Turning the tide in the Red Chamber

Chapter 104 [104] Jia Yuanchun flees for his life, Lin Daiyu flees
At night.

Days of heavy snow stopped.

No wind, dry and cold.

It was freezing cold.

A bright moon hangs in the sky.

Under the cold night sky, there is Shanhaiguan standing between two cliffs.

Sealing the sky and locking the earth, it is magnificent.

Accompanied by a "creak" sound of the wooden shaft turning.

The gate of Shanhaiguan opened slowly.

A large army of infantry and cavalry poured out of the gate, passed through the white moonlight, and rushed towards the distance.

Among the cavalry, there is a female general who is particularly eye-catching, it is Jia Yuanchun who is riding a bay red horse.

According to the scheduled plan, tonight she led Chen Daguang and Hu Shouren, led [-] cavalry and [-] infantry, quietly went out of the city for [-] miles and lay in ambush, waiting to outflank the Jin army from behind tomorrow.

The next day, sunny.

The sun shines on the snow, looking around, there is a vast expanse of whiteness, boundless, so white that it is a bit dazzling.

Lou Nan led [-] cavalry, doubled the number of flags, pretended to be tens of thousands of cavalry, and rushed towards the Jin army camp fifteen miles away.

Behind this cavalry, two mixed infantry and cavalry troops left the pass one after another and ambushed in the valley of the Kanto and on the hillside of the Kanxi respectively.

Two hours later, the sound of horseshoes came and went, like rolling thunder rolling over the ground.

Lou Nan led [-] cavalry, pretending to be defeated, and ran all the way to Shanhaiguan.

"The whole army obeys the order, the rear team becomes the forward, turn around and attack!"

As soon as his words fell, the cavalrymen of the Great Zhou Dynasty, after struggling for a few times, ignored his order and continued to flee towards the gate of Shanhaiguan.

No one wants to confront the Eight Banners cavalry.

Compared with the cavalry of the Eight Banners, the cavalry of the Great Zhou was far behind in combat power.

Lou Nan was dumbfounded.

He never expected that his subordinates would dare to disobey the military order.

Feng Ziying stood at the gate, not knowing what happened below.

"fire!"

Following his command, the closed thirty-nine cannons fired at the same time.

Twenty of them are star-studded cannons, ten are Franco cannons, and nine are Hongyi cannons.

There are three types of shells: shotgun shells, solid shells, and blooming shells.

Although the power is not too great, the shells all fell on the horses of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.

Fortunately, Lou Nan's [-] cavalry did not turn around, otherwise, they would have been hit by these shells.

The solid bullets broke the legs of several horses, and the star-studded cannons exploded among the horses like large-scale fireworks, which only served to scare people and horses. The Hongyi cannon killed several Eight Banners cavalry in the rear team. Generally speaking, this round of bombardment did not cause huge casualties to the Eight Banners army, only a little confusion.

At this moment, waves of shouts of killing sounded like mountains and seas from the valleys of Kanto and the hillsides of Kansai.

Although the shouts were loud, the soldiers of Da Zhou were unwilling to rush to the front.

Whenever a soldier rushes to the front row, he will deliberately slow down and let the people behind rush to the front of him.

Looking from a distance, the Da Zhou army pouring in on both sides is like the waves on the shore. When they rush over, they will continue to roll back.

"Not good! There is an ambush!" Dorgon exclaimed when he saw this situation.

In order to prevent Da Zhou from leading snakes out of the cave, he only brought [-] cavalry out of the camp to meet Lou Nan's [-] cavalry, leaving Duoduo to lead the remaining [-] cavalry to guard the camp, to prevent Zhou's army from diverting tigers away from the mountain and sneaking into the camp.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Jun really set up an ambush.

Although he made a sudden move, Dorgon had experienced hundreds of battles, he was both civil and military, and his [-] cavalry were all veterans of hundreds of battles, so he did not fall into chaos.

As the saying goes, Jurchens are not satisfied with ten thousand, and they are invincible.

Dorgon firmly believed that with these [-] cavalry, he was enough to repel the ambush and defeat the Zhou army.

But at this moment, there was another shout of killing from behind his team.

Dorgon galloped up a small hill next to him and looked back, only to see a large number of Zhou troops appearing behind him, hiding and killing them.

"Oops! The Zhou army is surrounded on all sides!"

Although Zhou Jun's momentum was astonishing, their movements were surprisingly slow.

Not only the infantry, but the cavalry also walked slowly, one by one holding their bridles, without the slightest intention to charge their horses.

"Don't panic! Zhou Jun is as timid as a mouse, now the rear team has changed to the front team, follow me out of the encirclement!" Dorgon ordered.

The Eight Banners cavalry who were still a little panicked gradually calmed down, brandished their sabers, turned around and galloped on their horses, rushing towards the Zhou army behind them.

This Zhou army was exactly [-] cavalry and [-] infantry led by Jia Yuanchun himself.

Although there are tens of thousands of people, infantry is inherently at a disadvantage when facing cavalry.

As soon as the two sides came into contact, Zhou Jun only persisted for less than half a cup of tea, and then collapsed across the board.

Fortunately, the other three Zhou armies had already surrounded and fought with the Jin army, otherwise the ten thousand Zhou army led by Jia Yuanchun would not have been able to last half a cup of tea.

"Hold it all, don't retreat!" Jia Yuanchun yelled softly, but her shouts were drowned in the sound of weapons colliding, shouts of killing and howling.

The two generals, Chen Daguang and Hu Shouren, also roared to stop the deserters.

But they couldn't stop Zhou Jun from fleeing.

Dorgon led more than a dozen brave subordinates, smashed through the Zhou army, and went straight to the banner of the Chinese army.

Chen Daguang hurriedly said:
"Jia Jianjun, Dorgon is coming, retreat quickly!"

Jia Yuanchun's face was sad, his eyes were frightened, and he said in a shy voice:

"withdraw!"

Chen Daguang and Hu Shouren led more than [-] cavalry to guard Jia Yuanchun and fled westward.

They wanted to bypass the battle field and return to Shanhaiguan.

But Dorgon was skilled in riding and quickly caught up.

Followed by more than a dozen Eight Banners cavalry.

They were all wearing white helmets and armor, probably either with a straight white flag or a bordered white flag.

Since Dorgon is the owner of the Xiangbai Banner, these cavalry should all belong to the Xiangbai Banner.

One of the soldiers wanted to bend his bow and set an arrow, but was scolded by Dorgon:
"Everyone obeys the order and is not allowed to shoot the female general in front, or they will be dealt with by military law!"

"Hey!" The soldiers took orders one after another.

"Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-"

Accompanied by the sound of breaking through the air, the cavalry set up their bows and shot arrows one after another.

Arrows flew out, and several Zhou cavalry guarding around Jia Yuanchun were shot down one after another.

The Zhou cavalry also turned their heads one after another, bowed their bows and shot arrows to fight back.

But their arrow skills were unfamiliar, only two cavalrymen with white flags were wounded, and the rest of the arrows all missed.

Not long after, only Chen Daguang and Hu Shouren were left beside Jia Yuanchun.

But Dorgon and more than a dozen cavalry with white flags chased closer and closer.

At the same time, in Rongguo Mansion in Shenjing City.

Suzaku led more than [-] Jinyi guards to fight and retreat, and was forced into the West Corner Gate of Rong Mansion by tens of thousands of gangsters.

The bandits took the opportunity to break into Rongguo Mansion.

Jinyiwei kept reducing its staff, but the gangsters fought more and more.

It turned out that several other gangsters nearby heard the news and wanted to take the opportunity to rob Rongguo Mansion.

Hearing the shouts of killing, the sound of weapons colliding and howling, Lin Daiyu knew that there were thieves breaking in again, so she rushed out of Rongqing Hall with a long sword in her hand.

When she saw the gangsters rushing like a flood, she was terrified.

The [-] or so Jinyiwei were like mantises in front of the [-] gangsters, unable to stop them.

Lin Daiyu hurried back to Rongqing Hall, and said to Jia Mu and Dai Quan:

"Ancestor, father-in-law, the thieves are powerful, and the situation is critical, you all escape with me!"

In such a life-and-death situation, Lin Daiyu didn't care about so much etiquette, and in a hurry, she directly called the two of them "you".

(End of this chapter)