Songshan is not a mountain, but a fortress only twenty miles from Jinzhou City.∷∷,

The terrain of Songshan Fort is located in a low-lying area. It is twenty miles away from Jinzhou, separated by Rufeng Mountain in the middle, and Huangtu Ridge to the southeast. Both of these are important places, but they are both occupied by the Qing army besieged in Jinzhou.

After Wu Bengui led his Zhenning Army to Songshan Fort, he did not have a advantage in land.

However, twenty miles behind Songshan is Xingshan, and further back is Tashan, Bijia Mountain and Ningyuan, and there are many fortresses. In this narrow corridor of Liaoxi, the Qing army was not conducive to the attack of the cavalry unless it was attacked and seized by the city.

Now Jinzhou is surrounded, with nearly 30,000 Qing troops outside, and tens of thousands of Tartars in the east, led by Huang Taiji himself.

Wu Sangui had just obtained information from his uncle Zu Dashou in Jinzhou City. The food and grass in Jinzhou City could last for about a year, but the firewood was a bit insufficient. Zu Dashou knew that his nephew Wu Sangui had entered Songshan, so he specifically warned him not to easily attack the enemy outside Jinzhou, but to fight steadily and continue to waste time with the Tartars. Waiting for the Chu army in southern Liaoning to launch an offensive, the Qing army would naturally not be able to withstand the withdrawal of the siege.

But Wu Sangui didn't want to wait.

During this period, he sent teams of scouts to collect information, inquire about information, and look for opportunities to fight. Since Hubei obtained a large number of firearms, Wu Sangui has now increased his confidence and is eager to fight a war with the Tartars.

Wu Sangui selected the most elite cavalry from the troops in Ningyuan Town, with a team of 100 people, and divided into fifty teams. Each team had a cavalry officer, totaling fifty. He wrote the names of the fifty cavalry officers on fifty bamboo slips, put them in a brocade bag and tied them around his waist. When he encountered it, he pulled out a slate and called the cavalry officer on the cicada. The cavalry officer led the cavalry team and rushed out according to the order.

All of these five thousand cavalry were equipped with double armor, leather armor and cotton armor. Each cavalry was also equipped with two short cavalry guns, one flying dragon gun, one saber, one spear, and a pair of bows and arrows purchased from Hubei. During this period, this cavalry was practicing musket shooting every day and had already achieved initial results.

In order to get this batch of short guns, Wu Sangui paid a high price. He exchanged a cavalry gun for another war horse. The cavalry gun of five thousand people had to pay Liu Jun a 10,000 war horses. After seeing the power of the cavalry gun, Wu Sangui finally gritted his teeth and bought it.

In addition, Wu Sangui also drew 5,000 soldiers from the infantry and equipped them with flying dragon guns. A hundred people were used as a musket team and two hundred-step spear teams.

Many tiger squat cannons bought from Hubei were also equipped with large amounts of equipment among the infantry. Songshan Fort was equipped with mortar cannons, Flangers, Hongyi and other cannons.

After this period of training, Wu Sangui believed that he could fight the Qing army with these firearms. Isn’t it because Duke Chu could win a battle with these firearms? He could make achievements with this, but he could not do it as a military student?

Wu Sangui has been looking forward to a battle to prove himself.

These days, Wu Sangui has been planning how to lure the Qing army out to fight a war. After a long time of planning, he finally came up with a plan.

A few days ago, Wu Sangui's horse exploration discovered a group of Mongolian Dorot herders living in Wulitai between Songshan and Xingshan, with about 100 families, including about 500 or 600 people. They secretly made an appointment to surrender to the Qing army and asked the Qing army to come and respond to protect them from being intercepted by Songshan Ming army.

After discovering this, Wu Sangui did not immediately send troops to capture these Mongolians. He thought this was the opportunity he had to wait for, and now he finally waited.

"Secretly staring at these people. This is our bait. We will catch a few big fish this time." Wu Sangui said excitedly to the generals under his command.

"Report!"

"Report to the Lord of the General Town, the Tartars have been dispatched and they have taken the bait." Zhang Cheng, who was in charge of staring at the bait, hurriedly reported. "It's the big fish. Prince Zheng Jirhalang, Dorobele Dododo, Prince Adali of Doro County, and others personally led 3,000 cavalry to pick up the Mongolians."

"That's great." Wu Sangui slapped his palm on his thigh, stood up, walked to the map and looked at it carefully. "The Tartars are so arrogant that they don't take us seriously. But this is just right, as long as they dare to come. This time they will have to lose their skin if they don't die."

Wu Sangui was very excited when he heard the names of the three leading Tartars. These were the real big fish. There is one of Huang Taiji's four princes. Jirhalang is Prince Zheng and Huang Taiji's cousin. He has been raised by Nurhaci in the palace since he was a child and has a closest relationship with Huang Taiji.

Duoduo is Huang Taiji's brother, ranked tenth and is a brother of his mother and brother with Dorgon, one of the four princes. He was originally named Prince Yu, but after invading the pass last year, he was convicted and demoted from Prince to Dorobel.

As for Abali, he is the grandson of Daishan, Prince Li, one of the four great princes.

If these three people can be taken down, it would be a great contribution.

"I have visited many horses and watched these Tartars closely. I want to have a clear understanding of their movements. Remember not to alert the snake."

On September 17, in order to escape the Ming army's interception, the Qing soldiers stole Songshan City in the middle of the night. Before dawn the next day, they successfully arrived at Wulitai and then escorted the Mongolians to return quickly.

On the way back to Jinzhou Rufeng Mountain, Wu Sangui had been waiting for a long time.

As soon as the blue-white dawn appeared in the east, the faint full moon was still hanging in the sky to the west, and the soldiers and horses in Ningyuan Town had already set off on the battlefield in groups.

Wu Sangui, Dong Yongxian, Yu Shou, Zhang Jian and other Ningyuan Town generals and deputy generals were all covered with helmets and armor, covered with clothes, and rode up a raised earth slope, looking forward with a serious expression.

The war that had been waiting for for a long time finally came.

For this battle, Wu Sangui's elite troops were all out. In addition to the thousands of soldiers who stayed in Songshan Castle, Wu Sangui transferred 5,000 elite cavalry, 5,000 musket infantry and 10,000 ordinary infantry, and a total of 20,000 ambushed here.

The faint morning mist gradually dissipated, and the Ningyuan army's military formation also appeared in the dawn.

The figures of the three thousand Qing troops had already appeared in the Ming army's sight, and there were black crows in the wilderness two or three miles away.

So far, the Qing army has not discovered Ningyuan army.

Perhaps the Qing army had never thought that the Ming army would dare to go out of the city to intercept, and they did not expect that their traces would have been controlled by Ningyuan Army. Perhaps they thought that this place was an open area suitable for cavalry charges, and the Ming army did not dare to leave the city to intercept.

In short, now the three thousand cavalry of the Qing army are swaying back to Jinzhou.

Wu Sangui reached out and pulled out a bamboo slip from the tip of his waist.

"Carriage Team Official Wang Yi!"

"I am in a humble position!" A burly general wearing iron armor stepped forward.

"You take the headquarters to lure the enemy."

"Abide by the order!"

The Qing cavalry was good at rushing, killing, people leveraged horses to help others' power. This open land was very beneficial to the Qing army. But Wu Sangui did not plan to miss this opportunity. Although the Qing army was powerful in cavalry, the Ningyuan cavalry was also not weak, not to mention. This time he also equipped with a musket. This was not a three-eyed gun, but a short cavalry gun, one man and two, plus a long gun. This would definitely make the Tartars want to die.

What's more, he still has 15,000 infantry troops, of which 5,000 are equipped with new flying dragon guns.

The general Dong Yongxian came over on a dark horse and said to Wu Sangui, "This time, we will definitely become famous in the world." Dong Yongxian turned out to be a guerrilla general, the commander of Wu Sangui's servants. He was very brave in the war and commanded the Wu family's servants when he was in Wu Xiang.

In the morning light, a hundred cavalry led by Wang Yi suddenly appeared in the Qing army's vision.

In the eyes of the Qing army, the sudden appearance of this cavalry seemed to be the Ming army patrol cavalry team. They were also very surprised when they discovered the Qing army, and then turned around and ran away as expected.

"I still want to escape after I bumped into it?" Jirhalang laughed, "Wave the whip, "Kill them, don't let them go back to report the news!"

More than 200 cavalry began to be divided into the Qing cavalry and began to pursue.

The appearance of this small group of Ming cavalry not only did not make the Qing army more vigilant, but instead made them more relaxed. Looking at the Ming army just now, you know that the Ming army did not know their whereabouts at all.

Wang Yi just took his subordinates to escape on his horse. He did not fight back. More than 200 Qing cavalry chasing roared and kept riding and shooting behind him.

"Here you come!"

In the distance, Wu Sangui kept watching with a thousand-mile mirror. He was very satisfied when he saw that more than 200 riders were drawn out.

"Prepare. Let's eat these two hundred people first."

The chasing Qing army saw that they were getting closer and closer, but suddenly they found that the Ming army roared and began to turn around. At this time, the shouts of killing sounds were heard everywhere, and countless Ming cavalry suddenly emerged from behind the mounds in the morning mist on both sides.

Under the guidance of red flags, cavalry officers led one by one, cavalry teams emerged one by one.

Seeing the sacred, the Qing army was not panicked. Instead, they shouted more fiercely and pulled out their sabers to prepare for hedging.

Wu Sangui led his personal soldiers to charge forward. He only controlled the horse with his legs and held a short gun in both hands. The Qing army on the opposite side was getting closer and closer. Wu Sangui aimed at a Tartar holding a flag. When both sides approached about thirty steps, he raised his hand and shot the Tartars into the front door, and directly shot the Tartars off the horse.

The flag fell down and drowned in the herd of horses.

Both sides rushed closer to more than ten steps. At this time, a Tartar shot an arrow, hitting Wu Sangui's shoulder, but there were double armor on his body. The arrow was not even broken, but just shaking and piercing it.

Wu Sangui raised his hand, and the loaded short gun exploded with a bang, shooting a Tartar who had raised his sabre high and shot him down from his horse less than twenty steps away from him.

After two shots, Wu Sangui quickly inserted the gun back into the gun bag and took off the Daguan knife. Wu Sangui liked to use a big knife, but not a gun. He even liked to slash the enemy fiercely.

With a loud roar, Wu Sangui cut off a Tartar off his horse with a diagonal slash. Several other Tartars saw his gorgeous armor and knew that he must be a general, so they all waved their swords to cut, but the elite servants around him had already rushed over and shot them down with chopping and chopping.

Ningyuan's cavalry rushed past, Wu Sangui turned his horse's head, hung up a big knife, took out two more horse-preparing pistols from the saddle bag, and rushed up again.

In the distance, the Qing army brigade heard the constant sound of guns in front, and Duoduo and others couldn't help but change their faces.

"It's a brigade of Ming troops, hurry up, rush up and kill them all!"

The cavalry accelerated and galloped up.

But when they rushed to the battlefield, they found that the battle had ended.

In front of Jirgalang and others were corpses everywhere. None of them survived at this time. Jirgalang's face changed drastically, and the 200 cavalrymen were killed so quickly.

"hateful!"

At the other end of the battlefield, Wu Sangui had reorganized his team, his sword was still dripping blood, and his body was stained with blood in the battle robe.

"Hahaha, you can kill it happily. This cavalry gun is indeed a powerful weapon to kill the Tartars. The Duke of Chu is sincere and will not deceive me! Hahaha!" Wu Sangui laughed.

"Tartars, come on, let's fight happily today!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!