The Ming Dynasty began from Sarhu

Chapter 462: Cooperation Against Qi
Emperor Kangxi and Qianlong heard people shouting and horses neighing outside the tent, and faintly heard someone calling "Liu Zhaosun", and they couldn't help feeling frightened.

He was about to ask Goshiha what happened when there was a bang and the tent door was kicked open from the outside, and a Qing army general covered in blood rushed in.

Goshiha in the tent immediately drew his sword and stepped forward to stop him, but the man rushed towards the emperor like a madman and was about to collide with Goshiha's blade.

"Ayinggua?"

Dudu waved his hand to stop Gosiha who was about to swing his sword to kill him. He recognized that the man was Ayinggua of the Plain White Banner, the most valiant Niulu Ezhen under the command of Dorgon, the leader of the Plain White Banner.

"Ayinggua, why are you running here instead of staying with your master in Liuge Village?"

As the siege of Shenyang drew to a close, Du Du transferred some of the extra troops to the western part of the battlefield to prevent harassment from the Shaanxi bandits entrenched in western Liaoning. Although these Nikan peasants were not a force to be reckoned with, no one could guarantee that they would not come to Shenyang to beg for money when they were starving.

Dorgon led a part of the Plain White Banner with about 3,000 troops and stationed in Liuge Village, 20 miles west of Shenyang, at the end of March. They were responsible for monitoring the movements of the bandits in western Liaoning and preventing them from taking the opportunity to advance eastward, although Dorgon was very dissatisfied with Dudu's order.

"Your Majesty, the Zhengbai Banner is finished!"

Ayinggua did not answer Dudu's question, but just cried loudly:

"Master Dorgon allowed the original soldiers to capture him! The Zhengbai Banner has dispersed, the Baoyi soldiers don't listen to our commands and are running everywhere. Liu Zhaosun's cavalry is coming. There are cannons firing everywhere..."

Ayinggua had not yet recovered from his shock and seemed incoherent in front of the emperor.

Dudu looked up and glanced at Colen. A look of horror appeared on the British businessman's face, and his big, hairy hands kept rubbing, as if trying to rub off all the mud on his palms.

Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong saw Kelun making the sign of the cross on his chest and tremblingly said:

"Oh my God, that demon is not dead yet. He is back and he wants to kill everyone. Oh my God."

Du Du was also very panicked, but he pretended to be calm. He comforted himself by saying that the Qi army that appeared on the west side of Shenyang should be stragglers who escaped from the interior, but this was quickly denied by Ayinggua.

"They have at least 3,000 cavalrymen. As they charge, they fire cannonballs from behind. The shells rain down like rain, and they explode when they hit the ground. They're even more terrifying than landmines."

Niulu Ezhen of the Zhengbai Banner was still chattering. His face was pale and he was kneeling on the ground, shivering as if he had the hiccups. Fine beads of sweat soon seeped out of his shiny forehead and even his voice began to tremble.

Although the Qing troops stationed in Liugezhuang were not all of the Zhengbai Banner, there were at least 3,000 of them. How could 3,000 troops be defeated so quickly?

"Master, run away quickly. If you leave too late, you won't be able to escape."

Dudu became furious when he saw Ayinggua was still chattering on and on like a shaman performing a ritual.

"Drag him out and chop him up!"

Just as Goshiha was about to come up to drag the people away, two violent explosions were suddenly heard outside. Dudu was shaken so much that he took two steps back and sat down on his tiger-skin chair.

This was obviously not a landmine explosion. The Qing army would not have buried landmines in their own camp.

"Don't kill him yet, go out and take a look!"

After Du Du finished speaking, he was the first to rush out of the tent, followed by a group of Goshaha. The guards raised their shields and protected the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in the center.

The camp was in chaos. A gun crater more than a foot deep appeared at the camp gate, and a dud was emitting black smoke next to it.

The artillery bombardment killed and wounded more than a dozen soldiers of the Zhenghuang Banner. Some were hit by shrapnel and fell to the ground, wriggling like earthworms.

Dudu walked past the wounded soldiers with a gloomy face, looked at the broken limbs and remains on the ground, then looked at the dud that was still smoking, and turned back to ask the British businessman Colen what kind of weapon it was.

"Your Majesty, this should be a shrapnel bomb. It will explode when it hits the ground. I don't know how they solved the fuse problem..."

Colen opened his mouth wide, and suddenly his feet slipped, stepping on a piece of wet intestine, and the British man immediately vomited.

With the bombardment point as the center, people were running around everywhere around the camp gate, with infantry and horse armor mixed together. The bannermen squatted on the ground, looking aggrieved like children and just shouting in despair. The emperor even saw Koreans and red-haired barbarians. These foreigners followed the Eight Banners warriors and howled like ghosts and wolves, speaking in bird language that Du Du could not understand.

"What are they yelling?"

Colen stopped vomiting and quickly translated for the Qing Emperor: "Your Majesty, they are praying to God, begging the gods to forgive the sins they committed in their lives. Oh, right, we Europeans all pray to God before we die, because that way we can go to heaven."

"With your behavior, you still want to go to heaven?"

Du Du couldn't help but curse. He was so angry that his teeth were itching. He pushed away the shield in front of him, took out two flintlock pistols from his waist, and fired two shots at the sky above the camp.

The Eight Banners warriors who were running around stopped, stood there in a daze, and looked back at their emperor.

"What are you messing around for? Stop it! There are a few Nikan ghosts who are anxious to reincarnate, why should we be afraid of it? Kill them back! Kill!"

With the appearance of the emperor, the Zhenghuang Banner, which had fallen into chaos, quickly restored order.

Under the command of each Niulu Ezhen, the white-armored soldiers of the Plain Yellow Banner began to line up around the camp with the infantry and cavalry armor of each Niulu. Wuzhenhachao pushed the cannons out of the camp gate, loaded gunpowder, and prepared to meet the enemy.

Du Du took a quick look and strode towards the western camp, leaving the Zhenghuang Banner and inspecting the situation in other banners.

One mile to the west is the Zhenghong Banner of Sahalian, and then the Xianghong Banner of Shuotuo.

Entering the Zhenghongqi defense zone, the artillery fire from the west became more intense, and the sound of fighting could be heard.
Sporadic fleeing troops continued to pour in from the west. The white-armored soldiers of the Zhenghong Banner brandished their long swords and stood guard at the camp gate, shouting and scolding the fleeing soldiers to prevent them from rushing into the main camp, lest they be dispersed by the Zhengbai Banner. Sahalian, who had always been at odds with Dorgon, was furious at this. His main force was still outside Shenyang, so he ordered Wuzhenhachao to come and help prevent the Zhengbai Banner soldiers from storming the camp.

The bondservants were overjoyed to be appreciated by their master. They raised their muskets and pointed them at Dorgon's men who were shouting outside.

"No further progress, scatter!"

"Go around!"

When the Zhenyi masters saw that they were blocked by the baoyi slaves, they were all furious. The cavalrymen in front did not slow down their horses and directly stabbed the baoyi who were blocking the way with their lances.

Sahalian's men, Wuzhenhachao, were quickly chopped down, and the Zhengbai Banner continued to move eastward, recklessly killing everything in their way.

Wu Zhenhachao, who was under attack, got Sahalian's tacit approval, pulled the trigger and shot at the crazy Zhengbai Banner cavalry.

Flintlock rifles had terrifying lethality within ten paces. Those hit by the bullets immediately fell to the ground. After dozens of White Banner cavalrymen were killed, the fallen horses gradually piled up like a small hill at the entrance of the Red Banner camp, forcing the cavalrymen charging from behind to avoid them. The riders on horseback cursed uncontrollably, whether they were cursing the bannermen or their emperor.

Du Du didn't know why the Zhengbai Banner suffered such a crushing defeat. Seeing Ma Jia's panic-stricken look, it was hard to imagine what kind of terrible opponent Dorgon encountered.

Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong raised the telescope and looked westward. The delicate whiskers on his chin were shaking violently due to nervousness, which made Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong look more like the Great Rat Immortal.

In the field of vision, the soldiers of the Plain White Banner were in extreme chaos, fleeing to the east like a tide. The cavalry were running in the front. The white triangular flags on the backs of the riders had disappeared, and many people's helmets had also been abandoned.

Following closely behind were the elite white-armored warriors. These were the strongest warriors in each Niulu. At this moment, they were all terrified. Those who were rushing in the front had no armor left on them. They were like hairless pigs, allowing the enemy to chase and slaughter them.

"Dorgon, I'm going to kill you!"

Following behind the white-armored soldiers were the Zhenyi infantry...and the one escaping at the end was the bannerman Aha.

Thousands of fleeing rattails are like happy weeds in the fields, cheering and waiting to be harvested by the Grim Reaper's scythe.

"The White Banner is finished, Dorgon, I will... "

Dudu's beard twitched violently again. At this time, the rumbling sound of horse hooves came from the west, approaching rapidly like spring thunder.

Five miles away on the horizon, an endless, thin, black line suddenly rose.

Crossing the black line and continuing westward, the layers of cavalry fronts were like rolling black waves, one after another, pushing one after another, and instantly submerging the Baoyi Aha who was fleeing at the back.

"Black flags, black armor, these are the Kaiyuan cavalry. Is Liu Zhaosun still alive? Is Liu Zhaosun really still alive?"

Du Du felt dizzy and fell to the ground.

Goshiha, who was standing next to him, quickly helped his master up and called out loudly in the emperor's ear.

Kelun took a kettle and poured water on Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong's face, and Du Du woke up.

The British were seized by a familiar yet unfamiliar sense of fear, staring blankly at the massacre in the west, at a loss as to what to do.

The horrific experience of the Battle of Tsushima came to mind. The Liaodong Navy annihilated the entire combined fleet of the four countries. The sailors of the East India Company suffered countless casualties, and the sea was dyed red with the blood of Europeans.

If I hadn't escaped quickly back then, I would have sunk into the Tsushima Strait and turned into a pile of bones.

The main forces of Qing and Qi had not yet officially clashed, but the outcome of the battlefield had already been decided.

"Your Majesty," Kelun said, looking at the newly awakened Dudu. "As early as last year, we warned Your Majesty, telling you more than once that your enemy Liu Zhaosun might not be dead. However, you and your ministers refused to believe this fact. Now the situation is out of control, and you are the only ones left to clean up the mess."

After saying this, Colen rubbed his big nose, which had turned red with fear, and turned away.

"stop!"

Dudu winked at Goshiha, who rushed forward and pinned the tall red-haired barbarian to the ground.

"Mr. Kelun, now that you're on this ship, don't make sarcastic remarks. I signed a peace treaty with you. Now that the Qing Dynasty is in trouble, you can't just walk away. You must fight to the end with the Eight Banners warriors! For peace!"

The businessman Kelun had never experienced the thrill of fighting on the battlefield, never imagined that one day he would have to fight hand-to-hand with the barbarians in this corner of Liaodong.

It’s unbelievable when I think about it.

After a brief moment of shock, Du Du quickly calmed down.

Now, he had no time to think about how Liu Zhaosun survived. The first thing he had to do was to organize the troops from various flags and fight a decisive battle with the Qi army.

While Goshiha was putting armor on the emperor, Dudu ordered Sahalianduoduo and other flag owners who had hurried over:
"Dorgon, leader of the Plain White Banner, neglected his defenses, leading to the Liu rebels' surprise attack on his army. He deserves death. Wuzhenhachao will withdraw the artillery aimed at the Shenyang city gates and direct it towards the west to bombard the Liu rebels. Later, have the Korean soldiers and baoyi lead the front to hold the line. Oh, and don't let the Luosha ghosts and the red-haired barbarians escape. Now that they're on the Qing ship, don't get off!"

The Qi army coming to support from the interior must be exhausted. As long as they give Liu Zhaosun a head-on blow, they will be like moths flying into a flame and bring about their own destruction.

That’s right, the Qi army now has new troops and new weapons, but the Qing Dynasty is not a pushover either, and Du Du also has black technology, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

(End of this chapter)