The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 402

When these people reached the top of the mountain, they immediately threw away their big shields, but they were covered in blue cotton armor, which was the elite Han army under Ma Degong with the yellow flag inlaid.

These people are far superior to Fang Guoan's troops in terms of military quality and equipment level. In addition, if they are prepared and unprepared, Qingshanling immediately presents a one-sided situation.The captive soldiers were like wolves entering a flock of sheep, killing until the blood shone in the sun and screamed in Yingshan, and the corpses of Zhejiang soldiers kept falling from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain.

Although there were more than 300 military guards beside Fang Guoan, the ridge was very narrow. These people could only line up in a narrow column, but they couldn't protect him in the middle.In just a moment, several single knives passed by Fang Guoan's side, and he was so frightened that he quickly turned over and got under the horse's belly.

However, the surrounding Qing army seemed to have discovered that there were "southern officers" here, and they kept rushing towards this side, seeing that there were fewer and fewer guards around Duke Yue.

Just when they were in danger, they heard bursts of gunshots on the east side, and the Jianlu soldiers were immediately attracted by the movement.

However, there was a group of Ming troops gathered in formation on the narrow mountain road, with hundreds of sword and shield players sandwiching the musketeers in the middle, and the leading general was flying with sabers in his hands. Although there were only three or four men standing side by side, they were It will be difficult for the captive soldiers to get close for a while.

As soon as the gunners in the battle were ready, the sword and shield players standing on both sides bowed their heads tacitly, and then there was a roar of gunfire.

Jianlu's ambush suddenly rushed up to the top of the mountain. At this time, the two armies were close at hand, and even the three thousand blunderbuss of the Ming army could barely penetrate Jianlu's armor.Immediately, dozens of Qing troops rolled down the mountain, howling, and the pressure on the melee soldiers on both sides eased immediately, and the entire battle formation immediately moved forward more than ten steps, squeezing the space for the captive soldiers.

After advancing several times in this way, the battle formation has joined Fang Guoan's guards, and the leading general hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Where is the general?"

Only then was Fang Guoan dragged out from under the horse's belly by the guards. He looked up and saw that Zhang Huangyan had brought five or six hundred people, and immediately turned his head to find a place to hide.

Zhang Huangyan quickly pulled him back, "The general is the commander-in-chief of the army, he is just directing the soldiers to fight, how can he only care about his own safety?"

However, Fang Guoan said as if mourning his concubine: "What is the battle, [-] Jian captives surround the mountain, the general situation is over..."

"Chenshi Chang'an still has people coming to report that they saw tens of thousands of Jianlu troops, which shows that their main force is still sixty miles away." Zhang Huangyan pointed around and said, "This must be a small group of bandits. As long as the general is stable, If the Chinese army is stable, there may be no way for us to be condescending!"

"Hey, it's likely that someone in the locality is cooperating with captives and deceiving me with false news." Fang Guoan said that he had already begun to take off his armor, and then motioned to the guards on the side to give him his clothes. The thief will also tie me up and offer him a prisoner..."

Zhang Huangyan stomped his feet anxiously, "My lord, I have reported the movement of the bandit army in several places before, and one of them took captives, and the rest should be true."

Fang Guoan ignored him at all, and only cared about messing around with the crowd.Zhang Huangyan had no choice but to step on the stirrups and stand on the horse, raising his arms and shouting, "Listen everyone, each department forms a formation, first stand firm, and then move closer to each other, don't panic..."

Before he finished speaking, several arrows were shot, and the surrounding Ming army was not under his control at all, except for his own troops, the rest were ignored at all.

Zhang Huangyan had no choice but to gather his subordinates and stick to the spot, but there were 1000 Banner soldiers and [-] other elites around him, and the [-] people he had gathered were about to be overwhelmed.

At the side, a general covered in blood shouted to him: "Sir, this inch of land above the mountain is not suitable for forming an formation. In addition to the fact that the bandit army is so large, we must try to break through!"

Zhang Huangyan saw that most of the Ming army except himself had been defeated, he sighed helplessly and nodded, "We must break through."

The generals under his command immediately responded with "obey the order" and called for the men to rush to the mountain road on the east side, but Zhang Huangyan stopped him, "most of the post roads are our own people, and they will be squeezed out if they rush over like this down the mountain."

The officer raised his eyes and saw that many people in the Ming army turned their heads and fled in a panic, but made the comrades behind who couldn't dodge in time roll down the hillside.He said anxiously: "Then, what should we do?"

Zhang Huangyan glanced at the scattered captives on the mountainside, squinted his eyes, "The enemy can come up from the mountain, and we can go down here!" Then he ordered, "Send the order, with sword and shield in front, to break out of the mountain. Every line Twenty steps to regroup the battle formation, then engage the enemy, and then advance another twenty steps until we reach the bottom of the mountain!"

"Yes!"

Afterwards, Zhang Huangyan's troops forcibly captured an open space beside the ridge, and quickly formed an formation. The thousand, two, and 300 men attacked down the mountain.

Unsteady footsteps when descending the mountain will most easily lead to formation confusion, but Zhang Huangyan ordered the soldiers to form a whole team every [-] steps. Although they seem to be walking slowly, they can always maintain the formation.

Ma Degong saw the Ming army breaking out from the middle of the team from a distance on the west side of the mountain, and urgently sent people to stop it, but the Ming army marched and retreated very methodically, and the battle formation went steadily down the mountain to the north.

He only had 8000 men in his hand, but he wanted to eat [-] Ming troops, so it was difficult to spare more men to deal with Zhang Huangyan. In the end, seeing that the number of people who broke through was not too many, he had to let him go.

It was not until Shen Shi that the Qingshan Mountains gradually calmed down.Thanks to the successful escape of Zhang Huangyan's troops, it was a wake-up call to the other Ming soldiers. Many people followed suit and ran down the hillside.But even so, 4000 people from the Fang Guoan Ministry were killed and more than 8000 were captured.

Tian Xiong, dressed as a woodcutter, hurried to the west of Qingshanling, saluted Ma Degong happily, and said flatteringly: "My lord, this plan is brilliant. First go west with the underdogs of the green camp, so that the enemy will not be able to distinguish our main force." Where, again, ambushing the Southern Army in this seemingly impossible place to set up an ambush, Fang defeated the enemy in one battle.

"Just now, my subordinates made a rough calculation. Fang Guoan brought a total of eight or nine thousand shi of food and grass, enough to feed my army for more than two months. In this way, my urgent need to run out of food will be relieved."

Ma Degong turned his head to look west, and snorted triumphantly, "Fang Guoan really took the bait, and he was an impatient fish. I put the bait in half, and he rushed to bite it."

It turned out that Ma Degong actually used the nearly [-] green battalion soldiers under his command as bait, and ordered them to attack Tonglu quickly. They were only given five taels of rations per day, and the rest of the food and grass were all reserved for the elite bannermen of the Han army and the selected [-] elite soldiers. green camp.

These [-] elites were all in ambush at the bottom of the green mountains, and they had enough food and rice for more than half a month, so they were extremely patient.

The Qing army used as bait was hungry every day, and the officers deliberately sent them to death, resulting in tens of thousands of casualties along the way, which made the Zhejiang army think that the Qing army was vulnerable.

This is Ma Degong's poisonous plan to show the enemy his weakness and lure Fang Guoan "out of the hole".

He twirled his beard and meditated for a moment, then said to Tian Xiong: "Decree, the people who are going to Tonglu will return immediately, since they have food and grass, they don't have to go to die."

(End of this chapter)