295 Troops were sent north

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Looking at the corpses all around, Zhou Yue was stunned for a while.

From the bloodthirsty state just now, after waking up, he cried loudly: "Yang Tou, our brothers are gone, and we are left alive!" ”

Yang Zhou on the side was also uncomfortable, the six White Dragon Army scouts who died were all his subordinates, and they were also his brothers.

Half a day ago, they were still talking and laughing together, but now in the blink of an eye, they have all become cold corpses, and they have been separated from each other ever since.

Yang Zhou endured his grief and reprimanded Zhou Yue: "What are you howling, since we followed the general and put on this armor, we have long known that there may be such a day."

Don't be stunned, hurry up and dispose of the fallen brothers, and then cut off the heads of these eleven Tartars, and we will take all their horses and things with us.

The two of us immediately returned to the base camp and reported to the general that the Tartar scouts had already touched here, which means that it was not far from the time for the Tartar army to sweep here. ”

"Then ......, Yang Tou, your injury?"

After listening to Yangzhou Zhou's reprimand, Zhou Yue held back his sadness and looked at the arrow wound on Yangzhou's shoulder.

"Don't get in the way, it's important to retreat, I'll talk about it when I go back, this little injury, I won't be able to die for a while, let's go."

Yangzhou knew very clearly that they couldn't stay in this place for a moment at this time, and they had to retreat immediately, and they didn't even have time to deal with their injuries, so they were only roughly bandaged.

Two days later, Li Zixiao received information from Yangzhou and Zhou Yue in Linqingzhou, and immediately convened his generals to discuss.

The following day, two more scouts returned, bringing back an update on the presence of the Tartar army in the southern part of the Northern Zhili.

At the same time, Li Zixiao has also been waiting for the information sent back by Zhang Fugui's intelligence system around the capital.

In the end, Li Zixiao synthesized the intelligence of the two aspects and found that at this time, the main force of the Tartar army was still galloping and plundering on the thousands of miles of fertile fields from western Beijing to Shanxi.

Because the Tatar army was very unscrupulous, they had been dividing their troops, except for a few Tatar soldiers and horses looted in the western part of Beijing at this time, which was the main force of the Tatar army entering the customs this time.

In addition, there is a Tartar army at this time in the south and north of Zhili, along the way is also all the way to burn and loot, has passed Zhuozhou, and now arrived in the area of Baoding Mansion.

"Based on the information we have in the past two days, the first part of the Tartar Army has arrived in Baoding Mansion at this time, which is only a small part of the Tartar Army, not the main force.

At this time, these Tartar troops were unscrupulous, thinking that no officers and soldiers in the Ming Dynasty dared to attack them, and they were rampant everywhere, burning, killing and looting, which was the time when they were most proud and most careless.

In this way, I plan to take this opportunity, while they don't know our details, to give the Tartars a ruthless attack first, and not seek to annihilate this southbound Tartar army.

At least one of them should be hit hard, and the arrogance of these Tartars should be dealt a good blow, so that they know that we also dare to beat them in the Ming Dynasty, and there are also iron-blooded men. ”

After Li Zixiao gathered a group of generals under his command, he said directly to the point.

"Okay, General, we've been waiting impatiently for a long time, let's give the order quickly!" Zhou Dazhu said impatiently.

"That's right, we seconded it."

The other generals of the White Dragon Army also had a rare unanimity.

"Okay, in that case, I order, the whole army will go north tomorrow, let's kill the Tartars!"

Li Zixiao also suddenly felt full of pride in his heart, and ordered loudly to the generals.

"Yes, follow the general's orders!" The generals shouted in unison.

Before dawn the next day, from the military camp of the White Dragon Army in Linqingzhou, rows of figures lined up out of the camp and headed north.

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At this time, in the north of Baoding Mansion (now Baoding City), there was a Tartar army of more than 3,000 people, which was the first of the Tartar army that went south in several ways.

The leading general of this Tartar army is a wild boar skin named Zabek.

In his cognition, the current Ming army has been repeatedly frustrated and even defeated in many years of confrontation with the Tartar army, and he has long been frightened.

Although there are occasionally some Ming who don't close the night and dare to compete with their spies.

But now he has more than 3,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and in his opinion, he has these 3,000 soldiers and horses, which is enough to fight with 10,000 Ming troops, and he will not fall behind at all.

Therefore, although he knew that there must be a Ming army on the side of Shandong in the southeast, he did not think that he would be in any danger at all.

On October 14, the 11th year of Chongzhen, in a town called Bada in the north of Baoding Prefecture, the town was silent in the morning, and there was only the sound of the Tartar army patrol walking from time to time.

In a large house in a large family in the town, Zabek was lying on the bed and falling asleep, and next to him, there were two naked and slightly beautiful women.

These two women are the daughters of the landlord's family, and yesterday the Tartars ransacked this town, and Zabek chose the landlord's house as a resting place.

At this time, the two women were looking at Zabek with a pair of red eyes from crying, with a look of fear.

Last night, Zabek desperately vented his beast on the two snatched women, and he didn't fall asleep until the middle of the night, and now he is sleeping soundly.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was heard outside the doorway, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps.

"Adult, villain has an urgent military intelligence report!"

Zabek, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by the noise outside the door, and Zabek, who had been disturbed from his good dreams, sat up barely, revealing the thick bear hair on his upper body.

He put on a small hexagram coat angrily, walked to the door barefoot, and scolded angrily: "You damn slaves, what is the matter, disturb my dreams."

If it's a trivial matter, see that the master didn't pick your skin this morning. ”

After reaching the door, Zabek saw a minion kneeling in front of the door.

Zabek stretched out his big furry foot, kicked the minion, and asked impatiently, "Anyway, what is going on?" ”

The minion reported in an anxious voice: "Lord Qiqi, there was a report from the spies just now, they found the Ming army twenty miles away from Bada Town, and they are heading towards Bada Town at this moment. ”

"What?"

When Zabek heard this, he was shocked, reached out and grabbed the minion by the collar, pulled him up hard, and asked loudly: "This is true, how many people are there, and are there cavalry?" ”

"Back to the adult's words, what the villain said is true, according to the report of the spies, there are about 3,000 people in those Ming troops who are foot soldiers, and there are a number of unknown baggage behind, but the cavalry is very few, only about 100 horsemen."

"Wow, I didn't look for the bad luck of those bright dogs, but I didn't expect them to send them to the door by themselves, and only three thousand bright dogs dared to be arrogant in front of me."

Zabek thought that this was a provocation by the Ming army to himself, and a wave of anger surged into his heart, and then said angrily: "What cats and dogs dare to provoke the master, and the master's knife should also be full of blood." ”

"Order, let everyone assemble, and prepare to go with the master to destroy this group of Ming dogs who rushed to die!"

"Huh!"

Zabek gave the order, and soon a low horn sounded in the town.

A group of Tartar soldiers quickly assembled, and under the leadership of their respective Niu Lu, they drove towards the outside of Bada Town, and a big battle was about to begin.

At this time, more than ten miles outside Bada Town, Li Zixiao was leading the army to move forward steadily.

Just now, Zhou Dazhu sent someone to report that the whereabouts of their troops had been discovered by the Tartars, and at the same time, the scouts of the White Dragon Army also discovered that the Tartar Army was stationed in the town in front at this time.

Li Zixiao knew that if the Tartars in the town in front of him knew, there would be a Ming army coming to attack them.

At this time, these Tartars have no one in their eyes, arrogant and domineering, and the arrogant Tartar army will definitely attack with all their might.

Therefore, Li Zixiao immediately turned the team into a battle formation, transferred the baggage battalion, which was originally at the end, to the middle of the marching team, and prepared the thorn chariot properly.

The so-called thorn chariot is an iron plate full of iron thorns inserted into the exterior of the cart, which is used to haul grain on weekdays, and can also be used as a shield to protect infantry in wartime.

This is also one of the effective weapons used by the Ming army to deal with the Tartar cavalry when it encountered it in the field at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

When Li Zixiao's team walked to an open terrain that was less than ten miles away from Bada Town.

A scout came running out of breath on a fast horse and shouted: "General Qiyu, a large group of Tartar soldiers is rushing towards our army in front. ”

"Sure enough!"

Li Zixiao snorted coldly and said: "These Tartars are really as arrogant as rumored, and the general will order that all the troops immediately pull carts and form a formation and prepare to meet the enemy." ”

"Yes."

Li Zixiao gave an order, and hundreds of baggage soldiers quickly divided hundreds of carts into two layers to form a large circle, protecting all the soldiers.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Zixiao divided the 1,000 bird gunners in the two battalions into five rows and stood behind the car formation, with 1,000 sword and shield men protecting the two wings.

The remaining pikemen were in the center, ready to respond at any time, and Li Zixiao was also supported by hundreds of personal soldiers, standing in the center and center of the car formation.

And the scouts scattered outside reported to Li Zixiao the approximate distance between the Tartar army and his own headquarters.

This time, with Bao Zixiao was only the two infantry battalions of the White Dragon Army, the 'Pioneer Battalion' and the 'Trapped' Battalion, plus the Baggage Axis Soldiers, about 3,000 people, and the information of the Tartars was also correct.

After a while, in a puff of billowing smoke, hundreds of Tartar cavalry appeared in front of everyone.

Not far away, the spies of the Tartar soldiers and the scouts of the White Dragon Army continued to fight, and the two sides won and lost each other.

Looking at his own scouts who were constantly fighting fiercely outside the formation, Li Zixiao was also nervous in his heart, this was the first time he led his troops to fight in Tatar after crossing the late Ming Dynasty, and he was both excited and excited, and a little worried.

Among the first Tartar cavalry, the leader of the group, Niu Lu, was named Alenha, a famous warrior in the blue banner.

This time, he was ordered by Zabek to take his headquarters soldiers and horses to test the reality of this team that suddenly emerged from the Ming army.

Seeing that the White Dragon Army on the opposite side had already formed a chariot formation, Alenha, who was riding on a horse, had a sneer of disdain in his heart.

This person secretly said: These Ming troops are no different from those Ming troops they have encountered in the past, and after encountering the warriors of the Tartar army, they will only shrink up and become a turtle.

Even the strong city walls couldn't stop the iron hooves of their Qing cavalry, so how could the small chariot formation withstand it?

Alenha turned to a white-armored soldier beside him and said, "Dodor, you immediately take a hundred warriors to teach these Ming dogs a lesson."

Let these Ming dogs know that our Qing Dynasty's iron cavalry can't be blocked by just one car formation. ”

"Huh!"

Alenha is a veteran, and he has dealt with the Ming army for many years, and he understands the combat strength of the Ming army in this period.

His plan was very simple, that is, to use a hundred Tartar soldiers to demonstrate against these Ming troops, and to carry out mounted shooting, if the Ming army could not bear the strength to retreat, it would naturally be the best.

In this way, he can calmly take his Niu Lu to his heart's content, and slaughter these Ming soldiers who can only walk on two legs.

If this Ming army does not retreat, they will not break through, and it is good to dampen its spirit first, which can hit the morale of this Ming army.

Normally, Allenha's strategy is indeed right, and there is nothing wrong with it.

In the past, when they used to encounter the Ming army to resist in formation, they used this method, and they tried it repeatedly.

But today, what he didn't expect was that what he encountered was not the Ming army he met on weekdays, the White Dragon Army was an outlier in the Ming army.

Dodora led a hundred Tartar cavalry, and without hesitation, he rushed straight to the chariot formation of the White Dragon Army, charging while letting out a strange cry of "Wow Wow".

Liu Chong had already drawn his waist knife, stood at the back of the car formation, looked coldly at the cavalry of the Tartars in front of him, and rushed towards his own position.

Some of the soldiers who were 'trapped in the camp', and some of them were a little nervous because they were fighting for the first time.

When their faces began to change color, Liu shouted loudly: "Don't panic, everyone, just follow the usual training, and all the sentry soldiers listen to my orders and prepare to take turns shooting." ”

In a rumbling sound, a hundred Tartar cavalry rushed towards the White Dragon Army's car formation, the distance was getting closer and closer, and soon they had already seen the White Dragon Army on the opposite side.

When the Tartars saw the White Dragon soldiers on the opposite side, one by one, holding bird guns and standing behind the chariot formation, many Tartars couldn't help but grin.

In their impression, the Ming army's bird gun is actually synonymous with waste.

Needless to say, the explosion is accurate, and they are afraid of both wind and rain, and in bad weather, often ten times, may not be able to fire once.

Now those Ming troops did not use bows and arrows, but birds, and Dodora laughed in his heart.

Dodora laughed at the general who led the Ming army, he must have been an idiot, and he was overjoyed, and he rode his horse faster, followed by a hundred Tartar cavalry.

Soon, they were approaching a hundred paces in front of the White Dragon Army's chariot array, and many Tartar soldiers had already taken out their bows and arrows, ready to release arrows at this chariot array.