On the 23rd day of the first lunar month, the clouds were thick, the north wind was howling, and a snowstorm was brewing between the heavens and the earth. On the official road connecting Jinan Mansion and Changqing County, thousands of taels of white flag military horses galloped wildly.

Hundreds of Baya soldiers and personal guards in Nanban armor guarded Dolgon in the crowd like stars holding the moon, and his mind was like turning over the river and the sea.

Two days ago, Rao Yu Bel Abatai led more than 200 people to flee back to Jinan in embarrassment. rushed into Jinan Mansion because the horse was overtired, and the horse lost its front hooves and buried its two front teeth. The rest of the people also collapsed one by one, and many horses foamed at the mouth, fell to the ground and died, which made the soldiers of Zhengbai Banner Baya who were on duty near the palace gate very scrambling.

When he saw Dolgon Abatai in the palace of King De, he immediately fell to the ground and pleaded guilty.

Hearing such an arrogant and rebellious challenge behavior of the Southern Barbarian Army, Prince Yu Duoduo immediately jumped like thunder, shouting that he would immediately pick up his military horses and go to Changqing and set foot on this small city.

"Fifteenth brother, don't be impatient, and listen to Rao Yu Baylor."

Hearing that the seventh brother in front of him explained all the situations of the battle of Changqing one by one, especially Yue Tuo and Du Du's whereabouts are unknown, and they don't know their lives and deaths, Dolgon's heart is like knocking over a five-flavor bottle, and he doesn't know what it's like.

To be honest, the loss of the two Red Banners Manchurian soldiers and horses, and even the elimination by the Ming army, brought him a hint of joy. This undoubtedly weakened the strength of Dai Shan's old man, and made his position in the Qing State more consolidated and prominent. However, from another angle, it also made the black fat man regard himself as a thorn in his side.

If this matter is not handled well, I am afraid that it will be secretly fanned by the black fat man. The remaining six flags will regard the two white flags as enemies.

Moreover, if this generation of Southern Barbarian Army can't kill their sharp spirit, I am afraid that it will be more difficult to plunder in the hinterland of the Ming Kingdom in the future.

"Fifteenth brother, you lead a large group of military horses to press the formation in the rear, and I will go first with Rao Yu Baylor forward. I'm going to use our two white flag-coated firecrackers to fight the firearms of the Southern Barbarians! ”

After the defeat of Lu Xiangsheng at the Battle of Julu, Dolgon paid attention to collecting the firearms captured from the Ming army, especially in the Battle of Jize, which captured a large number of them. Former Ming officers and soldiers captured in several battles. He compiled for himself a fleet of more than 4,000 firearms. Nearly 3,000 firecrackers. Of course, according to the Eight Banners system, these people belong to Prince Tarui's domestic slaves.

After conquering Baoding, some of the junior officers and veterans of the original Baoding car battalion were raised the flag. Become a member of his white flag. These people are rigorously trained. Training is organized every three days. Ten shots per soldier at a time, and those who shoot more than one shot at the target at a distance of forty-one bows from the target, are rewarded with five pennies for each shot. Those who hit eight guns will be rewarded with three taels of silver. Under the temptation of heavy rewards, these people were also loyal, poured beans into the bamboo tubes they had learned, and offered their own opinions on the development and skills and tactics of this firecracker.

Closely following behind Dolgon was the fiery army of Prince Rui's clothed slaves.

These people were all in the captured cotton armor of the Ming army, carrying fire guns on their shoulders, and carrying pill pipes, lead bags, and fire ropes on their waists and chests. In order not to be accidentally injured by their own people and to distinguish the Ming army wearing the same armor, these people all wrapped a four-inch wide white cloth around their shoulders. The team of more than 3,000 people was divided into three parts, each distinguished by its banner. One team for every 1,000 people, divided into 20 squads, each team of 50 people. Among them, the firecrackers accounted for sixty percent, and there were two hundred rattan soldiers and two hundred pikemen.

Led by a military flag, a rattan player holding a dark red rattan sign followed closely behind the military flag of Alazhangjing, and behind Jialazhangjing, two hundred spearmen closely guarded six hundred firecrackers. All the way to Changqing.

Behind the 3,000 firearms were a team of 20 Niu Lu and two white flags, and those who fled all the way back to Jinan from the Changqing battlefield had to flee to Dolgon to plead guilty after learning the fate of the captured colleagues. Dolgon did not hold them accountable for the loss of their commander and fled without authorization in accordance with the military law of the Eight Banners, but only let them follow the army to Changqing to take revenge. But the momentum and murderous aura were even stronger than those two white flags and white-armored soldiers, and the murderous aura that rushed to the sky made the dense clouds in the sky appear more and more gloomy and gloomy.

This huge queue composed of Eight Banners Manchuria, Eight Banners Mongolia, and Baoyi opened a vast march route of dozens of miles on the road from Jinan to Changqing.

"Slave chief Mergentai Gidorgon led tens of thousands of troops to retaliate?!"

When the news reached Changqing, the county government was celebrating the great victory of beheading Yue Tuo, capturing Du Du, and killing nearly 10,000 heads of two red flags and two white flags.

Shouhan generously distributed nearly 1,000 military merit heads to the local people in Changqing, thanking the local officials and fathers for their righteous assistance. At the same time, those officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion and Jinyi guards also received an average of two military merit titles per person. As for the armor commander and the warrior who put Yue Tuo to death on top of the three battle formations, they jointly distributed the reward of 100,000 silver dollars.

This news made the originally very warm atmosphere in the county government stagnate! The joyful atmosphere, which was as joyful as the grass growing and the warbler flying in March, immediately became as dark and gloomy as the weather outside, and Wu Guerrilla, who was still boasting about his exploits just now, only felt an urge to urinate and almost urinated.

"How many came?"

"Two white flags poured out! Dorgon in front, Dorgon in the back! There are about 100 Niulu flags, and there are three or four thousand soldiers and horses with firearms! ”

Wu Guerrilla only felt a heat in his crotch, and a stream of liquid burst out.

Adults couldn't help but feel a chill down your spine.

The main force of the two white flags is exhausted? That is to say, all the main forces of Jiannu who entered the customs and plundered this time pounced? And as many as fifty or sixty thousand?! It took us half a day's effort, that is, to deal with the thousands of Tartars with the two red flags and the new annexed army of more than 10,000 people! And after a series of hard battles, do the soldiers still have the courage and physical strength to fight again?

From the two princes to Changqing Zhixian and several leading figures in the county, they all set their eyes on the Shouhan father and son sitting in the center. I hope to get a little bit of confidence and momentum from him.

"Fifty thousand?! Many! ”

Shouhan played with the wine glass in his hand, and the sound was not loud. But it was clear to everyone present.

"Wang Bao, how much ammunition do we have on each of our brothers now?"

"My lord! Each brother still has about twenty rounds on his body, and there are still a lot of shells! Large quantities of ammunition were stored in the baggage camps, with about one million rounds of medicine. ”

"Oh! I thought I was running out of ammunition! How many musketeers are there to pick up guns and fight right now? ”

"The whole army has about seven thousand soldiers who can fight."

"Not a lot! Six firearms per person is enough! ”

"Daddy! I can drive it ten times! ”

Li Huabao jumped up, holding up his small chest, his face full of excitement.

Seeing the performance of the father and son, the officials present all shook their heads secretly, "Those Jiannu are not paper-tied straw, just stand there and let you beat them with firearms?" Someone muttered to himself.

Li Peiting, who was dressed as a wealthy businessman and was very mysterious in the eyes of everyone, also stood up with a smile on his face holding his wine glass, "Your Excellency, don't panic. Please drink this cup first. Listen to what I will tell you below, the victory of our army, the defeat of the slave cavalry! ”

Everyone drank the bitter wine in the cup helplessly, and stared at the red man in front of General Li in front of them with complicated eyes. Let's see what he has to say.

"The first victory of our army. It's a matter of victory. Our army has won a new victory. Captured a lot, even the deputy Yue Tuo, the big leader of Dolgon, who rode into the pass and plundered, was beheaded by our army, and his brother with the banner. He was even captured by our army, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted. The defeat of Jiannu is also defeated here! After the defeat, the people were panicked, morale was low, and the battalion full of wounded soldiers did not want to fight, did not dare to fight! ”

"The second victory of our army, the victory is in the peace! I have more than 100,000 people in Changqing and more than 10,000 athletes in the Nanzhong Army, who have long been connected with life and death by flesh and blood, and they are the strong men of the Beijing camp who guard the two angels, the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, and the warriors who kill thieves. Our army won this battle! On the other hand, Jiannu is internally based on strength and respects the strong. Slave chief Huang Taiji has suppressed many times over the years, in addition to the two yellow flags he personally led and the blue flag of his son. Dorgon had come for revenge, mostly to meet his errands and to block the mouths of the rest of the banners. lest gossip be left behind and give the slave chief Hung Tai a handle! ”

"Although the whole army is coming violently, I am afraid that Dolgon may not consume his descendants in vain for the sake of the destruction of the two red flags! You must know that in the Eight Banners, it is respected by the strength of the soldiers and horses! In this battle, I am afraid that if there is a slight loss, he will withdraw all the men and horses on the grounds of excessive casualties! ”

"Our army's third victory, victory in ......"

Although Li Peiting's analysis is reasonable, reasonable and well-founded, everyone is still skeptical when they hear it.

"Everyone, feast today, and tomorrow see my Nanzhong army breaking thieves! Make new contributions to my Ming Dynasty! ”

Ping'an shop, which is more than ten miles away from Changqing County, is still called Dongjiazhuang at this time.

Zhuma was stationed at the head of the stone bridge at the head of Zhangdian Village, watching the large group of people and horses rushing towards Changqing through the stone bridge, Dolgon could not see joy and sorrow on his face, but looked up at the sky from time to time, the clouds in the sky were getting lower and lower, and the wind blowing from the north and the Yellow Sea was colliding and merging fiercely in the high clouds, and a heavy snow was brewing rapidly.

There was also a fierce brainstorming going on in Dolgon's mind. In his memory, whether it was his father Khan going to war, Huang Taiji going to battle, or he led an army to fight, all the Ming troops he encountered were defeated in the face of the attack of his iron cavalry. But this strange Nanzhong Army, why has it been able to repeatedly break through the soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, Mongolia and Mongolia since the ninth year of Chongzhen?

It's common to be defeated once, and being defeated more than twice by the same army seems problematic! If this matter cannot be solved, in the future, Li Shouhan and the Nanzhong Army under him will sooner or later become a big problem for the Qing soldiers!

A henchman, Niu Luzhang Jing, rushed from the direction of the forward.

"Report! Master! Li Shouhan, the leader of the Southern Chinese Army, sent someone to come! Please show the master, to see or not to see? ”

The envoy did not bring weapons, but drove a few carts, and two people behind him were holding two wooden boxes in their hands, and they did not know what was contained in the road.

"My lord returned to Qilu a few days ago, and he was quite rewarded. While drinking to celebrate the achievement, he was overjoyed to hear that the general had brought his troops and horses over. The special order was to send gifts to the labor army, and the gift was only five boiled whole pigs, fifty boxes of canned meat produced in Nanzhong, and forty jars of spirits. For the general to reward his subordinates. ”

"Your master knows that I am coming, but he sent you to send wine and meat to our army?"

Dorgon was amazed when he saw that the messenger looked neither humble nor arrogant, and that he was courteous.

"Yes! My lord knows the purpose of the general's visit. is the same as Yue Tuo and Du Du a few days ago. It's just a battle! However, a few days ago, Yue Tuo and Du Du were very weak in their fighting strength. My lord deeply regretted that the soldiers of the three armies could not enjoy themselves, so he ordered to send wine and meat to the general, thinking that the fight would be fun. ”

This is a very polite remark, but it is a gun with a stick.

We know what you're here for! But it's about fighting! Like Yue Tuo, Du Du and others a few days ago, there is nothing unusual. However, those two guys can't help fighting, my lord and the whole army feel that it is not enjoyable, and specially send you two white flags to eat and drink, I hope you will not be so useless!

And one of the officers standing in the tent whispered the words of the messenger to the generals. These words. couldn't help but make everyone angry, and pulled out the saber on their waists one by one.

A few more violent men put their knives on the messenger's neck, and when Dorgon gave the order, they stabbed the bold man into pieces.

"Knives. Not bad. It is made of the finest steel produced in my southern middle school. I don't know how the road fell into the hands of you? ”

The messenger is also a good man. Several sabers rested on the neck, and there was also a mind to identify the quality of the steel knives.

"There are the most such knives in our army. In the battle in the coming day, there will be countless sabers to give. ”

"Bastard minion! Who wants you to do this to the messenger?! ”

Although Duoduo was violent and obedient, he was extremely respectful to the second brother, and when he saw that the second brother's face was quite gentle, he opened his mouth to drink those officers back.

When the messenger saw that Dodor had come out to stop the officer, he stopped sneering, but ordered his men to give two wooden boxes to the brothers Dodor and Dorgon.

"Huh?!"

The contents of the wooden box made the two brothers change color. Immediately close the lid of the wooden box tightly.

In the wooden box are the helmets of Du Du and Yue Tuo. Although it is full of the smell of gunsmoke, as the helmet of the county king and Baylor, the identity of the owner can still be seen.

"Where is the owner of this thing?" Try to keep your tone of voice calm and soothing, so that the people around you don't hear anything unusual.

"So that the general will know that the owner of this thing is in our army right now!"

Come on! The two red flags are completely finished! Both banner owners fell into the hands of the Nanzhong Army.

Dolgon did not bother to ask again, but ordered a reply to be written and sent back to the messenger. In the letter, he expressed his gratitude to Shouhan for giving wine and meat, "The general has worked hard from afar, and there is no joy in the army." Tomorrow, I will order the soldiers to fight in front of the Ping'an shop to help the wine! ”

"Second brother, what is Li's move for? It can't be poisoned in the flesh and wine, right? ”

"Stupid! Could it be that he doesn't know that even if we eat and drink, we have to find someone to check it? He is demonstrating to us, showing off his strength and martial arts. Trying to provoke us to fight immediately, Lao Tzu didn't fall for it! ”

"Second brother, is this trick the same as Zhuge Liang's trick in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to give Sima Yi women's clothes?"

"Not bad! Exactly! ”

At that moment, the two brothers ordered the whole army to stop advancing, and set up a temporary camp near this Ping'an shop, rested for the night, and went to battle in the coming day.

"All the wine and meat in the generals have been issued! Officers above Niu Lu will be given another canned meat and a pound of soju per person! ”

In Dolgon's tent, the generals of the two white flags surrounded a fat pig, each cutting meat with a knife, a mouthful of wine and a mouthful of meat, and ate quite heartily.

"Just rush this fat pig, send troops tomorrow, let's also give those Nanban a good look!" A few Jia Lazhangjing wiped their bodies casually with their oily hands, making the newly made robes greasy.

"Rao Yu Baylor, you have fought with the Nanzhong Army, you come to talk about it for everyone. How does this South China Army fight its tactics? Can I be defeated repeatedly? ”

Abatai felt embarrassed for a while, so he had to put down the silver knife in his hand and hurriedly said respectfully: "Back to the general, the combat power of the Nanzhong Army is no less than my Eight Banners." Even slightly better. The guns of its department are very powerful, not to mention. The discipline of his army was strict, the military discipline was strict, and the troops were neat, which I had never seen in my life. When the minions of the Red Banner attacked its formation, they had already reached the point where their bows and arrows could be fired into their ranks, and their firearms were not yet fired. Under the order, the formation was immediately changed, and the artillery hidden in the formation was relinquished, and then the artillery bombarded round after round, and the artillery was even more firecracked, and the iron cavalry, heavy armored dead soldiers, and white-armored soldiers of the two red banner minions were seriously damaged in such a combination of guns and cannons. ”

Restricted by the concept of technique at this time, even if he killed Abatai at this time, he couldn't say the word infantry cannon coordination. It's just that I instinctively feel that the use of artillery by the South Central Army is vicious and unprecedented.

Hearing this, Dolgon nodded slightly, "In addition to the vicious fire, is the fire sharp?" ”

"Exactly! Its military formation was no more than a thin three-layer firearm, and dozens of artillery pieces were mixed in the array. Before my heavy cavalry charged a hundred paces, its array of artillery projectiles fired a volley, and the radius was full of their bullets, and the heavily armored warriors were immediately seriously damaged, and the men and horses fell endlessly. After the cannon, its fiery guns were fired in turn, and the momentum of my heavy cavalry was hindered. The department is extremely well-trained, they load the bullets quickly, wave after wave of bullets, and my nearly 1,000 heavy armor warriors are so damaged! ”

"Although the artillery is sharp and vicious, and the salvo of fire is powerful, it is not surprising. Among the Ming troops that I have seen in the Qing Dynasty, there are quite a few people with excellent artillery. However, his troops not only relied on artillery fire, but also fought extremely bravely. Every time after the fire guns inflicted heavy casualties on our army, the whole army was stabbed with guns, and the guns were like a forest of assaults. (To be continued......)