In the eastern suburbs of Beijing, on the north bank of the Empress Dowager Xiao River, sixteen Qing army vests on the official road were ambushed by Zhang Cheng's right sentinel commander.
There was a roar of muskets and cannons, and a volley of bows and arrows fired. The people fell on their backs, and there were not many left.
There were more than twenty three-eyed muskets, such a close range bombardment, and there were more than thirty bows firing rows of arrows. Not to mention the captive cavalry, there were only sixteen cavalry. Even if it was doubled, it would still be all.
Not much left.
A Qing army vest whose face was covered with blood, and blood constantly gushing out from his chest, picked up the mace in his hand, howled loudly, and rushed into the woods.
Bao Jiqiang, the officer of Team B, had just stood up when he saw him rushing toward him crookedly. He held his head with a three-eyed gun in his hand. The Qing soldier in the waistcoat said nothing. He tilted his head and fell to the ground.
A trace of sound.
When Tong Shoushan's three-eyed blunderbuss fired, the Qing army's commander, Shiku, clamped down on the horse's belly and urged the horse forward, dodging the blunderbuss, cannons, and bows and arrows.
After Qing Jun Zhuangda fell off his horse, he rolled on the ground. As soon as he stood up, he saw an arrow flying towards him, hitting him in the left shoulder. This arrow actually inspired his madness and shouted: "Warriors, kill me.
dog……"
He picked up the short ax in his hand and rushed up to Tong Shoushan. At this moment, an arrow flew from the west of the official road and hit his back. He ignored the short ax and chopped it down towards Tong Shoushan.
With a "bang" sound, Tong Shoushan swung the three-eyed gun, knocked the short ax in his hand, raised his foot and kicked Qing Jun Zhuangda on the chest. He fell off his horse and was hit by two arrows.
Supported by a surge of excitement, this kick only made him take a step back and did not fall.
A Ming soldier rushed over from the side and hit the strong man with a three-eyed gun on his knees. He suddenly knelt on the ground, his eyes widened, opened his mouth and shouted, using his last bit of strength, he hit the gun in his hand.
The short ax was thrown towards Tong Shoushan.
Tong Shoushan ducked forward to the left, and the short ax was nailed to a tree next to him, and the handle of the ax was still shaking.
All the soldiers of the Ming army swarmed forward and besieged the Qing army's horse cavalry who still had strength and were not dead. A brutal ambush ended in a complete victory for the Ming army.
Tong Shoushan looked at the corpses of Qing soldiers scattered on the official road and shouted: "Quick, chop off the heads, gather the horses, and prepare to retreat."
At this time, there was the sound of horse hooves in the southwest, and Du Cheng, the first commander of Team A and Team C, came riding a big black horse. A hemp rope was tied around his waist, and the other end was tied around the Qing army commander who had just run ahead.
On Depo Shiku's legs, he was dragging Depo Shiku upside down and running towards him from the direction of the hill.
Before he reached Tong Shoushan, he shouted loudly: "Tong Tou, let's catch a Tatar head. There are hundreds of Tatars behind us, heading northeast!"
While he was speaking, the other nine brothers in his armor were also running over quickly behind him.
"Quick, don't chop off the heads that haven't been chopped off, mount your horse and go back to camp. Quick!"
He yelled and rushed into the forest. A group of sergeants held their pigtails in their hands as if they were carrying fat mice, and hurried back to the forest.
Sergeant Yijia, who was guarding the horses in the forest over there, had seen the ambush on the official road and was driving his horses towards this side.
, threw it into the pocket next to the saddle, and then hit the horse and ran wildly.
Three sergeants were too late to behead the Qing soldier, but they had no choice but to grab the Qing soldier's corpse by one foot and drag it along the ground.
They took over the horses, hurriedly took out the hemp ropes, tied the bodies of the Qing soldiers to the horses' backs, took them and ran away, following the brigade.
Du Cheng, the first commander of Team A and Team C, had no time to change his own war horse, so he rode on the stolen Qing army's Shiku war horse. He did not forget to gallop the horse while pulling up the hemp rope little by little.
The Qing soldier who had been dragged on the ground for a long time and was stumbling all over the place was sent to Bashiku to pull him up with all his strength.
He placed him across the horse's back, and quickly wrapped the hemp rope around his body several times, tying him up like a long rice dumpling, and then threw him on the back of his own horse.
He only held the other end of the hemp rope to prevent him from falling off the horse when the horse galloped.
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It turned out that since Lu Xiangsheng led Xuanda and the Qin Wang troops from the three towns in Shanxi to garrison in the southeastern suburbs of Beijing, they had changed from the previous state of the Beijing camp where they turned around and ran away when they saw the Qing army sentries and cavalry.
They dared to fight hard when the strength of both sides was appropriate. The Qing army's cavalry who went out to scout and harass began to suffer casualties, which continued to increase.
Therefore, the Qing army also changed its strategy. They changed to sending out sentries in large groups and harassing the Ming army's garrison area. Instead of Zhuangda leading a group of soldiers to go out, Bashiku was assigned to lead a group of captives to go out.
This time, Niu Luzhangjing led the team, so there was Fendebo Shiku who led the team to scout in front. Niulu Zhangjing originally thought that even if they encountered the Ming Army cavalry, the sixteen people in front would
The cavalry will stick to the Ming army's sentry cavalry, and it just so happens that he leads the large group to outflank them from behind.
But he never expected that one of his men, Bashiku, and fifteen Qing warriors would be ambushed by more than sixty Ming army elite cavalry, and be wiped out in an instant.
From a distance away, he heard the roar of cannons and cannons on the official road ahead, and quickly urged his Qing warriors to gallop forward, intending to catch up to rescue the small group of Qing troops, and also to capture the ambushed Ming troops.
The cavalry was also eliminated so that they could go back and claim credit and reward in front of the banner masters, the Belles.
On the official road, the headless corpses of the Qing army lay everywhere, which shocked Niu Lu Zhangjing. In a short time, all sixteen warriors of the Qing Dynasty were ambushed and wiped out by Ming Gouzi, whom he once looked down upon.
He was extremely angry and shouted loudly: "Catch up with those bright dogs and avenge our Qing warriors."
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Tong Shoushan and the others crossed the Liangshui River and went out on guard. They were one man and two horses. At this moment, more than a hundred war horses were galloping on the official road.
About a mile behind them, a large cloud of smoke and dust was rolling forward, chasing them like a man-eating beast.
Tong Shoushan Ce shouted to the two escorts and messengers beside him on his horse: "You two quickly go to the left commander and tell him to retreat quickly. I will lead the Tatars in a circle and go quickly."
After he ordered the two of them, he said hello to the two team officers and began to slow down the speed of the war horse. This would not only buy some time for the two incoming soldiers, but also allow the war horse behind him to rest.
After the war horse slowed down, Tong Shoushan and the two team officers shouted loudly: "Change horses, change horses quickly."
For a moment, the horses crossed each other and the silhouettes of people flickered. The knights took advantage of the moment when the horses slowed down and switched to the horses that had just run away, so that the horses that had just carried them could regain their foot strength.
Seeing Tong Shoushan and his horses slowing down, the Qing army chasing behind them also began to slow down. The ones in front of them even took out bows and arrows in their hands. But when they chased them to a distance of more than 200 steps, they saw the Ming army cavalry in front starting to start again.
Speed up the race.
Niulu Zhangjing hurriedly shouted loudly, urged the horses again, and accelerated the pursuit. Although it was a bit hasty, most of the Qing cavalry who had experienced hundreds of battles completed the change of horses in the moment just now.
It's just that the acceleration of a war horse is not like that of an automatic transmission car, where you can pick up the speed by pressing the accelerator hard. The acceleration of this war horse is like a manual transmission car. It needs to constantly adjust the state, increase gears, and have close cooperation with the accelerator to control the speed of the car.
Instant improvement.
The Qing cavalry was about a mile away from the Ming army, and they had already chased them to a distance of 200 paces. Unexpectedly, the Ming army suddenly accelerated and ran away. Although they tried hard to move their horses, they could only maintain 300 paces.
Despite the distance to the left and right, they were still unable to catch up with the Ming cavalry in front.