Yang Guozhu, the chief military officer of Xuanfu Town and General Zhenshuo, was hit by a Tatar arrow on his crotch. In pain, he ran for more than 70 steps to the northwest. Suddenly he lost his front hoof and fell to the ground.
Although Yang Guozhu has been in battle for a long time and has mounted and dismounted countless times, he does not have many such experiences. However, after all, he is an experienced general and has often experienced battles, so his reactions can be said to be very fast.
I saw Yang Guozhu putting the tiger spear forward on the ground. The moment the horse fell down, Yang Guozhu's strong body leaped forward with the strength of the tiger spear on the ground.
His servant landed on the ground, and he had not yet fully stood up, so he heard the continuous sound of "fluttering. Bang".
superior.
Yang Guozhu had just stood still when he heard the rapid sound of horse hooves hitting the ground "rumbling" behind him.
"Master General, mount your horse quickly!"
- The famous servant Ding ran to his side first, immediately got off his horse, handed the reins of the war horse into Yang Guozhu's hand, and urged him to get on the horse quickly.
Yang Guozhu only turned his head to glance at the servant, then got on his horse and shouted to him: "Young boy from the Tan family, follow closely until the general brings you a rogue horse!"
At this time, all the servants followed on horseback. Yang Guozhu knew that the siege this time was extremely dangerous. If the slave chief Dorgon had not deliberately lured him to surrender in order to undermine the morale of the Ming Dynasty King's army, he would have been surrounded and annihilated.
Just above the high post
He did not dare to delay any further. At the same time, he also knew that Shanxi Commander-in-Chief Li Fuming had not come to help until now, which meant that he was intercepted by the Tatar army and could not go there.
Even if he could go, how could he leave the soldiers of Zhenbiao Camp and escape alone?
The current plan is to rush towards the West Shimen direction, find Guo Yingxian, He Zhenxiong and other generals and sergeants to meet up, and then try to form a defensive formation in a dangerous place and wait for reinforcements.
He hit the horse and galloped to the front. When a servant rushed past the Chen family boy, he shouted, "Tan Zhenlin, get on the horse quickly!"
As the servant spoke, he grabbed the reins with his right hand, leaned his body to the left, and at the same time held out his left hand. Tan Zhenlin didn't know what he meant.
Tan Zhenlin grabbed the big hand that was stretched out, and with the force of the horse's forward thrust, he easily jumped onto the horse's back and sat firmly behind the servant.
Even so, he still held the mace tightly with his right hand, patted the servant's waist with his left hand, and said, "Brother Huang, thank you."
"Donkey Ball, my brother, thank you for your help.
The south of Jinzhou City was like a purgatory on earth, with fires and beacons everywhere. Both the Ming and Qing Dynasties invested nearly 200,000 troops in a melee.
Living beings fell here one by one and never got up again, roars and shouts of death were heard, and from time to time there was the roar of cannons and cannons.
At this moment, no one's heart is at peace, including Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao in the Ming Dynasty, and Dorgon, the prince of Heshuorui in the Qing Dynasty. The most nervous and uneasy person is probably Zu Dashou who is guarding Jinzhou City.
Although the outer city of Jinzhou has been destroyed, the inner city is strong, and Wu Sangui risked his life to transport grain, so there is plenty of grain. Even if he holds on for another three months, or even half a year, there will be no problem.
The problem is nothing more than fuel and wood, but there are many houses in the inner city, and the worst case scenario is that they will all be demolished. A living person cannot suffocate to death, and when he looks at the grain, he will always find a way to feed him.
Just now, he sent his younger brother Zu Dabi to lead nearly 10,000 troops to fight, and it seemed to be going well. According to the battle reports from the front, the Tatars were obviously a little short of strength, and they actually broke through the first ditch in one charge.
Ma Hongzhong was overjoyed. His original intention of sending troops to attack was just to test the situation. If something was possible, he would attack with all his strength and cooperate with Yang Guozhu's reinforcements to try to break the siege of Jinzhou in one battle.
Now, seeing that there was something he could do, he immediately decided to personally lead five thousand soldiers and horses out of the city to help in the battle, trying to break through the three blockade trenches of the Tartars and join up with Yang Guozhu, the governor of Jiliao who came to help.
If they can join forces with the hundreds of thousands of troops coming to help and build a passage south of Jinzhou City to replenish supplies for the inner city of Jinzhou, then the Tatars' plan to encircle Jinzhou will also come to nothing.
Before leaving, Zu Dacheng came to see him off. He specifically asked Zu Dacheng to strictly guard all the gates and arrange for reliable servants and generals to be responsible for them. They must protect both the outside and the inside.
Zu Dacheng, on the other hand, repeatedly warned his brother Hong Chengchou that if something cannot be done, do not force it. You can retreat first and think of good solutions in the future. As the saying goes, if you leave the green hills, you will not have to worry about having no firewood!
There were originally more than 20,000 elite Liaodong soldiers in Jinzhou City, among whom there were thousands of servants from the ancestral family alone, and the rest were also local Liao people, all of whom had proven themselves in hundreds of battles.
They have been fighting against the Tatars and Northerners for more than ten years on the land of Liaodong. Although they still cannot defeat the Tatars in field battles, they are among the few military officers in the Ming Dynasty who dare to fight against the Tatars in the field.
Hong Chengchou didn't say much. After bidding farewell to his younger brother Zu Dacheng, he led his troops and rode straight to the outside of Nanguan. With the addition of his new force, after a bloody battle, he finally broke through the second trench of the Qing army's siege of Jinzhou.
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However, Hong Chengchou's 12,000 troops broke through two lines of defense of the Tatars in succession, and also lost more than 2,000 soldiers. Moreover, deputy general Xu Changyong died in the battle, and Ma Hongzhong's nephew Zeyuan was also wounded and withdrew. This shows the usefulness of the war.
The Ming army under Ma Hongzhong suffered heavy casualties, and the Qing army in the south of Jinzhou City was not nervous. After all, what they faced was a desperate charge launched by almost the strongest army in the Ming Dynasty.
The main force of the Qing army was mobilized to the Rufeng Mountain, Shimen Mountain, and Huangtu Ridge lines to defend against the hundreds of thousands of troops of Yang Guozhu, the governor of Ma Hong. The surrounding troops were not enough.
In the south of Jinzhou City, they also suffered nearly 2,000 casualties, but Hong Chengchou was still able to break through two lines of defense. He saw that the third line of defense in the Jinzhou ditch was also extremely critical.
Hong Chengchou's face was covered with blood, and he roared angrily to boost his morale, because he had seen the dawn of failure, which gave rise to hope!
He had abandoned his horse and fought on foot for a long time. He was standing on a trench wall, looking at the killing field in front of him. His eyes were as hot as fire, as if he was going to completely burn down the last ditch defense line of the Qing army.
Hong Chengchou's armor was also covered with more than ten arrows, and his body was covered with traces of blood mixed with soil. It was not clear whether it was his own blood or the blood of the Tatars.
"Kill! Kill him. Jinzhou can be saved."
He was yelling excitedly and was about to rush forward to kill the thieves together with the soldiers.
Suddenly, Hong Chengchou's body froze in place for an instant, and his movements were extremely strange. In the direction he looked, from the southwest behind the third trench of the fence, a group of Tatar thieves were approaching at a fast pace.
Looking at the reinforcements from the nearby Tatars, there seemed to be thousands of troops. In order to take advantage of the advantage just now and the high morale of successive trench breaches, Hong Chengchou wanted to use a rush attack strategy to quickly break through the third trench.
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Therefore, in front of this final trench, the damage was relatively heavy. Although the Eight Banners of Manchuria were killed and wounded in bloody hand-to-hand combat, the Eight Banners of the Han Army had more than 2,000 men and horses, and they themselves also lost more than a thousand veterans.
Seeing that the hope of breaking through this last line of defense was about to be shattered, how could Hong Chengchou give in? He rushed down the trench wall and shouted loudly: "Kill, rush the trench, kill the thieves!"
Now, we can only hope that before the Tatar reinforcements reach the trench, we can kill the Tatar and Han troops here and seize the trench first. Then it will be much more difficult to hold on.
Ma Hongzhong, a general in Xuanzhen of the Ming Dynasty, was killed until his eyes were red, as if he was about to spit out blood for his purpose. He rode his horse and rushed forward, shouting: "Kill the Tartars."
His roar exploded instantly, and more than a thousand soldiers roared in unison. There was only one word, one word that could really kill people: "Kill!"
A burst of arrows came flying towards him, but Tan Zhenlin did not dodge. Instead, he clamped his legs tightly on the horse's belly, urging the horse under his crotch to charge hard. A light tiger spear with a black and red tip appeared far away. stabbed forward.
"ah!'
Ma Hongzhong opened his mouth wide, with a rare look of astonishment in his eyes.
But he had no time to think about it. The square and sturdy general opposite him was rushing towards him regardless. He was covered with arrows, but they couldn't make him stop at all. The face was full of arrows. Scar's big face is getting closer and closer, becoming more and more terrifying and ferocious.
Although Ma Hongzhong was already fearful, he also knew that if he retreated at this time, the army would be defeated and he would inevitably die if he returned, and he would also blame his family. He had no choice but to retreat, so he had to move forward to face the tiger on the opposite side. The blood-red tip of the gun rushed forward.
If you die and accept your fate, if you can survive, it will be another great achievement!
Guo Yingxian thrust his long sword forward, clamped the horse's belly with both legs, and urged the horse to gallop. At the same time, he shouted in Tatar: "Kill, kill the clear dog."
Five hundred Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner heavy armored cavalry also roared in unison. Most of them roared in Mongolian, and only a few of them roared in Tatar.
“Ding pfft..’
An arrow flew and hit Ma Hongzhong's left shoulder, breaking through the armor leaves and going straight into the flesh. The blood instantly dyed the armor on his left shoulder red.
Tan Zhenlin's face tightened. He endured the pain and struggled to control the reins with his left hand to adjust the charging angle of the horse under his crotch. He held out the tiger gun with his right hand and clamped the tail of the gun under his arm to make the protruding gun head more stable.
There was a distance of more than a hundred steps, and in a matter of seconds, the cavalry from both sides collided with each other. Seven or eight cavalrymen from each side were knocked off their horses during the collision, and were trampled by the horses that followed. The situation was horrific. !
"Slave thief, come and accept your fate
Tan Zhenlin's howl was as loud as thunder. Ma Hongzhong was stunned and the two horses passed each other, but Guo Yingxian's body moved in the opposite direction.
But his beloved war horse had abandoned him and galloped forward alone without even looking back, showing no care for his old master.
Guo Yingxian was no longer able to care about his horse. His mind went blank and there was no sparkle in his eyes. He only felt that his body seemed to be floating gently in the air.
Not far in front of him, there was a big face covered with scars, staring ferociously at him. Those big eyes were full of anger. This was the first time that he felt that southerners could be so scary.
Ma Hongzhong suddenly woke up, his head thrust upwards, and his hands stretched forward, as if he wanted to scratch the big face that made him feel terrible. He tried his best, but couldn't touch it.
He opened his mouth wide and wanted to shout something, but he could only roar "ho ho ho", and mouthfuls of bright red blood kept pouring out of his mouth as he roared.
Guo Yingxian's eyes became brighter and brighter, and his expression turned ferocious. He finally stopped shouting "ho ho", and his hands hung down weakly, like a huge scarecrow being held diagonally on the tip of a gun by Tan Zhenlin.
He, Guo Yingxian, the Gushan Ezhen of the Zhenghuang Banner of the Eight Banners of Mongolia in the Qing Dynasty, actually became the trophy of Ma Hongzhong, the general of Xuanzhen of the Ming Dynasty, a sign of failure for losers, and a battle flag on other people's lances.
As an invader, to bid farewell to the battlefield and his own life in such a way may be a worthy death.
The Mongols were originally the best at riding and shooting, and were even far better than the captive cavalry of the Jiannu. When it came to charging and fighting on horseback, or dismounting and fighting on foot, the Mongols were far inferior to the Jiannu.
Today, they met the Ming Dynasty Jingqi under Tan Zhenlin. They could have fought equally, but Guo Yingxian made the mistake of dividing his troops first, and was attacked by Ma Hongzhong in three directions with superior force.
Next, there was another leak in the house and it rained all night. As the commander-in-chief, Guo Yingxian was killed by the bright general Tan Zhenlin in a battle. The morale of the army was immediately wiped out and the morale of the army was lost.
- Under the three-way charge and stranglehold of more than a thousand Ming army elite cavalry, the five hundred Mongolian heavy cavalry suffered heavy losses, collapsed on the spot, and fled in all directions.
Ma Hongzhong knew that although he had defeated the 500 Mongolian heavy cavalry, there were still more than 2,000 Mongolian cavalry around him. He did not dare to stay for a long time, so he threw his tiger spear to the side and shouted: "Beheaded, take it with you."
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The knight next to him took Guo Yingxian's body, chopped off his head with a swing of his axe, and stuffed it into his saddlebag.
"My sons, don't be too eager to fight. Go northwest!"
Tan Zhenlin roared and then rode his horse to continue rushing to the northwest, while the Mongolian Qingqi were chasing after him from a distance. However, it was clearly felt that they were not as active and brave as before.
The armor between Ma Hongzhong's ribs was shattered into pieces, and it was a bright red. It was vaguely visible that the flesh and blood were protruding out, and little drops of blood could not help falling as the horse galloped.
It turned out that when he was hedging, Guo Yingxian's knife was stabbed in his left rib. Fortunately, his tiger spear was stabbed in Guo Yingxian's chest. Otherwise, it would be hard to say who would win!
Zhang Guangda followed the 300 heavily armored knights of the Xuanbei Army and walked quickly against the nearly 1,000 Zhengbai Banner Tatars from Gushan'e Zhenzhun Pagoda.
The soldiers of the Heavy Cavalry Department all have three horses per person. One is the pack horse, which is only used to pull the war horse gear and carry the soldiers' armor and weapons; the second is the riding horse, used for riding; the third is the war horse, which is only used before the battle.
Then he put on his armor, and the knight rode and charged.
Zhang Guangda rode in the lead. There were only 60 heavily armored knights in the first row, and there were five rows in total. Although they were moving quickly, the rows of armored horses, plus the knights in full armor, gave people a full impression.
Feeling of oppression.
Behind them were Zhang Chengqi's infantry soldiers, and the soldiers of the Cavalry Department and the Mongolian Cavalry Department of the Cavalry Camp. On the left and right wings of the heavy cavalry were the light cavalry troops, and the knights of the Tiger Guard Camp were guarding them.
After all, although a heavy horse is powerful, it is not durable. The war horse gear and the soldier's armor are too heavy. Over time, the war horse will not be able to bear it.
But when it comes to charging, it's really hard to stop it!