Chapter 470: The main force arrives
"Hahahaha, our reinforcements have arrived, see if the Tartars will die this time!" Ji Feng laughed.
Originally, he was confident that he would hold the camp firmly, but now with the support of the Second Army, he is as stable as Mount Tai, and the Qing army wants to annihilate his vanguard army, and there is no possibility at all.
"Bang bang bang" intensive fire, countless bullets passed through the flesh and blood of the Qing army, shooting pieces of Qing troops.
The arrival of the Second Army instantly tore a gap in the dense Qing army, and continued to approach the besieged First Army and the Seventh Army, making rapid progress, and the Qing Army, which was already demoralized because it could not break through the firepower of the First Army and the Seventh Army, became even more demoralized.
The clothes on the soldiers of the Second Army were obviously not dry, and their feet were stained with a lot of mud, which made them look a little embarrassed, but in fact they were not low, and the Qing troops along the way kept retreating.
It didn't take long for the Second Army to join up with the besieged First and Seventh Armies.
"Commander Ji, Commander Chang!" Zhou Cao said hello to the two.
"Commander Zhou!" Ji Feng and Chang Shunhou also said hello to Zhou Cao with a smile, and the second one came at a good time.
Noticing that the clothes on Zhou Cao's body were not yet dry, and there were still mud in many places, and the same was true for the other soldiers of the Second Army's Yinglong Army, which was confusing.
"Why did Commander Zhou and the Second Army make such a mess?" Ji Feng couldn't help but ask.
Zhou Cao looked at the clothes on his body, he was really embarrassed, and said with a smile: "The Qing army has done some trickery, blowing up a reservoir and flooding the road, the emperor took the main army on a detour, hindering the advance of the main army, and it will only arrive in about half an hour, I am afraid that something will happen to you, and the second one will wade through the water to support first!" Zhou Cao said with a smile.
In fact, in terms of distance, Zhou Cao and the Second Army should have arrived earlier, but Dolgon not only blew up the reservoir and flooded the road, but also sent 20,000 people to ambush in one place in order to be safe, and the Second Army broke through the ambush of 20,000 people before coming.
"Blowing the reservoir open?" Ji Feng was dumbfounded: "The Qing army is really scheming, but they think about it beautifully, the first army and the seventh army are actually so easy to be gnawed by them." ”
Ji Feng still didn't say a word, if the Ying Long Army of the First Army hadn't changed its outfit, if there was no grenade support, Dolgon would have been known as a great talent, and Bacheng Zhen might have succeeded him.
The Second Army, the First Army, and the Seventh Army converged, and their combat effectiveness increased greatly, and the besieging Qing army had no way to take them at all.
On that inconspicuous hillside, the arrival of the Second Army could not cause any waves for him, except for the speed of the Ming army's support, which surprised Dolgon, and in the face of such a favorable battle situation, he was unable to annihilate the vanguard army of 40,000 men in the Ming Military Region, and he not only felt powerless, but also felt a trace of despair.
As long as this battle can be won, it will not only be able to severely hit the morale of the Ming army and reduce the strength of the Ming army, but also improve the morale of the Qing Dynasty, killing two birds with one stone.
As long as the vanguard army of the Ming army is completely annihilated, then the Qing army, which is more than 1.5 million troops under the great morale, will definitely be able to defeat the Ming army, at least four or five percent of the chance to defeat the Ming army.
However, after all, people are not as good as heaven, the Ying Long Army is no longer the previous Ying Long Army, the Ming Army is not the previous Ming Army, the speed of change is far beyond his expectations, this decisive battle outside the war, after all, the Qing Dynasty was defeated, and the consequences were completely opposite to the original assumption, not only could not hit the morale of the Ming Army, reduce the strength of the Ming Army, but the morale of the Qing Dynasty was beaten to the bottom.
"Regent, the reinforcements of the Ming army have arrived, and the main force of the Ming army is not far away, the army has already suffered heavy casualties, and it is impossible to achieve its goal, so let's withdraw!" Toyue himself came and said to Dolgon.
Dolgon sighed weakly, he is not a fool, so far, he has also seen that things cannot be violated, this war, the Qing Dynasty was defeated, counting the three major battles in Shandong, the Qing Dynasty has been defeated in four battles!
"Order to withdraw!" Dolgon was extremely reluctant to give the order.
Tuoyue immediately breathed a sigh of relief, the army had already suffered more than 80,000 casualties, and he was really afraid that Dolgon would take advantage of the horns.
As soon as the order to retreat was passed down, the attacking Qing army was relieved, threw down countless corpses on the battlefield, and retreated like a tide.
"Hehe, the Qing army has retreated!" Ji Feng said with a smile.
"Do you want to pursue it and expand the results?" Chang Shunhou was quite eager to try.
Ji Feng's expression moved, and he was also a little moved, the main army was obviously not far from here, and it was indeed very likely to expand the results of the battle by pursuing the Qing army at this moment.
"Two commanders, in my opinion, I still don't want it." Zhou Cao, who had always been safe, shook his head and said: "Although the Qing army has retreated, its strength is still there, and it still has the strength to fight back. ”
Although the Qing army suffered more than 80,000 casualties, even Dongguang County was directly abandoned, but the retreating Qing army still had more than 260,000, the strength was still strong, but it was not a soft persimmon, the Ying Long Army and the Seventh Army got together and could not rely on the dense and powerful firepower to beat the Qing army, once the pursuit was launched, it was dispersed, lost the dense firepower, and the Qing army could only be hand-to-hand combat when encountered.
Ji Feng and Chang Shunhou thought about it, and knew that there was such a possibility, but they were not reckless and desperate people, so they sighed with great pity and dispelled the idea of chasing and killing the Qing army.
"Order, the army enters the city!"
Since the Qing army had abandoned Dongguang County, Ji Feng and others were not polite, ordering the army to occupy the city, and without waiting for the main army to arrive, they ordered a part of the soldiers to start cleaning up the battlefield.
Half an hour later, a blood-stained five-clawed golden dragon banner appeared, and a figure of black pressure.
It was the main army led by Zhu Ci who arrived.
"Your Majesty, the last general Ji Feng, see the Emperor!"
"The last general, Zhou Cao, see the emperor!"
"The last general is often smooth, see the emperor!"
Ji Feng and the three of them greeted Zhu Ci at the city gate and stumbled into the city.
The arrival of the main army heralded the final decisive battle, and the Battle of Hebei was about to begin.
Ji Feng thought that Zhu Ci stumbled to report the battle under Dongguang City, including the artillery battle with the Qing army, as well as the losses of his own side and the losses of the Qing army.
Hearing Ji Feng and Chang Shunhou's description of the Qing army's cannon, Zhu Ci frowned, it seemed that what he was worried about had happened, and the Qing army had indeed relied on the stolen technology to imitate the Ming Dynasty's Shenwu field cannon.
Zhu Ci is not afraid of losing to the Qing army because of this, today's battle under Dongguang City proves that the artillery of the Qing army is far from being the opponent of the Ming Dynasty, but in the end because the artillery of the Qing army has caused a lot of casualties to the first army and the seventh army, the decisive battle in Hebei, the Qing army must have more artillery, which means that the army will have more casualties in order to win the Northern Expedition.
At this point, there is no use worrying.
Zhu Ciji put his worries behind him for the time being, and the next decisive battle was the most important.
"Spread my will, the army will rest in Dongguang County for a day, and attack Cangzhou tomorrow!"