A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 121 The Great Enemy
"A small defense officer of the Ming Dynasty has such determination to fight. Looking at the generals of the Ming Dynasty, none of them can do it!"

Abatai's eyes sparkled: "In the future, if our Qing Dynasty wants to rule China, we must destroy all potential Ming troops who dare to fight, so that they will fear my Qing Dynasty and dare not rebel!"

Although the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were sure to retaliate, they were not stupid. When they encountered a fortified city that was difficult for them to attack, they would usually go around and not fight with their opponents.However, when encountering a threatening, powerful and daring army, they will continue to destroy or completely defeat the opponent at any cost.

Especially Abatai, who has a lot of vision and strategy in history.

Abatai was originally the seventh son of Nurhachi. He made outstanding military exploits on weekdays and made many contributions to Houjin.But because he was born to a side concubine, he has been despised and insulted all the time, and he is often not treated fairly when it comes to rewards for meritorious deeds.

After Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor, Dorgon, Duoduo, Haoge, Yue Tuo and others were all promoted to princes, and even Azige was also named king of the county, and only Abatai was still Baylor.Just add the beautiful name of Rao Yu in front of Baylor to show the difference.Compared with the prince, the title is two levels lower.

During Huang Taiji's reign, he was also humiliated and punished many times. It is intriguing that although he was punished many times, he was only fined with silver or objects, and he was never severely punished by demotion or demotion.

The reason for this is not because of Huang Taiji's tolerance, but because of his contempt for Abate. Huang Taiji believes that Abate was born in a partial family, and he was brave and foolish, so he never constituted a threat to him.Huang Taiji is cruel, ungrateful and unfeeling. Mang Gurtai never tolerated the rebellious Dabeile Amin, and mercilessly put them to death.

In fact, Abatai was very strategic. When the Qing soldiers invaded Daming again in the 11th year of Chongzhen and 15th year of Chongzhen, he was appointed as the chief general, leading tens of thousands of troops to fight for thousands of miles. Without strategic courage, he could not take on such a big task.

Regarding Daming's attitude, when Houjin conquered the entire Monan Mongolia, obtained the Jade Seal of the Kingdom, and expanded its territory from Liaodong to the entire Mongolian plateau, the whole Houjin was very excited. Many people thought that destiny was in me.

In April Jimao in the summer of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Dabeile Daishan, Heshuobeile Jierhalang, Dorgon, Duduo, Yuetuo, Haoge, Abatai, Azige, Dudu Suman, Han , Mongolian ministers, and 49 Baylor of the Sixteen Kingdoms of Mongolia invited Huang Taiji to proclaim himself emperor with the three-body table text, and conferred the honorary title of "Bogda Chechen Khan".

In June of the same year, Huang Taiji took the throne, changed the name of the country to "Qing" and changed the Yuan to Chongde.

With the annexation of the Korean Kingdom, the last opponent of the Qing Dynasty in East Asia was Daming.

At this time, the weakness of Ming Dynasty and the whole Qing Dynasty were all in sight. Although many people still had the idea of ​​grabbing it and leaving, there were also many people among the high-level Manchu Qing people who believed that the Qing Dynasty had a chance to take over the Central Plains. , It can also prevent the Jin soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty, occupying half of China.

Abatai was also one of those who believed that the Qing Dynasty could rule the Central Plains.

He looked around: "I will not let this person sit on the throne and let him become the scourge of my Qing Dynasty in the future!"

At the same time, he was also a little curious about Wang Dou: "After hearing what this servant Yan Zha said, I'm still a little curious about the defense officer of the Ming Dynasty surnamed Wang. I, I will not treat him badly!"

In history, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty did not hesitate to reward those who surrendered, which is one of the reasons why the Qing soldiers entered the pass and there were so many surrenders.

Hearing what Abatai said, everyone in the tent looked at each other in blank dismay.

A Mongolian general said loudly: "Raoyu Baylor, didn't you say that we are here to grab money and food when we enter the customs? Why are we going to attack Jiancheng again? Forget it, why bother to damage the warriors in the army? "

"We have fewer people in the Qing Dynasty, so it's not worth it to exchange your life with the Han people."

Speaking of which, this Mongolian is in his forties, short and strong, with full cheeks and beards, but he is Gu Shane Zhenshanba on the left wing of Tumet.

Abatai sneered and said: "Small defeat, will my Qing soldiers be afraid? A small defender, a small city with thousands of households, although I value it, I don't fear it. I just want to break through the fort and kill others. , Let all the Ming generals know what will happen to the Qing soldiers who dare to resist us."

"My Qing soldiers are invincible, relying on their vigor. The soldiers can't be discouraged. My army with white flags is invincible everywhere. If you suffer a loss under a small fort and dare not retaliate, Baylor will be all in the other flags. How to treat me, Abate, is a joke."

Hearing what Abatai said, the people in the tent thought it was very reasonable. A city with a thousand households, no matter how capable it is to fight, but hundreds of thousands of soldiers, there is no reason why its own army of thousands cannot be defeated. If the heart of fear is lost, the morale of the army will be damaged, and the loss will be even greater.

They all clamored to launch a large army, break through that Shunxiang Fort, and kill the Ming people inside to make them restless, show them some color, and let them know how powerful the Qing soldiers are.

Seeing that the army's morale is available, Abatai is quite satisfied, he said in a slow tone: "Furthermore, we have stayed in various places in Huailai for several days, and there is no population or wealth in this place to hijack. We heard that Bao'an Prefecture is rich, and we just Go there for a walk."

In the strategic plan of entering the customs and clearing the soldiers, the two armies broke through the customs from the northwest and northeast respectively, and finally joined up in Yanqing Prefecture.

However, the Qing soldiers who entered the customs through Dushikou finally stopped in Yanqing Prefecture in front of Juyongguan.Another group of Qing troops entering the pass from Xifeng Pass failed to break through Changping and Juyong from the inside of Daming for a long time. The two armies could not join forces, so this group of Qing soldiers stayed near Yanqing Prefecture.

Seeing that he would have to stay for many more days, he took advantage of this opportunity to go to the Baoanzhou area to hijack him.That Baoanzhou is an important place to store grain in Xuanfu Town. In the seventh year of Chongzhen, the city of Baoanzhou was conquered by the Qing soldiers once, robbing a large number of people and wealth.After moving the troops there, they will surely gain a lot of money and meet that little defender of the Ming Dynasty.

Everyone in the tent became excited when they heard that they were going to grab something. Gushan Ezhenombu Chuhuer of Tumote Right Banner stroked his whiskers and said, "Rao Yubeile is really wise, this plan is really good. Kill two birds with one stone.”

Abatai has already made a decision, but he has some headaches about the arrangement of troops. The inlaid white flag is only the lower five banners of the Eight Banners Manchuria, and there are no more than 500 troops under his command, a total of [-] soldiers, [-] People's armored soldiers, this time they entered the customs, they have come with all their flags.

The two banners of Tumed Right Banner and Tumed Zuo Banner, the Outer Mongolians, each led 500 troops. The Mongols have five soldiers and one armor. The troops of their two banners have a total of no more than 600 armored soldiers. .

Najialazhang Jingyan Zha Nayijiala's army has been destroyed, and the whole army has no morale.It will be an extremely difficult problem in the future to replenish their Jiala lost population and soldiers.Every Niulu population in the Eight Banners is precious, even those auxiliary soldiers who do not wear armor.

As Raoyu Baylor, Abatai can't casually transfer the Niulu population from other places to Jiala. This is the right of the banner owner or even Huang Taiji. Besides, Abate is not the one with the white flag The banner owner does not have this power either.

This time when he entered the customs, Abatai led the inlaid white flag to loot a large number of people and property in Huailai and other places, and he also needed soldiers to guard him.After Abatai made some calculations, he finally decided that most of the troops under Najia Lazhang Jingyanzha stayed in Huailai to take care of the looted population and money, and only let him lead dozens of armored soldiers to go with him as a guide. with advisors.

There are also the two banners of Outer Mongolia, they also left 500 people in Huailaiwei each, and the rest followed him to Baoan Prefecture.

In this way, Abate had more than 3000 Qing soldiers on this trip, including more than 1000 armored soldiers.There are 2000 Mongolian soldiers, and there are more than [-] armored soldiers.

……

On July [-]th in the ninth year of Chongzhen.

It was just dawn, and the Qing soldiers outside the city had left their camps in groups. Seeing them leave, the Ming soldiers in Huailai City were all happy. Only Huailong soldier Dao Ji Shiwei looked at the large red and white clothes going away. Banner A, sighed deeply: "Oh, I don't know where the soldiers and civilians are going to suffer again, the misfortune of the country."

When the Qing army left, although there were thousands of Ming troops in the city, no one dared to leave the city to pursue them. They just watched them leave with the captured people and money.

Thousands of Qing soldiers and Mongolian soldiers left Huailai Acropolis and headed for Baoanzhou in mighty strength.

……

Huailai City is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with mountains in the northeast and flat land in the southwest. At this time, on the mountain to the north of Huailai City, there is a team of Shun Xiangbao Yebuyan lurking.

They were surprised to see the movement at the foot of the mountain, and saw the gathering of groups of Qing soldiers, and finally they merged into a group of thousands of people. They rode and rode together, and the stream of people just went northwest.Everyone was puzzled as to where these Tartar soldiers were going, and shouted all night: "Look, there are still many red-tasseled Tartars among them."

One night, he asked the leader, "Wen Tou, where do you think those Tartar soldiers are going?"

The leader, Yebushou, is tall and burly, with a beard and a red badge on his waist. It is Yebushou Wen Daxing. He has been following Najialazhangjing to Huailaiwei under Wang Dou's order. He has been spying for the past few days. The movement of most of the Qing soldiers.

At this time, he mused, "It's better to catch a stranger and come back and ask to find out."

As soon as he waved his hand, all the surrounding Yebushou gathered around him, one of them had two horses, the horses had bits on their mouths, and their hooves were wrapped in rags.Wen Daxing gave an order, and all nights sneaked down the mountain without making a sound.

……

At noon, in Huailaiwei, a mountain area a few miles away from the Yanghe River, there were bursts of screams coming from here, but it was Wen Daxing who was torturing a captured Qing soldier.

The Qing army marched along the river, and when they stopped to light a fire and cook food at noon, Wen Daxing led Yebushuai and attacked several Qing soldiers who came out to carry water and cook, killed and wounded a vest soldier, and finally captured an assistant. The soldier and the wounded soldier in vest quickly flashed into the mountains, making it impossible for the Qing soldiers who heard the sound to chase them down.

After fleeing into the mountains, Wen Daxing tortured the two Qing soldiers.

Wen Daxing once learned some simple Manchu language from Han Chao. He first tortured the Qing soldier, but unexpectedly he didn't know what to ask. Well, Wen Daxing had his own method. He tied him to a tree, grinning grinningly, and slowly picked out all his muscles and bones with a sharp knife.

The miserable cries of the vest soldier can be said to be utterly horrific, and the rest of Shun Xiangbao Yebushou looked on, all of them had pale faces.

These days, since Wen Daxing led the team out of the fort at night, they have attacked several Qing soldiers who were alone, and captured two of them alive. In the end, both of them were tortured to death by Wen Daxing. With great interest, he peeled off the scalp of one of them and made it into a work of art.

For his unique artistic hobby, Yebushou brothers in the same team are not flattered.

Under Wen Daxing's cruel torture, the vest soldier couldn't stand it, so he finally had to tell what he knew.Looking back, Wen Daxing's face was extremely ugly, and he said in a deep voice: "Things are not good, 5000 Tartar soldiers are heading towards Baoan Prefecture, and their target is probably our Shunxiang Fort."

His face changed color after all nights of non-acceptance, Wen Daxing shouted: "Go back to the castle and tell your lord the news."

All nights they got on their horses one after another, and the sound of hooves rolled, stirring up a cloud of dust.

When Wen Daxing rode his horse past the Qing soldier's vest tied to the tree, he swung his saber, blood rained all over the sky, and the head of the vest soldier flew into the sky!
(End of this chapter)