Chapter 137: The Qing Army Retreats
"Tai'an is strong!"
When Ying Long's army moved to the city of Tai'an, where the blood flowed like a river, forming a bewitching blood-colored ice block under the ice and snow, Ji Feng looked at the corpses of the Qing army piled up under the city, and roughly estimated that the Qing army attacked Tai'an with at least more than 20,000 casualties, and the little Tai'an had such a record, how could it not make Ji Feng sigh. Even the Ying Long army is full of respect.
The Qing army camp, because Azig could not accept the stimulation and vomited blood and fainted, the entire Qing army camp was in chaos, there was a strange scene under the city of Tai'an, and the remaining more than 70,000 Qing troops were demoralized, and all of them cowered in the camp and did not dare to pursue, while more than 10,000 Ying Long troops were on guard under the city of Tai'an, waiting to enter the city. The Qing army was frightened and did not dare to provoke the Ying Long army for the time being, and the Ying Long army was not sure to annihilate the more than 70,000 Qing troops. The two sides are separated by a distance of about seven or eight hundred meters, and the well water does not interfere with the river water.
Ji Feng sighed, it is true that the combat effectiveness of the Ying Long Army is extremely strong, but the attack movement speed is too slow, unless the strength is not much different, and the bayonet is chased after the defeat, otherwise the Ying Long Army can only fight the rout, and cannot fight the war of annihilation, and because there is no artillery configuration to follow, there are still many shortcomings, once the opponent has a weapon with a longer range than the new flintlock pistol, such as using artillery bombardment when the Ying Long Army moves slowly, the Ying Long Army is likely to suffer heavy casualties.
The Qing army is not a fool, the reason why Ji Feng dared to take the Ying Long army to break through the camp just now was a surprise, this method can only be used once, once the Qing army comes to its senses, it will definitely be able to come up with a way to deal with it.
"Squeak"
Half an hour later, the stone pile that blocked the gate of Tai'an was finally removed by many people, and the broken gate of Tai'an was slowly opened.
"Enter the city!"
Ji Feng gave an order and led Ying Long's army to collect guns and enter the city, with neat steps and quite momentum. When the people of Tai'an saw this, they were in awe.
"Huh! That's the Tartars are still outside the city! Suddenly, a few sharp-eyed people saw the Qing army camp in the distance surging through the wide open city gate, there is no doubt that it was the Qing soldiers, and the Qing army was not defeated.
"It seems to be true!" The people's faces turned pale for a moment, and they exploded in an uproar, this is okay, the city gate is wide open at this moment, what if the Qing army takes the opportunity to kill in. The people were shocked, and looked at the Ying Long army who was entering the city with fear, could it be that these people who entered the city were not the imperial army, but the murderous Qing army?
"What's going on?" Ji Feng and his three generals of the Ying Long Army rode on war horses and entered the city first, seeing the people like this at the moment, they immediately looked at each other, I don't know why, don't the people of Tai'an welcome the imperial army?
Thinking about it like this, Ji Feng and the others' faces were not good-looking. This is a big misunderstanding.
"Don't panic, the people, this is the army of the imperial court, the Qing captives outside the city are already frightened, and they dare not attack the city, and they will retreat later!" Yan Yingyuan, Feng Houdun and others came down from the city wall, followed by more than a hundred surviving soldiers of the Tai'an garrison.
Yan Yingyuan's reputation in Tai'an was extremely high, and with his explanation, the people finally settled down, and then burst into cheers, unexpectedly the army sent by the imperial court was so powerful that the Qing army was so frightened that they did not dare to attack the city gate open.
After Ji Feng and the others understood what was going on, they smiled dumbly, and breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, the expressions of the people looking at them just now made them think that the imperial court had lost the hearts of the people in Tai'an, but it turned out that this was not the case, the people were just afraid of the Qing army.
"Yan Yingyuan, the lieutenant of Tai'an County, meets the general!" Yan Yingyuan saluted Ji Feng.
"Lieutenant Yan doesn't have to be polite, please get up quickly!" Ji Feng hurriedly dismounted, stepped forward and helped Yan Yingyuan and the others up, these are all heroes of the Ming Dynasty, how can he accept this great gift.
Ji Feng suddenly glanced at the blades in the hands of Yan Yingyuan and the others, all of them were red with blood, full of gaps, and his heart shook suddenly, and he was instantly stunned, and sighed: "Strong!" ”
"You are the most heroic warriors of my Ming Dynasty, unyielding, helping the imperial court to hold Tai'an, but also to hold half of Shandong, all the countries and the people are meritorious ministers, this general will be the emperor, meritorious deeds, heavy sympathy for all the war dead!" Ji Feng said solemnly.
"General Xie!"
After Ying Long's army entered the city, he began to pacify the people and treat the wounded.
At this time, in the camp of the Qing army, Azig was finally awakened by the military doctor. Shang Kexi, Li Huaxi, Mongolian Beile and other almost all the high-ranking Qing army gathered here, waiting for Azig to wake up and make a decision, whether to continue to attack Tai'an or retreat.
"Lord Wang, you're finally awake!" The two last remnants of the Manchu Eight Banners knelt in front of Azig's couch, weeping bitterly. Most of the Eight Banners died in battle, if the prince is in a good place, how should they explain to the regent when they go back, it is better to die together, now it's okay, the prince has finally woken up.
"Cry fart, this king is not dead yet! The Qing Dynasty doesn't have such a bad seed as you, get out of here for this king! As soon as he woke up and saw such a heartwarming scene, Azig was so angry that he coughed a few more times, if it weren't for the fact that his body was still a little weak, he really wanted to directly kick these two embarrassing things to death.
"What's going on now!" After Azig finished scolding, he looked at Shang Kexi and the others and asked.
"Back to the prince, the gate of Tai'an is wide open, and the Ming army has all entered Tai'an, do we still stay here and continue to attack the city!" Lee Hwa-hee replied. After finishing speaking, the old face turned a little red, and the gate of Tai'an City was wide open at this time, obviously not afraid of them attacking the city at all.
Still continuing to siege the city? The corners of Azig's mouth twitched, and he glanced at a group of generals with evasive expressions, obviously demoralized, and going to attack the city again was simply a mockery in vain.
"Attack a fart, everyone's city gates are open there, do you dare to attack this king to give you soldiers and horses?" Azig scolded, thinking that he Azig, the dignified Prince of Heshuo of the Qing Dynasty, commanded tens of thousands of troops, when will it be this turn, it is really a great shame.
Although Azig is angry, but he still has a brain, after vomiting blood and fainting, his reason has returned, most of the eight banners are killed and wounded, it is impossible to defeat the Ming army by relying on the Mongols and the Han Banner army alone, and it seems that it is difficult to continue to capture Tai'an, and then take the whole of Shandong, it seems that he can only wait for the main force of the Eight Banners to attack Tongguan to come back, and then come to the decisive battle with the Ming army! Then will be avenged!
"Retreat and defend Jinan City!" Azig gritted his teeth and ordered unwillingly.
Although it failed to take the whole of Shandong this time, as long as Jinan City was in hand, once the main force of the Qing Dynasty went south in the future, it could still quickly go south to Jianghuai and drink the Yangtze River.
The Qing army immediately retreated on all fronts, and more than 70,000 Qing troops retreated north to Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province.
About three miles away from Tai'an, the army of more than 20,000 led by Shi Kefa only arrived here at this moment, and the speed was extremely slow, and after arriving at this place, the soldiers were even more grinding, they were all soldiers, and they were extremely afraid of encountering the Qing army.
Shi Kefa gritted his teeth, so angry that his face turned red like a monkey's buttocks, and at this moment he really began to worry about whether he was really going to die with such an army. Shi Kefa was extremely unwilling, the Ming army should not be like this, it should be heroic and not afraid of death, even if it is not against the Qing army, it cannot be so cowardly.
Shi Kefa took it for granted. In the end, he is too upright and stubborn, and such a person is not suitable for commanding troops at all.
Lu Yanshou glanced at Shi Kefa's current expression, he didn't have to think about it, he knew what Shi Kefa was thinking, he was extremely helpless about Shi Kefa's donkey-like temper, if he hadn't seen the Qing army all the time, and he hadn't even seen one of the Qing army scouts, Lu Yanshou would have already begun to persuade Shi Kefa to withdraw his troops, and at worst, he should camp ten miles away, and then march after thoroughly investigating the situation in Tai'an at this moment.
"Newspaper"
"Commander Qi, a large number of corpses of the Mongol army were found about a kilometer to the left of the army!" A scout came to report that a large number of Mongol cavalry corpses had been found in the area where Yinglong's army and the Mongols were fighting.
The corners of Lu Yanshou's eyes jumped.
"Take this overseer to check!" Shi Kefa frowned and said.
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