Chapter 342: Chasing Soldiers
Scattered weapons, battle flags trampled in the bloody mud, the corpses of thousands of war horses, and the corpses of the same number of Eight Banner soldiers, blood flowed and the eyes were full of filth. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Looking at the headless corpses, Duoduo's face was gloomy and he could wring out water, and the Manmeng and Han generals stood carefully behind him, keeping a certain distance from him, for fear that the prince's anger would explode on him.
One Thousand Eight Banners Warriors! There are a thousand people, and they are pure Manchurian soldiers! Since the founding of the Khan, when have the Manchurian warriors suffered such great losses? When has so many people died in a small war!
In the last ten years, that is, in the past year, the battle with the Dashun army, the casualties of the Manchurian soldiers have increased. From last year's battle in which the Qing troops entered the pass and ended in the decisive battle against Tongguan in Shaanxi this year, the soldiers of the Eight Banners had killed and wounded more than 20,000 people, including 7,000 or 8,000 Manchurian soldiers.
However, the Eight Banners also defeated hundreds of thousands of Shun troops and successfully captured Beijing, chasing the Shun army with nowhere to escape! Now that the Qing Dynasty has successfully occupied the entire north, as long as the south of the Yangtze River is captured again, the whole world will be full of people.
But I didn't expect that outside the city of Yangzhou, a small night attack would lose a thousand Manchurian warriors! How many Manchurian warriors there are combined, only sixty or seventy thousand! A thousand people died in one fell swoop, so how did he explain himself to the regent? And among them, there is Beizi Shangshan, who is his cousin, a person who loves the Xinjueluo family!
Damn Ming Jun, I'm going to have you cramped and skinned! Yangzhou City, just wait for my wrath, and when the city is captured, I will slaughter the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou and burn it clean!
"Nikan, you immediately lead the army to suppress the green battalion soldiers, and if there is a riot again, you will be killed!"
"Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Li Shutai, immediately lead your subordinates out of the camp to pursue, you must chase that group of Ming troops and annihilate me!"
After all, he was a battle-hardened general, and Duoduo was used to seeing life and death, and this failure did not make him panic, but issued orders in a deep voice. It's getting dark, and the enemy is definitely not far away! We must kill them all and avenge the death of the warriors.
With Duoduo's order, the battalion of Eight Banners immediately moved. Nikan and other generals immediately pressed towards the camp of the Green Battalion with the Eight Banners, to suppress the Ming Dynasty troops who were still in turmoil.
And more than 18,000 people of the Han army banner were all sent to hunt down and kill the damned Ming army attacking the camp. Judging from the remnants left on the battlefield, the attacking Ming army will not exceed 10,000. Sending out all the Han army flags is already Duoduo who can afford them. The reason why he did not send the Eight Banners to pursue again was because of Duoduo's own selfishness. Because according to the battlefield, although the number of the Ming army is not large, the combat power is not bad, otherwise even if a trap is set up to sneak attack, it is impossible to wipe out a thousand Manchurian warriors. In the Great Qing Dynasty, the Manchurian Eight Banners were the foundation of the country, and the loss of more than 1,000 Duo was already too much, and he would not allow the Manchurian soldiers to be lost again.
The sky was already dark, and in the open field, the fleeing Ming army could not hide its tracks at all. The 18,000 banner soldiers of the Han army, under the leadership of Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Li and Tai, and several big traitors, divided into several roads, searched and pursued in the direction where the Ming army had fled.
At this time, Ren Siqi led three thousand soldiers of the Daishan Army to run desperately towards the fork of the river where the boat was stopped.
Although the battle was in a favorable position at the right time, an ambush and a trap, the Daishan army still suffered more than 100 casualties, most of whom died under the bows and arrows of the Eight Banners. The escape is imminent, and the corpses of the dead cannot be carried at all, so they can only be left to the wilderness. However, the loyal souls are buried everywhere, and presumably they won't care.
In addition to the dead, there were more than twenty wounded soldiers, and these wounded naturally could not be left behind, although they slowed down the advance of the army to a certain extent. More than a dozen horses were captured in this battle, although the 1,008 bannermen were all cavalry, and most of the horses were wounded under the fire of muskets and flying dragons. Then in the final sprint, a large number of horses were trapped in the horse hole and broke their legs, and few were able to escape.
However, although the war horses were captured, there were very few soldiers in the entire Daishan army who could ride horses, and Yang Bin was probably the only one with excellent riding skills. Yang Bin is from a martial arts family in Cangzhou, according to legend, he is the descendant of the Yang general, and is a rare good gunner. In addition to Yang Bin, even Ren Siqi himself is only rough riding.
More than a dozen war horses were given to the wounded to ride, which made the marching speed of the troops much faster.
The Qing soldiers will soon be in pursuit, and in the face of an enemy with a total of 100,000 people, no one will leave anything to chance. However, as long as you can run the distance of three miles, run to the fork of the river, and get on the boat, it is possible to escape!
Maybe the heavens finally stood on the side of the Ming Dynasty, until the three thousand warriors ran to the fork of the river where they dismounted, and there were no pursuers behind them.
When the soldiers who stayed behind to watch the ship saw that the troops had returned safely, they happily pulled the boat to the shore to welcome the return of the victorious warriors. Not long ago, they heard the sound of explosions and gunfire in the direction of the Qing army's main camp, which made them frightened. The ship has long since turned around and is waiting for the manned return.
"Get on board! Don't mess around, don't mess up one team at a time. "Under the leadership of the officers, 3,000 soldiers and fished into the river boat. The sailors in charge of rowing the boats used bamboo poles to prop the boats off the riverbank, and the oarsmen rowed the oars, and a hundred riverboats rowed to the east.
The moon had disappeared, the twinkling stars had dimmed, and the morning sun was faintly shining in the east, and the sky was gradually brightening.
Although they had been busy all night, none of the soldiers were sleepy, for they were all in the excitement of defeating a powerful enemy.
With 3,000 soldiers, he rushed straight to the camp of 100,000 Qing soldiers and fought 1,000 banner soldiers, which was a very brilliant achievement. There is a Ming generation, and the Qi family army can have such a record back then, but the Qi family army is not alone in facing 100,000 enemies!
Such a record will not be able to be achieved by the name of the ancients. It's a pity that there are no scholars on the ship, if Li Yanzhi is there, he will definitely compare this battle with Zhang Liaowei's defeat of Sun Quan's 100,000-strong army in Xiaoyaojin.
At this time, the "famous general" Ren Siqi didn't think so much at all, and at this moment he kept urging the rowing soldiers to paddle quickly. While looking in the direction of the Qing army camp from time to time.
For such a long time, the Qing soldiers should have reacted, maybe the chasing soldiers were on the way.
As if to verify Ren Siqi's thoughts, at this moment, the thunderous sound of horses' hooves came from the north, and when he looked up, he saw dust flying in the distance!
The pursuers have arrived! (To be continued.) )