On this day of fighting, both sides suffered heavy casualties. The Daping army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, while the Qing army suffered more than 10,000 casualties. Judging from the numbers, it seems that the Qing army suffered more casualties. However, most of the casualties of the Qing army were the Han Army Banner and the Mengba Banner of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but there were not many real Manchu Eight Banners. However, the casualties of the Daping army were all their own main forces. Therefore, from the point of view of the loss of strength, the Daping Army suffered some losses.

In particular, the Qing army originally had 50,000 more soldiers and horses than the Daping army, so after this attrition, the gap in strength between the two sides became even greater.

As for the Daping army, the more disadvantaged thing was that the purpose of their battle was to blockade the Qing army and prevent the Qing army from rushing into the pass. Therefore, the defense of the Daping Army is rigid and cannot retreat. Once retreated, the length of the arc of the semi-encircled defense line would be greatly increased, and the defense line of the Daping Army would be even weaker. To be honest, if Shumo's reinforcements arrived in time, or the casualties of the Daping army now, if they want to maintain a complete defense line in the future, the troops will be a little stretched.

In the same way, the Daping army could not arrange several lines of defense on the road from Shanhaiguan to Beijing City, so as to defend section by section. In a word, the current Daping Army is to put the Qing army in Shanhaiguan.

However, the Qing army also had its sorrows. After all, the Daping army is defending, and the Qing army is attacking. In terms of long-range firepower, especially in firearms, the Qing army had a great disadvantage. In order to break the defense line of the Daping army, they could only fill it with their lives. This was completely painful for the sparsely manpower Qing army. Not to mention that the longer the delay lasts, the stronger the defense line of the Daping Army will be.

So. This battle is difficult for both sides. Therefore. After a short day of passion, the two armies began to tepid again. Every day I go out of the camp to line up, but every day I try to fight a few times. Collect the troops and return to the camp, and no longer dare to fight a decisive battle. And this kind of battle lasted for nearly twenty days before I knew it.

On the surface, both armies seem to be fighting too conservatively. But secretly, both sides are actually deploying troops.

Dorgon had already sent a quick cavalry to Abatai's army, asking him to lead his army through the Great Wall Pass and threaten the city of Beijing first. The Daping army near the capital did not dare to act rashly, and then rushed to Shanhaiguan as quickly as possible, and attacked back and forth with the Qing army at Shanhaiguan. Completely destroy the main force of the Dahei Army.

In addition to leaving the minimum number of troops to defend Beijing City and Tongzhou City, Wu Shigong also transferred 10,000 Imperial Forest Army stationed in Beijing, plus 30,000 "elite soldiers" selected from the auxiliary soldiers, ready to support the Shanhaiguan front line at any time.

Furthermore. Wu Shigong also urgently ordered the conquest of the Western Army, the Sichuan Army, the Southern Army, the Zhejiang Army, and the Shandong Army. Let them send their elites north to join the decisive battle with the Qing army. And these Daping armies have also mobilized the first batch of 7,000 cavalry, and they are marching towards the capital in several ways. And a larger reinforcement is also being assembled and set off.

The 26,000 horsemen in the Pegasus town of Zug are replenishing nearly 10,000 people, as well as more than 4,000 carts and pack horses pulling carts, ready to transport grain to Liaodong again. Know the way. Although Zug once brought some surplus populations from the two cities of Ningyuan and Zhenyuan back to Guannei, the grain and grass in these two cities. It will also be supported until October and November at most. If it's too late, you'll have to kill horses and eat people. And now it's late May, counting the battles and delays on the way to transport grain, in fact, the time in Pegasus Town is already very tight.

At this time, the Daping army did not know that Abatai had gathered a large army and would enter the customs on the front line of Xuanda. And the Qing army didn't know that the town of Pegasus would be killed again, and they would go out of the customs again to rescue the two cities of Ningyuan and Zhenyuan. As for Wu Shigong's gathering of a mobile corps, the Daping Army from all walks of life in the south also sent reinforcements to the north one after another, and the Qing army did not know about such a situation.

Therefore, in Shanhaiguan now, the main forces of the two armies have been in a stalemate. In other places, the two sides are like being blindfolded, taking care of their own chess, making mistakes in and out, and I don't know who laughed the least.

Take your eyes off the frontal battlefield for a moment and take a look at the corners—the battle taking place in Korea!

May 24, Anju.

Looking at the Daping army in front of him, Duoduo asked, "Have you counted it?" How many people exactly? ”

"A little bit in the early 10,000s." Bowton, who was beside Dordor with a white flag, replied.

"Really see clearly?" Duoduo turned his head and asked again. For Bolton to answer so quickly, Dodor had some doubts in his mind.

"It's true! Father! Where do minions dare to talk nonsense in front of you? Botun hurriedly bowed down and smiled at Duoduo, "Look at the Han army on the opposite side, they are all standing in pieces, and the number of people in each block is more than two thousand, what a number!" ”

Duoduo turned his head again to look at the phalanx lined up by the Daping army, and scolded Botun with a smile: "You slave is also smart. It's no wonder that you appreciate you. All right! We are all superior in numbers, not to mention that we are all national athletes. If you don't bring these burdens with you, you can also save time. The master can still take the time to return to the second Shengjing, and several Fujin in the mansion are looking forward to the master. ”

"Haha——!" The Qing generals around immediately laughed.

At the beginning of May, after receiving 5,000 banners and 10,000 Han military flags, Duoduo went to the villages near the Yalu River and collected more than 1,000 bannermen of the Eight Banners and Han Army Banners left behind. Together with the more than 300 people who fled from Korea, the number of troops in Duoduo's hands has exceeded 16,000 soldiers and horses.

Although in appearance and conversation, Duoduo was very frivolous, but in reality, he was still very cautious in his work and warfare. Before setting out, Duoduo carefully analyzed the forces of the Daepyeong army in Korea. He believed that the main purpose of the Daeping Army was to control Seoul and the king of Joseon, so as to cut off the important arm of Joseon. Therefore, the most likely strategy adopted by the Daepyeong army was to hold on to Seoul.

And the few soldiers attacked the city, which could only be pushed slowly, so the Qing army needed a lot of cannon fodder coolies. Therefore, as soon as the Yalu River was crossed, Duoduo dispersed his troops to capture the Korean people in the vicinity, so that they could be used as dead soldiers in the attack on Seoul.

But this arrest will definitely take a lot of time. By the time Duoduo gathered his troops, it had already taken more than ten days. However, the "harvest" of the Qing army was also good, and the total attack captured the Korean people in their early 20,000s.

So the Qing army escorted the Korean people to the south, but after walking a few steps, they met 12,000 soldiers and horses of the Marine Corps of the Navy Division going north in Anzhou. So the two armies began to deploy their troops one after another, preparing to line up for battle.

"Master! In fact, those cannon fodder also have a role. Bo Dun stepped forward and said, "This Han army and horses, we have also fought in Xuzhou." It's not a big deal for them, that is, firearms are more powerful. We can drive the cannon fodder to rush into battle, disrupting the formation of the Han army first, and also consuming their ammunition in vain. When the Han army is tired, our Qing Dynasty Iron Cavalry will rush like this again, master! You're just waiting for the big win! ”

"Hey!" Duoduo was amused at once, and he pointed at Botun and said, "I didn't expect you to use your brains as a minion!" Good! It's you who step forward and command. If you defeat the Han army, you will have a future. ”

"Wow!"

Watching the Qing army on the opposite side coaxing the Korean people to the front, Gonzalez and Huang Ding couldn't help but look at each other and smile. Because when he was in Xuzhou, the Runing army suffered the loss of the Qing army's expulsion of the people, so after the war, Wu Shigong had already summarized this.

In fact, there is only one content in the summary: the Runing army is more cruel than the Qing army, and these cannon fodder are willing to flee back, and they dare not face the Runing army. Especially the current Marine Corps, they will face North Korean cannon fodder, and they are not their comrades at all, so the Marine Corps will have no psychological pressure to slaughter.

Before this expedition, considering that the Marine Corps was far away overseas and fighting alone, although it was limited to the carrying capacity of the ships, only more than 300 horses were sent over, but the artillery, armor and fire guns were all doubled the equipment of the Marine Corps. In particular, there are a lot of gunpowder warehouses in the DPRK, so the Marine Corps does not need to think about ammunition savings at all. Therefore, if it was only cannon fodder that rushed over, the Marine Corps would not have any fear at all.

Seeing that in the middle and on both sides of each phalanx, the artillery was ready, and a lot of bees were placed, Huang Ding smiled and said to Gonzalez: "Use artillery on these scum, that's a bit too much!" A swarm of bees is one less than one, so we should save some use. ”

Gonzalez shook his head, he was now fluent in Chinese: "Use a knife to kill a chicken!" If you don't beat them all at once, these people will go crazy. When the time comes, it will be a lot of work to clean them up. ”

Hearing what Gonzalez in command said, Huang Ding smiled and stopped talking.

Gonzalez turned his head and ordered to the soldiers beside him: "Tell the artillery commander to press, don't be in a hurry to open fire, put those cannon fodder as close as possible, and hit them hard at once." ”

"No!"

Several of his own soldiers immediately galloped forward to give the order.

Botun commanded a group of Qing soldiers and drove the North Korean people forward. Seeing a few people who were struggling, he immediately made a throat-cutting gesture to the Qing soldiers who were driving in front of him, and the Qing soldiers in front immediately understood and cut a few people in a row. Seeing the brutality of the Qing army, more than 20,000 Korean civilians ran towards the sailor marines on the opposite side in tears.

Among all the Korean people, only a small number of people held tattered knives and guns issued by the Qing army, and the rest were all holding hoes and other farm tools, many of which were even made of wood, not even iron. Even more pitiful are those with sticks or with bare hands.

Those North Korean people ran and huddled together in order to be brave. Some people were accidentally pushed to the ground, but as soon as they tried to get up, they were cut to the ground by the Qing soldiers behind them. Feeling the footsteps of the Qing soldiers behind them, those North Korean people ran faster. (To be continued......)