of the city, preparing to form a confrontation with the capital and provide mutual aid.

As a result, the imperial court ordered him to return to the city...

Now it's all right, the army is all shrunk in the city, the sentries can't be sent out, and the inside and outside are completely cut off.

Chongzhen even listened to the slander of Xiangcheng Bo Li Shouqi and deprived Li Banghua of his power.

When Man Gui was fighting at Deshengmen, he was wounded by the cannons on the city and injured his family members. As a result, someone put this incident on Li Banghua's head.

Li Banghua was dismissed because of this, and he was charged with undeserved charges.

Thinking about Yuan Chonghuan's experience again, Li Banghua was really disheartened and left extremely resolutely.

As for Li Banghua's talent, Hou Xun couldn't be more clear.

He thought for a while, and suggested to Li Banghua: "Li Shangshu is now out of the shackles and wandering in the mountains and forests. You might as well go to Linqing to have a look. Maybe you will gain something different."

(End of this chapter)