In order to delay time, Azig again sent a gara to shoot at the Denglai army, but the cavalry still did not go far before they were shot.

At this moment, the Qing army was already frightened, and after more than 200 deaths, it collapsed back into the battle.

The rout of the Qing army was nothing new, the casualties that the Qing army could withstand were very low, and judging from the history of the Manchu conquests, sometimes a rout would result in a rout with a few dozen deaths.

Although the Ming army was defeated a lot, there were many Qing troops defeated at this time. But the Qing soldiers are cavalry, they can be chased after victory, and they can flee if they are defeated, and the rout has no effect on them, while the Ming army does not have many cavalry, and the rout is often fatal.

However, the Manchu Qing Dynasty also had a strict system of supervising wars, which was set up for those cannon fodder troops, and there were a large number of Mongolian soldiers and Han soldiers in the Qing army, which were cannon fodder.

The way they seized the world was to use the harsh system of supervision and warfare to drive these cannon fodder to attack the city and plunder the land, and they could hide behind and rob.

In an era when soldiers had no faith, routs were very common, and if one side fought to the death, it could exert great combat effectiveness.

For example, Wu Peifu in the Beiyang period also relied on this trick to fight, won the Zhiwan War, and won the first Zhifeng War.

It can be seen from this that this kind of supervision system actually has great combat effectiveness, but compared with the army with faith, this kind of supervision system is vulnerable.

For example, Wu Peifu was later beaten by the Northern Expeditionary Army.

If the Soviet army in World War II had been old soldiers without faith, Germany would have been able to conquer the entire Soviet Union without much effort.

However, the Soviet soldiers and civilians with faith fought stubbornly against Germany and finally won the victory.

The Denglai Army is a new soldier with faith, so there is no supervising team, because the soldiers are very conscious, and there are also education committees that are always mobilized and take the lead, but there are also harsh military laws to restrain them, but they are all liquidated after the war, and the first unlucky one is the education committee.

…… Azig didn't want to retreat, but he was afraid that if he retreated, the other party would take the opportunity to advance, and the cannon would not have a chance to hit the Ming general surnamed Zhao on the opposite side.

Now the only way is to kill that Ming general, and it is possible to go back without punishment, and Azig has nothing to care about at this moment.

After the second team of Jialao retreated, Azig was ruthless and sent another Jiala up, behaving like an idiot and an idiot.

If a general who is a little arrogant will really think that the other party is an idiot, but Zhao Yan doesn't think so, but he is even more convinced in his heart that the Qing soldiers have a plan.

At this moment, a rocket equipped with a whistle device in the distance on the east side lifted its tail flame into the sky with a tail flame, emitting a "babbling...... Bang ......" loud sound, Zhao Yan took the telescope and looked over.

"The cavalry battalion reached the direction of the attack." Liu Heng said.

"Rocket bombing." Zhao Yan shouted, and the flag bearer on the command platform quickly sounded the flag.

"Ignition."

"Ignition."

"Ignition."

The rocket commanders of the three infantry battalions hissed loudly, and the rocket soldiers and auxiliaries of each battalion suddenly got busy, igniting the fuses of the launchers that had already been aimed at the Qing soldiers.

"Whew...... Shout...... Shout...... ......"I saw the rockets on the launch frame, smoke coming out of the tail, and they flew out one by one.

The rockets of a launcher cannot be fired at the same time, otherwise accidents are likely to occur, so the length of the lead on the launcher is strictly designed.

The three infantry battalions each had 200 launchers, adding up to 600, and the number of rockets launched at one time reached 9,000.

Although the 9,000 rockets were launched at once, more than half of them extended backwards.

9,000 rockets rose into the air one after another, forming a spectacular scene, and all the soldiers of the infantry battalion looked up at the rockets flying overhead, with obsession in their eyes, this is the power of civilization!

The whistle mechanism on the "babbling ......" rocket emitted a terrible whistle, like a life-threatening sound.

At first, the Qing soldiers on the opposite side only saw what seemed to be a large amount of smoke rising, and then they saw rockets covering the sky flying from the rear of the Ming army...... At this moment, all the Qing soldiers were sluggish.

Spectacular! It's spectacular!

But then these rockets fell to the ground, scurrying on the ground, and the Qing soldiers were so frightened that their hands and feet were cold, and their expressions changed dramatically.

With a sound of "coaxing ......", the Qing army suddenly exploded, screaming and fleeing for their lives, crying for their fathers and calling their mothers, and frightened their hands and feet, and the formation was suddenly chaotic.

It's too late to run, these rockets are all five~six second fuses, and they explode with a bang almost as soon as they hit the ground.

Boom Boom Boom Boom ...... The sound of explosions was endless, and the smoke of gunpowder rose everywhere, enveloping all the Qing troops, blocking the sight of the Denglai army, making people unable to see the situation clearly, and could only faintly see the skyrocketing fire in the smoke.

At this moment, a huge cannon bang rang out from the rear artillery batteries of the Denglai army, and the artillery companies of each battalion also extended their artillery fire to the front!

At this time, the sound of artillery was also heard from the east side in the distance, and the cavalry battalion also opened fire.

Rockets continued to fire, and the cannons fired wildly. Auxiliaries are busy carrying ammunition, loading rockets, and then extending forward to fire.

Both artillerymen and rocketeers are looking at the hourglass to decide how far to extend. The enemy can run a few meters in a few seconds, and this data combat laboratory has already tested the approximation.

In the case of gunsmoke, they can only rely on this data to determine the extension distance.

A large amount of black powder was ignited at this moment, emitting a large amount of gunsmoke, which was so thick that it almost choked people to death, and Zhao Yan was choked on the command platform and his eyes were sour.

Fortunately, this kind of battle is not the first time that the Denglai army has experienced it.

"Boom, boom, boom......" 600 bronze cannons continued to bombard forward, and the bombardment lasted for half a minute, and Jiannu, who did not die, should have run a distance of 1,200 meters.

"Pioneer battalion, charge!" Lin Yi pulled out the Zhongzheng Sword and shouted.

"Camp Tempest, charge!" Wu Yongliang drew his saber, and he had not yet been awarded the Zhongzheng Sword.

"Kill!" The two battalions of cavalry were already ready to move, and at the moment of order, they drew their sabers and rushed forward with shouts. The two battalions rushed directly into the smoke and quickly disappeared from sight.

"Dengzhou battalion, charge."

"Laizhou battalion, charge."

"Qingzhou battalion, press in."

Among the three infantry battalions, the Dengzhou battalion and the Laizhou battalion launched a charge, and only the Qingzhou battalion maintained a formation and slowly pressed forward, just in case.

The charge was filled with the sound of killing, and the soldiers rushed into the flaming meadows, looking for traces of the enemy.

When they rushed into the smoke, they saw a miserable scene. On the ground were patches of corpses, a large number of Qing soldiers and horses fell to the ground, some were blown apart, and some were stuck with dozens of shrapnel stuck in their bodies.

There were also many Qing soldiers wailing on the ground, and the infantry who rushed to meet this kind of wailing Qing soldiers directly hacked to death. No resisting enemy was found in the smoke of the cavalry battalion, so they rushed directly over the corpses.

When they rushed out of the smoke of gunpowder, they finally found a large group of Qing soldiers, only to see thousands of Qing soldiers running away in the distance.

"Kill!"

The cavalry battalion, which found its prey, rushed away.

Those Qing soldiers ran in a hurry, each with only one horse, where could they run past the cavalry battalion with one man and two horses, and after ten minutes of wild running, their horsepower was finally insufficient, and the soldiers of the cavalry battalion changed their horses, and the speed was wild again, and soon they caught up with the fleeing Qing soldiers.

This group of Qing troops had long lost the courage to resist, and they rushed to flee one by one, and only a few Qing soldiers turned back to fight, but they were quickly cut down.

The cavalry battalion lined up in a neat formation, rushed into the five or six thousand routs, and slaughtered the Qing army, and the two sides pursued and fled, and the melee lasted for nearly an hour, and the five or six thousand Qing troops who fled north were completely annihilated.

After the infantry battalion charged, Zhao Yan soon received news from the scouts that a group of more than 3,000 Qing troops had fled south from the western intersection.

Originally thought that all the Qing soldiers would flee to the north, but he didn't expect more than 3,000 people to run from the intersection in the west, Zhao Yan hurriedly ordered the Qingzhou battalion to pursue.

The soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion mounted their horses and pursued the Qing army in the direction of the escape of the group under the guidance of the scouts.

…… The smoke cleared, and the tragic situation on the battlefield was finally exposed.

I saw that the land ravaged by rockets and shells was full of corpses, these corpses almost covered the ground, the grass on the ground was charred black, there were uneven craters and shrapnel everywhere, horse corpses, human corpses and wounded horses lying on the ground, and flags discarded by the Qing army.

The distance between 200 and 400 meters away has the most corpses, almost dense, and the farther it goes, the fewer and fewer corpses there are, and when it reaches two thousand meters away, there are fewer corpses.

"At least half of the Jiannu were killed." After reading it, Liu Heng estimated that it was not too surprising that such a dense bombardment would kill half of the Qing soldiers.

These Qing soldiers were densely lined up, and there were no trenches or bulletproof fortifications, so the end was naturally sad, and this was the sad end of the cold weapon army meeting the hot weapon army.

When they rushed to the area around Xishan, they saw a group of Qing soldiers shouting the slogan of "killing the Tartars", there were more than 500 people, and those people wore a straw ring on their heads, and they were fighting fiercely with the dozens of Qing soldiers who had been defeated, and soon the dozens of Qing soldiers were eliminated.

The soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion approached vigilantly.

"The brother on the other side, his own people, is his own people." Those Han Qing soldiers hurriedly shouted.

"It's Han Chinese." The officer of the infantry company judged, and after inquiry, he learned that the more than 500 people were the artillery team of the Qing army, and the officer was a little displeased, obviously he did not have a good impression of these Han people who served the Qing army, but thinking about it, most of these Han people were involuntary as soldiers for Jiannu, and they were also friendly troops when they rebelled, so they sent a few people to the rear to wait for the next arrangement.

Zhao Yan was in the rear, constantly receiving good news, the Qing army had collapsed, the cavalry battalion and the cavalry battalion, the infantry battalion rushed all the way, annihilated the Qing army of about six or seven thousand people, at three o'clock in the afternoon to conquer Xianzhuang, three thousand Mongolian left battalion (Mongolia at this time was not organized into eight banners, called the left battalion, the right battalion) soldiers fled in embarrassment.

In addition to the pioneer battalion continuing to pursue, the Hurricane Battalion returned to chase the Qingzhou battalion, and together went to exterminate the 3,000 Qing soldiers who had escaped, and the soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion, the Laizhou battalion, and the engineer battalion began to busy cleaning up the battlefield.

Cut off heads, strip armor, bury corpses, and slaughter dead horses.

Armor, weapons, and flags were soon piled up like a hill, and the 500 Han artillerymen who rebelled also joined in the work of cleaning up the battlefield.

They looked at the battlefield full of corpses of Qing soldiers in front of them in a daze, and they were stunned for a long time and couldn't speak, although they guessed from the movement just now that the Qing army was defeated, they didn't want to be defeated so miserably.

The work of cleaning up the battlefield lasted for nearly a day, and it was only then that all the corpses were buried, and the number of heads of the soldiers was counted, a total of 46,000.

About 10,000 Qing troops died under the muskets, and nearly 26,000 were killed, and more than 7,000 Qing soldiers were cut in the subsequent pursuit, as well as 3,000 heads of Yan Duo's troops.

At the same time, more than 18,000 war horses were also seized, of which 10,000 were seized from Xianzhuang, and nearly 1 million taels of property were also seized in Xianzhuang, and the rest of the livestock were more than 20,000 heads, and 15,000 people were rescued.

"I originally thought that it was impossible to completely annihilate Kou Jiannu, but I didn't expect to kill 43,000 people in one battle." Liu Heng sighed: "The firearms are really sharp. ”

"What about our casualties?" Zhao Yan asked.

"Only in the pursuit were fifty-six casualties, thirteen killed." Liu Heng reported, "In addition to the 34,000 killed, more than 100 Qing soldiers were captured, and according to their identification, we only found the body of Abatai, while their main general, Azig, was missing. ”

"That must have run from the trail to the west, and ordered Wu Yongliang to let the Wind Battalion pursue it with all its might, and be sure to annihilate it in the pass." Zhao Yan ordered.

"My lord, what should we do with the more than 500 Han Qing soldiers who rebelled?" Liu Heng asked.

"Assigned to the recruit camp for training, it can be supplemented to the Liaodong Special Operations Brigade in the future." Zhao Yan thought about it and said, it's not a big deal, Zhao Yan is worried about those horses, this is the most important batch of seizures, "Let the military doctor try to treat those injured horses." ”

"Even if those injured horses are saved, many of them can only be used for transportation." Liu Heng said, "However, the more than 10,000 war horses left by Jiannu in Xianzhuang are cheaper for us." ”

…… At the end of the final count the next day, a total of more than 43,000 Qing troops were killed, 3,000 rebels of the Yan Duo Department were killed, a number of armor and weapons were captured, 18,000 horses were not damaged, 4,000 horses and horses were wounded, more than 5,000 horses and mules were used for transportation, nearly 2 million taels of property, and more than 20,000 other livestock, and you rescued more than 15,000 people from Yanqing.

Although only more than one million taels of property were seized in Xianzhuang, hundreds of thousands of taels of property were found on the Qing soldiers.

Not only the generals kept it privately, but also the soldiers kept it privately, and the number of Qing soldiers plundered in the historical records was not correct except for the number of people and livestock, and when cleaning the battlefield after the war, valuable belongings could often be found from the Qing soldiers.

In addition, coupled with the value of war horses, livestock, and battle armor, the profit of this war is more than four million taels, this is because those battle armor is very worthless in the eyes of the Denglai army, and it is naturally impossible for the Denglai army to equip these battle armor, if it is calculated according to the normal value, this profit can reach five or six million taels.

The profit of four million taels, cutting so many Qing soldiers, a head of fifty taels, the reward that needs to be spent reaches two million hundred and fifty thousand taels.

Zhao Yan has always believed that soldiers who serve the country deserve preferential treatment, they are not only engaged in dangerous careers, but also sacrifice their youth.

After deducting the bounty and casualty pension, there is still a surplus, and the expenditure on logistics and consumption is not much, and it is only five or six hundred thousand taels at the top, which is also the benefit of the elite soldier policy.

If it is the kind of army that is full, the expenditure on grain and grass is a huge number, and in order to transport grain, many people have to be recruited, and production is destroyed, and the invisible expenditure is even greater.

The more than 15,000 Yanqing people who were rescued were hurrying to process horse meat at the moment, and more than 30,000 dead horses were pulled for slaughter.

Those dead horses can't be wasted.

So for the past two days, the whole army has eaten horse meat, and the smell of horse meat wafts everywhere.

Horse meat has a very high nutritional value, higher than the nutritional value of beef and mutton, and the fat of horses is similar to vegetable oil, but the taste is not much better, and a foul smell will waft out when cooked.

However, the Denglai Army has been established for more than two years, and has also explored more than two years of war experience, and has hypotheses about the situations that the army may face, and has also studied the consumption of horses.

Once the army enters a state of running out of ammunition and food, it can only cut horses for food, and eliminating the foul smell of horse meat has become the object of research.

At the same time, the horses and soldiers killed in previous wars did not like to eat, which also exposed the need for this. Therefore, the army brought enough seasonings such as ginger.

Therefore, the taste is acceptable, the war is basically a foregone conclusion at this moment, and after cleaning up the battlefield, Zhao Yan also sent some rice wine to the whole army.

The soldiers cooked the horse meat and drank a small amount of rice wine, enjoying their leisure time after the war.

At this moment, Zhao Yan is always paying attention to the situation of the Pioneer Battalion, the Wind Battalion and the Qingzhou Battalion, which has not returned since the 16th to pursue the Mongolian Left Battalion in the direction of Yanqing.

The 4,000 people in the pioneer battalion chased 3,000 people, but Zhao Yan was not too worried.

It's just that the situation of the Qingzhou Battalion and the Wind Battalion is not very optimistic, and after they went to pursue the 3,000 remnants led by Azig, they lost the exact location of Azig.

The 3,000 men of Azig couldn't keep up with the scout team at all.

If the Qing soldiers were plundering everywhere, it would be easy to find their main force, and it would be very simple to keep up, but Azig was fleeing all the way, so it was naturally not so easy to follow.

However, at this time, the Dengzhou battalion received good news, and they actually captured Azig alive.

…… In the Battle of Changping on the 16th, Azig was unfortunate because he was defeated and lost, but he was also fortunate because he escaped his life in the intensive bombardment.

However, although he escaped, he only gathered 3,000 defeated troops, and then fled south from the western junction, Azig knew that the Ming army of unknown origin would definitely pursue to the north, and fleeing south was undoubtedly the best choice.

In order to get rid of the scouts of the Denglai army, Azig can be said to have tried his best, while leading people around in a circle, while cleaning the traces in the back, he successfully got rid of the scouts of the Denglai army.

Azig also went around to the south of Changping, and in the early morning of the 16th, Azig encountered 3,000 heavy soldiers from the baggage battalion transporting grain and grass.

The vigilance of the baggage battalion was very high, and when Azig found them, they had already discovered Azig and were ready for battle early.

Azig's resentment was immediately sprinkled on the baggage battalion, according to common sense, the baggage soldiers are very easy to bully, and Azig directly ordered 3,000 Qing soldiers to storm the baggage battalion.

Azig had already lost his eyes, and in one breath he let all three thousand people rush forward.

The baggage battalion had already formed a car formation, and these car formations were not ordinary car formations, but there were small smoothbore cannons in the iron cars, but as a result, the Qing troops rushed and were immediately hit by scattered bullets.

Although these smoothbore cannons have no range, the scattered bullets fired can hit a fan with one shot, and the power at close range is absolutely devastating, and a single shot can kill dozens of Qing soldiers.

In addition, the baggage soldiers armed with muskets and spears to resist the enemy in the car formation, forming an impregnable defense line, the Qing soldiers were helpless in the face of such a car formation, and they had no choice but to retreat after losing more than 1,000 people.

This kind of car formation is a tactic that appeared in the West around the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when Westerners used relatively primitive stone artillery, but this kind of car formation played a strong defensive ability.

But it is also tightly defensive, if the enemy does not attack the car formation, it will be useless, so it will be eliminated quickly. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Chuanting also used this kind of car formation when suppressing thieves, but the tactical thinking was a bit wrong. The thief is good at wandering and fighting, and he can not touch his car formation at all, and the speed of the car formation cannot keep up at all, and the terrain is complex, and under the sudden attack of the enemy, it is impossible to deploy the formation in time, so this tactic did not bring much benefit to Sun Chuanting.

However, it is very suitable for the baggage battalion to use this kind of vehicle formation, and it is necessary to sacrifice some transportation capacity.

After Azig attacked the baggage battalion, the baggage battalion provided information to the Qingzhou battalion that rushed in, and the Qingzhou battalion had one man and two horses, and soon caught up with the sleepy Azig.

In order to get rid of the scouts, Azig ran all night, and only then did he succeed in getting rid of them, and in addition to the fact that the baggage battalion experienced another big defeat, both physical strength and morale have been reduced to freezing point.

Li Ran led the Dengzhou camp to chase him, Azig was herding horses and making food near Liangshan, and when he saw the Dengzhou camp chasing after him, he didn't even have time to eat a bite of food, so he hurriedly got on his horse and fled again, but was soon caught up by Li Ran.

In the end, Li Ran was surrounded south of Liangshan, and seeing that there was no hope of escaping, the two thousand Qing soldiers who had already been defeated took the initiative to surrender, and Azig was also captured.

Zhao Yan was overjoyed when he learned the news, and the pioneer battalion that had gone to pursue the left battalion not long ago also returned triumphantly, and Lin Yi cut off the heads of more than 2,000 Mongolian soldiers and cavalry in the pursuit, and captured more than 1,000 war horses.

Since then, the Qing army has been completely annihilated!

(To be continued)