Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 995 Raid on the East Bank
At night, under the cover of night, the Jin army withdrawing from eastern Sichuan, led by Wu Sangui, quickly marched northwestward.

Although Wang Deren was led to the direction of Luzhou by him, the distance between Luzhou and Tieshan was less than a day, so Wu Sangui did not have enough time.

When heading towards Tieshan, Wu Sangui sent many scouts to Tieshan in order to find out the situation. The news brought back by the scouts confirmed that Hauge was indeed besieged in the Tuojiang Valley.

There are not many paths Wu Sangui can take now. If he has great power in the Kingdom of Jin, then he can ignore Hauge and slip away by himself, go to Xi'an to fight for power, take the opportunity to seize the power of the Kingdom of Jin, learn from Wang Yan of Nanming, and even Set up a shelf and do it yourself.

But even if Hauge died, the Manchu sect headed by Jierharang, and the Han officials and gentry headed by Meng Qiaofang and Han Chaoxuan would probably support the crown prince, and he is not the most powerful, so he still has to stand aside. And he will be held accountable for not saving Hauge, and it is impossible for him to leave Dajin and join another country, so Wu Sangui can only rescue Hauge.

What's more, without Hauge, Jin Guo's morale will suffer a heavy blow. As a person on Jin Guo's ship, he doesn't want Jin Guo to capsize.

In one day, Wu Sangui wanted to cross the Tuojiang River, attack Taniguchi, and rescue the trapped Jin army. It was not safe. If he could not break through the camp of the Ming army, and when Wang Deren caught up again, he would also be in danger of being trapped on the west bank. .

After learning that Hauge was trapped in the valley to the west of the Tuojiang River, he decided to find another way to go directly into the valley on the east bank of the Tuojiang River, and then build a pontoon bridge from the opposite bank to bring the Jinjun and Hauge from the west bank to the east bank from the pontoon bridge. Jump out of the encirclement of the Ming army.

Wu Sangui set off from the east of Sichuan, and the route was mostly low and gentle hills, with large rice fields mixed in between. The march was not difficult. They walked for two days, and the outline of Qingshiling in the valley on the east bank could already be seen.

"My lord! The entrance of the valley is ahead!" A leader of the scouts who led the army pointed to the black mountain in front of him, "Here we are! This is here!" , the army will not be led astray.

Wu Sangui reined in his horse, stopped and looked around. There was a canyon formed between the high mountains in front of him. The Tuojiang River flowed through the canyon, dividing the canyon into two halves. Hauge was trapped on the west side of the canyon, while Wu Sangui was on the west side of the canyon. east side.

"Is there a Ming army stationed in the east?" Wu Sangui asked.

The leader of the scouts nodded, "Yes, there are about 2000 people. They set up a small village under Qingshiling. Soldiers patrol day and night. They mainly monitor the west bank to prevent people from crossing the river and escaping!"

Wu Sangui nodded secretly, what the Ming army did this time can be said to be watertight, trapped Hauge to death, and even thought of letting Wang Deren restrain him, it was almost foolproof, but he didn't want him to get rid of Wang Deren.

The most important thing right now is to get rid of the [-] Ming troops on the east bank as soon as possible, and then cut down trees to build a pontoon bridge. He immediately looked stern, and ordered: "Hu Guozhu, take your people to touch in, deal with the patrol first, and then take out the Ming army." The army camp, try not to make any noise!"

Hu Guozhu heard the words, immediately embraced his fists to accept the order, and then led thousands of elites, walked past the army, disappeared into the darkness, and touched the valley to the east.

Entering the valley, the Jin army quickly found the patrol team of the Ming army. They were carrying torches and patrolling along the river to prevent the Jin army on the other side from slipping away in the dark. Therefore, the patrols were very frequent and strict. There will be a bonfire and a sentry post.

"there!"

The Jin army that entered the valley was quickly divided into more than ten groups. Hu Guozhu was behind a big tree, watching a fire burning by the river in the distance. More than ten soldiers surrounded the fire. Most of them had already fallen asleep. Two soldiers stood facing the river with their guns in their hands, watching the situation on the river to prevent the Jin army on the west bank from crossing the river.

Hu Guozhu saw that the attention of the Ming army post was on the river, and he didn't expect that there would be an attack from behind. He waved his hand immediately, and several elite gold soldiers around him touched them lightly, and rushed out from behind, killing the two men. The sentry soldiers fell to the ground and ended their lives with a knife. Other Ming soldiers who were sleeping were also cut by the Jin army.

In the woods by the river, Ye Xiao kept shouting, which meant that the Ming army posts by the river had been pulled out. Hu Guozhu immediately said to the Jin army who were constantly gathering, "Go, take the Ming army's camp!" Yu Jin's army cleared all the sentry posts of the Ming army along the way, and quickly moved down the Qingshi Ridge. However, it was easy to pull out the sentry posts, but it was difficult to take down a camp quietly.

While Hu Guozhu was in motion, he was just thinking about how to keep quiet, when suddenly there was a bang in the darkness, breaking the tranquility of the entire east bank.

"There is a secret whistle!" Hu Guozhu was startled, and the whole person stopped immediately, and the team around him also stopped immediately, looking around in horror, but he didn't know the direction in which the gunball was fired.

Suddenly there was a sound of leaves and weeds in the grass in the distance, and a Ming army sentry behind quickly, Hu Guozhu recognized the direction, and immediately shouted angrily, "There!" Several Jin soldiers around him immediately shot a wave of arrows, and the grass With a scream, the leaves and weeds stopped.

Seeing this, Hu Guozhu frowned instead, because he saw the small village of the Ming army not far away, gradually waking up after the sound of the guns. The sound showed that they were prepared.

"Just kill!" Seeing that the sneak attack was unsuccessful, Hu Guozhu made a decisive decision and changed it to a strong attack. With a wave of his sword, more than a thousand golden soldiers roared from the darkness to the Ming army's small stronghold, and the east bank immediately burst into battle.

At this time, Wu Sangui had led the army into the valley, and when he heard the shouts of killing, he knew that the sneak attack had failed.

He originally wanted to quietly deal with the Ming army on the east bank, and then took advantage of the night to build a pontoon bridge and take the Jin army on the west bank to the east bank without anyone noticing. Chengdu.

Seeing that he had been exposed, Wu Sangui immediately ordered a group of people to support Hu Guozhu, and asked him to break through the camp as soon as possible, and then ordered: "All people should act together, cut down trees, and build the pontoon bridge as soon as possible!"

Once the Ming army on the west bank discovers the movements on the east bank and knows that someone is coming to rescue Hauge, they will inevitably launch a fierce attack on the Jin army on the west bank. Therefore, his immediate priority is to build a pontoon bridge so that the Jin army attacked by the Ming army can retreat to the east. shore.

At this time, in the west bank valley, the morale of the Jin army, which had been trapped for ten days, had fallen to the bottom. Although Hauge did not give up his survival, he organized several breakouts, but all ended in failure.

These failures made the Jin army even more desperate and morale more depressed, and more and more people surrendered to the Ming army every day.

At night, countless soldiers crowded the valley, some had already fallen asleep, some were staring at the sky in the north with dull eyes, some even sang Guanlong folk songs sadly, with tears in their eyes.

Hauge sat down with his back against the stone, but couldn't fall asleep. He was thinking about what would happen to the Golden State he created after he died?Whether the crown prince Qi Zheng can support his foundation, but when he thinks of the opponents of the Kingdom of Jin, he becomes a little pessimistic.

"Your Majesty! Look at the east bank!" Sonny who was beside Hauge suddenly stood up.

Hauge raised his head when he heard the words, and the soldiers around him became agitated with the shout. He saw the Ming army camp on the east bank was ablaze, and then the sound of gunshots and shouts of killing came over.

Seeing this, Hauge couldn't help standing up, "This must be reinforcements, and no matter who the troops are, they must be here to save him, the emperor of the Jin Kingdom."

Almost all the soldiers of the Golden Army in the valley stood up, Sony and others couldn't hide the excitement on their faces, shaking hands with the people around them excitedly, and even hugged each other.

In Hauge's heart, a fighting spirit was ignited, it was heaven that would never kill him, there was still someone to rescue him in such a desperate situation, he must reward this slave heavily if he kills him.

"Your Majesty! The Ming army has begun to mobilize troops!" When everyone was excited, they heard someone shout again.

Hauge was startled when he asked, and looked back, only to see densely packed Ming army soldiers rushing down the mountain, holding torches, in the Ming army barracks on the mountain.

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