Chapter 294: Ren Siqi who has lost his faith
A fierce and short battle, which lasted less than half an hour in total, ended in a crushing victory for the Ming army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
The 300 cavalry were full, leaving nearly 200 corpses, and less than 100 cavalry escaped.
And what about the Ming army? Of the 1,700 people in the Zhoushan Daishan coalition army, only more than 800 people were left standing at the moment, and half of the soldiers died on the battlefield. Every corpse full of people left behind actually cost four to five Ming soldiers' lives!
And the resilience of the full army battle made all the living Ming soldiers have palpitations, if it weren't for Ren Siqi to gather new soldiers to fight out of Jiaozhou City, and then fight, it may be impossible to say who will collapse and flee first.
Looking at Ren Siqi who was slowly walking towards him, Huang Fengwu smiled slightly, and his face stained with blood and dust was still bright when he smiled, at least in Ren Siqi's heart.
After the battle, Huang Fengwu felt that the strength in his body had disappeared all of a sudden, regardless of the dirtiness of the battlefield, he sat on the ground casually, lazily and never wanted to move again.
Ordering the recruits to clean up the battlefield and rescue the wounded, Ren Siqi walked quickly in front of Huang Fengwu.
"You're hurt?" Looking at Huang Fengwu's bloodstains, Ren Siqi asked distressedly.
"It's okay, it's not my blood!" Looking at Ren Siqi's nervous appearance, Huang Fengwu's heart warmed.
"You don't care about me, I'll just rest. Hurry up and clean up the battlefield, the main force of the full man will soon arrive. ”
Ren Siqi nodded and quickly issued an order. The 2,000 recruits who followed him out of the city were busy, rescuing wounded soldiers, picking up weapons scattered across the battlefield, and cutting off the heads of dead soldiers.
Due to the haste of the escape, the Manchu soldiers left the entire battlefield to the Ming army. There were not a few weapons and materials left behind by the Manchus, and the Ming army collected all the materials and transported them to the city.
The armor on the corpses of the Manchu was stripped off, and more than 60 pairs of armor were seized, not all of the Manchu soldiers were armoured soldiers, many were only wearing leather armor. But even leather armor is a good armor for the Ming army, at least it can resist the long-range shots of bows and arrows.
There are still more than 50 war horses left on the battlefield, most of which were stabbed to death during the battle, and of course, the corpses of the war horses were also transported into the city by the Ming army.
After intense pick-up, the battlefield was cleaned up. All the Ming troops withdrew into the city of Jiaozhou.
Half an hour later, the main force of the full army came from the west, and came to the city of Jiaozhou with a murderous spirit that shook the sky.
This is a team of more than 1,000 people, although the number is small, but the momentum brought by the silent march is extremely amazing, even people who are not familiar with military affairs can see that this is a very elite army.
Melle Ezhen Li led his horse as he rode through the array, looking at the city wall in front of him, and his face showed deep anger.
Li Shutai was the second son of Li Yongfang, a traitor who first surrendered to the Manchus, and like his father, he was married to the daughter of the Manchu clan and was loyal to the Manchus. Since he became an adult, he has fought with Huang Taiji in the east and west, and now he is in the position of the Han Army's Blue Banner Meler, that is, the deputy commander of the Han Army's Blue Banner.
After receiving the request for help from Fang Dayou, the governor of Shandong, Dolgon originally planned to let the reinforcements of Shanxi, Li Shutai and Hetuo, first suppress the Shandong rebellion, but later thought that the Shun army in Shanxi was the real opponent of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the rebellion in Shandong was just a disease of ringworm, so he sent Hetuo to lead the headquarters to continue to march to Shanxi, and ordered Li Shutai to lead 1,500 Manchu troops to attack Shandong.
Of the 1,500 men, 1,200 were the Blue Banner of the Han Army under Li Shuotai, and the other 300 were real Manchurian cavalry, subordinate to the Red Banner, and there were 100 armored soldiers. It is the real elite of the Manchu army, and it is the vanguard of this attack on Shandong.
Unexpectedly, under the first battle, three hundred iron cavalry folded under the city of Jiaozhou, and less than one hundred could escape alive, among which warriors like Baturu Yahai died in the battle, which made Li Shutai how not to be angry and how not to be shocked!
When Qingzhou was captured, Li Shutai learned the strength of the Jiaozhou Ming army from the captured Qingzhou Ming army, and knew that the total number of Jiaozhou Ming troops was only four or five thousand people. Most of them are new recruits, and the real elite is only one or two thousand.
I didn't expect that with such strength, I would defeat the real Manchurian Eight Banners! Is there any difference between this Ming army and other Ming armies?
According to the Jiala Ezhen Absu, who fled back, this Ming army was very resilient, and nearly half of the whole army was killed and wounded and still fought without retreating, and thousands of Ming troops were killed from the city, so he had to retreat.
For Absu's words, Li Shutai was suspicious, and he had never heard of the Ming army that could fight desperately with casualties, except for the last Qijia army in the Battle of Hunhe that year.
But the Qi family's army has been destroyed, how can Daming still have such an army?
The equipment is extremely poor, the combat skills are naïve, and the combat power is ordinary, but such a Ming army, relying only on the numerical superiority, piled up 308 banner soldiers. What if such an opponent grows up?
At this moment, Li Shutai made up his mind to leave this Ming army behind and wipe it out in Jiaozhou City!
At this moment, Ren Siqi didn't know that Li Shutai under the city had already killed him, and he was in a sad state at this time.
Of the 1,700 people, only more than 800 returned to the city alive, and only 200 of them belonged to the Daishan army. The proportion of battle losses is so high, and the proportion of casualties of the Daishan Army is even more alarming!
How so? There were 200 musketeers in the 700 Daishan army, and there were more than 70 musketeers who survived, so the 500 pikemen actually lost nearly 400 in battle! And more than 600 of the 1,000 Zhoushan soldiers survived.
Of course, it was not because the main general Huang Fengwu deliberately sacrificed the soldiers of the Daishan Army, but the combat power of the pikemen of the Daishan Army was much different from that of the Zhoushan Army......
It is also the company's spear phalanx, and the Daishan Army, which has been in the army for nearly a year, is so far behind the Zhoushan Army, which has been in the army for more than three months, which makes Ren Siqi feel very ashamed.
Sure enough, there is a specialization in the art industry, and the half-hung officers of the Daishan Army are not as good as a Huang Fengwu tied together. Except for the musketeers who can show their hands, the infantry pikemen of the Daishan Army and the Zhoushan Army are not of the same magnitude at all.
On the battlefield, Huang Fengwu took half of the Zhoushan army and Daishan musketeers to intercept the attack, and as a result, the 700-person blocking team survived 400 people.
And all the Daishan pikemen and half of the Zhoushan pikemen fought with the Manchu soldiers when they retreated, and nearly 600 of the 1,000 Ming troops died, of which more than half of the pikemen of the Daishan army died, and only more than 150 people were alive.
In just one battle, Ren Siqi found that there were many problems in the Daishan Army. But there is no time to solve it at the moment, because the full army is already under the city.
Although there were nearly 4,000 people in the city plus new soldiers, in the face of more than 1,000 full soldiers outside the city, Ren Siqi did not have the slightest confidence in winning in his heart. (To be continued.) )