543 killed to Shengjing City

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"Haha, okay, Zilong has made another great contribution this time!"

A day later, Li Zixiao, who was in Phoenix City, knew the news of the annihilation of the Tartar army of Tumen Fei Dongying after receiving the information sent back by Luo Chao, and said with a happy smile.

Immediately, Li Zixiao routinely sent someone to Zhao Zilong and Luo Chao to send a 'reward letter'.

"That way, there won't be any more Tartars for a short time, and maybe I'll be able to carry out that plan."

And when Li Zixiao learned the news of the destruction of the Tartar cavalry of Tumen Feidongying, Li Zixiao knew that another of his worries had been eliminated.

At the same time, a bold idea he had come up with last time popped up in his mind again, and he couldn't suppress it.

It's just that Li Zixiao has always been hesitant, after all, his action is indeed a little too bold, and if he doesn't get it right, a good situation will be buried in his hands.

It wasn't until two days later that Li Zixiao received information from Zhang Fugui's Intelligence Bureau from the Jinzhou front that Li Zixiao really made up his mind.

It turned out that Li Zixiao received news from Zhang Fugui and knew that Huang Taiji ordered more than 100,000 Tartars, and it was the order to attack Jinzhou and Songshan.

As for Huang Taiji's moves, Hong Chengchou could only fight hard,

More than 200,000 Tartars and Ming troops on both sides fought fiercely in the areas of Jinzhou and Songshan, and the battle entered a white-hot battle.

At this time, the Ming army in Hong Chengchou's hands still occupied an advantage on the battlefield.

"Huang Taiji actually gave the order to start the war in advance. That is to say, in this time and space, the decisive battle between the Tartars and the Ming army in the Battle of Songjin was carried out more than a month in advance. ”

Li Zixiao whispered and muttered.

Originally, according to the normal development of history, it would not be until the end of next month that more than 100,000 Tartars led by Huang Taiji would fight a decisive battle with the main force of Hong Chengchou's Ming army in the Songjin area.

In this decisive battle, it took less than half a month to fight, and the Ming army suffered a crushing defeat.

What's even worse is that the Ming army was besieged by the Tartars, the back road was cut off, the grain and grass were burned, and in the end, even breaking through was a mess.

Some Ming troops broke out, but more Ming troops were surrounded by Tartars in Songshan, among which Hong Chengchou, as the commander of the Ming army, was besieged in Songshan City.

At this point in the war, the defeat of the Ming army had become inevitable, and the rest of the time became the time for the Tartars to slowly expand the spoils of war.

The battle continued until early March of the following year, when Hong Chengchou was captured as Songshan Castle was broken and Zu Dashou surrendered to the Tartars to offer Jinzhou Castle.

After this battle, the four cities of Jinzhou, Songshan, Xingshan and Tashan all fell into the hands of the Tartars and were destroyed by the Tartars, who won an unprecedented victory.

That is to say, the time of the real decisive battle between the Tartars and the Ming army in the battle of Songjin in history is from the end of July to the beginning of August, which is less than half a month.

The rest took more than half a year, which was the time when the Tartars finally cleared the field.

Li Zixiao knew that this also meant that once Huang Taiji was in the decisive battle, he would gain an advantageous position.

He was able to draw some of his troops from his army of 100,000 and return to the rear to deal with him.

If you estimate the conservative time in history, Hong Chengchou's Ming army took half a month from the beginning of the decisive battle to the defeat, which is also the last time for Li Zixiao to make trouble.

"In less than half a month, let's count it as fifteen days, which is enough for me to lead my troops to Shengjing City."

In the end, Li Zixiao still made up his mind, that's right, he wanted to go crazy in the last time, he wanted to lead the army to attack Shengjing City of Tartar.

Of course, Zhenjiang is 500 miles away from Shengjing, and all of them are in the city of Tartar along the way, and Li Zixiao has to complete a round trip in fifteen days, which is not a small test.

That is to say, it will take him seven and a half days to kill Shengjing City.

At this time, the straight-line distance from Zhenjiang to Shengjing is about 500 miles, but in addition to many Tatar cities along the way, there are mountains and forests, and the terrain is complex.

Of course, at this time, there are basically not many people stationed in the Tartar castle along the way, but when they encounter some levels that are not easy to beat, they still have to choose a detour.

Therefore, if they want to kill under Shengjing City, the distance they will take will be far greater than five hundred miles.

And it had to be completed in just seven days, which meant that they had to march at least 100 miles a day, which basically eliminated the infantry army.

Li Zixiao can only achieve this speed by leading the cavalry.

So, he ordered Luo Chao to lead the cavalry of the Flying Eagle Battalion, as well as the two thousand Tartar war horses that had just been captured, to Phoenix City.

Now that Li Zixiao has made up his mind, this time he decided to lead only two thousand cavalry, all one person and two horses, according to this configuration, it is enough for him to gallop to Shengjing City in six or seven days.

Of course, this time Li Zixiao led 2,000 cavalry to kill Shengjing City, naturally not to capture Shengjing City.

His attack on Shengjing City this time actually did not pose much threat to Shengjing City of Tartars, and only had symbolic significance.

And what Li Zixiao wants is this symbolic meaning, he wants to tell Tartar that Lao Tzu is also killed under your capital.

If Li Zixiao led people to kill Shengjing City, even if he just shot an arrow into the city, he would definitely be regarded as a great shame by Huang Taiji and other Tartars.

Soon, Luo Chao led the cavalry of the Flying Eagle Battalion and more than 2,000 war horses to Phoenix City, and at the same time, Li Zixiao transferred the thousands of men and horses stationed in Zhenjiang to Phoenix City again.

Li Zixiao ordered to select 500 people from his own escort battalion, and 1,500 people from Luo Chao's Flying Eagle Battalion, and then each person was equipped with two horses to form his men and horses to attack Shengjing City.

"General, you must not be in danger, let me go for you this time!"

When Luo Chao arrived in Phoenix City and knew about Li Zixiao's crazy plan, he kept dissuading Li Zixiao, but Li Zixiao had made up his mind and was not moved at all.

"I have already decided on this matter, there is no danger, at this time, there are not many Tartar defenders outside the entire pass, I lead two thousand cavalry, what is the danger.

Besides, I'm not really going to attack Shengjing City, I'm just going to demonstrate this time, so don't worry about it, you have more important things to do. ”

Li Zixiao did not dispel his thoughts in the face of Luo Chao's dissuasion.

"Hey!" Seeing Li Zixiao's appearance, Luo Chao sighed, knowing that no matter how much he persuaded him, it was useless.

"Luo Chao, I transferred another 6,000 men and horses from Zhenjiang, and after I leave, you will continue to lead the army north, knock down Qingtaiyu, and then move all the people south of Qingtaiyu.

This task must be completed before I rush back, and if there are people who are unwilling to cooperate, they can use the necessary means.

The city is destroyed, the fields are destroyed, and nothing is left for the tartars.

On Zhou Dazhu's side, he had just laid down Changdian and was marching towards Dadian and Yongdian, and then they would also start the migration of the people.

This time, without the interference of the Tartar cavalry, the migration of your people will no longer be hindered. ”

Li Zixiao said to Luo Chao.

After listening to Li Zixiao's words, he felt that Li Zixiao seemed to be in a hurry and was already thinking about withdrawing the army, which made Luo Chao a little puzzled.

"General, why are you in such a hurry, at this time, Huang Taiji is leading the main force of the Tartars, and he is fighting in Songjin and Hong Chengchou, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to distinguish the winner in a short time.

We have plenty of time to carry out our plans, so why be in such a hurry?

Could it be that the general thinks that Hong Chengchou will soon be defeated by the Tartars? Luo Chao looked at Li Zixiao and asked.

"Well, I'm really not optimistic about Hong Chengchou." Li Zixiao nodded in response.

He couldn't tell Luo Chao that Hong Chengchou would soon lose to Tartar in the decisive battle, everything could only be said to be his own guess.

"No, Hong Chengchou has 130,000 elite Ming army border troops in his hands, and there are elite Guanning iron cavalry like Wu Sangui, and we sold them so many guns and artillery some time ago.

And Hong Chengchou is also a person who is very good at using soldiers, it is impossible to lose to the Tartars so quickly, is the general too worried? ”

After listening to Li Zixiao's words, Luo Chao still didn't agree with Li Zixiao's speculation and said.

"My guess may be wrong, but it's always right to be careful, don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case, you still need to take precautions, you just listen to my orders and carry it out."

"Yes, my subordinates obey."

Seeing that Li Zixiao still made such a decision, Luo Chao also said that he should have proposed, and in the end, he only needed to obey the order.

Because, Luo Chao's Flying Eagle Battalion had been running for several days before, and this time Li Zixiao was not in a hurry to set off, but ordered the 1,500 cavalry selected by the Flying Eagle Battalion to rest for two days.

On June 16, the 14th year of Chongzhen, Li Zixiao led 2,000 cavalry to the north and headed towards Shengjing City of Tartar.

And Li Zixiao needs a guide, after all, they are in enemy territory, the mountains outside the pass are high and dense, and there is no person who is familiar with the road to lead the way, so they will easily get lost.

In the end, it was Qin Zhen who took the initiative to ask Li Zixiao to be a guide.

It turned out that when Qin Zhen was a slave to the Tartars in Phoenix City, every once in a while, he followed their master and escorted the convoy in Phoenix City to Shengjing City.

Therefore, Qin Zhen was very familiar with the journey from Shengjing to Phoenix City, and even he not only knew the only major roads, but even a few hidden paths.

So, Li Zixiao ordered Qin Zhen to be their guide and go north with the army.

After Li Zixiao led 2,000 cavalry to leave Phoenix, Luo Chao led an army of 8,000 to the north to attack Qingtaiyu.

It only took three days for them to take Qingtaiyu, and then Luo Chao left 3,000 men and horses to organize the people south of Qingtaiyu to move according to Li Zixiao's order.

And he continued to lead 5,000 men and horses to the north to attack the castle of the Tartars, but all the castles captured by him were killed by the Tartars in the city, and then the castle was burned.

But for the people north of Qingtaiyu, Luo Chao had no intention of moving away, because Li Zixiao knew that they didn't have enough time and didn't have so much time and manpower to move the people further north.

Therefore, Li Zixiao gave Luo Chao the red line to relocate the people, which was to the Qingtaiyu line.

Luo Chao continued to attack north, just need to keep killing the Tartars, then sweep the wealth, and finally destroy the city.

Five days passed, and on June 20, a cavalry force of 2,000 men appeared on the south bank of the Hunhe River south of Shengjing City.

This cavalry is naturally the cavalry of the White Dragon Army led by Li Zixiao.

In the past five days, under the leadership of Qin Zhen, Li Zixiao led two thousand cavalry of the White Dragon Army, avoiding the Tartar cities along the way, and rushed all the way here.

"General, after crossing the Hunhe River, you will arrive at Shengjing City of Tartar."

Qin Zhen pointed to a big river in front of him and said to Li Zixiao, he was a little excited.

"Send the order down, immediately choose a suitable place to cross the river, collect ferries, and prepare to cross the river." Li Zixiao ordered.

At this time, the Hunhe River in June was at its largest, and the river was turbulent, and Li Zixiao and his team spent a long time trying to find enough ferries.

It was not until the next morning that they crossed the Hunhe River.

And as soon as they crossed the Hunhe River, they were immediately discovered by the Tartars, who set up many light and dark posts here, after all, this is close to the Shengjing City of the Tartars.

However, when the Tartar scouts rushed back to Shengjing City and reported to the Tartar leadership, Li Zixiao also led two thousand White Dragon Army cavalry and rushed to Shengjing City at a speed that was not lost to the Tartar scouts.

By the time the Tartar scouts spread the news of the appearance of enemy troops outside Shengjing City to the palace at this time, Li Zixiao had already come to Shengjing City.

When the news of the appearance of enemy troops outside the city spread in the Tartar womb, the concubines of Huang Taiji, led by Empress Xiaozhuang Wen, were all panicked.

Empress Xiaozhuang Wen, that is, the 'Da Yuer' we often see in later film and television dramas, is the person who is really in charge of the emperor's harem at this time.

Of course, the queen of Huang Taiji is not only Da Yu'er, but also Empress Xiaoduanwen, and another big concubine, who is not small.

These people may not have to listen to Da Yu'er's words, but at this time, if you want to talk about Huang Taiji's favor, of course, you still have to count Da Yu'er, so Da Yu'er is the master of the harem at this time.

When Da Yu'er learned that outside Shengjing City, a Ming soldier appeared on horseback, she was also surprised.

"Order Sony, Sukh Hasa, immediately gather the men and horses stationed in the imperial city to guard the imperial city, and never let the Ming army attack it."

Da Yu'er commanded at a Tartar soldier.

At the same time, Da Yu'er didn't understand, how could a Ming army suddenly kill them in Shengjing?

Soon, in Shengjing City, some of the Tartar ministers and generals who stayed behind also received the news and immediately rushed to the palace, and at the same time deployed a large army to defend the city.

You must know that this time Huang Taiji personally led the army to attack Jinzhou, not only with the vast majority of the Tartar men and horses, but also with most of the Tartar generals.

Fortunately, Huang Taiji has always stayed in Shengjing City, an elite Tartar people, which is the confidence of Da Yuer and others.

At the same time, as the capital of the Tartars at this time, the city wall is very high, although it is not as good as the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Jinling, and Kaifeng.

But it is also comparable to Jinan, Luoyang and other cities of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not easy to attack them.

With the mere 2,000 cavalry brought by Li Zixiao this time, it was impossible to attack it, but fortunately, Li Zixiao had no such plan.

(End of chapter)