Chapter 190: Retreat to Jining City
"Long live Daming! Kill."
Surrounded by countless Qing army iron cavalry around, it was impossible for the Ying Long army to rush out, and now they didn't plan to rush out, one by one, their blood was boiling, and they held the belief that even if they died, they would pull an enemy, and they fought without fear of death.
The knife rises and falls, some people fight for their lives, exchange injuries for injuries, what does it mean to be fearless of death! The Han people have stood in the world for thousands of years and have always firmly occupied the territory of thousands of miles, not without blood. Once the bloody nature breaks out, it is shocking.
A soldier of the Ying Long Army couldn't hide from a knife cut by a Qing army with a yellow flag, just to cut off the head of this Qing soldier with one knife.
"Poof!" Blood splattered, headless corpses fell under horses, and dead heads flew up in the sky and fell to the ground with the rain.
The battle was extremely tragic, many Mongols were frightened, and even the Manchurian soldiers with yellow flags, who were known for their fearlessness of death, were also shocked, and their hearts were faintly imprinted with a shadow of the corresponding dragon army.
Nearly half an hour had passed, and the battle had come to an end, and with the last of the Ying Long soldiers being cut off from their horses, the battle ended with all 5,000 Ying Long soldiers killed.
This is an extremely glorious battle, although the 30,000 Manchu and Mongolian iron cavalry of Ao Bai were victorious, but also suffered heavy losses, except for the first time after being caught off guard by a bullet in the musket of the Ying Long army killed and wounded more than 3,000 people, and then the white-knuckle fighting, the yellow flag killed and wounded more than 2,000, and the Mongols were killed and wounded more than 3,000, that is to say, the Qing army Manchu and Mongolian iron cavalry killed and wounded a total of nearly 9,000 before finally strangling 5,000 Yinglong soldiers.
After Ao Bai got this result, it was difficult to accept it for a while, his eyes were dark, and his right shoulder was still bleeding, and his body lost a lot of blood, so he almost fell off the horse, but fortunately he pulled the reins of the war horse in time.
"Ying Longjun!" Ao Bai gritted his teeth angrily, like a vicious wolf roaring!
"Lord Ao! Do we want to continue to pursue the defeated soldiers of the Ming army! A Mongolian general asked.
Ao Bai glanced at the gray sky, the cold rain dripping on his face seemed to feel nothing, and after a while, he gritted his teeth and said unwillingly: "Don't chase anymore!" The whole army withdrew to the camp to rest! ”
This battle lasted for nearly an hour, and even if it was too late to pursue it now, not to mention that he was still wounded, he was brave, and it was really difficult to continue fighting.
"Let's go!" Finally, glancing at the corpse on the ground, Ao Bai turned the horse's head, feeling slightly weak, no matter what, he didn't expect that the five thousand Ying Dragon Army would let the Yellow Banner under his leadership suffer such a big loss.
Dawenpo, a simple fortress has been built here, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Ji Feng led the army to retreat here half an hour ago.
"Is Tanma back?" Ji Feng asked a soldier of the Ying Long Army.
"When I returned to the military seat, I didn't see the horse return!" The Ying Long soldier replied.
Ji Feng sighed slightly, in fact, he already had a premonition in his heart, the Qing army's iron cavalry had not caught up for so long, there was no doubt that Xie Zepeng and the five thousand Yinglong army soldiers must have blocked the Qing army's iron cavalry in the heavy rain, and in the case that the musket could only be used at most once, I am afraid that it has already encountered an accident.
Half an hour later, a dozen scouts sent out to inquire about the news returned, carrying a corpse.
"Report! Throne! General Xie Shen has all died in battle! The blood and water on the battlefield, and the subordinates found the body of General Xie Shen. The scout who spoke was also a soldier of the Ying Long Army, and he cried as he spoke.
Ji Feng's eyes darkened, and after gritting his teeth to calm his mind, he stepped forward to check Xie Zepeng's body.
"Brother, let's go!" Ji Feng muttered in a low voice, his voice a little choked.
Many soldiers of the Ying Long Army surrounded him, and most of them began to cry when they saw Xie Zepeng's body, and a sad breath echoed in the rain.
"Cry what cry! Manly husbands, if you die in battle, you will die in battle, this hatred, I will repay them on the battlefield in the future! Ji Feng roared, his tone was full of hatred, extremely firm, the blood feud of five thousand soldiers can only be avenged on the battlefield.
"That's right! Kill them all and avenge your brothers! The Ying Long soldiers shouted as they raised their flintlock pistols.
After a while, the other 40,000 troops retreating from Laiwu also arrived here in Dawenpo, and the leader of the army would see Ji Feng in the future.
With the arrival of this large army, Dawenpo gathered 95,000 soldiers and horses.
"Commander Ji, will we continue to ambush the Qing army in Dawenpo?" Lu Yanshou asked Ji Feng.
Ji Feng looked at the sky that was still pouring rain, this heavy rain didn't know when it would stop, but because of this heavy rain, the flintlock pistol in Ying Longjun's hand couldn't be used at all, and even the thunderbolt bombs that were used to ambush the Qing army in Dawenpo couldn't be used, this is true
Sure enough, the Qing army waited until the arrival of May to start moving south, which was premeditated, in order to restrain the firearms of the Ying Long army in the rainy season.
"No, the rain is too heavy for this ambush to be carried out at all, and the gains outweigh the losses. Besides, the soldiers have no shelter from the rain, and it is too easy to have problems if they continue to drench like this. It is still forty miles away from Jining City, and I can reach Jining City before midnight tonight when I hurry with all my might. Ji Feng thought for a while and said.
Although this heavy rain brought them a lot of trouble, he had to give up Dawenpo, an excellent ambush point, but hundreds of artillery of the Qing army were also extremely difficult to march because of this heavy rain, even if the Qing army soon arrived under the city of Jining, without the assistance of artillery, it was not so easy to break through the city of Jining.
Ji Feng immediately led more than 90,000 troops to abandon Dawenpo and retreated to Jining City overnight to rest, intending to rely on Jining City to fight with the Qing army and avenge the 5,000 Yinglong soldiers who died in the battle!
The rain had been pouring all night, the roads were slippery, and the artillery was delivered at a very slow pace.
The next day, Dolgon left 10,000 eight banners and 50,000 Han banners to transport cannons, grain and grass, etc., and led more than 500,000 troops to Jining City, without waiting for the siege cannon to arrive, he directly waved the army to attack the city!
The siege lasted a day, and the Qing army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties.
"Regent, my subordinates don't understand, why didn't the prince wait for the red-clothed cannon to arrive and attack the city, but instead increased the casualties!" This is a white flag general, a henchman of Dolgon.
"You don't understand, this king is under the bait, not more than a few days to attack, tens of thousands of dead and wounded, how can it seem that my Qing army and horses are incompetent, how can the remnant Ming court rest assured that the little emperor will leave Nanjing City to come to conquer in person!" Dolgon said with an unfathomable smile, anyway, the dead are all Han people, and he doesn't care about all the deaths, there are countless Han people, and in a blink of an eye, he can recruit countless Han people to serve as his pawns with a large number of barren fields and wastelands, and he can't even use the silver, why not do it, and the main thing is how to induce the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty to come to Xuzhou to conquer in person.
Xuzhou is a good place, Li Huaxi's Li family has been operating here for more than a hundred years, and now Li Huaxi has taken refuge in their Qing Dynasty, as long as the Qing Dynasty's military horses reach Xuzhou City, he can take this Jianghuai Jiancheng at any time, so before the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not enter Xuzhou, he did not even plan to capture Jining City.
Since Dolgon led the army to Jining City, he sent a large army to attack the city for several days, and the two sides launched a fierce siege battle, although the Qing army was killed and wounded nearly 10,000 people every day, but Dolgon was indifferent at all, and even a trace of superfluous expression was not served.
A few days later, when Dolgon learned that Zhu Cihong was indeed preparing to march in person, Dolgon's excited laughter came from the big tent of the Qing army.
"Hahahaha, God help me to clear up! This time the remnants of the light will be extinguished! Dorgon laughed, his eyes shining wildly, as if the world had clasped his hand.
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