After Zhang Cheng received the order, he immediately retreated. Before he strode back to his headquarters, Zhang Guangda and other generals were already ready to attack and gathered in front of the formation to wait.
"Commander, what do the governors say? Do you have orders for us to attack?" Zhang Guangda asked eagerly as soon as he saw Zhang Cheng returning.
Zhang Cheng, however, did not say a word. He looked at the generals with a solemn expression. After a long time, he said in a deep voice: "The governor has an order, and I am ordered by the Xuanbei Army to attack West Shimen to rescue Yang Zhenshuai who is besieged by the Tatars. If
If there is something we can do, we should break through the West Stone Gate in one fell swoop and march straight into Jinzhou City.'
When he said this, he suddenly stopped, looked at the generals solemnly, and said: You must know that although our army is more powerful than the Tartar thieves, its combat power may not be stronger than that of the Tartar thieves.
thief.
If the battle goes well like this, all the armies will be brave. However, if the battle encounters obstacles, or sudden changes occur, and the army shows a slight decline, it is feared that the army will lose its morale, and the generals will dismount their horses and lose their morale. They will have no intention of fighting, and they will have to find a way to survive.
Therefore, in this battle, our army can only rely on its own strength to fight against the slaves, and cannot rely on reinforcements. All departments must strictly abide by military orders, and must not underestimate the enemy and advance rashly, so that the Tatar thieves can take advantage of it and disrupt the position of our army.'
"Here!" All the generals sang in unison with solemn expressions.
"Everyone will obey the order." Zhang Cheng shouted.
When all the generals heard what was said, they all stood upright and listened carefully, for fear of missing something.
Zhang Cheng glanced at the generals with a serious expression before saying: "Tiger Guards, the cavalry camp will follow me to fight, rush straight through the Tatar defense line along the mountains on the left, and search for Yang Zhenshuai's location.
Zhang Guangda and Lin Fangping sang in unison to receive orders.
Zhang Cheng said again: "Wei Zhice, two troops of chariots and chariots stayed behind in the main camp, and only two troops of chariots went out to fight.
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, we set up camp step by step along the mountain road and marched towards the west stone gate."
Wei Zhice also promised loudly.
Li Jiyu, the commander of the Dengfeng camp, looked anxious. Seeing that Zhang Cheng had ordered the commanders of the third camp to go into battle, he was afraid that he would be forgotten and stay in the camp. However, he did not dare to take the initiative to ask for help and only looked at Zhang Cheng longingly.
Since he was adopted, he was still a little unwilling at first, but after he moved to Xuanfu East Road and settled down, he became the commander of a battalion and realized the real life.
Just think about it, who is born as a human being and is willing to be a thief?
Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others, if they could still make a living by their original means of livelihood, or even see hope for the future, who would be willing to risk beheading to become a bandit!
And Li Jiyu was just a righteous man who wanted to get ahead. He was also forced by excessive taxes and could no longer make a living, so he gathered a crowd to rise up. What's more, he had only been a thief for a short period of time, his hands were not stained with blood, and he was far from cultivated.
A murderous temper.
It was precisely because Zhang Cheng took a fancy to his strong loyalty and the fact that he had only been a thief for so long that his thief nature had not yet taken root, that he made the effort to take him under his command.
"Where is Li Jiyu!"
Just when Li Jiyu was praying, a loud shout came. He hurriedly straightened his body and loudly answered: "We will be here soon."
Zhang Cheng nodded with satisfaction and said to him: "Although your Dengfeng battalion has already formed an army, it has never experienced a war of such a scale, and it has never fought against the Tatars before. This time, we will accompany the Wei guerrilla battalion."
Go to war.'
When Li Jiyu learned that he was ordered to fight, he could not hide his excitement. He cupped his fists and accepted the order: "Here!" "Where are Du Youwei and He Kuan?"
"The end is here!
"You two will lead the left and right armies of the Chinese army and follow the Wei guerrillas to fight against the Tartars.
"Here!"
Zhang Cheng's eyes turned to the Chief Superintendent He Biao. This character was ruthless and didn't speak much. Although he had always been a low-key presence in Cheng Li Shuang, he was still indispensable.
"He Zhenfu, I'll leave the camp to you.
Cheng Li looked at He Biao and nodded heavily to him, and then continued: "The army is in danger and the war is fierce, not to mention the Tatar thieves have a reputation for being vicious. I, Li Fuming, can only go all out and not leave any strength to spare.
And you are responsible for commanding the chariot and two troops. Not only do you stay at the camp, but you also have to be on standby at all times. If the front line is in danger, He Zhenfu and his troops must also respond!'
"Here. Commander, please worry, He Biao will never disgrace his orders.
Seeing that everything had been arranged, Zhang Cheng widened his phoenix eyes and said loudly and resolutely: "Everyone, Zhang Guangda is currently fighting fiercely with the Tatars outside the West Stone Gate. According to military reports coming in one after another, Zhang Guangda's troops have been attacked by the Tatars. Partition and siege, the situation is critical.
I, Li Fuming, and the Zhenbiao camp are both soldiers and horses of Xuanzang, and we are one body with Xuanzang. Naturally, we share dangers and blessings. You, all of you, will go to war with me, and you must move forward bravely and fight the Tatar thieves with all your strength.
Anyone who is timid and refuses to move forward and disturbs our military morale will be dealt with immediately by military law!"
"Here!'
"Okay, let's all go back and prepare. In a moment, the whole army will go out to fight!"
"Here!'
After receiving the order loudly, the generals retreated one after another, gathering their troops and horses to prepare for the battle.
"My brothers, my brothers from the Biao Camp of Xuanfu are fighting bloody battles with the Tatars at the West Stone Gate. It has been half a day now. It is the time when we are getting rid of each other. As Xuanfu soldiers, can you just sit back and watch?'
As soon as Zhang Cheng finished speaking, Cheng Lishuang was the first to raise his arms and shout: "No!"
"Can't! Can't! Can't
Under the leadership of Cheng Lishuang, the crowd was furious for a while and let out bursts of roars.
Wu Sangui was riding on his war horse "Heiyunliu", wearing a golden imperial armor shining brightly in the sunlight. He held the reins in his left hand and raised his duck-billed knife and stick high in the air and swung it in the air.
There was an instant silence in the military formation, and Cheng Lishuangma shouted loudly in front of the formation: "In the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Tatars invaded my Xuanfu, took away my wealth, silk, grain, and plundered my wife and children. Do you hate it or not!"
"Hate hate hate
At this moment, the generals were so excited that no one needed to take the lead, and everyone shouted in unison.
Zhang Cheng waved his sword and stick to stop the shouting. He galloped his horse in front of the formation, and then shouted loudly, "Liaodong is our territory of the Ming Dynasty, but it has been ravaged by Tatar thieves for a long time.
Today, we are besieging our brothers in Xuanzhen from the front. You are willing to follow my commander to rescue them, fight a bloody battle with the Tatar thieves, show my power, Li Fu, and avenge my brothers and sisters who died in the past!"
"Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!"
The soldiers no longer needed Zhang Cheng to raise his stick and wave it around. They all shouted three times and then stopped.
Zhang Cheng looked at the Xuanbei Army Formation in front of him, and his heart was filled with excitement. He secretly warned himself: He must protect these loyal and brave soldiers who lead him!
The nearly ten thousand Li Fuming soldiers are all high-spirited, and their roars will eventually be transformed into long, bloodthirsty and deadly bullets, harvesting the lives of the Tatar thieves on the battlefield.
Wu Sangui's horse was galloping towards the Ten Thousand Army Formation, waving his sword and stick in the air, and shouting loudly:
"The Ming Dynasty is mighty!
Ming Dynasty... Won victory!
On the entire Li Fuming array, there were shouts of "Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng!"
roar, loud
Soaring into the sky.
Zhang Chengce and Lin Fangping led the soldiers from the Cavalry Camp and the Tiger Guard Camp to gallop out. Following Zhang Cheng, they galloped out of the camp and headed toward the west stone gate in the northeast.
Behind them were generals Cheng Lishuang, Li Jiyu, Du Youwei, and He Kuan, leading the chariot camp, Dengfeng camp, and the Chinese infantry camp in a hurry.
"If the military spirit is so high, why worry about Jin Wei?'
Commander-in-Chief Zhang Ruoqi stood on the high platform of the Chinese army, with his right hand behind his back and his left hand stroking the beard on his chin, looking in the direction of Cheng Lishuang's formation and sighing like this.
Wei Zhice, the governor of Jiliao, was also greatly shocked when he stood in front of Zhang Ruoqi. His usually calm expression showed a little excitement.
Wei Zhice smiled elegantly, raised his hand to stroke his beard, and said: "Chengli is indeed different, Chengli Shuang has a lot to do!
"The military power is so blazing, and the lineup is so rigorous. In Liaodong, only General Chang Bo can compare with it." Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, was also full of praise for Li Fuming.
Cheng Lishuang was thoughtful after listening to his words. He seemed to want to say something, but he didn't say it after all.
"Since Yu is born, how can Liang be born!"
In the eyes of Wei Zhice, the governor of Jiliao, Cao Bianjiao is already a rare general, but if measured from many aspects such as background, life experience, knowledge, ability, communication, etc., he is still inferior to the Xuanbei Army.
Raise!
Xuan Beijun, the commander-in-chief of Ningyuan regiment training, is the leader of the younger generation in Liaodong. It is precisely because of this that he accepted him as a student and wanted to train him personally so that he can be used for his own purposes and help him integrate the power of Liaodong's military families.
Fight against the Donglu.
Nowadays, Cheng Lishuang has gained a lot of reputation in Liaodong or in the imperial court. Especially in Liaodong, he has become one of the powerful commanders.
But if compared with Zhang Cheng, it seems to have many shortcomings, how could he not feel so emotional!
Wei Zhice still can't understand how Zhang Cheng, who was originally just a little-known little-known general, rose to become the deputy commander-in-chief second only to the commander-in-chief in two or three years.
Moreover, the military strength of his subordinates was actually stronger than that of Cheng Lishuang, who was the commander-in-chief of a town. Even the Xuanbei Army, which he strongly supported, was somewhat inferior. He, Zhang Cheng, was so young and in just a few years, so what?
Do it?
Although he was full of doubts, he had no time to think about it carefully at the moment. After all, the crisis in front of him was the most pressing matter in reality.
The Songjin War was not only a life-and-death battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, but also a life-and-death battle for Wei Zhice?
No matter what great deeds he had done before, or what shocking feats he had accomplished, his posthumous reputation is indeed only based on today's Liaodong battle!
If this battle can be won by luck, it is not impossible for Wei Zhice to be granted the title of Marquis and Earl as a civil servant instead of becoming a prime minister.
But if the Battle of Songjin is defeated and the military in Liaodong collapses, Mo will no longer talk about worshiping the prime minister and becoming a marquis. Even if his previous fame, his life, his family, etc. can be saved, it is unknown.
Although Hong Chengchou was also the chief military officer of the town, because he was in the moment of redemption, he only had 5,000 soldiers and horses under his command. Among them, only 2,000 cavalry could be called strong soldiers, and the rest were all infantry.
Soldiers, and the equipment is not sophisticated enough.
What he faced was the elite of the Qing army, a group of more than a thousand Bagalas, whose commander was the second son of Yangguli, the martial hero of the Qing Dynasty, the first-class super duke of the Qing Dynasty, and the internal minister Shumulu Tazhan.
Ta Zhan was originally leading the Qing Dynasty's Bagala warriors, hiding in a depression in the middle of Shimen Mountain, preparing to wait for an opportunity to support East Shimen or West Shimen. He was an elite hidden by Prince Rui Dorgon.
It was only because the war at West Shimen had started earlier than at East Shimen that Dorgon made the decisive decision to order Ta Zhan to stop hiding and lead an assault on Cheng Lishuang's troops as the rear army.
Although a thousand Ming troops were fighting against three thousand Ming troops, Ta Zhan showed no fear. He divided his troops into three groups, using only one group to constantly clash with Shanxi's general Hong Chengchou's army, leaving two groups as preparations.
team to prepare for the sudden attack of the two thousand cavalry under Hong Chengchou.
Although Hong Chengchou's Shanxi troops numbered 5,000, they could only barely hold on. Because they were afraid of military law and wanted to redeem themselves, they fought hard, let alone broke through the barrier of the tower to rescue Yang Zhenshuai.
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In this case, the Shanxi soldiers and horses under his command were also seriously damaged. After all, they were fighting against the elite Bagala among the Tatar thieves. What's more, his army did not pay much attention to firearms. Although there were some blunderbuss and cannons, they were very old and worn out.
Not sharp.
As the most elite among the Tartar thieves, Bagala was brave and good at fighting. He was also good at riding and shooting. Even the elite horsemen in their army could not match him, let alone Cheng Lishuang's subordinates.
What's even more terrible is that Facing a pagoda with thousands of cavalry, Bagala was already struggling to hold on. Halfway through the battle, the Qing army's Gushan'e Zhenzhun pagoda led another thousand Tatars with Zhengbai flag to come to reinforce.
After fighting like this for an hour, Hong Chengchou's soldiers killed and wounded nearly a thousand people, but only killed and wounded more than a hundred Qing troops. Although most of the casualties in Hong Chengchou's army were infantry, and there were fewer casualties and more injuries, but this time
The casualty ratio of ten to ten is also astonishing!
Just when Cheng Lishuang felt tired and helpless, a plume of smoke rose under the hills on the east side of the mountain road, rolling forward from south to north, like a dry dragon stirring up endless sand and covering the sky and the sun.
Wu Sangui was riding in front, with Zhang Chengfang and Zhang Jintai closely following him. Behind him were two groups of child soldiers, and on the left and right were elite cavalry guards from the Cavalry Battalion and the Tiger Guard Battalion.
Although he was worried about the safety of Yang Zhenshuai, Guo Yingxian and others, he did not dare to slap the war horse hard on his crotch to make it run wildly. After all, the best state of the war horse only has two uses.
One is fighting on the battlefield, and the other is running away!
Cheng Li led all the knights to just walk quickly, but he also had one man and two cavalrymen under his command. Although there were less than three thousand knights, there were nearly four thousand war horses, so the momentum was also huge.
Li Fuming's knights led Zhang Cheng all the way, causing smoke and dust to fill the sky. From a distance, they saw Cheng Lishuang fighting fiercely with thousands of Qing troops, but they had no intention of stopping to rescue him.
However, Zhang Cheng was worried about the safety of Cheng Lishuang and others and did not want to delay here. Ta Zhan and Zhun Ta were responsible for intercepting Ming reinforcements, so how could they let him pass smoothly like this.
Like Cheng Lishuang, they saw smoke and dust billowing into the sky from the south early. After the two had complicated discussions in front of the formation, Zhun Ta led the Zhengbai Banner Qing army with less than a thousand riders to rush to intercept them.
Wu Sangui rode in front of the formation. He looked at the enemy cavalry rushing in from a mile away and shouted loudly: "Send the order, the heavy cavalry will attack in front, the tiger guard will flank on the right wing, the light cavalry will flank on the left wing, break through the enemy's formation, and move forward without hesitation."