Chapter 071 The Battle of Guangning III
'Bang bang bang...'
Chen Cao has used up all the paper shells in his hands, and his flintlock gun is now useless. He is not good at using bayonets, but he is still good at wielding knives.
Clang..
Yan Ling drew out his long sword, and Chen Cao looked coldly at Fei Yingdong in the distant fire: "Is Xiang Jun here?"
"Uncle, here we come," Zhao Xin trotted over, followed by Li Waner who was wearing armor.
A sneak attack was too dangerous. Li Waner originally stayed in the camp, but now the situation has improved. Fei Yingdong was surrounded by three hundred servants in the inner circle of the tent, with right guard soldiers on the outside, and Tatar cavalry and infantry outside. , and the outermost periphery is still in fierce fighting.
Chen Cao didn't know how to speak Jurchen, only Li Waner could. In order to persuade Fei Yingdong to surrender, he had no choice but to ask Xin Zhao to go to the camp in person to pick up Li Waner.
"Persuade them to surrender. Tell them that they are surrounded. Ask them to surrender. Also, make sure it is Fei Yingdong inside." Chen Cao looked at Li Waner.
Li Waner nodded, and then shouted loudly towards the main tent. Chen Cao, who was chattering loudly, couldn't understand. Finally, the person on the other side spoke and exchanged a few words with Li Waner.
Li Waner turned to look at Chen Cao: "He said he is Zharguqi from the Kingdom of Jin, and the first-class soldier Fei Yingdong."
The so-called Jurchen official name is really a mouthful. Li Waner saw Chen Cao frowning: "Zarguqi is an official name, which is equivalent to a cabinet bachelor in the Ming Dynasty."
Before Chen Cao could speak, Fei Yingdong started chatting with Li Waner again. Chen Cao saw Li Waner's face gradually become embarrassed, and then she shut her mouth.
"What did he say?" Chen Cao asked.
Li Waner kept silent and did not want to answer. Chen Cao saw this and did not want to press any more questions. At that moment, a messenger rushed over: "Uncle, the Tatar reinforcements are here."
"Old thief," Chen Cao cursed, and he immediately realized that Fei Yingdong was stalling for time: "Zhang Fengnian, attack us, life or death."
"yes..."
'Bang bang bang...'
Gunfire rang out again inside. Fei Yingdong had Bai Yu, his bodyguards, all of them extremely fierce. Chen Cao also wanted to reduce casualties, but the most important thing was to capture Fei Yingdong alive and use it to threaten Nurhachi. But now it seems that life or death is a matter of life. of no longer exists.
No matter how fierce a person is, who is extremely accurate with swords and arrows, he cannot achieve the point where "a gun cannot hit or a knife cannot cut".
Fei Yingdong's guard circle was getting smaller and smaller, and he himself was extremely anxious, because the Nanjing right guards had formed a large circle around his tent in the camp, and there were still people in the circle surrounding him. In the case of muskets, unless there is a tunnel in your own tent, you will definitely die now.
With less than thirty breaths left, there were only seven or eight people left around Fei Yingdong.
Then Fei Yingdong started yelling again. Li Waner looked at Chen Cao and said, "He said he wanted to fight you alone."
"Uncle, the old thief will definitely die now, there is no need to waste time with him." Xin Zhao dissuaded him.
Chen Cao sneered, and then said: "Since he wants to challenge me, I will kill him myself. Wan'er, tell him loudly that I will fight with him alone. No matter life or death, let his men get out safely."
Not long after, Fei Yingdong took off his pocket and walked out of the protective circle of his trusted servants with the Yanling long knife. Seeing this, Chen Cao also walked over with the knife.
Fei Yingdong has been fighting for decades and has never lost a battle. Whenever there is a battle, he is the first to charge into battle. Both he and E Yidu have the title of Baturu of the Manchu Dynasty.
In his eyes, Chen Cao, a young man in his early twenties, was not his opponent at all. But the reason why Chen Cao dared to respond like this was not only to frighten Jiannu, but more importantly, where was this old guy in his fifties and sixties? As an opponent for a strong young man like himself, besides, Chen Cao is still very confident in his own strength. If things go wrong, he still has a gun in his waist to save his life.
Fei Yingdong was the first to take action. He took a step forward and swung the knife in his right hand. Chen Cao turned sideways and retaliated with the knife. The two men took a step back after the knife blades collided.
Chen Cao felt that the tiger's mouth was numb, and Fei Yingdong felt the same. After sitting down for a while, the two of them swung their swords at each other again.
The onlookers could only see the sparks produced by the collision of the knife edges.
Chen Cao retreated again. He deeply felt that Fei Yingdong was really powerful and it was really troublesome to find a weakness in him. He couldn't help but breathe heavily.
Fei Yingdong still underestimated the young Ming army general in front of him. This young man was different from anyone he had fought with before.
"ah..."
Fei Yingdong shouted and rushed towards Chen Cao. Chen Cao took a deep breath, then raised his knife and rushed towards Fei Yingdong. Fei Yingdong did not swing the knife this time, but stretched out his left hand and grabbed it. He grabbed Chen Cao's breastplate buckle and pulled it back with all his strength.
Chen Cao lost strength at that time and was pulled back by Fei Yingdong.
"Uncle..." Zhao Xin was shocked.
Li Waner also trembled. If something happened to Chen Cao, they wouldn't be able to survive.
At the critical moment, Chen Cao threw away the Yanling Saber and let Fei Yingdong use his strength while he pulled out the knife from his waist. Then, at the moment Fei Yingdong raised the sword to chop, he raised his right hand upwards. The extremely sharp tip of the knife penetrated his ribs on the left side. Chen Cao's force before death was also extremely brave, and the entire bayonet was inserted.
The thing was so small that no one could see it in the dark. Fei Yingdong was stabbed by a military thorn and immediately lost his strength. Chen Cao was thrown away in front of his feet. When he landed, he jumped up and kicked Fei Yingdong. Dong's knee, then stretched out his hand to snatch the long knife from his hand, turned the blade, and slashed hard.
Chen Cao couldn't understand the truthful words of Fei Yingdong's minions, but at least he could clearly see Fei Yingdong's disbelieving eyes and his head flying into the sky.
"Stop them." Zhang Fengnian ordered, and all the slaves were thrown to the ground, unable to move.
Several Jurchen slaves struggled desperately, but the situation that Fei Yingdong was dead could not be changed.
Chen Cao asked Xin Zhao to pick up Fei Yingdong's head, then pull out the military spurs on his body and insert them into the military spurs bag on his waist: "Wan'er, tell them, I, Ming Dynasty Ding Wu Bo, Chen Cao, let They went back and told Nurhaci that if they wanted revenge, feel free to come."
Li Waner was stunned for a moment before she recovered. He simply couldn't believe how Chen Cao got out of the predicament, and then spoke to the slave.
"Uncle, the Tatar reinforcements are chasing our brothers from behind, and they are fighting on the outside." The messenger came to report again.
"Take Fei Yingdong's head to scare them. Send an order to all the ministries to kill as many as they can. No prisoners, no survivors." Chen Cao said sternly.
After Fei Yingdong died, the Tatars were leaderless. Nahai did not believe that his father had been killed, so he led the cavalry towards the tent. As a result, he was ruthlessly hit by a flintlock gun. He was also hit and had to withdraw from the battle. , seeking opportunities on the periphery.
Cherge and Adahai arrived one after another. The two were fighting fiercely on the right guard at the gate, but they realized that the firearms of the Ming army were sharper than before. As long as they launched a charge, they would be hit by continuous muskets. While he was wondering, the pursuers of Wang Xiaojie and Han Shun came behind him, and the two sides fought again outside the camp gate. With the addition of the right guard, the battle became one-sided and moved towards Chen Cao.
Na Hai could not abandon Fei Yingdong. As a son, if his father's body could not be taken back, he would have no place to live in the flag.
So he led his five thousand cavalry and rushed towards Chen Cao's position.
"Uncle, the Tatars have gone crazy, and the front has been breached." When the messenger came to report, he was pursued by arrows from behind, and he was shot to death with one arrow.
"Uncle, leave quickly." Xin Zhao shouted.
"Fuck you," Chen Cao took the flintlock gun from Zhang Fengnian: "Send the order, Nanjing's right guard, use small banners to fight separately in the camp."
"yes..."
Nahai fought to the death and finally broke through the right guard to form a large musket formation, but the price he paid was extremely heavy. When he rushed to Chen Cao's position, only seventeen or eighty cavalry followed behind him, but his momentum was Also like thunder.
'boom...'
Zhang Fengnian's shot was originally aimed at Nahai, but Nahai's cronies flew in to block Nahai. Nahai was knocked down, and he drew his long knife and slashed at Chen Cao, who was being guarded. The knight behind him also Approaching quickly.
"Uncle, be careful..."
"Protect the Lord..." Chen Cao shouted, then took out the gun from his waist and hid it: "Get out of the way."
Ming army generals had the habit of carrying muskets, but Nahai had never seen them before. Huang Taiji had some captured weapons in his hands. Nahai rushed to Chen Cao with the help of cavalry, while the people around Chen Cao were fighting against the cavalry. .
"The dog will die..."
Nahai shouted loudly, and Chen Cao thought that when he went back, he would let Li Waner teach him the Jurchen dialect, and then raised his gun: "Baga..."
'boom...'
Nahai was hit in the forehead by a lead bullet. The entire lead bullet penetrated his head and fell backward with the inertia.
Chen Cao shook his head helplessly: "What nonsense are you talking about..."
Seeing that Chen Cao's danger was lifted, Zhang Fengnian called on the servants to eliminate the dozen or so cavalry in front of him as soon as possible, and then led his men to press forward.
The entire camp was in chaos at this moment. Fei Yingdong was dead, Nahai was dead again, and Cherge was blocked from the camp gate. Adahai, who came in a hurry, fought with Wang Xiaojie's troops. At this moment, The civil war situation in the camp was decided, and Chen Cao immediately ordered a battle against the Tatar cavalry outside the camp gate.
The sneak attack started at the third quarter of the hour and ended at the first quarter of the hour. Adahai and Cherge fled in a hurry with only more than a thousand cavalry. Song Che hurriedly arrived after completely repelling the Tatar infantry, but The battle here at the camp has long ended.
"Shi Xiu, how's the situation on your side?" Chen Cao was a little tired, but Fei Yingdong's joy at having won the sneak attack made him feel as if he had taken stimulants.
Song Che led the Guanhai Guard, Yangzhou Guard and Dahe Guard to attack the Tatars' 5,000 infantry with the advantage of three guards, and they were all Han troops. To put it bluntly, they were the Liaodong Han people who surrendered to the Tatars and the original guard troops. .
This second-line army is just like the Imperial Army. Its combat effectiveness is not at the same level as that of the crazy Southern Army. Because it is close to Xining Fort, Song Che did not dare to pursue too much. He killed more than a thousand people in the formation and captured more than a thousand people. After that, he hurried to the camp to meet Chen Cao.
"We have killed more than 2,000 people and captured a batch of supplies. How are you doing here?" Song Che looked a little tired.
"The formation killed the Tatar general Fei Yingdong and his son Nahai," Chen Cao said and patted Song Che on the shoulder: "The battle situation is unprecedentedly good, but it is not suitable to stay here for a long time. The Tatar cavalry will arrive soon. Quickly lead a team to our camp to transport the artillery baggage, and then rush to Xiping Fort, and we will support them."
"good..."
"Uncle..." Xu Kaixian hurried over: "Urgent report from the front line of Xipingbao. The reinforcements led by General Liu Qu encountered a Tatar attack force at Pingyangqiaobao. The whole army suffered heavy losses and has now been evacuated to Shasha." Lingyi and Qi Bingzhong meet up."
Chen Cao felt something bad when he heard this, and immediately asked Xin Zhao to bring a map to check: "We are only sixty miles away from Xining Fort where the Tatars are, and ninety miles away from Shalingyi. The Tatar cavalry appeared at Pingyangqiao Fort. It is enough to prove that there are no Tatars in Xining Fort, and Nurhachi will definitely surround and annihilate Liu Qu and others in Shalingyi;
The order was immediately sent, and the whole army was prepared and set off immediately to the north of Xiping Fort. "
"Uncle, we don't care about Shalingyi?" Zhao Xin frowned.
Chen Cao shook his head: "Divide and break up, encircle the points and gather reinforcements. Zhao Xin, send people to sneak into Shalingyi, and let Liu Qu and Qi Bingzhong lead the army to break out to the northwest. Don't hold on."
"yes..."
Song Che asked: "Yaozhong, is this battle really what you said?"
"Well..." Chen Cao nodded: "Luo Guanguan and others are loyal to the country. If they can be saved, they will be saved. If they can't be saved, forget it..."
July 22, Xiping Fort
Luo Guanyi, the guard general and deputy commander of Xiping Fort, looked at the headless Jurchen cavalry outside the fort and couldn't help but feel sad.
General Hei Yunhe is a native of Liaodong. He has fought with the Tatars for ten years and has been in danger many times, but today he also feels that this war has no chance of survival.
Guerrilla general Li Maochun came from the female wall on the right and cursed angrily: "Why haven't those people who are greedy for life and afraid of death come yet?"
Zhang Ming, who was also a guerrilla, came from outside the village gate: "Sir, when will the reinforcements from the imperial court arrive?"
After the fall of Xining Fort, the Tatar army had already cut off the connection between Xiping Fort and Zhenwu Fort, making it difficult to continue even if they asked for help.
"Wait," Luo Yiguan looked coldly at the various military flags standing outside: "We have received the emperor's favor in this life, and we must not lose an inch of land in Liaodong. Even if one life is worth one, we must pull out the hands and feet of the traitor chief."
"As commanded..."
Nurhachi was waiting outside Xiping Fort, waiting for news from Shalingyi to launch the final attack on Xiping Fort.
"Great Khan..." The messenger came on horseback: "Something big happened..."
Nurhaci was surrounded by his cronies. Daishan frowned and spoke for Nurhaci and asked, "What's the matter?"
The messengers saluted Daishan: "Please inform Mr. Beile, the Ming army crossed the Daliao River the night before yesterday and attacked Zarguqi's camp. Zarguqi and his son Nahai were both killed in the battle. The camp was defeated, and only Cherge and Adahai retreated to Shalingyi with more than a thousand cavalry to meet Erbeile."
"Father..." Daishan immediately jumped off his horse and stretched out his hand to support Nurhachi.
Nurhaci calmed down on his horse, and then waved his hand: "Go down, let Mang Gurtai come to Xiping Fort immediately after finishing the battle at Shalingyi."
"twitter..."
