Chapter 907 A good man whose reputation will be passed down through the ages
On September 19, at the end of Chenshi, about three miles southwest of Dalinghe Fort, it was the soldiers of the Huwei Battalion of the Xuanfu Army who attacked the escort of Emperor Huang Taiji of the Qing Dynasty.
It turned out that Lin Fangping, following the military orders of Zhang Cheng, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, had found a backwater bay upstream of the Zhenglan Banner residence of Prince Su of the Qing Dynasty a few days ago. The river here was shallow and solid.
Because there were many reeds, wormwood, and steep rocks along both sides, the Qing army thought it was not suitable for people and horses to cross the river. It was also very close to the confluence of the Nuer River and very close to the Xiaoling River Station, so they did not set up defenses here.
A few days ago, only a dozen people quietly crossed the Xiaoling River from here. At first, they did not go far away to conduct sentinel inspections. Instead, they established a secret transportation station in a remote and hidden valley and dense forest.
Originally, Lin Fangping only wanted to use this place as a resting point after crossing the river, to change clothes that were wet by the river water, and to store some food and grass here to raise two horses in case of emergency.
In the next few days, the Huwei Battalion's Sentinel Cavalry kept secretly conducting patrols around the area. Although they were unable to intercept the letters between the Qing army and Shengjing, they also made clear the surrounding terrain and the deployment of the Qing troops, and basically made the patrol clear.
But for some unknown reason, just the day before yesterday, Zhang Cheng suddenly ordered all the soldiers of the Tiger Guard Battalion to carry three days of rations, secretly sneak across the Xiaoling River mouth, and ambush at the official road between Xiaoling River Station and Daling River Fort.
Due to the difficulty of crossing the river with war horses, it took them two days to quietly cross the Xiaoling River with all 600 elite soldiers from the Huwei battalion. However, they could only ride one person and one horse, and there were no interchangeable war horses.
It stands to reason that the cavalrymen who go out to scout should be equipped with at least one person and two horses, so as not to be unable to escape when encountering the enemy's cavalry. However, Zhang Cheng's deployment is almost a fight to the death attitude.
Fortunately, the Tiger Guard Camp is like a pro-military guard. Although everyone still has doubts in their hearts, they can still implement it resolutely without reservation.
At first, even Lin Fangping, a guerrilla in the Huwei camp, thought that Zhang Cheng just wanted them to surprise Hauge's camp from behind to support the main force in crossing the Xiaoling River.
Who would have thought that Zhang Cheng actually wanted them to intercept and kill Qing Emperor Huang Taiji here?
When he first heard the military order, Lin Fangping's entire face turned green. Even though he had already worshiped Zhang Cheng as a god, he felt that this action was too bold.
It wasn't that he was afraid of death. Even all the soldiers in the Tiger Guard Camp were willing to die for Zhang Cheng. He just felt that this action was too bold and could be said to be the breaking of a strong man's wrist.
According to Zhang Cheng’s words: “You must have the spirit of ‘die generously’ and the courage of ‘a strong man to cut off his wrist’ to complete this military operation, and the purpose of this operation is not to capture the slave chief Hongtai in one fell swoop.
kill.
You are like a sharp knife, but as long as you can intercept the slave chief Hongtai in the middle, no matter whether you can kill him or not, this action will be considered a success, and you will become famous all over the world."
Following Zhang Cheng's instructions, Lin Fangping had been lurking here all day and night, and finally encountered Huang Taiji's escort today.
They used a small number of infantry to ambush in the fallen leaves at the edge of the dense forest, while the cavalry ambush on both wings. They attacked suddenly while the two sides were fighting, and as expected, they easily killed two Tatar white-armored Baja soldiers.
This was because they were afraid of the fierce fighting that would follow and did not dare to use handguns easily. Otherwise, with one blast from the handguns, all eleven Tatar white-armored soldiers would be knocked down here.
What followed was a pursuit without any suspense. Lin Fangping did not attack with his entire army. He concealed more than 200 elite cavalry on the left side of the Tiger Guard Camp in the dense forest as a response.
He only took the middle and more than 400 knights on the right, divided into five groups, and rode up in pursuit.
At this moment, Lin Fangping and the soldiers in the Huwei camp only remembered what Zhang Cheng said: "In the future, you will brag outside and have the capital. You must know that no one in this world dares to intercept and kill the Tatars."
head!
Whether it is at the wine table or among relatives and brothers, today's deeds are spread out, and everyone admires you. They are all good men, good men who dare to attack the slave chief directly, and good men whose reputation will be passed down through the ages.
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Lin Fangping looked at about two hundred white-armored Tatar cavalry on the other side. They spread out quickly on both sides, as if they were stretching out two big wings, and they were sweeping toward them.
He controlled the horse with his legs, picked up the bow and took the arrow, and didn't bother to aim. He only pointed slightly too high in front of him, fully drew the bow and shot out suddenly.
"Beep..." A harsh sound came to the ears of the knights in the Tiger Guard camp.
It turned out that the arrow Lin Fangping shot just now was actually a screeching arrow that pointed the direction for everyone. The five cavalry units of the Tiger Guard Camp rushed up like five sharp arrows, guided by the screeching arrow.
They had no intention of fighting against the Qing army, but wanted to concentrate their efforts on attacking one point and directly penetrate the center of the Qing army's cavalry formation.
Lin Fangping had put away his bow and arrows at this time. He held a short iron mace in his left hand and a short blunderbuss in his right hand. At the same time, he shouted: "Hand cannons, all use hand cannons. Don't be too lazy to fight and penetrate the enemy's formation.
kill……"
"Kill...kill...kill..."
As the sound of shouting spread, the roars of more than 400 elite knights of the Tiger Guard camp gradually merged into one, complementing the sounds of war horses treading the ground.
As the two sides continued to get closer, one could clearly see the Qing cavalry on the opposite side, especially the flag on the back of the Qing general in the middle, who actually looked like Baya Laniulu Zhangjing.
Lin Fangping's eyes were fixed on Niu Lu, Zhang Jingzhang and Guli opposite him. He controlled the horse with both legs, raised his left hand slightly so that the side card on his arm could be protected on his chest, and placed his right hand lightly on the saddle. He was ready.
Be ready to fire at any time.
One hundred steps...eighty steps...fifty steps...
Just when the distance between the two sides entered thirty steps, spears, flying axes, and iron bones flew randomly among the lightning and flints, followed by bursts of roars.
"...Bang...Boom...Bang...Boom..."
Amidst the roar of guns and cannons, smoke and dust filled the sky. The soldiers of the Tiger Guard Battalion of the Ming Army rushed up, like red-armored gods, fighting out of the smoke. The first round of cavalry confrontation between the Ming and Qing Dynasties began like this.
Lin Fangping's handgun missed Zhang Guli, but penetrated the chest of a Tatar on his right. However, when the two armies were intersecting, he was anxious and used the handgun he had just fired as a hidden weapon.
It was thrown and hit Zhang Guli.
This startled Zhang Guli, and he hurriedly swung his tiger gun to shoot down the flying handgun.
But I never thought that the reason why Lin Fangping threw out the handgun was because he felt that inserting the gun back into the holster was too time-consuming. Only then did he throw out the handgun with his right hand, and then he directly reached down and pulled out another handgun.
Lin Fangping was on his horse. A beautiful rhinoceros looked at the moon. He turned around and fired a gun. With a "bang" sound and smoke rising, a bullet flew towards Zhang Guli with fiery sparks.
At this time, Zhang Guli was also looking back at Lin Fangping, but he had never thought that Lin Fangping could change the gun and shoot again so quickly. He watched the bullet shoot out quickly, but he was helpless.
At this moment, Zhang Guli, who was fearless, felt so helpless for the first time, and for the first time there was a look of fear in his eyes.
He even felt as if time had frozen at this moment, and he couldn't even breathe. He opened his mouth wide as if he wanted to shout, but his mouth opened and closed, but no sound came out.
"Bang...poof..."
The extremely sharp bullet shattered the armor in front of his left chest, and a blood arrow flew away. The moment the bullet entered Zhang Guli's body, it had already changed shape.
However, its powerful potential energy did not decrease much. It changed its shape again and again in Zhang Guli's body, ruthlessly smashing the heart in his chest to pieces.
Zhang Guli still had his mouth wide open, but the expression on his face became ferocious and terrifying. His eyes, ears, mouth, nose, etc., were all flowing with bright red blood.
Suddenly, a thick arrow of blood shot out from Zhang Guli's mouth, and the expression on his face darkened, and he suddenly fell down from his horse in a very stiff manner.
In this round of hedging, the Qing army suffered heavy losses. They used throwing weapons at a distance of thirty steps and launched an attack that only threatened the first few rows of soldiers of the Ming army.
The Ming army was like five sharp arrows that quickly penetrated the Qing army's cavalry formation. When they rushed through, each of them fired at least one handgun. The Yunzhou short-handed gunfire was well made and had a very low misfire rate.
At such a straight distance, its hit rate is guaranteed. Even if it cannot hit the Tatar, it can hit the enemy's horse and cause the knight on the horse to fall to the ground, either dead or injured.
More than a hundred elite Bagala warriors in the Qing army were wiped out in an instant, and nearly eighty of them were shot off their horses by soldiers from the Tiger Guard camp.
In Lin Fangping's opinion, such a result was barely acceptable. After all, it took more than 400 muskets from our side to shoot down this few Tatars, which was an average level.
But from the perspective of the Qing army, it was unprecedented to lose nearly a hundred Bajala warriors as soon as they entered the battle!
In fact, it is no wonder that the Tatars were surprised. You must know that the ordinary armored soldiers of the Tatars can defeat ten of them when fighting against the Ming army, let alone these elite white-armored Bajra warriors who are one in a hundred?
Moreover, Lin Fangping is also a bit cunning.
When he set up an ambush in the dense forest, he did not use the musket, a powerful weapon to kill the enemy. This gave the Tatars an illusion and did not prepare for the Ming army to suddenly use the musket.
That's why the Ming army achieved such results in their first battle!
Lin Fangping did not want to give the Tatars a chance to breathe. He rode his horse at the front, holding up his short iron mace in his left hand and pointing directly ahead to where Huang Taiji was.
He raised his arms and shouted loudly: "Brothers, in front of us is the slave chief Hongtai. I want to be a good man who is famous throughout the world. Follow me and kill the slaves!"
"Kill the slaves...kill the slaves...kill..."
They were like wild horses running wild, rushing madly in the direction of Huang Taiji, raising a cloud of smoke and dust all over the sky.
This time, the leader of the right wing of the Huwei camp who accompanied Lin Fangping to attack was Su Laohu, a Mongolian. Their tribe originally belonged to the Chahar tribe and was a tribe of Lin Dan Khan.
But when Lin Dan Khan led his troops to flee to the northwest in order to avoid the attack of the Hou Jin army, he was too eager and many tribes were left behind and stayed in the Hetao area.
Su Laohu's tribe was one of them, but when the Hou Jin army arrived, they were too weak to resist, so they had no choice but to join the Hou Jin army.
But something unexpected happened. The other two tribes, which usually had conflicts, actually slandered Su Laohu's tribe in front of Dorgon, the leader of the Hou Jin Army.
Dorgon was planning to get rid of Ombu, the leader of the Tumut Banner in Guihua City. At that time, he ignored the indiscriminate general Suhu tribe and directly classified him into the faction that supported Ombu.
It was Dorgon's saucy maneuver that pushed Su Laohu's tribe into the abyss, and forever pushed him against himself.
Since then, Su Laohu's tribe has been marginalized and almost reduced to slaves of other Mongolian tribes. They could not bear the bullying and moved their tribe's settlement several times.
Finally, as a last resort, they gradually retreated to the area near Dushikou, willing to risk being harassed by the Ming army and avoiding the oppression of their own tribe. In the end, most of the young men in the tribe were recruited by Zhang Cheng.
It is precisely because of this that although they may not be very loyal to Lin Dan Khan, they hate the Hou Jin Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty now.
When it came to killing the Tatars, Mongolian soldiers such as Su Huhu and Mo Rigen were no less powerful than Zhang Guangda and Lin Fangping!
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Buyan's brother-in-law was holding his stinky feet in front of Huang Taiji, bragging about the power of Baya La's warriors, how brave Zhang Guli was, and how those bright dogs were just here to die.
However, the reality was that he was immediately slapped in Buyan's face. Although the roar of the gun was not as loud as being there because of the distance, Huang Taiji could also faintly hear it.
Just when he was frowning deeply and having doubts in his heart, he saw that his warriors in front of him were shot and fell off their horses one after another. The originally dense cavalry formation was completely empty in an instant.
Buyan's prince-in-law, who had been talking eloquently just now, now had his mouth wide open and looked dumbfounded, as if his whole body had froze.
After all, he must be a military commander who has fought on the battlefield. He is calm and unflustered when encountering difficulties. The Ministry of War is right involved in politics.
It looks so right, like the soldiers and horses of the Xuanfu of the Ming Dynasty!"
Hearing this, the Baya Lajia Lazhang Jingbilong with a yellow flag hurriedly agreed: "If you dare to cross the river to attack me, apart from Zhang Cheng of Xuanfu, I'm afraid there will be no one else."
Although Emperor Huang Taiji of the Qing Dynasty was slightly surprised in his heart, there was no fear on his face. After all, he was the emperor on horseback. He had been with the old slaves since he was a teenager, fighting in battles. He encountered countless fatal dangers in his life, so how could he be afraid?
Hundreds of Ming troops rushed from the opposite side.
But Huang Taiji is not afraid, which does not mean that others are not afraid either!
As a descendant of the clan who was in charge of the Ministry of Works, Xihan felt a little scared, because he knew how powerful the Bai Jia Ba Yala warriors were.
However, the Ming army rushing from the opposite side broke through Zhang Guli's defense line in an instant and rushed towards this side, which shows that it is indeed extraordinary.
He hurriedly reminded Chao Haer: "Chao Haer Jia La, quickly set up your defenses, and you must not let Ming Gou disturb the holy driver!"