568.The Battle of the Qing Dynasty (7)
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The result of the re-battle and defeat made the two Manchu iron hats thunder, and they even doubted the combat strength of the Mongol soldiers, if it were not for the Qing court's lack of strength, otherwise they would have driven the Mongols back to the grassland to chant scriptures and worship the Buddha.
The nobles of the Eight Banners were disgruntled, and the Mongol princes were even more depressed, they even decided that they would never be able to take Xiaoqi and Gu'an City, and even the lamas who accompanied the army also propagated that this place was unlucky for the Mongols and should not be treated for a long time.
It's just that the reward of 500,000 taels is still hanging there, and the Qing court does not allow the Mongols to withdraw now, so whether they are dissatisfied or discouraged, in the end, the two sides still decide to attack again, and they use the method of driving away the people and using the lives of the people to open the way for the Mongol army.
With his mind set, Marhun wanted to get the Mongol army into action. But because of the middle of the trip to Zhuozhou, now the whole day is almost dark, at this time to divide the troops to go to the surrounding counties, just afraid that they will be turned away, even if they are deceived to open the door again, it is not easy to drive out the people of a city to march, you must know, in case the people find an opportunity to run into the field, then it can no longer be retracted, and I have to wait for tomorrow daylight.
Knowing that a delay would give them one less chance, Yarjianga and Marhun were anxious in their hearts, but on the surface, they had to pretend to be disapproving to appease the army. Fortunately, a little later, they got the good news that the artillery team of the foreign firearms battalion that was pulling on the way was in contact, and if they traveled day and night, they would be able to rush to the front line of Gu'an tomorrow morning.
This is indeed good news, the reason why the Xia army was able to hold on was nothing more than the sharpness of the firearms, and although the Shenwei General Cannon equipped by the Qing Army's outer firearms battalion was not as powerful as the Wucheng Yonggu General possessed by the internal firearms battalion, it still had a great advantage over the Xia Army's 11-minute guns, which had only two-thirds of its caliber, and the eight-minute guns with smaller calibers.
As long as the Xia artillery was suppressed, no matter how weak the Mongol army's combat power was, it would be able to climb the wall almost unscathed, and the balance of victory and defeat would obviously be more in favor of the Mongols who had greatly boosted their morale and decided to retaliate; And as long as Xiaoqi is taken, then the capture of Gu'an City is no longer a fantasy; When the lone division of the Xia army on the front line of Gu'an is completely eliminated, then not only will Beijing be safe, but the initiative of the entire battlefield will also return to the hands of the Qing court.
Thinking of the wonders, the two iron hat kings couldn't help but be overjoyed, Yarjianga also asked the Mongolian prince for two good-looking Zhuozhou women to put out the fire, but Marhun always felt a little unsteady in his heart, so he personally inspected the vigilance of the camp, so as not to be disturbed by the small force of the Xia army at night.
Malhun's fears were justified, and the Xia cavalry that he and Yarjianga feared had already arrived in Cangzhou and were rushing to Gu'an overnight. What, people can't bear to run down overnight? As one of the assessment items, the Xia cavalry had long learned to sleep on horses, and as for the horses, the Xia army had already achieved one person, two horses or even three horses, so that the Mongolian horses on the load were exhausted, and there were more majestic mixed-breed war horses for galloping on the battlefield??????
Therefore, when Yarjianga and Marhun woke up, they realized that things had changed -- at the same time as they received the news that the artillery team of the foreign firearms battalion had entered the camp, the horses from all walks of life who had been released from afar reported the arrival of the cavalry brigade of the Xia army.
It's late, it's late, and the two of them, who are almost about to jump, know that they still haven't escaped the trap set by Huaxia.
In this case, let's fight to the death, the Mongols can't attack the city, but the cavalry battle is still unparalleled in the world.
The nobles of the Eight Banners still had such confidence, and the Mongol princes also thought of using cavalry warfare to wash away the bad luck of the siege failure, so the two sides hit it off and decided to fight a classic cavalry confrontation in the field.
At the end of the afternoon of August 11 in the 14th year of Wucheng in China and the 51st year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, the Mongol army, which was waiting for work, and the iron cavalry army and hussar army of the Xia army, which had only taken a slight rest, lined up in the area of Taowozi and Gujiabao in the southwest of Gu'an.
At this time, the Mongolian army still had 55,000 casualties, and the five cavalry divisions of the Xia army were also 55,000, and it seemed that the two sides were evenly matched, but the Xia army had to deduct the middle base, baggage and other troops, and the actual number of troops participating in the battle was more than 43,000, so in fact, there was a situation in which the Xia army fought more and fought less. Fortunately, the cavalry units of the Xia army were equipped with a large number of artillery, although the caliber was inferior to the Shenwei general cannon of the Qing army, but the number of 220 artillery pieces in total far overwhelmed the Qing army's only ten cannons, and once the war started, it was enough to put the Mongolian army in a sea of fire.
For the artillery placed in front of the Xia army, the Manchurian and Mongolian high-level also had a headache, and they couldn't imagine how the Xia army brought such a large number of artillery all the way. It's just that if you can't figure it out, you have to fight, otherwise after waiting for a night, the Mongol army will not have the advantage of waiting for work. What's more, in the eyes of the Mongol army, no matter how fast the Xia army's artillery fires, it may not be able to put a few more cannons, as long as it is approaching, the final decision is still the saber and bow in the hand.
At the beginning of the day, in addition to the 5,000 Chinese army guards, the rest of the Mongolian army was divided into 50,000 brigades and slowly pressed on.
As in the previous situation when the Xia army was defending the city, the Xia army gunners did not shoot far away, knowing that the Mongol soldiers began to slowly raise their horses, and the Xia army was able to shoot a round of dense artillery fire. But something surprising to the Mongols happened, after the Xia army finished shooting, instead of reloading, they hung the artillery on the horses and quickly retreated to the reserved passages on both sides, leaving only their backs to the Mongols who were not sure whether they should pursue or not.
Dispersing the pursuit meant that the formation was chaotic, and it meant that the rear formation would inevitably slow down the horses, so after weighing for a moment, the Mongol commanders at all levels, who were only a little frightened and did not lose much of their men, gave up the intention of pursuit, and continued to point directly at the Xia army brigade, which had also begun to increase. It's just that some Mongolians are not popular, and they shot arrows in their hands at the back of Xia Jun, but they were all loudly reprimanded by the princes and Taiji.
Approaching, almost at the same time, the two sides were getting closer and closer, and the Mongol soldiers in the front row had already begun to turn sideways, and then returned to the dense formation of the Xia army and shot the bows and arrows in their hands. However, the Xia army still rushed towards the Mongolian army in a horizontal formation despite casualties. This strange formation reminded some well-informed princes of what had happened to the Erut and Tumut banners, who had laughed at their own people for being damn and losing their ability to fight on horseback, and now it was clear that they were going to try the power of the Xia army's charge.
The second and third platoons of the Mongol army continued to turn and shoot arrows, and the fourth platoon also began to shoot directly into the sky above the Xia army, but the Xia army, which suffered heavy casualties, did not decrease, and immediately rushed directly into the Mongolian army's array.
The Mongolian soldiers fought with their swords, but the front row of the Xia army raised a three-eyed handgun and fired a volley, and the Mongols were caught off guard and were immediately knocked down by a series of firearms. The Xia army immediately picked up the three-eyed handcuff and threw it at the current Mongolian soldiers, and the Mongolian soldiers also took out flying knives, flying axes and other flying hidden weapons and threw them over, so they crackled and caused countless people to fall off their horses - falling off their horses in large-scale cavalry battles naturally means that they are either dead or wounded, and the two sides who are charging can't take care that you may be your own people and need to dodge, so unless you have peerless magic skills or are lucky, you can't escape the fate of being trampled on by the passing horses or simply kicking them away.
It was only a matter of a moment to smash each other's weapons, and the two sides collided together in the blink of an eye, and at this time, if there were careful Mongol soldiers, the first row of the Xia army, which seemed to be much thinner, had been filled up by latecomers before the battle. However, more Mongol soldiers didn't care about this detail anymore, and they just instinctively waved their weapons.
Then, the Mongol soldiers were tragic. The military horses used by the Xia army in the cavalry were seven or eight hundred pounds of mixed horses, which were originally a head taller than the Mongolian horses ridden by the Mongols. Don't look at this subtle difference, this means that the Xia army can slash downward, and the Mongol soldiers can only slash upward, and the slash is of course more powerful than the slash. And what made the Mongolian soldiers even more frightened was that the saber that they slashed at the Xia army was obviously not framed, but they couldn't cut the opponent, but the opponent's sharp blade that slashed at them was obviously blocked, but they were stabbed.
Of course, the collision between the two sides continued, and more of the Mongolian soldiers in the back did not feel the pressure in the front row, and felt that the victory was in hand because the Xia army in the front row lost its impact. It's just that someone finally showed up that something was wrong, in the melee, the Xia army fought more and more, and the Mongolian soldiers who fought separately were not opponents at all, and soon the formation became thinner.
"There are ghosts, there are ghosts!" Countless Mongols cried out, and they still had some fighting spirit, but at this moment they just wanted to escape from the unlucky place that the lama said. "The Xia people have invited the devil to kill all the Mongols here." The Mongolian army who cried for his father and mother only knew how to turn the horse's head and escape, but they didn't know that they would sell their backs to the Xia army, so they would die faster. "Escape, if you don't escape, you won't be able to go back to the grassland??????"
The Manchurian nobles who watched the battle opened their mouths wide and looked at the scene of the Mongolian army being chased and killed by the Xia army, and after a long time, someone came back to their senses, and without saying a word, they ran away from the horse. Someone took the lead, and the last reserve force used to protect the nobles abandoned their duties and fled one after another. However, the fleeing Manchu and Mongolian nobles should be careful, the sixth division of the Xuanwu Army in Gu'an City and Xiaoqi has been decisively arranged out of the city after the start of the main cavalry battle between the two sides, and it is not known whether these criminal Mongols will be able to escape the interception and pursuit of the avengers at that time.
Not to mention the actions of the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army, the killing on the main battlefield was still going on, and at this time, the cavalry artillery units of the Xia Army also re-entered the battlefield, as long as there were still piles of enemies now, they would be scattered with a bombardment.
Faced with the situation that the group would be broken up and scattered and unable to resist the Xia army's cavalry formation, the Mongols completely collapsed??????
"It's worse than the official imagined." Kuching, the Privy Councillor who commanded the cavalry of the Five Divisions, shook his head as he looked at the battlefield where the overall situation had been decided. "The Mongols are really not as good as the generation of the generation, but they still paid attention to outflanking back then, and there was a Mangu gangster tactic, but now I can't see the fart, I only know how to fight to the death." Speaking of which, Kuching ordered. "Immediately report to the south that the watchdog has been slaughtered and is now ready to enter the house. Bah! Who's the code word, it's too shady ??????"