Draw the knife! Raise your shield! "
Fan Wencheng's voice when giving orders was not very loud. The slaves who formed a square formation behind him and were coated with gold and red flags silently took out their swords and raised their shields.
It was already early in the morning, and although it was still mid-autumn, there was a biting chill wherever the wind blew. To the left and right of the group of red-flag-clad slaves led by Fan Wencheng, there were several other flag-clad slaves... Everyone had steel knives in their hands and held up their round shields.
Thousands of slaves put on the standard cotton armor of the Eight Banners soldiers, and their helmets undulated slightly. Everyone raised their necks and stared at the low hilltop opposite, where the Da'ankou Pass of the Great Wall in Jizhou Town is located!
The Great Wall in Jizhou Town is too long, and the area that needs to be defended is seven to eight hundred miles! There are too many passes that can be broken through, and with the current strength of Jizhou Town, it is impossible to defend them.
Moreover, the only mobile troops in Jizhou Town, including the 2,000 people who were originally sent to support Xifengkou and Hanerzhuang, were all transferred to the battlefield in the Yiyuankou area by Zhao Lianjiao a few days ago. Because within a few days from the first day of August to the sixth day of August, there had been seven or eight small and medium-sized confrontations between the Ming army and the Hou Jin army who entered from the entrance of Ziyiyuan.
Through this series of confrontations, both Wang Zhichen and Yuan Chonghuan were greatly confident, because they discovered that there were a large number of Haraqin Mongols among the Hou Jin army that invaded from Yiyuankou. Their combat effectiveness was not strong, even with the Eight Banners soldiers supervising the formation. Nor is it a match for the elite Liao army.
Therefore, as soon as Wang Zhichen and Yuan Chonghuan combined their forces, they prepared to concentrate their forces to do a big deal in Yiyuankou - anyway, the Mongols and Jurchens were considered Tartars, and they could get credit for their deeds by chopping off their heads.
Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan transferred several hundred artillery troops and 12 Hongyi cannons from outside the pass, and asked Zhao to gather all his soldiers and set a time, on the eighth day of August (Yuan Chonghuan is a Cantonese and likes to "shoot ") and have a big fight with the Tatars!
For some reason, Huang Taiji also chose the eighth day of August to launch a surprise attack on Da'ankou Pass and Longjing Pass.
Since Hou Jin's Eight Banners soldiers were always valuable, Huang Taiji was reluctant to use them to fill Da'ankou and Longjing Pass. So he used the coated slaves - don't think that being cannon fodder is miserable for the coated slaves, this is an opportunity to gain a future!
The coated slaves of Hou Jin can be promoted. As long as they have enough merit, the coated slaves can also be highly respected. Therefore, the taller and stronger ones among the coated slaves are still a bit dashing.
Moreover, the current Houjin is still in full swing. Although he is generally cruel both internally and externally, he is still very kind to his lackeys.
If you become a slave, you can still have glory and wealth!
The two brothers Fan Wencheng and Fan Wencai were good slaves with great length and strength, and because they were really capable, they were appreciated by their master, who gave them the opportunity to lead the team and make meritorious deeds.
The two brothers of the Fan family are now leading 100 coated slaves, and they are waiting for the order from Da Beile Daishan, who is supervising the formation, to rush to Da'ankou.
As for whether you will be rich and prosperous or die in vain, it all depends on luck - although Huang Taiji made a plan, Da'ankou is dangerous after all, and the Great Wall has been built up the mountain. How can it not be dangerous? No matter what kind of car, what kind of rush car, what kind of ladder car, none of them can get on.
To break through D'ankou, the only way is to attack the city with ants. If there were even 1,000 defenders from above shooting down with three-eyed blunderbuss, the two brothers Fan Wencheng and Fan Wencai would be in danger.
"Mr. Fan, Mr. Fan...Master wants us to go first!"
A young coated slave with a red flag flew over and gave Fan Wencheng his master's order.
"Zhang Xiaoqi," Fan Wencheng said to the young man, "You can come up with us... rush up, and you will be the flag bearer!"
From wrapping to flagging, it’s a step to the sky!
"I, I..." Zhang Xiaoqi is still young, just a eldest boy of fifteen or sixteen years old. He is not comparable to the Fan brothers. He is not valued by his master, so he doesn't have enough to eat, and he grows thin and tall. It's small, and it looks like it's underdeveloped.
He looked up at the Great Wall on the mountain and shook his head timidly.
Fan Wencheng sighed: "Wealth can be found in danger...We are slaves, let alone be afraid of danger!"
As he spoke, he shouted: "Brothers, come with me!"
With a shout, hundreds of Hou Jin's servants started to move together, carrying shields and ladders, shouting and rushing towards the hillside.
...
"Great Khan, the slaves with the red flag are attacking!"
Dorgon, the "Master Faqiubele" of the Kingdom of Jin, has been holding a telescope and staring at the top of Da'ankou Mountain. Although the light is a bit dim, what does "Master Faqiubele" look like? So from a distance, you can still clearly see the good slaves with red flags rushing up the city wall of Da'ankou. Moreover, he also found that there were very few Ming troops on the city wall, and they could not stop the minions brought by Fan Wencheng at all.
Huang Taiji breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Now that I have rushed forward, I am no longer a slave, but a bannerman!"
"That's also a bannerman who was born as a slave!" Duduo muttered next to him, his face full of flesh showing a little displeasure.
Huang Taiji didn't know that his little brother was "in love for the first time" and also fell in love with Fan Wencheng's wife - if Fan Wencheng was a slave, Duduo would sleep with his wife with just a word! But Fan Wencheng has become a bannerman, and his status is different. It would be a violation to sleep with his wife again...
"The bannerman is the bannerman!" Huang Taiji smiled, "Our Kingdom of Jin always has clear rewards and punishments... This Fan Wencheng is indeed a good slave. He ventured into the customs twice before and got a lot of news for us. If you want to reward him together, you should give him half a future."
"Khan," Dorgon said, "Looking at it like this, Longjing Pass will definitely be able to get it... Once Da'ankou and Longjing Pass are obtained, Xifengkou will also be in the bag. Let's go next Where to fight?"
"First attack the Santun camp, and then Zunhua." Huang Taiji said with a smile, "Old Fourteen, then it depends on you, Old Twelve, and Old Fifteen!"
"Don't worry, Khan," Dorgon said with a smile, "Just give us the two white flags!"
The current two white flags are actually the original two yellow flags. They are the direct lineage of Nurhachi. They belong to a particularly large number of Niu Lu and their strength is quite strong. They have all been passed down to the three brothers Azig, Dorgon and Duduo. And among them was headed by the child Duduo - Nurhaci may have wanted Duduo to be his heir, so he made him the heir to the flag owner of the Zhenghuang Banner with the largest number of people (Nurhachi himself was the owner of the Zhenghuang Banner).
However, when Nurhaci died, Duduo was too young, and even with the support of the two yellow flags, he was not qualified to be the Great Khan, so it was Huang Taiji who finally won the Khan position. Moreover, Huang Taiji also forced to death the concubine Abahai, the biological mother of Azig, Dorgon, and Duduo... But he did not have the strength to go further and kill Azig, Dorgon, and Duduo. All three brothers were killed. Because these three brothers jointly control two banners, their strength cannot be underestimated, but they are not the great Baylors in political affairs. They are still worse than Daishan, Mang Gurtai, and Abatai.
So Huang Taiji not only couldn't attack them, but also had to give them some sweeteners - such as letting Two Hundred Banners go to Zunhua County...
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"The county's honor, the county's honor!"
In the study room, Shi Kefa, who was tutoring with a copy of "Military Training Records", heard shouts with a Xuanfu accent. He looked up and found that his own soldier captain, Wang Dadou, who was only 16 years old this year, had already rushed into the study.
This Wang Dadou came from a military household in Xuanfu. At the beginning of the year, he also ran for the post-account knight, but was not selected. However, there was no way to fight him back home. Instead, he was given to Shi Kefa.
Although this boy is young and has not read many books, he is a child of a military household on the border of Xuan Mansion. He has practiced martial arts since he was a child, is proficient in various weapons, and is naturally capable of leading troops, so he became Shi Kefa's close friend. Soldier captain.
Shi Kefa looked at Wang Dadou who was yelling and frowned slightly. Just when he was about to scold him, Wang Dadou spoke again: "Jiannu came and broke Da'ankou, Longjingguan and Xifengkou, and also occupied Hanerzhuang and The Santun camp is heading to Zunhua now!"
Shi Kefa took a deep breath and said solemnly: "Why are you panicking? Go and send the order, I want to patrol the city! By the way, you have people carry my coffin up!"
