Chestnut-sized shotguns struck densely from both sides of the road leading to the ferry, and dozens of people fell when they were attacking the Dashun army on their backs.

Accompanied by firelight, loud noises, smoke, and hundreds of shotguns like iron brooms, the Dashun army who was swinging the big sword and axe in his hand to chop the stake of the horse was a blur of flesh and blood, and the formation of the charge was stagnant.

"Good! Well played! Keep playing! The lieutenant guarding the ferry jumped three feet high excitedly, dancing and shouting.

"Quick! When you rode a fast horse to the county seat to report the victory to the lords, you said that more than 100,000 elite thieves had begun to cross the river, and under the desperate resistance of my brave soldiers, artillery was fired, and the boats of the thieves were burned or sunk, and countless people died in the river. The thieves who were lucky enough to cross the river were killed and wounded under the swords of our officers and soldiers, and more than 10,000 corpses were accumulated, all of which were discarded in the river, and the river was red! ”

"Please all the adults in the city just sit down and prepare to reward the three armies with wine, meat, and silver."

Listening to the adjutant general's orders, the leader of his own soldiers nodded in understanding, pulled the war horse and led a few people.

The battle for the ferry crossing was even more fierce.

With the blow of the artillery fire to the Dashun army, a little time was bought for the Ming army's blockade, and the soldiers and those militia groups under the adjutant general were kicked and beaten by officers at all levels and drove out of the long trench, the archers were in the center, and the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers were guarding on both sides, and they formed a hastily formation and began to throw at the offensive formation of the Dashun army.

Under the intimidation of the leather whips and swords in the hands of the officials, the archers began to draw their bows and release arrows, desperately firing arrows at the Dashun army where the hedgehogs were gathered in the middle of the slope. The muffled sound of puff and puff continued, and with the advantage of the terrain, those arrows gave full play to the designed lethality, and shot down the Dashun soldiers who rushed to the front without a shield to cover them.

"Stop a little ahead! Let the brother with the shield come forward! Cover the firecrackers! ”

The casualties of hundreds of people could not make Bai Wang, who rolled out in the sea of corpses and blood, timid. He narrowed his eyes, looked at the battlefield full of smoke and flames, and immediately judged the situation of friend and foe. After a little bit of the terrain, he issued an order, ordering his sword and shield soldiers to step forward to buy time and space for the firecrackers to line up.

With the help of the shield raised high in the hands of the sword and shield soldiers, he blocked the arrows flying from high to low in the sky. The more than 200 firecrackers under Bai Wang's command were able to calmly line up.

"Check the projectile! Check the flint! The leading officer roared sharply and sharply. There is no way, thousands of people are blocked under this crossing, if these firecrackers under his command can't quickly break through the blocking formation on the opposite side, so that the large group of men and horses rush up and mix with the defeated team of the Ming thieves, then the artillery in the artillery barrier is bound to fire again, causing more and greater casualties to the Dashun army. If this is the case, his head, which is six pounds and four taels, will definitely be cut off and thrown into the Yellow River!

But. At this time, the distance between the two armies was still a little far, and the archers and sword and shield soldiers of the Ming army were condescending and naturally labor-saving, but if the firecrackers attacked from the back, it was quite laborious.

As a result, the offensive formation of the Dashun army slowly advanced again. The sword and shield soldiers held their shields in their hands, shielding the attacking vanguards, shielding the robes and brothers from arrows flying from time to time in front and overhead.

One step, two steps, five steps and ten steps. Gradually. The queues of the two armies are getting closer and closer, and the threat and lethality brought by the Ming army's bows and arrows to the Dashun army are also increasing.

"Bai Wang. Is your team okay? If it doesn't work, take it down and rest, and replace it with my people! ”

The second wave of Dashun generals who led the team to cross the river **** rushed to Bai Wang with a hundred and ten personal soldiers to inquire about the battle situation. On the river beach, dozens of large ships arrived ashore, and countless soldiers of the Dashun army jumped from the boats to the shore with their own weapons.

Ruhou said. I saw that this group of dog thieves had set up a cannon position on the ramp of the ferry to block our Dashun Heavenly Soldiers. You didn't bring artillery with you. It's better to get out of the way first, let my people go up, open the passage, and the credit is still yours! ”

"You fuck off! I don't need your help! ”

Although **** is Li Zicheng's son of the clan. According to the current system of Dashun, he can be regarded as a member of the clan, but the people who lead the troops to fight are all red on the battlefield, how can they let others fight for themselves? What else do you say, you get out of the way, the credit is yours? This is the humiliation of the stripes!

Bai Wang roared **** with red eyes. "Is the front ahead alright?!"

"That's it!"

The Sentinel of the Torch Men replied from afar.

"Then what are you doing there?! An ancestor! Give Lao Tzu a hit! ”

With his shouting and scolding, a drum beside him sounded the suona in his hand, and a loud suona sound echoed over the battlefield!

The forward's musketeers lined up in two horizontal rows, filling the not-so-wide ramp. After hearing Bai Wang's order, the sentry officer of the firecracker fiercely slashed the waist knife in his hand forward, and shouted: "Fire!" ”

The deafening sound of firecrackers sounded, the front row of firecrackers fired a volley, and a long and dense area of gunsmoke was vacated on the ramp dozens of meters wide.

The dense Ming archers in front of them had not yet reacted from the sudden action of the sword and shield soldiers formation that suddenly flashed on the opposite side, and two columns of firecrackers appeared on the opposite side. This was followed by the sound of bursting beans, and most of these archers had no iron armor, at most cotton armor. And those archers who practiced in the regiment didn't even have a piece of worn-out cotton armor! As more than a hundred muskets approached and fired, these archers spewed out a mist of blood, and in the blink of an eye, a large piece of blood fell down, and the blood seeped down the ramp into the loess beneath their feet. After being shot, many people seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then when they woke up, they fell to the ground and screamed in great misery.

As if the wind was blowing through the wheat field, the archers of the Ming army on the opposite side were in a commotion, and many of the archers in the front row were stunned, and some wanted to run when they turned around, and the formation began to be chaotic for a while. It was at this time that the second round of firearm shooting began.

"Put!"

The trigger was pulled, the dragon head fell, and a large stream of gunpowder smoke and flames erupted from the mouth of the gun, and in front of them were a large number of fallen Ming archers.

The two rounds of blows made the formation of these archers even more chaotic, and they couldn't fight back just by being beaten, and they saw a person next to him fall covered in blood, such a blow was too much psychological pressure for these Ming soldiers and regimental trainers. Moreover, after a large number of archers in the front row fell, most of the rest were Ding Yong, a regimental practitioner from all over Shanxi along the river. They were originally deceived by the threats and threats of the gentry to become soldiers. Where did these people get the courage to fight to the death? What's more, the family has a lot of debts, and they have not paid their salaries for several months, how can they be willing to fight to the death?

Suddenly, the ranks of the Ming army were in chaos.

Seeing the Ming army scurrying around in groups like headless flies, Bai Wang knew that the fire was enough! An order was laid, and the firecrackers got out of the way. The pikemen stepped forward to kill the way, the sword and shield soldiers followed, and the brigade of men and horses went up!

The pikemen of the Dashun army are also battle-hardened divisions. The whole body is covered with armor, and the color in his hands is a mourning gun that is more than a foot long, and the head of the gun is more than three feet sharp, and it is beating in the sunlight with cold light.

These pikemen, when the Dashun Army was fighting in various parts of the Central Plains, cooperated with the horse team, the artillery battalion, the Zhenshan battalion and other units, and fought brilliantly. It is recorded in the history books: "On the verge of battle." Thirty thousand, three walls. The former looks back, and the latter kills it. The battle was invincible for a long time, and the horsemen feigned to lure the officers and soldiers, and the infantry soldiers had 30,000 spears, and the stabbing was like flying, and the horsemen fought back, all of which were victorious. ”

Thus. These pikemen and infantry of the Great Shun Army are so elite!

Over the years, it has been fighting between the north and the south, and has started trade with Long. These elite pikemen had long since reached the point of being armed to the teeth, each with an eight-petal hat and an iron-tipped helmet, at least a set of cotton armor and a cuirass. The spear in his hand is the original and genuine funeral gun head! It can be imagined that when hundreds of people rushed to kill like a forest with spears, where did these Ming troops, who were already demoralized, have the courage to dare to step forward and fight with them?

There was a shout at the moment. Thousands of Ming soldiers and regimental training turned backwards in unison, each with two legs, regardless of the road or the ditch in front of them, or the body of their comrades, just stride and flee for their lives!

All kinds of self-trampling. The clash erupted in the Ming army. On weekdays, the officers and soldiers bullied and abused the regimental training, and they were arrogant, and it was time to settle the account. From time to time, a Ming officer and soldier were inexplicably stabbed from a certain angle on the way to escape and fell to the ground, and in the blink of an eye, countless pairs of big feet rained down, turning into a blurred mass of flesh and blood on the ground.

Looking at the subordinates who were still well-eyed just now, they fled back, pushing aside the deer, horses, and artillery carts that blocked their escape along the way, and jumped down when they encountered a trench that could not be bypassed, but before they could climb the other side of the trench and climb the edge of the ditch, they were used as stepping stones by the subsequent deserters to escape. This scene made the lieutenant general who had just sent someone to the city to report the victory stunned.

However, he was quite able to calm down, even if he gathered up his own soldiers and family members, and rode his horse in the direction of the county seat.

Bai Wang's military flag appeared proudly over the ferry.

followed by the second team of ****, who killed the east coast. chased and killed the Ming army's defeated route.

After controlling the ferry, the brigade of men and horses could cross the Yellow River in a steady stream, and Liu Zongmin was surrounded by everyone and crossed the river by boat to reach the ferry.

"Bai Wang, Zhang Nai, you two are playing well!" After landing on the east coast, Liu Zongmin's first sentence was to praise Zhang Nai and Bai Wang, who commanded the troops and horses to control the ferry. He himself never imagined that the Yellow River, which had always been known as a natural danger, would break through so easily.

However, things that surprised Liu Zongmin even more were staged one after another.

The second team of generals, who replaced Bai Wang as the striker, was extremely depressed and sent people back from Shilou County to report. When the army reached more than ten miles outside the Shilou City, they encountered the Ming officers and soldiers who went out of the city to surrender, tied up the officials in the city, and waited by the side of the road with the money, grain, brochures and maps.

The leader was the deputy general who had just fought with Bai Wang at the ferry.

The officials under his command who heard the news in Shilou City but did not have time to flee tied up like zongzi one by one, stood by the road with their eyebrows raised and their chests folded, and punched and kicked these officials from time to time.

The purpose of the adjutant general's surrender is just to be able to maintain his wealth for a long time, of course, it would be better if he could continue to lead troops in the Dashun court. In order to achieve this goal, he tied up those officials who also planned to return to the Great Shun and abandon the secret surrender to the Ming, and used them as his own greeting gifts and votes.

As for the soldiers of the Ming army and the regimental training soldiers who rebelled with him, the purpose was much simpler and pureer. "Mother sells, Lao Tzu is working the front line of the river defense, you dogs owe Lao Tzu a few months of military salaries. Take it to raise a little wife and play a show. I'll give you some great taste today! ”

The ****, who originally opened the posture and was ready to fight a tough battle in Shilou City, saw this situation quite a little bit and saved up all his strength to punch out, originally thought that he could beat the opponent's face full of flowers, but the opponent was kneeling and begging for mercy.

He hated it so much that he had the urge to pull out his waist knife and cut these guys. But you can't do that.

"General, there are many wealthy families in the county, and they not only have a lot of money, grain, gold and silver. There are also a lot of mules and horses kept at home, which can be used by the army. Seeing that the ****'s attitude towards himself was not bad, the deputy general immediately presented another letter of nomination. In fact, his men had already sacked several of the city's wealthy households.

Hearing the report that **** had been stationed in Shilou County, Liu Zongmin couldn't help but stroke his beard like a steel needle on his cheeks with his thick palm, "Hehe! Our old Liu originally thought how sad the Yellow River was, but you see, in less than a day's effort, more than 10,000 people came over from our Dashun army. Dozens of artillery pieces also crossed the river and took Shilou County. Soon this Shanxi will be our Dashun! ”

Zhang Nai, Bai Wang, Liu Fangliang and others couldn't help but be overjoyed. Especially Zhang Nai, his artillery team provided artillery cover for the army to cross the Yellow River, and beat the Ming artillery on the opposite bank so that they did not dare to fire at all, so that Bai Wang's pioneer who crossed the river could cross the river smoothly without danger.

"Zhang Nai, in the battle of crossing the river, you have the greatest credit. Ben will play the emperor and ask for credit for you and Bai Wang and other meritorious soldiers. Right now, the two of you have two things to do. First, the meritorious soldiers and fallen soldiers should be sorted out and reported. Second. Go to Shilou City, and you will take a break in the city. Collect grain, grass, mules and horses for the army. ”

In order to strengthen the management of Shilou, Zhonghe and other newly recovered areas, Liu Zongmin specially gave Bai Wang an errand, the general of the Hedong garrison, and gave him a big order. There are those who do not obey the orders of the generals after crossing the river and do not abide by military discipline. Those below General Guo Yi can correct the law on the spot.

Winning Shilou and Yonghe is tantamount to kicking open the door of Pingyang Mansion (that is, Linfen, which we are familiar with), a rich land in southern Jin. Liu Zongmin, the number two person in the Dashun army who switched to the north and south, didn't know how to take advantage of the victory to pursue and expand the results?

On the one hand, he urged the army to speed up the crossing of the river, and on the other hand, he asked people to write a good document. Pegasus returned to Chang'an to report to the emperor Li Zicheng, and asked the emperor to quickly dispatch the army to follow, and take Shanxi in one fell swoop! At the same time, the soldiers and horses should also beware of the Xuanda soldiers and horses in the direction of Datong, and the soldiers and horses went south to reinforce Shanxi.

Shilou, Yonghe, Jiaokou, Daning, Jiexiu, Lingshi, Huozhou, Puxian, Jixian, Guxian, Hanxinling, one by one, prefectures, counties and strategic points appeared on the snowflakes of the army crossing the river to the east.

The Dashun Army was almost a marching battle. Everywhere they went, the Ming army was all defeated when they heard the wind, and after the long legs were sacked first, they ran away, and those who ran slowly prepared pigs, sheep, fruits, wine and food with the local officials and gentry early, and went to 30 miles outside the city to welcome the army. A large area of anointed land in southern Jin fell under the control of the Dashun army.

In the report paperwork. Liu Zongmin proudly reported to the Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng that as long as he took Linfen City, the entire Jinnan would be owned by my Dashun. However, in order to speed up the march, the emperor asked the emperor not to send a general to cross the river from Jiaozuo, Luoyang and other places in Henan to enter Shanxi to fight. In order to receive the effect of a two-sided attack.

At the same time, please ask the emperor to give an edict to Zehou Tian Jianxiu, who was organizing the reclamation in Henan at this time, asking him to secretly mobilize troops to deploy along the river, and at the same time send an envoy to Zhangde Mansion to communicate with the subordinates of Li Dagongzi of the Nanyue Army, and make it clear that our Dashun Army is only to take Shanxi, and does not intend to be an enemy of the Nanyue Army. Everyone is still good friends, and what should be done in business is still how to do it.

The purpose of all this is to buy time for the army to cross the river, so that they can smoothly take this strategic point of "Leihuo in the east, Hefen in the west, Qinshu in the south, and Youhe in the north".

Li Zicheng was very proud, and Liu Zongmin's several copies of the report documents that were delivered to Chang'an within a few days were circulated in the main hall for the civil and military ministers. Of course, after circulating, it was a piece of praise that praised my Dashun Wenzhi martial arts and martial arts.

Niu Jinxing, as one of the first ministers to put forward the proposal of crossing the river to the east, even knelt on the ground, suggesting that Li Ziben himself lead the army to quickly cross the river and march eastward, sweeping Shanxi, Datong, Xuanfu and other places, showing great merit for Dashun, which refreshed the world and the world.

Niu Jinxing's words immediately caused a group of civil officials to echo loudly, and they enthusiastically persuaded Li Zicheng to lead the main force of the Dashun army to cross the river to the east, occupy Shanxi, go north to conquer Datong, and then cross the Juyong Pass, out of the Taihang Mountain, as long as the banner of the Dashun army appears on the North China Plain, "then the Ming thief is bound to collapse completely, long live my lord can respond to the heavens and people, and unify China." ”

Li Zicheng was about to open his mouth to ask Wu Xing, who had been silent for a long time, what to do next, but saw another guard outside the hall hurriedly running up to the hall with a document in his hand.

"Your Majesty! Ruhou has an urgent military situation sent from the enemy in front of Linfen! ”

The lively hall immediately fell silent, and everyone's eyes were fixed on the document in front of Li Zicheng, not knowing what new information was in it.

"Ladies and gentlemen. Ruhou sent this document to me from Linfen City, and it was actually the official letterhead of Pingyang Mansion. Now all the places in Jinnan have been owned by my Dashun! (To be continued.) )

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