Chapter 620: The Battle of Ice and Fire in the Battle of Thousand Miles of Blood (11)
The sun was always so lazy in the winter of the second year of Chongzhen, and the tall walls of the capital of Daming could not withstand the cold wind that was whistling northwest. On the wide walls of Daming capital, more than ten people lit hundreds of bonfires densely. While the officers and soldiers of the Shenji Battalion of the Capital were roasting fire, they talked about the recent major events in the capital. Although the important officials of the court said that the soldiers surrounded Zhangjiazhuang were just like that, Datong and Wanquandushi cavalry and the King of the King Ponu Army jointly trained, the Jinyiwei plundered Yin Guangju and Wufu Warehouse, saying that Qin Guotong, the commander of the Jinyiwei, rebelled and rebelled, but these powerful master soldiers all knew the inside story.
Although Zhang Ping'an, the foreign vassal of the Ming Dynasty, was not favored by Emperor Chongzhen, the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp had more or less received the military merits of Zhang Ping'an. The veterans with deep backgrounds would exaggerately tell him about his achievements in participating in the extermination of the two rebels in Shaanxi, and their words were full of respect for the Ponuhou. One thing they didn't know was what compromise the Ponucheng Xuanwei envoy and Mr. Sun reached. At least, the Ponucheng Xuanwei envoy did not care about past grudges and began to send cavalry to patrol the west of the capital.
Of course, the officers and soldiers of the capital did not dare to accuse the emperor. They also hoped that the emperor would pay them the reward silver from the inner treasury. They vented all their dissatisfaction on Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Ji Liao. They knew the inside story and brought out Yuan Chonghuan one by one. From the destruction of the general Zhao led the entire army to the strange dispersion of Jizhou reinforcements, until even more strangely, hundreds of thousands of Jiannu army did not attack only more than 10,000 Liaodong official troops outside Jizhou City, but walked around the west path.
If it is said that the King Mingjun who intercepted the mountain roads in Baoding, Shandong and other places were dismissed, it would be reasonable for the Liao Town official army to seize the merits. The key is that the officers and soldiers of Liao Town are not there, and they fought well and did not let Jiannu cross Jizhou. As soon as you drove away the King reinforcements, Jiannu crossed the Jizhou defense line. Even the fool could see that there was a tacit understanding between Yuan Chonghuan, the general of Ji Liao, and Jiannu. As for whom this fool was, no one dared to point it out, but everyone knew in their hearts that this fool was referring to the current emperor.
No one in the capital's officers and soldiers wanted to fight. Of course, it was another matter to follow the Ponu army led by Ponu Hou to fight behind the buttocks. They thought that Jizhou could block Jiannu and come to the capital, but they could get the money away for nothing. Unexpectedly, Yuan Chonghuan's dog thing actually put Jiannu in the capital, and now they have to fight the vicious Jurchens with their lives. This kind of chat is not limited to the city walls in the north of the capital, but other city walls are the same topic among the government troops in the capital.
When the officials and soldiers on the east wall of Andingmen in the north were cursing the traitor Yuan Chonghuan, they saw a crying sound of thousands of miles away from the northeast, and thousands of people were crying and shouting towards the capital. The figures of the people scattered like ants gradually approached the north wall, and the officers and soldiers of the capital who were just talking were suddenly in panic. The people outside the city were covered with more than ten miles in a radius. They came to the capital to hope to be protected by the government. Although the capital's official army was not usually favored by the people, they still shouted to the people to guide the way.
The official army in the capital camp was very grateful to those greedy and fearful of death. It was these greedy and fearful of death who ordered them not to leave the city to meet the enemy. They were much safer than hiding on the city wall than directly fighting against Jiannu. Although the official army could not go out to fight on the city wall, they pointed out to the people that there was a camp of Hou Shilu, the general of Xuanfu, who ran west. The people who finally ran to the city wall had no strength to run west at this time. They could see the Ming army camp more than two miles away, but the Ming army in the camp did not do anything.
At this time, the Ming army in the capital had seen the enemies behind the people on the city wall. They were the three hundred scouts of Jurchen inlaid blue flags. The scouts of Jurchen inlaid blue flags inlaid blue flags inlaid blue flags inlaid blue flags inlaid blue flags inlaid, leisurely drove away the people into a large group. They first robbed the people's property in front of the city wall and the Ming army on the west side, and then captured more than 300 young women from the more than 2,000 people tied them to the horse. They ignored the crying of the women, especially the mothers of children calling their children. The crying of these babies stimulated the ears of the Ming army on the city wall.
The Ming army officers and soldiers who were still humane, cursed Jiannu's shamelessness while cursing Yuan Chonghuan, a traitor. Just as Jiannu was focusing all his attention on the people, the sudden cheers of the Ming army on the wall scared the Jurchen scout cavalry to abandon wealth and arrested women, and fled eastward when they beat horses. The scout cavalry who robbed them all the way, only then did they remember that there was a large army in the capital of the Ming Dynasty that they feared for their lives. As expected, a thousand-man black armored cavalry surrounded the scout cavalry from afar on three sides.
If the Jurchen cavalry faced the Ming army, they might use the people as hostage shields to make the enemy afraid. The years of experience in fighting with the Jurchen cavalry showed that this move was useless to the Poundjun army. Not only would it be useless, but it would also lead to the Poundjun's crazy revenge. Just as the Jurchen scouts in the blue flag were in a dilemma, the Poundjun cavalry began to approach the enemy with the sound of the Swan horn of the Qianzong General Dong Heliang. For only more than 300 Jurchen cavalry, the Poundjun only sent an equal 300 cavalry into three 100 teams to surround the enemy.
The three 100-man teams were still one hundred feet away from the enemy and dismounted the formation. The Pou Nu cavalry inserted the spear deep into the ground. After dismounting the horse, they tied the reins to the spear pole. After taking the muskets from the back, they took out two integrated ammunition barrels from the ammunition bag at their waist. The veterans instantly loaded the ammunition and raised their right hand to signal. They used the three rows of musket formations in the Pu Nu Army. Three groups of sharpshooters in front of each military formation and their ammunition-loading assistants looked at the enemy and looked for the most valuable shooting targets. The seven hundred cavalry behind were in a wide fan shape and swam around the battlefield. They were very confident in their brothers. Three hundred musket soldiers were enough to easily take down the same enemy.
When they were eighty feet away from the enemy, the three archers in front of the army of Ponu Army had already opened fire. They wiped out more than ten soldiers in the Lanqiu who were cruising outside the crowd of people. Standing at the high cliffhanger of Andingmen City Wall, the Ming army was surprised to see that the musket soldiers of the Ponu Army could actually use muskets to hit the enemy under the horse while the Jiannu cavalry was galloping fast horses without hurting the war horses. Such magical skills made them cheer. The musket formation of the Ponu Army in the attack seemed very leisurely, and they approached the enemy slowly.
At this time, the Jurchen inlaid blue flag led the team Niu Luezhen Zarafen (Jurchen word: longevity), and could not stand this kind of battle that could not fight back only by being beaten. He ordered more than 200 scouts to show their skills, and the Jurchen longbow and wolf-toothed arrows fought against the Pou Nu Army. When the Jurchen scouts were arriving in a loose formation in front of the people of the Ming Dynasty, they wanted to see if the dense muskets of the Pou Nu Army dared to kill them and the people of the Ming Dynasty. When Qian Zong Dong Heliang rushed to the front line from the back, he felt angry when he saw the Tartars' array method.
He once again sounded the swan horn sound and urged the Pou Nu Army to start shooting. Qian Zong Dong Heliang was once the chief general of the General Zhang Dashen. He often accepted the instructions of Zhang Dashen. He must not have any scruples or hesitation when fighting. Even if he has his own father in front of him, he cannot be lenient. However, the Jurchen Inlaid Blue Flag Niuluezhen Zarafen was given the focus of attention of the Pou Nu Army's sharpshooter. The lead bullets shot by the sharpshooter would rather be empty than hurt Zarafen's life. Just when the Jurchen scout pulled his bow and shot archery, the Pou Nu Army shot out dense musket lead bullets first.
The Pou Nu Army rushed over, and blood appeared on more than 100 Jurchen Tatars, and dozens of Ming people also wailed and screamed. They ignored the soldiers of the Pou Nu Army. In their eyes, as long as there were still figures of the Jurchen Tatars standing, their shooting would not stop. Jurchen Niu Luezhen Zarafen was hit in both legs by the Pou Nu Army's sharpshooter. What made Zarafen very angry was that a high-speed lead bullet broke his capital for passing on his family.
Zarafen covered his lower body with his hands and shouted wildly. He looked around in despair and looked around for his little brother who was broken into pieces, as if he was thinking of a master to help him take it back. Niuluezhen Zarafen's fall from the ground made the scouts of the Blue Flag lose the last courage to resist. They no longer care about the goods they had grabbed and the women fled eastward. At this moment, the Muskets of the Posses changed the focus of the shooting to attack the deserter's war horses. The Jurchen scouts who had fled not far away, even a single person who reported the news fell off their horses.
After the war, the soldiers of the Ponu Army became much more familiar with the prisoners. If the people did not propose the property seized from the Jurchen Tatars, they would not return it. However, the people near the capital were still brave, and they asked the Ponu Army to return their own goods. On the city wall, many Ming soldiers, who were familiar with the Ponu Army, leaned out from the city wall and shouted the names of the acquaintances in the Ponu Army, and asked them to send a few dead Tartar horses under the city wall, so that the Ming brothers could enjoy the joy of victory.
As a result, the Pou Nu Army actually dragged five dead horses under the wall with war horses, tied them to the thick ropes that the Ming army laid down, allowing the Ming army to share the fruits of victory in the cheerful shouts. Under the city wall, the people selected their own property, rescued the dead family and helped the injured bandage the wounds, just like the noise of the vegetable market that made the people temporarily forget their fear. However, silent thunder and large areas of smoke and dust in the northeast came from afar, which once again made the people panic. At this time, they remembered the suffering they had just experienced, and the crying mixed with calling their families to shout anxiously, making the people set off again to prepare to flee.
The Pou Nu Army was preparing for war while guiding the people to flee west. After all, there was a solid defensive wall in Zhangjiazhuang to the west, and even if the people could not enter the village, it was better than waiting for death here. With the Qing Khan Huang Taiji leading an army of 300,000 approaching the capital of the Ming Dynasty, a war of storms is about to begin. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!