Chapter Fifty-Six: Chaotic War
The Dengzhou infantry phalanx broke away from the pursuit, Zhu Guobin took the guards to run to the infantry phalanx, and Mr. Qian hurriedly greeted him, Zhu Guobin roared loudly at Mr. Qian, "The detachments of the first company and the third company took over on the spot, and the whole phalanx retreated and held the ferry." ”
He also arrived at the reinforcements of both sides approaching at the same time, and the speed of Houjin reinforcements was half earlier than Zhu Guobin expected, and the Chen Xin Guards Battalion in the east had not yet appeared, and he had already sent two batches of Tang horses in a row to Chen Xin to report to him.
Jiannu appeared in the north, the phalanx infantry had to retreat to defend the crossing, and the infantry of Houjin collapsed, but the cavalry still had combat capability, which was a huge threat to the Dengzhou cavalry battalion defending the west side, and the cavalry would quickly suffer from both sides if they stayed in place, and the cavalry had no infantry defense capability at all in the stopped state.
Under the threat of both sides, it is no longer realistic to completely block the cavalry of the other side, but the Houjin infantry must not be allowed to regroup, as long as they hold on to the arrival of the two thousand headquarters in the south, most of the Houjin infantry will be intercepted.
Zhu Guobing rode his horse and galloped to Tan Shen, who had just returned, and pointed to the place where the Houjin infantry on the opposite side left a large group of horses and said: "Pursue those infantry, one game at a time, ignore the cavalry, just rush into their rear, rush until there is no one in the south and then turn around and attack, the more chaotic the fight, the better, don't let them regroup." ”
Tan Shen hesitated: "That will be a heavy loss, or ......"
"Execution! If the cavalry is gone, they can't be regrouped. Time was pressing, Zhu Guobin didn't pay attention to Tan Shen's opinion at all, and with a single sentence, he turned his horse and ran to the detachment of the fourth company that had just been transferred, and asked the captain of the flag to return to the formation with the detachment and strengthen the firepower of the phalanx.
The phalanx soldiers turned around on the spot, the officers shouted orders, and the soldiers stepped forward one by one to make up the original last row, and the front row of the phalanx immediately became a neat and dense front, but the back row was incomplete, and the drum beat sounded immediately, and the phalanx marched towards the ferry, the dust was high in the north, and the Houjin soldiers were already a few miles away.
Tan Shen released all the cavalry in his hand, taking the bureau as a unit, using a small cavalry formation to constantly impact the Houjin people and horses in the cover, and after breaking through the gap, he continued to pursue the fleeing Houjin soldiers, and the seven cavalry bureaus took turns to attack, and the rout of the Houjin infantry made them get the goal, which was the place where the Houjin cavalry had to rescue, and could force the Houjin cavalry to give up the fight.
In order to cover the infantry, the Houjin cavalry had to face the battle, and the two detachments left on the east side of the battlefield formed a dense formation and launched a salvo at the Houjin soldiers who passed around, which greatly affected the maneuver route of the Houjin cavalry.
Dengzhou's dense cavalry array under the impact of **, the corpses of both sides are all over the field, the Houjin cavalry is becoming more and more scattered, often has not been assembled again, the Ming army's another charge has arrived, even Bayala does not dare to block the front of the Dengzhou cavalry formation, just on the flanks of foot shooting, Dengzhou cavalry ignoring the attack from the two wings, just rush forward, although the loss of Yan zhòng, but also to the Houjin rout greater damage, the Houjin infantry finally reorganized the opportunity to completely mess up.
The Ming army also appeared in the south, and the Houjin Bujia, who had completely lost their fighting spirit, panicked, howling and running wildly on the battlefield, throwing weapons and armor and helmets all over the ground, and they only had one thought left, that is, to go to the rear to grab a horse and flee for their lives before others.
The Dengzhou cavalry sent their surnames, rushed out of the interception and rode their horses to chase and kill, lightly slashed those routs who did not resist at all from behind, and finally rushed into the herd of horses left by the Houjin infantry just now, just like the Houjin Baya La, hundreds of war horses galloped in all directions, and the rear of Houjin was in chaos, the battlefield was dusty, there were people and horses running in panic everywhere, and the wounded soldiers left on the ground wailed loudly, but no one paid attention to it.
The west side of the Ming army has been vacated, and the Jin soldiers who caught the horses began to flee north from there in a scattered manner, and more people could not find the horses, so they went directly west into the hilly area in panic, and even some of the delirious armor soldiers jumped directly into the Fuzhou River.
In the midst of the chaos, Dolgon was intercepted by the Ransal Horses, with his Goshha and some of Bayala by his side, and the chaos in front of him exceeded his expectations. His eyes were full of routs and horses, including cavalry on both sides, and the horses under him were also anxiously moving their hooves under him, and he had to hold on to the reins tightly, and he was shocked by the Ming cavalry's fighting style regardless of casualties.
A hundred steps away from him, there was a Dengzhou cavalry galloping wildly, several empty-handed fleeing routs did not have time to get out of the way, in a blink of an eye were stabbed by the Ming army's blades, and were knocked over by horses before they fell to the ground, and after three rows of horse hooves stepped on, a faint smoke and dust rose on the ground, and several rout soldiers were placed there without movement.
A Houjin cavalry chased all the way behind, and the Ming army that Baizhong with the cavalry has been running south, a few miles away the Ming infantry is already in sight, the Houjin cavalry did not dare to continue to chase, they just turned around, the Ming cavalry stopped hastily the whole team, Dolgon got that their formation was also very chaotic, between each array spears and palladium and sabers mixed with each other, far from the beginning of the neat, basically lined up and rushed to the battlefield, another team of Ming cavalry rushed from the north, head-on will be the retreat of the Houjin chasing troops scattered.
It was impossible to reorganize the infantry, and the Meler Ezhen who had just been sent out did not even have a figure, and he didn't know where he was swept away by the rout, and the only one who was still a formed infantry was Bayala led by Bakshan.
Dolgon gritted his teeth and gave a loud order to the drummers to sing the gold and let the soldiers flee for their lives, and rushed to Bayala with the banner of the bannerman, collecting the scattered cavalry along the way......
Hoofs rumbled on the north side of the ferry, and nearly 1,000 cavalry slowly stopped their formation, followed by nearly 2,000 infantry. Under a big blue flag in front, Mang Gurtai stood tall on his horse, and after listening to the whistle horse, he returned expressionless.
This time, Huang Taiji went on an expedition, did not take him away, and did not let him stay in Shenyang, he stayed near Fuzhou, and it was Shangshu Yue Tuo of the Ministry of War who led the overall situation in Shenyang, which made Mang Gurtai a little resentful in his heart, how to say that Yue Tuo was also a little Baylor.
Houjin has both the Eight Banners system, and now there are six more departments, Huang Taiji issued an order from the Parliamentary Assembly for a while, and issued an order from the six ministries at the same time, Mang Gurtai was quite dizzy, but Huang Taiji figured out that Guò Six Ministries controlled the military power, and then used Han officials and Han soldiers to restrain the Eight Banners, he was able to come out.
Beside him stood the solid mountain Ezhen Tuo Bohui of the Zhenglan Banner, according to Huang Taiji, he was the chief military officer, and Tuo Bohui also had a few Niu Lu of his own, and he had the right to control the population of these Niu Lu, although Mang Gurtai was the owner of the banner, he could not be deprived of it casually.
In fact, Tuo Bohui is Mang Gurtai's cousin, Tuo Bohui's father is called Long Dun, and he is Nuer Hachi's cousin, but he has always been against Nuer Hachi, and he has never done a few serious things, but Tuo Bohui is very discerning, and he decided early that Nuer Hachi can make a fortune, and he is very obedient in the past, much like the current Yuetuo father and son.
Huang Taiji's strategy has always been to win over the middle level to deal with the upper level, when he just took over the Houjin Khan, he promoted the Eight Banners Gushan Ezhen to the Eight Ministers, qualified to participate in the political conference, and bought a lot of people's hearts at once, and diluted the role of the flag owner in the political conference. Jilharang, Sakhalian and others, who controlled part of the cattle in the middle of the banners, were also the targets of his wooing, and after Amin was unlucky, Jilharang naturally took over the blue flag, and the power of Huang Taiji in the Eight Banners has completely overwhelmed Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai. As a result, middle-level cadres such as Eight Banners Gushan and Ezhen further moved closer to Huang Taiji, and the authority of the banner owner was greatly reduced.
Mang Gurtai thinks that his qualifications are better than Huang Taiji, how can his mother say that he is also a real room, the roots are Miao Hong, Huang Taiji's mother Yehenala Menggu is a side Fujin who married later, so Mang Gurtai is a little inferior to this concubine brother in his heart.
In the past, when Nuer Hachi was there, in order to please the old slave, he acted as the vanguard of suppressing his brothers every time, including canceling the succession right of Daishan, and offended many people. Huang Taiji is much smarter than him, obviously he single-handedly instigated to expose Dai Shan's theft of the old slave's little wife, but he pretended to be a good person, and finally won the good impression of the old slave, defeated Dai Shan, the biggest rival for the throne, and after he took over as Dajin Khan, he buried the other concubine of the old slave who was ordered by him to expose the matter, and destroyed the last hidden danger. In terms of intelligence and means, Huang Taiji is well deserved.
Mang Gurtai's surname is grumpy, last year was provoked by Huang Taiji, and did the matter of pulling out a knife in front of the emperor, although Dai Shan helped and kept the status of Da Baylor, but this suppression still caused his prestige to be greatly reduced, Huang Taiji was fair, in fact, his mind was very vicious, and he scolded everyone indiscriminately, and pulled out the matter that Mang Gurtai wanted to kill his mother Fucha in his early years, and he was bent on reducing Mang Gurtai's character to a negative number. This year, after Huang Taiji made six parts, he made a literary museum, sealed a lot of Han officials, and learned from the Ming State to do the sparse set, and recently there were Han officials who asked the other two Baylors to no longer sit with the Great Khan, Mang Gurtai naturally knew who was instructing, and the resentment in his heart was even deeper.
This rescue Fuzhou, Mang Gurtai yesterday got the news of the landing of the Ming army, the Ming army's repeated movements actually attracted Yue Tuo's attention, he repeatedly sent orders from Shenyang, requiring Gaizhou people and horses to move south in turn, especially the infantry-based Tianyou Army and Wuzhen Chaoha, and personally went to Gaizhou, Yue Tuo is very shrewd, and more kind to relatives, the last time he punished Mang Gurtai, he did not fall into the well, so Mang Gurtai still read him well, and moved the people and horses forward for a distance.
There are many post stations and military forts along the way from Fuzhou to Gaizhou, all of which were left by the Ming Dynasty in the past, which were originally deserted, but after Jinzhou was occupied, Huang Taiji wanted to restore the defense capability between the covers, and these small military forts could provide the convenience of internal operations.
He was a veteran of the battlefield, and his movements were too conspicuous, making only a small number of transfers at a time, and scattering his troops in various forts, focusing on the area between Yongning Jian and Xiongyueyi, Yongning Jian was already fifty miles north of Fuzhou, and the Ming army's sentinel activities there were greatly restricted.
This transfer has just been completed, and he strengthened the anti-reconnaissance of the rangers, and the sentinels in Dengzhou did not find it in time, so Mang Gurtai is actually not as far away from Fuzhou as Dengzhou Town, and when the army appeared on the official road, Mang Gurtai released a large number of sentry horses to cut off the passage to the south, and the sentinels hidden in the mountains and forests of the Ming army were unable to rush to the front to report.
When receiving the report that the Ming army occupied the Fuzhou River crossing, Mang Gurtai was close to Fuzhou, he originally wanted to give Dolgon, the little brother, a lesson, and dragged on to take Fuzhou's Hongyi cannon together, but Tobo Hui resolutely opposed, and has been urging a rapid advance, with this person here, Mang Gurtai can not do too obviously, can only give up the plan to bring the Hongyi cannon, but insisted on waiting for Wuzhen Chaoha and other infantry, dragging forward at the speed of the infantry, but it always came to it.
After hearing this, Tuo Bohui frowned, there were many empty horses running out of the battlefield in front, and some rout soldiers on horseback were running for their lives, and the people on the battlefield in the south shouted that the horses were neighing, and the cavalry rushed around, turning into a pot of porridge. But near the crossing of the Fuzhou River, there are four squares, two in front and two in the back, forming a square, just guarding the ferry. From his point of view, there were many spears and a tight formation.
Zhenglan Banner only has about 20 Niu Lu, in the previous battles by this Denglai soldiers repeatedly beaten, the loss is not small, the supplementary Shengnuzhen can not be compared with the veteran for the time being, the strength is actually declining, and now he has to fight against the Denglai soldiers, he also has a little drum in his heart, but Dolgon's banner is still swimming in the south, and it is not possible to save it.
The west side of the Ming army has been vacated, it is easy to rescue Dolgon, only need to send cavalry to rush over to respond, but whether to continue to fight with the Ming army, he can't make up his mind, now Dolgon is obviously suffering heavy losses, if the Ming army is allowed to go away, when the emperor Taiji comes back to be held responsible, he will not have good fruit to eat.
Behind him, this time they brought 900 armor soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner, nearly 100 people from Bayala, and more than 1,000 people from the Tianyou Army and Wuzhen Chaoha, among which Wuzhen Chaoha was all bird soldiers, and was equipped with a smooth knife, which was similar to the equipment of the original Wendeng battalion, but their bird guns were all old goods, and they had little maintenance before, and the quality was not very reliable.
The Tianyou Army has spears, bird guns, three-eyed guns, and short soldiers, and Huang Taiji asked Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng to refer to Wendeng to train their troops, and the two tossed for several months, and they don't know what the effect is.
No matter how much Tuo Bohui is in awe of Huang Taiji, he must also give priority to his own losses, after all, strength is the foundation of a qiē, Denglai Bing has proved his qualifications to be a strong army many times, and he has to have some scruples, especially with the ready-made negative teaching material of Dolgon in front of him.
Tuo Bohui remained silent, and first whispered to Mang Gultai: "Sanbeile, how should we set up the formation?" ”
Mang Gurtai has been fighting for decades, and the situation can be clear at a glance, and the horizontal flesh on his face twitched and said: "The Ming army in the south still has a few miles to go, and those cavalry in Nikan are already in chaos, let's use cavalry to have more advantage, you take fifty bayala and seven hundred horse armor, go to the west to bypass those infantry formations, go to the rear first to rescue the little fourteen, drive Nikan's cavalry away, and then disturb the infantry formation from the south, don't let them approach lightly." ”
Tobo Hui knew that this was a good plan, the Ming infantry formed a group, there was no mobility, the west side was already vacant, it could be passed lightly, and the cutting-edge cavalry entered the rear formation, and there was no problem in driving away the Ming cavalry, and then you could use the rangers to disturb the infantry behind them, forcing them to slow down, and achieve the effect of temporarily cutting off the two infantry of the Ming army.
He rolled his eyes and asked, "Master, the white flag has suffered heavy losses, if we let Nikan go, will the Great Khan blame us for our poor rescue?" ”
Mang Gurtai's face was unruly, and he squinted his eyes at Tobo Hui, "Who said that Lao Tzu wants to let them go, I will let you drag the Nikan in the south, that is, to destroy the barbarians of the ferry, as long as the ferry is recaptured, the east and the south Nikan will be cut off. ”
Tuo Bohui was surprised: "Master, you only have more than 200 armor soldiers left, how can you attack that step formation?" ”
"My soldiers and horses have all gone to save Little Fourteen, so naturally I can only use them." Mang Gurtai pointed to the two Han troops next to him, and his face showed a hint of triumph.
(To be continued)