Chapter 1052: Fighting Out of the City
readx; The Yongding Gate opened violently, and hundreds of Ming soldiers shouted and slaughtered out of the city. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis change was really unexpected by the Qing army, because the Ming army was at a disadvantage in almost all aspects compared with the Qing army, and the only advantage was the geographical advantage of defending the city. And fighting out of the city is equivalent to giving up this advantage on the initiative.
In the Battle of Shenyang, the Battle of Guangning and other battles a few years ago, the Ming army also went out of the city to fight, but it was a trick of the Qing army to lure the enemy, and the result was that the whole army was wiped out without exception. With the experience of the previous car, the Ming army no longer dared to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight, unless it was to abandon the city and break through like Dalinghe and Jinzhou. And this is obviously not the case with the current Beijing Division, because it is impossible for the Ming army to give up the Beijing Division, so this kind of move is really a bit incredible for the Qing army.
But for the Qing Army's Han Army Banner and the Mongolian Eight Banners, who were at the forefront of the battlefield, they had been frightened by the sudden fire attack of the Ming army. Prior to this, although the Qing army also suffered heavy casualties, there was still a time interval for the Ming army to open fire, and the Qing army also had a chance to fire arrows to counterattack. Now it is dozens of artillery, thousands of bird guns and countless sharp arrows that are constantly pouring down on the Qing army, as long as they are not fools, who is willing to step forward and send them to death?
The Ming army fought out of the city at this juncture, and dealt a heavy psychological blow to these Qing troops. They had vaguely guessed that the Ming army's previous tactics were actually to lure them closer to the city wall; Now the clamoring is to annihilate them all under the city. It shows that the Ming army did not do its best before, and I don't know how many ruthless methods there are later!
Therefore, these Qing troops didn't even have time to see how many people from the Ming army rushed out, so they rushed back and defeated. Originally, the 2,500 cavalry of the Mongolian white flag followed behind the white flag and the inlaid white flag of the Han army, which had the meaning of supervising the war; But the Ming army's free-fire artillery and rapid-fire artillery were the first to fire at them, and the Mongols were frightened and immediately fled desperately.
However, the commander of the Qing army, Mang Gurtai, who was watching the battle on a small dirt slope a few miles away, saw very clearly that the Ming army that came out of the city was only a few hundred people, and all of them were infantry troops.
Mang Gurtai couldn't help but be overjoyed and angry, angry that the Han Army Banner and the Mongolian Eight Banners were so unplanted, that they dared to fight to the death without following their orders; The good news is that the Ming army is out of the city to fight, no matter what the purpose, it is much better than shrinking in the city. As long as he was entangled with the Ming army, the artillery at the head of the city would fire again, and he would accidentally injure his own people, and he thought that the Ming army would definitely not have such ruthlessness as himself. Therefore, the Ming army will either be completely annihilated, or it will have to be defeated in the city gate, and the Qing army will have the opportunity to directly break through the city gate, which is definitely an unexpected gain.
So he immediately ordered his Blue Banner general Ilshen: "You go to supervise the battle, and whoever retreats will be killed, and you must wipe out all this Ming army that does not know whether it is alive or dead, and then attack the city with all your might!" ”
Ilshen took the order and left, and immediately led a thousand cavalry with the blue flag to line up, and fired at the Qing army that was retreating. What kind of "Manchurian-Mongolian alliance", at this time it was all bullshit, the Mongolian white flag was running too fast, and the car could not be stopped at all, and the dozens of cavalrymen who rushed to the front were shot into hedgehogs when they boarded, and the rest were all terrified.
Ilshen immediately stepped forward. A Mongol general just greeted him with a bitter face, wanting to justify the defeat of the Mongols, but Ilshen didn't even give him a chance to speak, and his slashing hand was a sword. The general was caught off guard, and was actually cut in two by this knife directly from the waist, the upper half fell off the horse, and the lower half was still sitting on the saddle, and the blood was like a fountain, spraying Ilshen's face!
Elshen's face was covered with blood, but he didn't care, not only did he not wipe it with his hands, but stuck out his tongue and licked it, as if the smell of blood made him feel very happy. After a while, he was angry at the defeated army and said: "The prince has an order, and if there is anyone who retreats without an order, he will end up like him!" Now immediately rush back, completely kill that Ming army, and then continue to attack the city! ”
The "master" turned his face ruthlessly, and the "slave" was afraid of death, so he had to turn back and fight. Originally, according to common sense, the morale of the Mongolian Zhengbai Banner fell into a trough after the defeat, and it could be replaced by the other seven flags; But the Manchu aristocracy like Mang Gurtai did not have this concept at all, and in his opinion, the dog had to die for the master, otherwise it would have no value.
The cavalry of the white flag had no choice but to attack Yongdingmen again, and at this time, the defeated soldiers of the Han army with the white flag and the white flag just retreated. Now the Mongols can find a punching bag, they dare not go wild with the Manchurians, but they have no scruples about the Han army's banner soldiers, and immediately rushed into the defeated army, without saying a word, it was a burst of slashing and killing. This kind of close-range slashing is much more accurate than the long-distance bombardment of solid shells, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of traitors died tragically under the butcher's knives of the Mongols, much more than they were killed by the Ming army just now!
The generals of the Han army with white flags and white flags are already crying without tears, they paid a much greater price than the Mongols in the siege, and the Mongols were the first to retreat, but now it is the Mongols who cut down the Han people, there is really no reason! At this moment, they really regretted it, thinking that if they hadn't surrendered to the Manchus in the first place, maybe they would be the ones who are bombarding the Mongols with cannons on the city now!
But there is no regret medicine in this world. The Han army is also dead when it enters and retreats, and it is better to die than to live, so he had to choose the method of dying relatively slowly, and turned around and killed Yongdingmen.
It was only then that they discovered that the Ming army that had come out of the city was only a few hundred. Now these traitors are a little more energetic, because the total strength of the white flag and the inlaid white flag is 6,000, although the Ming army and the Mongols suffered heavy casualties just now, almost 2,000 people were reimbursed, but there are still 4,000 people left, and the strength far exceeds the Ming army outside the city. They thought to themselves that we can't carry the cannon, isn't this kind of face-to-face fight still okay? So he immediately marched forward with a loud noise, and there was a great tendency to swallow the Ming army in one bite.
However, the Ming army was not in a hurry, after they came out of the city, they were not in a hurry to pursue the Qing army, and they were not interested in cleaning up the battlefield and killing the wounded Qing soldiers lying on the ground, but they lined up in a very tight circle array, with a diameter of only about ten zhang. Hundreds of people in such a small circle can almost be said to be airtight.
The periphery of this circle is full of shield players, and the one who is close to the shield hand is the bird hand, and it is impossible to see clearly when you look inside. Once the formation was complete, they advanced at a modest pace, and were now about a hundred paces from the city wall, bypassing the cannonball-damaged wagons. If you go further, you will have to go out of the range of the Ming army's bird guns and bows and arrows at the head of the city.
And the shield hand at the front of the queue was Meng Gong, the general who was responsible for directing the assault this time. He held the big iron shield in one hand and the steel knife in the other, and said firmly to the soldiers around him: "We must be steady, believe in ourselves, believe in our comrades, believe in the saint, we will definitely be able to complete the task!" ”
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