Chapter 839: It's Over
After Li Yi led his troops to leave from the north gate of Jinan, he turned east when he reached the Daqing River.
It didn't take long for Yu Feng to send people to Pegasus to report, Gao Jinku led people to surrender, Li Benshen committed suicide, and now Licheng is in the hands of the Ming army, and according to Gao Jinku's confession, Hong Chengchou has left his baggage and fled in the direction of the Daqing River. Li Yi was overjoyed and knew that there were no worries. Immediately sent someone to give an order, ordering Li Yulin to be responsible for dealing with the surrender of the army to defend Jinan, and ordered Yu Feng to divide his troops to defend Licheng, and then quickly came with cavalry to pursue first.
The green battalion soldiers left their baggage and fled, where is there still morale at all, Li Yi has made up his mind to leave all this Qing army behind.
However, in the end, the green battalion soldiers were very close to the Daqing River, and the Ming army set out from Jinan, which was far away. By the time the striker reported that he had found the Green Battalion crossing the river, the Green Battalion had already crossed the river for a short time.
Hong Chengchou is also an experienced general, and he has long been prepared for the attack of the Ming army. Most of the army under his command was demoralized, but there were still those who could barely fight, such as the Ma Kebu, because they surrendered to the Qing army earlier, and their families were placed in Jizhou, under the control of the Qing court. Other green battalion soldiers can escape and surrender, but the Ma Kebu does not dare, if he surrenders, he will definitely implicate Jizhou's family.
When the other armies crossed the river, Ma Ke was ordered to take his headquarters to guard the side, and when the Ming army came, he immediately led the army to meet him, and the two sides fought together.
Although the Daqing River is frozen everywhere, it cannot be crossed everywhere. In many places, the riverbank is protruding and steep, and it is difficult to go down. Moreover, the army of more than 100,000 must be properly arranged to cross first and then cross, if a swarm of swarms rush over, not to mention the rupture, there is also the danger of breaking the ice. So at the beginning, under the command of Hong Chengchou, the order of crossing the river was quite orderly, but when the Ming army came from the west, there was a riot all of a sudden.
Hong Chengchou issued a military order, ordering to stop crossing the river and forming a formation to fight with the Ming army. Zhun Ta led the Eight Banners to guard the riverbank, and dared to cross the river without obeying the order, and the Eight Banners were cut down with a knife. With the Eight Banners soldiers deterred, the tide of crossing the river and escaping can be regarded as contained. The generals of the Green Battalion had to change their minds and began to prepare to fight the Ming army.
The attacking Ming army was not too many, and the Qing army may not be able to defeat it if there are many enemies and few enemies. There are many surrendered Nine-sided Ming troops in the Green Battalion, and their generals have mostly stayed under Hong Chengchou back then, and they are still willing to listen to Hong Chengchou's military orders.
At that time, hundreds of thousands of green battalion soldiers began to organize their queues, obeying Hong Chengchou's command and throwing themselves into the battle one after another.
can quickly make the disheartened green battalion soldiers under his command look like this when the Ming army attacks, Hong Chengchou's ability to lead troops is still extremely strong.
On the south bank of the Daqing River, in the snowflakes fluttering in the sky, a battle of tens of thousands of people began.
On one side was the Ming army of the Western Road who vowed to leave the green battalion soldiers behind, and on the other side was the Qing army who were in a hurry to escape. And only by resisting the attack of the Ming army can they escape, and most of the Qing army knows this, so the desire to fight is still very strong. This is what the so-called return to the teacher is talking about.
The arrows and firearms of the two sides went back and forth to kill each other, and every moment the soldiers fell to the ground. Li Yi commanded tens of thousands of troops, carrying the morale of a winning streak against the Qing army, and at first the Qing army was able to resist with the advantage of numbers. And when Yu Feng arrived with more than a thousand cavalry, he immediately launched a fierce charge against the green battalion queue from the flank.
In the snowflakes flying in the sky, the visibility became lower and lower, and thousands of cavalry appeared like ghosts, going around to the south side and stabbing into the soft underbelly of the Qing army.
First, a row of short spears was thrown, and then the cavalrymen raised their three-eyed firearms and opened fire on the soldiers of the Green Battalion who were close at hand, and the cavalry lined up and galloped past the outside of the Qing army, leaving hundreds of corpses behind.
Although the number of dead was small, the panic spread quickly, and the green battalion soldiers who were forced to attack were in chaos.
The number of cavalry was small, and the snow road was very slippery, the horse speed did not dare to be too fast, Yu Feng did not dare to rush into the Qing army array with the cavalry, but stopped at a slightly distance with the cavalry, and the soldiers reloaded the fire guns again, and then approached again to fire.
Harassed by the flanks of the Ming cavalry, Hong Chengchou had to divide tens of thousands of troops to defend the flanks. Because of the bad weather, he didn't know how many Ming troops there were on the flanks. Although the fluttering snowflakes were not too big, they greatly blocked the line of sight, and when they looked through the clairvoyant mirror, there was already a white expanse beyond a hundred zhang, and they could not see the situation of the enemy army at all.
The battle soon descended into chaos. The sound of fighting, the clashing of knives and guns, and the roar of firearms resounded continuously. You can see clearly except for the situation in the near distance, you can't see anything in the distance, all you can do is to wave your sword and gun and kill the enemy in front of you, and only by defeating the enemy can you live!
What kind of formation and what command is no longer too useful in this kind of weather, and it is completely a competition of the will of the soldiers on both sides to fight.
Just when the battle was in full swing, Guo Hu, Wu Shengzhao and other generals led their own troops to the battlefield, and after a brief discussion with several generals, they launched an attack from the east, and sent their men to shout while attacking, "The army of King Qi has arrived, and those who surrender in the green battalion will not die!" ”
At first, the shouting was scattered, but slowly it became more and more neat, and when thousands of people chanted in unison, the sound of fighting on the battlefield was also suppressed.
On the bank of the Daqing River, listening to the shouts from the east, Hong Chengchou was shocked!
Chen Yue actually led a large army from Jiaodong? How is this possible!
"Fake, it must be fake, tell everyone not to panic, this is a trick of the Ming army!" Hong Chengchou shouted.
However, his words were still heard, and the shouting statement was clearly from the east, and then the enemy attacked like a gale, and the army deployed in the east was beaten to the ground as soon as they stepped forward to resist.
Gathered the personal soldiers of Guo Hu and Wu Shengzhao six or seven green battalion generals, the two or three thousand people who took the lead in the attack were the most elite troops, in fact, the ordinary green battalion soldiers can be compared?
Even the green battalion soldiers in the battle saw that it was their former accomplices who attacked, but they didn't have a chance to pass on the news at all, because the entire Qing army array was already in a complete panic.
The army of Chen Yue, the king of Qi, has been killed, and the east, west and south sides have been surrounded by the Ming army, who can not panic at this time? Which one still has the courage to fight again?
Fools can see that this battle is over, and there is no hope of victory. There is only one thing you can do at this time, and that is to escape! Fortunately, there is the Daqing River on his side, and it is the Daqing River that has frozen, as long as you cross the Daqing River, you can escape, I don't believe that the Ming army will continue to pursue in this snowy weather!
So, in addition to the soldiers who were fighting, the other green battalion soldiers fled towards the Daqing River together, and even the generals couldn't stop it, and many generals didn't stop it at all, but took the lead in fleeing first.
It's messy, it's all messy, and the army of hundreds of thousands completely collapses in an instant! Countless Green Battalion soldiers cried and shouted and fled towards the Daqing River, ignoring the Eight Banners' stops.
And in the face of this comprehensive retreat, even the Eight Banners general Zhun Ta did not try to stop it, but took his subordinates Eight Banners to be the first to go towards the Daqing River.
Finished! These two words arose in Hong Chengchou's heart. Then comes infinite despair.
"My lord, let's go!" The two staff members urged, and Hong Chengchou was in despair and fled.