584 Matsuyama Breakout

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In the middle of December of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, outside Songshan City.

"Kill!"

A large group of Ming soldiers wearing shabby red Ming Mandarin Duck battle jackets appeared outside Songshan City at this time, fighting with a large group of Han Eight Banner Tartars.

"Soldiers, our reinforcements have arrived, and the artillery has opened fire and fired all the shells. All the soldiers go out of the city with me, and kill them! ”

In Songshan City, Hong Chengchou looked at the huge 'Lu' handsome flag outside the city, and he was also excited, standing on the city wall, shouting loudly to the surrounding Ming army generals.

Thundered!

Click!

The gate of Songshan City was opened, and Hong Chengchou led the Ming generals Qiu Minyang, Cao Bianjiao, Wang Tingchen, Zu Dale and others to kill, accompanied by tens of thousands of Ming generals.

"Kill!"

Hong Chengchou roared angrily, and from both sides of his war horse, the Ming soldiers wearing shabby mandarin duck battle jackets rushed out one by one.

The tens of thousands of soldiers of the Ming Army led by Hong Chengchou have been besieged by the Tartars in Songshan City for more than four months, and the food and fresh water in the city are still sufficient.

However, Hong Chengchou organized several breakouts, but all of them failed, and he also lost a lot of troops, and in the end, Hong Chengchou could only give up his plan to break through.

Even in Songshan City, there is still a lot of grain and fresh water in storage, but it can't stand the food of tens of thousands of people and horses, and sooner or later they will finish eating.

At this time, the Tartars basically controlled the situation in the Songjin area, and they had basically won this battle.

Around the Tartars, it was already difficult to find a Ming army that could defeat them, so they could calmly besiege the Ming army and slowly wear them down.

Fortunately, the arrival of Lu Xiangsheng barely broke this situation.

After Lu Xiangsheng arrived in Ningyuan, he spent more than two months preparing and arranging to rectify the remnants of the Ming army he had gathered in Ningyuan.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng reunited the Ming army in Ningyuan, and after careful selection and careful reorganization, his subordinates gathered a group of elite soldiers with a number of about 25,000 at this time.

Originally, Lu Xiangsheng was in Ningyuan City, and the Ming army gathered was enough to defeat more than 50,000 people, half of which were screened out by him, leaving only half of the elite soldiers.

The remaining half of the men were sent by him to defend the city.

Among the more than 25,000 elites who were reorganized by Lu Xiangsheng, nearly 10,000 of them were Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry, and Wu Sangui was also the number one general under Lu Xiangsheng at this time.

In the middle of October of the 14th year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng led Wu Sangui and other 30,000 horses to attack, trying to rescue the Ming generals who were trapped in Songshan and Xingshan.

But the Tartars also discovered the appearance of Lu Xiangsheng's Ming army, and naturally knew their purpose, so they tried to gather troops to encircle and annihilate Lu Xiangsheng.

In the following two months, Lu Xiangsheng and Wu Sangui led the Ming army to fight with the Tartar army in the area of Xingshan and Songshan.

This time, Lu Xiangsheng will never choose to go head-to-head with the Tartars again.

Instead, he constantly resorted to sneak attacks and harassment tactics to disrupt the Tartar's line of sight, so that the Tartar could not know his true purpose.

After all, the Ming army cities surrounded by the Tartars at this time mainly include Jinzhou, Songshan, and Xingshan, and Tashan has been captured by the Ming army.

The Tartars surrounded the three cities, but they did not attack much, just to reduce casualties and wait for the Ming army in the city to rout on its own due to lack of food and water.

There is another reason, that is, the Tartars' ability to attack fortifications is far less than their field ability.

If the Tartars wanted to besiege the three cities, they were dragged down a lot of troops, and there were less than 50,000 Tartars who went out to deal with Lu Xiangsheng.

This gave Lu Xiangsheng a chance, so that Lu Xiangsheng's men would not be easily annihilated by the Tartars.

During this period, Lu Xiangsheng used stratagem several times to deceive the Tartars, and used a small number of men and horses to contain a large number of Tartars, so that the main force of the Ming army led by him took the opportunity to raid Xingshan and Songshan.

It's a pity that the success of the two consecutive surprise attacks was because the Ming troops in Songshan and Xingshan Castle did not know in advance that reinforcements would appear and could not cooperate in time.

In the end, Lu Xiangsheng's surprise attack, in addition to causing a lot of casualties to the Tartars besieging Songshan and Xingshan, did not allow Lu Xiangsheng to successfully rescue them.

And after these two lessons, Hong Chengchou in Songshan City directly ordered that the soldiers in the city should ensure that the battle breakthrough state was guaranteed at any time.

In addition, the rations that had been decreasing for the soldiers in the city were also distributed in full again, so that the soldiers of the Ming army in the city were well fed and ready to break through at any time.

Because, Hong Chengchou believes that since Lu Xiangsheng can come to the first two times, he will have the opportunity to come again.

And next time, he must take advantage of the opportunity, because that may be their last chance to break through.

Since there is an opportunity to break through, they must seize it, otherwise if they continue to be besieged by the Tartars in Matsuyama City, it will be tantamount to a slow death.

Even if there was more food in the city, it would not be enough for their army of tens of thousands to eat, and once the food in the city ran out, they would be finished.

Finally, after more than half a month of anxious waiting, Lu Xiangsheng finally appeared outside Songshan City again.

This time, Hong Chengchou found out for the first time, and echoed Hong Chengchou's attack outside the city.

But in the same way, after the lessons of the first two times, the Tartar generals besieging Matsuyama Castle also took precautions.

Almost as soon as Lu Xiangsheng came over, the Tartars also discovered that a fierce battle broke out between the two sides outside the north gate of Songshan, within a few miles.

This time, the reason why Lu Xiangsheng dared to attack the Tartars outside Songshan City again was to respond to Hong Chengchou's breakthrough.

Mainly because Lu Xiangsheng once again deceived the more than 40,000 Tartars led by Zilharang, and killed them from the north in a circle.

On this battlefield, more than 18,000 people led by Lu Xiangsheng and a group of nearly 10,000 Tartar soldiers rushed together at this time.

Fortunately, more than 20,000 Tartar soldiers who stayed outside Songshan City and were responsible for besieging Hong Chengchou were killed, half of which were Tartar Eight Banners, and the other half were Menghan Eight Banners.

At this time, it was the 10,000 Menghan Eight Banners who were alone in the periphery to block Lu Xiangsheng's people, and the other 10,000 Tartar Eight Banners soldiers were blocking Hong Chengchou's troops who were killed from Songshan City.

Obviously, Tartar is iron-hearted and doesn't want Hong Chengchou to break out.

The remnants of the Ming army led by Hong Chengchou from Songshan City were more than 10,000 people, but in the face of the Tartars who were not much less than them, they were obviously defeated.

Hong Chengchou took the initiative to lead people to rush and kill several times, but they were all beaten back by the Tartars, and even Hong Chengchou was slightly injured in the breakthrough.

"No, Lord Hong, the Tartars are heavily surrounding our side, and we can't rush out at all!"

Cao Bianjiao led a team of Ming cavalry and rushed to Hong Chengchou's side, and said anxiously.

"Lord Cao, please take someone to rush again, you must rush out, as long as you can highlight a gap, let us meet Lord Lu's people. We'll be able to kill it, please. ”

Hong Chengchou looked at Cao Bianjiao and said with a gloomy face.

"Okay, I'll take someone to rush again." As soon as Cao Bianjiao gritted his teeth, he led a thousand cavalry, turned around and left again.

These thousand cavalry are the only cavalry they have left, and the rest are all foot soldiers, and it is very difficult to rely on foot soldiers to tear a hole in the tartars.

However, the strongest on the Tartar side was the cavalry, which caused Cao Bianjiao to lead the cavalry to charge continuously, not only did not stand out.

Still in the battle with the Tartar cavalry, the only remaining cavalry in his hand was almost lost.

However, Lu Xiangsheng's attack was relatively smooth, equipped with many firearms obtained from Li Zixiao, and the more than 18,000 horses led by Lu Xiangsheng were very strong in combat.

From the moment they came in, they were fighting with the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Menghan and Han, but in fact, the Tartars had already divided their troops to support them twice.

Otherwise, Lu Xiangsheng would have killed him a long time ago, and the Tartars faced by Hong Chengchou at this time were actually less than 6,000 people, but they still couldn't be killed.

"My lord, Governor Hong's men and horses haven't been killed yet, they are trapped by the Tartars."

Hao Qiang came back from the battlefield and came to Lu Xiangsheng to report.

Lu Xiangsheng picked up the clairvoyant mirror given to him by Li Zixiao, looked south, and saw Lu Xiangsheng's men and horses, blocked outside Songshan City.

The Tartar soldiers on their periphery were far less than the men and horses led by Hong Chengchou, but the Ming army under Hong Chengchou just couldn't kill them.

"Hao Qiang, lead three thousand Guan Ning Tie to ride, break through the defense line of the Tartars, join up with Governor Hong's men and horses, and cover Governor Hong's kill!"

Lu Xiangsheng also had a solemn face, and after a while, he ordered Hao Qiang.

This time, Lu Xiangsheng sent Wu Sangui to lead 5,000 Guanning iron cavalry, pretending to be their main force, and luring away the main force of the Tartars led by Zierharang.

Only then did Lu Xiangsheng have a chance to make a detour and kill Songshan City for the third time.

When he came, Lu Xiangsheng also brought three thousand Guanning Iron Cavalry, which he used as an assault force all the time.

Even after the battle outside Songshan City started until now, more than half an hour has passed, and Lu Xiangsheng has not given an order to let these three thousand Guanning iron cavalry go into battle.

Now, Lu Xiangsheng knew that the time had come, and he pinned his hopes on the three thousand Guanning Iron Cavalry to kill through the Tartar defense line, tear a gap, and let Hong Chengchou's men and horses withdraw.

Because, Lu Xiangsheng knew that there was not much time left for them.

The news of their attack on Matsuyama Castle is believed to be known soon by Zilharang in the south, and with the speed of the Tartar Iron Cavalry, it will not take half a day to return to the reinforcements.

They must be as soon as possible and abruptly, and they must escape from the Tartars' tracking, and disappear before the main Tartar force led by Zilharan returns.

"Yes."

After Hao Qiang received Lu Xiangsheng's order, he ordered the three thousand Guanning iron cavalry behind him, turning into a loud light, like a sharp knife, and pierced through the camp of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Han.

"Throw the iron-clad mine! Kill! ”

The Guanning Iron Cavalry led by Hao Qiang, before rushing out, each of them carried one in their hands, lengthened the lead, and ignited the iron-shelled thunder in advance.

Then, when they rushed over from the Eight Banners of Menghan and Han, Hao Qiang gave an order, and the three thousand Guanning Iron Horsemen threw the iron-shelled thunder in their hands towards the surrounding enemies.

At this time, after this short period of time, the elongated lead on the iron shell mine was almost burning.

Soon after Guan Ning Iron Cavalry threw out the iron-shelled mine, an explosion occurred, and a series of terrible screams suddenly sounded.

When the Guanning Iron Cavalry rushed through the ranks of the Eight Banners of Menghan and Han, they left behind a bloody road full of sorrow.

And Lu Xiangsheng took the opportunity to order, the whole army stormed, and in one fell swoop broke the defense line of the Menghan Eight Banners, even if there were more than 4,000 Tartars to help them, it would be useless.

"Kill!"

Hao Qiang successfully broke through the defense line of the Eight Banners of Menghan and Han, and then killed from behind the Tartar soldiers who besieged Hong Chengchou.

No matter how elite the Tartars are, in the face of these Guanning iron cavalry who suddenly came out from behind, they have paid a lot of casualties for a while.

What's more, at this time, they were still facing Hong Chengchou leading people in front of them, and they were desperate to break through.

And now the Guanning Iron Cavalry that has been killed from the north is equivalent to letting the Tartars suffer from the Ming army's two-sided attack.

"Haha, rushed out, my lord, we rushed out."

The chief soldier Wang Tingchen shouted at Hong Chengchou with an excited face, they finally came out and completed the convergence with the three thousand Guanning Iron Cavalry.

"Lord Hong, I was sent by Lord Lu to pick you up, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, and please lead your men and horses, follow us, and kill them as soon as possible."

Hao Qiang also led someone to find Hong Chengchou and said to him.

"Okay, pass the order, all the troops will follow behind the general's cavalry, and break out with all their might!"

At this time, there was basically no suspense in the battle, and after half an hour, Hong Chengchou finally broke out of the encirclement and met Lu Xiangsheng together.

"Lord Lu, this time you have saved the lives of this official and tens of thousands of soldiers in Songshan City, this kindness, I Hong Chengchou remembered."

After Hong Chengchou saw Lu Xiangsheng, he was also grateful and said excitedly.

"Lord Hong is serious, and I am just acting on the orders of the Holy One."

Immediately, Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou led the merger, more than 20,000 horses, and quickly evacuated Songshan City.

Before leaving, in order to hinder the pursuit of the Tartars, Lu Xiangsheng asked Hao Qiang to lead 3,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry to break off, and allowed them to retreat on their own after an hour.

It's just that Lu Xiangsheng's rescue of Hong Chengchou's more than 10,000 people from Songshan City is only the first step.

What is even more difficult below is how he led more than 20,000 horses to escape the sight of the Tartars and return to Ningyuan City smoothly, which is the most important thing.

A week later, Chenliu County in Kaifeng, Henan.

At this time, Li Zixiao, who was here, also received information sent by Zhang Fugui and knew the news that Lu Xiangsheng had rescued Hong Chengchou.

"Unexpectedly, in this time and space, Hong Chengchou's fate was changed by Lu Xiangsheng, so I'm afraid Hong Chengchou won't surrender to the Tartars."

After Li Zixiao got this information, he was also thinking in his heart.

Originally, in history, Hong Chengchou would be captured a few months later by the Tartars who broke through Songshan Castle, and then had no choice but to surrender to the Tartars.

But now, Hong Chengchou's fate has changed because of Lu Xiangsheng, and Lu Xiangsheng was saved by Li Zixiao.

The history of this time and space has begun to undergo more and more earth-shaking changes because of Li Zixiao's efforts.

Perhaps in this life, Hong Chengchou can trust Lu Xiangsheng's blessings, and it can be regarded as indirectly entrusting Li Zixiao's blessings, and he no longer needs to be classified as a 'traitor' and 'second minister' like Wu Sangui by later generations.

(End of chapter)