762 The bane of this war
I saw that he had forgotten even the most basic kneeling salute, stood still, pointed outside, and stammered, "Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, the Mongols ran away! ”
Hearing this, everyone in the big tent of the Chinese army was stunned, no matter how much they thought about it, at this point, the Mongols would actually run?
When they came back to their senses, the leaders of Jianyu couldn't care about the majesty of Huang Taiji, and hurriedly got out of the Chinese army's tent one by one to see the situation. Including Huang Taiji himself, he also hurried out to see what was going on!
After leaving the big tent of the Chinese army, the chaotic sound of horses' hooves was clearly heard, and more and more prisoners in the camp also came out of the tent to watch the movement.
I saw the side of the Mongol camp, and sure enough, I saw that the Mongols had not even confiscated the camp tent, so they rode north like that. It was only a moment ago, and the Mongols who ran first were no longer visible! It is estimated that it will not take a long time, and the Mongols will run away!
The leaders of the Jianyu who reacted were all angry.
"Your Majesty, the last general will lead the army to chase them back!"
There is even more ruthless, this attitude: "Your Majesty, flee from the battle, and the last general will go to hunt them down!" ”
“……”
Huang Taiji looked at it blankly, turned his head to look at the situation in his camp, and then looked in the direction of Gaizhou City, and finally looked back at the fleeing Mongols, and did not say anything.
After a while, the Mongol camp ran away, and only the tents remained there. But it's not right, it seems that there are still Mongolians who haven't run, it seems that they are from the Horqin tribe, and someone is riding horses and galloping over here.
"Your Majesty, the other tribes don't know why, they all ran away all of a sudden, and they ran away all at once!" Buhe hurried to the scene and said in a panic.
The leader of the Jianlu stared at him angrily and shouted, "Why don't you stop them? ”
"How can you stop my little people?" Bu He didn't show weakness either, and immediately responded.
Hearing this answer, another leader of the Jianyu asked again: "Why don't you come over in advance to make a report?" Didn't you hear a little bit beforehand? ”
"They know the relationship between my Horqin tribe and the Qing Dynasty, and they have long kept a distance from my Horqin tribe, they want to run, will they inform me?" Buhe seemed to be angry at their questioning, turned around and pointed to the side of the Mongol camp and replied loudly, "Not even a single camp tent was confiscated and all abandoned here, and it happened so suddenly, when they concealed my Korqin tribe, how could I know that such a thing would happen?" ”
Seeing that there were still generals to question, Huang Taiji suddenly waved his hand to stop with a deeply tired look: "Don't say anything, send someone over to investigate!" ”
After finishing speaking, he looked at the head of Gaizhou City again, and then turned around and went back to the Chinese military tent.
Ji'er Harang and the others also followed to look at the head of Gaizhou City, and then looked at the situation in their camp, and with a hint of helplessness in their anger, they also followed Huang Taiji.
They all understood that it was not that the emperor did not want to send someone to chase him, but that he did not have the conditions to chase him. After the battle just now, the Qing soldiers were exhausted, and they didn't even eat, so how could they have the strength to chase after them?
In addition, the Qing Dynasty originally had more than 10,000 horses, but they were lost when they attacked the city before, and this time the battle of Tushan was damaged, and Yue Tuo led two thousand elite cavalry troops to leave, and now the strength in the camp is only about 6,000, and these also include the people of the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of Mongolia. Don't talk about chasing, the most important thing now is to appease the people of the Mongolian Eight Banners first.
The morale of these leaders was very low, including those who saw the Mongols fleeing. When the war came to this point, even the allies didn't care about it, and ran away without saying a word, everyone knew that Gaizhou was afraid that it would not be able to be defeated, at least in the short term.
Gaizhou was held by the Ming army, and when the sea thawed in the spring of the next year, the supplies of the Ming army would continue to be supplied through the sea, so what should Haizhou do next? What's more, there will be no way for the army to go out to fight Ning Jin in the future. Otherwise, if the Ming army on the side of Gaizhou sends troops and captures Haizhou, it will cut off the rear route of the army.
The Qing army was originally not much, and this time in the battle of Gaizhou, more than 2,000 people were lost before and after, and the allies ran away again, it seems that they will definitely not listen to the Qing Dynasty in the future. As a result, the available forces of the Qing Dynasty will be greatly reduced in the future, and the strength of the Dongjiang Army, the Guanning Army, and the newly emerged army of the Shangming State is likely to be overstretched!
These are actually not what they care about the most, what they care about the most, and the heaviest blow is that the Ming army actually won a big victory against the Qing Dynasty in the field battle after leaving the city! The psychological advantage established by the successive victories against the Ming army in the past was defeated in this battle and is gone!
Anyway, thinking about it, it seems that the bright future of the Qing Dynasty has suddenly become bleak!
In the Chinese military tent, Huang Taiji and other leaders of Jianyu, including Fan Wencheng, who thought he was resourceful, were all silent, and it was really difficult to have a good solution to the current predicament.
After a long time, Huang Taiji sighed and said: "From the beginning, I thought about a quick victory, and I buried the bane of losing this battle. Siege is not my long in the Qing Dynasty! ”
Seeing that he finally spoke, Dai Shan also asked with a sad face: "Your Majesty, what should our army do next?" ”
What else can I do? In this situation, there is nothing to choose from! When Huang Taiji was about to speak, Fan Wencheng said: "Your Majesty, the servants think that the Ming army in Gaizhou is not only well-equipped, firearms are endless, but also the military formation of the Qi family army, etc., it can be seen that it is definitely the most elite army in the Ming army. Now that I am short of grain and grass, it is not suitable to attack again, but I can leave some men and horses to watch Gaizhou, and then gather the whole army to intercept the Dongjiang Army and annihilate it, except for my Daqing henchmen! ”
The persimmon still has to pick up the soft pinch, the Gaizhou Ming army can't move, and the Dongjiang army is much weaker than one, not to mention that the Dongjiang army still dares to swagger all the way to the north to attack, out of the turtle shell, it is indeed a good opportunity to annihilate the Dongjiang army.
Thinking so, Huang Taiji nodded and said, "Fan Qing is reasonable!" ”
Then, he ordered Zilharang to select 2,000 elites to come out and continue to be stationed here to monitor the Ming army in Gaizhou. Then he asked Dai Shan to lead a thousand cavalry to support his son Yue Tuo, and be sure to encircle and suppress the cavalry of the governor of Denglai, and eliminate the great danger of the Qing Dynasty.
In the end, Huang Taiji led the disabled soldiers and returned to Shenyang to rest. As for the Horqin side, he appeased, reaffirmed the unbreakable alliance between the two sides, and let Buhe lead his old and weak back to the grassland. However, there was also a reminder to let him find out the movements on the grassland and report it to Shenyang.
The vigorous Gaizhou war ended in an all-indiscreacious manner!