Desert Eagle Suletan Khan

Chapter 428: Abandoning Governor Guyuan and escaping (Part )
Zhu Shizhong hesitated, "But our army has lost three battles in a row."

Li Mingyi insisted on his opinion, "If the enemy cavalry recovers its power, our army will be in danger!"

"General, go away, I will support you alone," Zhu Shizhong finally made up his mind.

"I accept the decree."

Li Mingyi received the military order and led three thousand troops to attack Meng Qiaofang's Chinese army. His subordinates had two thousand veterans of the breakout army. They were very fierce and fought without risking their lives. They soon approached the enemy's commanding flag.

Chen De, deputy general of Biaoying, the governor-general of the Qing Dynasty, led a thousand personal guards to block the attack. However, Li Mingyi's troops were unable to stop him because the combat power of Li Mingyi's troops was not comparable to that of He Chaishan's troops, and they retreated steadily.

Meng Qiaofang's face was livid. He no longer had a reserve team by his side. If he allowed this Ming army to pull away his commanding flag, he would definitely lose. In desperation, he ordered the cavalry to stop the attack, and also ordered the general Chen Wanlue and deputy general Ren Zhen, who were attacking the Ming army Zhao Guangrui's department, to send back reinforcements.

Esai, the minister of the Qinghu Department, was also a veteran of hundreds of battles. Seeing that his own horse power had not yet recovered, he simply led the Eight Banners soldiers to dismount and fight on foot. The real Manchu warriors were very ferocious. They joined forces with Chen De to block Li Mingyi's offensive and even launched a counterattack.

After several consecutive attacks, they were unable to break through and were forced back by the Qing army. Li Mingyi was extremely anxious and charged in person. His shirt was dyed red with blood, but he still didn't care.

A large banner appeared in front of the formation, and Zhu Shizhong led a thousand guards to join the battle group. Although the number was small, it greatly boosted the morale of the Ming army. Li Mingyi's troops burst out with astonishing fighting power, becoming more and more courageous as they fought.

"Follow me to kill the enemy," Meng Qiaofang roared angrily, and rushed towards the Ming army with the last two hundred guards around her.

You come and go, there is a stalemate.

"Huh? Why has His Highness's banner moved forward?"

"It's Your Highness. Your Highness went to kill the Tatars."

The Xing'an bandits He Keliang, Beishan bandits Liu Hongcai, Luonan bandits He Chaishan, and Ziyangshan bandits Sun Shouguan who were watching the battle were shocked by this scene. After the fall of the two capitals, many clans tried to recover, but the only one who dared to fight the Manchus head-on was probably Your Highness. The nobles of Tianhuang can rush to the front, is their life more valuable than the life of the Ming vassal king?
"Send the flag and move forward." Beishan bandit Liu Hongcai's tribe was the first to hoist the flag to advance.

"Grandma, Lao Liu is a hero, and he is not a coward." Sun Shouquan, the Ziyang Mountain bandit, ordered his men to blow the marching horn.

Upon seeing this, He Keliang, He Chaishan and other troops also launched an attack.

The ants kill the elephant. The Ming army was already much larger in number than the Qing army, and now everyone was brave and desperate. Even though Meng Qiaofang had a real Manchu army to help her, it was of no avail and she was killed in pieces. In the melee, deputy general Chen De was killed by Li Mingyi, and even the governor's flag became a trophy of the Ming army. Fortunately, he had already ordered the commander-in-chief Chen Wanlue and the deputy general Ren Zhen to withdraw reinforcements, so the entire army was not wiped out and they fled into Guyuan Prefecture City in despair.

"Victory!"

"Your Highness is mighty!"

"The Ming Dynasty is mighty!" The shouts of killing on the battlefield of Yanglangzhong Fort in Guyuan Prefecture gradually subsided and were replaced by cheers one after another.

"I am so angry that I lean on the railing, and the drizzle of rain stops. I look up, look up to the sky and roar, my heart is full of passion." Someone sang Yue Wumu's "Man Jiang Hong". Slowly, the song became louder and louder, turning from a shallow singing to a shocking The sky thundered.

Li Shiying, a bachelor, wept and wrote the poem "The Three Armies of the War at Guyuan Singed All the Rivers Are Red" and said:
After Guyuan's first military success, the army was approaching.

The triumphant song shocked the world and touched the hearts of the elders of the Three Qin Dynasty.

When the country is in ruins, there is no need to think of good generals, why should we be in the Imperial Academy?

Every man is planning a strategy, but he doesn't feel the tears staining his lapel.

"Duke Xian, it's bad, the flag of the Ming army has appeared in Ganzhou." After Meng Qiaofang led the remaining defeated soldiers and fled back to Guyuan Prefecture City, before she could take a breath, she heard the bad news again. Ganzhou is located northwest of Guyuan City, very close to it. Now that the army has no fighting spirit, what can we do to fight the Ming army?
Governor Meng had no choice but to abandon Guyuan and flee to the Liupan Mountain area to garrison. After counting the remaining soldiers and horses, there were only five thousand left. I couldn't help but feel cold in my heart. While pleading guilty to Dorgon for help, I tried to take advantage of the mountainous terrain of Liupan Mountain to defend in danger.

Reinforcements have not arrived, but bad news is flying everywhere. With the power of great victory, the Ming army defeated Shuangfeng Fort, Magang Fort, Zhangyi Fort, Qinghe Fort, and Kaicheng. Except for the surrounding areas of Fucheng, most of Pingliang Prefecture fell into the hands of the Ming Army. They are sharpening their knives and preparing to attack themselves.

There is no end to the road, and when Meng Qiaofang was so anxious that her whole body was burning, two more old friends arrived with reinforcements.

One is Zhang Wenheng, the governor of Gansu newly appointed by the emperor's father as regent. This person was a Weiren surname in Kaiping, with the courtesy name Juyuan. The Han army had a yellow flag. Because he was on a patrol in Shandong, he captured Zhao Yingyuan of Qingzhou and wiped out the Huining bandits. He was promoted to the Jiangnan Exploration Department to patrol Gansu. This person came to the Qing Dynasty very early, so it is not unusual for him to be granted the title of governor. The strange thing is that Gansu was already under the control of the Wei Kingdom at this time. What did the emperor's father and the regent want to do when he was appointed governor of Gansu?

The other one is Liu Liangchen, the commander-in-chief of Gansu Province. He is from Northern Zhili. He was originally a guerrilla under Zu Dashou's tent. After his defeat in the Battle of Daling River, he failed to observe his official duties. He followed Zu Dashou and rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. He was awarded the third-class light chariot capital. Wei, attached to the Han army with a yellow flag. This person's greatest achievement was to recruit and surrender his brother Liu Liangzuo, one of the four towns in Jiangbei of Nanming, for the Manchus.

Both of them were old acquaintances of Meng Qiaofang, and Governor Meng did not hide it. When he had doubts, he asked: "Zhang Fuyuan and Liu Zongzhen, Gansu is now occupied by Weiguo, why did the emperor and the regent use two Fu and Zhenzhen?" Gansu?"

"Haha, Governor Xian doesn't know, but our army has captured Datong, and the traitor Jiang Yan, his brother Jiang Lin, and his brother Jiang Youguang have all been entrusted. The situation in the north is favorable to our Qing Dynasty, so the emperor and the regent decided to move to defend In order to attack, the two of us were ordered to pacify and suppress Gansu, which was intended to put pressure on Qianyuan, the leader of the army.

It turned out that Dorgon's second expedition to Datong lasted just over a month before he felt unwell and had to return to Beijing. Although he himself did not achieve any results, because he devoted almost all the elite troops in the north to the battlefield in Shanxi, the rebels in Shanxi finally couldn't resist it. In the city of Datong, the food supply had been exhausted, "the soldiers and the people were hungry and dead, and there were not many soldiers left." With no hope of foreign aid, Yang Zhenwei, the commander-in-chief of Jiang Quan's army, rebelled and led more than 600 officers and soldiers to rebel. After killing Jiang Quan, his brother Jiang Lin, and his younger brother Jiang Youguang, he left the city with his heads and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. In order to serve as a warning to others, Dorgon ordered "all the officials, soldiers and civilians to be executed" in Datong City, except for the family members of Yang Zhenwei's officers and soldiers. He also ordered that the city wall be demolished five feet high to vent his anger.

"Oops! The traitor Jiang Quan has been consecrated. God has blessed our Qing Dynasty!" Meng Qiaofang smacked her forehead with her hands in joy.

"Governor Xian must not be too happy because the main force of our army is still pacifying the remaining bandits in Shanxi. The two of us only brought 3,000 Shandong Green Camp and 2,000 Henan Green Camp, a total of 5,000 troops, so the situation in Shaanxi is not too great. Big help." Liu Liangchen poured a ladle of cold water on him.

However, Meng Qiaofang laughed indifferently, "It doesn't matter. With two 5,000 reinforcements and the danger of Liupan Mountain, our army will be able to hold on until the emperor and the regent pacify Shanxi and then send a large number of troops into Shaanxi."

(End of this chapter)