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Chapter 399 Burning Daye Ridge (Part [-])
This time Prince Su Hauge personally cut off Zhu Yousong's salary, of course he had his own plan.

The son inherits the father's business, hereditary does not succeed, this is the rule set by the ancestors, but the throne that should belong to him was disrupted by his uncle Dorgon, and he fought to let Fulin succeed him. Although Fulin is Hauge's brother, the person sitting on that chair is Fulin and not him Hauge, not to mention a six or seven-year-old child being manipulated by Dorgon, that means Fulin has grown up Now that he is in charge, how can he be as happy as Hauge as the emperor.In front of the imperial power, the six relatives did not recognize each other, father and son turned against each other, and there were many brothers who faced each other with swords and guns. Not to mention, it happened from Nurhachi to Huang Taiji, and his grandfather had already set an example for him.

Hauge did not sit on the throne that belonged to him, and this Prince Su has always been bitter about it.Hauge went out with Dorgon, including this voluntary invitation, of course he was not fighting for Dorgon, but for the Qing Dynasty, to be precise, he was fighting for Prince Su himself.

Since Zhu Yousong's personal conquest and the war with the Qing Dynasty, the Ming army has won successively, while the Qing army has been defeated. Now that Dorgon has personally launched the battle, this passive situation has not yet been reversed.

This is also the reason why Hauge, who is the prince of Su, took the initiative to ask Ying to go out in person when he robbed the food in Dayeling.On the surface, people thought that he was going to regain his position in the Dayeling battle, because Hauge was also one of the failed generals in the battle that just ended.This time, it is especially necessary to make his political enemy Dorgon think that he, Hauge, is fighting for him, Dorgon, and for the Qing Dynasty.The victory, of course, is the credit for the regent Dorgon taking the big head and consuming the strength of Hauge.

In fact, Hauge’s wishful thinking is that since you, Dorgon, have repeatedly failed in planning and losing battles, and the morale of the Qing army’s generals is low from top to bottom, if I, Hauge, win a complete victory in this battle, I will not only get money, The false emperor Zhu Yousong is bound to suffer a crushing defeat, and the hearts of the entire Qing Dynasty must fall to my Hauge side. Comparing the two, the incompetence of you, the regent, is self-evident.

It was the third watch of the night, the west gate of the Daming Mansion was wide open, and Hauge in full attire led eight thousand Qing troops out of the city on light horses and galloped towards Daye Ridge.The eight thousand Qing troops were all Manchu Zhenghuang Banners, that is to say, they were purebred Manchu Tartars, and they were one of the most elite troops of the Eight Banners Army.

The 8000 men and horses were all cavalry, and under the night, the [-] light cavalry were like a herd of fast-running beasts. After a journey of more than forty years, Daye Ridge appeared in the sight of the Tartars in only half an hour.

Hauge waved his hand and ordered the team to stop.

Looking from a distance, the dark Daye Yeling lies there like a wild beast.The surrounding area is very quiet, so quiet that you can hear the chirping of night insects in the night wind, and you can faintly see the dim light from the wind lamp hanging above the gate of the Mingying camp. It is difficult to dispel the darkness of the night, except for a few people at the gate Except for a few sentries who were depressed and dozed off with their guns in their hands, they didn't find anyone patrolling the camp.

This is obviously a symptom of the Ming army's lax defense. They probably never dreamed that I love Xinjue Luohaoge's magical soldiers!
"Kill!" In the darkness, Hauge's face showed a vicious and proud expression, and a rough shout pierced the night sky.

Then the earth-shattering shouts instantly silenced the silence of the night, and the iron hooves of the eight thousand Tartars rushed towards the Ming army's grain depot camp with the momentum of trampling everything.The momentum is like a flood breaking a dike, unstoppable.

"The Tartars are here to steal the camp! Hurry...send a letter to the master..." Several Ming soldiers at the gate of the camp were awakened, screaming like birds and beasts.

Countless Tartars rushed to the camp in one charge, and the Ming army scattered and fled before they even had time to fight back.

In addition to relying on artillery fire to defend the city to the death, the mob scattered when they encountered a large number of Tartars. This is the real impression of the Ming army in Hauge's eyes, so Hauge is not surprised at all.

The grain and grass area on the left, and the payment area on the right, Haug had already figured it out clearly, so he did not order to chase and wipe out the fleeing Ming army, but divided his troops into two groups, ordering a thousand Tartars to bring fire starters to the area. The grain and grass area was set on fire, and all the remaining [-] Tartars were ordered to rush into the payment area, and all the silver would be taken away, and Zhu Yousong would not leave a tael.

A thousand torches lined up in a long line under the night sky, flying towards the grain and grass area in the west, and when they saw haystacks and grain piles, they lit a fire, and soon the fire was raging, burning the sky red.

Here, the seven thousand Tartars came to a large warehouse. It was a huge rectangular warehouse covered with tents. There were several big Chinese characters written on the door of the warehouse, "The warehouse is an important place. Idlers should not enter." Now the warehouse All around, the Ming army disappeared.

The seven thousand Tartars are like wolves and tigers, knowing that it is full of silver, and the 20 Ming army's salary must be piled up like a mountain. This battle really made a fortune. The eyes of the Tartars glowed green, and they opened the gate, but they went in with all their strength. Fill in.

Under the light of countless torches, the storeroom was piled up like a mountain, boxes and piles.

The Tartars left with heavy boxes, and some of them could not be moved by one person, so two people carried them.But there is one box that is relatively large and heavy. It must not be bank notes or scattered silver taels. It is probably ingots or gold bars, right?

A Tatar bullock opened the lid with a steel knife, and was dumbfounded when he saw that there were neither bank notes nor gold and silver inside, but sand and gravel!
In astonishment, the tartar opened several more boxes, which were either sand or gravel, or waste paper and household garbage.

Only then did the Tartars realize they had been duped, and quickly ordered someone to report to Hauge.

At this time, Haoge saw the fire in the western camp, and he was a little overjoyed. This big victory not only won money but also burned the Ming army's grain depot. The Ming army's defeat is inevitable. How big will I be when Haoge returns? credit?Dorgon has lost many battles, I, Hauge, will definitely become famous in one battle, what kind of uncle and regent, even his Prince Rui may be greatly discounted in the future!

"Report!" Hauge was proud of himself, and a soldier ran over to report in a panic, "Report to the lord... We have been cheated, there is no money in it, it is all sand and stone..."

"Ah? This..." Hauge's face in the firelight immediately turned cloudy, there was no silver in the warehouse on the right, and what they burned on the left must not have been grain and grass. Fan Wencheng, you have made me suffer!Hauge gritted his teeth, intending to curse Fan Wencheng's eight generations of ancestors, but how could he have the time?With his mind still clear, he quickly ordered, "Get out, get out!"

But as soon as he uttered the word withdraw, there was a bang, ambushes were everywhere, and the fire shone all around, and there were all soldiers of the Ming army. Someone shouted: "Don't let the Tartars shoot, shoot arrows!"

All of a sudden, arrows filled the night sky like locusts, and the Tartars fell off their horses one after another, and some even fell into a pool of blood before they could get on their horses.

The arrows shot by the Ming army were not ordinary arrows. There were also a batch of rockets, which were smeared with flammable substances such as sulfur, flame, and nitrate. The main component was phosphorus, which had a very low ignition point. .

Some of these rockets hit the troops of the Qing army, and most of them hit the firewood stacks and log piles in the camp.These Tartars have lost their heads for a long time. They didn't realize that there are logs and dry firewood piled up everywhere in this camp, interspersed with firewood piles, densely connected together, and these firewood piles only have firewood and no military rations. and fodder!

But these things are combustible and inflammable. The Tartars helped to set them on fire. Now the Ming army used rockets to boost the momentum. Soon, the camp became a sea of ​​flames...

(End of this chapter)