Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 597
"Hou Canjun, save yourself."

Hong Chengchou has figured it out now.

"Ambush gunpowder on the ice and blow up the ice layer. This is what the Ming army left behind."

"Do you really think that the Ming army could think of using this to attack my Qing soldiers, but you didn't think that my Qing soldiers would use this to attack them?"

"This..." Hou Fangyu was speechless.

Meng Xueli glanced at Hou Fangyu and said, "Master, what if?"

"There is no eventuality, there is no eventuality." Hong Chengchou shook his head and said again, "Meng Ge advises you to lead Juziying to dig out the gunpowder in the ice immediately, hurry up!"

"Don't dig! The Ming army will definitely come!"

Hou Fangyu was still lucky, or rather unwilling.

"Ignore him." Hong Chengchou said impatiently, "Dig out the gunpowder immediately and chase after the army."

"Chasing the army? Where is the Master going to lead the army?" Meng Xueli was taken aback when he heard this, and Hou Fangyu also turned his head to cast a surprised target at Hong Chengchou.

"Go to Dagukou!" Hong Chengchou grabbed the bag and put it on his head.

As he walked out, he continued, "If there are no accidents, the Ming army will definitely take the land route near Dagukou. In fact, from the very beginning, the Ming army did not intend to use the water route."

"Is the Ming army going to go by land?" Meng Xueli couldn't believe it.

"By land?" Hou Fangyu asked even more out of composure, "Aren't the Ming army afraid of being cut off by us?"

"Of course I'm afraid, but the Ming army has already figured out a countermeasure!" Hong Chengchou went out of the tent before finishing his sentence, "Hou Canjun should go back to the tent as soon as possible and pack up."

"Hou Canjun, what do you think?" Meng Xueli asked with some embarrassment.

Hou Fangyu sighed and said, "According to what Hong Butang said."

"Hey." Meng Xueli slapped a thousand, turned around and left the big tent in a hurry.

Soon, there was a continuous sound of drums and horns in the camp at Chaohekou.

Accompanied by the sound of drums and horns, teams of Qing troops marched out of the camp, lined up in the wilderness, and then marched in neat lines towards Dagukou.

……

At the same time, the Ming army was also advancing rapidly along the coastline towards Dagukou.

Since the Ming army could march on ice sledges, the speed was much faster. It took the Ming army only half a day to go from Fuhekou to Dagukou for about [-] miles.

It's just that the Ming army didn't reach Dagukou directly.

Instead, they were ready to go ashore more than ten miles away from Dagukou.

By this time, after the Ming army was stationed continuously, there were still 4 infantry brigades, 3 mountain artillery brigades, 3 field artillery brigades, and a cavalry town, with a total of more than [-] people.

It is still a formidable force in this day and age.

"Long live, the map." Gao Qiqian spread out the map thoughtfully.

Chongzhen immediately surrounded Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan and Jiang Tianyi and other scholars.

Xu Yingwei pointed to the map and said, "Your Majesty, if everything is as I guessed, Jiannu is going to ambush us at a certain river mouth in the north, then this river mouth is probably the Chaohe River mouth."

Chongzhen said with a smile: "Heroes see the same thing, I also think it will be Chaohekou."

Xu Yingwei smiled and said: "So, even if Jiannu knew we had arrived at Dagukou, the Jiannu stationed in Cangzhou, Chaohekou and other places would not act rashly."

"That's the reason." Chongzhen said with a smile, "They are worried that they will frighten us, so they don't go to Chaohe Estuary."

Xu Yingwei measured the map again with a square ruler, and then said, "It's about eighty miles from the mouth of Chaohe River to the mouth of Dagu. Even if Jiannu rushed here, it would take at least one day and night!"

Yan Yingyuan said: "That is to say, at least one day and night can be used to annihilate the Jiannu in Dagukou."

Jiang Tianyi said: "According to the information provided by the defenders at Dagukou, there are about [-] slaves on the opposite side, and most of them are Han soldiers from the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion. The time difference between day and night should be enough for us to annihilate the Jiannu on the opposite side of Dagu Pass."

Xu Yingwei said: "In this way, a big hole can be torn at the mouth of Wei River."

Chongzhen hummed lightly and said, "Youzhen, I'll leave the rest to you. I only want the result."

"The minister leads the decree." Xu Yingwei bowed to Chongzhen, and immediately rode to the shore, Yan Yingyuan, Jiang Tianyi and other soldiers or staff officers also went ashore, and there were only dozens of eunuchs and hundreds of imperial guards left on the ice. .

……

At the same time, Zhu Cijiong also managed to climb over a low mountain ridge with more than two thousand riders.

Of the more than 3000 new troops who followed Zhu Cijiong to North Korea, nearly 2000 were killed in the Battle of Seoul, and the remaining [-] people have been reorganized into cavalry.

"Prince Ding, look!" Xu Wuniu pointed in front of him and said fiercely, "This is the camp."

Zhu Cijiong looked in the direction of Xu Wuniu's finger, and saw a large number of yurts scattered dotted on the sunny south slope opposite the valley, at least thousands of them.

"Haha, this is a large wintering camp."

Zhu Cijiong laughed loudly and said, "This time we made a fortune."

In all wintering camps, cattle, sheep and horses are the most concentrated.

Because usually cattle, sheep and horses are scattered in various pastures.

"Send someone back to inform Xia Gejian, and lead the infantry brigade to catch up quickly to receive the cattle, sheep and horses." Zhu Cijiong took out the [-]-type rifle that was clutched in his arms as he said.

He drew out the bayonet and put it on the barrel.

"There are all of them, the Mongolian camp in front of the target."

Accompanied by Zhu Cijiong's low growl, two thousand cavalrymen slowly formed their formation.

"Follow me!" The last word ah yelled out, and Zhu Cijiong threw off his horse under his crotch, and rushed down the gentle hillside on the thick snow.

More than 2000 cavalry followed Zhu Cijiong and gradually picked up speed.

The sound of horns sounded incessantly from the opposite camp.

Amidst the sound of horns one after another, herdsmen continued to emerge from their yurts, led their horses, and gathered in front of the camp in a chaotic manner.

When the cavalry of the Ming army came down from the hillside and killed the stream at the bottom of the valley, about [-] herdsmen gathered on the opposite side.

The cavalry of the Ming army was already close at hand, and the Mongolian nobles who led them greeted them with about [-] Mongolian cavalry who had already assembled. Their courage was commendable.

However this was of no use.

When the distance between the two sides was about 150 steps, the Ming cavalry in the first row opened fire first.

Accompanied by the gunshots of "bah bah bah bah", more than fifty Mongolian cavalry fell off their horses. The cavalry formation, which was not very neat, became even more chaotic, and many horses even bumped into each other.

The formation of the cavalry of the Ming army was not chaotic at all. The first row of cavalry slowed down immediately after firing their guns, and the second and third rows of cavalry passed through the gap between the first row of cavalry.

When the cavalry of the two sides were about a hundred paces apart, the Ming cavalry in the second row pulled the trigger one after another.

Another burst of gunshots rang out one after another. This time, the number of Mongolian cavalrymen shot down was even more, more than double that of just now, because the Ming army's hit rate also increased as the distance got closer.

Immediately afterwards, the third row of cavalry of the Ming army came up again.

When the intensive gunfire sounded for the third time, the distance between the cavalry of the two sides was less than fifty steps.

There were more Mongolian cavalry fallen this time. After three salvos, there were only a few hundred Mongolian cavalry left, and the entire cavalry formation completely collapsed.

However, the Mongolian cavalry finally shot a row of arrows.

Unfortunately, the Ming army on the opposite side had no casualties.

Because the Ming army wore cotton armor and a cotton coat outside.

Unless the arrows of the Mongolian cavalry hit the face of the Ming army, there was no threat.

It is very helpless that the cavalry of the Ming army even wore a hundred-forged visor on their faces.

More than [-] Ming cavalrymen rushed over the Mongolian cavalry formation like a tide, and the surviving hundreds of Mongolian cavalrymen were stabbed off their horses and crushed by the Ming army's bayonets before they even had time to draw out the scimitars from their waists.

The man was defeated, and the women and children who stayed in the camp panicked instantly and fled in all directions.

"There are all of them." Zhu Cijiong slung the bayonet-loaded rifle back to his right shoulder, and pulled out the short gun from his waist and shouted, "Women and children are caught alive, and they must be caught alive!"

"Prince Ding has an order to catch the alive!" Xu Wuniu howled, looking up to the sky.

The accompanying cavalrymen of the Ming army shouted: "King Ding has an order, catch the alive!"

Accompanied by the roar of mountains and tsunami, the cavalry of the Ming army easily crossed the low earthen wall of the camp, divided, surrounded and captured the women and children who were fleeing in the camp.

When Xia Wanchun led the infantry brigade and the North Korean army to the camp, the battle had already ended for a long time.

"Brother Duan, we got rich, haha!" Zhu Cijiong laughed and said, "How much do you think we made?"

Xia Wanchun glanced at the cattle and sheep in the camp, and asked tentatively, "Are there [-] cattle and sheep?"

"Guess again." Zhu Cijiong pointed to the top of his head, and said, "Guess more, use your imagination to guess hard."

"God, do you have 20 cattle and sheep? That's really a fortune." Xia Wanchun said happily, "By the way, horses, how many horses were captured? Ten thousand?"

"30 horses?" Zhu Cijiong snorted, and said again, "Conservatively, we have captured at least [-] cattle and sheep this time, including at least [-] camels and [-] horses!"

"So much?" Xia Wanchun was ecstatic when he heard the words, "Did we copy Horqin Mongolia's lair?"

Zhu Cijiong said: "Even if this is not where the old man Ersen's royal court is, at least it is the old camp of one of Horqin Mongolia's ten banners. After this winter, this banner will be considered abolished."

Losing so many cattle, sheep, camels and horses at once, the tribe must be finished.

After a short pause, Zhu Cijiong went on to say: "However, I guess the strong men of this tribe are out, otherwise there would not be only a few hundred cavalry left behind, so we must make preparations quickly, maybe the main force of this tribe will be gone soon. Will kill back to the old camp, don't make us feel sad."

While speaking, a loud bugle sound suddenly sounded in front of him.

"Alert!" Xia Wanchun shouted awe-inspiringly, "Enemy attack!"

(End of this chapter)