34 The decisive battle begins
The Hongtang army suddenly launched a general attack, which they did not expect, but they were soon happy to see it.
The Qing army, which had just lost 10,000 main cavalry, may have been a little slack in their will to fight, but the size and strength of their total strength still made Prince Daishan and his generals full of confidence in this army.
After experiencing the baptism of the Hongtang artillery unit, the sudden rebellion of the Han army, and other accidents, more than 20,000 Jurchen Mongolian infantry soldiers finally killed in front of the Hongtang army, and after the sudden human disaster in the valley in front of them subsided, the morale of the entire Jurchen infantry fell into a trough.
Although they were not as unbearable as the Han soldiers and fled directly psychologically, in the eyes of the followers of the Jurchen Mongolian ethnic minorities such as shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism, who believed in the theory of ghosts and gods, such earth-shaking changes could not necessarily be done by manpower, but should be the punishment of the gods, etc., so the shock and blow to their minds far exceeded the expectations of Prince Li's benevolence.
More than 20,000 Qing Dynasty main infantry, in the face of the loss of half of the Hongtang soldiers, who could only save almost 10,000 people, under the impact of the Hongtang soldiers, there were signs of instability on their front, even at this time their Jurchen general Suna also personally pressed the formation and appeared on the front line of the battlefield with his own soldiers, but it was only barely able to support their battle line, not broken by the Hongtang army.
Hongtang soldiers were in groups of three or five, and after Wu Chao issued the order to charge, they plunged into the huge army of the Qing Dynasty and launched a fierce and brutal hand-to-hand combat with them.
The fine tradition of the Hongtang army, let the soldiers under its command all fight, rarely escaped, the most heroic soldiers on the battlefield, almost all of them are Hongtang low-level non-commissioned officers, under their drive, Hongtang ordinary soldiers rose up to kill the enemy, that is, the body is full of scars, life is short, but also to jump up and hug a Qing soldier to tear together, with their hands, with their mouths to bite, but all the means that can kill the enemy, they do everything, so that the opposite side of the Qing Dynasty soldiers as if seeing a ghost, the heart retreated.
As time passed, the sky gradually darkened, but for the Hongtang warriors who had not thought of retreating for a long time, the weather could not make them retreat for a long time, and they would definitely not take a step back until they defeated the enemy in front of them.
The brave wins when they meet on the narrow road, Wu Chao is leading the Hongtang soldiers to implement this slogan, the two sides of the battle are long gone, and the small valley is waiting for the valley before, tens of thousands of troops have been fighting together, you have me, I have you. Even faintly, this battlefield is expanding outward, affecting the army of more than 10,000 people of Prince Li Daishan, who is sitting in the center in the distance.
With 20,000 troops, it turned out to be like this with the 80,000 reinforcements of the Qing Dynasty and the 20,000 defenders of Qingxi City, and the last main force of the Qing Dynasty under the command of Dai Shan finally made a move.
"If they want to fight, fight with them!!"
Prince Daishan said it beautifully, but in fact, he had to fill in the last reserve of Hand China at this time, and add more than 10,000 raw materials to this meat grinding field.
The more than 20,000 Qing troops led by Suna have already shown signs of decline, and even half an hour before it gets dark, the messengers sent by Daishan to deliver orders can no longer find the location of Sunaya. Listening to the guards who fled from his scattered, Suna was also fighting with a Hongtang team at that time, and then I don't know where to kill a Ming army, and the first Ming army merged and cooperated, and soon Sunaye's team was scattered, and when Sunaye's personal guards finally broke out of the encirclement and wanted to join Suna, they couldn't find Sunaye's figure anymore.
In this kind of melee, the orders given by the main general have long been unable to achieve their ultimate goal, because the soldiers under his command have been divided into dozens or hundreds of teams, blending with a similar number of enemies, and each other has to deal with attacks that may occur from all directions, from the front, the front, the left and the right, how can there be any spare strength to receive any orders!
Unless Dai Shanneng sends a formed team to join it and use strong means to break the situation of the melee and bring the battlefield back on track, this kind of melee situation will continue, and the final winner will inevitably be the side that cooperates better.
Obviously, if we talk about the cooperation of small-scale team battles, the strength of the Hongtang army can be said to be 108,000 miles away from the Qing army.
Although the Qing Dynasty began to treat the Han and Han ministers well after Huang Taiji ascended the throne, and began to focus on the establishment of the Han army's Eight Banners soldiers, as a nomadic dynastic army, the Qing people still valued the personal bravery and combat skills of the soldiers when they fought on a large scale.
Although with the addition of Han army generals and others, the Qing army gradually began to learn military formation, drills, etc., but the Jurchens' arrogant emotions and contempt for the Ming Dynasty army made them a little unfamiliar with the various tactics that these regular armies should master.
As the sky darkens, the advantages of their Hongtang warriors become more and more obvious, not only allowing them to gradually gain the upper hand, but also expanding the battlefield outward, preparing to pull the last enemy army outside the battlefield into the melee.
However, the wishful thinking of the Hongtang soldiers finally failed, and before they could pull this team into the melee, they began to make moves themselves.
"Your Highness, do you want General Sunaya to lead the team to take a step back first?"
The staff of the army couldn't stand it and began to make suggestions, and the army that had the advantage in numbers on their own side now seemed to be gradually at a disadvantage, and the battle had been too long, many soldiers were already exhausted, and the battle after night was not good for their own side.
"Can they still get back now? You can't see how much risk a step back would bring to the team? ”
Dai Shan looked at this usually resourceful staff member with eyes like an idiot: "Since the other party wants to pull us into a melee, then this king will fulfill their wish, pass on the king's order, and the whole army of the Chinese army will attack!" ”
"Your Highness!!"
Several staff members were in a hurry, and they wanted to speak out again and again to stop Dai Shan's dispatch of troops: "Even if you want to send troops, do you need to let General Suna and them give up a passage first, otherwise the sky is dark and there may be a situation of cannibalism!" ”
"Then what's the matter, this king now has this available army, if you let Suna also move the army, wouldn't it tell the Ming army on the opposite side that my Chinese army has been killed? And if you look at the place where the front armies are fighting now, where are there still teams that can faithfully fulfill the king's orders? ”
"In that case, then they might as well embrace their flesh and bodies, and contribute their last strength to this decisive victory! When our army returns from a great victory, the reward will be doubled by the king! ”
Obviously, Prince Daizen's intention has been decided, and it is not something that a few staff members can persuade him.
(End of chapter)