647 Change of strategy
"Since this dog refuses to obey, it hurts it, and then asks it to bite people!" Huang Taiji clenched the urgent report in his hand, gritted his teeth and stared at the Ming army outside the city, and muttered to himself with hatred. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Listening to the roar of artillery, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he sneered and thought: The artillery bombarded the formation of the Ming army, and the cavalry charged again, according to the previous practice, the Ming army would be defeated. When the time comes, whether to kill or arrest depends on your mood!
But the next moment, Huang Taiji was suddenly dumbfounded. The artillery on the head of the city was fired, but the head was really not flattering.
Tens of thousands of Ming troops outside the city lined up in a tight formation, like a large group of people piled up there. It is said that the distance is not far, and the target is large, so you can hit it with your eyes closed.
But what Huang Taiji saw, when he heard ten cannon shots, his eyes only saw that only two or three shells were ploughed into the formation of the Ming army, causing a few casualties.
However, because there were too few shells hit, the casualties were much lower than expected, and the Ming army quickly regained its calm after a slight panic, and still retreated in an orderly manner.
It was only at this time that Huang Taiji suddenly discovered what it would be like to have teammates like pigs! However, he thought that the surrendered Beijing artillery could not bear to attack the Ming army outside the city and deliberately missed.
Thinking like this, he shouted angrily, and loudly ordered the guards to take the supervision team to supervise the battle, and those who dared not be serious and careful would be killed.
Then, Huang Taiji turned his head to look outside the city, and saw that the cavalry led by Zilharang himself had more than 3,000 people out of the moat and were forming an array. One is preparing to attack the formation, and the other is to cover the follow-up cavalry to continue to assemble outside. As for the Ming army, it was the cavalry that protected the infantry and retreated.
With just a glance, Huang Taiji understood the situation of the entire battlefield. If there is a fight for a while, the Ming army's response must be to respond with cavalry, and only when the infantry army withdraws beyond the artillery range will it use the infantry army to fight.
Seeing this situation clearly, Huang Taiji was a little disdainful in his heart. After all, Hong Chengchou can be regarded as a relatively powerful figure in the Ming army, and he is so arranged, don't you know that the reason why the Ming cavalry has always suffered few losses is because as soon as the war starts, these cavalry are the first to run?
The sound of artillery is much denser, and it should be that the Warlord team has played a role. Huang Taiji was about to see if the Ming army would collapse, but suddenly found that the Qing cavalry was located, and there were also cannonballs plowed. All of a sudden, people turned on their backs, perhaps because they didn't expect this, so that they panicked.
Huang Taiji was a little stunned, and then he was furious, and when he turned his head and swept towards the city, he found that the gunners of two artillery pieces were lying there begging for mercy.
Artillery is a technical branch of the army, which is much more sophisticated than ordinary soldiers. The Jianyu who supervised the war in that place was a little undecided for a while, and subconsciously turned his head, and found that Huang Taiji was looking at this side with an angry face, he immediately stopped hesitating, and with an order, a bunch of heads fell to the ground.
Or they want to make up for their mistakes, and the overseers keep a closer eye on the city and scold harder. Huang Taiji saw it in his eyes, so he turned his head and looked out of the city again.
He remembered that at the end of Chongzhen's second year, the Ming warrior Mangui was injured by the city's artillery under the Jingshi City. However, he didn't care if those gunners just now were really capable or not, or if they did it intentionally, anyway, the cannonballs actually ploughed to the Qing warriors, so he had to taste his life.
Huang Taiji was thinking about it, when suddenly there was a loud noise on the city, and the "boom" was earth-shattering, and then there was a cry of sorrow on the city.
He was startled, and hurriedly poked out again to take a look, but saw that a cannon exploded, and those people around him, whether it was the Ming army who surrendered or the Qing warriors, all fell into pieces.
"Useless stuff!" Huang Taiji shouted angrily. At this time, he suddenly felt that after occupying the capital division, it seemed that everything was not going well.
The treasury has no money and no food, forcing himself to change his intention to let his men rob it; The officials who surrendered did not dare to use it with confidence, and the officials who did not surrender had already been beaten outside; More critically, the Qing Dynasty occupied the Ming Kingdom's Jingshi, but the Qing Dynasty's Shengjing was also in danger; Even in the entire hinterland of Liaodong, the foundation of the Qing Dynasty will be greatly hit.
Thinking like this, Huang Taiji raised his hand to squeeze the urgent report again, his eyebrows furrowed, thinking about the affairs of Liaodong.
The artillery at the head of the city, because of the examples of explosions, inevitably slowed down again. The Ming army outside the city was about to withdraw from the range of the cannon, and the cavalry of Jianyu also began to charge, and the shouts of killing suddenly sounded.
Huang Taiji was called back to his senses by the sound of fighting, and when he paid attention to the situation outside the city again, he was taken aback again.
I saw that when the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty outside the city rushed towards the Ming army, those cavalry of the Ming army went against the habit of the past and even launched a hedge against the Qing cavalry. And it seems that it is also full of momentum, and it looks desperate.
Not long after, after a few rounds on both sides, although the casualties of the Qing warriors were not as many as those of the Ming army, the casualties seemed to be much more than before.
The Ming infantry army had retreated beyond the artillery range, and the sound of artillery on the city no longer sounded, but the sound of gold in the Ming army continued to sound.
When the Ming cavalry heard this, they began to retreat towards the Ming infantry array. And when the Qing cavalry followed, they encountered a rain of arrows from the opposing infantry army.
Huang Taiji thought of Sun Chengzong, an old opponent, and Hong Chengchou, a rising star of the Ming Kingdom, all of whom were old foxes on the battlefield. Now that they have stabilized their position, if the Qing army attacks again, the losses may not be small.
He looked down at the urgent report in his hand, and then looked up at the outside, with a hint of helplessness on his face. However, he was also decisive, and after only a while, he ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.
The Ming army had no intention of fighting again, and when they saw the Jianyu cavalry retreating to the city, they also began to slowly retreat, preparing to withdraw from the battlefield.
What happened in the city today was too sudden and unexpected, whether it was the Ming army or the Jianqing, it needed to be carefully considered.
Huang Taiji thought about the two old foxes Sun Chengzong and Hong Chengchou with a gloomy face, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and immediately gave an order to the guards: "Go, bring the original prince of the Ming Kingdom to me." ”
The sound of footsteps sounded, and Zilharang hurried up and asked a little puzzled: "Your Majesty, why did Mingjin withdraw his troops?" If you let go of this Ming army, I am afraid it will bring trouble to the Qing Dynasty! ”
He thought that Huang Taiji was afraid of too much loss, so he said this to remind Huang Taiji.
"I don't know!" Huang Taiji smiled bitterly and raised the urgent report in his hand, and continued helplessly, "Let them go and find the Tang King, and wait until we stabilize Liaodong, connect with the Jingshi, and integrate the strength before we go to clean them up." ”
Another reason for doing this is that he had already made a decision just now, and he was ready to change his previous strategy in order to resolve the hand left by Emperor Chongzhen before his death.
(To be continued.) )