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

Chapter 877 Disaster Comes
Liaohe ferry.

In fact, there is no need to talk about a ferry now. The Liaohe River has long been frozen, and thick ice has covered the river surface. The Liaohe River is thousands of miles away, and people can drive everywhere.However, out of habit, the Ming army's luggage still passed by the ferry, because there are barracks and warehouses here, which can be used.Right now, the Liaohe Ferry is very busy, and countless wives pull horses to transport the carts and luggage across the ice.The ice surface was so slippery that people kept falling down. Mules and horses stepped on the sharp ice edges and were stabbed in the horseshoes. .All kinds of materials were piled up like a mountain at the ferry, and the petty officials were sweating profusely, busy counting and dispatching all the time, and everyone was sweating profusely.

Lu Xiangsheng watched all this with a frown, raising his head to look forward from time to time, showing a bit of worry.

From Jinzhou to Panjin, there was no strong resistance from the Qing army. The Ming army was in full swing.However, Lu Xiangsheng didn’t see it that way. He often fought against Jiannu, and he knew how dangerous this opponent was. The Ming army only built a city on the Daling River, and it attracted all the soldiers from the Jin Dynasty. Now the Ming army has beaten them. The Liaohe Plain, the confidant of Liaohe, has come, and it is impossible for the Qing army to have no reaction at all. Behind the retreat of the Qing army, there must be a terrible conspiracy hidden!

Alas, no matter how Gao Qiqian said, he led soldiers and fought in battles. Why can’t he even see this? Well, even if the dead eunuch couldn’t see it, Zu Dacheng and Wu Xiang are veteran generals, and they spent most of their lives They're all dealing with Hou Jin, can't they see it? What the hell is going on!
"Why haven't those cannons been delivered yet?" He asked with some dissatisfaction.

Deputy General Wang Ruobin said: "I have urged you, and it will be delivered tomorrow."

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Let them speed up! There is no war without cannons!"

Wang Ruobin said: "Then I will go to remind you again... Huh?" He suddenly saw the ice particles on the ice surface beating slightly, and immediately became vigilant, saying: "Master Hou, there is something wrong!"

Lu Xiangsheng has already taken out the binoculars to look around, his expression is iron: "Behind us!"

On the east bank of the Liao River, snow and dust billowed like a wall, and rumbled like rolling thunder, quickly approaching.Through the binoculars, one can clearly see that big flags are flying in the snow and dust, and tens of thousands of cavalry are coming like a flood!Farther away, pillars of smoke rushed up, mixed with the sound of explosions one after another. Obviously, this was the product of the baggage ammunition being set on fire.The Ming army couldn't help but turn pale in shock, stunned for a while, and let out a wild cry: "Jianu is here——"

With a bang, both sides of the Liaohe River were in chaos. Everyone looked at the cavalry of the Qing army coming from the wild, and their livers and gallbladders were torn.Damn it, didn't the Qing army have been scared out of their wits and were running away in the direction of Shenyang, why did they come around behind them!Those peasants didn't think too much about it. They turned pale with fright and shouted, "Run!" They threw down the things in their hands and ran away crying. As for where to run? I don't know, if I don't run, I will die. !

Lu Xiangsheng's heart sank.What he was most worried about happened. The Qing army retreated in fear. It was not fear at all, but deliberately lengthened the Ming army's supply line, and then used a powerful cavalry group to go around the Ming army's rear and cut off the Ming army's food road!This trick is really too poisonous. Now the Ming army has penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Liaohe Plain, which is two hundred miles away from Jinzhou. There is no danger to rely on. The army will soon fall into a desperate situation where it cannot fight and has no way to retreat!What's even more frightening is that it's mid-winter, and the Liaohe Plain is covered with thick ice and snow. Even if you want to dig some grass roots to eat, it's not easy. Once the grain roads are cut off, the Qing army doesn't have to fight. Just block the Ming army's route back to Jinzhou , The Ming army will soon collapse under the hunger and cold, and in the end it will either be swallowed up by the snowstorm in the Liaohe Plain, or it will be completely submerged by the rolling Manchurian cavalry!
Huang Taiji, you are so scheming!

When he saw the cavalry of the Qing army approaching like an avalanche from the rear of the Ming army, Lu Xiangsheng knew that the outcome of this battle had not lost its suspense. The only suspense was how many people from the Ming army would survive in the end!What worried him even more was that such a huge cavalry group of the Qing army could easily evade the main force of the Ming army, conceal the sentry cavalry of the Ming army, rush for hundreds of miles and go straight to the rear of the Ming army, cutting off the lifeline of the Ming army with one move. This is absolutely impossible without detailed information. There must be someone inside!He was frantic, and he just wanted to know who was so mad, and what kind of self-interest could induce him or them to personally bury a hundred thousand troops, hundreds of thousands of civilians, or even the entire empire!

"Master Hou, what should we do?" Wang Ruobin kept shouting as he watched the cavalry of the Qing army approaching.Now both sides of the Liaohe River are in chaos, tens of thousands of civilians are running like crazy, and the Tianxiong Army in charge of protecting the ferry is only more than 1000 people, how can it stop the impact of tens of thousands of cavalry!

Lu Xiangsheng came back to his senses and sternly shouted: "Form a phalanx and fight!" At the critical moment, he didn't care about the demeanor of a Confucian general, so he raised his horsewhip and lashed at those miscellaneous generals who had no masters, and yelled: "Hurry up!" What’s the panic? Isn’t it the tens of thousands of Jiannu rushing to reincarnate? There’s nothing to be afraid of! Pull your troops over immediately, with crossbowmen in front and spearmen in the rear, form an formation on the east bank to block them You, you, you, and you! Take dozens of servants to maintain order! Anyone who dares to run around and scream! Don’t stand still, act quickly, or we will all die!"

He didn't attack lightly, a bloodstain was left when he whipped down, the generals grinned, but it also woke them up, and they promised to act quickly.The thing is obvious, we must hold our ground and block Jiannu, otherwise tens of thousands of them will die here!Under their roaring, the already chaotic Ming army gathered in a mess and formed a square formation. The officers in charge of maintaining order were even more unceremonious. Hundreds of people, the peasants shuddered, and finally calmed down under the threat of death, watching the Qing army cavalry coming in fear.

When the wolf smoke was lit, a black column of smoke rose into the sky. A small group of cavalry rode out on horses with Lu Xiangsheng's autographed letter, and went to ask Gao Qiqian for help. This was the only hope to save tens of thousands of lives and save the army. !
The cavalry of the Qing army swept across the plain like a hurricane. They were getting closer and closer, and even without binoculars, they could clearly see thousands of Ming soldiers and civilian husbands running towards the Ming army with their legs spread out, trying to escape. God, but it's useless, the flying iron hoofs trampled them one by one, and crushed them into meat sauce.This scene caused many soldiers of the Ming army to fight with each other, almost peeing their pants, and more people clenched their fists. Damn Jiannu, this is to kill all of them!

Lu Xiangsheng turned his head, looked at the soldiers of the Ming army, and said loudly: "Have you seen it? That's the end of running away! This is in the Liaohe Plain, even if you all have scuds, you can't outrun Jiannu's war horses! You want to live , can only fight to the death!"

The soldiers of the Ming army shouted in unison: "Fight to the death! Fight to the death! Fight to the death!"

Lu Xiangsheng shouted: "The first row of crossbowmen come out and mark the shooting circle!"

In the past few years, both the Tianxiong Army and the Heluo New Army have turned to firearms and stopped playing with crossbows, but the Ming army instead threw away firearms and picked up strong crossbows, spending money to order large quantities from the Heluo New Army. There is no other reason. The formation-breaking crossbow is much stronger than the garbage in their hands!Lu Xiangsheng gave an order, and a row of crossbowmen came out, pointing forward horizontally with the crossbows in their hands, pulling the trigger, and there was a trembling sound, and hundreds of crossbow arrows shot out like a meteor shower, 150 meters away. Nailed in a row, the vermilion arrow shafts stuck in the snow, especially conspicuous.

1000 Two hundred soldiers of the Tianxiong Army put their muskets on their shoulders, the bullets had already been loaded, and they were waiting to pull the trigger, waiting for orders.Two hundred cavalrymen gathered around Lu Xiangsheng, their horses were flat-ended, and the long red flags on the poles were fluttering.Hundreds of pairs of Manchurian iron cavalry came from the wild. These elites who had survived a hundred battles were extraordinarily cold and calm. The civilian husband's heart has settled down a bit, and he is not as panicked as before.

Wang Ruobin watched the last batch of Ming army deserters and peasants being swallowed up by iron cavalry. He was angry and surprised: "Why didn't Jiannu capture these peasants and deserters, or drive them to attack our army formation? This is not like Jiannu's style!"

Lu Xiangsheng's face was livid, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Because their target is me!"

This time he guessed right, the target of this Qing army cavalry was him.Huang Taiji was very aware of Lu Xiangsheng's prestige in the Ming army. No matter how Chongzhen rejected him or how Gao Qiqian suppressed him, he was always Ming's god of war. I thought of him for a while, and once Lu Xiangsheng took over the command, it would be a nightmare for the Qing army.The tenacity of the Tianxiong Army who can't be beaten to death and the fierce Huang Taiji who won't let go when he sticks to it, and won't stop until he bites his opponent until he bleeds into a river, have already learned too much, so he gave this cavalry the task of It is beheading, at all costs, even if they are all killed in front of the Ming army phalanx, Lu Xiangsheng must be killed!
The rolling iron hooves left behind a large number of corpses that had been trampled to the point of inhumanity, and walked towards the dead line marked by the crossbow arrows.The Jurchen knights on horseback were all wearing the armor worn by their fathers, with a recognition flag on their backs, an arrow in their mouths, and an arrow in their hands. , let out a terrible howl in his throat, kicked the horse's belly with spurs, and slammed into the Ming army's phalanx!They seemed to have no tomorrow, gave up all hope, and desperately wanted to smash the Ming army phalanx, even if they smashed to pieces!

tom tom tom tom!

The four thunderbolt cannons of the Tianxiong Army fired, and the shells accurately fell into the tumbling torrent with a piercing howling sound, splashing a large amount of blood. Every time a shell hit, several or even dozens of horses were killed. Overturned mercilessly, the war horses neighed in horror, but they were wrapped in huge kinetic energy, unable to help themselves, they could only rush forward desperately, trampling the row of crossbow arrows under their feet!

Wang Ruobin shouted: "Fire!"

The soldiers of the Tianxiong Army leveled their rifled flintlock guns, raised their guns and fired in salvo, bang bang bang bang—the dense gunfire sounded like thunder, deafening, and the front line of the Qing cavalry suddenly sprayed a large cloud of blood mist. Several rows of cavalrymen and horses were bleeding all over their bodies, hissing mournfully, screaming and rolling into a ball.The power of the rifled flintlock far exceeded the wildest imaginations of these barbarians!There was absolutely no time to react, the musketeers in the second row took a step forward, raised their guns and fired in volley, only hitting the horse, not the people, anyway, if the horse fell down, the people would also fall down, and then they would be trampled into meat, why waste bullets?
This time more Qing cavalry fell.Three platoons of guns passed by, and the cavalry on the front line of the Qing army was almost wiped out, and the attacking arrows were mercilessly leveled.While the Tianxiong army was loading ammunition, [-] Ming army crossbowmen stepped forward and raised their crossbows in salvo. As the crossbow arrows roared, many Qing army cavalrymen were filled with crossbow arrows, and they flew backward like balloons. blood rain.The killing effects of the crossbows and muskets were astonishing. The Ming army watched the Jiannu fall down in rows with satisfaction, and calculated in their hearts how many opponents were killed by these rounds of volleys, and how much casualties they could bear.In their view, no cavalry could withstand such a violent long-range blow, and if hundreds of people were shot down, they should retreat, and the casualties of the Qing cavalry may have exceeded this number, should they retreat?
However, what was unexpected was that the cavalry of the Qing army ignored such heavy casualties and rushed forward regardless. They raised their bows and shot two arrows, and then drew their sabers. It seemed that they were going to charge directly!Such ferocity made many soldiers of the Ming army turn pale in shock!
Can they really hold out until reinforcements arrive?
Or, will reinforcements come?
(End of this chapter)