Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Real Big Fish
Duoduo thought that letting Liu Liangzuo and the Xu brothers go out would definitely create big trouble for Liu Yongxi, but he didn't expect that this was the opponent Liu Yongxi wanted to meet the most, for these defeated generals, Liu Yongxi occupied an absolute psychological advantage, he told his subordinates: "Everyone be careful, 10,000 soldiers and horses are still 10,000 soldiers and horses after all, I only have one request for this battle!" ”
The audience immediately fell silent, everyone waited for Liu Yongxi's order, and Liu Yongxi also clearly told his generals: "This battle is only allowed to be won, not lost!" ”
Empress Zhang also added: "This palace is waiting for the generals to return with a great victory!" ”
The morale of the generals is like a rainbow: "We will definitely win this battle!" ”
In the past few days, the 15,000 officers and soldiers led by Liu Yongxi deliberately slowed down and prepared to completely defeat the Qing army with a dignified and upright momentum, but now with Liu Yongxi's order, the war machine is running with the highest efficiency, and one battalion leader after another is rushing to their target at the speed of thunder, and the warships, horse teams, and infantry teams are all advancing in an unstoppable posture, and whoever blocks their way is a dead end.
As Empress Zhang's most trusted pro-army general and the rising star of the Sincerity Mansion, Zhou Zhisheng is even more confident: "Don't let the Xu brothers run away, Liu Liangzuo has always been slippery, it is really not easy to catch him, but the Xu brothers are different!" ”
Zhou Zhisheng has high hopes for the Xu brothers, who called the Xu brothers' soldiers and horses are all temporarily recruited guerrillas, who are already vulnerable, but the Xu brothers also put on a posture of fighting with the Ming army, and the soldiers on the side also feel that the Xu brothers are a piece of fat: "General, don't worry, we can't catch Liu Liangzuo, will we let the Xu brothers run away, this is the fat sent to the door, if we can't eat it, we can't explain to Zhang Niangniang!" ”
Although Zhou Zhisheng's pro-army only participated in the final stage of the Qianjiang Campaign, and did not experience many actual combat tests, it still has an absolute psychological advantage over the Xu brothers, after all, Zhou Zhisheng's troops not only have an advantage in infantry, but also have an advantage in the horse team, and they have also been supported by many warships, so it is inconceivable to lose the battle in this situation.
There are not a few generals who have the same idea as Zhou Zhisheng, and everyone thinks that the Xu brothers have a little capital in total, and how can the Ming army lose this battle when and where the people occupy the right time, so as soon as the battle started, four or five thousand Ming troops besieged the Xu brothers with a thunderous force.
The Xu brothers can be valued by Dolgon and Duoduo, and they have some skills, and Xu Dingguo also left them the capital of hundreds of outlaws, but they belong to the guest army after all, and their reaction is a beat slower than the Ming army, which has the full support of the officials and people in Huzhou, not to mention that they are still the key targets of the Ming army.
Therefore, before the Xu Er'an and Xu Erji brothers reacted, there were already shouts of killing, gunshots, cries and the remnants of the retreating defeated generals, where had the Xu brothers seen such a big scene, they could only whip the defeated soldiers hard: "Go back, kill back quickly!" Otherwise, it will be dealt with by military law! ”
But the Xu brothers are about to break the whip, but the situation has not improved, on the contrary, there are more and more defeated soldiers, and the Xu brothers also found that the situation is getting worse and worse, they originally had two thousand four or five hundred people, but now they have lost at least a few hundred people, the strength is definitely less than two thousand, and the soldiers and horses they can control are even less than a thousand, so the Xu brothers immediately decided to retreat: "Retreat first, contain the team, and let Liu Liangzuo hurry over to support!" We only have 2,000 people, and Liu Liangzuo has 10,000! ”
It's just that the Xu brothers never thought that their retreat actually triggered a chain reaction, and Liu Liangzuo, who was also caught in a bitter battle, quickly shrank the front backwards as soon as he found out that the Xu brothers were retreating, and the Xu brothers, who got the news of Liu Liangzuo's retreat on all fronts, turned from shrinking the front to running all the way, not only throwing down tens of thousands of officers and soldiers under Liu Liangzuo's department, but even deliberately forgetting to notify the nearly 1,000 Eight Banners and Mongolian officers and soldiers sent to the town.
Liu Liangzuo is also a smart person, the Xu brothers ran all the way, and his escape speed was naturally not slower than that of the Xu brothers, and he also forgot to inform the group of Eight Banners and Mongolian officers and soldiers specially sent by Duoduo to the town, and the whole army retreated like a tide, and the captured officers and soldiers said in unison that the real captives were in the north.
Whether it was Zhou Zhisheng, Zhao Zhijie or Li Huaiqing, they suddenly found that the already weak resistance of Liu Liangzuo and the Xu brothers suddenly became slackened, even to the point where dozens of infantry could come and go freely.
Liu Liangzuo and the Xu brothers had already abandoned everything they had and rushed to the road, not only did they throw away food, ordnance, weapons, armor, chariots and horses, but even the dependents of the army.
For a while, there was everything in the loot, which made Zhou Zhisheng and Li Huaiqing feel dazzled, and they didn't know whether to pursue the Qing army or contain the loot first.
According to common sense, the fighter plane is not easy to come by, and it is definitely necessary to seize the time to pursue Liu Liangzuo and the Xu brothers, but the problem is that the loot thrown down by Liu Liangzuo and the Xu brothers is too small, and even Liu Yongxi didn't expect them to run so fast and drop the loot all over the mountains and valleys.
It's just that just when they were struggling repeatedly, exciting good news came from the front line: "Thousands of real captives? So what are you waiting for, hurry up and catch up, and you can't let go of a single one! ”
Changed to other Ming troops, as soon as I heard that there were thousands of Eight Banner Army and Mongolian soldiers from other domains participating in the war, I must have been frightened, and I couldn't even stand on my legs, but the Ming army under Liu Yongxi had repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the Eight Banner Army and even annihilated the existence of the Eight Banner Army twice. ”
"Hurry up and catch up!"
"Don't let go of any of them!"
"God-given opportunity, as long as this real captives are annihilated, will Jianyu still dare to besiege Huzhou?"
Before, there were five or six thousand Ming troops at the same time hit the idea of the Xu brothers, and now it is nearly 10,000 Ming troops who are like a tide to kill the Eight Banners Army who is responsible for Liu Liangzuo and the Xu brothers.
Jiala'e Zhen Wu Bai didn't know anything about his situation, he always felt that he was in charge of the town, and Liu Liangzuo and the Xu brothers could at least hold off the Ming army for a day or two to buy enough time for Duoduo to capture Huzhou.
Therefore, although he saw many soldiers and horses retreating from the main road, he still felt good: "Let Liu Liangzuo send people to enforce military discipline, how did he do it, so that there was such a rout as soon as he took over the battle...... Fuck ...... me These routs actually dared to make a move against the Eight Banners, and they even dared to release cold arrows! ”
He didn't know that this round of cold arrows was shot by the Ming army's forward.