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

Chapter 876 Trap
The cold wind was wrapped in ice and snow, sweeping across the Liaohe Plain like a sickle, and it hurt like a blunt knife cutting flesh on the body.It was really too cold, so cold that even the hairs of his nose froze, and when he let out a mouthful of hot air, he could see it turning into tiny ice crystals and falling to the ground with the naked eye.Especially at night, it was extremely cold. Lying in the tent, I could clearly hear the sound of trees and stones cracking.

This kind of spooky weather of splashing water into ice should have wiped out birds in thousands of mountains and disappeared in thousands of miles. However, at this time, there was a huge army flooding the Liaodong Plain like a flood flooding the land, pushing against the sky. The wind and snow rushed towards Shenyang slowly but resolutely.And behind this large army, there are more large-scale peasants. They push rooster carts, drive horse-drawn carts, and carry a large amount of luggage to move forward with difficulty. The cold wind sucks away the heat from their bodies at an alarming speed. As he was walking, he fell to the ground and never got up again.The majesty and heroism of the army when they left the customs has long been exploited by the cold that can drive people crazy. The peasants kept cursing the hellish weather, and the damn army commander Gao Qiqian, who knows if this dead eunuch is Crazy, actually choose to march to Shenyang in this ghostly weather that can kill people!

The scale of this expedition is unprecedented, almost gathering most of the Ming Dynasty's capable army. At the beginning, the people of the country were really excited. They thought that the liberation of Liaodong was hopeful. The Jiannu who had been making trouble for decades and tossing the Ming Dynasty can rest in peace. up!The common people are still very happy. The Liao pay is like a big mountain pressing on them, making them breathless. Now that slaves are forced to die, the whole Ming Dynasty is angered. Even if the Huijian slaves were not exterminated, they would at least have been beaten honestly for decades. Probably they didn’t have to pay the Liao’s wages, right? They could breathe a sigh of relief.However, after they set off for the expedition, they discovered that this was not the case. With one hundred thousand troops and hundreds of thousands of civilians moving, the clothes, food and fodder, and military pay... were all astronomical figures. They were able to add up to five liang, and the whole of Beizhili was severely searched for a round, especially in the Beijing and Tianjin areas. I don't know how many people were forced to have their families broken.There is no way, the officials in the late Ming Dynasty had no other skills, but no one could match the ability to search for the people's anointing and screw things up.Layer after layer of search, layer after layer of drifting, the Beijing-Tianjin area was scraped three feet high, but the military resources sent to the front line were far from enough, and the civil servants and some generals who accompanied the army used their power to get more money. Even fewer can be sent to the hands of the soldiers, which makes everyone complain.Shenyang is getting closer, but the morale of the Ming army is getting lower and lower.Lu Xiangsheng saw all this in his eyes and was worried. In his opinion, it was too risky to go straight to Shenyang. It was hundreds of miles from Jinzhou to Shenyang, and the supply line was so long. How could the Ming army cover it when the army turned around and attacked? This is not how the battle was fought!He begged to see Chongzhen many times, wanting to reveal all the hidden worries in his heart, but Chongzhen refused to see him, and he wrote several memorials, urging Chongzhen to stop advancing and stabilize the rear grain road first, but all of them fell to the ground——Ghost knows Did Chongzhen watch it?

In fact, Chongzhen read all the letters he wrote, but did not understand a single word.In Chongzhen's view, the situation is not a small good, but a great good, a great situation!The army came all the way, destroying the city and pulling out the stronghold, invincible, Jiannu fled in fear, and did not dare to show up to the army at all, his vanity was greatly satisfied.However, Lu Xiangsheng repeatedly wrote to say that something was not right and that it might be dangerous to go further, which made him both disappointed and annoyed.He has been waiting, and when Lu Xiangsheng figured it out, let him take Gao Qiqian's place and lead the three armies to attack Shenyang. Lu Xiangsheng's fighting skills are no match for a hundred Gao Qiqian, and Chongzhen still knows this.However, Lu Xiangsheng didn't mean to reflect at all, and kept saying, Your Majesty, you are wrong, you have been fooled by the slave establishment, and people are playing tricks on you!Humph, you mean that I am a big fool, and I don’t even know that I am being fooled around by others? I am absolutely infallible!In anger, he simply ignored Lu Xiangsheng and waited until he figured it out!

Under Chongzhen's insistence, the Ming army continued to advance despite everything.They didn't encounter any decent resistance along the way, and the Qing army kept retreating to avoid fighting.Gao Qiqian was triumphant, and said: "It is said that Jiannu are so fierce and brave, but in our family's opinion, they are just a bunch of chickens and dogs, a group of cowards who will retreat at the last moment!" Guan Ning's generals echoed: "That is The majesty of the Holy God is unpredictable, and the father-in-law has no plans to spare, how dare you stroke the beard of a tiger for mere slavery!"

Gao Qiqian liked these flattery quite a lot, he laughed and said, "What do you think Hong Tai is doing now?"

Wu Sangui said: "Maybe he is currently hiding in the ancestral temple in Shenyang, burning incense and worshiping Buddha, begging his ancestors to bless him? Unfortunately, this can't save his life!"

Gao Qiqian laughed wildly again, extremely proud.The general of the new army frowned, Li Weiluan wanted to speak a few times, looking at Chongzhen who was also smiling, but finally swallowed the words from his mouth.

Wu Sangui was wrong. Huang Taiji was not hiding in the Taimiao shivering as he said. At this moment, he was leading the army out of Shenyang, facing the attacking spearhead of the Ming army.Long before the Ming army drove out of Jinzhou, he secretly transferred the troops of the four banners to the west and went straight to the Hetao Plain, intending to annihilate the main force of the Tianxiong army with lightning speed. Zhenghuang Banner, Xianghuang Banner, Zhenghong Banner and Xianglan Banner, in addition to [-] Mongolian cavalry, [-] Han troops, the total force is basically the same as that of the Ming army.However, the Mongolian cavalry were frightened by the new Ming army. They had to fight a few big victories to restore their previous confidence and courage. As for the Han army... they can only be used as cheerleaders for the time being. They are nothing more than equipment, training, discipline, or will. They are all too far away, letting them take the lead is purely giving away their heads.What is really reliable is the Manchurian force of the four banners, but what they are facing is the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and they do not have any advantage in military strength.But Huang Taiji was full of confidence. He knew from the very beginning that he would win this battle!

In Panjin, the two armies met head-on.

Fighting from Jinzhou to Panjin, the Ming army had never met decent resistance, and when they suddenly encountered the main force of the Qing army, confusion inevitably arose.At this time, the Qing army was really not polite. Rolling iron cavalry smashed the ice and came across the wilderness. The sharp arrows they shot almost covered the sky. The Ming army was shot down in rows, and the snow was stained red with blood.At the critical juncture, Wu Sangui took the lead and led the Wu family's most elite three thousand barbarian cavalry to ram into the attacking spearhead of the Qing army's iron cavalry. Their formation was quite dense, and their armor was also made of high-quality steel. The arrows shot them like hedgehogs, but no one was injured and fell off.Yi Ding suddenly rode into the middle of the Qing army's cavalry like a hurricane, thousands of sabers formed a blue-gray curtain. The corpse retreated in embarrassment, and the morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted!

Chongzhen was overjoyed, and affectionately pressed Wu Sangui's shoulder and said loudly: "Aiqing is brave and invincible, she is really the number one warrior of the Ming Dynasty!" He generously rewarded Wu Sangui with a large number of precious royal ornaments.However, when they met the main force of the Qing army, even if they were diving high, they did not dare to venture in again, and ordered the camp to be set up, and to stabilize their position first.The Qing army was also awakened by Yi Ding Tuqi's slashing, and realized that the Ming army was no longer Wuxia Amon, and they also did not dare to underestimate the enemy. The two sides set up camps in the fields and started a confrontation.

The main force of the Qing army continued to arrive, and Gao Qiqian felt a little nervous when he saw it. He said to the generals: "This battle should be fought quickly, otherwise the more slaves will gather, the battle will be difficult!"

Wu Sangui suggested: "Father, my son inspected the enemy camp and found that the camp of the left army of Jiannu was in disarray. , defeat it in one fell swoop, and then drive the defeated soldiers to attack the camp of the Chinese army, and they will definitely defeat Jiannu in one fell swoop!"

Gao Qiqian was overjoyed: "This plan is very clever, let's fight like this!"

Both Wu Sheng and Li Weiluan advised Gao Qiqian to wait until the cannons of the Tianxiong Army arrived before launching an attack——Due to the slippery road, the twenty or so 85mm howitzers of the Tianxiong Army were still far away. The rear slipped and did not come up.Gao Qiqian didn't take it seriously, thinking that the Ming army had enough cannons, twenty or so more cannons were not too many, and less of them were not too many.Chongzhen once again supported Gao Qiqian, he was so cold that he couldn't bear it, and he wholeheartedly hoped to finish the battle and go back to Beijing... If he had known how cold this damn place was, he wouldn't have come!
The generals of the Ming army also had the same idea——— Finished the work early and called it quits early, it is really impossible to stay in this bloody cold place!Under the strict order of Gao Qiqian, the main force of the Ming army drove out of the camp, and more than 400 artillery pieces, large and small, let out earth-shattering roars at the camp of the Qing army. Especially the Zuojun camp was bombed into a mess, and the Han army stationed there rushed to the sky and fell into extreme chaos.

Before the gunpowder smoke cleared, Guan Ning's iron cavalry roared over, leaped across a mess of deer villages, and crashed into the camp of the Han army. , Killing people is like chopping melons and vegetables, and the blood of the Han army camp is like a river.Huang Taiji was not a vegetarian either, so he quickly mobilized cavalry to support him.And what greeted them was the crossbow array of the Denglai New Army. Amidst the rattle of metal, the Denglai New Army fired all their arrows, and the cavalry of the Qing Army fell down in a row as if they were being shot by Maxim heavy machine guns.The cavalry of the Qing army suffered from the crossbow formation of the Ming army, and quickly turned around to try to bypass the crossbow formation, but they ran into the Dongjiang army again.The two thousand musketeers of the Dongjiang Army lined up in three rows and fired a volley of guns. The gunshots rang like beans bursting.The Qing army quickly retaliated. Their cannons took the lead in launching the attack. Amidst the deafening roar, rows of shot balls came through the air, rolling out bloody alleys among the Ming army. Almost covering the sky, under the cover of cannons, bows and arrows, the infantry of the Qing army, wearing heavy armor and holding epees and long spears, charged forward with roars, and the Ming army also rushed forward with roars. The beast, roaring, rushing, biting, tried its best to put the opponent to death!

The plains were filled with swords and blood, and the snow was stained red by splattered blood. Every minute and every second, a large number of soldiers fell, and then more elite soldiers went up to meet them, and started a more brutal fight.The complicated battle suddenly became very simple: whoever can drain the opponent's blood before he loses too much blood and falls to the ground is the winner of this battle!
Chongzhen was watching the battle on the battlefield, watching tens of thousands of soldiers being killed to death, his face turned pale, and he vomited in a mess.For a moment, he suddenly thought that Lu Xiangsheng's words were not unreasonable, the war was not as simple as he thought!But it's too late to say anything now, Lu Xiangsheng was kicked by him to escort food and grass, at least thirty or forty miles away from here!He can only hope to stand up a bit and win this battle!
Gao Qiqian's complexion was also pale, and the arrogance accumulated all the way to destroy cities and villages was gone.He clenched his fists hidden in his sleeves tightly, and murmured, "Jiannu...is very strong!"

Zu Dacheng said: "It's just a fight between trapped beasts! Father-in-law, don't worry, Jiannu won't last long!"

Before the words fell, the Qing army began to retreat steadily—they had only so many soldiers in the whole country, and they could not afford this kind of cruel war of attrition.The Ming army took advantage of the momentum, and Denglai's new army, Dongjiang army, Guanning army, and Changping army...all showed their might, but the Tianxiong army never received an order to attack, so they could only stay behind and watch the show.But even so, the Qing army couldn't stand it anymore, and the retreat turned into a rout, leaving dead bodies all over the ground and fleeing in embarrassment. The Ming army won another big victory.Gao Qiqian made a rough estimate, there are at least 1 Qing soldiers lying here, and he was extremely proud. Yang Menglong fought bloody battles in Lushun for dozens of days, and he was killed and injured, and his beheading was only [-]. You killed over ten thousand enemies in one battle, that bastard, how can you compare with me!

In addition to the great victory, the father-in-law commanded the army to chase after him like chicken blood, while the Qing army was out of control as if they had taken laxatives, and they were completely defeated!Gao Qiqian was ecstatic, and laughed wildly: "What kind of slave chief Hongtai, what kind of Eight Banners force, that's all! Let's see our family win Liaodong!"

With a blank expression on his face, Huang Taiji casually threw out the Han army as bait, causing the Ming army to scramble to devour it: "Come on!"

(End of this chapter)