Chapter 293
: Capture Dorgon
"Huh?" Wang Pu also exclaimed in surprise and said in a lost voice, "This matter is really strange."
Liu Rushi's beautiful eyes rolled and said in a voice: "Can you say... this is really a conspiracy between Ezhe and Dorgon?"
"It's unlikely." Wang Pu said decisively, "With Ezhe's identity and status, he should really want to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty."
Liu Rushi said: "That's that Ezhe's actions were accidentally exposed, and Dorgon found out. Then Dorgon set up a trap by using the plan, trying to lure our Central Army out of the city to annihilate it, but it really triggered the rebellion of the Mongolian Tartars. Dorgon did this as a playful fire and burned himself."
I cannot help but admire Liu Rushi's judgment. After a simple analysis, I guessed the whole story.
Northern Zhili, Daming Prefecture.
On the banks of the Weihe River, two fat otters were lying on the grass by the river basking in the sun. While squinting their eyes to enjoy the winter sun, the two beasts suddenly felt a strange feeling, and then crawled into the dark and wet cave with a squeak.
The originally calm earth suddenly began to tremble, and the calm water surface of the Wei River also began to ripples. The ripples on the water surface gradually expanded, followed by a faint rumbling sound from the western sky, like a thunder in the distance, dull but contains a terrifying power that makes people dare to scatter.
The faint thunder became louder and louder, and eventually turned into a roar that resounded through the world.
Amid the overwhelming roar, black cavalry rushed out from the barren horizon, countless horse heads were undulating, long manes were floating like waves behind the horse's neck, countless horse hooves were churning on the wasteland, and rolling smoke and dust were gradually rising from the endless iron hooves, confusing the dark sky...
In front of the black cavalry formation, a red horse with four-hoofed snow-white horse galloped like flying, suddenly neighing, and the clear neighing sound of the horse suddenly pierced the sky. Behind the horse, countless war horses followed the heads of the horse, and endless neighing sounds of horses suddenly ran through the world.
The red lady wearing a red suit and a red silk handkerchief straddled the flame-like horse. Her two round and slender thighs were straight, and her round and plump buttocks had completely left the saddle. Her graceful and toned body almost stood up from the horse's back.
Suddenly, the wide Wei River reflected into Hongniang's vision.
“Well…”
The Red Lady suddenly retracted the reins of the horse, and the red horse under her crotch suddenly stood up with a sad voice, then turned to the north and galloped north. After rushing out more than a hundred steps, she slowly stopped the horse stance and finally stopped in the cold wilderness. Behind the Red Lady, forty thousand cavalry also slowed down and finally stopped on the west bank of Weihe.
Two days ago, Hong Niang received a letter from Wang Pu to Fei Ge.
When the lover saw the summoning, Hongniang was certainly not negligent. He immediately set off 40,000 cavalrymen, slept in the wind and sunken, and rushed towards Shandong day and night. After only one or two nights, Hongniang's Henan cavalry had already spanned hundreds of miles and appeared on the banks of the Weihe River in Daming Prefecture.
Amid the chaotic sound of horse hooves, monk Zhang, Jing Maocheng, Li Hu, Li Mu, Li Dong, Li Kai and other Li families rode their horses to Hongniang. Li Hu pointed at the wide Wei River in front of him with the horse whip in his hand and said aloud: "Sister-in-law, this is the Wei River. Crossing the Wei River is the boundary of Dongchangfu in Shandong. Walk two hundred miles further to Liaocheng."
The red lady's face was cold and cold, and she said coldly: "Send someone to detect the depth of the river immediately..."
"Sister-in-law, there is no need to detect the depth of the river." Li Hu said, "It is the dry winter season. The Wei River is not deep, and you can ride a horse. However, the army has been running for a day or two nights. The brothers are exhausted. It is almost evening again. Should we camp on the west bank of the Wei River first? We will continue to advance east after dawn tomorrow?"
"No." Hong Niangzi said decisively, "Since the Wei River can be passed by shallow water, the army immediately crosses the river and continues to advance eastward. We must arrive in Liaocheng before dark tomorrow!"
With the order from the Hongniang, forty thousand cavalry immediately crossed the Wei River and continued to advance eastward, like a torrent of the torrent heading straight for Liaocheng.
The biggest reason why Hong Niangzi was in a hurry to go to Liaocheng was of course because of the summoning of his lover Wang Pu. Hong Niangzi didn't want to lose her lover's face.
But it is undeniable that the bloody actions committed by Jiannu and the Mongolian Tatars in the Central Plains were also an important reason for the Hongniang sending troops, and it was also an important reason for the soldiers of Henan Army to be willing to cooperate with the government army.
During this expedition, Hongniang did not deliberately conceal the truth, but told the soldiers of the entire army unreservedly the truth about their cooperation with the government army. Hongniang originally thought that they would be fiercely opposed by the soldiers, but what she did not expect was that almost all the rebel generals agreed with the Eastern Expedition without exception.
In fact, the Henan Army of Hongniangzi was in line with the Shaanxi Rebel Army led by Li Yan. They had experience in cooperating with the government army as early as the same period of the Great Wall. Therefore, the Henan Rebel Army was not emotionally disgusted with cooperation with the government army, especially not disgusted with cooperation with Wang Pu. What's more, this rebel army expedition was to kill Jiannu and Tartars.
At the beginning of the year, the bloody abduction of Jiannu and Mongolian Tartars in the Beizhi prefectures brought serious disasters to the Han people. Many of them fled south to Henan. There were many horse households among these people. Later, they all joined the Hongniang's cavalry team. They had long been looking forward to paying back their blood debts from Jiannu and Tartars.
Dongpingzhou.
Sea of corpses and blood, the real sea of corpses and blood!
However, what is accumulated is not human corpses, and what is flowing is not human blood, but the corpses and blood of war horses. Standing in front of the mountain of corpses piled up by war horse corpses, stopping in the sea of blood soaked by war horse blood. Duoduo was sad and nearly 200,000 war horses were slaughtered alive. How much loss should this be for the Qing Dynasty?
Horse plague! Damn horse plague!
The heavy snorkeling of the war horse suddenly sounded from behind. Duoduo slowly turned around and his eyes finally fell on his beloved mount "Black Cloud". The dark clouds were shiny in black and shiny in appearance. They looked like the wind when they ran. They could be called a good horse from all over the world. They followed Duoduo to fight in the east for many years and experienced countless bloody storms together.
For Duoduo, Wuyun is not just a mount, but also his companion to depend on life and death.
It seemed that he realized his fate. Two bean-sized tears fell from Dark Cloud's eyes. Duoduo's expression suddenly became extremely dim. At this time, the dark cloud seemed to be still majestic, showing no signs of being infected with horse plague. But Duoduo could not let it go, he had to kill it.
It’s not just because of Dorgon’s military order, but also because of the terrible horse plague!
Horse plague is so terrible. Duoduo would never dare to take the risk of bringing horse plague to Liaocheng with his mount. If he really wants to bring horse plague to Liaocheng, then more than 10,000 elite soldiers of Zhengbai Banner here may all die in the Central Plains, and the hope of the crowd will be ruined by Duoduo.
"Master!" The groom servant who cared for Duoduo's war horses fell to his knees in a pool of blood and cried, "Don't kill the dark clouds, it's not infected with horse plague, it doesn't..."
Duoduo ignored it and drew out the sharp sword inch by inch.
Finally, he combed the hair for Wuyun. The sword in Duoduo's hand stabbed into Wuyun's chest without warning, causing blood to splatter. The dark cloud hissed in pain and fell dejectedly in the pool of blood.
Turning around again, Duoduo's face had become extremely cold.
The genitals, the escorts and the erzhens of Zhengbai Banner gathered in front of Duoduo. Duoduo's cold eyes swept across the faces one by one, and said word by word: "Send the order, throw away all the supplies and move forward quickly, and head towards Liaocheng as quickly as possible. Remember, there must be no stop along the way, even if you encounter a Han village, you are not allowed to stay!"
"twitter!"
The genitals, the sects, and the sects of Zhengbai Banner agreed and took the order.
According to the past practice, when Jiannu met a Han village, he would definitely wipe out the village, kill all the Han people, rob the Han people of their livestock and property, and then burn the entire village. However, this time Duoduo was abnormal and strictly ordered Jiannu not to burn, kill and loot during the march. Although Jiannu of Zhengbai Banner was puzzled, he strictly enforced Duoduo's military order.
Duoduo's caution finally saved the Jiannu, who had more than 10,000 people, and also retained the last trace of vitality for the Jurchens, because Hongniang's 40,000 cavalry were rushing towards Liaocheng without stopping. If Duoduo's army was delayed on the way, it would be very likely that Yu Hongniang would arrive in Liaocheng later. If this was the case, Jiannu's last trace of hope would be destroyed.
Outside Jining City.
The melee between Jiannu and the Tartars had lasted for several hours. The rebellion of the three tribes, Khal, Tushetu and Chahar, was finally bloodyly suppressed by Dorgon. Most of the three tribes were killed in battle, and all the injured and captured were executed. Only a few small groups of Tartars escaped in the chaos and disappeared into the vast wilderness.
The four tribes of Korqin were also severely damaged. A considerable number of Korqin people joined the rebels and were massacred. Some Korqin people died in battle to suppress the rebellion. Before the rebellion, the four tribes of Korqin still had nearly 90,000 troops, but when the rebellion ended, the total strength of the four tribes of Korqin was only less than 30,000 troops left.
Dorgon did not raise his butcher knife immediately for the last remaining 30,000 Korchin people, because the 30,000 Korchin people were loyal to Jiannu, and there was no need to attack them now. Dorgon also wanted to bring these 30,000 Korchin people and the remaining 20,000 Jianzhan to flee back outside the pass!
Although Dorgon had already explained the funeral to Dodo, and although Dorgon had entrusted the Jurchens' future fate to Dododo, this does not mean that Dorgon had the determination to die, nor does it mean that Dorgon did not want to live anymore. On the contrary, until the last moment, Dorgon would never give up his hope of life easily.
but……
Dorgon would not give up his hope of life easily, and Wang Pu would not let him go easily!
Almost the melee outside the city had just ended, and the closed north gate of Jining City opened, and the fully armed Central Army soldiers rushed out like a flood of beasts. The first one to leave the city was the two thousand Central Army cavalry led by Wang Huzi. At this time, the melee between Jiannu and the Tartars had just ended, and they had no time to clean up the remaining troops, and they didn't have time to take a breath. It was the time when the Ming cavalry showed their power.
Of course, the Central Army cavalry will inevitably be affected by the horse plague at this time, but Wang Pu can no longer get along with these. As long as he can annihilate the Jiannu and the Mongolian Tatars outside Jining City, what is the loss of just two thousand war horses? Wang Pu can still afford this capital.
"The Marquis said..."
Wang Huzi spread his horse and raised his sword, running at the front of the cavalry formation, "Capture Dorgon and kill him...reward ten thousand taels of silver!"
"Reward ten thousand taels of silver!"
"Reward ten thousand taels of silver!"
"Reward ten thousand taels of silver!"
Chapter completed!