Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Pursuit of the Dead (I)
For a long time, it was sandwiched between the two Ming armies in a dead place that was difficult to get out, because there was still a distance between the two Ming armies, which was not long or short, and the northern front collapsed, but the distance gave Shang Kexi time to react.
Originally, according to his temporary response, he could always withdraw to the greatest extent. Unexpectedly, Chen Kai's cavalry came too fast, and he had to choose to intercept the cavalry led by Xu Erxian - more than 2,000 Qing cavalry in front of the Ming army on the northern front is not a problem to protect themselves, but at this moment, the frontal battlefield has undergone a sudden change, once the bottoming out Ming army finds that the opponent has become a paper tiger, it is bound to tear it to shreds, in order to express the long-suppressed emotions. On the Qing army's side, the division of troops failed to intercept and was about to be stabbed in the back by the Ming army.
With that loud shout, the exhausted Qing army was immediately in chaos, and then under the brave assault of the Ming army, the large array, which was still as heavy as a thousand pounds, started from a small crack, spread rapidly, and collapsed in only a moment.
The Eight Banners Army has been fighting for many years and has few defeats, but the battle situation has fallen to this field, and the fear of the people's hearts has instantly drowned out their psychological advantage over the Ming Army, and the screams of frustration have come and gone.
The situation of the battle was abruptly reversed, and the Qing army ran everywhere, up the mountain and down the river, and they lacked wings and did not fly to the sky. The direction of escape, the most common is directly backwards, the handsome flag of the Qing army is there, and the Jiangmen market where it has been stationed in the past two days is also in that direction, there is danger, people will always subconsciously want to flee to a familiar place, be with familiar people, so that it will be easier to obtain the so-called sense of security, even if it is only for a moment.
The army had collapsed, and this was all in the eyes of Shang Kexi and Jumala. They didn't expect the Eight Banners Army to be defeated like this, but since it had happened, they had to flee here as soon as possible. This is not only because of the Ming army's attack from the north and south, but more importantly, once it falls into the rout, it will be involuntary to go wherever it wants.
Shuai Qi fell, and Shang Kexi, who picked up the old tricks, took advantage of this to further aggravate the chaos of the Qing army's rout, and then galloped wildly with Zhu Mala with the gathered troops in the direction of Jiangmen. This is the direction of the main escape of the Qing army, some are purely subconscious, and some hope that the pontoon bridge is broken is Zhu Mala's deception, and some just have no idea, so with the general flow, this is the most.
The Qing army of the brigade rushed to Jiangmen, and there was also a great chaos on the left flank, they came to attack the mountain, so they did not control the war horse at all. These elite soldiers of the Pingnan Palace, who were stunned, looked at the chaos under the mountain, and the shouts of the "weak" Ming army in western Guangdong who had been swept down the mountain by them several times had already sounded in their ears. It's just that at this point, it's no longer worth the slightest ridiculousness, and those high fighting spirits and determination to win make them shudder and tremble so much that they can't fight again.
"North, flee into the woods!"
Shang Zhizhi is the eldest son of Shang Kexi's half-brother Shang Kefu, and has always been a trusted general in the Pingnan Domain. At this moment, the Qing army has been defeated, and they lack war horses, so it is pure fool's dream to go down the mountain and escape on two legs. In this case, Shang Zhizhi looked at the surrounding terrain, and had to choose to flee north along the mountains and forests, relying on the mountains and forests to get rid of the pursuers. As for the future, I can only leave it to fate.
Speaking of which, this vassal army is still the most elite of the Pingnan Palace, and it is the most powerful in the entire Pingnan Domain, and even in the entire Guangzhou City. However, the building overturned, and whether it was a mouse or a tiger inside, they had to run fast with their tails between their legs, and there was no other way.
The Qing army on the left flank fled to the mountains and forests, and the cavalry of Xu Erxian, who had taken a step earlier, had already encountered the cavalry of the two towns of the Ming army, and the strength of the Qing army was twice that of the Ming army, so Li Jianjie and Wang Qifeng did not dare to advance, but after a while, the infantry of the Ming army appeared at the edge of sight, and Xu Erxian, who had not yet fired, immediately took the cavalry of his headquarters and turned to the northwest direction.
Xu Erxian's decision was very simple, and it seemed that he had already thought about it. was delayed for a moment by this Qing cavalry, Li Jianjie and Wang Qifeng did not continue to follow, and still rushed to the main battlefield of the battle between the two armies according to Chen Kai's orders.
There, there are more important goals. Li Jianjie led the cavalry to gallop over, and saw that the Ming army was already driving the Qing army to flee to the Jiangkou area.
Chase after it, kill, cut off the head and tie it around the waist, and kill the red-eyed Ming army as if it was crazy, slashing and killing anyone who fell behind everywhere it looked. After the impermanence of the life, where did the Qing army still have time to think, surrounded by the combined forces of the Ming army on the southern front, the cavalry on the northern front, and the Ming army on the northern front who arrived later, they were quickly stuffed into the Jiangkou market.
The matter of the feudal soldiers eating people spread from Xinhui like the wind, this is the territory of Xinhui County, the distance is not very far, it has long been a well-known thing.
When the Qing army erected a suspension bridge and rushed into the Jiangkou market, what they caught was nothing more than some old, weak, sick and disabled who could not escape.
This place has long been empty, and the Qing army sent troops, and only a small number of soldiers were here to guard the back road and the people. When the Qing army was defeated and fled here, looking at the suspension bridges that had been cut off on the rolling Xijiang River, my heart was shrouded in a chill to the bone.
Crying is inevitable, after all, there is no way to retreat, there are pursuers behind, they are confined to this very small area by the Ming army several times their own, it can really be said that there is no way to enter the heavens and no door.
Rushing outside the bazaar, the Ming army did not attack, but cut down trees, collected wood, and built a circle of wooden fences around the Jiangkou bazaar. Chen Kai arrived at the battlefield and met with Li Dingguo, and after three or two sentences, he discussed it properly.
Because, whether it is the Ming army on the southern front that has fought for a long time, or the Ming army on the northern front that broke the enemy first and then attacked, it is nothing more than riveting strength under the stimulation of victory. At this moment, it shows that the fighting spirit is too high, and more is still that false fire, and in this Jiangkou market, nearly 10,000 Qing troops, most of them were expelled from the battlefield on the southern front, and some fled from the northern front.
The Ming army stopped the pace of the attack and began to besiege instead, with fences and trenches on the land and Ming warships on the water.
Rushing out, they didn't dare to face the two Ming armies that converged here, and they broke the system in the process of escaping, and now the soldiers can't find the generals, the generals can't be transferred, and there is no backbone, everyone will only act according to their own instincts. For a time, the Ming army did not attack and had no intention of attacking, but the Qing army was in chaos in the ruins. Some were fighting for food, some were grabbing houses, and some ambitious Qing troops were collecting door panels or something—not to serve as shields, but to make simple rafts to cross the river.
At night, with the cooperation of the Ming army's auxiliaries and people's husbands, the fence besieging Jiangmen has been repaired, and the Ming army has built a camp behind the fence to defend it.
Those camps are like this, and a bonfire is also set up every few meters on Chaolian Island, illuminating the river as if it were day - a small group of Qing troops fled, and the Ming army did not care, but if the number of people was a little too much, and they wanted to realize the maneuver before the Ming army reacted, then it was necessary to rebuild the pontoon bridge and use the capacity of the pontoon bridge to escape. The surrounding rivers were too wide, and the Qing army could not do anything, and the only opportunity was to rely on Jiangxinzhou such as Chaolian Island.
However, such an opportunity has been prevented by the Ming troops stationed on the island, who have also cleaned up the Qing troops left on the island while recovering the place. At this moment, this place is like a bright eye watching the Jiangmen market at the same time, making it difficult for the Qing army there to move a little bigger.
The sky darkened completely with the time, and the Qing troops who had been fighting and fighting for half a day were exhausted. Occupying houses or sleeping on the streets, the army of seven or eight thousand crowded the Jiangmen market to the brim, but the movement was obviously much smaller than in the daytime.
Inside and outside the fence, it gradually returned to tranquility. It's a pity that the land division that tossed for a day was mostly rested, but the spirit of the sailor was surprisingly good, and in the middle of the night, the fleet sailed across the river, and the side of the battleship was aimed at the direction of the Jiangmen ruins.
Even though the sudden bombardment caused a great chaos in the market, the Qing army, which had been tossing for a day, thought that the Ming army had launched an attack at night, and fled in all directions, and many people jumped directly into the water, completely in a posture of wanting to swim across the Xijiang River. After a long period of confusion, it was not until the Ming fleet slowly sailed past and the shelling was over that they found that there seemed to be no shells that had entered the ruins at all, so the overly nervous Qing troops found a place to sleep deeply.
The black light was blinding, which inevitably affected the shooting effect of the Ming army. However, it seems that there is not enough play, and in the second half of the night, another fleet sailed outside the Jiangmen, and another round of shooting added some nightmare perceptions to the Qing army.
On the first day, this was the case, and in the daytime of the second day, the Ming fleet on the river rushed over on time at breakfast and lunch to deliver a round of warmth, and even the Ming army land division with the fence also transferred a few large-caliber artillery pieces from Xinhui, and greeted the Jiangmen market regardless of whether it was aimed or not.
It's really not like to bully people like this, and some of the Eight Banners Army who held the idea that "minions can be insulted by their masters, but they can't be insulted by others" gathered together and launched a desperate attack on the fence.
As a result, it is conceivable that there are still some unwilling people who can escape back alive, and they will gather more people to fight to the death with the Ming army. But looking at the corpses of the Eight Banners Army that were not yet cold, touching the groaning stomachs, they still shook their heads a lot and ignored them a lot, at least they didn't intend to give their lives in vain for the dignity of their masters.
The Qing army trapped here includes the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, the Han Army Banner, and the feudal soldiers, as well as some green battalion soldiers and people, but they are not in the majority. Among them, whether it is the Eight Banners of the Manchu, Mongolian and Han armies from the capital, or the feudal soldiers of Pingnan and Jingnan, they are all troops with a relatively resolute will to fight. Therefore, when the Ming army besieged it here, they did not choose to surrender to the Ming army, but huddled here, and the right to wait for reinforcements should be stubborn.
However, with the hopelessness of breaking through and the inevitability of reinforcements, vacillation gradually appeared, especially the Ming army did not intend to let them stop living here at all, and shot a round at every turn, regardless of casualties, just to prevent them from living in peace, so disgusting people did not pay for their lives, and by the night of the next day, there had already been a matter of the Qing army sneaking to the fence to surrender to the Ming army.
Just like yesterday, the "watch" on the river continued in the evening, and several Qing soldiers with big shoulders and round waists sneaked to the edge of the market and put a wooden board spliced together with two door panels on the water.
It's like a wooden door can't carry Ruth and Jack, and it's impossible for such a wooden board to carry these Qing troops. However, they also had a way, tying ceramic jars to the corners of the door panels and around them, sealing them with ropes and lids, and other modified products that increased buoyancy also strongly supported them.
With the scabbard drawn, the door panel slowly drove towards the opposite bank of the lower reaches of the Xijiang River under the dual thrust of the water flow and stroke. At first, it was okay to arrive, they were rushing to set off after the Ming army's naval division "beat the watch", and the place they chose was far away from Chaolian Island, and the black cloth in the middle of winter was only accompanied by moonlight, and they were not afraid of being discovered by the Ming army. However, when we reached the river, the water became more and more turbulent, and a wave hit down, and the door panel was crooked, and a Qing army fell into the water. The Qing army on the door panel wanted to be rescued, and the Qing army in the water wanted to be rescued, coupled with the turbulent current, even if it was a big chaos.
In the chaos, not only did the Qing army fail to climb up again, but another Qing army was also dragged into the water. At this moment, the Qing army on the wooden board began to turn to guard against the two Qing troops, and the two Qing troops were also struggling to climb up again. Until, in the dark night, the plank was pushed by the river to a raised reef in the middle of the river, and in an instant it turned into a piece of broken wood and a senseless cry for help......
The Qing army, which had shelling to accompany meals and sleep, who did not eat well, immediately encountered another problem, that is, the uneven distribution of grain and grass. In the early days, the Qing army, which had gathered more men and horses, occupied the warehouses and some advantageous buildings, but as time passed, the Qing army, which could not escape, began to gradually appear infighting.
This was not encouraged by the Ming army, but in order to survive, in order to be able to eat, so as not to starve to death and become food for others, many Qing soldiers consciously and spontaneously fought among themselves. In the bazaar, fighting on the streets, scrambling in the houses, and even attacking the warehouse with more people gathered, chaos quickly became the main theme in this rout that lacked a backbone.
At the same time, the scattered surrenders to the Ming army also became larger and larger, and later there were more batches of Qing troops holding white flags to surrender to the Ming army.
By the third day, the initial rout in the ruins had shrunk by nearly half, and the rest were mostly exhausted. At this time, the well-fed and energetic Ming army outside the bazaar broke through the fence from the outside, rushed into the bazaar in formation, and swept away these remnants.
Those who surrendered earlier may still have a way to live. As for these diehards who stubbornly resisted to the end, there were many casualties in the fierce battle earlier, and Li Dingguo was too lazy to bother with words, and let the Ming army that rushed into the ruins kill them.
The one-sided battle soon ended, the auxiliaries began to clean up the ruins, and the officers on the Ming army's side quickly figured out the identity of the killed Qing army under the identification of the descendants: "Tell Your Highness, our department turned out the corpses of the four Niu Lu Zhangjing of the Eight Banner Army from those captive divisions, all of which belonged to the Han Army Banner." In addition, there is also the head of the general army company of the right wing of the southern domain of the captive Jingnan. However, the bodies of Shang Kexi and Jumala were not found. ”
"It's normal that I didn't find it, Shang Kexi is very cunning, and he won't fall into death so easily."
The specific beheadings are still being calculated, but in the Jiangmen Market alone, there are seven or eight thousand people decapitated plus prisoners, and even if Shang Kexi runs away, there are not too many people left. Five thousand, or six thousand, that's probably what it looks like. As for where they are now, Li Dingguo has probably guessed it, but according to the agreement between him and Chen Kai, it has nothing to do with them for the time being.
"Order, the whole army pulled out the camp and went north to seize Guangzhou. As for Shang Kexi and Zhu Mala, Chen Fujun had already gone to take care of them. ”
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