Chapter 319 Huang Taiji The upcoming battle

"General Yang, surrender, the Qing army is surrounded by ten sides, and you defeated generals cannot escape! If you surrender, my Majesty will treat you like King Sanshun. The BMW and Golden Sword are glory and wealth. Your Majesty is willing to share it with the general."

Yang Guozhu, the general of Xuanfu, held a big knife in his hand, and looked around blankly, but he didn't know where to go. The army had been trapped in Songshan City for more than ten days, and the situation was getting worse. Although there was no shortage of food for the time being, it could not be supplemented. Seeing the Qing army digging heavy moats outside the city, erecting a solid wall, surrounding them like an iron barrel, the army's minds were also floating abnormally. If the Qing army set up a heavy city, it would be hopeless to escape. For the sake of the present, we could only take advantage of the siege of the fortifications before the siege was done thoroughly and breaking through a road ahead, because everyone knows that his soldier was already a sucking bone and marrow in the court, and it was only three feet high that he could barely put together. There was no need to expect any reinforcements. Even some small reinforcements were just tofu soldiers like Zuo Liangyu, what could it be for help?

Yang Guozhu, Cao Bianjiao, and Wang Tingchen did not flee with the other five generals, but led a team to enter Songshan City with Hong Chengchou.

Except for Wu Sangui and Wang Pu who escaped by chance, the other five generals died in the chaos. However, the military inspector Zhang Ruoqi, a weak scholar, usually speaks loudly. At this critical moment of life and death, he really deserves the test of "wisdom and courage". He hid in a fishing boat and even allowed him to escape from the battlefield.

Songshan Fort was originally a thousand-household office, with a radius of only four or five miles. At present, tens of thousands of troops are surrounded by the city. It is so crowded and embarrassing that it is a dead end. There is no need to rescue the outside, and there is naturally no need to guard the inside. What Hong Chengchou can do is to organize the army to break through.

However, facing the advantage of the Qing army outside the city, everyone repeatedly pondered and negotiated, but they could not think of any way. The Qing army had always had advantages in field battles, not to mention that there were many Qing soldiers at present. As a last resort, the General of Xuanfu selected three thousand elite cavalry to make it stand out. Who would have thought that he had just left the city less than a mile and was still surrounded by the Qing army. Yang Guozhu and his personal soldiers all understood that they might not be good this time.

Hearing the Qing army's shouts, the personal soldiers and generals guarding Yang Guozhu looked back at him, Yang Guozhu knew in his heart that in this situation of death, the other party gave a way out, and his subordinates were all moved.

Yang Guozhu, the general of Xuanfu, smiled bitterly, reached out to touch the sweat on his face, and the blood splashed on his face, and said with a squeaky voice:

"I have heard of this place. My brother and nephew died here in battle. If you want to surrender, you should surrender. I will not be a general who surrenders."

After saying that, Yang Guozhu urged his mount, shouted loudly, waved his sword and rushed towards the place with the largest number of Qing soldiers in front of him. The personal soldiers and generals who followed him were a little silent. They all shouted in the same voice and rushed up behind the General of Xuanfu.

The Qing army on the opposite side had cleared its basic resistance at this moment. They watched Yang Guozhu and his subordinates rush over like crazy. The front rows were all archers who had already set their bows and arrows, as well as the Korean musketeers who were dispatched.

The Qing leaders who were staring at the Xuanfu General rushed in the formation were laughing and joking there, looking very relaxed. A leader of the sect saw that he rushed into the range and shouted loudly.

A burst of gunfire like fried beans suddenly popped up. Hundreds of arrows also left the strings, causing a rapid roar in the air. A burst of blood squirting out of Yang Guozhu's body suddenly burst out from the body. The red battle robe gradually turned red, but it was the color of the arrow feather.

The gunshots stopped and the arrows stopped. Yang Guozhu, the general of Xuanfu, and his personal soldiers, all fell to the ground. Those people and horses who were not dead were convulsing on the ground. The blood flowing slowly merged into a stream. The stream slowly melted into a river, and then slowly penetrated into the earth, dyeing the earth red.

Looking up the tower at the top of Songshan City, you can see that Yang Guozhu's thousands of elite cavalry seemed to be a stone thrown into the river. Although a little water splashed, in a blink of an eye, the water surface became quiet, as if it had not changed since eternity. These thousands of cavalry breaking through did not play any role.

It was only a few days ago. Hong Chengchou's originally mighty beard was already much white, and he looked much haggard. Yang Guozhu fell into the chaos. He naturally felt regretful in his heart. He might have done nothing but regretful. Cao Bianjiao next to him slapped the wall with his hand and cursed in a low voice, extremely unwilling to accept it.

At this time, a muffled sound came from afar. Hong Chengchou looked around in a daze and saw nothing. He sighed helplessly and said dejectedly:

"General Cao, after I came to Ji Liao, I also heard the generals of Liao Town talk about the Tartars, saying that the Tartars are good at fighting in the wild and cannot compete with each other, but they don't care about any ranks. They are like wild beasts, and when they encounter a strong army, they are always at a loss when they encounter our strong army. But since the two sides' battles, the Tartars digged trenches and built low walls with great precision. They digged trenches and cut off our army's retreat in the night. Now it is so rigorous that the army is digging heavy surrounds and surrounding me. Moreover, the army is strictly regulated and rigorous, which is clearly already in place. In the future, the Ming Dynasty will probably have many disasters and difficulties."

Another muffled sound came, and this time the sound was much closer to where they were standing. An officer hurriedly ran from the top of the city:

"Two sirs, hurry up and go down to the city to avoid it for a while. The Tartars have tried the cannon."

Hong Chengchou laughed a few times and said slowly:

"The Tartars' use of firearms is no less than that of our Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers. This is the world..."

Cao Bianjiao slightly supported Hong Chengchou, and the two walked towards the city together. He was extremely depressed by Hong Chengchou's words, but he could guess why the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty became so well-organized. It must have something to do with Kong Youde and Shang Kexi, these bastards who surrendered to the Tartars. The use of this firearm is likely to be the Eight Banners of the Han army. Since the old slave died suddenly and Hong Tai attacked the throne, the political affairs and military affairs of the Tartars have become increasingly strict. They have recruited these rebel generals and polite wise men from the Ming Dynasty, and their power has become increasingly greater. The disease of scabies at the beginning has become a confidant.

Cao Bianjiao punched the city wall with a hatred, and then twisted it hard on the wall. He hated, he hated, at that time, he had already killed the Hong Tai, and his guards ran away, why? Why? It was only that knife that he could kill the thief chief. What a pity, it was a pity that God would not help me.

In the Qing army camp opposite, the mood was naturally completely opposite to Songshan City. The central tent was filled with laughter and joy. These Qing princes, Beile, and commanders of the commanders of the military commanders all had relaxed expressions on their faces.

"Please rest assured that Jinzhou City is surrounded by us. I heard that Zu Dashou has already eaten people in the city and cannot last long."

A middle-aged general with luxurious clothes reported respectfully in the military tent that his robe was the color of Prince Heshuo of the Qing Dynasty. This is the highest level of the nobles among the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. Naturally, there are no one else who can make him so respectful. A thin eyebrows and eyes look gentle and friendly. It makes people feel unconsciously trustworthy and fat man was sitting on his head, holding a white towel in his hand to cover his mouth and nose, and laughing silently:

"Jirgalang, you are steady in your work. You have always been meticulous and proper in wars. I am relieved. Jinzhou and Songshan. As long as you are firmly trapped, there will probably be no more soldiers in the north of the Ming Dynasty. We have been fighting repeatedly around this area since more than ten years ago. Songshan has come here many times. This time, I have raised the country's troops and finally made a plan for the world."

Of course, the only people who can speak like this in this tent where relatives and nobles gather together are Huang Taiji, Tian Cong Khan of the Great Jin Kingdom, and the wisdom of the Qing Dynasty. He led everyone to rise from suffering and fight for the big with small things. His Majesty Chongde, who founded the country and established the foundation. In the past few years, Huang Taiji was quite strong, but now he seems much haggard. Even when he talks to these generals, he still holds a towel to cover his mouth and nose.

This time, Your Majesty is wise and the princes are brave. Everyone works hard to defeat the last elite soldiers and generals of the Ming army. The Qing army generals outside the camp are relaxed and happy. If it weren't for the strict military discipline, they would have been singing and dancing. But in this military tent, all of these top noble generals looked solemn, looking at Huang Taiji's face from time to time, and several guards and medical officers were standing behind Huang Taiji.

After saying this, Huang Taiji breathed a sigh of relief and handed the towel to the servant beside him. An servant immediately brought a new towel and delivered it to him. The towel he had replaced was already blood red.

A young man standing next to him looked at the towel, and his voice was already filled with crying voices. He stepped forward and said hurriedly:

"Emperor, it's good that you have your ministers here. The Emperor Amalong body is important. Your health is the biggest thing in our Qing Dynasty. You should go back to Shenyang to take care of yourself. You must do these small matters that will be done properly, and you dare not worry about your health."

Huang Taiji smiled tiredly, waved his hand, and said with a strong spirit:

"It's okay, it's okay, it's just that the blood and nose bleeding keeps flowing. This is because your emperor Ama is healthy and how can the patient be as strong as Ama? You are crying here like a woman. Haoge, you are also the minister of the flag. There are so many people under him, all the eyes are staring at you, and you must also show the courage of a prince Beile."

Prince Zheng Jirhalang had already stood aside, with his eyebrows closed, as if he hadn't heard it. He was Nurhaci's younger brother, Sulhaci's son, and Amin, one of the four major beneficiaries. His father and brother have been banned and died, and he is still alive. One is because he has tried his best to keep him from being desperately separated from him, the other is because he has not read what he shouldn't read, the person he shouldn't listen, and the person he shouldn't say. These three truths are not true.

Huang Taiji covered his mouth and nose with a clean hand towel, and his eyes did not look at the princes and generals in the military tent, but his eyes looked out through the door of the military tent. At his position, he could vaguely see a contour of Songshan City. Huang Taiji looked at it for a while, and seemed to be talking to himself or to all the military tents. He murmured vaguely:

"When Jinzhou and Songshan City are opened, the major events will be almost certain. This destiny is indeed in my Qing Dynasty..."

Jirgalang, Haoge, Dorgon and others below were all very tactful. When they heard this sentence, they were about to congratulate the sage in unison, when the sound of horse hooves sounded outside.

Everyone grew up on horseback, and their fame came from horses. They were all good at bowing and horses. They naturally knew that the sound of horse hooves was coming towards the direction of the big tent. Everyone was shocked, thinking that something big happened there, and they had to use such a hurry to send letters. Could it be that something happened in Jinzhou or another strong army came to support the Shanhaiguan? Although the army was strong, it was coming from the empty country after all. Your Majesty was searching for the whole country, over fourteen years old. All the men under the age of seventy were recruited to join the army. Such extreme mobilization could not last too long, so they are now sending back all the soldiers who were too old and too young. Even if something happens now, although it will not affect the overall situation, they will be in a hurry. As everyone expected, the sound of horse hooves stopped outside the military tent, and a light cavalry hurriedly walked in the military tent.

This light cavalry is a sect leader. That is, Jiala Ezhen, who is in Manchu. The general of this level is actually coming to deliver letters. The people in the entire military tent are staring at each other nervously, but the sect leader is using both hands and feet, and is extremely embarrassed to run and climb to the front of the throne. The sect leader kowtowed in a mess, tilted his hat and raised his head with a crying voice:

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Empress Chen is almost out of reach..."

The people in the military tent were all in an uproar. They naturally knew the status of the "Chenfei" in Huang Taiji's heart. Huang Taiji even stood up from his seat. In shock, even the towel in his hand fell to the ground. The nosebleed continued to flow down from his nostrils, making the dragon on the front of his Jiulong jacket red. The personal soldiers next to him wanted to hand over the towel to wipe it, but Huang Taiji pushed it away.

"Prepare horses. Prepare horses, I want to go back to Shenyang."

Huang Taiji had this problem the year before yesterday when he was excited, and he would have nosebleeds when he was excited. Later, even if he had too much movement or had poor rest, he would have had nosebleeds.

Knowing that Hong Chengchou led a 130,000 army out of the pass, Huang Taiji led his troops to advance. He traveled 600 miles in six days to Songshan to confront the Ming army. Along the way, he was holding a helmet and scattering the nosebleed. His body was getting worse and worse when he was tired from the journey. When he arrived at Songshan, military situations like flowing water kept pouring in, and the commanded soldiers and generals ran without any fingers. As the commander, Huang Taiji naturally had to rest. His body was really at the time to be unable to hold on.

Nearly half of the troops outside the pass were dispersed, and the news that Hong Chengchou and the remaining troops were surrounded in Songshan was spread to the pass along with the officers and soldiers who were defeated and returned to Shanhaiguan.

Originally, I thought that "there must be peace before fighting foreign countries." The bandits were a major concern, and the Tartars were just scabies. Everyone was stunned and extremely frightened by the important civil and military officials in the area.

Originally, there were Jinzhou and Songshan in the northeast of Shanhaiguan, a series of fortresses and strongholds, with enough strategic buffering that the Qing Dynasty's troops could not reach the Shanhaiguan generation. However, after this battle, the Ming army could only arrange defense lines in Shanhaiguan generation. Although Shanhaiguan is the first pass in the world, it is not a trustworthy defense line at all. When you come in, it is the heart of the Ming Dynasty.

What we need to do now is to arrange heavy troops and set up strict defenses in the Shanhaiguan area. However, the Ming Dynasty had no more troops in the northern Zhili, Shanxi and Henan areas. There were tens of thousands of people in the Beijing camp, but they were all made up of scoundrels and idle people and had no combat power at all.

Speaking of which, the Jiaozhou camp that could be mobilized was the Shandong General Li Meng. However, starting from early August, the main force of the Jiaozhou camp had already concentrated in the Guide Prefecture area, Henan.

In mid-July, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai joined forces, and the momentum was shocked. Fu Zonglong gathered more than 20,000 Shaanxi border troops out of Tongguan, and joined forces with Baoding Governor Yang Wenyue to prepare for a decisive battle with Li and Luo coalition forces.

The general Zuo Liangyu, the thief, was quite good at picking soft persimmons and directly chased Zhang Xianzhong's troops, who had the weakest combat power, and entered the Huguang area.

Most of the more than 40,000 officers and soldiers were tired troops, but the coalition forces of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were no longer mobs, and were already extremely powerful soldiers who were good at fighting.

In late July, the two sides fought in Mengjiazhuang east of Runing Prefecture. This time, the generals of the Ming Dynasty staged the same scene as Songshan. He Renlong led his troops to escape first. Although Hu Dawei and Li Guoqi advanced slowly, they did not fall behind when they escaped, and they rushed to disperse.

The coalition of Fu Zonglong and Yang Wenyue did not support it for five days. The defeated soldiers from Beizhili fled back to Kaifeng City in a panic, while Fu Zonglong was captured by Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's coalition of Fu Zonglong and killed him in front of the formation.

Although the general was killed in the chaos, it was the first time that a high-ranking official such as Fu Zonglong was captured alive and beheaded.

Bad things spread thousands of miles. The news of Songshan has spread all over the north, Henan is adjacent to the capital, and the speed of knowing the news is not slow. There are rumors that after learning the news, the King of Chuang added his forehead with his hands and was extremely excited. The current Chuang army is not only in a fierce momentum. There is no one in the north to restrain it.

The high-ranking civil and military officials in Kaifeng, Henan finally didn't care about the crime of losing their relatives. Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's coalition forces were rampant in Luoyang, Nanyang, Runing's three prefectures and southern Kaifeng. Two more nobles of the relatives were killed. The court had no choice but to let them go.

Now, it is a great luck to be able to save a city, and I dare not ask for anything else.

There was a strange arrangement in the Li and Luo coalition forces. After fighting with Yang Wenyue, Fu Zonglong, and the officers and soldiers of the three generals, they immediately withdrew back to Nanyang Prefecture.

The entire coalition was arranged according to this, and there was no long-term reserve of food, grass and supplies. I thought it was a short-term battle, but after the end of the Battle of Mengjiazhuang, the King of Chuang ordered the entire army to continue moving eastward. As a result, Gao Yigong, who was responsible for military supplies, was caught off guard and had to prepare in a hurry.

After the battle to siege Kaifeng in April, the Li and Luo coalition forces had been avoiding certain prefectures, as if they had some concerns, but the battle in Mengjiazhuang, to be more precise, was after the news of Songshan came, the Li and Luo coalition forces finally began to become unscrupulous.

Mengjiazhuang is only four days away from Nanzhili and Guide Mansion. After the army briefly rested, these are the targets.

A small group of cavalry entered the southern part of Kaifeng Prefecture to contact the local refugee gang. And it was a detection terrain. Anyone knew that the rebel army would take action against Guide Prefecture.

In addition to Huaiqing, Weihui and Zhangde in the north of the Yellow River, Guide Mansion has never been set foot in by the rebels. Moreover, Guide Mansion is known as rich in food and grass storage. For the rebels with great family and great business, capturing this place is just enough to supplement their own troops and occupy it. It is equivalent to convenient transportation for Northern Zhili and Shandong.

The army briefly rested. During the camp, Niu Fu, the bookkeeper, hurriedly ran towards Niu Jinxing's residence. As soon as he entered the house, he saw his father studying there. Since he broke many cities, he has been plundering the land to treasure books, and Niu Jinxing has the right to choose first.

Joining the camp, Niu Jinxing is much better at enjoying material things than when he was a juren. Seeing Niu Fu rushed in in a hurry, Niu Jinxing couldn't help but frown and scolded:

"I told you a few times, and now you are also an adult with status. Why are you always so impetuous and make people laugh at it?"

Niu Fu was gasping heavily, nodding hard, but he still spoke very impatiently, saying:

"My father, the King of Chuang is determined to march into Guide. Have you heard of this?"

Niu Jinxing put down the book in his hand and said calmly:

"I naturally know this for my father to participate in the planning of this matter."

Hearing Niu Jinxing say this, Niu Qi sighed, but he didn't dare to do anything rudely, so he had to say repeatedly:

"Isn't it already agreed that my son will join the alliance with the Empress Dowager that day? We did not enter Guide Mansion and Kaifeng City, and the rest were the same. The King of Chuang also agreed. Why did he suddenly betray the alliance today? How did we face the Empress Dowager and the people of the world?"

"Absurd! Naive! The alliance was on the same day, and now it is now. The King of Breaking has such a momentum. The King of Breaking was so empty that day. Luo Rucai had joined forces with the King of Breaking on that day! These two armies' alliances are all expedient measures. If the army of Breaking was not as good as that day, then this covenant naturally had to be kept. But if the situation today is still abide by the covenant, it is not trustworthy, it is pedantic!"

Niu Jinxing's words were like a basin of cold water, pouring Niu Fu from head to toe. Before this young man came into contact with this society, he always had some unrealistic ideas, such as believing in truth, goodness and beauty, and trust in credit.

But in this politics, intrigue, insidious and treacherous are common sense, and turning against one's face is the norm, it is completely dark. Niu Quan expressed his gratitude to Li Meng, and the alliance was a major event that he had done with all his efforts. He subconsciously wanted to maintain it, but was defeated by this ruthless reality.

"The eighteen children are the main artifact, and the eighteen children are the main artifact. Song Xianke's prophecy is really reasonable. In the defeat of Songshan, the court had almost no troops available in Jiangbei, and it was extremely empty, but the power of the King of Chuang was so prosperous and becoming more and more powerful. Could it be that he was really protected by the destiny of heaven and earth?"

Niu Jinxing was also a little moved. In theory, Li Meng's nearly 100,000 troops were not the imperial army, but at the top and bottom of the camp, who had fought with Jiaozhou camp, subconsciously did not regard Li Meng's subordinates as the imperial army, but as independent forces.

After learning about Songshan, Lingshan Trading Company, which opened a semicolon near Shanhaiguan, learned about it, the fast horses rushed towards Shandong, and kept changing horses on the road. Two horses ran to the death. This was the time to send the news to Shandong as quickly as possible.

The news was quickly sorted into a document and sent to all those who read the news at the same time. Li Meng and his subordinates were just regretful. At the same time, civil and military officials such as Ma Gang, Zhou Yang immediately proposed to expand their troops again. At present, Li Meng's headquarters in Jiaozhou Camp is nearly 20,000, Ma Gang, Zhao Neng, and Chen Liu also have 15,000 or 20,000 soldiers, and they have just expanded their troops to 10,000.

However, after receiving the news from Songshan, many of the Jiaozhou camp's direct troops were not sad or panic. Instead, they felt quite excited. The familiar military generals were discussing whether their troops could be sent to the Northern Zhili to guard the government. The literati of the Lai Party and the Yan Party issued articles to criticize the deterioration of the government, saying that it was because the scholars in Jiangnan who controlled the government that such great defeats were caused, and the firepower was basically concentrated on Chen Xinjia, the Minister of War.

In fact, there is no need for these literati in Shandong to criticize them. The scholars and officials in the court all impeached Chen Xinjia, the Minister of War, but Emperor Chongzhen protected them with all their strength. Chen Xinjia, the Minister of War, did not fall, which is an exception.

But the reactions of the two special characters were obviously different. After seeing the news, the old eunuch Liu Fulai was silent for a while. Seeing Li Hong being brought to her by the maid, he laughed out loud. The ancestors saw the grandchildren. No matter what troubles they had, they would throw them aside, which was also the norm.

Because Sun Chuanting's level of reading newspapers was improved, he naturally knew about the news about Songshan. Out of some evil taste, Li Meng sent someone to observe Sun Chuanting's reaction. After seeing it, Sun Chuanting just sighed and sat in the study room, sitting blankly until dark.

Every day, a special person went to deliver documents to Sun Chuanting. The next day, when the personal soldier went to deliver documents again, according to the Sun family, Sun Chuanting sat in the study room for a whole day and night, and seemed to be a devil. He only drank some porridge when he woke up in the morning.
To be continued...