Chapter 405: Scapegoat
It's another pair of crossings.
At this moment, there were less than 2,000 Hui cavalry left who could still ride on horseback. Compared with the Manchu cavalry on the other side, it was even much less.
The battle situation can not be described as untragic, and these Hui cavalry can not be described as unbrave.
However, wars are not just about being brave enough to be victorious. Training and equipment are factors that cannot be ignored on the battlefield.
On the battlefield, it is often a single knife that can decide life and death. But if your sword is slower than another's, you are doomed to death. Or your knife is cut on someone else's stomach, but someone else's knife is cut on your body, and you are doomed to defeat.
This is why the Qing army, which was only about 3,000, dared to hedge against the Hui cavalry, which had nearly 8,000. The training and equipment of the two sides are also unequal.
The Manchu cavalry was in a state of conquest all year round, and the skills of killing the enemy had long been perfected. However, the vast majority of the cavalry of the Hui army were herdsmen who had just learned to use knives and slash.
At the same time, the cavalry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were all dressed in armor, not to mention the mountain armor and chain mail, etc., and the most inferior also had a set of cotton armor and leather armor. On the other hand, the cavalry of the Hui army basically did not see a few armor stomachs, even the most inferior leather armor was rare, and they were mainly ordinary linen and cotton clothes.
It is because of this that Wuya. Zhao Hui will confidently let his 3,000 cavalry to hedge against the 8,000 cavalry of the Hui army.
After the second hedge was interspersed, the surviving Hui cavalry fled the battlefield on horseback.
At this moment, no one continued to call on them to stay for "holy war", because the general who had just shouted for them to stay had already been killed by the Manchu cavalry during this hedge.
Although the "holy war" is "sacred", for those returning cavalry who survived, they really do not want to see Allah now.
As the battle between the cavalry ended, the battle between the infantry gradually showed signs of distinction. It is true that the strength of the Qing army is much smaller than that of the Hui army, but the balance of victory is constantly tilting towards the side of the Qing army.
It's the battle between well-trained and disorganized.
The Hui army was unjustly defeated, after all, these Qing troops were no longer like the Han people they killed, and they had little resistance. The Qing army is an army like a killing machine, and it is no longer a problem to fight two or three of them one by one, and now they have formed a formation, let alone kill the returning army.
Originally, the Hui army could support itself with a large number of people, but with the addition of the Qing cavalry, the infantry of the Hui army was quickly defeated.
"For the sake of the holy war, rush with me!"
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There are still many fanatics on the battlefield, who are constantly shouting and organizing men and horses to resist the Qing army's breakthrough.
But how can a large-scale rout of the army be prevented by a few? Those who organized the attack were quickly cut down to the ground by the Qing troops who poured in.
One, two, three, four...
There are many fanatics on the battlefield, but their force is worrying. As the Qing army continued to kill them, even the most fanatical elements were calmed down by the bloody scene.
No one wants to see Allah alive.
In the end, the Hui army could no longer hold it and was completely defeated.
"Come on! Warriors of Allah, how could they be defeated! Bai Yanhu, who was sitting in the Chinese army and watching the battle, was shouting at the moment.
"General, the army is now in a rout, let's leave the battlefield first! Otherwise, if the clear dogs come up in a while, we will be in trouble..."Rainbow Literature Network
“… That's right! General, the Han people have a good saying, stay in the green mountains, and you are not afraid of no firewood. As long as you are still here, our army can make a comeback at any time, and you are the hope of our army. The generals beside him were persuading Bai Yanhu to leave.
"No, I don't believe that Allah's warriors will be so defeated. Give me an order, let the generals under you immediately organize the men, and we have to continue to fight with Qinggou. Bai Yanhu, who had never experienced such a fiasco since the incident, now yelled at the generals next to him as if he had hysteria.
"What are you waiting for, don't hurry up and take the general away, I'll go and help you block Qinggou now." A high-ranking general beside Bai Yanhu commanded the guards beside Bai Yanhu.
"Yes..."
Several guards looked at each other for a moment, and then no longer hesitated to set up Bai Yanhu and leave the battlefield.
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At this time, except for a few people who were entangled by the Qing army, the Hui army had already begun to break and flee.
If there is a rout on the battlefield, it will surely suffer many more casualties than if it were to fight the enemy head-on.
This is exactly the case with the Hui army today, and the Qing army pursues them as if they were chasing and killing those who want to escape from their killing, and they will not spare any hand.
If the cavalry of the returning army is still there, cover for the infantry who have fled back to the army, or they will suffer fewer casualties. But the cavalry of the Hui army had been killed by the Qing army and had no morale, and had already fled far away. Therefore, whether these Hui infantry can escape from the battlefield depends only on their own luck.
"I surrender..."
"I surrendered..."
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Under the pursuit of the cavalry of the Qing army, he watched his companions who kept falling behind him. Some of the returning soldiers could no longer bear the pressure, and shouted on their knees with their hands raised.
"Poof... Phew..."
The Qing cavalry who rushed quickly did not seem to consider the intention of keeping prisoners, and kept waving the sabers in their hands to slash and kill the returning soldiers who were catching up.
Heavenly reincarnation, retribution is unpleasant.
Just as they didn't let go of anyone they hunted down. The Qing army also treated them in the same way.
Seeing that the Hui soldiers who knelt down were constantly killed by the Qing army that caught up, some of the Hui soldiers who were ready to surrender understood that the Qing army was not prepared to take prisoners. Otherwise, they wouldn't have killed like this.
Now they can only run away on their own legs, otherwise they will have to go to Allah.
Normally, when the battlefield is defeated, the victor will spare their lives when facing an enemy army that has no intention of resisting. In addition to reverence for life, it can also further disintegrate their morale and not push them into a hurry.
Now the reason why the Qing army is so abnormal and shows no mercy to the Hui army on the battlefield is because this is Qianlong to Wuya. The meaning of Zhaohui.
In the pacification of Dzungaria, Qianlong let Wuya. Zhaohui carried out a massacre of the Mongol people in Erut in Dzungaria, and the recurrence of the rebels in Amur Sana made Qianlong too lazy to appease Dzungar again.
But now the reason why the Hui army is subject to Qianlong's order not to leave prisoners is because the rise of the bandit army makes Qianlong feel very faceless.
In particular, after the suppression of bandits defeated Qianlong could only grit his teeth and sign peace talks, Qianlong vented his anger on these returning troops to the bandit suppression army.