Chapter 450: Surrender

The last battle of the Battle of Nanchang was not as earth-shattering as recorded in history, at this time the Qing army was already at the end of the crossbow, after the three thousand cavalry were killed by the shotgun, the infantry behind was immediately defeated and retreated like a mountain, and the three hundred people of Bayan behind the team were useless at all. After all, compared with the artillery of the Ming army, the knives and guns of the Warlord are not frightening.

The three Manchurian generals sent by Tan Tai, Bayan died in the cavalry charge, Zakdan led the overseer team to be killed by his own people, and Zakdan also died in the chaos.

And Iribu's head is much more flexible, and he ran away when he saw that he couldn't do anything alone, of course, he was not optimistic about Tan Tai, so he didn't return to the two white flag positions, but secretly changed into Han clothes, and quietly ran south.

Tan Tai, who was ten miles away from the front line, originally thought that the Mongols would be able to hold out for an hour no matter how bad they were, but he didn't expect to hold out for a quarter of an hour.

A scarred white flag and white tooth lama came to Tan Tai, "General, the Mongols were defeated by the Ming army, General Bayan and General Zakdan were killed, and General Iribu's whereabouts are unknown!" ”

Tan Tai gritted his teeth and scolded: "Iribu, this bastard, must have run away!" How far is the Ming army! ”

The pro-soldier was just about to reply, and a large number of Mongolian defeated soldiers suddenly rushed in outside Changyi Town, no need to ask, the Ming army had already killed in front of him.

The last 3,000 cavalry of the Qing army were beaten to pulp by shotguns, and without the only threat, Ma Kun became even more unscrupulous, ordering all the new troops to line up in attack formation and drive the Qing army to the river. In this way, the last tens of thousands of Qing troops were compressed into an area of less than five miles centered on Changyi Town.

By the time Dinghai's river fleet arrived at Changyi, the Qing army had completely lost the motivation to resist.

Under the hard work of He Luohui, the Qing army made a few small fishing boats, plus wooden rafts made of door panels and house beams, a total of more than 20 ferries were working hard to send the people with two white flags across the Gan River. However, there were too few ferries, and these modified ferries could only send more than 200 soldiers at a time at a time at the risk of sinking, but although they were few, they still gave more than 10,000 soldiers a little hope of escaping.

But with the arrival of Ding Hai's fleet, this hope was dashed.

Ding Hai saw that the Qing army had found the boat, so he quickly ordered five gunboats to rush up and sink the more than 20 river-crossing tools one by one, and the Qing army on it also became fish food in the Gan River.

Next, Ding Hai saw that a large number of Qing troops had gathered by the river, and immediately began to fire at the Qing troops on the shore. In order to eliminate the ferry just now, several cannons have been loaded with chain shells, and now it doesn't matter so much, they are directly shot.

A large number of Qing soldiers were strangled by the chains of the chain bullets and died screaming on the riverside.

The rest of the Qing army saw that the Ming gunboats were coming, and hurriedly withdrew from the shooting range of the shotgun, although it was still within the range of the solid bullet, although it was still quite miserable to die under the solid bullet, but the solid bullet did not have the terrifying lethality of the shotgun after all, and the Qing army was still acceptable.

After the artillery of the New Army was put into battle, the Qing army completely lost its determination to resist, and the Han Army Banner and the Mongolian Eight Banners on the periphery began to surrender one after another. The new army made a hole in the encirclement, telling these surrendered guys to put down their swords and guns, take off their armor, and come out naked to concentrate in one place.

Seeing that surrender could save their lives, a large number of Qing troops who had lost their combat effectiveness began to lay down their swords and guns, and finally more than 10,000 Manchurians with two white flags entrenched around Changyi Town had not surrendered. Tan Tai, the general of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, saw that the general trend had gone, the encirclement of the Ming army had reached the periphery of Changyi Town, and the kind of artillery that killed people without blinking had already hit the town, Tan Tai knew that he still had not completed the task assigned by Duoduo, and the last soldiers of the two white flags would die here. Thinking of this, Tan Tai didn't say a word, he pulled out his waist knife and killed himself, he was the highest-ranking Qing army general killed on the battlefield, Duoduo died of illness, not killed in battle.

As soon as Tan Tai died, He Luohui became the supreme commander, he looked at the two white flag soldiers who were still five or six thousand left around him, and saw their stupid eyes when they were frightened by the Ming artillery, and knew that he couldn't fight anymore, and there was only one way to go.

He Luo would look at the soldiers around him, get up and come to a high place and said: "Soldiers with two white flags, the eagle can only fly over the mountain if it leaves its wings, and we can only see our families when we are alive, I have decided that the whole army will lay down its arms and surrender!" ”

Now the senior generals of the Qing army are almost dead, and the rest are low-level generals, and there is no way to see He Luo say this, so he has to drop his sword and gun and take off his clothes, kneel with his head in his hands, and wait for his fate.

Ma Kun saw that the last Qing army stopped resisting, and knew that these guys were going to surrender, and said to Ma Rufeng beside him: "This group of Manchu Tartars has finally surrendered, what do you say Rufeng?" Kill them all? ”

Ma Rufeng heard that Ma Kun was going to kill prisoners, and hurriedly stopped: "Division commander, don't be like this, King Kaiping Chang Yuchun was fond of killing prisoners of war back then, and was finally reprimanded by Emperor Taizu many times, our battle is over, and the life and death of these guys should be decided by the emperor!" ”

Listening to Ma Rufeng's persuasion, Ma Kun scolded: "You scholars have a lot of bends, it's okay, keep these guys alive!" In fact, Ma Kun knew very well that his command mistake yesterday caused heavy casualties in the Third and Fourth Regiments, and more than 1,000 people died, which was really the biggest defeat since the formation of the New Army. Ma Kun was afraid that Zhu Hongsan would punish him, and thought that he should not make any more mistakes in the matter of taking prisoners, so as to leave the lives of these Qing soldiers.

As the Qing army lowered its swords and guns with two white flags, the Battle of Nanchang ended. The battle, which lasted more than a month with more than 300,000 men and horses on both sides, ended in the annihilation of the Qing army, and the Qing army completely lost the strategic initiative after this battle. The population of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was originally small, and the 150,000 men and horses of the Qing army this time were basically all the mobile forces that Dolgon could mobilize, and now they were all lost in Nanchang, Jiangxi. With the exploits of 20,000 people defeating 150,000 Qing troops, the Guangdong New Army completely became the strongest army in the world.

This time, in order to extinguish Jin Shenghuan in Jiangxi, the Manchu Qing Dynasty withdrew all the mobile forces in the entire Yangtze River basin. At present, only Wuchang, Jiujiang, Anqing, and Nanjing are still in the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the combined army of these places is less than 50,000 people, and Nanjing, an important place in the south of the Yangtze River, is only 20,000 people to guard it. The victory of the Jiangxi battlefield made the next Nanzhili Hui's battle launched by the Nanming Shenwu regime twice the result with half the effort, and the momentum in Nanzhili was like a bamboo, these are the achievements of the Jiangxi battlefield.

When the news of the big victory in front reached Nanchang, Jiang said that he was overjoyed, and this was all his own strategy. Of course, the victory in the Battle of Nanchang was fought by the Guangdong New Army, but this did not prevent Jiang Yueguang, as the nominal supreme commander of Jiangxi, from quietly assigning part of the victory to himself.

The new governor of Jiangxi, Liu Siyi, was a student of Jiang Yueguang, and when he saw that the teacher was happy, he hurriedly came over to hold his stinky feet.

"Teacher, this time I was able to eliminate more than 100,000 Tartars, it was the teacher's strategic work! This is my Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty for decades, second only to Yuan Chonghuan's efforts to kill the old slave outside Ningyuan City! ”

The Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty have gone through numerous wars since Nurhachi issued the "Seven Hatreds" official rebellion in the 46th year of Wanli, except for the short-lived events of Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Chengzong, the rest of the time were on the defensive. Since the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Manchu Qing Dynasty took advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains to enter the Central Plains, and now it still occupies half of China. And now the first battle wiped out 150,000 Qing troops, including 30,000 taels of white flag elites, and Nurhachi's son, the most capable Duoduo in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, also died in the army, and there were countless other generals, governors, and governors who died in the war, how could this not make Jiang Yueguang, who took Kuang Fu as his own responsibility, excited!

Jiang Yueguang's face flushed with excitement, and he quickly stood up and bowed deeply to the south, and said: "The main reason for this great victory is that His Majesty Emperor Shenwu has good leadership and soldiers use their lives. ”

Zhang Jiayu watched Jiang Yueguang praising each other on the side, and laughed in his heart, if he hadn't rushed to the rescue with the new army, maybe now Nanchang had been breached, and the old man Jiang didn't know whether to commit suicide by throwing himself into the water or hanging himself?

Zhang Jiayu slandered in this belly, but he did enough to save face. Zhang Jiayu stood up and said: "Lord Jiang, don't be modest, it is important for soldiers to use their lives, but a few adults can sit in Nanchang quietly, this is what makes the lower officials admire!" ”

Several other people are easy to say, Jiang Yue is well-informed, Yu Yinggui used to be the governor of Shaanxi, and he has seen what it is like to fight. But Liu Siyi's performance was not good, Liu Siyun used to be a science and Taoist imperial history, and when the-stirring stick was a specialty, he really had no experience in war. When he saw the fierceness of the battle to defend the city, he also had the idea of secretly escaping, and now when he heard Zhang Jiayu say this, he thought he was mocking himself, and he couldn't help but be angry.

"Huh! The three of us naturally want to thank Lord Zhang, it was Lord Zhang who spent five days in Fengcheng to wait for labor and repair, and the Guangdong New Army defeated the Qing army under Nanchang City! If it weren't for Master Zhang's timely rescue, we might have died in Nanchang City! ”

Liu Siyun really didn't open any pot and which pot to mention, Jiang Yueguang had already forgotten about Zhang Jiayu's disobedience and not coming to the rescue, but he didn't expect to be mentioned by Liu Siyun again today.

Zhang Jiayu watched Liu Siyun shoot at him, he didn't know that he had offended him in that place, but it didn't matter, since he had already torn his face, then he would offend him to the end!

"Lord Liu is right, Xia Guan stayed in Fengcheng for five days, but I believe that with the ethics of Lord Jiang and Lord Yu, Nanchang Chengpo will also martyr His Majesty the Emperor, as for you, Lord Liu, it may not be, maybe it is not necessary to learn from Hong Chengchou!"