Chapter 352: The army attacked at night
Seeing that the imperial tent could not be held, Huang Taiji fought and retreated under the protection of the imperial guards, waiting for the men and horses of the two yellow flags to come to the rescue.
The camp of the two yellow flags was also killed by the Ming army, and was stunned for a while and did not react, especially the former army was attacked by the Tianwu army, and the entire Qing army camp fell into chaos, unable to divide the troops to rescue the imperial camp.
The guards around Huang Taiji were killed and wounded more and more, almost all of them were killed, and the situation became more and more critical.
Soon, the men and horses of the two yellow flags came back to their senses and hurriedly sent men and horses to support the imperial camp, and most of the Qing army had already been killed.
Cao Bianjiao led the cavalry of the 3,000 Heavenly Martial Army to still move forward bravely, unstoppable, and the generals of the Eight Banners, who were known for their bravery, were shocked and defeated one after another.
Gushan Ezhen Turge, who was famous for his courage and courage, and his younger brother Yierden, the ministers of the interior, Xihan, and Kupilon and other Qing generals saw that they could not win in the field battle, and in a hurry, they occupied the gate of the imperial camp and desperately released arrows, and the Ming army suffered heavy losses.
Cao Bianjiao was very sad, the cold arrows released by these dog Tartars made the casualties of his subordinates continue to rise, and he himself was already wounded, bleeding all over.
He suddenly saw the conspicuous big fat man in the distance, he whipped the war horse violently, and rushed towards Huang Taiji with a shout: "The slave chief is leaving, eat a shot from a certain family!" ”
Cao Bianjiao ran out of revolver muskets and failed to hit Huang Taiji, so he had to carry a spear and kill desperately.
When he rushed to Huang Taiji three or four feet away, he was suddenly shot in the right shoulder by a heavy arrow and fell off his horse.
Several cavalrymen hurriedly rescued Cao Bianjiao, who lost too much blood and almost fainted, and the Qing troops in all directions quickly gathered over.
Seeing that there was no hope of rushing to kill, Cao Bianjiao had no choice but to hate and say: "Out of the water!" ”
After receiving the order, the Tianwu army stopped the attack and retreated outside the Qing camp, the same, as if entering a no-man's land.
Cao Bianjiao led the army to rush out of the imperial camp of Huang Taiji, and the two armies attacking the Zhenghuang Banner and the Yellow Banner also came one after another, converging together, obviously the loss was not small, and the cavalry retreated towards Haizhou.
Before leaving, Cao Bianjiao did not forget to let people shout all the way, "The slave chief Taiji is dead!" "Create chaos for the Qing army and build momentum for the night attack of the Tianwu army.
Inexplicably kicked the imperial camp, Huang Taiji panicked, but he didn't know how many men and horses the Ming army had, so he didn't dare to send troops to pursue.
After a long time, Huang Taiji was furious and punished all the generals with fines.
Just when the Qing army was breathing a sigh of relief, suddenly, there was an overwhelming shout of killing outside the camp.
"The Ming army is here again!"
For a time, the generals of the Qing army were extremely panicked and hurriedly ordered to meet the enemy.
"Fire!"
A flash of fire instantly lit up the dark night sky, catching the Qing troops gathered in front of the camp off guard.
Thousands of lead shots carried the hot air and smashed into them like hailstones, and the Qing army suffered hundreds of casualties in one volley.
The entire battlefield under the cover of night was filled with invisible, and under the illumination of torches, it was like a thick fog, and it was difficult to see.
The musketeers were known for their continuous firepower, and after each platoon of guns had fired, they would retreat to the rear of the musket formation in a whole row, reload, and the back row would step forward to make up for it, raising its guns to aim for a salvo.
In this way, thousands of lead bullets rained down like hail bullets, continuously smashing into the chaotic Qing army.
After a few volleys, I saw that the corpses were already piled up between the two armies, and the Qing army finally stabilized its position after retreating some distance and began to counterattack.
However, the Qing army's counterattack was limited, and just now I heard the Ming cavalry shouting all the way that the emperor was dead, and I didn't know whether it was true or not, and the Eight Banners Army panicked.
Zhang Jing, who was wearing a yellow cotton armor, spoke a mouthful of Manchu and shouted loudly to refute the rumors: "The emperor is not dead!" ”
This person's identity is obviously not low, and his surroundings are instantly filled with armor soldiers with the same armor, and his refutation of rumors seems to have played a role.
Sun Yingyuan did not hesitate and decisively ordered: "All go forward and defeat the Tartars!" ”
After the military order was issued, several musket arrays of muskets shouted and cheered flatly, hockeying forward, and the momentum was like a rainbow.
The Tianwu Army's advancing military formation made the Eight Banners Army frightened, the lead bullets showed a rectangular surface attack, and the front of several large musket arrays was all eroded within a hundred steps, and the Eight Banners Army could not dodge and fell a large piece.
In an instant, after several rounds of firepower, the Qing army suddenly suffered thousands of casualties, and the morale of the Qing army was heavily suppressed.
The advancing Tianwu Army's several major military formations almost formed a one-sided slaughter, and the Zhenghuang Banner Bannermen, who had just maintained order, broke out again.
The Qing army general in yellow cotton armor was also hit in the abdomen in a volley of buckshot, and fell off his horse, and the Zhenghuang Qiqi next to him seemed to be desperate, trying to snatch their main general back.
In the face of the attack of the musket array, they still drew their waist knives and rolled forward with their short bodies, rolling directly into the gun formation like acrobatics.
Before the musketeers could switch their bayonets, they were suddenly caught by one hundred and ten yellow flag armor soldiers, and there was a brief confusion in the musket array.
However, the situation was quickly controlled by the musketeers in the back row with three-edged bayonets, and in order not to disrupt the musket array on a large scale, the Tianwu Army formed a simple triangle formation in a group of three soldiers.
When encountering the enemy, the sergeant in front of him held his gun in front of him, and the two sergeants in the back flanked him, in a sideways posture with a bow of foot, raised their guns and stabbed flat.
The three sergeants cooperated with each other to fight with the rest of the enemy, and the one-man tactics of the bayonets of the later generations of Little Japanese played a remarkable role, and soon killed and expelled the Zhenghuang Banner armor soldiers who broke into the musket formation.
After a high-ranking soldier of the Tianwu Army stabbed a Tartar to death, he easily cut off the head of the main general of the Zhenghuang Banner, pinned it to his waist, and returned to the musket array with great strength.
The Lord will be killed, and the morale of the Eight Banners Army will fall instantly, seeing the army collapse, and the rest of the people will flee in all directions.
Sun Yingyuan gave the order again to kill the Tartar he had killed in front of him.
What followed was a one-sided slaughter, with the flames blazing, the barrels of the guns hot, the three-edged bayonets stabbed the blades, the tips broken, and everyone's arms were numb......
The Tianwu Army slaughtered the authentic Zhenghuang Banner Bannermen, killing them without the power to fight back, and the mentality of the Eight Banner Army at this time is probably unique in the past twenty years.
Suddenly, Sun Yingyuan heard the intermittent sound of horns from the rear army, and the herald hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has issued an order, and the army will collect the troops!" ”
Sun Yingyuan was in the middle of the killing, or he was red-eyed, and he didn't react when he heard this military order all of a sudden, just like pressing down a stunner under him, and he was checked halfway through, how could this be unbearable......
Sun Yingyuan grabbed the herald in excitement and said, "Are you fucking sure?" ”
The herald was lifted up by Sun Yingyuan, and he was immediately startled, and he didn't dare to resist, so he had to reply with difficulty: "Master Commander, the small one is sure that it is an order to withdraw troops." ”
Sun Yingyuan also mentioned this herald at a moment's notice, and only put him down after realizing that he was out of shape, he was very clear about the military orders of the Tianwu Army, especially the discipline of the heralds, if the wrong military order was transmitted, the punishment was extremely serious, and the killing of the head was the lightest.
Even if it is a relative of the emperor and the crown prince, if they dare to make such a mistake, there is no room for redemption, and they can only be dealt with.
Of course, the heralds of the Tianwu Army are all strictly trained, at least at the level of not receiving at night, and their treatment is also the most generous except for Long Xiang's night non-collection.
The summer day dawned very early, seeing that the sky was gradually brightening, although the Eight Banners Army was messing around, but killing one piece and pouring out another, I don't know when it would be finished, Sun Yingyuan had to order the withdrawal of the army.
"Order the whole army to retreat immediately, without delaying for a moment, violators will be punished immediately!"
The Tianwu Army has always ordered to prohibit it, and as soon as the military order comes out, even if there is no more unhappiness, the military camps can only obey the military order and turn around and retreat.
At dawn, the Tianwu army had withdrawn to Haizhou like a tide, leaving only the smoke of gunpowder in the camp of the Qing army.