Chapter 819: The Overture Ends, and the Drama Begins
If you look at it from the sky, you can see that the soldiers and horses of the Aobai Division, which are getting smaller and smaller, are like a lonely boat, which is in the waves composed of the Qing army, fluttering and turbulent, and there is a worry of capsizing in an instant.
Seeing that the enemy army had been completely surrounded by him, Belle Shuotuo and Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun, who were watching the battle outside, all looked happy and relieved.
Hmph, Hauge, this bastard, all the bad things have been done, and in the end, good and evil will be rewarded, this bastard finally got the ending like today.
If you catch him, you will definitely have to break this guy's skin and bones before you can get rid of your hatred!
In this battle where the enemy was outnumbered, although the Aobai Department fought bravely, in front of a surging enemy army, the defeat became more and more obvious, and there were constantly soldiers screaming and falling to the ground.
"Don't be afraid, sons, let me ......"
Before he could finish his words, a sharp spear stabbed him in the right shoulder. The sharp tip of the spear, piercing deep into the flesh through the gaps in the armor, could faintly hear the tooth-aching sound of bones breaking.
Ao Bai roared in pain, and he endured the great pain with his left hand and swung his knife horizontally, slashing away the two Qing soldiers next to him who wanted to take the opportunity to sneak attack. Then his left hand burst out, and another shot struck him, splitting the Qing soldier who had been stabbed in the shoulder in half from neck to shoulder.
And at this moment, several spears roared and stabbed fiercely, piercing the front and back of Aobai's chest.
There was a crisp sound of 'clanging', and in Aobai's hand, the blood-drenched tiger knife finally fell to the ground.
At the same time, Ao Bai could no longer hold on, and he fell limply from his horse, his consciousness beginning to blur, and his whole body twitched, but he roared like a wild beast.
Another sharp spear stabbed him straight through his throat, blood gushing out like a fountain, and the horn of Ao Bai only moved like a giant prawn a few times, and then there was no more movement.
He's dead.
At this moment, his original expression was hideous, his face suddenly soothed, and his eyelids slowly drooped, as if after such a fierce battle, he finally obtained eternal peace.
The Aobai Department formed a formation to block the Qing army for nearly an hour, and all the more than 2,000 soldiers under his command were finally completely killed by the Qing army, which was about 30 times the number of themselves, and only more than ten Manchurian cavalry escaped to the east by extreme luck.
After the war, the Qing army immediately counted the corpses, but only found the bloody corpse of Aobai, but did not find the slightest trace of Haoge.
"Fuck! This dog's worship must be to lead the whole army to snipe the enemy, and in this way, cover Haoge to escape first. It's a pity that we are only here to fight with them, but we didn't expect that Haoge would abandon the crowd and flee, and we did this way, but we let Haoge easily run away! Shuoto looked resentful.
Geng Zhongming also had a mixture of regret and resentment, and his teeth were even more gritted.
Hmph, Haoge killed hundreds of people in the Geng Mansion, but finally let him escape, this anger is hard to vent, how not to suffocate people to panic!
However, now that Haoge has fled far away, it is too late to chase after him, and Geng Zhongming can only find himself to go down the steps: "Baylor, now Haoge has run far away and can't catch up, but most of his troops and horses have been wiped out, and they can barely be regarded as comforting the soldiers of our army who died in Xiuyan and Fuzhou." In the eyes of this king, now that Haoge has retreated, it will be difficult for us to pursue, so why don't we clean up the battlefield and return to Xiuyan first. ”
Shuoto looked helpless, but he could only nod his head in agreement. So, after cleaning up the battlefield, all the Qing troops retreated to Xiuyan together.
At this time, Hauge had already fled all the way east, far away from the battlefield, and after half a day's running, he finally arrived at the mouth of the Wuchong River at the mouth of the sea at about dark, where he boarded the ships of the sailors.
Along the way, Hauge was worried and inexplicably uncomfortable. He knew that although he and these more than 100 guards were able to escape, he was afraid that he had sacrificed all his lives for the sake of his broken Ao Bai and his soldiers.
It is a pity that such a loyal and brave subordinate who followed him from the Qing court to defect to the Ming Realm actually died for his loyalty in the nameless wilderness of southern Liaoning.
However, Hauge still had a hint of hope in his heart, and he did not give the order to let the ship leave, but waited patiently until late at night.
As a result, he waited for the dozen or so cavalrymen who had fled and cried to him the news of Aobai's death in battle and the end of the whole army.
Although Ao Bai had expected this ending, when those cavalry cried to him like this, he still felt sad from it.
Poor Ao Bai was loyal to himself, and in order to ensure that he could escape smoothly, he did not hesitate to stop the enemy to the death, and finally sacrificed the battlefield, but he was completely loyal to himself.
Alas, if it weren't for his own wrong decision, Ao Bai would not have died.
Thinking of this, Hauge's heart was extremely bitter, and even more inexplicably sad feelings surged.
Now it's good, under his own hands, only the hundreds of soldiers who were escorted before were able to withdraw from Xiuyan by luck, and then on the soldiers and horses of Yang Shanbu who withdrew from Fuzhou, the total number of soldiers and horses left on his hand was less than 1,000 people.
And what is even more regrettable is that he has suffered such a heavy setback, and he has lost his cronies, and he may not be able to recover again within a few years, as for wanting to revive the Qing Empire in the future, and want to create a great cause again, etc., now that I think about it, it is more like a joke.
It is foreseeable that in the next few years, there will be no soldiers, horses and no territory, and in the Tang Army, they can only be people with their tails between their legs.
Hauge let out a long sigh and looked out the porthole into the vast darkness of the night, but in his heart, there seemed to be a greater fear in his heart.
That is, he is eager to make meritorious contributions and start a career, in fact, it is very likely that he is just a small chess piece of Tang King Li Xiao, and the reason why he is willing to pull out the surrendered Manchurian soldiers and horses to himself and let himself become an independent army is actually to use his signboard as Prince Su to pry the cornerstone of Qing court rule.
Now, the Tang army used itself to make a mess in southern Liaoning, so that the Qing court's rule in the local area was completely chaotic, and the strategic needs were basically achieved. Correspondingly, his own soldiers have also been completely crippled, and it is difficult to support his great dreams.
Perhaps, he fought to the death with the Qing court, bloodshed and sweated, and the final winner was only Li Xiao, who sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight.
worked hard, but made wedding clothes for others.
It is foreseeable that now the power of the Qing court is consumed in southern Liaoning and northern Saibei, and Li Xiao, who has mobilized heavy troops, should be able to fight with Li Zicheng's Dashun army in the land of Henan.
I thought that I could grasp my fate and become the protagonist, but I didn't expect that in the end, I was just a chess piece at the mercy of Li Xiao.
Thinking of this, Hauge's face was filled with an inexplicable wry smile, and then, there was a long sigh.
However, Hauge's judgment is still very accurate.
With the completion of the deployment of the Tang army in the surrounding areas of Henan, the Tang army is finally about to start this decisive battle in the Central Plains with Li Zicheng's Dashun army.
Up to now, from the southern battlefield, the second town of the soldiers and horses of the monk department was transferred to re-enter the east of Sichuan, and the eleventh town of the soldiers and horses of Mo Changrong was stationed in western Hubei.
Liu Zehan's troops and horses, the eighth town of the Tang army, were stationed in Jiangxi and Zhejiang to guard against Zheng Zhilong in the south. The seventh town of the Tang Army, Cao Bianjiao, was transferred from Zhejiang and went north to the area of Luzhou.
And the soldiers and horses of the Sixth Town of the Tang Army, which were originally scattered in Nanzhili, were also all concentrated in the Fengyang area. With the soldiers and horses of the sixth town of Luzhou in the south, they form a mutual defense trend.
At the same time, to the north of the Tang Army, let the newly formed Twelfth Town Soldiers and Horses Liu Wenxiu Department stay in place, responsible for guarding the Xuanfu North Road, and defending the transportation line from Shanhaiguan to Jintangcheng across the grassland, while the soldiers and horses of the Fourth Town Section of the Tang Army went south to the southern border of Xuanfu North Road according to Li Xiao's arrangement.
At this point, after this series of troop transfer operations, the Tang Army was like opening a large net on all sides, and finally completed the complete encirclement of the entire Dashun State.
The overture to the battle of the Haoge Department in southern Liaoning, the Tang army's attack on Henan and the seizure of the Central Plains are finally about to officially begin.
Of course, the Tang Army dispatched troops like this, and it was impossible for Li Zicheng's Dashun State to sit still.
They regained from the territory of the whole country, mobilized a full 200,000 new troops, and rushed to Henan all the way to let the Marquis Li Guo under unified command and use. At this point, Li Guo's hands, plus the 50,000 soldiers and horses previously stationed in southern Henan, a total of 250,000 troops, can be described as a strong force, enough for a battle.
So Li Guo divided these 25 soldiers and horses into various important cities in the south and east of Henan, hoping to firmly defend these strategic points against the Tang army's attack.
Li Guo thought that in this way, Henan, which was heavily garrisoned by himself, should be able to ensure the safety of Henan. The Tang army had nowhere to talk in Henan, so it would inevitably retreat after the division veterans were tired.
Next, the Tang army's conquest process was really as Li Guo expected, first starting from the south of Henan.
The soldiers and horses of the eleventh town of the Tang Army, only the soldiers and horses of the C battalion were left to garrison Wuchang, and the soldiers and horses of the first and second battalions all started from Xiangyang and went all the way north to attack Henan.
Among them, the soldiers and horses of Battalion A went from the north to attack Xinye, Nanyang Prefecture, Henan, while the soldiers and horses of Battalion B turned to the northeast and attacked Xinyang Prefecture, Runing Prefecture.
The soldiers and horses of the 11th Town of the Tang Army were dispatched, and the soldiers and horses of the 13th Town, which was being reorganized in Wuchang, were also used as reserve troops, and were divided into two units to follow the 11th Town that had set off earlier, in order to make a more magnificent appearance in terms of momentum.
The two towns of the Tang Army moved together, and the momentum was extremely strong, and the states and counties on the border of Henan, the urgent documents were like snowflakes, and they flew towards Li Guo, the marquis of Hao, who was stationed in Kaifeng. After finding out the movement of the Tang army, Li Guo immediately dispatched tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to Xinye and Xinyang Prefecture to garrison.
Now that the soldiers and horses are being transferred, the total number of soldiers and horses in Xinyang and Runing in the south of Henan has reached nearly 150,000, and Li Guo believes that there are so many soldiers and horses stationed in the Tang Army, even if the two troops of the Tang Army come to attack, it is enough to defend with the fortified city.
Of course, although he did this, although he greatly strengthened the defense of southern Henan, correspondingly, the number of soldiers and horses in the rest of Henan was much thinner.
What Li Guo didn't expect was that the Tang army sent soldiers and horses from the 11th and 13th towns to attack southern Henan, but it was actually just a feint, and their real purpose was that when Li Guo mobilized troops and horses to southern Henan, the troops on the central and eastern borders were suddenly very empty.
Next, after receiving information that Li Guo had sent a large number of troops to southern Henan, the Tang army immediately began a second feint.
That is, the First Town A Battalion stationed in Shandong, as well as a large number of auxiliary troops reorganized here, put on a menacing appearance and marched to Guide Mansion in the easternmost part of Henan with great fanfare.
The Tang army's move made Li Guo fall for it again, and in a panic, he immediately redispatched more than 30,000 soldiers and horses to Guide Mansion urgently, preparing to resist the large-scale attack that the Tang army could launch.
At this point, the Tang army's two feints to lure the enemy have fooled nearly 200,000 enemy troops in total, and the defensive forces in central Henan and major cities have become weaker and weaker.
In fact, this is also the sorrow of the Dashun Army.
Because they were only in a passive defense, while the Tang army could choose the direction to attack at will, they could never correctly judge the offensive posture of the Tang army, and it was almost inevitable that they would fall into a trap from the beginning.
Just like the Qing army entered the customs and plundered, it could enter the customs from Yongping Mansion, enter the customs from Beijing, and enter the customs from Shanxi by bypassing Mongolia, so the Ming Dynasty was unable to prevent it, and it was impossible to make accurate predictions and judgments, so it could only wipe its ass afterwards to make a passive remedy. Speaking of which, there is nothing to be done.
Offense is always the best defense, and for this meeting, the Tang Army and the Shun Army are afraid that they all have a deep understanding.
After the Tang army found out the news that Li Guofu had sent tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to Guide Mansion, they knew that their plan to divert the tiger from the mountain had succeeded, and the real opportunity to attack had finally arrived.
Subsequently, in Luzhou and Fengyang, the soldiers and horses of the sixth and seventh towns of the Tang Army immediately quietly gathered their troops, preparing to trace Yingshui upstream, take Xiangcheng and Shangshui all the way, and then attack the heavy cities in central Henan, Yancheng, which are now weakly defended.
This city, where Yue Fei broke the Golden Vulture Kidnapping Horse here, will be the key place to decide the fate of the Shun Army and the Tang Army.
The army is dispatched, invincible, and no one can stop it.
The defenders of Xiangcheng and Shangshui, with a total of less than 2,000 people, saw the Tang army coming overwhelmingly, they were already frightened, and immediately abandoned the city after plundering the city, and went straight to Yancheng.
At this point, the Tang army captured Xiangcheng and Shangshui counties without blood, and the whole army rested for a while, and immediately continued to march towards Yancheng according to the original plan.
There are nearly 10,000 defenders in Pei County, and with the addition of 2,000 soldiers and horses from Xiangcheng and Shangshui counties, the defenders have a total of nearly 12,000 people, and their momentum is slightly stronger. While urgently reinforcing the city defenses, they also urgently asked Li Guo of Kaifeng City for reinforcements.