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Chapter 131 Calling the slave chief Dorgon to answer
In the 11th year of Chongzhen, on November 29th, at Chenshi, the sun was rising and the wind was cold.

Lu Xiangsheng heard that the Qing army was pulling out their camp and setting up a stronghold. Suspecting that they were about to withdraw, he hurriedly led his general Chen An and his guards to go out to investigate.

After being confirmed that the Qing army was indeed pulling out of the camp, Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly ordered the generals to immediately assemble the cavalry of each department to intercept and kill the slaves and rescue the captive people.

Half an hour later, the cavalry of Zhang Cheng, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei, Jiang Mingwu, and Chen An completed their formation. They originally had nearly [-] elite cavalry. More than a thousand people.

There are more than [-] elite cavalry gathered this time, and nearly a thousand cavalry are on the outer perimeter to cover up the information of the army and prevent the captive cavalry from spying on them. .

Lu Xiangsheng ordered Yang Guozhu to lead nearly a thousand cavalry from his headquarters. He led Chen An, Zhang Cheng, and Jiang Mingwu in the middle, and Hu Dawei was the rear army.

Rows of armored riders, wearing red cloaks, rode their horses on the spacious official road. Looking from the air, they looked like a giant red dragon rolling forward, rolling up smoke and dust.

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The Qing army camp by the Taiping River was already empty, only some dilapidated earthen walls and some large trees left by the Qing army remained. Obviously, the army had left the camp long ago.

On the hill where Lu Xiangsheng spied on the Qing army camp the day before, a banner with a golden dragon banner stood there. On the banner, a Qing general wearing gilt armor and standing on his horse was none other than Prince He Shuorui of the Qing Dynasty, The owner of Zhengbai Banner, Aixinjueluo Dorgon.

A group of Qing army knights in white armor gathered around him. On the gentle slope of the hill, there are still teams of Qing army elite cavalry standing there on their horses. match.

Yang Guozhu was on the official road to the west of the hill. He had a row of ten knights, and he followed his relative Guo Yingxian for nearly a mile, and further away was another cavalry team lined up on the official road. .

In the fields and wilderness on the north side of the official road where Yang Guozhu lined up, there were also banners and flags everywhere, and groups of Qing army knights in white armor were closely lined up.

On the official road, Yang Guozhu's knights lined up, occupying only two-thirds of the width of the official road. Lu Xiangsheng was on the side of the official road, raising his whip and urging his horse to come. Zhang Cheng led a group of personal soldiers to follow behind him.

Before arriving at the army formation, Lu Xiangsheng looked up at the hill, and after a while, he said: "Here comes the order, Commander Hu will lead his subordinates to line up on the north side of the hill to monitor the slave chief Dor. Department of Dagon."

After finishing speaking, someone turned his head and said to Yang Guozhu: "General Yang, you lead your soldiers and march along the official road for one mile to monitor the thousands of captive cavalry in the north. You must not attack without a military order. If the captive cavalry attack, we will I will help you myself."

Yang Guozhu took the order to go, and Lu Xiangsheng told Zhang Cheng again: "Zhongchen, the governor told you to go and line up between the slave chief Dorgon and the team of captive cavalry in the north, how dare you?"

The corners of Zhang Cheng's mouth were raised slightly, with a cynical expression on his face, he said, "Why don't you dare."

As he spoke, he clasped his fists and said, "The last general takes orders."

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On the official road, bursts of smoke and dust were flying, and the generals of Xuanda led their cavalry out one after another.

After Zhang Cheng's personal soldiers summoned his subordinates, he still took Chen Zheng as the vanguard, and the left sentry, right sentry, and rear sentry all jumped down the official road in sequence, and galloped forward in the fields and wilderness.

More than a thousand cavalry from Lu Xiangsheng's Superintendent Biao Battalion rode to the west of the hill where Dorgon was located, Zhang Cheng was on the south of Dorgon, and Hu Dawei rode in an array on the north of Dorgon, forming a three-sided coercion Dorgon's momentum.

At this time, in the direction of Huolu in the southwest of the official road, a large puff of smoke and dust rose, and another group of cavalry from the Qing army came galloping. There were about a thousand of them, but they also rode two horses, and they came slowly, with great momentum. amazing.

They came along the official road, more than [-] steps in front of Yang Guozhu's troops, stopped, and soon spread out. There were rows of Qing cavalry in the wilderness on both sides of the official road.

In this way, the two sides were divided into several cavalry formations, confronting each other, no one attacked first, and the anger seemed very tense.

After about a quarter of an hour, a loud arrow suddenly shot out from the hill, and the ear-piercing sound of "Woooooo..." was heard far away.

After the sound of the arrow, Dorgon jumped off his horse from the hill. He didn't urge the horse hard. The horse under his crotch just trotted towards Zhang Cheng. Open, into a vast expanse of whiteness.

Zhang Cheng rode his horse and stood in front of his army formation, Chen Zhong led the guards to gather behind him, and the four sentry cavalry were divided into four formations on the left and right.

When Chen Zhong saw Dorgon's Qing troops galloping up from the hills, he urged his horse to take a step forward and asked, "General, the Tartars are here."

Zhang Cheng remained calm, and ordered in a deep voice: "Order the sentry posts to stand in line, and do not move without seeing the military order."

I saw Dorgon coming galloping, and actually stopped his horse in front of Zhang Cheng's formation. Behind him, the Qing soldiers dispersed in an orderly manner, forming a fan to protect Dorgon's back, vigilantly guarding against Lu Xiangsheng's troops on the official road.

When Dorgon ran down the hill, Zhang Cheng quietly took off the Kaiyuan bow and put it in his left hand, and set up another heavy arrow, which he also held in his left hand.

At this moment, seeing Dorgon's horse stopped a hundred paces away, he urged the horse under his crotch and approached slowly. When Chen Zhong saw this, he wanted to follow him. Zhang Cheng hurriedly ordered: "Stop!" , alert, do not follow."

Urging the horses to move forward slowly, Zhang Cheng saw several generals of the Qing soldiers around Dorgon taking bows and arrows and aiming towards this direction one after another. He quickly tightened the reins with his right hand to stop the horses, while his left hand turned toward his body. Hidden behind the side.

Dorgon watched Zhang Cheng approaching slowly with a strange expression on his face, and suddenly saw Zhang Cheng stopped on his horse. They put down their bows one after another.

Seeing that the other side put down the bow and arrow, Zhang Cheng urged the horse to move slowly again, and stopped again at fifty paces.

Dorgon looked at Zhang Cheng from a distance, and seemed to have said something to a Qing general beside him, and the Qing general urged his horse to go forward about ten steps, and asked loudly, "Who is the Ming general opposite? Tell me your name."

Zhang Chengce was on the horse, and sternly shouted with contempt on his face: "How can I ask the general's name and surname, I ask the slave chief Dorgon to come forward and answer."

General Na Qing saw that besides being contemptuous of him, he also directly called his master Prince Rui by his name, he jumped into a rage, rode on his horse, and cursed angrily in Tartar dialect, but was called back by Dorgon sharply.

Looking at Zhang Cheng from a distance, he felt that this man was not very old, but he commanded more than a thousand elite cavalry of the Ming army. He couldn't help being very interested, so he urged the horse to move forward a few steps, and asked loudly: "Can you tell me the name of the young general opposite you?" king."

(End of this chapter)