Chapter 102: A Mess Ben Khan is here
The Jin army was not defeated at all, but Zhang Chun insisted that the Jin army was defeated, and kept making people shout "Jiannu is defeated", regardless of his age, he took the lead to run to the other side of the river under the support of two personal guards.
The Che battalion soldiers led by Manku and Wang Zhiku on the side of the Xiaoling River were originally the closest to the Jin army, but now they saw the most clearly because they were farthest away from the rear of the army, and when they saw the Jin army scrambling to retreat, they all thought that the fire behind the formation was set by their own families, and the purpose was to force the Jin army back.
Under the leadership of the officer, more than 4,000 carts of battalion soldiers crossed the river again, one under the leadership of Manku crossed the river in the middle of the river to block the Jin army retreat, and one followed the Jin army under the leadership of Wang Zhiku to cross the river, all the way to chase and kill the Jin army, for a time, it was invincible, the Jin army on the north bank avoided one after another, and there was no soldier and horse to strangle the Ming army of less than 2,000 people.
The entire south bank was full of cheers of "Jiannu defeated", and the Ming army, which was about to be annihilated, turned around and rushed to cross the river to chase and kill the retreating Jin army.
The cheers of the Ming army made the Jin army also inexplicable, the flags were already retreating in a hurry, and the fire rose suddenly, making most of the Jin army also think that the fire was set by the Ming army, and they were really defeated. In addition, the banner owners of each banner were the first to escape, and the flags crossing the river lost their command, and the Ming army blocked them in the middle of the river, and the Jin army suddenly made a mess.
The Jin army, which had already crossed the river, was afraid of being scattered by the chaotic army behind them, so they had no choice but to continue to run north, and the Jin army, which had not yet crossed the river, was constantly pursued and killed by the pursuing Ming army.
The wind was blowing stronger and stronger, and the smoke had drifted to the Xiaoling River, and the river was full of smoke, and although the two banks were only a mile apart, no one could see anyone.
Not being able to see is the most alarming, and the suffocating smoke is even more frightening.
The consequence of the disorderly retreat is that the people in the Xiaoling River are crowded, the horses are crowded, and everyone wants to cross the river quickly, but no one refuses to stop and let others cross first, so that the Jin soldiers are constantly knocked over and fall from their horses, and there is chaos everywhere, and nearly 10,000 Eight Banner soldiers who are eager to flee for their lives are stranded in the Xiaoling River less than a mile wide, making a mess.
It was really like a fiasco, the soldiers of the Eight Banners who crossed the river were now without fighting spirit, and everyone wanted to hurry ashore and escape. In addition, the smoke came down the wind, and it was impossible to see how many Ming troops were chasing behind him, listening to the shouting and killing sound all over the sky, as if the Ming army had turned out tens of thousands of horses and horses at once, and their own soldiers and horses were in a big collapse, and the north bank could even hear the shouting and killing of the Ming army, which dared to stop and stop the Ming army at this time, let alone cushion the companions against the choking smoke.
The smoke was too big, which obviously also caused trouble to the pursuing Ming army, and in the panic, Zuo Liangyu, the general of Changping who was the first to cross the river to chase and kill the Jin army, raised his voice and shouted: "Cover your mouth with a wet cloth, cover your mouth with a wet cloth!" ”
Under his reminder, the Ming army took out the towels that washed their faces on weekdays, and those who did not carry them cut off the clothes on their bodies casually, and went wet into the river without looking, and then quickly covered their mouths and chased after the Jin army in front of them with a muffled shout.
Some Eight Banner soldiers who knew Chinese listened to this method of the Ming army, and subconsciously tore off the cloth on their bodies to wet the water, but because they were sitting on horses, the water in the middle of the river was not more than a person's waist, and they could not reach the water in the river before they reached the center of the river. If you want to learn from the Ming army, you can only turn over and dismount, which is even worse, because the companions behind you don't care what they want to do, they just keep urging the war horse to run forward. If you really want to get off the horse and get wet, you are afraid that you will be choked to death in the river immediately.
After dozens of unlucky ghosts died because they were trampled by the horses because they dismounted in wet water, the Jin army gave up the method of covering their noses with wet water, and could only pin their hopes on crossing the river quickly. However, the middle of the river was in a mess, looking around blankly, and there were people and horses everywhere, and they didn't know where to run.
It was really a mountain of defeat, and the more than 10,000 Eight Banner soldiers in the river were all battle-hardened warriors, but under this kind of collapse, no matter how brave they were, they couldn't save the defeat.
"It's down, we're down!"
"Brothers of the Ming army, we are also Han Chinese, we have surrendered, we have surrendered, don't kill us!"
The remnants of more than 1,000 Han army flag soldiers in front of the eight banner soldiers blocking the way, after the Ming army and thick smoke, there is really no way to the sky, no way to go to the ground, first, more than a dozen Han soldiers shouted to surrender, and then the more than 1,000 Han soldiers all called to surrender, and there were officers who refused to surrender and scolded those who surrendered were also cut and killed by the soldiers who were eager to survive.
The Ming army didn't pay attention to these surrendered soldiers at all, and only cared about chasing and killing the Eight Banner soldiers, who knelt in the water and waited for a while, and did not see anyone in the Ming army to take care of them, so they boldly began to get up and run towards the north bank with the Ming army. Some of the frightened ones knelt there obediently, covering their mouths and noses with wet cloths, and did not dare to move.
After more than ten years of crisscrossing the battlefield, Huang Taiji was the first time to suffer such a defeat, looking at the flags crossing the river in a mess, without any rules, and the flag owners did not know where to run, they were anxious and angry, but they could only do it in a hurry, and they couldn't come up with a way. There was already a mess in the Xiaoling River, and the north bank was not much better, and I didn't know how many soldiers and horses the Ming army had come up, and it was not clear in the smoke. There are only more than 1,000 personal soldiers around him, and he is likely to be involved in this chaos if he is transferred up.
In this way, the wisest way is to stay put, and urgently order the flags that have crossed the river to organize troops and horses to resist the enemy, but if it can't be done, they can only retreat to the Daling River. In that case, Zu Dashou in the city will definitely know that the reinforcements of the Dao are coming, and he will definitely rush out desperately, and at that time, I am afraid that it will be difficult to say whether this battle will really be won or lost.
Thinking that if this battle is lost, Dajin's national situation will definitely take a sharp turn, and the Ming army will rely on Dalinghe City to advance step by step, Huang Taiji couldn't help but grit his teeth and scolded Zhang Chun for being vicious, and even released this fire with the idea of burning jade! If he is captured, he will definitely be flayed alive!
Fan Wencheng, who was behind him, was very pale at the moment, he didn't know what the King of Ludao Khan was thinking, he looked at the Eight Banners soldiers who were almost collapsed, and muttered to himself: "In the battle of Weishui, Zhu Xu shouted in the battle that the Qin army was defeated, the Qin army was defeated, and the Qin soldiers believed it, so they turned around and ran away, and as a result, hundreds of thousands of troops collapsed..."
Ning Wan and Bao Chengxian on the side listened to Fan Wencheng's words, they were all discolored, and Qi Qi looked at Huang Taiji, but no one dared to speak.
Huang Taiji didn't know if he heard what Fan Wencheng said, his body moved slightly, and then the whole person became extremely calm, looking at the thick smoke, a cold light appeared.
Raising his right hand slightly, he ordered in a deep voice: "Drum sounding!" Command all flags, this Khan is here, quickly meet with the sweat tent, dare to retreat, all beheaded! ”
"Wow!"
The two tooth horns roared, and they both jumped on the drum platform and beat the war drums with a "dong dong". As the drums sounded, the Jin army, which was running in a hurry, reined in their horses, glanced at the place where the drums sounded, and then turned around and ran straight over.