Griffin Commander in the Late Ming Dynasty

"Damn it, damn it, damn it!!! Damn it!!!"

Jirgalang was furious and swearing more and more foully. There was no other reason. The Qing army suffered heavy losses tonight and the camp was destroyed. The red mine that was taken by mistake caused great trouble to the Qing army. A huge pit of dozens of meters was left there, making it a pipe dream to rebuild on the original site.

The flag soldiers suffered heavy losses. There are hundreds of them killed and wounded tonight. So far, six hundred are no more than that. A considerable number of them were killed by M2HB alone. He is worthy of his reputation as a top-notch killer.

The most serious thing was that Beizi Bolo was killed, and the Aisin-Gioro family lost another general.

Huang Taiji was also feeling very confused now. Why? Who was Bolo? Abatai's third son. Abatai was his eldest brother. He was very good at protecting his son. Not to mention that he had just sent someone back, and in a blink of an eye, the son was gone. How could this be justified? What? You said Abatai was a daughter slave and protected his daughters? Oh, that's fine.

This attack on the camp was a big blow to the Qing army, and even more so on a psychological level. Since the Eight Banners came out, they had been smooth sailing and invincible. Now they were repeatedly defeated by a Central Plains rebel they had never heard of. This made them angry and they began to have a little doubt. Can we really take this down? The Qing army was in a bleak state.

In contrast to the Qing army, Jiang Han was on high spirits.

"Wuhu!! It seems like!!! Open the champagne!!"

After learning that 191 had killed another Beizi in the midst of thousands of troops, Jiang Han immediately started to open the champagne. Yes, yes, yes, that's right!

Is this what it feels like to kill people in a fish pond with a top team? It’s so cool!

To be honest, Jiang Han had a very bad impression of Wild Boar Skin when he was a child, because the braids were really ugly. After growing up and knowing what these people did in the Central Plains, he couldn't say that he had any opinions, he could only say that he wanted to kill them all.

Liaodong, he will definitely take it down in the future, but now, it would be better to let him bleed. When it develops in the future, when he makes a big move, he will make clear arrangements for these little brats. And they will be spared? Let them have a taste of the iron fist of comrades!

Thinking of this, Jiang Han began to get anxious. He didn't know what was going on in Liaodong. Hurry up and get Huang Taiji, this unlucky guy, to go back so that he could quickly attract people, open mines and start production! Even if he wasn't anxious, the readers were getting anxious.

So what's the situation on Reach?

Now Abatai has led his troops to the Hala River. Going down the river is Liaozhong, and then continuing along the Taizi River, they will reach Benxi. This place is the only way for Phoenix City to go up to Shengjing. Abatai is determined to intercept the enemy here.

Although the enemy army disappeared after destroying Phoenix City and massacring countless local soldiers and civilians, and was never seen again, Abatai had a hunch that the other side must still be there and must be planning something. If so, Abatai guessed that the target must be Shengjing.

Because apart from Shengjing, he couldn't think of anywhere else worthy of such a fierce army to attack deep into the interior of Liaodong. Mao Wenlong was just a group of bandits who couldn't even touch the edge of Phoenix City.

The 20,000-strong army has been marching for nearly a month and is now exhausted, but now is not the time to rest. Once they reach Liaozhong, where there is an ample supply of food and fodder, they can take a good rest before continuing their journey.

They were rushing, and the Iron Bloods were also rushing. Since landing on the beach, the Iron Bloods had been rushing towards the previously marked target location at a speed of 70 kilometers per hour without stopping. According to their calculations of the target group, the other side should have almost reached Liaozhong. At their speed, the two sides would meet along the Taizi River and engage in a battle, and they would arrive there first.

At that time, they will build fortifications along the Taizi River and construct a siege, waiting for the battle to begin, and then they will be able to eliminate all movable lives in front of them with artillery fire and flames.

As war machines, the Iron Bloods had no excitement or hard work. Their goal was to intercept the target group and destroy as many living groups as possible. At the moment, Abatai's army was undoubtedly the largest living group.

Instruct, execute, clear.

This is their approach. If there is a line to describe it, it would be: blood is flowing, and no one will be spared.

Volume 354: Chapter Chapter : No One Left Alive

After three days of rest, the Qing army's reinforcements left Liaozhong where they were temporarily stationed and set out for Benxi. It was not that Abatai did not want to stay any longer. On the one hand, he was eager to return home, and on the other hand, the several requests for help from Shengjing were really urgent.

What's more, with 20,000 people eating and taking away food, the face of the Liaozhong prefect was visibly turning green, so Abatai had to hurry up.

It is July now, and the midsummer season in Liaodong is only a countdown. It would be better to say that there has been no midsummer in this damn place for all these years. The Taizi River is now frozen and horses can be run on the river.

The war horses were all covered with cotton armor. A long journey in such a place requires a lot of calories. Recently, the war horses' meals are mainly soybeans, and they have to be supplemented with a few eggs, otherwise they will not get enough energy.

They have to rest regularly after traveling a lot. The cold air will enter the horses' bodies and they can easily get sick. They take their horses seriously.

To be honest, if the Qing army's war horses could become racehorses, they would jump over their riders the first moment and crack their pelvises.

There was a heavy snowfall a few days ago. As the temperature has not risen, the snow cannot melt, making it difficult to travel on the road. Continuous heavy snowfalls have caused the snow to reach the ankles, and by November, it has not reached the roofs.

The situation in Liaodong is relatively normal, but in Russia above and America across the ocean, the winter has reached the point where tunnels need to be dug in the snow for people to pass through.

The Qing troops tried to travel as silently as possible, with white air spewing out of their mouths and noses, which condensed into a layer of white frost on their beards.

This can effectively prevent excessive loss of body heat. The disadvantage is that the mouth may be frozen. When resting at the camp, some people will use hot water to melt the ice, while some lazy dogs will simply let their horses lick it open for them.

The Qing troops who were marching forward in silence had not yet noticed that not far from them, there was a strange gray-black stone, silently observing everything they were doing.

This is a soldier ant, buried in thick snow. The black shell on its body and the snow covering it serve as natural camouflage. At this moment, the camera on its head zooms slightly, recording everything about this team.

It's not that the Qing army didn't think about an ambush, but what could they do in such a flat land? No one would hide themselves in the ground, right? No, no, no? That would be really stupid. This kind of ground, burying in it for half a day would be enough to kill people. What about an ambush? If they didn't ambush anyone, they would be ice sticks. Compared with these, those mountainous areas and forests that looked dangerous were the key targets they should pay attention to.

The Qing army's data was silently transmitted to the combat units and the scouts on standby at high altitudes in the distance.

Reconnaissance work in the Liaodong region is not easy for scouts because the plan of disguising as flying birds naturally fails. In this place where temperatures are below zero all year round, the temperature cannot rise to the proper level in the summer, so the birds cannot see the vibrant green after winter, and cannot find enough insects to feed their chicks after breeding. The number of birds in the Liaodong region has been declining rapidly during the Little Ice Age.

On the contrary, the vultures are doing pretty well.

Without enough large birds, the scouts would not be able to find camouflage objects, and it would also be unusual for vultures to fly with the army, after all, no one died along the way. Therefore, the scouts often started their actions at night and then passed the baton to the soldier ants.

"Your Majesty, there is a river ahead."

"Put on the bridles for the horses and tell the people below to prepare to cross the river."

After leaving Liaozhong, the Taizi River will make two turns in the middle of the way, forming a small "几" shape on the ground, and then turn back. If you follow the river for a while, you can see Benxi. However, the Qing army was in a hurry and had no time to follow the river around the bend, so crossing the river became the only option.

Although the river seemed to be frozen solid, it was July after all, and the Taizi River was several hundred meters wide, so they still had to be cautious. The Qing army put rubber covers made of emery cloth on the horses to increase friction. After letting a group of people walk back and forth several times to test the solidity of the river surface, the army began to slowly cross the river.

The carriage where Abatai was located was in the middle of the army. It was quite difficult to pull the carriage on the ice. If it went a little faster, it might drift. Fortunately, it had snowed in the previous two days and the river surface was still a bit rough.

"Look over there, is that a bird?"

Someone on the river spotted a black object hovering in the sky not far away.

"There are still birds in the sky these days, they should be vultures, right?"

"It flies pretty fast..."

The silent journey makes people feel suffocated, and whenever they find a topic, they want to chat with the people around them.

Under the ice, the indicator lights on top of several black spheres turned from green to red.

The violent explosion brought with it a huge impact force that broke through the ice. The fierce water flow found an outlet and suddenly rushed up into the sky. The heavy carriage was knocked off track by the huge force before it could react, and fell heavily into the river due to gravity.

Don't be fooled by the peaceful life above. Under the thick ice, there is a turbulent river! The torrent swept the warhorse, and a large amount of water began to pour into the carriage frantically, and then hit the ice layer on the side fiercely.

"The prince fell into the water!!!"

The accident happened so quickly that the people around him only had time to shout out a sentence. The first reaction of most Qing soldiers was to save people, but their instinctive experience of living in the snow for many years quickly told them the second thing to do.

Run!

The second explosion, the third explosion... As the continuous explosions sounded almost at the same time, the originally solid ice surface of the Taizi River completely lost its supporting ability. The ice surface shattered, and a large number of cracks began to spread, accompanied by the Qing army's screams of fear. The ice layer broke and shattered.

In order to keep warm, the Qing army wore thick cotton armor and fur coats. Such equipment was like a sponge when it fell into the river and would sink to the bottom. The Qing army's swimming ability was funny. These Jianzhou Jurchens who grew up on fishing and hunting had become increasingly close to the Mongols, resulting in most of them being poor swimmers.

The warhorse was carrying things and fell into the water and began to struggle desperately. When a person enters the water, it is like a weight and sinks to the bottom with a sound.

"Hurry and save people!!!"

"Help!!!"

"Enemy attack! Pay attention to the formation and defend carefully!"

The entire team began to panic. Many officers began to command their men to rescue people, and more officers became alert, wondering why the ice surface exploded and what happened.

But at this moment, no one was thinking about one thing, because of the breaking of the ice, their team was now torn in half, and in the middle of them was a cold and turbulent river.

Everything has just begun.

Things happened too quickly. A team of 20,000 people was not too many, but not too few at all. The long queue of more than 10,000 people made the Qing army at the front and the back unaware of what was happening. They only felt a little noisy. Everything happened too quickly and they had no time to perceive it.

But they soon sensed something else: enemies were coming from behind them.

In other words, some kind of monster crawled out from the water.

The ice shattered and a gigantic beast climbed out from the bottom of the water, followed by equally bizarre monsters. They were silent and bizarre, with frost that had just formed on their bodies. They said nothing but began to spew out deadly fire.

"Enemy attack!!! There are enemies!!! Get ready to meet them!!!"

"Where did it come from? What the hell is that?!"

This place is so empty, and they have never seen any enemies along the way. Where did these things come from? The Qing army couldn't figure it out.

"In the water, in the water!!! Those things are crawling out of the water!!"

That's right, the Iron Bloods have special ambush skills. After formulating the combat strategy for this time, the Iron Bloods split into two groups, one responsible for intercepting in the front, and the other responsible for ambush. There is no area for ambush on the flat river bank? Isn't there a river here?

The revolver guns in the hands of the Rippers began to rotate, and they began to attack the end of the Qing army like mowing the grass. Artillery fire, bullets, iron and blood intertwined at this moment, and the sounds of flesh being pierced and wailing echoed over the ice field.

For the team in the front, the river bank is no longer safe at this moment. They must retreat as quickly as possible and form a formation to deal with the enemy from unknown sources. For the Qing army in the rear, the fire has already reached their eyebrows.

The Iron Bloods were positioned quite scattered. Since they came ashore, they turned their team into a giant net, which slowly spread out and slowly enveloped the slender Qing army.

"Warriors!!! Follow me to kill the enemies!!"

After experiencing great initial surprise, many Qing troops quickly reacted. The ferocious nature they developed from fighting between the White Mountains and the Black Waters made them choose to fight back as soon as possible. No matter what kind of monster you are, you will die if you are killed, and they are invincible. But soon, this confidence was torn to pieces.

As a machine gun shot smashed a Jiala Zhangjing and his horse to pieces, the god of death's scythe began to swing cruelly towards this stubborn team.

The firepower of the automatic machine gun mounted on the Iron-Blooded Scorpion Beast is indeed a bit inferior to that of the military's Green Invincible, but it is enough in this situation. One shot from the ferocious machine gun will kill a rider and his horse. In front of the Scorpion Beast, a huge blood fan is formed as it keeps firing. A few lucky ones rush forward, and then are torn to pieces by the firepower network formed by the Dragoons and Rangers.

The six hundred cavalrymen only held out for less than three minutes before they turned into pools of red corpses on the ground, but the massacre by the Iron Bloods continued. They steadily and slowly gathered the Qing troops together and slowly advanced towards the cold, turbulent river.

Volume 355: Chapter Chapter : The Tragedy of Baoyi and Late Events

The Qing army's reinforcements arrived in Benxi, but the way they arrived was not what they had expected.

In order to ensure irrigation and drinking water, the residents of Benxi have always been very concerned about the freezing of the Taizi River and frequently sent people to chop ice. Of course, those sent were all captured Han people. The Manchu masters naturally would not do the menial work of chopping ice in such a cold winter.

Recently, the people of Benxi discovered that something had happened to the Taizi River, which had always nurtured them. The water flowing down from the upper reaches was no longer blue with green, but pink with red. Many Han people who had this situation almost engraved in their DNA were instantly awakened to the unbearable memories they did not want to recall. This pink with red was not river water, it was blood water!!

What happened? Why was there blood flowing in the Taizi River? What happened upstream? In those days when information was blocked, the people in the city were panicked for a while, but soon they found the reason.

This was because corpses that had been swollen by the river water began to float in the river in large numbers and continuously.

Splash! A corpse that had been soaked in water and looked a bit like a giant was fished out of the water. It was hard to recognize who was who, but looking at the blue cotton armor on the body, it was known that this was a soldier of the Zhenglan Banner. Who were the people of the Zhenglan Banner?

Under Nurhaci, the Zhenglan Banner was led by Abatai and Abai. Dorgon also led a part of the army before, but because he had made mistakes before, the army was taken back by Huang Taiji.

The Abai people are still guarding Shengjing, so they naturally will not appear in the upper reaches of Taizi River. Combined with the seven previous requests for help from Shengjing and military reports from various places, there is only one answer, and that is Abatai.

Look at the corpses filling the valley, so densely packed, almost tens of millions of them. What happened?

The Blue Banner Abatai's troops were completely wiped out on the banks of the Taizi River. The news quickly spread from Benxi to Shengjing. The ordinary people were unaware of how much of a shock this caused to the Liaodong court. Some even cheered in their hearts, saying, "Well done for the death of these Tartar dogs. It would be better if more of them died!"

However, soon, this misfortune befell them.

In a shabby courtyard, a family was hiding things in their secret compartment. The man of the house was chosen by the Manchu masters to fish out a body from the river. It was a dirty job, but the man, Xu Changda, was bold and careful. He took out two silver pieces from the body and hid them quietly.

Although it is unlucky to touch things from the dead, who cares about that these days?

After putting it away, the family of three immediately grinned foolishly, with an indescribable excitement on their faces. With this money, their future lives will be much better!

Suddenly there was a bang, and the simple wooden door of the courtyard was kicked away. Xu Changda was startled and hurriedly limped out to check. His legs and feet were a little unsteady after soaking in the ice water for too long.

I saw a dozen armored soldiers filing in. Behind them, the Zhang Jing Lord E Tui of this Niulu slowly walked in, along with his master Baji.

"Your servant greets the lord and the master!" Xu Changda knelt down nervously and the rat tail behind his head was particularly eye-catching.

Niulu Zhangjing of the Zhenghuang Banner didn't even look at Xu Changda, but walked straight to Xu Changda's wife Cuifen, and looked her up and down.

Cui Yingtai suddenly became nervous and limped over and said, "Sir..."

Baji was dressed simply. He kicked Xu Changda to the ground and yelled, "Dog slave, do you want to die?"

Niulu Zhangjing E Tui shook his head slightly, seemingly dissatisfied. He turned around and waved his hand casually, saying, "By order of Jiala Zhangjing Aobai, each Niulu household must pay 100 kilograms of grain!"

Seeing his gesture, several armored soldiers immediately rushed into the house and began to rummage through the drawers and cabinets looking for food. In a short while, the house was in a mess, and several armored soldiers carrying food bags walked out with a smile.

Xu Changda's face turned pale, and he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed, saying, "Sir, these are all the food in my house. If you take them away, how will our family of three survive?"

E Tui looked at him coldly, and two armored soldiers kicked him to the ground.

Cuifen quickly helped him up and grabbed Xu Changda's arm tightly, looking very panicked.

The youngest son of the Xu family looked at the group of robbers in his yard with horror. He felt as if his body was restrained by something and he could not move at all.

E Tui glanced at the young man and waved his hand again. Immediately, two armored soldiers dragged the young man over and prepared to take him away with the food.

Cuifen immediately panicked, screamed, and grabbed her son tightly, preventing them from taking him away.

Xu Changda was also panicking, and quickly got up from the ground and asked anxiously, "Sir, what are you doing?"

Niulu Zhang Jing E retreated and said: "Twenty thousand government troops have been killed, foreign enemies are eyeing us covetously, the front line is short of people, there is an order from above, all men must go to the battlefield!"

Xu Changda said anxiously, "Sir, he is only twelve years old. The emperor's decree says that he can only go to the battlefield at the age of fourteen!"

E Tui said disdainfully: "Now the situation is urgent and we have to act according to the rules. With a powerful enemy at hand, I advise you, a dog slave, not to be ungrateful."

"Ah! Don't take my baby away, don't take him away!" Cuifen hugged her child tightly, her eyes full of pleading. It is very difficult to raise a child these days. After all, the child is about to grow up and become the pillar of the family, but he is being taken to the army. How can Cuifen accept this? The dead bodies floating in the river are right in front of her eyes!

"You're looking for death!" A soldier in white armor drew out his sword, put it on Cuifen's neck, and shouted, "Let go!"