696 into Shandong, into Shanxi

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"The commander, the last general is not effective in combat, please punish the commander."

Hao Qiang and Tong Hai, who were covered in blood and scarred, came to Lu Xiangsheng and wanted to kneel down and plead guilty.

As a result, before the two of them could kneel down, Lu Xiangsheng walked over in advance, stretched out his hands to support the two, and said with a sad face: "The defeat in this battle is not your fault.

Ben Shuai is mainly responsible, you can kill the siege of the Tartars and come back safely, Ben Shuai is already very satisfied.

In this matter, Ben Shuai will personally go to the saint to ask for guilt, and you will not be implicated. ”

Immediately, Lu Xiangsheng ordered the number of people to be counted, and the Ming cavalry who fled back to the camp was only a little more than 4,000 people.

When he went out, there were 20,000, and when he came back, there were only 4,000 remnants left.

In fact, the corpses of the Ming cavalry lying outside were at most three or four thousand, and most of the remaining more than 10,000 people were scattered by the Tartars.

The Tartars blocked the way back to the camp, so that many Ming cavalry could only flee in all directions, and those who could follow Hao Qiang and Tong Hai to kill back were the only ones.

The loss of the Tartars was only a mere 300 horsemen, and in the end, before Hauge left, he also took away all the corpses of these Tartar cavalry.

In this battle, 20,000 Ming cavalry against 5,000 Tartars with yellow flags and fine cavalry, which can be described as a complete defeat.

On the one hand, it was because Haoge unexpectedly killed a horse pistol and occupied the advantage of the battle situation, and also because of the combat power of the Ming cavalry, it was really not good.

"20,000 people, less than two hours have passed, and there are only 4,000 horses left, this handsome!"

Lu Xiangsheng's face was sad and he blamed himself.

"Marshal, many of the soldiers have been dispersed, and now that the Tartars have retreated, we can send a part of the cavalry to the surrounding area and regather these scattered cavalry."

At this time, Hao Qiang opened his mouth to suggest.

"Well, that's what I thought about it. Hadron, your injuries are not light, take care of your injuries, and don't worry about these things. ”

Lu Xiangsheng said softly to Hao Qiang.

Hao Qiang can be regarded as Lu Xiangsheng's most trusted confidant, his brother Hao Jian followed Lu Xiangsheng to die in battle, Lu Xiangsheng didn't want to see Hao Qiang follow him, and something happened to him.

"Come on, send a bunch of people who don't take it out of the camp at night, and then get close to the Tartar camp to investigate the situation."

Lu Xiangsheng immediately began to arrange military affairs, and the most important thing for Lu Xiangsheng was to find out as soon as possible whether Tartar was really gone as he guessed.

Although Lu Xiangsheng was based on the abnormal behavior of the people's Tartars, he was already seven or eight points sure of his guess.

But he still did not dare to take risks, and was very cautious, so he first sent Ye Bu Hui to the Tartar camp at night, and then went to investigate.

Because Lu Xiangsheng knew that the 100,000 horses in his hands were the only barrier to the west of the capital, and there must be no accidents, and it was not too cautious to be too cautious.

"Look, big handsome." A Ming army general stood on the wall, in the northwest direction, and shouted loudly.

After Lu Xiangsheng heard the shout, he immediately turned his head to look west, and saw that there was a fire in the direction of the Tartar camp over there, and the location where the fire burned was obviously the location of the Tartar camp.

"This fire ......, sure enough, the Tartars really withdrew, and the Tartar cavalry inlaid with yellow flags led by Hauge today was left behind, and destroyed their camp by the way."

After seeing the fire burning in the west, everything was already very clear, how could Lu Xiangsheng not understand it.

"Come to the people, go back to the capital to tell the saint, and say that the Tartars have retreated, and they may go to Shanxi, so let the court send someone to tell Jia Changming and ask them not to come to the capital to King Qin.

Let them prepare to defend the Tartars in Shanxi, and if they prepare in time, they may be able to place a pass in the northwest of the mountains to block the Tartars. ”

Then, Lu Xiangsheng did not wait for the few Ming troops sent out to return at night, and immediately sent someone back to the capital to inform Chongzhen of this important matter.

As a result, not long after Lu Xiangsheng sent the messenger back to Beijing, several Ming soldiers sent by Lu Xiangsheng did not accept it at night and also rushed back.

The situation they reported was, as Lu Xiangsheng had guessed, that the Tartar camp had been emptied, and now it had been set on fire by the last Tartar cavalry.

After the child, Chongzhen finished correcting the recital in the imperial study, and was just about to go back to the dormitory to sleep, but he received an urgent recital from Lu Xiangsheng.

"The Tartars withdrew?"

When Chongzhen saw Lu Xiangsheng's folding, he just read the beginning and heard a good news, which made Chongzhen surprised and happy at the same time.

"Jiannu deceived people too much, they actually want to go to Shanxi?"

But as Chongzhen continued to read and saw that Lu Xiangsheng guessed that the Tartar army led by Azig should be heading for Shanxi, Chongzhen became angry again.

Chongzhen was angry in his heart, but he was not as angry as he was half a month ago, when the Tartars entered the customs and killed the border of the capital.

Because, in Chongzhen's heart, at this time, he thought that as long as the Tartars left the boundary of the capital, everything would be easy to say, and the Tartars entering Shanxi would be more acceptable to Chongzhen than the Tartars attacking the Beijing Division.

"What? Lu Xiangsheng's 20,000 cavalry was defeated by 5,000 Tartars. ”

In the end, Lu Xiangsheng did not forget to plead to Chongzhen for his defeat during the day.

Chongzhen's face was already gloomy after hearing two bad news in a row, but Chongzhen didn't intend to punish Lu Xiangsheng.

Next, Chongzhen still needs to rely on Lu Xiangsheng's deployment, and the Ming army of King Qin, who came from all over the country, still needs to reuse him, and it is impossible to withdraw Lu Xiangsheng for the sake of this defeat.

Now that Chongzhen's subordinates can be trusted by him and have good leadership ability, he really can't think of anyone except Lu Xiangsheng.

However, there should still be verbal criticism and punishment, and Chongzhen has already grasped this royal method as well.

Immediately, Chongzhen picked up the brush and corrected Lu Xiangsheng's recital.

Chongzhen did not dare to mobilize the 100,000 army in Lu Xiangsheng's hands for the time being, but agreed to Lu Xiangsheng's suggestion.

was going to send him to inform Jia Changming, the chief soldier of Shanxi, that he did not need to bring troops to the capital and prepared to defend against the Tartars in Shanxi.

"Holy Lord, the expedited excerpt sent by Lord Hong Chengchou from Tongzhou, please take a look at the Holy Lord."

Just when Chongzhen was correcting Lu Xiangsheng's recital, Wang Chengen walked into the imperial study again, holding a new recital in his hand, and said to Chongzhen.

"Hong Chengchou's expedited excerpt from Tongzhou?"

Chongzhen looked at the fold handed over by Wang Chengen, and suddenly felt a sudden burst in his heart, thinking that it couldn't be so coincidental, he sent an expedited fold tonight, could it be that Hong Chengchou's Tartar over there also left?

As a result, after Chongzhen opened the fold sent by Hong Chengchou, it was also a mixed blessing.

Because, as mentioned in Hong Chengchou's expedited excerpt, this afternoon the Tartar army led by Dolgon suddenly withdrew and headed south.

As for Dolgon leading an army of more than 80,000 Tartars, why did he go south, there is no need for Hong Chengchou to say, Chongzhen also knows, after all, this is not the first and second time that Tartars have entered the customs.

"Hateful, Emperor Daming, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the imperial court, but he always can't help these Jiannu, God doesn't pity me Daming!"

At this time, Chongzhen looked up to the sky and sighed, quite helpless in his words.

Immediately, Chongzhen's order to Hong Chengchou was also to let him continue to stay in Tongzhou, and he did not mean to send troops to stop the Tartars.

Then, Chongzhen also ordered that Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, did not have to go north to King Qin, but like Shanxi, he was ready to defend against the Tartars in Shandong.

In fact, at this time, Chongzhen had no hope that Liu Zeqing and Jia Changming could stop the raids of the Tartars in Shandong and Shanxi.

If they had this ability, the Tartars had repeatedly entered the customs a few years ago, and they would not have allowed the Tartars to crisscross the entire land of Hebei without the Ming Army daring to stop them.

"By the way, where are Li Zixiao's men now?"

At this time, Chongzhen suddenly remembered Li Zixiao, and asked Wang Chengen.

"Back to the Holy Lord, Lord Chen came to the news before that Lord Li's army had left Henan and was rushing to the capital, and it is expected that it should enter the territory of Shuntian Mansion at this time."

Wang Chengen got the news about Li Zixiao's army five or six days ago.

According to Wang Chengen's marching speed twice that of ordinary Ming troops, at this time, Li Zixiao's army had already entered the territory of Shuntian Mansion one by one.

But in fact, what Wang Chengen didn't know was that he still underestimated Li Zixiao's marching speed, and at this time Li Zixiao had been in Zhuozhou City, the southernmost part of Shuntian Mansion, for three days.

Li Zixiao did not report to Chongzhen a series of situations such as their defeat of more than 10,000 Tartars in Zhuozhou City, and the beheading of the prefect of Zhuozhou.

At this time, Li Zixiao no longer needed Chongzhen's reward, he wanted money and food, but Chongzhen himself didn't have it, how could he give it to him.

To be an official, Li Zixiao has just been promoted to earl for half a year, and it is impossible for him to be promoted again by virtue of his contribution to defeating 10,000 Tartars in Zhuozhou City.

Even if Chongzhen really promoted Li Zixiao to a marquis, whether he was an earl or a marquis, for Li Zixiao at this time, it was almost the same.

And once Chongzhen knows that Li Zixiao's army has arrived in Zhuozhou, it is estimated that he will immediately urge Li Zixiao and Tatar to go to war.

But Li Zixiao has his own plan for this second northern expedition to the Tartars.

This time, he not only wanted to beat the Tartars severely, but also wanted to take this opportunity to extend the hand of the White Dragon Army to Shanxi and Shandong, which was a great opportunity.

So much so, until now, Chongzhen didn't know that Li Zixiao's army had been in Zhuozhou City for three days.

"Send someone to contact Li Zixiao and ask him to choose one of the two, whether to go east to Shandong to help Liu Zeqing fight Dolgon's Tartar army, or go west to Shanxi and help Jia Changming deal with Azig's Tartar!"

Chongzhen said slowly to Wang Chengen, ready to let Li Zixiao take on the heavy responsibility of blocking the Tartar army all the way.

Chongzhen didn't want to watch the Tartar army, wantonly rampaging in Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong, if the Tartars plundered more people and money and grain.

Let the Tartars survive this cold winter, and when it comes to next year, the strength of the Tartars will inevitably reach a higher level, and then the Ming Dynasty will be even more dangerous.

"Yes, Holy Lord, the old minister will send someone to find Lord Li's army."

Wang Chengen received Chongzhen's will, and then bowed, and left the palace to Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, and others to spread Chongzhen's will

On the 19th day of the 15th year of Chongzhen, Shigang.

It was eighty kilometers from the capital, and only a day after the Tartar cavalry left the west of the capital, the Tartar vanguard army led by Du Du arrived here.

Stone Harbor was just a small village fort, and even if Du Du led all the Tartar cavalry, they didn't resist for long, and it fell an hour later.

Immediately, Du Du left 500 Tartar cavalry here to guard more than 6,000 people in the fort, and waited for the main force of the Tartars led by Azig in the back.

Du Du led 6,000 vanguard cavalry and continued to enter Baoan Prefecture to the west, preparing to cross Baoan Prefecture and take Xiaowutai Mountain into Shanxi.

Like the Tartars or Mongol armies of the full cavalry led by Du Du, the forced march could reach nearly 100 kilometers in a day.

Therefore, the messengers sent by the imperial court were not much faster than these Tartar cavalry.

Therefore, when Du Du and the others rushed here, the imperial court sent a messenger to inform Jia Changming that he had just left the capital.

The reason why the main army of the Tartars led by Azig was much slower than that of Du Du was mainly because many of the two blue banners of the Han army were foot soldiers.

These foot soldiers mainly carried artillery and ammunition, and it was impossible for the carriage carrying the artillery to go too fast.

For Huang Taiji to let them bring these iron bumps, in fact, Azig was still quite disgusted in his heart.

Like many ordinary Tartar soldiers, Azig admired the invincibility of the bow and arrow on horseback, and he had no good feelings about the foot soldiers and the artillery that affected the speed of the cavalry.

However, this time, the emperor ordered Dorgon and Azig to bring muskets and artillery, and asked them to pay attention to artillery and learn how to use guns and artillery flexibly against the enemy as soon as possible.

Azig did not dare to oppose Huang Taiji's order, and he had seen the power of the muskets and artillery in the White Dragon Army before, so he was willing to bring these iron lumps.

As in the past, when the Tartars entered the customs and plundered, they were all cavalry troops, even the Han Eight Banners that followed them.

This time more than 20,000 of the more than 70,000 Duo Tartars led by Azig were foot soldiers, including a large number of musketeers and gunners.

Vehicles carrying artillery and ammunition alone are enough for dozens, and this is when the Tartars did not carry any heavy grain and grass.

Because the Tartars originally entered the customs to loot money and grain, they could completely feed the war with war, and they didn't need to make much effort to bring money and food themselves.

If the Tartars were to see the baggage team in the White Dragon Army, they would definitely be stunned.

In the White Dragon Army, the baggage team occupies three horses at this time, and these baggage battalions carry a large number of gunpowder, shells, and other items needed by the White Dragon Arms Gunners and Artillerymen.

In addition, Li Zixiao also asked Wei Hong, Han Lushan and others in Kaifeng to recruit tens of thousands of people, who were the main force to transport grain and grass to the White Dragon Army.

Behind the Azig army, it was he who left the five thousand elite yellow flags of Hauge, who confused the Ming army, to protect their rear.

In this way, the Tartar Western Route Army led by Azig crossed Baoan Prefecture at a very fast speed, and then entered Datong Mansion in the northwest of the mountain.

Azig had already chosen their first big target after entering Shanxi, which was the city of Ulju in the northeast of Datong Province.

(End of chapter)