Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 145 The old slave is cowardly
"It hasn't been broken yet. This Zhe army is indeed a bit tenacious, and it's not the same as the soldiers and horses in Liao Town."

On the low hill, Huang Taiji rode on horseback, pointing with a whip to the battle formation of Zhejiang soldiers in the distance, talking about the differences of Zhejiang soldiers.

However, Nurhachi said: "Let the iron cannon continue to fire, and the dead soldiers will rush in through the gap!"

"Yes!" Seeing this, Du Du who was next to him hurriedly asked someone to deliver the order.

The two sides fought for only a quarter of an hour, and the two yellow flags and the two white flags had already caused hundreds of casualties. Such casualties made Nurhachi unacceptable.

"Bang bang bang!"

All of a sudden, the artillery smoke rose again in the formation of Zhejiang soldiers, and then the positions of more than [-] iron cannons were hit by stone bullets, and more than a dozen gunners were killed on the spot.

But something bad happened. A Fran cannon exploded, instantly shattering the chariot under his command and wounding more than [-] Zhejiang soldiers.

"Kill the dog!"

When the dead soldiers saw a gap in the chariot formation, they rushed into the gap immediately. Under the leadership of Baijia Bayala, they were wearing triple armor and prepared to widen the gap, but the end was the same as before.

The waiting wolf soldiers and boring palladium hands raised their feet and faces to greet them, and the dozen or so Jian captives who poured into the gap were immediately decapitated.

But Jianlu was not a fool, and soon someone pushed the shield car into the gap, knocking the exploded chariot frame away, and more than a dozen people protected the chariot while opening up the battlefield inside.

Seeing this, the surrounding dead soldiers and heavy infantry poured into the opening one after another. When the opening was about to be widened, they heard the sound of dense tiger crouching guns.

Bullets the size of fingernails burst out from the tiger squatting cannon, instantly cutting off the crowd pouring into the formation.

At this time, the spare Chinese army chariot was pushed up, blocking the gap, and the more than [-] Jian captives who rushed into the formation became turtles in the urn.

Seeing that they were about to die, Jianlu's artillery stopped for a cup of tea, and the fever gradually subsided. Under the control of the gunners of the Han soldiers, they fired again.

The sound of "rumbling" sounded like thunder on the ground, and the chariot was broken.

"Crash!"

Some of the dead soldiers who saw the effect of crashing the car before led people to push the shield car, knocked open the broken frame of the chariot, and opened several gaps from the position of the former army.

It was only a short while, thousands of times later, the golden dead soldiers broke through, and at this time, the surrounding bird guns and tiger squatting guns also greeted.

In the hand-to-hand fight with Zhejiang soldiers, thousands of dead soldiers were hit in the cheek by the approach of the bird gun, or were suddenly withdrawn by the wolf hoop, revealing the tiger crouching cannon behind them and killed them.

For a while, the former army's defense was almost broken, but was quickly defended by Zhejiang soldiers with firearms.

But such news is not good, because of the massive use of firearms, the gunpowder of the former army quickly bottomed out.

At the same time, the rear army was hit by a shield car and also started firing guns.

Nurhachi saw that the front army of the Zhejiang army was hard to resist, and immediately said: "Huang Taiji, you led the cavalry with two white flags to defeat the left and right cavalry of the Zhejiang army, and cut off their idea of ​​breaking through."

"Yes!" Hearing this, Huang Taiji rode out on his horse, and under Nurhachi's gaze, the four thousand light cavalry and heavy cavalry commanding the two white flags rushed towards the cavalry in the two tucks of the Zhe army chariot formation.

Suddenly, the sound of the galloping of the four thousand cavalry greatly boosted the morale of Houjin's side, and the gunpowder of the former army was also exhausted.

"Fight to the death!"

Qi Yuanbi drew his sword and roared angrily, and the Zhejiang soldiers of the former army began a situation of hand-to-hand combat with the dead soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty.

At this moment, the sound of killing, the sound of horseshoes, the sound of artillery, the whistling of stone bullets, and the sound of bird guns sounded in an endless stream.

Qi Jin, who was in the middle army, saw the scene of the Houjin cavalry sweeping in, and immediately ordered:
"Shoot the arrows, let the left and right cavalry protrude and attack!"

"Yes!" The lieutenant general responded, and then someone fired arrows.

Accompanied by the firing of the sounding arrows, the Zhejiang cavalry suddenly started to move.

They speeded up their horses, rushed towards Hou Jin's two white-flag cavalrymen, and raised their Wansheng Franc machine.

When the two armies rushed for less than ten steps, they staggered their positions one after another, one side used bows and arrows, the other side used Wansheng Francophones. At one time, more than a hundred people fell off the horses from both sides, but at this time the two sides made a roundabout turn.

But at this time, the superiority of the bow and arrow comes out, and that is the incomparable rate of fire of the firecracker.

The two sides retreated, leaving more than a hundred corpses on the battlefield, whether they were horses or people, they were all lying on the ground, silently unable to move.

If the face is sudden and the middle is dead, there are few who can survive!
Soon, the two sides detoured and confronted each other again.

Accompanied by the thick white smoke and the arrow that pierced the white smoke, more than a hundred horses fell from the two sides again.

Such boring battles, however, took the lives of more than a hundred people every time they went round and round, and compared to them, it was the former army that had been torn apart.

Hand-to-hand combat is unavoidable, and the only good news may be that Zhu Youjian replaced the Zhejiang soldiers with chain mail and cloth face armor, giving them some advantages in hand-to-hand combat.

But even so, the former army inevitably became a meat grinder-like existence. At every moment, Jianlu was dragged into the formation by boring palladium and hook and sickle guns and beheaded, and there were also Zhejiang soldiers who were killed by dead soldiers. Tie Guduo was crushed to death and fainted.

The battlefield was chaotic, but at this moment the drum sounded, making everyone pause.

The Chinese army was in a large formation, and drums were placed in front of more than a hundred people. They beat the drums and used the drums to convey military orders.

After hearing the sound of the drums and the military orders, the sentries immediately began to regroup, and quickly forced the dead soldiers out of the front army formation, and piled up corpses to block the gap in the chariot formation.

The dead soldiers were forced to retreat again, and at this time the Zhejiang cavalry on the left and right also returned to the formation.

"Ming Jin withdraws troops!"

Suddenly, Nurhachi on the low hill frowned and shouted this sentence, which made Du Du next to him puzzled:
"Khan, the former army of the Ming army suffered heavy casualties. As long as there are two more advances, the former army will be eaten up. Why are you retreating now?"

"You only saw their casualties, but not ours. More importantly, Xiong Tingbi should not be far from here!" Nurhachi replied.

Only then did Du Du react, looked up to the sky, and found that the war had lasted for about an hour.

Xiong Tingbi and Qi Jin were originally less than [-] miles apart, and with the rush this morning, they may be less than [-] miles away from the battlefield.

"Then shall we withdraw?" Du Du said unwillingly.

"It's not about withdrawing, but waiting for the iron cannon!" Nurhachi responded, and then ordered:
"Let Huang Taiji lead the cavalry with two white flags and two yellow flags to go south to stop Xiong Tingbi's troops from Liaozhen."

"The iron cannon is waiting. This Ming army has already finished shooting gunpowder, and we have enough gunpowder. We only need the iron cannon to break through the formation!"

"Obey!" Hearing this, Du Du hurriedly asked for an order, and after receiving the military order, Huang Taiji immediately led the two white flags to detour.

The Two Yellow Banners with sixty-five Niulu had more cavalry than the Two White Banners with only forty Niulu.

Not long after, nearly [-] taels of yellow-flag cavalry were pulled out, joined with [-] or [-] cavalry of white flag after the war, and marched towards the south bank of Beisha River under the command of Huang Taiji.

As soon as they left, there were less than [-] Jianlu who had surrounded the Zhejiang soldiers in an instant.

Both sides are resting and counting the casualties, and the final number is astonishing.

The left and right cavalry of the Zhe army had [-] casualties, the front army had [-] casualties, the rear army had [-] casualties, and the left and right flanks had [-] casualties, totaling [-] Nineteen people, seven hundred and fifty-six of them died on the spot, and the rest were seriously injured.

The seriously injured were transferred to the Chinese army, and the busy Chinese army began to heal them.

Looking at these seriously injured soldiers, Qi Jin's heart sank:
"I can never compare with my uncle..."

Qi Jin knew that this was a question of training and a question of command.

With the same training method, Zhejiang soldiers have not lost a single defeat in the hands of their uncle for more than [-] years.

And he himself, in just one battle, killed more than [-] people...

"If uncle is here, how will he fight?"

Qi Jin's mind suddenly recalled the figure of the man in his memory. He rode his horse on the vast grassland, led more than ten thousand Zhejiang soldiers, fought against cavalry with infantry, and defeated Dong Huli's thirty thousand cavalry, and he lost only more than sixty people... …

If it was him, how would he fight this battle?
"boom!"

Qi Jin didn't have time to think about it. Jianlu's more than forty artillery pieces fired again, and the chariot was destroyed in an instant, and more than a hundred people were injured.

The Zhejiang soldiers could only collect the remaining gunpowder from each other, and in front of them, the [-] Franc machines of the former army fired at each other.

But soon, within three rounds, their gunpowder was completely consumed, and at this moment, Qi Jin pulled out the knife from his waist, and said to the soldiers who were beating the drums next to him: "Before the battle, let's beat the drums!"

"Yes!" Hearing this, the sound of the drums began to change, and soon someone sent the chariots to the Chinese army. More than a hundred chariots were placed on the drums, and the Chinese soldiers beat the drums to pass orders.

The chariots on the left and right wings were added to the front army, and the Zhejiang soldiers began to move!

"Boom...boom...boom!"

The drums were beating, and it seemed that every drum sound was beating heavily among the generals and soldiers at all levels of Jianlu.

This was the first time they were afraid, and it was not their fault, it was just that after the count, their casualties were too unacceptable.

There were [-] dead and [-] injured, for a total of [-].

Nearly one-ninth of the army's casualties, this is the first time since Nurhachi swept Liaodong since his debut.

The last time such casualties were caused by the annihilation of Liu Ting and Juniper.

But thousands of casualties were exchanged for the annihilation of Liu Ting and Juniper.

But right now, their opponents are still fully organized, and their numbers haven't decreased too much.

This kind of evenly matched fight caused people who were timid to fight among the Eight Banners, and Nurhachi's face was not good-looking.

He watched his own iron cannon shelling the Zhe army formation every other incense stick, and saw that the chariot was smashed and the Zhe soldiers around were injured, but he didn't see the big formation stop.

Do you want to withdraw?
This thought arose in his mind. If more than [-] people were killed or injured on other battlefields, he might have retreated.

But right now, if this Zhejiang army is not wiped out, and with such great achievements, maybe they will grow even bigger. Will Dajin be able to wipe them out by then?
Nurhachi thought about it, but at this time the chariot formation of the Zhejiang soldiers had advanced one hundred and fifty steps, and it was less than one hundred and fifty steps away from the artillery position.

Seeing that Nurhachi didn't speak, Du Du could only ask tentatively:
"Khan, should we adjust the gunner to retreat first?"

"Hmm..." Nurhachi nodded slightly, and Du Du quickly ordered the artillery to move back when he saw this.

But at this moment, Tangqi galloped in the distance, which made Nurhachi feel uneasy.

Not long after, Tang Qi arrived in front of him, then got off his horse and saluted:

"Great Khan, three thousand Sichuan soldiers and seven thousand Liao soldiers from Shenyang went out of the city to fight against Mangul Taibele."

"Xiong Tingbi led [-] troops to the south of Beisha River, six miles away, which is only sixteen miles away."

"In addition, news came from the Han merchants that Sun Yingyuan, who commanded seven of the sixteen guards, had invaded Gushan Fort. Gushan Fort had been breached early this morning. Two hundred and twenty-seven people in the fort died. Beijing is less than one hundred and sixty miles away!"

Sure enough, as Daishan had predicted, if Sun Yingyuan's strategy of besieging Wei and saving Zhao could not attract a brigade to come back to help, then he would attack Hetuala with all his strength.

One hundred and sixty miles, even if you march on the mountain roads in the remaining range of Changbai Mountain, you can reach it in four days at most.

Nurhachi is not sure now, what kind of combat power the seven guards and seven battalions under Sun Yingyuan's command are.

The information currently obtained from Han merchants is that the Habayashi guards led by Man Gui also belong to the Sixteenth Guards.

If it was just one guard, it would have defeated more than [-] Mongols of Shutuo's Yijiala and Engedel.

If the Seventh Guards were as powerful as the one under Man Gui, would the two red flags in Daishan's hands be able to stop the Seventh Guards?

Dilemma...

At this moment, Nurhachi is in such a situation.

Unlike Saerhushi, the area surrounded by the Ming army this time was too large, and it was impossible to give him a chance to fight in a roundabout way.

Thinking of this, Nurhachi could only order:

"Let Huang Taiji return to Shenyang, order Mang Gurtai to light a fire, burn the young crops around Shenyang, and harvest the young crops in Fengjibao and other places as grass bundles!"

"Withdraw!"

Nurhachi was unwilling to open his mouth. Although he knew that he could continue to fight, his reason told him that the risk was too great.

Not to mention that Xiong Tingbi's [-] soldiers and horses are only [-] miles away from the battlefield, and Sun Yingyuan's soldiers and horses alone make him a slap in the face.

If the combat power of Sun Yingyuan's troops is really as strong as Habayashi Wei, then Hetuala's siege is a certainty.

As King Khan of Dajin, under his military order, the Houjin army, which had long been fearful, began to withdraw.

"Withdraw!"

On the battlefield, watching Hou Jin's troops retreat, Qi Jin finally had time to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

"Stick for a quarter of an hour, each army counts the casualties! Harvest the heads after a quarter of an hour!"

"Whoosh-"

Accompanied by Qi Jin's order, the first battle of the Zhejiang army into Liao Dynasty came to an end with [-] true captives.

Only after harvesting the heads, Qi Jin ordered to bury the pot to make food, hastily solved the stomach problem, and continued to embark on the road of supporting Shenyang.

At the same time, as Nurhachi ordered the retreat, Huang Taiji was the first general of the Jin Dynasty to get the news. Fortunately, he had not crossed the river yet, and he was a cavalry, so he evacuated the fastest.

But Nurhachi underestimated one person, that is Qin Bangping...

"kill!!!"

Six miles outside Shenyang's east city sank to the east bank, accompanied by shouts of killing, the brave cavalry of the two blue flags charged.

Two quarters of an hour ago, Qin Bangping led [-] Sichuan soldiers and [-] Liao soldiers out of the city, crossed the sinking water, and fought against the two blue banners of Manggurtai.

The reason why Qin Bangping led the troops out of the city was because of a letter!

[Sun Yingyuan led the troops and went to Kuandian to Hetuala, Mangui led the troops to attack Qingheguan, Xiong Tingbi led [-] Liao soldiers to aid Shen, Qi Jin led [-] troops to aid Shen]

Qin Bangping finally couldn't bear the urgent military situation sent by Jin Yiwei Tiqi from Beizhen Fusi risking his life across the river.

Besieged by Jianlu for nearly three months, even clay figurines are angry, let alone him?
Qin Bangping left Qin Minping and [-] soldiers from Sichuan to garrison Shenyang, lest there be any secret agents in Shenyang to unite with Mang Gurtai. Then he led Qin Banghan and [-] soldiers from Sichuan, together with [-] soldiers from Liao under He Shixian and You Shigong, and opened the city gate to fight.

Mang Gurtai reacted immediately, and withdrew the two blue flag soldiers and horses at the other three city gates, trying to besiege from the west bank of the sinking water, but was stopped by the artillery bombardment of Shenyang city head directed by Qin Minping.

"Let the heavy cavalry tear open their mouths, and the dead soldiers break through!"

In the army, looking at the Ming army a mile away, Mang Gurtai decisively sent heavy cavalry and dead soldiers to interfere after finding that the Sichuan soldiers had no chariots from the chariot camp to resist.

More than [-] cavalry from the two blue flags charged forward, ready to face off, but the white soldiers did not retreat at all. The three thousand cavalry from Liao Town in Liangye, led by He Shixian and You Shigong, charged towards the heavy cavalry of the two blue flags. go.

He Shixian's cavalry was so sharp that they were no match for the Eight Banners. The two sides confronted each other several times in the middle of the battlefield, and most of the horsemen who fell were from the two Blue Banners.

The damage caused by the three-eyed blunderbuss against the near face is far greater than that of the bow and arrow in Jianlu's hand.

"King Qi and Wansui have an order, no matter whether there are facial injuries or not, as long as they are real captives, they will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver. Brothers, kill me!"

"kill!!!"

He Shixian was brave and led the cavalry on horseback while boosting morale.

The general of the Liao army beside him heard that a real prisoner's head would be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver, and he would count on it after the confrontation.

The Liao soldiers under his command saw that the general was so brave, and rushed to kill him one after another.

They turned back, and when they approached the two blue-flag cavalrymen, one side fired guns and the other side shot arrows, and dozens of people fell off their horses on both sides.

While they were entangled, the two blue flag dead soldiers and heavy infantry had already rushed to the front of the white pole army.

As in history, they carelessly did not use the shield chariot. As a result, when they rushed to the front, the white soldiers in the front row squatted down, and the white soldiers in the back row raised their crossbows and shot in the face!

There was a sudden round, with no less than a hundred casualties, and then when the crossbowmen were loading their crossbows, the white soldiers in the front row attacked.

Although the number of these chieftain soldiers is smaller than that of the two blue flag infantry, they are not afraid of death and are well-organized. They use strange weapons with long blades and iron rings, which are different from the usual Liaozhen Ming army. Jianlu is not used to it.

The leading elite white-armored soldiers approached with bara teeth, raised their bows and shot, and killed more than a hundred white-armed soldiers in a flash. However, such casualties did not make the white-armed soldiers retreat, but aroused their ferocity.

"Don't give up an inch!"

Qin Bangping raised his gun and shouted, and then Qin Banghan and other generals of the Sichuan soldiers shouted together, and finally developed into three thousand white soldiers shouting one after another.

They raised their spears and stabbed Jianlu in the face with every move. Even the brave Baijia Balaya had to retreat, hiding among the dead soldiers and shooting cold arrows, aiming to kill the Sichuan soldiers in the cheek.

But they never thought that their retreat would make the dead soldiers in the rear unclear. Therefore, the dead soldiers' aura paused, and they did not succeed in breaking through the depression opened by Baijiaba Yala's breakthrough in the first place.

Such a failure led to the fact that the follow-up cavalry had just rushed to the front of the white-bared soldiers and found that they had already filled up.

The white rod stabbed, even though the white armor Bala Ya once again shot and killed dozens of people, creating a hole for the cavalry to penetrate, but when the cavalry just rushed into the entrance and knocked three or four rows of white rod soldiers into the air, , The Liao soldiers from the left and right sides surrounded them.

The Liao soldiers did not dare to face the enemy head-on, but they were extremely courageous when they followed the Sichuan soldiers to double-team the left and right sides.

For a time, no less than a hundred people died from the horse spears and crossbows of the Sichuan and Liao soldiers, and the cavalry who broke through the formation after the two blue flags were also beaten to "fall off their horses one after another".

The dead soldiers broke through the Sichuan army's formation uselessly, but the cavalry couldn't penetrate, which made the battle anxious.

"Trash! Trash! Dog slave!"

Looking at his own side who was attacking ineffectively, Mang Gurtai cursed, but Amin who was next to him hurriedly said: "Break the formation with a shield chariot, and withdraw the troops!"

"Retreat! Get on the shield chariot!" Mang Gurtai yelled, and the people next to him immediately called for gold to retreat.

"Clang clang clang..."

Accompanied by the ringing of gold, the Houjin cavalry and infantry retreated one after another, but Qin Bangping did not want to let them go. He shouted: "Behead the real captive, regardless of the wound on the face, one hundred taels per level!"

"kill!!!"

It was just a shout, which was then shouted by more than a hundred messengers, which attracted the two armies of Sichuan and Liao to form a formation to chase and kill, making Mang Gurtai and the hunted Jianlu feel terrified.

Mang Gurtai still wanted to get on the shield chariot and fight again, but at this moment Tang Qi came up, got off his horse and sent an order:
"The Great Khan ordered Baylor to burn the fields around Shenyang, surrounded Shenyang with fire, and took the opportunity to harvest the surrounding grain and grass, and then returned to Tieling with two blue flags."

"You...I know!" Mang Gurtai originally wanted to scold the other party for nonsense, but when he saw that the other party did have Nurhachi's military order in his hand, he held back his breath and ordered the whole army to attack.

The formation of the army's attack made Sichuan soldiers and Liao soldiers stop and form formation one after another, giving Jianlu's defeated soldiers a chance to escape back to the formation.

After they returned to the battle, Mang Gurtai immediately ordered the cavalry to pour oil on the fire.

"What are they doing? It seems that they are pouring kerosene. Could it be that they want to burn us to death?"

"Where are the dead people burned at this distance..."

The Sichuan soldiers whispered in the formation, and Qin Bangping also stood on a simple chariot when he saw this, looking at the Jianlu who was pouring oil, his pupils shrank, and he ordered:

"Order He Shixian and You Shigong to dispatch troops to defeat the Jian captives who are pouring oil!"

"kill!"

Qin Bangping was still preparing to give an order, but He Shixian and You Shigong had already anticipated that the other party wanted to burn the grain in the field, and immediately charged with less than [-] cavalry after the war.

"set fire!"

Mang Gurtai roared, and then the Jianlu cavalry on the left and right started to set fire immediately. In summer, with the wind blowing in the middle and lower reaches of the Liao River, the fire soon spread, creating a fire belt between the Ming and Jin armies. .

"Put out the fire!" Qin Banghan shouted anxiously. After all, if the food outside Shenyang City was burned, the two hundred thousand people in the city could only rely on the imperial court for relief.

Even if they grab the seeds, it's too late now.

More than [-] people need at least [-] million shi of grain to last until next year's autumn harvest.

"Stop it, there's no chance." Qin Bangping stopped Qin Banghan and looked at the other side of the line of fire.

On the other side, Jianlu burned the fields around Shenyang and sent people to harvest them.

Although the grain is not yet ripe, it can be fed to war horses after harvest.

They had no chance of attacking, and they were lucky to be able to break the siege of Shenyang.

The Sichuan and Liao armies could only watch as Manggurtai withdrew before starting to fight the fire.

When the fire was extinguished, it was already dusk. When the leaders of Qi and Jin arrived at the city of Shenyang, they only saw the scorched fields and the blackened Sichuan and Liao armies.

The siege of Shenyang was resolved, but under Nurhachi's order, Jianlu returned to Hetuala with the money and food obtained from sweeping more than ten stone castles in the past three months.

The Ming army did not win, because Liaodong was besieged and wiped out more than ten fortresses, more than [-] soldiers were killed, [-] shi of grain was taken away, more than [-] taels of silver and copper coins were taken, countless armors and luggage were burned, and more than [-] people were burned. More than [-] mu of cultivated land, more than [-] mu of young crops were harvested in Fengji and other places.

The Jianlu did not win either. They obtained a large amount of luggage, but left more than [-] corpses of Jianlu, more than [-] corpses of Beilu, and thousands of women and children inside and outside the pass. .

There is no winner in this battle, or all winners, the key depends on how the two sides promote their own citizens...

　After writing for a day, I condensed a lot of ideas.

　　If I really want to write, I can write the plot of this battle for several days, but it is still condensed.

　　The reason is that, in terms of Nurhachi's combat style, he encountered elite troops like Zhejiang soldiers, plus Xiong Tingbi's reinforcements, and his hometown Hetuala was about to besieged, and Qinghe Pass was besieged.

　　Knowing the news that Qin Bangping took people out of the city, he definitely would not choose to continue the fight.

　　If the Zhejiang soldiers who came to aid collapsed at the first touch, it would be possible to expand the results of the battle, but the tenacity of the Zhejiang soldiers is just like history, and with the support of Xiong Tingbi and Qin Bangping to help attract firepower, it will be a loss-making business if they continue to fight.

　　In such a situation, what he had to do was to quickly retreat with the captured spoils, return to defend Hetuala and keep Tieling.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)