Tan Tai hurriedly ordered his 3,000 iron cavalry to stop the Guards' iron cavalry, while he himself fled back to Wuqiao Town with the remaining 2,000 iron cavalry.

About 100,000 or so Qing troops were all in chaos, and they ran madly in the direction where Tan Tai had fled.

And the infantry battalion of the Guards army also killed them as a team, because the Qing army had no heart to resist, and even the infantry of the Guards did not bother to shoot again, and directly used the flintlock pistol as a knife to slash and slash.

In addition to the remaining 30,000 remnants of the Qing army, because of good legs or luck, and 2,000 Manchurian iron cavalry also fled back to Wuqiao Town.

So far, about 120,000 Qing troops have been annihilated or captured by the Guards.

At this time, it is sunset, the sun is setting, the dusk on the Qilu Plain is particularly beautiful, and the cold autumn wind blows the yellow leaves.

The farmland of the past has been dyed red, and it is dazzling in the afterglow.

The officers and men of the Guards did not pursue any further.

After all, after a day of fighting, the iron-beaten body also needs to rest and eat, and after the crazy killing, the officers and soldiers are a little tired.

Some just sat in the sea of corpses and blood in a daze.

Others wiped their love guns, babbling in the pungent smell of blood in these hometown dialects that others couldn't understand.

"The strong man is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Hun blood", in the end, it was the guards who were born in the literati in the past, and at this time, the officer held a bag of water and read "Man Jianghong" to the sunset.

The three or five comrades-in-arms sitting opposite him looked at him and smiled.

But it was he who cried as he read it, and sprinkled a handful of yellow sand on the face of a sacrificial comrade.

At this time, Liu Qian, deputy chief officer of the First Corps, and the commanders of each battalion all walked over with golden swords and military boots.

"Get up, get up, clean up the battlefield! Dinner will start in half an hour! ”

The officers patted the shoulders of the basic officers and soldiers, and the slightly tired officers and soldiers stood up in groups of three or five, and even so, the guns did not leave their hands, and they followed the flow of people back to the camp one after another.

The field hospital ambulance battalion directly under the Corps also began to carry stretchers back the wounded and the Guards victims.

The Qing prisoners were also escorted back to Shangguantunbao by the infantry battalion directly under the corps, and prepared to be escorted back to Jinan directly.

Although these Qing prisoners were Han Chinese, after all, they also participated in the destruction of the Han dynasty, whether they were forced or not, they had to serve for several years after being captured.

Now all the ore and road construction in the Ming Dynasty and even the tuntian fields require labor, so naturally they don't have to be killed.

However, the Eight Banners of Manchuria were to be executed in full, and the spirit of the people and ethnic groups of the officers and soldiers of the Guards should be cultivated, and sometimes special groups of people had to be treated cruelly during special periods.

Click.

The heads of a dozen Tartars were cut off to the ground.

And the Han soldiers of the Qing army who were tied up and escorted to Jinan were even more courageless, and they were heading south like walking corpses.

"Marshal, the casualty figures have come out, our guards suffered twenty casualties, ten died because of musket explosions, five died from bows and arrows, and the other five were hacked to death, while the Qing army suffered 40,000 casualties, and we captured 80,000."

When a trainee officer named Sang Xiangkai walked in front of Zhou Yuji at this time, Zhou Yuji couldn't help but laugh when he heard it: "The 200,000 Qing army is so vulnerable, our first army only sent one corps, and we suffered 40,000 casualties and 80,000 prisoners, and we only lost 20 people, no one believes it, it seems that the war strength between my Ming and the Qing Dynasty has really changed." ”

"Dashuai, I just got the news that Tan Tai has withdrawn, and he has withdrawn to the direction of Dongguang."

At that time, Liu Qian, the deputy commander-in-chief, came to Zhou Yuji.

Sang Xiangkai watched from the side, and as a cadet officer, he was curious about how these generals planned.

"Withdraw, it seems that he is really afraid, according to the above meaning, we are going to eat Tan Tai, we can't let him leave so easily, there is no need for the Second Corps to stay in Linyi anymore, order it to go north to Leling, stationed on the east bank of the Fuhe River, wait for the opportunity to occupy Nanpi and block Tan Tai's retreat after half a month, and the First Corps will set off to occupy Wuqiao half a month later."

Zhou Yuji was talking on the side, and Sang Xiangkai was watching from the side, he actually didn't understand why Zhou Yuji, Marquis of Ningwu, suddenly asked the Second Corps to occupy Nanpi for half a month, and the First Corps to occupy Wuqiao after half a month.

However, after he looked at the map again, he realized that Dongguang County was sandwiched between the canal and the floating river, and at that time, if the Second Corps of the Guards Army occupied Nanpi, the First Corps would go north to occupy Wuqiao, and form an encirclement of the Tan Tai Department of the Qing Army.

Zhou Yuji did think like Sang Xiangkai.

Then Sang Xiangkai saw that the officers and soldiers of the entire First Guards Army at all levels were all starting to implement this strategic goal, the transportation of soldiers, horses, money, and food, as well as the march of various units, weather forecasts, and changes in the whereabouts of the enemy.

Sometimes, in order to reduce Tan Tai's doubts that the Guards wanted to eat him, the Guards would deliberately make a move south to hide their whereabouts.

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After the Qing army's Tan Tai Department retreated to Dongguang, it did leave an army to guard Wuqiao to monitor the movements of the Guards.

Seeing that the Guards did not go north to occupy Wuqiao, he also put his mind at ease and began to wait for changes in the situation in Dongguang City.

Tan Tai himself was also heartbroken, he didn't expect the Guards to be so strong, this was just the start of the war, he lost more than half of his men and horses, and the morale of the army was already weak.

He could only ask the regent Dolgon for help, asking for more support, and in order to avoid being punished by Dolgon, he directly exaggerated that he had encountered the resistance of hundreds of thousands of troops of the Guard, and was definitely the main force of the Guard.

Therefore, he Tan Tai suffered heavy losses and had to retreat to Dongguang and so on.

Although Dolgon said that he was very strong in military talent, he did not have clairvoyance, so he naturally could not know the real battle situation on the front line for a while, but he also knew that even if he was the actual supreme ruler of the Qing Dynasty, he could not interfere in the local military, in order to show his full trust in Hong Chengchou, he only agreed to send 30 newly made red-coated cannons to Tan Taijia and 20,000 coastal defense troops from Abatai's command to go south to rescue Tan Tai's troops.

At the same time, Dolgon also ordered someone to inform Hong Chengchou of the news of Tan Tai's retreat to Dongguang, and Hong Chengchou planned it in a unified manner, but he also wrote his own opinion, and Dolgon's opinion is whether it is really as Tan Tai said that the main force of the Guards is in Shandong, and whether Hong Chengchou's main force of the Qing army should take advantage of this to immediately go south to Henan to occupy Kaifeng.

Hong Chengchou was very excited after receiving Dolgon's letter, just as Dolgon was not angry because of Tan Tai's defeat, he was not disappointed because of Tan Tai's defeat, in his opinion, this was all his expectation.

He became more and more convinced of the view that Henan did not have the main force of the Guards.

Hong Chengchou directly and boldly ordered the Qing army's 500,000 main forces to cross the river, and when he saw that Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Henan and the chief military officer of the Ming court, did not send troops to prevent him from crossing the river, and even the river defense Ming army fled directly, he was even more proud, and he was even more sure that Lu Zhenfei did not have the main force of the Guards in Henan.

"This road is white, several replies are vague, the official sees that he doesn't see the coffin and doesn't cry, wait for my army to surround him Kaifeng City, see if he is still attached!"

Hong Chengchou slapped Lu Zhenfei's letter on the table, and did not notice the cold smile of Zhou Ze, the governor of Henan, at the foot of the wall.

(End of chapter)