Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 139 Qing Tian is Dead
In the tenth year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, the sixth day of June.

This is another afternoon that can warm people up. There is not a single cloud in the sky, and the sun shines down unobstructed, illuminating the entire Fushun County in white.In the scorching heat, everything looked listless, even the Qing soldiers lying in ambush in the woods on the bank of Rongxi in Fushun County and outside the city looked lazy.The tower at the south gate of Fushun County, which was donated by the salt merchants in Ziliujing, stands there. Looking over, the outline of the tower floats due to the heat.

At this time, Li Tianyu, the governor of Yunnan, stood on the towering tower with his alternate Daoist Lu Sanhao, each holding a binoculars, and kept looking at the official road south of Rongxi in the south. They all frowned, looking rather uneasy.

Today, the two of them were supposed to be guarding Wu Yingxiong, the son of Prince Pingxi, in a salt merchant's mansion in Fushun County. This "big bear" who only eats and waits to die is still of some use—if Wu Sangui is really cold It's clear, then he is the "little righteous name" for the imperial army to enter Yunnan!Of course, righteousness is on the court's side, but "righteousness is not too much", if both righteousness and righteousness are on the court's side, then Wu Yingqi and Wu Guogui, the two rebels, will only have injustice left in their hands.

But now Li Tianyu and Lu Sanhao really don't have the heart to guard the "only" Wu Yingxiong who is not doing well, and looks like Wu Yingxiong who fell ill because of excessive grief and fear.Because the two of them received a report from Tangma in front of them an hour ago, knowing that a group of "Wu soldiers" flying the general flag of "Wu Dutong" had passed Daguan Town (a fortress between Yibin and Fushun) land), is coming quickly to Fushun County.

And the number of "Wu soldiers" in this team was not [-] as previously agreed, but only [-]. About seven or eight miles away behind them, there were about ten thousand "Wu soldiers" following.

Obviously, Wu Yingqi wasn't that easy to deceive, so he kept an eye out and divided the army he brought into two teams.

If the Qing army ambushed the "Wu soldiers" of the front team on a mountain ridge on the east side of the official road from Yibin to Fushun (the east side of this mountain ridge is an open plain), then the "Wu soldiers" of the rear team can carry out rescued.

The area around Daguan Town is the narrowest area along the official road from Yibin to Fushun. On the east side is a series of slender and low hills such as Tazi Mountain and Mojia Tomb Mountain, and on the west side is another hill. It passes through the narrow flat land in the middle, and the narrowest part of the flat land is less than five miles away.Definitely a good place to lay an ambush!
If the "Wu Bing" of the front team passed through the area of ​​Daguan Town safely, then the "Wu Bing" of the rear team might pass through, or maybe not.

So this is still a test of the Qing soldiers who set up ambushes. Fortunately, the Qing soldiers who are lying on the Tazi Mountain and the Mojia Tomb are commanded by Yue Le himself. This prince's ability to use soldiers to fight is still online!
But the question is when should the ambushes in Fushun County attack?
According to the original strategy, the ambush soldiers on the hills near Daguan Town should hit the tail of the "Wu soldiers", cut off their retreat, and at the same time prevent reinforcements from Yibin County.On the other hand, the ambush soldiers in Fushun County hit the head of the "Wu Bing" and gave Wu Yingqi a head-on blow. If possible, they would capture the thief first and capture the king first.

But now. The leader of the "Wu Bing" is flying Wu Yingqi's general flag, but the question is, is Wu Yingqi really in the team?
So they have to come and see for themselves!You can't let a fake Wu Yingqi fool you!

In the binoculars of the two of them, the "Wu soldiers" of two thousand and several hundred people had already walked along the official road, getting closer.

This team of "Wu soldiers" is composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery with cannons. Among them, the cavalry is at the forefront. There are not many cavalry, only two hundred cavalry. Everyone is carrying a bamboo spear that looks long and thin.There were also people in the horse team flying a large banner with the words "Pingxi Wangfu Dutong Wu" embroidered on it. There are now three Wu Dutongs in Pingxi Wangfu, one is Wu Yingqi, the other is Wu Shicong, and the other is Wu Guogui.It is impossible for Wu Guogui to come, so this "Wu Dutong" is either Wu Yingqi or Wu Shicong.

Holding up the binoculars, Li Tianyu tried his best to search for Wu Yingqi or Wu Shicong among this group of Wu family cavalry who were dressed similarly.As the team got closer, faces that had been tanned by the sun on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau appeared more and more clearly in the telescope.Li Tianyu tried hard to identify, hoping to find Wu Yingqi or Wu Shicong.

Suddenly, Lu Sanhao's surprised voice sounded: "Wu Yingqi! It's Wu Yingqi. He came in person!"

Immediately afterwards were the voices of Le Erjin, the king of Shuncheng County, and Mo Luo, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi.

"Where? Where?"

"Thank goodness."

Only then did Li Tianyu discover that those two had also climbed onto the city wall at some point, and they were also holding binoculars to look at the official road to the south!

Li Tianyu closed his eyes, raised his gaze for a while, and then looked at it intently again. This time he also saw Wu Yingqi!He looked quite leisurely, riding a tall horse, walking among the cavalry, and kept fanning himself with a fan in his hand—it was stuffy and hot today, and Li Tianyu felt like he was The official uniform was soaked and still stuck to his body.

"It's Wu Yingqi!" He put down the binoculars, shook his sore shoulders, and let out a long breath, "The emperor is so blessed!"

Mo Luo, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, also heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Great, this is a victory!"

"Not yet!" Leerjin said, "You have to catch Wu Yingqi to win!" He turned his head to Geshha beside him and said, "I will pass on the general order of the king. We must wait for Wu Yingqi to cross the floating bridge before he wins." Do it!"

"Whoo!"

The pontoon bridge he was talking about was a pontoon bridge built on the Rong Creek.This Rongxi River is a tributary of the Tuojiang River. It is said to be a "stream", but in fact, its width and depth can be regarded as a big river in the north.And now it is the summer flood season, so this Rongxi is now deep and wide, and it is impossible to ford at all. In order to facilitate Wu Yingqi's self-trap, Yue Le asked someone to build a wide and strong bridge on the Rongxi. pontoon.

As long as Wu Yingqi crossed the pontoon bridge, he would have no choice but to run away!

On the top of Fushun County, everyone held their breath and watched the Wu family's cavalry team slowly approaching on the official road.I don't know if it's because these people are too anxious, or the horses under the cavalry are tired. The speed of this cavalry seems to be getting slower and slower.
Suddenly, Wu Yingqi who was fanning at least one side reined in, stopped the horse, and raised the folding fan in his hand high!

What is this for?
Near Daguan Town, Shigu Temple is located on a low mountain ridge. It has been abandoned for many years. The temple was not small in size. It should have been enshrined by Ziliujing salt merchants. The remaining buildings are still very tall and strong .

Now this temple has become the location of the Chinese army of Prince An Yue Le. There is a small hill and an abandoned village under the mountain ridge where the temple is located. The artillery team led by Dai Zi is there. The general's cannon has been set up, and when the brigade of Wu soldiers passes the official road three or four hundred paces away, they will be able to fire the cannon!
As soon as the cannon was fired, the Qing army ambushing in the nearby forest would be like a tiger descending the mountain, and kill the Wu soldiers who were bombarded by the cannon!
The above is the battle plan of the [-] Qing Heavenly Soldiers commanded by Yue Le today!

The plan is very good, but it always fails to catch up with the changes. The Wu soldiers' rear team of more than [-] people, somehow, walked to the back of a village built by "Yunnan immigrants" with a Shaanxi accent ten miles southwest of Daguan Town. , I stopped moving forward, and started to bury the pot and cook there!
And the area around the stockade is very open, it is not suitable for ambushes, but it will be suitable for setting up a dignified formation at that time
Now it's Yue Le's turn to have a big head!
Should he lead the troops down the mountain to line up now?Or should we continue to wait?
If he goes down the mountain to line up now, then the front team of "Wu Bing" will no longer go to the trap, but will turn around and go south to flank him with Wu Bing's rear team. It will not exceed fifteen thousand, and the advantage is still with him.

But in this way, it will be difficult to catch Wu Yingqi!

But if he doesn't attack now, then when Wu Bing's front team is ambushed, the more than ten thousand people in the rear team may turn to stick on the spot. If Wu Yingqi is not in the front team, it will be considered that Le Erjin wiped out those two thousand people. With a hundred people, Yue Le still failed to achieve his goal.

What an embarrassment!
Yue Le was in a dilemma. Standing by his side, an unusually burly man in his twenties wearing a cloth mask the color of the white flag suddenly shouted: "Southeast direction. Red Turban Army!"

Yue Le was taken aback when he heard this voice. The Red Scarf Army?
What dynasty is it now?Is it the end of the Yuan Dynasty?Where did the Red Scarf Army come from?Now it is at most the end of the Qing Dynasty no, no, the Great Qing Dynasty will take tens of thousands of years, there can be no "end"!
At this time, the strong man roared again: "My lord, the Red Turban Army appeared in the southeast. There are a lot of them, it seems to be tens of thousands!"

What?Tens of thousands of Red Turbans?
Yue Le wasn't calm anymore, he immediately stood up and asked, "Fei Yanggu, where are those red scarf soldiers?"

Fei Yanggu is the name of this strong man. His old Manchurian surname is Dong E. He is the younger brother of Dong E, the favorite of Emperor Shunzhi. He is taller and stronger than Wang Zhongxiao. lap!His sister is probably also a "big concubine". Because of the "big concubine", Fei Yanggutama also had a prosperous official career, rising from a commander of the army to a minister of the interior, and her title also went from second-class male He was promoted to the third-class uncle, and later he was posthumously awarded the Marquis.And this Fei Yanggu inherited the title of third-class earl, and now he is under Yue Le's tent with the title of deputy capital.

Although he didn't lead an army himself, Yue Le regarded Fei Yanggu very highly and used him as the "chief of staff". The "genius plan" to ambush Wu's army this time came from Fei Yanggu.

Of course, this plan is a good plan, but Wu Sangui also has a copy in his hand!

"My lord, the southeast direction seems to be coming from Nanxi County!"

While talking, Fei Yanggu handed a telescope to Yue Le, and helped him run to a watchtower that had just been built.Although Yue Le was getting old, he was still quite nimble. He climbed up in two or three strokes, and then raised the binoculars to look southeast.

To the east of the mountain ridge where Shigu Temple is located is a large open plain, which extends to the north bank of the Shu River, and at the southeast end of the plain, there is another county seat next to the Yangtze River, which is Nanxi County.

At present, this county is also under the control of "Wu Bing".

However, according to previous information, there is no brigade of "Wu soldiers" in Nanxi County. Unexpectedly, there are tens of thousands of horsemen wrapped in red scarves coming out of Nanxi County in a mighty way, heading towards Shigu Come from the direction of the temple!

"My lord, Wu Yingqi has rebelled! We have been tricked."

When Yue Le was still enlightened, Fei Yanggu yelled again, "The men of the Third Prince Zhu who rebelled in Suzhou before, aren't they the same Red Scarf Army?"

yes!Yue Le finally reacted!

Immediately, an even more terrifying thought emerged in his mind, Wu Yingqi no, it might be Wu Sangui's rebellion!
"My lord, the Wu Brigade at the foot of the mountain has moved! They have also become the Red Scarf Army!"

At this time, Yue Le's Goshha leader shouted again, and Yue Le quickly turned around to look, and found that Wu Bing, who had been resting around the Zhuangzi at the bottom of the mountain, had already started to regroup.

And they have already lost the red-tasseled straw hats, and all of them have replaced their heads with red scarves or red hoods!
"My lord, what should I do?" Fei Yanggu's voice was also a little panicked.

He originally planned to fight Wu Yingqi with the enemy in the back and back, but now the enemy in the back and back seems to be the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty!
"Not afraid!"

After all, Yue Le is a battle-tested veteran. At this time, he has completely recovered his composure, "Wu Yingqi is more than 2 people, and they are divided into three parts. This king just comes to defeat them one by one! Pass the order of this king , let Ma Siwen lead a wing of green battalion soldiers down the mountain from the east to block the rebels coming from the direction of Nanxi! The rest of the troops will follow the king and gather in Daguan Town first!"

"Whoo!"

"No, no, Wu Yingqi wants to charge!"

On the top of Fushun County, Lu Sanhao suddenly roared, breaking the suffocating silence.

Just before he uttered this loud cry, the two hundred cavalrymen surrounding Wu Yingqi had been divided into two rows, front and back, forming two horizontal formations each with more than a hundred cavalrymen. All the cavalrymen took off their red tasseled straw hats and Putting on the helmet wrapped in a red scarf, the long bamboo spear on his back has also been taken off, pointing high into the air.

Two or three hundred paces ahead of these cavalrymen, near the south exit of the pontoon bridge, there is also a battalion of green infantry infantry at this time. Their task is to guard the pontoon bridge and block Wu Yingqi's retreat after Wu Yingqi crosses the bridge. It was originally an ambush. Orion's, I didn't expect to become prey now!
The general who led the team was already impatient, and shouted loudly: "Array. Quickly."

"Qing Tian is dead, Zhou Tian should be killed immediately!"

At the same time, the "Wu Bing Iron Cavalry" who had just put into full formation also let out the loudest shout!
Their onslaught has begun!

Although there were only [-] cavalrymen, they rushed out like thousands of horses and horses. They could only see these "bamboo pole cavalry" divided into two formations. The Green Battalion soldiers crushed them.

On the north bank of the pontoon bridge, a group of Ganshan Green Battalion soldiers ambushed has already reacted. Under the command of a general, they rushed onto the pontoon bridge in disorder, as if they wanted to support the friendly army in the south.

But before they got halfway there, the formation of the Green Battalion soldiers on the south side of the pontoon bridge was overwhelmed by the cavalry of Wu Jun who came like a wall!
Hundreds of bamboo spears three feet four by four slammed into the formation of the Green Battalion soldiers at a very high speed with huge inertia. Before the collision started, the formation of the Green Battalion Soldiers was already in chaos. With the ear-piercing sound of "click, click", the bamboo spears either pierced into the bodies of the green battalion soldiers, or pierced into their rattan cards, sending them flying out together with their cards.

A shrill scream followed, followed by a panicked cry: "I lost, I lost!"

The formation of the green battalion's new army also collapsed, so the soldiers who could still run turned around and ran, shouting and running wildly, rushing towards the pontoon bridge, scrambling for the first, for fear that if they ran too slowly, they would be kicked by the enemy's cavalry. Step to death!

After a while, they ran into the Ganshan Green Battalion soldiers who were trying to rescue them!Now it's even more lively, there is a hedge between the two sides, pushing each other, the pontoon bridge is full of people, and it becomes a mess, people are constantly being squeezed off the pontoon bridge and falling into the wide and deep stream, making a splash sound.Shouts, curses, exclamations, and calls for help were mixed together.

Of course, the gunshots used to increase the panic atmosphere also rang out in disorder.It wasn't Wu Yingqi's men who were firing, but the pikemen and artillerymen of the Eight Banners ambushing in the woods on the other side of Rongxi were shooting at random in an attempt to intimidate Wu Yingqi's troops who "wanted to seize the pontoon bridge".

However, the sound of the guns they fired could not embolden the defeated green battalion new soldiers, but made them panic even more. Finally, the magic power overwhelmed the Ganshan green battalion soldiers, and the two groups ran to the north bank of the pontoon bridge together.

A whole battalion of the elite new army of the Green Battalion was defeated by the Wu family's bamboo spear cavalry, and by the way, some of the Ganshan Green Battalion who came to rescue them were thrown into chaos!
Seeing this scene, everyone on the battlefield was shocked!

Why can't the heavenly soldiers of the Qing Dynasty fight so hard?
Why are Wu Sangui's cavalry so powerful?A casual charge with a bamboo spear scattered a whole battalion of so-called elite green battalion new troops?

Could it be that Qingtian is dead and Zhoutian should be established?
I don't know if it was because the victory came so suddenly that Wu Sangui's bamboo spear cavalry were a little uncomfortable.After crushing a battalion of green battalion soldiers, they did not make persistent efforts to attack the chaotic pontoon bridge, nor did they take the opportunity to cut off the ropes of the pontoon bridge. Instead, they turned around and retreated into a Chinese-style hollow phalanx that had just been set up.

And this Chinese-style hollow phalanx is just outside the mouth of the south side of the pontoon, less than a hundred steps away from the pontoon bridge. It not only blocks the official road, cuts off the connection between Yuele and Fushun County, but also prevents it from being erected on Fushun County. The artillery bombardment, this site selection is really clever enough!

(End of this chapter)