Lord of Ming Dynasty

"My lord, take a rest." Hu Kui rode his horse and ran to Zhang Qiang, fanning the wind with his hands, and said to Zhang Qiang.

Zhang Qiang glanced at the soldiers around him, they were also a little tired, and nodded slightly, "Okay."

In less than a quarter of an hour, on the hillside in the distance, several cavalrymen who had gone out to look out were desperately racing back. The troops on Zhang Qiang's side suddenly woke up, assembled one after another, and formed a defensive formation to guard Zhang Qiang and the cavalry. In the center.

With the help of the cavalry around him, Hu Kui put on his clothes and led several cavalry to meet him.

After a while, Hu Kui came back and shouted while running, "There is a large group of people rushing towards us."

Zhang Qiang rode on the horse and shouted: "Cavalry attack, intercept the enemy sentry cavalry, Xuanyuan Longfei, lead your troops, and line up in front."

"Zhou Porridge, lead your troops to the left wing, Du Ge, lead your troops to the right wing."

"Wei Wuji, lead your troops to line up in the rear."

"The pro-army lined up behind the spearmen."

"All the ministries are arranged in dense formations and stick to their positions."

The enemy's situation is unknown, so Zhang Qiang can only stand still.

The cavalry came back one after another, and the news brought back by these sentries was all kinds of, "Tartars, cavalry, rebels," and it was impossible to analyze the exact news of the other party.

Zhang Qiang's troops lined up on a hillside and moved the road out of the way. According to Zhang Qiang's guess, there should be no Qing army troops in this place at this time, maybe it is the Ming or Nanming troops, so he does not want to conflict with this army. , I hope they can ignore their troops and pass by.

After a while, his brows frowned.

The opposite team appeared in his line of sight, all over the mountains and plains, sparse and scattered, like a stream of refugees.

The opponent stopped advancing within Zhang Qiang's field of vision, and organized the team in a panic. Perhaps the work of the entire team had started a long time ago, but they didn't complete it until they reached Zhang Qiang's troops. It can be seen that there are many refugees, or refugees, in the opponent's team , and behind the refugees is the opponent's main force.

There are various costumes, some wearing Ming army costumes, some wearing Tartar costumes, some wearing common people's costumes, and even some wearing Portuguese top hats, taupe shirts, and black riding boots.

In short, the opponent's team is so chaotic, it can't be described in a few words.

The number of opponents is roughly estimated to be five to six thousand people, with swords, armor, horses, and even mules. There are about two thousand people who can fight.

When the main guard of the other side appeared, Zhang Qiang saw a flag, "King Zuo Jin, congratulations."

"King Zuo Jin," Zhang Qiang muttered, squinting his eyes and looking at the other party. It took a while before he remembered, "Isn't this the general of the Peasant Rebel Army, the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo? Why did he come here?"

After a while, there was another commotion on the opposite side, and another peasant uprising army came running from behind, and the first banner read "Zhengshiwang, Lin".

The number of this army is also quite large, there are also 6000 people, and there are about [-] soldiers ready to fight.

Hu Kui whispered to Zhang Qiang: "It's Dashun's troops, why did they come here? Aren't they tossing around in Henan and Anhui?"

How did Zhang Qiang know.

After the opponent's troops were assembled, they quickly formed a flanking posture from left to right, but did not attack Zhang Qiang's troops.

Because Zhang Qiang's troops did not have a banner, the other party might not know the nature of Zhang Qiang's troops. Although Zhang Qiang was appointed as the garrison of Wuyi County, this was not notified to the Nanming Longwu court, and Zhu Dadian ignored him when he was appointed as an official.

Zhang Qiang also doesn't have the consciousness of people of this era. He put up a banner to show his identity. He always wants to develop secretly, and wait until the strength is strong before raising the banner.

A cavalryman ran out from Zuo Jin Wang He Jin, stopped far away on the top of a hill, and shouted: "Who's team on the opposite side, can't you see my Dashun army? Get out of the way, or wait for our army Kill Er and other troops, leaving no one behind."

Hu Kui's seven orifices were filled with smoke, "It's too crazy, my lord, let the little one teach him a lesson."

Zhang Qiang shook his head and said, "You don't need to teach them a lesson. Seeing how they are in a hurry, there should be people chasing them."

"Who will chase them?" Hu Kui asked.

"I don't know either, maybe it's the Tartars, maybe it's the army from the imperial court, we just need to stop quietly."

Chapter 33 Chaser

Just twenty miles away, on the official road, the flags of the brigade moved quickly. Dozens of Mongolian cavalry brought up the dust all over the ground. As the flags fluttered behind them, one could faintly see a large flag, bordered with yellow, with the words Zhejiang Conquer the deputy general Liu.

Thousands of Han army banner infantry followed, and after a while, another group of cavalry, this group of cavalry were all wearing the original armor of the Ming army, but they wore the official hat of the Tartars on their heads, and the red tassels fluttered on the top of their heads.

This large army moved quickly, and after a while, a Mongolian cavalry of about a thousand men rushed out from a side path, shaking the ground and shaking the mountains, the two sides paused for a quarter of an hour, and then made peace.

"Mongolian Xianghuang Banner, Chahar Division, Deputy General Cha'er met with Vice General Liu of the Conquest."

A Mongolian cavalry general came out on his horse and came to the dozens of cavalry of the Qing army and the Han army. Although he met with his subordinates, he did not dismount. Cap, said something casually.

"Ha, it turned out to be Lieutenant General Cha. Thanks to Lieutenant General Cha for leading the army to help. I was worried about the lack of troops when I was chasing the remnants of the bandit He Zuo. Now that Lieutenant Cha is here, I am more confident in catching He Zuo's bandits."

"Farewell!" Cha Er ignored him, turned around and rode away.

There was a trace of sullen anger on the face of the Qing general, but he did not vent it after all. A Qing general beside him said, "My lord, these Mongols don't know what to do. It's a good thing that you are also the person who is favored by Master Baylor. If you want to talk about your status, It is also second only to Li Chengdong, and this time he is going to conquer the rogue leader, it is too shameful to do so."

General Qing sneered and said, "What can I do? The Mongols are also Jurchens' brothers-in-law, and their status is higher than ours. The Jurchens have always distrusted us Han people. Don't think that I, Liu Liangzuo, have a higher status than him, but I want to fall out with him. Now, the higher-ups are not facing him, the Jurchens can live without us generals, but they dare not live without the Mongols, the Mongols are the ones they really trust."

The Qing general beside him said: "Oh, why did this country disappear all of a sudden, it made us slaves."

Liu Liangzuo said: "Don't talk about it, it's better to be a slave than to die. To be a slave, as long as you have power and soldiers, you can still be rich and prosperous. Those who would rather have braids than heads, what else can they leave behind? Fame No head, what's the use of fame, hurry up, Liu Guangbi, urge the slaves behind, must catch up with the He Zuo bandits today, get their heads, so we can carry our heads on our shoulders, otherwise , return in vain, wait for Lord Li Chengdong to chop off our heads, and plead guilty to Lord Baylor!"

Liu Guangbi who was beside him didn't dare to delay, he glanced at the Mongolian cavalry who were going away, turned his horse's head, rushed to the infantry team behind, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up, hurry up, catch up with the bandits, cut down He Jin You will be rewarded with 300 taels of silver, and you will be promoted to three ranks, which will delay your lord's work, so you should all become slaves of the Jurchens."

At this time, the Mongolian cavalry had already gone three or four miles away.

"Taiji, let's not wait for the Han army flag?"

Chadel said angrily: "Wait, will those slaves fight? Go after them and wipe out the rogues. Let's pay the order early and go back to Nanjing to rest. We can't fight here anymore. If we continue to fight, our warriors will The loss is here, the Ming people are too cunning, and there are too many people, it is far from what we can conquer."

The general beside him sighed, and a Mongolian general and this general rode together and said in a low voice, "I'm afraid Taiji was scared out of his wits by the Ming people, who are just a bunch of two-legged sheep."

The general said: "Taiji is right. The Jurchens are using the Ming people to consume us. If our grasslands were not conquered by the Qing people, I would rather go back to the grasslands than come here."

The Mongolian cavalry moved quickly, and the scout cavalry moved far away. While talking, their scout cavalry collided with He Jin's scout cavalry. The two sides fought hard between the hills and river valleys. Go, run towards the formation formed by He Jin and Lin Cheng.

At this time, the formation formed by He Jin and Lin had already surrounded Zhang Qiang's formation, one left and one right.

Lin Chengcheng said to He Jin: "Brother, if we eat this local defender of the Ming army, we will have a lot more manpower. Look at the armor on those people and the weapons in their hands. It's a good thing."

He Jin touched the beard on his chin, "Yeah, good stuff, look at the archers wearing bamboo armor, but holding Manchurian bows, the wooden shields in their hands can at least give us [-] more shieldmen, And the pikemen, with iron spears, and the musketeers, let me see, the muskets are the best muskets of the Portuguese, and their armor is the best mail, and his family will The mail armor on our body is more than the mail armor of our old battalion, if we take it down this time, our strength will be upgraded to a higher level."

Lin Chengcheng continued happily: "Yeah, the strength is more than a level, especially their dozens of cavalry. If we can have more of those dozens of cavalry in our hands, plus our cavalry, we will be able to fight against the enemy." You can turn around and fight back against that old bastard Liu Liangzuo, maybe you can catch that bastard and eat up those thousands of Han army flags. By then, our reputation on the road will be even higher, and more people will vote for us. We can fight back against the Tartars, it’s embarrassing to be chased by the Tartars these days.”

He Jin hummed, but said with some worry: "But that bastard Liu Liangzuo is chasing too closely, otherwise I really want to eat the Ming army in front of me."

Lin Chengcheng looked up at him, "Brother, don't you want to fight him?"

He Jin nodded, "Let's go, don't be overwhelmed by others, but be caught up by that bastard Liu Liangzuo."

Lin Chengcheng shook his head in disappointment. At this time, the scouts ran over, passed through the brigade from the rear, shouted and rushed to the middle army, and came in front of the two people, "Report, the brigade of Mongolian cavalry is coming, leave our team Eight miles away."