Chapter 292 [Marston Service]
Seeing this, the accompanying soldiers also began to act, each drew his sabber in his hand, and slashed and killed the officials and servants in the marshal's mansion, killing all of them, and some of them just glanced at them and asked in fear, "You, what are you doing here?" ”
Despite this, there is still no room for survival! The Dashun Datong Prison Army in the lobby felt that something was wrong after hearing the movement, and immediately got up and ran to the backyard, and when General Ming Zhenshuo and the General Soldier of Datong Town came, he only saw the ladies and a few servants who were frightened in the hall, and he immediately asked, "What about the Ke Prison soldiers?" ”
A lady pointed in the direction of the backyard, but immediately hugged his leg and said, "Please, don't hurt my husband, please!" ”
But General Ming Zhenshuo and the general soldier of Datong Town, where did he care about this, he directly kicked away and chased out, but fortunately, he found it in time when the Datong Prison Army of Dashun climbed over the wall, and directly threw out his saber and stabbed him in the back, so that Ke Jianjun, who was climbing the wall, vomited blood and fell to the ground and died.
Later, General Ming Zhenshuo and the chief soldier of Datong Town returned to the hall to meet the soldiers, and the soldiers asked, "Lord General of the town, what should they do?" ”
He didn't say kill? Instead, he signaled to keep it, and he hurriedly ran to the castle tower of the capital to pretend to pass the military order, and asked the soldiers defending the city to open the city gate.
But he was stopped by a few guards! In desperation, General Ming Zhenshuo and the chief soldier of Datong General Town had no choice but to pull out a bloody saber and put it on his neck, shouting: "Soldiers in the city, listen, this town is the general soldier of Datong General Town given by the Great Tomorrow Son, and today the thieves in the city will be killed, if you continue to help the abuse, there is only one way to die!" Quickly lay down your weapon and open the gates to avoid death and reuse. ”
After hearing this, the soldiers defending the city thought about it and decided to open the city gate and follow them to return to the Ming and Shun.
The news of the mutiny soon reached the ears of Zhang Tianlin, the governor of Dashun Xuanda, who was in Datong Town, and he decided to send troops to send troops to the nearby Datong Left Guard, Datong Right Guard, Datong Qianwei, Yunchuan Wei, Yulin Wei, Weiyuan Wei, Pingyu Wei, Gaoshan Shouyu Qianhusuo, Jingping Shouyu Qianhusuo, and other garrisons to prepare to crusade against the rebels.
Of course, he himself also gathered a 60,000-strong army of soldiers and horses, and planned to salute first and then persuade Jiang Jiu to surrender?
But what he didn't expect was that the nearby Weisuo army, which had already been instigated by Zhao Guangqing, the left guard and the right general of Ming Datong, made the entire Shanxi line command and envoy all the guards to mutiny, and also showed his dissatisfaction with suppressing himself against the Liukou.
On the contrary, it was the general of Ming Zhenshuo who raised the banner of rebellion and the general soldier of Datong Town: Jiang Xuan, who only led the capital to the mansion and the third brother Mingyang and the general soldier of Wei: Jiang Xuan, and led the headquarters to lead 20,000 troops to Datong Town, and the two armies encountered three miles outside the city.
At this time, the governor of Dashun Xuanda, Chaotianhou, still planned to persuade him to surrender, after all, he had saved his life, and he was not afraid of the rebels at all because of his strong army, but he was rejected by General Ming Zhenshuo and the general soldier of Datong Town.
He said in front of the battle, "My Jiang clan has been a Ming courtier for generations, guarding the frontier for the imperial court, and today's restoration of vision is in accordance with the way of heaven, no need to say more, let the horse come!" ”
When he said that, there was a herald of the Shun army, who hurriedly ran over and reported, "Report, Your Excellency the Governor, the armies of the various guards have been assembled and are converging towards our headquarters. ”
After speaking, the herald also pointed to the white and black Shunzi flags and Da Xuan erected not far away, and couldn't help but make the Governor of Dashun Xuan, Chaotianhou, smile happily, "Haha, now that the governor is victorious, General Jiang surrenders!" For the sake of acquaintance, the Governor will ensure the lives of you and your men, and forgive you for your innocence! ”
How did he know that General Ming Zhenshuo and the general soldier of Datong General Town did not listen at all, but directly ordered the Ming cavalry to charge over, and let the soldiers beat drums and cheer.
The cavalry of the Ming army in the front team shot with fire guns and bows and arrows in the distance, and when they were almost close, they drew their sabers, and everyone held goose wing knives and slashed at the archers of the front team of Liukou, while the Ming troops in the squadron used fire guns to shoot in formation.
However, the Liukou army relied on the strength of the crowd and began to fire and open artillery, bombarding the Ming camp in an attempt to disrupt the fire team shooting, and then the cavalry rushed over.
How could it be that the iron cavalry of the Ming border army was too fierce, directly from the left and right sides, quickly broke through the Shun army archery team and the Shun army spear team, and directly faced the Shun army infantry knife match, and the war can be imagined a row of slaughter in the past.
However, the Ming cavalry and fire team also suffered heavy losses! Mingyang and General Wei, who were watching the battle, couldn't help but order: "The rear artillery battalion listened to the order and immediately ignited the fire and opened fire." ”
But General Ming Zhenshuo and the chief soldier of Datong Town grabbed him and said, "Don't worry, everything is under my control!" ”
At this moment, the two sides rushed to the Shun army with a slight advantage, and although the Ming cavalry killed in front of the main general of the Shun army squadron, most of them were killed and wounded! It also disappointed the governor of Dashun Xuanda, Chaotianhou, and he decided to mobilize the squadron Shun army to counterattack.
A large number of infantry, archers, spear teams, fire guns, and cavalry of the Shun army rushed directly to the Ming cavalry, making the weak Ming cavalry slaughtered! It was almost defeated.
At this critical moment, the guards from all over the country also arrived in time to join the army, so that the Shun army was more morale boosted and attacked the Ming army, and the artillery was fired again and again, and the muzzle of the cannon was pressed and blown out, and the governor of Dashun Xuanda, who was responsible for commanding the battle, rushed to the Ming cavalry on horseback and slashed and killed, as if victory was in sight.
But the Weisuo army that came at the critical moment didn't help the Shun army defeat the Ming army? Instead, they counterattacked the Shun troops, setting up artillery in front of the formation and firing at the guncorps, and cavalry and infantry advanced through the ranks.
In less than half a pillar of incense, the Shun army was defeated and fled, and the main general Dashun Xuanda, the governor of Chaotianhou, was killed by the Ming army in the chaos, and he was well deserved! It was not divided by General Ming Zhenshuo and the general soldier of Datong Town.
After the war, General Ming Zhenshuo and the general army of Datong Zhenzhen were merged, and the guards from all over the country who came to oppose Shun announced that they would return to the Ming Dynasty, and asked them to elect a clan to support them, so as to prove that they were sincere in regaining their sight.
In the first time, everyone elected Datong Town, which was governed by the prince of the Ming Dynasty, belonged to the domestic jujube powerhouse vassal king, both; Ming Zaoqiang County King: Zhu Dingshan, ready to support him to continue to worship Emperor Ming.
On the 2nd of July, the Stuart dynasty of Europe broke out again, and the royal army and the parliamentary army met in the Marston moor, and the two sides began the first large-scale battle since the civil war.
Rupert, Earl of Stuart and commander of the royal cavalry, led the royal cavalry to quickly occupy the entire moor, and the Parliamentarian army immediately advanced on the Marston moor when they learned of the situation.
At about 7 p.m., the cavalry on the left flank of the Reichstag army first rushed down the high ground and attacked the enemy, followed by the center infantry and the cavalry on the right flank of the Reichstag.
Among them, Lieutenant General of the Congressional Army: Oliver Cromwell, who was responsible for commanding all the cavalry of the Eastern Alliance on the left flank, as well as the dragoons and the Scottish cavalry (Scottish cavalry), a total of about 4,300 men, attacked the right flank of the king's army.
Although the Parliamentarian army bravely resisted the royal army, with the support of other generals of the parliamentary army, he quickly routed the first and second lines of cavalry of the royal army's right flank on the wasteland, causing the royal cavalry commander to flee.
An hour and a half later, the left flank of the Congressional Army was victorious.
It was a brutal hand-to-hand combat, in which the Chinese lieutenant general was pierced in the neck by a lead bullet and passed through his eye, leaving him semi-blind in the eye, but he continued to fight on the battlefield.
Although the attack of the cavalry of the parliamentary army was successful, the parliamentary troops on other sides were defeated and suffered more than half of the casualties! The infantry of the parliamentary army in the center and the cavalry on the right flank were fiercely counterattacked by the infantry and cavalry of the royal army, and they retreated step by step and were in a critical situation.
In particular, the Baron of the Parliament: Thomas Fairfax, led his troops and some militiamen, who were almost completely wiped out when attacking the left flank cavalry of the royal army! For when the cavalry of the Parliament led by him won a swift victory, they could not support the following troops in time due to the thorns and bumps in the Marston moor, but were crushed by the king's army.
The central army of the parliamentary army was also crushed by the royal army, and several generals were unable to organize their troops for a second battle, and even gave up the battle, leaving only the Parliamentary army's Sikozia infantry (Scottish infantry) to hold their positions and continue to fight under the siege of the royal army.
Only then did the Lieutenant General of the Parliament Army not hesitate to pass through the rear of the Central King's army from the right flank of the battlefield, and raid to the left flank of the battlefield to save the slaughtered parliamentarian Skozia Kingdom (Kingdom of Scotland) comrades.
As a result, three battalions of infantry were also re-engaged in the battle with the cavalry of the Lieutenant General of the Parliamentary Army, and when the royal army was pursuing the two generals who had been defeated by the Parliamentary army, they saw the army of the lieutenant general of the National Assembly army appear on the battlefield on the left flank, and immediately led the royal cavalry to meet them.
The two armies met at the place where the cavalry of the general of the Parliamentary Army, Baron Thomas Fairfax, had just been defeated, but this time the royal cavalry they encountered the cavalry of the Lieutenant General of the Parliamentary Army.
The battle ended at about 10 p.m.
At this point, the royal army was quickly routed, and the lieutenant general of the parliamentary army commanded the victorious division, and rushed towards the royal infantry with the Skozia infantry without stopping.
The death of one of Wang's generals, second only to the commander of Wang's cavalry, caused most of Wang's army to flee and retreat in the darkness of the night, and this time Wang's army invested a total of 15,000 troops (7,000 cavalry), 3,264 were killed and 1,637 were captured.
Historically known as the Battle of Marston Moorland, it was a famous battle between the Parliamentarian army and the king's army during the bourgeois revolution of the Stuart dynasty (the Kingdom of Great Britain).
At the same time, it was also a turning point in the civil war of the Stuart dynasty, which reversed the successive defeats of the parliamentary army and seized the initiative in the war.
The battle was also a turning point in the life of Lieutenant General Oliver Cromwell, who played a decisive role in the victory of the Battle of Marston Moors with his cavalry, which eventually established the prestige of the Parliamentary Army, and his troops became known throughout the country as the "Iron Cavalry".
At the same time, there were a large number of former Ming officials in the Forbidden City, because the Eastern Jiannu occupied the imperial capital at the beginning of the entry, and there was no great prestige and appeal, so the officials of the Northern Zhili of the Ming Dynasty generally did not have much good impression of the Manchu rulers at first.
This is also very easy to understand, after all, at that time, the Dongyu Jiannu Tartars were alien, and they fought with the Ming Empire for decades, before the situation was clear, any Ming official even if he was thick-skinned, he had to weigh his head, so after the Dongyu Tartars entered the Beijing Division, a large number of officials and gentry and Han people were unwilling to go out of the Qing court, and they chose to go south to seek refuge in the Ming Dynasty Anzongfu King Hongguang Emperor: Zhu Yousong.
This made the regent of the Manchu imperial father in the Forbidden City a little unable to sit still! In order to stabilize these former Ming officials and win the hearts of the people, he ordered the reform of the system of the previous dynasty, referring to the abolition of the system left by Dashun.