Chapter 355: To each his own trade
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In this battle, the two sides fought from morning to sunset, and seeing that they could not take advantage of any further fighting, the two sides slowly disengaged in the freezing rain and withdrew their troops.
Checking the casualties can't help but make the coaches of both sides feel pain.
More than 700 people were killed and more than 600 seriously wounded, almost all of whom were wounded.
The casualties mainly came from Dolgon's firearm tactics, the so-called Fuhu Kaishan Formation and the five-column shooting method known as the Five Dragons Out of the Water, which taught a profound lesson to the firearms tactics of the Southern Chinese Army.
As for the rest of the casualties, they came from the stabbing and hand-to-hand fighting phases of both sides. Although those rattan players and pikemen were also brave in tacit cooperation, in the face of the Nanzhong Army's bad habit of putting a projectile in the barrel before charging, these rattan players were tragic.
In the face of the blow of the infantry of the South Central Army, accustomed to charging with bayonets under the cover of artillery fire, the two white flags suffered more losses.
"Zhengbai Banner lost 363 heavy armor soldiers, 500 bannermen, and 1,109 coated cattle records."
"The loss of the white flag is 279 heavy armor soldiers, 477 flag soldiers, and 1,297 coated cattle records."
The two brothers heard a series of numbers in the tent, and their hearts were pounding.
The two of them didn't care about the loss of those coated cattle records at all, as long as they fought. These people are. It's a pity that there are more than 1,000 heavy armor and bannermen. This is the root of the two white flags. In this way, only for the heavy armor and the flag ding, five or six Niu Lu of the two white flags have been cancelled.
"What about the casualties of those musketeers?"
"If you go back to the master, out of the three thousand firecrackers, only 1,600 or 700 people escaped, many of them are injured, and those who can pick up the firecrackers are only in their early 1,000s.
"Bastard! Not only could they not kill. I also want to raise this king well! Treat those who are injured. Good wine and good meat that are not injured to feed them alive! These people will come in handy in the future! ”
The freezing rain soon turned into snow slag, followed by small snowflakes, which soon turned into large snowflakes and fell.
During the day, there are occasionally a few dim lights flashing on the field. It was the auxiliaries of both sides cleaning up the battlefield. Pick up the corpse. Carry your wounded back for treatment. The bloody battle during the day made these auxiliaries full of awe for each other, and formed a subtle tacit understanding with each other.
Heavy snow soon covered the battlefield with flesh and blood.
In the son-in-law of the boar skin, the forehead inlaid with a white flag Gushan Ezhen Niu Hulu Turg (he married the princess Mukush of Heshuo. Count it as Dolgon's brother-in-law. Accompanied by him, he made a tour of the camp, and after Wen Yan comforted the wounded soldiers, it was already nearly four watches. Dorgon received an urgent message from his brother Dodor that he had sent a personal entourage, "A guest has arrived!" ”
"The second brother came here, could it be that Li Shouhan was a lobbyist?"
Seeing that in the big tent, Li Peiting was happily pushing the cup with Duoduo to drink, and Dolgon didn't say much, and some clothes took off his slush boots for him, sat cross-legged opposite Li Peiting, took a sip of the wine bowl, and then went straight to the point to ask Li Peiting's intention.
"Being a lobbyist? Not that interest! Fourteenth brother, your second brother is only interested in doing business! ”
"Doing business? Second brother, this is a battlefield where thousands of people have just been killed and wounded, what kind of business can be done? Could it be that you have even sold the coffin now?! ”
Duoduo got along with Li Peiting the best, and he was full of respect for the second brother who helped his three brothers get rich, and his words were that kind of familiar and informal closeness.
Li Peiting looked outside, and several Baya soldiers standing at the door of the tent were wearing heavy armor and covering the Nanzhong breastplate, and they were wearing iron and steel knives around their waists.
"Or is it something to buy? The second brother can rest assured, the treasures and gold silks in Jinan City are piled up, and the number of children is as high as hundreds of thousands, so the second brother just needs to open his mouth! ”
Dorgon ate a few bites of meat and drank half a bowl of hot soup, and his body was much warmer and his expression was much gentler.
"Well, two virtuous brothers, the second brother came this time, and he really wanted to do a big business with the two. The business is done, I'm afraid that the two virtuous brothers will get benefits that you can't imagine! ”
Hearing Li Peiting's vows, Dolgon couldn't help frowning slightly, in recent years, he has joined forces with Li Peiting to do business in Liaodong, which has also broadened his horizons a lot. But Li Peiting's opening up made him a little dissatisfied.
"Second brother, let's talk about it first, what kind of business do you want to use, what do you want to exchange for what we have in our hands?"
"The fifteenth brother said it well! Joyfully! Simple! I sold the two red flags to two virtuous brothers! ”
"Hahaha!"
The Dorgon brothers laughed loudly.
Before the laughter fell, Dolgon's expression turned cold, "Second brother, didn't you say that you came to be a lobbyist?" The two red flags have been broken and broken by Li Shouhan, Yue Tuo and Du Du have fallen into the hands of his Nanzhong army, but you said that you want to sell the two red flags to the two of me? How to buy and sell? ”
Several guards on the side saw the master's cold face and questioned, and without saying a word, they each drew their waist knives. As long as Dolgon gave an order, Li Peiting would be immediately dismembered.
"Those minions, your master hasn't spoken yet, what are you doing in a hurry to draw your sword? Fourteenth brother, you cut me down today, don't you two white flags plan to spend next winter? ”
Li Peiting's face was blank, and he also took out the style of the young master of Ning Yuanbo's mansion.
"Second brother, don't be angry, my second brother is also worried about what you have to do with the South Central Army on the other side. I'm afraid that it will not be good for you after that fat man knows it! ”
"Joke! If I hadn't had anything to do with them, I would have sold you so much? Besides, doesn't that fat man know that I'm in Nanzhong? Didn't those old westerns also procure military supplies for him all over the Ming Dynasty? He can have Lao Xi'er, and your brother will treat your second brother like this? ”
Li Peiting and Duoduo exchanged answers, leaving Dorgon speechless.
Dorgon waved his hand. motioned to those guards to withdraw from the big tent, and bowed down, "Second brother, don't be surprised, it's just that you came suddenly, this thing is really sudden." ”
"This set of rituals is exempt. I ask you, do you do this business or not? ”
"Second brother, please."
"Let me ask you, Uncle Tong stopped the rule that those who recapture the body on the battlefield and carry it back to their hometown can get half of the deceased's property. Does this rule still exist? ”
"Emperor Taizu Gao's rules. Which one dares not to execute?! ”
"Then, my commanded general, if you recapture the corpses of King Chengjun, General Yangwu, and Yue Tuo, the lord of the Zhenghong Banner Manchurian Banner, should half of the Zhenghongqi belong to you?"
"This?"
Dolgon's eyes flickered with Venus. The mind is in turmoil. Judging from the rules set by his father Nurhachi. This is not an overstatement.
"You made this request at the Ten Kings Pavilion. But does anyone dare to come out and oppose it? ”
"Wait! Second brother! Could it be that Yue Tuo has already? ”
"Yes, Yue Tuo has already died in battle!" Li Peiting used a more neutral word to illustrate the matter.
"And what about Dudu?"
"Dudu?" Li Peiting looked at Duoduo who was asking with a more ambiguous look. "Fifteenth brother, Du Du is enjoying many criminal laws of Dongchang at this time because he said that he was in Jinan with you!"
Duoduo grinned widely, and just picked up the bowl and gulped down the wine and ate the meat.
"Second brother, what did you say about that?"
Dolgon was clearly impressed by Li Peiting's conditions. can recapture or rescue Yue Tuo and Du Du, no matter whether or not the two red flags can be included in the bag, his status and prestige in the Eight Banners are incomparable to others. Even if the person on the throne wants to move himself, he has to think about it.
"Fourteenth brother, the second brother is just a mediator, it's a good talk, you two give me an errand money. The conversation is not good, and my brother only thinks that he is visiting friends on a snowy night. ”
The conditions put forward by the Nanzhong army were to exchange the two banner lords of Manchuria with the two red banners, Yue Tuo and Du Du, for the return of the Dewang family who were imprisoned by the Dolgon brothers in Jinan, as well as the hundreds of thousands of people who were captured by them in Jinan.
"It can't be!" Without waiting for Dolgon to speak, Duoduo jumped up first, "A corpse, a Dudu, the king of Changde and his son, and the general of Zhenguo, Zhu Ensheng, are they still okay, and they still want to exchange for hundreds of thousands of people in Jinan?" There are no doors! ”
"Dordor! You sit down! The second brother is here to help us! If you have something to say, it's good to say! Don't be rude to the second brother! ”
After reprimanding Dordor, Dorgon turned his face to Li Peiting with a spring breeze on his face. "Second brother, you came to me in a snowy day, this love, our brother must get it! However, this condition of Master Li of Nanzhong made us a little embarrassed. I wonder if there is room for negotiation in the road? ”
"It doesn't matter! If the two virtuous brothers have any requirements, just say, talk about business! It's just asking for a price to pay back on the spot! ”
The three shameless fellows began to bargain in the big tent.
The goods exchanged were each other's high-ranking captives.
In the camp with white flags, the gold-woven dragon of Belle Abatai was beaten down by the roaring wind and snow in front of his tent, and the morale of the camp was as low as it was in the camp today.
The tent was brightly lit, and Nurhachi's seventh son, Abatai, and Nurhachi's son-in-law, Nurhachi's son-in-law, Nurhachi, were sitting opposite each other and drinking.
Picking up the brass bowl and taking a sip, probably from the wound, a pained look appeared on Turg's face.
"Damn! These Nanban's bayonets are as fucking fierce as their soju! ”
"However, the general is good to you, didn't he send someone to use the captured Nanban life-saving bag for you immediately?" Abatai cut a piece of meat for his brother-in-law, dipped the spice in his hand, and handed it to Turg with a knife with a silver handle.
During the day, in the face of the bayonets of the group of the South Central Army, the troops of the two white flags were at a loss for a while. After many years of fighting, I have never seen an army that dares to start a field battle with the Eight Banners Army in person and take the lead in hand-to-hand combat.
The offensive tactics of the Nanzhong Army, like the tactics of firearms, were lined up in arrays, and they went back and forth in waves. The first wave rushed forward and was the first to greet with a projectile, and then the people followed the projectile with a bayonet. Fight spearmen and rattan players with bayonets.
In close combat, those pikemen and rattan players were a little overwhelmed. The bayonet is shorter than the spear and turns flexibly. It was longer than the big knife in the hand of the rattan player, and for a while, the former Ming soldiers who killed couldn't help but turn around and leave.
The soldiers of the first wave did not chase after them, and stopped on the spot to reload their ammunition and defend the follow-up troops. The second and third waves of soldiers immediately covered up and killed.
Only four of the two White Flag Torches have spears and broadswords that can engage in hand-to-hand combat, so how can they resist the attack of a combination of bayonets with skillful and tacit understanding? Soon, after two rounds of bullet rain and bayonet assault, the firecracker team was driven down by the bayonets of the Nanzhong army.
"Not good! This group of guys is going to storm the big array! ”
Abatai and Turg, who were beside Duoduo, saw at a glance the purpose of the Southern Central Army: their own defeated troops were in front, the Southern Central Army's musketeers were behind, and the two flanks were the cavalry walls of the Southern Central Army advancing in array. gradually surpassed the infantry ranks of the South Central Army. The replacement infantry drove the defeated troops to storm the main formation of their own army. From time to time, shells swept over the heads of the Nanzhong army and smashed into the ranks of those dressed in one-color white armor or red-edged white armor.
"White flag! Above! ”
Hearing the master's order, Turg took the lead and led hundreds of white-armored soldiers under his command. The Governor led nearly a thousand heavy armor to rush forward. Trying to pick up their own defeated soldiers. Hold off the pursuers of the South Central Army.
As soon as the battle began, Turg secretly breathed a cold sigh, knowing that the opponent's cavalry was judging by his own standards. Even the horses in the banner were better than them, but in front of the cavalry with spears in their hands, the heavy armor and bannermen, who had always been known to be invincible, were chased like pigs and screamed incessantly.
"Dismount! Fight on foot! ”
Turg immediately made adjustments according to the opponent's situation, and ordered the four hundred white-armored soldiers behind him to dismount and line up to let go of their own defeated soldiers.
"If anyone dares to rush into battle, shoot immediately!"
Turg is very aware of the seriousness of the situation, the Eight Banners have always chased and killed others, when has he ever fought such a defeat? If you let these remnants of the defeated army rush into the line and shake the entire two white flag army formations, it will not only be yourself, but it may even cause the entire friendly army to collapse and annihilate.
He led the white-armored soldiers to desperately suppress the bullets, and personally cut off the heads of several of the most screaming firecrackers, and it was only the blood and killing that brought these defeated soldiers to their senses, bypassing his blocking line and entering the military formation, and the collapse was temporarily alleviated.
But what followed was the surging tide of the Nanzhong army.
"What should I do?"
One of them was a little overwhelmed.
"The Southern Barbarians have powerful firearms and fierce fighting, so let the heavy armor soldiers rush forward and fight them with spears and halberds! Mix with them, don't let their cannons take advantage of them! ”
"It's a pity that we came in a hurry and didn't bring a shield car, otherwise we would have made this group of Nanban good people know how to do it!" Najia Lazhangjing scolded hatefully on the horse, and immediately jumped off the horse, beckoning the house slave to sort out armor, knives, guns, battle axes, bones and other weapons for him.
Qing soldiers, if not too hastily, have always been in front of the shield cart, behind the archers and gunners, and there are dead soldiers and sharp soldiers. They shielded their chariots, propelled by wheels underneath, and in front of them were thick planks, all covered with thick leather quilts to conceal the bullets. (Doesn't it look a bit like a dirt tank on the dirt road?) )
"Drums! Fight! ”
Turg looked at the Nanzhong army rushing with bayonets not far away, and roared in a low voice.
The fierce drums of war sounded, and along with the drums, the shouts and shouts of Manchu, Mongolian, and Chinese resounded everywhere.
In the shout, more than 1,000 white-armored soldiers and archers each drew their bows to the full, and the four-inch-long arrows pointed diagonally into the air. With the clanging sound of a bowstring, a trail of death was drawn through the air, heading straight for the pursuit formation of the Southern Central Army. can't help but make the formation of the Southern Central Army a little sluggish!
In the sound of fierce war drums, the two white flag dead soldiers wearing heavy armor, and the Baya soldiers with bright helmets and bright armor then pressed the formation and swooped down on the Nanzhong army in front of them. For a time, in the narrow area, the bayonets of the Nanzhong Army and the spears, tiger spears and halberds of the heavy armored soldiers were intertwined, and the bloody stabbing was glued.
The spears stabbed wildly, the long knives slashed and chopped, the narrow space, leaving almost no room for both sides to perform their skills, only the simplest stabs and smashes! Except for the thorn or the thorn, except for the smash or smash! With every move, there will be a corresponding smell of blood, and hot blood continues to flow from the fighters on both sides, soaking the cold ground under their feet, and then freezing into ice ballast.
Turg swung the heavy iron bone in his hand and smashed it head-on, and a Nanzhong army officer in front of him subconsciously raised the firearm in his hand to block. With a loud click, Turg smashed the gun in the officer's hand to separate the barrel from the butt. Then the bones smashed into the shoulder of the team officer, and the flesh and blood splattered, and the sound of broken bones crackled, and the team officer's shoulder collapsed entirely. Where the armor was broken, Bai Sensen's bone stubble was exposed.
The two house slaves cheered, and were about to step forward to cut off the head of the officer, and by the way shed off his armor.
Unexpectedly, with a few angry roars, several soldiers of the Southern Chinese Army rushed forward with bayonets fearlessly, and stabbed with bayonets in a series of stabs, forcing Turg to only wave the bone in his hand and retreat a few steps. watched as the officer was snatched back by several of his subordinates.
"Good Nanban! Sure enough, it's a good opponent! ”
Turg had a murderous attack. simply stripped off the heavy armor on his body, revealing a body of muscles and knots, exposing his upper body, with bones in one hand and a long knife in the other. led his soldiers and horses to repeatedly rush and kill Wu Biao's subordinates.
"This Nanzhong army is really strong!"
"Rao Yu Baylor, Chengjun Wang, and Anping Baylor are not unjustly lost!"
On a high slope behind the formation. Dolgon watched coldly as Turg and Abatai led their men and horses to kill repeatedly. However, it was never possible to break the formation of the South Central Army. From time to time, artillery shells fell on the rear of his own army, causing a splash of flesh and blood, causing a small commotion.
The two white flag officers and flag men who were constantly injured or killed were carried back from the front, and a body with blurred flesh and blood that could barely see its original face could not help but tighten everyone's hearts for a while.
"Damn Nikan! It's really good to fight! ”
Duoduo cursed. But there is nothing to be done.
He didn't know what to say, at this time, the Nanzhong Army was also at the end of the crossbow.
There were less than 200 people around Shouhan's father and son, and all the officers of the battalion office went down to the front line, and the casualties of the junior officers reached a quarter.
Even Wang Chengen led seven or eight little eunuchs to the artillery team Mai Tiansheng to volunteer to be a gunner, while Wang Dehua once again picked up a drumstick and beat the war drum. The two angels both knew that in this battle, either the two of them would go down in history or die here, and there was absolutely no third choice. And the officers who escorted the two angels came one after another shortened their necks as much as possible, and then shortened them a little, lest General Li see it, and ordered him to lead the team forward to fight these crazy Jiannu.
Both sides are struggling to persevere, hoping that the opponent will collapse first and be unable to hold on first.
"Master! More than half of Baylor's men were killed and wounded, please send reinforcements to the master! ”
"General! The garrison brigade is about to be overwhelmed! ”
"Tell Brother Qi that the Nanzhong Army is not tired yet! Let him resist again! ”
"Transfer 200 people from the Guards Brigade to Wu Biao, and transfer 100 people from the general's side to the Guards Brigade!"
"My lord! Isn't there anyone around you?! ”
"Joke! I still have a son here! Can that say that there is no one!? ”
The fifty guards around Hua Bao shouted in unison, and the crisp boy's voice became more and more prominent in the cannon fire and shouts of killing. They are the orphans of the martyrs after the previous wars, and they were raised by the Han guard, although they are not regarded as their own, but they are also graced and trained.
With a bang, the gold-woven dragon of the white flag Gushan Ezhen Turg fell to the ground, followed by a great chaos, and some people shouted on the battlefield, "The forehead is dead!" The forehead is dead! ”
When the Nanzhong Army saw that a white flag and a golden dragon had fallen, they shouted in unison, "Duoduo is dead!" Dodor is dead! ”
The formation of the two white flags gradually became a little flustered.
"What a sin deserves death!" Turg remembered the scene during the day when he was annoyed and angry, and slammed the copper bowl in his hand on the table.
Fighting with those Southern Barbarian soldiers, he couldn't help but be amazed, obviously his personal martial arts were commonplace, and any Yu Ding or even the clothed house slaves who accompanied the army could fight a few of them. It's hard to deal with more than two people wielding bayonets, ten Baturu against ten Nanban is very difficult, and a hundred against a hundred will definitely suffer.
After a little distraction, a soldier of the Southern Chinese Army saw the void, and a straight stabbed forward, rushing towards his neck. Turg hurriedly moved his steps to dodge, and at the same time waved his long knife to block. Unfortunately, it was still slightly off, and the four-foot-long spur pierced his shoulder entirely, and a burst of blood rushed out.
The two house slaves stepped forward, stabbed the soldier of the Nanzhong Army on the left and the right, and stabbed him fiercely with the tiger guns in their hands. The Nanzhong Army next to him judged from Turg's armor and many other circumstances such as the guards around him that this person must be a big man with a white flag. For a while, dozens of Nanzhong troops rushed towards the location where Turg fell to the ground, and in the blink of an eye, Turg's white flag Gushan Zhenzhi Golden Dragon Silk fell to the ground and was robbed by the Nanzhong army.
Then there was a "Dodor is dead!" The cry of the voice.
The morale of the Nanzhong army was greatly boosted, Wu Biao waved the iron rod in his hand, and shouted loudly, "Rush up and kill Duoduo, 100,000 gold coins!" ”
"This battle can't be fought again!" Dolgon saw that someone had lifted the four-fronted Turg, the thorns on his shoulders were still trembling slightly, and the lips of Turg, who had lost too much blood, turned white, and he was still muttering and screaming to kill.
"Dordor! Lead the people to go now! Pull our troops down! (To be continued......)