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Chapter 417 Taking Three Lands in One Day (Part Two)
After passing Shunde, Neiqiu is further north, and Lincheng is further north of Neiqiu. Zhu Yousong successfully captured Shunde Mansion. The news spread that the Qing army in the two places was shaken. After all, the ancestral army is well-known and relatively strong. The famous Shunde City is so vulnerable to Zhu Yousong's army, why are these two small counties?

The guards of the Qing army in these two places are self-aware, but they are all Han Chinese.Therefore, the Qing army in Neiqiu and Lincheng fled without a fight, and Zhu Yousong occupied Neiqiu and Lincheng without bloodshed.

Less than a hundred miles to the north is Gaoyi. Zhu Yousong's troops are approaching the city.

Gaoyi is today’s Gaoyi County, Hebei Province. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was a Dazhai, which belonged to Zhending Prefecture of Hebei Province. Zhending is today’s Zhengding County of Hebei Province. Five or six hundred miles to the north is Beijing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, with only Baoding Mansion in the middle.

Therefore, the location of Zhending Mansion is important, and Gaoyi is the southern gate of Zhending Mansion. This small town is located on a mountain stronghold, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and its strategic position is important. Therefore, Dorgon deployed heavy troops here and let the Mongolian general Wo Er Mengsha led 1 Mongol Tartars to garrison the cottage, and together with the original guarding soldiers, there were also [-] horses.

Dorgon deployed heavy troops in Shunde and Gaoyi in order to leave a buffer for his own deployment of troops and generals. Now Dorgon, who has retreated to Zhending Mansion, has already issued orders in place of Xiao Shunzhi, and transferred to the west to guard Taiyuan. Ma Guozhu was sent to send troops, and Tang Tong, who was stationed in Cangzhou, was sent to the east to lead his troops to serve the king.

But the ancestral army who stayed in Shunde Mansion disappointed Dorgon too much. Within two days, the city was destroyed and the whole army was wiped out. Now Zhu You took Neiqiu and Lincheng in one day. In the evening of the same day, Zhu Yousong's army drove to the bottom of Dazhai in Gaoyi.

Capturing a cottage is different from attacking a city. Although there is no moat, nor is the city high and deep, but the terrain of the cottage is complex, and the gate is also very strong.

Faced with all battalions calling for battle, Li Zhushi of the Pao Battalion insisted on bombarding the cottage with cannons to clear the way for the army to attack the cottage, but how much ammunition would it take?

So Zhu Yousong said to Ma Wannian: "Ai Qing, I'd better leave this difficult problem to your loyalty camp."

The one-eyed general Ma Wannian was very happy. With an army of 20 million, it was undoubtedly a great honor to choose their battalion to lead the battle. The opportunity to make meritorious service came again.

Therefore, Ma Wannian gave a deep salute, confidently saying, "Your Majesty is wise, what's so difficult about this? It's not that Ma is talking big, and His Majesty will definitely be allowed to enter the cottage before three o'clock tonight."

Zhu Yousong was overjoyed, he knew too much about the Zhongzhen Camp, and the white-armed soldiers were the best at attacking the city and breaking the village. On the Wuming Ridge outside Luoyang City, the brothers and sisters of the Ma family led the white-armed soldiers to break through the mountain in one fell swoop. In one fell swoop, he wiped out thousands of Tartars from Yebijiang's tribe.It's time for the little hero of Sichuan Shizhu to show his talents.

"Your Majesty, the courtiers and concubines also want to join the battle." Ma Wannian lost one eye in the previous battle. As his younger sister's beloved brother, it was getting late. Volunteer.

Zhu Yousong nodded his approval, Zhu Yousong knew Ma Jinhua's martial arts well, this is Qin Liangyu's second in name.

Zhu Yousong ordered Huang Degong, Zheng Hongkui and others to lead troops to feign an attack in front, while Ma Jinhua and Ma Wannian brothers and sisters led the white soldiers from Zhongzhen Camp to the side of the stronghold.

This Dazhai is surrounded by steep cliffs, several feet high, and it is impossible to go up and down the mountain without taking the mountain road.

And several mountain roads are dangerous, one man guards the gate, ten thousand men cannot open it, there are Mongolian Tartars densely packed with archers, and the gates of the village are closed tightly, this kind of defense can be said to be impenetrable.

Ma Jinhua and Ma Wannian led white soldiers and quietly touched the bottom of a cliff, looking up at the cliff, this should be the most dangerous part of the cottage, and the defense must have been neglected.

Therefore, Ma Jinhua, who is brave and resourceful, chooses to climb from here.

Ma Jinhua aimed at a crack in the wall, and the white spear in her hand flew out, like throwing a javelin.

With a soft click, the white gun with the head and the barrel sank deeply into the crevice of the stone, and the exposed white rod trembled and stabilized.

Then connect several white guns together, the crescent-shaped hook at the head of the white gun hooks the ring at the end of the gun, and the white guns are connected end to end, as long as you want.

Such a huge hooked long pole was made, and the hook at the head of the long pole was hooked to the ring at the end of the gun on the cliff.

Fall down hard, feel solid, and start climbing.

The lads on a stone pillar, small and light, quickly climbed up like a monkey climbing a pole.

Then use the same method to connect upwards, and the white gun is like a rope, leading from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the cliff.

When one goes up, several ropes are lowered, and the three thousand soldiers at the bottom of the cliff will start to climb up in several ways.

They have all received special training for this job, which was taught by the heroine Qin Liangyu.

Therefore, all the soldiers of the Zhongzhen Camp, including Ma Jinhua and Ma Wannian brothers and sisters, climbed to the top of the cliff within a stick of incense.

Sure enough, Ma Jinhua expected it, because this area was a cliff several feet high, and there were no Tatars guarding it at all.

The soldiers of the Loyalty Camp put away their white guns, and under the leadership of Ma Jinhua and Ma Wannian, they suddenly appeared behind the Tartars and launched a fierce attack.

These Mongolian Tartars were caught off guard. They never imagined that Zhu Yousong's men and horses could fly up from the cliff, and they were caught off guard.

Hearing the shouts of killing from above, Huang Degong and Zheng Hongkui at the front gate of the cottage knew that the soldiers of the Zhongzhen Battalion had succeeded. With an order, a large number of Ming troops rushed up the mountain road.

The Tartars on the mountain were all messed up, Huang Degong and Zheng Hongkui led their troops to smash the gate of the village and broke into the mountain village.

At this time, it was the time of the watch, and the cottage was full of fires, and the shouts of killing were earth-shattering, like boiling water in a pot.

Mongolian Banner Chief Wo Ermengsha saw that the stronghold could no longer be defended, so he rushed down the stronghold and fled with a group of personal soldiers.

At the second watch, the battle here ended, and the Ming army completely occupied the mountain city.

Zhu Yousong issued an order to clean up the battlefield overnight, and commanded 10,000+ troops to leave the cottage and head straight for Zhending Mansion the next day.

Gaoyi is only more than 100 miles away from Zhending.

Shunde Mansion fell like lightning, and Zhu Yousong took three places in one day, like a broken bamboo.When the news reached Zhending Mansion, Dorgon, who had just settled down, turned pale with shock.

It is estimated that the official documents he sent to Taiyuan and the capital have not yet returned. Cangzhou is the closest to here. Now that Zhu Yousong's troops are approaching the city, I don't know if Tang Tong, the chief soldier of Cangzhou, has sent troops.

Dorgon is weak now, he had 15 troops when he set out for the expedition, and he suffered consecutive defeats in just a few months.

Zhenping Mansion is not considered a dangerous city, can you defend 6 or [-] horses?If it is really determined to lose it again, Baoding Mansion will be behind, and his capital will be after Baoding Mansion. If Zhu Yousong advances at this speed, my Qing Dynasty will be in danger!

(End of this chapter)