The soldiers on the border all returned in spring and went to Shan Yutai alone.
The sun rises from the earth during the day, and the Yellow River comes from outside the sky.
The sand turned like waves, and the strong wind sounded like thunder.
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This is written by Zhang Wei, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, who traveled outside the Great Wall in his early years to observe the Yellow River and the Yin Mountains. The sun is rising up from the Hetao grassland, and the Yellow River is flying from the sky. The desert, the Yellow River, the Yin Mountains and the grasslands are vast and vast, which is extremely magnificent.
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The wind blows away cattle and sheep, and in summer and autumn, patches of grassy grass continue to stretch out in the yellow desert, with fat cattle and sheep in groups, horses and camels galloping endlessly. As long as a breeze blows, nearby
The grass waves are turbulent, the wind and sand in the distance sweep like dragons, and the blue sky covers the entire Hetao like a huge dome felt tent.
The brothers Gong Adai and Xihan were both nephews of Nurhachi, and they were originally regarded as Huang Taiji's direct descendants. However, after Huang Taiji's death, in the camps of Dorgon and Hauge, the Gong Adai brothers betrayed the oath of setting the yellow flag and threw themselves into the army.
Under Dorgon's command.
In July, the green grass and yellow sand are mixed in the Hetao. The Mongolian soldiers from the outer vassal, who are familiar with the grassland roads, are fighting against the wind and sand in front to clear the way. Above the desert and grassland, there are groups of Manchu and Mongolian cavalry that look like wolves and tigers.
Behind the horse team is a long camel team. Camels can help the Qing army transport supplies, and camels can also help the Qing army fight at critical moments.
This was a partial division of the Qing army. After leaving Pianguan, they passed through the sparsely populated Qiantao wasteland with crisscrossed deserts, passed through Tumut and Ordos, approached the border wall, and galloped towards Ningxia under the starry night.
In addition to the Gong Adai brothers, Wu Sangui's trusted lieutenant Yang Kun also led a force to follow the Qing army. This is because Dorgon considered that Ningxia Jiedushi Chen Zhilong raised troops to respond and thought it was necessary to have a Han army in the partial division.
General, so as to appease Chen Zhilong.
In Xi'an, the conspiracy of Yang Chengzu and Ji Gui had long been opposed by Dorgon. However, the rebellion in Ningxia came out of the blue for the Qing army. Therefore, even Dorgon felt that he was ill-prepared and responded hastily.
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After receiving Chen Zhilong's secret letter asking for help, King Rui immediately discussed with King Wu Sangui of Yi to send a partial division mainly composed of Mongolian soldiers from outside the vassal vassal to go around the outside of the Great Wall, bypassing the Yansui area where the Dashun Army was heavily fortified, and advance from Hetao into Ningxia.
, after joining the Ningxia rebels led by Chen Zhilong, they then launched a three-sided pincer attack on Yansui with the Xi'an rebels.
In order to seize the fighting opportunity, Gong Adai did not take off his armor, never left his saddle, and led a partial army. Regardless of the fact that a large number of horses died of exhaustion and illness, he rushed forward quickly and immediately achieved amazing results.
Originally, in the Ming Dynasty, a large number of forts were set up in Ningxia and Yulin. But now these border wall defenders have either been deployed by Yuan Zongdi to defend Yan'an, or they have rebelled with Chen Zhilong. Most of the border forts have
Forts have lost the border defense function they once had.
Wherever the Gong Adai brothers and Yang Kun went, only a few Taibao defenders carried out a meaningless death struggle and briefly struggled with the Qing army. In more cases, when the Qing army arrived, the dangerous Taibao garrison was destroyed.
The fort had long been deserted, leaving the barbarians outside the fortress to trample on it as they pleased.
As a member of the Guan Ning Army, Yang Kun also came from a family of generals in the Nine-Border Frontier Army. Seeing this scene, he could only see the things and miss the people. He was saddened by it and sighed:
"The intruders transferred the Taibao garrison to fight the civil war, causing the nine borders to be undefended. The 200-year-old border wall of the Ming Dynasty turned into nothing. Li Chuang will be infamy for this."
Gong Adai's younger brother Xihan said maliciously:
"From now on, your country and our Qing Dynasty will be brothers. Since we are one family inside and outside the Great Wall, why are we talking about nine-border border defense? Mr. Yang, our court is here to exterminate bandits for your country and avenge the vengeance of your father. You can
Don’t forget this.”
Yang Kun was so embarrassed by Xihan that he couldn't say anything anymore, so he could only walk forward in embarrassment. After the two brothers Gong Adai and Xihan looked at each other, they all laughed, and the rest of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers also showed their faces.
The joking smile made those Guan Ning soldiers feel extremely ashamed and angry.
Gong Adai was full of confidence. He was a warrior who grew up on horseback. After running for such a long time, he did not show a trace of fatigue. Instead, he felt that his energy and fighting spirit were even more boiling and exuberant.
"King Rui's clever plan, the strange soldiers detoured around the river, how could the intruders expect to be stabbed in the back?"
Seeing that the Ningxia area was already in sight, Xihan immediately took charge of the vanguard and led a powerful forward force of light cavalry to sweep towards the important town of the Yellow River. Because Gong Adai estimated that Chen Zhilong should still be in Ningxia waiting for Qing reinforcements to arrive, so in order to facilitate recruitment and communication
, he asked Yang Kun to lead troops and serve as the vanguard along with Xihan, rushing to Ningxia as soon as possible to prevent the Shun army from mobilizing troops to seize the city.
The Qing army opened the way with more than a thousand Mongolian soldiers from foreign vassals, and Xihan and Yang Kun each led more than a thousand Eight Banners soldiers and Guanning soldiers to follow up. They entered Ningxia along the Dusitu River, guarding the rear border guards.
Zhenyuanguan, Weizhenbao, Yaofubao, Ligangbao and other places were not guarded by Taibao soldiers. Seeing this, Xihan stopped setting up defenses and went straight to the gates of Ningxia City.
But neither he nor Yang Kun expected that after the Qing army quickly arrived in Ningxia, they encountered not Chen Zhilong who came to greet them, but the banner of the Dashun Army——
On the heavily guarded Ningxia City, Dashun's military flags were continuously fluttering. The soldiers guarded the battlements, arrayed their guns and cannons, and waited calmly. The Qing army had just arrived at the city. They were unprepared at first and were immediately fiercely attacked by the Shun army defenders.
Counterattacks, bullets, arrows, logs, and falling rocks all rained down like rain. Wang Yongqiang and Sun Shoufa also stood at the top of the city to boost morale and called on the soldiers of the obedient army to hold on to Ningxia City.
Li Maoheng carefully looked at the Qing army through the gun holes on the battlements, and said with lingering fear:
"What we encountered today was truly the most critical battle situation in the world. We had just pacified Ningxia in the morning, and the Qing army's forward troops had already arrived before dusk. If we had been a little later, the Qing army would have entered the city ahead of us.
Then if we want to kill Chen Zhilong and regain Ningxia, it will be extremely difficult."
Destiny favored Dashun, but Wang Yongqiang and Sun Shoufa did not dare to take it lightly. Only when the Qing army first arrived at Ningxia City, they were killed by the defenders because of their arrogance and unpreparedness. When Xihan and Yang Kun reacted, they
He commanded the Qing army to set up camp outside Ningxia City, waiting for Gong Adai to arrive with a large group of camels, preparing to forcibly attack the city.
Wang Yongqiang's younger brother Wang Yongzhen watched the Qing troops coming and going in the city and quickly built up the power of the military camp, and said worriedly:
"It seems that there are four to five thousand Tatar soldiers, and there may be more troops to follow. The eldest brother and General Sun brought only a thousand troops. Although they recruited and recruited many fleeing rebels along the way, there are only five troops now.
Once all the six thousand Tatars and horses are here, defending the city will not be that simple."
Sun Shoufa looked at the Donglu troops in the distance and said contemptuously:
"The Tatars are not yet firmly established. Let me lead the 500 horsemen to rob the camp first!"
Wang Yongqiang dissuaded: "The Tatar soldiers are extraordinary and can be compared with rebels. If General Sun is trapped in the enemy's formation, it will be really detrimental to the morale of our army."
The Qing troops were galloping under the city, and it was becoming an encirclement. Sun Shoufa was very courageous. He had already experienced the victory of Longzhou and the second city of Ningxia. He was so confident that he did not take the Eight Banners soldiers into consideration and did not listen at all.
According to Wang Yongqiang's advice, hundreds of horsemen will go out of the city to fight against the enemy and show off their power by killing the enemy.
But whether it is the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers or the Guanning soldiers, the number of sharp soldiers and warriors among them is no less than that of the first-class soldiers of the Qin army. Moreover, their military morale is stable, and their morale and fighting spirit are quite high. They cannot be defeated as easily as Sun Shoufa did before.
compared to the rebels.
As soon as these hundreds of cavalry troops left the city and were about to attack the Qing army's camp, Xihan immediately organized the gunners to arrange their guns and artillery, formed a formation, and fired overlapping shots.
Before Sun Shoufa could rush far, his horse was wounded by a stray bullet. Wang Yongqiang was shocked when he saw this on the city. He quickly waved his flag and asked for money to withdraw his troops. The defenders at the top of the city also fired hard to stop the Eight Banners soldiers' offensive.
Wang Yongzhen opened the city gate and guarded the city gate with more than a thousand infantry, waiting for Sun Shoufa to return to the city.
"The Tatar soldiers are much more powerful than the rebels! Should Sun Beard know how to restrain himself now?"