"General, Uncle Cheng Ni, Han Dai, Ezhen, and Muryou Zhangjing have chased into the valley," he reported to Nikan.
Nikan calmly ordered: "The whole army will follow."
Ma Guozhu was a little worried, "General, this valley is very narrow. What if the Ming army sets up an ambush here?"
"Set an ambush? We killed so many Ming troops along the way, how could we lose so many people as bait?"
Nikan didn't believe it, but after all, he had fought for more than 20 years. As a general, he thought about retreat before advancing. He thought about it and said: "Ma Douxian, you will lead the green camp troops to guard the entrance of the valley."
"嗻!"
There are many bamboos on Moso Bamboo Mountain, and big and small cannons are hidden among them, making them difficult to find.
In order to entertain the distinguished guests well, Zhu Hengjia placed 180 heavy cannons and 400 tiger squatting cannons on Maozhu Mountain, and marked the distance of the cannons. He also prepared a large number of "thunders", rocks, rolling logs, and other weapons.
A lot of flammable materials such as fire oil were buried in the valley.
"Supervise the country, the Tatars are chasing into the valley."
Zhu Hengjia took a look with his telescope and was happy. He saw a black-faced general running desperately towards the valley with more than a thousand defeated soldiers, followed by a long line of Qing troops.
"Great, the new Tabor is not dead yet!"
"Reporting to the Supervisor, not all the Qing troops entered the valley, but some remained to guard the entrance of the valley."
Zhu Hengjia frowned. The Tatars were so cunning. It seemed that it would be difficult to annihilate them all. The Tatars' central army had entered the valley. What should we do? Fight or not?
There was no room for hesitation on the battlefield. Although it was a pity that the enemy could not be completely wiped out, being able to defeat the enemy's center was also a great victory. Moreover, he had already seen clearly that those who entered the valley were all cavalry, real Tatars.
Zhu Hengjia made up his mind: fight!
"Woo~woo~woo~"
The long marching horn sounded.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The Ming army's artillery began to fire. Because the gun range had been marked in advance, the gunners fired quickly and accurately.
"Bang! Bang! Bang", the thunderstorm exploded in the Qing army's array.
"Don't panic, get in formation quickly!"
Han Dai yelled, and the Eight Banners soldiers around him hurriedly formed their formation.
"Boom", with a loud roar, Han Dai's men and horses were torn to pieces by thousands of pounds of French ammunition.
"Report, Han Dai was really killed in battle!"
Nikan Yilin, the fight was so smooth along the way, but he didn't expect to be ambushed and lose his general as soon as he entered the valley.
"General, while the Taniguchi is still in our hands, withdraw quickly," Mele Zhangjingga Bushian advised.
Retreat? This valley is narrow, so we have to turn around and retreat in a hurry. We don’t need the Ming army to fight, but we will trample each other. I don’t know how many people will die.
At this time, Nikan's performance was worthy of the honor of the prince of the Aisin Gioro family. He drew his sword, galloped back and forth in the military formation, and shouted: "Our army cannot attack the Ming army without any retreaters. As a member of the imperial court,
If the clan retreats, what will it be like to go back?"
After saying that, instead of turning around and retreating, Nikan led his troops forward bravely in an attempt to fight his way out of the valley. Of course, he dared to do this because he had already sent Ma Guozhu to guard the entrance. If he couldn't get out, he could break out at any time.
Seeing that Nikan disregarded the dignity of the prince and rushed to kill him personally, Cheng Ni, Mu You, and Ga Bushixian became energetic and followed Nikan towards the entrance of the valley.
Under the coiled dragon banner at Maozhu Mountain, Zhu Hengjia, who was holding a telescope, looked attentively. He had fought so many battles with the Tatars, but he had never seen such a powerful Tatar. He was a rare and powerful enemy in his life! Fortunately, he had been prepared.
"Send orders to Liu Wenxiu and Bai Wenxuan to guard the exit!"
"Instruct Shi Zhaoxi, the commander of the Longzhou Tuwei Guards, to lead the elephant troops to prepare for an attack!"
"Send orders to Jing Keqin and Gao Minggui to attack the enemy at the entrance and cut off the enemy's retreat!"
"Instruct Sun Guangwei's cavalry to take a detour to the exit, behind the elephant soldiers!"
"Instruct the remaining generals to prepare for a general attack!"
As military orders were issued one after another, the battle at Maozhushan reached a fever pitch.
Although the Qing army suffered a heavy blow at the beginning and suffered huge losses, it still had a large number of people, 70,000 in total, while the Ming army only had more than 40,000. At the critical moment, Nikan personally braved the attack with arrows and stones, arousing the bloody bravery of the Eight Banners soldiers.
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At the exit, two generals, Liu Wenxiu and Bai Wenxuan, led 10,000 troops and blocked the exit. However, the Eight Banners Army lost their ferocity and charged regardless of life and death. Gradually they could no longer resist and retreated step by step.
"Report, Lord Fulu is asking for reinforcements."
Zhu Hengjia frowned, "Send the order, let Liu Wenxiu and Bai Wenxuan get out of the way, the elephant soldiers attack, the cavalry follows, and the infantry rears!"
As the military order was issued, Zhao Xi's 300 war elephants and 2,100 elephant soldiers began to form an array. Seven men were equipped with one war elephant, four sword and shield soldiers protected the limbs of the war elephant, a driver, and two archers stood on the ground.
On the elephant throne.
The valley is narrow, and there are fifteen war elephants in a team, a total of twenty teams.
"Lululu", "Lululu", the war elephants shook their long trunks and roared slowly approaching the Qing army. This kind of creature can not only make loud roars, but also communicate with infrasound waves that humans cannot hear.
, they can also use their giant hooves to stomp their feet to make a "boom" sound like the earth is shaking and the mountains are shaking.
"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"??
"Oh my god! What is this?"
"Monster!"
"Shaman Blessing"??
The Eight Banners soldiers lived in the north, and the biggest beasts they had ever seen were tigers and black bears. They had never seen such a huge beast. Not only had they never been seen by humans, but they had never seen even the horses they rode on.
"咴聿聿", "咴聿聿", war horses are constantly frightened.
"Woo~woo~woo~"
The horn of charge sounded, and the drivers pulled the ears of the war elephants. After receiving the order, the giant beasts raised their hooves and ran wildly. Despite their huge size, they can run faster than humans.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
The archers on the war elephants started shooting arrows.
Behind the war elephants were Sun Guangwei's eight thousand cavalry, and behind them were Liu Wenxiu and Bai Wenxuan's infantry.
"Quick, dismount and line up. Cum for me!"
Nikan gave the order and the Eight Banners soldiers started shooting arrows.
"Swish, swish, swish", bursts of arrows hit the elephant's body. The elephant's skin is very thick. Although the arrows caused some damage to them, most of them were not fatal. Instead, they stimulated their ferocity.
"Roar", a war elephant flicked its long trunk, and several spears in front of the Qing army's formation were broken.
"Yeah", a Qing soldier couldn't dodge and was trampled into a pulp by the giant hooves of the war elephant.
"Quickly, shoot with firecrackers and bombard with cannons." Nikan thought of firearms. Unfortunately, most of the Eight Banners soldiers were cavalry and there were not many firecrackers. They were ambushed and most of the cannons were lost.
The scattered sound of gunfire cannot resist the hordes of elephant soldiers.
The Manchu warrior Mulyou did not believe in evil and wanted to fight the giant beast. He bent his bow, nocked an arrow, and shot a war elephant in the eye with one arrow.
"Roar", the war elephant ran wildly, knocking off Mulyou and his horse, and trampled him into meat cakes. After running for several feet, the giant beast fell to the ground.
The war elephants rushed through Nikan's battle formation and rushed towards the Qing army behind.
Nikan just breathed a sigh of relief and ordered to mount his horse and form a riding formation. It was too late.
"Da da da", Sun Guangwei's cavalry arrived.
Although they were all cavalry, the Qing army's formation was in chaos and they had no time to speed up; the Ming army was in tight formation and their horses had already increased their speed.
"Poof", as soon as Garbusch Xian mounted his horse, he was stabbed into the chest by Sun Guangwei's lance. He had been eyeing this Tatar general for a long time.
"General, retreat quickly. If you are late, it will be too late." Cheng Ni's face turned pale.
"Hurry, mount your horse and retreat." Nikan finally no longer cared about face, gathered hundreds of personal guards, and ran towards the exit.
On the top of Maozhu Mountain, Zhu Hengjia saw that the Qing army was disrupted by war elephants and ordered: "General attack!"
"Woo~woo~woo~", "Dong dong dong!"
The horns and drums sounded in unison.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
The morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted, and they marched down from the top of the mountain.
Fengguo General Zhu Heng took a look at Zhang Jing, a Qing soldier, and was about to stab him with a gun. A black shadow passed by, and with a flash of sword, Zhang Jing lost his head. General Zhao Yong laughed and said,
"Zhu Fengguo, the last general has taken the lead."
"Bah," Zhu Hengkuo secretly cursed his bad luck. After staying in Changsha for so long, he finally asked for permission from the Supervisor to accompany him on the expedition. He finally found a big fish, but this guy beat him to it.
The governor behind him hurriedly took out a pamphlet and wrote down: Zhao Yong, the general, killed one La Zhangjing.
"Jianguo, please allow me to go down the mountain and kill the enemy!"
Zhu Hengjia followed the sound and saw that it was the new Taibo Hao Shangjiu. He led more than a thousand remaining soldiers to rest on the mountain for a long time, and now he came to ask for a battle.
"After fighting for so many days, isn't Hao Qing tired?"
"Supervise the country," Hao Shangjiu said with tears in his eyes, "I have an army of ten thousand, but only a thousand are left. Please allow me to avenge my dead brothers!"
Zhu Hengjia sighed and patted Hao Shangjiu on the shoulder, "You can go, but you must come back alive. What I owe you has not been paid back. Therefore, you are not allowed to die."
"The general will obey the order!"
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The mountain road has eighteen bends, and it is easy for people to make mistakes if they panic. Nikan led a few hundred riders to break through, but took the wrong road and ran into a fork in the valley.
It was a dead end, and it was full of mud. I had to dismount and walk.
The further Nikan walked, the worse he felt. He wanted to turn back and find a way out, but it was too late.
Liu Wenxiu and Bai Wenxuan's infantry surrounded him.
When they saw Wang Qi, Liu Wenxiu and Bai Wenxuan behind Nikan, their eyes turned red. Obediently, catch or kill a prince, what a great achievement!
"General, the men have finished shooting their arrows," Cheng Ni reported to Nikan with a tearful voice.
"After shooting the arrow, stab with the sword and chop with the knife," Nikan howled, with no trace of blood on his handsome face.
The trapped beast is still fighting. At this time, he is like a wounded beast, and it is extremely dangerous to have someone to support him before death.
Liu Wenxiu and Bai Wenxuan did not see the danger at all. In their eyes, Prince Jingjin was a military merit. A great merit!
"You have no way out, and those who surrender will avoid death." Liu Wenxiu wanted to persuade Nikan to surrender.
Nikan laughed loudly, "Have you ever heard of a prince from the Qing Dynasty who surrendered to the enemy? If you want Yu's head, you'll give your life in exchange."
"Kill!"
Bai Wenxuan pretended to be angered and killed Nikan. In fact, he wanted to kill the enemy chief before Liu Wenxiu.
Liu Wenxiu woke up and also killed Nikan.
Cheng Ni came to fight Liu Wenxiu, but Liu Wenxiu killed him with a knife.
"Bang", Nikan was in desperate situation, but he burst out with astonishing power, and smashed Bai Wenxuan's sword with one blow.
"Go to hell", brandishing a knife and forcing Bai Wenxuan.
"My life is at an end!"
Bai Wenxuan secretly hated himself for being greedy for merit and wasting his life instead, closing his eyes and waiting to die.
"Bang", there was a gunshot, and a hole was shot in Nikan's chest. He turned over and fell off his horse. White smoke was still coming out of the muzzle of a soldier's gun.
Jiang Qi, the governor of the capital, asked gently: "What is your name?"
"The younger one's name is Liu Erbao",
Jiang Qi said to the governor behind him: "Let him note that the soldier Liu Erbao killed Prince Jingjin Nikan."
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At the entrance of Maozhu Mountain, Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan in the Qing Dynasty, was fighting fiercely with the Ming army Jing Keqin and Gao Minggui's troops.
Gushan Erzhen Yilde escaped and said, "Ma Duxian, quickly return to the army to meet General Dingyuan."
As soon as he finished speaking, "Lululu", "Lululu", Zhao Xi's war elephant troops arrived.
"Elephant?"
Ma Guozhu's eyes widened. He was well-informed and he naturally knew the elephant, "Quick, light the torch, form the rifle array, and shoot with the fire blunderbuss."
"Da da da", Sun Guangwei's cavalry rushed out following the war elephant.
When Jing Keqin and Gao Minggui saw this, their morale was greatly boosted, and they attacked Ma Guozhu from both sides with Zhao Xi and Sun Guangwei.
Ma Guozhu formed a defensive formation, but he did not dare to escape. Prince Jingjin was still in the valley, leaving his master behind and running for his life. He would die if he escaped back.
To deal with the elephant soldiers, it is not difficult to deal with them as long as you lay out more spears, light more torches, and shoot with firearms. Ma Guozhu responded promptly, and the Ming army could not break his formation for a while.
Suddenly, a Ming army rode up and said, "Nikan is dead, and those who surrender will not be killed!"
One rider after another, they all shouted: "Nikan is dead, come down quickly!"
In fact, this was just Zhu Hengjia's plan. At this time, he had not received the news of Nikan's death, but he just sent people to confuse the enemy's minds.
When the Green Camp soldiers heard the repeated sounds of "Nikan is dead", their morale was in chaos. Some people ran away, while others abandoned their weapons and surrendered.
Ma Guozhu's army formation was broken, and he fled. A horse galloped past him, it was Gushan Ezhen Yilde. He was young and ran faster.
Ma Guozhu is getting older, and riding a horse is a laborious job, and he is gradually losing his support.
"Drive", Jing Keqin chased him and shot him to death.
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Zhu Hengjia ordered Sun Guangwei's cavalry to continue pursuing Baili, while the infantry swept the battlefield and rested for an hour.
He also ordered on the spot that Hao Shangjiu be made the new Taihou, and Liu Erbao, a young soldier, be made the commander-in-chief of the seventh rank.
Seeing the head of Nikan and the corpses of Tatars all over the mountain, Zhu Hengjia became so passionate that he wrote the poem "Recalling Wangsun·Maozhushan":
Moso bamboo pole remembers the prince,
Outside the Great Wall, the wind blows and the grass turns yellow.
Millions of heroes were wiped out.
Ren Er Kuang.
The rain hit the pear blossoms and made them burst into tears.
This chapter has been completed!