Text Volume 10, Chapter 3, Section 13 The dragon sings in the wilderness
On the battlefield, Azig led the Manchu army with thousands of remnants with red flags, Zierharang led thousands of remnants of the Manchu army with blue flags, and Dai Shan led the Manchu army with 15,000 iron cavalry with red flags in turn, and the locust-like Qing army iron cavalry frantically flocked to the tens of thousands of iron men and soldiers led by Zheng Zhibao, and the dense phalanx instantly became precarious.
I saw that more than 6,000 Iron Man soldiers who bore the brunt of the battle lined up to meet the battle, and the long-handled war knives in the hands of the soldiers flew up and down, turning into a dazzling cold light, cutting down the Qing Army's iron cavalry that rushed up to the ground; The 3,000 Iron Man archers who were in a volley behind were exhausted at this time, and the arms of the soldiers were already swollen and weak, but no one stopped, and the 3,000 archers were still mechanically firing their bows, arrows, and volleys, and round after round of arrow rain roared and smashed towards the Manchu army in front.
Zheng Zhibao was holding a war knife at the front line at this time, fighting bloodily with thousands of Iron Man soldiers around him, sticking to the front of the barracks wall of the pacesetter, and firmly blocking the main force of the Qing army outside.
At the same time, the garrison of Battalion A Fengtian and Battalion B garrison Feng Xuan were also very anxious, and the two led their officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress the thousands of Qing troops in the battalion.
After the army was assembled, the garrison of Battalion A shouted angrily: "Soldiers! Since the day our Hanwei Army became an army, it has been indomitable and bloody on the battlefield! Never before has the Tartars attacked the camp like today! ”
As soon as these words came out, the 15,000 soldiers of the Hanwei Army behind Feng Tian were all furious, and they wanted to rush up immediately and die with the Tartars.
"Today's battle, there is no self, there is no me! Kill Hu! ”
Feng Tian raised his sword and roared loudly, and then, Feng Xuan and the fifteen thousand soldiers beside him also roared in unison, and the huge phalanx composed of the soldiers of the whole army quickly rushed to the gap in the camp wall, and successfully joined the officers and soldiers of the Iron Man Army who were fighting hard.
At this time, the 3,000 Iron Man Army archers were exhausted, and many of them had seriously pulled their arms, but these Han soldiers did not stop firing their arrows until reinforcements arrived and the Shangguan gave the order; It was only by this time that the faces of the three thousand Iron Man archers showed painful expressions, but the eyes of the soldiers remained resolute.
Zheng Zhibao learned that the soldiers of Battalion A and Battalion B had come to support, and immediately led the more than 5,000 officers and soldiers of the Iron Man Army who were fighting in the front army to slowly retreat. At the same time, Feng Xuan, the garrison of Battalion A and Feng Xuan, the garrison of Battalion B, immediately led their soldiers to go up, and blocked the tens of thousands of Qing army iron horsemen who rushed up later, so that those ferocious Tartars could not advance an inch!
Huang Taiji's face became even more ugly when he saw this situation, and after a fierce battle, the strength of the Hanwei army in front of him not decreased, but fought more and more, and the phalanx of the Hanwei army became even more indestructible! If this continues, he and tens of thousands of Qing warriors will no longer have to fight, and they will directly draw their swords and commit suicide!
Thinking of this, Huang Taiji immediately sent the 20,000 elite troops of the Manchu army with yellow flags and rushed up from the left flank of the soldiers of the Hanwei army. After entering the battlefield, this 20,000-strong force of the Qing army slammed into the left flank of the Hanwei army formation, instantly knocking the originally very strong phalanx out of a huge depression, and at least hundreds of Hanwei soldiers were killed on the spot.
Feng Xuan, the garrison of the second battalion, was furious when he saw this, and led two hundred guards to rush forward, preparing to plug the gap at all costs and stop the onslaught of the Manchu army with yellow flags.
The two hundred guards led by Feng Xuan were all equipped with spears and halberds, and they did not fall behind in the slightest against the Qing army's iron cavalry, which had just entered the phalanx and caused the speed of the war horse to be greatly reduced. Under the leadership of Feng Xuan, the soldiers formed a formation to fight, and after paying the price of dozens of soldiers, they finally stabilized the situation and temporarily stopped the offensive of the Manchu army with yellow flags and iron cavalry.
However, in the face of the crazy attack of 20,000 elite iron cavalry, Feng Xuan and thousands of soldiers on the left flank of the phalanx all felt tremendous pressure, and could only fight back angrily, trying their best to support it.
At this time, the garrison of Battalion A Feng Tian also discovered the crisis on the left flank of the phalanx, but in the face of the onslaught of Azig, Daishan, and Zilharang, Feng Tian had no strength to divide his troops to support.
Therefore, Feng Tian could only raise the flag and tell the soldiers of the other battalions to go to support immediately.
When the Qing army in the camp was encircled and annihilated before, the soldiers of the garrison Zhu Xuyu led the baggage battalion to suffer heavy casualties, and they were no longer able to go to support at this time; And the soldiers of the C Battalion led by Bao Desheng are not strong enough in close combat, not to mention that they have to protect the Chinese army's big tent without losing it, even if they divide troops to support, it will not help.
Just when Feng Tian was anxious, a passionate war drum sounded, and a huge sound sounded like a dragon's roar, constantly echoing on the battlefield.
Feng Tian slashed to death a fallen red flag tartar, and then hurriedly looked back, only to see the battle flag of the Iron Man Army raised again, and after a tragic fierce battle, the Iron Man Army soldiers with only more than 7,000 troops left in the army went out again.
More than 7,000 officers and soldiers of the Iron Man Army, under the leadership of Zheng Zhibao, quickly attacked the left flank of the Hanwei army and launched a fierce attack on the Manchu army's iron cavalry with yellow flags. At this time, the three thousand Iron Man archers used their last strength to shoot the last salvo at the Manchu army with yellow flags not far away. Immediately afterward, the 3,000 Iron Man soldiers, along with the rest of their comrades, roared loudly with long-handled swords in their hands, and crashed into the Tartar army that was close at hand.
The bloody battle is unfolding again!
Zheng Zhibao led more than 7,000 soldiers of the Iron Man Army and thousands of soldiers of the garrison Feng Xuansuo to launch a fierce counterattack against the 20,000 Manchu troops with yellow flags, and the tide of the battle was reversed in an instant. More than 10,000 soldiers of the Ming army turned from defense to attack, and rushed forward with a roar, and went forward to fight with the Tartar iron cavalry.
Zheng Zhibao and Feng Xuan took the lead, each of them led hundreds of soldiers who dared to die to charge forward, killing the Qing army's iron cavalry, which was no longer able to ride horses and run, and the casualties increased greatly.
In front of the battlefield, Feng Tian's situation was more critical, Azig and Zilharang led the army into the Hanwei army several times, although Feng Tian tried his best to lead the soldiers to drive out the Qing army's iron cavalry, but with the increase in casualties of the army, the frontal defense of the phalanx became precarious.
At this moment, the Manchu Army's Red Banner Iron Cavalry Army, which had been withdrawn for a period of time, had regrouped and launched a full-scale attack on the Hanwei army under the leadership of Dai Shan. With the cooperation of the Qing army iron cavalry under Azig and Zilharang, this charge directly tore a huge gap in the front of the Hanwei army array, and tens of thousands of Qing army iron cavalry drove straight into the Hanwei army formation in one fell swoop.
Seeing this, Feng Tian was furious, and instead of retreating, he led the soldiers of the A Battalion to launch a counterattack against the gradually accelerating Qing army's iron cavalry. At this time, the entire battlefield became extremely chaotic, the soldiers of the first and second battalions of the Hanwei army and the soldiers of the Iron Man Army all lost their formations, and the soldiers were divided into pieces to form countless small phalanxes, and continued to fight with tens of thousands of Qing army iron cavalry.
Zheng Zhibao, Feng Tian, and Feng Xuan each led the soldiers of their headquarters to fight to the death, but they were unable to plug the gap in the camp, and more and more Qing army iron cavalry once again rushed into the Hanwei army pacesetter camp.
Bao Desheng, the garrison of the C Battalion, roared when he saw this, and more than 7,000 soldiers of the C Battalion instantly gave the Qing army iron cavalry a blow to the head with a dense salvo, and beat the hundreds of Qing army iron cavalry who were charging forward into a sieve!
However, at this time, the Qing army's iron cavalry had already increased the speed of the war horse, and after being hit by two salvos from the soldiers of the C Battalion, they rushed to the front of the horizontal formation in one fell swoop while the soldiers of the C Battalion were loading the firearms, and the two sides immediately started hand-to-hand combat.
Bao Desheng's eyes were red, he threw the bird gun in his hand aside, and then swung his sword with the soldiers of the C Battalion, and used his own flesh and blood to meet the Tartar Jin Ge Iron Horse, firmly blocking the front of the Hanwei Army's Central Army Tent.
Huang Taiji saw that after paying a heavy price, the situation of this life-and-death battle finally developed in the direction of victory.
"It seems that I have not exhausted my great clear qi, after I defeat the Chinese army of the Han Wei army, the Ming army will definitely be completely chaotic, and then I will lead the army back to Shengjing and clean up the traitor Dolgon!"
Just when Huang Taiji breathed a sigh of relief and looked forward to the bright prospect of his escape, a loud horn suddenly sounded in the north of the battlefield, like a dragon roaring and a dragon chanting in the wild, which shocked the tens of thousands of troops who were fighting on the battlefield.
Huang Taiji, Dai Shan, Azig, and Zilharang all looked at the north with a frightened expression, and a cool breath instantly filled the hearts of several people. Huang Taiji felt his scalp tingle, and the pig's tail hanging behind his head was even cocked in shock.
"Order the whole army to withdraw, withdraw immediately!"
Huang Taiji didn't have time to think about it, and immediately issued an order for the whole army to retreat, wanting to gather all the remaining forces of the Qing army and kill them from the siege of the Han Wei army's reinforcements.
At this time, the soldiers of the Hanwei Army Pacesetter Battalion had lost their formation, and although the soldiers wanted to drag the retreating Qing army iron cavalry of the whole army, they were powerless, so they could only watch the Qing army iron cavalry withdraw and began to reassemble.
After Dai Shan, Azig, and Zilharang led the army back to Huang Taiji's side, they all looked at Huang Taiji with a look of surprise on their faces.
Huang Taiji's eyes were bloodshot, he looked at the Ming army of iron cavalry approaching in the distance, and said fiercely: "The whole army is up to you!" Don't fall in love with the battle, fight directly out of the encirclement, first get rid of the pursuit of the Ming army, and then find another way to rush out! ”
When Daishan, Azig, and Zilharang heard this, they all received orders and hurriedly charged with their troops. A moment later, after the fierce battle, the remaining 50,000 iron cavalry troops had formed a cone-shaped cavalry formation, and under the leadership of Huang Taiji, they killed the Ming army's iron cavalry army that was charging with all their might.