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Chapter 64 Listen, Ambush

In the south of Yongding Gate in Beijing City, where the Xiaolong River flows into the Liangshui River from east to west, there is a stone bridge lying on the Liangshui River about [-] miles southward. The stone bridge connects the official roads on both sides of the river. Husband.

On October 11, the [-]th year of Chongzhen, at Chenshi, the sky was clear and the sun was rising.

The [-] cavalrymen of the Right Wing Battalion of the Biao You Wing Battalion of the Xuanzhen Township of the Ming Dynasty, led by Tong Shoushan, crossed the Liangshui River and entered the eastern suburbs of Beijing.

For the past few days, Zhang Cheng sent a cavalry to cross the Liangshui River every day, and then they would find a deserted village, an abandoned fort, or a densely forested mountain to use as a temporary camp. Taking the team as a unit, they went out to investigate the topography and landforms of the eastern suburbs, as well as the trajectory of the cavalry activities.

Today, Tong Shoushan, the general manager, led a team out of the sentry and set up the camp on a hillside about 300 miles away from Liangshui River. The height here is about [-] meters. The grass leaves are dense and dense, which is good for hiding.

At the moment, it was decided that Team A would stay in the forest on the hillside. They were led by Zuo Qinghe, the officer of Team A who was also the deputy general, to hide at the top of the slope so as to observe the surrounding situation. The second team was hidden in a ditch in the southeast of the hillside. , the redundant war horses are basically concentrated here, which is convenient for drinking water and feeding fodder, and the three armors are hidden in a dilapidated temple in the northwest of the hillside. They are about one mile apart from each other.

Tong Shoushan, the general manager, personally led Team B and Team C to go north. Their target today is near the Empress Xiao River. If possible, they will go to the north of the Empress Xiao River.

They were divided into two teams. Tong Shoushan led the B team to explore the road first, and the C team followed behind. The two teams kept a distance of more than 300 steps and rushed to Xiao Taihou River one after another.

There is a hill on the north bank of the Empress Dowager Xiao River, where there are mostly weeds and shrubs, but not many big trees.

Among the weeds on the hill, there were a dozen or so figures lurking. They lay there motionless, with their heads facing outside, surrounding the city in a circle, observing all the wind and grass around them.

Next to the official road a hundred steps to the northeast of them, there is a forest. Tong Shoushan and the remaining 50 people are resting in the forest.

Suddenly, a sergeant stood up abruptly and said to Tong Shoushan, "Commander, there are cavalry, more than ten men."

Tong Shoushan was leaning against a tree to rest. Hearing this, he immediately regained his energy and said in a low voice, "Are you sure?"

When the sergeant was asked by him, he was also a little confused, so he quickly put his ear on a leather arrow dendrobium standing upside down on the ground, and listened carefully.

Ma Yuan, the officer of the C team next to him, was born at night. Hearing what the sergeant said, he hurriedly "swiped", pulled out a dagger, inserted it into the ground to save it, and hurriedly put his ear on the blade of the dagger, Listen carefully.

After listening for a while, he raised his head and said to Tong Shoushan, "Tong Tou, it should be Luqi, and there will not be more than 20 people in the northeast direction."

The sergeant just now had just finished listening, raised his head, and nodded violently.

At this time, a sergeant ran from the hill with his waist down, came to Tong Shoushan, and said anxiously: "General Manager, there are about sixteen Tartar cavalry, less than two miles away, come over there .”

As he spoke, he pointed his finger in the northeast direction.

With a wave of Tong Shoushan's hand, two team officers and five armored commanders all gathered together, only to hear him say: "You tell your armored commanders to lie down there and look for opportunities to steal the enemy with bows and arrows;

Ma Yuan, the top two of your C team, go to hide in the ditch under the official road opposite, hold some tree leaves, and hide under the grass;
Bao Jiqiang, the first team member of your second team will take care of the horses, and the rest will lie in ambush in the forest with me.

Listen up, the tartars ambushed our left whistle in Mafang, let's give it to his mother today, I have all the bows, arrows, birds, and three-eyed guns ready for me, and I will fight when I start, and the battle will be settled quickly. Don't love fighting. "

Everyone was busy for a while, even the footprints on the official road were cleaned with branches, and some residual leaves were sprinkled. Everything was ready, just waiting for the Tartar cavalry to arrive.

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A group of cavalry from the Qing army came galloping on horseback. The leading Qing army was very strong, riding an equally strong black horse, wearing bright armor with exposed iron leaves, and wearing a black tasseled helmet on his head. Carrying the flag turned out to be a Qing army's allocated Shiku.

Beside him was a rider wearing pure white cotton armor with iron leaves inside, also carrying a smaller flag on his back, and behind him were fourteen Qing cavalry, all wearing pure white cotton armor with iron leaves inside .

There were sixteen cavalry in total in the Qing army, one of them was assigned to Pashiku, the other was a strong man, and fourteen ordinary cavalry in vests, all of them were sentry cavalry from the Aliha Chaoha Battalion of Zhengbai Banner.

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After Jiannu came to the throne from Huang Taiji, in order to further disperse the power of the banner owners, Niulu was no longer the only military unit, but a number of young men were selected from each Niulu to form an army alone.

Before the Qing soldiers entered the bandits this time, the reconstruction of the three major battalions of the Qing army had basically been preliminarily completed, forming the Yiba Yala Camp, which is the later Guardian Army Camp; the Alihachaoha Camp, the later Xiaoqi Camp; , that is, the new military system in which the vanguard battalion of later generations will play as the main force, weakening the control of the banner owners over the army, and strengthening the imperial power's control over the army.

In addition to these three battalions, infantry battalions, sharp-key battalions, firearm battalions, tiger gun battalions, Shanpu battalions and other battalions have also begun to be formed one after another.

It was also from this time that Jiannu really got rid of the tribal military system and gradually took on the appearance of a national army.

However, under normal circumstances, the current Hebush Xianying camp is only used as a sentinel when Huang Taiji and others patrol, and they will not easily go out with the army.

The leader of the Baya battalion of each banner, Baya Latuo Zhangjing, under his jurisdiction, the number of Baya La soldiers is no more than 700 to [-] people, and they will not use them easily. Only used when sentinel.

Such ordinary scouts, of course, not the most elite Ba Yala soldiers in the banner, they are all ordinary sentry cavalry from the Alihachaoha battalion of the Zhengbai Banner.

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In an instant, they turned along the official road.

Tong Shoushan crouched in the woods fifteen steps east of the official road, his body was covered with dead branches and leaves, the three-eyed blunderbuss stuck out from under the leaves, aimed at the direction of the official road, motionless, not even breathing Dare to come out.

He heard the sound of horseshoes getting closer and closer, and in the blink of an eye, he seemed to be near him. He saw a particularly strong Qing army riding a black horse flash past his eyes.

"boom!"

Tong Shoushan fired the first shot.

The strong man of the Qing army was riding his horse and galloping beside Fende Paishiku when suddenly there was a sound of gunfire. He was startled at first, and then the horse under his crotch bent his front legs and fell to the ground, and he was also thrown off. war horse.

"Bang... bang... bang... bang..."

There was a blast of guns and guns, and white smoke rose from under the weeds and leaves on both sides of the official road, one after another, it was really beautiful.

Then there was the creaking and creaking of the bowstring being tightened.

"Whoo...whoosh...whoosh...whoosh..."

Arrows flew horizontally. First, arrows flew out from the woods on the east side of the official road. The cavalry of the Qing army on the official road had just been bombarded by gunfire. Before they could react, dozens of arrows came.

"Swoosh...swoosh...thin..."

Then weeds and leaves rose on the west side of the official road, and the smoke from the firecrackers that had just been set off was still flying in the air together with the dead leaves. More than a dozen Ming soldiers suddenly stood up, quickly drew their bows, and arrows flew away. String flying shot.

The three-eyed blunderbuss and bird blunderbuss arranged by Tong Shoushan all lie down on the ground under the weeds and leaves, and shoot directly, but the archers are all hidden behind the big trees.

On the west side of the official road, there are no big trees to hide from. The archers are just like gunners, crouching under the weeds and leaves.

(End of this chapter)