Han ride

Chapter 52 Red Cannon
"My lord, a spy has come to report that Songshan garrison general Shi Dayong led two thousand elite soldiers to rescue Dalinghe City." When Li Xin returned to the camp, Shi Yuanzhi walked in.

"Understood." Li Xin waved his hand and said, "Is there any news about Jinzhou recently? The 2000 troops are not enough to feed the slaves? If Jinzhou doesn't send a large team to come, I'm afraid Dalinghe City will not be able to support it. "

"Dalinghe City can't hold on anymore." Shi Yuanzhi lowered his head and sighed: "If I guess correctly, Dalinghe City is already killing horses to satisfy hunger at this time. As for Jinzhou City, hehe, I heard that Are Sun Chengzong and Qiu Hejia still arguing over whether to send troops?"

"Didn't you say that Qiu Hejia has agreed to send troops?" Li Xin asked curiously.

"Insufficient food roads." Shi Yuan shook his head and said, "Qiu Hejia discovered that there is insufficient food and grass in Jinzhou City, which is not enough to support the continuous operations of tens of thousands of troops. Hehe, it's funny to say, my lord, do you know why Jinzhou City is short of food and grass? "

"Jinzhou City is an important frontier area of ​​the imperial court. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack. According to reason, there should be plenty of food and grass there! How could there be such a shortage of food and grass?" Li Xin also asked curiously.

"Speaking of it, it's really interesting. That Zu Dashou was killed by his son this time." Shi Yuanzhi laughed loudly and said, "Because a large army is going to be sent to rescue Dalinghe City, Qiu Hejia must also make preparations." , Later, he went to the granary and found that the grain was nearly half gone. How could he sustain a big war? He personally interrogated some people who were in charge of the warehouse, only to find out that the grain in it was almost lost by Zu Zerun and The two brothers Zu Zehong were evacuated."

"Evacuated?" Li Xin was taken aback when he heard the words, and finally laughed, and said, "Now, it's all right. Liaodong has reached a situation where there are no soldiers and no food to use. I know, what kind of thoughts will I have. Tens of thousands of troops are gathered in Jinzhou, and they have no food. This kind of court is really interesting."

"What the lord said is very true, so Qiu Hejia has no choice but to write to Emperor Chongzhen to ask for help." Shi Yuanzhi nodded and said: "However, life in the court may not be easy. Recently, my subordinates I heard that there was a severe drought in the Central Plains, and there was a shortage of food. In order to support a Liaodong, most of the power of the imperial court has been exhausted. Now that this kind of thing has happened, I really don’t know if this war can continue. Dalinghe Is there any chance for the city to be saved? Although Zu Dashou is not very good, he is still a famous general, but in the end he ended up like this, it really makes people cry!"

"Zu Dashou is not a good thing either. His ancestral family is located outside the customs, with countless fields and so on. Under such circumstances, he still wants to covet the military rations of the court. No matter how capable such a general is, it is nothing more than that." " Li Xin shook his head and said: "To be honest, I still admire Shi Dayong very much. I know that the two thousand elite soldiers I led to Dalinghe City were just for death, but he came anyway, and They came here with great fanfare, but such generals are the generals under Sun Chengzong and Qiu Hejia, I really don’t know what to say.”

"My lord is going to save him?" Shi Yuanzhi asked nervously.

"So what if such a foolish and loyal person is saved?" Li Xin said without thinking, "I am not a good person, so after such a foolish and loyal person is saved, he will not be grateful to us. However, I I am very interested in his soldiers, and there is another thing, that is who Jian Nu will send to deal with him."

"That's naturally Hauge." Shi Yuanzhi said without thinking: "Huang Taiji will not take him seriously in a team of 2000 people, and let his son go. On the one hand, he wiped out the reinforcements, and on the other hand On the one hand, he also let his son make meritorious service, which is the best of both worlds, and Huang Taiji will not stop doing things like this."

"Maybe it's not this person." Li Xin thought for a while and said, "You know, in Jiannu, this kind of eldest son inheritance system has not been established yet, and some of them are unwilling to increase the prestige of Hauge out of thin air."

"My lord, a group of men and horses galloped out of the Jiannu camp, heading towards Jinzhou." At this time, a spies reported: "This group of men and horses are dressed in white armor, and the leader is Jiannu Fourteenth Belle Dole. Dagon."

"Look, it really wasn't Hauge, but Dorgon." Li Xin said with a smile: "I'm afraid this time, we will face Dorgon again."

"Then do you know where Hauge is?" Shi Yuanzhi asked nervously.

"Hao Ge led [-] Zhenglan Banner cavalry out of the back camp, heading north, followed by generals Aobai, Sony and others." The spy didn't dare to neglect to report quickly.

"Going to the north, what exactly does he want to do?" Shi Yuanzhi asked curiously.

"Haoge is going to deal with me." Li Xin laughed and said, "Now it seems that Dorgon must have used some trick to let Haoge take the initiative to go to the north to find me, and he is going to use my head to increase his strength." Prestige, so let Dorgon take advantage of it and deal with Shi Dayong and the others."

"Who makes the lord feel difficult to deal with? If Hauge wanted to improve his prestige, he naturally wanted to make an idea from the lord." Yang Xiong also came up and said with a smile: "I think Dorgon is The one who was defeated by the lord, if Hauge took the opportunity to defeat the lord, and even captured the lord, wouldn't Hauge's prestige surpass Dorgon? This Hauge has a good plan."

"Hmph, one day Hauge's head will be chopped off." Gao Meng said viciously from the side.But it caused everyone to burst into laughter.

"By the way. Have all the brothers rested?" Li Xin asked Yang Xiong.

"I walked with the lord this morning, but I didn't make any effort. I just lit a fire. I don't need to rest." Yang Xiong said proudly.

"Well, this time we are going to meet Dorgon for a while. This time Dorgon is not as easy to deal with as the previous few times." Li Xin said with a serious face, "This Dorgon has been defeated by Huang Taiji all these years." The suppression is very strong, he has little control over the affairs of the court, so he concentrates on training his troops, his strength of the Zhengbai Banner is not inferior to that of the Zhenghuang Banner, and it is better to be careful when dealing with Dorgon."

"Don't worry, my lord. Although Dorgon and his Zhengbai Qi are powerful, they are not as good as the lord in one thing, that is, he doesn't know where the lord is. He is in the light, but the lord is in the dark. As long as the lord can kill him." If he is caught off guard, Dorgon will surely be defeated." Shi Yuanzhi said without thinking.

"Okay, with your good words, now I'm going to meet this Dorgon for a while, and see what kind of abilities this guy has, and he can escape." Li Xin laughed loudly, and took Fang Tian's painting halberd , flew on his horse, Gao Meng, Yang Xiong, Jutu and others followed closely behind him, and the five hundred cavalrymen came out of the canyon in a single step.

"Mr. Shi, what do you think my lord wants to do these days?" After Li Xin left, Jiang Yi on the side came over. As long as Li Xin was outside, he would sit in the camp and train soldiers. He paused and asked: "If my lord wants to fight for world hegemony, I can go back to the Central Plains at this time. With our strength, it is very simple to recruit troops in the Central Plains. Why do we need to be here?"

"Back to the Central Plains?" Shi Yuanzhi was taken aback when he heard the words, and finally stroked his beard and said: "General Jiang, it would be good for my lord to return to the Central Plains, because the Central Plains has been in chaos recently and refugees are everywhere. If the lord wants to recruit soldiers and horses, it is very simple. With money and food, are you afraid of insufficient soldiers? But does the general know what the current situation in the world is like?"

"Wars are raging everywhere, and the Great Ming Dynasty is in turmoil." Jiang Yi said without thinking, "That's why I followed behind the Lord."

"Then who do you think can take over the world?" Shi Yuanzhi asked again: "Is it Da Ming who brought order out of chaos, or one of the rebels finally took over the world, or is it someone else?"

"Who can know about the major events in this world?" Jiang Yi thought for a moment, and finally shook his head. It's really hard for him to say such things.

"But my lord has guessed it." Shi Yuanzhi also frowned and said, "I have thought about this question these days, it seems that my lord attaches great importance to Jiannu. , and the imperial court are all dismissive, but they are very wary of Jiannu in their words. So I think the reason why the lord is staying in Liaodong to accumulate strength at the moment is probably because the Central Plains at the moment, the rebel army is in a crisis In the low valley, the lord has no righteousness and no absolute strength to deal with the court, so returning to the Central Plains at this moment is at a disadvantage. On the one hand, staying in Liaodong is to accumulate strength, and it is also to weaken the power of Jiannu , There are few slaves, and if one dies, one will die. This time, the Lord burned nearly a thousand people to death, which is probably enough to make Huang Taiji feel sorry for a while."

"According to my lord's speculation, does my lord think that Jiannu can win the world?" Jiang Yi obviously didn't believe that Jiannu had the power to win the world. He thought it was true. The population of Jiannu is only a few hundred thousand. Even if all the people are soldiers, it is nothing more than There are tens of thousands of people, but how many people are there in the Central Plains?In Jiang Yi's view, this Jiannu may be able to rule the roost for a while, but it is absolutely impossible to have the strength to aspire to the world. After the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people in the Central Plains were very disgusted with other ethnic groups, and let the foreign races override the Han people. Even if the Ming Dynasty finally If it is destroyed, I am afraid it will not be Jiannu's turn to sit in charge of the world.

"Whether it is true or not, you and I don't know, but no one knows who will rule the world in the end." Shi Yuanzhi said with a smile: "Maybe it wasn't the rebel army in the Central Plains, or the Emperor Chongzhen to set things right. , let alone these slaves, but the lord?"

"That would be the best of course. Maybe I, Jiang Yi, can get a founding hero." Jiang Yi laughed out loud.

A small mountain, in the distance is the official road from Jinzhou to Daling River, but at the moment the official road is full of potholes, there is no place to stand, several circular ditches appear on the official road, Small islands are formed one after another. On the small islands, there are dozens of cannons mounted on them, all covered in red. They are famous red cannons in the late Ming Dynasty.There are many black shells visible to the naked eye on the ground.

"It's the red-clothed cannon!" Yang Xiong said with some surprise: "Jiannu really paid for it. Putting so many red-clothed cannons here blocked the official road."

"There are still so many people, hehe, it's really interesting. Does it have to be so big to deal with 2000 soldiers?" Jutu said dissatisfied.

"These people are just guarding the cannons." Li Xin shook his head and said, "Dorgon would not use this method to deal with the reinforcements. Dorgon is not so stupid as to use cannons to win. He wants to Would such a proud and arrogant person use cannons to obtain military exploits? All Jian Nu will laugh at him."

"Hey, if it were me, I would do it." Yang Xiong rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "As long as we can win, it doesn't matter what means are used?"

"So you can only be a general, but the other party is someone who wants to be an emperor." Li Xin touched Wuyun Taxue, who shook his head, seemed to be very comfortable, and sneezed.

"Isn't Emperor Jiannu Huang Taiji? After his death, the position of emperor will also be handed over to his son. How could it be Dorgon's turn?" Yang Xiong said incredulously.

"Jiannu has just established a country, and the system is not strict, similar to that of barbarians. After the death of the elder brother, the younger brother can also ascend the throne. What's more, the throne itself belongs to Dorgon, but was snatched away by Huang Taiji." Li Xin pointed out Looking into the distance, he said: "Look, Dorgon has come."

Everyone looked around, and they saw a group of white soldiers and horses in the distance quickly disappearing into the army. This is Dorgon's Zhengbai Banner, and it has also rushed to the battlefield at this moment.

"Could it be that Dorgon is really planning to use cavalry to attack the imperial reinforcements?" Gao Meng said in surprise.

"Otherwise, how can he show his prestige!" Li Xin said disdainfully.In his opinion, it is important to show the prestige, but more important is the lives of the soldiers. These red-clothed cannons are placed there, so it is better to use red-clothed cannons to deal with these reinforcements.Although the cannon in red at this time was not as powerful as the cannon in later generations, it was still extraordinary enough.

"Yes! These cannons, if they can be fired at any time, the scene, tsk tsk." Yang Xiong's eyes showed a trace of longing, not to mention him, the same is true for others who saw it.

"This red-clothed cannon is powerful, but it also has shortcomings." Li Xin thought for a while and said, "It takes a long time to reload. The attack range of the gun is reduced, and the impact will be the lowest, and even one shot will not kill a person." The cannons at this time are not as powerful as the cannons of later generations.As long as the avoidance is proper, the danger can be reduced to the extreme.

"My lord, what should we do now?" Jutu asked nervously.

(End of this chapter)