1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 701 Red Snow ([-])

February 2, evening, unitary time.

Zheng Jun (Zheng Sen) Gan Hui, the general of Lingao Town, suddenly felt something in his heart, his expression turned serious, and he looked sideways at the mountains and forests on the north side, observing with bated breath.

Gan Hui, a servant in Dongyuan Village, Haicheng County (now Longhai District, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province).His parents died early, his family was impoverished, he was a man of righteousness and a chivalrous man, and he liked to fight against injustices. Therefore, he was persecuted by the village head and wandered in Zhangzhou, Shima, Haicheng and other places, not daring to live in the village for a long time.

In June 1651, Zheng Sen launched a mutiny on Nan'ao Island, controlled more than 6 land and water troops of Zheng's army going south, and vowed to fight against the Qing Dynasty on the island.After Gan Hui heard about it, he joined Zheng Jun's tent. For several years, he was famous for his bravery and skill in fighting. Senyi is a confidant.

Yesterday, Gan Hui led his troops to Dandong in more than [-] large and small ships, accompanied by Chen Hui, the chief general of Zheng Jun's land division.After the landing, more than [-] people from Chen Hui's troops and the Anping Battalion were placed on the north side of the camp by Li Fade, commander of the coalition forces, to guard against the threat of the Qing army sneaking across the river to threaten the flank of the camp.

Before noon today, when the Qing army was attacking from the front, Li Fade, the commander of the coalition army, did not send the two of them to the front of the formation.After Gan Hui took the order, he personally brought more than [-] archers to the edge of the mountain forest, and threw a lot of fire starters such as sulfur, saltpeter, and whale oil in the forest in advance, preparing to have a barbecue feast for the incoming Qing army .

"My lord, is the Qing prisoner here?" A chief executive also stretched his head to look deep into the forest.

"I can't tell." Gan Hui's eyes were full of light, "Go and find out with two people."

"Yes, my lord!" The boss Qian turned his head and nodded to the two of them, and ordered them to enter the forest to check.

A quarter of an hour passed, and there was no movement in the forest, and the two investigating soldiers did not return.

"My lord, do you need to send someone in to investigate?"

"..." Gan Hui stared at the depths of the forest, as if he found a ferocious beast in it, his body was tense, and his right hand was tightly holding the handle of the knife.

"Rocket launch!"

"grown ups……"

"...They are dead." Gan Hui turned his head and stared at Mr. Qian, "Fire the rocket immediately!"

"Hoo! Shoo! Shoo!..." More than three hundred officers and soldiers lit the linoleum cloth of the arrow, put on the bowstring, and shot towards the mountains and forests.

"Hoo! Shoo!" Suddenly, two feathered arrows were shot from the forest, piercing into the chests of the two soldiers fiercely, piercing through their backs, they groaned twice, and fell headlong on the snow.

"Enemy attack!" Gan Hui yelled, and stuck his long knife in the snow, then quickly picked up the bow next to him, put on the feathered arrow, lowered his body, and stared at the forest vigilantly.

"Hoo! Shoo!..." Several more feathered arrows shot out from the forest, knocking several soldiers down on the snow.

The Ming army was terrified, and they didn't care about firing rockets. They lowered their bodies one after another to avoid the feather arrows shot from the forest.

"Don't stop, keep firing the rockets, the troops of the Qinglu Brigade must be behind....Set fire to them!" Gan Hui shouted.

Hundreds of rockets were shot into the forest, and with the help of the firelight, thick smoke and flames have already appeared in the forest. If more efforts are made, it is believed that it will soon become a prairie fire, creating an artificial forest. fire.

More than a dozen soldiers of the Eight Banners were forced out of the forest by the gradually ignited fireworks. While they rushed towards the Ming army quickly, they continued to shoot the feather arrows in their hands.The dozen or so soldiers of the Eight Banners almost fired their arrows without fail. During the dozens of steps they ran, they shot three rounds of bows and arrows in a row, killing and wounding more than [-] Ming soldiers, which made the Ming soldiers terrified.

Although the armored soldiers of the Eight Banners who rushed to the front of the Ming army were full of arrows, they discarded their bows and arrows, pulled out their long knives, and slammed into the Ming army array with an extremely brave attitude.

"My lord, the Qing prison brigade has come out!" An officer shouted loudly.

Gan Hui withdrew the dagger from the neck of an Eight Banners armored soldier, turned his head and looked towards the forest.In the raging fire, soldiers of the Qing army kept rushing out, waving weapons and rushing shouting.

"Withdraw!...withdraw!" Gan Hui kicked the body of the Eight Banners soldier aside, turned around and ran towards the camp.

Qin Sangui of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, Zhengbai Banner Xiao Cavalry School (Zheng Liupin) swung his long knife forward vigorously, knocking down the running Ming soldier to the ground, then stopped, and stabbed the Ming soldier who was still struggling. Military back.After killing the soldier, he lifted his mask, looked up and gasped for breath.

Just now, when I was marching quickly with the brigade in the forest, I suddenly saw smoke and fire on the edge of the forest in front of me. The Lord Dutong who led the team immediately ordered the troops to speed up and leave the forest at full speed to avoid being engulfed by the fire.

When he rushed through the sea of ​​flames and sprang out of the forest, he couldn't help but shouted luck.As the Eight Banners of the Han Army, they take the lead in every battle. Unexpectedly, this time, because of this reason, they ran out of the mountain fire encirclement earlier than those masters of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners.

Outside the forest, only a few hundred soldiers of the Ming army were releasing rockets, and they were fighting to the death with dozens of forwards Tanma. After seeing my Eight Banners brigade rushing out, they immediately turned their heads and fled.Qin Sangui immediately led his subordinate banner soldiers to chase after them. These damned soldiers of the Ming army were so vicious that they set fire to the forest, trying to burn all of my Eight Banners army to death. They must be chopped into pieces.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

When Qin Sangui was stopping to gasp for breath, suddenly, there was a cannon sound in front of him, and several bullets smashed into the ranks of the Qing army in an instant, causing the Eight Banners troops who were chasing the Ming army to stop immediately, spread out their formation, and dodged in the front camp. fired shells. More than 100 remnants of the Ming army who fled to the front took the opportunity to rush to the front of the camp, and with the support of hundreds of defenders, they entered the camp in embarrassment.

"Gan Hui, well done!" General Chen Hui of Zheng Jun Lu saw that Gan Hui's face was covered with blood, and his pocket was also lost, his armor was askew, his hands were on his thighs, and he was panting violently, in an indescribable embarrassment.

"If it wasn't for running fast, it would have been on the snowy field outside." Gan Hui straightened up and smiled wryly, "The Eight Banners armored soldiers of the Qing Dynasty are indeed extremely fierce. If we fight face to face, we can't beat them."

"Hehe..." Chen Hui patted Gan Hui on the shoulder with a smile, "Since we can't beat them face to face, let's use artillery and muskets to shoot all these fierce Qing prisoners outside the camp."

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."

Just as they were talking, the artillery in the camp started a new round of bombardment, plowing out several longitudinal gaps in the array of the Qing army that had attacked in front of the camp, and staining the pure white snowfield with patches of blood red.

Under the fierce shelling, the Qing army retreated slowly, regrouped at a distance of 400 meters from the camp, and then gradually resumed their original organizational units under the shouts of officers at all levels.Everything seems to be well-trained and orderly, worthy of being the elite of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.

The chief general of the Qing army, Shar Huda, stood solemnly on a high slope, looking at the camp of the Ming-Qi allied forces.The whole camp is indeed as Laida said, the construction is relatively simple, the outer perimeter is only surrounded by the felled trees and the guardrail, and the interior is dotted with tents and wooden houses. If there are thousands of cavalry here, it is easy to break through the outer guardrail , rushed into the camp.

Even if you attack purely with infantry, it is not too difficult. You just need to bear a little casualties, quickly attack to the front of the camp, climb, or hack, knock down the wooden fence, enter the camp, and slaughter the enemy.Two years ago, the temporary camps built by the Raksha people who fled from the extreme north to the Heilongjiang and Songhua Rivers were also of the same type, and they were all wiped out by our Eight Banners troops stationed in Ningguta.

"This camp is nothing more than a much larger structure, and there are slightly more defenders."

Sarhuda regained his confidence. Although his 2000-odd army lost nearly [-] people in the wildfire, he felt that with the [-]-odd elite troops of the Eight Banners, he could still break into this crude camp.Don't forget, there are more than [-] of my Eight Banners army on the south bank of the Yalu River. Under heavy blows from front and back, I don't believe that the Ming Qi coalition army can defend calmly without revealing a single flaw.

Sharhuda then stopped and looked towards the Yalu River, waiting for the battle to start there, and then launched the most violent attack.
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"Attack!" After seeing the billowing thick smoke rising from the northwest direction on the other side of the Yalu River, Yue Le, the coach of the Qing army, knew that the Eight Banners troops including Shaer Huda and Mao Wenzhong who had sneaked across the river were under fire from the Ming and Qi allied forces. My heart couldn't help but tighten.Immediately without hesitation, he ordered a second large-scale onslaught.

The first large-scale attack ended in a tragic way in the afternoon. More than [-] people from the Eight Banners Zhenghuang Banner of the Han Army fell to the shore and in front of the earth barrier under the intensive fire of the Ming and Qi allied forces. , More than a dozen artillery pieces continued to bombard them, causing the soldiers of the Eight Banners to suffer numerous casualties during the charge.

When Hubai, deputy commander of the Eight Banners Bordered Red Banners of the Han Army, was hit by a shell and died on the spot, the Qing army collapsed uncontrollably, leaving more than a thousand corpses all over the snow, turned around and fled towards the south bank.

In the middle of the river, less than [-] defeated soldiers bumped into the Zhenghuang Banner Department of the Eight Banners of the Han Army that was charging, and rolled them backwards to bring them back to the south bank.

Because of being bombarded by several heavy artillery pieces from the Ming and Qi allied forces, the Mongolian Eight Banners armored cavalry who were stationed on the shore to supervise the formation retreated far away to the vicinity of Yizhou City, making the defeated soldiers escape back to the shore without hindrance.

Zu Kefa, deputy commander of the Eight Banners Zhenghuang Banner of the Han Army, immediately led his men forward to gather the defeated army, knocked down the surviving ten or so generals, and dragged them to see Yue Le.

According to the strict military order of the Qing Dynasty, all the leading generals and subordinate generals who fell in the battle will be punished.The Deputy Commander of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, the Zhenghuang Banner, was killed in battle, and the forward was defeated, but the generals under his command dared to fled back, so how could they not be locked up and punished.

As expected, Yue Le ordered the beheading of more than a dozen generals who had fled back, and announced that all his family members would be sent to Ninggu Tower to serve as slaves to the armored men.As for the officers and soldiers who died in battle, after they returned to Liaodong and reported to the imperial court, they all caressed them.

As for the nearly [-] soldiers of the Eight Banners Zhenghong Banner Department of the Han Army who had fled back from defeat, they all planned to be incorporated into the other banners of the Han Army, as if they were to serve as slave soldiers of each department.

Afterwards, Yue Le ordered the troops to temporarily rest and wait for Youshi, preparing to launch an attack at the same time as the more than [-] troops who smuggled across the river, trying to break through the defense line on the north bank in one fell swoop before dark.

After a fierce battle just now, the fierce firepower of the Ming and Qi coalition forces on the other side, and the tragic casualties of their own side, all shocked the Qing army.More than [-] people from the Eight Banners of the Han Army went forward and continued to attack, but they were still unable to attack the earth barrier on the opposite bank, and more than [-] people died in battle.What's even more frightening is that the artillery possessed by the coalition forces can still shoot to the opposite bank, which seriously hinders the Qing army's assembly of the whole team to prepare for another attack.

"Marshal, we still have more than 5000 Korean civilians who can be the vanguard."

When Angbang Zhangjing Marce made this suggestion to Yue Le, more than two thousand unarmed Korean civilians were immediately driven by the Qing army to the south bank of the Yalu River, preparing to attack the coalition positions on the north bank as cannon fodder for the Qing army.

After receiving Yue Le's order to launch an attack immediately, Zu Kefa, deputy commander of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, Zhenghuang Banner, looked up to the west. The sun had gradually sunk into the mountains in the distance, dyeing the sky there a faint blush. , like residual blood.He took a deep breath of the cold air, and waved his hand to signal a leading soldier to drive the North Korean civilians to the opposite bank.

More than [-] Korean civilian husbands were weeping loudly, and they walked towards the opposite bank of the river with weak steps.The soldiers of the Qing army who followed behind mercilessly chopped down the Korean civilian husbands who fell to the ground or hesitated on the ice, and kept yelling loudly to let them move forward quickly.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." The Ming-Qi Allied Forces on the opposite bank of the river began to fire artillery. They had no scruples at all about the Qing army's attack array mixed with countless Korean civilians. Another bloody road, but like a stone thrown into the water, after the ripples, the soldiers of the Qing army and the Korean civilians who rushed to the battle continued to gather and kept moving forward.

"Zhu Anyuan, attack!"

"Tang Yuji, attack!"

"Kong Dongcai, attack!"

"..."

Zu Kefa continued to order the generals under his command to attack one by one. The attacking troops were less than 200 meters apart. The troops of more than [-] people were divided into five groups, trying to violently attack the coalition positions on the opposite bank with a continuous and one after another offensive.

Through the sound of rumbling guns, the roar of artillery can also be vaguely heard on the northwest side of the other bank of the Yalu River.It must be that Shaer Huda, Laida, Mao Wenzhong and other troops are attacking the flank or rear of the Ming Qi allied forces.With a force of about [-] in the coalition military region on the other side, facing the siege of tens of thousands of troops from the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, we will definitely lose ground.Maybe, this battle can break through the defense line on the other side and wipe out the coalition forces.

Immediately following the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Xianghong Banner Department was the more than [-] people of the Xianglan Banner Department of the Han Army. Under the leadership of the leader Xiong Guangyi, they slowly entered the bank of the river.And just behind them, there are more than [-] Mongolian Eight Banners armored cavalry, all neatly dressed, ready to expand the gap after the Han Army Eight Banners breaks through the barracks, and create a favorable battlefield situation for the Manchurian Eight Banners armored cavalry to attack in depth.

Yue Le rode on a horse and stopped on a high slope, watching the entire battlefield closely. Group after group of officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners were launching the most violent attack on the north bank of the Yalu River with a brave and fearless posture.In the distance, on the flank (or rear) of the enemy army on the opposite bank, the roar of artillery and the sound of firecrackers can be heard continuously. It is the more than [-] elite armored soldiers of our Qing Dynasty who are fighting desperately to cooperate with the offensive launched by the more than [-] troops in front. , dealt a thunderous blow to the Ming Qi coalition forces.

With such an all-out blow, no matter how sharp the guns are and how tight the defense is, the Qi army will probably be reduced to dust in the end.

"This battle may not be comparable to Taizong's (Huang Taiji) Songjin battle, but it may inflict heavy damage on the Qi Fan, and it may also shake the world." Yue Le looked at the battlefield in the distance, with a smile on his face. Kind of looking forward to it.

(End of this chapter)