Lu Ming

Chapter 446 Silly Dog
At noon on April 4, shortly after the messenger from Zunhua passed by Santunying again, two small troops set off from Santunying one after another, heading eastward.

These two teams are composed of a small number of special forces + cavalry from the Flying Tiger Battalion, each with 50 people and 100 horses.

The purpose of the two teams is to block.They will be on the two sides of the triangle, at suitable places that have been scouted in advance, to block the Tatar soldiers who may reinforce Qian'an County from the direction of Yongping and Luanzhou.

After the two teams set off, they moved forward at a constant speed on the road. After nightfall, they would bypass Qian'an and rush to their destination.

After the two teams of snipers left, at 300:200 p.m., the east gate of the Santun camp opened wide, 500 soldiers from the Flying Tiger Battalion, 1000 soldiers from the Guards Battalion, and some special forces, totaling more than [-] people and more than [-] horses Passed through the "big army" and set off in turn.

From this moment on, Santun Yingcheng has become a "dead place", no one is allowed to pass through the gate, and the battlefield information is blocked from here.

After the army set off, it also adopted the most horsepower-saving uniform jogging mode.Along the way, the cavalry marched along the Luan River, stopping to drink their horses from time to time, and their speed was not fast.

In the evening, the army passed Qinghe County at the east entrance of the corridor.

Qinghe County has long been deserted, and even the nearby villages and towns, Ming people were either arrested or fled south. Many of these meetings were carried out by the cross-travelers in Tianjin Wei.

After the troops passed by Qinghe, they were considered to have left the corridor.The Luan River turned a right angle here and began to flow southward; the troops followed suit, and after walking a dozen miles forward, set up camp in a river bay forest that had been surveyed in advance.

At this moment, the crossing people are already in the Luanhe Plain, [-] miles to the south is Qian'an County, and to the east is Yongping Mansion. If you continue to the east, you can see the sea and Qinhuangdao.

Yelang is sparsely populated, since it is a field camp, there must be no such thing as a tent.The soldiers settled the horses, set up the pots for dinner, and then lay down by the campfire wrapped in felt blankets.

There is a reason for choosing to camp here: a forest of miscellaneous trees blocks the flames of the bonfire, so that it will not be seen by Qian'an County.

Due to the fact that there was a military disaster in the Luanhe Plain, the night was very calm. The outer observation posts did not find any pedestrians or business travelers rushing through the night, and the troops had a good rest.

At dawn the next day, when the sky was slightly white, everyone had already had a full meal of compressed biscuits soaked in horse broth, and the horses also chewed black beans and drank enough water from the Luan River.

The pre-war mobilization and deployment with the characteristics of time travel began again.

By this time, there was no longer any need for the troops to cover up their tracks, so the soldiers raised their knives and roared three times collectively, before getting on their horses with a murderous look.

La Erzhen Hetuo, the inlaid blue flag armor, stood at the head of Qian'an County, looking at the smoke and dust rising from the north, his face was full of confusion.

With such a large amount of smoke and dust, there must be a large number of cavalry approaching. This point can be judged by all the bannermen standing at the head of Qian'an City at this moment.

But the identity of the visitor is a mystery.

Because just yesterday afternoon, when the messenger from Zunhua passed through Qian'an County, he reported that he was safe.In this way, even if Zunhua was attacked by the Ming army yesterday, it would be impossible to retreat so quickly?
Besides, even if all the flag soldiers from Zunhua and Santunying abandoned the city, they should not go south to Qian'an after leaving the east entrance of the corridor. Is it reasonable to leave customs?
So Hutto was confused. He and his subordinates were confused at the moment. They really couldn't figure out who was coming from the opposite side.

But in any case, since a large group of cavalry is coming from afar, preparations still need to be done.So Hutto ordered the four gates of the county seat to be closed and the suspension bridge pulled up.

As for the Ming people in the Guanxiang under the city, these people are already very experienced in fighting soldiers. When they saw the city gate suddenly closed, they started to run to the mountainous area west of the Luan River.

It didn't take long for a cavalry team to arrive at Qian'an, a county town half surrounded by the Luan River.

Then the identity of the person who came was also clarified: Cao, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Tongzhi Xie Shou Zhangchao and other departments stationed in Nan'ao, was commanded by the department.

"It's actually the Ming army!?" After seeing the opponent's flag clearly, Heto was dumbfounded: "How is this possible?"

Heto was illiterate, including all the Tatar soldiers on the top of the city, but this did not prevent them from identifying their opponents: even though the visitor was wearing a strange one-piece green jacket, the two Ming flags in the front were As well as the square characters on the flag, they all revealed the identity of the comer.

Soon, an old man dressed in official uniform was brought to the top of the city.

At this time, 500 cavalry had already dismounted in the open space outside the city, and some of them took out water bags and hung them around the horses' necks.

"Which army came?" Hutto couldn't speak Chinese, but there was an interpreter beside him, so the interpreter asked in blunt Chinese, pointing to the flag.

After being brought up to the city wall, the old official in the county took a look at it, then recalled it, and then said to the translator: "Vice Lord, it is the army of King Qin from Fujian in the south, and the chief general is a deputy commander, surnamed Cao."

"WHAT?"

Hutto still didn't understand - don't use the template of later generations to set this information-poor era, none of these Tartars in the city knows the exact location of Fujian.

The old official was helpless, and explained a few more sentences: Fujian is south of the Yangtze River, and the deputy general of Zhangchao is probably on a large island outside Fujian.

"Bastard! Then how did this group of sea dogs get to my Qian'an County!?"

After Heto finally understood it, he couldn't help being furious, and he couldn't understand more and more: If they came from the sea, then there was no news from Yongping Mansion, which is closer to the sea in the east, and this group of people rushed to Qian'an inland. up?

Then he figured it out: "This group of people must have landed a long time ago, and they came in from the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise they wouldn't have come down from the north."

"Wolf smoke, let go of wolf smoke!"

Putting his hands on the top of the wall, and staring fiercely at the group of people below the wall for a few times, Heto decided to set off a warning signal first.After he calmed down just now, he had faintly realized that something was wrong: the cavalry of the brigade came from the north, but the Santun camp did not call the police. There was always something wrong in the direction of Zunhua and Santun camp.

Once the smoke is released, no matter whether the opponent has follow-up soldiers or not, Yongping and Luanzhou will raise their vigilance and send out sentries, so that they won't know until they are beaten to the bottom of the city like him.

After setting off the smoke, Hutto ordered messengers to go out of the city to report the news of the soldiers and horses to the neighbors.

After everything was done, Hetuo settled down and carefully looked at the group of Ming troops under the city.After a closer look and counting, Heto found that this group of people seemed to be powerful, but in fact they were not strong?
The total number of soldiers wearing green jackets in the city was no more than [-], and [-] of them were spearmen with bird guns. There were also dozens of soldiers in floral clothes, probably auxiliary soldiers, standing in the back row.

Counting the horses again, Hutto now knows why this mere 500 people can create a noisy momentum: this group is actually one person with two horses, and now there are thousands of good horses gathered in the city!
"Is the general of the Ming army in the south rich?" Heto looked greedily at the bottom of the city, and all he saw was a group of handsome and good-looking northern horses.

These thousands of horses undoubtedly represent a huge sum of money.In the current situation of frequent wars in Ming Dynasty, 20 taels of silver may not be able to buy a good horse, so this is a huge wealth of more than [-] taels.

Heto, who has been in charge of the five Niulu all the year round and is already regarded as a high-ranking officer in the Xianglan Banner, must understand this value, so he is carefully weighing the possibility of leading troops to fight out.

Heto, Jiala Ezhen, is theoretically in charge of five cattle records and 500 people.However, since the army left the customs, Heto, who stayed here as a nail household in Qian'an, only left 400 people to deal with errands, so he didn't go out of the city for the first time today to fight. After all, he didn't know the details of these weird opponents.

Looking at it carefully now, the group of people under the city are purely rookies from the sea!
Right in front of Heto at this moment, two cavalrymen wearing green jackets and holding large banners were running across the city, waving the banners in their hands along the way, as if they were provoking the Tartars at the top of the city, attracting waves of people. cheer.

Next came the shooting performance: a cavalryman holding a three-eyed gun also galloped past the city, and then the tide-maker shot at the city, as if he could hit a Tartar soldier. The last shot accidentally exploded He was so scared that he even threw the gun away, and the cheers from the hundreds of people nearby were silenced as if he had been strangled by a chicken.

"Is this group of people sent by monkeys to be funny?" If the Tatar soldiers on the top of the city had ever surfed the Internet, they would definitely say this now.

This kind of provocative technique can no longer be described as clumsy. It not only exposed the details of this group of people, but also exposed their poor equipment.

Heto, who had dealt with the Guan Ning Jiangmen Group for many years, finally came to a conclusion for the mentally handicapped people in the city: "It's probably another general from the Ming Dynasty who was sent to die because of internal strife."

Niu Luerzhen, a close comrade standing beside Heto, who is also Heto's half-brother, Daheren, who knew Heto's thoughts well, said in a deep voice, "500 people, two hundred bird guns , only three hundred swordsmen."

Heto sneered, turned his head to the other chiefs of the city and asked, "A thousand good horses, do you want to fight them or not?"

At this time in the Qing Dynasty, there were not so many superiors and inferiors, so after hearing Heto's question, one of the Niu Lu immediately shouted: "Four hundred warriors beat five hundred smart dogs, Heto, what are you waiting for? I am afraid that you will be captured." Are your horses biting your hands too much?"

After seeing the number of visitors clearly, the rest of the gang leaders wanted to go out of the city to kill these gangsters. Now that Hutto spoke, everyone was naturally enthusiastic.

Not to mention four hundred, they have experienced the scene of a hundred Tatar soldiers chasing and killing five hundred Ming soldiers many times, not to mention that there are two hundred musketeers in the group below the city—the musketeers are in the eyes of the Tatar soldiers. Li is not a human being at all.

Send Bao Yi to watch on the tower, if any more cavalry come over, send a letter and report!
After Heto arranged for the lookout post, he drew his waist knife, stood on the top of the wall and shouted, "Put on your armor! Follow me out and kill these idiots!"

"Whoo!"

Five minutes later, Qian Tieshan, who was at the end of the line, looked at the watch on his wrist as he watched the suspension bridge slowly lowering and the city gate gradually opening, and he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief: "Finally, I have tricked these idiots out. If you don't come out, I will attack by force!"

(End of this chapter)