Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 265 Vibration
The front line of Daling River.

The golden cavalry behind the brigade rode war horses, came out from behind the earthen wall screaming loudly, and ran to the bottom of the city wall, holding bloody battle flags and galloping back and forth, aiming at the guards on the city wall who were already out of shape from hunger. The army shouted loudly: "Your reinforcements have been wiped out by us, and even Zhang Chun has been taken prisoner. No one has come to rescue you! What are you still holding on to? Surrender quickly, King Khan will not treat you badly!" "Throw the battle flags captured from the Ming army outside the city gate, so that the defenders can see clearly.Someone even escorted a large group of captives, all dressed in armor of the Ming army, standing in front of the defenders in disgrace as exhibits.Seeing that more and more prisoners were being escorted over, the weakly hungry defenders knew that Hou Jin hadn't lied to them. The reinforcements they had placed high hopes on were really wiped out!
The battle flags were thrown under the city gate, and the last morale of the defenders disappeared.There was a deathly silence on the city wall, and that kind of despair could be felt by the post-golden cavalry under the city wall.The despair of the Ming army made them even more proud.Originally, everyone was full of complaints about Huang Taiji's strategy of encircling and not attacking. Since the Nurhachi era, Houjin's consistent strategy and tactics have been to concentrate elite troops and quickly move in and out quickly. If they don’t go down, they will retreat immediately. For example, when they attacked Ningyuan and Jinzhou, seeing that the defenders were tightly defended, they dared to fight to the death. They retreated immediately after dropping hundreds of corpses, and they never wanted to fight.Now they are squatting in the nest in Dalinghe City, blowing the cold wind. After more than two months, both men and horses have lost weight, but they have not been able to win for a long time, which makes all the banner owners very dissatisfied.However, in the Battle of Changshan, the entire [-] Ming army was annihilated. Countless horses, weapons, armor, food and grass were seized, and countless prisoners were captured. Such a huge victory made everyone smile. All the suffering was worth it!

Hou Jin continued to show off their achievements, using countless captives and trophies to destroy the last bit of morale of the defenders. Huang Taiji rode a tall horse and watched from afar with a smile on his face. At the gate of the city, there will always be a sharp ray of light in his eyes.

One day, this city gate will open for him, and he firmly believes that this day will not be too long!

Mang Gurtai shouted: "Old Ba, those Guan Ning troops are so hungry now, not to mention our Eight Banners elite, even a group of girls can easily cut them down, why don't we take advantage of the victory to attack, Take this damn city in one go?"

Huang Taiji smiled without saying a word, and Dai Shan replied for him: "Third brother, now we can easily take Daling River City, yes, but, don't forget, King Khan's strategy is to take Daling River City Turn it into a stone mill, and grind all the capable soldiers of the Ming army outside the Guan into meat paste. Zhang Chun's army is finished, but the two flying troops are still there. If we take Dalinghe City, the two flying troops will The army will retreat to the pass immediately, and it will be difficult to wipe them out!"

Mangurtai scratched his head: "That's right, why didn't I think of this level?" Looking at the row of black heads and those green eyes on the city wall, he was not very confident: "Let's take a bite." After swallowing Zhang Chun's [-] troops, will the two flying troops dare to come out?"

Huang Taiji sneered: "If you don't dare to come out, try to force them out!"

Just as he was talking, a soldier ran over and shouted: "King Khan, Lord Zhenghongqi Jiala Wugne encountered a cavalry of the Ming army when he was suppressing the remnants of the enemy who escaped the Xiaoling River!"

Huang Taiji was a little surprised: "Encountered the cavalry of the Ming army? Does the Ming army still dare to go out of the city to die?"

Dai Shan asked, "But the Guan Ning army?"

The soldier said: "My lord, that cavalry is all wearing armor, wearing fiery red battle jackets, wearing fiery red cloaks, and armed with horses. The armor and weapons are very different from those of the Guan Ning army. They are definitely not the Guan Ning army!"

Daishan was also a little surprised: "Isn't it the Guanning Army? Which cavalry could it be? Has Wugne wiped them out?"

The soldier said: "No! I heard that the cavalry of the Ming army was very powerful. Lord Wugane's Jiala was defeated by them. Even Lord Wugna died tragically under the guns of the Ming army!"

Huang Taiji, who was admiring the desperate expression of Guan Ningjun on the city wall, turned his head abruptly, and asked sharply, "What did you say!?"

It is rare for King Khan to be so stern, but now he yelled so loudly that he almost scared his soldiers to pee.Trembling, he quickly threw away the hot potato, and said in a trembling voice, "Master Wugne's subordinates have escaped back and are waiting to be dealt with!"

Huang Taiji was furious and said, "Bring them up!"

Daishan said softly: "King Khan, the wind is too strong now, we'd better go back to the tent of the Chinese army to take shelter from the wind, and find out the ins and outs!" He is the banner owner of Zhenghong Banner. It's a bit unbearable, but you have to find a way to maintain Zhenghongqi's face. If Huang Taiji called Zhenghongqi's defeated generals to reprimand or even behead them in front of thousands of troops, then Zhenghongqi would lose all face.

Dai Shan was the oldest of the eight Baylors, and his eldest son, Yue Tuo, was the owner of the red flag with extraordinary strength. Huang Taiji had no choice but to show him face, angrily snorted, and said: "Go back to the big tent!" The mood continued to see the athletes under his command show off their power, and rode back to the king's tent with a dark face. Dai Shan hurriedly followed, and asked the soldier who brought the bad news in a low voice: "How many people are there in that Ming army cavalry?" ?”

The soldier said: "It is said that it is less than a thousand!"

Daishan almost cried out.In his opinion, if the Ming army wanted to defeat him with only five or six times as many troops as Jia La, it would be impossible. Hearing that the Ming army only had less than one thousand troops, his first reaction was that this soldier was lying!However, it didn't seem necessary. This soldier was just a messenger, and he had never participated in that fierce battle. There was absolutely no need to lie at the risk of offending him.Forget it, let's go back to Wang Zhang and figure out the ins and outs of the matter before we talk about it!
Zu Dashou stood on the top of the city like a stone statue, motionless, and the cold wind blew his beard and cloak wildly.Dalinghe City has been out of food for more than a month, and it is entirely supported by eating talents. Of course, he, the commander, does not need to eat human flesh with his subordinates, and he can still eat at least, but he still lost a lot of weight. Deep sunken, the wrinkles on his forehead were as deep as a knife carved out, this protracted battle has exhausted his energy and his will, when he saw a bloody flag being thrown to In front of him, after the generals of the Ming army on whom he had pinned all his hopes were brought to the front of the battle for public display, he could no longer hold on.

Zu Zerun stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Father, my son asked someone to go down and take a few battle flags to identify them. Those battle flags... are all real, and Zhang Bingbei's handsome flag is among them! It seems , Master Zhang's troops are really wiped out!"

Zu Dashou sighed, and said: "Zhang Chun misunderstood me! His defeat, our last hope is also cut off!"

Zu Zerun was worried: "Now the weather is getting colder and colder. The soldiers have no clothes to keep out the cold, no firewood to keep warm, and no food. A few days ago, they were able to eat people, but now even the servants are almost eaten up... Now We only have more than 1 people left, and less than [-] of us can actually fight on the city wall! If Jiannu comes to attack, Dalinghe City will definitely not be able to defend it!"

Zu Dashou said in a low voice, "They don't know how to attack the city. If they wanted to attack, they would have attacked already! They just want to trap us to death!"

Zu Zerun lowered his voice and said: "Last night, Jiannu shot the letter written by the slave chief Huang Taiji into the city, and once again persuaded his father to surrender..."

Zu Dashou asked: "What conditions did he offer this time?" Since the siege, Huang Taiji often had people shoot letters of surrender written in his own hand into the city, offering all kinds of conditions, but Zu Dashou didn't take it seriously. Now it seems that he has to seriously think about it.

Zu Zerun lowered his voice: "He promised that if we surrender, not only will our official positions not be removed, but we will be promoted to another level!"

Zu Dashou snorted: "What can a group of barbarians give us? In this barbaric place, what's the point of being an extremely human minister?"

Zu Zerun murmured: "But this is a road after all!"

Zu Dashou sighed dejectedly: "Yes, it's a way..." Turned around wearily, and walked down the tower step by step.

Zhang Chun was defeated, and all of Da Ming's soldiers capable of fighting were dead and wounded, and there was no hope of continuing to defend Dalinghe City. It was time to arrange a retreat... It won't be long before he will be killed by those desperate soldiers of the Ming army, and he will be eaten so that there is not even a bone left. If that happens, the ancestral family will be finished!

In the ruins of the Daling River, a group of soldiers of the Guanning Army were searching from house to house for civilian husbands who might have hidden themselves, preparing to fill their stomachs, without noticing that their commander was struggling violently.

In Hou Jinwang's tent, several blood-stained Niu Luzhen's foreheads touched the ground, and they prostrated themselves in front of Huang Taiji and the banner owners, not daring to breathe.Daishan's face was livid, Huang Taiji's face was gloomy, Mang Gurtai opened his mouth slightly with a look of surprise, while Yue Tuo, Du Du, Jierhalang, Duoduo, Dorgon and other younger generations showed disdain.Those dog slaves actually said that the Ming army was not afraid of death, they lined up a cavalry wall and charged against the rain of arrows, and the entire Jiala was destroyed by two impacts!It's a big joke. Is there such a Ming army?If so, why did they fight so badly!It must be that these dog slaves underestimated the enemy and made the Ming army play out their dog brains. For fear of being punished, they all made up such a set of nonsense to deceive them, it must be like this!
"Those Ming dogs line up in four rows every time they charge, more than 150 people in each row, each holding a horse, and press them up like a wall, even if the arrows shot by the servants shoot them down one by one, they will never give up. Pause, just rushing up against the rain of arrows, stabbing all the way with the horse lance, each of the servants will have to face at least three or four horse lances, there is no room for retaliation, and they are just picked off by them one by one ..." Niu Luezhen, whose forehead was scratched by an arrowhead, knocked his head a few times, and the wound opened again, blood was flowing all over his face, but he didn't dare to wipe it, but just repeated the nightmare. After the battle, he looked terrified.

Huang Taiji's voice was weird: "Learn in a dense formation and charge towards the rain of arrows, no matter how many are shot down, they will never stop?"

Mang Gurtai said: "Everyone is armed with a lance? The lance is very expensive. Where is this cavalry that is so sacred that it can be equipped with so many such sophisticated horse weapons?"

Daishan's tone was gloomy, making people shudder: "They rushed twice, and you collapsed?"

Niu Lu'er, who had an injury on his forehead, could really hear the dissatisfaction in the banner owner's heart, and he repeatedly cried out: "Master, those Ming troops are too terrible. They charged twice and more than 300 of our Jia La died. Let them charge a few more times. There is no one alive in the entire Jiala! Moreover, the general of the Ming army is also extremely fierce. He wields a strange long knife and swings it like a windmill. No matter how brave the soldiers who hit him are, He was told to cut open both men and horses one by one, he is simply not a human being!"

Another Niu Lu Ezhen hastily added: "Yes, that guy is not human at all! Master Wugne can kill tigers and leopards with his bare hands. He is brave and invincible, but it is only one knife, just one knife, and he was given by the general of the Ming army." Split into two pieces!" In fact, Wugne was stabbed to death by the hussars with horses, but in order to highlight the ferocity of the generals of the Ming army, they generously assigned this victory to Lu Xiangsheng to prove: no The slaves don't work hard, but the Ming army is too perverted!
Daishan yelled angrily: "That's nonsense! It's obvious that you guys underestimated the enemy and allowed the Ming army to succeed in the sneak attack, causing heavy losses. You were afraid of punishment, so you made up a set of lies to try to get through! You were defeated miserably by the Ming army and suffered a lot of losses. It is already a serious crime for a warrior, but now he is telling nonsense to deceive the Khan, which is even more abominable! Someone, push these slaves out and behead them!"

He wanted to cut off four Niulu Ezhen in one breath, it seems that Daishan is also out of breath, you must know that every Niulu Ezhen is the most powerful warrior and the most experienced general in the whole Niu Lu, such a talent They are precious talents of Houjin, and there has never been such a precedent for slaughtering four of them at once!Everyone was taken aback, and was about to persuade, when Huang Taiji said: "Second brother, calm down! These slaves may tell a few lies, but they are not so big as to dare to tell a big lie in front of Ben Khan and the banner owners... It seems that they have really met a strong enemy!"

Dai Shan was dissatisfied: "King Khan really believed the nonsense of these slaves? Can the Ming army beat my Dajin warriors so embarrassingly in the wild wave battle?"

Huang Taiji said: "It can't be wrong!" He frowned and said with some confusion: "But I haven't heard that Guan Ning Army has any special units that can fight, and Guan Ning Army's tactics and equipment That's not the case! Could it be..." He suddenly thought of something, and a sharp light burst out in his eyes: "Could it be that the flying army in red has arrived?"

Dai Shan was startled: "Flying Army in Red?"

Huang Taiji said: "It's the flying army that travels hundreds of miles a day! This flying army just fought a battle with the rogues last month. It defeated the masses with a few and wiped out [-] rogues, and then rushed to the west of Liaoning without stopping. , The speed is astonishingly fast... Counting the days, they should have arrived in Jinzhou." He took a deep breath and said: "As soon as we arrived in Jinzhou, we fought and defeated Zhenghongqi, a Jiala, this flying army. , really shouldn’t be underestimated! In this way, it’s even more impossible to let them return to the pass alive!”

(End of this chapter)