Chapter 318: Encirclement and Annihilation 1
Fifteen miles, the Qing army did not realize that ten miles, the enemy's scout cavalry had already run wildly, and the scout cavalry of the Huaxia army did not let go, trying their best to strangle, but the Qing army's scout cavalry had no intention of fighting, because the enemy's army had already killed behind the buttocks.
To the south, despite the enemy's scouts, the 3rd Cavalry Brigade rushed into the enemy's camp and fought like a whirlwind, taking Geng Jingzhong and Azig by surprise.
The camp five miles away was broken through, and the cavalry chased the fleeing Qing army until under the city wall, and rushed in along the open south gate, and then the 10th Field Brigade quickly passed around the city, and Bai Wenxuan's provisional 18th Brigade followed the cavalry directly into the city.
At this time, Azig did not know about the battle in the south, and he had already invested 80,000 troops to attack a Tingzhou capital city.
Front, the defense of the north gate was beaten with thousands of holes, crumbling, looking at the fire behind the sky, he knew that the enemy was finished, the city was broken, this is the rhythm of the defeat of an army in this era, and the enemy's military strength is very small, under the siege of tens of thousands of troops, they are afraid that only the side of the north gate can resist for a while, he is not in a hurry, anyway, victory is in sight.
Geng Jingzhong went to the east gate, which would speed up the enemy's retreat, and perhaps, in a moment, the head of the enemy general would be presented.
He dismounted, and asked the guards to bring the tables in the tent, and drank and merried, and for a time even his guards were changing their cups, eating meat, and talking loudly about victory.
Suddenly, he saw the enemy's battle flag on the city gate falling, and he couldn't help but stand up and applaud. The guards cheered.
But before the cheers fell, the enemy's battle flags were counted again, which made everyone worry and sigh.
In the distance, Zhang Qiang's four troops surrounded it in a fan shape, ten miles, five minutes of rest, eight miles, five minutes of rest, and six miles of five minutes, because the three cavalry brigades in front of them were standing in a fierce battle and had already rushed to the enemy's camp.
Five miles, no longer stopping, four miles, the artillerymen put themselves in formation, but did not unload the artillery.
Ma Weiren of the 9th Field Brigade had already begun to attack the soldiers of the enemy's battalion who had fled, and on the other side, the 11th Brigade, He Jin personally led the team and began to outflank the enemy's rear flank.
Three miles, 10,000 arquebusiers began to line up and march in unison, the cavalry brigade was retreating, returning to the ranks of the army, the enemy camp was burning, and the Qing army of the brigade began to flee in the direction of Tingzhou Mansion.
Two miles later, the enemy was in a commotion, the artillerymen quickly unloaded the gun wagons, began to fix the cannons, carried ammunition, and the 1st Brigade of the Guards Brigade stopped advancing.
The flanks have also stopped attacking the enemy.
began to line up and set up a formation.
Azig looked at the general of the Qing army who ran to his side in a panic, but his eyes looked at the Tingzhou Mansion in front of him, where there was a change, a large army, a large army fluttering the banner of the Huaxia Army appeared in his field of vision, and the weapons quickly separated a part of the people rushed to the city along the city gate, he turned to the west gate, where a cavalry was chasing and killing his army that escaped from the city gate.
In the distance, the same banner of the Huaxia Army was fluttering, and a cavalry rushed towards the fleeing army at high speed. The army was cut like a piece of tofu, and then scattered like crispy biscuits, and turned into minced pieces, and when they saw the army rushing towards them, they turned and ran towards themselves.
Only then did he hear the shouts of several gray-faced generals beside him, "Baylor, Baylor, my army is surrounded, and the enemy is coming from behind." ”
Azig looked back blankly, the neat queue, several flags of the Huaxia Army fluttering, and a tall banner, the blood-red background of "Governor of the Huaxia Army - Zhang Qiang", the blue edge of the golden star, is so dazzling.
Azig burst of blood, a mouthful of plasma gushed out, and it floated three feet up, and the Manchu generals who were looking down at him sitting there were sprayed all over their faces, but they still couldn't stop their madness.
"Lord Belle, Lord Belle, that attention-"
Geng Jingzhong was the one who discovered the change earlier than Azig, but he couldn't get out, the surging cavalry of the Second Cavalry Brigade was like a river bursting embankment, rushing to the streets of the city, and his soldiers were scattering, fighting the surviving soldiers of the First Field Brigade of the Huaxia Army in the city, house by house.
It was impossible to resist such a large force of cavalry rushing in, those who rushed in front were the soldiers of the Qing army, the Han army banner and the green battalion, constantly fleeing, constantly surrendering, and constantly resisting, but they could not stop the impact of the enemy's cavalry, not to mention that there were more cavalry rushing behind, and more were the enemy's murderous infantry.
"Retreat, retreat," Geng Jingzhong turned his horse's head and ran, retreating towards the east gate with hundreds of soldiers around him, but he didn't want to, the east gate was also captured by the enemy, a team of cavalry rushed in, and directly scattered hundreds of them who were about to run to the east gate, and then a large number of infantry rushed in, Geng Jingzhong came and shouted: "My life is over," was cut off by a cavalry who rushed over on a horse, the cavalry may have killed the red eye, and the horse continued to rush to kill, completely ignoring the main general who had just cut off the enemy.
Hu Kui stood on the tower of the north gate and watched Bai Wenxuan's troops spread rapidly throughout the city, then killed on both sides, dropped the weapons in his hands, sat down on the city wall, took out an iron box from a small cloth bag on his body, opened the iron box, and pinched out a Jinhua brand cigarette with a filter with a trembling hand.
"My lord, we won,"
"I saw that the flag of the 10th Field Brigade rushed over at the east gate, the cavalry in the city was the 2nd Cavalry Brigade of Lord Baghyalu, and there was also a temporary 18th Field Brigade that I didn't know, and the 5th Field Brigade of Lord Xuanyuan Longfei rushed over at the west gate, and the banner of the Lord was flying in the rear of the enemy, and the enemy was scattering everywhere, listen, this is the sound of our cannons."
"Hahaha, we won, we defeated the enemy's army of 200,000, okay, cough cough cough-"
"My lord, my lord, what's wrong with you?" The pro-soldier asked.
"Leave me alone, go and gather the soldiers of the 1st Field Brigade, give me to continue to hold the city, count the casualties, send out the soldiers who can still fight, pursue the enemy, the enemy has not been completely destroyed, you can't relax, tell Bai Wenxuan, let him take over the defense of the city."
Hu Kui is a field brigade that can only be led by the rank of general soldier, while Bai Wenxuan is a demoted general and receives the rank of garrison, and Hu Kui is Zhang Qiang's former captain of the personal guards.
"Yes, my lord," the soldier hurriedly responded, and then shouted, "Doctor, doctor, the chief soldier is injured." With his shouting, several pro-soldiers quickly surrounded him, and lifted Hu Kui with all hands and feet, Hu Kui's back was slashed by the enemy several times, and it was already bleeding like blood, staining the city wall that was back just now red.
Even so, the battle inside and outside the city was still not over, and when the soldiers sent people to find Bai Wenxuan, Bai Wenxuan was directing the army to search for those Qing troops who could not escape from the city.
Hearing Hu Kui's order to himself, Bai Wenxuan was a little reluctant, but thinking that he was no longer the second person in the army in addition to Zhang Xianzhong, the prince of Daxi, he quickly adjusted his mentality, and immediately respected his own soldiers, not respectful, Hu Kui is Zhang Qiang's henchman, just like his relationship with Zhang Xianzhong, he can not listen, besides, he is still his own boss, boss.
He also understood: "No matter which unit you belong to, once you arrive on the battlefield, you will be judged by your rank and official position, and the low-ranking must obey the orders of the higher-ranked, otherwise you will be punished for violating discipline, and you will be beaten with a military stick and whipped, or deprived of your authority at the worst, and killed before the battle, without mercy." ”
After knowing what to do, Bai Wenxuan quickly adjusted the deployment of his army, assigned men to guard the four gates, and then sent troops to guard the intersection of various streets, and then sent troops to encircle and suppress the recalcitrant enemies, and at the same time sent heralds to declare their duties, so that the other soldiers who entered the city would either be dispatched by themselves, or withdraw from the city and return to their own team.
The training of the Huaxia army was more high-quality than that of the Ming army and the Qing army, and Bai Wenxuan's declaration of duty and sovereignty was immediately responded to by the other two troops, and the 10th Field Brigade quickly collected its troops and went out of the city, chasing its main force from the north gate, and attacking the Azig troops who were confronting Zhang Qiang head-on.
And Xuanyuan Longfei was originally going to enter the city to encircle and suppress the enemy, but when he heard the shouts of the Huaxia army on the city gate and saw the flag of the 18th Provisional Brigade raised, he also led his troops to turn around and drive the Qing army that was still fleeing in a hurry to rush towards Azig's troops.
On the front, three miles from the north gate, Azig had woken up, and the Qing army had recovered from the chaos, at this time they still had 70,000 or 80,000 troops, and a full 30,000 troops who had not fought with the enemy, and they were lining up to meet the main force of the Huaxia Army that Zhang Qiang had oppressed.
With the addition of the Qing army that fled from all over the place, Azig's troops had reached 100,000 men, and the Qing army quickly absorbed and reorganized these teams, sending out a team of overseers, and seeing the enemy approaching more and more, Azig was worried.
Turning back, the city gate is full of Chinese soldiers, thousands of Chinese soldiers are lined up under the city gate, at the city wall on the side of the east gate, a Chinese army is slowly pressing, the west gate, another outside a Chinese army is pressing, two wings, two cavalry protecting these two infantry units are forced to come, turning back, several Chinese armies are forced to come.
Generally speaking, there may not be many enemies, and they may be equivalent to their own military strength, but the Qing army has suffered heavy losses, 100,000 Qing troops have been annihilated, and most of the remaining 100,000 people are wounded, embarrassed, morale is low, and they don't know what to do in a panic.
More than 500 meters apart between the two sides, he saw a young man holding his horse under a big flag, raising his hand high, and then waving his hand down.
Azig's eyes widened suddenly.