Gao Yigong waited for Li Yan to make up his mind, but he did not realize that he was in danger.
Because the 1st Cavalry Division of Chahar Town in the Ming Dynasty has quietly entered the vicinity of Changping Prefecture.
After receiving the news, Zhu Cijiong immediately rushed to Changping to join the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division, and immediately convened a military meeting with officers above the brigade commander.
"The main force of the pseudo-submissive cavalry is here, at the altar outside Anding Gate."
"Until now, the Pseudo-Shun Cavalry has not known that our 1st Cavalry Division has arrived in Changping. The reason is very simple. The Pseudo-Shun Cavalry's scouts no longer dare to come out."
"So the current situation is that the enemy is in the open and we are in the dark."
"I have only one request: to annihilate them all, then annihilate them all."
"The reason is very simple. Gu has taken a liking to their war horses."
At the end of his speech, Zhu Cijiong vigorously patted the map in front of him.
Hu Guozhu, Wu Batan and other generals and officers of the 1st Cavalry Division looked at each other in confusion.
To be honest, it is not difficult to defeat the puppet cavalry, but it is not easy to annihilate them all.
Zhu Cijiong snorted softly and said: "I know that the cavalry comes and goes like the wind and can run faster than a rabbit, so it is not easy to annihilate them all. But my father once said that there are always more ways than difficulties. As long as everyone uses their brains
If we work together, we will definitely be able to think of a way to annihilate the pseudo-submissive cavalry, and you can use your brains now."
Upon hearing this, the generals and officers participating in the meeting began to offer their suggestions and suggestions.
"If we want to completely annihilate the pseudo-cis cavalry, there is probably only one way, and that is to make them unable to run."
"If you don't want the pseudo-submissive cavalry to run, you can only force them into the river. Once the pseudo-submissive cavalry enters the river, their speed is not even as fast as the infantry on the shore."
"When you said that, I remembered that the Battle of Baliqiao was also like this."
"Yes, when we forced the 30,000 cavalrymen from the outer Mongolia into the Wenyu River, they were stuck in the mud and could not walk fast, and each of them became a living target. Unfortunately, there was no ambush on the east bank, so we finally let them run away.
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"At that time, we had no choice but to face the 700,000 Manchu, Han and Mongolian troops who established slaves. Who dared to divide the troops?"
"But this time, we can arrange an ambush on the east bank of the Wenyu River in advance to block the puppet cavalry."
"So there is only one problem left now, how to drive the puppet cavalry into the triangle between the Wenyu River and the Tonghui River, and finally force them to wade across the Wenyu River."
"Why do we have to go to Wen Yu River? It would be easier for thieves to cross the canal, right?"
"This is simple. You can use a train to follow the rogue cavalry, so that the rogue cavalry cannot cross the canal."
"We launch an attack at night, and we can divide our troops into two directions to attack from the north and west at the same time. This way, the pseudo-submissive cavalry will have difficulty in distinguishing the exact strength of our army, and will most likely flee eastward."
At this point in the discussion, a preliminary combat plan has come out.
The next step is to deploy specific actions.
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Gao Yigong was also not idle. He was summoning several generals under his command to discuss how to deal with the monsters of the Ming army.
Ma Chongxi said: "General Quan, we just caught a spy who sneaked out of Beijing and asked a lot of things from his mouth."
"Oh? What did you ask?"
Brothers Gao Yigong and Zhang Neng were all interested.
Ma Chongxi said: "The guy said that the long snake-like monster we encountered near Bali Bridge before was a newly built train in the Ming Dynasty. It is said that it can be driven by burning coal, and it can haul two people in one trip.
A million pounds of men, horses or goods."
"What? Can you pull two million kilograms in one trip?" Gao Ligong exclaimed, "Isn't it worth a thousand ox carts?"
Ma Chongxi added: "It's just that this train also has a shortcoming, that is, it can only run along the paved rails, and it cannot run where there are no rails."
"So that's it, it's that simple."
Zhang Neng said: "From now on, we just need to stay far away from the track."
"Why hide?" Gao Ligong said with a tigerish face, "Now that we know that Minggou's train can only run along the track, it will be easy to deal with it. Let's dig out the track."
"I'm afraid this won't be easy." Gao Yigong shook his head.
"Ming Dog's tracks are all made of iron and are extremely strong."
"Then hollow out the sand and gravel underneath," Gao Ligong said, "or find rocks and pile them on the track. Minggou's train will hit the rocks and overturn when it comes over!"
"You can give it a try." Gao Yigong accepted this suggestion.
Gao Ligong added: "Brother, this matter should be done sooner rather than later. How about taking action at night?"
"Okay." Gao Yigong said, "But beware of Ming Gou's scout cavalry and don't let them discover it, otherwise you will be in big trouble."
"It's okay, they are just blinding themselves and they don't have long night vision."
Gao Ligong immediately lit up five hundred Qingqi and quietly left the Temple of Earth.
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Unfortunately, Gao Ligong and the others were discovered by the Ming army's scout cavalry as soon as they left the military camp.
It is true that the Ming army's scout cavalry did not have night vision, and tonight there was only a shallow waning moon, making it difficult to see from three steps away, but the Ming army's scout cavalry had keen ears that could hear.
There is no noise pollution of any kind in this era.
In the dead of night, the slightest movement can be heard far away.
The scout cavalry lurking near the bandit camp reported it to Xu Wuniu. Xu Wuniu sent someone to report to Zhu Cijiong while leading the scout cavalry team to catch up.
The Ming army decided to attack in advance.
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Inside the large tent of Dashun Cavalry.
Gao Yigong was personally interrogating the Ming army spy caught by Ma Zhongxi.
"May I have your name?"
"General, I am the fourth villain."
"Zu Si, what do you do?"
"The villain is the adopted son of the ancestor general's family."
"General Zu? Are you talking about Zu Dashou?"
"Exactly, General Zu died unjustly."
"How dare you lie in front of me, the general." Gao Yigong shouted, "More than ten people including Zu Dashou, his father, and his descendants were executed by the Ming army. All the slaves in the house were also sent to the army. How did you survive?"
"General, sir." Zu Si was so frightened that he quickly knelt down. "Because the villain had merit in the report, he was not taken to the railway construction site to build the railway. Instead, he was left in the inner city of Beijing to collect night incense."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "You are responsible for collecting night incense, so you must know a lot about the situation in the inner city."
"That's right, I don't know much about the inner city of Beijing. Nowadays, roads and houses are being built everywhere in the inner and outer cities of Beijing. These newly built houses all have small gardens in the front and back, and they are beautifully built."
"Shut up, I didn't ask you to talk about this, about the deployment of the Ming army in the inner city of Beijing."
"Ah? But General, I'm just a night scent collector. I really don't know the Ming army's deployment in the inner city."
"Don't tell me, right?" Gao Yigong was furious and was about to whip his whip, but suddenly there was a sound of horses neighing and people shouting outside the tent, as if countless people and horses were charging toward them.
"What's going on? What happened?"
Gao Yigong drew his saber and hurried outside the tent.
After leaving the tent, Gao Yigong couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
Because Gao Yigong's big tent is set up on the altar of earth, the view is very good.
Standing on the platform of the Temple of Earth and looking down from a high position, I saw dots of firelight to the north and west, moving towards the Dashun Military Camp.
Even with your toes, you can guess that the Ming army must have launched a night attack.
"General, the Ming cavalry attacked at night." Zhang Neng and Ma Chongxi also rushed to Gao Yigong's Chinese camp.
"Do you know where the cavalry came from? Is it the cavalry from Beijing or the cavalry from outside the Great Wall?" Gao Yigong asked, "How many more cavalry are there?"
If it is Beijing's cavalry, the number should not be too large, and they can still try to fight a battle.
But if the cavalry comes from Horqin or Chahar outside the pass, there are tens of thousands at least, then run away quickly, because they cannot win in their current situation.
"I don't know." Zhang Neng and Ma Chongxi didn't know anything.
Gao Yigong was so angry that he wanted to scold his mother, but he held it back.
Because he knew that Zhang Neng and Ma Chongxi could not be blamed for this incident.
"General Zhi, what should we do now, fight or withdraw?"
"War?" Gao Yigong smiled bitterly. How can we fight when the war is in chaos?
At that moment, Gao Yigong shouted in a deep voice: "Send the order to retreat to Tongzhou immediately."
There are Ming troops to the north and west, and they may be just suspicious soldiers, but Gao Yigong does not dare to take risks easily, so the safest strategy is to retreat eastward and get rid of the Ming troops.
After a short pause, he ordered again: "Zhang Neng, you take the lead."
"Yes." Zhang Neng didn't hesitate at all, and ordered the three thousand cavalry to stay behind.
Gao Yigong and Ma Chongxi took advantage of the darkness of night to retreat eastward with the main force of more than 30,000 cavalry.
After walking less than ten miles eastward, Zhang Neng led a small number of remaining soldiers to catch up and was wounded.
Looking at Zhang Neng whose face was covered with blood, Gao Yigong asked in a voiceless voice: "Zhang Neng, your three thousand horses were eaten so quickly?"
"General Zhi, here are the elite cavalry of the Ming army from outside the pass, and there are at least 50,000 of them!" The dark night gave the Ming army an excellent cover, which also caused veteran generals like Zhang Neng to misjudge.
Of course, the main reason was that the Ming army's cavalry had too much firepower.
The standard equipment of the Ming Army cavalry is already a rifle and a short blunderbuss.
The intensive firepower coupled with rapid reloading caused Zhang Neng to make misjudgments.
"50,000 cavalry?" Gao Yigong was startled and quickly ordered the troops to withdraw eastward at full speed.
By this moment, Gao Yigong had completely lost the courage to fight the Ming cavalry.
As a result, the full-speed retreat quickly turned into a rout. Nearly 40,000 cavalrymen fled eastward along the canal. As a result, they encountered Gao Ligong who was fleeing back in embarrassment near Bali Bridge.
Gao Ligong's 500 Qingqi were reduced to less than 50.
"Second brother, hurry up and catch up. Don't fall behind. Behind us are the Ming cavalry!"
Gao Yigong didn't even bother to ask Gao Ligong if he had destroyed the railway.
Because to the Dashun Cavalry, it no longer matters whether the railway was destroyed or not.
The top priority is to get rid of the Ming cavalry behind them as soon as possible and bring these more than 30,000 and nearly 40,000 elite cavalry back to Shanxi. The main cavalry in the rear camp cannot have any accidents. This is the only elite cavalry left in the Dashun Army.
Therefore, Gao Ligong followed Gao Yigong and fled eastward.
