Chapter 162, Nanjing! Nanking! (continued)

However, because the Qing army at this time was in a state of retreat after the defeat, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners were scattered throughout the canal, lined up from south to north, and it was naturally far and close to Yangzhou, the assembly place for crossing the river. Among them, the two yellow flags of Huang Taiji walk in the southernmost and are the closest to Yangzhou. The two white-flag soldiers and horses of the three Dolgon brothers walked in the rear, and some of them were in the northernmost territory of Shandong, shouldering the task of covering the whole army. The other part was stationed in Fengyang, responsible for suppressing the various rogues in Huaixi, and guarding the western defense line of the remnants of the Qing court.

If time is available, Huang Taiji will of course find a place to gather the whole army, and then calmly move south. Especially the two white flag soldiers and horses of the three Dolgon brothers must be placed in front of them to feel at ease. Helplessly, this military situation is as urgent as a spark, and the opportunity to enter the south of the Yangtze River is fleeting, and when Emperor Chongzhen invades Nanjing, surrenders and rebels, and kneels in all directions, the richest land in the south of the Yangtze River in the world, there will be no share of the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, Huang Taiji could only take the two yellow flag soldiers and horses around him, go south to Yangzhou as fast as possible, prepare to cross the river, and at the same time send orders to the whole army to let them come one after another. Then, before the soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners arrived, the Donglin Party in Nanjing could no longer hold on. In order to avoid delaying the fighter plane, Huang Taiji, who refused to give up, gritted his teeth again, and despite the fact that the army had not yet completed the assembly, he personally crossed the Yangtze River and rushed into this killing ground in Nanjing.

Then, with the continuous increase of troops between the Ming and Qing dynasties, Nanjing became an unprecedentedly cruel flesh mill. Because the strength of the Qing army was always at an absolute disadvantage, it was extremely difficult to fight on the battlefield, and it almost collapsed several times.

Huang Taiji, who originally hoped to take Jiangnan lightly, was disappointed in the continuous war and found that the battle of Nanjing this time was not as easy as when he broke through the Great Wall and attacked the Guannei in the past. In his impression, the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, who should have collapsed at the touch of a button and then let them be slaughtered like weak chickens, became extremely difficult under the supervision of Emperor Chongzhen, and had the courage to fight to the death with the warriors of the Eight Banners. And the Eight Banners Army, which once swept through the Central Plains, also lost its level in the south of the Yangtze River, and it was difficult to move forward everywhere, and it no longer had the invincible spirit of "the Jurchens are not satisfied with ten thousand, and they are invincible when they are full of ten thousand".

In the past half a month, with the repeated tug-of-war situation, one Qing army after another has been crossing the river. Up to now, the six flags of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty have all gathered outside Nanjing, and only the two white flags of the three Dolgon brothers have actually stayed in the Huaibei area, and they have not gone south at all!

Of course, the two white flags also have their own explanations for this matter, such as the Liukou riots, the lack of appeasement in the rear, and the advance of the Dengzhou army. But what kind of heroic figure is Huang Taiji, where can you not see that the three Dolgon brothers are obviously anti-minded and want to sit on the mountain in the north and watch the tiger fight?

In short, for Huang Taiji, the current situation is really critical: there is a stubborn enemy in the front, and there are internal thieves in the back! It's the same damn on both sides!

However, the battle of the Jiangnan Raiders has reached this point, and Huang Taiji is already difficult to ride a tiger. Although the Eight Banners of Manchuria suffered heavy losses in the fall of Liaodong and the Beijing Mutiny, the two white banners of the three Dolgon brothers still had 65 Manchurian soldiers of Niulu, plus the Han army directly under them, a total of more than 10,000 soldiers. This military strength is even much stronger than Huang Taiji's two yellow flags. Next, as the Battle of Nanjing intensified, Huang Taiji's two yellow flags were almost disabled because they were the first to be put into the battlefield, and the other four flags were also killed and wounded. Even if all the Manchurian soldiers of all six banners are combined, they are only more than 100 cattle records, and the general shortage is quite serious.

If he gave up the Battle of Nanjing now, gave up so many sacrifices before, and went north to crusade against the three Dolgon brothers for the sake of his own power, the best result could only be to die with Huang Taiji. The worst result is that the Eight Banners are in an uproar and support the deposition of Emperor Dorgon to usurp the throne!

Therefore, Huang Taiji had to slap his swollen face and become fat, while ordering the two white flags to guard the rear of Xuzhou and Lunan, and acquiesced in their sitting on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, so as to appease the three Dolgon brothers, lest the two white flags jump out of the rebellion now; On the other hand, he sent people to send his concubines and children to the Yanziji camp in Nanjing, which was not only to declare his intention to break the cauldron and fight to the death, but also to prevent them from being taken hostage by Dolgon......

In the early morning of this day, Huang Taiji first ordered the whole army to have a full meal and nourish their spirits, and then smashed the pot stove, threw the remaining military rations into the Yangtze River, and burned down his own camp. Then, in the midst of the discussion of the officers and men of the whole army, Huang Taiji brought his concubines and children to the officers and soldiers, and generously encouraged them and said, "...... Ladies and gentlemen, we have now lost our hometown between the white mountains and black waters, and in front of us is the city of Nanjing, the prosperous and rich Jiangnan, and your new home! If we fail, then we will be reduced to a lost dog, and there will be no place in the world! Now, we are left with only two options: win, success, and eternal prosperity! Defeated, corpses in a foreign land, no one to bury! To show my resolve, I have brought my wives and concubines to the battlefield! If the Immortal Heaven does not bless me to win, then I would rather die in battle and have my blood cut off than endure the humiliation of being enslaved! Let's fight together! ”

Subsequently, Huang Taiji, who has always been fat and has martial arts at most, personally put on his armor and mounted his horse to pick up his weapons, took the lead, and was the first to rush to the Ming army camp in the direction of Zhongshan! And the Manchurian soldiers also knew that there was no way out, and seeing that the Qing Emperor had taken the lead in the charge, what could they not do? ! So they all fought bravely, just like tens of thousands of tigers coming down the mountain, roaring and exerting 200% combat effectiveness!

On the side of the Ming army, they had just learned the bad news of the fall of Huguang and the fire in the backyard, and for a while people's hearts fluctuated and morale was low. Several of the most powerful generals were discussing the next strategic plan with the emperor in the imperial camp, and they invisibly relaxed their control over their respective troops. In particular, the scout troops of the Ming army were also very lazy in the past two days, and they did not even find out the movement of the Qing army's imminent general attack.

As a result, several miscellaneous units of the Ming army deployed at the front basically did not have time to make any resistance, and were rushed to pieces by the wolf-like iron cavalry of the Qing army, and suddenly collapsed, and the remnants of the defeated generals completely lost their restraint and fled to the imperial camp of Nanjing City or Ming Xiaoling.

At this time, the Qing army on the Nanjing battlefield was only 30,000, while the Ming army was as many as 90,000.

However, it should be noted that among the 90,000 Ming troops, there are only about 20,000 real soldiers, and the rest are miscellaneous troops. There were even quite a few landlords and villagers who came to "drive" temporarily, but instead of increasing their combat effectiveness, they caused chaos in the command system of the Ming army. And even the most elite troops of the Ming army were mainly Huguang recruits who had been temporarily recruited and trained for several months, and their combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the Qing army of the same number. In addition, the tactical command ability of the generals of the Ming army was generally inferior to that of the battle-hardened Qing generals.

When the Qing army's reinforcements had not yet arrived, Huang Taiji only relied on the thousands of people at hand, even in the extremely unfavorable street battles, he was able to rely on the rich combat experience of the Eight Banners warriors to stalemate with the Ming army ten times his size. Now, because of the inspiring effect of Huang Taiji's leading soldiers, the 30,000 Qing army has turned into a real army of tigers and wolves, and the combat effectiveness that broke out is extremely amazing.

Although they attacked more with less and attacked the mountain, these Eight Banners warriors didn't seem to know how the word death was written, and they were not only fearless, but cheered and shouted loudly, holding long and short weapons, facing the mountain, and rushed to the rookies on the battlefield who had not yet worn the battle uniforms for a few days in the Ming army, and launched a bloody hand-to-hand combat. The horizontal is still afraid of death, not to mention these miscellaneous armies of the Ming army, which are far from being horizontal, but a group of ordinary villagers with weapons, seeing that the Qing army is so fierce, they have long lost the courage to fight, and they were suddenly defeated and retreated, trampling on each other and dying countless times.

After learning the report of the rout at the front, the generals of the Ming army, who were holding a meeting in Xiaoling, hurriedly rushed back to their respective camps and prepared to meet the battle. Lu Xiangsheng, as the commander-in-chief, summoned the family members of the standard battalion of the Chinese army as soon as possible, and hurried to the northern foot of Zhongshan to support. Unexpectedly, on the mountain road leading to the battlefield, Lu Xiangsheng was so angry that he was so angry that he saw the Ming army at the front of the collapsed Ming army, although he did not have the courage to fight to the death with the enemy, but when he fled, he was like a rhinoceros, all of them were rampant, and everyone was extremely brave!

Because it was a narrow road encounter, there was no preparation in advance, and the result was almost in the blink of an eye, before Lu Xiangsheng had time to see the enemy's position clearly, the reinforcements he hastily organized were crushed by these routs who had not done enough to succeed and more than to lose. Even the Ming army that arrived one after another was also routed by this group of cattle men, and because of the narrow mountain roads, these people trampled on each other and suffered heavy casualties. Several ignorant generals of the Ming army did not die under the knife of the Qing soldiers, but were trampled to death next to Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum by their own feet!

By this time, the command system of the Ming army had completely collapsed. As the shouting and killing of the Qing army got closer and closer, but the reinforcements from all walks of life were delayed, even the most trusted Lu Xiangsheng did not know where to go, and Emperor Chongzhen could not stay in Xiaoling, so he had to order to drive to Yuhuatai to move.

Unexpectedly, the transfer of the imperial driver, which could no longer be stopped, the Eight Banners quickly recognized the imperial drive of Emperor Chongzhen, and chased them all the way. Emperor Chongzhen fell to the side of the road in the chaos, bleeding from his forehead, and fell unconscious on the spot. Seeing this, the guards and eunuchs who escorted them suddenly lost their backbone, and they didn't even dare to enter the city of Nanjing, so they continued to flee all the way west to Dasheng Pass, and then found ships and retreated in the direction of Wuhu and Chizhou upstream.

At this point, as Emperor Chongzhen's imperial car disappeared from the battlefield, the 90,000 Ming troops on the Nanjing front completely collapsed. Among them, those who had originally come from the side of the Donglin Party court in Nanjing chose to defect again and defected to the Qing army on the opposite side. And those Jiangnan landlords who came to help the war spontaneously, hoping to earn a share of the dragon's merits, scattered one after another in disappointment, returned to their hometowns, and continued to wait and see the situation.

The most unlucky are those Nanjing nobles who "abandoned the darkness and turned to the light", who thought that they had made the right choice at a critical moment and could continue their glory and wealth under the banner of the orthodox emperor. Who knew that he encountered such a peak and turn, and suddenly they all sat on wax. Among them, Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, chose to give up his mansion and property in Nanjing, and took his clansmen and family members to follow Emperor Chongzhen's royal drive. However, the other Nanjing nobles did not have such a strong man's determination to break his wrist, and most of them were reluctant to leave the wealth accumulated over hundreds of years, so they continued to stay in the city in fear, waiting for the fate of the victor.

In the end, in the chaos of defeat, Lu Xiangsheng, as the commander of the whole army, was finally not trampled to death, but he was already unable to catch any troops, so he could only be coerced by thousands of routs and retreated back in chaos. And behind the rout, there are also Qing army rangers who are constantly harassing and pursuing, so that from Zhongshan to Yuhuatai to Dashengguan, you can see fallen corpses and abandoned armor everywhere.

On November 27, Lu Xiangsheng finally managed to contain 5,000 defeated troops and fought again with the 6,000 Qing troops who came to pursue him in Wuhu. After a hard day, he finally suffered another crushing defeat. When Lu Xiangsheng led his family to attack the enemy formation, he was killed by an arrow, and the remnants of the Ming army immediately broke and fled.

At this point, Emperor Chongzhen's crusade to the east was declared a complete failure. Not only did they fail to recover Nanjing, the capital of Liudu, but they also lost the rear base of Huguang Province. Even the army that was painstakingly recruited and trained was also wiped out on the battlefield in Nanjing, and since then it has basically withdrawn from the stage of competing for the world.

At the same time, in this war, one was destroyed by the smoke of gunfire, as well as the aftermath of the Ming Dynasty's 200 years of ruling the world......

Since then, no one has been able to prevent the collapse of the Ming Empire, and no one has been able to reunite this disintegrated world!

But on the other hand, the bad luck of the Ming Dynasty means the good news of the Qing Dynasty. When His Majesty Huang Taiji, who was covered in blood, smelled the smell of gunpowder smoke that had not yet been blown away on the battlefield, and once again rode into Nanjing City with great ambition, he seemed to see the revival and rise of the Qing Empire again......

Obviously, as the victor of the war, he had no intention of returning the fertile soil of Jiangnan to the Donglin gentlemen who led the wolf into the house from the beginning.

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Beyond the word count: a long-lost complaint! On the level of drifting of US imperialism! To be rich is to be capricious! $500 million to train five super soldiers?!!

Recently, the top commander of the US forces in the Middle East angrily declared that the US Department of Defense had allocated $500 million to train 5,400 Syrian opposition soldiers to fight against the Assad government. But only 54 soldiers were trained, and they were wiped out by a local al-Qaeda force that had just arrived in Syria to fight, leaving only four or five men. It's the equivalent of spending $100 million to train a warrior, if five people survive instead of four! What the hell is this making Captain America? Or are you training Gundam pilots? Hey, it seems that the big tiger of the US military is too powerful, and this greed is too unscrupulous. 5,400 people directly shrunk to 54! Eat 99% of the empty salary! Even the Kuomintang knows that it wants to pull Zhuang Ding to make up the numbers!

In short, the US Department of Defense has made meritorious contributions, and the US Department of Defense has made meritorious contributions! I don't give me any chance. They can kill themselves! Great American-Trained Freedom Fighters! He carried on the glorious traditions of the United States. Superman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk and Captain America are possessed by souls at this moment, these five people represent the long history and tradition of the US military, and in this moment, they are not five people fighting, they are not five people!

Well, to get back to the point, there are two more reasonable explanations for this matter, the first is that the Ministry of Defense and the CIA are not in good communication, and the red necks of the Ministry of Defense think that they really want to spend effort to fight terrorism, but they know that all this money has been used by the CIA to arm the private s, and they just got some people to pretend. The other is that the authorities are conspiring to deduct money from overseas funds for corruption, and Congress cannot reconcile it with Syrian militants anyway. As soon as the funds came out of the Pentagon, the accounts of the military outsourcing companies and generals had already been added a few more zeros.