Chapter 710: Huaiyang
The visible field of vision goes from five hundred steps to fifty steps to five steps,
The iron cannons of the Ming army are still roaring, like a pack of tireless tigers.
"Is this the firearms army of Fengqin, like thousands of tireless tigers" Zilharang immediately looked into the distance, "Ao worship this stupid man, aren't you pulling me into the pit"
He didn't fight a few battles, and in the past he often followed Huang Taiji to deal with court affairs. At that time, the Eight Banners were not harmonious, and he stood firmly by Huang Taiji's side, and he lost Mang Gurtai and Amin, and forced Dai Shan to retreat. Later, when Dorgon was aggressive, he also agreed to take a step back from the two yellow flags and send the throne of the Qing Dynasty to Fulin.
"Lord Regent, why did you send me to fight?" said Zilharang, with resentment in his heart. He came to Huaiyang to suppress the strong soldiers of the Two Yellow Banners, and Dolgon trusted him that he would never let the Qing Dynasty split.
A horse galloped over: "Lord Qiqi, the Aobai army has been dispersed, and only a few thousand horsemen have retreated. ”
"What about that idiot?"
"I didn't see Aobai, but I heard a soldier who fled back say that he was hit by an iron cannon and died on the battlefield"
Zilharang was furious: "Then bring his body back, he is my Baturu of the Qing Dynasty" "Baturu of the Qing Dynasty" He shook his head and sighed deeply in his heart.
The guard said: "The slave asked ......, and the soldier said that he was hit by the iron cannon of the Ming army, and the corpse was ......" His voice slowly lowered.
"No bones?" Zilharan picked up his words.
He couldn't blame Ao Bai anymore. What reason did he have to blame a dead man, a Baturu who died in the battle for the Qing Dynasty.
"The herald ordered Bolo and Li Chengdong to withdraw their troops, and this king is here to answer"
The guards hurried away.
I don't know who lit the first torch in the vague field. The Feng Qin army was still advancing, and they persistently walked in the direction of Zilharang. The sound of artillery was much sparser, and only when they heard movement ahead, the Ming army would shoot a few direct-fire guns to explore the way.
The moonlight spread like a layer of mercury on the ground, allowing the soldiers to avoid the bones beneath their feet.
Seven or eight miles away, there was a long sound of bull's horns.
The soldiers and horses on the left and right wings of the Qing Dynasty gradually got rid of the battlefield, Li Chengdong and Bo Luo each left 3,000 cavalry behind, and the main force fought and retreated.
"Zilharang won't be coming," Feng Qin was a little disappointed.
This was not the time he had envisioned for a decisive battle, so that he did not have a chance to vent the shells on the heads of the main forces of the Qing captives.
"Order, order all departments to light torches, see the position of our Chinese army, and slowly advance" When the herald was about to leave, Feng Qin added: "The cavalry of the Qing Dynasty comes and goes quickly, and all departments must not rush forward"
Two huge teams march one after the other in the summer night.
The sound of iron cannons stopped, and so did the sound of guns, and Zilharang watched as the Ming army approached Huai'an City. Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow at the latest, the head of Huai'an city should usher in cannonballs, and the head of the city must be strengthened tonight.
At about midnight, Feng Qin marked the location according to the terrain and ordered the army to stop marching and camp on the spot. In order to prevent the Qing cavalry from sneaking up at night, the Ming army collected the Wuhan Iron and Steel vehicles on the battlefield, reconnected them, and placed them on the periphery as the first layer of defense.
The government soldiers dug trenches overnight and arranged bamboo sticks, iron thistles and horse rejection arrays.
Around the hour, the noise of the Ming army's camp slowly subsided.
In the dark night, the various departments did not have time to count the results of the battle, so they ordered the messenger to go to Yangzhou first to report the victory, and only tomorrow did they send the detailed battle report to the regent.
The night was peaceful, and the Qing captives did not dare to come to attack. Ao worshiped the halberd, the strongest cavalry of the Eight Banners was wiped out, and where did Zilharang still have the courage to fight again.
Feng Qin took off his armor and lay crookedly in the big tent for two hours, and there was already a faint light in the east.
The sun is a foot high.
Ao Bai lay on a stretcher made of two ash guns and a rag. His eyes were closed, and his burly body swayed to the rhythm of the soldiers walking in front and behind.
He confirmed that his leg was broken and that he could not lift both legs. He couldn't feel the bones, as if only a layer of skin was left together.
He didn't know that the Ming soldiers were going to carry him there, and he heard that the Ming army would kill the Jurchen prisoners and behead them in a centralized manner, leaving no one alive. He wasn't afraid of death, but he still felt that he still had a lot to do.
"General Qiyu, Ao Bai brings"
He felt the two men put themselves on the ground.
A very soft voice came into his ears: "Aobai, open your eyes"
It wasn't the voice of a warrior, it was like a Han man who liked to moan without illness. Ao Bai opened his eyes in curiosity, and he saw a large tent, with a dozen respectful-looking generals standing on both sides, and an emaciated general sitting on the main seat in the center opposite.
He was not tall, his shoulders were thin, he did not wear a helmet, his bun was neatly pulled behind his head, and he was wearing an off-white cloth robe, which looked a little old and had obvious traces of washing. He was looking at himself, but seemed a little absent-minded.
"General Feng?" Ao Bai was not sure, he didn't believe that this was Feng Qin, this was the Ming General who defeated him.
Such Han people will not be inconspicuous when thrown into a bunch of people.
"Aobai, you are defeated" Feng Qin felt bored to ask this sentence. He brought Ao Bai over to show the lieutenant generals of the general army and boost the prestige of the army.
"Yes, if I lose, I will kill or chop, whatever you want" Ao Bai will not be soft. He's the kind of guy who doesn't frown when a knife is put on his neck.
"I won't kill you, the regent will dispose of you" Feng Qin's answer was a little wooden.
Ao Bai couldn't believe that the army that fired such a heavy artillery fire was brought out by such a person.
He was unwilling to think: "If I have the iron cannon of the Ming army, I can also run rampant in the world" Unfortunately, those will always be one idea.
All the generals in the big tent were elated, only Li Zhi'an stood like a poplar tree on the left side of Fengqin, and his eyes did not squint. He didn't want to look at Aobai, he was Aobai's defeated subordinate.
"Lift it down," Feng Qin waved his hand.
The two soldiers carried Ao Bai out of the big tent, and the atmosphere inside was even more lively.
"The first warrior of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was also captured by us," Yuan Qizhou was happy. According to today's statistics, he lost the most soldiers of the four general soldiers, but he also beheaded the most prisoners, and he was given a credit for his work.
"A small victory in the field is nothing, and the city will be attacked from tomorrow. Don't relax your guard when you go back, don't let the Qing Lu find an opportunity."
There is nothing new in this sentence, and the generals know that the military discussion is coming to an end. Fighting with this wooden-like general is a lot less fun, but when it comes to the most critical moment, just like when Aobai attacked Li Zhi'an's army yesterday, they will not panic when they look back and see the banner of Fengqin's army standing there.
Feng Qin said: "The big camp has just been established, and the affairs in the army are busy, you go back, I will go to patrol the camp in the afternoon."
"Obey orders" More than a dozen generals spoke loudly. They exchanged glances with each other, and Yuan Qizhou directly bared his teeth, all thanks to Feng Qin's last sentence.
The camp they set up, no matter how neat it is, there is a problem in Feng Qin's eyes.
Feng Qin has never been a coach who is good at motivating soldiers to fight. He is like a strict craftsman, assembling all the troops and horses and all kinds of troops into a whole, and he even has fixed requirements for the depth and width of the horse traps dug by each department. As long as the ministries acted according to his orders, the large battalion of the Ming army was invulnerable.
Two days later, the Ming army set up an artillery array outside Huai'an City, which was not a small iron cannon in the Fengqin army, but a really huge and heavy Hongyi cannon, and the iron ball blasted out was bigger than a head.
The Qing cavalry never attacked. Although it was nightfall, they all saw the power of Fengqin's artillery fire. Ao Bai coerced Yu Wei to defeat Yu Wei, and when facing the Feng Qin army, it was like throwing a stone into the stream, and there was no trace after a splash.
In the Huaiyang army, who else dares to claim that this army is stronger than the Aobai army?
Jierharang stood at the head of Huai'an City, looking at the busy artillery positions outside the city with a clairvoyant mirror. The Han people shouted the trumpet to lift the thousands of catties of giant cannons to a high place, and the gunners gestured with both hands to direct the people to adjust the angle of the cannons.
"Open the gun"
The cannon at the head of Huai'an City rang out, which was destined to be useless, and the only effect was to delay the Ming army's arrangement of artillery arrays. But when the Ming army arranged the artillery array, these defensive cannons at the head of the city were no different from a pile of broken copper and iron.
"When will my Qing Dynasty have to rely on defending the city to compete with the Ming army" Zierharang felt a burst of sadness in his heart, "Maybe Aobai is right, we can't hold the land in the pass"
He remembered the night's artillery fire, how much gunpowder, lead, and shells had to be spent on the bombardment for so long. He left Beijing for less than two months and knew many inside stories of the government.
The Qing Dynasty fought wars year after year, and countless military salaries, money and food were consumed. However, the various banners of Belle Beizi occupied many granges in Gyeonggi and Shandong, and did not pay taxes. Others, such as Henan and Shanxi, are all places where bandits are abundant and poor. Zuo Ruo made a fuss in Shaanxi, not to mention taxation, and he had to post money inside.
This is also why many people are willing to give up Henan and Shaanxi to negotiate peace with the Ming court.
Before coming to Huaiyang, Zilharang was not so pessimistic, and he did not agree with the opinions of the radical soldiers in the two yellow flags. But after seeing Aobai being defeated in the battle, he felt that he had been wrong in the past.
Of course, Ao Bai didn't know that his defeat had caused the wavering Zilharang to change his mind, but he didn't have the opportunity to seek conspiracy with Zilharang now.
After three days, he was able to lift his legs slightly better and take two steps with a club.
The Ming army captured more than 1,000 prisoners, and he was not in the prisoner camp and was held in solitary confinement. He had his own small tent, which was small, damp, and not ventilated, but it was a small tent of his own.
There were ten guards at the door of the tent, and a new group of men changed every two hours.
He sat on the bare dirt in his tent and spent a lot of time thinking about the situation in the city and his future. What will Su Quanquan and Sony think when they hear that they have been defeated?
Someone lifted the curtain of the dirty tent door, and a tall man walked in. He wore a robe made of densely knitted brocade, rich and smooth, without pleats when bowed, and embroidered with floral flowers at the place of his chest.
"Worship?"
Ao Bai glared at the bull's eye: "Are you going to kill me?" He saw that this man was richly dressed and not angry, and thought that he had not seen him in the military tent that day, and asked curiously, "Who are you?" ”
"...... me?" The person who came was confused for a moment, and no one asked him who he was for a long time, "I'm Zhai Zhe"
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