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"King Pingxi, my lord ordered you to capture Suizhou City before noon, otherwise military law will be engaged, hum!"

A white-armored soldier walked into Wu Sangui's tent proudly, shouting in Manchu with an extremely arrogant attitude, as if he was not calling the king of Pingxi, but the dog of Pingxi.

According to the practice of the Qing army, 10 people in each Niu Lu were white swing tooth lama, 40 people were red swing tooth lama, and 50 people were black battalion. Later, during the Huang Taiji period, the red pendulum was canceled, but the white pendulum was still retained.

The white swing tooth is also the white armor soldier. Wearing mercury armor, killing people like hemp, it can be said that they are all brave people who are killed from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, and it is possible to become a white-armored soldier;

They were the elite of the elite of the Qing army, often as the high-ranking generals of the Eight Banners and the personal soldiers of each Niu Lu Zhangjing.

Prince Azig of Heshuoying was originally a fierce and arrogant, rude and unscrupulous man, not to mention his own soldiers.

Without waiting for Wu Sangui to answer, the white-armored soldier snorted coldly and turned to leave.

"Damn" Looking at the back of the white-armored soldier in the distance, Deputy General Feng Peng couldn't help but scold angrily.

Wu Sangui took off the red-capped flowered hat on his head, and subconsciously touched his smooth head, as a Han man, he is still not used to the ugly hairstyle of the Manchurians.

At this time, the manchurian hairstyle is not just the yin and yang head of the forehead;

Instead, the entire head is shaved all around, leaving only a bunch of hair the size of a copper coin on the top of the head, braided into a rat's tail-like braid, which is called "money rat tail".

Wu Sangui touched the "rat's tail" on the top of his head, spat at the mouth fiercely, and was about to speak, when General Guo Yunlong said indignantly: "General, our brothers have attacked for most of the night, and they have only rested for more than an hour, and let us attack the city, how can the brothers bear it?" ”

"Azig doesn't treat us as human beings at all. From the beginning of the Jingshi's pursuit of the Li thief, we have been at the forefront, 40,000 brothers, and now nearly half of them have been lost, and the Manchurians simply want to take the opportunity to weaken us, and if this continues, our men and horses will probably be exhausted. Another general, Hu Shouliang, also said angrily.

"Shut up!" Wu Sangui sighed deeply, "Li Thief has the hatred of killing his father and the hatred of taking his wife, and I don't share the sky with Li Thief." Don't punish Li thief, I Wu Sangui swear not to be a person, you don't need to say much, you need to know that the disaster comes from the mouth, everyone hurry up and prepare, before noon, take Suizhou, there must be no mistake. ”

On the city of Suizhou, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the blood was full of walls. In the fierce battles in the past few days, nearly half of the 5,000 men and horses of the Dashun army have been killed and wounded, but in order to buy time for Li Zicheng to transfer, Tian Jianxiu still gritted his teeth and held on.

With the sound of drums one after another. The red-coated cannon under the city roared again, and the huge projectile roared and smashed on the city tower, and the watchtower, which had already been ravaged, roared. It was blown down, debris was splashed, and dust was flying.

Wu Sangui had more than 20,000 Guan Ningjun shouting and pounced again. It is like a flood, and it will submerge Suizhou City.

On the hillside north of the city, Azig stood in front of his big tent and watched the battle at the head of the city, this time he gave Wu Sangui a death order, to take the opportunity to weaken Wu Sangui or second, he was really in a hurry.

Although he was a brother to Dorgon and Dodor, Dorgon and Dorgon were the same age, grew up together, and were much closer to each other.

And he is seven years older than Dorgon and Dordor, and there are still some contradictions between them, when Emperor Taiji found an excuse to abolish his white flag master, and now he supports Dolgon's regency, but Dolgon has always relied on not returning the white flag to him.

Although he didn't have a quarrel with Dorgon on the surface, he was always unhappy in private, and Dorgon knew this, so he was always looking for opportunities to suppress him openly and secretly.

He and Duoduo attacked Guanzhong in two ways, Duoduo broke through Tongguan first, but he was blocked by Gao Yigong in Yulin, Duoduo broke through the pass and entered Xi'an first, and this first skill has been robbed by Duoduo.

Then Duoduo swept Henan, invincible, occupied the Central Plains, under the two Huai, the front of the army pointed directly at Yangzhou, but also forced to land Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo and other Ming generals, had to surrender two or three hundred thousand, Yanjing Ming order to praise Duoduo's merits, give the bead saber, gold belt.

Compared with Duoduo, although Azig chased Li Zicheng like a lost dog, he did not have too dazzling credit, Li Zicheng's main force is still there, from Guanzhong to Xiangyang to Suizhou, and the cities occupied are also only a handful.

For all kinds of considerations, Azig can't drag it out any longer, he must open the situation as soon as possible and strive for greater military achievements, seeing that under Wu Sangui's fierce attack, Suizhou's city defense has been crumbling, Azig ordered to Jialazhang Jingjito beside him: "You take 3,000 men and horses to help Wu Sangui break the city as soon as possible." ”

"Wow!" Jito replied and immediately went to order troops.

Under the onslaught of Wu Sangui, the Dashun army in the city was already at the end of the strong crossbow, coupled with the three thousand fierce Tartars led by Jito, they were killed like wolves and tigers, and suddenly the danger was born, and Tian Jianxiu was also shot in the left arm by a stray arrow, and the blood did not stop.

More and more fierce Tartars attacked the city, and the Dashun army was killed one by one, Tian Jianxiu knew that he could not hold it, and immediately ordered the city to be abandoned.

At the same time, it detonated the explosives buried under the urn city, boom! There was a loud bang, thick smoke billowed up, and twenty or thirty Tartars who were rushing into the urn city to open the city gate and enlarge the army to enter the city were blown up into the air, their limbs were broken, and their internal organs flew in disorder.

Although the entire urn city collapsed and covered the city gate, and it was difficult to open it again, the soldiers in the Wu army, including Wu Sangui's deputy general Feng Peng, still secretly shouted refreshingly.

Wu Jun worked desperately, and when he saw that the city was about to be broken, the Tartars came up to pick up the cheap, and they also fought to open the city gate to grab the first credit, and they deserved to be killed.

After taking Suizhou City, Azig, who had a rough personality and was in a hurry, immediately ordered to chase south, and at the same time sent a large number of elite cavalry to find out the news.

When chasing to Anlu, he encountered the Dashun army here to block, this time Azig was not ambiguous, and the Qingmeng elite, who rarely participated in the siege battle, rushed up, stormed Anlu, and broke the city in half a day.

At this time, news came that Li Zicheng had fled to Huangzhou.

Wu Sangui took the initiative to ask: "Lord Wang, the territory of Huangzhou is Dabie Mountain, once Li Thief retreats into Dabie Mountain, it may be more troublesome to exterminate him. ”

"The king of Pingxi is loyal and brave, okay, you chase quickly."

"Wow!"

Of course, Azig would not let Wu Sangui act alone, and he sent a full general named Attu with 4,000 Qing troops to follow Wu Sangui and pursue Li Zicheng together.

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The south of the mountain, the north of the water, is called the yang.

Hanyang Fortress was originally named after its location in the north of Hanshui and south of Gusan, but a catastrophic flood in the Chenghua period diverted Hanshui, and in fact, Hanyang is now located in the south of Hanshui.

When the ambitious Azig led tens of thousands of troops to Jiangbei, he found that Hankou did not leave a single grain of rice, not to mention people. To attack Hanyang across the Han River, to attack Wuchang across the Yangtze River.

On the river, six 400 boats, more than 100 bluff boats, sand boats, and eagle boats were waiting for each other, and the black Qinzi flag was blown by the river wind.

Azig sent people to look for boats everywhere, but found nothing, so he ordered the surrendered Green Battalion soldiers to cut down bamboo and wood to build rafts, and they were very busy, and there was a great tendency that they would not stop until they took Wuchang.

Qin Mu received the report, did not dare to take it lightly, and ordered the sentinel to reconnoiter the movements of the Qing army day and night, and the boat was strictly guarded against the river, which was the first battle against the Qing army, and it must be fought well.

The Jurchens are less than 10,000, and they are invincible. This is the consensus of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and even the most elite Liaodong Army of the Ming Dynasty is not the opponent of the Manchu Tartars. The fear of the Ming army and people for the Tartars has long been ingrained in their hearts, and the soldiers under Qin Mu are no exception.

Now under Qin Mu's hard training, the Qin army's combat strength is not bad, and the morale is also very high, but if this battle is not fought well, it is difficult to ensure that the Qin army will not have a phobia of Tartars like other Ming armies.

Once this phobia is formed, it will be a huge disaster for the Qin army, and I am afraid that a dozen or so Tartars will be able to chase thousands of their men and horses all over the ground.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in later generations, many Chinese also suffered from a phobia of Japanese devils, so that when three or five devils entered the village, thousands of villagers could bow their heads and dare not disobey in the slightest.

Therefore, this first battle must be played with morale and confidence. Only in this way, in the face of the legendary Tartar who is like a fierce god, will the Qin soldiers dare to rush forward and fight desperately in the future.

Although Qin Mu was strictly guarded, Azig was not a fool, he built a boat pole for one thing, but he didn't expect to cross the river directly with these small boats.

That night, Azig sent a number of troops to cross the river from the upper reaches of the Han River, true and false, false and true, so that the Qin army could not be guarded.

Zuihou, 5,000 Manchurian elites and 5,000 green battalion soldiers led by Jito, successfully crossed the Han River at the Yazui Beach upstream, and at dawn, 10,000 troops rushed towards Hanyang.

Hanyang, a bloody battle is about to begin.

(To be continued......)