weaving

In the south of Jinzhou City, the three trenches dug by the Qing army during the siege of the city are covered with boards, mounds of earth, sand and stones, and there are still remains of unburned fires in many places.

Amidst the bursts of screaming and roaring, the bright red banners could not be shaken, and the armor on their bodies was old, and the ones with more marks of cutting with knives and axes were all Liao soldiers in Jinzhou City.

Since March of the 13th year of Chongzhen, they have been besieged by tens of thousands of Qing troops in Jinzhou City. Although they have organized breakouts several times, they have not been able to break through the three deep moats encircled by the Qing army.

Now, with the cooperation of the Xuanfu army, they finally broke through the three deadly trenches and successfully broke through the encirclement of the Qing army.

For more than a year and a half, they were besieged by the Qing army in Jinzhou City, suffocating enough, starving and frightened, and now they are like trapped animals, chasing the Qing army captives like crazy. The hacking continued.

Zu Dashou also fought hard, this time he not only gathered the [-] elite Liao soldiers in the city, but also personally led them out of the city, while only his younger brother Zu Dacheng led thousands of troops to stay in the city.

Previously, Zu Dashou had only personally led an army out of the city to fight once, and that was at the beginning of this year, when his nephew Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of the Ningyuan regiment, personally led the Ningyuan army to deliver grain and grass to Jinzhou City.

Although there were several large-scale breakouts, his younger brothers Zu Dacheng and Zu Dabi alternately led the troops out of the city to fight, and Zu Dashou remained in Jinzhou City.

Only this time, maybe it was because they saw a good opportunity to cooperate with the outside world, or maybe it was because Jinzhou City had been trapped for a long time and the firewood was cut off, and it had reached the point where it had to desperately break through.

Zu Dashou, the left governor of the Ming Dynasty and the Liaodong striker commander-in-chief resolutely once again, personally led the elite Liao soldiers out of the city to fight.

The armor on his body looks very good, but its dark red color under the sun shows that it has been stained with the blood of an unknown number of enemies, and there are scars caused by knives and axes in many places, and its depths have turned black Red.

Riding on a slightly thin war horse, Zu Dashou glared at the Tartars in the west, before he could meet the general of the Xuanfu Army infantry battalion killed from the south, he roared and charged forward.

"Sao Dazi, your grandpa is here. Die!"

Zu Dashou roared furiously and rushed to the west of the cavalry array of the Qing army. Zu Dabi saw his elder brother rushing ahead, hurriedly yelled and led the Liaodong iron cavalry with less than a thousand people around him to follow, and also headed west to the Qing army. Array killed up.

"Kill...kill the tartar...kill..."

The roar echoed for a long time in the wilderness in the southern suburbs of Jinzhou.

…………

In the wilderness outside the South Pass of Jinzhou, soldiers from both the Ming and Qing dynasties were fighting each other everywhere.

Starting from the earth city behind the third deep trench, within a few miles to the southwest, warriors wearing various armors and holding different weapons are chasing each other and cutting each other amidst banners of different colors and shapes. Keep killing.

People fell down one after another, screaming and wailing, especially those burly war horses, when they fell down, they rolled over and over again, knocking down the crowd.

The more you go to the southwest, the more intense the fighting is. Whether you are the Xuanfu army or the Datong army, it doesn't matter at this moment.

Only killing the Tartars is the most important thing!
Everyone's eyes were full of anger, and there was no trace of fear. Their voices were already hoarse, and their arms and thighs were in general soreness and pain.

At this moment, as long as you fall down, you will never have a chance to stand up again, and you are fighting with the last of your blood, supporting your extremely tired body.

Even Zhang Cheng, the chief soldier of the Xuan Mansion, and Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, also joined in the battle.

Zhang Cheng's war horse had gone nowhere, but he was still holding his saber cudgel firmly in his hand, stabbing and smashing like a machine.

I don't know if it's his own blood or the enemy's blood, it has already blurred Zhang Cheng's eyes, and his face and body are also dark red in patches, the color of the blood mixed with dust at that time.

Zhang Chengfang led more than a dozen child soldiers, each holding shields, steel knives, and hatchets to protect him, but Zhang Cheng was already insane at this moment, not to mention the Tartar soldiers, even Zhang Chengfang and others could not get close to him. forward.

The situation of Datong general Wang Pu is much better than that of Zhang Cheng. There are nearly a hundred guards guarding him, rushing around in the army formation. This may be Wang Pu's most enjoyable fight since he was in the army. battle.

In fact, he already had the idea of ​​retreating as early as noon when the fighting paused briefly, but he was afraid of Zhang Cheng's majesty, and he still couldn't express what he wanted in his heart.

In the afternoon, the fighting between the two sides resumed, and the fighting became fiercer, and he couldn't even say the words of retreating!
With the cavalry of the Qing army rushing into the formation, although Xuan Dajun did not lose in the battle between the cavalry on the two wings and killed and wounded a lot of slaves, the infantry in the middle road failed to occupy the enemy and the outside.

Prince Li Daishan, Commander-in-Chief of Qingguo East Road, saw the right time and decided to increase his troops. The overwhelming number of slaves and captives rushed forward like wolves and tigers.

At this time, Wang Pu asked to send Li Jiyu to Dengfeng Camp and He Zhenxiong's Left Wing Camp to fight, but Zhang Cheng firmly refused, but the middle road had to be rescued.

Under Zhang Cheng's last resort, he would rather put himself and Wang Pu's central army on board, rather than order Li Jiyu and He Zhenxiong to attack, because he would be of great use to these two formidable troops.

Wang Pu was completely puzzled by this, he didn't want to charge forward and personally risk Shi Shi, but the battle had already reached this point, and due to Zhang Cheng's lustful power, he could only use the words on his lips , and then swallowed back into the stomach.

In fact, Wang Pu didn't know that Li Jiyu's Dengfeng battalion and He Zhenxiong's left wing battalion of the Xuanfu army, with a total of nearly [-] cavalry troops, were no longer stationed behind their central army.

It turned out that Zhang Cheng sent his own soldiers to Huangtuling to send an urgent letter last night to call Li Jiyu and He Zhenxiong to come to help him urgently. He had other arrangements, but the matter was extremely risky, so he didn't inform Wang Pu.

Sure enough, at the same time Zhang Cheng and Wang Pu led the elite infantry and cavalry of less than [-] from the Xuanda Central Army to support the infantry battalion in front, at the same time about two miles to the east of the battlefield, a Raiders are quietly marching north.

…………

But at this moment, the Manchurian Banner Baiyintu Division of the Qing Army was defeated by the Cavalry Battalion and Tiger Guard Battalion led by Zhang Guangda in the west, and could only support it with all their strength.

You know, the [-] heavy armored cavalry of the Xuanfu Army Cavalry Battalion are not a reputation, but real armored cavalry. On this battlefield where cold weapons are still the mainstay, they are simply invincible.

Manchuria Xianghuang Banner Gushan Ezhen Baiyintu, after learning the news of the death of the "Batulu" warrior Oboi under his banner, was extremely angry. He cursed "Damn Nikan" and immediately led the banner The Warriors went all out.

Even so, Zhang Guangda still did not send out the heavy armored cavalry in his battalion. Instead, he used light cavalry, Mongolian cavalry, and the Huwei battalion to cooperate with each other, fighting and retreating.

It wasn't until Bai Yintu chased for more than a mile that he made a decisive decision and ordered the three hundred cavalry under his command to attack with all their strength.

At this moment, Baiyintu's Xianghuang Banner Tartars had already fought with the knights of the Xuanfu army for a while, and chased them for more than a mile, exhausting their physical strength and vigor.

At this time, they suddenly saw Xuanfu iron cavalry rushing out. Under the oppression of rumbling iron hooves, they all felt chills, but as the pro-army of the slave chieftain Huang Taiji, they did not have the tradition of retreating before the battle.

Although the Tartars with the Yellow Banner were brave, they were like delivering food in front of the cavalry of the Xuanfu. After repeated attacks from the cavalry battalion and the Tiger Guard battalion, they finally retreated.

…………

Compared with the successive victories of the West Road Ming Army, the East Road Ming Army led by Xuanfu veteran Guo Yingxian failed to perform so brilliantly.

This is not because they are not brave enough, but because among the nearly 4000 troops on Guo Yingxian's side, less than half of the cavalry are mostly infantry.

However, these officers and soldiers of the Xuanfu have also experienced many battles since they aided Liao, and everyone has the belief in avenging the veteran soldier Yang Guozhu in their hearts, so naturally they are all brave and no one backs down.

Especially after they took refuge in Zhang Cheng, the new chief soldier of the Xuanfu, they made up for the salary they owed, and every time they went to battle, they were rewarded for their meritorious service. Naturally, they were grateful with their pure natures, so how could they not move forward bravely at this moment?
The Yang Guozhu family team led by Huang Baozhong and Tan Zhenlin, the general manager of Baibai, also played with Guo Yingxian's standard battalion this time. They were grateful for the kindness of the veteran master, and naturally hated the slaves and thieves. There is no reason not to kill slaves bravely.

However, even so, it is only comparable to Engetu's Mongolian Zhenghongqi.

Guo Yingxian formed the formation with standard battalion infantry in the middle, while a team of cavalry was left on the left and right sides to protect the flanks. Huang Baozhong's cavalry team was arranged in the rear formation, reserved as surprise soldiers for assault charges.

The proportion of firearms in the middle infantry of the Standard Battalion was originally very high, but after several battles, there was a lot of damage. The gun can still be used.

Most of the cavalry used three-eyed guns. They joined Zhang Cheng's military system late, and they had not been equipped with short-handed guns. pistol.

As far as these short pistols were brought by Zhang Cheng with the army to supplement the damage of the cavalry under his command, there were not many of them. Not to mention the cavalry in Guo Yingxian's standard battalion, even the 300-member cavalry in this area can only guarantee manpower. Just one shot.

Chu Xingzu and Xi Zhicheng, the two generals of the infantry in the middle, commanded the infantry to carry simple horse-rejecting gun racks, and struggled to meet the rushing Mongolian Tartars. They used blunderbuss and bows to kill the enemy from a long distance.

When the Tartars rushed to the front, they formed a tight infantry formation to defend the enemy with shields and spears, while Guo Yingxian commanded the cavalry on both wings to attack the flanks of the Mongolian Tartars.

In this way, although the Mongolian Zhenghong Banner Beilu cavalry in Engetu were fierce and good at fighting, they failed to gain benefits from the Xuanfu Town Biaoying, and the two sides were evenly matched.

Fighting here for a long time, until the veteran Guo Yingxian saw billows of smoke and dust rising from the east of his army, rolling northward continuously, he led his army to launch a final fierce attack on Engetu.

This time, he no longer retained his strength, and first rushed out with the cavalry on both wings to attack Engetu's flanks, and then rushed out from the middle infantry with Huang Baozhong and Tan Zhenlin's [-] elite cavalry to surprise Engetu. military.

The reason why Guo Yingxian did this was to protect Li Jiyu and He Zhenxiong's troops in the northeast, so that even if Engetu found them, he would not be able to divide his forces to stop them.

However, God once again favored Daming in his twilight years, which made Guo Yingxian's surprise attack achieve unexpected results!
Engetu had been fighting fiercely with Guo Yingxian's Ming army for less than half an hour, and he knew Guo Yingxian's routine well. It was nothing more than alternately attacking on foot and cavalry, so that he could not breathe, and could not break through the middle of the formation with all his strength.

Therefore, this time, when Guo Yingxian led the cavalry on both sides to attack his own flank, he no longer confronted him head-on. Instead, he shrank his flanks closer to the central army, concentrated his main force in the Mongolian Zhenghong Banner, and marched towards the Xuanfu Biao camp on the opposite side. At the same time, they launched a fierce charge.

But what I didn't expect was that Chu Xingzu and Xi Zhicheng, the thousand generals of the Xuanfu Biaobattalion Infantry Army, suddenly led their troops to retreat to the left and right when the Mongolian cavalry rushed with all their strength.

In this way, the middle was left empty, and the Mongolian cavalry were naturally divided into two, attacking the infantry led by Chu Xingzu and Xi Zhicheng respectively, so that a gap was naturally formed in the middle of the Mongolian Zhenghong Banner Tartars. Come.

It was as if God was helping each other. When Huang Baozhong and Tan Zhenlin each led more than 150 soldiers and rushed out on horseback, they broke into the formation of the Mongolian Zhenghong Banner Tartars with ease.

They roared and howled in unison and rushed straight towards Engetu's central army. The "bang bang bang" guns roared continuously. cavalry.

At this moment, the Mongolian cavalry who attacked the infantry of the Xuanfu Biaoying also turned their horses around one after another, wanting to turn back and intercept the cavalry led by Huang Baozhong and Tan Zhenlin, but how could they make it in time!
Engetu originally saw the infantry of the Xuanfu Biao Battalion in the distance, and suddenly retreated to both sides, thinking that his trick had succeeded. Sure enough, the warriors in the banner attacked with all their strength, and Ming Gou was defeated immediately.

In his opinion, as long as the Minggou infantry on the opposite side were defeated, what would the remaining 1000 cavalry have to fear?
But he didn't count, but the Xuanfu army hid a group of even more fierce cavalry behind the infantry. Unexpectedly, Engetu was also a little flustered.

He watched Huang Baozhong and Tan Zhenlin lead more than [-] cavalry straight towards his central army. Engetu repeatedly cursed and urged the Beilu warriors under his command to step forward and intercept them.

But in order to perform well in front of Prince Li Daishan, he only wanted to defeat the Ming army on the opposite side as soon as possible. At this moment, the main force of the banner has been dispatched.

It was originally planned that after defeating the infantry of the Ming army, the main cavalry quickly returned to help and outflank the cavalry of the Ming army who were besieging their two wings.

But now there are not many soldiers and horses around him, but he is surrounded by Ming army cavalry in three directions, especially the Ming army rushing forward, it seems that they are still under the Xuanfu Zhang Cheng's subordinates, and the pistols they use are even sharper. unstoppable.