Dorgon couldn't believe his ears! Didn't they already send people into the mountains to search? How could so many people hide without a trace, and how did they survive in this bitter cold weather.
There were thousands of people who set up Abatai, and it was said that there were thousands of people who set up Duduo. But why were the whereabouts of two hundred people discovered, and why did these two people arrogantly enter the mountain under the nose of the spies to provoke them?
Dorgon felt that he was in a mess and his brain was going to explode.
So he immediately sent an order to execute all the spies who searched the mountain the day before, and then sent troops into the mountain to search again. At the same time, he postponed the attack on the city until the situation of this ambush was known.
Wu Sangui, I will leave you alive a little longer.
In Ningyuan Chengshan, Wu Sangui sneezed several times in succession. Tang Tong next to him asked concernedly if he had a cold and to pay attention to his health.
The martial arts practitioner is as strong as an ox, and he has never had a fever or cold since he became an adult: "Who is it that is secretly cursing me behind my back?
Wu Sangui chuckled. He didn't know that Dorgon even wanted to drown him with saliva. Even if he knew, he would say unjustly that it was none of my business. It was all done by the eunuch and had nothing to do with me.
After looking at the Qing army camp in the north of the city, Wu Sangui turned his attention to the west mountain. Just now, he had reported that a group of soldiers had entered the mountain. They were not like Qing soldiers!
"It can't be that little governor who went out to sneak attack the Qing army going south!" Tang Tong joked.
Wu Sangui laughed: "Although the young governor likes to walk on the edge of a knife, he will not do such a thing that will lead to death. It's just that this man..."
He couldn't guess it either.
However, soon, news came from the observation post that the flag bearer of Xishan warned that his whereabouts had been exposed. The Qing army quickly attacked the mountain, allowing Wu Sangui to act according to the opportunity.
The two were shocked and didn't know what was going on, but they were certain that Dorgon was going to attack the little eunuch first. Can he withstand it?
Chang Yu led his team into the mountain, leaving dozens of corpses on the mountain road. He issued a warning as soon as he stepped into the valley. Immediately, warning signals were everywhere in the mountain. Before reaching Moshi Valley, Hu Ling had already rushed to greet him. Everyone in the Black Panther camp was covered with blood.
There were blood stains on his face, he looked tired, and he felt a little uneasy: "Lord Governor, have you been exposed?".
Chang Yu nodded: "Send the order to go to the first level of alert and let the infantry battalion come out of the cave to prepare for battle!"
Good guy, what was supposed to come finally came, and Hu Ling took the order and left.
After entering the cave, all the men and horses of the Black Panther Battalion took off their armor and rested, just in time for the meal. There was not much porridge and broth left, so Chang Yu ordered an extra meal, and the servants immediately went to light a fire to cook.
Wu Weiying was a little uneasy. He had a premonition after Chang Yu entered the cave. Later, when he heard Hu Ling's order for the infantry battalion to dispatch to prepare for battle, he could no longer sit still.
He quietly came to the little eunuch who was covered in blood and had no time to wash it off: "Mr. Factory Gong, how many men of the Qing army are coming to attack?"
"A hundred thousand" Chang Yu didn't even raise his head.
But Wu Weiying couldn't help but screamed: "A hundred thousand, why are there so many, then let's..."
Feeling out of sorts, he coughed a few times and asked, "Why don't the brothers from Gongziying come back?".
Speaking of Cao Cao, when Cao Cao arrived, there was noise in the cave to the west. Tu Yuan led the eunuch army from Gongzi Camp into the cave and hurriedly walked to Chang Yu.
Fortunately, he and his entourage did not see the Qing spies, so they went straight into the mountain, covered up a bit, and then returned to the cave. When they heard that Chang Yu was exposed, they geared up and clamored for a big fight, saying frankly that they had not enjoyed themselves last night.
The young eunuch asked him to eat first: "Let's rest for a while. The Qing soldiers will not launch a large-scale attack so quickly. Today will be various tentative attacks at most."
Tu Yuan immediately felt bored and hid away to eat. Wu Weiying did not dare to stay with the young eunuch for a long time, so she ran to ask him: "What did you get last night?"
"Did you see those heads? Kill tens of thousands of enemies!"
Wu Weiying looked up at the soldiers from the Gongzi Battalion and the Black Panther Battalion, and was shocked to find that there were several bloody heads around each of them. She felt sick to her stomach. These people were too perverted. They were eating with heads in their arms.
How to keep eating.
But with five hundred cavalry killing tens of thousands of enemies, Tu Yuan's bragging was too big. Well, the henchmen of these little eunuchs didn't tell the truth, so they might as well try to trap the pawns.
After running back and forth all night, they were already extremely exhausted. After a hasty meal, the soldiers from the Gongzi Camp and the Black Panther Camp slept in their caves with their clothes on and did not hear anything going on outside the cave.
Hu Ling stood at the lookout above the cave entrance with a solemn expression. As Chang Yu said, they had been exposed. Several groups of Qing troops outside Ningyuan City had gathered towards the mountain pass, and a group of troops from the Qing army camp in the distance were rushing towards them.
The weather was still warm and the sun was high, but Hu Ling felt cold all over. Looking around, he felt a little lonely, but he couldn't help but be proud that today was the day when he alone took the lead.
As one of his confidants, he always followed the young eunuch through mountains and rivers of blood, but he was injured in Taiyuan and never recovered. After arriving outside the customs, Chang Yu took care of him deliberately and let him stay in the mountains when he went on missions.
At this time, everyone was tired and sleeping soundly in the cave, and he was fully in charge of all affairs in the mountain. When he was exposed, the Qing army searched the mountain in large numbers. In addition to the three thousand palace camps, they also had the two hundred servants.
Of course there are two assistants, Chang Feng and Wei Zhitong, another admiral of the infantry battalion.
To put it simply, he is in charge today.
As the old saying goes, you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are when you are not a man of family. At first glance, three thousand troops and horses are quite a lot. With the favorable location, they can completely block the enemy from outside the mountain and prevent the Qing army from taking a single step.
But don't forget, this troop is a firearms unit with little actual combat experience and no close combat experience, so its combat effectiveness is really worrying. However, the more than two hundred servants made Hu Ling particularly satisfied.
This team of servants is composed of two groups. One is the dozens of servants that Chang Yu bought in the capital. Later, he planned to kill them, but he couldn't bear it and hid them in the army. Now they are mainly engaged in logistics work, making fires and cooking.
Feeding the horses and so on, he was busy in the cave at this time.
The other wave is Jiang Quan's servants. After Jiang Quan was killed, he took refuge with Chang Yu and traveled all over the country. Although these servants have never been used by Chang Yu, it does not mean that they are not good at it. It can even be said that their fighting ability
People with ordinary strength are really no match for them.
Who is Jiang Quan? He is the general of Datong. He has patrolled the border for several years. He leads strong soldiers and soldiers. His servants are his private army. He carefully trains all of them to be brave and good at archery, horse riding, and archery.
It was a pity that this servant had been used by Chang Yu to do odd jobs. Hu Ling always felt that it was a waste of resources. He even dreamed that it would be great if this servant could be under his command and form its own battalion!
It's just that Wuzhong seems to have been coveting this team of people, and the governor's attitude has always been specious.
After this incident was over, he asked the governor to beg for help. Hu Ling secretly made up his mind, got out of the lookout, and headed towards the bottom of the mountain valley.
When the Qing army searched the mountain, the young eunuch sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and even slept in the cave in the dark. However, Hu Ling did not have the determination to mobilize the infantry battalion into three groups, setting up checkpoints and ambushes along the way, building fortifications along the way, and maneuvering along the way.
Support, as for the two hundred servants, they are sharpening their swords. If you want to fight hand-to-hand, you have to rely on them to resist!
The servants are fully equipped, including a set of soft armor, a sword, a bow and an arrow pot, with twenty arrows in the pot.
They didn't have this set of equipment before leaving customs.
Chang Yu pays special attention to three things: the offensive and defensive power of soldiers and the equipment of long-range anti-personnel weapons.
When he left the capital for Taiyuan, the equipment he gave to Gongziying was soft armor, long knives, and no bows and arrows. Moreover, he was still sneaking around at that time. After the battle in Taiyuan, he gained a lot of loot and gained experience. When he left the border, Gongziying was already an important force.
Armor was added to the body, including knives and bows, and some even wore armor on their horses.
At this time in the Ming Dynasty, the development of protective armor had reached its peak. When encountering heavily armored soldiers, it would be difficult to kill them without the combination of heavy weapons and impact.
This is also the reason why when he ambushed the Qing army, which was known for its bravery and skill in fighting, he only lost more than thirty people, and when he attacked the Duduo infantry camp, no one was injured. The heavy armored cavalry was like the tank troops of later generations.
Of course, servants do not receive such treatment.
Before leaving the seclusion, they only had one knife to defend themselves, and they didn't even have any armor. It wasn't that Chang Yu didn't give them to them, it was because they didn't have them!
But after the ambush at Abatai, Chang Yu brought back a large amount of loot, got them soft armor, and equipped them with enough bows and arrows.
In the cold weapon era, bows and arrows were the most powerful long-range weapons.
Why are Mongolian soldiers sweeping across the world? Because they are invincible in cavalry and shooting.
Why was it that the Qing cavalry was able to defeat the Ming army without the ability to fight back, but it was still invincible in cavalry and shooting?
This is also the army Chang Yu has been deliberately and hard working to build, a powerful and invincible cavalry. (To be continued)