Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

After the Jin army entered the customs this time, Zu Dashou first entered Shanhaiguan to serve the king with the then supervisor Yuan Chonghuan.But after Yuan Chonghuan was sent to prison by Emperor Chongzhen, Zu Dashou was very scared, and immediately fled back outside the pass with Liaodong iron cavalry.

But at this time, Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers in the court knew that with the death of Zhao Liaojiao and Man Gui, the most powerful generals in the Liaodong cavalry were Zu Dashou and He Kegang.Especially Zu Dashou, more than 1 of his nephews and slaves have become the generals of Liaodong. It can be said that Zu Dashou is already No. [-] among Liaodong generals.

Because he was afraid of Zu Dashou's surrender to Houjin, Emperor Chongzhen immediately sent eunuchs to appease Zu Dashou's army with imperial edicts and rewards.In addition, Emperor Chongzhen raised Sun Chengzong again, and Sun Chengzong was Zu Dashou's old boss, and he also had the kindness of knowing and promoting Zu Dashou.Therefore, Zu Dashou's fear gradually calmed down.

When the imperial court wanted to recover the four cities of Yongping, under the order of Sun Chengzong, Zu Dashou took Liaodong iron cavalry and entered Shanhaiguan.However, in the process of serving the king this time, the Liaodong cavalry was not too tired to run backwards inside and outside the pass!

But after all, they arrived relatively late, so Zu Dashou's Liaodong cavalry also marched behind Qin Liangyu's army and Shanxi Shandong army.Fortunately, the Liaodong iron cavalry vanguard led by deputy generals Zu Dale and Zu Kefa finally managed to meet the defeated Shanxi and Shandong army.However, they didn't dare to go any further, and they had to wait until the main force of Liaodong iron cavalry led by Zu Dashou came to join them.

When the three armies converged, it took several days to collect the rout and regroup.Then, they discussed how to proceed to the next step.Because Zu Dashou is the strongest among all the generals here, so although it is a discussion, it can also be said that Zu Dashou makes a decision.

Zu Dashou looked at the generals who asked him to make a decision, and he thought to himself: "You are all really wicked! Now that the army looks like this, how can you march forward? But you are not willing to let your own words When I said retreat, I clearly asked me to say the word 'retreat', if you pursue responsibility, you will put the shit pot on my head."

However, a decision must be made, so Zu Dashou said: "The imperial court asked us to recover the four cities of Yongping, and the military situation must not be neglected. But now the siege of the city is in urgent need of civilians, and after being ravaged by the Tartars, there is no one living here. There are things. Urgency, therefore, we should recruit enough civilians immediately, and then recover the four cities of Yongping to repay the emperor's favor."

The young and strong recruited by the Shanxi and Shandong army were indeed killed and escaped cleanly when the Hou Jin army came over, and there are indeed very few people left now.But here, because of the war and the looting of the population by the Tartars, there are basically no ordinary people left.

If you want to recruit civilian husbands, you must retreat to places with more people.The reasons for Zu Dashou's retreat are so high-sounding, he is worthy of being an old man in the officialdom.

Of course, Zu Dashou's decision won the unanimous approval of these generals. After sending messengers to Qin Liangyu's army to deliver the news, the three armies retreated in the direction they came from.

In fact, before Zu Dashou's messenger arrived, Qin Liangyu had already learned the news of the defeat of the Shandong army in Shanxi.Because some rout soldiers and young adults fled to the vicinity of Qin Liangyu's camp in a panic.And Qin Liangyu gathered these people together, and got three to four hundred people.

However, Qin Liangyu suddenly lost the protection of the two armies behind him, and immediately stopped moving.Because the spies couldn't be sent out, they lost their eyes and ears, and they didn't know the latest battle situation.Therefore, now Qin Liangyu's army had no choice but to camp on the spot, and everything will be discussed after the dust settles.

At this time, Qin Liangyu called all the military officers to discuss how the army should proceed.The vast majority of military officers believed that their army had become a lone army, and there was no way to capture the four cities of Yongping.Therefore, for the sake of stability, the army should withdraw.

And another small group of military officers thought that they should station the army on the spot. Anyway, the food and grass carried by Qin Liangyu's army was enough to consume the entire army for more than three months.With a strong camp, the Tartar cavalry did not dare to attack their own.

But these two kinds of suggestions are not in line with Qin Liangyu's ideas.Don't look at Qin Liangyu as a womanizer, but in her heart, she really advocates offense.Dare to take the initiative to find the enemy to fight.Besides, he withdrew in such a disheartened manner, although Qin Liangyu couldn't be blamed for the reason for the withdrawal, but Qin Liangyu always felt embarrassed.

So she saw Wu Shigong was silent at the side, and asked by name: "Wu Qianhu, what do you think?"

In fact, in Wu Shigong's heart, he also agreed to withdraw troops. When the time comes to join up with the main force of the Ming army behind, he will be more courageous if there are many people.However, Wu Shigong was also thinking about a problem just now.

Therefore, Wu Shigong said to Qin Liangyu: "Chief Qin, I was thinking about a problem just now. If we withdraw, we will be a lone army along the way, and there will be no other Ming army to take care of each other."

"And the distance to retreat is at least half a month. And because of our retreat, there is no restraint, and the Tartar army defending the city can let go. After they join up with the Tartar army that attacked us, their strength will increase. It has been greatly strengthened. At that time, our retreat will definitely not be peaceful, and the loss will not be small."

"The humble official believes that we are not far from Luanzhou City now, and the quick march is only two days away. Since we want to camp on the spot, we should simply camp at the foot of Luanzhou City. In this case, the Tazi army and our army They have scruples about each other, so they dare not send troops to attack without any scruples. It is best for these tartars to attack our camp and let them gnaw on the tortoise shell I built."

Wu Shigong's words made everyone in the big tent laugh out loud.As for Wu Shigong's extremely tortoise style construction method, it has become a joke in the mouths of Qin Liangyu's white soldiers.However, these military officers also admitted that it is indeed reassuring to stay in such a large camp to defend against the enemy's attack.

Wu Shigong went on to say: "We only need to drag those Tartars under the city of Luanzhou, so that they can't distinguish between soldiers and horses to attack the main force behind, then the main force behind will come up soon. At that time, as long as we attack Yong Even if we don’t have the first contribution in leveling the four cities, the main contribution will always be indispensable. At that time, General Qin will have to win us more rewards!”

Wu Shigong's words made the military officer in the big tent laugh again.Qin Liangyu scolded Wu Shigong with a smile: "You brat, if you don't fight well, you know you're getting caught by the money. Besides, you're a young man, but you don't have the guts at all. Our soldiers and horses are no less than those of the Tartars. Why do we You can't directly attack the city? However, what you said earlier is also good. Everyone, get ready to go."

Seeing Wu Shigong's back coming out of the big tent, Qin Liangyu shook his head.In fact, she had a pretty good impression of Wu Shigong. Although Wu Shigong was a little outspoken, he trained soldiers quite well and did things well.What is especially valuable is that there were not many brave military officers at that time, but there were not many who were as clear-headed as Wu Shigong and could see problems clearly.

If Wu Shigong is trained well, he must be a good seedling of a famous general.It's a pity that Wu Shigong is more afraid of death and not aggressive enough, so he just wants to preserve his strength.

In the early morning of the next day, Qin Liangyu's army immediately marched in the direction of Luanzhou City. This move caught the sneak attack and harassment army of the Hou Jin army led by Baduli by surprise.

Because of defeating two Ming armies one after another, Baduli's Hou Jin army was also more tired, and they all rested behind Qin Liangyu's army.They just sent a small army of hundreds of people to monitor every move of Qin Liangyu's army.After Qin Liangyu's army retreats, they will attack Qin Liangyu's army while it is retreating.

But what Baduli didn't expect at all was that instead of retreating, Qin Liangyu's army marched towards Luanzhou City.On the one hand, the small army of the Hou Jin Army who was monitoring sent people to report to Baduli; Bringing the main force of the Golden Army.

You don't need to say that after fighting the Ming army for a long time and defeating the Ming army, the courage of the soldiers of the Later Jin army was fully revealed.Just such a cavalry team with only a hundred people dared to harass and provoke Qin Liangyu's team of tens of thousands.And in this team of tens of thousands of people, the number of soldiers is also close to 9000.

But in the beginning, the harassment of the Hou Jin army was very successful.In order to protect this long marching team, all Qin Liangyu's cavalry were scattered, and they did not have much advantage over the cavalry of the Houjin Army in terms of local numbers.

As a result, the cavalry of the post-Gold Army often found the weak spot of the marching team. They rushed to about fifty steps of the marching team, took out their riding bows, and shot arrows at the marching team regardless of their accuracy.Although these arrows caused little casualties, they often caused confusion in the marching team.When Qin Liangyu's cavalry assembled and arrived, they turned around and fled again.

After escaping for a certain distance, the cavalry who saw Qin Liangyu stopped chasing them, and these post-Jin troops stuck to Qin Liangyu's army like a dog's skin plaster.If they saw an opportunity, they would charge their horses at the weakly defended places of the marching team.

And why did the cavalry of the post-golden army rush to a distance of fifty steps?Because the riding bows they use on horseback are relatively small, and the effective range is only seventy or eighty steps away.And the longbow they use under the horse has a large range.If you hang the she, you can take more than two hundred steps.

Wu Shigong looked at these flies with fire in his eyes, and he ordered his subordinates to quietly gather the gunners and hide in the marching team.And Wu Shigong spread out the cavalry in this direction, deliberately exposing a weak point.

The cavalry of the Hou Jin army were really fooled. When they rushed to a distance of fifty or sixty steps again, they were just about to shoot their bows and arrows, only to hear a loud sound of firecrackers firing.Four or fifty cavalrymen of the Houjin Army were immediately knocked off their horses.The cavalry of the post-Jin army never thought that Wu Shigong's firecrackers were so powerful.There are so many.

In the past, when they faced the low-quality firecrackers of the Ming army, sometimes they only needed to protect their faces with their elbows, and those firecracker bullets might not even be able to penetrate their armor.So in the end, they underestimated the power of the firecrackers of the Ming army.But this time, their contempt cost them all their lives.

After receiving this heavy blow, the cavalry left behind by the Hou Jin Army no longer dared to stay near Qin Liangyu's army, let alone approach them for harassment.They had no choice but to hang far behind Qin Liangyu's army, waiting for the arrival of the main force led by Badu Li.

But without the harassment of these flies, Qin Liangyu's army resumed its marching speed.The first day of the rapid march passed smoothly.

When we set up camp that night, because we marched all day in a hurry, we didn't have much time to build the camp, so the whole camp was built with a wooden fence and a trench was dug around the camp.However, Qin Liangyu's army took turns on duty at night, and it was because Baduli's main force had not yet arrived.So nothing happened tonight.