Beiyang new warlord

"Guan Ning cavalry, follow me Wu Sangui!"

Chapter 448. Full bloom

"Heh, great victory at Rufeng Mountain!"

After a battle, the imperial court was really ecstatic, wishing that the whole world would know that Hong Chengchou hurriedly sent the battle report to the capital with [-] miles away. More than a month later, the battle report was passed to the country of Wa again, and Mao Jue, who was strangling the rebellion of the Donglin Party of the country of Wa in Hokuriku, was in the camp.

But looking at the numbers on the battle report, Mao Jue couldn't help being speechless.

Kill a thief one thousand and one, behead six hundred and five, and self-injure five hundred and nine.

Not to mention the fact that the officers and soldiers have always reported meritorious service, so what if this battle report is completely true?To destroy the Qing Dynasty or to slaughter Huang Taiji, or to dig Nurhachi's grave?

However, the military information sent by Adelaine who came after him made Mao Jue feel more at ease. Hong Chengchou did not rush into the "after the great victory of Rufeng Mountain", but gave up the Rufeng Mountain stronghold that he had taken down, and returned immediately. Withdrew to Tashan, more than [-] kilometers away from Ningyuan.

Regardless of whether it is Jianzhou Jurchen or Daming who are consuming both, this strategic confrontation is only good for Dongjiang. As long as Hong Chengchou does not send a wave of heads to Jiannu like in history, Mao Jue can accept it. See After passing the military report, in a relaxed mood, Mao Jue hummed a little tune and threw the bear letter into the brazier in front of him.

But Mao Jue's good mood didn't last long, the curtain of the big thick fur tent was lifted suddenly, and as the cold wind like a knife blew in, a dwarf warrior with hoarfrost on his armor and armor suddenly knelt down on the ground.

"Greetings to Dabongsho, the last general of the Kuroda Clan Banner Honbu Yoshiochi, conveying the urgent military situation of the Shaozheng Department!"

"Word!"

"On the [-]th, the bandits from Qiuyi City destroyed the official army Mao Lifengyi's department and fled into Yunlan Mountain!"

"Fuck!"

The good mood was gone, and Mao Jue slapped his forehead in depression.

Now he has experienced the power of the bandits and the helplessness of the Ming court. A group of dwarfs who have been brainwashed by bushido thoughts are hiding all over the mountains. Just like the White Lotus Sect, with a little carelessness, they can recruit tens of thousands of people. Japan's decentralized politics and relatively independent feudal lords are not their opponents.

Fusang is a big place, and Mao Jue has mobilized a full [-] troops, and they are still battered by blocking the ravines. One can imagine how difficult it was for the Ming Dynasty to fight against the rogue army running around the country.

In fact, it is not impossible to solve these thieves fundamentally. Mao Jue even asked the Wa country to reach half of Dongjiang's happiness. Just like the hero of Liangshan, Li Kui was too poor to wear pants. Lin Chong, the coach of the 80 imperial army, let the leader's son molested his wife and had to swallow his anger.

Those who have perseverance have perseverance.

However, this Mao Jue is really a concubine who can't do it. Not to mention that Dongjiang needs a poor Japanese country as a place to export labor and plunder raw materials. Only the huge manpower and material resources of the trade route, Mao Jue doesn't want to invest in it, and dare not give it to them put in.

Therefore, it can only be played around.

But this is not what bothered Mao Jue the most! The war in the Japanese country should be managed by those who should be in charge, not him, the governor of Dongjiang, the governor of Liaodong, and the commander-in-chief to pay attention to this trivial matter! Follow the thief and poor Fighting guerrillas in the ravine! This is like the president of a listed company in the future who is busy purchasing office chairs all day long. This is called not doing business properly.

At this time, what Mao Jue should do most is to supervise the army in Tieshan, ready to stab Huang Taiji in the back of the neck at any time, instead of cleaning up the mess here and sending the messenger officer away, Mao Jue slapped the table angrily and shouted stand up.

"Le'er! Is there any news from the owner? The woman is chasing the man's interlayer yarn! She is lucky, she has not been able to seduce this old man for several months!!! Give her all the Spanish flies that the Dutch East India Company gave me. Send it! This month, I will see Mr. Yuan become the regent son-in-law of the Toyotomi family, so hurry up and come back to work for me! Don’t f***ing fish!”

That voice almost caught up with that of a boudoir who complains!

Although it was snowing heavily this winter, the fire was burning in the dark, and several bigwigs in Liaodong had blisters on their mouths.

Mao Jue was too anxious to return to Liaodong, and took the opportunity to give Jianzhou Jurchen a hard time, while Huang Taiji was too anxious to win the victory in a short time, and might face the dilemma of fighting on both sides.

But anyway, they are still anxious about the future, but Zu Dashou, the governor of Jinzhou, can't wait to see the feeling of being alone and helpless in Dongjiang. , the fish in the moat, the rats in the field, and the leather shoes at home were almost eaten away. It has been snowing heavily for the past few days, and some residents in the city ate snow all night to satisfy their hunger. They froze to death the next day, which is even more terrifying What's more, the buried bodies are cleaned up every day, and the disappearance begins.

Standing on the top of the city and looking out, the helmet tassel on the hat was stained by the vast expanse of falling snow, and there was a vast expanse of whiteness in front of my eyes. Fading away with the passage of time, he could faintly feel the flash of light in the snow curtain in front of him, and with his ear pressed against the city wall, he could still feel a slight vibration, which could be felt for tens of miles, only the power of the Hongyi Cannon .

It is impossible for the Qing army to play cannons by themselves, so the two armies must be facing each other. This is Zu Dashou's only hope when he wakes up every day. The court has not given up on him!

But today, listening to the sound of the cannon still has some special meaning for Zu Dashou. After standing at the south gate and looking down for a long time, he finally made up his mind, turned around abruptly, and walked down the city heavily. go.

In Nanweng City, hundreds of soldiers and soldiers stood in the snow and had been turned into snowmen by the snow, followed by more than 1000 skinny war horses standing still, as if they had a premonition of something. Some horses sniffed hot air restlessly, scratching the ground back and forth with their hooves.

"Handsome, really"

Seeing Zu Dashou coming down, Master Dianjun asked anxiously, but Zu Dashou was in a daze when he heard it, and then he nodded fiercely as if he was afraid that he would change his mind.

"kill!"

"The handsome man has an order! Kill!"

As the trembling shouts spread, even if it was to lead out the Jinzhou soldiers who must go, this time it was a lot slower. It took two or three seconds before the sergeant walked around in front of the horse with a butcher knife in his hand, and patted the horse with his hand. He patted the horse's neck, gritted his teeth for the last time, and swung the knife fiercely.

The last breath spurted out hot blood, and the red blood dyed the snow in Jinzhou Wengcheng red. Hearing the wailing of the war horses, Zu Dashou's face could not stop twitching. This killed not only It's a horse, and it has its own hope of breaking through, but it can't run out with two legs.

Historically, the siege of the Daling River lasted for almost a year, and more than 5 residents ate each other. In the end, there were only 100 people left, but Zu Dashou still kept more than 200 war horses, and deceived Huang Taiji to go to Jinzhou to persuade him to surrender. , while leaning on these war horses, he escaped with some core generals, but Dalinghe City is different from Jinzhou City. Here, the ancestral family's land, old house, and ancestral tomb are all here! The roots of the ancestral family are here, without this, what if his ancestor escaped?He is not sure that he is as strong as Mao Wenlong. More than [-] members of the Mao family in Liaoyang were all martyred. He can still grit his teeth and fight for Dongjiang.Zu Dashou felt that he might not be able to do it.

Although the cavalry is a sharp weapon, it still depends on people to defend the city. The slaughter went on for a long time, and finally a thousand or hundreds of horses fell into the snow. In the evening, the barracks that had been deserted for several days finally became lively, although They started to eat, but the savory Jinzhou defenders still got a large piece of meat, squatting on the ground with hot soup, tearing and stuffing it into their mouths, their mouths were full of oil.

But no one noticed that several cooks in the army couldn't eat a bite, and one even sneaked behind, covering his mouth as if disgusted.

Among those huge horse skeletons, there are also more than a dozen freshly shaved, bright red bones that are much smaller.

This Zu Dashou is doing his best to survive, and the Qing army is also fighting for survival on the battlefield of Rufeng Mountain outside the city.

The fierce blizzard even covered the angry roar of the banner leader Gu Shanezhen, but with the roar of the Hongyi cannons, thousands of Qing troops still flowed forward like a blue torrent, leading the battle. The Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty ran with all their might, hissing, with the wooden shield painted on the tiger's head, and the densely packed Jurchen archers behind them pressed the bow body and bowstring tightly with their hands almost unconscious from the cold, pressing forward.

In the battle of Saerhu, they defeated the invincible Ming Nine Frontier Elite in this way.

However, the Ming army at this time was not as easy to fight as it was during the Saerhu period. During the Saarhu war, the frontier army of the Ming Dynasty faced raids from small grassland tribes for more than half a century. The chariot only needed to be able to block the bows and arrows of the Mongolian cavalry. It is enough for the firearms troops to watch the excitement after firing the guns in the back. It is the general's personal soldiers who actually go up to fight, and this small group of elite troops will end the battle with hand-to-hand combat.

In that battle, Juniper, Liu Ting, Marin, and the firearms troops who were broken through the formation directly became the targets of massacres by the heavy infantry of the Qing army.

In this battle, the proportion of firearms troops of the Ming army was significantly lower than that of the Saarhu Ming army, but the firearms they held were sharper. It can break the bones and tendons of a 1.8-meter-long man, and the blunderbuss is also more lethal than the fire gun and rocket gun of the year. The heavy infantry of the Qing army who are running often burst out, and their heads or thighs spurt out Blood came, and he fell to his knees limply on the ground.

Especially this time, the troops under Hong Chengchou's command are all old troops who have fought against the refugee army and the Qing army. After finally breaking through the gun blockade, the surging Ming army immediately pushed out the side-car with knives nailed on the front, and the crackling Qing army's feather arrows hit the car's high car, and in the gap between the car and the car, The big knife and the spear collided with each other.

Hearing the blood of the fight ahead, Hong Chengchou, who was holding a binoculars in the middle of the army behind, had a smile on his black face.

The Ming army is not vulnerable to the Qing army, and it is also capable of fighting. As long as the tactics are appropriate, it will eventually win. These days, Hong Chengchou has seized the weakness of the Qing army's eagerness to fight, and stayed away from Jinzhou for more than a dozen years. Kilometers, in the wilderness, dragged the Qing army to fight, and every time the back road was doubled or twice the number of frontline troops to cover the retreat, so that the Qing army who was accustomed to ambushes and sneak attacks was invulnerable, and could only face him face to face. The whole face was shaken.

Killing [-] enemies and losing [-] to himself, Hong Chengchou took advantage even if he exchanged one for one, and he could return to Ningyuan to rest at any time, trapping [-] to [-] Liao troops in Zu Dashou in Jinzhou City, but the Qing army did not dare to withdraw without authorization To rest, you can only get tired in the wind and snow.

Cao Cao once said that a good fighter has no great military exploits! At this time, Hong Chengchou is considered to be the essence, just such a small battle dragged down the Qing army, sooner or later victory belongs to Ming!

The bustling outside the pass is not idle, and Henan, the heartland of Daming, is also blooming along with the excitement.

The abnormal severe drought in Henan, even though it is the twelfth lunar month of winter, there is still only a thin layer of snow falling, but the weather is surprisingly cold, and after a breath of hot air, it quickly turns into hoarfrost, and the ridges of the fields are also frozen It is solid, and occasionally a slippery layer of ice can be seen.

This ice is red.

This year's Luoyang City is destined to have a bad year. Staring at the biting cold wind, the sergeants hid behind the battlements tremblingly, rubbing their hands desperately with strength, and simply shrank their hands into their arms when they were hungry. Don't even want to move.

It's a pity that this group of poor soldiers could not enjoy such a quiet and difficult time for long. Suddenly, some officers shouted impatiently.

"The thieves are coming! Get up so fucking fast, and prepare to defend the city! Those on the other end, don't stand still, beat the drums, and wipe the snow off the cannons!"