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Qi Yan and others held torches, and no one in the panic of the Qing army noticed that each of them held not one torch, but several;
In the night, they screamed and rushed in panic. With a bang, another torch fell under the tent and quickly set the tent on fire. With the fire, the camp became more chaotic;
This is a trivial matter. Gu Yan and his companions' target was the stable where the Qing army kept their war horses.
"No, Meng Ke's army is coming. Run!" Qi Yan shouted at the top of his lungs and led twenty-nine brothers to run towards the Qing army's horse ring;
Qi Yan even ran so hard that his helmet fell off, revealing his bun, but at this time, only a ghost would notice that he was not a "money rat tail".
On the east side of the Qing army, nearly 10,000 war horses were circled. There was chaos in the camp, which made the horses neigh uneasily. The fence of the horse circle was almost overturned. Many Qing soldiers were galloping over to get the horses.
Qi Yan and the others ran wildly outside the horse pen. Yan Xiaoman took out a thunderbolt and was about to light it. Fortunately, Qi Yan saw it in time, "No, Xiaoman! Go east first, go east first..." Qi Yan shouted, no longer caring about using Manchu. Besides, except for the two sentences "Meng Ke's army is coming", he didn't know how to say other words in Manchu.
Yan Xiaoman patted the horse and chased him wildly, and asked: "Boss, what are you waiting for?"
"Do you want to die? Stop talking nonsense and follow me, quickly, quickly!"
Thirty horsemen passed quickly from outside the horse pen, met the Qing army who came to fetch the horses, and passed by, causing screams one after another.
In the Qing army camp at night, many tents were burning, the firelight reflected, and the voices of people were scattered. At this time, Tan Tai ordered someone to blow the horn;
Qi Yan and others could not understand what these long and short horn sounds meant, but it could be seen that the Qing army was changing from panic and disorder to order and calm.
"Hurry up! Hurry up!" Qi Yan kept whipping his horse. He had already seen Qing army officers organizing soldiers to rush towards them. It shows that these fake Tatars have been exposed;
If we don't seize this critical opportunity, thirty people will soon be shot into hedgehogs.
Finally rushing to the east of the horse pen, Qi Yan shouted urgently: "Plug the ears of the war horse first, blindfold the eyes, hurry up."
Everyone reined in their horses and followed the instructions one after another. In an instant, the Qing army was already approaching. Only a hundred steps away, arrows were already whizzing towards them.
No one dared to neglect. After protecting his horse, he gathered a string of thunderbolts on the torch and threw them into the Qing army's horse pen.
Shen Daqian and Ye Guigen each even carried half a bag of firecrackers from their horses, lit them and threw them into the horse pen.
Boom, boom boom boom! Bang bang bang bang... ... ... .
The thunder and firecrackers exploded together, and the lightning and flints shook the night sky. The nearly 10,000 war horses in the horse pen were already restless and frightened. Suddenly, they neighed and galloped wildly. The fence on the west was broken by the rush, and nearly ten thousand horses were like a flash flood bursting from a bank. Rushing out, the momentum is so huge that it is thrilling;
When the Qing troops who were running to get their horses saw this, they were all so frightened that they screamed. They turned around and ran. Some of them were knocked to the ground by the crazy horses before they could even run a few steps. Then countless iron hooves trampled over it, turning into pieces of rotten flesh that exploded.
"Oh my God, run quickly..." The camp was full of screams, the sound of iron hooves, and the camp's fire. The situation was so tragic that Qi Yan and the others were pounding in their hearts, for fear that the crazy horses would attack this person. Bian rushed over.
"Run..." Qi Yan shouted at the right time. Everyone took off the blindfolds of the war horses, but did not dare to take off the cotton balls that jammed the horses' ears. They were afraid that their horses would also be infected and went crazy and refused to obey the control. Running away in the opposite direction;
Yan Xiaoman hit his horse and ran away, while wiping the sweat that had fallen down and blinded his eyes. Fortunately, Qi Tou'er had stopped him quickly, otherwise he would have been killed tonight if he had exploded randomly.
Behind them, thousands of horses galloped, the mountains and rivers shook, tents were knocked over by frightened horses, and Qing soldiers were trampled to pieces by horse hooves. The condition was so miserable that it was difficult to describe, and screams and howls could be heard. Out ten or twenty miles away.
This is an unprecedented battle. Names such as Qi Yan, Shen Daqian, Ye Guigen, Yan Xiaoman, Yan Xi, and Qiu Sanzhang are destined to spread throughout the Qin Dynasty soon and become names that are sung in various drama scripts.
Because of his extraordinary courage, they created the most incredible battle example and legend in the Northern Expedition.
Thirty cavalrymen brazenly attacked the enemy camp. Not only did they remain unscathed, they also successfully annihilated more than 1,600 enemies.
Yes, a total of 1,624 people. This number was counted by Tan Tai at the third watch. When he got this number, he almost went crazy.
With Duduo's current semi-crazy mental state, it would be strange not to skin himself after knowing this.
Tan Tai lived to be fifty years old. This was the first time he was so desperate. God, why don't you open your eyes
Qi Yan and others didn't know that they had forced Tan Tai to the point of almost wiping his neck. The next day, they were still regretful that they had not had time to contact the main force beforehand and could not take advantage of the chaos to annihilate Tan Tai's army of ten thousand people in one fell swoop.
The war horses of the Qing army were all well-trained war horses. The war horses calmed down soon after the explosion subsided, so no more serious casualties were caused. Qi Yan and the others didn't know how many casualties the Qing army had suffered. They were still upset when they saw that the Qing army had not collapsed the next day. They were really greedy and could not do anything better.
However, if they didn't have such merit, why would thirty people have the courage to attack an army of ten thousand
The next day, Tan Tai reorganized his troops. Although his troops were disorganized and their morale was low, it would be very dangerous to charge Meng Ke's army in this state. It was very dangerous.
But Tan Tai was determined instead. He must go to fight against Meng Ke. He must go, even if he does it for a show.
Because he knew very well that Duduo must have been sharpening his sword in Shangqiu, waiting to skin him.
Tan Tai, who was willing to take risks, calmed down and his mind became clearer.
Hundreds of horses died last night. He ordered them all to be cooked and gave the soldiers a hearty meal. Then they roared away with the army, burning, killing and looting everywhere. In this way, he could vent his anger on the Han people. Above all, more importantly, using the blood of Han people can improve the morale of the Qing army;
Under the wanton killing, the fear that the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty had temporarily forgotten seemed to have returned to the days when they knocked on the door and plundered everywhere. The originally scattered military spirit was greatly condensed, and the effect was better than Tan Tai expected. ;
This was an unexpected surprise for Tan Tai. In this case, he became even more indulgent, leaving almost no one alive wherever he went, and the already broken countryside was burned to a white ground.
After receiving the report, Meng Ke was very angry and ordered to speed up the march. He also asked Su Jin and Hu Shouliang to lead 20,000 cavalry to break away from the infantry and encircle Tan Tai, striving to destroy the Qing army in one fell swoop.
Tan Tai finally found out the exact location of Meng Ke's army, and quickly sent someone to report back to Duduo. At the same time, he was like a frightened bird, running away in all directions, never giving Su Jin and others a chance to encircle him;
Su Jin chased him hundreds of miles in one breath, but there was nothing he could do for the moment.
When Meng Ke's army finally marched less than eighty miles away from Shangqiu, Duduo was overjoyed when he received the news. He thought that the opportunity to turn the situation around had arrived, so he immediately asked Niulu Zhangjingbach to lead two hundred people and prepare to go there with a large amount of explosives. Dig the Yellow River embankment.
Before Bach even left the city, the news was leaked by Ye Chenlue, and he even told Ye Bushou where Bach was going to dig the embankment.
Yan Yingyuan and his group, who had been hiding in Luowuling for several days after being bitten by mosquitoes, were all overjoyed after hearing the news that they had not received the news all night. Yan Yingyuan immediately ordered: "Fu Zhai, take a few brothers and keep an eye on Bach no matter what. To prevent him from temporarily changing the location of the river digging."
"Yes, General Yan."
"Guo Laosan, let the brothers take the guys with them. We will go to Sanshu Bay to set up an ambush."
"General Yan, aren't we going to lure the enemy here?"
"No, now that we know where the Qing army dug the river, it will be safer for us to go to Sanshu Bay to set up the net."
Originally, Yan Yingyuan's plan was to lure the Qing troops digging embankments to Luowuling and annihilate them all in one fell swoop.
But as the saying goes, plans can't keep up with changes. Before coming, no one knew that Ye Busuo had actually instigated the rebellion of Ye Chenlue, the Gushan Ezhen;
Now that we know the specific location of the Qing army's river excavation, as long as we arrange it in advance, it will be much easier than leading the enemy to Luowuling.
Yan Yingyuan gave the order, and everyone immediately took action. The horses roared, rushed out of Luowuling, and galloped towards Sanshu Bay.
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