Liu Yan had seen the Qing soldiers escorting captured people to attack the city before in historical materials, but the situation was different now. Liu Yan saw it with his own eyes today, and he was naturally very angry.
So Liu Yan summoned Xu Ming, the cavalry commander next to him, and whispered: "Get ready, wait for my order, lead the cavalry commander to attack, and capture more slave thieves."
Xu Ming accepted the order in a deep voice, and immediately ordered his cavalry officers and soldiers to get ready. Each of them had their horses, weapons, and harnesses ready.
Then Liu Yan hurriedly went to look for Lu Xiangsheng, but saw that Lu Xiangsheng had come over in a hurry, his face was as dark as water, and his face was very ugly. Beside Lu Xiangsheng, there were also Yang Guozhu and Hu Dacheng who looked hurriedly. They were obviously two wings of defense. They also encountered the same situation and they came specifically to report to Lu Xiangsheng.
When Lu Xiangsheng, Liu Yan and others came behind the earthen wall, the common people were whipped and were only a few dozen steps away from the first low wall trench. You could see the miserable and fearful expressions on their faces.
Through the backs of those common people, you can still see the Qing soldiers dodging behind them. They kept shouting and cursing, and raised the whip in their hands from time to time. Every time the whip was struck, there was a shower of blood. The curses and shouts of the people who were beaten were even more miserable.
Seeing this situation, Liu Yan, Lu Xiangsheng and others were extremely angry. Liu Yan said in a deep voice: "Master Governor, if you don't disperse these people, I declare that the camp is in danger of being breached."
Lu Xiangsheng shook his head sadly: "How can I have the heart to attack the people?"
Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei looked at each other with very anxious expressions. If they had encountered this situation alone in the army, they would have ordered the firing of cannons. But with Lu Xiangsheng in front of him, who would dare to bear the consequences of massacring the people privately?
At this time, Hu Dawei suddenly said: "General, I will see that those people are thick and strong. They are most likely to be slaves and thieves, so there is no harm in killing them."
Lu Xiangsheng shook his head. He could tell at a glance whether those common people were disguised as Qing troops. Unlike other generals, he didn't care about the censor's impeachment, but he just couldn't bear to attack the people. But I couldn’t bear to attack the people, so what if they added trenches?
Yang Guozhu said: "Perhaps we can select soldiers with good gun skills and archery skills to shoot slave thieves and prevent them from approaching."
Having said this, Yang Guozhu sighed again. This method has little effect and has no effect. Lu Xiangsheng gritted his teeth and wanted to order to fire several times, but he held back, feeling extremely entangled in his heart.
At this time, the people in the distance moved closer and closer, and soon they would reach the front of the trench. The dense artillery and cannons of the Ming army in front of them made them extremely frightened. A woman seemed to be a lady from a certain place. She was beautiful, but at this time her hair was disheveled and she looked extremely haggard.
A beautiful woman like her could not escape the ravages of the Qing Tatar soldiers. She was left with only a thin piece of underwear on her body, shivering in the cold wind. She was a woman with small feet. She struggled to hold a bag of soil with her hands, her expression numb, and she staggered forward.
Suddenly she staggered and fell to the ground. A Qing soldier behind her immediately struck her with a whip, causing her to roll on the ground and cry bitterly. She shouted: "Tatars who have killed a thousand swords, kill me..., kill me!"
The woman's sad voice spread far and wide, and everyone who heard it shed tears.
At this moment, Liu Yan suddenly came out of the crowd and shouted outside the wall: "The fathers and sisters outside are at risk of death. It is better to fight with the Tatars. I, the defense officer of the Qianhu Station in front of Xiahe Village, the capital of Shandong Province, Liu Yan, I promise you that after the war, I will build a temple for you! I, Liu Yan, promise you that I will definitely kill more Tatar soldiers and avenge you!"
After saying that, Liu Yan shouted to Wang Bo beside him: "Get ready to fire."
Wang Bo whispered: "General."
Liu Yan glared at Wang Bo and shouted sternly: "Get ready!"
Wang Bo hurriedly handed down the order, and immediately the musketry soldiers in the front row behind the earthen wall were densely preparing, their black muskets aimed outward. The people outside the wall cried bitterly, and came hesitantly under the whipping of the Qing army behind them.
"put!"
The sound of gunfire sounded like exploding beans, and the new Xiahe Village birdgun soldiers in the front row of the earthen wall opened fire. Immediately, clouds of blood mist appeared on the bodies of the people in front, and they fell to the ground one by one. Amidst the deafening sound of bird cannons, the people were stunned at first, and then screamed in unison: "The officers and soldiers opened fire."
The heavily armored Qing soldiers would collapse under the volleys of gunfire from the Xiahe Village new army, let alone these civilians who had not received any training and had no ability to protect themselves.
They screamed in fear and rushed back. The whips and swords and guns of the Qing army behind them could not stop the people from dispersing. The Qing soldiers chopped them to the ground one by one, and then these people were trampled to the ground by the large group of fleeing people. A sharp voice came from the crowd: "Sisters, we are all dead, fighting with the Tatars." "
Under their crazy attacks and threats, the Qing soldiers behind them had to flee back. m.
Lu Xiangsheng closed his eyes in pain, and then he shouted: "Fire the cannon, fire the musket, whatever happens, the governor will be responsible for it!"
There was a loud roar for a while, and the Qing soldiers outside the defense line suddenly suffered many casualties, and the Qing army's formation was also in chaos.
At this moment, the sound of hoofbeats was like thunder. Xu Ming led hundreds of cavalry officers and rushed out from the two passages. Seeing the cavalry rolling out of the earthen wall, the people fled in panic. Within two hundred steps from the Qing army's chariot position to the earthen wall, they were everywhere, with numerous escorting Qing soldiers in between.
Seeing these people rushing back like a tide, the Qing army's formation rained arrows, regardless of whether they were friends or foes, and all of them fell to the ground.
The horseshoes of Xu Ming and others knocked over countless people. They fired cannons from left and right on their horses, or threw throwing axes and iron bones. They shot each Qing army to the ground. Or they were stabbed with swords and spears, and the Qing soldiers rolled down beside them one by one.
Suddenly, the generals of the cavalry threw their horse ropes one after another, and like ghosts, they hit them hard and accurately on the heads of many Qing soldiers in the crowd. After the ropes were tied to the Qing soldiers, they did not stop and allowed them to drag the horses wildly. Then they galloped directly to another passage, occasionally mentioning the women running for their lives beside them. Xu Ming also dwarfed and lifted up the whipped woman on the ground.
Soon, the common people or soldiers in the open space were shot through passages, and some sentries rushed out of the Qing army's formation. However, Xu Ming and others went out quickly and came back quickly. They all quickly came through another passage. return. Xu Ming led more than 500 cavalry generals who came and went like the wind, and they all withdrew quickly.
These Qing army sentry cavalry chased after them, and the new army gunners of Xiahe Village behind the earthen wall fired fiercely, knocking the Qing soldiers off their backs, leaving some corpses and wounded behind, and then ran back far away.
At this time, Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Guozhu and others had not yet reacted. Xu Ming and other cavalry generals had returned. In addition to capturing more than 80 Qing prisoners, they also rescued nearly 200 Ming women. .
Lu Xiangsheng was overjoyed when he saw this. Seeing the rescued women and civilians on their war horses, who were either in shock or overjoyed, he repeatedly said: "Get these civilians off their horses so that they can be safely resettled."
Liu Yan added: "Supervisor, after these women are resettled, they need to be carefully investigated to prevent there being any spies among them."
Lu Xiangsheng nodded approvingly and ordered his general Chen An to lead the men to send these women into the camp. They paid special attention to the woman who had been whipped before.
After the woman was put down by Xu Ming immediately, her eyes widened and she had already died. Lu Xiangsheng sighed, his face full of pain, and Liu Yan was also filled with hatred.
After those captured Qing soldiers were dragged back by horseback, some of them died on the spot, and some roared like thunder. One by one, they were captured and tied up by the spearmen inside the earthen wall. A Qing soldier seemed to be a member of the Eight Banners Manchuria Red Flag. He roared like thunder and struggled desperately: "Despicable Nikan, I will kill you..."
Xu Ming stared blankly at the woman he rescued for a while, looking at her unblinking expression. He suddenly grabbed the gun of a soldier next to him and hit Fende Bashiku on the head with a heavy blow. That Fende Bashiku's helmet had already fallen off, and his mind immediately blossomed and his blood was everywhere. Xu Ming's hands kept smashing his head into a pile of flesh, still smashing it hard, and still cursing loudly.
Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dacheng and others looked on dumbfounded, and they were all speechless. Although Xu Ming's actions were a bit excessive, everyone was a little angry when they saw it.
After a while, Liu Yan shouted: "Sparse use!"
Xu Ming confessed his crime, and then led the cavalry sentry officers into action. According to Liu Yan's order, ten people were selected from more than eighty Qing soldiers who were tied like twists. Without saying a word, they took these ten Qing soldiers. The soldier took off his clothes and took out the wooden frame. Thick iron nails were driven directly into their hands and feet, nailing them to the wooden frame. Or simply pick up their hands and feet, cut them off with a knife, and then tie them to a wooden frame.
In the extremely cold weather, each of these people was stood naked on a high wooden frame. In the severe cold winter, the prisoners of the Qing soldiers suffered great pain, causing them to howl incomparably with human voices. , I regret why I came to this world. Those Qing soldiers who were not selected as parachuters saw the miserable state of their companions, and many of them were so frightened that they peed their pants on the spot.
Lu Xiangsheng frowned and said to Liu Yan: "Liu Yan, you do this..."
Liu Yan said calmly: "Master Governor, the slaves and thieves are driving our people to attack the trenches. Our soldiers need to boost their morale. This can also vent the morale of the slaves."
Then Liu Yan shouted loudly outside the wall: "You guys, Hu'er, dare to drive my people into the trenches, and this is what will happen!"
Xu Ming was standing next to Liu Yan. Originally, Xu Ming was born in Yebusu and knew Manchu. At this time, he translated loudly in Manchu, and his voice spread far and wide.
At the end of the day, Xu Ming shouted again: "Look at my archery skills!"
After saying that, Xu Ming suddenly turned his head and shot an arrow, hitting the right eye of a Qing soldier on the wooden frame, making the Qing soldier cry loudly and struggle. The officers and soldiers of the new army in Xiahe Village screamed for joy, but there was silence at the Qing army's position.
Lu Xiangsheng said nothing and went to his Central Military Headquarters. Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei felt chills in their hearts. They looked at each other and hurried to their defensive positions.
Over at the Qing army's position, Dorgon, Yue Tuo, Abatai and others vaguely saw the situation ahead. After hearing the reports from their subordinates, all of them turned pale.
Liu Yan was so ruthless that he forced the people of the Ming Dynasty to attack the trenches this time. It can be said that stealing chickens failed and lost rice. Not only did the goal not be achieved, but Liu Yan defeated an entire army, and morale was greatly reduced.
Dorgon laughed angrily: "What a Liu Yan, this general really underestimates him. It seems that this Liu Yan is really a character, so cruel and ruthless. This line of defense in front of you might really be designed by this person. !”
Beside Dorgon, Duduo, the leader of the Eight Banners Manchuria with White Flag, gritted his teeth and said nothing.
Ji'erhahu, the leader of the Xianglan Banner, seemed to be pondering. The rest of the flag owners, especially those of the Eight Mongolian Banners, had a look of fear on their faces.
Abatai glanced at the people around him and said, "It's all a mistake made by the general."
Dorgon said in a deep voice: "I don't blame Rao Yubeile. I didn't expect that Liu Yan would dare to do this in front of Lu Xiangsheng. I didn't expect that Liu Yan, a mere defense officer, would be so bold and reckless."
After saying that, Dorgon's eyes shot out with a sharp cold light, and he said in a cold voice: "Give me the order to attack."
"At noon, we will make a plan. The army will attack the two wings and pretend to attack the front. Our army's offensive will never stop until sunset. I hope Liu Yan and others can withstand the thunderous offensive of my army!"
Under Dorgon's order, the drummer beside him beat the huge war drum. When he heard the drum sound, the black Qing soldiers who stopped 200 steps outside the Xuanda formation let out an earth-shattering shout at the same time. They pushed the chariot and rushed in with wild shouts.
Some people died, but not completely...
