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Chapter Two Hundred and Fourteen

After receiving the emergency report from Dengzhou, Zhu Dadian, the new governor of Shandong, immediately led the Lu troops to Dengzhou and sent an order to the Liao army still in Cangzhou, asking them to arrive in Laizhou within seven days and wait for orders.

After receiving the military order, Shi Dayong briefly inquired about the visitor. After learning that the governor had led troops to Dengzhou, he immediately sent the order and sent the entire army eastward to Dengzhou.

At this time, the eunuch Gao Qiqian, who was supposed to be acting with Zhu Dadian, led the Beijing camp to stay put in Shang County, Hebei Province.

Shang County is only 110 miles away from Dengzhou and only 50 miles away from Laizhou.

Shang County had been captured by Kong Youde's rebels seven days ago. After the rebels plundered the county seat of Shang County, they imitated the behavior of the Dongqi invaders two years ago and marched to Laizhou in the east with the captured people and animals. Along the way

The Hebei officers and soldiers did not dare to stop it.[

Although Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou, wanted to intercept, he had the willpower and his troops were no match for Kong Youde. He could only rely on the strong city and did not dare to attack at all.

How could the virtues of the officers and soldiers not make the rebels even more arrogant, arrogant and arrogant, and never put any officers and soldiers in their eyes?

Gao Qiqian set out from the capital the day after the Jinzhou Army went south. Unlike the Jinzhou Army that went south via Tongzhou to Xianghe, Eunuch Gao led the Yongwei Battalion and set off directly to Tianjin at high speed, and then went directly to Shangxian County.

It is said that Shang County is not far from Dengzhou and can be reached in three days. If Gao Qiqian immediately led the troops to the east, he would definitely be able to meet up with Zhu Dadian's Lu soldiers at the foot of Dengzhou City, and then meet with Sun Yuanhua inside and outside the city.

Attack the rebels.

In terms of military strength, although Kong Youde claimed to have a hundred thousand troops, there were only more than a thousand who could fight. Among the five thousand soldiers and horses Zhu Dadian brought from Dezhou, in addition to three thousand Lu soldiers from Shandong, there were also former governor Yu Dacheng left behind.

The 1,800 Zhejiang soldiers were sent down.

These 1,800 Zhejiang soldiers have a good background. They are direct blood descendants of the Qi family army who was powerful in the north and south at that time. They are also the only Qi family army left in the world after the bloody battle of Hunhe River.

In the first year of Tianqi, Nurhaci led an army to besiege Shenyang. Ming Dynasty defenders He Shixian and You Shizhong were angry and went out of the city to fight with the enemy. They both died in the battle. Tens of thousands of hungry Mongolian people in the city were cut off and fell to the bridge to meet the Jin army. Shenyang was known as an impregnable city.

It was captured in one day, and 70,000 soldiers and civilians in the city were killed.

At that time, the Sichuan Army and the Zhejiang Qi Army were ordered to sail to Shenyang's aid. When Shenyang fell, the two armies reached the south bank of the Hun River and were in a desperate situation.

In the end, Chen Ce, the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Army, and Tong Zhongkui, the commander-in-chief of the Zhejiang Army, made a plan to take the initiative to attack, replace defense with offense, and wait for reinforcements in a bloody battle when the enemy was strong and we were weak.

In this battle, the Sichuan and Zhejiang armies combined were less than 10,000 men. However, the Jin army had 40,000 men, all of whom were cavalry.

From the beginning, this battle was destined to be a bloody battle in which the weak attacked the strong and the few faced the many.

After the battle started, the Ming army launched a suicide attack on the Jin army in an attempt to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

Qi Jin, the chief general of the Qi Army and Qi Jiguang's nephew, commanded the Qi Army, which was good at firearms, and set up a vehicle formation on the south bank of the Hun River. The young Sichuan army generals Zhou Dunji and Qin Minping led more than 3,000 Sichuan soldiers to cross the river from the Hun River pontoon bridge and formed a formation to the Eight Banners on the north bank.

The army rushed away.

These Sichuan troops who never looked back were using their lives to buy time for the Zhejiang army. As long as they could hold on until the Ming army with reinforcements arrived or held on until night, there would still be a glimmer of hope.

The Sichuan army, which was determined to kill its soldiers, defeated the Zhengbai and Zhenghuang banners successively, killing and wounding more than 2,000 Jin soldiers.

The Jin army could not defeat them, so Fushun's surrendered general Li Yongfang fired artillery fire from Shenyang City, completely covering the entire Sichuan army's position. The Jin army then swarmed up and finally overwhelmed the brave Sichuan army.

Most of the Sichuan army generals Zhou Dunji and Qin Minping were killed in the battle. Only a few people rushed across the pontoon bridge and returned to the Qi army's camp on the south bank of the Hun River.[

The Sichuan army was defeated and the Zhejiang army was trapped in a tight siege. Finally, the moment of decisive battle came.

The Jin Army crossed the Hun River and first attacked from the left wing with the strength of the Four Banners. The Qi Army, which hastily set up a position, used a vehicle formation and a well-trained triple formation of fire guns to meet the enemy, but the fierce Jin Army cavalry still broke through the firepower network. When they hit the car formation, soldiers from the Ming army rushed out and stabbed him down with Qi's army's special weapon - the iron wolf's sword.

After two rounds of attacks, more than 3,000 Jin soldiers suffered casualties from falling from their horses. When the two sides were in a stalemate, bad news came - Huang Taiji, who was fighting for reinforcements from the outside, actually defeated 30,000 soldiers with a few thousand soldiers in the Baitapu area. North Korean reinforcements.

The Qi Army's foreign aid was cut off and they had retreated. Nurhaci even issued a death order, allowing the Eight Banners to attack in turn regardless of casualties. One side attacked to the death, while the other defended to the death. The Ming army was finally defeated, and the car formation was finally broken.

After the Jin Army broke into the car formation, the Qi Army immediately formed the world-famous Mandarin Duck Formation with sentries as units, and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. In each formation, the wolf swordsmen, rattan players, and swordsmen covered each other and cooperated to fight the enemy fiercely. Especially The Qi family sword, which was improved from the ferocious Japanese sword, was used to inflict a large number of casualties on the Jin soldiers.

At the end of the battle, due to being outnumbered and exhausted by two consecutive days of forced marches and fierce fighting, the encirclement was gradually compressed.

After the commander-in-chief Chen Ce killed more than ten enemies, he died from exhaustion. The commander-in-chief Tong Zhongkui wanted to leave the battlefield. Qi Jin grabbed his horse and shouted: "A man will serve the country today!"

Hearing this, Tong Zhongkui and Qi Jin immediately turned around and entered the battlefield again. The battle continued until dusk. The remaining dozens of Qi family soldiers surrounded Qi Jin and Tong Zhongkui. Their mandarin duck formation was still undisturbed, like a wave in the stormy sea. reef.

In the dusk, the golden soldiers were surrounded on all sides, but they had lost the courage to fight in close combat. Finally, thousands of arrows were fired, and the sun set over the Hun River...

During the Battle of Hunhe, only a few Qi soldiers who had broken through early and stayed behind in Liaoyang survived. The Ming court sent personnel to appease the laboring army and promised heavy rewards. However, these soldiers refused in tears. They did not ask for rewards, but only asked to fight again, vowing to fight again. Revenge for the fallen soldiers such as Qi Jin and others - Ten days later in the Battle of Liaoyang, the last soldiers of the Qi family army outside the pass were all killed, and only one person survived.

After hearing the bad news from Liaodong, the county magistrates of Yiwu, Ningbo and other places where the Qi Army was recruited were the main places to write, saying that the country had been fighting for years, and because the Zhejiang soldiers were good at fighting, they were constantly recruited and injured, and the number of men here had already gone from ten to seventy-eight. In the end, the court An order was issued not to recruit troops from Yiwu or Ningbo.

When the imperial court officially ordered that no more Qi Army be formed, a Qi Army of less than 3,000 people was setting off from their hometown toward Liaodong, a thousand miles away.

Their commander is Qi Jiguang's grandnephew Qi Hengyi, and the purpose of going to Liaodong is to follow Qi Jin's order - to go out and fight the Jurchen Tatars to the death!

While traveling to Shandong, news came that the Qi family's army had been wiped out in Hunhe. Qi Hengyi cried bitterly and vowed to avenge his father.

However, it has been ten years since Qi Hengyi and the last remaining members of the Qi family army of three thousand were never called up by the imperial court to go out and fight again.

A year ago, civil unrest spread in the northwest. The imperial court ordered Hengyi and the three thousand Qi family troops to go north to quell the rebellion because of the military situation.

Just after arriving in Henan, he had not yet fought against the bandits, but he was urgently transferred to Shandong to participate in quelling Kong Youde's rebellion, and was put under the unified command of the governor of Shandong. After that, the 3,000 soldiers under his command were divided into two groups, and one group was temporarily transferred

Dengzhou was commanded by Zhang Keda, the commander-in-chief of Dengzhou, and the first unit was commanded by himself and stayed in Shandong on standby.

Yu Dacheng, the former governor of Shandong, initially advocated the extermination of the rebels. However, when he saw that the rebels were powerful in fighting, attacking the government and plundering counties all the way, and that the official army was unstoppable, he lost the courage to continue fighting, and together with Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, advocated recruiting Kong Youde.

Because of his changing attitude, he was ridiculed by Shandong officials as the "White Lotus Governor". As a result, the emperor was furious and demoted him, and appointed Zhu Dadian, the censor of Youqiandu who had made great contributions to the suppression of Hongmaofan, as the governor of Shandong.

After Zhu Dadian and the eunuch Gao Qiqian led the 5,000 Beijing camp southward, they thought they could defeat the rebels in one fell swoop. Unexpectedly, as soon as they fought, the 5,000 Beijing camp was routed by 600 rebels. They were so frightened that they quickly gathered their troops.

They retreated forty miles, huddled in the city and never dared to go out to fight, allowing Kong Youde's rebels to plunder in all directions.

Afterwards, Gao Qiqian felt that it was difficult to defend the enemy with the Beijing camp alone, so he discussed with Zhu Dadian that he would go to Beijing to report to the emperor and mobilize Liao troops capable of fighting to help. Zhu Dadian immediately went to Dezhou to rectify the Lu army in Shandong.

, after he mobilized the Liao army, he attacked the rebels from the north and the south.[

Naturally, Zhu Dadian had no objection to the deployment of troops and horses capable of fighting. At that time, the governor and the supervisory army went their separate ways, with one going to the capital and the other to Shandong.

After Zhu Dadian arrived in Dezhou, as governor, he ordered the garrison troops from various places to gather in Dezhou. Qi Hengyi, who was in Shandong, also received the recruitment document from the Shandong governor, so he led his troops to Dezhou to obey the order.

Shandong has been at peace for a long time, and there are few wars in the territory. Therefore, the Lu troops have low combat power and cannot be used effectively. Although Qi Hengyi's troops have not been in battle for ten years, they are the descendants of the famous Qi family army, so Zhu Dadian attaches great importance to them.

After receiving the urgent military report from Dengzhou, he immediately took the 1,800 Qi soldiers and 3,000 Lu soldiers who were barely able to fight and went to aid Dengzhou overnight.

It stands to reason that Shang County is only three days away from Dengzhou. If we set out immediately, we can definitely join forces with Zhu Dadian's Lu army to attack Kong Youde's rebels.

But Gao Qiqian seemed determined to ignore Dengzhou and actually stayed in Shang County!

When a group of generals in the Beijing camp saw that Eunuch Gao did not send troops, they were naturally happy and did not ask. Now they were all afraid of being beaten by the rebels. When they thought about the power of the rebels, they became frightened. It was lucky that the rebels did not come to attack them now.

, how dare you take the initiative to fight the rebels.

Anyway, the court blamed him, and the unlucky one was also his eunuch Gao. What does it have to do with us?

In fact, it's not that Gao Qiqian doesn't want to go to Dengzhou to rescue the siege, but that he is frightened even if he leaves Shang County, let alone the governor of Dengzhou. The reason for this is all because there is a soldier watching eagerly on the way east.

Look at him!

Although Kong Youde was born as a miner, he fought many battles with the Jin Army under Mao Wenlong, so he was naturally capable. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to be appreciated by Sun Yuanhua and get the support of his subordinates to rebel in Wuqiao.

After going east, in order to prevent the imperial court from sending troops and horses to follow him and cut off his retreat, Kong Youde deliberately left 5,000 troops and horses in Shahe, thirty miles southeast of Shang County, a place he must pass through on his way east, and he was led by his brave general Chen You.

.

In order for Chen Youde to feel at ease and cut off his rear, Kong Youde, the only eight hundred elite Liao soldiers among the generals, assigned 300 men to Chen Youyou, and also left four medium-sized cannons and a hundred eagle muskets (large poles).

gun) to him.

Since the uprising, the rebels have been invincible. The officers and soldiers have fled, and the Beijing camp is even more vulnerable. The rebels have long ignored the officers and soldiers, and now they have elite Liao soldiers and powerful firearms. Of course, Chen sometimes

He patted his chest and promised Kong Youde - but if he is here, the commander-in-chief will not have any worries!

Kong Youde trusted this warrior who had been following him for many years, and immediately continued his return eastward with confidence and boldness.

Chen sometimes lived up to his high expectations and led his troops to station in Shaxian County. From time to time, he sent troops to attack the officers and soldiers in Hebei. As a result, no group of officers and soldiers dared to move to Shaxian County.

After Gao Qiqian rushed all the way to Shang County, if he wanted to continue eastward, he would have to deal with Chen Shichou in Sha County first. Otherwise, he would have to go around for hundreds of miles and transfer to Denglai from Shandong.

, I’m afraid that the day lily will be cold.

However, these Beijing camps in Shang County are unable to take action at all. They are all defeated by the rebels. It is unthinkable to expect them to break through the Shahe River.

I don’t know what the Holy One was thinking. He clearly asked the Holy One to transfer the Jinzhou Army directly to his command, but in the end, the Holy One issued an imperial edict and transferred the Jinzhou Army to Zhu Dadian and commanded it from Shandong. This completely shattered his wishful thinking.

As a result, Shang County was unable to advance or retreat, and was in a dilemma.

Now it depends on whether Shi Dayong is wise and willing to give his cavalry to him. With these elite Liao cavalry, it will not be difficult to deal with the rebels in Shahe, Gao Qiqian thought. He has a feeling for the Jinzhou Army

The cavalrymen have heard about it for a long time. When they were in Beijing, they heard that Shi Dayong named his cavalrymen Wolf Cavalry. It was built after the iron pagoda of the Jin Dynasty. They fought very fiercely. In the battle of Xiaolinghe, they almost turned the tide of the battle and captured the slave chief alive.

Hong Tai, the tens of thousands of soldiers who built slaves can't be defeated. If you have such a powerful army in hand, the mere Confucius rebels are nothing!

When Bai Shangyi brings the troops, we will immediately send troops to Shahe. We must not let Zhu Dadian take the credit. If this wolf cavalry is really useful, we will report it to the emperor after we return to Beijing and follow the example of the Jinzhou wolf camp in the Yongwei camp.

The cavalry is renovated. After the construction is completed, our family can march to the Central Plains and drive away those wandering thieves to feed the fish in the Yellow River!

Thinking of being able to annihilate the rebellion for the Emperor in one fell swoop, Gao Qiqian's face turned a little inexplicably red. He seemed to have seen the grand scene of the Emperor personally greeting him at the Meridian Gate when he returned to the capital in victory.

In a daze, the sound of urgent footsteps came to my ears, and then I heard someone shouting at the top of their lungs, "Father-in-law, father-in-law, something bad is going to happen, something is going to happen!"

The sound was so sharp that the entire Shang County Yamen could hear it clearly, and it was also extremely harsh.

Gao Qiqian was startled, thinking that the rebels from Shahe were coming to attack Shang County. He jumped up in fright, went to touch his shirt and sword, and opened his mouth to tell the guards to prepare their horses immediately and prepare for the situation.

If something goes wrong, run away.

But before he could open his mouth, someone rushed in from outside. As soon as he came in, he knelt on the ground, crawled forward and howled, "My father-in-law must make the decision for this slave! This slave is suffering."

Gao Qiqian took a closer look and saw who was kneeling in front of him, not Bai Shangyi? Looking at the group of people behind him, who was it if it wasn't the slaves who followed him to Cangzhou?

"What are you screaming for! Is the sky falling?"

Gao Qiqian was so angry that he had nowhere to vent his anger. He kicked Bai Shangyi aside and cursed angrily: "How unbecoming is it to startle and scream!"

Bai Shangyi grunted and turned around again. This time he didn't cry, but his nose twitched, and he shouted aggrievedly: "Father, the sky didn't fall today, but it's not much different. The Liao army rebelled!"

"What? The Liao army rebelled!"

Gao Qiqian was shocked, grabbed Bai Shangyi by the collar, and shouted: "What happened, tell me quickly!"

"The slaves were ordered by the father-in-law to dispatch cavalry to the Liao army, but the Liao army refused to obey the order. Instead, they beat the slaves without asking any questions! The general Shi Dayong openly said that he would rather die than

It doesn't matter." Bai Shangyi was intermittently afraid to say it directly.

Gao Qiqian was furious when he saw this: "What's the matter? Say it quickly!"

"Yes, yes, then Shi Dayong said he would rather die than become a castrated traitor!" After saying that, Bai Shangyi quickly lowered his head.

Eunuch?!

Gao Qiqian stood there in a daze, with his fair face covered in blue and red, and his eyes extremely cold.

A moment later, he slapped his palm on the table in anger and screamed: "How dare a general not take our family seriously! If our family didn't kill him with our own hands, our family would have lived in vain for so many years!"

"

Bai Shangyi and all the eunuchs saw that Eunuch Gao was really furious. They were scared and happy, but they all kept kowtowing and shouting: "Eunuch, please calm down, please calm down."

Gao Qiqian was so angry that he glared at Bai Shangyi: "Go back to the capital immediately to find the prince, and ask the prince to try to deal with our family. Say that the Jinzhou general is domineering and unwilling to listen. Please ask your Majesty to transfer another Liao army to the front."

Come and help fight.”

After hearing this, Bai Shangyi did not answer immediately, but raised his head and asked cautiously: "Father, the Liao army was basically finished in the battle of Dalinghe. Apart from the Jinzhou general, who else can the Liao army do?"

war?"

Gao Qiqian snorted slightly: "Zu Dashou surrendered to the Donglu, but not all of his family surrendered with him. Our family has heard people say that except for Zu Dashou and his brothers,

There is also a madman Zu Er who is very good at fighting, and there is also a servant named Zu Kuan who is also very good at fighting.

Now these two people are worried in Ningyuan because of their ancestor's birthday, fearing that the court will offend them, so if our family helps them at this time, they will definitely be grateful to our family and willing to obey our orders. Yes.

His ancestral family is helping, and our family is not afraid of his rebels either!"

"Since the ancestral family can use it, why didn't my father-in-law directly recruit them before?"

"Previously, because of the ancestor's birthday, the emperor was annoyed, so our family didn't want to help his ancestor's family. I thought that the Jinzhou Army was also very capable of fighting, and it just happened to be here. There was no need to bother to mobilize it, just bring it here.

.I didn’t know that Shi Dayong didn’t take our family seriously and refused to obey our orders. Naturally, our family can’t hang him on a tree. Humph, our family would like to see how little he is.

How dare you dare to go against our family!"

Bai Shangyi hurriedly flattered him and said: "My father-in-law is so generous and I admire him! But I have a way to tell my father-in-law to see Shi Dayong's retribution immediately."

Gao Qiqian glanced at him and asked, "What method?"

Bai Shangyi gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "The way to kill someone with a borrowed knife!"

Gao Qiqian was stunned for a moment and blurted out: "Explain clearly, how can you kill someone with a borrowed knife?"

Bai Shangyi chuckled: "When I came, I heard that the governor of Shandong, Zhu Dadian, sent his Jinzhou Army eastward to Dengzhou to relieve the siege. But if his Jinzhou Army wants to go to Dengzhou, it must pass through Shahe. Don't forget, father-in-law, Shahe is a

There are thousands of rebels. If his Jinzhou Army arrives, my father-in-law can order his Jinzhou Army to attack Shahe as a military supervisor! If the Jinzhou Army really goes to fight, with his few hundred men, I'm afraid he will be a meat bun.

Beat the dog. If he refuses to go, the father-in-law will kill the general with military orders and then seize his troops. In this way, it is justified and no one can say anything!"


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