"Bang!! Bang bang bang!! ”

The crisp and loud sound of muskets firing echoed in this long-abandoned wilderness from time to time, and with the sound of gunfire, a figure fell from time to time in the ranks of fleeing ahead.

There was no sympathy or help for the companions around him, some of the wounded who only injured some flesh and skin, and did not affect their movements, quickly struggled from the snow to keep up with the team, while more figures fell on their stomachs in the snow, or roared, or silently waited for the pursuit team behind them like maggots attached to the bones.

Since the hot weapons were carried forward in the hands of Hongmen, various forces have gradually put the equipment of firearms on the agenda to cover the strength of the army, but few can play firearms to the point of being irresistible like the Hongtang army.

Compared with the crossbow shooter, the musket has a great advantage in accuracy and training, and the exchange of fire chasing the enemy's rear line like this allows the Hongtang musketeers to use it without any scruples.

After abandoning most of the baggage, as well as a lot of war horses, the Qing army finally got out of the long horse pit position set up by Hongtang. At this time, the cavalry of the Qing army was finally able to play its role and cruising around the main army of the Qing army, so that the main force of the Qing army could retreat with less burden.

After leaving the Gongchang Ridge to the north, it is said that most of the places are flat, which can be regarded as giving the cavalry room to play, plus the Liaoyang City in front of them, the prince of Dolgon, who fled in embarrassment, is finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

It's just that on the way to escape, there is a fact that cannot be ignored and there is a debate between Dolgon and Hauge, that is, the resettlement of Liaoyang City.

Although I don't know where this Hongtang cold and heat came from, such a group of savage-like troops were no less familiar than their elite Jurchen Eight Banner disciples in the mountains and forests, and their scale was finally detected by the scouts sent out after the sky brightened, and the scale was more than 30,000.

The battle of Gongchangling for one day and one night made the Qing army lose more than half, of course, the largest losses were naturally the Han army and Korean soldiers who were like grass on the wall, but the soldiers of the Jurchen Eight Banners in their headquarters also lost a lot, and now the Jurchens and Mongolian soldiers in their hands are less than 25,000.

For the Qing Dynasty army, which still had 20,000 rebels and needed to be exterminated after the retreat, where would they have the spare energy to run Liaoyang, a future frontier city.

And now in Liaoyang City, there are 10,000 Han troops that can be used, although the strength that can be exerted is limited, but for the Qing Dynasty army, which is now short of troops and does not know what the turmoil has become, every strength is worth cherishing now.

In abandoning Liaoyang, concentrating troops to return to reinforcements, and sticking to Liaoyang as a bridgehead to prevent the attack and invasion of the Red Tang Ming army, Dolgon and them had many hesitations and were always reluctant to make conclusions.

However, as the army gradually approached Liaoyang City, and the towering walls of Liaoyang City were seen in the distance, Dolgon and the others had to make a ruthless decision.

Looking at the attitude of the Ming army chasing behind them, the results they had obtained in the previous Gongchangling and the subsequent pursuit battle were not enough to fill their ambitions, and they still bit themselves to the death, even if they knew that under the protection of the Qing cavalry, the Qing army would never give the Hongtang army such a good opportunity before.

Instead of sending a small number of Han soldiers to garrison Liaoyang, they will eventually be broken by the powerful firepower of the Ming army, but it is better for them to break their wrists at this time, abandon the city of Liaoyang, and feed the hungry wolf-like Ming army behind.

The Han army, which was always not valued by the Qing Dynasty generals in the past, now had to be taken out by Dolgon and treated as an important combat force when the main force of the Jurchen Mongols suffered heavy losses.

"Send a team to enter the city first, and tell the generals in the city that all the materials and population in the city will quickly evacuate to the north, and never give the Ming people behind them any opportunity to take advantage of."

Dolgon and Prince Hauge finally reached an agreement and decided to abandon Liaoyang City and withdraw the city to Shengjing together.

After the order was issued, the Qing army, which had barely escaped with less than 40,000 troops, was divided into two routes: one group of thousands of people quickly advanced through the half-open gate of Liaoyang City to help the defenders in the city to evacuate urgently, and the other began to hold the formation outside the city to buy time for the rear evacuation.

For the Qing army, the only good news is that in order to pursue the evacuated army of the Qing army, the army formation of the Hongtang army Baiyushan was very long, and the forward army was still more than 10,000 people, but in the face of the fish scale formation of more than 30,000 Qing troops, they did not dare to plunder its edge and rashly sent troops.

Not to mention that the Qing army was in the plains at this time, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the most threatening cavalry army had been cruising back and forth, looking for the flaws of the Hongtang army, and wanted to take the opportunity to avenge the deep hatred of the past.

"Command the army, take me as the center, and stand in front of the arrow!"

By the time the Chinese army of Baiyushan marched more than ten miles outside Liaoyang City, most of the formation of the Jurchen army in front had been completed, but the main force of the Hongtang Chinese army that came to join the front had no chance to take advantage of the battle.

At this time, the Qing soldiers may still have a slight decadent momentum, but more of it is a kind of mourning momentum. Starting from Liaoyang City, the land in the north behind them is the territory that they have not yet lost in the Qing Dynasty, if they can't work hard at this moment and give the soldiers and people in the city a little time to retreat, then they, the children of the Eight Banners, are too useless!

It is precisely based on this consideration, observing that the opponent's army is available, Bai Yushan seems to be unwilling to take out the army in his hand and sacrifice it easily.

The attack on Gongchangling Castle, coupled with the pursuit of the Qing Dynasty all the way, made the 40,000 Hongtang lose more than 10,000 soldiers, this number is also a little psychologically prepared for those who have experienced the peasant rebellion in Baiyushan, but in front of Ma Yao and their indigenous non-commissioned officers and generals, they are indescribably distressed and sad.

These are their relatives and compatriots, who have lived better in recent years, and it is not easy to develop and grow so far, but on the battlefield, like the rice in the field, there are hundreds of thousands of them falling down, which makes the eye-opening indigenous non-commissioned officers excited at the same time, but also distressed by the death of their comrades.

Participating in this great war made the natives who fought on the island for the first time understand how they used to sit and watch the sky, and how self-righteous they were.

Even the tens of thousands of troops of Hongbaotang, who were so powerful in their eyes, faced their enemies in such a cruel and fierce battle situation, that they had to pay a heavy price to barely achieve victory.

(End of chapter)