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Chapter 854
When Dorgon led the main force and Li Zicheng's main force was fighting on the grassland, Zhu Yousong on Jiaoshan, a few miles away, suddenly received a report that a Qing army withdrew from the Huanxi Ridge and headed towards Shihe up.

He had seen the terrain in this area long ago, so Zhu Yousong immediately understood the Qing army's intentions, and immediately delivered a decree: "What a cunning Dorgon, let Zhang Huan lead his troops to stop it!"

Just before Li Zicheng left the customs, Zhu Yousong had ordered 2 special soldiers to live in the dense forest at the foot of Jiaoshan.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhu Yousong refused to let the guards of the pass city send troops to support them.

The Special Forces is a mixed unit of the Ming Expeditionary Army, with a total of 2 people. There are bow and arrow battalions, white pole battalions, musket battalions, and engineering battalions.

Among them, there are 3000 archers. These 3000 are not ordinary archers, but Zhu Yousong ordered Zhang Huan to select good archery, strong physical strength, and potential seedlings from various armies for special training. As their head coach, personally coach.After nearly a year of training, it has now become an army and has become an important part of the special warfare arms.

Zhu Yousong felt that now is the time to call them.

After fighting for such a big battlefield for such a long time, Zhu Yousong didn't send him to fight, and the young general Zhang Huan couldn't wait.In particular, he saw that the Qing army increased its troops again and again, with armored horses and bows and arrows.He really wanted to pull the team out and show off his talents.

Now that he finally received Zhu Yousong's will, Zhang Huan knew it was time for him to show his talents. Now His Majesty is full of talents and has become a famous general. What he forgot was that among the special forces, there were still powerful white-armed soldiers available. Fortunately, His Majesty let his archers attack this time, which showed that His Majesty still trusted him very much. Zhang Huan was excited for a while thinking about it.

Zhang Huan set off with [-] light cavalry, each with two pots of arrows, a bow, and a saber. Enemy strangle it.

As Li Quan said, the Stone River is a small river almost like a stream, winding here quietly. The river bed and both sides are all gravel, the small ones are pebbles, and the big ones are tens of catties and hundreds of pounds, with different shapes. .There are green grasses on both sides of the bank, and wild flowers that cannot be named.

The two sides of the river are wilderness, a small river as quiet as a virgin, in this deserted wilderness, occasionally there will be livestock, wild animals or birds in the sky, and at this time, unexpectedly, a fierce battle will also usher.

In the distance, an iron cavalry of the Qing army came galloping, and there were so many people and horses that it was impossible to count.They fly the red flag, the yellow flag, the bordered yellow flag, the bordered red flag, and the four-color military flag.

The leading general, about 40 years old, wears iron helmet and armor, wears a white battle robe, hangs a sword at his waist, and sits on a white horse.It was Sony, the owner of the Zhenghuang Banner of the Qing Army, the Minister of State, and one of the auxiliary ministers of Emperor Shunzhi.

At this time, he was ordered by Dorgon to lead a total of 3 elite soldiers from the Four Banners. He planned to go around from Shihe to the back of Li Zicheng's army, and flanked Dorgon back and forth to wipe out the main force of the horse army of the Ming Expeditionary Army.

When Sony's team arrived near Shihe, Zhang Huan's team also arrived at the same time.

"My lord, we found Ming's army on the other side of the Stone River."

"Wow!" Sony immediately reined in his horse after hearing the news, and the team stopped. Could it be that our intentions were discovered by the Ming army?Will there be an ambush here?
Sony has always been calm, thinking: "How many soldiers and horses are there? Who is the general who leads the troops?"

"Return to your lord, about 3000, the character Zhang is printed on the big flag, and the leader is a little Nanman about 20 years old."

"Is there an ambush by the Ming army nearby?"

When the Qing army who reported the incident heard it, we adults were too careful, and we could see both sides of the river at a glance. We obviously wanted to ambush here, where is the ambush?But I have to answer respectfully: "My lord, no ambush from the Ming army has been found."

At this time, Sony was on the horse, and he could see that on the other side of the river in the distance, many soldiers of the Ming army had gathered, and they were all cavalry.

"The 3000 soldiers and horses in the area should not come to attack us, but it is wishful thinking to block my way. Come on, pass on my order to rush over."

During the Four Banners period, there were 3 cavalry, and after the order was obtained, they rushed towards Shihe like overwhelming the sky.Thousands of horses are galloping, and the ground trembles when they step on it.

"Get ready!" Zhang Huan on the other side of the Shihe River had already lined up three thousand archers along the small river in two long rows.

The 3000 soldiers sat on their horses and heard the order, took their bows and set their arrows, drew the bows round, and with a sound of bowstrings, they aimed at the surging Tartars.

"Follow this general's order, and the Tartars will shoot arrows when they cross the river."

"Promise!" The banner leaders of each hundred households agreed.

As Zhang Huan said, he put a mace arrow on his special carved bow, creaked, opened the bow like a full moon, and aimed at a big red flag.

At this time, Zhang Huan's team was about 30 meters away from the riverbed of the small river. The average width of the Shihe River, including the entire riverbed, was about 20 meters wide.The river bed was covered with pebbles, and the widest part of the place where there was water was no more than two feet at this time. The water was clear and shallow, and the pebbles at the bottom of the river could be seen.

Zhang Huan had been optimistic for a long time. When the Tartar cavalry went down the river, it was their best range.

At this time, the vanguard of the Tartar horses had already rushed into the river bed.

"Let the arrow!" Zhang Huan said, loosening his right hand, and the spiked arrow in his hand shot out through the air with a sharp whistle, hitting a tartar a hundred meters away. This was a flag bearer. The red flag was upright and the big banner fell down.

The sound of the arrow was also a signal from Zhang Huan.

Immediately, the 1500 archers in the first row released all the arrows in their hands. These people were able to shoot arrows with great physical strength. Not only accurate, but also ruthless, it can be said that the arrows are never in vain, some shoot people, some shoot horses.

As a result, the Tartars who rushed over fell off their horses one after another, some fell on the cobblestones, and some even fell into the water, splashing everywhere.

After the first row of archers finished shooting, they started to shoot their arrows. At this time, the second row of archers behind them fired their arrows. In this way, the arrows stopped and there was no gap in between. .When the two rows of archers reached the third round, there was no one in Shihe.

Some are just the dead bodies of the Tartars, and none of the important ones fell alive.Only some war horses were able to withstand the arrows, and they fell in a pool of blood and struggled.

Except for the casualties of people and war horses everywhere on the banks of the stone river, blood stained the stone river red, and the rest of the tartars all retreated.

At this time, Sony on the other side of the stone river was furious when he saw it, "Iron armored cavalry, rush over to me!"

(End of this chapter)