Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 223 Zhan Yuezhou Wang Ji Angrily Slays Babutai

Zhen Manchu wears several layers of armor, and it is really difficult to deal with. It looks like an unkillable Xiaoqiang. The Ming army can only poke him in the face with a gun, bring him down with a hook and sickle spear, and then stab him with a sword.

In short, it is very difficult to kill a real Manchu, especially since most of the Ming army are civilians with little combat experience, and Houyong's soldiers seem to be unreliable, and the situation suddenly becomes critical.

Houyongying was ordered by Wang Yan to shave their heads bald. Everyone knows that they had once served as the green camp of the Qing court. humiliation and torture.

Under such circumstances, it is very easy for the soldiers of the Houyong Camp to hate Wang Yan and their current identities. However, Wang Yan sent more than 100 scholars to serve as their general banner and hundreds of households, but they acted as ideological guides. effect.

These scholars have studied hard for more than ten years. They use the Confucianism, the principles of Confucius and Mencius, and the righteousness of the nation that they have learned all their lives to talk to their soldiers, so that when they face strange eyes, they do not hate anyone, but hope to cleanse themselves. Shame on him.

So far, after the brave camp, finally there is a taste of knowing the shame and then being brave.

At this time, the soldiers, after hearing Xie Kuang's cessation of drinking, showed shame on their faces. They saw Xie Kuang enter the battle group with a gun, and after a little hesitation, they couldn't help raising their knives and shouting, "Master Tongzhi treats me well, you are a man!" Han, follow me~"

Seeing this, hundreds of soldiers, thinking about the favor they received from Xie Kuang these days, roared and swung their swords and spears, fighting with the real Manchuria.

Xie Kuang was a Juren of the Ming Dynasty, but most of the soldiers in the Yongying Camp were poor people, even refugees.

After all, living in such a fucking era, it's not a must, who would be a soldier?

It can be said that Xie Kuang and the soldiers are people from two worlds, basically there will be no intersection, but in fact, he became the second in command of this army and the person who hangs out with them all day long.

If it was an ordinary Ming official, he might be very shameless towards the army, but Xie Kuang was determined to join the army and collect a man from the fifty prefectures of Guanshan.

Wang Yan gave him this army. Although this army has a disgraceful past, he is still very happy in his heart and is determined to train this army into a strong army. But what about an army adapted from the green battalion? What about getting stronger?
They are shaved bald, naturally bearing a shame, and are naturally looked down upon by people, so their morale is naturally low.

Before Wang Yan left, Xie Kuang asked him for advice: "My lord, how can we turn this team into elite fighters?"

Wang Yan said to Xie Kuang: "Whether a soldier can fight or not depends on his spirit! An army without spirit, if it is favorable, it will go smoothly; In the end, its intention is as firm as a rock, and the enemy cannot destroy its ambition even though it is strong! To train this army well in Daowu, the key lies in its spirit, and the god of this army is its battalion number. Army too!"

Xie Kuang was thoughtful when he heard the words, but he continued to ask: "My lord, how should I practice this spirit? What should my subordinates do?"

Wang Yan looked at him for a moment, and then said meaningfully: "The sage touches people's hearts, and he knows the peace of the world, what the people's hearts want, what they like and dislike, and Daowu wants to train a strong soldier. If there is no one, check his heart and ears!"

Xie Kuang heard the words, and he knew it in his heart. In order to win the hearts of the soldiers, he gave up the likes and dislikes of the scholar-officials. The salary is used to subsidize people from poor families, so the soldiers in the camp are more favored by him.

Hundreds of soldiers were killed, and it was fine if no one took the lead. Now that someone is taking the lead, none of these soldiers wanted to be a coward, and followed Xie Kuang to kill the enemy one after another.

It's just that these Qing soldiers were indeed difficult to deal with. In addition, they occupied a section of the city, and more Qing soldiers took advantage of the situation to climb up the city. Yuezhou was already in danger of falling into the city.

Although Xie Kuang and the others fought desperately, they had no choice but to kill as many as climbed to the city. On the contrary, the Ming army suffered heavy losses.

At this time, Xie Kuang saw that the city was in dire danger, and saw a Qing general brandishing a pair of knives, as if he had entered the land of no one, and there were no less than [-] Ming soldiers who died under his knives. The spear stabbed at the Qing general, but he was just a literati, although he learned a few tricks, he was no match for the Qing general, he was forced to the ground with a single blow.

When the Qing general saw the armor on his body and knew he was a general of the Ming army, he couldn't help being overjoyed. He raised his sword and was about to cut off his head. Seeing this, Xie Kuang felt a burst of despair, but just as the sword fell, a spear But he picked it up at once.

Xie Kuangshizhi was the commanding envoy Wang Ji who saw the crisis at the East Gate and brought people to help.

At this time, Xie Kuang saw that Wang Ji's soldiers were carrying several earthenware pots and smashed them at the heavily armored Qing soldiers at high speed, but the earthen pots burst, and the Qing soldiers were immediately drenched in kerosene, and they all panicked.

On the battlefield, to a soldier, being hacked to death by a knife, stabbed to death by a gun, shot to death by an arrow, beaten to death by a police officer, or smashed to death by a cannon is nothing. The most terrifying and frightening thing is burning alive. die.

These Manchu elites were covered with kerosene, their hearts were terrified, and their aura suddenly vented for thousands of miles. At this time, the rockets of the Ming army had already shot, and balls of flames rose from the city in an instant, and there were waves of horrified and mournful wailing.

Wang Ji was also from a literati background, and his marksmanship with one hand could only be regarded as passing the test. He was not the opponent of the Qing general, but the change in the situation in the city at this time distracted the Qing general from dealing with it, thus making the two seem to be evenly matched. .

At that time, the Manchurian elite were wearing heavy armor. Although they were invincible with swords, it also made their movements slow. After the reinforcements arrived, the Manchurian soldiers were fired by the Ming army one by one, and the situation gradually reversed.

The Qing army on the city wall was slowly driven off the city wall. Seeing this, the Qing general didn't dare to fight, so he forced Wang Ji away with a few knives, turned around and walked towards the wall, but he was wearing too much armor and his movements were not strong enough. Sensitively, a hooker from the Ming army hooked one of his legs and knocked him to the ground.

Seeing this, Wang Ji was overjoyed immediately, and he and several soldiers came forward with guns and knives, who knew that the Qing general was very brave, he cut off the legs of several Ming soldiers with a backhand knife, and forced Wang Ji to retreat in an instant.

At this time, the Qing army was about to get up, but the hook and sickle hand came again, hooked him around the neck, and dragged him to the ground again.

The Qing general also had armor on his neck, although he fell, he was not injured.

Seeing this, Wang Ji hurriedly charged again. With the spear in his hand, he flew the saber in the hands of the Qing army, and all the Ming soldiers immediately rushed forward, holding the Qing general tightly.

At this time, the general couldn't move, he couldn't help staring, yelling curses, his face was very frightening, Wang Ji then picked his neck guard and chopped him off with a knife.

The Qing army who attacked the east gate was defeated again and went down to the city.

At this time, Wang Ji walked up to the hook sickle who had made meritorious deeds several times just now, and saw that he was quite majestic, like a strong ox, he was very happy, and asked, "What is your name? What is your current position?"

Hearing the words, the Ming army scratched his head and made a nondescript salute, Hong Sheng replied: "A certain iron bull is now the hook and sickle hand under the general's tent."

Wang Ji nodded and said with a smile: "You are really a strong bull. From now on, come and be a hundred households among the general's own soldiers!"

Tie Daniu was overjoyed when he heard this, and stood behind Wang Ji with a gun and a knife in his hand.

At this time, the Qing soldiers had already retreated. After Xie Kuang arranged for people to clean up the corpses in the city, he came to Wang Ji's side and saluted, "Thanks to the general for coming in time, otherwise the last general's east city would be broken by the Qing soldiers. This is the Qing Dynasty." The army is wearing heavy armor, it is really difficult to deal with, but fortunately the general can find a way to deal with it, otherwise the crisis will not be resolved at all."

Wang Ji heard this, but smiled and said, "This is not the method that I would come up with, it is all the strategy of the Duke."

"My lord?"

"That's right." Wang Ji explained: "I have seen almost all of these siege tricks by the Qing soldiers in Yangzhou City. Even if we said that the heavy armor siege, we were helpless at the beginning. , Many sons were killed and injured, but the Duke quickly came up with a solution. This time the general heard that Luck Dehun was using another method, so he immediately came to support him, but luckily he came in time."

Xie Kuang read Wang Ji's words, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Now it is Baylor of the Qing court who is attacking Yuezhou, with less than 30 soldiers, but Yangzhou City in those days was facing the prince of the Qing court, and [-] troops marched into the city for two months. The siege, the hardships in it are probably hundreds of times more difficult than Yuezhou at this time.

At this time, Xie Kuang looked at Wang Ji, who was younger than him, but gained a lot of confidence from him to defend the city. Wang Ji followed Wang Yan to defend the city in Yangzhou for two months, and he had seen almost all the siege methods. Incomparably rich, with him in Yuezhou, it would not be easy to fall.

At this time, the corpses on the city had been cleaned up. The corpses of the Ming army were buried in a large pit in the city, while the corpses of the Qing army were beheaded and thrown off the city wall.

The heads of these Qing soldiers were tied to wooden sticks by the Ming soldiers, and hung on the city for public display. Among them, the head of a Qing general weighed eighteen catties, which made people secretly surprised.

At this time, the Qing soldiers also began to clean up the corpses under the city. The two sides agreed not to shoot each other, but sent people to monitor them.

Seeing this, Wang Ji and Xie Kuang couldn't help being very surprised, but no one in the Ming army could recognize it.

After some hesitation, the two still threw down the head and let the Qing soldiers take it and stitch it up.

It was the third day of filial piety at the Riqing camp. A shaman set up a sacrificial offering under the city to summon the soul. Wang Ji and others knew that the person who was beheaded was the ninth son of Nurhaci, the imperial family of the Qing court, and the general of Fengguo Aixinjueluo Ba. Butai.

In Yuezhou City, Wang Ji and Xie Kuang felt extremely regretful when they saw this. The head was sent to Fujing, at least for another earl, but now it was given to the Qing army for nothing.

In the Qing army's tent, Lekethun's heart felt like a knife was piercing him. He thought that he could achieve great feats with heavy armor, but unexpectedly, he defeated Babutai.

After this battle, no matter how Dorgon protects him, his Baylor identity will no longer exist, which makes him extremely sad, not only for Babutai who died in the battle, but also for himself.

On this day, under the auspices of the shaman, a total of six people from the Manchu clan including Le Ke Dehun set up an altar outside the camp to pay homage to Babutai. The wizard was killed on the spot, and all six people were injured.

Luck Dehun was taken back to the camp by the soldiers, and was so angry that he vomited blood and fainted again.

(End of this chapter)