Chapter 57: Haizhou Retreats

All the generals thought that they were reasonable, and soon began to argue, Lu Xiangsheng looked at everyone with a smile, and he was deeply pleased with the spirit of the Guards generals who went first and I came to break the back, and the Guards really grew up.

He coughed, everyone quieted down, and he smiled and said: "There are more Jiannu people than us, but they are not as well-equipped as us, and the people's hearts are not as good as ours, I believe that we will be able to win the battle against them." ”

All the generals shouted in unison: "Ten thousand victories for the Guards!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng nodded: "I listened to everyone's opinions just now, first of all, Dai Chunfeng, you sent someone out to inform the receiving troops, and asked them to cooperate with us twenty miles outside Haizhou City, and we were caught off guard by Jiannu, the artillery battalion only had small artillery, and the artillery battalion joined the cavalry battalion, and used the extra horses and small cannons in the cavalry battalion to walk in front, and then build a position twenty miles away, and we fought Jiannu in an ambush." ”

Dai Chunfeng and Sun Fumin nodded yes. Lu Xiangsheng looked at Du Guangting and said, "We will lead the infantry to the end, retreat while blocking, and settle accounts with Jiannu twenty miles away." ”

It was agreed that they would set out at three o'clock in the afternoon, so that it would be about five o'clock twenty miles away, and the ambush would not be easy to see at that time, and it should be possible to shadow the enemy.

After eating at noon, each person carries a five-day ration and burns everything that can be burned. Huang Taiji saw the black smoke all over the city, and his face turned pale: "This is all food, I'm afraid I'm going to be sad this winter." ”

Mang Gurtai's face was full of indifference: "What are you afraid of, just grab those Han people without food, and we Zhushen can't be hungry." ”

Huang Taiji looked at his fifth brother, his heart was full of lamentation, from his father Khan to his brothers, they all only thought about snatching from the Han people if they didn't have it, but they never thought that there were only so many people in Houjin Zhushen, and they could use these Han people to achieve a great cause.

It's a pity that my father Khan has always positioned himself as a robber, only thinking about robbing things, at most I want to rob Liaodong, but I never thought that I could actually rob the world of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, a bold idea suddenly popped into his heart: if he became the Great Khan of Houjin, then he could realize his idea. He shook his head, trying to get rid of the terrible thought.

He fixed his mind and said: "Let the children be prepared, and after the Ming army has escaped for a while, we will follow the pursuit, first use bows and arrows to disarray its formation, and then start to charge, trying to keep the Ming army here." ”

At half past two in the afternoon, Lu Xiangsheng and Du Guangting each came out of the south gate with a battalion of infantry, attacked on both sides, and expelled the Houjin soldiers to three miles away, and then the cavalry began to leave the city with artillery.

After the cavalry left, Lu Xiangsheng ordered the drums to be beaten, and after Du Guangting's troops heard the drums, they began to move, so the two battalions shrank to the middle, and then lined up in three columns and began to retreat.

Huang Taiji ordered the Houjinjia soldiers to ride far behind the guards, ready to attack at any time, and the guards kept a vigilant eye on the Houjinjia soldiers, and as long as they got close to within two hundred paces, they began to attack with firearms. Although it can't do much damage, it can finally scare the horses and mess up the enemy's formation.

When Huang Taiji found out, he ordered the horse's ears to be plugged, and when the guards set fire to it again, they found that it had no effect at all, so they immediately began to run forward.

The Houjin army was overjoyed, and it was impossible to imagine that these Ming armies would collapse so easily, and it seemed that the Ming army without the protection of the city was still the same virtue as before, so the cavalry accelerated together and began to catch up.

There was a mountain road in front, Huang Taiji saw it in the back, and felt that something was not quite right, so he asked people to order not to pursue, but the cavalry was fast, and the herald had not yet run to the front, and the sound of dense firecrackers sounded from both sides of the mountain road.

But it turned out that the 3rd Infantry Battalion and the cavalry set off at the same time, ambushed on both sides of this mountain road, and the Houjin armor soldiers who were chasing after the guards were killed, and one by one the cavalry fell from their horses, and about 100 cavalry who chased over stayed on the mountain road.

The bait-based guards returned, cut off the heads of the armorers, put away the ownerless horses, and walked away.

The Emperor was so angry that he could not do anything about it, and in this kind of terrain, firearms were much more useful than bows and arrows, and he could only order to search up the mountain roads and drive away the guards.

When the Houjin armor soldiers finally climbed to the mountain, they found that the guards had already retreated. So he came down again and began to follow the Guards. After walking about three miles, there was another crackling sound of fire.

The Guards continued to retreat in this way of alternating cover, and the Houjin army learned to be obedient after suffering two losses, and when it encountered a place with a hillside on both sides, it first sent a small number of troops to search for it, and only after confirming that there was no problem did it continue to advance.

Twenty miles away from Haizhou City is Tashanpu, one side of Tashanpu is a mountain, and the other side is a plain. After receiving the order, Zhang Zongling put one battalion in Tashanpu, and he took the other two battalions to the back of Jiannu.

He walked about ten miles from Tashanpu to Haizhou, and then laid an ambush three miles next to the nearest mountain road between the two, and after the scouts reported that both friendly and enemy troops had passed, he brought his army to the mountains on both sides of the pass, and a battalion on one side, although densely packed, was also about three miles long.

The artillery battalion had been set up in Tashanpu, and when Huang Taiji saw that he had finally come out of the mountain, he breathed a sigh of relief and ordered to attack Tashanpu.

Tashanpu is just a small fortress, and now it is full of cannons, and Lu Xiangsheng's two infantry battalions are crowded in front of the fortress, looking like they will be annihilated at any time, which makes Huang Taiji's heart reassured.

Later, the gold-armored soldiers dismounted and walked forward, ready to defeat these Ming troops with bows and arrows. When they were about a hundred paces away from the guards, they began to prepare their bows and arrows so that they could begin to launch an attack, when the cannon rang out.

At this time, the entire artillery battalion was paved in Tashan, so the firepower was stronger than that of Haizhou, and the focus was on the small city, so the artillery was very close, and a large number of shells rolled on the ground.

Hou Jin Bing was bold for a while, and the emperor was in a hurry, and shouted: "Hurry up, rush quickly, don't shoot arrows." The gold-armored soldiers took advantage of the gap between the cannonballs and began to rush forward, when the sound of fire rang out. Although the fire gun is not very effective against the white-armored soldiers in front of them with double armor, it can't stand up to a lot of people, one lead bullet can't kill you, what about five? What about ten?

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