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Chapter 147 Annihilation of Yulin reinforcements (please subscribe and vote monthly)
  Early morning of March 12th.

While Lin Feng and others were cooperating inside and outside to launch an attack on Yulin City, Wang Qin led a cavalry battalion that was also looking for opportunities to encircle and annihilate the out-of-city reinforcements led by Yulin Guard guerrilla Zhuang Hong.

Zhuang Hong is also a veteran general of the Yulin Guards. Although he lacks fighting spirit, he is still very experienced in setting up camps.

Wang Qin sent out sentries to conduct a reconnaissance around the Yulin Army camp. He felt that the camp was well defended and the sentries were very vigilant, making it difficult to quietly approach and steal the camp. If we attack by force, the casualties will be relatively high.

Wang Qin learned through the walkie-talkie that Lin Feng had led his troops to capture Yulin City.

Therefore, it was suggested that one or two messengers be released from the city to ask for help from Zhuang Hong, and then attack again when he broke out of camp.

Lin Feng thought about it for a while, then agreed to the plan and arranged for Song Jilie to quietly let go of the two informants.

After the two cavalrymen who reported the news escaped from the city, one went to Yan'an Prefecture, presumably to warn the prefecture, and the other went to Zhuang Hong's camp.

Naturally, the sentries heading towards Yan'an Mansion were killed by the Zhenming Army's sentry cavalry, and the cavalry heading towards Zhuang Hong's camp was let go alone.

When the sky was just clear, the messenger ran into the camp panting and shouted: "Zhuang Guerrilla, something bad is going on. There are enemy troops attacking Yulin City. Please come back quickly for reinforcements."

"How many enemies are there? What's the situation in Yulin City now?" Zhuang Hong happened to get up at this time and asked in surprise after hearing the news.

"I don't know. There are fightings everywhere in Yulin City now. There are fires everywhere and it's very chaotic. But there shouldn't be many enemy troops. They should have secretly opened the city gate and let them in.

The defense in the General's Mansion is also very complete. They shouldn't be able to capture the whole city so quickly. Sir, if you go back quickly, you may be able to save it. "The messengers were sent by the city gate guards taking advantage of the terrain, and he didn't know the specific situation in the city.

When Zhuang Hong heard this, he immediately called his own soldiers over, notified the army to break camp, and rushed back to Yulin City for support.

There was no reason for him to be impatient. The more than a thousand reinforcements he brought out, including himself, as well as his family members and property, were all in Yulin City. Once the city is broken, everything is over.

So as soon as they heard the news, they immediately started moving in a hurry. Many tents and other camping materials were abandoned, and the army hurriedly set off.

But Zhuang Hong still had experience after all. He was worried that the Mongolian Tatars north of Guidebao would take advantage of the chaos to attack, so he sent many groups of sentries to investigate.

It was not until the sentinels came to report that the Mongolian Tatars were still camped twenty miles north of Guidebao and had no preparations to raise troops to go south, that they safely began to break camp and prepare to set off.

Just as Zhuang Hong's thousand troops were halfway out of camp, they had just cleared the fence of the camp, packed up food, grass, weapons and other supplies and were preparing to return to Yulin City.

"Da da da!"

The ground south of the camp shook, and the sound of intensive horse hooves came, as if a large number of cavalry were attacking.

"Prepare for war, prepare for war!" Zhuang Hong shouted quickly, wondering in his heart, whose family these cavalry belonged to and where did they come from?

However, most of his troops were still packing their things. When they heard the alarm sound of an enemy attack, some quickly dropped their things and picked up weapons to prepare for battle. Some were still hesitant about whether to continue rushing to transport the supplies that were about to be loaded. Some Like a headless fly not knowing what to do.

They were not allowed to hesitate for a few minutes. The first cavalry battalion led by Wang Qin had already arrived.

The Han cavalry members raised their Type II fire guns and fired intensively at a rate of two rounds per minute.

"Clap clap clap!"

There were bursts of fire and gunfire, and the newly assembled team of the Yulin Army was beaten to pieces. The soldiers could only run around and hide.

Then the Mongolian cavalry led by Hong Tu rushed in again brandishing machetes. The galloping horses passed by the officers and soldiers of the Yulin Guards. They didn't even need to cut with the sharp machetes. The blades passed by and killed a group of people.

When Zhuang Hong saw something was wrong, he immediately gathered his servants and attacked.

His forty or fifty servants are well-equipped and capable of fighting. There was a back-and-forth melee with Hongtu's Mongolian cavalry.

After Wang Qin led the Han cavalry to finish shooting, they swept across the battlefield from both sides, turned their horses' heads to load gunpowder, and launched another attack.

After several attacks and hundreds of casualties, the Yulin Army gradually could no longer withstand it, and the large group began to retreat north.

Wang Qin and Hong Tu's cavalry encircled them from the south, but did not force them too much. They made full use of the advantage of the second-type fire muskets to continuously kill the Yulin Army's effective forces.

When they made up their minds and rushed forward to fight to the death, Wang Qin led his team to leave again, and the Mongolian cavalry blocked them.

Hongtu's Mongolian cavalry were all tall and wearing plate armor that had just been beaten with a steam engine from the Sitong Ordnance Factory, which was very strong and resistant to beatings.

The swords of the Yulin Army also slashed at these Mongolian cavalry, but only a few of them were cut down and fell off their horses. The beatings almost made them doubt their life.

After several battles, the Yulin Army's casualties had risen to more than 300 people, and the team was on the verge of collapse. It was all supported by Zhuang Hong's dozens of servants and his belief in returning to Yulin City.

At this time, the sound of intensive horse hooves came from the north.

The 500 Ordos Left Banner Cavalry led by Wu Yunna also arrived. They waved their sabers and charged into the Yulin Army's array from the rear, overwhelming the Yulin Army's defense line.

Seeing that there was nothing he could do, Zhuang Hong could only turn around and flee south with his servants.

Wang Qin immediately asked Hong Tu to lead troops to intercept, and he accelerated his efforts to strangle the remaining Yulin troops.

And let the soldiers shout loudly: "Yulin City has fallen, dismount and surrender, surrender your weapons and do not kill!"

The officers and soldiers of Yulin Guard were doubtful, and their originally low morale dropped even further. “Bang bang bang!”

Another round of firecrackers shot down a dozen people.

"Bang" sound.

The first soldiers who dropped their weapons, dismounted and surrendered began to appear, and then more and more Yulin soldiers dropped their weapons and knelt down to beg for mercy.

After Wu Yunna commanded the Zuoqi cavalry to kill several Yulin Guard officers and soldiers who were still resisting, the fighting on the entire battlefield finally ended.

Only the Yulin Guards officers and soldiers who were kneeling on the ground and surrendering, and the wounded soldiers who were chopped to the ground and still wailing, were left.

According to the rules of the grassland, this kind of field battle will definitely not leave any wounded soldiers. The Zuoqi cavalry came up with a last-ditch attack and sent away all the wounded soldiers.

"I've met the princess!" Wang Qin came up and saluted.

"Where's Brother Lin?" Wu Yunna asked.

"Your Excellency is in Yulin City. He has taken control of the city. We will go there and meet up later." Wang Qin replied.

"The battlefield will be cleaned by you. Let Hong Tu take the Zuo Banner cavalry first. I will go to Yulin City first." Wu Yunna had no interest in cleaning the battlefield and just wanted to see Lin Feng as soon as possible.

"Okay, please be safe, Princess." Before Wang Qin finished speaking, Wu Yunna had already led her guards and ran out hundreds of meters away.

Wang Qin shook his head helplessly and began to organize and clean up the battlefield, collecting the captured Yulin Guard horses and various supplies.

At the same time, he ordered Hongtu to re-build half of the camp that had been demolished, preparing for the cavalry of the Ordos Left Banner to camp.

However, seeing Guide Fort not far away, Wang Qin suddenly thought of a strategy to seize the fort.

He quickly summoned Chaolu, the cavalry commander from Hongtu and the Ordos Left Banner, to discuss the multi-fort strategy with them. Wang Qin led the Han cavalry to pretend to be Zhuang Hong's reinforcements, and the Zuoqi cavalry pursued four or five miles behind to see if they could sneak into Guidebao.

After the strategy was agreed upon, Wang Qin collected some of Zhuang Hong's flags, took a general of the Yulin Guard reinforcements into custody, and threatened him to cooperate in seizing the fort, otherwise he would kill his entire family in Yulin City.

The general was eager to survive and agreed without any hesitation. This is also very consistent with the greedy and fearful nature of most officers and soldiers of Yulin Guard.

Wang Qin led his troops to put on the uniforms of the Yulin Guards, picked up the flag left by Zhuang Hong, and ran back towards the fort in a decent manner.

Guidebao had received news yesterday that the Yulin Guards would send reinforcements. Early this morning, they saw a group of Yulin Guards officers and soldiers heading towards the castle. No one had any doubts.

When they came to the foot of the fort wall, the surrendered Yulin guard general Lin shouted: "Open the fort gate quickly, the Mongolian Tatar cavalry attacked us halfway. Zhuang guerrillas are injured, and the enemy is about to arrive."

Standing on the wall of Guidebao, Qianhu had no problem seeing the uniforms and flags, and he had seen this general before. Looking at the flying dust and mist of cavalry running in the distance, the Mongolian pursuers could already be seen from a distance.

Immediately ordered: "Open the fort gate quickly to welcome reinforcements into the fort."

Guidebao was originally a small castle with a circumference of two miles. The gate was of course not complicated and was opened quickly.

The cavalry of the Yulin Guards swarmed in. Cui Lin was about to step forward to greet Zhuang Guerrilla when two unfamiliar officers came up to him.

Before he could ask, he suddenly felt a chill in his chest, and two bayonets had been thrust into his chest.

"You, you guys..." Before Cui Lin could finish speaking, he was kicked by Wang Qin.

The fort gate was opened, the general was killed, and the more than 300 defenders in the fort, except for a few of Cui Lin's soldiers who committed suicide and were killed, all others honestly chose to surrender.

In this way, an important border fortress on the edge of Yulin City was also captured.

Wang Qin briefly counted the items in the castle warehouse. There were about 7000 taels of gold and silver, shi of grain, and a lot of weapons reserves.

Wang Qin took two thousand taels of silver and some of the captured weapons and distributed them to Chaolu, the commander of the Zuo Banner cavalry. He thanked them for their cooperation and invited them to rest in the camp originally built by Zhuang Hong.

Zuo Qi had almost no casualties in this battle, so he took two thousand taels of silver and some weapons to be captured, and happily went to the camp.

Hong Tu also brought a team of troops to follow. On the one hand, he was doing his best to show his kindness to the landlords, and on the other hand, he was also strengthening supervision to prevent these Mongolians from committing the plundering habit and robbing Han towns at will.

Wang Qin followed the methods taught by Lin Feng and purged the officers in Guide Fort. Not only did he confiscate some property, but he also eliminated hidden dangers in the fort.

Under the leadership of He Shijie, it was very common for thousands of households in Yulin Guard to withhold military pay, so the soldiers had deep resentment towards the officers. Killing these officers would also allow them to better transform the soldiers for their own use.

After doing these things, Wang Qin reported the situation to Lin Feng using "Bailitong", and naturally received high praise from Lin Feng.

He now needs generals like Wang Qin who are both highly loyal and able to act independently according to the overall intention.

After Lin Feng praised Wang Qin, he ordered him to leave a small group of troops to control Guidebao and continue to collect supplies. The other large groups of troops quickly went to Shenmu County, making a time lag and taking advantage of the fact that Ming Ting had not received the news, they occupied Shenmu County. .

There is only one Qianhu Fort in Shenmu County, with a total of less than 400 Ming troops, plus some strong squads with little combat effectiveness, and cavalry raids. In addition, the internal response of Tingfeng Guards has been preset in the early stage. It should be no problem to capture Shenmu County. .

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