386. Huguang Ends (I wish book friends a Merry Christmas, and ask for a monthly pass by the way)
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When the families of the Eight Banners of Jingzhou were still digging pits outside Jingmen City to bury people, the Qing and Mongolian coalition forces that fled north in panic had crossed the Barbarian River again. In the face of these nearly 10,000 cavalry, Yue Shenglong, who was stationed in Yicheng, immediately turned a blind eye. Yes, this is nearly 10,000 cavalry, even if the other party is tired, but their own infantry is not more than a multiplier, and a considerable part of them are just captured Northland Green Battalion, the ghost knows if they will fight back, in order to stabilize the period, it is best to avoid its edge, and the prison army sent by Zheng Fan also agrees. Of course, Yue Shenglong did not dare to face the Qing army's brigade, but because of the death of the war horse, the lack of horsepower, the loss of the road and other reasons, he was the one who pulled the banner army behind and stragglers, and he would not let it go
As the saying goes, the Qing army that escaped to the first day of the first month could not escape the fifteenth, and the Qing army, which easily broke through the Manhe River, came to Xiangyang City but was dumbfounded. Xiangyang City, which should still be held in the imagination, has already changed the banner of the city, and this feeling of hope turning into despair suddenly makes the morale that has fallen to the freezing point completely disappear.
What to do? With less than 10,000 troops and no morale, do you want to attack Xiangyang in front of you? But if Xiangyang is not hit, where should these nearly 10,000 horses go? The Qing army, which could not advance or retreat for a while, fell into confusion.
"A few adults," King Pingjun and Zhennan General Nertu, who had already lost nearly ten catties of meat, looked at the people in front of him who were also lost in their souls with godless eyes. "What now?"
After being silent for a long time, Tong Gui said slowly: "Since the sea has captured Xiangyang, the officials and soldiers will inevitably have to pay a great price if they want to figure out the Guò Xiangfan pontoon bridge, and they must worry about the other side of the river again, so now they can only try to go west along the Han River." ”
Everyone was in an uproar, west of Xiangyang is Gucheng, since Zheng Jun captured Xiangyang, how could he only miss the line of Gucheng, Guanghua (Laohekou), and Junzhou (Danjiangkou). If it weren't for the plains of the Gucheng line, then you would definitely have to go to the reckless Wudang Mountains. But one is that the cavalry in the mountains is inconvenient, and the other is that there are sparse people along the way, and there is no party to lead the road and nowhere to supply food, how can the nearly 10,000 troops retreat safely?
So several Mongolian princes on the side shouted loudly, and one shouted: "The emperor asked us to bring the arrows in the banner to fight, not to let the Mongolian heroes climb some deep mountains and old forests." ”
Another young Taiji cried out: "If we bring out the slaves, we will naturally bring them back as well."
Of course, the Manchurian nobles present knew that the Mongols were good knights on the steppe, but if they were asked to climb the mountain, it would be tantamount to taking their lives, and the banner lord Zasak would be forgotten, and their family's great cause would be greatly lost, but the landless princes who participated in the war always had only a few households in the hands of Hamgerg (genus Ding), and how could they be easily damaged in the reckless mountains.
"The road is a little harder, but there is still a way to live, if it is hard?" Tong Gui smiled bitterly and gave a supplementary Jianyi. "The general is a nobleman of the country, if it falls into the hands of the sea rebellion, it will be an insult to the majesty of the court, Lord Zhu is a literary journey, and he can't go to the battlefield, so he chooses more than 100 elite horsemen, escorts them into the mountain, and then goes northwest and enters Shaanxi along the Han River. As for those who remain, then make a bet with Hai Rebellion, so as not to bury the martial name of the ancestors. ”
Ananda, Balhu, and Paris all looked very badly silent, they wanted to run away with Nertu, but Tong Gui's words framed them, and it was not good to mention it again, and it was also said that Tong Gui couldn't go by himself, so he naturally wanted to drag people on Huangquan Road together. However, the Mongolian princes exchanged words and obviously had different opinions.
After the conversation between the Mongol princes came to an end, one of them, the Zarut Left Wing Banner Zasakgu Mountain Beizi Suzartu, spoke to Nartu: "General, we are old, and it doesn't matter if we die here for the glory of Bogda Khan, but these young people still have a long life, so please take them with you later." ”
Since it was so agreed, without further ado, several deputy commanders immediately selected people from their subordinates, of course, under the pretext of selecting a guard for Nertu to charge into battle. However, the ears and eyes have already found out the truth of the matter, so they show their magic and ask the four to be selected. In this regard, the Anandas can only be selected according to their family background, Rao is so, the number still swells to nearly two hundred, plus the original guards of Nartu and the Junqing who must be taken away by the Mongols, the whole team is almost four hundred.
More is more, anyway, the road ahead is long, I don't know if I will encounter a shoal in that section, so a few more people can better protect Nartu. But in this way, the matter was completely exposed, and when these lucky people disappeared from the sight of the brigade with food and food, the rest of the hearts were left with only the resentment of being abandoned.
Although the morale of the army was unstable, everyone knew that there was no way to retreat at the moment, and they could only be put to death and reorganize, so the remaining 5,500 banner soldiers still accepted the order to regroup. Since most of the banner troops that were not horse armors had fallen behind, except for the mixed battalion head of 800 infantry armor, commission armor, gunners and 200 horse armor led by Tong Gui, the rest of the flag soldiers were organized into three cavalry battalions and more than 4,000 Mongolian horse teams to form two formations.
By the time the banner soldiers, who had eaten the last meal, were slowly approaching Xiangyang City with a broken cauldron and sinking the boat, Zheng Jun had already observed the actions of the Qing army, and the three divisions in the south of the Yangtze River and one division in the north of the Yangtze River were successively arranged on the road that the Qing army must pass.
"If you want to go home, rush there!" From the deputy commander, down to the urging and even the ordinary soldiers, the banner army is shouting wildly. "Kill, kill, kill them all like killing all the Jingmen Green Battalion!"
In the tsunami, the Mongolian horse team was the first to rush out, and the rumbling iron hooves were echoed by the more deafening sound of the artillery fired by the Zheng army's divisions. I saw that the cannon hit the horse team, stirring up blood flowers. However, the Mongol soldiers, who had blocked the horse's ears, rushed forward regardless of it, until they collided with the volley of Zheng Jun's volley.
"Hold on! As long as it's fast enough, the firebolt can only be released once. The Mongolian princes wielding sabers shouted loudly, and the Mongolian soldiers who were driven by them to turn on their backs continued to rush straight without tidying up the chaotic formation, but something unexpected happened, clearly remembering that the Qing army could only shoot once in this time, but the Zheng army had a good time to fire a salvo again, so that the Mongolian soldiers' charge was suddenly stagnant.
However, Zheng Jun's side was not comfortable, so the distance was already very close, and the bows and arrows fired by the Mongol soldiers also caused considerable casualties. Seeing that the Mongolian horse team was approaching, there was a roar in the Zheng army, and the Zheng army formed more than ten hollow phalanxes with the regiment as a unit. Faced with the hedgehog-like gun array on the periphery, the Mongol soldiers encountered the same confusion as their fellow tribes who went out to Korea—the war horses under their crotches subconsciously dodged, so that they were overwhelmed by the heavy losses in the infantry strikes in the inner circle of the Zheng army.
"Don't dwell on it, get through the cracks." Seeing that some Mongol soldiers were still shooting arrows into the phalanx with their guns, veteran cavalry commanders such as Suzartu had already shouted a shout. "Don't fight hard, rush through, rush through."
The so-called is easier said than done, and it is not so easy to bypass Zheng Jun's blocking line. The Mongol soldiers who passed through the gap in the phalanx were quickly cross-shot, and if it weren't for the Manchurian cavalry that arrived later to attract the main attention of the Zheng army, I am afraid that half of the more than 4,000 Mongol horses would have survived. However, even if they passed through the first line of resistance formed by the two divisions of Zheng's army, they would have to penetrate the defense line of Zheng's third division before they could seize the pontoon bridge.
Just as the Mongol soldiers suffered heavy losses and broke through the Zheng army's Henan blocking line, the Qing army's horse team also arrived. Contrary to popular belief, the Qing army, known as the unparalleled cavalry and archery, was actually a dragoon unit. No, the Qing cavalry team that suddenly arrived in front of the Zheng army's formation rolled off their horses when they saw that the horse was slowing down, and they wanted to break into the Zheng army's gun array with a knife and shield to break up the formation, but this was just wishful thinking. In the sound of assassination by the squad leader and the team leader, the spears like poisonous dragons swept over one after another, and immediately killed the bravest of the banner soldiers.
The Mongol soldiers here finally got onto the pontoon bridge, and while the corpses of the Zheng army's naval division were piled up in the artillery fire and shells, the last bit of morale that the banner soldiers had just incited had collapsed. Countless banner troops would rather flee to the west than face the Zheng army again, but they scattered the last reserves in Tong Gui's hands.
"Catch up!" At the sound of an order, Zheng Jun immediately pounced on the already fearless enemy like a tiger in the mountains. Running at the forefront were naturally the horse exploration teams of each division, and they who were originally light cavalry scouts had now turned into invincible knights, cutting down the flag soldiers who only knew how to run with their heads down one by one from behind.
The south bank had reached the end of the pursuit, and the Mongolian horse team finally struggled out of the dead place of the pontoon bridge, but the Mongolian horse team once again collided with the blocking force of Zheng Jun's Jiangbei. Looking at the slaughtering horizontal array in front of him, several Mongolian princes who had escaped by luck looked like ashes. Yes, after two blockades and one massacre, the remaining Mongolian horse team is less than 2,000 people, and I don't know how much it will cost to break through the enemy in front of me, and I don't know how many people will be able to return to the steppe in the end.
Several princes, who had no intention of fighting, glanced at each other, and climbed off their horses with a wry smile, and under their leadership, the surviving Mongol cavalry did the same, and soon thousands of them dropped their weapons and knelt there, waiting for the victor's disposition.
"That's it?" Gao Yeping, the commander of the first division of the Xuanwu Army, who saw the Mongolian soldiers moving from the telescope, said a little unwillingly. "Is this still the descendant of Genghis Khan, who swept the eight poles back then?" Despite some complaints, it's always good to win without a fight. "Someone, report to Mr. Lin that there is no war in Jiangbei."
In fact, there was no war in Jiangbei, except for the iron cavalry army that continued to advance north and the remnants of the Jiangnan divisions, the entire Huguang battle ended on this day
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