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   Chapter 574 571 [Cavalry War]

  The general who led 3,000 Datong cavalry to charge the wall was the notorious "horse kite" and "living Lu Bu" Wang Fuchen in history.

  This person was born as a bandit in Shanxi Province. He likes to gamble and often loses like pants.

   Facing the encirclement and suppression by officers and soldiers, he first took refuge in Jiang Guan, and then surrendered to the Manchu Qing with Jiang Guan. Then, Jiang Guan rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, Wang Fuchen was defeated and surrendered to Azig, and became Xin Zheku's coated slave. Because of Kong Wu's strength and might, he was promoted by Shunzhi to be a first-class bodyguard, and then to be the chief soldier of the Qing Dynasty.

  Followed Wu Sangui into Burma, captured Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and was transferred to be the governor of Shaanxi.

  Wu Sangui rebelled, Wang Fuchen first helped the Manchus, then took refuge in Wu Sangui, and then chose to surrender to the Qing again.

   Lu Bu was just a family slave with three surnames, and Wang Fuchen jumped six or seven times!

  Shunzhi's evaluation of him is: He who hears horse kites is a warrior. I don't know where it is now, so I can use it for my own sake.

  Kangxi's evaluation of him is: If there are military officials like this, why should I worry about my recovery?

  This guy is not only tall and mighty, but also handsome. His complexion is fair, his eyebrows are like lying silkworms, like a portrait of Lu Bu handed down from generation to generation.

  Historical data records: Bravely crowning the three armies, you can't do what you want...As a person, he respects things, trusts friends, treats others leniently, and controls subordinates strictly. However, meritorious service must be rewarded. Although strict, scholars are happy to use it.

  Wang Fuchen followed Jiang Yu to surrender, and he was inconspicuous at the time. He was just a middle-level officer who voted over, and he could not be compared with Huang Fei, Yuan Shizhong and others at all.

   But this person is really excellent, he knows how to deal with things, obeys what he says, abides by military discipline, unites his comrades, and is also a champion of the three armies.

   He even actively learns cultural knowledge and recognizes characters at a very fast speed. He has learned more than a thousand characters in a year, and he can learn several on average every day.

   All the way to promotion, smooth sailing!

  Just like in history, the promotion speed is very fast, from a slave to a first-class bodyguard, and then quickly promoted to the chief soldier. At this time, Wang Fuchen had been promoted from a soldier to a cavalry commander.

"Da da da!"

  Wang Fuchen held his spear straight, looked at the Tartars in front of him, and led his troops to rush forward without hesitation.

   Once the wall charge starts, the general will lose the ability to command troops. Because the crowd was too dense, it was impossible to change formations. Even if there was a cliff in front of them, they could only bite the bullet and rush over.

  The general of the Qing army is Nikan, the grandson of Nurhachi.

  Nikan met Li Dingguo a few years ago, and was killed and fled. Now not only is he living well, but he has also been promoted to be the king of the county.

  He rode his horse and ran for dozens of steps, intending to get close to the archery, and first fought with the Datong cavalry to figure out the tactics of this strange cavalry.

  But the closer the distance between the two armies, the more uncomfortable Nikan felt.

  The Southern Barbarians have such a dense cavalry formation, and they are not fully armored, so it is obvious that they will be shot at as targets. But why don't they disperse? Why don't they disperse, are they fools?

  When the distance between the two sides was thirty steps, Nikan put the arrow on the bowstring, and only released the arrow after entering the range. But suddenly he didn't dare to wait anymore, he shot the arrows indiscriminately, and shouted at the orderly: "Scatter to both sides!"

   Without Nikan's order, the Manchu and Qing cavalry fled spontaneously.

  At such a short distance, the Datong cavalry is actually charging faster, and the Tazi cavalry knows what this means.

  It means that if they dare to shoot arrows after entering the range, they will be hit by the cavalry wall in an instant. At that time, no matter who wins or loses, there will be a large-scale car accident scene, and who can survive the car accident depends entirely on God’s will—Imagine thinking of cavalry as motorcycles, thousands of motorcycles lined up, all speeding up and hitting you.

   "Speed ​​up, speed up!"

  Wang Fuchen roared loudly, and the spurs on his heels kept galloping his horse.

  Man Dahai stood on the hillside, watching the scene with binoculars, already in a state of confusion.

   How can riding battles be fought like this?

  If both sides charge intensively, isn't that a collective death? All the cavalry in the front row must be killed!

  The three thousand Manchu Qing cavalry, although the formation is loose, it will take time to temporarily change the formation to avoid it. However, under the frantic acceleration of the Datong cavalry, the cavalry wall was crushed in a blink of an eye. The situation can be described as devastated.

  Of course, the Datong cavalry was also knocked over a lot.

   Fortunately, after the two sides approached, the horses of the Datong cavalry slowed down automatically out of instinct, and the momentum of the high-speed charge naturally slowed down.

   "Scatter to kill the enemy, hahaha!"

  Wang Fuchen felt that such a charge was very exciting, and he practiced it countless times, but this was the first time it was used in actual combat.

  The Manchu and Qing cavalry were not considered fleeing, but they were indeed fleeing, mainly to avoid the cavalry wall. When they ran, they turned into fleeing instead of fleeing, and the enemy in front was chased and killed by Datong cavalry.

  The Datong cavalry on both sides began to stretch out, and the dense formation gradually became looser. Wang Fuchen overturned the Tartar with one shot, and just about to overthrow the second one, he was killed by the soldiers around him first.

  Nikan can't care about anything at the moment, he only knows how to run for his life.

   "Hurry up and respond!" Hauge roared.

  Lausa immediately brought thousands of Manchu cavalry and charged from another hillside.

  Datong cavalry division coach Wang Tingchen waved the command flag quickly when he saw this, and the nearby cavalry troops went to intercept Lauza.

  Datong Army, there are so many generals with similar names, Wang Tingchen, Wang Yaochen, Wang Fuchen, Li Dingguo, Li Fuguo...

  One hair moved the whole body, and Nikan's defeat caused the cavalry from both sides to join the battlefield one after another.

   You know, Hauge threw away his armor in order to withdraw quickly. Today, only a few cavalry wear armor, either snatched halfway or picked up from the Eight Banners soldiers along the way.

   "Bang bang bang!"

  Some cavalrymen of the Manchu Qing Dynasty fired on horseback, and hundreds of Datong cavalrymen were hit one after another.

   But that's all, they have too few dragoons, which has little impact on the battle situation.

  Lausa collided with another group of Datong cavalry, this time there was no wall charge, because the time was too short to line up. The two sides hedge against each other in a traditional loose formation, and each other enters the gap in the opponent's formation. As long as the Datong cavalry did not fall off their horses, most of them were wounded and survived. The death rate of the unarmored Manchu cavalry was much higher!

  Wang Fuchen took the lead and chased after Nikan.

  Nikan heard the sound of horseshoes, turned his head and saw a long spear coming. He hurriedly leaned down to dodge, Wang Fuchen shot in the air, and simply raised his gun and smashed it down.

  The barrel of this gun is made of composite materials, with a certain willfulness. It was said to be a smash, but it was actually a wrist shake. With a flick of Wang Fuchen's wrist, the gun barrel fell on Nikan's back.

  Falling only a foot away, Nikan seemed to be hit by a sledgehammer, lying on the horse's back and spitting blood.

   What a fierce general, not only strong, but also clever!

  Nikan felt that his internal organs had been displaced, his mind went blank, and he just held on to the reins tightly. Suddenly there was a pain in the waist, and the whole body was poked to the side, and the lower body fell off the horse's back, still holding the rein in his hand, and was dragged by the horse for several steps before letting go.

"what!"

   Another Datong cavalryman stepped on Nikan with his horse, breaking his spine.

  Wang Fuchen's troops chased for a full mile before gradually stopping. More than 200 people were killed in battle, mainly because they were knocked off their horses during the charge. The enemy's 3,000 cavalry were completely defeated, about one-third escaped, and the remaining two-thirds were all killed.

  Wang Fuchen ordered to regroup, the dense formation began to trot, and then gradually accelerated to run towards the flank of another Manchu cavalry.

   "Go!"

  Man Dahai saw that the situation was not good, and immediately led his troops to the hills further north.

  Haug’s reaction was the same. The Manchu Qing cavalry without armor, the Datong cavalry in cotton armor or breastplate, and the fierce Manchu warriors could not turn the tide of the battle. There were disadvantages in the fights everywhere, and some Manchu cavalry had already collapsed, and there was no way to escape if they continued to fight.

   "The commander of the Tartars wants to escape, follow me!" Datong cavalry commander Wang Tingchen, with the cavalry division's Chinese army reserve, personally chased towards Hauge.

  Wang Yaochen, chief mission officer of the cavalry division, led his troops to chase and kill Man Dahai.

   Isn’t it very confusing, Wang Tingchen, Wang Yaochen, and Wang Fuchen are all in the cavalry division.

  Actually, apart from Wang Tingchen, the other two were changed later.

  Especially Wang Fuchen, a rogue bandit from Shanxi, whose name was changed only after he voted for the army of the Ming Dynasty.

  The two princes Hauge and Man Dahai fled, and the morale of the Qing cavalry who was fighting suddenly fell to the bottom. Even while Lausa was still fighting **** battles, the other Manchu and Qing cavalry units fled in all directions.

  The main force of the Tartars who ran back from Tianjin lost all their lives in the first battle. They were chased and fled all over the mountains and plains in the hills of northwestern Liaoning.

   Being pursued by Wang Tingchen, Hauge finally became completely angry, and turned around to fight with his troops.

  Both sides have only a thousand or so people, abandoning any tricks, not shooting arrows at each other, and going directly to hedge in a loose formation.

  Wang Tingchen was born in the Three Thousand Battalion of the Great Ming Capital, and followed Cao Bianjiao to Nantou. Cao Bianjiao's promotion was not as fast as Wang Tingchen's. It was purely because the old Cao's military discipline was not good enough, and he was punished four times one after another.

  The first hedge, Wang Tingchen killed one person.

  The two armies passed by on the wrong horse, and each slowed down and turned around. Many of the Datong cavalry were injured, but less than 20% were killed in battle, while 40% of the Manchu cavalry were directly killed.

   "Again!"

   Wang Tingchen shouted.

  Haug spotted Wang Tingchen this time, and he charged with all his might, while he himself rushed towards Wang Tingchen with all his strength.

  The two fired their guns almost at the same time, dodging each other.

   But there were more cavalry in Datong. Wang Tingchen stabbed in the air, while the cavalry in Datong on the other side stabbed Hauge's horse under his crotch.

   "Hiss!"

  The war horse screamed, raised its hooves, and threw Hauge off the horse's back.

   "Hurry up and save the prince!"

  Hauge's soldiers reined in their horses one after another, trying to rescue him, but the Datong cavalry took the opportunity to charge again.

  Wang Tingchen stabbed out with a spear, and overturned one of Hauge's personal soldiers. The rest of the soldiers were also killed by their subordinates, and they turned their horses to look, but they saw Hauge's dead body lying on the ground, and no one knew whose horse had trampled him to death.

  Wang Yaochen, who was chasing Man Dahai, came back and said annoyedly: "After the thief general divided his troops, he ran away with dozens of soldiers!"

"Don't be afraid, haha," Wang Tingchen laughed, "These are Tartars who came back from Hebei. They are so embarrassed that they don't even have the armor. It is obvious that Lord Fei won. Even if they can escape hundreds of horses and go back, the Tartars The elite is also lost, at most next year we will be able to recover the entire Liaodong."

  On the other side of the main battlefield, the Manchu warrior Lausa, wearing eight wounds, is still fighting, and the cavalry around him are almost dead.

  Datong cavalry surrounded the dozen or so cavalry, just watching.

  Lausa roared: "Kill again!"

   Datong Xiao cavalry took out their bows and arrows, and hundreds of people shot at a dozen Manchu cavalry.

   Lauza shut up and instantly turned into a hedgehog.

  (end of this chapter)