Zhun Ta, whose surname is Tong Jia, belongs to the Zhengbai Banner of Manchuria. His ancestors lived in Yaer Ancient Village, more than 20 miles upstream of Dayaerhu River Estuary.
His father, Tong Jia Hu'erhan, was the adopted son of the old slave Nurhachi. He was brave and good at fighting. He was once named "Jueluo" by the old slave. He was in charge of Manchuria with a white flag. He was also named "Darhan" and was one of the "Five Founding Ministers of the Later Jin Dynasty". one.
Zhun Ta was the most similar to his father among the Hu'erhan sons. He was also brave and good at fighting. In the tenth year of Chongzhen, he accompanied Azige, the king of Wuying County, to capture Pi Island. Because of his bravery in battle, he was given the name "Batulu".
In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, he followed General Yangwu and Beileyuetuo to break through Qiangziling, destroy the border and enter the pass, wreaking havoc in the capital of the Ming Dynasty. They successively defeated the troops of the internal eunuch Feng Yongsheng and the general Hou Shilu of the Ming Dynasty, and penetrated deep into the interior of Shandong.
At this moment, Zhun Ta was galloping on his horse. He wanted to intercept the charging Ming cavalry and prevent them from rushing through his defense line, so as not to ruin Prince Rui's plan.
Although the Ming army on the opposite side seems to have surpassed Qianqi, so what?
In the eyes of Batulu Zunta of the Qing Dynasty, no matter how many Ming Dynasty cavalry they were, they were nothing more than round watermelon heads. The long machete in his hand was not just for chopping.
Zhun Ta didn't take the charging Ming army seriously at all. He yelled and kept urging the Zhengbai Banner Tatar cavalry under his command to gallop forward.
Seeing that there were only more than a hundred steps between the two sides, Zhun Ta's heart skipped a beat. Something seemed wrong with the Mingqi opposite.
Not only were their knights well-equipped with armor, but even the horses they mounted were equipped with uniforms, and uniform tiger spears stood up like a forest in front of the cavalry formation.
Looking at the rows of tiger spears, the dark and bright spear tips showing a hint of cold air, even a Batulu warrior as fierce as Zhun Ta could not help but take a breath of cold air.
Especially the unhurried and unhurried speed of the Ming Army's cavalry formation opposite. Previously, Zhun Ta was still laughing at the Ming Army's lack of bravery and did not dare to charge.
But now it seems that it is full of oppression!
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Zhang Guangda rode forward, leading the 300 heavy cavalry and controlling the horses under his hips to accelerate forward in a running posture. Qing Yishui's tiger spear thrust forward, like a row of mobile anti-horse rifles equipped with iron armor, rolling forward.
Originally, Zhang Guangda's weapon was a long machete. He had been using the long machete for several years since he fought as a cavalryman under Zhang Yan, the commander-in-chief of Xuanzhen.
But since Zhang Cheng established the heavy cavalry, it was for the convenience of training the soldiers, for the uniformity of the cavalry formation, and also to set an example.
He abandoned the long machete and instead practiced tiger lance cavalry combat, and the cavalry combat weapons of all 300 soldiers in the heavy cavalry department of the entire cavalry camp were also replaced by tiger lances.
In addition to the tiger lance, each heavy cavalryman is also equipped with an iron mace, which is used as a secondary weapon. Apart from this, there are no other weapons, not even bows and arrows or short-handed blunderbuss.
After all, heavily armored cavalry cannot fight for a long time. Even if some knights have strong physical strength and can fight for a long time, the horses under their crotches cannot bear such weight for a long time.
"The Xuanbei Army is victorious!"
Zhang Guangda stretched the tiger spear forward a little further, shouted loudly, and when he was eighty steps away from the Manchurian Zhengbai Banner Tatar bandit, he began to urge his horse to gallop at a forward pace.
"Wan Sheng!"
"Xuanbei Army...Wan Sheng...Xuanbei Army...Wan Sheng..."
The roar was like the roar of a devil, and the "rumbling" sound of iron hooves seemed to break through the sky.
"Wan Sheng... Wan Sheng... Wan Sheng..."
The knights from the Tiger Guard Camp and the Light Cavalry Department on the left and right sides also gave out uniform shouts and roars, which shocked the hearts of the Tatars rushing in front, making them feel a trace of fear for the first time. At the same time, their faces were full of An incredible look.
When did Ming Gouzi, who had always been a coward, become so brave and powerful?
Thirty steps...twenty steps...
"Bang...bang...boom..."
The first rows of cavalry from both sides collided with each other, making a series of tragic muffled sounds, followed by the sound of broken bones, the neighing of war horses, mixed with howls, and for a moment it was not clear whether the screams were from the Ming army. That cry was from the Tatars.
Zhang Guangda's tiger spear was piercing the chest of a Tatar cavalry. With a "bang" sound, the powerful impact actually shattered the goggles, went straight into the chest of the Tatar cavalry, and penetrated through the back.
The Tatar thief grasped the tiger gun with both hands weakly, his eyes almost rolled out of his eyes, and he spit out mouthfuls of black blood "Puff... Puff...", but he kept trying to open it wider, as if he was full of blood. Feeling unwilling.
Ta Zhan's weapon was a long-handled mace stick. He swung the stick and hit it hard on the head of the Ming army's heavy horse beside Zhang Guangda.
There was a "click".
Even with the protection of armor, the horse's head was smashed by the Zhun Tower. The huge body of the war horse tilted to the right, and with a "bang", it fell directly to the ground, like a hill collapsing, stirring up a cloud of dust.
"Bang!"
There was another loud noise.
By coincidence, Zhang Guangda's war horse collided with Zhun Ta's war horse. The advantage of the armored war horse became apparent at this moment. Although the horses under their legs were both strong, Zhun Ta's war horse was hit and screamed. With a sound, he fell to the side.
Zhang Guangda's tiger spear was still stuck in the chest of the Tatar thief. The rebound force of the collision of the horses made him dodge backward. He released the tiger spear with both hands, pulled out his mace with his backhand, and hit the target with great force. On the tower's helmet.
There was a loud "Bang!"
Zhun Ta's iron helmet was deflated and embedded in his huge head. Zhun Ta, the majestic Batulu warrior of the Qing Dynasty, didn't even have time to snort, and died!
Zhang Guangda had actually been eyeing Zhun Ta for a long time, but he only saw that Zhun Ta was the leader of these Tatar cavalry, but he didn't know that he was actually the Batulu warrior of the Tatars.
These words seemed to take a long time, but in fact they only happened in a split second.
After Zhang Guangda smashed the quasi tower to death, he rode into the Tatar cavalry formation. His mace flew and knocked down two more Tatars. Although he was also hit by the Tatar machete, he was injured. Without the protection of the iron armor, I could only feel the blood surge in my chest, but there was nothing serious.
As the knights in the back row continued to charge forward, they suddenly punched a big hole in the middle of the battle formation of the Tatar white flag cavalry.
Zhang Cheng, who was behind, led his two adopted sons and child soldiers, and Mo Rigen's three hundred Mongolian cavalry rushed towards them. The two sides continued to engage in a melee, and the Tiger Guards and Qingqi on both wings also joined the battle group at this time.
Duhu Dayou's hundred rangers stayed on the periphery. They patrolled outside the battle group in small groups to hunt down the Tatar cavalry who broke out of the battle group.
"Bang...bang bang..."
There was a series of explosions of short-handed muskets, and the Tatar thieves, who were beaten to pieces by the heavy cavalry led by Zhang Guangda, fell in pieces under the bombardment.
Zhang Cheng's duck-billed knife and stick stabbed, smashed, or chopped. It was like entering an uninhabited land. Shrouded in smoke and dust, nearly a thousand Tatar thieves were killed by the Xuanbei army like melons and vegetables. , less than a hundred people escaped.
However, Zhang Cheng's troops suffered less than a hundred casualties. Such a result must be the best in this battle!
Hu Dayou was leading a dozen rangers to chase down four Tatar cavalry. He saw Zhang Chengfang riding towards him from a distance. He reined in his horse and heard Zhang Chengfang shouting from a distance: "The commander-in-chief has an order. You cavalry quickly go to the direction of West Shimen to investigate the slave situation and find out where Yang Zhenshuai is."
Hu Dayou hurriedly stopped everyone and called to the soldiers of the Cavalry Division separately. A team of more than ten people rode towards the west stone gate and galloped away.
Zhang Jintai saw from a distance the body of a Tatar thief lying on Lin Fangping's saddle and bridle. He smiled and said: "General Lin, it would be nice to just chop off the head. Why bother carrying this big guy? It's so tiring." Leah!"
Lin Fangping raised his hand and patted the corpse of the Tatar thief heavily, and said with a smile: "Look at the armor and the military flag. I guess he is really a big guy. It's better to keep his whole body intact so that he can take advantage of the merit."
Zhang Cheng also rode over at this time. He took a closer look and said, "Hey, isn't this the Tatar leader who was beaten to death by Xiahou Zhang?"
"Come back to the commander, it's the last general who has been killed." Zhang Guangda also galloped over on horseback at some point.
Zhang Cheng's knife-clutching stick has been hung back on the horse's Desheng hook. He waved the riding crop in his hand and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll leave it to you for safekeeping."
Immediately, he continued to shout: "The target is in the direction of West Shimen. The Tiger Guard will follow my commander in the center, the light cavalry will be on the left, the Mongolian cavalry will be on the right, and the heavy cavalry will be slowing down behind to restore the foot strength of the war horses.
Sons, follow me and continue killing slaves! "
"Kill slaves..."
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"Reinforcements...reinforcements are coming..."
Waves of cheers came from the military formation of Shanxi Commander-in-Chief Li Fuming.
After Li Fuming's troops led the Zhengbai Banner Tatar cavalry in Zhun Tower to intercept Zhang Cheng, the pressure suddenly eased, but even so, they were still at a disadvantage.
Tazhan commanded nearly a thousand elite soldiers of the Tatar bandits Bagala, and they still took turns to ride and charge. In each charge, more than ten Ming soldiers were shot by the Tatar bandits' heavy arrows, either dead or injured.
At this moment, he was still complaining that Zhang Cheng was really unjust. Seeing that the battle between himself and the Tatars was so fierce, he did not come to rescue him, but directly sent his troops to kill him in the north.
Seeing that his military formation was about to be undefendable, Li Fuming was so anxious that he kept greeting Zhang Cheng and the eighteenth generation of Xuanbei Army's ancestors in his heart.
Suddenly, he heard cheers of "Reinforcements are coming...". He was overjoyed and quickly looked back.
As expected, he saw the dark Ming army marching slowly towards him on the mountain road behind him. He was like a newly weaned baby looking forward to drinking milk, and there were a few tears in his eyes.
In the reinforcement formation, a large flag was erected high. On the left side were the two characters "Xuanbei" and in the middle was a big "Wei" character. This was the flag recognized by Wei Zhice's commander-in-chief.
Next to it is a recognition flag of the same size and specification as above, with the character "李" written on it, which is the recognition flag of Li Jiyu, the commander of the Dengfeng camp.
On both sides of the infantry formation of the Dengfeng camp, there was a chariot unit on each side. Although more than 6,000 elite Xuanbei Army soldiers advanced slowly, they also brought up billowing smoke and dust, but hidden in the billowing smoke was a giant steel Beast, specifically here to harvest the lives of Tatar thieves with money rat tails!
Li Fuming, who had been angrily cursing Zhang Cheng and the Xuanbei Army just now, was shouting grandma and grandpa at the same time. He immediately gave up the idea of preparing to retreat and organized Shanxi soldiers and horses to launch a counterattack.
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"Where is Marshal Yang now?"
Xuanfu Counselor Guo Yingxian roared angrily at the two Ming army cavalry who were covered in blood.
At this moment, a circle of white cloth was randomly wrapped around his chest, except for a patch of bright red on the left side. The helmet fell off somewhere, and his hair was no longer restrained by the helmet, and was fluffy and scattered behind his head.
Two of Yang Guozhu's servants followed him and replied with a very embarrassed expression: "After we separated the master from Tang Dusi, he was surrounded by Tatar thieves. We followed and killed the master for half a day, but still could not escape. This time I just came to look for General Guo to come back for reinforcements."
When Guo Yingxian heard that Yang Guozhu was in a critical situation, he was furious and cursed: "What use do you have? I usually provide you with good food and drink, but now that it's time to use it, it's so unbearable!"
The two servants' faces were turned green and red by what he said, but they did not dare to refute, so they could only lower their heads obediently, not daring to raise their heads.
Duoluo Anpingbeile Dudu of the Qing Dynasty commanded thousands of Tatar bandits with red flags to besiege He Zhenxiong. He had a clear advantage, but was suddenly killed by Guo Yingxian, disrupting the position. At this time, he was preparing for the next attack.
After He Zhenxiong comforted the brothers in the Buying camp in front of the formation, he walked back. When he heard Guo Yingxian's angry scolding, he hurriedly stepped forward to persuade him: "Master Guo, even if you scold them to death, you will not be able to relieve the danger of the commander-in-chief.
What's more, they tried their best, but Li Fuming of Shanxi Province was still unable to make any progress. I, the lone army in Xuanzhen, monopolized the Tatars, and then suffered a temporary defeat. How can I blame them! "
Guo Yingxian's anger was still lingering, but he still said: "Hmph, where are the Supervisory Camp of Governor Hong and the soldiers and horses of Liu Zhaoji, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong?"
He seemed to remember something and asked doubtfully: "Is there any movement from the Xuanbei Army?"
The two servants of Yang Guozhu who came to report the news first looked at each other and then said: "Not seen."
"What is this kid Zhang Cheng doing? Not to come to the rescue!"
Guo Yingxian said in a rough voice, and He Zhenxiong said from the side: "General Guo, lead the cavalry and go quickly to find the commander-in-chief. The new army here can still withstand it."
Guo Yingxian glanced at him and said, "I'll leave you eight hundred cavalry. I'll be enough with a thousand cavalry."
Before He Zhenxiong refused, Guo Yingxian said angrily: "You are Yang Shuai's precious child. You are willing to take it to fight with the Tatars, but I, Lao Guo, can't bear to part with it!"
After saying this, he got on his horse and shouted loudly: "Guo Qing, gather your left and right troops and follow me to find Yang Shuai."
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Yang Guozhu, the chief military officer of Xuanfu Town, had a slight chance to stand out from the siege of the Tatars, but unfortunately, his war horse was shot by the Tatars. The opportunity was lost due to the delay in changing the horse.
Although E Keqin, the auxiliary official of the Qing Dynasty, did not dare to disobey Prince Rui Dorgon's military orders, he did not believe that Yang Guozhu would surrender at all.
Therefore, when Kong Youde went to persuade Yang Guozhu to surrender, he led a group of cavalry to watch from a distance. Suddenly he saw Yang Guozhu trying to break out of the encirclement, and he hurriedly led his troops in pursuit.
Even so, after Yang Guozhu changed his horse, he still had the opportunity to lead the dozen cavalry behind him to escape from the Qing army's encirclement. However, he could not bear to abandon his servants who had been following him for many years, so he had to turn around and fight.
Just like this, they fought and retreated, and were surrounded by E Keqin on a hill. In the distance, groups of cavalry from the Zhengbai Banner of the Qing Army were galloping towards them, and a large gold-woven dragon flag was also slowly approaching. Move slowly.
