Chapter 31: The Iron Float
Chongzhen looked at the battlefield below on the city wall, the Jurchen war horses were stabbed to the ground all over the ground of thistles, and the Jurchens on the horse fell to the ground and rolled, the iron thistles all over the ground looked painful, and the unlucky ones fell to death directly, and the lucky ones with a body of thistles were hacked to death by the Ming army behind them. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Come on, beat the drum and charge" Chongzhen's order was given, and soon the sound of war drums from the city wall came from the city wall.
Stimulated by the sound of war drums, under the threat of fire, everyone desperately fought with the way in front of them, although the quality of the individual soldiers of the Ming army was not as good as that of the Jurchens, and the cavalry was faced, but the group of unlucky cavalry, was Chongzhen's thistle terrestris, under the baking of the fire behind them, the entire Ming army was crazy, when people's lives were threatened, they went crazy, and fought hard, and the gap between individuals was infinitely weakened at this moment, and now it is to see who is more crazy than whom, in the face of the crazy Ming army, the Jurchens were defeated and retreated, and finally under the threat of fire, neither the Jurchens nor the Ming army cared about entanglement and fighting, mixed together, and fled to Guangqumen.
Huang Taiji led Yue Tuo, Ji'er Harang rushed to Guangqu Gate, just in time to meet the Ming army and the Jurchens running out of the door like crazy, behind the crowd was a sky-high fire, slowly pressing towards the entire army.
In the face of the fire behind them, the Ming army that was blocked by the Jurchens was under the threat of their lives, everyone went crazy, carrying weapons accompanied by the sound of war drums, and charging forward frantically, any people and horses blocking the front, whether they were their own people or the Jurchens, as long as they blocked their way and missed the opportunity to escape for their lives, they didn't care that you were the king of heaven, cut it directly with a knife, and fled from the road.
Under the light of the fire, Huang Taiji saw the dense thistle terrestris on the ground, and countless war horses that had been stabbed and fell to the ground neighed as they fell to the ground, and finally were engulfed by the merciless fire.
Seeing all this, Huang Taiji understood that the tens of thousands of people who rushed into the city were completely gone, and the Huang Taiji on the war horse screamed sadly, "Chongzhen Xiaoer, you are so ruthless" Huang Taiji never imagined that Chongzhen would be willing to burn half of Beijing City to pit his own tens of thousands of horses.
Lu Xiangsheng, who led his troops to leave before Huang Taiji entered Beijing, quietly appeared near the capital with his men and horses today, Qin Hui's scholar deceived dozens of carts of gold and silver treasures, and the wheels of the carriage fell apart halfway through, but fortunately, the luck was good, with Lu Xiangsheng's response, under Lu Xiangsheng's order, a large number of people stepped forward, directly carried those carriages and left, as for the hundreds of cavalry arranged by Huang Taiji to follow, after being surrounded by Lu Xiangsheng, after killing a few thorns, most of the remaining people saw that there was no way to escape and surrendered directly.
"Scholar, this will be your 1,000 people, you take someone to escort this batch of treasures, and escort this group of Jurchens to the Huangzhuang outside the city" So much money was burned and robbed by the Jurchens all the way, and finally was deceived back by Qin Hui's design, but Chongzhen didn't plan to return it to those lost owners, and now it is inconvenient to send it to the inner treasury of the imperial city, so it is safer to put it in the Huangzhuang outside the city first.
"Thank you for your help, take the next step first, and ask the adults to think safely" After speaking, Qin Hui led people all the way to Huangzhuang, the next battle is not something that a scholar can participate in, how can I cheat the Jurchens this time, if I am captured by the Jurchens, I have to scrape myself alive, it is better to run away as soon as possible.
After arranging people to escort Qin Hui and others back to Huangzhuang, Lu Xiangsheng took his own people, led the horses and cautiously approached Beijing City under the cover of night.
The Jurchen cavalry of this era is mostly archers, the Jurchens who have lived on horseback since childhood, almost everyone is a marksman, and the harsh living environment makes the Jurchen folk customs and their toughness, with the help of excellent equestrian skills and superior to the Ming army's archery shooting skills, the same number of Ming cavalry often did not get close to the Jurchens were covered by several rounds of arrow rain, and most of the casualties were killed.
Among Lu Xiangsheng's 40,000 cavalry, there was a cavalry of 10,000 horses that was different from all kinds of cavalry in this period, this cavalry was all dressed in heavy armor, and each soldier gave up all other long-range attack methods except for a three-meter-long cavalry gun.
Tiefutu this kind of heavy cavalry, because the horses are too heavy in armor, can't run fast, can't run far, plus there is no effective long-range attack means, the horse that encounters the Jurchens in the field shoots the main archers, then only the end of being kite-flying, slowly playing to death, but if under special circumstances, the archers are forced to face hard steel with heavy cavalry like Tiefutu, who are all wearing heavy armor, then the end will only be slaughtered.
In ancient wars, the position of the general is particularly important, whether it is the Great Khan Banner set up by Huang Taiji, or the imperial flag set up in the army of Chongzhen, it has a special role, the Imperial Flag, the Khan Flag is to indicate the location of the main general, as well as the function of commanding the troops, the general flag falls, which means that the Lord will die or run, in this case, it will often make the morale of their own soldiers plummet, if there are no other important generals nearby to re-erect their banners to recruit soldiers, those who look back and do not see the flag soldiers will often scatter and flee.
Huang Taiji in Guangqu Gate in the end only recalled a few thousand remnants, and most of them were wounded, after this battle, Huang Taiji lost the idea of attacking the Ming Emperor's capital to plunder the property, and now the most important thing is that he can take the remaining men and horses, bypassing the Ming army and returning to the Guanwai.
Chongzhen watched the emperor Taiji under the city under the high city wall gather his remnants of the defeated generals, the fire oil in the ditch on the ground began to slowly stop flowing, and the isolation area deliberately left near the Guangqu Gate also prevented the further spread of the fire, even so, the entire outer city was only left in ruins after the fire, and saw a large number of Jurchen cavalry outside the wall, and the faint Jingying men and horses also stopped near the Guangqu Gate, and saw that the fire was not approaching again, and they collapsed to the ground.
A large number of new army soldiers under Sun Chuanting's military order, from the inner city wall, a group of soldiers along the city wall, began to take over the outer city wall defense, seeing this scene, Huang Taiji only helplessly led the army to slowly leave the Guangqu Gate.
Huang Taiji is having a headache, how to return to the gate, how to face the various tribes that have been suppressed by himself, Chongzhen on the city wall at this moment is also having a headache, how to deal with these Beijing camps that have been pitted by themselves, fools also know that at the moment when the army is besieging the city, they have the right to transfer the guards to blow up the city gate, and there is no one else who sets fire to the city except Chongzhen, the emperor, 100,000 Beijing camps, only 10,000 remnants of the soldiers are left in Chongzhen's pit, and there are only 10,000 remnants left in the subway tribulus terrestris, if you don't have iron shoes, you are foolproof, as long as you accidentally fall, Don't think about getting up if you are stabbed with an iron thistle, you can only be caught up by the fire and burned alive, and now in Jingying, Chongzhen does not dare to let the remaining people continue to guard the imperial city, but how to deal with Chongzhen has not yet thought about it.
Huang Taiji led the army not far from Guangqu Gate, when he heard the sound of horses' hooves, and saw a large number of heavy cavalry with spears in the distance, lined up in a dense formation, like a city wall, rushing towards his position.
At this time, Lu Xiangsheng's heavy cavalry had completely raised the speed of their horses and charged straight towards the place where the Huang Taiji Khan Banner was.
Heavy cavalry, charge intensively, go straight to the place where the handsome banner is, and implement the beheading plan, this idea Chongzhen came up with when forming the cavalry, the Ming people because of the living environment, whether it is archery, or horsemanship or physical fitness, can not be the opponent of the Jurchens, only in the case of surprise, with heavy cavalry dense charge to disperse the nomadic cavalry, for their own light cavalry to create a numerical advantage, in order to form a one-sided pursuit mode.
However, this tactic can only be played this once, and it is not always possible to find an opportunity to let the heavy cavalry get close to the charge without the enemy noticing. The cavalry of the Ming army wanted to completely suppress the cavalry of the nomads, and only the organized light cavalry battle group was the best choice to fight against the nomadic cavalry.