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

Chapter 289 Yuetuo, it's time for you to die!
Luo Luohong fled back to the camp with his cavalry in embarrassment. Not to mention the results of no harassment, he also lost more than 100 cavalry, and he was dejected.Yue Tuo had expected this result, he didn't blame his son, he just ordered the banner to step up the defense of the camp.

Not long after Luo Luohong came back, groups of Ming army cavalry roared to follow. They ran around the Zhenghongqi camp, brazenly brandishing swords, guns, bows and arrows, laughing loudly at the camp, and wantonly giving pointers.

This world is really turned upside down, all the generals of the Zhenghong Banner have extremely ugly faces, how could they Qing soldiers have suffered such humiliation?A Niu Luzhang Jing was so angry that he asked Yuetuo to fight, hoping to bring some warriors out to frustrate the spirit of the Ming army, but Yuetuo severely stopped him.

There were more and more Ming army cavalrymen coming in waves. They ranged from dozens to hundreds of people per unit. Finally, the ground shook violently, and horseshoes rattled in the sky and earth. A sea of ​​red flags appeared to the west of the camp. It's dark cavalry.They raised a large cloud of smoke and dust, and those knights were looming in the smoke and dust.

They let their horses gallop forward, it seemed that the outside of the stronghold was full of their banner knights, the Ming army was so powerful that Yue Tuo and others in the camp were all dismayed.

Yue Tuo was wearing his gilt armor, and he endured the pain to stand on the wall of the village.Seeing the flood of Ming troops coming, his heart was heavy. Today is different from the past. The Ming army is powerful. Will he be able to escape the disaster this time when he is fighting the red flag in Manchuria?
Slowly the sound of hooves stopped, the smoke and dust cleared, and not far in front of the Qing army camp in Hongqi, there appeared a dense cavalry of the Ming army, and I don't know how many people lined up in front, back, left, and right.They have different flags, most of them wear iron helmets and red armor, riding their horses in the cold wind, they are full of arrogance, and they seem to disdain the Qing soldiers in the camp.

30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, Feng Shui turns around.

Judging by their expressions, all the Zhenghongqi Qing troops in the camp were gnashing their teeth.

Yue Tuo calculated silently in his mind, the Xuan Daming army alone here has thousands of people, right?He looked into the distance again, and on the horizon in the distance, there was a vast sea of ​​flags. A huge phalanx was approaching neatly, and they were approaching like a moving castle. can hear.

The phalanx came in a crowd, the familiar battle formation and momentum made Yue Tuo's face twitch: "Wang Dou..."

With the sound of "Wan Sheng", Xuan's army converged on foot and cavalry, and several large flags were raised high. The banner with the character of Wang, the banner with the character of Yang, the banner with the character of tiger, the banner with the character of Xu, and the banner with the character of Lu in the middle Extra eye-catching.All the soldiers raised their weapons and cheered to the banner. Amidst the cheers, Wang Dou, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei and others came to the front of the army formation.

Hundreds of cavalry rushed out of the army and roared towards the camp. Behind many people and horses, some half-dead sentry cavalry of the Qing army were dragged behind.Among them are several Ba Ya La soldiers who are facing the red flag.The cavalry rode their horses and galloped wildly, and some Qing soldiers who were dragged behind their horses by ropes cried loudly, and the Qing soldiers in the camp were ashen-faced, all of them were shocked and angry.

They shot a wave of arrows, the cavalry galloped around the camp, and rushed towards the gate of the camp. The leading burly man was Wen Daxing, the leader of the Shun Township Army.He rushed within a hundred steps of the gate of the village, shouted violently, and let go of his carbine. The long spear flew straight out, stabbing a Qing soldier on the wall of the village.

There was a moment of silence above and below the village, and then the Xuanda army cheered like a tide, and the overwhelming "Wan Sheng" sounded again.

On the village, arrows were shot desperately, Wen Daxing pulled out his waist knife, easily picked up a few sharp arrows that were shot, and rode his horse to quickly run a hundred paces away from the village wall.

He rushed to the front of his army formation to meet the cheers of the whole army.He galloped for a while, reined in his horse sharply, pointed his long knife forward, and yelled at the wall in Manchu: "Yue Tuo, wait until the day of your death arrives. Today next year will be the day of your death!"

Ming Jun burst out laughing, Wang Dou and Yang Guozhu looked at each other and smiled.

Only Yue Tuo and others on the wall of the village had extremely ugly faces.

……

"Did you hear that?"

In the south of the Qing army camp in Zhenghongqi, some exiles gathered together. Many people came out of their dilapidated shacks and listened carefully in the direction of shouting "Wan Sheng".Although the voice is faint, it can be heard clearly.It’s because Daming’s Chinese is good, and there are no tens of thousands of people shouting at the same time, so they can’t make such a huge whistling sound.

"It's officers and soldiers."

"Has Master Wang come?"

"We are saved..."

"The guard Tartar and the second Tartar seem to have disappeared."

"Just now I felt the ground shaking, it was the horseshoes of the cavalry."

Countless people got excited and looked at each other and wept.

……

"The officers and soldiers are good. I don't know which military master is a hero who dares to take the initiative to attack the Tartars in Zhuozhou?"

Zhongdaitun, the gathering point for the captives, was the closest to the Qing army camp in Gaocunbao, no more than three miles away.Looking towards the trench, in the wilderness to the west of the Liuli River, there are countless Ming troops densely covered. They are neatly arrayed, with cavalry and infantry intertwined, and the soldiers are in strict order.

Looking from the gathering point, you can see a large number of Daming cavalry roaring around the Tazi camp. In the past, they were fierce and fierce.This never-before-seen scene made the people in the circle excited and wept.

Countless people flocked to the trench to watch, they wept for each other, and finally they were saved.

Wu Daben said: "Your Excellency is right, I will wait for the time to escape."

He couldn't help but shed tears.

The man beside him remained motionless, quietly watching the Ming army formation.

A few Ming troops came to the gathering point, and they galloped quickly, with strong bows and long knives on their waists, huge lacquered quiveres on their backs, and red cotton cloaks dancing in the wind showing fine breastplate iron leaves , the equipment is outstanding.

They all had three horses, and the leader of the Ming army was extremely thick, wearing an eight-petal cap and iron pointed helmet, and they rushed to the trench.The leader of the Ming army glanced at the people on the other side of the trench, and immediately shouted loudly: "A certain officer Jie Yifeng, who is still in the Shun Township Army in Xuanfu Town, Ming Dynasty, is not accepting at night, and is here to rescue you and others on the order of the general."

"Master Wang has arrived, and Qiu has done nothing wrong, so the people don't need to panic."

"The general has an order, you don't move around. In the evening, Master Wang will bring food and rice for relief..."

……

Two hundred paces away, the dense formation of cavalry from the Xuanda Army was just outside the Red Flag Camp, and on the outside of the formation, there were roaring sentry cavalry from the Ming Army for miles around.With a few large banners, Wang Dou, Yang Guozhu and others stared intently at the camp.

The Qing army camp on the west bank of the Liuli River was quite thick, with a civilian fort as the center, surrounded by dense tents, and surrounded by a thick earthen wall on all sides of the camp.The wall of the village is mostly made of wood, which is no different from the normal camping layout in the Central Plains. The surrounding wooden walls have two rows of tree trunks, with the closely arranged long trunks on the outside and short trunks on the inside.Two rows of tree trunks are supported by wooden boards, with upper and lower floors, which is convenient for soldiers to patrol and defend.

There are many tall watchtowers inside the wall of the village, as if learning from Xuan Dajun's deployment in Julu, Yuetuo's Zhenghongqi Qing soldiers rushed out many trenches today.In addition to digging a deep trench on all four sides of the wall, several trenches were also dug along the front of the camp a hundred steps away. There were many passage gaps between the trenches, each ten or dozens of paces wide.In front of some trenches, some low walls were also built.

It seemed that the time was in a hurry, and their layout was not perfect, the trenches were not many and deep, and the low walls were also not many.

However, this spirit of active learning and flexible use still made Wang Dou laugh.

Seeing the Qing soldiers on the wall of the stronghold looking tense as if they were approaching a formidable enemy, Guo Yingxian, a general of the Chinese army behind Yang Guozhu, called out: "Old Wang, we let the Tartars learn all the defensive moves we used in Julu."

Wang Dou smiled and shook his head: "Painting a tiger is not an anti-dog. Our army has a lot of artillery, firecrackers and chariots. Their bows and arrows are only a few dozen steps away, so they can't stop our army's firepower."

A cold light flashed in his eyes: "I am not as good as me in field battles, and even worse in defending the city. The slaves and thieves have poor skills, and their camps are difficult to defend."

Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei looked at each other and laughed, the two were full of spirits, and the way the Qing soldiers shrank from the battle made them feel good, they never thought that they would have this day.

Everyone laughed for a while, Yang Guozhu said in a deep voice: "Our army will set up camp first, search the surrounding suburbs, and wipe out all the thieves around Dongnu first."

……

Xuan Dajun set up camp a few miles west of the camps of the Qing army and Zhongdai Tun where the exiled people gathered. There used to be a civilian fort named Liuheying here.To the west of the fort, there are several rivers and canals. Although they are all frozen, it is no problem for the army to break the ice to get water.

The small fort of Liuheying was quite dilapidated, and there was no one in it. Presumably, the people either escaped or were kidnapped, and they were trapped in several gathering points in the wilderness.When Wang Dou, Yang Guozhu and others entered the fort, they were all stunned. There were mountains of food, rice and wealth piled up inside, as if this was one of the places where the Qing army captured materials.

It is conceivable that the fortress villages within a radius of more than ten miles were all piled up and disposed of by the Qing soldiers.It turned out that there should be some Zhenghongqi guards inside, but now they all escaped and retreated to the camp.

It doesn't matter if they run away, the food and supplies piled up inside are enough for the whole army to eat and drink freely.Xuan Dajun originally accompanied the army with more than a thousand chariots and horses, carrying food, supplies, gunpowder and other supplies. Now it seems that these food and grass accompanying the army are no longer available.

Seeing the mountains of food and supplies inside, Guo Yingxian couldn't hold his breath, his eyes lit up, and he shouted, "These Tartars are too stupid, they don't even know how to burn these food and wealth when they run away, it's so cheap I wait."

Yang Guozhu looked away with difficulty, shook his head and said: "They are not stupid, they still have the intention of defeating my army. As long as our army is defeated, all the food, grass and wealth will be returned to them. If they burn it, nothing will be left. "

Hu Dawei and Wang Dou next to him both nodded, and Wang Dou said cautiously: "Junmen, I will restrain my subordinates and let them not be greedy for money. All money and silver will be taken in two, and we will talk about it after the red flag slave army is completely wiped out."

Looking at the bags of rice and silver boxes everywhere in the fort, Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei were equally excited. At this moment, they woke up after hearing Wang Dou's words.

Yang Guozhu nodded and said: "Indeed, the sergeant is greedy for money and has no will to fight. If I wait to carry the money and leave, it will be unimaginable for the slaves to fight back. The sergeant was strictly prohibited from entering the villages of Baozi, and they camped outside the fort. Everywhere was taken into captivity. The common people are also strictly ordered not to move around, and after our army wins, we will rescue them and leave..."

(End of this chapter)