Lu Ming

After the calculation was settled, Han Xiaobo first called Mei Fuxi, the commander of the Second Flying Tiger Battalion who arrived the earliest.

Pointing to the mountain road in the north, Han Xiaobo began to order: "I order your department to block the mountain road in the north now, lay mines, and block all communication between Santunying and Xifengkou."

"Yes!"

Next, Han Xiaobo called over the remnants of Dongjiang: "Don't go anywhere, just nail me here, and keep a thousand heavy cavalry on duty."

After driving away the unwilling Dongjiang people, Han Xiaobo and Wei Yuan looked at each other with a smile: "Come here, I'm hungry, I've got something to eat, quickly set up the tent."

The defending side is weak but has a strong city, and the attacking side is strong but few in number, which leads to no one wanting to fight.So for the rest of the day on NO.30, a seemingly reasonable confrontation began.

Late that night, a large number of cavalry with torches rushed into the Santun Camp.

"The king of the county!"

Even though Duduo's title is higher, but now he has personally experienced incomprehensible battlefields, and his courage has long since disappeared.So the moment he saw the Lord, Duduo sincerely wanted to return the mess to Azig, the supreme commander of the entry army.

Azige, who is tall and has a thick waist and abdomen, is the No. 12 son of Nurhachi and the owner of the Zhengbai Banner.

This entry, Azig, who has experienced many battles, can be said to have commanded the whole process without any mistakes.But the communist army...Cao Thief has a Gundam, so in fact Azig, who was already very cautious, finally got the bad news of being ripped off.

After receiving the news during the day, Azig immediately mobilized all the cavalry in Ji Town and rushed to Santun Camp.On the way, all the cavalry in Zunhua were gathered together and set off together.

Fortunately, Heaven pays off.Azige, who was so anxious, finally got his first good news tonight: Santunying is still in his own hands: "Well, Duoduo, you are able to keep Santunying until now, it is a credit."

As soon as they met, Azig didn't worry about the loss of his troops on the Eastern Front.In Azig's view, now is the moment of life and death.If you can't go back to Shengjing, everyone will die here, and it doesn't make any sense to complain and pursue Duoduo.

After exchanging a few words, Azig led people up to the city wall of the east gate first.

Glancing at the seemingly pitch-black camp below the city, Azig pondered for a moment, then turned his head and asked, "Is it possible to attack at night while unprepared in the second half of the night?"

"Absolutely not!"

The soul of Duoduo was frightened: "That generation has the method of night vision!"

"really?"

"It's absolutely true, my son-in-law has suffered a lot earlier."

"That's it..."

Azige found a brick, and sat down slowly: "Then let's see tomorrow. I have ordered the army to return, and only bring food, fodder and goods. The Ming people who eat free food have no choice but to give up this time."

"Ugh..."

"The details of the Cao family's soldiers and horses, what exactly is it, you will tell me in detail now."

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October [-]st.This special day, which later generations can get away with, represents killing and destruction in the seventeenth century.

When the morning light rose, Azige, the king of Doro County standing at the head of the city, waved his hand coldly and gave the order to open the city.

Immediately, the suspension bridge of Santunying was lowered, the east gate was opened wide, and at least two thousand cavalry rushed out from inside.

No matter how he lost on the Eastern Front before, no matter how Dodo and his like described the opponent's combat power, as the commander of the entry army, Azig must personally experience the opponent's combat power.Otherwise, he will not be able to formulate strategies and tactics at all next.

As a result, two thousand Eight Banners elites rushed out, aiming directly at the enemy's commander-in-chief flag to the east.

Sure enough, the opponent did not disappoint Azig.

The ruthless and sharp gun shot came from a mile away.The cavalry who had just left the city were overwhelmed from time to time.After the attacker had rushed two hundred steps, the dense rain of bullets had already begun to overwhelm the cavalry in rows.

Just when Manqi was in a dilemma, the deep sound of horseshoes sounded like a heavy drum: Dongjiang Town heavy cavalry came oncoming.

Man Qi, who had made a plan beforehand, drew a circle obliquely, turned around and left.At the end, it was just a brush with Dongjiang Heavy Cavalry.But in this short contact, Man Qi was bitten off by the opponent, and he was almost powerless to fight back.

After witnessing the short play "The Fall of the Empire" with hundreds of lives, Azig turned pale and had a long aftertaste.

"After the order, all ministries on the road, hurry up."

Azig can see it clearly. In front of the opponent's sharp gun armor, the Eight Banners warriors are powerless to fight back in small and medium-scale battles. It is not a crime of war... Banner soldiers also have firecrackers on hand, and they are just [-] steps away. It's tickling, but someone else's firecracker can penetrate armor from a mile away!

The current response can only be to gather people first, and finally rely on the advantage of numbers to find a way to stand out.

Therefore, Azig then ordered consecutively, ordering the infantry who came one after another to enter the city to defend, and the replaced cavalry to gather in the west of the city.

In this way, except for a brief contact that occurred on the morning of October [-]st, the enemy and the enemy confronted each other strangely for another day.

On October [-], the situation changed.From the east side of the corridor, established Northern Expedition camps appeared one after another.In addition, a large number of ex-civilian husbands also came with them.

This time, the city became noisy.

Han Xiaobo first ordered two battalions of more than 1000 infantry to go up the mountain to deploy defenses, replacing the cavalry battalion that had previously blocked the mountain road.Immediately afterwards, Han Xiaobo ordered the engineering troops who came to cut off the river.

When Santunying was built, it was equipped with a moat as deep as three feet, and its water source was drawn from the nearby Henghe River.After so many years, although the moat has silted up a lot, it still has a defensive function.

As a result, the engineers began to plan the blasting route upstream.

On October [-]th, a series of huge explosions sounded.Later, the people on the top of the city discovered that the moat was gradually drying up...

And from this day onwards, as many as [-] banner infantry, pushing small carts, carrying the thieves they robbed in the Ming Dynasty, poured into the Santun camp continuously.

On October [-]th, with the arrival of the follow-up troops and the supply battalion, the Northern Expeditionary Army had completed the defensive positions in both the east and north directions of the Santun camp: barbed wire, an artifact of defense, had been placed on the mountain road leading to Xifengkou. The upper layer is laid.

On this day, there was an episode between the two parties who had been immersed in preparations: the negotiating team with white flags came out of the city and asked to meet with the Governor Han.

The negotiator is an old friend of the crossing crowd. Meng Qiaofang, who had been in charge of the negotiations between the two parties in the capital before, participated in politics.

Regarding the matter of negotiations, since the envoys have come, then Governor Han still has to give face.So, Meng Shenzheng saw Dudu Han who was roasting a leg of lamb in front of a tent.

However, after seeing Meng Qiaofang, Governor Han ended the negotiation with only one sentence: "Go back and tell your county king, don't bother trying to provoke, and surrender as soon as possible. Otherwise, I will finish you , immediately sent troops from Jizhen to Beijing, and destroyed Chongzhen Guozuo!"

Meng Qiaofang was tongue-tied, and left sadly after a while.

Meng Qiaofang came here, in fact, with the hope of a three-party game, "If you destroy me, Chongzhen will fear you even more."

But now they stopped pretending, and said that even Chongzhen would be wiped out...Meng Shenzheng's original hope was shattered in an instant.

After Meng Qiaofang returned, the offensive and defensive sides seemed to have entered into a strange confrontation again.There was no major fighting except for here and there a few shells were thrown here and there.

This situation is extremely unfavorable to the late Jin army: time is on the side of the Northern Expedition.If you procrastinate, you will sit back and eat, and sooner or later you will be stabbed by Chongzhen's Qin Wangjun in the back of your ass.

But Azig remained motionless, and the situation was very strange.

Fortunately, a certain force with drones actually has a good grasp of the opponent's movements.

"It seems that the king of the county is ready." On the evening of the [-]th, after analyzing many real-time uncensored high-definition pictures of the Santun Camp sent by the drone, Han Xiaobo ordered: "All troops will increase their alert level. The enemy may break out."

The next afternoon, the long-awaited war broke out.

The three gates of the Santun camp were wide open, and more than [-] heavily armed infantry rushed straight to the eastern defense line of the Northern Expedition, which had been blocked by barbed wire and deer villages.

Another tens of thousands of infantry came out from the west gate, went around to the northern mountain road and began to attack, intending to open up the passage leading to the entrance of Xifeng.

At the same time, as many as 1 cavalry came out from the south of the city, eager to try.

There is no doubt that Azig has been hiding behind the city wall for the past few days, and he did not lie down to die.This time, all the pawns who rushed out were as armored as possible.Even those without armor were bound with impromptu bulletproof wooden boards.

However, the first batch of soldiers to meet the charge was not musket bullets, but small army artillery of various calibers.

When Azig was hiding behind the city wall to make body armor, the Northern Expeditionary Army was not idle.The main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army has been in place, and the artillery battalions have found their own firing positions in the past two days.The sporadic shots that fell on the open ground were test shots to measure shooting parameters.

Amidst the sky-shaking roar, the black tide-like flag soldiers raised their blades high and rushed towards the opponent's position.

The first wave to greet the guests was densely packed black iron bullets.Mountain artillery shells of various calibers can be fired without fail in a crowd of this size. As long as they hit the crowd, it will be a bloody alley.

Immediately afterwards, a dense rain of bullets came, cutting down the flag soldiers layer by layer.

But all of this can't stop the red-eyed bannerman.They knew very well that if they could not defeat their opponents, they would not be able to return home this time.

Therefore, although countless people fell down on the way to the charge, the latecomers continued to step on the bodies of the predecessors and charged forward desperately.

Finally, after paying the price of countless lives, the attacker rushed through the nearly 500-meter road of death and approached the first line of defense constructed by barbed wire.

Then, the leading bannermen were blown up one after another: minefields.

The current mines are not as sophisticated as the anti-personnel mines of later generations.However, the stupid old-fashioned landmines are more powerful in this situation: enemies in a dense formation will be injured and killed several times at a time.

After the purgatory obstacles, the first bannerman who rushed to the barbed wire was stretched.Just when he stretched out his arms and tried to pull away these thin iron wires, countless people behind him stuck up.

Afterwards, the immobile bannerman was killed by bullets in front of the barbed wire.

Before the flag soldiers went to battle today, no one thought that the most terrifying thing was not bullets and artillery fire, but these seemingly delicate iron coils.

Faced with this weird thing, someone from the bannermen tried to cut off these iron wires with a sword.But the thin iron wire is strong and tough, and full of elasticity, it will bounce back when cut by a knife.

Others tried to remove it.But without making two movements, he was entangled in circles of iron wires.The more he struggled, the more iron wires on his body, until he became an immobile mummy.

The army of flag soldiers, whose impact potential energy was reduced by layers of barbed wire, eventually became a living target for soldiers of the Northern Expedition to practice shooting.

Before, those who charged with their eyes closed could not see the cannon fodder that fell to the ground in the front row.Now, when everyone is blocked, the people who cannot move start to watch the guns and bullets blow up the people in front one by one.

The fear deeply rooted in DNA finally overwhelmed the longing to go home... Qi Ding's formation collapsed.

The tide-like flow of people began to retreat.But the bullets and cannonballs fired from behind were still non-stop, harvesting the timid enemies like mowing grass.

At dusk, at the head of the Santun camp, the sound of Mingjin withdrawing troops sounded.

From this moment, the battle that determined the fate of China came to an end.

In this battle, 40.00 banner soldiers marched out from the east gate. In just half an hour, more than [-] people died in the battle. The casualty rate has exceeded a horrifying [-]%. It can be called a miracle of war in the Middle Ages.

The more than 1 people who attacked the mountain road in the north had an even worse fate... The mountain road was covered with mines and barbed wire. They couldn't charge at the beginning, leaving behind a field of corpses before retreating.

As for the 1 cavalry, there was no room for action at all: the infantry couldn't break through the barbed wire formation, and couldn't find a gap in the attack.There are [-] heavy armored cavalry waiting for a tiger to line up at any time.The cavalry, who had suffered enough before, did not dare to move from the beginning to the end.

It was night, in the large official hall of the Santun camp, Azige, the king of Duoluo Wuying, gave the first order with a calm expression: "Nadan, take your men, lead the horses on foot, and walk from the west gate overnight, and go to Juyongguan to see .”

The Mongolian assistant leader named Nadan got up and put his long sleeve on his left shoulder and saluted, turned around and left without saying a word.

Today's battle completely destroyed all illusions of the Manchurian Eight Banners entrenched in Santunying.

With the loss of so many main forces, the [-] troops have not rushed to the distance where they can fight their opponents... At this moment, Azig has truly grasped the strength gap between the two sides... This is not a will at all , What the strategy can make up for.

Azig, who recognizes the reality clearly, is an outstanding general who stands out in the era.He suppressed all negative emotions within a short period of time after his defeat and began to adjust his strategy.

The strategy is simple: withdraw.

The translation is: a strong man cuts off his wrist.

The logic is very clear: since the nearby Xifengkou has become out of reach, the remaining flag soldiers should give up all illusions and go out of the pass.

Or to put it bluntly: escape.

In the process of fleeing, there is no doubt that the bannermen will lose all the property they robbed along the way.But at the moment Azig doesn't care anymore.The only thing he hopes now is that more elites under his banner can escape back to Shengjing, so as to preserve a little vitality for the Manchus.

Azig knew that at that time, even if there was one more white armor soldier on hand, Emperor Chongde might be able to suppress the plate of the Qing Dynasty, recuperate, and discuss the funeral.

However, fleeing has never been so easy since ancient times.

Turning around and running from Santunying means that no matter which pass is north of the capital or east of Shanxi, the lost dog will pass through the territory of the Mongols with ulterior motives and the even more terrifying desert.

The legendary Great Escape.

In the process, the fugitives have to deal with the army of the king, soldiers and horses of border towns along the way, and even the most difficult cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion...

Azig didn't know how many of those who survived the natural disasters and man-made disasters and were finally destined to return to Shengjing were left.

But that's the only way.If you don't do this and continue to stay in the Santun camp, then all the Eight Banners warriors will be wiped out for up to ten days.

By that time, Manchurians, not to mention their backbones, will have their roots dug out.

Therefore, tonight, Azig arranged for three thousand Mongols to slip away first.And in his plan, tomorrow night, less than [-] remaining Manchu elites would sneak away on all their horses.

And he himself will lead the infantry to defend the city until the last moment.

He didn't arrange for the cavalry to charge this afternoon, and this consideration was also in it... In this situation, the Mongols will jump back at any time, so it's better to let these people go to the back first to explore the way.

As for the remaining banner men in the Santun camp, the total number exceeds [-]...all the banner men without horses have been given up by Azig at this moment.They will stay and defend the city until the last moment, contributing to the escape of less than [-] elite Manchurians.

In the final analysis, a large part of these infantry are also coated with Han Chinese... Let's think of it as the last time for the masters to work hard.

After the plan was made, Azig, who had been a soldier for half his life, quickly adjusted his mentality and went to rest early.Tomorrow there is still a fierce battle to be fought.He had a premonition: the city would be attacked tomorrow.

At the same time, someone in the city was holding a Xiaomi iPad and was watching it with great interest: "The horses are all Mongolians? The king of the county seems to be really going to run away, so decisive! Someone, pass on my general order , drag the cannon up!"

In the middle of the night that day, Azig, who had already fallen asleep, was suddenly awakened by someone: "My lord, there is something strange in the city!"

When Azige put on his clothes, he hurried up to the top of the city to have a look, but he saw lights flickering in the valley three miles away to the east, lights were flickering, torches were densely packed, and the roar was loud, he didn't know what the opponent was doing.

As the thunderous chant sounded closer and closer, the Prince of Wuying seemed to have guessed something, and was instantly sweating profusely.

The next day, when the morning light was about to rise, the densely packed defenders at the top of the city understood the cause of the noise last night at the same time: four huge long-barreled 24-pound naval heavy guns stood quietly on the artillery positions in front of the city.

In a moment, following the order of the artillery commander, amidst the loud noise, a black iron bullet used for test firing flew less than 400 meters away under the gaze of tens of thousands of eyes above and below the city, and hit the ground right on the ground. On the city brick above the east gate.

In an instant, a piece of city brick that was hit by the shell suddenly scattered and cracked.Afterwards, the rammed earth layer exploded, and at the same time as the top of the city rumbled and smoke filled the air, three or four bannermen were thrown into the air like an earthquake.