Wu Jun, who had never seen "no conscience", was like the Qing army that day, looking at the falling medicine bags in a daze, and waited until the explosion sounded, Wu Jun woke up. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Don't panic, rush out with me!"

General Wu Zhimao was born in the Guan Ning Army, followed Wu Sangui for more than 20 years, and has never tasted defeat. After discovering that he had been ambushed by the Qing army, he did not panic, but calmly commanded his subordinates to rush forward.

The reason why Wu Zhimao did not choose to lead his troops to retreat was because he knew that the rear was full of pursuing friendly troops at this time, and if he retreated, it would inevitably cause chaos among the soldiers and horses behind, and the army was likely to collapse at that time. So the best thing to do now is to continue to rush forward, even if the front is densely covered with Qing army ambushes, he has to rush forward. Only in this way can the friendly forces in the rear be bought time to avoid the result of total annihilation.

At that time, in addition to firing a large number of "no conscience", all kinds of large and small copper cannons, bird guns and guns were also fired, and the Qing army in ambush killed under various banners. The loud explosion shook people's ears and made it impossible to hear anything, and all they could see was black smoke covering the sky, and the smell of medicine in the air was so choking that people were about to suffocate. Wu Zhimao desperately led his troops to rush forward, which caught the Qing army in ambush by surprise, but under the attack of various firearms of the Qing army, Wu Zhimao's troops also suffered heavy casualties. Along the way, there were Wu Jun's corpses all over the place, and many of the corpses looked soft, and they were all shocked to death by "no conscience".

Among the generals of the Wu army, if you want to say that you love soldiers like sons, I am afraid that it is this Wu Zhimao. Compared with other generals, Wu Zhimao took good care of the soldiers and rarely withheld food and salary, so he was very popular with the soldiers. At this time, seeing that the general was in the lead, his subordinates could endure the cannons and guns flying everywhere, and followed closely behind with an explosion. The intercepted Qing army Manchurian Zhenglan Banner was once forced to retreat by Wu Zhimao's troops, and one of the staff leaders was killed on the spot.

Ao Bai saw in the clairvoyant mirror that the besieged Wu army was still rushing forward, and the Manchurian soldiers who were responsible for blocking it were all shaken, and in a fit of rage, he ordered to kill a retreating assistant leader on the spot, and then transferred three Niu Lu of the newly compiled white flag to reinforce the positive blue flag, so as to re-plug the gap.

After the explosion sounded, Sun Sike, Zhao Liangdong and others also realized that they had been ambushed by the Qing army, and Zhao Liangdong was even affected by a "no conscience" not far away and fell from his horse. Sun Sike was about to order a retreat, but Admiral Wang Pingfan came with a horse, ordered all departments not to retreat, organized a counterattack on the spot, and selected elite soldiers to meet Wu Zhimao.

Wang Pingfan was one of the top ten generals under Wu Sangui, and was the second only person in the Eastern Route Army to Xia Guoxiang, and his orders Sun Sike, Zhao Liangdong and others did not dare to disobey, and immediately organized troops to counterattack. Due to the geographical advantage of the Qing army and the superiority of firearms, the counterattack of the Wu army was ineffective, and in a hurry, Wang Pingfan personally organized a team of brave men to climb from the right side of the hill, hoping to open a breakthrough from there.

Xia Guoxiang, who almost followed into the encirclement, was a little surprised when he learned that Wang Ping Fan did not withdraw, but after knowing that Wu Zhimao, who rushed to the front, did not withdraw either, he couldn't help but understand why Wang Ping Fan did not retreat. The reason is mostly because Wang Pingfan is angry about the death of Wu Zhimao's brother Wu Zhiming, so he refuses to abandon Wu Zhimao again this time.

Xia Guoxiang didn't think much about it, and he also knew that he couldn't order the whole army to retreat now, otherwise the losses would be too great. He mobilized his troops and horses to block the Qing army at the western end of the encirclement to ensure that the Wu army that entered the encirclement could withdraw from this opening. The fighting between the two sides continued from morning to afternoon, and by late evening the artillery fire gradually stopped. In this battle, although Ao Bai was carefully deployed and equipped with a large number of "unconscionable artillery", in the end, due to the large number of Wu troops that rushed into the pocket and the Xia Guoxiang was outside to respond, the strategic goal of completely annihilating the Wu army was not achieved, so that half of the Wu army in the encirclement retreated. According to the later count, more than 13,000 Wu troops were killed and wounded, while the Qing army suffered less than 2,000 casualties.

This result made Ao Bai very annoyed but helpless, because he was no longer facing the Ming army that fled in fear as soon as he heard about the arrival of the Manchurian Eight Banners, and more importantly, what he commanded was not the real elite of the Manchurian Eight Banners. Although a large number of Han troops and green battalions carried flags to supplement the losses of the Manchurian Eight Banners, the consequences also seriously reduced the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners. The most important thing is that nearly half of today's Eight Banners generals and colonels have no battlefield experience, so they have improper command, resulting in failure to take advantage of the situation to expand the results of the battle when the Wu army is in chaos. If it was replaced by the former officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners, Hugh said that he would let go of half of the Wu army, but he was afraid that even Xia Guoxiang outside the encirclement would not be able to escape.

Although annoyed, but no matter what, this battle is a victory, but it is expected that the Wu army will definitely shrink after losing so many soldiers and horses, only at the strategic level, Ao Bai at least do not worry that the Wu army will enter Kaifeng again, so that he can deal with it passively and be exhausted.

In addition to the killed and wounded Wu army, the Qing army also captured more than 2,000 Wu soldiers, and the Manchurian generals believed that these Wu troops were originally Qing soldiers, but they rebelled with Wu Sangui, and all of them had anti-bones on their foreheads, and they should all be executed to prevent future troubles. Ao Bai stopped the killing of prisoners, ordered these prisoners to be scattered and added to the various departments, and at the same time let some prisoners go back, so that they could bring a message to the former Qing generals in the Wu army, as long as they were willing to change their minds, the Qing side was not to blame for their "thief" behavior.

Xia Guoxiang, who suffered a big loss, did not dare to continue to lose alone, he gathered the routed army and retreated thirty miles to set up camp. On the one hand, he reported the battle situation to Guo Zhuangtu, and on the other hand, he quickly went to Zhengzhou to report the news.

Although the victory was great, Ao Bai did not take it lightly, and after the deployment, he rushed back to Kaifeng overnight, wanting to discuss the next move with Jia Hanfu, the governor of Henan. Before he could enter the city, the man sent by Jahanfu brought him the news of the emperor's death.

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