Chapter 277: Twenty Miles of Corpses
"Block your father!"
"Squeeze squeeze, squeeze your mother!"
"If you have the ability, you can squeeze to the Manchurian uncle in the back!"
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There were bursts of shouting and scolding from the front of the Qing army, and the Eight Banners Han Army in the back row kept shouting and scolding and pushing the people who retreated in front, lest they become the front row.
At the beginning, the Eight Banners Han Army in front of it was still squeezing backwards, and was scolded by the people behind, and began to blatantly turn around and retreat.
Jierharang sent the Manchurian soldiers with blue flags in his headquarters to rectify the people, and after cutting down some of the Eight Banners Han troops in the front row, the team was not in order, not to mention, and it became more and more chaotic.
At this moment, only a burst of gunshots rang out with "bang, bang, bang", and a row of people lay down in the front of the rioting Qing army in an instant.
"Fire!"
The deafening salvo sounded again, and after four rows of volleys, a long area of gunpowder smoke formed in front of the Tianwu army's musket array, and a dense rain of bullets flew towards the chaotic Qing army camp, and several rows of men and horses in front of the Qing army continued to fall, forming a large pile of corpses.
At this time, the Qing army was already on the verge of collapse, and after several rounds of firepower strikes by the Tianwu army, it also became the last straw that pressed the camel, and many Qing soldiers immediately turned around and ran backwards, which finally triggered the total rout of the Qing army.
"Retreat!" Seeing that the defeat was irretrievable, Zilharang had no choice but to order the troops to retreat.
Under the escort of Baya Lama Zhangjing (the commander of the guards) and the Bayala battalion, a group of eight banners of Belle Beizi also slipped away, although Shuoto and Bolo were not convinced, but they had no choice, and if they didn't go to the front of the two Tartars, they would have to disperse the military formation behind.
"The Tartars are defeated!"
Zhou Yuji, who was on the chariot, put down the binoculars and immediately said, "The whole army is pursuing!" ”
The soldiers of the Tianwu Army also inserted their bayonets one after another, running and shouting, chasing the Qing army like a tide.
The war horse neighed, Cao Bianjiao held Changshuo in his hand, rode his horse and galloped out, and the cavalry brigade followed, crossed the ranks of the infantry, and pursued the Qing army.
The pursuit battle was originally what the cavalry was best at, especially at this time, the Qing army had been defeated, and everyone was only concerned about escaping, and they had no intention of resisting the pursuit of the Tianwu army.
The cavalry quickly rushed to the side behind the Qing soldiers, and with a gentle wave of the impact of the war horses, they easily cut the armor of the Qing soldiers, hacked the Qing soldiers to death or slashed them to the ground, and if they cut the right parts, they could even cut off the heads of the Qing soldiers with a single sword.
The charge of the cavalry of the Tianwu Army only killed the heads of the Qing soldiers, and the corpses were all over the ground, and many of them had broken hands and arms.
Seeing that the Tianwu army had been pursued, the Qing soldiers in the front row and the back row were frightened and fled faster, and some estimated that their legs were weak and could not run away, so they immediately threw down their weapons and raised their hands to surrender.
For this group of Eight Banners Han Army and Eight Banners Mongolian soldiers, surrender is basically commonplace, and whoever is strong will surrender, yes!
The infantry of the Tianwu Army followed behind and escorted away the surrendered Qing army, while the cavalry continued to pursue the defeated soldiers of the Qing army, with the intention of killing the Qing army.
The Tianwu army was in high spirits, the whole army assaulted, slashed and killed, the Qing army was defeated for more than 20 miles in one go, and the Tianwu army also chased out more than 20 miles, and they kept biting on it.
Along the road are the corpses of Qing soldiers and the knives, guns, weapons, flags and other items thrown down, in the words of the history books - twenty miles of corpses!
Zilharang finally led the army back to the camp, but found that his camp was taken by the Ming army! The remaining 3,000 blue flag elites lay all over the ground.
The 10,000 Tianwu soldiers and horses who attacked the Qing army's camp blocked in front of them, and shouted loudly: "Tartars surrender quickly, you have no way to escape!" ”
After killing and wounding thousands of men and horses, Jierharang desperately broke through the defense line of the Tianwu Army and ran out, running all the way along Baiyangdian.
Baiyangdian is the general name of more than 100 interconnected large and small lakes in Baoding Prefecture, with a water area of almost more than 500,000 acres, and is the largest Hubo in Beizhili.
The Qing army led by Jierharang rushed to the Daqing River in front, this section of the Daqing River is in the upper reaches of the Baiyangdian water system, the water level is not deep after winter, the Eight Banners Army can completely wade through, and the Tianwu Army is not good, only into the river, their firearms can not play when they encounter water.
The Bayala battalion of Zilharang ran the fastest, came to the Daqing River early, and quickly passed the pontoon bridge on the riverside, and fled to the south bank of the Daqing River, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and began to stop and wait for the defeated army behind.
When the follow-up Qing army arrived at the Daqing River, it was not as easy as Jierharang, although the river water is not high, but this is the cold winter wax moon, the most important thing is that it is in the upper reaches of the river, and the river has not frozen!
Just that small pontoon bridge, the capacity is limited, it is the exclusive passage of the officials, most people can only go into the water hard, there is no way to go down the river, the Tianwu army is chasing too tightly, there is still a way to run before, and now it has retreated to the river, and there is no way to retreat.
The Qing soldiers scrambled to jump into the river to escape and swim to the other side, some of the Qing soldiers who could not know the water could only stare dryly on the shore, and many Qing soldiers were pushed and swelled, falling into the river and fluttering.
Seeing that there was no hope of escape, some Qing soldiers launched a dying counterattack against the Tianwu army, hoping to fight out of the encirclement and fight a way out.
The Tianwu Army's brigade rushed to the Daqing River, and the musket array quickly took shape, and a volley began, which immediately beat the Qing army's offensive back, and at the same time spread out in a fan shape, trapping the Qing army firmly by the lake, and shrinking the encirclement smaller and smaller.
"The river is not high, cross the river quickly!"
I don't know who shouted, and the Qing soldiers who stood on the dry bank to fight back knew that the river was less than one person high, and they could wade through it if they couldn't swim.......
In the midst of the noisy scolding, the Qing soldiers jumped into the water like dumplings and began a large-scale river crossing.
During the Tartar crossing the river, the Tianwu army naturally would not let go of such a good opportunity, and kept firing at the Qing troops in the river, but because most of the Qing troops only exposed the parts above the shoulders, the effect of the salvo was very poor and did not cause much lethality.
Seeing this situation, Zilharang immediately breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, no matter what, at least he was safe after crossing the river.
However, just as the Qing army crossed the Daqing River and stood on the shore one by one and was shivering from the cold, a large number of Tianwu troops appeared in front, and Mao Yuanyi led the army to copy it from the direction of Gaoyang!
Zilharang only felt that his eyes were straight, and he almost fell off his horse, and muttered, "It's over......."
Seeing that Zilharang was languishing and had no will to fight, Shuoto shouted: "Warriors of the Red Flag, go out with Benbeizi!" ”
Abatai's third son, Bolo, took the lead, leading the headquarters to rush and kill, and the death of his father and brother was vivid, and he wanted to kill all this group of Ming troops.
The battle began at noon and continued until evening, the Eight Banners Army suffered extremely heavy losses, countless casualties, and the corpses of the Qing army were floating everywhere on the Daqing River, and a large number of corpses blocked the flow of the Daqing River.
When Shuotuo and Bolo led the army to kill, the originally languishing Zierharang suddenly became very energetic, and when the Tianwu Army besieged Shuotuo on a large scale, he hurriedly led the men and horses of the Blue Flag Headquarters to break through and slip away.
Poor Shuotuo and Bolo didn't know how many projectiles from the Tianwu Army had been hit, and before they died, they watched Uncle Wang run away.........