The Qing army was the most powerful opponent of this era, and even in the case of losing the first hand, the Qing army quickly gained a firm foothold under the leadership of the Jurchen and Mongol soldiers.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the natural geographical advantages of the Qing army camp, as well as the fact that the Hongtang army is mixed with a lot of soldiers and Ryukyu sailors.

Similarly, the greatest advantage of the Qing army Jurchens and the Mongol barbarians is that in this kind of short-handed situation, they can't be used for a while, and the two sides have each other's strengths and weaknesses!

The sea breeze in the sky blew bitterly from a distant place, taking away the heat that had just been swayed from the blood on the ground, but it could not take away the steaming heat of the blood mixed with sweat on the heads and bodies of the warriors on both sides of the war, and their scarlet and twisted faces!

In the nearly two hours of fighting, the study can be said to not give an inch, the main force of the Qing army, the Jurchens and Mongols, could not get out and ride on war horses, and the Hongtang musket team did not dare to use muskets easily because of white-knuckle warfare, and even the Hongtang field artillery could not be used unscrupulously because most of the soldiers on both sides were entangled in a mess.

The neighing of war horses, the sound of soldiers panting and shouting, is the mainstream color of this battlefield, the wailing and sword breath on this side have not dissipated, and the sharpness on the other side has quietly bloomed.

The middle and low-level leaders of the two teams were tired and resolute, because behind them, the respective commanders of the two sides were staring at them with red faces and thick necks, and the sound of shouts and cheers circled in the mouths of the two main generals and fell into the ears of the soldiers on both sides.

Hongtang needed to repel Dorgon's army so that they could calmly carry the supplies and people that Dolgon had sent to them, and join the vast fleet of ships waiting for them at sea.

And on Dolgon's side, it is even more necessary to leave Hongtang's army in the city and wait for the rear Emperor Taiji to send reinforcements over, so as to wash away the humiliation of him being designed by Wu Jie and them and sending countless materials!

After more than an hour, after the soldiers on both sides went through the process of exhaustion again and again, in the end, it was Hongtang's side that temporarily gained the upper hand, relying on the two thousand musketeers in the rear to fire ammunition in the cold, and gradually forced the Qing soldiers to slowly withdraw from the camp and retreat.

It was not until the sky was about to get dark that the ranks of the two sides gradually converged, and they all died down, and the Hongtang troops slowly retreated back to Guoshan City, while the Qing soldiers retreated to ten miles outside Guoshan City.

In the darkness of the night, two exhausted beasts took advantage of their rare leisure to lick the wounds of the day.

The losses on Hongtang's side were not small, and nearly 8,000 soldiers were invested to launch an attack on the Qing army's Dolgon, and in the end less than 5,000 people came back alive, of which nearly 2,000 were musketeers who did not fight head-on.

And the Qing army Dolgon also suffered a lot of losses, just in the battlefield that Hongtang hastily tied, please report that the soldiers left no less than 5,000 corpses, for the total number of only more than 13,000 Qing troops, the loss is not small.

Of course, most of these Qing soldiers who died were Han soldiers, and less than 1,000 Jurchen and Mongol soldiers were actually killed, so although this battle was painful for Dolgon, it was not unacceptable.

But the only thing that made Dolgon care was that the scale of Hongtang's army was far beyond his original judgment of Hongtang, which made him have to re-examine the true strength of the Fujian Navy Admiral behind Hongtang.

The princes of the Ming Dynasty, who were able to mobilize nearly 10,000 soldiers to support Korea at one time, would never have sent all their main military forces to do things that harmed themselves and others.

As soon as the sky dawned on the second day, Hongtang's army once again covered up, facing the Qing soldiers who were waiting for the battle, this time everyone's fierce battle was even more tragic, and it could even be said to be a decisive battle.

For the sake of the more than 100,000 Korean people who had already arrived, Wu Jie left behind Li Tianyang's order to preserve their strength as much as possible, and only wanted to repel the Qing army as quickly as possible.

Since the Hongtang army took the initiative to seek battle, Dolgon, who was full of confidence in the strength of his army, naturally couldn't ask for it, anyway, the question of the life and death of the Han army soldiers under his command was never his consideration, as long as the Hongtang army could be delayed as much as possible, it would be worth it for him to have more casualties of the Han army.

Not to mention, at this time, in terms of the number of troops, their Qing army still occupies a certain advantage, and there are more than 2,000 Jurchen and Mongol warriors charging into battle, he really doesn't believe that his team will be at a disadvantage like yesterday.

Until now, Dolgon was still full of confidence in the fighting ability of their true warriors of the Qing Dynasty, and although he suffered a lot of losses from the two battles with Hong Tang, there were various excuses that made him very unconvinced each time.

This time, the Hongtang army set up a chariot and horse to attack their Qing army, which was what he Dolgon was willing to see, at this time he was full of muscles and hoarse voice in front of the battle to cheer up the soldiers, and at the same time arrange troops according to the situation anytime and anywhere.

I have to say that the longer the stalemate with the Hongtang army lasts, the more Dolgon has some admiration for the hand-to-hand combat of the Hongtang army.

What is the combat ability of the border army of the Ming Dynasty, Dolgon, who has been fighting with the army all these years, knows very well, and because of the battles with opponents over the years, he looks down on the Han army of the Ming Dynasty in his heart, and he has never paid much attention to the strength of the Han army of the Qing Dynasty.

However, the strength shown by this Hongtang army has allowed it to slowly correct its discriminatory attitude towards the Han army, don't look at these Han army soldiers are generally about half a head lower than their own army, but they cooperate tacitly when fighting, skilled in combat and advance and retreat, often three or five soldiers cooperate, they can immediately defeat the enemy six or seven Qing soldiers are offensive, and even have the upper hand.

If it weren't for the fact that the Qing army still had Jurchen and Mongol warriors who were extremely brave and good at fighting and had better strength and combat skills as the mainstay, I am afraid that their army might not be the opponent of the Hongtang army.

Unconsciously, the offensive of the Hongtang army began to decadent, and it seemed that the relationship between the follow-up was weak, and they were originally used as the attack point, but now they were transferred by the Qing army, and became the main attack of the Qing army and the main defense of the Hongtang army.

The more than 1,000 elite cavalry of the Qing army have been watching coldly, quietly waiting for the time to come, looking at the Hongtang army in front of them and fighting and retreating, but due to the threat of nearly 2,000 musketeers behind the Hongtang army, they did not dare to press forward and give the Hongtang army a fatal blow.

(End of chapter)