In the middle of the first month of the first year of Dashun Guangzhong, a light snowfall had just passed. In the past few days, the weather had become clear, and the air seemed to have been washed by water. Standing anywhere on the mountain and looking to the southwest, the Taihang Mountains were nakedly displayed in front of you.
Wang Fuchen held his arm and smiled bitterly. Wang Fuchen was originally the son of a servant of an official family. After joining the peasant army with his brother-in-law, he once lost six hundred taels of silver in one night because of his gambling nature.
For this money, Wang Fuchen killed his brother-in-law and fled. Later, he defected to Jiang Quan, who was the commander-in-chief of Datong at that time, and became the heir of Jiang Quan's general Wang Jinchao.
After going around and around, Wang Jinchao had followed Liu Qian and surrendered to the Qing court. However, Wang Fuchen was forced to stay in Taiyuan because he was with Jiang Yu at that time, and while drifting with the trend, he actually became a member of the Dashun Army.
A brave general who has made many military exploits.
The rocks in the Taihang Mountains are so rugged that Wang Fuchen could see the bone seams, texture, and even fine wrinkles between the stones.
In winter, there are no trees or grass on the mountain, only blue and gray stones, contrasting with the blue sky in the distance.
Because it had snowed just a few days ago, you can occasionally see patches of white in the valleys of the mountains. There is a temple further away, but it has long been abandoned due to the war. Looking at it from this distance,
You can see the thick dust covering the temple and the spider webs at the gate.
The soldiers followed Wang Fuchen to climb halfway up the mountain. About one-third of them fled to the old Jin army under Jiang Quan because of the hair-cutting order, and the other two-thirds were purely soldiers from the Dashun army.
"It's the Manchurian artillery unit!"
Some soldiers looked at the road below the mountains and whispered to Wang Fuchen.
Wang Fuchen's eyesight was very good, and he actually saw the Hongyi cannon escorted by the Eight Banners soldiers without being reminded. They had been engaged in low-intensity war confrontations with the Qing army near Taiyuan for several months, so the Shanxi Shun army had no control over the Qing army.
Han soldiers, Mongolian soldiers, and Manchu soldiers can already be distinguished by their appearance and temperament.
This group of officers and soldiers of the Dashun Army hid in the mountain col. They endured the cold and snow and waited for a long time, and finally waited for the movement of the Qing army.
The information came from the old troops instigated by Jiang Quan.
The commander-in-chief of the Qing army in Shanxi was Dutong Ye Chen, and his deputy commander-in-chief was Shanxi Admiral Liu Qian. Liu Qian not only replaced Jiang Yu as the commander-in-chief of Datong by surrendering to the city, but also because he actively shaved his head and obeyed the system, he won the title of
Due to Dorgon's appreciation, he was now promoted to admiral of Shanxi.
This, of course, made Jiang Quan feel jealous and jealous. From Jiang Dashuai's point of view, these things were what he should have received, but now they were unfortunately stolen by Liu Qian.
In order to retaliate against his old subordinates and new enemies, Jiang Quan became active in the Datong Army with redoubled energy. His greatest advantage in Shanxi was his amazing network of contacts, although many earthquakes had occurred in the Datong frontier army.
, but there are still a lot of old subordinates who are close to Jiang Yu and have been cared for and treated favorably by him.
Some of these people fled from Daibei and returned to Taiyuan when the order to shave their heads was just issued; others, after discussions between Jiang Quan and Chen Yongfu, as well as Dashun Shanxi Jiedushi Han Wenquan and Shanxi direct commander Li Ruoxing, decided to let these people go first.
Some officers lurked in the ranks of the Qing army to convey military information to the subordinate troops, and were not allowed to act rashly.
Wang Fuchen's action was because the Shun army obtained the information that the Eight Banners soldiers escorting cannons and gunpowder would pass through this dangerous valley. In order to gain military merit and sell himself well to the King of Jin, Jiang Yu sent one of his most capable men, General Wang Fuchen, to the front.
Go to assist attack.
When Wang Fuchen was still young, he was able to ruthlessly kill his brother-in-law and escape from the army. His ruthlessness and cunning were far superior to ordinary people, and Wang Fuchen was tall, strong, brave and decisive, and was in the Datong frontier army.
It is also one of the best.
He saw that the Manchu soldiers had almost passed through the valley, and when the cannon and gunpowder teams had gathered together, he asked the drummer behind him to issue military orders.
Woohoo——
The drummers of the Shun Army suddenly sounded the charge horn, and the gunmen who had been prepared long ago fired with the bird cannons set up on the rocks and snow. The remaining infantry of the Shun Army set the ten thousand enemies on fire and unleashed their power.
With his arm strength, he threw the burning explosive.
Boom!
After a thunderous noise, the snowflakes on the mountain rocks trembled. Pieces of light white snowflakes fell one after another from the ridge. Wang Fuchen ignored the snow on his shoulders.
He suddenly stood up, and because he was so tall, he even blocked the sight of most soldiers in the back row.
The soldiers of the Shun Army all looked at Wang Fuchen's back. He grabbed the sword with one hand and raised the card with the other. He jumped out like a flying swallow, and then shouted:
"Kill the Tartars!"
Following the other soldiers, they also rushed out. Amidst the crackling and rumbling sounds of guns, the soldiers shouted together: "Kill the Tatars!"
The landing point of some of the 10,000-person enemy missiles was quite right, hitting the gunpowder escorted by the Manchurian soldiers. The flames of the blast ignited the large amount of gunpowder, immediately causing a larger explosion.
Wang Fuchen was pleasantly surprised. He did not stop and rushed forward quickly. He waved his saber and fought fiercely with the Manchurian soldiers on foot.
But to Wang Fuchen's surprise, he originally thought that the Eight Banners Army would immediately fall into chaos and become a lamb to be slaughtered after being ambushed in such a sudden way. However, in fact, these Manchus behaved unusually calmly.
The Manchu soldiers did not care about the gunpowder, but gathered around the Hongyi artillery and formed a formation to resist. Raindrop-like arrows shot out, and the dense and fierce arrow rain blocked the pace of the Shun army soldiers. Even Wang Fuchen's
Both arms were shot by arrows.
Wang Fuchen was surprised: "The Manchu soldiers are deceitful!"
Only then did he realize that the scale of the explosion caused by tens of thousands of enemies falling into the gunpowder pile simply could not match the amount of flames. After the smoke and dust from the explosion dispersed, Wang Fuchen discovered that the carts of gunpowder were actually
Most of it is just sand.
This fact immediately scared Wang Fuchen out of cold sweat, and then the neighing of war horses came from the outside of the valley, as well as the sound of more Qing cavalry blowing their horns.
After Wang Fuchen used his strength to hold the sword of the Manchu soldier in front of him, he pushed the enemy away with his hand, pushed him into the queue of the Dashun army, and cursed:
"The Manchurian soldiers were deceitful, and we were fooled!"
The fact that they were fooled was not only that the gunpowder was dropped, but also that the Manchu soldiers apparently hid another group of rear cavalry. It seems that the Qing army's approach was to march separately from the front and rear groups, and use the front group to lure the shun army into an ambush.
The troops appeared, and then the cavalry from behind rushed up to attack.
Wang Fuchen immediately felt extremely disappointed with Jiang Yu's so-called undercover spies. Marshal Jiang had already been tricked once by his old subordinate Liu Qian, was he going to be tricked a second time today?
What a fool. Wang Fuchen cursed in his heart, wouldn't he be killed by this fool Jiang Yu?
The Manchu soldiers brandished their swords and slapped their horses and rushed forward in formation. Wang Fuchen showed a particularly ferocious look on his face. He clenched his sword and made all the soldiers squat down:
"Hurry up and fire the gun, you guys, hurry up and fire the gun -"
The soldiers in the rear row had already loaded their ammunition in a very short time. After the crackling sound of volleys of guns, the Manchurian cavalry's offensive was immediately blocked and the speed slowed down.
"Let's go, let's kill them."
Wang Fuchen knew that all the ambush troops had been thrown out, and if he wanted to withdraw again, it would be impossible without defeating the enemy.
If you were tricked, you were tricked. Now you have to fight to the death to let these Manchu soldiers know how powerful you are.
"Kill him!"
The advocates continued to blow the charging horn, and the Shunjun's death-foreboding trumpet had left a particularly deep impression on the Manchu people.
Amid these sharp roars, the ambush troops, who were almost all infantry, showed no fear of the impact of the Eight Banners cavalry. They faced the difficulties and immediately launched a counterattack with their swords and sabers in their hands.
The battlefield was soon covered with blood and the corpses of both sides. After the Qing army suffered several losses from Jiang Yu, they had already identified the traitors in the army. Moreover, Jiang Yu's old subordinates who were capricious and at both ends of the spectrum were also really
Not to mention how loyal he is.
Ye Chen used a few tricks to successfully trick Wang Fuchen into this anti-siege network.
What surprised the Eight Banners soldiers was that the tenacity of the Shun army infantry and Wang Fuchen's personal bravery could not be compared with the general Ming army.
An Eight Banners vest who had just been transferred from near Beijing looked at the soldiers of the Dashun Army who had formed formations to desperately resist the attack of the Eight Banners cavalry, and were still sending small teams of saber-slayers to counterattack, and said in surprise:
"The bandits are actually more tenacious than the Ming army? How could this be?"
There was a Manchurian cavalryman who had fought against the Shun army many times. He charged and fired arrows while cursing:
"Where do you come from? Is this your first time fighting against a bandit? The bandits on the Baigou River are even more powerful than this!"