Chapter Forty-Three: Deserted and Fleeing
It's just that Zu Dabi knows very well that Bolobel and the Qing army outside the city are about to be cornered, and if they really have to wait a little longer, I'm afraid they can only collect the body for Bolobele: "Don't forget that our dependents are all in Beijing, if Baylor is left outside the city, how can we explain to the regent and the king of Yu?" ”
As soon as Zu Dabi said this, the Han army officers present felt that there was some truth, their family business and dependents were all left in Beijing, if Bo Luo survived, he would definitely sue them fiercely, so several officers changed their minds: "Let's go out of the city to fight the Jinhua thieves, right?" ”
"After today's battle, there should be more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Hangzhou, and there should be hope!"
"That's right, there are at least 10,000 soldiers and horses and dozens of red-coated cannons, and Hangzhou can still hold it!"
It's just that the more these officers talked, the more unconfident they became.
After all, when the Boluo army was at its peak, there were more than 40,000 troops and more than 30 red-coated cannons, although there are still more than 30 red-coated cannons, but there are only 10,000 remnants left in the 40,000-strong army at most.
And what's worse is that the strongest combat power of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and the Outer Domains of Mongolia have all suffered annihilating blows, and even a few of the strongest green battalion soldiers have been hit hard, and now they can only rely on Zu Dabi's Eight Banners Han Army to support the endgame, but even Zu Dabi does not think that his Han Eight Banners are the opponent of tens of thousands of Yue Ming troops.
Therefore, someone immediately retorted to them: "No matter whether Hangzhou can hold it or not, rushing out now is a dead end!"
"Let's go out of the city now to fight the Ming army, I'm afraid no one will collect our corpses!"
"The Eight Banners of Manchuria can't hold on, what use can we use for these Eight Banners of Han!"
"At this time, does it make sense for us whether Hangzhou can hold on?"
Just when everyone was arguing endlessly, a thunderbolt of news suddenly came: "The north gate has been opened, and Tian Xiong ran away from the north gate with Huang Degong's old department!"
"Tian Xiong ran away, Tian Xiong ran away, what should we do!"
"Not only Tian Xiong ran away, but many green battalion soldiers also ran away!"
"All ran away, the green battalion soldiers and the old Han army all ran away!"
Now Bolo and the Jinhua army are fighting a decisive battle outside the city, and they have no intention of intercepting these Qing troops who broke through from the north of the city, but Tian Xiong's run reminded Zu Dabi: "Tian Xiong, they run, Hangzhou can't be defended, let's run too, after all, Bolobel is still fighting outside the city, and the Jinhua thieves have no intention of taking care of us at all!"
Bolo wanted to sacrifice Zu Dabi's Eight Banners of the Han Army to save the situation, but now Zu Dabi has figured it out, in this troubled world, the soldiers and horses under his command are the biggest capital, and now the Jinhua thieves are about to enter Hangzhou City, Duoduo urgently needs the strength of his own Eight Banners of the Han Army.
It's just that he still has a history of falling into the water after all: "Let's break through to Nanjing immediately, and now someone needs to go out of the city to inform Bolobelle!"
With Zu Dabi's order, the Eight Banners of the Han Army abandoned the red-clothed cannons and all other heavy weapons and baggage, and even took away all the mules and horses in the city, and broke through to the north with the momentum of thunder and thunder, although the Ming army in the north of the city was expected to break through because of Tian Xiong and several Han armies, but there was still not much way to gallop out of thousands of horseback teams, so they could only let this Han Eight Banners run all the way north.
And Bolo, who was still fighting hard outside the city, could be said to be furious after hearing the news, and he couldn't wait to hack Zu Dabi to death now: "My Daqing is not thin on Zu Dabi, is this how he repays Ben Baylor?" Sooner or later, the regent and the king of Yu will hack him to death!"
Although the Qing army was defeated in the south and west of the city today, there were still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses according to Boluo's expectations, plus more than 30 red-coated cannons, Hangzhou was still as stable as Mount Tai, and the Ming army wanted to break the city for at least a month.
But Zu Dabi ran away with the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and the red-clothed artillery in the city could only be a pile of scrap metal because of the lack of Han gunners, and Zu Dabi's escape would definitely trigger a chain reaction, and the Han army and the green battalion soldiers would flee together even if they did not surrender, and Hangzhou City became an empty city with no soldiers to defend.
Thinking of this, Bolo was almost so angry that he fell off his horse, but Zu Dabi informed him in advance before retreating, which was considered to be benevolent and righteous, so Bolo knew that it was a dead end to continue to fight with the Ming army, and he shouted loudly: "Break through, break through to Nanjing!" Follow me towards Nanjing! As long as you can go to Nanjing with me, it doesn't matter how many prospects you want!"
But the Ming army that had missed the fighter plane finally reacted, although they failed to block Tian Xiong and Zu Dabi's department, but for this Qing army that was already in the encirclement, it was blocked in front and back, and the Ming army was killed in all directions, Bolo had to pay a heavy price for every step forward, he shouted loudly: "If you can rush to Nanjing City, you must tell King Yu and the regent what happened, and you can't make the blood of the Eight Banners warriors flow in vain!"
Speaking of this, Bolo, who already knew that there was no hope of breaking through, shouted: "Wave out my banner and tell them that Belebolo is here!"
Now the Qing army has almost discarded all the battle flags, so when Bolo's banner was played, several nearby Ming troops knew that this was a real big man, and some sharp-eyed and lively Ming troops even recognized the meaning of this flag: "It's Bellebolo, don't miss the opportunity to make meritorious contributions!"
Bolo's banner attracted at least a dozen Ming troops, and under the tide of siege, Bolo was stabbed by Rulin's spear and fell in a pool of blood before he even had time to say his last words, and the white-armored soldiers and red-armored soldiers around him were also wiped out, but it was this banner that covered the northward breakthrough of nearly a thousand Qing troops.
But for the Qing army, even with the cover of this flag, their escape has just begun, although they know that they do not need to break through to Nanjing, as long as they flee to Huzhou and Jiaxing, they will have the opportunity to meet with the reinforcements sent by Duoduo, but this is a long escape of hundreds of miles, they will encounter countless Ming army pursuit and accidents along the way, and there will be very few people who can really break through.
For the commanders of the Ming army, including Xing Shengping, Zhang Guowei, and Wang Zhiren, the collective breakthrough of Tian Xiong and Zu Dabi completely disrupted their established plan, after all, according to Xing Shengping's original plan, he was ready to annihilate all the Qing troops in Hangzhou, and now at least 10,000 Qing troops broke through from different directions, and there were many horse teams among them, and it was quite difficult to block them all, at least a few thousand Qing troops had to run away.
But from another aspect, this is another brilliant victory, the most ideal expectation is to take ten days to take Hangzhou City, after all, the Qing army in Hangzhou has more than 30 red-coated cannons, and there are tens of thousands of defenders in the city, but no one expected that after the collapse of the Eight Banners Army and the Mongol soldiers of the Outer Domain, the Han Eight Banners and the new annexed army directly abandoned all the red-coated cannons, heavy weapons, and baggage and abandoned the city, and the Ming army was caught off guard.
But from another point of view, this was a brilliant victory that exceeded expectations, the Ming army could not only take Hangzhou ten days or even a month earlier, but also reduce the casualties of at least a few thousand, and more importantly, as a small local court, taking Hangzhou was a great victory.
No one will pay too much attention to a small court of Jinhua, but taking Hangzhou is completely different, although after taking Hangzhou, there are still some counties in Zhejiang controlled by the Qing army, but just taking Hangzhou means that the small court of Jinhua has become a small court of Zhejiang, in the past, it was a small half of Zhejiang's strength to resist the Qing Dynasty, and now it is to fight against Jianyu with the strength of the whole Zhejiang.
And there are many tangible benefits to taking Hangzhou, just the Qing army dropped more than 30 red-coated cannons, and countless other trophies, and after taking Hangzhou, the Hangjiahu Plain will be owned by the Ming army.
Therefore, the generals of the Ming army were all jubilant and talked about the next step of development: "Yue Guogong said that he would strive to recover Jinling this year to worship Xiaoling, and I thought that Yue Guogong was too optimistic at that time, but now it seems that there is great hope for recovering Jinling this year!"
And Princess Kunxing, who had been relatively silent, also interjected and said: "Hurry up and send a horse team to catch up, you can't let these Jianyu who escaped from Hangzhou add trouble to Brother Yongxi!"
Xing Shengping immediately nodded and said: "What the princess of Jianguo said is very true, the battle of Hangzhou must be perfect, although the soldiers are very tired, but these prisoners must not be allowed to disrupt the deployment of Niangniang and Yue Guogong!"
He had already gotten inside information from Mrs. Xing before, although his brother-in-law Liu Yongxi, the Duke of Yue, was still the generalissimo of soldiers and horses, he was ready to be promoted to the king of Yue, and as the second military general of the small court of the country, he naturally had the opportunity to be crowned marquis and uncle.
Although Mrs. Xing suggested that Xing Shengping should try to be as low-key as possible, and it is best to be crowned an earl first as a starting point like Uncle Chengyi, but Xing Shengping's heart is still hot, and he hopes that he can be a marquis this time, so he is very polite to Princess Kunxing, and hopes that this princess of the prison country can help herself say a few good words in front of Queen Zhang so that she can ascend to the sky in one step.
And the princess of Jianguo immediately turned her attention to Zhang Guowei, a scholar who had been supervising the battle in Hangzhou: "Zhang Xiangguo thinks there is anything that needs to be added?" ”
Although the Qing army that escaped this time was dominated by the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the newly attached army, and the real Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners were only a few, Zhang Guowei had suffered a lot and even fell from his post because of the matter of "arsoning with the enemy out of the customs" when he was still in the Ministry of War, so he immediately said: "What His Highness said is very true, the opportunity is rare, and you can't let go of any Jianyu, but Your Highness, you have more important things to deal with now!"
Zhang Guowei said very seriously, so everyone's expressions became serious, and even Princess Kunxing's tone became solemn: "Xiangguo, what are you talking about more important things?" ”
Zhang Guowei said very seriously: "Originally, I should have asked Her Royal Highness the princess of the prison country to enter the city immediately to supervise state affairs, but the major affairs of the country are in worship and Rong, please Your Highness immediately lead 40,000 soldiers to conquer Huzhou!"