These three thousand people missed the main battlefield of the Battle of Dangshan. After they reunited with Li Laiheng, they heard about the scenes of the Battle of Dangshan from the main soldiers such as Hao Yaoqi, Ma Bao, Li Shiwei, etc., and they all felt deep regret for themselves.
Couldn't catch up with this battle.
So they seized the vanguard task this time. As soon as they rushed back to Ma Muji, they happened to bump into Yuan Shizhong who was trying to break out of the encirclement, and immediately went into the battlefield.
Yuan Shizhong's first wave of breakout troops actually only had about 3,000 troops. The morale, numbers, ordnance, and even technical and tactical training of the small Yuan camp were inferior to those of the breakout army.
Three thousand soldiers who were eager to prove that they were not inferior to their comrades surged in, fired cannons and cannons, and attacked in groups. They immediately scattered Yuan Shizhong's breakout troops.
It was Chen Yongfu who rushed out with his servants in time and blocked Gu Kecheng for a while before rescuing Yuan Shizhong's men.
However, such a period of time was enough for Li Laiheng's main troops to return to the Mamuji battlefield leisurely. The soldiers of the Chu army surrounded them and regained their strength advantage. The Ming army had no way to escape.
What's more, the Qing army defeated the westward marching corps of the Xuzhou Suppressor General, and the Chuang army basically wiped out the Qing army. Therefore, the flags and seals of the westward marching corps captured by the Qing army fell into Li Laiheng's hands.
There are also the thousands of braids that Li Laiheng chopped off, countless Eight Banner flags, ceremonial guards, armor, and weapons, all of which can be used as proof of the great victory of the army.
Li Laiheng asked a team of light cavalry to tie all the flags of the Ming and Qing armies captured by the intruders to arrows, and then shot all the flags into Ma Muji with one arrow after another.
Then Zhang Pixuan was asked to pick out several strong men who were good at throwing spears and stones, and ordered them to throw more than a dozen guerrilla and garrison tokens below the Xuzhou Suppression Commander-in-Chief, as well as a General-in-Chief Seal from Liu Zhaoji, and throw them all to the Ming Dynasty.
In front of the military formation.
When the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty first discovered the fragments of military flags tied to arrows, they were still unclear about the situation. However, Chen Yongfu's son Chen De and Hou Fangyu, a famous scholar in Guide, were the first to discover the origin of these military flags. Chen De recognized them.
Several military flags were used by Liu Zhaoji and Yu Yongshou, and Hou Fangyu saw that one looked like the flag of the Jianzhou Tatars.
After hearing the news, Chen Yongfu's expression changed drastically. Although he had already guessed that the Westward Expedition Corps would probably be defeated by Li Laiheng long ago, when he saw Liu Zhaoji's flag and seal, he still dropped the saber in his hand.
Got to the ground.
Only Yuan Shizhong was still unwilling to believe the facts. He kicked away the Qing army flags and angrily said:
"This must be a deception! They just captured the flags of the officers and soldiers. Why are there still the flags of the Donglu? The Donglu are obviously not south of the Yellow River!"
Chen Yongfu was not as firm in his "faith" in the imperial court as Yuan Shizhong. He knew Liu Zhaoji and others. When he saw Liu Zhaoji's seal, he was completely convinced that the Westward Expansion Corps was finished.
Moreover, unlike Yuan Shizhong, Chen Yongfu was not a recent defector from the Chuang Army. On the contrary, the negotiations between him and the Chuang Army on whether to surrender had been through Chen Xin's channel for a long time.
To put it bluntly, these officers and soldiers were just chips used by Chen Yongfu to seek his own personal future and wealth.
But before Chen Yongfu could give Yuan Shizhong a few words, Yuan Shitai came over to report that the envoys from the invading army had arrived again!
The person Li Laiheng sent was Gu Junen, but last time Gu Junen took great risks and came with the pride of a hero who would never return once he was gone; this time, Gu Junen came with the support of the strong military strength of the army.
Next, he came with a particularly arrogant and high attitude.
Gu Junen did not even wear armor and military uniforms as before, but only wore a relatively thin blue shirt of Confucian uniform, showing his utmost confidence in persuading Chen Yongfu to surrender.
Following Gu Junen were six infantrymen of the invading army. Each of them led a mule and horse, and each mule and horse pulled a small cart. The carts were full, all filled with Manchurian braided heads.
Tilt over, these heads with pig tails all rolled to the front of the Ming army's formation, there were probably more than a hundred in number.
Gu Junen got off his horse. He was no longer as nervous as when he came to Ma Muji the day before. This time, Gu Junen only saluted Chen Yongfu. Then he raised his head slightly and pointed at the Ming soldiers who had come out to greet the intruders.
The generals said:
"I heard that the imperial court has used troops against the Eastern Lu for twenty years. As long as they can capture dozens of real Tatar heads, they can be awarded the post of commander-in-chief? There are more than a hundred real Tatar heads here, and each one has a special meaning.
I wonder what kind of official title a slave who speaks Rongdi Yi language can get from the imperial court?"
Chen Yongfu's eyelids drooped and he was silent. Yuan Shizhong's cheeks trembled with excessive anger. He gritted his teeth and said: "Where did you kill good people, cut off their heads, and come up with such ridiculous pig tails? What's the point?
It’s funny, tell Li Laiheng that tomorrow’s soldiers are coming to relieve the siege, and tell him to stop trying to persuade him to surrender!”
Gu Junen laughed and said: "General Yuan... I don't think you were as bold as you are today last night. These more than a hundred real Tatar heads are less than one-tenth of the heads our army captured yesterday. If the generals don't believe it,
You can take a look outside Ma Muji now."
Chen De was curious about what Gu Junen said. After taking a look at his father's face, he saw that Chen Yongfu had no intention of objecting, so he patted his horse and left the camp.
In the open space between Ma Muji and the siege camp of the invaders, a group of infantrymen of the invaders were stacking the thousands of Manchu heads that had been cut off one by one, and they actually piled them up in front of the formation.
A "Beijing Temple".
Jing means a high hill; Guan means a palace.
To show off their martial arts, Jingguan gathers the enemy's corpses in one place, piles them all up, and then covers them with soil and compacts them to form a pyramid-shaped mound.
In the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty when wars and killings were everywhere, it was not uncommon to see a Beijing temple, but a Beijing temple made entirely of real Manchu Tatar heads was shocking enough.
Especially for the officers and soldiers who had been repeatedly defeated by the Qing army in the past twenty years, it was an unimaginable impact.
Chen Yongfu couldn't help but believe that so many Qing army flags and battles were thrown by Li Laiheng into the open space in front of Ma Muji, and there were also many flags and seals of the Ming army's westward marching corps mixed in.
All of this made Gu Junen's simple words full of an irresistible pressure.
"The Xuzhou reinforcements that all the generals have been praying for were near Dangshan Mountain as early as the day before. Unfortunately, they encountered a main force of Donglu troops heading south. The entire army was wiped out."
Gu Junen had a slightly sad look on his face and said: "After hearing the news, our army immediately marched eastward and encountered thousands of captives at night in Dangshanxi. We fought fiercely all night in the heavy fog and defeated their front. We fought until dawn and I asked you to lead the troops.
They entered Dangshan Mountain, destroyed the enemy's formation, killed hundreds of captives and cavalry, and personally killed the captive chieftain who was the culprit of Tupi Island in the 10th year of Chongzhen's reign. He avenged the unfortunate fate of the Han soldiers at the hands of the Eastern captives.
hatred."
Yuan Shizhong was not a member of the Ming army, so he could not empathize with Chen Yongfu's psychology.
Since the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Sarhu at the end of Wanli, the Ming army and the Donglu have been fighting for decades. They have suffered repeated defeats and countless casualties.
In such years of continuous failures, as long as more than a hundred true Tatar heads can be captured, it will definitely be a feat that can shock the government and the public.
What's more, the number of real Tatar heads that Gu Junen brought to the Ming army camp exceeded a hundred!
There was no telling how many braided slaves there were in the Jingguan built by the rebels in the distance. Chen Yongfu’s most optimistic estimate was that it must be at least more than a thousand.
This number, if the Ming army achieved such a record and reported it to the court, would be enough to make any military commander a marquis and any civil servant to sit in the position of commander-in-chief.
And not only were there heads, but the Chuang army also continued to throw a large number of Qing army flags, honor guards and ordnance in front of the formation.
If the heads of high-ranking officials can be forged by killing good people and taking credit for their merits, the possibility of forgery is basically non-existent. Chen Yongfu could tell at a glance from the scalps of those high-ranking officials that these people had definitely shaved their heads and had their hair braided for many years.
The practice of killing civilians and then shaving their heads.
These military flags and armor...
There is no possibility of counterfeiting!
What's more, in addition to a large number of Qing army armored vehicles, the Chuang army also threw a large number of Ming army armored vehicles and armored vehicles that had been captured by Tan Tai, Obai and others outside Mamuji.
At noon, the sun was rising to the middle of the sky over Mamuji, and beam after beam of sunlight shone on this land. The astonishing number of abandoned weapons were illuminated like sparkling lakes.
The cold light flickered, overlapping one after another, countless, so bright that Ming officers and soldiers could hardly open their eyes.
This is why the Ming army did not believe it.
Under the impact of such a "real-life" victory, Chen Yongfu was shocked and speechless. Not to mention that the Ming army's siege relief corps was finished in such a short time, Li Laiheng actually killed so many Donglu, and all of them were killed.
It’s true Tartar!
Gu Junen was arrogant, and Yuan Shizhong was filled with resentment. He couldn't see Gu Junen's arrogant look, so he actually pulled out the knife. Chen Yongfu was immediately frightened to death. He was afraid that Yuan Shizhong would not calm down and do something random to the intruders.
, immediately rushed over and snatched the waist knife from Yuan Shizhong's hand.
Chen De and Yuan Shitai were also startled. They didn't know what they meant, so they quickly pulled out their weapons. The remaining soldiers in Henan Town and Xiaoyuan Camp, seeing what the generals did, also quickly used their weapons.
, and they confronted each other.
All of a sudden, there was a flash of swords and swords in the camp, which startled Gu Junen. He was still wondering in his mind whether his posture was too arrogant?
Chen Yongfu shouted: "Surrender! We surrender! ... No, no, it's not surrender. It's according to the commander-in-chief's letter. We want to revolt in front of the formation!"