Kong Lianshun sighed with some emotion, the officers and soldiers who originally chased and killed him, because of the appearance of the Tatars and the Mongols, became temporary allies, and the world was so wonderful. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

He looked at the billowing smoke and dust in the distance, and said to Ma Wei: "I have a clear grievance, just now you saved me and my brothers, as a reward, you go first, our palace is behind, if the Tartars catch up, you can also block it." ”

Ma Wei wanted to say and stopped, he wanted to say, you can't deal with the Mongols, let alone the real Tartars, this time it is the elite of the Zhenglan Banner - the banner of the Zhenglan Banner is played, and the leader of the troops is not the banner owner, at least it is also a solid mountain Ezhen (Note 1).

However, seeing the firmness in Kong Lianshun's eyes, he couldn't say anything discouraged, so he just nodded: "The enemy is outnumbered, don't be strong." If we can all return to Dengzhou alive, as long as you lead your subordinates to confess their guilt to the government, I can ask the chief soldier to intercede with Futai, so that you and your subordinates can make meritorious contributions. ”

Kong Lianshun thanked him: "Thank you." Kong was originally a battalion soldier in Dongjiang Town, and it was a last resort to fall into the grass, if he could have the opportunity to serve the court again, it would be the best. ”

When Ma Wei heard this, he immediately felt sorry for each other.

"It turned out that he was still a brother in Dongjiang Town, and it was really a big flood that washed the Dragon King Temple. My surname is Ma, a single name and a Wei character, and I used to work in Xuanfu Town. ”

The two sides recounted the experience of serving in the army in the border town, and they felt a lot closer.

Kong Lianshun secretly said that he was unlucky, he knew that there was such a thing, and he set up friendships, wouldn't it turn a big thing into a small thing? Now that they have been chased for hundreds of miles, they have also encountered Tartars, and both sides are uncertain about life and death, so why bother.

But it's too late to regret it now, and it's the most important thing to dodge the Tartars' blades. He looked back at the slowly approaching army and urged, "Brother Ma hurry up, you won't be able to leave any matter how late." ”

Ma Wei was not hypocritical, and said: "Brother Kong, be careful. "Urging the horses, he led the cavalry battalion to the east. Kong Lianshun led the horse thief some distance behind the officers and soldiers and followed behind.

In the Houjin army, Abatai frowned and listened to the report of the Mongolian general Arslen, and said coldly: "A Ming cavalry can make you lose your troops?" Do you think that praising the Ming army as powerful as my Dajin Warrior can cover up your incompetence? ”

Gaertu gloated and echoed: "Who doesn't know that the Ming army in the pass is vulnerable, but what you encounter is the heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals?" ”

Arslen's face was flushed, and he didn't know how to tell the difference to make them believe, so he gestured with his hands and explained: "This Ming army is different from what it has encountered in the past, it uses a strange short gun, which is much faster than the bird's gun, and one person has three guns, which can be fired in turns, which is much more powerful than the three-eyed gun of the Guan Ning army......"

Abatai interrupted his explanation impatiently and ordered Galtu: "Galtu, bring your warriors and let the brothers of the Khalkha tribe see how my Dajin warriors have cleaned up the Ming army." ”

Gartu puffed out his chest: "Obey." Squinted proudly at Arslen, and slapped his horse to the middle of the formation to select troops and horses to fight. In order to show his contempt for the Ming army, he only selected half of the people from a Niu Lu, and after simply giving an order, more than 100 armor soldiers came out of the ranks, urged the war horses, and rumbled to chase in the direction of the Ming army's escape.

Abatai waved his hand: "Keep going, go around Qingzhou and go back." ”

Kong Lianshun heard the sound of hooves behind him, and when he looked back, he saw that it was really an armored man with money rat tails, although the number was only more than a hundred, but it also made his heart tighten. He had fought many battles with the Tartars in the Dongjiang River, and knew that these armored men were the main force of the Tartars, and their combat effectiveness was second only to that of the white-armored soldiers Bayala.

Houjin implemented the Eight Banners system, Ding Zhuang was a soldier in wartime, and a citizen in peacetime, so that all the people were soldiers, so that the army had a very strong combat effectiveness, and its most basic organization was Niulu, which was a social organization that integrated production and military. In principle, each Niu Lu 300 people, qualified to approve two to three layers of armor of the warriors is one of the elite, generally known as armor people, according to the wartime division of labor and good at combat skills, can be divided into infantry armor and horse armor, is the main force of the Houjin army.

Before the Qing army entered the customs, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners was at its peak, and the Ming army had rotted to the roots, except for a few generals, ordinary soldiers had no will to fight, and it was not a problem for a soldier to deal with three or five or even a dozen ordinary Ming troops, and it was not uncommon for hundreds of soldiers to drive away thousands of Ming troops.

Kong Lianshun and his horse thieves had been chased by the cavalry battalion for four days and three nights, and the men and horses were exhausted, and then the Jin army was full of energy, and soon caught up.

Hearing the rumbling hooves behind him getting closer and closer, Kong Lianshun gritted his teeth and shouted: "Brothers, the Tartars are coming up, our horsepower is not as good as theirs, sooner or later we will be caught up, it is better to go back and fight!" We are a thousand people smaller, so we don't believe that we can't do these hundred people. ”

The horse thief team, which originally consisted of nearly 2,000 people, was pursued all the way by the cavalry battalion, and was blocked by the Mongols, and the number of them had been sharply reduced to half of what it was before. Even so, the number of people is still nearly ten times that of the pursuers, occupying an absolute advantage in numbers.

The advantage in numbers gave the horse thieves some confidence, and they dragged their tired bodies, raised their sabers, and shouted loudly and turned back to meet the armor soldiers.

One of the leading Niu Lu really smiled and raised the sword in his hand, and said to the left and right: "These Nikans really don't know whether they are alive or dead, give them to me, cut off their heads, and give them to Lord Gartu!" ”

More than a hundred armored soldiers shouted and brandished their weapons, and rushed into the horse thief formation like a whirlwind. The two sides crashed into each other with a thud.

In terms of the quality of individual soldiers, the Houjin soldiers are all hunters between the white mountains and black waters, in addition to eating and sleeping is hunting, fighting all the time, naturally much stronger than the horse thieves who fish for three days and dry their nets for two days, plus one is waiting for work and one is exhausted, this battle is doomed to the end at the beginning.

Although the number of soldiers is small, but they are not afraid, chopping melons and cutting vegetables slaughtering horse thieves, knives, maces, short axes and various weapons harvesting life, blood and meat crumbs flying in the air, screams continuously, except for Kong Lianshun and other Dongjiang veterans, many horse thieves are not the enemy of the other party.

Abatai and Gaertu and the others watched the battle from afar, their eyes full of disdain.

"This is the very powerful Ming army you said?" Abatai's nostrils turned to the sky and asked Arslen.

Alslen shook his head: "Lord Belle Mingjian, although I don't know what the relationship between this cavalry and the Ming army just now, they are not in a group. The real power was the cavalry in front of him. ”

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Note 1: Gushan is really Manchu, Chinese is the meaning of the military and political chief of a banner, managing the whole banner of household registration, production, upbringing, training and other matters, and the flag owner is a subordinate relationship, in the political system of the Later Jin has a high power and status, second only to the flag owner.