Chapter 270: Good News (Second Update)
Just when Abatai was in a trance, the defeated Zarqi also rode his horse to his side, and said to him anxiously: "Lord Belle, the Ming army is coming, let's leave quickly, otherwise it will be too late!" ”
Seeing the slanted armor of Zarqi, Abatai shouted sharply: "What are you panicking, we still have more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in our hands who have not moved, if Ming Gou comes, let them see how powerful our blue flag warriors are!" ”
"Useless Lord Belle, there are too many Ming troops, we can't stop it!" Seeing that Abatai was still unwilling to fail, and at this time the army of the Ming army had already caught up, Zarqi was anxious, and immediately shouted to Goshha beside Abatai: "What are you dog minions still doing in a daze, immediately escort Lord Belle to withdraw to this formation, otherwise it will be too late!" ”
Goshha, who was beside Abatai, also knew that the matter was urgent, and more than a dozen horsemen rushed up to defeat Abatai towards Azig's main formation. Seeing that Abatai had evacuated, Zarqi and Chang Adai looked at each other and laughed miserably, leading the remaining more than 2,000 remnants to meet the pursuers behind......
Abatai's defeat not only pleased Lu Xiangsheng and the generals of the Ming army, but also made Azig angry.
You must know that since the Jurchen started the army, the Ming Dynasty has always won more with less and rarely lost, although he has suffered a lot of losses in Yueyang in recent years, but for Azig it is only heard, sometimes he even secretly laughs at the incompetence of Dolgon and Yue Tuo and others in his heart, but when this kind of thing is his turn, Azig is still shocked.
It is true that just now he let Abatai fight with the intention of letting him suffer a loss, not to be so domineering, but he never thought of borrowing Abatai's hand to greatly consume the strength of the blue flag, you must know that the population of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is so much, and if you die, there will be one less, unlike the Ming Dynasty, even if there are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded, as long as there is silver, it can be replenished at any time. This is a matter of life and death for the Manchurians, he will not joke about this kind of thing, and Abatai is no longer liked by Huang Taiji. He is also the son of Nurhachi, who is the Belle of the Qing Dynasty, and if he dies here in battle, he will definitely not be able to eat and walk around as the commander of this expedition.
Seeing that Abatai's troops were defeated and retreated, Azig immediately said loudly without thinking: "Yanguli, you immediately bring five thousand warriors to bring Rao Yu Belle back, and you must not let him make any mistakes!" ”
"Huh!"
As a veteran of the battlefield, Yanguli naturally knew the urgency of the matter at this time, and left immediately after answering the call. Looking at the figure of Yanguli leaving, Azig's brows furrowed tightly, just the day before yesterday. He also always thought that the southern invasion was very smooth, not only Shun Lì captured the important town of Changping, but also plundered more than 100,000 people and a large amount of grain, grass and gold and silver property, just when he was raising full ambition to force the Ming Dynasty Jinggi and march to Shandong, but in the small place of Liangxiang was knocked with a stick, straight to the eye.
"It's this Yue Yang again!" Looking at the Ming army standing there like a pillar in front of him, Azig only felt a little itchy at the root of his teeth.
Azig's expression was also seen by Engetu and Buyandai on the side, and the hearts of the two of them were as if they had drunk a big bowl of sour plum soup in Dafutian, how refreshing it was. Especially Buyandai. When Azig ordered him to be killed just now, he was really frightened, but fortunately, Yanguli came out to intercede, and he saved a small life. Now seeing that Abatai was beaten miserably by the Ming army, he felt an indescribable joy in his heart, and secretly muttered in his heart: "Let you look down on our Mongolian warriors, don't you boast of being brave?" Why was he beaten so badly. Let's see if you dare to sè in front of me this time. ”
However, while gloating, Buyandai was also secretly reminding himself in his heart that if he encountered this Ming army in the future, he would have to run as far as he could. You must not fight with them, and Abatai's fate today is a lesson from the past.
Abatai led the Blue Banner to retreat after several hardships, and after two quarters of an hour, Engetu and Byandet also led the remaining remnants of the Blue Banner to retreat one after another, and Abatai was stunned after counting the men. In the battle just now, more than 1,000 of his 3,000 cavalry only came back, more than 1,300 of his 2,000 archers were lost, and less than 800 of his 2,000 pikemen remained, which means that his elite with blue flags was basically disabled in this battle just now. That is the essence of the whole flag, and after this battle, seeing the banner of Yueyang of the Ming Kingdom, these people are afraid that they will flee in despair. Fortunately, Yanguli arrived just now and drove away the Ming cavalry who came to pursue in time, and just now there were 1,000 heavy cavalry in his banner, as well as his own 200 Bayala personal soldiers did not participate in the battle, otherwise the loss would have been even greater.
"Fourteenth brother, the seventh brother regrets not listening to you!"
Looking at the men and horses with heavy losses, Abatai beat his chest and his heart was like a knife.
Not to mention that Abatai's heart was like a knife, and Azig on the side was also silent with a sinking face. He could clearly see the battle just now, and this Yingzhou army was indeed as sharp as Dolgon and Yue Tuo had described. However, now Azig believes that Dolgon and Yue Tuo clearly underestimated Yue Yang and his Yingzhou army, which was even more terrifying than they had described!
"King Doro, what should we do, do we still want to fight?" Yanguli on the side looked at the five or six thousand Ming cavalry who were still hovering in front of his phalanx, and asked Azig in a low voice.
Azig clenched his teeth and stared at the Ming army in front of him. From the banner of the Ming army in front of him, he has already recognized that there are three Ming armies, one is Hu Dawei of Xuanda Town, and the other two are Wu Sangui and He Kegang of Liaodong Town, for these three people Azig has still heard of it, if it were a change of the past, these three people might as well be in his eyes, as long as he gave him three thousand fine horses, he would be sure to defeat them, but today he is sitting on an army of seventy or eighty thousand, and he even let people be bullied in front of the door and dare not fight, which is really a great shame.
Azig looked ahead with a grim face, and on several occasions he wanted to command the entire army to kill them all and annihilate them all in one go. To tell the truth, if you don't count the losses, he is still sure that he will annihilate the Ming army in front of him and the Yingzhou army led by Yue Yang, after all, seventy or eighty thousand horses will be consumed and killed as soon as they rush up. But he didn't dare, the population of the Qing Dynasty was too small. Today's Qing Dynasty has a population of only 6 or 700,000, and although the Qing Dynasty implements the policy of all people being soldiers, the total number of troops in the whole country is only 1780,000.
The troops he brought with him this southern invasion have accounted for half of the national strength of the Qing Dynasty, if there is any mistake, then it will be a disaster for the Qing Dynasty that is almost ruined, and the consequences are unimaginable, it is likely to bring a chain reaction, those restless Koreans, Mongols and the soldiers and horses of the Ming Kingdom Liaodong Town are likely to pounce fiercely, and Azig will shudder as long as he thinks about it.
In the main formation of the Ming army, Yang Guozhu, Wang Pu, Tang Tong, and the generals of Liaodong Town, who were standing beside Lu Xiangsheng, were stunned.
Yang Tinglin, Lu Xiangsheng's praise painting and staff member, stood behind Lu Xiangsheng and muttered: "This Yingzhou army in Yueyang is really sharp, and it is worthy of its reputation...... Well deserved the name! ”
Wang Pu also grew his mouth, and he didn't even notice that saliva was flowing out, he also saw the battle just now, he was sure that if he had changed himself to fight like this with the Manchu soldiers and horses with the same strength, he would definitely not be able to last half an hour and collapse.
Yang Guozhu also looked pensive, he is the chief soldier of Xuanda Town, and Yue Yang is the general of the North Road, so it stands to reason that he should be in charge, but Yue Yang is too strong, so it is necessary for him to reconsider his relationship with him in the future.
Not to mention the generals of Xuanda Town, those Liaodong generals were also dumbfounded, they who belonged to Liaodong Town had the most dealings with the Qing soldiers, how could they have seen such an easy victory, not to mention that this was still the regular elite of the Qing soldiers.
Lu Xiangsheng was excited, he saw hope and victory from the battle just now. At this time, Lu Xiangsheng also saw that the seven or eight thousand cavalry of Wu Sangui and the three of them were wandering in front of the Qing army to look for fighters, the blood in his heart instantly boiled, and he pulled out the sword on his waist and shouted: "Soldiers, the shame of the snow is in the present day, all the horses immediately go forward to pursue, kill!" ”
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On June 25, the ninth year of Chongzhen, the 100,000 Qing soldiers led by Azig and the Ming army led by Lu Xiangsheng launched an unprecedented battle in Liangxiang, in which both sides suffered heavy losses, and Lu Xiangsheng's troops annihilated more than 15,000 Qing troops at the cost of losing more than 8,000 people, and achieved an unprecedented victory.
Azig retreated until Changping, Lu Xiangsheng led his troops to pursue all the way, with more than 50,000 troops and Changping's 80,000 Qing soldiers confronted, during which the two sides fought several battles, each with a victory.
In the days that followed, reinforcements from the Ming army rushed to hear the news, and the size of the Ming army became larger and larger, and as of June 30, the size of the Ming army still exceeded that of the Qing army to 130,000.
Seeing that he could no longer consume it, Azig led his troops to withdraw from Changping to Bohai on the night of July 1, and most of the baggage in the army, as well as the plundered people and wealth, were also abandoned by him.
On the sixth day of July in the ninth year of Chongzhen, a cavalryman with a small red flag on his back rode a war horse and galloped through the streets of Beijing...... Changping Victory...... Lu Duchen led the army and Changping to victory, drove Jiannu out of the pass, and beheaded him! ”
In the Warm Fragrance Pavilion, Chongzhen looked at the good news in his hand, and tears finally burst out of his eyes...... (To be continued......)