Chapter 758: The Great War in the Central Plains (12)
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Just when Zhao Hu led the heavy cavalry to rush into the Qing army formation in the west, Zhu Hongsan was still in the camp and was anxious for his safety.
Zhu Hongsan has encountered many crises in his life, in the early years of the Xinyang War, there were 300,000 rogues outside the city, and there were less than 2,000 people in his own hands. There was also Li Chengdong's sneak attack on Guangzhou, the military situation was unknown at that time, and Zhu Hongsan had less than 20 personal guards around him, and there was a great hope that he would be killed by Li Chengdong. Although these times are more critical than now, Zhu Hongsan did not have the current sense of despair.
The reason is very simple, Zhu Hong was young at three years ago, and he could start again after failure. Now it is different, Zhu Hongsan is thirty-nine years old, and he no longer has the energy and time to start from scratch. What's more, he understands tightly in his heart, now there are many factions within his Shenwu court, as long as he dies, those factions will definitely support their own emperor, and when the time comes, in order to fight for power and profit, they will not have the energy to continue the Northern Expedition, so they can only give the Manchu Qing in the north a chance to breathe, and then just like the King of Southern Minglu, the King of Tang, and the King of Gui, they were defeated separately one by one.
Zhu Hongsan was very helpless when he thought of the scene after his death, could it be that the inertia of history is so great? I've done my best, but I still can't change history. Zhu Hongsan thought of this and touched the horizontal knife on his waist with his hand, he watched Emperor Chongzhen hang himself, but he didn't expect that it would be his turn more than ten years later.
Just when Zhu Hongsan was melancholy, Li Chengen beside him shouted loudly: "Emperor, look, look at the mountain!" ”
Zhu Hongsan heard Li Chengen's call and looked up at the Ming army camp on Anshan, and found a big red flag on a flagpole. At that time, in order to receive the information of reinforcements earlier, Zhu Hongsan gave the defenders on Anshan a task, asking them to pay attention to the surrounding shape at all times, and at the same time using various flags to inform the Chinese army camp that this red flag was a sign of the arrival of reinforcements.
Zhu Hongsan was overjoyed when he saw this information, and it felt good that he didn't have to die. Zhu Hongsan quickly stood up and walked up to the watchtower in the camp and looked to the west.
At this time, Zhao Hu had already rushed into the ranks of the Ming army, and the rear team of the Qing army was immediately chaotic when it was rushed by the heavy cavalry, and the rear team squeezed the front team, and the formation immediately became chaotic. Zhu Hongsan couldn't see the reinforcements of the Ming cavalry, but when he saw the chaos of the Qing army, the pressure on his side dropped sharply, and he knew that the Ming army on the mountain was not mistaken, and the reinforcements were coming.
Zhu Hongsan stood on the watchtower and shouted to the people below: "Send the order down and tell the brothers that the reinforcements are coming, just hold on for a while!" ”
When the military order spread throughout the army, the whole army immediately let out thunderous cheers, and the already low morale was also boosted. You must know that Zhu Hongsan has only more than 10,000 people, and he has been fighting with the Qing army for a day, and he is already at the lowest point in terms of mental and physical strength, this good news is really a lifesaver.
Yue Le stood on a small hill five miles away and looked at the Ming army camp opposite, after a day of non-stop onslaught, the Ming army completely lost the initial momentum, some camp walls have been lost, and they are about to attack it.
Yue Le admitted that the fighting will of this Ming army was very tenacious, and he had seen some seriously injured Ming soldiers and Qing troops in the distance, which was rare in the previous Ming army. Yue Le knew that this Ming army was called the Praetorian Guard Division formed by Emperor Shenwu, probably the same as Bayala on his side, they were all veterans of a hundred battles, and their combat effectiveness was naturally strong.
However, the Ming army suffered because the number of people was too small, Yue Le estimated that as long as there were 10,000 more Ming troops like this, it was really not certain what the battle would look like. However, it is impossible for Yue Le to think about it, there are less than 10,000 Bayalas in the Eight Banners of the Manchu Dynasty, and they are scattered in the hands of various banner owners and commanders, even if there are many Han people, these fifteen thousand people should be all.
Yue Le looked at the sky, it was already afternoon, and it would be dark in another hour, according to the appearance of the Ming army, it should be able to hold out for half an hour, and it should be allowed to speed up the intensity of the attack, this battle will be difficult to drag on until the night, what if the Emperor of Nanming escapes while the night?
Just when Yue Le wanted to throw in all the reserves and crush the Ming army in one fell swoop, there were bursts of cheers from the Ming army camp in front. Yue Le's heart moved, and he secretly screamed that it was not good, at this time, the Ming army cheered, could it be that the reinforcements were coming?
The Qing army has a total of 100,000 people, and the battlefield area is huge, Yuele is five miles away from the Ming army camp, and it is farther away from the Aobai Department in the west, so it is impossible to see what the situation is.
Yue Le hurriedly called his own soldiers and asked him to see what was going on, why did the Ming army's combat effectiveness suddenly burst out, was it a last fight or reinforcements came?
However, as soon as the inquiring soldiers were sent out, Yue Le found that a large number of Qing troops had retreated from the west, and now the rout had hit the Harbara department in the south.
Yue Le didn't know what was going on, but he knew that what he was most afraid of on the battlefield was the rout, because when people were in a panic, they wanted to run to a safe place in their hearts, and of course their own people were the safest, so it was easy for the rout to disrupt the originally neat team, giving the enemy a chance to take advantage of.
If these 100,000 men were trained in the Manchu Eight Banners, it would have been easier to do so, and after they were defeated, they would have retreated from both sides of the rear army, and the middle part would be given up for the follow-up troops to pass.
However, these Mongols had been herdsmen before, and only a third were qualified warriors, and they knew that they should not attack their own formation. In addition, the Mongolian soldiers have been fighting for a day, and the Ming army is physically exhausted, and these Mongolians are even more so, if it weren't for the suppression of those Taiji lords in Mongolia, these Mongolians would have run away a long time ago, and they came to the customs to make a fortune, and they originally planned to grab some silver, women, and food, but they didn't expect to encounter such a hard bone.
Because of this, the Mongols, who were already sleepy and lacking horses, were rushed by Zhao Hu's heavy cavalry, and immediately fled to the south like a mountain.
At this time, the ranks in the south of the Qing army had been rushed out of shape, and the rout, pursued by the Ming cavalry, rushed to the Baolide Department in the east. Yue Le, who was commanding in the back, was shocked when he saw it, and hurriedly called a personal soldier and asked him to go to Baolide, whether he used a whip or a knife to cut, he must let the rout troops in the west and south bypass, and never rush into the main formation.
Yue Le thought very well, but now it was not up to him to decide, these Mongol routs rushed to the Baolide Front under the purposeful pursuit of the Ming cavalry. When people flee, no matter whether they are enemies or teammates in front of them, as long as they block their way to escape, they will fight with you, and the rout soldiers who retreated for a while fought with the pro-soldier team sent out by Baolide, and the pro-soldier team was less than 500 people, and the slightest resistance was scattered by the rout, and the Baolide department was also crushed.
Yue Le sighed when he saw this, at this time he had already received the news of Aobai, this Ming army was the Ming cavalry who came from Yuncheng. Seeing that the reinforcements of the Ming army were coming, it seemed that Wu Sangui's 50,000 horses were more than lucky. Yue Le couldn't understand why Wu Sangui, who had experienced a hundred battles, was defeated by the Ming army, which had just been formed for three years, why was this?
Mu Shan had already returned from the front line at this time, stood beside Yue Le and said: "Lord An, now that this is the case, those Mongols are frightened by the Ming army, it is better to retreat twenty miles back and organize a team to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army again!" ”
Yue Le looked around, except for the Manchu Eight Banners he brought, all the Mongols panicked, like headless flies. Yue Lechang sighed and said, "Okay, let's retreat to Dongping Prefecture!" After Yue Le finished speaking, he also joined the fleeing team with the only remaining three thousand Eight Banner cavalry.
At this point, the Battle of Ansan ended, and the Ming army faced off with 65,000 people and 150,000 people of the Manchu Yue Le Division, defeating Yue Le in one day, killing and injuring countless Qing troops. And Li Yuanyin, the great hero of this battle, was in the camp at this time to meet Emperor Zhu Hongsan.
Zhu Hongsan was in a good mood to live in death, and rewarded Li Yuanyin on the spot as the deputy governor of the left army and the general of Zuo Wuwei, Li Yuanyin's eldest son, that is, Zhu Hongsan's grandson Li Zhi, who was less than five years old, became the hereditary commander of the Jinyi Guard, and his son Li Zhong was the hereditary Jinyi Wei Qianhu. As a deputy general, Zhao Hu was named the king of Dongping County, and his son Zhu Hongyi was at the same level, and the eldest son Zhao Shuo was the hereditary commander of the Jinyi Guard, the prince of the county!
Li Yuanyin has now become a giant in the army, and he is naturally happy in his heart, all other county kings are honorary titles, and only his deputy governor of the left army is a real position, which is already a senior general in Zhu Hongsan's group, only half a level worse than Qian Yong, Zhao Guodong and others.
"Your Majesty, although the Qing army has been defeated and retreated, but the main force still exists, the minister thinks that we should take advantage of the victory to pursue and destroy this Qing army in one fell swoop!"
Li Yuanyin's big words are easy to say, but now Zhu Hong and the three of them are sleepy, and at the end of this day, his Praetorian Guard division has borne all the pressure, and only 8,000 people are left in the division of 15,000 people, and the other 7,000 people are either killed in battle, or they are not seriously injured and cannot move, even these 8,000 people are also wounded, but it does not affect the battle. In addition to this, most of the weapons and ammunition of the Praetorian Guard Division were consumed, and Zhu Hongsan originally relied on the canal fleet and was not short of ammunition. But now the canal fleet has sunk to the bottom of the lake as fish food, and at the same time, all of Zhu Hongsan's ammunition has sunk together, and the artillery has no gunpowder and is still a fart?
At this time, Yao Qisheng, who was beside Zhu Hongsan, spoke: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what General Li said is extremely true!" Your Majesty, please look! ”
After Yao Qisheng finished speaking, he opened the topographic map of Shandong, pointed to Anping Prefecture and said: "Your Majesty, the Qing army retreated to Anping Prefecture, and here is Feicheng to the northeast, and Pingyin to the north!" Your Majesty found out that no, the Qing army has already run into a dead end on its own! ”
Zhu Hongsan saw that this was really the case, at that time, Zhu Hongsan chose Ansan Lake as the decisive battle location was not a blind pick, the west of Ansan Lake is the East Henan Plain, which is suitable for cavalry combat, and the east is the Taishan Mountains. The Taishan Mountains stretch for more than 400 miles from west to east, and the steep mountains are a good place for infantry to fight cavalry. At that time, Zhu Hongsan's calculation was to leave the canal and enter the Taishan Mountains if the war was unfavorable, and use the terrain to offset the advantage of the Qing cavalry. Zhu Hongsan asked Zhao Guodong to go to Tai'an with all the other troops for this reason, and in the event that the war was unfavorable, Zhao Guodong would bring people from the front line of Feicheng to save himself.