Chapter 784: Chase and Fight
Zilharang said gloomily: "Choosing to go north is a last resort, I don't know when I can return to Liaodong!" ”
The Manchu military aristocracy sighed for a while, and many sighed.
Whether they are willing or not, the generals of the Eight Banners have reached a consensus on fleeing collectively.
Seeing that the deliberations had a result, he said finally: "Breaking through to the north is the only choice, the generals immediately prepare separately, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, all the men and horses who broke through at noon the day after tomorrow will gather in Suolonggou and do not wait." ”
Since it had been decided to concentrate the cavalry to break through, Hauge immediately issued an order, of course, he refused to reveal his tactical intentions, and the mobilization of the Eight Banners cavalry was issued in the name of concentrating on the use of cavalry to assault the Nanwang Chinese army and strive for a surprise victory.
Of course, the generals of all walks of life knew that they brought all the war horses and horses that could be called, and in order not to affect mobility, they did not bring a single cart, and on average, each cavalryman could have two horses, one riding and one carrying supplies.
Although the cavalry rushed to bring more materials, but did not cause too much discussion, more than a dozen cities controlled by Jiannu in Liaodong did not realize that the Eight Banners cavalry was going to run, and they still followed the order, they were convinced that all the cavalry was concentrated to raid the Nanwang Chinese army.
Because Jiannu had a great victory in the old slave period when the weak defeated the strong, the battle was that the wild boar skin gave full play to the power of the Jiannu cavalry, and concentrated on attacking the Ming general Juniper Department in a successful battle.
In mid-June, Haug, Azig, Zilharang, and others led the assembled 45,000 cavalry to the north.
Although the incident happened suddenly, the Northern Expedition Coalition Army scouts still succeeded in learning about the Qing army's movements, and gradually the general scope of the Qing army's cavalry activities was delineated, and soon the front-line generals judged that Jiannu was going to flee.
The information that Jiannu was preparing to break through to the north was transmitted to the temporary base camp of the Northern Expedition in Lushunkou that night through the flag and light code, and Huang Sheng did not doubt this information at all.
This is the true face of Jiannu, these Tunguska savages have always bullied the weak and feared the hard, and the servility penetrates into the bones, they don't read the books of the sages, and they don't know what is called the righteousness of the millennium.
These barbarians live and fight on instinct, and when they realize that danger is approaching, they decisively choose to abandon their families and children and flee, because this is their national identity.
The wives and children left by Jiannu will soon become the wives and children of the enemy, and one day they will snatch them back, and it is unknown whether they will be able to have a few more cheap children, which is very cost-effective.
As for the wife who has let the family use it for a few years, Jiannu doesn't care or mind at all, the skin of this thing is not broken, the flesh is not rotten, and it is not tight.
Although the breakthrough operation of Jiannu was mastered, the cavalry of the Northern Expedition Coalition Army was scattered in tens of thousands of square kilometers of Liaodong to carry out dragnet massacres, and there were not many cavalry that could be used intensively in a short time and could form a fist.
In order to better kill and injure the enemy while preserving himself, Huang Sheng issued an order that in the absence of superiority in troops, he did not require the interception troops to meet the head-on attack, and adopted the tactics of flanking and volleying, and took advantage of the speed advantage of the Mongolian light cavalry to follow and cover the kill.
Of course, this arrangement is still aimed at killing and injuring a large number of Jiannu and reducing the casualties of the Northern Expedition as much as possible, Huang Sheng is not worried that Jiannu can still gain a foothold if he escapes to the steppe, and after the death of Lin Dan Khan, even the Mongolian Golden Family will not be able to gain a foothold, and it should be even more impossible to build a slave.
The cavalry of the Northern Expedition did need to help defend many areas, and the local forces were really not as good as the Jiannu who concentrated on cavalry.
Besides, the 150,000 Mongol light cavalry sounds a little scary, but in fact it is a rabble, and these people have no problem fighting with the wind, and they will immediately fall apart when they encounter a vicious battle.
The generals of the "God of War" knew the virtues of the Tartars in their hearts, and never had the luxury of expecting the Tartars, who were afraid of the weak and afraid of the hard, to fight to the death, and realized that it was a foregone conclusion that the Jiannu, who also used cavalry intensively, would break out of the encirclement.
The only way to remedy it now is to leave as many Jiannu as possible, knowing that the Jiannu cavalry is going to escape, and there is no good way at present.
The Northern Expedition could only urgently dispatch cavalry to follow Jiannu in echelons to cover and kill, and did not require the Mongolian light cavalry to intercept head-on, and adopted the pursuit and killing mode, so that the Tartars could play a big role.
The cavalry of the Northern Expedition had no time to create a no-man's land in the countryside of eastern Liaodong, and they were used intensively again, and the tactical task was to chase and beat the elite cavalry of Jiannu who fled north.
Huang Mingli, Heihu, Zu Kuan, etc. all participated in the encirclement and interception of Jiannu, everyone knew that the living force of the Qing army was these cavalry, and killed these enemies as much as possible, and no one in the Liaodong territory would dare to oppose the Han people in the future.
Hauge led his men and horses to break down the Tumut Tartar defenses in one go, but he only dropped more than 500 cavalry, and killed twice as many Mongols, he felt that the combat effectiveness of the Northern Expedition was no more than that, and thought that it was no problem to escape.
Seeing that he was about to cross the chasm built by Yuan Chonghuan, the Qing army really encountered the regular army of the Northern Expedition Coalition Army, which was the Black Tiger with more than 10,000 "God of War" cavalry to let go of the Qing army's forward and block the waist to attack.
The red flag fluttering, the steel armor is cold, the dazzling red is dazzling, the "God of War" cavalry, the war horses under the crotch are all the best, and the horses are all shiny, and the opponent's strength is three or four times that of their own? It's right!
The fearless cavalry of more than 10,000 "God of War" launched a charge, and not a single soldier was discouraged, and the army was like a red-hot sharp knife cutting butter to cut the Qing cavalry immediately.
Soon the dazzling red was not only the armor of the "God of War" soldiers, but also the blood of Jiannu splashed all over the field, the neighing of war horses, and the shouts of soldiers accompanied by the noise of guns one after another, and tens of thousands of cavalry only hedged once and then disengaged.
Most of the Qing army found that the Northern Expedition had no intention of killing them all, and no one was willing to fight, so they galloped north.
The Jiannu who have lost their hearts are all in line with the idea that the dead friends will not die and the poor will not die, and they only want to outperform their peers.
After the Black Tiger intercepted seven or eight thousand Qing troops, he was not prepared to expand the results of the battle at all, and adopted the tactics of repeatedly rushing back and forth to try to turn the remaining Jiannu into a captive.
Jiannu, who was blocked from escaping, was not stupid, and after several cavalry hedging, they found that most of the Northern Expedition coalition forces that had formed a situation of encirclement and annihilation were "God of War" cavalry.
Soon there were changes on the battlefield, the Qing army shouted and begged for surrender, and finally the "God of War" cavalry could not pretend to be deaf and dumb and could only accept surrender.
In this battle, the Qing army was killed more than 5,000, and more than 2,000 obediently became prisoners, most of these Jiannu were horse armor, foot armor, and many white armor soldiers and Bashiku, which were the main force of the Qing army.
The Jiannu soldiers who chose to surrender also knew that "the Jurchens are not satisfied with 10,000 and are invincible" has become a thing of the past, and it is a joke to mention it again.
The army that had lost its spirit really lost its passion, and the surrendered Qing troops were dejected one by one.