Lu Ming

Chapter 583 The Battle of Daling River ([-])
The ruthless land in western Liaoning, the vast mountains and plains in the northeast, the rolling cavalry troops, and the overwhelming routs in the rear all constituted the end of the great war that took place at the end of 1631.

Li Jichun took the lead and ran in front of the formation.

Lord Li was in such a panic not because he was afraid of death, but because he had to move in time to contact his subordinates so as to seize the opportunity in the ensuing battle.

Thanks to the continuous telegrams before and the sand table deduction with the staff team, Li Jichun now has a very clear understanding of the situation on the battlefield.

If someone still had reservations about the homework before the war, now Li Jichun has no doubts: everything that happened today was predicted by those telegrams about the deduction of the battle situation!

So Master Li was the first to transfer in.He must follow the plan and contact the rear ambush as quickly as possible.In this way, Chunleiying may stage a trick of dragging the knife in this big drama of fleeing and fleeing, and get a big prize to go home.

So where is the ambush?
When reporting for duty before, Li Jichun claimed to have 500 fine riders.However, when he entered the customs, there were 900 subordinates. The remaining 400 people ran away on the road?What a joke, those people stayed behind the battlefield and went to find the preset position!
In this way, at the first moment of the great defeat, Li Jichun's troops, located at the southernmost point of the battlefield, began their escape journey with full staff and a well-organized formation.Since the entire army has one man and two horses, the 500-member army entered the army very quickly, and they ran to the foot of the West Mountain in a short while.

Xishan, located in the east of Jinzhou, is a mountainous terrain composed of mountains such as Baicao and Siding. It is located in the middle of the Xiaoling River.

That is to say, the place where the Ming and Jin battles took place was actually not far from Xishan, just between Xishan and Dalinghe Fort.When marching before, the army also passed by the west mountain.So when Li Jichun's troops were running from east to west at this moment, they soon reached the foot of the Western Mountain.

"Call the whole army to stop!"

As the thunderous shouts behind them got farther and farther away, the main force of the Chunlei Battalion passing through a field was now facing a large pine and birch forest at the foot of the West Mountain.Probably because of the hint from the four-character mantra "No entry in the forest", Li Jichun immediately reined in his horse and raised his hand to order the people to stop.

In fact, "no entry into the forest" is just one of the reasons.The real reason why Chunlei Battalion stopped was because this place was the first point of contact agreed upon by Li Jichun and the follow-up troops.

"Contact, contact quickly!"

General Li, who was out of breath, didn't wait for the horse under his crotch to stop, and shouted loudly: "It's near here, contact me with Feng Shiming!"

Feng Shiming belonged to the first group of officers of the Guards Battalion.Because of his age, he was sent to Hebei by the base camp last year and became a member of Li Jichun's staff team, serving as the adjutant of the Chunlei Camp.This time, Feng Shiming, who is good at reconnaissance and mapping, was responsible for leading the remaining 400 soldiers in the rear.

Located at the core of Li Jichun's side, the signal soldier with a military telegraph machine on his back immediately turned on the machine and tried to contact Feng Shiming's troops.

After hearing the "beep" sound from the iron box, Li Jichun, who was anxious, subconsciously swung his horsewhip and kept looking around.

It's no wonder that the general's face is full of anxiety.Although he still doesn't understand the principle of electromagnetism, he knows that walkie-talkies are prone to poor communication in mountainous conditions-this is what Li Jichun is most afraid of.

After Chunlei Battalion arrived in Jinzhou, all the staff members, including Li Jichun, finally agreed based on the pre-deduction and the topographical data of the field survey: Assuming that the Ming army was defeated and Huang Taiji set up an ambush in advance, the location of the ambush would definitely be in Xishan. .

The location of Xishan is very important.The mountain group with a radius of more than 20 kilometers happened to be together with Dalinghe Fort, sandwiching most of the Ming army in the middle.At this moment, if the defeated Ming army wanted to escape back to Jinzhou, the nearest stronghold, they must pass by Xishan.

And at that time, the defeated army, who had already rushed westward for ten or twenty miles in a panic, suddenly saw the rear golden cavalry fighting ahead. The picture was too beautiful to imagine.

Li Jichun thought to himself, if he were to throw out ambushes, he would be in Xishan.

And this inference is the source of his anxious state of mind at the moment: According to the prior plan, after Li Jichun's troops set off to join the war, Feng Shiming's troops will lurk in the Xishan area, and try their best to detect the possible ambush positions of Hou Jin.

Therefore, Li Jichun, who ran to the foot of the West Mountain, now urgently needs to contact Feng Shiming's department in order to obtain specific information on the enemy's ambush with a high probability.

This is also the reason why he can't enter the forest: who knows what's in the forest?The advantage of Chunlei Battalion is muskets, and Li Jichun would not rashly let his troops go into the woods unless his head was kicked by a donkey.

However, the sky fails to fulfill people's wishes.Although Mr. General was very anxious, after 5 minutes of turning on the machine, the messenger still failed to contact Feng Shiming's department.

Due to the long distance, the sound of killing on the battlefield that had reached Li Jichun's ears before had turned into a faint roar.But after 5 minutes passed, Li Jichun felt the roar in his ears became more and more clear.He knew that the forwards of the Ming army who had been left behind were already approaching Xishan.

This ominous judgment made Li Jichun seem to smell the smell of burnt corpses, so he immediately ordered: "Don't wait, go around the forest!"

At this moment, the hunter and the prey are changing identities at any time.The 500 people in Chunlei Camp wanted to catch millet out of the fire, and left the information advantage. Now they have become prey, and the situation is extremely dangerous.

General Li Shen knew very well that as the rear battlefield approached, it would be too late if he didn't leave.He was very worried that he had entered the attack range of the enemy's ambush, and Li Jichun would not be surprised if the enemy's cavalry rushed out from the side of the road in the next moment.

The reason why the ambush soldiers did not rush out now may be because they were indeed far away from the attack range, and more likely because most of the Ming army had not arrived, so the ambush soldiers held back and did not make a move.

The identity of the hunter and the prey was blurred, so someone had to order the troops to abandon the first contact point and continue to advance in the direction of Jinzhou.

In fact, this order is also within the plan.

Li Jichun received a strategic request from the General Staff in advance: to give priority to self-preservation, and secondly to consider ambushing the enemy to train troops.In other words, Li Jichun would rather not reap any benefits today, and Li Jichun would also bring the troops back in their entirety.So at this moment, seeing that the momentum was not right, the main force of the Chunlei Battalion immediately went to Jinzhou.

Things are unpredictable and fickle.

At the moment when the 500 cavalrymen from the Chunlei Battalion circled the pine, birch forest and even the ridge behind the forest, the messenger immediately shouted in surprise: "We have made contact!"

General Li Shen was also inexplicably surprised. After reining in the horse, he took the hand microphone and shouted in plain language, "Feng Shiming, Feng Shiming, report the location!"

Feng Shiming's voice quickly came out through the walkie-talkie.

If they can communicate by voice, it proves that the straight-line distance between the two parties is not far.The fact is also the same. After the contact was restored, Li Jichun knew that Feng Shiming's troops were on a small hill about 5 miles away behind the two ridges ahead.

As for a certain team that both sides are concerned about. Feng Shiming told Li Jichun clearly: Not only did the Houjin ambush exist, but their location was between the two ridges.

This is also the reason why Feng Shiming's department chose to stay at the current location: it can monitor Houjin's department and launch an attack at any time.

The hunter and the prey changed their identities again. At this moment, the old driver Li was full of adrenaline, and he knew that his own highlight moment was coming.

After asking again in detail about the enemy's terrain, scale and equipment, the next moment, General Li Shen ordered the whole army to advance at a uniform speed and prepare for battle!

Guarja Wotu smiled contemptuously when he heard the report that the enemy vanguard was about to pass the pass.Wotu, who was sitting on a rock, was not moved by the military situation: "Where is the Minggou brigade?"

"Hui'erzhen, it's still 10 miles away."

"What are you doing with this group of people? Let it go!"

"Whoo!"

Guarjia Wotu is from Zhenghuang Banner.As a direct member of the Guerjia clan of the Jurchen family, the 30-year-old Wotu is already one of the few Jialaerzhens under Zhenghuang's jurisdiction, and he can be said to be a high-ranking and powerful person.

But this time when he came out to fight Minggou, the Great Khan Huang Taiji, who had always been close to Wotu, assigned him an important task: ambush.

Wotu understood that this was the great Khan's grace to him.There is no danger in ambushing and fleeing the enemy, and it is easy to capture the important people and assets of the enemy. It is really the best job.

So Wotu worked very hard and decided to do well the errand assigned by Da Khan: he took the 5 Niulu under his own jurisdiction, and the 500 elite soldiers that Da Khan squeezed out for him before the war, and made a detour before the war. The big circle came in from the north of Xishan.

Today, Wotu's 2000 fine riders have been lying in ambush for a whole day and a half in this stone ditch at the foot of the West Mountain.

Now, it's harvest time.

Ever since, when Wotu received early in the morning that a cavalry was resting in the woods 5 miles away, he was unmoved at all: the news of the collapse of the Ming army had already been reported here by the wolf smoke from the battlefield.So when the lookout post at a high place came to report, Wotu knew that this cavalry of hundreds of people must be Guan Ning's bastard who ran ahead of time.

Wotu had no idea about this kind of cavalry.These bastards can't fight well, they run away, and they just slip away after a while, so it's not worth his shot.

Sure enough, not long after the group of cavalry stopped their horses, they restarted, bypassed the woods, and retreated towards Jinzhou along the foot of the mountain.

About a quarter of an hour later, this group of cavalry who fled in a panic began to pass by the valley where Wotu's troops were located, and the sound of rumbling horseshoes reached Wotu's ears.

"wrong!"

Wotu, who has experienced many battles, has his hairs standing on end at this moment: the sound of horseshoes from outside the stone valley is neat and soothing, and it is still slowly slowing down - the same is true every time the Jurchen warriors are about to be rounded up in autumn hunting Manipulating horses.

"Get on the horse, get on the horse, draw the knife!"

Just as Wotu suddenly stood up and opened his mouth to roar, a series of sharp bone whistles came from the high-level lookout post.

However, the post-golden cavalry in the valley did not need to call the police at this time, because the sudden sound of horseshoes clearly revealed the purpose of the comer - a cavalry raid!
(End of this chapter)