Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Ao Bai was not the first to receive the news of the emperor's death. The first to receive the urgent delivery from the capital was Jia Hanfu, the governor of Henan in Kaifeng.

Ao Bai was in Zhongmu, where he deployed a major battle in the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month a year ago.

Ao Bai's opponents are Wu Sangui's eldest son-in-law Xia Guoxiang and general Guo Zhuangtu.

After Hu Guozhu and Wang Pingfan lost, Wu Sangui prepared for a decisive battle, a decisive battle to decide who the Central Plains belonged to. In order to raise grain, orders came from Luoyang one after another, and grain trucks drove continuously from Tongguan to Henan. Behind the grain trucks was all the war potential of Shaanxi and Gansu, and countless families in Shaanxi and Gansu were destroyed and waiting to be fed.

When Hong Chengchou died, he told Wu Sangui that the land of Shaanxi and Gansu was too barren to support a long-term war. Therefore, the Wu army must fight quickly, and there must be no delay. Otherwise, it will only consume a long front and more than 200,000 troops. The food and grass are enough to drag the Wu army into a doomed place.

However, after the capture of Xi'an, Wu Sangui made mistakes again and again. First of all, he failed to advance eastward to capture Tongguan in time, and then failed to occupy Kaifeng with his entire army, which led to the timely arrival of the Eight Banners of Manchuria in Beijing and blocked Wu's army in the west of Kaifeng.

The news of Emperor Yongli's death and the fall of Guizhou also made Wu Jun feel panic. After Luoyang asked "God's Will", Wu Sangui finally changed the Liao King to Zhou King under the persuasion of Fang Xianting, Hu Yuxuan and other advisers, and the President of the world's water and land marshal , Xingming attacked the generals, and for the first time issued the Qing Dynasty in the name of Wu Sangui. At the same time, a high platform was built in Luoyang, and Wu Sangui cried very sadly when he went to cry in person.

After the crying sacrifice, Wu Sangui led the army to Zhengzhou, intending to lead his troops to attack Obai in person. At the end of the last year, the two sides agreed to strike a truce, but everyone knew that this was a brief period of tranquility before the storm.

Since Chongzhen, Henan has had no disasters and no chaos every year. In the year of catastrophe, the situation in the world is full of turmoil, no one knows what will happen tomorrow, and no one knows whether the world wakes up one night to return to the Ming Dynasty or belong to the Qing Dynasty. The atmosphere of the Chinese New Year can hardly be seen in the Central Plains, and everyone smells the rush of fighting in the air. No one wants to be the cannon fodder of this war and the victims of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but what are they? I can't do it, I can only struggle to the death in this world of cannibalism.

The large and small prefectures and counties on the line from Luoyang to Zhengzhou are the whirlpools of storms. Not a single rice shop is open on the market, and no one can buy any more grain. Most of the villages and towns outside the city were originally abandoned, and the remaining ones were the same as more than 20 years ago.

Wu Sangui invested 140,000 troops in the area of ​​Zhengzhou. Everbright generals include Xia Guoxiang, Guo Zhuangtu, Ma Bao, Hu Guozhu, Wang Pingfan and more than a dozen others, while his opponent Ao Bai can only mobilize less than 50,000 soldiers and horses. meet the enemy. In terms of the number of troops used, Wu's army was three times that of the Qing army. Therefore, although Wang Pingfan and Hu Guozhu suffered defeats, when Wu Sangui arrived in Zhengzhou, the morale of the front-line troops immediately improved a lot. In particular, Wu Sangui's move to change the King of Liao to the King of Zhou made many generals of the Wu army stabilized because of the empty mentality of having no king to serve.

The army has not moved, and the food and grass go first. Wu Sangui knew that it was impossible for Ao Bai to retire, and no one knew how long the next battle would take, so the preparation of food and grass became Wu Sangui's top priority. He can be defeated on the battlefield, but he must not be defeated by food and grass. Under the orders of King Zhou, thousands of grain carts traveled to and from Zhengzhou every day, but they still could not keep up with the consumption of the army. Fang Xianting, Hu Yuxuan and other advisers all knew the strength of the Wu army in the overdraft control area, but at this moment, no one cared so much. In this battle, you can only win, you can say anything if you win, and if you lose, no matter how big the site is, it's useless.

After Guo Zhuangtu led the army to retreat in response to Hu Guozhu, he set up the general camp in Wushui, forty miles southwest of Zhongmu, with a continuous camp of more than ten miles. There are nearly 4,000 cavalry troops in its division, half of which are directly related to him, and the other half are local tyrants and horse bandits from Henan. Although the discipline is loose and the team is procrastinated, it is better that these horse bandits are proficient in riding, plus many of them are local. People, familiar with the local topography, played a big role.

The main camp of Aobai is in Zhongmou. Guo Zhuangtu is facing Aobai directly, and he is also the closest soldier to Aobai. He has to make all preparations and continuously cast out the exploration horses to ensure the Qing army in Zhongmu. Everything is under his control.

Every day, the Qing army's horse-hunting and Wu's horse-hunting will hand in several hands, with hundreds of casualties at most, and as few as a dozen people. In order to encourage morale, Guo Zhuangtu gave Tanma a very high reward. A Han army head can be exchanged for 10 taels of silver, and a real Tartar head can be exchanged for 30 taels of silver. Under the heavy reward, there must be brave men. Thanks to the familiarity of the recruited Henan bandits and Wubao youths with the terrain, the Wu army actually gained the upper hand in the battle with the Qing army to explore horses, forcing the Qing army to dare not to overdo it. Far.

The army did not take any action. After all, the Spring Festival is a big festival. Whether it is the Ming army or the Qing army, people always have to celebrate the festival.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the Ming and Qing sides, who had rested for a few days, fought a battle outside a town called Jiulong.

Both sides involved in the war were cavalry, the Wu army numbered more than 1,200 and the Qing army more than 700.

The Wu army cavalry was commanded by Sun Sike of the Yansui general army, and the commanding general of the Qing army was the Manzhou Zhenghongqi Jiala'ezhen Tuzhan.

Sun Sike was originally the leader of the Han army flag in the Qing Dynasty~www.wuxiaspot.com~ He was loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and made a lot of credit for the Qing Dynasty. Because of his background in the Han army, Manchuria also favored him more than the general green camp generals. It is reasonable for him to betray the Qing court. The biggest reason that prompted Sun Sike to surrender to Wu Sangui was that when he escaped from Guiyang with the letter Wang Doni, he not only witnessed many people in Sichuan and young men from the green camp being slaughtered by the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia, but also many of his subordinates, the Han army, were arrested. as food. This is not the last straw that finally made Sun Sike decide to go to the Ming Dynasty. The final reason that prompted him to go to the Ming Dynasty was the surrender of the Xi'an General Tabai. In other words, Sun Sike found out that the Qing court was over, so he made up his mind to make a living for himself and for the more than a thousand subordinates under his command.

Sun Sike, like Zhao Liangdong and other generals of the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion, was valued by Wu Sangui, and was appointed as the commander of Yansui. After discovering the Qing army, Sun Sike immediately ordered the formation of a battle formation. He observed the formation of the Qing army on the opposite side, and found that the other side was also ready to fight. He couldn't help but guess whether the Qing army cavalry was a bait to lure the enemy.

Some book friends said in the book review that the characters in the Bone pen are "scumbags", and there are no good people. This Bone must admit, because I am not writing about the contemporary, I am writing about China after 1644. As for whether he is a good person, the benevolent sees benevolence, and the wise sees wisdom. The era must have the characteristics of the era. Just because the protagonist is not a person from this era, we must forcibly implement things that do not belong to this era, whether it is ideas, systems, or faith and loyalty.