Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 216 Interrupting Jianlu's Backbone

"put!"

"Boom boom-"

On the south bank of the Hun River, the Ming army's three armies and horses, more than [-] cannons fired by General Yanshan were burning hot, and beside the artillery position on the frontal battlefield, Xiong Tingbi also laughed with his hands on his hips.

On the dark plain, the stone bullets fired by the artillery of the Ming army were like iron plows, piercing through and crushing the men and horses of the Jin army, plowing out deep blood-colored ravines.

After a cup of tea, the artillery of the Ming army stopped, but Xiong Tingbi still smiled and said:
"Continue shelling, Man Gui and Cao Wenzhao's cavalry are about to catch up, we must keep them here tonight!"

"Order all the troops to kill Huang Taiji and those who built the four great Baylors, reward them with ten thousand taels of silver, and make them the captains of the third-rank Shangqingche!"

Xiong Tingbi was still excited by the atmosphere of thousands of artillery fires, and kept sending out troops of Tangqi messengers, vowing to encircle and suppress the Jin army here.

It's just that he didn't know that Nurhachi suffered a ten-jin stone bullet in the shelling just now, and his horse was knocked over in an instant, and his whole body fell on the ground like a dog chewing mud.

"Khan Ama (Great Khan)!"

Seeing Nurhachi falling down with his men and horses, the Golden Army was in chaos.

Fortunately, Baijia Balaya protected Nurhachi who fell from the horse, so that he would not be trampled to death by thousands of horses.

Huang Taiji was held back by the fearless Ming army, no matter how stupid he was when he saw this, he knew that he should be offered a reward by the Ming army.

"Help me change the armor of the two red flags, and let the two white flags disperse and break..."

With the severe pain in his waist, Huang Taiji stumbled as he spoke, while Gu Shanezhen next to him was stunned when he heard this.

After letting the two white flags disperse, to put it bluntly, it is to let them die.

At this moment, the Ming army was frantically chasing and killing the soldiers of the Jin army in white armor, not letting anyone who might be Huang Taiji be spared.

In this case, Huang Taiji wanted to change his armor, and after cutting off the remaining four to five thousand taels of white flags, he was obviously planning to use four to five thousand taels of white flags in exchange for his own way of life.

Gu Shan'er really understood everything, and then decisively swung his knife to help Huang Taiji take off the cloth mask, and at the same time, he urgently put one of the two red flags on his body.

He was wearing a red banner, and he was protected by cotton armor inside, so he was not without defensive armor.

"Lord Belle, what should we do now?"

Gu Shan'e really believed in his master, even if his strength was compromised without the two white flags, but with his master's resourcefulness, as long as he could survive, he would be able to reunite a group of forces.

"Go to Khan Ama first, the stone bullet just now seems to have hit Khan Ama..."

At the same time Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and said these words with pain, Yue Tuo, Hu Erhan and others not far away rushed towards Nurhachi who had fallen from the horse, but they only saw his face pale, his teeth clenched tightly, his forehead covered with beads of sweat lying on his back. Nurhachi on the ground.

Hu Erhan and Yang Guli helped Nurhachi up, but Nurhachi could only give up his idea of ​​running to the mountains and fighting the Ming army, and said intermittently:
"Withdraw... withdraw troops..."

At this time, he could no longer feel the existence of his left leg, he just felt that his head was dizzy, and the people around him were also very flustered. After helping Nurhachi onto the horse, he and Nurhachi rode together and prepared to charge and flee To Fushun.

In front of them is Yang Wenyue, He Shixian, Xiong Tingbi and others with an army of nearly [-], while on the mountain on the right is an army of tens of thousands and [-] civilians.

On the left is Qi Jin's sixth battalion of Zhejiang soldiers, and three or four miles behind are nearly [-] cavalry from Mangui and Cao Wenzhao.

At this time, no one can think of a better way than to go around and break the arm to survive.

"Khan Ama!"

Huang Taiji, who was wrapped in a red banner, was really escorted down to the formation by Gu Shane, and met Nurhachi.

It's just that Nurhachi passed out after being supported on the horse, and everyone could only focus on the injured Huang Taiji.

"After the two white flags are cut off, the remaining two yellow flags and two red flags charge into battle. I will bear all the casualties after the war!"

With his injured waist and pale face, Huang Taiji had no choice but to take on this responsibility.

With this responsibility, the Jin army had a backbone, and Hu Erhan, Yang Guli and others rode their horses to the front army one after another.

They served as former army generals, rode their horses in the first row, and gave the Jin army great encouragement and courage invisibly.

Directly in front is Xiong Tingbi's [-] troops in front, and this place is vast, as long as he is willing to break his arms, it is normal to break through, provided that Huang Taiji is not exposed!
Once Huang Taiji is exposed, the Ming army will immediately abandon the broken two white flags and chase them crazily.

"Drive! Drive—"

"put!"

"Boom boom-"

The sound of the Jin army's horse riding and the Ming army's cannon fire, these two main themes are mixed with the pain and neighing of stone bullets hitting people and horses, making the whole battlefield full of blood.

"He Shixian, hold them back!"

At the critical moment, He Shixian's nine thousand cavalry came in handy.

They had been recharging their energy for a long time, and they were only waiting for this opportunity. Therefore, after Xiong Tingbi gave the order, He Shixian immediately bowed to him, then walked aside, got on his horse and rode towards his main formation.

When the Jin army rushed into the range of one mile, He Shixian also ordered the whole army to dispatch.

Nine thousand Liaodong iron cavalry rushed up to meet the Jin army like wild horses that had run loose, holding three-eyed guns and short hammers.

"Pass the military order! Break through the encirclement and rush to Fushun to assemble!"

Huang Taiji grasped the rein with one hand, supported the wounded area with the other, and gave the order with a pale face.

Not long after he gave the order, the army collided with He Shixian's Liaodong cavalry head-on.

"Clap clap-"

The three-eyed blunderbuss and the cavalry bow confronted each other. At that time, the Ming and Jin armies fell many horses, but in order to hold back the Jin army, He Shixian could only choose to fight hand-to-hand.

Nine thousand cavalry collided with more than [-] cavalry, people turned on their backs, and the horses neighed.

Except for Xiong Tingbi's artillery that stopped shelling, the artillery of Qi Jin and the Ming army on the short mountain reloaded and fired.

"Boom boom-"

Everything in the world seemed to have turned gray, the bright moon emerged from the clouds, the sun disappeared early, the bleak breeze after the rain was also screaming and killing, the battlefield became chaotic, and the Jin army obeyed Huang Taiji's military orders, as long as anyone who broke through successfully , no one looked back, and rushed straight to both sides of Xiong Tingbi's army.

The Ming army, which had been prepared for a long time, appeared on the left and right sides of the five-jin Yanshan General Cannon, and they were loaded with shotguns that the cavalry feared.

"put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

Compared with the dullness of the ten-pound cannon, the five-pound cannon had a crisp sound.

The matchlock of the cannon was ignited by "Chi Chi", and at the same time as it let out a roar, scattered stones weighing five catties were hit.

Like a goddess scattering flowers, the stones swept down most of the Jin army in an instant, and after the artillery was over, the firecrackers were placed on the tripod.

This kind of firecracker with a tripod bracket and a rotating device is the gun that Huang Taiji was afraid of before. It is one foot long and weighs twenty catties. It can penetrate a chariot within one hundred and twenty steps. It is nicknamed "Nine Head Bird", powerful.

When the three hundred guns on the left and right were set up and filled with gunpowder, except for a small group of Jin troops who escaped, all the Jin troops who broke out from behind were blocked by it.

The sound of "bang, bang, bang" kept ringing, and when the guns were raised, the infantry also began to spread their formation, trying to block all the Jin army on the plain.

How can pawns match the speed of war horses?

Even if the golden army's horsepower is exhausted, it still cannot catch up with two legs.

"Don't care about these ordinary Jian captives, kill Huang Taiji and capture old slaves!"

Huang Taiji's reward has long been sent to the army by Zhu Youjian, everyone is envious of his reward, and everyone is waiting for him.

Nurhachi, Huang Taiji and others, who were seriously injured and comatose, could not break out of the Ming army at all.

Seeing more and more Ming soldiers rushing towards the banner, Huang Taiji could only cry out in pain:

"Cut the big banner!"

Cutting down the big banner, if the big banner falls, the nature is no less than the killing of the main general, and the army may be defeated in an instant.

But right now, Huang Taiji has no choice but to chop off the big banner to show that Nurhachi is dead, and to attract the Ming army after the two white flags are left broken, they can successfully break through.

Under such circumstances, the result of not cutting down the banners is that both the yellow flags and the two white flags have to be left here. This time when they entered Liaodong, they underestimated the mobility of the Ming army for two years of training, and underestimated Xiong Tingbi's command of the Liaodong soldiers and horses. ability, and even underestimated the madness of the Ming army for offering rewards.

At that time, Emperor Wanli also issued a reward of tens of thousands of taels to kill Nurhachi, but it turned out that the Ming army at that time was just a crazy person, and it was easy to be defeated, but now...

Looking at the Ming army united by a sentry and a battalion, trying to kill Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, all the Jin troops were heartbroken.

This time in the battle of entering the Liao Dynasty, the Jin army fought very well in tactics, but the strategic purpose was a mess.

Not only did they fail to severely damage any of the Ming army, they even lost nearly half of their soldiers and horses, just because they mistakenly underestimated the cooperation and mobility of the Ming army.

At this point, Huang Taiji no longer thinks about turning defeat into victory. He only wants to survive and return to Fushun alive.

"kill--"

Enduring the pain, Huang Taiji also pulled out his long knife, and slashed it on the big banner next to him. Seeing the situation, Gu Shanzhen next to him also slashed up several times, cutting down the big banner of the Chinese army...

"The golden banner of the Chinese army has fallen! Could it be that the old slave was killed?"

At this time, all the generals of the Ming army on the battlefield noticed the scene of the Jin army's big flag falling.

"Continue to encircle and suppress! Don't worry about other things, as long as the corpse is there!" Xiong Tingbi put down his binocular clairvoyance, and the sky was getting darker and darker.

Perhaps because of the dim environment, Baijiabalaya of the two white flags abruptly escorted Nurhachi, Huang Taiji and others out of the encirclement of the Ming army, and opened a hole for He Shixian's troops, leading a large number of Jin troops rushed out.

It's just that at the same time as they rushed out, there were dense sounds of horseshoes directly behind the battlefield.

Tens of thousands of iron cavalry holding torches arrived, and they, who had briefly rested their horsepower, would be a nightmare for the Jin army.

"The four cavalry guards are here! Kill—"

He Shixian held a pumpkin hammer in his hand, and with one hammer, he knocked off the horse infantry of the Golden Army who was trying to escape, and clamped the horse's belly. The horse stood tall, and its front hooves fell heavily.

With just one blow, the golden army horse infantry who fell to the ground stopped moving.

It was completely dark, and no one could find Huang Taiji and Nurhachi in the unlit Golden Army formation. He Shixian searched for the figures while killing the surrounding Golden Army.

Nai Yu's banner was cut off by Huang Taiji himself. At this moment, the Jin army only knows how to break through and doesn't care about other things at all.

The Niu Lu'e of each Niulu really became the commanders on the battlefield. They united their own troops to break through, and the move of [-] people to break through in all directions was not something that He Shixian's less than [-] men could stop.

They were quickly passed through, and even though many golden army horse infantry were left behind, more golden army horse infantry continued to rush towards the sides of Xiong Tingbi's headquarters.

Although Xiong Tingbi's headquarters had nearly [-] infantry, compared to the number of troops, there was no danger at all in the nearly ten-mile-long plain from north to south.

The [-]-strong army stood ready to defend against the enemy with artillery such as Yanshan General Cannon and Tiger Crouching Cannon, and kept harvesting the golden army on both sides of the army who tried to escape.

"boom--"

General Yanshan's cannons were roaring, and each of their cannons, which had replaced the shotguns, was knocking down dozens of Jinjun.

During the breakout, Huang Taiji, who was wrapped in banners, thought he was fine, but when he heard the sound of artillery, the next second, Baijia Balaya beside him was swept and shot, and fell off his horse and died.

Most of the generals of the Jin Army wore three armors and were able to resist the stone bullets that had penetrated the horses, but Huang Taiji could not.

He took off his cloth visor, and there was only chain mail and padded jacket inside...

"Ugh!!!"

The left arm and left leg were shot, and the horse was also shot and fell down, throwing Huang Taiji away, falling to the ground, and rolling several times in a row.

"Lord Belle!"

A group of generals of the Jin army looked at Huang Taiji's miserable state, they could only rein in their horses with numb scalp, and got off their horses to help him up.

The arms and legs were inlaid with stone bullets. Although they could not completely penetrate into the cotton armor, Huang Taiji was seriously injured, not to mention that his waist was already injured, and now he was thrown out by the horse and fell several times in a row. .

He passed out, when Gu Shanezhen of the Zhengbai Banner saw this, he immediately dragged down a Baijia Balaya, joined the others to help Huang Taiji onto the horse, and continued to run away.

The screams continued to come from the encirclement behind him,
Man Gui, Cao Wenzhao, and He Shixian rode side by side, leading nearly [-] cavalry in pursuit.

A large number of golden troops fled in the dark, while the two white flags were left behind.

At this time, the Ming army began to besiege the two white flags in large numbers, and when Man Gui saw this, he immediately shouted at the surrounding generals and Tang Qi:
"Jianlu left two white flags to survive, Huang Taiji must not be in the army, and the army will continue to pursue with me!"

After all, Man Gui led the generals and cavalry around him to continue the pursuit, and after Tang Qi passed the news to all parts of the battlefield, all the cavalry also woke up, decisively abandoned the two white flags that were abandoned as pawns, and chased towards the Jin army.

"Encircle and suppress Jianlu, harvest the heads!" Xiong Tingbi saw that the cavalry had no intention of staying behind, and immediately commanded the infantry to surround the thousands of gold troops who could not escape.

"drive--"

Fifty thousand cavalry galloped past the infantry formation, encircling and suppressing the fleeing Jin army, and Qi Jin, Xiong Tingbi, and Yang Wenyue also joined together to form a huge infantry lineup of nearly [-], pressing on every step.

From the place of ambush to Fushun, it was a total of [-] miles. For the frightened Jin army at this time, it was simply a long road that had never been traveled.

They were galloping, and the Jin army who fell due to lack of horsepower was hacked and killed by the Ming army all the way.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and finally there was only the moonlight in front and the firelight of the Ming army cavalry behind.

The tens of thousands of Jin troops who escaped were constantly beheaded by the Ming army in a hunting mode, and the number became smaller and smaller...

"drive--"

"drive--"

Everyone was running wildly, and some people even turned their horses and horses to the ground because they didn't dare to light the torches.

The military horses with insufficient horsepower were all abandoned, and the poor horses were also left alone. When Fushun on the other side of the Hun River appeared and the Great Wall loomed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

On the south bank of the Hun River, [-] Zhenglan Banner real captives, [-] false captives, and [-] cannons were standing in front of them. It was obvious that someone had arranged to meet them.

"Quick! Send Dahan and Baylor back to Fushun first!"

Hu Erhan and others rode their horses to the bank of the Hun River, and immediately shouted that the people from Zhenglan Banner first put Huang Taiji, Nurhachi and others on the boat, and then Hu Erhan, Yangguli, Jierhalang and others looked at Aba Taihe Yuetuo.

"I will stay to rectify the rout. As long as we form an formation and defend, the Ming cavalry cannot attack!"

Yue Tuo took the initiative to ask to stay, and after Hu Erhan and others said to be careful, they boarded the boat and led Nurhachi, Huang Taiji and others to Fushun on the north bank of the Hun River.

"Blow the wooden whistle, and if there are any escapees, they will all be killed!"

Watching Hu Erhan and the others move away from the shore, Yue Tuo immediately commanded the troops of the Zhenglan Banner to blow the wooden whistle.

The sound of "beep beep" kept ringing, and at the same time, the Jin army who fled to the south bank of the Hun River slowly regained their former composure amidst the sound of wooden whistles.

One thousand... three thousand... five thousand... seven thousand...

As the fleeing Jin army slowly calmed down, together with the soldiers and horses and Han soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner, the Jin army began to form in a panic.

As far as the current scene is concerned, Yue Tuo is very clear that only when the formation is formed can the Jin army withdraw smoothly one by one.

Once the army is in chaos, Man Gui will not let go of this opportunity, and will inevitably drive the cavalry to drive the Jin army down the Hun River and drown.

At this moment, the Hun River, which was less than two hundred steps wide, became a natural moat, and the Jin army was also taking over the fleeing Jin army little by little.

Yue Tuo was in the formation, and lit the bonfires prepared by Zhenglan Qi around him, his face was very ugly.

He could clearly see that the number of Jin soldiers who broke through from the battlefield was less than one-third of the number they had when they set off, and most of them were wounded.

"Drive! Drive—"

The sound of "rumbling" horseshoes came, and then a large group of indistinct black shadows appeared on the horizon.

In front of the black shadow, there were hundreds of scattered soldiers and horses frantically lashing their whips and fleeing, while behind them were more than [-] Ming soldiers who lit torches and chased them.

"Bang bang bang-"

"Uh..."

"Save me! Save people!"

The once invincible Jin army is now being chased and slaughtered by the Ming army like a bereaved dog.

Whenever a cavalry stopped after releasing the blunderbuss, there would always be follow-up cavalry following up on horseback, raising the blunderbuss and shooting.

Not only cavalry, tens of thousands of cavalry, such as He Shixian and Cao Wenzhao, also drew bows and arrows, shooting and killing the fleeing Jin army ahead.

In the formation on the south bank of the Hun River, all the Jin soldiers faced this scene directly, watching their children of the same clan being hunted down like dogs by the Ming army, they felt cold all over their bodies and their pupils trembled.

This is a scene that has not appeared for many years. Perhaps for the younger generation of Jin Jun, this kind of scene is unbelievable, but for the older Jin Jun, this scene reminds them of the time when they were outside the Great Wall and were captured by Liaodong. Iron cavalry conquers the memory of knocking.

"Don't panic! The Ming army has chased for hundreds of miles, and their horsepower has long been exhausted. Order soldiers and horses to defend the formation and wait for retreat!"

At the critical moment, Yue Tuo said the words to stabilize the army's morale, and the surrounding Tangqi also hurriedly sent orders to the troops.

Under Tang Qi's order, the Jin army's once again shaken military spirit stabilized again.

This is the shortcoming of a small country with few people. It cannot withstand too much loss and toss. No matter how barbaric they are, they will collapse when they see their comrades disappearing one by one.

At this moment, the Jin army is on the verge of collapse, relying entirely on Yue Tuo, three thousand troops from the Zhenglan Banner, and four thousand fake captive soldiers to maintain stability.

However, in front of them, hundreds of Jin troops were all killed by the Ming army before they could reach a hundred paces away, leaving no one alive...

"Call-"

"stop!"

When Man Gui, who was chasing with iron cavalry, led his men to chase and kill all the routs of the Jin army in front of him, he immediately saw the lights on the other side of the Hun River and the ships on the south bank of the Hun River that were constantly receiving the routs of the Jin army.

He stopped first, picked up binocular clairvoyance and looked.

When he saw more than [-] cannons on the north bank of Hunhe River, and the Jin army on the south bank had begun to form formation, Man Gui frowned slightly, and after confirming that Nurhachi and Huang Taiji were not in the formation, he began to weigh.

Although He Shixian's third battalion iron cavalry still had enough horsepower, in fact Man Gui and Cao Wenzhao's horsepower was not enough.

Like the Jin army whose horsepower collapsed, the Ming army's horsepower also began to dry up.

In the middle of the chase, Man Gui noticed that many soldiers of the Ming army fell off their horses, and the horses under his own crotch were about to collapse.

Under such circumstances, it is impossible to conduct a battle, or to repeatedly confront each other.

Thinking of this, Man Gui could only frown and say:

"The Jin army is formed, and the horses and horses of Cao Zongbing and I are exhausted, and the artillery of the army and the troops of Xiong Jinglue's headquarters may not have marched for [-] miles. If we want to fight, we can only wait for the horsepower to recover."

"Damn! I don't know if Huang Taiji and the old slave are dead or not." He Shixian Ce heard Man Gui's words right away, so he couldn't help scolding.

Cao Wenzhao, who came up after him, also used his binocular clairvoyance to see the flames in the distance, but he couldn't see clearly.

"The Jian captives not only ran this way, but many ran into the mountains, but looking at the posture, it seems that there are only a few thousand Jian captives who fled here. The old slave lost at least half of the soldiers and horses who entered Liao."

Cao Wenzhao's words made Man Gui, He Shixian, and a group of Ming army generals raise their binocular clairvoyance to look at the retreating Jin army.

"Don't talk about killing [-] to [-] people, even if you only kill [-] people, this battle is worth it!"

He Shixian put down his binocular clairvoyance, calmed down his excitement, and teased with his loud voice.

His ridicule made all the generals and generals who followed up burst into laughter.

A head of one hundred taels of silver is a promise made by His Royal Highness Qi Wang himself.

All the generals knew that His Royal Highness King Qi would not pick and choose like the military department and the Ministry of War. As long as it was confirmed to be the head of a real prisoner, no matter whether there was any facial injury, he would give a reward.

In other words, the gain of the Ming army this time is worth at least one million taels of silver.

Thinking of the amount of money, most people's breathing became thicker, only Man Gui and Cao Wenzhao looked unhappy.

Before Huang Taiji and Nurhachi were not sure whether they were dead or not, they would not be happy at all.

Completing King Qi's military order is their first task. Thinking of this, Man Gui immediately ordered:

"The whole army rests its horsepower and prepares for another confrontation!"

Since there is no way to determine whether Nurhachi and Huang Taiji are dead, it is particularly important to complete the third task assigned by Zhu Youjian...

Kill the Golden Army no matter the cost!
(End of this chapter)