Text Volume 10, Chapter 3, Section 16 The Fish That Slipped Through the Net
The fierce battle has reached this point, and the Manchu army has only a maximum of 4,000 soldiers and horses left in the red flag, and the army's heart is floating, it can be said that it has been abolished, and the reason why it can still gather around Azig and continue to fight with the soldiers of the Hanwei army is nothing more than the belief that there is still a belief in escaping in his heart.
At this time, Azig and the Manchu Red Banner Tartar soldiers under his command were horrified to find that the Manchu Army with blue flags behind them was defeated, and together with the dignified Prince Zheng of the Qing Dynasty, they were all killed by the Ming army's iron cavalry! Such a blow made Azig and the more than 4,000 Manchurian Red Banner Tartar soldiers around him feel desperate, and now all the Qing soldiers have only one thought in their minds, that is, to escape immediately!
Azig immediately ordered the whole army to break through, and led more than 4,000 Manchu troops with red flag iron cavalry to rush towards the north of the battlefield, trying to kill the Hanwei army pacesetter camp and Long Xiang iron cavalry before the siege, and the Huang Taiji and Daishan troops in the north.
However, how could the soldiers of the Hanwei Army's pacesetter battalion, who were close at hand, let the Tartars flee for their lives?
I saw that Zheng Zhibao, Feng Tian, and Feng Xuan each led their soldiers to fight in close quarters, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the three battalions sacrificed their lives to besiege the Manchu army with red flags and iron cavalry, not giving Azig's troops any chance to withdraw from the battlefield at all. Even if they were all killed, the soldiers of the Hanwei army would never retreat, and always marched forward in formation, fighting with the Tartars.
Seeing this, Azig felt a chill in his heart, as if he had seen the scene of his head being carried by the Ming army to lead the merit, and he couldn't help but let out a low roar, and led the only thirty remaining soldiers around him to rush to the front of the army.
Azig raised the tiger spear in his hand and rushed forward, killing several Hanwei soldiers in a row, but then he was stared at by two Iron Man soldiers, only to hear a sound of breaking the air, and two sharp arrows shot over, hitting Azig in the chest!
Fortunately, Azig was wearing triple armor and a silk lining inside, and neither of these sharp arrows pierced the armor, but hung unwillingly on the armor.
However, although he was not injured, Azig was frightened, and immediately hid behind the surrounding soldiers, and then urged his iron cavalry to rush without casualties, almost using the corpses of his subordinates to kill a bloody path for himself.
Finally broke out of the siege of more than 10,000 soldiers in the Hanwei Army Pacesetter Battalion, Azig glanced back with palpitations, only to see that there were still hundreds of Manchurian Red Banner Iron Cavalry besieged in it.
Azig gritted his teeth, although he saw hundreds of warriors being besieged, his heart seemed to be dripping blood, but he did not hesitate at all, he was still riding his horse and running away, and even kept whipping his horse fast, for fear that the Han Wei army would catch up.
And the surrounding more than 3,000 Manchurian soldiers with red flags and Tartar soldiers were the same, one after another, riding their horses and galloping wildly, like a large group of lost dogs, and they had long lost the momentum of a strong army in a hundred battles at the beginning of the war.
Azig raised his head and looked ahead, only to see that the chaotic battlefield was full of fighting armies, fortunately there was no trace of Long Xiang's iron cavalry, presumably that Liu Yunwei had just annihilated the Manchurian army with blue flags under Zierharang, and he couldn't reorganize his formation for a while.
Thinking of this, Azig couldn't help but feel relieved in his heart, and breathed a sigh of relief, just thinking about quickly fighting with Huang Taiji and Daishan's subordinates, and finding a way to escape back to Shengjing.
But at this moment, Azig suddenly heard the frightened shouts of several soldiers around him, and hurriedly turned his head to look over, only to see that on the right side of his own troops and horses, a high-speed charging Ming army iron cavalry was running side by side with his own army, rushing towards the battlefield that was fighting in the north.
Look at the banner of the iron cavalry army, it is the Longxiang iron cavalry led by Liu Yunwei himself!
Azig only glanced at it, and his soul was scattered, he never expected that Liu Yunwei's Longxiang Iron Cavalry would still have such great combat power after a series of bloody battles! Moreover, looking at it like this, Liu Yunwei didn't look at Azig and the remnants of the Manchu army with red flags at all, and he didn't follow them at all, but directly led the army to the battlefield in the north, and the soldiers pointed directly at Huang Taiji!
At this time, there were three choices in front of Azig: one was to immediately lead the army to intercept the Longxiang Iron Cavalry, protect Huang Taiji's back, and strive for opportunities for the Manchu Army's two yellow flags and the Manchu Army's Red Flag, but Azig looked at the morale-boosting Longxiang Iron Cavalry and did not think that his troops had the ability to block the onslaught of the Longxiang Iron Cavalry; The second is to immediately lead the army and Huang Taiji to fight their way out of the encirclement together, but in the face of the siege of the Hanwei Army's Longxiang Iron Cavalry and the Changshui Battalion, can they really rush out smoothly? Third, Azig took advantage of the fact that the attention of the Ming army was all focused on Huang Taiji, and immediately led the Manchu army to leave the battlefield with a red flag, escape alone, and return to Shengjing!
These three choices only flashed in Azig's mind, and Azig made a decision, immediately ordered loudly, and led the Manchu army with more than 3,000 iron horsemen with red flags to turn to the west and rush over, rushing out directly from the weak area of the Hanwei army, and then rushing all the way to the north, actually directly leaving Huang Taiji and Daishan Department, and fleeing for his life alone!
At this time, Liu Yunwei also discovered the movements of Azig's department, but the Manchu army with the red flag has been crippled, and now the encirclement and annihilation of Huang Taiji is the top priority, so he didn't pay attention to it, anyway, there are more than 100,000 soldiers in the Dangkou camp in the north, and it is not so easy for Azig to escape safely!
So, Liu Yunwei ordered the soldiers of the Hanwei Army Pacesetter Battalion to form a formation to go north to meet the actions of the Iron Cavalry Army, and at the same time led the Longxiang Iron Cavalry Soldiers together with Guo Yi to increase the charging speed of the cavalry formation to the maximum, and crashed into the bloody battlefield.
On the battlefield at this time, Dai Shan had already led the Manchurian army to fight a bloody battle for a long time with the Red Banner Iron Cavalry and a thousand horses and soldiers under Wen Poyu, and the casualties on both sides were not small. Moreover, there were only more than 4,000 soldiers and horses left in the Manchu Army under Dai Shan's command, and the morale of the army was close to collapse, but it was only under Dai Shan's command that the whole army did not collapse.
However, in the face of the 7,000 Longxiang Iron Cavalry who suddenly joined the battle group, Dai Shan and the 4,000 Manchurian Red Banner Iron Cavalry under his command were all frightened, and the Iron Cavalry Army collapsed on the spot, and more than 4,000 Manchurian Red Banner Iron Cavalry scattered and fled, and in a blink of an eye, they were killed by the soldiers of the Changshui Battalion and the Longxiang Iron Cavalry.
Under the protection of dozens of personal soldiers, Dai Shan ran to the vicinity of Wen Poyu by mistake, and was immediately besieged by Wen Poyu and hundreds of horses and iron horses. The dozens of pro-soldiers around Dai Shan no longer had the slightest power to resist at this time, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into cold corpses on the ground.
The horse lance in Wen Poyu's hand killed seven Qing army soldiers in a row, and then he met Dai Shan, who was already glazed-eyed, and slapped it directly on Dai Shan's chest, and suddenly the sound of a broken sternum sounded, and Dai Shan also flew out upside down like a defeat, and fell heavily to the ground, already too dead to die!
After killing Dai Shan, Wen Poyu personally dismounted and cut off Dai Shan's head, hung it in his saddle, and then led hundreds of horses and iron horsemen around him and more than 2,000 Changshui Battalion soldiers to regroup.
Liu Yunwei and Guo Yi also led 7,000 Longxiang Iron Cavalry soldiers to rush in formation, and the two sides joined forces together, and rushed towards the Manchu army and the two yellow flags that were stubbornly resisting in front.
At this time, most of the officers and men of the Changshui Battalion were still fighting a bloody battle with more than 30,000 Manchu troops and two Yellow Banner troops, and the casualties on both sides were very large. Huang Taiji had already suffered many wounds at this time, and the army of more than 30,000 iron cavalry had also lost more than 10,000 iron cavalry!
The soldiers of the Changshui Battalion suffered a lot of casualties, and they also lost thousands of soldiers!
The entire battlefield was already full of corpses, frightened horses and fleeing, and every time the iron cavalry army rushed forward, several corpses would be trampled and splashed with blood. Tens of thousands of iron cavalry armies seem to be fighting not on the ground, but on the flesh and blood of corpses, which makes people look at it and be daunted!
Liu Yunwei, Wen Poyu, and Guo Yi are all iron-blooded generals who have fought for many years, what swords, mountains and fires have not been seen, and what hardships and hardships have not been overcome? But at this moment, Liu Yunwei and the others really understood what it meant to be called a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!
Seeing such huge casualties among the soldiers of the Changshui Battalion, Liu Yunwei, Wen Poyu, and Guo Yi were all furious.
Liu Yunwei stared at the Huang Taiji banner in the distance, pointed forward with the armor-piercing steel gun in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Soldiers! Kill the slave chieftain and get revenge! ”
Wen Poyu also roared angrily: "Kill Emperor Taiji!" ”
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
Seven thousand Longxiang Iron Cavalry soldiers and more than 3,000 Changshui Battalion soldiers roared in unison, and then under the leadership of Liu Yunwei, Wen Poyu, and Guo Yi, they launched a fierce charge. 10,000 furious heavy iron cavalry charged in formation, its momentum was like destroying the world, and it slammed into the two yellow flag cavalry formations of the Manchu army that were hedging against the main army of the Changshui battalion, and immediately knocked the Qing army's iron cavalry army into a back, and the entire cavalry formation became crumbling, and it could collapse at any time!
More than 20,000 officers and soldiers of the main force of the Changshui Battalion were also in a state of excitement, and rushed forward regardless of casualties, exchanging their lives with the two Yellow Flag armies of the Manchurian army, and no one would take a step back!
Huang Taiji had already discovered the clues when Liu Yunwei and Wen Poyu launched a charge, but the army was charging at high speed, and there was no way to avoid it at all, so he could only use the lives of the Qing warriors to resist.
Huang Taiji originally thought that with the strength of the two Yellow Banner armies, he could completely withstand the flanking attack of Liu Yunwei and Wen Poyu's troops, and then find a way to turn the tide of the battle. Who would have thought that the two yellow flags of the Manchu army, which Huang Taiji was proud of, would not be able to resist at all, and they were already on the verge of collapse at this time!
And what made Huang Taiji almost collapse was that in the chaos of the army, he actually saw the head of Jierharang hanging on Liu Yunwei's saddle, and the head of Daishan hanging on Wen Poyu's saddle, and Huang Taiji had already learned that Azig led the army to flee for his life. Huang Taiji has realized that now on the entire battlefield, there are only the remnants of the Manchu Army and the two Yellow Banners led by himself!