Sure enough, as Bahai expected, Wu Sangui's army was like a bamboo, and Huaiqing, Yiyang, Ruzhou, Baofeng, Xuzhou, and Yuzhou fell into the hands of Wu Sangui one after another in just one and a half months. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, these cities were unintentionally defended by the Qing army, which was easily captured by Wu Sangui. Wu Sangui was also afraid of the power of the Eight Banners cavalry of the Qing army, and did not dare to go out of the plains of Yuncheng and other places. According to the plan formulated by Liu Xuanchu, Wu Sangui attacked Luoyang, and the Qing court could not lose a big city like Luoyang, and it would inevitably go all out to rescue. The Eight Banners cavalry is known for its strong mobility, and it is impossible to give up the advantage of cavalry and let the cavalry defend the city, so under Luoyang City, there must be a decisive battle.

Ba Hai also waited, after Wu Sangui's army left the northern mountains of Ruzhou, it went to the plain, and then fought a decisive battle with Wu's army. The hilly and mountainous area around Ruzhou is not conducive to the cavalry, and the cavalry is easy to be ambushed in the mountainous area, and it is easy to be blocked by people at the entrance to the valley and blocked inside.

Both sides are waiting for a decisive battle, but they also have their own little calculations. Bahai tried to send 2,000 cavalry, one man and three horses, to attack thousands of miles, in an attempt to cut off the grain and baggage transportation channel of the Wu army and burn the grain hoarding point of the Wu army. However, Wu Sangui was well guarded, and Gao Dejie's Wu army scout cavalry was not dry, and Bahai's 2,000 light cavalry were discovered by the Wu army, and Bahai had to give up the attack plan. As for Wu Sangui, he also sent a fine work to infiltrate Luoyang City and burn the grain hoarded by the Qing army in Luoyang, but the Qing army was heavily guarded, and Wu Sangui failed to succeed.

The Wu army of 120,000 soldiers, 130,000 auxiliary soldiers and people, a total of 250,000 horses, known as 800,000 troops, advanced all the way to the north, the advancing team was magnificent, like a long dragon, marching in the southwestern mountains of Henan.

The decisive battle had not yet begun, and the two sides had continuous small-scale contact, and Bahai sent 1,000 taels of elite light cavalry with one man and three horses to constantly harass and attack the flank of the Wu army, taking advantage of the Wu army's movement, shooting arrows at the Wu army from a distance. When the cavalry of the Wu army came up, the cavalry of the Qing army immediately whistled, turned the horse's head and left.

"Report, find the Wu Reverse Artillery Team!" An eight-banner sentry rode back on horseback and reported to the Qing army leader Henusu.

"Probe!" Henusu said coldly.

"Wow!" The sentry made a thousand, then changed horses, pulled out the horses and left.

The artillery team of the Xia Guoxiang Department of the Wu Army is the elite of the Wu Army and belongs to the target of key protection. The Wu artillery team walked in the middle, protected by infantry on the perimeter. The two wings of the infantry also had auxiliaries and militia strongmen, and the farther wings, the tall cavalry roamed back and forth. Before the Qing sentry could get closer, Gao Dejie's elite cavalry caught up.

"Wu Dog Cavalry is here!" The Qing army Zhuan Da (Eight Banners Chief) shouted.

The eleven elite cavalrymen of the Eight Banners with the Yellow Banner turned over and dismounted, took off their strong bows from their horses, and fired arrows at the twenty Wu army sentry horses who rushed over from a distance. At this time, the distance between the two sides was about one hundred and twenty paces, and for the elite Bayala of the Zhenghuang Banner who grew up in the bitter cold land outside the pass, such a range was nothing at all.

"Whoosh" eleven feather arrows flew out, the Qing army's Bayala's archery skills were tricky and accurate, and the feather arrows were specially greeted to the unprotected face and limbs of the Wu cavalry.

Two Wu cavalrymen were shot in the front door and fell off their horses with a scream. Three other Wu cavalry were shot in the limbs, two other arrows hit the horses, and the remaining four arrows were dodged by the Wu cavalry. Before the two sides made contact, the Wu army had already suffered five casualties, and two horses were wounded, and seven cavalry lost their combat effectiveness at once.

In the blink of an eye, the second round of feather arrows of the Qing army was shot again, and one more Wu cavalry was shot in the face, three were shot in the limbs, and another cavalryman's war horse was hit by two arrows, and the horse was directly killed! Two more cavalry horses were wounded and fell.

"What a terrible tartar!" The remaining six Wu cavalrymen did not dare to step forward any longer, turned their horses' heads, pulled their horses and left.

The wounded six Wu cavalrymen also turned their horses and fled in disarray.

The remaining six Wu cavalrymen who had lost their horses had just gotten up from the ground, and a row of feathered arrows whistled in, and three of the Wu cavalry were shot like hedgehogs in the blink of an eye.

The speed of the Eight Banners Sentinel Cavalry was very fast, and then another row of feather arrows pierced down, and the last three Wu cavalry did not dare to get up at all, so they could only hide behind the fallen war horses to dodge the feather arrows that were fired. After a while, the war horse was also shot into a hedgehog.

Open the bow and release the arrows, it is also an extremely physically demanding thing, eleven Eight Banner soldiers shot five rounds of feather arrows one person, the physical consumption is extremely great, eleven Eight Banner soldiers on the horse, whistle, horse left.

Seeing the twelve cavalrymen fleeing back in disarray, and six of them were wounded, Gao Dejie asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Gao Dejie asked about the situation, and sighed: "The Tartars outside the gate are still as powerful as they were back then!" Back then, when we were outside the gates, the Tartar archers dismounted and shot arrows, and our bird-fired soldiers were no match at all! The Tartar sentry cavalry is even more powerful, and our scout cavalry can't spy on the military when they go out, and they are all killed by the Tartar sentry cavalry! ”

"It's not what it used to be!" Xia Guoxiang came up and said, "Don't we have stragglers?" Find the marshal to borrow the stragglers, scatter the stragglers and mix them in the middle of the sentry cavalry, and you can restrain the Tartar archers! ”

"Wonderful! The range and accuracy of the skirmishers surpass that of the Tartar Bayara! If there are stragglers, I don't believe that I can't kill the Tartar Bayala! Gao Dejie slapped his thigh.

After a short time, Wu Sangui agreed and lent his precious two hundred stragglers to Gao Dejie.

"Wu Dog Cavalry is here again!" A Qing army sentry reported to Zhuan Da.

"How many people came?" Zhanda asked.

"Twenty horsemen are coming! It's all one person and two horses. The sentry replied.

"Hahaha!" Zhuan Da laughed, "It's just twenty Wu dogs!" Let's go, we'll go with them! ”

Eleven Qing army sentry cavalry rushed to the direction of Wu army sentry cavalry, when the distance between the two sides approached one hundred and fifty steps, just as the Qing army was about to dismount and get the bow and arrow, but saw that the other Wu army sentry cavalry all reined in their horses, stopped moving, took the musket from the horseback, and aimed at the Qing cavalry on this side from a distance.

"Wu Gou used firearms so far away?" Qing Jun Zhuan laughed, "You don't need to dismount, just ride your horse and rush over and shoot them to death with a horse shot!" ”

Generally, the Eight Banners can only use a riding bow to shoot arrows on horseback, and the range is about 20 steps. These elite bayalas have grown up on horseback since they were children, and each of them has been practicing archery on horseback for more than twenty years, and they are able to pull out their heavy bows on horseback and shoot feathered arrows a hundred paces away! It is precisely because of the superb riding and archery skills that the Eight Banner Sentinel Cavalry and the Ming Army did not fight at night, and it was the Eight Banner Sentinel Cavalry that prevailed.

The Eight Banners cavalry was getting closer and closer, and when the Eight Banners cavalry rushed into one hundred and twenty steps, they heard the Wu cavalry crowd on the opposite side spewing fire, a puff of white smoke rose up, and the roaring gunfire rang out immediately.