Chapter 123: The Iron Horse Collects Xingqing House
Longzhou City was built in the Han Dynasty and was called Shibaozhai. Longzhou Fort was built in the Ming Dynasty and was one of the six fortresses in Jingbian. The rest of the Dong family defended the city and relied on the dangerous fortifications, which almost left Wang Yongzhen helpless.
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At this time, the rebels at the top of the city also saw the troops rushing towards them from the east. Some people were panicked, fearing that they were new reinforcements from the Shun army. But soon the rebel generals showed signs of surprise.
They clearly saw a bearded iron whip knight under a towering military flag.
"Sun Shoufa!"
Sun Shoufa waved his iron whip angrily and led hundreds of heavily armed knights on iron horses to rush into Wang Yongzhen's siege army from the side. Sun Huzi was very famous among the Qin army. Who doesn't know that he captured Deng Dengzi and Bu Zhan Mu back then?
, the feat of capturing Gao Yingxiang alive? Wherever he went, it was like the scorching sun melting snow, and no one could resist it.
The besieging army of Wang Yongzhen had already suffered a lot of setbacks due to the failure of the siege, and the morale of the army was low. At this time, they were attacked by the fierce general Sun Shoufa, and the flanks of the besieging army collapsed instantly. Wang Yongzhen himself actually took the lead in escaping.
If what goes up and what follows works, no one can stop Sun Shoufa.
He directly killed through the entire front line, led his troops to the foot of Longzhou City, and shouted to the defenders on the city:
"I'm going to kill the lamp with my own hands without getting stuck in the mud, and capture Gao Yingxiang's Iron Whip Sun Shufa alive. I'm here to help you kill the thieves and restore the country!"
The other knights who followed Sun Shoufa to break away from the besieging army also shouted in unison:
"Follow General Sun to kill the thieves and restore the country, and revive the country and the country of Ming Dynasty!"
When the rebels in Longzhou City heard what had happened, they were all overjoyed. They all knew that Sun Shoufa had a great reputation for bravery, and that he had a sworn feud with the intruders, so they immediately lowered the hanging door to welcome Sun Shoufa.
Enter the city.
Sun Shoufa was holding a heavy iron whip in both hands. He asked the other knights to enter the city first, and one person stood in front of the portcullis to intimidate the enemies. In the distance, Wang Yongzhen and other troops saw Sun Shoufa standing alone in front of the city gate.
No soldier dared to step forward to fight with him, and the whole army's spirit was captured by Sun Shoufa alone.
After all the more than a hundred knights entered the city, Sun Shoufa stared coldly, stepped back step by step, and slowly retreated into Longzhou City.
"General Sun is truly a heavenly man!"
The rebel generals were extremely excited when they saw Sun Shoufa break through the siege with hundreds of horses and rush into the city, and another person guarding the city gate. No brave general in the enemy army dared to step forward to fight.
Almost all of Dong Xueli's close confidants and family officers rushed down from the city wall and surrounded Sun Shoufa. Everyone wanted to see with their own eyes how majestic and heroic this famous Qin Army general was.
Sun Shoufa looked around and saw that most of the generals and officers had arrived, so he raised two iron whips high and laughed at the hundred knights:
"Kill the traitor!"
"Um?"
Most of the rebel generals had no idea what they meant. It wasn't until they saw Sun Shoufa's left and right arms falling down at the same time, and his heavy iron whip instantly killing two officers, that they were horrified and realized who the so-called "rebel" was.
The cavalrymen who followed Sun Shoufa into the city also laughed loudly and said: "Follow the general and kill the rebels!" Li Maoheng, who was riding on a brown horse, took the lead in throwing out the horse's spear and accurately killed the rebel general in front of him.
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"Ah - it's a spy!"
Before the rebels could react, Sun Shoufa had already led more than a hundred cavalry in a killing spree in the city. Although their number was far less than that of the rebels, they were better in that they were fully armed and caught the enemy by surprise.
Dozens of cavalry flew forward. Li Maoheng took the lead and cut down the hanging door with a sword, while the others guarded the road to the city gate to prevent the rebel troops from blocking it.
When Wang Yongzhen outside the city saw the hanging gate falling, he said to his eldest brother Wang Yongqiang, who had just rode into the army alone and revealed to him the strategy of joining the army and defeating the enemy:
"The title of Marquis was awarded to Sun Huzi."
Wang Yongqiang smiled and said: "This is just a small achievement. When we regain Ningxia in the future, Chen Zhilong's head should be the foundation for my brother's career in Dashun."
Wang Yongzhen said curiously: "Once Chen Zhilong reacts, let alone regaining Ningxia, by then the rebels and the Donglu will be united, and we may not be able to stand firm in Yansui."
"Let's defeat the enemy first, don't miss Sun Shoufa's opportunity to attack."
Although Longzhou City is an important fortress in Jingbian, it is small after all. Dozens of people guarding the city gate can already support it for a period of time. The besieging army outside the city seized the opportunity and quickly rushed into the city, and the situation became one-sided.
, the rebels had no way to escape, were attacked from both inside and outside, and collapsed.
Brothers Wang Yongqiang and Wang Yongzhen also brought their own soldiers into the city. When they saw Sun Shoufa covered in blood and immediately riding among the corpses of the enemy, they were also frightened and sighed that this man was truly the best general in the Qin army.
Sun Shoufa had ordered the clever Li Maoheng to collect the remaining soldiers in the city, while he waited for the Wang Yongqiang brothers to enter the city before answering them:
"I'll leave the rest of the task of wiping out the remaining enemies to you two."
Wang Yongzhen was in a complicated mood, but his elder brother Wang Yongqiang was generous and said: "Ningxia is still rebelling, and Yansui's rear is very uneasy. We have just put down Dong Xueli's rebel army, and Chen Zhilong has not yet been crowned, so we must seize the opportunity to fight."
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Sun Shoufa hummed: "Yansui's troops are tight, and Marshal Yuan only asked the two of us to bring more than a thousand weak troops to help. It is already good that such a force can completely wipe out Dong Xueli. Ningxia is an important town along the border. Even if Dong Xueli's remnant troops are recruited, I think
We have to wait for Marshal Yuan to free up his hands before we can find a solution."
Wang Yongqiang said confidently: "Marshal Yuan has given me the strategy, and it will be an easy task to pacify Ningxia."
Sun Shoufa didn't believe it: "Chen Zhilong came from a military background, and he is by no means a civil servant who doesn't know how to fight. You are simply underestimating the enemy!"
"Hahaha."
Wang Yongqiang laughed several times. Although Ningxia is an important border town, after the fall of Dong Xueli, the mobile strength of the rebels under Chen Zhilong was very limited. Most of the Ningxia defenders were dozens or hundreds of people scattered in countless border forts.
, even if Chen Zhilong learned that Dong Xueli had been killed by the Shun army, he had no time to pass on the new military information to every fort.
What's more, the news from Ningxia may not be so well-informed.
Wang Yongqiang's method was to continue to return to Ningxia under the banner of Dong Xueli. Along the way, he claimed that the Shun army had mobilized a large army to counterattack. Every time he passed a fort, he would recruit the garrison of the fort to join the expedition in this name, and disperse the light cavalry to control the post horses along the way.
No important piece of military information could be allowed to be sent back to Ningxia before Shunjun.
In addition, in order to paralyze Chen Zhilong in Ningxia, Wang Yongqiang also asked Wang Yongzhen to write a large number of forged military intelligence documents in the name of Dong Xueli. In the documents, they boasted how smoothly Dong's advance had gone, and had joined forces with the Qing army to attack
Below Yulin City.
After these documents were sent to Ningxia, Chen Zhilong naturally believed that the Shun army would never be able to fight back to Ningxia. He thought he had a plan and spent every day in Ningxia drinking wine, writing poems with officials and gentlemen, and talking about reviving the Ming Dynasty.
The biggest obstacle for the Shun army along the way was the danger of the road. They did not encounter any resistance worth mentioning at all. All the forts on the march route were solved by Wang Yongqiang without blood.
After the Shun army arrived at Huamachi, Sun Shoufa and Li Maoheng, a young general who had performed well along the way, selected 300 Qingqi and headed westward overnight, pretending to be rebels retreating from Yanbian Taibao to Ningxia, and easily deceived the city defense.
Chen Zhilong and the officials, gentry and traitors of Ningxia were still drinking and drinking each other, intoxicated in the dream of uniting the Qing Dynasty and Xingming Dynasty. Someone reported that the Shun army had entered Ningxia territory, but Chen Zhilong was beheaded in public in the name of deceiving the public with his evil words.
In the blink of an eye, Sun Shoufa and Li Maoheng once again performed the same tricks they had done in Longzhou City. After entering Ningxia City, they quickly controlled the city gate, climbed up the city wall, raised the banner of the Shun Army high on the city tower, and shouted "Great victory!"
Follow the troops and kill the rebels."
Li Maoheng led the gunmen to the city wall and fired randomly. There was chaos in the city, people were boiling, and the officials, gentlemen and officials didn't know where they were. Sun Shoufa led a small group of elite cavalry alone and rushed straight to the Yamen of the Jiedu Envoy. Chen Zhilong
Because he was deceived by the military information documents sent by Wang Yongqiang, he was highly optimistic and confident, and had almost no effective troops in the city. He had to hurriedly summon a group of servants to resist, but Sun Shoufa easily trampled them away with a random horse.
Unwilling to accept defeat, Chen Zhilong took off his official robe and tried to escape among the common people. However, he was the military supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, and Sun Shoufa recognized his appearance.
Sun Shoufa saw Chen Zhilong wearing a rag from a distance, and he smiled and said, "Where are you going, Commander Chen?"
Chen Zhilong also knew Sun Shoufa. When he saw that he was caught by Sun Shoufa, he could only say awkwardly: "Dong Ni is holding a town in Ningxia hostage, and I am preparing to mobilize troops to quell the rebellion."
"Then I'll mess with your head too!"
Sun Shoufa swung the iron whip out with one hand and hit Chen Zhilong on the forehead. With one whip, he killed this spineless traitor on the spot.