Chapter 83: How to deal with it
The Mongols finally couldn't stand it, such huge casualties, even the iron-clad army was unbearable, and no matter how brave the Mongols were, they were beaten away from all their courage. Chakhan was dead, and there was no one to supervise the battle in the back town, and the rout began to appear.
Like a plague, the rout began to spread quickly, and soon people followed, and soon more people fled back.
After only a few moments, the remnants of the Mongols who could still run away fled the battlefield in a frenzy. The only thought of the remaining people, when they turned around and fled, was to escape from the range of the Ming army's muskets on the city wall as soon as possible and get themselves out of this hell on earth.
The Han army, which had just rushed up, was also rushed by them. Geng Zhongming could no longer control his own people, and finally could only run back under the escort of his own guards, and as a result, many people were trampled to death.
Seeing this situation, Duoduo, who had been watching the battle, could only reluctantly withdraw his troops and stop the siege.
It didn't cost much to repel the besieging Jiannu and won an overwhelming victory, and the soldiers of the Datong army at the head of the city burst out with earth-shattering shouts and screams, applauding the great victory.
Cao Yue was also very excited, today's battle once again proved that firearms have an overwhelming advantage in dealing with cold-weapon enemies.
As long as Jiannu continued to attack the city in this way, he was fully confident that he would annihilate them all under Datong City.
Seeing that Jiannu Mingjin had withdrawn his troops, Cao Yue also ordered the soldiers defending the city to retreat into the city to rest except for some who continued to guard the city.
The morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted, and even the sergeants who participated in the battle did not expend much strength, and many were reluctant to go down the city wall to rest.
Cao Yue also warned them that Jiannu would definitely continue to attack the city in the future, and there would be too many times when they needed to go to the city wall to fight. He didn't want to see Jiannu attack again, but the soldiers at the head of the city didn't have the strength to fight.
Outside Datong City, there are stumps and broken arms everywhere, blood is flowing everywhere, and inside the moat, it has been stained red with blood. The smell of blood made many people feel sick, but Cao Yue enjoyed the taste, mixed with the bloody smell of gunsmoke, which made him feel the taste of victory.
"Old man Sun, I've never seen this kind of war, right?" Cao Yue looked at Sun Chuanting standing beside him proudly: "I believe that today's battle will subvert your point of view." You must have learned a lot from it, and when you lead your troops into Henan to fight, the harvest you will receive today will be extraordinary. ”
"Boy, didn't you just wipe out thousands of Jiannu? Look at how proud you are!" Sun Chuanting didn't care about Cao Yue's appearance at all, today's viewing of the battle did give him a great touch, he never thought that the war could still be like this, the invincible Jiannu would lose so miserably, and the losses paid by both sides were completely unequal.
If every battle was like today, then Jiannu would not be a threat at all, and the rogues would soon be pacified.
Now Sun Chuanting can fully imagine how Cao Yue won several battles, and he also has a further understanding of the usefulness of muskets and other firearms on the battlefield.
This was one of his biggest feelings today, and suddenly he was very confident in calming the chaos in the world.
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When the men and horses of Dordor stopped attacking, they retreated a few miles and encamped.
In the afternoon of the same day, the men and horses led by Azig also arrived at the foot of Datong City and joined Duoduo.
In the evening, Dolgon's army also arrived at the city of Datong, so that more than 100,000 Jiannu had all arrived in Datong. They were stationed around the four gates of Datong and surrounded the city of Datong.
After briefly listening to Dorgon's report, he immediately summoned the generals to discuss the military situation.
In the tent of the Chinese army, Dolgon sat in the center, and the nobles of Dordor, Azig, Haug, Abatai, Babutai, Shuoto, and Sakhalian were divided into two shifts. These people are either the prince of Jiannu, the king of the county, or Beile, Beizi, Jurchen Eight Banners, except for the blue flag owner Jierharang who stayed in Shengjing, the other banner owners have arrived, it can be said that most of the elite backbones of the Manchu Jiannu are gathered under Datong City.
First of all, Dodor told everyone present about the events of today's battle.
Duoduo was originally arrogant, but under the city of Datong, he suffered two heavy defeats, and the Ming army suffered almost no losses. This situation made Duoduo very ashamed, and his confidence was also lost, and his face was flushed with shame, and he knelt down with a thud and asked Dorgon to take heavy responsibility.
Babutai, who supported Hauge, immediately stood up and asked Dorgon to deal heavily with Dodor, who had lost the battle, but was told by Dorgon that the most important thing at present was not to hold anyone responsible, but to find out the situation first and find the right solution. Duoduo's mistakes will be discussed after returning to Shengjing, and what punishment to give can be determined according to the rules, and he will never be partial.
In today's battle, the Qing army killed more than 19,000 people, including more than 15,000 Mongolian Eight Banners, more than 3,000 Han soldiers, and the Ming soldiers at the head of the city were killed and wounded no more than 100 people. With such a huge casualty and such a disparity in the proportion of casualties, everyone was very shocked, and everyone, including Dorgon, was very heavy.
"Ladies and gentlemen, today's battle situation, everyone also knows that the Ming army has adopted a new method of warfare, we can't break it for the time being, today we have a good time to discuss, how to effectively attack," Dolgon of course did not want to punish Duoduo, he knew that today's and last defeat, not Duoduo's incompetence, but because the Ming army adopted a new method of warfare, large-scale use of muskets, and developed a set of very effective musket shooting techniques, if you want to defeat the Ming army, you must come up with a technique to control the enemy.
This may be a new tactic that Cao Yue came up with, the Qing army suffered losses in Songshan and Shengjing, and suffered several big losses under the city of Datong, if you don't want to come up with a solution, the situation will immediately change viciously, and the Ming Dynasty will have an absolute advantage over the Qing Dynasty.
Today's battle, this very affects morale, if the defeat is gone, then the morale of the Qing army will be greatly hit, and the morale of the Ming army will be great, hundreds of horses, or even dozens of Jurchen elite horses, can chase tens of thousands of Ming troops everywhere The scene will never appear again, and the Qing Dynasty, which has an absolute disadvantage in population, will never have a foothold.
Dolgon ordered Duoduo to let the Mongols attack the city first, and he didn't expect it to work, but he didn't expect the result to be like this, and the morale of the Qing army was greatly affected, and even he was very devastated.
He already knew that in the war with the Liukou, Cao Yue's men and horses suffered what losses, and now outside Datong City, the influence of the Liukou can not be seen, and the Qing army has no cheap to pick up. It seems that the purpose of wanting to take advantage of the fire this time is going to fail, and it is a bit of a ladder to steal chickens and rice. Reason told Dolgon that the best option was to give up attacking Datong, even if it was better to attack Beijing than to attack Datong.
But now that the army has been under the city of Datong, it will be withdrawn like this, not to mention the impact on morale, in case it is ambushed by the Ming army, and Cao Yue is pursuing it in the back, then the Qing army will suffer a big loss, and it is possible that even the strength of the country will be destroyed. What Dolgon needs most now is to come up with a foolproof plan, and of course the best thing is to defeat the encounter and capture Datong.