In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, on November 29th, at Chen hour, the sun was rising and the cold wind was blowing.
When Lu Xiangsheng heard that the Qing army was setting up camp, he suspected that they were going to withdraw. He quickly led his general Chen An and the guards to prepare to go out of the camp to investigate. As soon as he left the gate of the camp, he met Zhang Cheng who had returned.
After receiving confirmation that the Qing army was indeed moving out of camp, Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly ordered the generals to immediately assemble their cavalry to prepare to intercept the slave thieves and rescue the captive people.
Half an hour later, the cavalry units of Zhang Cheng, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei, Jiang Mingwu, and Chen An were completed. They originally had nearly 7,000 elite cavalry. After several battles, there were some attrition. Now there are still six More than a thousand people.
There are more than 4,000 fine cavalry assembled this time, and nearly a thousand cavalry are sent out on the outside to cover up the army's information and prevent the captive cavalry from spying. Nearly a thousand cavalry are left on the infantry side to prevent the captive cavalry team from coming to cause trouble. .
Lu Xiangsheng ordered Yang Guozhu to lead nearly a thousand cavalry in the front. He led Chen An, Zhang Cheng, and Jiang Mingwu in the middle, and Hu Dawei was the rear. The ministries trotted their horses in order and marched along the official road towards the Qing army's camp.
Rows of armored knights, wearing bright red cloaks, rode along the spacious official road. Looking from the air, they looked like a giant red dragon, rolling forward and kicking up a cloud of smoke.
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The Qing army camp by the Taiping River was empty, with only some broken earth walls and some large trees left by the Qing army. It was obvious that the army had already left the camp.
On the hill where Lu Xiangsheng was spying on the Qing army's camp the day before, a large flag woven with gold dragon cloth stood there. Under the flag, a Qing general wearing gilt armor and riding a horse was none other than Prince Heshuorui of the Qing Dynasty, The leader of the Zhengbai Banner is Aixinjueluo Dorgon.
A group of Qing army knights in white armor gathered around him. On the gentle slope of the hill, there were still groups of Qing army elite cavalry standing there on horseback. The number of them was always around a thousand knights, but there were two thousand war horses. Many horses.
Yang Guozhu was on the official road to the west of the hill. Ten of his knights lined up behind his general Guo Yingxian, and lined up nearly a mile away. Further away, there was another cavalry team, arrayed on the official road. .
In the wilderness on the north side of the official road where Yang Guozhu was arrayed, there were also many banners, and groups of Qing knights in white armor were closely arrayed and waiting.
On the official road, Yang Guozhu's knights were arrayed, occupying only two-thirds of the width of the official road. Lu Xiangsheng was on one side of the official road, whipping up his whip to urge his horse to run towards him. Zhang Cheng led a group of soldiers to follow behind him.
Before arriving at the military formation, Lu Xiangsheng raised his head and looked at the hill. After a while, he said: "Send the order, General Tiger led his subordinates to form a formation on the north side of the hill to monitor the slave leader Dole. Gunbu."
After finishing speaking, someone turned to Yang Guozhu and said: "General Yang, lead your troops to march one mile along the official road to monitor the more than a thousand horsemen in the north. Do not attack without receiving military orders. If the horsemen attack, we will I will lead my troops to help you."
Yang Guozhu took the order and left. Lu Xiangsheng ordered Zhang Cheng again: "Zhongchen, I have asked you to form an array between the slave chief Dorgon and the group of captive cavalry to the north. Do you dare?"
Zhang Cheng raised the corners of his mouth slightly, with a cynical expression on his face, and said, "Why don't you dare."
As he spoke, he clasped his fists and said, "The last general will take your orders."
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On the official road, bursts of smoke and dust were flying, and Xuanda generals led their cavalry out in formation.
After Zhang Cheng waited for his troops to summon his troops, he still took Chen Zheng as the vanguard, and the left, right and rear sentry troops jumped down the official road in order and ran forward in the wilderness of the fields.
Lu Xiangsheng supervised more than a thousand cavalry from the Biao Battalion and galloped to the west of the hill where Dorgon was. Zhang Cheng was to the south of Dorgon, and Hu Dawei's cavalry formation was to the north of Dorgon, forming a three-sided pressure. Dorgon's power.
At this time, in the direction of Huolu, southwest of the official road, a large plume of smoke and dust rose up, and another group of Qing cavalry galloped towards them. There were about a thousand of them, but they were also riding two horses, running slowly and with great momentum. amazing.
They came along the official road, more than 200 steps in front of Yang Guozhu's troops. After stopping, they quickly spread out. There were rows of Qing cavalry in the wilderness on both sides of the official road.
The two sides were divided into several cavalry formations, facing each other. No one took the lead in attacking, and they looked very angry and nervous.
About a quarter of an hour later, a loud arrow suddenly shot out from the hill, and the harsh sound of "woo woo woo..." spread far away.
After the sound of arrows, Dorgon jumped down from the hill. He did not urge the horse hard. The horse just trotted towards Zhang Cheng. A group of Qing cavalry followed him and slowly dispersed. Open, it becomes a vast expanse of white.
Zhang Cheng rode his horse and stood in front of his own military formation. Chen Zhong led the guards to gather behind him, and the four sentry cavalry were divided into four lines on the left and right to wait.
When Chen Zhong saw Dorgon's Qing troops galloping from the hills, he urged his horse to take a step forward and asked, "General, the Tatars are coming."
Zhang Cheng remained calm and ordered in a deep voice: "Send the orders to all the sentries and prepare them in strict formation. No movement is allowed without military orders."
I saw Dorgon galloping in and stopped in front of Zhang Cheng's army. The Qing soldiers behind him dispersed in an orderly manner, forming a fan shape to protect behind Dorgon, guarding Lu Xiangsheng's troops on the official road.
When Dorgon ran down the hill, Zhang Cheng quietly took off the Kaiyuan Bow and put it in his left hand, and set up a heavy arrow, which he also held with his left hand.
At this moment, seeing Dorgon's horse stopped a hundred steps away, he urged his horse and approached slowly. When Chen Zhong saw this, he wanted to follow him. Zhang Cheng hurriedly shouted: "Stop." , be alert, don’t follow.”
Motivating the war horse to move forward slowly, Zhang Cheng saw several Qing generals around Dorgon taking their bows and arrows, and they were all aiming here. He quickly tightened the reins with his right hand to stop the war horse, but moved his left hand towards his body. Hidden behind the side.
Dorgon looked at Zhang Cheng slowly approaching with a strange look on his face. Suddenly he saw Zhang Cheng stopped on his horse. He felt something strange. He turned around and scolded a few words with a sullen face. Those Qing soldiers The generals put their bows down one after another.
When Zhang Cheng saw that the other side had put down his bow and arrow, he urged his horse to move slowly again, and stopped again at fifty paces.
Dorgon looked at Zhang Cheng from a distance, and seemed to have said something to a Qing general beside him. The Qing general urged his horse to run forward about ten steps, and shouted loudly: "Who is the Ming general opposite? Tell me your name."
Zhang Chengce was on the horse and shouted with a look of disdain: "How can I ask the general's name and surname, and call the slave chief Dorgon to come forward and answer?"
When the Qing general saw that he not only despised himself, but also called his master Prince Rui by his first name, he became furious. He got on his horse and cursed angrily in Tatar, but was called back by Dorgon sharply.
He looked at Zhang Cheng from a distance and felt that this man was not very old, but he commanded more than a thousand fine cavalry of the Ming army. He couldn't help but be very interested, so he urged his horse to move forward a few steps, and shouted loudly: "Can you tell me the name of the young general opposite?" king."
