"Buddha bless you!"
"Amitabha!"
When the news that the Qing army's grain transport brigade was heading north spread among the noisy Mongolian army camp outside Changping City, almost all the Mongolians began to chant sutras. Some of the more devout Mongolians took out their treasured Buddha statues from their dirty robes and worshiped them directly inside the yurt.
If this scene were seen by Xitian Buddha, he would definitely be very embarrassed. How can this Buddha protect others from murder and robbery? This business is not under the control of the Buddha. Either find the Changshengtian who has been ignored for a long time, or go to the west to find those few masters who like to fight "wars of gods" and sell indulgences.
In addition, these Mongols want to kill the people of Manjushri Bodhisattva's family, and they want to steal the money of Manjushri Bodhisattva's family. How can the Buddha protect them?
But it doesn’t seem to work if the Buddha doesn’t bless them at all, because these Mongolians who chant sutras and worship Buddha are actually about to run out of food!
Because entrance robbery is a very difficult technical job plus physical strength!
If you have enough strength and the skills are in place, that's robbery. If you don't have the strength and the skills aren't good, that's killing someone!
However, the tens of thousands of Mongolian warriors who followed Abu Nai and Burni, the two great Mongolian Khans, who came in from outside the mouth, were really not skilled in the art of robbing and killing. Not to mention compared with the Mongols of Genghis Khan's generation, even the Mongols under Taishi, Dayan Khan, and Ada Khan were far behind, and even the Chahar warriors under Lin Dan's "Road Khan" It is also much stronger than them.
Although the Mongolians under Lin Dan Khan were also obsessed with Buddhism, the grasslands were still in troubled times without royal laws at that time. The Mongolians of that generation all grew up in the bloody storm. But today, the Mongolians in various banners and tribes in Chahar are all honest Mongolians who grew up under the "care and care" of the Qing emperor, and they are all well-managed. Where can I learn the art of murder and arson? Not to mention that practicing and being practiced is not enough.
Moreover, the current production model of the Mongolians in Monan is actually not much different from that of the Han people farming in Guannei.
Han Chinese farmers around Beijing actually herd sheep, and the better-off families also owned horses.
The Mongols on the Monan grassland have now settled down, and they cannot live in pursuit of water and grass. Therefore, people generally plant some land, otherwise just relying on one place to herd sheep and milk them would not be enough to eat. As for mutton, only nobles eat it, while ordinary herdsmen eat some dairy products.
And because the Mongolian farming skills are poor and there is no guarantee of harvest, most of the ordinary Mongolian herdsmen this time are malnourished. They are not as tall as the Han farmers farming in Guan Nei, and they will certainly not be particularly strong.
However, these Mongolians, who were not superior in technology or strength and believed in Buddhism too much and did not dare to kill, encountered a series of very strong castles after entering the mouth (passing Zhangjiakou)!
These castles were built in the Ming Dynasty to defend against the subordinates of Yesen Taishi, Dayan Khan, Ada Khan and Huang Taiji. Now they are enough to defend against Abu Nai and Burni.
If Abu Nai and Burni hadn't made a deceptive sneak attack and the Qing army at Juyong Pass had "changed defenses", giving the Mongols a loophole, they would definitely not have been able to reach Changping.
When Abu Nai and Burni arrived in Changping, they found that the city of Changping was surrounded by large and small castles and strong manors of the Eight Banners. If they did not break these castles and manors, it would be difficult for Abu Nai and Burni to defeat them. Obtain enough supplies unless they let their Mongolians go to the fields to harvest wheat (the spring wheat is almost ripe now), and it seems difficult for the Mongols to break these strong castles and manors this time.
As for Changping Prefecture City, which has been surrounded by 50,000 Mongolian troops, it was the city used by the Ming Dynasty to protect the imperial mausoleums of Mount Tianshou!
Although only the local regiments and people are guarding it now, it is not something that Abu Nai and Burni can break in a short time.
Therefore, Abu Nai and Burni are now under a fortified city, with insufficient supplies, and are in a dilemma.
As for the grain transport team led by Zhang Yong, a paralytic, for Abu Nai and Burni, it was a good thing that provided help in times of need. But how could such a good thing happen to Abu Nai and Burni? How could the enemy be so stupid? Why did Changping Prefecture need a fleet of vehicles to help when they were just surrounded? This can probably only be explained by the blessing of Buddha, right?
Abu Nai also worshiped Buddha and burned incense in his yurt, and then took ten thousand Mongolia with him, including his brave generals Garzhao, Karma, Karma Seren and Senggehunjin. The cavalry left a camp south of Changping Prefecture City in chaos and surged southward.
Changping Prefecture City is fifty or sixty miles away from Beijing City. Zhang Yong's troops went out slowly at noon on the fifth day of September. They were not in a hurry at all. They only walked ten miles and set up camp when it was dark.
The next day, I slept until three o'clock in the morning before getting up. I led the three thousand troops below and pulled two hundred carts of grain. I walked slowly for more than ten miles and arrived near Haidian Town, a good place with clear water and beautiful flowers. , and ordered to set up camp.
The place where he camped was on the north bank of a small river called Qinghe. There was an Arrow Pavilion and a stone bridge called Arrow Pavilion Bridge nearby, and there was a large area of very dense woods on the south bank.
Zhang Yong ordered people to set up a vehicle array in the north of Jianting Bridge, connecting all the grain trucks end to end to form a ring. At the same time, they also sent people to board the Arrow Pavilion on the south bank, and also set up defenses on the south bank of the Arrow Pavilion Bridge, as if they wanted to reserve a retreat for themselves.
The time soon arrived on the seventh day of September in the twelfth year of Kangxi’s reign in the Qing Dynasty, in the early morning.
At this time, it had been almost two days since Zhang Yong led his troops out of Beijing, and it had been more than a day since Abu Nai led his troops southward. The large group of Mongolian cavalry led by Burni had also been heading south for some time.
But around the Qing army camp near the Jianting Bridge in Qinghe River, everything was still quiet. There was no tension at all about the imminent battle, and no one seemed to notice the 10,000 Mongolian cavalry approaching quietly in the night.
In addition, I don’t know if it was because he was worried that the Mongolian cavalry would not be able to find him at night. Zhang Yong also asked his men to set up a brightly lit camp. The large bonfires dotted at night were extremely conspicuous. As long as Abu The Mongols under Nai are not night blind, so they can definitely be found.
General Zhang Yong didn't care much because of his inconvenient legs and feet. After giving orders last night, he retreated into his tent to study how to compose poems.
But just because he doesn't take care of things himself doesn't mean that his army has no one to take care of. Because Zhang Yong has a large group of old brothers and grown-up nephews who have followed him for many years.
He was originally Zuo Liangyu's deputy general. He already had his own team in the late Ming Dynasty, and he led the team to join the Qing army with Zuo Mengeng. Later, he was assigned to Shaanxi and Gansu to help wipe out Li Zicheng and the remaining parties of the Ming Dynasty during the Great Ping Dynasty, suppress various uprisings, and also defeat the Mongols in the northwest. Later, he was sent to Ping Huguang, Zhan Yungui, and Guangxi under Hong Chengchou, and then served as admiral under Wu Sangui for three years. After Yongli died, he returned to Gansu to become admiral, and then continued to fight against Mongolia in the northwest. He was not transferred to Beijing until he was tricked by Wang Zhongxiao.
However, he did not go to the post alone, but came with hundreds of his team. First, he served as the training minister, helping to train the green camp recruits. After Kangxi's imperial commander went on a personal expedition, he was discovered by King Yu Fuquan, who had no one under his command, and was promoted to the rank of admiral of the Nine Gates and in charge of the fifth patrol battalion. At the same time, he continued to train with Zhao Liangdong.
Therefore, the team under him has almost never stopped in the twenty-seven or eight years since the surrender to the Qing Dynasty. They have been struggling on the front line of supporting the Qing Dynasty and destroying the enemy. They have been practicing every day, and they have also taken advantage of Mongolia in the northwest. After practicing for seven or eight years, people know best how to deal with these declining Mongolian cavalry.
Zhang Yong's successor is his second son Zhang Yunyi, who is now over 30 years old. He has also practiced with the Mongolians in the northwest for seven or eight years. He also dyed his forehead with the blood of the Mongols, and he got involved at a young age. Got a lieutenant general.
This time when the troops were sent out, his father Zhang Yong was in charge of composing poems and taking charge, and the preparations before the battle were left to him.
Although he has a lot of experience in fighting Mongolia, he does not dare to take it lightly now. Since setting up camp yesterday evening, he has been patrolling everywhere, walking around the car array three times, checking almost inch by inch-- Is the carbine pendulum strong? Is the pit dug enough? Have the artillery been set up? Are the shotgunners' shotguns, gunpowder, and rifles ready? Do the archers have enough arrow clusters? In short, no detail escapes his eyes.
And every time he checked the defense area of a team of Qing soldiers, he would pinch his fingers to do the calculations for the people below. His father liked to compose poetry, fortune telling and Feng Shui, and he was quite accurate.
After he makes a calculation with his fingers, he will announce the result of the fortune telling to the people below - good luck in the war and great wealth!
Three thousand against fifty thousand. There are too many opportunities to perform meritorious deeds. If they are all killed, each person can beheaded more than a dozen people, and they are not yet rich!
We are all going to get rich, so why can’t we have good fortune?
Just like this, they were patrolling and fortune-telling. They were busy until early in the morning. When the sky in the distance began to glow gray, Zhang Yunyi had not yet fallen asleep, so he boarded the Jianting Bridge to the south with a few confidants. Pianlinzi looked around - the Feng Shui there looked very good! Just when he was trying to figure out whether it would be better to build a house there or bury Zhang Yong, he suddenly felt the ground begin to shake. At first, he thought he was "moved". When he lowered his head, he saw that the lights on the bridge were shining brightly. When I reached my feet, I saw that the pebbles and sand under my feet were trembling slightly.
He quickly counted with his fingers, and suddenly his face was full of surprise, and he shouted loudly: "Blow the horn quickly! The auspicious time has come, it's auspicious to start the war. The Mongols are coming soon!"
All this can be calculated. The few Gesheha around him took out their horns with admiration on their faces and started blowing them with "whimpering" sounds.
As the horn sounded, the Qing army's vehicle array, which was originally silent, immediately burst into joy!
Good luck in starting a war and getting rich!
Zhang Yunyi’s calculation is really accurate!
In the faintly discernible sky, groups of Mongolian cavalry figures have appeared in the distance. The faint sound of horse hooves also began to reach the Qing army. It turned out that Abu Nai was extra thoughtful and asked the cavalry below to wrap the horses' hooves with cloth, wrap the horses' hooves, and give them a title, and they were not even allowed to recite sutras! Under the cover of darkness, they quietly approached Zhang Yong's camp, and then launched a surprise attack just before dawn!
Since it is a surprise attack, it must be successful with one strike!
So Abu Nai simply made a one-shot deal, divided his 10,000 cavalry into four groups, and handed them over to the four brave generals including Garzhao, Karma, Karma Sereng and Senggehunjin, and then from Zhang Yong camp swarmed up from the four directions of due north, northeast, northwest and due east.
Just swarm them!
There is no need to form any formation. Today's Mongolians don't know how to do that!
There is no need for artillery preparation. The Chahar people have no artillery!
There is no need to even shoot arrows around the Qing army's camp. How can the Mongols today outshoot the Qing army? The Qing army not only has bows and arrows, shotguns, and cannons, but they also have armor. Are you going to die if you shoot against them?
Anyway, just charge forward!
Nearly 10,000 Mongolian cavalry were lying on their horses, carrying spears and scimitars, and they were rushing toward Zhang Yong's car formation like a sea and a tide!
No one could see clearly how many Mongolian cavalry there were on the side of the Qing army's chariot formation. They could only see large, dense black masses moving to the "top position"!
A veteran who had followed the Zhang family and his son in fighting the Mongols in Gansu for several years shouted excitedly: "The enemy is attacking. The first victory is here!"
"Here comes the first success, I'm going to make a fortune!"
Then more Gansu veterans also cheered. Under the command of the small officers, the Qing soldiers who had been frightened by the horns calmly put on their armor and helmets, and then picked up shotguns, bows and arrows, long spears, and waist knives. After they were all equipped, they drove to their respective combat posts in a hurry. This is the advantage of having enough veterans. Five hundred veterans will lead 2,500 new recruits. All the new recruits are controlled by the veterans and have a backbone, so naturally there will be no rush.
At this moment, Zhang Yong's laughter also sounded in the car formation: "Hahaha" After laughing, his poem came, "The little Mongolian king commanded blindly, thousands of horses and thousands of troops gave away their lives, the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty showed no mercy. , the more Hulu you kill, the more rewards you will get!"
This poem is really easy to understand. When the people below heard it, their morale was a little higher. Some people looked back and saw that their paralyzed admiral had been neatly dressed and was being carried out to hang around!
The battlefield on the north bank of Qinghe River was originally a flat land. The Mongolian cavalry brigade just relied on hiding in darkness. As the sky gradually became brighter, the soldiers and generals of the Qing army were finally able to see clearly the "first achievement" in front of them. There are really a lot of them. The ones in front of you alone are almost tens of thousands. Not to mention that there is still smoke and dust rising in the north, and it looks like soldiers are pressing down on the border.
The eight "small red cannons" of the Qing army had been loaded with gunpowder and projectiles before the Mongols arrived - these were not the old-fashioned general cannons, but were "made by Luo Dongni and Nan Huairen" together. Designed" bronze three-pound cannon. It is one of the sharpest field firearms of this era!
When the Mongols rushed two to three hundred steps away from the car formation, these eight bronze cannons fired first!
Because the Mongols were so numerous and dense, every cannonball fired would never miss! And the lethality of some of the shells that "jumped" after landing was even more astonishing. The cannonball jumped as high as a person, and then rushed straight in one direction. No matter who it encountered was a fatal injury to any person or horse it encountered. Sometimes it would even pass directly through the human body, bringing out lumps of flesh and blood. It was really How terrible!
However, the Mongols did not retreat because of the casualties caused by the eight small cannons. After all, they were in vain now. Except for the Mongols who were almost hit by the shelling, no one else knew how powerful these small cannons were, so they kept moving forward with their heads covered. .
The Qing army in front seemed to have been frightened by the influx of Mongols. They did not fire or shoot arrows, but stood behind the car formation and watched calmly.
The officers' voices rang in their ears from time to time, "Wait a little longer, wait a little longer and wait for the Mongols to fall into the pit before fighting!"
At this moment, some Mongolian cavalry rushing at the front didn't know what was going on. Suddenly, they and their horses sank down. They were half shorter, and then they fell forward or to the left or right. The already chaotic formation became even more chaotic now. The Mongolian cavalry who fell in front blocked the way behind, and some even tripped the cavalry behind. Some Mongolian cavalry also rushed out of the chaos, but their speed had slowed down greatly and their density was not as high as before.
At this moment, rows of large and small fires suddenly flashed out from behind the Qing army's vehicle formation in front of them, and countless arrows were thrown over like raindrops!
The charging Mongols were immediately swept down in large numbers!
The first achievement is really rich!
(End of chapter)
