Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 498 The Redemption of the Daming Traitor
Songshan City, which has been silent for many days, also showed a bit of excitement during the rare Chinese New Year season, but this excitement seemed to be murderous.

In the end, more than a thousand horses were all killed. God knows why those generals had a sudden kindness and evenly divided the horse meat. Even the big soldiers below could get a few taels of meat every day. After recovering a bit of vitality, the generals once again took control of the military.

Tonight, the final dinner is also rolled out. In the marching cauldron, horse meat, horse intestines, and offal are gurgling, and under the pot, the horse bones, the big drums in the city, and the girders are also crackling. The Ming army, who was short of clothes and cloth, leaned on the side of the pot, while warming his cold body by roasting the fire, he tried his best to gnaw on the horse meat and eat the offal.

The last bit of salt and food were taken out and put in the pot. For more than four months, they even ate human flesh, rats, and sparrow tree roots. Many soldiers felt that they had never eaten such delicious food in their entire lives. The broth is gone, but there is no permanent banquet in the world, and a proper meal finally came to an end.

Almost the last sip of the soup was consumed, and he sat down and rubbed his rolling belly in satisfaction for a while, when Cao Bianjiao, the general soldier of Lintao, suddenly jumped up, kicked over the marching cauldron, and immediately slashed the big knife in his hand After chopping it, there was a bang, and a big hole was smashed out of the heavy black pot.

"Brothers, this last meal is over, if we continue to be sleepy, everyone will starve to death! Jianu has no way to survive, this time, I will take the big guys out of the city and fight to the death with Jianu!"

"As long as you rush out of Songshan City, you will go south to Ningyuan. As long as you can escape to Ningyuan, brothers can go home! For Daming, for going home, brothers, come out of the city with Ben!"

On the city wall, the lights suddenly brightened, and the gate of the city, which had been imprisoned for more than four months, burst open. The word "go home" lingered in the minds of the trapped Ming soldiers like a spell. In an instant, the soldiers rushed out like a flood.

"Kill the Tartars!"

"Fight with Jianu!"

Even if they break through, the Ming army has never been in such a posture. The rows of firecrackers in front of them exploded like roasted beans, and immediately the Ming army huddled together roared, twisting and rushing into the Qing army's camp at the foot of the mountain. At one time, there was no distinction between musketeers, pikemen, and swordsmen. Everyone rushed forward with everything they could carry. The horrified Jiannu shot arrows all over the sky. Hundreds of people lacking armor The Ming army was nailed to death in front of the formation, but the Ming army, which should have collapsed, turned a blind eye to the casualties this time, stepping on the corpses of their comrades, and ran out like wild beasts.

Before the Jiannu in the trench dropped their bows and arrows and pulled out their swords, the Ming army had rushed over. Some of them hugged their waists and smashed Jiannu against the wall, some smashed Jiannu's head with their swords, and even He dug Jian Nu's eyes directly with his fingers, and bit their throats with his teeth.

All the human flesh was eaten, so how much humanity is left? In this beast-like crazy attack, the hundreds of meters of the front line are full of people rolling and fighting together, and some people's intestines have been cut out, and they still want to pounce! Going up and strangling Jiannu's neck, with such a desperate style of play, even Jiannu was beaten into a daze. After less than 10 minutes of confrontation, Jiannu, the front line guarding the city of Songshan, collapsed, crying and shouting. escaped.

Despite paying the price of thousands of casualties, the Ming army that overwhelmed the enemy was still extremely excited. With the desire to escape, amidst the roars of their respective little leaders, the Ming army continued to head southeast like an irresistible flood. They ran away, but no one noticed that the generals and soldiers who had been bold and ambitious had disappeared at some point.

But even if they noticed, no one would care about it. The Ming army has already lost control, and just relying on a desire to go home, they gathered together and rushed outward.

The Ming army with the desire to go home did not know that they were destined to be abandoned. The Qing army camp at the foot of the mountain was no more than the first line, and there were countless wolf-like Eight Banners cavalry nearby. The four-legged, lack of heavy equipment, and helpless light infantry group, the ultimate fate is to be broken and wiped out one by one, and the cold corpses lie down in the snow, the only dead end.

The widest part of the long and narrow Liaoxi Corridor is only fifteen kilometers away, and Songshan Mountain is only a few kilometers away from the sea. Zhou Yuji's cavalry arrived in the southeast of the city in just ten minutes. It was half an hour earlier than the agreed time, and the direction was completely opposite. At this time, the shouts of killing were already far away, leaving only the dimly lit Songshan City.

"What the hell is I going to do?"

"Master seat, look!"

Just when Zhou Yuji was so angry that he scolded his mother, the sergeant next to him suddenly pointed at the top of the city and yelled. Looking sideways, a dozen torches were shaking on the earth cliff, and when he saw it excitedly, Zhou Yuji took the reins of the horse and ran over.

Dozens of ropes were hanging down from the earth cliff. Dozens of Ming soldiers had already stood guard there. Seeing the cavalry approaching, waving torches, a Ming general in Wen Shanjia rushed over excitedly.

"But the military master under the command of Marshal Song of the Huai Army?"

"That's right! Where is Governor Hong?"

Hearing Zhou Yuji's anxious answer, the general immediately shook the torch excitedly at the top of the earth cliff, and shouted loudly: "Master Hong, the last general Xia Chengde, the Huai army is here!"

Good guy, for a while it was like a silk-spinning worm on a willow tree in summer. Hundreds of ropes hung people down, wearing a supervisor's official uniform, and Hong Chengchou's black face was also among them. A rope was strangled like kimbap, grinning, this end had just come down, and before the rope could be thrown away, it was already yelling at Zhou Yuji in panic.

"General, let's go! Jiannu won't be able to hold Jiannu back for long if the army breaks through the encirclement. Once Jiannu comes back to his senses, we're all finished?"

"Where's the army of Songshan City?"

Seeing the scattered two or three hundred personal soldiers coming down one after another, and although there were still some people showing up behind them, but they were not too many, Zhou Yuji couldn't help but asked in amazement, and Xia Chengde answered casually while listening: "Those lowly servants have broken through to the south, please hurry up, military lord, we won't be able to escape once they're all dead!"

Zhou Yuji couldn't believe his ears, Wan Dajun!In order for these hundreds of people to flee for their lives, they were released as a bait, and used their lives to fight for a livelihood for these bastards. Zu Dashou surrendered and became a slave, although it is abhorrent, but he did not use the lives of his subordinates to protect himself in Dalinghe. , Zhou Yuji was also from the Liaodong Army. Even though he joined the beggar army for many years, he never forgot the Liaodong love. For a moment, he was so angry that he punched Hong Chengchou in the face with a fist, making this dignified court The second-rank officer just flew out.

"Bold!"

"How dare you be rude to the supervisor!"

The soldiers on both sides suddenly became furious, drew their swords and yelled at Zhou Yujihu, begging for a division of cavalry is not a vegetarian, seeing that his division commander was surrounded, a dozen or so immediately drew their sabers out of their sheaths and forced them over, they were already out of breath Seeing this scene, Hong Chengchou couldn't help being shocked, and immediately supported half of his swollen face, but showed an ugly smile.

"This general, the governor understands your feelings, but now you have to take care of the overall situation, don't you? As long as the governor survives, the revenge of the brothers will be avenged sooner or later!"

The words of taking care of the overall situation can be regarded as clearing Zhou Yuji's angry mind a little bit, but this simple man who charged into the battle didn't want to say anything more to them, so he just got on his horse, waved the military flag, and hurried to the seaside again. ran away.

Xia Chengde, the deputy general at the back, suddenly became anxious, and shouted anxiously from behind: "Hey! Give us some horses! Aren't you supposed to be the queen?"

"Stop shouting, let's hurry up!" His cheeks twitched again, and Hong Chengchou yelled gloomily, covering the corner of his swollen mouth.

Needless to say, a group of commander-in-chief and governors have really calculated well. No one expected that the Ming army launched such a large-scale breakout, and the commander-in-chief was actually not in the army. They mobilized and chased and killed Songshan's defeated soldiers in different ways. Five or six hundred soldiers ran from Songshan to the beach for a distance of five kilometers.
"Quick! Let's go!" Hong Chengchou, who was so frightened that he was out of his wits and out of breath, could not wait to use his hands and feet. He staggered and added more strength. Behind him, Cao Bianjiao gritted his teeth and let out an angry roar. Holding his spear high, he shouted and ordered his soldiers to line up to resist. After all, he couldn't see it. Zhou Yuji behind him turned his horse's head helplessly, and the cavalry of Qiyi Division also circled vigorously and charged in two directions. The Jiannu who came showed his saber.

The ping-pong-pong short-fire guns, the officer's revolver exploded like beans, and the saber was held high. The equally proud beggar cavalry bravely rushed into the Jiannu cavalry. It was dark in the middle of the night, and the two cavalry staggered. In an instant amidst the neighing, an unknown number of people rolled off their horses, and it was too late to control Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji. The remaining Songshan Army surrounded Hong Chengchou and continued to flee to the sea, but before they could escape the ridge in front, a dense wall of people The wall was in front of him again, and Hong Chengchou broke out in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, the human wall quickly ran up the field ridge, facing the moonlight, a neat row of bayonets exuded an astonishing cold light, facing the cavalry who were fighting back and forth, it stood down, right next to Hong Chengchou and others. Above the head, a row of bullets roared, and just after turning around, the slave cavalry who were about to fight again fell down more than half of them at once.

It turned out that it was Song Qingshu who heard the sound of fighting at the front, and was really worried, so he led the army to meet him.

Seeing Song Qingshu who hadn't seen him for several years, Hong Chengchou was so excited that he burst into tears for a moment, even disregarding his status as a supervisor, he went up and punched Song Qingshu hard.

"Song Zongbing, Hong is here!"

But for this guy who killed Hongniang Xing and almost destroyed the entire beggar army, Song Qingshu just gave a cold grunt, and immediately turned his attention to the battlefield under the field ridge.

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The extremely bloody night passed in a thrilling way. The original plan was to cover the retreat of the defeated Wansongshan army to the sea, but this time the main combat objective was achieved. Hong Chengchou came up, but the legion did not receive it. Zhou Yuji went back to the sandbag formation, listening After his report, there was silence for a while, Song Qingshu still ordered the begging army to station on the beach.

In the middle of the night, panicked and dispersed Ming troops continued to rush towards this direction, and Jiannu continued to join in. Until dawn, the Qihuo army received about 300 more defeated soldiers.

Out of the 13 troops, apart from Wu Sangui, Tang Tong and the others fled back with 2 people, leaving Hong Chengchou with less than 800 personal survivors.

On the beach, the Jiannu Eight Banners cavalrymen who shouted profusely sweating long live began to charge towards the Qihuo army's position in the twilight of dawn. The sand boat started to retreat towards the sea, the signal bomb was sent into the sky, and the Yingtian warship anchored in the sea one mile away also started shelling, the spectacular shells whizzed past overhead, and immediately smashed hard on the beach , The Eight Banners people who were in the charge were thrown off their feet.

But standing at the stern of the sand boat and looking at the beach, looking at the beach washed by the waves, Song Qingshu didn't feel the joy of achieving the plan, on the contrary, he felt a burst of sadness.

"Farewell, Liaodong!"

Except for the small stronghold left behind by the Jinzhou begging army, there is no longer an inch of land in the Ming Dynasty in the entire fertile land of Liaodong!

(End of this chapter)