Among the Shandong soldiers and horses that were legendary to the generals of the Qing army, the more than 10,000 hussars composed of the eastern Liao clan and the Manchurian traitors of the two yellow banners and the Zhenglan banner did not participate in the Pufan Campaign at all. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Led by Tuha and Ekui, they traveled to Jinan day and night.

These two people were ordered by Fan Xiaozeng, the general office of the camp office, to rush back to Jinan and meet Lu Mahong in an airtight situation. And assist Lu Mahong to control the situation in Jinan. Because, the acting governor of Shandong, Denglai and other places of soldiers, horses, money and grain, Liang Guogong's eldest son, Linqing Marquis Li Huayu, was killed.

At present, the Shandong soldiers and horses of the Nanyue Army, in accordance with the regulations and military regulations of the Nanyue Army, are under the command of Fan Xiaozeng, the general office of the battalion office. The retreat of the Battle of Pufan and the previous battles was designed by him.

According to his idea, the troops should be withdrawn to the border areas of Shandong, relying on Shandong, Denglai and other places, so that it would be convenient to supply food, ammunition, and soldiers, and materials, and they could temporarily take a defensive position. Then, together with Lu Mahong, he stabilized the morale and situation of the Shandong army, and at the same time reported what happened here to the chief minister in Nanjing at this time, and asked the lord to decide. Either send a large army to the north, or support it with military rations, salaries, and ordnance.

However, no matter how well Fan Xiaozeng's secrecy work is done, he still responds to that sentence, there is no impermeable robbery in the world. What's more, among the troops under Li Huayu, there are still many Ming troops under his control. First, these troops would not particularly abide by the military discipline of the Nanyue Army, and secrecy was a fantasy for them, and secondly, they themselves were inextricably linked with those former Ming surrendered soldiers who had surrendered to the Qing army and fought hard for their new masters.

So, there were all sorts of rumors and gossip that the Duoduo heard along the way.

However, the truth often lurks beneath the cloak of rumors. I believe everyone has fully realized this truth from "You know" and the car accident at Hofukuji Temple. Tianya and other places all kinds of obscure and vague news posts, I guess you have not missed it. In fact, this kind of thing is not only my family, even the Hollywood movie "Men in Black", the old detective also took the rookie newcomer to the newsstand on the street to buy all kinds of gossip news magazines to find clues.

However, after all, these peripheral troops have limited information, and for the Qing army, they are all a scale and a half claw, but on the contrary, the Nanyue army retreated in great strides, kept abandoning the prefecture and county in front of the Qing army's iron hooves, and even the treasury of grain, grass and ordnance did not have time to burn, which played a role in paralyzing the Qing army and creating smoke. (Fan Xiaozeng: That's it!) Lao Tzu was not the army after 300 years of Jiashen, he was reluctant to eat, reluctant to wear, reluctant to use food, coats, ammunition, materials, medicines, and even aviation, gasoline, and train locomotives were handed over to the enemy intact to ensure that there were no problems with the supply of the enemy army. Lao Tzu just thinks those things are bulky and difficult to carry, anyway, they will come back in a few days, so let them protect Lao Tzu for a period of time! It's also bait for fishing! ）

It can be regarded as being bitten by a snake for ten years and afraid of the well rope, the Qing army suffered the biggest loss since entering the customs in Puyang and Fanxian, and the brothers Duoduo and Azig made up their minds, just build the camp to be similar to the city wall, and dig the trench wider than the river. As a result, after a few years, the trenches are still functioning and become a good place to drain floods during the summer when there is a lot of rain.

After this matter, let's not press the table for the time being. took advantage of the fact that the Qing army and the Nanyue army fell into a brief confrontation and tranquility again in the border area of Shandong, and turned around and talked about the death of Li Huayu and Li Dagongzi.

Tuha took Li Huayu's body from the front line, and returned to Jinan all the way without danger and even magically, but what should be faced still has to be faced, no matter what happens on the road, in the end, this matter still has to be accepted by Lu Mahong. In this regard, Lumahong chose to refuse to accept it!

Although the wind had already blown on Lu Ma Hong, and even the day before he arrived, the hussars had directly told Lu Ma Hong the news of his death, but Lu Ma Hong looked calm, or pretended to be calm to see Tuha, and then scolded him for why he lied about the military situation and joked about such a big thing. In the face of Lu Mahong's scolding, Tuha, a man who has experienced hundreds of battles in his size, is like a child, crying bitterly, crying and scolding himself: "The slave I am a waste, the slave is incompetent, and I can't protect the master!" Master Lumahong, you have delayed the minions! Although he has been serving in the Nanyue Army for a few days, Tuha's old habit is deep-rooted, and in a hurry, he is the master and the slave who said it.

In the face of the gaffe Tuha, Lu Mahong still did not give up, she asked to see Li Huayu's body in person. When she carefully looked at the body, confirmed the familiar cheeks, and familiar clothes, she finally reluctantly accepted the cruel reality, and fainted in an instant

When Lu Ma Hong woke up after everyone's scramble first aid, she grabbed Tuha's hand tightly, "How did the adults have an accident that day?!" Come on! ”

If we want to talk about Li Huayu's death, we must start with the military meeting that day.

In order to break the impasse in front of him, Li Huayu urgently needs someone who can find a way for him to break through the place in front of him. So he summoned the generals to take the proceedings.

Inside the tent, the lights were bright. Dozens of polished glass lanterns reflect the inside of the big tent, and even a needle can be easily picked up. In the middle of the big tent, the soldiers and the staff officers of the battalion office laid out a huge sand table.

The sand table is a tool that can make people have God's perspective and be condescending, but if there is no accurate map and topographic mapping, the sand table made is only a matter of paper. However, the Southern Guangdong Army has always attached great importance to the collection and collation of military and geographical records and the drawing of maps, and now, with the support of the coordinate system theory, the maps are naturally more accurate. Although it does not reach the accuracy of one in 50,000 military maps, on the map, not to mention the roads and rivers of the state capitals, mountains, rivers, and rivers, it can be accurate to the villages, towns, shops, large forests, and relatively important wells.

After careful surveying in the past few days, the mountainous terrain, avenues, paths, and deep ravines and shallow rivers in the area where the battlefield is located have become more and more detailed. As early as when Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, Qin Shi Huang personally piled up a sand table to study the geographical situation of various countries, and when Emperor Guangwu conquered Tianshui, the general Ma Yuan also gathered rice for the valley and drew the situation. With an accurate map as a backing, making a sand table will naturally get twice the result with half the effort.

Fan Xiaozeng, the general manager of the camp office, held a long pole and pointed out on the sand table one by one, and with his explanation, the sand table in the eyes of everyone gradually transformed into a real battlefield scene intertwined with blood and fire.

In the most dense place of the trench fortress, Fan Xiaozeng's long wooden pole was focused a few times, and even the sand table trembled slightly.

"This is it! Carriage and horse shop! The core of the front of the Liao thieves. It uses the river as a natural barrier to connect Caozhuang on the left flank and Daxujia on the right flank to confront our army. ”

"In this way, the three places of the carriage and horse shop, Caozhuang, and Daxu are two portals and a big lock on the Liao thief's defense line?" Everyone usually faces a part of the battlefield, but now they have tools that can have a bird's-eye view of the entire battlefield, and they suddenly see the situation of the battlefield at a glance.

"Exactly! Therefore, the tactic we devised was to smash the chain on his big lock, which was the pontoon bridge outside the carriage shop. Smash his lock again, and the army of the adults will attack Cao Zhuang and kick out one of his Duoduo doors, so that the Liao thieves are bound to be defeated! ”

Fan Xiaozeng briefly introduced his strategy and returned to his seat.

"Tuha, how are you drinking these days? How is the meat eaten? Li Huayu began to order.

"If you go back to your lordship, it's very good!" Tuha wouldn't say anything else, just clenched his right fist and hammered it in the chest.

"If this officer orders you to be the vanguard and attack under the cover of General Zuo's artillery fire, can you take the pontoon bridge, seize the Liao thief position on the south bank of Chemadian, and hold on until the follow-up arrival of the army?"

Most of Tuha's subordinates are the people of the Qing Army's Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Two Yellow Banners and the Zhenglan Banner, and they are as familiar with the Qing Army's things as if they were their own kangs. It would have been best to order them to sneak in.

This battle plan, in detail, is afraid that it will not be enough to say tens of thousands of words. It also made the officials feel that there was a suspicion of cheating the number of words. In a nutshell, it is a few steps:

Tuha led his subordinate hussars as an assault team to capture the pontoon bridge, Zuo Wuwei unified the command of all the artillery to provide him with artillery fire cover, first take the position on the south bank of Chemadian, annihilate a large number of living forces, and then cross the river to attack Chemadian, at the same time Li Huayu led a group to launch an attack from Caozhuang, preparing to cut off the retreat of the Qing army. In this way, at least half of the hundreds of thousands of people in Duoduo will have to stay here.

"Lao Zuo, let's Tuha can touch it in and kill the Liao thieves guarding the bridge. However, how can your artillery provide us with support? ”

"It doesn't matter! The distance of the pontoon bridges, trenches, etc. of the Liao thieves has already been mapped, not to mention firing at night, you are blindfolding those gunners, and they can also hit the pontoon bridge! ”

After Zuo Wuwei finished speaking, everyone expressed their doubts, after all, this matter has never happened before, although everyone knows that the artillery of the Nanyue Army is known as the magic artillery, but let them believe that the artillery can fight cattle across the mountains without visual inspection, this is still a point of suspense, after all, this is a gamble with their own lives.

Just when everyone was expressing their doubts, Tuha stood up from his seat and said to Fan Xiaozeng in his characteristic loud voice: "Master Fan, we are rough people, and we don't understand too many things, let's ask you a word, do you dare to give Zuo Wuwei a ticket?" Fan Xiaozeng smiled and said, "General Tuha, I am willing to vouch." Although this Zuo Wuwei is young, he has participated in the Nanyang Security War, and once defeated the Calvinist rebels with a few small cannons, so I can trust him. If you don't worry, the one surnamed Fan will go with you! ”

After getting Fan Xiaozeng's answer, Tuha grinned and said, "Then let's go to this commando team in a down-to-earth manner and make this great contribution!" Since Lord Zuo's artillery skills Master Fan is so trustworthy, then we Tuha can be trusted even more. ”

"Tuha, your mission this time is related to the victory or defeat of the whole army, if you are not at ease, a certain family will go with you." But it was Li Huayu who walked to Tuha from behind the handsome case, patted him on the shoulder, and said to him very kindly.

Seeing that Li Huayu's attitude was so earnest, Tuha hurriedly patted his chest and said, "My lord! You and Master Fan think so highly of our Tuha, even if we are unlucky enough to be bombarded by Zuo Wuwei, we will never complain. From the time I fought to the Nanyue Army, I Tuha lived like a person. Although I have always been an adult and a master, the adults have not treated me as a slave, but have always regarded me as their own brother. I don't know what the truth is, but I know that I have to talk about my conscience to be a man, and adults are not only good to us Tuha alone, but also to all of our subordinates with two yellow flags and blue flags, so we have to take out our conscience and repay the master. ”

After listening to Tuha's words, Zuo Wuwei hurriedly stood up and said: "Wait a minute, General Tuha, I can't pretend that I didn't hear it, why did I put down with one shot and no complaints, and I didn't feel good when I was specifically sending my allies to the end?" I'll tell you first, it's scientifically justified, so I'll tell you a little bit about functions and parabolas... ”

Because of Tuha's words, Zuo Wuwei, as a science and engineering man, couldn't help but enter the teaching mode, but unfortunately Tuha was a big old man, where could he understand, he had to ask Li Huayu and Fan Xiaozeng for help with a confused face. Li Huayu then smiled and said, "Okay, my Lord Zuo, Tuha doesn't understand this, you have to take your time." In addition, although I trust Tuha and Zuo Wuwei very much, they still need to organize communication with each other. ”

Fan Xiaozeng nodded and said: "My lord, all the details of communication were planned by the staff office last night, and only Tuha's headquarters and Zuo Wuwei's artillery team need to practice a little." When Li Huayu heard this, he said: Well, if there is no problem after the drill, we will officially launch an attack tomorrow. After saying that, a murderous aura seemed to rush straight to the sky from the tent.

The cold wind was blowing, the military flag was hunting, and under the fiery red flag, more than 1,000 hussars lined up neatly to wait for Tuha's instructions. Tuha took a closer look, and many of these hussars were people he knew very well, all the way from Liaodong to Shandong. When they were in Liaodong, as the three banners, they fought the Ming army together as the emperor's personal soldiers, and when they arrived in Shandong, they joined the hussars together. For these people, Tuha has no doubts about their combat skills, but there is one thing Tuha is a little worried about, that is, in the face of their former comrades-in-arms, and it is a blitzkrieg of death, can they sacrifice their lives and kill the Qing army mercilessly.

Originally, he wanted to use a tactful wording, but unfortunately Tuha was really not good at this, and in the end he decided to go straight: "Minions, no, brothers! I'm about to beat the previous master, I am determined to follow the young master Master Li to fight the Tartars, but you will definitely have some concerns and will not be able to do it! And this time, it's nine deaths and one life, so I hope that if you have the slightest doubt, don't go, I, Tuha, will never think that you are greedy for life and afraid of death. ”

"My lord! Isn't it just going to fight the badgers? What can't we do?! We have long wanted to kill him for a while, for ourselves and for the old master, to vent our evil anger! A gruff voice erupted in the queue. Dolgon means badger in Manchurian dialect, and these soldiers of the former two yellow flags and the blue flag who have a deep hatred for the owner of the two white flags and the current regent of the Qing Dynasty consciously do not call him by his name, but call him the original meaning of his name, badger. The meaning is self-evident.

As the commander of the hussars, Ekui immediately stood in front of the formation, smiling as he watched the bursts of noise erupt from time to time in the military formation. If it weren't for Li Huayu taking them in and giving them back their lost life and status, I'm afraid they would also become a dead corpse in the wilderness and become food for others and wild dogs and wild birds. These men from Liaodong have no other flowers in their minds, they only know who gives me food to eat, and who makes me live like a person, I will work hard for whomever I want.

For this hussar, Li Huayu has invested a lot of money. Although there was a shortage of horses, the hussars were each equipped with two horses, and each team also had two pack horses to carry ammunition and baggage. Each cavalry was a double layer of armor, a layer of cotton armor inlaid with iron leaves, and a layer of fine Nanzhong armor. As for weapons, in addition to horse guns, double-barreled short fire guns, and horsetail grenades, there are more common weapons commonly used in eastern Liaoning, such as tiger tooth knives, pick knives, tiger guns, big axes, short axes, birch handle sickles, and bone duo.

Ekui looked at the elite under him with great satisfaction, not only well-equipped, but also morale. During this period of time, in addition to getting acquainted with each other, the troops have also strengthened military discipline and worked hard to cooperate on the basis of their personal skills, so as to bring the cavalry wall tactics of the Nanyue Army Horse Brigade to a new height.

As the sun set, Ekui set off with the hussars. Hundreds of people led by one color dressed up as eight banners of Manchuria with white flags, headed by Tuha. At this time, Tuha seems to be another Niu Lu Zhangjing with the title of Jia Lazhangjing.

Zuo Wuwei was wrapped in a big coat, but his thick fur could not withstand the cold of the night wind, which made the artillery commander who was very thin in face and body a little unbearable. Behind him, dozens of observers and calculations watched nervously into the distant night.

"Okui and Tuha have been gone for more than an hour, will they be fine?" The battalion officers of several artillery teams were discussing in low voices behind Zuo Wuwei.

"Nope! If there is something, there will be movements on the Qing army's position, and if there is action, it will be discovered by our sentinels. So, just wait! Zuo Wuwei didn't scold. He reprimanded his subordinates like this, but in fact, in his heart, he was as anxious as a fire burning.

Suddenly, in the deep darkness of the night, a few fires flashed by the lure, followed by several muffled explosions, and the sound of killing was faintly heard.

"The sound of a grenade! They got their hands dirty! ”

Someone shouted excitedly.

Everyone didn't speak, but looked desperately with the binoculars in their hands, hoping to use the telescope to penetrate the night and see the situation in the direction of the carriage shop more realistically.

I don't know how long later, several bright rockets shot into the sky in the night sky, and there was a cheer on the artillery position: "Succeed!" ”

Immediately after, several fireworks exploded in the air, and Zuo Wuwei knew very well the meaning of this, it was Okui and Tuha who guided him to shoot at the target.

"All the artillery team! Get ready to fire! ”