Lu Ming

Immediately, Yang Guli gasped.

On the flat ground outside the valley, a black horizontal line was approaching the mouth of the valley.A closer look reveals a thick cavalry formation.All the knights were walking slowly leading their horses. Both men and horses were wearing black armor, the same style as the Chunlei Camp piercing through the white armor, but it was matte black.

On the flag in the middle of the cavalry formation, there is a flag with the word "Cao" hanging on it.

To Yang Guli's shock, there was a vertical flag next to the Cao character recognition flag, with a line of big characters embroidered on it: So the general officer of Dongjiang Town, the left governor Mao.

"Mao Wenlong?"

Just when Yang Guli was wondering, the black line got closer, and he also saw the words on the other smaller flags: Kong, Mao, Shang, Geng, Li...

Kong Youde...

Mao Chenglu...

Fortunately...

Geng Jingzhong...

Li Jiucheng...

Seeing the banners, Yang Guli, who had dealt with Dongjiang Town for many years, reflexively read out the names behind these surnames.

"King Qin?" Yang Guli murmured, a little inconceivable: "Shouldn't King Qin go to the capital?"

At this time, Duoduo rushed over: "Forehead son-in-law, are you the beggars from Dongjiang?"

"It's not a beggar anymore, it's Cao's Falcon."

With a sullen face, Yang Guli yelled at the surroundings first: What are you doing in a daze, the whole army is in formation, reject the horse formation!

Then, he whispered to Duduo: "You go to the rear. Seeing that my front line has dispersed, you must order the Mongols to fight to the death! Later, you will return to the Santun Camp yourself, and Chen Bing will stick to it, and Hou Beile's army! Remember! , the three camps cannot be lost! The life of the whole family is in your hands!"

Dodo broke out in cold sweat: "I'll save it, what about you?"

The moment he saw the armor on the Dongjiang cavalry, Yang Guli already knew that his previous nightmare had come true.

It just so happened that it would be difficult for him to go back and confess anyway.

In the defeat of Chunlei Castle this time, Yang Guli personally buried more than [-] captives and bannermen, as well as thousands of elite main forces.This includes almost all the white armor/red armor soldiers of the Zhenghuang Banner.Therefore, Yang Guli now instinctively chose the most perfect path for himself: "I will lead people to guard, and you don't care about me."

The battle was urgent, Duoduo nodded and left.

On the other hand, Yang Guli yelled loudly, and ordered the second-line bannermen under his command to pick up anything that could be called a stick or a spear, stick it obliquely on the ground, and set up a battle in the narrow ravine.

Just at the moment when the densely packed banners were forming, the black front on the opposite side had already arrived at Taniguchi.After a long horn sounded, the dark knight turned on his horse.

Immediately afterwards, I saw the "Kong" banner in the enemy formation shaking for a while, and then there were five cavalry in a row, a total of ten rows of 500 cavalry formations, moved to the right side of Taniguchi.

No need to mobilize at all.All the soldiers of Dongjiang Town, who had a blood feud with the Tartars, clamped their lances tightly with their arms.

Taking a deep breath, Kong Youde, the former general of the Dongjiang River, who was "brave and good at fighting, was the first to ascend before the battle, was crowned among the generals", pulled off his black visor.While pulling the reins and urging the horse, he lowered the spear in his hand by thirty degrees.

Following Kong Youde's movement, the entire phalanx buried guns and activated at the same time.In the suffocating air before, finally came the sound of horseshoes that soothed the nerves.

However, tens of seconds later, the dense sound of horseshoes amplified by the reverberation in the valley turned into a life-threatening sound.The bannermen in the front row had their pupils of fear widened to the maximum at this moment.

Before the impact of the black torrent, some people were scared out of their minds by the trembling ground and the ear-shattering magic sound, and their legs were so weak that they sat down on the ground, and some people dropped their spears and turned around to escape.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

The heavy armored knight slammed into the banner formation.Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of iron objects piercing into the flesh, followed by the muffled sound of being knocked into the air, and the scream of the stump flying into the air.

Most of the bannermen did not have armor, and those who had armor were buried in Chunlei Castle before.So the impact of Kong Youde's phalanx was extremely smooth.

Just like a black combine harvester doing its homework, the seemingly dense formation of long snakes in the valley can't stop the charge of the steel-armored serial horse formation at all.Countless banners fell down like wheat, and flesh and blood immediately began to spread on the ground following the path of Kong Youde's department.

Yang Guli, who was behind the infantry formation, fully expected the current result... His white armor soldiers were also killed by this armor before.

However, Yang Guli did not despair: after Kong Youde's men rushed for nearly 200 meters, the impact potential energy was finally lost, and they entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat where they abandoned guns and used knives.

The biggest advantage of cavalry is potential energy.Once the potential energy is lost, the infantry will always be dismounted.

However, in the next breath, the sound of rumbling horseshoes echoed in the valley again.In Yanguli's stunned eyes, another cavalry formation of 500 people appeared on Yanguli's left hand.The moment he saw the word "Mao" recognizing the flag in the cavalry, the cavalry had already reached the highest speed and stabbed obliquely into the flag formation: Dongjiang Mao Chenglu.

Seeing the black harvester turned on again and Qi Ding's blood spattering, Yang Guli realized that Kong Youde's troops had drawn a diagonal line from the right to attack the main formation.When the potential energy is exhausted, the general will leave a passage for Mao Chenglu in the rear.

Yang Guli, who knows that he will not be spared today, is showing his fierceness in this desperate situation.He drew out his waist knife conveniently, first chopped off several bannermen who turned around, and at the same time shouted loudly in Manchu, and together with his own soldiers, surrounded the square formation of bannermen and surged forward.

In fact, the long snake formation formed by the second-line bannermen has already collapsed at this moment.The only advantage is that the ravine is narrow and steep on both sides, which prevents the bannermen from fleeing in all directions, and can only squeeze and sway to form a loose long snake to be slaughtered.

Finally, after finally driving all the bannermen in front of them into the enemy's cavalry to fight for their lives, Yang Guli survived until Mao Chenglu's troops stopped their horses.

With a smirk, the prince-in-law stepped forward with a straight knife, ready to get one to earn money, and two to earn one.

However, the tragic battle, the earth-shaking battlefield, and all kinds of screams before death have already blocked the forehead's hearing, making him much duller.

The next moment, another row of shocking black armored cavalry appeared in front of Yanguli.When he was knocked into the air, he took one last look and saw the general's banner "Shang".

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The brutal cavalry relay assault caused tens of thousands of unarmored bannermen to be killed all the way like mowing grass.Before Shang Kexi could run out of kinetic energy in the third battle, Qi Ding, who was frightened by the horrific harvesting scene and the flying flesh and blood, finally collapsed completely.

These bannermen did not hesitate to turn around and climb up the cliffs on both sides and fell to their deaths, and they did not want to face heavy cavalry assaults again.

When the infantry dispersed, it was the turn of the Mongol cavalry.

...The Mongols in leather armor were originally here to do odd jobs. How could they use their big pie faces to bump into the terrifying black steel armor.So, before the fourth Li Jiuzheng phalanx rushed to the front, the frightened Mongolian Qingqi had already started to turn around and run away.

However, it is not so easy to turn around in groups on narrow mountain roads.After all, Li Jiucheng's troops broke into the Mongolian cavalry formation fiercely.

In this way, a group of [-] heavy armored cavalry forcibly cut through the eastern section of the Yanshan Corridor guarded by more than [-] Manchurian Eight Banners.

Cruel... but not too tragic, the gouge station resulted in a thirty-mile-long corridor covered with the flesh and blood of bannermen and Mongolians, creating a flesh and blood alley.

The region-like scene shocked the cavalry battalion and the leaders of the Northern Expeditionary Army who arrived later.

Fortunately, the [-]-mile journey is very short, and it will pass after a little patience.

When everyone regained their composure, a large military camp had already appeared at the T-junction in the mountains ahead, which was the destination of this trip: Santun Camp.

Chapter 726 History ([-])

The T-junction leading to Xifengkou, the terrain is suddenly clear, and it is no longer a narrow mountain road.

On this mountain valley, the three camps stood majestically, blocking the army passages leading to three directions.

Today's Santun Yingcheng was renovated when Qi Jiguang was the chief military officer of Ji Town during the Wanli period.

Santun Yingcheng is three feet high and seven miles in circumference.The 72 hutongs in the interior divide the general city into many squares, and the government and private houses are arranged in an orderly manner.The moat, fodder field, martial arts hall and martial arts parade are all available.

As for the defensive facilities, Santunying not only has five turrets and nine enemy towers built on the top of the city, but also has high walls and thick walls, and there is a Henghe River surrounding it.

Today, September [-], [-].Santunying, a large fortress, finally ushered in the first and probably last real fortress offensive and defensive battle in the history of the city.

Ironically, it was the imaginary enemy of the builders: the Qing army that brought into full play the defensive role of Santunying when it was first built.

In front of Xiongguan City, the sound of killing was loud, and smoke and dust rose everywhere.

Thousands of heavy armored cavalry are moving around Chenghuan.While attracting firepower, it is also testing the weak points of the city defense.

The east of the city is the main attack direction of the attackers.A large number of soldiers from Dongjiang Town, who had unloaded their heavy armor, were risking their lives to attack Binri Gate... The east of Santun Camp is called Binri Gate, the south is called Jingzhong Gate, and the west is called Gongjing Gate.

Most of the imaginary enemies are fortresses of foreign races in the north, and there is no north gate on the city wall.Santunying is no exception, with only east, south and west gates.

In the face of a strong offensive, the Qing soldiers on the city also tried their best to stop the enemy.Against the bullets fired from below the city, arrows rained down from the top of the city, forcibly restraining Dongjiang Town's victory attack.

Duoduo, the prince of Yu who fled all the way back to Santun Camp, sweating profusely and panting heavily, hid behind the wooden pillars of the turret, loudly berated the bannerman, and tried his best to defend the city.

After a long time, Duoduo finally let out a long breath: Mingjin retreated from the city.

The withdrawal of troops this time represented that the series of battles that had lasted from the Chunleibao branch to the Santun camp had finally come to an end for the time being.

However, Duduo only breathed a sigh of relief.Dongjiang Town took advantage of the momentum to cover up and kill this group, and there will undoubtedly be more tragic siege battles: the one wearing a double-breasted jacket and using muskets to cover Dongjiang soldiers and horses is undoubtedly the legendary Feihuying.

What frightened Dodo even more was that from beginning to end, he only knew that the Flying Tiger Camp came to pursue him, and then there was the sudden appearance of Dongjiang Town's new force.He can't judge now whether this group is Feihuying + Dongjiang Town, or the main force of Cao's + Dongjiang Town.

Dodo is now extremely frightened.If it is the former, then he is sure that as long as the Manchu army returns behind, everyone will still be able to return to Baishan Heishui... but there will be a price to pay.

But if it is the latter... The current situation is already the most passive situation in the pre-war deduction, and Duoduo dare not deduce the final outcome at all.

Doduo now understands very well why both Khan and Azig forced Yangguli to attack Chunlei Fort.If he was given another chance, he would definitely seize Yanguli's military power and fill in all his subordinates, including himself, until he captured Spring Thunder Fort.

Unfortunately, it was too late.In order to cherish the lives of their subordinates, Yangguli and Duoduo picked up not only themselves, but also put nearly [-] banner people west of Santunying into a desperate situation.

Thinking of this, Doduo had a splitting headache and was about to be crushed by the overwhelming pressure. "Hasn't the county king sent a letter yet?"

"Never."

"Send someone to report again!"

"Order."

Duoduo, who was eager to transfer the pressure to the official commander of the army, suddenly opened his mouth wide and looked down at the city.

As far as Duoduo could see, a large flag embroidered with the word "Han" suddenly stood up.Immediately afterwards, the other side of the banner embroidered with "Governor of the North, Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Expedition Army" was also erected.

Accompanied by the two large flags were the cheers of many soldiers in the city.

"Is this the main force of the Cao Clan?" Duoduo gasped: "It's broken, it's broken, please report it to the county king!"

While the atmosphere above the city was frozen, the atmosphere below the city was extremely warm.Han Xiaobo, who had just raised the flag, was being challenged by a group of red-eyed Dongjiang rebels: "Governor, give the order quickly, while the Tartars are not yet firmly established, let us serve with explosives, and we will attack with one more wave!"

"It's late!" Han Xiaobo, who was observing the city defense with a telescope, said angrily, "There was no order for you to attack the city. Who told you to fight just now?"

"My lord, take advantage of the situation to hide and kill, what the art of war says!"

Han Xiaobo put down the binoculars and laughed angrily: "Still taking advantage of the situation?"

Before this, due to the inability of heavy armored cavalry to pursue for a long distance, thousands of Mongols and Eight Banners soldiers escaped in the Battle of Taniguchi.

After these people fled into the Santun camp, together with the 5000 people who stayed behind before, they instantly supported the defense of the Santun camp.

But Dongjiang's group's so-called concealment of killing by taking advantage of the situation is actually not accurate: when they change their horses and come, and then unload their armor under the city, and attack the city in a hurry, they will have already been prepared.

Han Xiaobo, who came in a hurry, happened to see the second half of the siege: the defenders at the top of the city were very motivated, and they ignored the incoming bullets, and forcibly beat back the attacking attackers in a hurry.

In this case, either increase the density of fire cover, or increase the siege area, and sufficient preparations must be made, and it is difficult for explosive packs to have room to play.

What the Dongjiang people don't know is that the key factor that determines the rhythm of the next battle has little to do with the explosive package.

"No matter what the reason, if you didn't rush into the city gate, you should withdraw your troops and wait for help."

With a wave of his hand, he drove off a group of Dongjiang remnants who were so excited that they couldn't control themselves.After that, Han Xiaobo and Wei Yuan dismounted together.At this time, the orderly had already found a relatively flat stone by the roadside, and put down a folding canvas mozzarella around the stone.

"Gudongdong".

Sitting down and gulping a few mouthfuls of water, Han Xiaobo wiped the water stain on his chin, and then happily said: "Oh, it's finally blocked."

Wei Yuan, who also had a heavy burden on his shoulders, seemed to have relaxed his posture.Click on the pirated Huazi, and let out a long mouthful: "Yes, there is no pressure now."

You must know that the main force of the Manchurian and Mongolian army under Azig's command is still west of Ji Town, 140 miles away from Santun Camp.When these people arrived, the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army in the rear had also arrived earlier.

So from this moment on, the Qing soldiers who entered the customs this time are already the turtles in the urn.

Next, people who are relaxed start to follow the steps.

"Communications staff, report the location of Li Zicheng's department."

"According to the telegram an hour ago, the main force of Li Zicheng's troops has arrived at the front line of Weinan."

Han Xiaobo snorted, "We've only just arrived in Weinan, so don't worry, let's besiege slowly, and wait for these people to rush out to die by themselves."

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Previously, after Li Zicheng's troops captured Chang'an City, they immediately dispatched light cavalry troops to quickly sweep the Guanzhong Plain.

Afterwards, a large number of fellow villagers of Li Zicheng's tribe, bankrupt peasants, a small group of rebels, and even real frontier soldiers came to join King Li Chuang, who had enough food and noon.

Li Zicheng lost all the hearts of his family overnight.

Next, Li Zicheng, who was far more refined and well-stocked than in history, sent General Liu Fangliang to lead an elite group to the north, targeting Ningxia, Lanzhou, Tianshui and other important cities in the Northwest.

At this time, due to the complete destruction of Ming Ting's mobile corps in the north, Li Zicheng had actually effectively controlled the second of the three most important provinces in northern China: Shanluo.

Since ancient times, anyone who occupied Shanshanluo, which produced elite soldiers, was equivalent to occupying northern China.Furthermore, it is possible to occupy a high-profile land, connect the north to the south, and achieve a great cause.

So Li Zicheng, just like in history, started the next stop of Wang Tu's hegemony: marching into Shanxi.

What Han Xiaobo just asked was the real-time location of Li Zicheng's department.

Hearing that the latter had just arrived in Weinan, Han Xiaobo was even less anxious.

Weinan is still more than 100 miles away from Fenglingdu on the Yellow River.After Li Zicheng crossed the Yellow River, and then ran along the road of Yuncheng-Linfen-Taiyuan, even if he didn't go through any decent battles like in history, it would take at least a while.

Now, for the Northern Expeditionary Army, there is plenty of time.In this case, the Northern Expeditionary Army, which has a strategic advantage, naturally does not need to take lives to attack the city.Slowly besiege and build fortifications.