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There is a high hill on the south bank of the Daughter River, and one mile to the northeast is the north entrance of Xishimen, and less than three miles to the east is the garrison of Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of Ningyuan in the Ming Dynasty.

At this moment, Prince Zheng Jierhalang of the Qing Dynasty on Gaogang was putting down his binoculars, pointing to the northeast corner of the camp, and said to everyone: "The Southern Army...the Southern Army is charging...the Southern Army is attacking the camp!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard the news, but they didn't see how flustered they were, and they were still calm. Only Azig raised his hand to cover his eyebrows, stared over there, and cursed loudly: "You little girl, Is Minggou courting death?"

He turned to Dorgon and said angrily: "Prince Rui, I will lead the warriors of our banner to kill all these smart dogs who don't know what to do."

However, Dorgon did not pay attention to Azige, but stroked the mouse whiskers on his chin, and asked Jierhalang: "What does Prince Zheng think?"

"This Ming army is not simple. Although they couldn't see the flag clearly for a while, they dared to charge directly at our army's position. It can be seen that they must be brave soldiers in the Ming army. They should not be underestimated, and they should be handled with care.

Furthermore, Zhu Mala and Du Du went to intercept the reinforcements from the Ming Kingdom, where are they now, and made the Ming army rush into our army? "Jirharang said with a worried face.

Dorgon's face straightened, and he said majesticly: "No matter which Ming army he is, if he dares to charge into our army formation, he must not be allowed to escape."

He then shouted an order: "Azig, you lead the warriors under your banner to attack and block the Ming army's attack head-on."

Azig was still angry at first, and at this moment he also received the order angrily, and led his subordinate Ba Yala Zhangjing Azignikan to stride away.

Dorgon looked at the back of Azige's leaving, shook his head slightly, and ordered: "Order, order Yangshan and Aljin to form an formation and retreat under Tulai's support, don't panic, be careful Wu Sangui takes advantage of the situation to pursue .”

Although the kings and generals of the Qing Dynasty, Baylor, did not look down on the Ming army rushing to the battle, they also attached great importance to it, and quickly organized a response. It can be seen that it is not without reason that it can rise to the bitterly cold frontier!

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It turned out that Cao Bianjiao's troops broke into the formation of the Qing army at this moment. After he led the army to break through the north entrance of the West Stone Gate, he did not act according to the plan, because he had learned about it from the defeated soldiers in Jizhen.

Both Shanhai Town and Ji Town were defeated, and he didn't know where Wu Sangui and Tang Tong were stationed, and who was he going to rendezvous with?

According to common sense, Cao Bianjiao should have left a team of soldiers to guard the mountain pass at this time, while he led the main force to explore eastward, in order to meet Wu Sangui, Tang Tong and other Ming troops.

But Cao Bianjiao didn't do that. Instead, he chose a road of death for himself that ordinary people dare not do, and it is also a road of no return.

How about saying that Cao Bianjiao is a rare general in Ming Dynasty?

He went so far as to do nothing but lead his elite cavalry straight to the Tartar formation more than a mile to the north. In this way, even the soldiers and horses guarding the mountain pass were saved.

However, dare to dare such a brave Ming general, since there are dozens of officials and generals gathered in the Liaodong Daming, I am afraid that few people have the courage to dare to charge the Tartar army alone with their own army.

Even Zhang Cheng of the Xuanfu, who is known as the powerful army of the Ming Dynasty, would not be so reckless to attack the Tartar army formation. It can be said that in today's Ming Dynasty, Cao Bianjiao has almost become the number one fierce general.

This is almost exactly Cao Bianjiao's usual style.

Since he was a child, he followed his uncle Cao Wenzhao to suppress thieves in the mainland, and Cao Wenzhao is also a rare generation of fierce generals in the world. He often leads the soldiers under his command to charge forward with arrows and stones.

Thousands of elite soldiers and horses have been used many times to defeat tens of thousands of rebels, or even hundreds of thousands of rebels, but they cannot withstand Cao Wenzhao's charge.

It is precisely because of growing up in such an environment that Cao Bianjiao also inherited his uncle Cao Wenzhao's style of play after he took charge of the army alone. He always fought fiercely in the most difficult times, defeated the bandit army, and turned the tide. .

And he dared to do so, in addition to his personal bravery, he also benefited from having a strong and brave army under his command.

At that time, Cao Wenzhao, the crown prince Taibao and Zuodu governor of a fierce general of the Ming Dynasty, died in ambush in Qiutou Town. At that time, Cao Bianjiao was already a member of his army. .

Since then, Cao Bianjiao has formed his own battalion based on these remnants of hundreds of battles, and has been following Hong Chengchou to fight against the bandits and poor bandits.

Until the battle of Tongguanyuan, the thieves were almost wiped out in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, when the Tartars invaded the important area of ​​Gyeonggi again, the imperial court was in a panic and specially recruited Hong Chengchou to lead the army to aid King Qin. Cao Bianjiao, Zuo Guangxian and others also followed into Beijing.

After that, Hong Chengchou was entrusted with the important task of governor of Jiliao, and Cao Bianjiao was also appointed as the commander-in-chief of the ASEAN Association, and was left to guard Liaodong.

It can be said that Cao Bianjiao is Hong Chengchou's confidant and beloved general. He is not only an important reliance for Hong Chengchou when he suppressed thieves, but also a vanguard of the whole army. The equipment in his army will not be too bad.

The army is brave, with high morale, complete armor and excellent weapons. This is the real situation of Cao Bianjiao's troops, and it is also the reason why he dared to charge into the Tartar formation with one army.

In all fairness, even if other Ming armies had such morale and armor and equipment, if they were commanded by other Ming generals, they would not have the courage to attack the Tartar army with the courage of Cao Bianjiao.

Even the Tartars did not expect that the Ming army would have the courage to attack their formation. Although the soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners were all very brave, but the incident happened suddenly and Cao Bianjiao was in the front line when he was unprepared.

The cavalry charge was extremely fast, not to mention Cao Bianjiao and others were even less fond of fighting. Their target was not these ordinary Tazi soldiers, but the high hill in the center of the front army formation.

It was too conspicuous there.

Under the high hills, there are soldiers and horses of all kinds of flags, especially the two golden dragon flags that stand high and flutter in the wind. They are the guiding lights for Cao Bianjiao and other Ming soldiers.

Although Cao Bianjiao's armor was very good, it was a little worn out, and mottled marks of knives and axes were faintly visible on it, as well as patches of dark red color. I don't know how many battles he had experienced, and how many bloods of enemies had been stained.

Cao Bianjiao took the lead and rushed to the front of the whole army. Behind him, more than a hundred Jingqi followed him and killed the Tartars, trying to catch up and protect his safety.

Unexpectedly, Cao Bianjiao was really very brave. A horse spear in his hand flew up and down, either stabbing or slashing, and he killed the tartars one by one.

A Tazi soldier with Zhengbai Banner rushed towards him, his body was bulging like more than one layer of armor, and there was a fringe floating on his helmet, it turned out to be Niu Luzhangjing with Zhengbai Banner.

Behind him were more than a hundred Tazi soldiers riding Zhengbai flags, and there seemed to be a few in the cavalry with Zhengbai flags assigned to Shiku, and they seemed to have gathered from other places, rushing to stop Cao Bianjiao from continuing to charge.

The Tatar Niu Luzhang Jing was born very mighty, with a long-handled ax in his hand, he roared angrily and charged forward on his horse, before he got close, he had already swung the long-handled ax in his hand.

He swung the long ax behind him in a circle to increase his strength, and sure enough, the big ax was focused on the whole body of the Tartar Niu Luzhangjing, even Cao Bianjiao didn't dare to catch it.

Cao Bianjiao withdrew his left foot from the stirrup, and shifted his whole body's weight to his right foot. At the same time, he grasped the horse's rein with his left hand, and turned his whole body to hide on the right side of the horse, so as to avoid the long slash from the Tatar Niulu Zhangjing. ax.

It is worthy of being the number one fierce general of Ming Dynasty!

Cao Bianjiao did not give up attacking even when he was dodging the Tatar Niu Luzhangjing's long axe. He hid his body on the right side of the horse, still holding the lance with his right hand, and he swung it upwards obliquely, stabbing the Tatar Niu Luzhangjing. The left eye of the horse under the crotch.

The long horse lance directly pierced the left eye socket of the horse, Cao Bianjiao slanted his right hand, and the sharp horse lance cut half of the horse's eye socket.

When the two horses crossed each other, the Tazi Niulu's horse fell to the ground with a bang, but he was also very powerful, he jumped up the moment the horse fell down, and landed firmly on the ground.

In any case, these Tartar soldiers were not simple. When Niu Luzhang Jing jumped off the horse, he only held the long-handled ax in his right hand, and took advantage of the situation to draw the iron whip on the horse's back in his left hand.

He swung his long-handled ax and slashed. He cut off the legs of two Ming army knights one after another and threw them to the ground. Although Niu Luzhangjing was tall and mighty, his movements were also extremely flexible.

Every time he cut down a war horse, he quickly stepped forward, turned up the iron whip with his left hand and smashed it down, reaping the life of a Ming army knight, and at the same time held the long-handled big ax with his right hand, and swept again. Very coherent, without any sense of stagnation.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..." There was a loud bang.

It turned out that it was Ming Qi who rushed up from behind and shot the three-eyed blunderbuss. Amidst the smoke, Ming Qi also rushed over on his horse. He had never seen the desperate eyes of Tazi Niu Lu Zhang Jing.

Just as Niu Luzhangjing swung the long ax with his right hand again, a bullet hit his left cheek, and half of his face collapsed back, revealing a big crater, with blood and flesh flying everywhere.

Before he even let out a roar, his huge body fell to the ground, and the long-handled ax that he raised just now fell heavily, hitting the only half of his face that remained.

Unfortunately, at this moment, he could no longer feel any pain!

Cao Bianjiao was also unambiguous, after he intertwined with Niu Luzhangjing's war horse, he did not stop fighting, but rushed forward with his horse, leaving Niu Luzhangjing to the soldiers behind.

His horse flew up and down, killing a Tartar bandit one after another, and he was rewarded with Pashiku and several Tartar armored cavalry. Cao turned into Jiao with only one purpose.

That is to rush to the high hill in front as soon as possible, and kill the general of the Tazi army in one fell swoop, so that the Tazi soldiers will have no leader, let alone command and dispatch, and they will definitely be defeated by the Ming army.

This has a special tactic in later generations, called beheading action!
Regardless of later generations, or the current Ming Dynasty, this method of warfare is the most convenient and effective. It can be said to be simple and rude, but it is really easy to use.

It's just that the decapitation tactics used in later generations rely on high-tech precision strikes, everything is calculated safely, and the time is also accurate to the second.

But at this moment, to behead him, he had to rely not only on the bravery of the general and the sergeants, but also on the blessing of a little bit of good luck.

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The soldiers and horses of Cao Bianjiao of the Ming army were unstoppable all the way. Like a sharp arrow, they broke through the blocking defense lines of the Tartar armored cavalry, and they were constantly advancing towards the high hill full of banners.

As Cao Bianjiao's troops gradually approached, everyone on Gaogang also seemed a little nervous.

Jierhalang first sighed, and then said: "Sure enough, it is Cao Bianjiao's Ming army. I only heard that this man was fighting bandits in the interior of the Ming Dynasty. He was very brave. He always took arrows and stones and charged forward. From today's perspective, it is as expected. !"

At this moment, from here, we can clearly see the banner of the Ming army rushing into battle, and the big "Cao" character on it looks very eye-catching at this moment.

Just at this time, several Tartar sentries came galloping on horseback. They rushed up to Gaogang and reported loudly: "A part of the Ming army broke out from Xishimen and attacked the flank of our army. Dubelle is leading the interception."

Jierhalang was startled for a while, and asked a little eagerly: "Do you know which army of the Ming Kingdom?"

"Go back to Prince Zheng, look at the banner, it's the Chief Soldier of the Former Tunwei King."

"Wang Zongbing...Wang Zongbing?"

Jierhalang muttered a few words before he remembered: "It's the courtier Wang, and this man is quite capable of fighting. It seems that Hong Chengchou is the best of the whole army."

After he finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Dorgon, but didn't say another word.

Dorgon naturally knew that Jierharang was reminding him that the purpose of this battle had been achieved, and since the elite of the Ming Dynasty's aid to Liao army were all here, there was no need to continue to break through.

In fact, the task Huang Taiji gave them was not to defeat the Ming army, but to lead the main force of the Ming army to aid Liao to this side through fierce attacks, and then restrain them so that they could not rescue them elsewhere.

In today's battle, Dorgon and others saw how easily they defeated the Ma Ke Division of Shanhaiguan General Army, and then successively defeated Bai Guangen's troops in Ji Town.

The battle was so smooth that they couldn't help but develop a serious desire to underestimate the enemy. Later, they encountered strong resistance from Wu Sangui's tribe, which made their desire to win soar, and only then did they continue to fight fiercely with the Ming army.

But at this moment, it is almost certain that most of the soldiers and horses aided by the Ming Dynasty to Liao are gathered here, such as the defeated Shanhai Town Ma Ke, Ji Town Bai Guangen, and Ningyuan Town Wu Sangui who are fighting.

In addition, in the banners that appeared in the reinforcements, there were already two troops from the East Association Cao Bianjiao and the former Tunwei Wang Tingchen, and at the same time there were officials from Xuanfu and Datong in the direction of Huangtuling.

Of the ten generals of the Ming Dynasty who assisted the Liao Dynasty, seven of them are now known for sure. Just in the south bank of the Daughter River, five generals have shown up, which shows how much the Ming Dynasty attaches importance to him.

After thinking about it for a while, Dorgon also said: "Since we have completed the military affairs assigned by the Great Khan, we really don't need to take any more risks."

He turned his head and shouted at the sentry cavalry: "Quickly transmit the king's military order, order Yangshan and Alkin to lead the army to retreat quickly. Order Tulai to be responsible for blocking the pursuit of the Ming army under Wu Sangui's department."

A sentry cavalry galloped away, only to see another sentry cavalry galloping towards them: "Baorui's personal guards, Tulai Zhangjing is covering Yangshan Zhangjing, Altyn Zhangjing formed an formation and retreated, and thousands of cavalry from the Wu Sangui Department of the Ming Army came out. Pursue and fight with it."

"what?"

Jierhalang was also a little surprised, he said again: "Hmph, seeing that reinforcements are coming, Wu Sangui no longer sticks to the camp?"