"Ambushing gunpowder on the ice to blow up the ice is all leftover from the Ming army's tricks."
"Do you really think that the Ming army thought of using this to attack our Qing soldiers, but you didn't expect that our Qing soldiers would also use this to attack them?"
"This..." Hou Fangyu was speechless.
Meng Xueli glanced at Hou Fangyu and said, "Sir, what if something happens?"
"There is no such thing as a contingency. There is no such thing as a contingency." Hong Chengchou shook his head and said, "Meng Gai admonishes you to lead the Juzi camp to dig out the gunpowder in the ice immediately. Be quick!"
"No digging! The Ming army will definitely come!"
But Hou Fangyu still had luck, or rather was unwilling to do so.
"Ignore him." Hong Chengchou said impatiently, "Immediately dig out the gunpowder and chase the army."
"Chasing the army? Where will your lord lead the army?" Meng Xueli was stunned when he heard this, and Hou Fangyu also turned his head and cast a surprised target at Hong Chengchou.
"Go to Dagokou!" Hong Chengchou grabbed a bag and put it on his head.
As he walked out, he said: "If nothing else happens, the Ming army will definitely switch to the land route near Dagukou. In fact, from the beginning, the Ming army had no intention of taking the water route."
"Does the Ming army actually want to take the land route?" Meng Xueli couldn't believe it.
"Take the land route?" Hou Fangyu asked extremely rudely, "Aren't the Ming troops afraid that we will cut off their food routes?"
"Of course I'm afraid, but the Ming army has already thought of a countermeasure!" Hong Chengchou arrived outside the tent before he finished speaking, "Hou Shenjun should go back to the tent as soon as possible to pack his luggage."
"Hou Canjun, what do you think?" Meng Xueli asked a little embarrassed.
Hou Fangyu sighed and said, "Do as Hong Butang said."
"Hey." Meng Xueli shouted, turned around and hurriedly left the tent.
Soon, the endless sound of drums and horns sounded in the camp at Chaohekou.
Accompanied by the sound of drums and horns, groups of Qing troops marched out from the camp, began to line up in the wilderness, and then marched towards Dagokou in neat lines.
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At the same time, the Ming army was also advancing rapidly along the coastline toward Dagukou.
Since the Ming army could march on ice sledges, the speed was much faster. It was about a hundred miles from Fuhekou to Dagukou, and the Ming army only took half a day to get there.
However, the Ming army did not reach Dagokou directly.
Instead, we prepared to go ashore more than ten miles away from Dagu Port.
By this time, after continuous division of troops and garrisoning, the Ming army still had 4 infantry brigades, 3 mountain artillery brigades, 3 field artillery brigades plus a cavalry to hold the platform, totaling more than 50,000 people.
For this era, this is still a formidable armed force.
"Long live Lord, map." Gao Qiqian spread out the map very thoughtfully.
Chongzhen immediately gathered around with Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan and Jiang Tianyi and other scholars.
Xu Yingwei pointed at the map and said: "Your Majesty, if everything is as I guessed, Jiannu is preparing to ambush us at a certain river mouth in the north, then this river mouth is most likely the Chao River mouth."
Chongzhen said with a smile: "Heroes have similar views. I also think it will be the mouth of the Chaohe River."
Xu Yingwei smiled and said: "So, even if Jiannu knows that we have arrived at Dagukou, the Jiannu stationed in Cangzhou, Chaohekou and other places will not act rashly."
"That's right." Chongzhen said with a smile, "They are worried that they will scare us and not go to Chaohe Estuary."
Xu Yingwei took a square ruler to measure the map again, and then said: "It is about eighty miles from the mouth of the Chaohe River to the mouth of Dagu. Even if Jiannu has to march quickly to get there, it will take at least a day and night!"
Yan Yingyuan said: "In other words, at least one day and night can be used to annihilate the Jiannu slaves in Dagukou."
Jiang Tianyi said: "According to the information provided by the Dagukou garrison, there are about 10,000 Jiannu on the opposite side, and they are basically the Eight Banners Han Army and Green Camp soldiers. They have weak fighting will and poor combat effectiveness compared to the real slaves, so there is one
The time difference between day and night should be enough for us to annihilate the Jiannu opposite Dagukou."
Xu Yingwei said: "This will open a big hole at the mouth of Weihe River."
Chongzhen hummed slightly and then said: "Youzhen, the rest is up to you, I just want the results."
"I accept the order." Xu Yingwei bowed to Chongzhen and immediately rode to the shore. Yan Yingyuan, Jiang Tianyi and other commanders and staff also followed ashore. There were only dozens of eunuchs and hundreds of imperial guards left on the ice.
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At the same time, Zhu Cijiong also led more than two thousand cavalry over a low ridge.
The more than 3,000 new troops who followed Zhu Cijiong on his mission to Korea were nearly a thousand killed in the Battle of Seoul. The remaining 2,000 people have been converted into cavalry, and their horses are all horses sent by Ao Bai and others.
"King Ding, look!" Xu Wuniu pointed in front of him and said ferociously, "This is the camp."
Zhu Cijiong looked in the direction of Xu Wuniu's finger and saw a large number of yurts dotted on the south slope of Xiangyang across the valley. There were at least several thousand yurts in total.
"Haha, this is a large wintering camp."
Zhu Cijiong laughed and said, "We will make a fortune this time."
In any wintering camp, cattle, sheep and horses are the most concentrated.
Because usually the cattle, sheep and horses are scattered in various pastures.
"Send someone back to inform Xia Guijian, and quickly lead the infantry brigade to catch up and collect the cattle, sheep and horses." Zhu Cijiong said as he took out the Type 20 rifle from his arms.
He took out the bayonet and put it on the barrel of the gun.
"Everyone is there, the Mongolian camp in front of the target."
Accompanied by Zhu Cijiong's low roar, two thousand cavalry slowly formed their formation.
"Fight with me!" Zhu Cijiong roared out the last word, and the war horse kicked off its hooves, stepping on the thick snow and rushing down the gentle hillside.
More than two thousand cavalrymen followed Zhu Cijiong and gradually started to speed up.
The constant sound of horns sounded from the camp opposite.
Amidst the sound of horns one after another, herdsmen emerged from their yurts, led their horses, and then gathered in a noisy manner toward the front of the camp.
When the Ming army cavalry came down from the hillside and reached the creek at the bottom of the valley, about five hundred herdsmen gathered on the opposite side.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The Ming cavalry is already close at hand. As soon as the leading Mongolian nobles whistled, they came up with about 500 Mongolian cavalry who had already assembled. Courage
Commendable.
However this is of no use.
When the two sides were still about 150 steps apart, the first row of Ming cavalry took the lead in opening fire.
Accompanied by the sound of "bang bang bang bang" gunfire, more than fifty Mongolian cavalrymen fell off their horses. The originally untidy cavalry formation became even more chaotic, and many war horses even bumped into each other.
The formation of the Ming cavalry was not chaotic at all. The first row of cavalry slowed down immediately after firing their guns, and the second and third rows of cavalry passed through the gap between the first row of cavalry.
When the cavalry on both sides were about a hundred steps apart, the second row of Ming army cavalry pulled the triggers one after another.
Another burst of intensive gunfire rang out, and this time the number of Mongolian cavalry fell by the gunfire was even more, more than double the number before. Because the distance was closer, the Ming army's hit rate also increased.
Immediately afterwards, the third row of cavalry of the Ming army came up again.
When intensive gunfire rang out for the third time, the cavalry on both sides were less than fifty steps apart.
Even more Mongolian cavalry fell this time. After three waves of volleys, there were only a few hundred Mongolian cavalry left, and the entire cavalry formation collapsed completely.
However, the Mongolian cavalry finally fired a row of arrows.
Unfortunately, the Ming army on the opposite side suffered no casualties.
Because the Ming army wore cotton armor and cotton coats outside.
The Mongol cavalry's arrows pose no threat unless they hit the Ming army in the face.
What is very helpless is that even the Ming cavalry are covered with hundred-forged visors.
More than two thousand Ming cavalrymen flooded through the Mongolian cavalry formation like a tide. The surviving one hundred Mongolian cavalrymen did not even have time to draw out the scimitars at their waists before they were knocked off their horses by the Ming army's bayonets and crushed.
The man was defeated, and the women and children left in the camp panicked and fled in all directions.
"All of them are there." Zhu Cijiong slung the rifle with the bayonet back on his right shoulder, pulled out the short blunderbuss from his waist and shouted, "Women and children should be captured alive, we must capture them alive!"
"King Ding has an order to arrest them alive!" Xu Wuniu then looked up to the sky and howled.
The accompanying Ming army cavalry all started shouting: "King Ding has an order, capture them alive!"
Accompanied by roars like mountains and tsunamis, the Ming cavalry easily crossed the low earthen walls of the camp, separated the women and children who were running around in the camp, surrounded and captured them.
When Xia Wanchun led the infantry brigade and the Korean army to the camp, the battle had already ended long ago.
"Brother Duan, we are rich, haha!" Zhu Cijiong laughed and said, "How much do you think we got from this one?"
Xia Wanchun glanced at the cattle and sheep in the camp and asked tentatively: "Are there a hundred thousand cattle and sheep?"
"Guess again." Zhu Cijiong pointed to the top of his head and said, "Guess more, use your imagination and guess as hard as you can."
"God, are there 200,000 cattle and sheep? That's really a fortune." Xia Wanchun said happily, "By the way, horses, how many horses have been captured? Are there ten thousand?"
"Ten thousand?" Zhu Cijiong groaned and said, "A conservative estimate is that the number of cattle and sheep we captured this time is at least 300,000, including at least 1,000 camels and at least 50,000 horses!"
"So many?" Xia Wanchun was ecstatic when he heard this, "Have we raided Horqin's Mongolian lair?"
Zhu Cijiong said: "Even if this is not the royal court of old boy Esen, it is at least the old camp of one of the ten Horqin Mongolian banners. After this winter, this banner is considered useless."
If so many cattle, sheep, camels and horses were lost at once, this tribe would definitely be doomed.
After a pause, Zhu Cijiong continued: "However, I estimate that the strong men of this tribe have gone out, otherwise there would not be only a few hundred cavalry left behind, so we must prepare quickly, maybe the main force of this tribe will soon
He will fight his way back to his old camp, so don’t let us suffer from extreme joy."
While he was talking, a loud bugle sound suddenly sounded from ahead.
