Chapter 1084: Fight and retreat
readx; Hearing that there was a Ming army blocking the road at Xifengkou Pass, Huang Taiji was very surprised. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info because the Qing army entered the customs from here, and the general Zhao Shujiao was sacrificed here, and the Ming army was either killed in battle or fled south.
Since then, although Huang Taiji led a large army to attack the Beijing Division, he has always left troops in Zunhua, Jizhou and other places. There is as little as one Niulu, and as many as two or three Niulu, although the number of troops is not much, but it can play a role in preventing the Ming army from reoccupying this place, and can also ensure the contact with the Eastern Route Army. Moreover, these forces were quite scattered, and if the Ming army came from the south, they would have noticed it.
However, Huang Taiji had not received any report about the Ming army before, and it was not until he came to Xifengkou Pass that he found that the pass had been occupied by the Ming army, which really made him a little puzzled.
But the Qing army can not only enter the pass, but also naturally get out of the pass, just a Xifeng Pass, at most can accommodate hundreds of Ming troops, this point of strength Huang Taiji has not taken to heart, immediately ordered Belle Duoduo to lead a thousand yellow flag cavalry and three thousand Han army flag soldiers to attack.
The reason why the whole army was not launched as when entering the customs was mainly because the terrain inside and outside Xifengkou was different. Outside the pass is an endless prairie, of course, the Qing army can kill the whole army to the bottom of the mountain, directly over the mountain on the very wide front, bypassing the Xifengkou city pass.
And going back is different, from Zunhua to Xifengkou is basically a narrow and rugged mountain road, on the one hand, the Qing army is not in a hurry to get out of the customs, on the other hand, escorting a large number of material vehicles. People can climb the mountains, and horses can barely climb the mountains, but the carts can't go over the mountains directly, unless the Qing army carries everything by manpower like stupid boys. Therefore, the Qing army has always been advancing on the road, and naturally it is necessary to transport materials from Xifengkou.
As a result, the ranks of the Qing army were very long, nearly twenty miles away. With such a long team, of course, it is impossible to launch a full-scale attack, so it can only let the vanguard attack the city. Of course, this was enough, because Duoduo's strength was at least ten times that of the Ming army.
In this entry battle, Duoduo has been following Huang Taiji's side, and he has not been able to get the opportunity to lead the army alone, and he has always been haunted in his heart. Don't look at him only fourteen years old this year, but his body shape is no different from that of an adult, his arm strength is amazing, and he is the first soldier in battle, bravely crowning the three armies, and is a rising star among the Manchu nobles.
As Nurhachi's second-to-last son (the youngest being Fiyango, who is only seven years old this year), Dordor was as much of a nursan, as was his older brother Dorgon. Nurhachi once wanted to pass the throne to Dolgon, and half of the military power was given to Dorgon, but it was only because of the sudden death in Jinzhou that the fate of the two changed dramatically.
As a result, not only did Dolgon fail to become the Great Khan, but the mother of the three brothers, Azig, Dolgon, and Duoduo, the eldest concubine Abahai, was forced to be martyred by Mang Gurtai's edict, and the three of them lost their backers, and they were young, and it became a big problem whether they could even save their lives.
Fortunately, in order to balance the other three Baylors, Huang Taiji deliberately protected the three brothers, and Dolgon also grasped this life-saving straw and pledged his allegiance to Huang Taiji together with Azig and Duoduo. Since then, the three of them have been reused by Huang Taiji, and Azig often leads troops alone because of his age; Dolgon was regarded as the greatest brain by Huang Taiji.
Only Duoduo was too young because Huang Taiji refused to give him military power, but when the emperor drove the expedition, Duoduo also went into battle to fight. At the beginning of this summer, in the battle with Chahar Lindan Khan, the battle situation was once deadlocked, and it was Duoduo who rushed straight to Lindan Khan's handsome banner, and Lindan Khan fled in a hurry to avoid his edge, which finally led to a great defeat.
From then on, Huang Taiji also began to pay attention to Duoduo, and asked him to lead a Jiala in the Zhenghuang Banner, that is, five Niu Lu. However, the Zhenghuang Banner has been following the Huang Taiji action, and the tactics of the Qing army have always been that the cannon fodder such as the Han Army Banner and the Mongolian Eight Banners go up first, and then go down to the Five Banners. However, this time when entering the customs, the Qing army failed to usher in this situation from beginning to end, and Duoduo was naturally useless.
Now that he finally got a chance to make meritorious contributions, Duoduo was very excited. He also knew that the Xifengkou Pass was narrow, and the Ming army could not have too many troops, so he simply didn't bother to send the Han army flag as cannon fodder.
But the further you go, the more difficult the road becomes. Originally, the mountain road was very rough, and the Ming army had prepared in advance, digging a deep trench almost every few zhang, or putting the cut down tree trunks across the road. Under these circumstances, it was obviously impossible to ride a horse straight through the pass, so Duoduo had to order the Qing army to dismount and walk, and strive to fill in the ravine and remove obstacles. This move was not only for this attack, but also to open the way for the grain trucks behind, otherwise even if Xifengkou was captured, a large number of supplies would still not be able to be transported.
The Ming army in front was very annoying, they did not hold out, but sent less than 200 archers to block the road and fight and retreat. Because Xifengkou is located on the ridge, the attack from which side is the back attack, the Ming army condescendingly released arrows, which naturally took a great advantage. The mountain road was narrow and impassable, and although the Qing army was outnumbered, it was difficult to expand, and often only a dozen people in the front could shoot at the Ming army, and those in the back had to stare and watch.
Fortunately, the Ming army did not seem to intend to fight to the death, and after firing a volley, they retreated a little, and Duoduo ordered the Qing army to attack at the risk of death. After paying nearly a hundred casualties, he finally attacked an open field in front of the pass, where Zhao Shujiao had died a month earlier.
At this time, all the Ming troops retreated to the pass, and Duoduo also temporarily stopped the attack, waiting for all the thousands of Qing troops behind to come up, and then regrouped the formation. As soon as he encountered this kind of battle, Duoduo still repeated his old tricks, and he still had to let the Han army take the lead. In order to take the pass as soon as possible, Duoduo finally ordered a thousand soldiers with the Yellow Banner to divide into left and right roads to climb the mountains on both sides of the Xifeng Pass, intending to surround the Ming legions in a detour and then annihilate them all.
Since the master gave the order, the soldiers of the Han Army Banner knew that they were going to die, so they had no choice but to rush forward with a shout. Fortunately, this Ming army can only shoot arrows, and it seems that there are no firearms, let alone cannons, which also makes these traitors feel a little confident.
But in any case, the Ming army relied on the advantage of defending the city, and still caused great casualties to the Qing army. Duoduo didn't care about this at all, and personally stood behind the battle to supervise the battle. A few timid fellows were frightened back by the rain of arrows from the Ming army, and Duoduo immediately stepped forward and beheaded them with his own hands. The Han army had no choice but to sacrifice his life to attack the city.
After about a moment, the Han army finally attacked the city, and the Qing army on the left and right flanks also climbed the high mountains on both sides. Duoduo was overjoyed, and felt that he would soon be the same as when he entered the customs, and all the Ming troops in the pass would be annihilated.
At this moment, a shout suddenly came from the city: "The general has an order, the whole army retreats!" ”
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