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Chapter 296

Zhu Yousong explained the main characters of the Tartars in detail to the ministers, focusing on the situation of the legendary three brothers of the Tartars Azig.

The Tartars are indeed not easy to deal with. They are barbaric, brutal, inhuman, and exterminate, which is heinous.The several regimes in Nanming were all short-lived, and the four emperors and one supervisor only lasted no more than 20 years in total.However, in the past [-] years, the indomitable struggle against the Qing Dynasty has never stopped. There are people spontaneously and government-initiated. Tragic, no matter how vigorous and vigorous, they all ended in failure. Even Emperor Yongli who ran to Burma was not spared. He was forced out by Wu Sangui and strangled to death. This is enough to prove the brutality and invincibility of the Tartars.

Now Zhu Yousong is going to fight the Tartars on a large scale. Of course, he is not stage fright. He said that all these are just to let the officials and generals not to underestimate the enemy and not be dazzled by the victory just won. Strategically, they can despise the Tartars. But tactics must pay attention to them.

However, what Zhu Yousong said was a bit ahead of his time, or that what he said was all recorded in history books, and many things did not happen or might not happen.

This is because his crossing changed the direction of some local historical events. Li Zicheng won the Tongguan battle for the first time in a counterattack. Withdrew and diverted to Shanzhou.It is said that he repeatedly defeated Li Zicheng, killed Liu Zongmin, and captured Song Xiance. These are all recorded in history, and these can only be delayed or impossible to happen again.

But this was at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were no TVs, newspapers, internet phones, WeChat chat groups, the war in the northern part of the Great Wall, and the officials in the south of the Yangtze River who were thousands of miles away were not very clear, so what did Zhu Yousong say? The officials just felt that their majesty had grasped the enemy's situation too thoroughly and in a timely manner, and they were simply fascinated.

Then Zhu Yousong did not divide his troops, nor did he change his route. He left Nanyang and went straight to Luoyang according to the original route.

Zhu Yousong knew that it was a tough battle before him. Fortunately, he didn't have to worry about the issue of food and salary now. He used to have a part of the food and salary, and the Zuo family father and son gave him part for free. This part was quite a lot, and it was wiped out in Jiujiang alone There were more than 30 Tartars and traitors, and later captured Wuchang and Yichang.

Zhu Yousong used all these as military expenses, and allocated some of them to send people to the battlefield in Henan.

Now there is no need for supplies, and the food and payment can last for two months without any problem. At that time, the summer food has already come down, so Zhu Yousong doesn't have to worry about the food and payment for the time being.

Yichuan was also under the jurisdiction of Luoyang in the Ming Dynasty. It was an inconspicuous town, not even a county, but a part of Song County.

But near the banks of the Yihe River, which is not wide, there are two troops on display.On one side are Zhu Yousong's [-] emperor teachers. They came from afar, and their soldiers are covered with dust.On the other side of the river, there were [-] Tartar elites from the Xianghuang Banner. They took advantage of Zhu Yousong's unsteady footing and gave them a head-on blow. The leader was Oboi, who was known as the number one warrior in Manchuria.

Will not accept the order of the king outside.This vanguard of the Tartars has always been disobedient. After arriving in Luoyang, he did not stick to the city and wait for Zhu Yousong's troops, nor could he wait for Azig's troops who were not too far away from them. The troops of the headquarters could not wait to greet the Ming army, but the two sides encountered each other by the Yi River.

The Yihe River is a strip-shaped river. It is neither wide nor deep in April when there is plenty of rain. She flows quietly like a demure girl. Maybe she cannot bear the cruel war, but this matter is out of her hands. At this time, she It's like a fair referee, to witness the battle between two strong teams here.

On the surface, it seems that Zhu Yousong's troops have the upper hand, more than 4 against 2, but this is not the case, because according to reports from scouts, Azig's troops have [-] people, and they appeared in Yongning (today's Henan Province) The area around Luoning County.) Leading the troops was Wu Sangui, Prince of Pingxi of the Qing court, and the main force of [-] of the Qing court’s British Prince Azige and Zhishun Wang Shang Kexi had passed Mianchi and was moving towards Luoyang.

Except for Oboi who is close at hand, these two troops are only two hundred miles away from him, and Wu Sangui is only more than 100 miles away from him, this distance is hardly a distance for the Eight Banners Army on horseback.

If you fight Oboi here, you probably won't be able to kill this team, and you will be surrounded by three powerful armies with a total of [-] enemy troops, and the tartars will make dumplings, so this battle is essentially [-] Ming The army fought against the [-] Qing army, and the overall situation was still outnumbered.

The purpose of the Qing army's three-way deployment of troops is obvious, that is, to use Luoyang or Oboi as a barrier, let Wu Sangui attack his rear, cut off his retreat, and attack him back and forth to wipe out tens of thousands of horses in the Luoyang area.

So now Zhu Yousong had to divide his troops to resist the enemy, and the first ones to deal with were Aobai and Wu Sangui.

But neither Oboi nor Wu Sangui is easy to mess with, and to deal with them, you must use elite soldiers and powerful generals. Although Zheng Hongkui, Liu Zhaoji, Zu Keyong, and Ma's brothers and sisters have all volunteered, they can all be called brave generals.

However, after careful consideration, Zhu Yousong decided to let the Light Weapon Battalion, the Mabu Battalion, the Iron Cavalry Battalion and the Ma Brothers and Sisters Zhongzhen Battalion 7000th Battalion in the imperial camp have a total of [-] troops to deal with Oboi's troops. Try to fight as quickly as possible, after defeating Oboi, they will march into Luoyang.

Let Zheng Hongkui and Zu Keyong lead 2 troops to guard Zhu Yousong's rear, mainly to deal with Wu Sangui's 2 troops, lest he make trouble from behind.The remaining more than [-] troops, including the engineering battalion in the imperial camp and Zhu Yousong, the supply camp, were used as the Chinese army, and they moved with the camera, mainly to keep an eye on the movement of the main force of Azig.He intends to temporarily disuse the artillery battalion, leaving enough firepower to either insist on capturing Luoyang, or leave it to Azig's main force.

After Zhu Yousong's decree was handed down, the soldiers of all battalions took action one after another.

The first echelon of the Ming army deployed by the Yi River was the Five Hundred Light Fire Battalion and the Five Hundred Horse Step Battalion. These were mainly fire blunderbuss, bird blunderbuss and bows and arrows, which were used to hit the Qing army head-on and disrupt the Qing army's footsteps.

The second echelon a few hundred meters away is the [-] Iron Cavalry Battalion supervised by Liu Zhaoji himself and the [-] Loyalty Battalion supervised by Ma Jinhua and Ma Wannian brothers and sisters. This is the backbone of the charge.

What needs to be explained is that during the Battle of Jiujiang, Zhu Yousong’s Five Thousand Imperial Battalion suffered a lot of losses, especially the Light Firearms Battalion, Horseback Battalion, and Cavalry Battalion. , so it is still this compilation.

Now the Ming army of the imperial camp, which is leading the battle by a thousand, has arranged light firearms, bows and arrows by the river, and is waiting for the Qing army to attack.

At this time, counting the shallow river more than ten meters wide, the Qing army on the other side was about one mile away from them. The soldiers reached [-] boundless. At first glance, the sword and gun are dazzling.

Aobai in full armor immediately stood on a high slope with a gold thread big ring knife in his hand. He looked at the other bank with his wolf eyes, and then impatiently pointed the big knife in his hand to the other bank, shouting loudly: "Warriors! , kill me!"

(End of this chapter)