324Battle of Jazhuang (1)

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After Li Zixiao led his troops to leave Shunde Mansion, he did not really go north, but went east, and at dawn, they Luo Township and Zhou Dazhu, Qi Wei and others who had been waiting here for a long time.

"How? How's the intelligence going? ”

As soon as Li Zixiao came up, he asked Han Tong, at this time, he was most concerned about the movements of the Qing army around him, and whether Lu Xiangsheng would enter Jiazhuang as he did in history.

"General, I sent out all my scouts, and now the main force of the Qing Dynasty is thirty miles to the east of us, and we have not found our location.

And the tens of thousands of Guanning Iron Cavalry commanded by the eunuchs of Gao Qiqian were in Jize in the south at this time, and I had just received a report from the scout.

Sure enough, as the general expected, the 5,000 old and weak remnants of the army commanded by Lord Lu entered Jiazhuang in the Julu area last night, which was only a dozen miles away from the main force of the Tartars.

I don't know if the main force of the Tartars has discovered Lord Lu and them at this time, but once Lord Lu leads five thousand soldiers and horses to collide with the main force of the Tartars, they will be finished.

General, don't we really send a message to Lord Lu? Han Tong finally asked hesitantly.

After Li Zixiao listened to Han Tong's report, he applauded in his heart, nothing has changed much, and it is estimated that today is the day when Lu Xiangsheng is surrounded by the main force of the Tartars.

As for Han Tong's last sentence, it was automatically ignored by Li Zixiao.

Report to Lu Xiangsheng and let him avoid the main force of the Tartar army in advance, so that he may really be able to change the solution of Lu Xiangsheng being besieged and killed by the Tartar soldiers.

But this is not what Li Zixiao wants, because it will make him lose the opportunity to severely damage the Tartar army, and he has been planning for this day for a long time.

There are many ways to rescue Lu Xiangsheng, but there are not many opportunities to ambush the Tartar like this and severely damage the Tartar, so Li Zixiao did not consider sending someone to send a message to Lu Xiangsheng to warn at this time.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of Lu Xiangsheng being surrounded by the main force of the Tartar army, Li Zixiao had already made many arrangements, and he wanted to defeat the main force of the Tartars in this battle.

This battle can no longer be concealed by both sides like the battle of Ma Guanying.

The outcome of this battle will soon reach Chongzhen's ears, and this is an excellent opportunity for Li Zixiao to become famous.

Li Zixiao's northern expedition to meet the Tartars, what is the purpose, it can't be to train soldiers, raise money and food, and more importantly, to make his reputation.

In ancient times, a person's reputation was crucial, because it would attract countless talents to you.

If you are unknown, even if you have millions of troops under your command, it is estimated that there will not be many talented people to defect.

And at this time in the late Ming Dynasty, what reputation is the most important, and what will make the hot-blooded men with ideals and ambitions in the world rush to run, is undoubtedly the general who can defeat the Tartars and revitalize the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in this battle, Li Zixiao's real purpose is not to save Lu Xiangsheng, this is only incidental, defeating the main force of the Tartars and becoming famous in the world is what Li Zixiao needs.

What's more, with Li Zixiao's understanding of Lu Xiangsheng from later history, he is indeed capable of literature and martial arts, talented, and a rare capable minister.

But in the same way, his loyalty to Daming and Chongzhen is unshakable by anyone, and he can even be called 'foolish loyalty'.

Such a person, no matter how talented he is, can't be used by Li Zixiao after all, and it will be useless for Li Zixiao.

"Now I order, officially carry out the 'kill the cowards' plan, now you go back to your respective departments and start deploying."

"Yes. Checkmate! ”

After Zhou Dazhu and other generals of the White Dragon Army heard Li Zixiao's words, they all responded excitedly one by one, of course they knew what the 'killing Kou' plan was.

Han Tong saw that Li Zixiao had made up his mind, sighed, and stopped mentioning the matter of reporting to Lu Xiangsheng.

"Han Tong, you sent someone inside to convey orders to Xu Wei and Qi Lin, so that they can act and hide according to the original plan, and must not be discovered by the Tartars in advance.

Whether our White Dragon Army can win the battle against the main force of the Tartar Army this time depends on their side, so you can go in person, otherwise I won't worry. ”

In the end, Li Zixiao looked at Han Tong with a serious face and said.

"Yes, General, I'll go in person, and I promise nothing will go wrong." After Han Tong received the order, he immediately left the camp with more than a dozen scouts.

In this northern expedition, Li Zixiao led nearly 10,000 troops, except for a small number of men and horses who stayed in the base camp of Linqingzhou, as well as more than 2,500 people who were killed and wounded before.

In the end, against the main force of the Tartars this time, Li Zixiao could only use 6,000 troops in his hands, and excluding the logistics auxiliaries, the real capable soldiers in his hands were more than 5,000 people.

Li Zixiao has only 6,000 men and horses in his hands, so he dares to find the main force of the Tartars to fight, if he is known, he will definitely laugh at his inadequacy.

Under normal circumstances, Li Zixiao would never dare to do this, but at this time, except for the weakness of the army to the Tartars, all other aspects are in his favor.

For example, at this time, the White Dragon Army won successive battles, and its morale was great, and the soldiers were no longer afraid of the Tartars, and even looked forward to killing the Tartars one by one to get a reward.

In addition, the Tartars are in the light, the White Dragon Army is in the dark, and they completely take the initiative.

And at this time, Li Zixiao still had this big killing weapon in his hand, a full ten six-pounder guns, more than thirty three-pounder guns, and many tiger squat cannons and Furlong machine guns.

It was these artillery pieces that gave Li Zixiao the confidence to defeat the Tartars, and at the same time, Li Zixiao knew the temperament of the Tartars.

They entered the customs this time in order to plunder the population and wealth, and they could not bear huge casualties, just like Chongzhen did not dare to let the Guanning Iron Cavalry attack the Tartars.

Because Chongzhen was also afraid that Guan Ning Tieqi would not be able to fight in the first battle, he would not be able to bear such a loss, so he let the Tartars run rampant so unscrupulously.

And Li Zixiao has no such concerns, as long as he can force back the main force of the Tartars, and he doesn't have to really kill all the Tartars, that's fine.

Afterwards, he could have claimed that he had defeated the Tartars, and that his purpose had been achieved as long as the 'victory over the Tartars' was crowned with this glory.

To do this, Li Zixiao is still sure, and the hole cards in his hand should be enough.

According to the information collected by Han Tong from all walks of life of the White Dragon Army's spies before, the small groups of Tartars who were still acting separately in the north of the Daming River at this time.

Half a month ago, they began to gather again towards the main force of the Tartar Army like a bird's nest.

Obviously, it had been three and a half months since the Tatar army entered the pass, which was considered to have passed the initial stage of plunder, and they had arrived in the south and south of Beizhili at this time, and they could enter Shandong at any time.

Li Zixiao knew that this was the last moment for the Tartars to do a big deal, and then twist it into a rope and turn around and return to the gate.

At this time, if they want to make a big deal at the end, they must gather forces and recall the small group of men and horses that have been scattered.

Moreover, at this time, the Tianxiong army of Lu Xiangsheng and the tens of thousands of Guan Ning iron cavalry who were high and diving have been inseparable, eyeing them.

Previously, Lu Xiangsheng led 20,000 Tianxiong troops in Changping, fought with the Tartars several times, and even won a few small victories, causing a lot of losses to the Tartars.

Let the Tartars have always been afraid of Lu Xiangsheng, if Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates, plus tens of thousands of Guanning Iron Cavalry, really launch a general attack on the Tartars, even Dolgon would not dare to say that he was absolutely sure of winning.

It's just that the Tartars received a secret report from the traitors, saying that the ministers of the DPRK and China advocated peace talks with the Tartars.

And Chongzhen also had the intention of loosening, which made Dolgon boldly guess that the Guanning Iron Cavalry did not dare to attack them.

But just in case, as long as Dorgon is not a fool, it is the right decision to recall all the soldiers and horses at this time.

At this time, the Tartars in the pass were still divided into two roads, and one way was the main force of nearly 30,000 Tartars led by Dolgon himself, which was here at this time.

There was also a Tartar army of more than 20,000 men, led by Belle Yueto, who was attacking Dezhou at this time, preparing to attack Shandong from the north, and their next target was Jinan.

The Tartar army in Texas, Li Zixiao is not worried, there is no threat to them, this time they are only facing the nearly 30,000 Tartars led by Dolgon.

Whether it was the 30,000 Tartars or their commander Dorgon, Li Zixiao was very jealous, so much so that when he formulated the action plan, he planned it over and over again, and changed it again and again.

Dolgon, this is the 'god of war' of the Tartars, who has fought all his life and rarely lost, and it can be said that two-thirds of the victories won by the Tartars were commanded by him.

Even if Huang Taiji was not dead at this time, Dolgon's power was far from being as terrible as a few years later, when the Tartars entered the customs.

But he was still Dolgon, and his courage and cunning were still far from being comparable.

This time against the main force of the Tartars, 6,000 against 30,000, it is definitely a crazy move, and it is also a gamble for Li Zixiao.

Subsequently, Li Zixiao's generals began to reorganize their troops and horses, prepare for the big battle, and wait for Li Zixiao's order to send troops.

And Li Zixiao sat alone in the big tent, at this time it was difficult to calm down, staring at a sand table in front of him, which was carefully made by his Ming people, the map of the entire Shunde to Shandong.

The large and small rivers, valleys, villages, bridges, etc., all of them are extremely clear, which is also the scout team sent by Li Zixiao to Han Tong, which spent more than half a month in advance to carefully survey in this area.

In the previous month, the Tartars' soldiers had not yet touched here, and Han Tong and the others had time to carefully survey the map of this area.

At this time, there were more than 4,000 people in total of the White Dragon soldiers and horses gathered here, and the rest was only Xu Wei's 'Iron Blood Battalion', and most of the artillery battalion was not there.

Until the sun rose for most of the time, Li Zixiao estimated that it was almost about ten or eleven o'clock at noon, and the sun was warm and comfortable in winter.

"Today's weather is beautiful, is it that the good weather will not affect the use of bird guns and artillery, so it will give me an extra chance of winning, good!"

Looking at today's weather, Li Zixiao's face showed joy, if it was a windy day today, it would affect the use of bird guns, and Li Zixiao estimated that he would have to endure the trouble of hesitation.

If it was a rainy day today, Li Zixiao would not have to worry, without saying a word, he would directly order a retreat to avoid the main force of the Tartars, as for Lu Xiangsheng, Li Zixiao could only say sorry

On a rainy day, for the White Dragon Army, which relied too much on the bird's hand to fight at this time, it was not suitable for battle at all.

Without the Bird Gunner, the White Dragon Army's combat power will be directly reduced by half.

And the rainy day also affects the artillery, and there is no artillery, with 6,000 to 30,000 Tartars, it is no different from suicide, Li Zixiao will never commit such a fool unless his brain is kicked by a donkey.

Stomp ......

"Report ......"

At this moment, a White Dragon Army scout rode a fast horse and galloped all the way, and the White Dragon Army on the periphery removed the obstacles one after another and let him in.

This White Dragon Army scout rushed directly to Li Zixiao's Chinese army tent, only to turn over and dismount neatly, kneel outside the tent, and shouted loudly: "General, urgent military situation!" ”

At this time, Li Zixiao had also walked out of the big tent quickly, and said to the scout's eager tone: "Tell me quickly, how is it?" ”

"General, half an hour ago, Lord Lu led his troops out of Jiazhuang, and when he marched to Artemisia Bridge, he ran into the main force of the Tartars.

Lord Lu was forced to lead his troops back to Jiazhuang, defending the danger, and was fighting to the death with the Tartars at this time! ”

As soon as Li Zixiao heard the scout's words, he pulled out the sword on his waist and shouted to the quartz next to him: "Beat the drums, gather the troops, when the time comes, send the troops." ”

The soldiers of the White Dragon Army, who had been waiting for a long time, completed the gathering in only ten minutes, and then under the leadership of Li Zixiao, they headed in the direction of Jiazhuang.

When Li Zixiao led his troops to quietly march to a ravine a few miles away from Jiazhuang, Li Zixiao ordered the whole army to stop and hide in this ravine.

This area is a typical northern hill, with undulating terrain and many low mountains around, and this is the ravine that Li Zixiao chose to hide thousands of people and should not be discovered.

"Liu Chong, Qi Wei, the two of you leave the leader, Shishi, Tianba, you go with me to survey the military situation, don't bring too many people, be careful to startle the snake."

Li Zixiao said to his generals, and then led a small group of cavalry to the south towards Jiazhuang.

At this time, Dolgon learned that he had encountered Lu Xiangsheng's department in Jiazhuang, and immediately sent heavy troops to surround him.

Dolgon was even more excited to come with his troops in person, he didn't want to let go of such a great credit as killing Lu Xiangsheng.

Even if Dolgon obviously knew at this time that there were tens of thousands of Guan Ning Iron Cavalry in the south of Jize, he was still not afraid, this time he had a rare opportunity to encircle Lu Xiangsheng, and he would never let go of this henchman again.

So, Dolgon ordered 15,000 men and horses to go south to approach Jize, beware of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, leaving more than 13,000 people, and surrounded Jiazhuang.

Since Dolgon knew that Lu Xiangsheng was in his hands at this time, there were only four or five thousand people left, leaving more than 10,000 people, even if Lu Xiangsheng put on his wings, he would not be able to fly.

And the fifteen,000 army he sent south, on the one hand, was indeed to guard against the Guanning Iron Cavalry in Gao Qiqian's hands, and on the other hand, he also had the intention of suppressing the opponent.

Because, the leading general he climbed out this time was Hauge, who was at odds with him.

Dolgon made it clear that he didn't intend to let Hauge participate in the siege and annihilation of Lu Xiangsheng, and he didn't plan to share his greatest credit, and Dolgon kept his brother Duoduo behind.