Chapter 179: The First Rank
The fierce and fierce white armor kept rushing forward to harvest human lives, expanding and tearing at the Ming army's defense line, and under the impact of foot combat and iron cavalry, the Ming army's array finally collapsed.
A large number of Ming troops dropped their weapons and turned and fled, leaving their backs to the enemy.
Duo'er and Li Zhiye turned around with iron faces, not wanting to look at the situation below, Liang Xing, Li Laibin and others also regretted it, not knowing what to say.
The Ming army was like tofu, almost immediately after the two armies came into contact, they were cut by the sharpness of the Eight Banners, and they were almost powerless from the beginning to the end.
Zhang Han didn't turn his head, he was not like Liang Xing and Duo'er and others, he had always had illusions about the victory of the Ming army, after all, the more than 20,000 soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were not too inferior in terms of numbers, and they waited for work to wait for merit, Liang Xing and others always hoped that the Ming army could create a miracle.
Zhang Han always knew the final result, but he imprinted the situation in front of him deeply in his mind to confirm everything he had seen in the books.
The fragility of the Ming army is the failure of the entire national defense system, most of the 20,000 people in front of them are ordinary battalion soldiers mixed together in various towns, the battle is actually very poor, the armor is not complete, the weapons are not refined, there is no training, the number of family members is not enough to go up, it is easy to be broken through the array by the Eight Banners, and once the array is broken in the era of cold weapons, the rest can only be slaughter, not to mention that the gap between the soldiers on both sides is also all-round, whether it is weapons or training, personal force plus battlefield experience, the Eight Banners soldiers are far superior to the Ming army on the whole.
The Ming army on the battlefield has begun to rout, the east and the west are running all over the mountains, such an escape is hopeless, the Eight Banners are almost all on horseback, and when pursuing, they slash and stab the back of the Ming army with the weapons in their hands, which is a one-sided massacre, countless people were hacked to death or cut wounds, and the old and young bannermen with ladder knives or shun knives mended their knives behind the brigade, and also began to collect weapons and peel off the robes and armor of the dead and wounded Ming troops.
The battlefield in front of him is colorful, the black and red blood and the lodging dead and wounded plus the discarded flags, the scattered military horses, a mess of the group, only the old Khan here is still a few hundred pro-soldiers, and the rest of the people are almost all rushing up, the bannermen clean up the battlefield, and the armored soldiers and white armor are constantly chasing and killing the Ming army.
Plains, valleys, woodlands, and tidal flats by the river were full of defeated and fleeing Ming troops, and slaughter was everywhere.
Chang Wei suddenly squatted down and cried silently.
"Stand up." Zhang Han said in a majestic voice: "If you don't fight for it, such a scene will happen in front of us in the future, even to us." ”
The Eight Banners let out bursts of happy shouts, and words similar to killing Han dogs were endless, and everyone's hearts were unusually heavy.
At this time, there were cheers from the front, Zhang Han and they couldn't help but look over, the red flag of the general army that had been erected in the Ming army array was cut over, a group of Ming cavalry wearing bright armor was surrounded, the silver light of the fierce and strong white armor was flickering, and the knives and guns kept cutting at those Ming cavalry, after the banner fell, a general was surrounded by the white armor, and soon he was hacked to death.
"This is the chief soldier Wang Xuan."
The flag of the chief soldier in another place also fell, and another chief soldier, Zhao Mengxuan, also died in the battle.
More flags fell, a group of family Ding fought desperately, but they were scattered, a group of them were cut apart, the Houjin soldiers in any direction were in an absolute advantage in numbers, the martial arts of the Ming army were not of much use, they fought bravely, swore not to retreat, but they were still quickly wiped out.
The sound of the battle began to subside, the shouts of killing gradually subsided, and then people began to hear the groans of the wounded on the entire battlefield, the whole battlefield was distributed in the valley mouth and dirt slope of the range of five or six miles, after being trampled by the gallop of the war horse, there was a tumbling ground everywhere, the pungent smell of blood came to the nose, coupled with the moaning sound one after another, the situation in front of them was really like being in hell.
The bannermen were still slashing the wounded Ming soldiers, and the Han soldiers followed the bannermen to strip their clothes, and where these people passed, there were only headless corpses and more pools of blood.
"Brother Han, why do you want to kill people like this?" Chang Wei's face was very pale, and Zhang Han also regretted bringing this sixteen-year-old boy to such a place at this time, although Chang Wei saw a lot of fights and corpses on the way from Zhangjiakou to Liaodong, but the scene in front of him was still too bloody and terrible for such a teenager.
Liang Xing said to Chang Wei: "They lack clothes and medicine, and they can't support so many prisoners, and they don't take care of them, of course, it's cheapest to kill them all." ”
Just when the Jurchens gained the advantage of the battlefield, the Ming army was defeated and fled first, and then a large number of people knelt down and asked to surrender, but the Eight Banners soldiers did not have the slightest intention of surrendering, and still killed in rows, and those who surrendered died faster, so the Ming soldiers began to flee again, of course, they did not escape, and were almost killed under the pursuit of the cavalry, and only a few lucky ones escaped the pursuit and fled into the dense forest to hide.
Several white-armored soldiers rode back, and a white-armored man with a bloody face carried two heads in his hands, and all the Jurchens cheered as they passed.
Nurhachi and his entourage also rode forward, and you can imagine their excitement.
More than 20,000 Ming troops were almost all wiped out, there were corpses everywhere, thousands of bannermen who cleaned the battlefield had not finished killing the wounded of the Ming army, and the beheaded heads had been piled up into dozens of small hills, and some Han army officers who surrendered, that is, the former Ming army officers led people to search on the battlefield, they looked for the banners of generals at all levels, and they were also identifying the corpses of the generals in the pile of dead bodies, confirming who it was, and then recording the names, and then cutting off the heads.
The heads of the two commanders were found first, cut off and sent to Nurhachima, and after a few brief words, Nurhachi ordered the two heads to be circulated throughout the army.
The mountain-shaking shouts sounded again, and the morale of the Eight Banners Army became extremely high again.
This is the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty's economic army, no more than Zhang Chengyin is the deputy chief soldier, this is the chief military officer of the two Zheng'er Bajing, the military generals of this status in the past went to the Jurchen territory to patrol the border, Nuer Hachi and many tribal leaders have to go out to greet from afar, the attitude must be respectful, not negligent, Li Chengliang was there, the entire Jurchen tribe was prostrate at the feet of this Liaodong chief military officer, trembling for fear of angering the Ming general army, bringing unforeseen disasters to the tribe.
Thirty years ago, don't say that the chief military officer came, even if it was a guerrilla or garrison, and preparedness, it was also arrogant in the Jurchen realm, and there was no one in the various departments who had not been blackmailed or embarrassed by the border generals of the Ming Dynasty.
Now the two heads of the general army and some guerrillas, the heads of the garrison are raised high, and the heads with hideous faces and blurred blood colors once again prove the great martial arts of the Eight Banners, Zhang Han can't see the faces of Nurhachi and those Jurchen relatives and nobles, but he thinks that it is also a mixture of confidence and self-satisfaction.
Maybe before the war, Nurhachi didn't expect that the main force of the Ming army, which was mainly armed with more than 20,000 fully armed soldiers, and the heavy army group with two general soldiers, was so vulnerable, even the Ming army that came into contact with the killing was defeated, and then almost killed the Ming army, and it took less than an hour.
The long conch horn sounded again, and after a short while, Li Yongfang and others rushed over from not far away, and said to Zhang Han from afar: "Lao Khan ordered his division to rush to the aid of Jilin Cliff and destroy all the Ming troops on the West Road with one blow. ”
The cavalry of the brigade has rushed over from the battlefield, these cavalry are the ironclad horsemen who have just rushed into battle, most of their robes are stained with blood, and the horses are also seriously injured in the process of rushing into battle.
Zhang Han and others rode a small hillside covered with withered grass, seeing a large stream of cavalry flowing in front of them, they rushed to the direction of Jilin Cliff, after the battlefield on this side was quiet, the direction of Jilin Cliff still faintly shouted to kill, the Ming army began to attack the cliff from noon, if you call Juniper to take down the Jilin Cliff, conquer the boundary city, garrison on the mountain, with the firearms of the Ming army to fight high and low, it is difficult for the Eight Banners to annihilate this Ming army, and when the Ming army on the north road and the east road surround it, things will have a very serious change, After just eliminating the 20,000 Ming army, all the soldiers could not relieve their tired and excited spirits, and immediately had to turn to the direction of Jilin Cliff.
After the cavalry, there were a lot of Han troops on foot, and then there were a lot of horseless followers with blood-stained robes, and then a large number of horseback armor and followers, the eight-color flags passed in front of Zhang Han and others one after another, and behind them was a tragic battlefield mixed with a strong bloody atmosphere, and the corpses of the Ming army were all over the valley and stretched to the dense forests and estuaries of the river, in the eyes of Zhang Han and others, there was almost only a piece of blood left between heaven and earth.
"Hurry up and keep up," Li Yongfang's eyes were only excited, and there were also a few subordinates from the Ming Army around him, and everyone's faces were full of joy.
Zhang Han replied and turned his face away, hiding the uncontrollable disgust on his face.
The group of surrendered Ming army generals in front of them may be more eager for victory than the Eight Banners.
At dusk, news came from the army that most of the friendly troops at the mouth of the Salhu River had been annihilated.
In fact, after Juniper ordered to attack the cliff, the Ming army encountered stubborn resistance, the Houjin soldiers relied on the geographical advantage, top-down archery to resist the attack of the Ming army, the terrain of Jilin Cliff was very steep, the Ming army attacked from the bottom up, the sound of the crackling bowstring and the sound of the thumping fire gun kept ringing in the mountains and dense forests, from time to time there was a scream of the arrow or the fire, the number of firearms under Juniper was not much, but because it was concentrated in the elite of the towns, the firearms used by the firecrackers were relatively well-made, It is not a loss to be put down, but the terrain is unfavorable for the back attack, and it will not be able to attack for a while.