Chapter 798: The Slaves of the Daming Tribulation Stained the Flags with Blood (35)
The battlefield is always full of unknown variables, which is unpredictable in the suspense. The early military deployment of the Pou Nu Army was reported to the Ministry of War of the Court by local governments. While informing the trends of the Jiannu, they also reported that they observed the direction of the Pou Nu Army. The Ming Dynasty had mastered the movements of the Pou Nu Army and the military deployments of the Ming Dynasty. Yan Zhuochen knew the arrangement of the Pou Nu Army. However, in the later period, the Pou Nu Army continuously changed its military deployment, and the channels for delivering official documents in many places were also stopped due to the war. In addition, the transmission of the local government to the capital itself was lagging, which also made the Deep Qing Dynasty unable to learn about the latest developments of the Pou Nu Army.
Similarly, Chen Pang, deputy commander of the Po Nu Army and Gu Xin, chief of staff, were deeply helpless in the face of the enemy situation in the Daxing military camp. Chen Pang did not have Zhang Ping'an's ability, and dealing with the official army gave him a headache, the deputy commander of the official army. Zhang Ping'an likes to cooperate with these deep-seated capital officers and soldiers, and exchanged the military merits obtained by the Po Nu Army for the materials in the hands of these capital officers. Since he did not like to cooperate with the official army, Chen Pang, deputy commander of the Po Nu Army, gave this matter to Gu Xin, chief of staff, for the trouble, and he tried his best to command the battle. The Po Nu Army now has to face the Qing army in both directions, and the Inlaid Red Flag and Zhengbai Banner, which were cut off by the Po Nu Army's retreat, is easy to say. After all, the Po Nu Army's several battle camps formed a tight net, and the Inlaid Red Flag and Zhengbai Banner in the encirclement should not be able to escape from the palm of the Po Nu Army.
The deputy commander of the Pou Nu Army was considering pure military operations, but in reality, military affairs were always inseparable from politics. The 200,000 troops of the Pou Nu Army who entered the pass to serve the king were all raised by themselves. The Ming Dynasty court seemed to have forgotten the fact that the Pou Nu Army raised the grain and grass. Deputy Commander Chen Pang was not the head coach Zhang Ping'an. He did not take it seriously when the court chose to forget the Pou Nu Army's food and grass. He had long heard that after Jiannu entered the pass, the king-supporting army gathered in the capital dozens of times for the king-supporting army. The Ming Dynasty court also wanted to disband the king-supporting army in various places, because the existence of the Pou Nu Army made the court feel threatened. The Ming Dynasty court used all the grain and grass raised to appease all the king-supporting army.
Earlier, Emperor Chongzhen obtained millions of silver from the Xuanwei Division of Ponucheng using salt tax as collateral. Before the war, he hoarded grain in Zhangjiazhuang. As the price of grain in the capital soared after Jiannu entered the pass, and the court needed to distribute grain and grass to the local king-supported troops, the Xuanwei Division of Ponucheng stationed in Beijing gave the silver and then took it back to the original warehouse. The Ponu army raised its own battle grain and grass, and Emperor Chongzhen issued an imperial edict to commend the imperial edict. After the Jiannu main force came out of the pass, the Ming court became optimistic. They put pressure on the Ponu army to demand that the Ponu army eliminate the Jiannu main force in Zhili as soon as possible.
When fighting in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Pang, the deputy commander of the Po Nu Army, was very complicated. He had no fondness for the Ming Dynasty like Zhang Ping'an, and only focused on the interests of the Po Nu Army in his interactions with the Ming Dynasty. Chen Pang was a personal soldier under General Liu Jing. Although he was tired of the intrigues and choices to go home to farm after the defeat of Sarhu. Later, when the Jiannu Tartars attacked Liaodong, his family suffered a series of blows, especially when his first son was torn apart by the Jiannu Tartars in front of him. At this time, Chen Pang no longer had any expectations for the Ming Dynasty. With Zhang Ping'an's appearance, Chen Pang's personality changed drastically, and like Zhang Ping'an, he was full of indelible hatred for the Jurchens and Qing Dynasty, but he had a slight favor for the Ming Dynasty.
Just when Chen Pear was worried about losing the main force of Zhengbai Banner, Zhang Youhe's troops from the Kaiwei Battalion, who went to Qingxian County to escort goods for Nanjing, came from an urgent report that the troops discovered the main force of Zhengbai Banner in the southeastern Triangle of Dong'an. Two days ago, the five scouts of the Kaiwei Battalion were separated by fifteen miles from each other, and they were fan-shaped to explore the road ahead. For the purpose of confidentiality, the Kaiwei Battalion gave the task to Qingxian to find the remaining enemies of Jiannu. Even the Kaiwei Battalion's commander Zhang Youhe did not know the reason. The Chief Zhang Youhe was quite dissatisfied with the order given by Deputy General Chen Pear. The Chief Zhang Youhe was the elite among the elite troops of the Destroyed Slave Army. Deputy General Chen Pear actually sent them to wipe out the remaining enemies.
Then Zhang Youhe also figured it out. He led a joint guard camp, and there were more than 15,000 kids from the Golden Wolf Camp with him. Before he came to Zhili, General Zhang specifically told Zhang Youhe that the kids were the future war soldiers of the Pou Nu Army and that these young eagles on the grassland should be allowed to see the world. Zhang Youhe, the general manager of the personal guards who have been with Zhang Da Mai, certainly knew that Zhang Da Mai was preparing for the expansion of the Pou Nu Army. In recent years, the 80,000 kids recruited by the Pou Nu Army have seen the world in various places. It is said that they are seeing the world, but in fact, they are trying to let these kids see blood and eliminate the kids who are bold and dizzy when they see blood.
Zhang Youhe was a scout, and most of his subordinates could be said to be qualified scouts. In fact, the scouts who went out to investigate were all the generals, and the Child Soldiers who followed the veterans for the first time were all extremely excited. The Child Soldiers were happy, while the Child Soldiers led the team were all frowning. In the eyes of these veterans, none of the Child Soldiers were qualified scouts. Although the veterans did not think Child Soldiers were qualified scouts, they had to admit that Child Soldiers were qualified soldiers. Zhang Ping'an, the head coach of the Possess Army, never talked about equality for everyone. He believed that the weak could be eliminated under the law of the strong on the grassland.
When the children in the Golden Wolf Camp entered the camp, the children were treated the same, and the smart and studious dolls could get better food and a bright future. Yi Hui, who led the team in the middle, was always a little angry with his tired face. He started from Ping'an City and taught a group of scouts what they needed to do, but nearly half of the soldiers did not understand the key points. Yi Hui had no choice but to walk in front of the team with a few old scouts. The absent-minded Yi Hui let the old brothers scatter in a straight line, and the large army slowly walked behind them. The Possess Army pressing forward from afar brought a hint of vitality to the empty field.
Yi Hui, who was walking listlessly at the front, felt the cold wind coming towards him. He always felt that the pass was still much warmer than Ping'an City. A sudden ray of blood suddenly appeared in the cold wind made Yi Hui shivering. He stepped on the stirrups with his feet and stood up, raising his right hand to signal the army to stop moving forward. Yi Hui looked back and looked more than a thousand black armored cavalrymen fifty feet behind him and prepared for the battle according to his gesture. He couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction. He turned around and took a few breaths of air conditioning with his nose to identify the direction of the blood. Soon Yi Hui's right hand was high
He made a two-character gesture, and then clicked a large dry reed in front of the right side. Yi Hui did not have to turn around and strike the horse slowly. The two scouts behind Yi Hui who had been familiar with body language raised their right hands at the same time, indicating that they would follow Yi Hui. On the way forward, Yi Hui took off his spear from behind and pulled out his hand gun. The two brothers behind him pulled out the battle knife from the front of the saddle with their left hand, and skillfully opened the long musket behind him and went to the mechanism to prepare for the battle. The eight veterans who stayed there dismounted and held the musket to guard the gun.
Yi Hui had rich experience in exploring the reeds. He walked ten feet above the reed ground and found a soft mud. This soft mud was about twenty feet long and wide. Yi Hui turned over and held the spear in his hands and tugged it into the soil. If the spear was only three feet into the soil, it would feel delayed in entering the flesh. Based on experience, Yi Hui felt that the dead were buried. He squatted out the spear and held the spear with his left hand and inserted the mud gun into the sconcealed with his left hand. When Yi Hui used his right hand to dig the soft mud and felt a rod-shaped hard object touching the back of his hand. He put it aside and saw that this was the wolf-toothed arrow used by the Jurchens. Yi Hui pulled out the broken arrow shaft hard, and from the solidified blood on the arrow shaft, he judged that the death of the person under the soil was only less than three days.
Based on the range of the soft mud, he speculated that the number of dead people buried below would not be too small. Yi Hui used his hands to dig out the loose soil, and two corpses of people were soon exposed under the two feet of soil. He carefully looked at the two bodies. Before the two died, there were signs of arrows shooting the ground, and after death, there was an intention to silence the mouth on his neck. This shows that the Jiannu Tatars were silenced to hide their whereabouts. The Jiannu Tatars practiced similar to the Po Nu Army, except that the Po Nu Army killed the Mongols and the Jiannu killed the Ming people. Yi Hui then inspected the land traces around here. Several clear horse hoof marks five feet away aroused Yi Hui's high suspicion. Judging from the freshness of the horse hoof marks, the horse hoof marks were left for less than one day.
To this end, Yi Hui could determine that there must be a Jiannu Tartars ambushing nearby. Yi Hui looked up at the withered yellow reeds swinging with the wind and ordered the entire army to retreat and evacuate the reed marshals eighty feet away with a fire gun to warn. According to the wind direction, the Ponu Army lit the reeds with rockets. Today, the southeast wind was rare in winter. The flames of the ignited reed marshals quickly became larger under the cheers of the wind. A panic war horse neighed from the burning reed ground, and followed by flying arrows. The sight was affected by the thick smoke of fire. The Ponu Army on the alert could not see the hidden enemy. They opened fire to the sound of the enemy. Although the total number of enemies was still not sure of the number of enemies, he could still tell from the flying arrow that it was a wolf-toothed arrow for the Jurchen cavalry. Yi Hui immediately sent someone to report to the rear and found the traces of Jiannu on the edge of the Triangle Lake.
Zhang Youhe, the chief of the Protective Guard Battalion of the Pound Army, was also unwilling to accept it during the march. He, the chief of the Protective Guard Battalion, actually started to do the job of a stud. With the urgent report of Yi Hui discovering Jiannu's whereabouts, Zhang Youhe, who had been listless, immediately became energetic. He did not blindly send the main force to Yi Hui to discover Jiannu's area, but turned his attention to the southwest of Triangle Dorgon. According to the latest notice from Chief of Staff Gu Xin, the main force of the Inlaid Red Banner turned to Laishui. Although Yi Hui sent people to report that the other party was the enemy, Zhang Youhe guessed that the Dorgon's troops in the Zhengbai Banner must be hiding here.
Now there is something fun in the personal guard camp. Zhang Youhe decided to drive the Zhengbai Banner led by Dorgon to the northeast. There was a large army of Zuo Erya, the deputy general manager of the Zhengbai Camp, on the Lutai, Liangcheng Station. If the Zhengbai Banner escaped there, it would fall into the joint attack of the personal guard camp and Zuo Erya. Zhang Youhe, who had a conclusion, did not care about how many new recruits there were in his army. Anyway, Qi Heng's troops were in Bazhou and Baoding County (Author's note: Baoding County is under Shuntian Prefecture and is not under the jurisdiction of Baoding Prefecture.), unless Dorgon's mind was in the capital, he led more than 30,000 people to run to the capital, and he had no way to survive anywhere. Zhang Youhe, the chief of the professional guard camp, pinched the entire team into an iron fist and rushed to the southwest side of the Triangle Dian. He was preparing to strike the enemy's flanks. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!