Although summer has not yet begun, the light on the surface is still dim. After entering Yinzheng, the eastern sky has turned slightly white. Using the brightly lit and smoky capital as a reference, Ding Jian and He Wei are determined not to go wrong. direction.
With less than 80 cavalry alone, it is impossible to escape by land to join Huangtaiji outside the pass. The only feasible way is to go to Tianjin, rush to the Liaodong coast by water, and then go ashore to look for the nearby Qing army.
It will not be too late to take revenge after the Qing army enters the pass in large numbers after winter. By then, the young prince, Huang Degong and others must be allowed to return their money and profits. A large number of craftsmen can be deployed throughout the capital to lead the army to the city. At this time, we should cooperate with each other inside and outside to conquer the capital.
"stop!"
"Thieves, please leave!"
"Kui Sun!"
"Eat Grandpa's arrow!"
The loud shouts and curses issued by the Qin soldiers and cavalry behind them actually had no killing effect. The fleeing soldiers in the Beijing camp in front would not listen to their orders, but they would continue to be psychologically afraid because the voices of the pursuing soldiers were getting louder and louder. The closer.
The distance between the two sides was not yet close, and even the arrows fired by the Qin soldiers could only fall behind the hooves of the horses in the Beijing camp and eat ashes. However, they were still so frightened that many of them lay on their horses and ran away, fearing that they would not escape. An arrow shot through the back.
The instinct of survival drove the dozens of people in the Beijing camp to gallop eastward as hard as they could, while the hundreds of pursuers behind them were completely attracted by gold and silver. They were now the ones dreaming of getting rich.
During the suppression of bandits in the northwest, soldiers had to travel hundreds of miles to earn even one tael of silver. The court might not be able to pay them on time, but could only get enough to eat. The veterans who had survived the war for many years were all Understand the difficulty of making money.
Now, there are two lieutenants worth ten thousand taels of silver in front of us, how can we not make everyone excited?
Their horses also carry gold ingots, each worth hundreds of taels of silver. Aren't the officers and soldiers going through life and death just to make money for a living?
The prince ordered that in addition to personnel and other special items, the loot captured in this battle could be handled by the person who captured it. This greatly aroused the enthusiasm of the officers and soldiers in countering the rebellion, and everyone had endless energy.
If you kill the soldiers around a general in the Beijing camp, you can get hundreds of taels of silver from him at least. Even if you hand over half of it, you can keep half of it. With this windfall, you can return to your hometown in Shaanxi with great comfort. It's been a wonderful day like a dream.
If any of the soldiers wanted to rein in their horses and surrender, for the sake of leaving all their belongings, they would strip off and run away, the Qin soldiers would not mind. For the sake of ten taels of silver, they would not make it difficult for them. Otherwise, every one of them will have their bodies touched.
Qin soldiers often did this kind of thing when suppressing bandits. In the final analysis, they were too poor, and the court was also poor, so that the rogue bandits first robbed the gentry and common people, and then they robbed the rogue bandits. It was impossible to return the property to its original owner.
The prince is so considerate. He paid up all the arrears before, increased everyone's monthly salary, and paid next month's salary in advance. Not only has he offered a reward this time, but he can also handle the loot by himself. The elders of Sanqin want to Give yourself some credit.
The way to make money is right in front of you. If you don't have the ability to catch the enemy, then don't complain about it afterwards. Just continue to live in poverty and watch others drink and eat meat.
In fighting with the wind, the Qin soldiers are better than the Beijing camp, and the people who want to be strangled are not their fellow villagers. There is no need to be merciful. As long as they are not female relatives, they will chop them with a knife, and then cut off the cloth on the chest. Go and claim your reward.
A certain prince didn't have much interest in the prisoners. Once these people returned, they would want to return to their old careers if they had the opportunity in the future. If they were escorted to Shandong for mining, some of them might escape. Detaining them in the Jifu area was even more of a huge hidden danger.
Therefore, a certain prince acquiesced to the Qin soldiers' approach, which coincided with Sun Chuanting's idea. Sun Shaobao was very worried about the prisoners revolting, so he strictly ordered his four general soldiers not to escape when encountering the enemy, and not to release them without authorization when they captured the enemy.
Combined with the reward regulations, it implies that the Qin soldiers will kill all the rebels in the Beijing camp. Otherwise, when the Qin soldiers go south to suppress the bandits, there will be endless troubles. No guy with a brain will escort the enemy to receive the reward. After killing him, he will take the front piece back to redeem it How easy it is to make money.
With such a high reward, the prince must have had murderous intentions and wanted to eradicate the rebellion in the capital. Sun Chuanting could openly use the name of night battle to mobilize his men to kill.
What's more, if this group of rebels is not wiped out, it will be difficult to completely clean up the Jifu area. For ordinary soldiers who participated in the rebellion, they can just kill them. If the generals in the Beijing camp can be captured, they will be taken to cause trouble and executed in Lingchi. , to serve as a warning to others.
Chengzu's launch of the Jingnan War was at best a quarrel between his brothers, while the open rebellion in the capital was the worst thing in the more than 200 years since the Ming Dynasty began.
Different from the invasion of foreign enemies, or the battle between Fanzhou and Ningxia, the Jingying camp is the imperial army that protects the emperor. Since its establishment, it has gone through countless battles, large and small, defended the enemy several times, and has achieved brilliant results. Now it actually switched sides and launched a sneak attack on the capital. , is truly an act worthy of death.
The Jifu area is not a trivial matter. If all the Beijing camps who are familiar with the geographical and military conditions of this area are not captured, the safety of the country and the imperial court will be threatened at all times. On the eve of the winter solstice, the iron hooves of the Donglu will be wreaked.
After understanding the connotation of the two orders from the Crown Prince and the Shaobao, we can simplify the content into two words - chase and kill!
The Beijing camp will not stand still and let you cut them down. As long as they dare to run away, they must pursue them, just like what Hu Dawei and Li Guoqi did.
I chased them for nearly ten miles in one breath. Although I still didn't catch them completely, I finally reached the distance that the bow and arrow should be able to reach. Moreover, it was almost daylight, and these bastards were unable to escape under the cover of night.
"What a dog! How dare you run away! Your grandfather calls you a turtle grandson!"
Hu Dawei was also furious when he saw this. The group of cowards in front didn't even have the courage to turn around and fight. They were like a bunch of eggless women. Maybe they were not as good as women. Women could at least talk back. They just ran away. road.
"Don't worry! Drive~!"
Ding Jian whipped his horse and whipped it, galloping as hard as he could, telling his soldiers on the left and right from time to time that if he turned around while distracted, he might be hit by an arrow and fall off his horse, and he would surely die.
Both sides are chasing each other in the wild, competing to see who can run faster. The slower one will definitely lose, and will either miss out on the reward of ten thousand taels of silver, or directly lose his life.
There are still thousands of taels of gold on the soldiers' horses. It's not that Ding Jian has not considered these items, but it is the last possession he can rely on. As long as he still has breath left, he must carry it with him in case of emergency.
"That is……"
As he ran, Ding Jian suddenly found hundreds of fine cavalry running down the opposite hillside. If the opponent ambushed his troops and he was outnumbered, he would definitely die.
However, when they got closer, they discovered that this group of cavalry did not wear the white scarves worn by enemy soldiers, which meant that they might be friendly forces.
"Ding Jian!"
The leader called his colleagues by their first names when they saw them. This was Ding Jian's old acquaintance - Tuge, the deputy general of the Shenshu Camp.
He originally led his troops to guard outside the city. After the siege failed, he had the idea of escape first.
It was just that they never expected to encounter a brave blockade by Commander-in-Chief Zheng Jiadong, coupled with the flanking attacks from the other two Commander-in-Chiefs Zuo Guangxian and Niu Chenghu, which gave Tuge's half of the Shenshu Battalion cavalry a dual advantage in strength and mobility, and they were still unable to do so. Fight and win.
Seeing that they were outnumbered and there was no place to stay in Jifu area, Tuge led his troops to withdraw from the battlefield, intending to go all the way north and exit the customs through Xifengkou. Before they had run ten miles, they encountered the brave troops led by Lu Jiude. Guard camp cavalry sub-battalion.
Sun Chuanting judged that after the failure of the siege, the rebels would definitely choose to go north to the Great Wall to exit the customs, or to go east to Tianjin and go to the sea. He asked his soldiers to abandon all their horses. Shenshu Camp should not be able to do this, so for them, the only option is to go north. There is a way to go.
According to Sun Chuanting's deployment, the three generals of the Qin army lined up along Chaoyang Gate to intercept the rebels heading north. If the defense line was breached, Lu Jiude led the cavalry sub-battalion to conduct a second interception.
The Qin soldiers had more cavalry, but they were not strong enough to take down the Shenshu camp in one go. In view of the need for a night battle, the Qin soldiers and the Yongwei camp worked hand in hand to annihilate the Shenshu camp this time, attacking from both front and rear.
Sure enough, more than 1,500 Shenshu battalion cavalry broke through the defense line composed of Qin soldiers in one fell swoop, completely ignoring the pursuit of thousands of Qin soldiers and cavalry behind them. However, before they could run out of the capital, they were blocked by more than 3,000 Yongwei battalion cavalry. return.
If he insists on forcing his way through, he will be able to reach Xifengkou before everyone dies. However, Tuge is afraid that his troops will be wiped out, and he has to give up his war horses when he goes to Tianjin. It is still unclear whether he can go to sea by boat, so he Ordered his men to turn and kill back.
It would be a good idea to circle around the south city first, take the opportunity to get rid of the entanglement of the pursuers behind you, and then head north. In short, it would be good to lead his men out of the pass.
It's just that Tuge broke through the Qin soldiers' defense line again. Just thinking about the good news of joining Huang Taiji, he bumped into Ding Jian, He Wei and others who were extremely frightened.
"Don't be afraid, you two. I have thousands of fine cavalry, and I will definitely be able to kill the pursuing troops in front!"
Tuge felt relieved when he saw that the enemy troops chasing his colleagues were no more than a hundred, and that there were at least five or six hundred on his side.
"That's good!"
Ding Jian didn't have time to think deeply. Seeing that there were many soldiers and horses behind Tuge, he agreed immediately.
Although the three of them are all lieutenants, whoever has more soldiers must listen to whoever has more soldiers, otherwise it will be difficult to save their lives.
"Warriors! Follow me and kill you!"
Tuge's troops are far from being at the end of their rope, and this group of people are really overestimating their capabilities if they want to stop them.
Seeing that the incoming enemy was much smaller than themselves, hundreds of cavalrymen swept away their previous depression and rekindled their hope of breaking out of the encirclement.
Hearing the deputy general's loud shout, they all waved their sabers, galloped their horses, and pounced on the blocking enemy, who had only a hundred people in front of them, intending to rush them to death.
"Well done! Give it to me!"
Hu Dawei is not afraid of the enemy hitting him, but he is afraid of the opponent running away.
So what if there are many people? Grandpa is worried that he has not made some meritorious deeds to atone for his sins.
Completely unafraid of the opponent's overwhelming numbers, he urged the black war horse under his crotch and charged forward with a long machete.
Although the Qin soldiers were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength, the soldiers were experienced in hundreds of battles and were in great momentum. They did not stagnate due to the large number of opponents.
Seeing that the general had already taken the lead to attack, he immediately followed him and faced the rebels who dared to come to die with a fearless formation.
"Don't get entangled! Just rush over!"
Tuge seemed to feel that thousands of pursuers were approaching behind him, and he immediately ordered his men that killing was secondary. He had to find a way to survive first. He did not want to be annihilated outside the city by the opponent.
"Die!"
The two horses of the two sides were in the wrong stirrups. Hu Dawei raised his sword and cut it down under the horse on the right. He swung the sword with his backhand and chopped down the guy on the left. .
Arrows and spears can penetrate the target with the help of sharp points. To defeat the enemy with blunt weapons such as knives and axes, it depends entirely on the strength and weight of the people used, making the opponent unable to resist and fatally struck by one blow.
After the two sides charged, when Hu Dawei, Li Guoqi and others moved their horses, they suddenly found that there were not many soldiers left on the horses, only fifty or sixty, but the number of enemy soldiers on the opposite side had not been reduced much.
When the two lieutenants were hesitating whether to continue fighting, Tuge ran away first. Before the figures in Shenshu Camp disappeared, Lu Jiude led the cavalry of Yongwei Camp to rush into the battlefield.
"Hurry up!"
Seeing soldiers wearing white scarves not far away, Lu Jiude, in order to save time and not to bother, directly ordered his troops to pursue quickly with a sharp voice.
Lu Jiude greatly admired Sun Shaobao's tactical arrangements in advance. The Qin army commander had an extremely accurate vision of the development of the battlefield situation, and he was able to follow the plan and enjoy the results.
Thousands of cavalrymen from the Yongwei Battalion flew past the eyes of Hu Dawei and Li Guoqi. Their momentum was as strong as a rainbow, shocking the heart and mind, just like a magnificent painting with rich colors.
"Follow me!"
Even eunuchs can go into battle to kill the enemy and lead the charge. What do these healthy guys have to worry about?
Naturally, the two lieutenants had to keep up with the friendly forces, lest they and their men chase for a long time and have their credit taken away by others.
"this……"
Ding Jian found that he seemed to have returned along the same route, from outside Zuo'an Gate along the outer city wall to the starting point outside Guangning Gate. He was really fooled by the graphics, and he felt even more depressed.
He still wanted to split his troops with Tuge, a blind man, to avoid turning into a race around the city, but when he turned around and saw the thousands of pursuers behind him, he was frightened and immediately gave up his previous idea.
If the troops were divided, the hundreds of Menggu cavalry under Tuge would not listen to the orders of Ding Jian and He Wei. The two could only run away with their own soldiers.
But the pursuers behind them will not be distracted by the pivot camp or the fifth military camp. They will pursue them to the end. As long as two to three hundred cavalry are separated, they can kill two people.
The matter has come to this, and there is no way to repent. There is a way to survive, but there is also a way to survive. Ding Jian has no choice but to grit his teeth and follow Tuge's path into the dark.
I secretly prayed in my heart, hoping to get rid of these pursuers before dawn, otherwise after dawn, I would be targeted by the pursuers and I would never be able to escape.
Ding Jian regretted it, and Tuge regretted it even more. If he had known this, he should have left the customs directly through Xifengkou.
In that case, not only would his life not be in danger, but he would also be able to use the thousands of fine horses under his command to please the Emperor Taiji.
What does that count now?
A lost dog?
I really don’t know how many people will be left around me after I get out of seclusion...
