Chapter 174: The Aftermath of the Great War

When the grenadier battalion struck as the final hammer, the entire battlefield quickly became clear, and more than hundreds of grenades were thrown into the crowd, blasting a bloody path.

After the grenade was thrown, Gao Hu took the 500 grenadier battalion soldiers out of the horse chopping knife behind his back, and launched an attack in the face of the Qing soldiers, these soldiers wearing armor, wielding the horse chopping knife was almost invincible, and the Qing army in front of him was almost shattered with one blow, and the rest of the soldiers of the Fu Han army also used the grenadier battalion as an arrow, followed by an attack on the Qing army camp.

Under the impact of tens of thousands of soldiers of the Han army, the Qing army, which was already close to collapse, was completely defeated, and no one could stop a favorable counterattack, and even a little bit of resistance could not be done.

Rushing, defeating, escaping and even complete rout, has become a reality that the Qing army is witnessing little by little, a large number of swords have been thrown on the ground, they frantically fled to the rear of Wutong Ridge, the so-called defeat is like a mountain, once the army retreats, there is no chance, no matter what is in front of it, it can't stop the rout.

They tried all kinds of ways to escape from the battlefield, but they were originally limited by the terrain and environment of Wutong Ridge, except for the direction of the Fu Han army, other directions were already crowded, and there was no way to find a way for so many people to escape.

Wutongling has become a Jedi, the Qing soldiers have no way to escape, when they were caught up by the Fu Han army, they knelt down and begged for mercy, and even some people directly threw away their knives and guns, and knelt directly on the ground. The scenes staged on the battlefield were like the last straw, completely announcing the demise of the Qing army.

A large number of middle- and low-level officials in the Qing army took the lead in surrendering, which also completely broke the last hope in Yongjina's heart, and he understood that now that the general trend is gone, I am afraid that there will be no more opportunities. No matter how much pride and ambition there is in my heart, it will eventually turn to dust.

Seeing that the Fu Han army had completely surrounded the Qing army on the mountain, and there was almost no possibility of escape, Yongjina finally chose to draw his sword and commit suicide, but before he died, he ordered left and right, and when he died, he would scratch his face badly, and he Yongjina would be defeated and humiliated by the country, but he must not let the Fu Han army find out, otherwise he would not feel at ease after death.

The rest of the Qing army generals saw that the general trend had gone, and many people chose to surrender, this series down, but more and more soldiers gave up resistance, for the green battalion, they were originally paid to eat, and now they see that they can't win, for the sake of their lives, most of them have chosen to surrender, which is also quite a normal situation. Besides, most of the soldiers of the Green Battalion knew that the Fu Han Army neither killed prisoners nor deliberately beat and scolded, so there was no psychological pressure to surrender.

It's just that for the Eight Banners Army, it is a little difficult, they naturally understand that their identity is sensitive, and they will definitely not be able to get the same surrender conditions as the Green Battalion, but they can't beat it if they continue to fight like this..... Yongjina committed suicide, Dutong Mingli and Deputy Dutong Yushan have all died in battle, and the remaining Eight Banners Army is also old, weak, sick and disabled, how can this be fought?

Just when the Qing army was thinking about their own little Jiujiu, the progress of the Fu Han army was very good, and the first division was almost like a whirlwind and clouds, dividing the remaining more than 10,000 Qing troops into several large pieces, and it was pressing step by step, and it was only a matter of time before it was completely wiped out.

At the same time, the 3rd Division and the 2nd Garrison Division were also north of Wutongling, and collided with the 20,000 Qing troops who came to support.

After the news of the victory came, the morale of the Fu Han army became more and more high, and they went forward to impact the defense line of the Qing army, and the morale of the Qing army became more and more low.

Li Mingyi, the commander of Zhejiang land and water, knew that his combat strength was not enough, and he originally planned to wait for Yongjina to lead people to attack the Fuhan army, but he didn't expect it to come, Yongjina himself collapsed first, although he didn't know that Yongjina had committed suicide, but from the current situation, he also understood that he had no need to fight, and even regretted it a little in his heart.

At the moment, it is not so simple to get out, Li Mingyi had to send people to stabilize the battle line first, and he led people to start quietly retreating, but in this way, he naturally found out that his own admiral ran away, and shouted on the battlefield.

"Defeated, defeated! Wutongling was defeated! ”

"Lord Admiral has run away, everyone should run for their lives!"

After such a noisy fight, the rest of the people had no intention of holding on, and followed the rout all the way to the direction of Taiping Pass, but in this time and a half, it turned into a big rout, tens of thousands of people ran towards the rear, and many people were even trampled to death in the rout.

On the entire battlefield, in addition to chaos is chaos, the Fu Han army did not rush to pursue, but gathered the troops as much as possible, and then began to pursue, from time to time on the road can see a large number of green battalion routs, sitting directly on the ground, and then choosing to give up resistance.

Cheng Ming and Cheng Zhien rode horses and led the soldiers under their command to march in the direction of Taiping Pass along the road of the rout, and the prisoners collected along the way were no less than 5,000 people, but it was terrifying.

"After this battle, we can take advantage of the victory to attack Anqing, and when we completely take Anqing, we can make a detour to attack Kangxi Lao'er!"

Cheng Zhien was a little emotional, the age is similar to Cheng Ming, but the experiences of the two sides are completely different, Cheng Zhien is the descendant of the Cheng family, and he joined the army early, but his development in the army is not as early as Ning Zhongyuan. However, Cheng Zhien was able to become Ningyu's chief of staff later, but there was actually no reason why the Cheng family contributed.

As for Cheng Ming, it is completely different, although he is also surnamed Cheng, but he basically has nothing to do with the Cheng family, he was originally Ning Zhongyuan's right-hand man, he contributed a lot to Ning Zhongyuan, and he was able to show off the public, so he stood out from the crowd and became the commander of the third division of the main force.

Cheng Ming had a calm personality, looked at the Qing army that was scattered and fled, and said lightly: "Whether to attack Anqing or not, it needs to be decided by the metropolitan governor, and now the goal of our army is Taiping Pass, as well as these Qing soldiers." ”

"Well, what Brother Zihua said is good, right now, this piece of fat can't just run away!"

This chase finally lasted until the early morning of the next day, a large number of Qing troops were captured or killed, Li Mingyi had led the remnants of the army to arrive at Taiping Pass, but the city wall was low, and it could not play a good role in guarding at all, and finally under the leadership of Cheng Zhien, he directly broke through Taiping Pass and captured Li Mingyi alive.

So far, the 60,000 troops of the Qing court have basically been wiped out, which can be regarded as completing the predetermined goal ahead of schedule, but Ning Yu, who should have been happy, has a little blue face at this time, and a bad news has disrupted Ning Yu's plan.