325 Battle of Jiazhuang (2)

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Of course, at this time, in Dolgon's eyes, the Ming army around him who had the ability to rescue Lu Xiangsheng was also the Guan Ning Iron Cavalry in the south of Ji Ze.

As for the other surrounding counties, the Ming army in Fucheng, it would be very good if they didn't capture these cities, and the defenders of those cities didn't even dare to come out of the cities, and the threat to them was basically zero.

Therefore, Dolgon scattered all the spies in his hands to the south, and went to stare at Ji Ze's high diving, and there was a Tartar army of more than 10,000 people to defend it.

Moreover, in order to guard against the Guanning Iron Cavalry, of the 15,000 troops sent south by Dolgon, nearly 10,000 were Tartar elite cavalry, and only 3,000 cavalry were left on his side.

After all, at this time, Lu Xiangsheng was trapped in Jiazhuang, the terrain of Jiazhuang was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was not suitable for cavalry charging at all.

On the contrary, it is the 30,000 Guanning iron cavalry in Jize in the south, but all the cavalry, the concept of the Tartar at all, can only use cavalry to deal with cavalry in the field.

Therefore, Dolgon naturally sent most of the cavalry in his hands to keep an eye on the Guanning Iron Cavalry, leaving only 3,000 escort cavalry.

These escort cavalry are actually his personal guards, on the one hand, to protect his safety, on the other hand, if there is really a small number of Ming troops to stand out, he can also send these cavalry to chase and kill.

Dolgon could not have imagined that at this time, in the ravine, just a few miles to the north, just a few miles away from Jiazhuang, there was an elite army lurking.

"General, it seems that the Tartar is determined to kill Lord Lu this time.

If you look at the periphery of this Jia Zhuang, it is surrounded by Tartars for three layers, so the chance for Lord Lu to lead the army to break through is too slim. ”

Luo Chao rode a horse and stood beside Li Zixiao, looking at Jia Zhuang who was surrounded by Tartars in the distance, frowned, and said solemnly.

The mountain ridge that Li Zixiao chose at this time was higher than Jiazhuang, about four or five miles away, and the vision was relatively clear, allowing them to see it clearly.

"Yes, the Tartars have always wanted to get rid of Lu Xiangsheng, and this time they finally got the opportunity by the Tartars, and they hope that nothing will go wrong." Li Zixiao also sighed.

"No, the number of Tartars is wrong, these people have more than 10,000 people, doesn't it mean that the main army of Tartars has nearly 30,000 people? What about the other tartars?

And the Tartars surrounding Jiazhuang are basically Tartar foot soldiers, and you can't see the Tartar cavalry at all? ”

After observing for a while, Li Zixiao suddenly discovered this.

"Really?"

After speaking, Li Zixiao's eyes suddenly lit up, he remembered something, and immediately turned around and prepared to leave.

"Let's go, go back, stay here for a long time, and you'll be discovered by the Tartars. We can't help here for the time being, go back and summon Han Tong back, I have something to ask him. ”

As Li Zixiao rode away, Quartz, Luo Chao and other generals followed closely and left together.

"General, everything is normal on Xu Wei's side, they are hiding in Zhou Village fifteen miles east of Jiazhuang at this time, and the Tartar scouts will not be close to such a distance, and they will not be able to find them.

In accordance with the general's order, they will march tonight, and under the cover of night, they will rush to Jianiuling, east of Jiazhuang, before dawn tomorrow, and deploy artillery. ”

When Li Zixiao led people back to the ravine, Han Tong had also come back and reported to Li Zixiao.

"Okay."

Li Zixiao shouted excitedly, everything is going according to his expectations, as long as it is delayed until dawn tomorrow, it will be time for them to perform.

"By the way, Han Tong, just now we went to see Jiazhuang, which was surrounded by Tartars, and it seems that we found that the Tartar forces are wrong, there are tens of thousands of people missing, and most of them should be cavalry.

At this time, most of the people surrounded outside Jiazhuang were Tartar foot soldiers, where did the Tartar cavalry go? You've got to poke this out for me. ”

Li Zixiao said solemnly.

You know, this is a full more than 10,000 Tartar elite horses, enough to subvert the power of a war of hundreds of thousands of people, if Li Zixiao didn't find out, he really wouldn't dare to fight this battle.

"General, my subordinates were about to report this to you, and there were more than 15,000 Tartar troops sent south by Dolgon, which seemed to be on guard against the Guanning Iron Cavalry that was in Jize at this time.

And most of them were Tartar cavalry, and our scouts found Hauge's banner in the Tartar army, and it was Dolgon himself who commanded the Tartars in Jiazhuang at this time. ”

Han Tong reported truthfully.

"Hehe, I see, Dolgon's work is really amazing, such a great credit is eaten by himself, and he refuses to share it with Hauge.

In this way, it will be more beneficial to us, and the Tartar cavalry will all go south to guard against Guanning Tiecai, and tomorrow we will give Dolgon a big surprise.

The order went down, let the soldiers rest now, but they were not allowed to light fires, recuperate, and after dawn, there would be a fierce battle. ”

Subsequently, Li Zixiao took more than 4,000 elite soldiers under his command and quietly hid in this ravine.

From noon, the Tartars launched an attack on Jiazhuang, and Lu Xiang became the first soldier and commanded his Ming army to repel the Tartars' attacks again and again.

The fierce shouting and killing sound could be faintly heard by Li Zixiao and them several miles away, especially some firearms equipped by the Ming army, which caused a lot of movement.

At this time, Zhou Dazhu, Qi Wei and the others couldn't help but want to kill them for a long time, but they knew that they couldn't disrupt Li Zixiao's deployment, so they could only wait patiently.

The fierce offensive and defensive battles of Jiazhuang did not stop until after the sun set, and the Tartars stopped attacking Jiazhuang at night, but fortified them layer by layer outside Jiazhuang.

The Tartars attacked in the afternoon, leaving hundreds of corpses and hundreds of wounded, but they also failed to attack Jiazhuang, and the Lu Xiangsheng headquarters in Jiazhuang suffered even more heavy casualties.

The reason why Dolgon did not attack at night was mainly because he was worried about attacking at night, afraid that Lu Xiangsheng would escape by taking advantage of the night and the chaotic battlefield.

Anyway, they had enough time, so they simply waited for dawn to attack, and at night they set up a layer of encirclement outside Jiazhuang every mile to ensure that Lu Xiangsheng could not break through at night.

And Lu Xiangsheng in Jiazhuang saw that the Tartars surrounded them like iron buckets, and knew that breaking through was just a dead end.

The only thing he expected now was that before they were surrounded, he would send his general Yang Yanlin south to Jize to find Gao Qiqian for help.

At the speed of Guanning Iron Cavalry, it only takes less than half a day to get from Jize to Jiazhuang.

However, they insisted from noon until dark, and they never found any trace of Guan Ning's iron cavalry, and at this time Lu Xiangsheng already had a bad premonition in his heart.

"The sky has no eyes, and the traitor misleads the country!" That night, Lu Xiangsheng let out a roar of grief and indignation.

Lu Xiangsheng had already decided to die in battle and decided to fight until the last moment in Jiazhuang, because he had no chance to break through at all.

The night was quiet, but dark clouds rose in the sky, and a lot of cold wind blew.

To the east of Jiazhuang, a team of more than 2,000 people was advancing in the dark, they did not dare to carry torches, and they dragged a lot of heavy black iron lumps with carts.

This team is the 'Iron Blood Battalion' of the White Dragon Army led by Xu Wei, and most of the artillery battalions that they are responsible for protecting.

On the ten big carts, there were ten 'big iron pipes' more than two meters long, which made the eyes of the surrounding white dragon soldiers look at these 'big iron pipes' very hot.

"Lao Xu, Jia Niuling has arrived." Qi Lin rode up to Xu Wei and reported.

"Okay, let the soldiers move all the artillery to the mountain, let's dig the pit in advance, pay attention to let the soldiers be careful, don't make too much movement, the Tartars are not far from us."

Xu Wei instructed Qi Lin.

"Lao Xu, rest assured, this Jia Niu Ridge has been cleared out of a passage up the mountain by us before, and it is not a big problem for more than 2,000 of us to carry these artillery up the mountain.

I have to say, how could the general predict in advance that Lord Lu would be surrounded by Tartars in Jiazhuang, so that we were ready on this Jianiu Ridge early.

If I hadn't believed in those myths, I would have thought that the Great General would have been able to predict the Prophet! Qi Lin joked with a smile and said.

"Yes, the old man can't figure this out, forget it, don't think about it if you don't understand, just complete our task well, and after dawn, let the Tartars taste the power of our thunder."

Xu Wei waved his hand and said.

"Well, Lao Xu, you're right."

Qi Lin replied casually, and then looked at the thick barrels of those six-pounder cannons beside him, and said with a burning eye: "These long-barreled cannons are said to be more powerful, and they can shoot seven or eight miles away. ”

"What's more!"

At this time, Tian Renming, an assistant battalion general of the White Dragon Army Artillery Battalion, walked over with a smile and said to Xu Wei and Qi Lin: "This new six-pounder cannon can reach a maximum range of nine miles, of course, the cannonballs are not much power at that time.

But his effective range can still reach six miles, while Jiazhuang is only five miles away from us.

And tomorrow we will still shoot down on Jianiuling, and even the range of our three-pounder cannon will barely cover Jiazhuang at that time.

Let the Tartars taste it tomorrow, these iron bumps are so powerful that they know what thunder is. ”

"Haha, then we'll watch Lao Tian's performance tomorrow, let's go, go up the mountain."

Subsequently, in the second half of the night, Xu Wei's White Dragon Army brought dozens of artillery pieces up to Jianiuling.

Jianiuling, this is a mountain that is not too high in the east of Jiazhuang, and the altitude is only five or six hundred meters high, and it is not even a mountain.

However, such a height is precisely the most suitable for the White Dragon Army artillery battalion, and the three-pounder and six-pounder guns of the White Dragon Army are erected on the mountain ridge and can hit Jiazhuang.

Moreover, under the mountains, such a height and distance were enough for the White Dragon soldiers to set up various defense lines to ensure the safety of the artillery camp.

It's really because Li Zixiao found this mountain range on the map he brought back after exploring the terrain around Jiazhuang from Han Tong, which immediately made Li Zixiao marvel, this is simply prepared for their White Dragon Army.

Just when Xu Wei was busy on his side and moved those artillery pieces to Jia Niuling, when Li Zixiao arrived here, the sky was still dark.

Li Zixiao asked his generals to wake up the sleeping White Dragon soldiers, and the whole army began to assemble, and after gnawing on the dry food, they drove towards Jiazhuang.

"General, today is not as good as yesterday!" Qi Wei rode a horse and followed Li Zixiao, and said with some concern.

After Li Zixiao listened to Qi Wei's words, he also felt the cold north wind blowing on him, smiled slightly bitterly, and said: "No way, there is no perfect thing in the world."

Fortunately, it should only be cloudy today, such a cold day, even if it falls, it will only snow, not rain, God has already given us face; Finish.

Now we are ready to send it. ”

After nightfall, a few dark clouds drifted in the sky, and by the time it was almost dawn, the sky was already dark and oppressive, and it seemed that it was going to snow.

And there was a small north wind, which affected the bird hand somewhat, and the strong wind would make it unsuitable for the bird hand to keep the bird rope burning.

Fortunately, the new bird gun of the White Dragon Army has made some protective measures in this regard, and a piece of wood can be added on the side of the fire door to weaken the influence of the wind on the fire rope.

However, this little wind had little impact on Xu Wei's artillery on Jianiuling at this time.

At this time, as long as God doesn't rain Li Zixiao, Li Zixiao's battle will be decided.

Things have come to this point, if you withdraw from the army, everything will be wasted, all the preparations made in front will be wild, Li Zixiao is not reconciled, and he has to go hard.

If God really doesn't give it at this time and it rains, Li Zixiao can only say sorry to Lu Xiangsheng, who is trapped in Jiazhuang at this time, and then retreat in a gloomy manner.

And when they retreated, they couldn't be discovered by the Tartars, otherwise the Tartars wouldn't mind eating such a 'Ming army' as them.

Fortunately, at this time, the north at the end of the Ming Dynasty was in the era of the Xiaoice River, and after winter, it was simply cold, and people standing and urinating could freeze immediately.

Therefore, in the northern winter at the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of them snowed, and the chance of rain was not very common.

Just when Li Zixiao led his subordinates to the White Dragon Army and rushed towards Jiazhuang.

On Jia Zhuang's side, as soon as the sky was bright, Dolgon impatiently ordered his subordinates to gather troops and horses, and sounded the horn of attack.

After some rest, the Tartar soldiers, one by one, were well fed and slept, pushing the shield cart and holding the shield, and launched a new round of attack towards Jiazhuang.

Before the attack, Dolgon still sent people to Jiazhuang and Lu Xiangsheng to surrender, even though he knew that the chance of success was almost zero, but he valued Lu Xiangsheng's talent very much, and he still tried it one last time.

In the end, Lu Xiangsheng just replied to the Tartar who came to surrender: "How can I, the descendants of Yan and Huang, serve you barbarians, if you want to fight, I have never learned the word surrender." ”

After Dolgon received the report from the Tartar soldiers, his eyes flashed fiercely, and he said fiercely: "Since it can't be used by my Great Qing Dynasty, then it will destroy you." ”

Immediately, the attack of the Tartars began.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng in Jiazhuang was also desperate, he knew that they would not have reinforcements, and today should be the day he sacrificed his life for the country.

But he was not afraid, gathered a group of remnants of his army, swore not to surrender, and fought the final bloody battle with the Tartars.

These Ming soldiers who followed Lu Xiangsheng's side, one by one, were also heroes, and they were inspired by Lu Xiangsheng's spirit of preferring to die rather than surrender, and they roared one by one, wanting to fight with the Tartars to the end.