Under the banner of the Zhijin Dragon Banner are dozens of Bajala Qing soldiers with white flags wearing helmets and armor. In the middle of them is a Qing general wearing gilt armor.
He is quite tall and strong, with a rough rectangular face, which makes him look extremely heroic. The only drawback is the sinister look in his rat eyes.
"How is King Gongshun's injury?" Dorgon looked at the more than 200 Mingqi not far ahead and asked calmly.
E Keqin immediately said: "Back to my uncle, the general has gone to see him. The tip of the spear penetrated the ribs and scraped the skin. Although the blood was flowing heavily, it did not affect his life."
"I heard that your head was injured too?"
"Yes. King Gongshun broke his head when he was thrown off his horse by Yang Guozhu. It has been bandaged."
"Hmph. What a waste!"
Dorgon cursed in his heart, with a look of disgust on his face, but said gently: "Go and tell King Gongshun that he should live well and cultivate himself. When the fighting here stops, I will visit him in person. .”
"yes"
E Keqin received the order with a respectful expression, then turned and left.
Dorgon walked to the horse. He took the reins from the Bajala warrior, stepped on the stirrups, jumped on the horse, and rode towards the Ming army knights on the opposite side.
Dozens of Bajala Tatars followed behind to escort them, stepping on the dry and hard hilly slopes, raising a plume of smoke and dust.
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This is a rolling hilly area. The wormwood in the low areas is nearly waist-high, while the high areas barely reach the knees. The hot summer wind blows, and the wormwood lies low, making a rustling sound.
However, Yang Guozhu, the commander-in-chief of Xuanzhen, did not care to appreciate the natural music played by the wormwood in the wind at this moment. He stood beside the horse so that the long-running horse could relax and regain its strength in preparation for another battle.
He stared at the gold-woven dragon banner slowly moving in the distance, and suddenly felt mixed emotions in his heart. This time he returned to his former residence in Liaodong, and he often thought of his brother, nephew, and nephew who died in the war.
Yang Guozhu is not afraid of death!
However, he looked back at the more than two hundred servants behind him. They were all still young, in their twenties and thirties, and they were the mainstay of the family.
And these servants have been following him for many years, and now Yang Guozhu only wants to lead them to find a way out, and one more person will escape.
He saw the golden dragon banner stopped about 150 steps away. It seemed that Dorgon only brought ten Baya Laqing troops, and the rest were waiting 200 steps behind Dorgon. With.
This shows how sincere Dorgon was in recruiting Yang Guozhu to surrender, but Yang Guozhu was unmoved. He looked at the Qing army Bagala running over there with a cold face.
"Have you shot the master?"
Yang Guozhu shook his head slowly and said calmly: "No need, let's see what he has to say."
Then, he whispered: "Tell the soldiers to eat dry food, and feed the horses some beans to slow down their strength."
"yes."
The soldier retreated quietly, and the Qing soldier Bagala had already rushed to 40 steps away. After he reined in his horse and stopped, he shouted loudly in a not very fluent Chinese: "The Qing Dynasty will be peaceful." Prince Shuorui, please ask Marshal Yang, the commander-in-chief of Xuan Town of the Ming Dynasty, to come forward and answer."
Tan Zhenlin, the general of the army, came forward and said: "General, how about we lead the brothers to charge forward and capture the slave chief?"
Yang Guozhu turned around and glared at him, saying, "Nonsense."
He turned back and looked at Qingqi not far away, and said: "Go and tell the Tatar thief that I will go to meet him later."
Tan Zhenlin agreed and walked forward nearly ten steps before shouting back.
At this time, the soldier who had just gone to deliver the order came back and asked beside Yang Guozhu: "General, if you want to meet the slave chief, please bring more brothers with you."
Yang Guozhu looked at Tan Zhenlin who was walking back and said calmly: "No need, Dorgon only brings ten people, don't let him underestimate us!"
He then said: "Xiao Tanzi, you take nine people and follow me to meet the traitor Dorgon."
After Yang Guozhu said this, he walked towards the war horse. He got on his horse and rode the horse in a circle, scanning the remaining soldiers.
Finally, his eyes rested on the soldier who reminded him to bring more men and horses, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Huang Baozhong, lead all the soldiers to stay here until I go to meet the slave chief!"
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Dorgon rode his horse under the banner of the golden dragon banner and looked at Yang Guozhu, who was slowly galloping towards him, with admiration in his heart.
The reason why he wanted to recruit and surrender Yang Guozhu was actually out of selfish motives. He wanted to destroy the morale of the Ming army by recruiting Yang Guozhu and induce other Ming army generals to surrender.
But at this moment, seeing Yang Guozhu leading ten Ming troops to talk to him, he couldn't help but feel admiration, secretly thinking that there were not many Ming generals like Yang Guozhu.
In this way, the more Yang Guozhu refuses to surrender, the more he wants to surrender, just like a strange circle, an infinite loop!
When Yang Guozhu rode his horse and stood still more than forty steps away, Dorgon said with a smile: "It's not easy to see General Yang in command today."
Yang Guozhu also smiled and replied with a stiff expression: "It's difficult for both of us to meet the King of Rebellion."
"Hahaha……"
When Dorgon heard this, he was not angry but smiled. After he laughed, he said: "In the winter of the third year of Chongde, I met General Yang in Julu. Unfortunately, things happened in a hurry and I didn't get to meet General Yang, but I really admire him in my heart. Endless."
He continued: "How can I, the king, endure such a great talent as the general, but be despised by the mediocre kings and ministers of the Ming Dynasty? According to my opinion, if General Yang had given up and secretly joined me, he would not have been granted the title of general soldier. , even if you can make Yang Shuai the king and bravely conquer one side, what's the harm?"
Yang Guozhu watched Dorgon talk and never answered. His idea was very simple, that is, to try his best to delay time so that his generals could have a chance to breathe.
Only then, after listening to Dorgon's nonsense, did he say: "Prince Rui can value me, Yang Guozhu, so much, and I am really grateful.
However, although Guozhu is a rough man, he also knows the word loyalty and righteousness. Since his heart belongs to the Ming Dynasty, he has no other heart. He is born as a man and exists between heaven and earth. How can he be a second minister? "
He paused slightly here, looked at Dorgon resolutely, and said, "Besides, this is the place where my brother and son died. How can Guozhu live alone!"
He estimated that it was almost time, so after saying this, he reined in his horse and turned around, wanting to leave.
Although Dorgon only believed in Yang Guozhu's perseverance, he did not want to give up, and still shouted: "General Yang, walk slowly, even if it is not for yourself, you should also consider the thousands of soldiers under your command.
But as soon as General Yang nodded in agreement, our Qing warriors immediately withdrew, and all the ministries were still under the command of General Yang, without any hesitation! "
Yang Guozhu had already turned around, but when he heard the words, he turned back and said loudly: "As soon as he can follow me to fight, he will know what will happen today. If you have any complaints, you should come to Abi Hell to find me."
No need for King Rui to worry! "
After saying this, he urged the horse to leave. Although the sound of the horse's hooves hitting the ground was not loud, there was an indescribable sense of oppression.
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Dorgon knew very well that Yang Guozhu would never surrender, and he did everything he could to save face at this moment, whether he refused three invitations or even came forward in person to achieve the fourth invitation.
Looking at the back of Yang Guozhu riding away, he said: "Send the order, the whole army is ready."
"Woooooooo..."
The horns sounded everywhere, and the soldiers of the Qing Army's Zhengbai Banner around the hills immediately cheered up and got on their horses one after another. Be prepared for battle.
At this time, Yang Guozhu rode more than ten steps and heard the melodious sound of horns. He immediately guessed that the Qing army was about to launch a conspiracy.
He hurriedly shouted to Tan Zhenlin beside him: "Send the message, the whole army goes south!"
After hearing the order, Tan Zhenlin had no time to say anything else. Whistling sounds were heard while galloping, and within a moment, a message came back from the hills that they had received the military order.
On the other side, Dorgon seemed to have expected that Yang Guozhu was determined to break out. Just as the whistle sounded over there, the drums and trumpets sounded together.
The soldiers of the Qing Army's Zhengbai Banner who gathered around the hills rode up one after another, rushing towards Yang Guozhu's location like wolves and tigers.
Here, Huang Baozhong heard the whistle and knew that the situation had changed. He hurriedly ordered all the knights to mount their horses and rushed to the south of the hill first, hoping to clear the way for Yang Guozhu and others.
For a moment, the dust was flying. If you looked down from the air, it looked like a big trap outside with an arrow inside. The smoke and dust billowed and moved. The elite knights of the Ming and Qing Dynasties once again fought at close range.
Huang Baozhong took the lead bravely and ignored several arrows that were fired at him. He only saw his body on the back of the horse, swinging left and right with the rhythm of the horse's galloping, and dodged most of the arrows.
He held the three-eyed gun in his hand and aimed flatly at a Tatar cavalry in front of him. With a "bang" sound, and with the flash of fire, a deadly iron bullet was shot from the mouth of the gun.
"Bang...bang...bang..."
A burst of explosions from the three-eyed blunderbuss were heard one after another, accompanied by "swish...swish...swish..." arrows. Knights fell from their horses on both sides of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The originally peaceful hilly area once again became a killing field, harvesting healthy lives one by one!
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After Tan Zhenlin led nine elite cavalry to guard Yang Guozhu in the riding formation, everything went smoothly, but there was still some gap between them and the Ming army cavalry in front.
Seeing the Qing army's white flag knights on both sides riding their horses towards this side, their intention was very obvious, which was to penetrate the gap and separate Yang Guozhu and others from the cavalry in front.
He shouted: "Donkey ball, no matter how hard you fight today, you can't let the Tatars win..."
Tan Zhenlin was about to urge his horse to charge, but he heard Yang Guozhu shouting from behind: "Turn west, don't fight hard!"
Although he could not understand the deeper meaning for a while, he habitually obeyed Yang Guozhu's military orders and immediately turned his horse's head in a circle and headed westward.
Yang Guozhu is indeed a veteran who has experienced many battles. He just glanced at it and saw the surrounding situation.
At this moment, there were Tatar cavalry with the white flag of the Qing army on all sides, but the largest number were behind Dorgon and to the east, but there were fewer Tatar cavalry to the south and west.
Therefore, when Yang Guozhu saw that the way forward was about to be blocked by Tatar thieves, he sent an order to Tan Zhenlin to break out to the west. This shows that General Zhenshuo is not in vain!
About four hundred steps away to the west is a hilly highland. According to Yang Guozhu's wishes, he ran to that hilly area first and used the terrain to observe the details of the surrounding Qing troops before deciding where to break out.
But when they were less than 200 steps away from the hill, they saw a flag raised high on the hill, and about three hundred Tatar cavalry also appeared at this time.
In fact, a cunning man like Dorgon would not easily leave a loophole for Yang Guozhu. The reason why he deployed relatively few Qing troops in the south and west was that he had a backup plan.
After Yang Guozhu saw the figures of these Zhengbai Banner Qing troops, he felt sad in his heart: "Unexpectedly, I, Yang Guozhu, am destined to die here!"
But it's not his character to just surrender!
Yang Guozhu shouted loudly: "My sons, it is Yang's great fortune to be able to kill slaves side by side with you. Today may be the last battle. I am willing to live and die with you!"
Tan Zhenlin immediately answered and shouted: "I am willing to follow the general to kill the slave."
"Kill the slaves...kill...kill the slaves..."
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Xuanzhen General Guo Yingxian led two groups of more than a thousand elite cavalry, standing out from the siege of the Qing army of the Anping Beile Dudu Xianglan Banner, and galloped along the mountains and hills beside the mountain road.
He also took in some scattered troops along the way, and occasionally encountered a small group of Tartar thieves. When they saw the formation of Mingqi here, they also retreated, knowing that their strength was too different, so they did not dare to provoke them.
At this moment, Guo Yingxian rode his horse on a mountain ridge and saw smoke and dust billowing in the southeast. He guessed that there must be soldiers and horses of his own fighting with the Tartar thieves. Although he was not sure that it was Yang Guozhu, at least he was a soldier from Xunzhen.
He quickly led his troops and ran, and when he was halfway there, he met two servants of Yang Guozhu. After questioning, he learned that they had just been separated from Yang Guozhu and others a few hundred steps southwest.
Guo Yingxian was eager to save Yang Guozhu, and immediately thought of saving Yang Guozhu's safety first, and then returning to the army to rescue the soldiers and horses of Xuanzhen here. With this in mind, he immediately led more than a thousand elite cavalry and ran towards the southwest.
He galloped on his horse, and not long after, he saw Yang Guozhu and more than 200 Zhenbiao camp cavalry on a mountain ridge, less than two miles away.
Guo Yingxian was waiting to lead his troops to charge forward, and he met up with Yang Guozhu to fight against the Tatar bandit cavalry. When he saw Yang Guozhu leading ten cavalrymen to run far away from the formation.
Guo Yingxian was not sure what the situation was at Yang Guozhu's side, so he planned to continue observing for a while, and then join Yang Guozhu's men after he had a clear view of the situation.
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Zhang Cheng, the deputy commander-in-chief of Xuanzhen, led the elite cavalry of the Xuanbei Army under his command to kill the Batulu quasi-tower of the Qing Dynasty and routed nearly a thousand Qing soldiers of the Zhengbai Banner under his command.
Without any delay, they hurried northward along the mountains and hills on the east side of the mountain road. At the same time, they also sent out rangers in teams of ten or twenty people to spread out to investigate the location of the soldiers of Yang Guozhu's Zhenbiao Battalion.
As military reports from the cavalry ahead continued to come back, Zhang Cheng led nearly two thousand elite cavalry under his command and gradually moved closer to where Yang Guozhu was besieged.
While Yang Guozhu and Dorgon were talking to each other across the air, Zhang Cheng was on a high hill to the south. He held up a telescope and looked at Yang Guozhu and Dorgon who were about two miles away.
It wasn't until he saw the soldiers of Yang Guozhu's Zhenbiao Battalion riding their horses to attack the Tatar army formation that he felt relieved and immediately led his elite cavalry to join them.
Zhang Cheng held the reins in his left hand to control the horse, and with his right hand he had drawn out a short-handed blunderbuss, shouting loudly: "My sons, charge forward and kill the slaves side by side with Yang Shuai!"
