Chapter 1027: Unable to Return to Heaven (5)
Zilharang felt numb.
The situation is getting more and more unfavorable, and the worst is gradually emerging.
Bad news followed, Zierharang couldn't cope with it, Zi Shi learned that Gaizhou City was surrounded by the Jiangning battalion army, although it is not clear how many Jiangning battalion sergeants, but the city was completely surrounded, without tens of thousands of troops, it was impossible to do it, even Yundao was also occupied by the Jiangning battalion, not to be ugly, Zierharang learned that the army led by Duoduo was surrounded by the Jiangning battalion, and the battle lasted for several hours, and the army led by Duoduo suffered heavy losses.
Jierharang's heart is getting colder and colder, and he is completely sure of one thing, that is, the focus of the Ming army's attack is by no means Liaodong, but Haizhou, and Huang Taiji's judgment has made a major mistake, and this mistake has begun to cause heavy losses.
Huang Taiji made such an analysis, thanks to the information collected by Fan Wencheng, Tang Haitai and Kangtai in Liaodong, and Zierharang knew the Tao, at this time, thinking about it, Jierharang shuddered, could it be that Tang Haitai was specially arranged by the Ming Dynasty, that is, to let Fan Wencheng be fooled, or that Tang Haitai had already been exposed, and Su Tiancheng was slow to do it, so he specially let Fan Wencheng be fooled.
At this moment, Zilharang felt dizzy, what kind of material is this Su Tiancheng made of, who can fool Fan Wencheng and Huang Taiji, and make the entire Qing Kingdom fooled.
Since the focus of the Ming army's attack is in Haizhou, it means that Su Tiancheng must have personally commanded the attack on Haizhou's side, Su Tiancheng was resourceful, and suddenly attacked Gaizhou, and after encountering Duoduo's vanguard troops, he was able to change the tactical arrangement and confuse Duoduo. Encircling the army led by Duoduo, can't it surround the more than 30,000 soldiers who went to reinforce, if that happens, it will be unbearable for Huang Taiji and the Great Qing State, and it also indicates that the decisive battle between the Great Qing State and the Ming Army will be fully launched in Gaizhou.
Zilharan could not rest. He arranged for his own soldiers, and the soldiers were divided into two routes, all the way to Liaoyang, asking Haoge for help, and imploring the soldiers with yellow and blue flags to make all preparations, ready to reinforce Gaizhou at any time, all the way to Shenyang, and report the situation here to Huang Taiji in its original form. By this time, Zilharang did not dare to hide the situation.
After arranging all this, Zilharang informed all the officers with the blue flag, as well as all the officers with the blue flag of the Han Eight Banner, and told them to get ready and reinforce Gaizhou.
This pressed up close to 80,000 troops, all the purpose. It was all in the process of being able to rescue and reinforce the army of Duoduo. Zilharang kept begging God not to have an accident.
It was dawn, and the blood-red sun was showing its head, and it was not dazzling at all.
The early morning is very cool, but unfortunately no one near Gaizhou can enjoy such coolness.
The first to attack. It was the army led by Hong Chengchou, the rumbling cannons broke the silence of the early morning, this was the cannon sound of the decisive battle, and Hong Chengchou had already given the order. Today, it is necessary to defeat the Houjin Tartars, all the officers of the Jiangning battalion must rush to the front, and even the commander-in-chief, Hong Chengchou, will charge with a large army.
Duoduo was also prepared, although he said that he had not received any news overnight, but the scouts who had sent Lu to report the news did not return, which means that the news had already spread and it was believed that Zilharang had prepared for reinforcements. Duoduo constantly cheered up the officers, asking them to fight hard and persevere, at least for a day, until the arrival of reinforcements.
In fact, Duoduo's heart was also beating drums, and he also guessed that this battle was probably commanded by Su Tiancheng himself, since he wanted to encircle and suppress the army led by himself, it was possible to set up an ambush again to block the army that came to the rescue, but the situation was already like this, Duoduo had no way to retreat, only to fight hard.
The artillery did not cause great casualties, the sergeants dispersed quickly, and after a night of adjustment, they finally took a breath, and the training on weekdays also played a role, especially how to avoid artillery attacks.
When the sergeant of the Jiangning battalion attacked again, yesterday's scene appeared, the rain of arrows and the bullets of the flintlock pistol intersected, rushing towards both sides, in the process, both sides had casualties, but the casualties of the Houjin sergeant were obviously much greater, after all, the power of the flintlock pistol was far stronger than the bow and arrow.
The cavalry on both sides began to charge, and a loud crash appeared.
Duoduo was horrified to find that the charge of the Jiangning battalion was unusually ferocious, compared with yesterday, there was a significant difference, the two sides had just fought, and the momentum of the army led by him was immediately suppressed.
At this time, Duoduo didn't care about anything, he knew very well that the Jiangning battalion was probably thinking that before his reinforcements arrived, he would completely defeat the army, and if he was still in command behind, he was afraid that there would be no chance to fight.
Duoduo roared, and the prancing horse rushed towards the battlefield, and the soldiers around him also charged......
Su Tiancheng was unusually calm, and the scouts continued to report the news, and when it was time, the reinforcements of the Houjin Tartars were less than twenty miles away from the defensive position, and there was still half an hour at most, and the vanguard should be here.
All the soldiers were ready and quietly waited for Su Tiancheng's order.
Su Tiancheng has not left the Chinese military tent, such a battle, he does not need to go into battle to fight, nor can he do this, until the last resort, the boss is not easy to get into danger, if the boss has any mistakes, it will be the heaviest blow, the battle of the Golden Tartar after the extermination is not something that can be completed in a while, and it is also necessary to coordinate the border troops of Liaodong and Datong, including the sergeants of the Xibe tribe and the Dauria tribe, these things need to be deployed by Su Tiancheng.
The scouts entered the tent of the Chinese army again, and reported that the vanguard of the rescue of the Golden Tartars was less than five miles away.
Su Tiancheng nodded slightly, ordered the heralds, and asked Di Huaixiang to prepare for the occurrence of artillery, the artillery battalion guard commander Qin Rui, followed Hong Chengchou to fight, and some of the artillery battalion soldiers led by Su Tiancheng were temporarily under the command of Qin Rui.
The herald raised a red flag in his hand, which was the order for the start of the offensive.
Di Huaixiang saw the red flag and gave the order to open fire.
The rumbling cannons rang out again, and the cannonballs whistled towards the Houjin Tartars.
The Houjin Tartars who charged had actually discovered the ambush in front, but the order issued by Li Guohan was to rush over, not to stay, and it was best to break up the defensive deployment of the Jiangning battalion.
Li Guohan had no other way, he knew that the army led by Dao Duoduo was surrounded by the Jiangning battalion and was in a desperate situation, and there was only one solution, that is, to rush through the defensive position of the Jiangning battalion and let the two armies meet, so as to maximize the combat effectiveness and resist the attack of the Jiangning battalion.
The vanguard had a total of 5,000 people, all of whom were elite cavalry, and the cavalry was the only one who charged into battle, and Li Guohan believed that the 5,000 soldiers would definitely be able to break through the defensive position of the Jiangning battalion.
Li Guohan has his own judgment, since the Jiangning battalion wants to encircle and annihilate the army led by Duoduo, it must be that all the elite sergeants are concentrated, and there must not be many sergeants left to defend, as long as they break through the defense line and join the army led by Duoduo, the Jiangning battalion wants to exterminate such an army, I'm afraid it is not a simple matter, besides, Jierharang in Haizhou will never sit idly by, after all, there are soldiers from the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of Han, stationed in Haizhou, Gaizhou and Yaozhou.
The vanguard rushed forward at the fastest speed, and the power of the artillery was indeed great, but as long as the soldiers advanced at the fastest speed, the power of the artillery could be avoided to the greatest extent, and the casualties could be reduced to a minimum.
The sergeants of the vanguard who charged forward soon realized that something was wrong, and some of the horses jumped high, because the front was covered with large and small trenches, which were crooked and stopped the horses' pace.
This is very deadly, the sergeant charging in front of him was forced to stop, and the one behind was still charging at full speed, and the team soon began to concentrate in different areas, and it was impossible to turn around, because the back was still charging.
At this time, the power of the artillery began to be reflected, and one shell after another fell towards the place where the people and horses were concentrated, and the explosion of each shell would set off a rain of blood.
The cavalry of the vanguard team, most of them are Duoduo's subordinates, that is, the cavalry in the white flag, they know that the banner master of the Dao Dao is surrounded by the Jiangning camp and is in danger, so they also try their best to charge, hoping to meet with the banner owner and protect the banner owner, under the support of this belief, they are desperate charges.
These cavalrymen are very sophisticated, they have participated in the expedition for many years, and after finding that the situation is not right, the officers of those cavalry began to shoot their horses and cross the trench and continue to charge forward, because the officers knew very well that if they were blocked in a small area, it would be a dead end, and there was no room for retreat, and the only way was to continue to attack forward.
The cavalry behind also followed and rushed forward, some of the war horses, unable to jump over the ditch, fell down the ditch, the war horses made a mournful sound, and the screams also appeared, but these sounds were mostly covered by the rumbling sound of artillery fire.
The cavalry who were lucky enough to rush through the trenches, never imagined that they would be greeted by a more tragic fate, these cavalry, habitually picked up the bow and arrow, ready to launch, and immediately fired the ability of the bow and arrow, which is not the ordinary person has, this is also the pride of the Eight Banners Cavalry, but unfortunately their pride, there is no room for play at all.
The flintlock pistol began to fire, and the overwhelming bullets flew over, so dense that the charging Houjin Tartars and war horses had no place to hide, and the war horses fell down with a scream, and the sergeants on the horses rolled on the ground screaming, and soon stopped moving.
Such a situation seriously affected the cavalry behind, and it was so vain that Rao was an iron man who couldn't bear it. (To be continued......)