Iron blood Suiming

Huang Taiji, who has studied firearms deeply, knows what it means to have so many tiger crouching cannons.Only now did he understand why the five thousand cavalry he had gone to harass were gone.However, he reacted very quickly, and immediately cut off the wrists of the strong man. He would rather lose some soldiers and horses than annihilate the entire army here.

Du Du gritted his teeth and rushed forward desperately with two thousand mortal Tartars. A general from the Tiger Camp shook his head. The training is just to bring an extra short dagger called a bayonet on the body, which can be stuck on the tip of the flintlock for stabbing.But it is used as a last resort, the most important thing is the shooting of muskets and artillery.

"Ready, fire." The general waved his command flag suddenly, and countless bullets were pushed out of the barrel by the explosive gas of the gunpowder, and flew a long distance along the inertia, and got into the bodies of those stinky tartars.After three rounds of shooting, Du Du and the two thousand Tartars died under the Ming capital with wide-eyed eyes.

Huang Taiji withdrew more than 2 Tatars and retreated quickly, but the ground below the capital was flat. Li Jianguo just waved his hand, and the tiger camp cavalry bypassed Du Du, who was blocking the enemy, and tightly bit the rear of the Tartars.The pursuit battle began, the Tartars fled in utter disarray, but the soldiers of the tiger battalion chased after them leisurely.Teams are formed at all times, every 100 people form a team, and every time they shoot, they must fire a hundred guns.

This made the Tatars' usual method of counterattacking and turning defeat into victory useless.Countless self-reliant and brave Tartars fought back, but they were all shot into bloody holes by flintlock guns.Huang Taiji, who was wrapped up in the center by his personal guards, galloped wildly on horseback. Every time he heard a burst of gunshots, his heart ached like a drop of blood.

He never imagined that the power of concentrated shooting of firearms would be so powerful.The riding and shooting, the bravery, and the terrifying killing skills that he is proud of on weekdays are nothing in front of a large number of firearms.He could only watch helplessly as his soldiers were beaten to death one by one, without dignity.

Seeing the Tartar infantry being abandoned by the cavalry, the Tartar infantry immediately became a mess. There were still some Tartars resisting and trying their best to kill the soldiers of the tiger camp, but seeing that the Khan left them and ran away, All the beliefs that supported them collapsed.A large part of the Tartars not only did not run away, but rushed back, screaming "ahh..." to die.

Some of them stood there crying and weeping bitterly, at a loss.They were shot one by one by the soldiers of the tiger battalion and did not dodge.The last one is about the Tartars who are about to surrender. They dropped their weapons, raised their hands high, and yelled words that the Han people could not understand, and wanted to surrender.Unfortunately.The tiger camp did not accept Tartar prisoners, so they shot one by one.Kill it all.

The pursuit lasted for five hours.Chased all the way to the vicinity of Pinggu.Seeing that the mountains were densely covered and the Tartars fled into the forest, Li Jianguo ordered to stop the pursuit, leaving several scouts behind to spy on the Tartars' movements, and retreated twenty miles to set up camp.

The length of the pursuit of this battle is unexpected.No one expected it.The horses of the Tartars were fast and durable. Even if they were also riding Mongolian war horses, their riding skills were not as good as the Tartars, and the cavalry in the tiger camp couldn't catch up with the Tartars.I chased in the wrong direction several times and almost lost it.In addition, Huang Taiji sent some death squads to stop the enemy from time to time, or set up an ambush, which seriously hindered the speed of the Tiger Camp's pursuit.Allowing nearly [-] Tartars to flee into the Panshan forest, they were able to preserve part of their strength.

Lu Yue and the generals looked at the dark forest in the distance with resentment. This time, the only reason why the tartars escaped so far and so many people escaped was because they were not good at riding and their strength was not good enough.Otherwise, how could the Tartars escape so many people?

Li Jianguo stood on the watchtower and waved to Lu Yue. Lu Yue hurriedly climbed up to the watchtower, knelt down on the watchtower and said ashamedly: "My lord, the last general is incompetent and did not wipe out all the tartars. Please punish the last general for his crimes."

Li Jianguo snorted coldly and said, "Who do you think you are? And who is chasing you? That's Huang Taiji, the sweat of the Manchurians. Even if the Tartars are all dead, he can escape back to Shengjing. Lu Yue, Ben Fu tells you that firearms are not invincible in all battles, and if they encounter water or fire, they will die."

Lu Yue was startled, and immediately understood that Li Jianguo was beating him. Don't think that with firearms, you can rule the world. There are many things that can kill people in this world, and there are countless ways to kill people.The adults said that water and fire can kill, and poison can also kill. If you are approached by the Tartars and fight close to you, you are afraid that your tiger camp will lose more than the Tartars.

Lu Yue was like enlightened, and understood many principles of using troops at once, which made him overjoyed, and prostrated himself: "Thank you, sir, for your guidance, I will never underestimate the Tartars because of this."

Li Jianguo saw that not only was he not afraid because of his reprimand, but his face was full of joy, he knew that he really wanted to understand.Li Jianguo nodded, very happy.There are very few talents under him, and even fewer can be generals alone.Although the more than 40 guards were divided into four battalions by him, and the selected generals were all good generals observed during this period, he was still worried about leading the army alone.

Regardless of the fact that the generals of the fourth battalion are all generals with [-] soldiers, if they are really compared with second-rate generals like Lu Xiangsheng and Chen Qiyu, they are still far behind.It is even farther away from first-class generals such as Huang Taiji, Dorgon, Zu Dashou, and Hong Chengchou.Therefore, in these two battles, Li Jianguo personally led the army with the intention of leading the way and supporting the way.

Although killing the enemy is the main thing, it is more important to practice the strategy of these generals and the method of leading troops.Now is the time to let go, let Lu Yue, the former number one thousand household and now the deputy general, lead the troops to practice alone.

Li Jianguo looked at the bright moon in the sky and said, "Lu Yue, you have been to Shengjing of the Tartars with Ben Fu, do you have the courage to go again?"

Lu Yue was startled, and said: "My lord, why don't you dare? Please just give orders, my lord. The general is willing to be a pawn and open the way for you."

Li Jianguo shook his head and said, "I can't go, this time I want to send you to lead an army alone, go to Liaodong, go to the territory of the Tartars, meet people and kill people, slaughter cities, and kill them all the way to Shengjing. Take Shengjing back and change the name back to Shenyang, how dare you go?"

After saying the last sentence, Lu Yue's eyes widened. He didn't expect that Li Jianguo would give him such a task. After thinking about it, he said in a deep voice, "The last general dares to go, please rest assured. It's just In the end, there are still a few requests, please allow your lord."

Li Jianguo was overjoyed, he was really afraid that Lu Yue would just agree.Then he patted his chest as a guarantee. In this case, if this Lu Yue leads an army into Liaodong alone, there is a high probability that he will never come back.Now Lu Yue thought about it for a while before answering, and there was a request, which proved that he had thought about it, and made Li Jianguo happy.

Li Kaiguo patted Lu Yue on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Okay, I am indeed the one who was raised by Ben Fu. He has courage. If you have any requirements, you can ask them."

Lu Yue stood up, still bowing her body, and said: "Thank you for your praise, the general will attack Liaodong this time. Food and grass are a big problem. If the general wants to bring only [-] cavalry into Liaodong, he may have insufficient troops. The second is that our cavalry are all fake. It is just that we can ride horses instead of walking. So the general wants to use these army horses to carry grain and grass, and send another [-] auxiliary soldiers, and set up grain roads along the way to transport grain and grass..."

When he said this, Li Kaiguo shook his head, cut off Lu Yue's words, and said, "Don't think about setting up a grain road transfer point. This time we will enter the customs. We can only be alone and carry a month's surplus of grain and grass with us. Fu sent you to enter the pass, not because he wants you to fight a protracted war. Remember, I gave you [-] soldiers and horses. But there are only [-] cavalry, and the remaining [-] are all infantry. You came along Huangtaiji Follow him into the pass along the pass, kill as much as you can, and rob as much as you can, but gold, silver and other property are not important things. If you rob too much, once it affects the speed of your deployment of troops, you must be on the spot immediately Bury it, and you must not be greedy." Speaking of this, Li Jianguo's eyes were full of murderous intent, which was very frightening.

Lu Yue's heart trembled, and she said: "The general will understand, and he will definitely not forget what your lord said."

"What's more, you are going to rob food and grass, kill people, and kill all the tartars and traitors in Liaodong, regardless of whether they are men, women, old or young, and leave no one behind. If you think about it, you also know that Ben Fu is in the army. There are spies, if you deviate from Benfu's intentions in Liaodong, you will know what will happen."

Lu Yue was sweating profusely when she heard that Li Kaiguo had spies in various armies. These generals had heard about it for a long time, and they often talked about it in private on weekdays, and they felt uncomfortable.But when he suddenly heard Li Jianguo tell about the spies, he was still terrified, and quickly knelt down on the ground again, pointing to the sky and swearing: "Lu Yue will definitely live up to my lord's entrustment, please rest assured, my lord."

Li Jianguo nodded, the murderous look in his eyes disappeared, he helped Lu Yue up, and said with a smile: "If you can really do this great thing well, you will definitely be rewarded when you come back."

Lu Yueqiang said with a smile: "The general will thank you for your cultivation."

Li Kaiguo smiled, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Go and inspect the camp now. If what I expect is right, the Tartars will send people to attack the camp."

Lu Yue was startled, and said: "The Tartars are so courageous. The general will make arrangements for this." He never doubted what Li Jianguo said, even if something was unbelievable for him, he was about to leave in a hurry after speaking.

Li Kaiguo stopped him again and said: "Tartars are good at luring the enemy to attack, ambush and annihilate them, just guard the camp carefully, don't chase them out."

Lu Yue took the order and left, and Li Jianguo returned to his tent.I stayed and slept until midnight, and sure enough, there were shouts of killing, gunshots, and cannons everywhere.Li Jianguo didn't care, turned over and continued to sleep.When it was dawn, Lu Yue stayed up all night, and reported with red eyes: "My lord, as expected, last night the Tatars tried every means to lure us to attack, but they were all repulsed by the last general. Now that the sky is clear, the Tatars Seeing that there is no opportunity to take advantage of it, the son has already retreated."

Li Kaiguo washed and said, "How many people died?" Lu Yue shook her head, with a face of shame, and said, "Last night, the Tartars used straw men to attack the camp, and they couldn't see clearly in the night. I didn't realize there was anything wrong until dawn." The Shaocao people were abandoned outside the camp, so I don’t know how many Tartars have been killed.”

When Li Jianguo heard it, he smiled instead of anger, wiped his face with a wet towel, and said with a smile: "Now you understand that if you have a firearm, it depends on how you use it. There is only one word 'stable'. No matter what moves he makes, as long as you face the enemy head-on with an upright formation, no matter how many strange moves he makes, it will be useless."

Huang Taiji used this trick to trick Lu Yue, and proved Li Jianguo's words last night, so now Lu Yue was convinced and said: "If the Tartar Khan has the same firearms as us, the general will think that he will not be able to defeat him. of."

Li Jianguo nodded and said, "It's best for you to have this understanding. Benfu will take away [-] soldiers and horses in a while, and only leave you [-]. You are stationed here, waiting for the [-] infantry to come forward." Come. You have to wait patiently. The Tartars are short of food and grass. Huang Taiji will withdraw to Liaodong in a few days. You will follow up and cover up all the way. Forcing him to go north, you can't let the Tartars stay in the Gyeonggi area, let alone You can't let the Tartars go south. I will leave you two hundred tiger squatting cannons, another thirty thousand-jin Francophones, and five thousand explosives. It is enough for you to break the city along the way. You have to remember, If you lose the battle, even if you are all dead, you must destroy all the cannons before swallowing your last breath, if a cannon falls into the hands of the Tartars, I will kill all the families of all your generals."

Lu Yue knelt down on the ground together with the generals.Loudly said: "I respect the orders of your lord."

An hour later, Li Jianguo returned to the capital with [-] cavalry, leaving only [-] cavalry for Lu Yue to garrison, waiting for the [-] army to arrive.At this time, the [-] army, which was still five days away from the capital, quickly received Li Kaiguo's order.He rushed to the capital with [-] soldiers and horses, and the rest of the grain, thirty artillery pieces, and gunpowder were escorted by an army of [-].Go directly to Panshan and hand it over to Lu Yue.

Li Jianguo originally wanted to use 20 soldiers for this battle.In one fell swoop, the Tartars were besieged and suppressed under the capital city, and by the way, all the Ming troops who came from King Qin were killed to shock Chongzhen.But the battle suddenly took a turn for the worse, and Chongzhen was too ineffective, with hundreds of thousands of troops in the capital, almost allowing the Tartars to attack the capital.Unable to last even seven days, Li Jianguo had no choice but to drive the Tartars away.

The only reason why he returned to the capital this time was to ask Emperor Chongzhen for military support, marching fees and rescue fees.with his character.He definitely won't let himself suffer. This time sending troops to rescue is expensive, and he has to pay a big sum to Emperor Chongzhen, and he can't do it.Along the way, thinking of the large sum of gold and silver he was about to get, Li Jianguo felt physically and mentally comfortable.As soon as he arrived thirty miles outside the capital, Li Kaiguo ordered the troops to garrison, and then sent someone to send a memorial to the capital.

Emperor Chongzhen was reviewing the memorial at this time, but every once in a while, he would glance at Wang Chengen.Seeing Wang Chengen shaking his head, Emperor Chongzhen felt even more anxious.Yesterday I heard a report saying that Li Guo led troops to defeat the Tartars, and the Tartars had fled eastward.Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the Ming army to find out the real news.

But from day to night, and then to day again, there was no definite news about where the Tazi and Li's troops were, who won and who lost, they didn't know at all.It was only because the scouts sent by the Ming army were all killed by the scouts who guarded the army.In Gyeonggi alone, there are now as many as 3000 scouts guarding the army, and there are scouts guarding the army in almost every place. All he was carrying were bowmen, so as soon as he left the capital, he was watched by the police scouts and died on the way.

Chongzhen glanced at Wang Chengen again, but Wang Chengen still shook his head and did not report. The Emperor Chongzhen couldn't bear it any longer, flew into a rage, and shouted: "They are all idiots, and they can't even find out any news. What are I raising? All of them It's waste, waste." Only now did Emperor Chongzhen know how many wastes he had raised, and even the [-] soldiers of the Beijing camp could not hold back even the [-] soldiers.

On weekdays, these ministers and generals always say how powerful the Tartars are, they all grew up eating human flesh and drinking human blood, so the Han people can only use ten times as many troops to fight a Tartar to win.These things were said a lot, and Emperor Chongzhen believed them.But Li Guo led no more than [-] cavalry, and just stopped at the next city, the army led by Huang Taiji immediately retreated and fled.

This made Emperor Chongzhen think for a whole night, and finally realized that he was the biggest fool in the world, and that what these ministers and generals said were all lies to him.Instead of using ten times as many troops, Li Guo only used [-] cavalry to do what the Ming army had to use ten times or a hundred times.

Emperor Chongzhen finally made up his mind to rectify the Beijing camp, abolish the old and weak, and only keep the elite soldiers.If there is no news about the Tartars, Emperor Chongzhen will implement this policy in a drastic manner this morning.

Seeing that the emperor was angry, Wang Chengen quickly asked the little eunuch to serve a cup of ginkgo tea, and said carefully: "Your Majesty, this is the ginkgo tea produced by the thousand-year-old ginkgo tree in Dinglin Temple in Fulai Mountain. Regular drinking is good for the heart, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, constricting the lungs and relieving asthma, dispelling dampness and relieving diarrhea, strengthening the body, and it is suitable for the emperor. Please taste it.”

Emperor Chongzhen was still angry, but when he heard that it had so many effects, he took a sip and almost spit it out, frowned and said: "It's too bitter, how can I drink it, let the imperial hospital improve the method of frying. "He said and put the ginkgo tea on the table.Being distracted by Wang Chengen's distraction, his anger dissipated a lot immediately, and he was no longer bored. He sighed: "I know you are trying to change the way to calm me down..." As soon as he said this, he saw those in the cabinet. Elder Ge hurried over, everyone looked happy.

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly stopped talking, feeling very uneasy in his heart, fearing that it would be bad news, but when he saw the happy face, he felt a little at ease, he moved his feet and wanted to go forward, but he was concerned about his majesty, so he stopped.

Wang Chengen watched from the sidelines, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.Being an emperor is really stressful, especially being a diligent emperor. The emperor is only in his 20s, his temples are already white, his face is haggard, and he can walk, sit, and lie down like a normal person. How can he live a long life like this?

The ministers of the cabinet hurriedly fell to their knees, held up Li Kaiguo's memorial, and said happily: "Your Majesty, Li Guo, the governor of Shandong, has already defeated [-] soldiers and horses of the Tartars, and drove them into Panshan. Back to Liaodong. Your Majesty, the capital is safe."

When Emperor Chongzhen heard the good news, his blood suddenly went up, he felt dizzy, and then he woke up, and between the dizziness and waking up, his face was already full of joy.

Wang Chengen quickly fetched the memorial and handed it to Emperor Chongzhen.The memorial was naturally written by Li Kaiguo's secretary, all of which are gorgeous sentences of "Pian Si Li Li Liu", but the content is very cruel. With just one stroke of the pen, more than 5000 soldiers and horses of the Tartars have died, and all of them are dead. miserable.

The secretary knew that it was presented to the emperor, so he deliberately showed off his literary talents, and wrote the memorial with great care. He wrote a great battle with twists and turns, which was very exciting.Seeing that the Tartars had been forced into Panshan at the end, Emperor Chongzhen snapped the case and shouted, "Damn Tartars, you let him escape." Immediately after watching, Emperor Chongzhen was furious and shouted : "Damn Li Guo, are you threatening me?" (To be continued...)