: It’s all caused by traitors

The next day, it was dawn, and the endless sound of oxen horns sounded from the northwest of Taizhuang. Before the dawn in the wilderness had dissipated, the dark Tartar cavalry had already emerged like a ghost.

In the Mongolian cavalry formation.

Prince Khalkha, Prince Chahar, Prince Tushetu and other Mongolian princes gathered together on horseback. Unlike the Korqin tribe, these tribes have not had a good life, especially the Chahar tribes were suppressed by Jiannu, because the Chahar tribe is a direct descendant of Lin Dankhan and a direct golden tribe on the grassland.

The various tribes of Chahar surrendered to Jiannu were completely forced by circumstances, not willing to do so. However, Jiannu had already conquered the grasslands, and the powerful Korqin tribe was the minions of Jiannu. The various tribes of Chahar had to surrender to act as the front pawns of Jiannu's attack on the Ming Dynasty under the power of Jiannu.

Prince Chahar pointed the horse whip in his hand and said to the other Mongolian princes: "Everyone, there is Taizhuang in front. The horses are exploring the horses to report that the Nanming barbarians had gathered about 30,000. Dorgon sent people to say that the Nanming barbarians' musket team had already rushed to Jining. The only thing left here is the baggage team, oh, there is also an artillery team. What do you think about this?"

Prince Khalkha said: "Who knows whether what Dorgon said is true or false?"

Prince Tuxetu said: "Is it true or false to send a team of cavalry to test it out?"

Prince Chahar said: "Tuxituhan, do you really plan to fight with the barbarians of the Southern Ming Dynasty here?"

"Can you do not fight?" Prince Tu Xietu said angrily, "If you retreat without fighting, Dorgon will not spare us."

"Tuzetukhan is right." Prince Khalkha said, "Since Dorgon has ordered, we can fight this battle, and we have to fight if we don't want to fight. This way, the Chahar tribe has few troops. Let our Khalkha warriors take the lead this time. If our Khalkha tribe suffers a defeat, we will change to the Tuzetu tribe, and finally it will be the Chahar tribe's turn. What do you think?"

Prince Tuxetu said: "Okay, that's it."

A hint of laughter flashed across Prince Chahar's mouth and nodded calmly.

Prince Khalkha turned his horse back and shouted loudly: "Brother Yelibu, Alatai!"

Two Mongolian Qianhu Chiefs marched forward and replied loudly: "The last one will be here."

Prince Khalkha raised his horse whip, pointed at the Taizhuang in the morning light in front of him, and shouted: "Lead the cavalry of our troops and immediately attack the town in front. Remember, after entering the town, kill all people and animals!"

"twitter!"

The two Khalkha thousand household chiefs responded to their promises, and returned to the cavalry formation of their own, and said loudly: "The heaven of immortality is above, the great war god Genghis Khan is above, the warriors of the Khalkha tribe, use the scimitar in your hands to cut off the heads of the Southern Ming barbarians in front of you, and use the blood of these untouchables to dye your robes red, kill..."

"Kill kill..."

More than two thousand Tartar cavalry followed and shouted wildly.

You should not turn your horse's head with Altai, hold up your scimitar and lead it forward. The Taurus cavalry swept towards Taizhuang, which was bathed in the morning light in front of you.

Taizhuang, the Central Army station.

The three thousand soldiers from the newly formed 10th Battalion of the Central Army have already arrived behind the chariot formation and are ready for battle. The newly formed 10th Battalion originally had 5,000 musketeers, of which 2,000 had been drawn into Tang Sheng's Mixed Battalion, transported by Shi Lang's navy, and sneaked into Beijing from the waterway, so there were only 3,000 musketeers left in the 10th Battalion.

Although the soldiers of the newly formed 10th Battalion were all new recruits, the officers above the squadron leader had just graduated from Nanjing Army Officers University. These officers not only experienced many battles but also received excellent military academy education. In terms of officer level, the 10th Battalion was far above the first, second and third battalions.

Up to now, the Central Army has equipped a total of four musket battalions, of which the second musket battalion followed Zhao Xin in Wuchang, and the other three musket battalions were all in Taizhuang. However, the first musket battalion had only three thousand muskets, and the other two thousand men were stationed in Jining, forming a scarfaced mixed battalion with three thousand spearmen. Therefore, the musket team in Taizhuang actually had only two battalions and another whistle.

But even if there are only 11,000 musketeers, they are more than enough to deal with Khalkha, Tushetu, and Chahar's three coalition forces. After all, the Tartar cavalry is victorious in mobility and cavalry. If you really want to set up a position to fight, the threat of the Tartar cavalry is not even as powerful as that of the light infantry.

In the wilderness ahead, thousands of Tartar cavalry swept over like wind and clouds.

On the open plain, the charge scenes of the Tartar cavalry are still not shocking, especially those new recruits who have never been to the battlefield. When they see that scene, their calves will tremble when they see it. However, for veterans of the Central Army, such scenes are already commonplace.

I remember when I was in Yanyehai, the two hundred cavalry of the Central Army dared to hedge against the two thousand cavalry of Korqin. How powerful was it? How heroic? Also, when in Sanbulachuan, less than three thousand cavalry of the Vankorqin cavalry, they killed three in and three out of the Vankorqin cavalry. When did the veterans of the Central Army take these Tartar cavalry seriously?

However, at that time they were not the Central Army, but the border troops of Datong Town.

The sound of hooves rumbled, and the Mongolian cavalry seemed to be coming in full force, but in fact they were not moving fast, but just ordinary marching speed. Although the endurance of Mongolian horses was good, the Mongolian cavalry would not charge easily before entering the attack distance. After all, the time for war horses to maintain a fast sprint is very limited.

Amid the sound of horse hooves like tides, the Tartar cavalry finally entered a sprint distance of about two thousand steps.

The scimitar raised by Aletai and Yelibuge who were riding in the front led forward and pulled forward with force. More than 2,000 cavalry cavalry behind him began to accelerate. After a while, more than 2,000 cavalry cavalry had accelerated to extreme speed, rushing towards Taizhuang like lightning, and rushing towards the Central Army's defensive formation.

Wang Pu stood at the forefront of the shooting queue with a monocular lens in his hand.

Kou Baimen, wearing military uniforms, Nenniang and Lu Liu were closely guarding Wang Pu's side. The officers from the 10th Battalion of the Central Army also looked at Wang Pu, quietly waiting for Wang Pu's military order.

The horses were crowded with iron hooves, and the Tatar cavalry were approaching at an astonishing speed.

Although the Tatar cavalry had discovered three ravines outside the village and the formation of chariots in front of the Central Army, they had no intention of stopping, because the Tatar cavalry was not the Iron Cavalry of Jiannu, they did not need to attack from the front. They just needed to pass by the Central Army and then shoot and kill the enemy with their cavalry.

Wang Pu's eyes stared at the team of Tartar cavalry through the monocular telescope for a moment. This was just a small team of Tartar cavalry, no more than three thousand cavalry at most. Just a few Tartar cavalry did not need artillery fire support from the artillery battalion. The firepower of the tenth battalion alone was enough to defeat them!

"Send the order, prepare for the tenth battalion!"

Wang Pu finally gave the order, and officers at all levels who had long been staring at him gave orders. A thousand soldiers from the 10th battalion stepped forward and stood behind the semi-circular chariot formation. A thousand muskets were raised in one after another, and the black muzzles had already pointed at the Tartar cavalry sweeping in front.

"Boom boom boom..."

When the Tartar cavalry were still a hundred steps away from the circular formation, the Central Army of the Ming Dynasty opened fire first.

The 100-step distance has entered the effective range of the Central Army muskets, while the effective range of the Tartar bows and arrows is only eighty steps. At this distance, the Tartar cavalry can only be beaten but not fight back. What's more, the Tartar cavalry had no idea that there were still musket teams left in the Ming army's baggage team, and they were simply lacking in mental preparation.

A dazzling red light flashed, followed by a violent gunfire. The Tartar cavalry that was advancing forward was caught off guard, like cut weeds, falling down one after another. In front of the two armies, people were suddenly overturned. Under the intensive shooting of a thousand muskets, at least three hundred Tartar cavalry fell into a pool of blood.

The cavalry formation of the Tatar cavalry began to riot in an instant, but under the influence of inertia, it was still approaching the Ming army's circular chariot formation. Another row of dense bullets came, and more Tatar cavalry fell in pools of blood. After paying the cost of seven or eight hundred cavalry casualties, the formation of the Tatar cavalry was completely ruined. The panicked Tatars even forgot to lay arrows at the Ming army and rode their horses in panic...

While escaping, hundreds of cavalry and Tartar soldiers were killed. In the end, less than 800 cavalry of more than 2,000 cavalrymen who attacked fled back to their own formation.

In the Mongolian formation.

When Prince Khalkha was first shocked, he said furiously: "Dorgon lied to us! The musket team of the Central Army of the Ming Dynasty did not rush to Jining. It was clearly still here. When the concentration of the gunshots was heard, there were at least tens of thousands of people!"

Prince Chahar curled his lips and sneered: "I have said a long time ago that Dorgon's words are not trustworthy."

"Fuck," Prince Khalkha cursed, "We all let Dorgon play tricks on him, what should we do now?"

Prince Tushetu and Prince Khalkha turned their attention to Prince Chahar at the same time. Although the status of Prince Chahar is the lowest among the three, Prince Chahar is the highest among the three, and Ezhe is the highest among the three, and Ezhe is also the eldest son of Lin Dankhan, the last Great Khan of the Great Mongol Empire.

Prince Chahar Ezhe said: "Dorgon's intention to destroy our Mongolians is not dead, so his words are not trustworthy, but the Jianzhou Jurchen is far stronger than our Mongolians, and there are four Korqin tribes who are afraid of it. We must not confront it head-on at present, so we must obey Dorgon's military orders."

"Hey." Tushetuhan said, "After all, are you going to fight against Taizhuang?"

"Otherwise." Prince Chahar Ezhe said, "The prerequisite for Dorgon to intercept the Ming army's food, grass and supplies is that the Ming army was trapped and the main force of the musket team rushed to Jining. But now that the Ming army has not been trapped, we do not have to follow Dorgon's military orders completely. Therefore, we can completely surround Taizhuang."

"oh?"

"Siege Taizhuang?"

Prince Tushetu exchanged glances with Prince Khalkha and asked in a low voice, "Is this OK?"

"This is the best result." Ezhe Ning said, "If I guessed it wrong, this result is what Dorgon wanted. After all, as long as the Ming army can be divided and surrounded by Taizhuang and Jining, and not allowed the two Ming army to merge into one, it will be much easier to deal with them."

Prince Tu Xietu said: "The Ming army has a navy. What should they do if they fled to Jining by water?"

Ezhe said coldly: "That's Dorgon's business, not ours."

Prince Khalkha said: "What if the Ming army forcibly breaks through land and goes north?"

Ezhe said: "From Taizhuang to Jining, there are more than a dozen rivers along the way. Although these rivers are not wide, they are enough to stop the Ming army from heading north. We only need to burn down the bridges built on these rivers to prevent the Ming army's baggage team and artillery team from crossing the river. As long as the Ming army's baggage team and artillery team cannot cross the river, the Ming army will be in a state of great movement."

"Okay, then that's what you do."

"We will send troops to burn down the bridges on the rivers along the way."

Taizhuang, in front of the Central Army.

Wang Pu's brows twisted into pieces again. Through the telescope, he was surprised to find that the Mongolian Tartars in the distance had retreated. After the tentative attack failed, these Tartar soldiers actually retreated!

I don’t know when Liu Rushi also came to Wang Pu’s side and asked in a narrow voice: “Strange, why did the Mongolian Tartars retreat?”

Wang Pu frowned and fell into deep thought.

Liu Rushi murmured: "If Dorgon's strategic intention was our army's baggage team, then these Tartar soldiers should have launched a fierce attack at any cost. But why did they retreat after a tentative attack? Could it be that Dorgon's strategic intention was not our army's baggage team?"

"Report..."

When Wang Pu and Liu Rushi were confused, Jinghai Bo Huang Degong suddenly came to the formation panting and said tremblingly, "Marquis, it's not good, something big is wrong!"

"What's wrong?" Wang Pu's heart jumped and he said in a cold voice, "Speak slowly, what's wrong?"

Huang Degong swallowed hard and said in a difficult tone: "A dozen miles ahead of Taizhuang, the Hanzhuang section canal has been cut off!"

"What did you say?" Wang Pu was shocked when he heard this. He couldn't believe his ears and said in a lost voice, "The canal is broken? How is this possible?"

"Hey." Huang Degong said sadly, "It was only after the canal was cut off and sent someone to investigate. It turned out that the terrain of the Hanzhuang section canal was slightly higher. In the past, there was a Han River running through the canal. After the canal was built, in order to ensure the water level of the canal, the Han River was cut off in the middle. However, a few days ago, I don't know who dug the embankment and re-dragged the Han River. As a result, the water level of the Hanzhuang section canal dropped sharply, and now it is impossible to sail! "

Wang Pu Ning said, "Jiannu, this must have been done by Jiannu!"

"Jiannu?" Liu Rushi said in confusion, "Can Jiannu know the hydrological geography of Shandong?"

Wang Pu said coldly: "Of course, Jiannu could not know the hydrological geography of Shandong, but there are many former Ming officials from Shandong who were surrendered in Beijing. It is enough for these damn traitors to know."

Liu Rushi thought for a moment, and suddenly his face changed drastically: "Marty, if the canal really cut off, our army will lose the benefits of the navy, and the actions of the baggage team and artillery team will be seriously affected. Although there are not many large rivers in Yanzhou, there are countless small rivers. Will these small rivers seriously delay our army's mobility?"
Chapter completed!