Chapter 313: Forces of All Sides (3)
The generals of the Qing army, the generals of the Dashun army, and the generals of the Ming army are all battle-hardened generals, and every military deployment can prevent the enemy's next move, especially Gao Ding led his troops out of the city to fight, and was blocked at the gate of the city by Shang Kexi's troops, and could not effectively rush to the outside of the city to fight.
The Qing army has calmed down from the panic of the surprise attack, all of this is Bolo's personal bravery, he led more than 1,000 Eight Banner soldiers to withstand the surprise attack of the Dashun Army at the first time, with the strong combat power of the Eight Banners, to contain the further surprise attack of the Dashun Army, at the same time other Qing troops also organized an effective counterattack, and the soldiers of the Dashun Army doubted whether it was a correct action to launch a surprise attack tonight.
At this time, the Ming army only relied on Gao Jie, most of the soldiers under Gao Jie's command were a group of armed peasants, in his opinion, the recruits were almost all cannon fodder, only about a thousand veterans under his command had the strength to fight, before the war, the veterans in the army were gathered together, and he personally led the attack on the Qing army, and the other soldiers and horses were led by Li Benshen and Wang Mu to attack the Qing army.
He needs to rely on this thousand veterans, stirring up half the sky in the Qing army camp, Li Benshen and Wang Mu led the cannon fodder soldiers to charge the Qing army, not surprisingly being beaten by the Qing army crying father and mother, Gao Jie did not enter the battlefield in one fell swoop, he was waiting for an opportunity, and when the Qing army launched a counterattack, it was the moment when he launched a surprise attack, and only at that time could the Qing army be defeated in one fell swoop.
Under the command of Bo Luo and other generals, the Qing army gradually reversed the disadvantage step by step, a small number of troops launched a counterattack, the Dashun army and the Ming army retreated step by step, and the construction army gradually lost to the Qing army, Li Guo scolded Gao Jie villain in his heart.
Gao Jie is still waiting for the opportunity, Li Guo led the troops to fight to the death and did not retreat, Gao Yigong withdrew to the military camp, if the soldiers could not withstand it, he would lead his family to withdraw and keep the fire for the rear camp.
The combat effectiveness of the Dashun army and the Ming army is really weak, Bolo seems to see the dawn of victory, he ordered the departments to launch a counteroffensive, pull out Taiyuan City tonight, eliminate the main force of the Ming army in Shanxi, the Qing army has launched a counterattack, Bolo led hundreds of eight banner soldiers to rush to Li Guo, he has long seen Li Guo's trapped camp, tonight is the Dashun army launched a surprise attack, he wants to destroy this Dashun army cleanly.
The Qing army's counterattack was very successful, the Dashun army and the Ming army were defeated and retreated, the recruits led by Li Benshen and Wang Mu were killed so that they could not find the north, the Qing army became more and more brave the more they fought, and Bolo and the various departments were more and more distant, Gao Jie finally exposed the iron knife, led the elite soldiers under his command to attack Bolo, this new force was like a burning red blade, cut at the back of the Qing army, and then went up to the bone, so that the Qing army was in pain.
Gao Jie's goal is Bolo, kill Bolo, tonight is half the success, Bolo was suddenly attacked by the Ming army, hundreds of Eight Banners soldiers could not resist Gao Jie's raid, a large number of Eight Banners were cut to the ground, Gao Jie and his subordinates shouted in the night sky, Jiannu Bolo gave the head, and the armies quickly counterattacked.
At this time, Li Guo couldn't hold back, heard the sound of Bolo being killed in the night sky, cheered up, led his subordinates to continue fighting, Gao Yigong withdrew to the military camp, all promised to have tens of thousands of family members, Gao Yigong gritted his teeth, waved his hand, and tens of thousands of military families rushed to the battlefield with rudimentary weapons.
Gao Jie's raid made Bolo have to avoid his edge, and temporarily lost his command of the troops, and when he withdrew to a safe tunnel, he continued to command the battle, Gao Yigong took his family battalion into the battlefield, tens of thousands of people were huge, and roared loudly in the night sky, so that the Qing army thought that it was surrounded by the Ming army, tens of thousands of people rushed to the battlefield like ants, and each military family in the rear camp was half a soldier, even if it was for one, it would kill and injure the Qing army, and tens of thousands of military dependents forgot to die, giving the Qing army a fatal blow, forcing the Qing army to fight separately.
Especially the green battalion soldiers, were strangled by the Ming army and the Dashun army and suffered heavy injuries, but they were still struggling to support, Boluo Lingbu would gather nearby soldiers and horses, and even gathered most of the Eight Banners, he decided to take the Eight Banners as the main force, and continue to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army and the Dashun army.
Suddenly, he heard a loud shout from the gate of Taiyuan City, and immediately realized that Shang Kexi did not block the Ming army in the city from leaving the city, and after a while, Shang Kexi withdrew with the remnants of the army, and said to him: "Lord Belle, the thief army is strong, let's withdraw?" ”
Bolo was very angry, but still very calm, did not hesitate to order a retreat, tens of thousands of Qing troops retreated to the north, Gao Jie and Li Guo led the troops to chase, the Qing army retreated, was the Ming army, the Dashun army crazy slashing, the loss of a large number of green battalion soldiers, even the Eight Banners
More than a thousand people were also lost in the battle.
Shang Kexi was beaten depressed, personally led thousands of people to break off, and actually blocked the pursuit of the Ming army and the Dashun army, Boluo Fei rat generation, seeing that Shang Kexi blocked the pursuit of the enemy, he actually led the Eight Banners to kill back, and killed the Ming army's pursuers to a great defeat, but he did not have the ability to launch a counterattack, but continued to gather stragglers, preparing to fight tomorrow with the Ming army, and the Dashun army continued the decisive battle.
Li Guo and Gao Jie saw that the Qing army stabilized the defensive line, and also ordered a retreat in time, the Ming army and the Dashun army retreated to the city of Taiyuan, and the battalions of the first power leader also withdrew to the city, and the entire Taiyuan city suddenly had tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, which was very lively.
The soldiers and civilians in the city are the same enemy, crazy to repair the city wall, but there is also a barrel of explosives in the city, that is, the number of Dashun troops exceeds the Ming army, Gao Yigong and other generals of the Dashun army have the intention of occupying Taiyuan City, Li Guo also has this intention, the rear camp fought all the way, suffered heavy losses, and urgently needed to rest, Taiyuan City is not the best habitat?
Before the Dashun army started, Wang Mu came to visit Li Guo and other rear camp generals in the Dashun army, and said to him: "Taiyuan City is an empty city, there is not much grain and grass in the city, and if you stick to this place, you will be trapped to death by the Qing army." ”
His sincerity dispelled the thoughts of the generals of the Dashun army, Li Guo asked Wang Mu, where is there still grain and grass, Wang Mu shook his head, and told him that most of the baggage went to Henan, and if he wanted grain and grass, he had to go to rob the Qing army.
Li Guo and Gao Yigong and other generals of the Dashun army and the Ming army and civilians in Taiyuan City Jing Wei is clearly distinguished, the Dashun army occupies the north of the city, the Ming army is entrenched in the south of the city, the Qing army is still eyeing outside the city, Bolo gathered most of the soldiers and horses after dawn, Shang Kexi led nearly 10,000 green battalion soldiers back to Bolo, Bolo is very satisfied with Shang Kexi's indefatigable indefatigability to the Qing Dynasty, at this time the Qing army still has the strength of a battle, and the strength of the Ming army in Taiyuan City is only stronger than not weak.
Bolo gathered the generals and decided to continue the attack on Taiyuan City, but Shang Kexi told Bolo that there was not much grain and grass in the army, and he needed to withdraw to Datong Mansion to get supplies, but Bolo squinted and asked him, why didn't he let the Datong Mansion garrison send grain and grass over?
Shang Kexi thought about it, but the Qing army was under great logistical pressure, and it was necessary to supply the Duoduo army, the Azig army, the Zilharang army, the Aobai army, and the Boluo army, among which the Boluo army was relatively small, and it was also the least reused army, and it received the least supplies.
Bolo is not good at anger, last night's battle, he realized that the Dashun army and the Ming army still have good combat power, absolutely can not be underestimated, he can't watch the Ming army and the Dashun army in Taiyuan City, must break through Taiyuan City, the Ming army in the north completely annihilated.
He led Shang Kexi to lead half of the army to withdraw to Datong Mansion, on the one hand, to escort grain and grass, on the other hand, to transfer the Qing army of Datong Mansion to continue to attack Taiyuan City, the Qing army was ready to go, and the Ming army and Dashun army in Taiyuan City rested in the city for a few days, and actually chose to abandon Taiyuan City, the main reason is that Wang Mu told the generals that His Majesty was not in Shanxi, but with Jiang Jiu, Ling Jingyang went to Bailu Mountain to fight with the Qing army.
His Majesty is not in Shanxi, everyone feels that there is no need to fight the Qing army here to the end, and there is not much grain and grass in the city.
Gao Ding and Wang Mu also organized the army and people in the city, ready to retreat to Bailu Mountain, everyone chose to retreat, there must be a broken army, the Ming army Gao Ding's combat effectiveness is acceptable, but the number is not much, Gao Jie is a group of armed peasants who have just experienced the battle, only the Dashun army has the ability to cover the retreat of the army and the people.
Li Guo did not give in, and ordered Gao Yi to lead the Dashun army and civilians to retreat together with the Ming army and the Ming army, and he led 4,000 elite soldiers to cover your retreat.
Gao Ding, Gao Jie, Wang Mu and other generals of the Ming army were very grateful, Gao Yigong wanted to say something, but was glared at by Li Guo, and it was not easy to say anything, everyone chose to break through in the middle of the night after making some preparations in the city.
The Ming army retreated suddenly, leaving the Qing army in the dark, knowing that the next morning, the Qing army scouts cruising around the periphery of Taiyuan City saw that the Ming army had gone to the east, and hurried back to report the information of the Ming army's retreat to Bolo.
After Bolo got the information, he immediately raised troops to chase and kill, the Qing army was menacing, the Qing army forwarded to the city of Taiyuan, they were attacked by the city affairs Dashun army, the Dashun army was prepared, and instantly put it
The Qing army's 1,000 vanguard army was divided and either killed or dispersed, and when Bo Luo led the Eight Banners to arrive, Li Guo had already led the troops to retreat to the east with the large army.
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Seeing that the vanguard army was beaten so miserably, Bolo called the general of the vanguard army to come over, the vanguard army was a leader with a blue flag, he limped to Bolo, Bolo suddenly pulled out his waist knife, his hand fell to the knife, and the head of the leader fell to the ground.
Bo Luo's move frightened the other Eight Banner generals, Bo Luo said coldly to the soldiers: "Everyone, you are all my Qing Dynasty warriors, since I entered the Qing Dynasty, I have been walking on thin ice, and if there is a defeat at one touch, the military academy and above will be beheaded." ”
This is to say to the Eight Banners generals, the Eight Banners generals were also Bo Luo's murderous spirit to stimulate the desire to fight, after Bo Luo's order, thousands of Eight Banner soldiers spread their feet to pursue the Dashun army, Bo Luo let his own soldiers go to Datong Mansion, so that Shang Kexi rushed to Bailu Mountain with grain and grass to support the Duoduo Department to besiege the Ming army.
The Eight Banners were enthusiastic, but Li Guo was not a mediocre talent, leading four thousand elite soldiers of the Dashun Army, blocking the attack of the Eight Banners to the death, and the two armies fought a bloody battle in Taigu south of Yuci City, with more than 600 casualties among the Eight Banners and more than 1,000 casualties among the Dashun Army.
The number of Qing troops is large, but there are not many Eight Banners of the Army, and there is no loss of a Eight Banners, all of them are the loss of a bannerman, Bolo did not dare to continue the pursuit, Shang Kexi was still in Datong Mansion, and he couldn't catch up for a while, Bolo was forced to give up the pursuit of the Dashun Army, and took the Eight Banners to plunder in the states and counties in southern Shanxi to supplement grain and grass.
Bolo gave up the pursuit, so that the Dashun army and the Ming army could retreat to the junction of Shanxi and Henan, and converge with Jiang Xuan at Yonghe Pass, where Jiang Xuan set up camp, and when the large army arrived, tens of thousands of troops were crowded into Yonghe Pass.
Jiang Xuan clashed with Leng Rutie's Green Battalion here, Leng Rutie ordered the 500 forward army to attack the Ming scouts in the back mountain, and Wang Zhu, the chief soldier of the Green Battalion, and Haturi, the leader of the Eight Banners, received reinforcements from Shanxi a few days ago.
The two led more than 2,000 people into Shanxi, and fought with Jiang Xuan's troops on the border line of Henan and Shanxi, Jiang Xuan's troops were weak in combat, and under the attack of the green battalion soldiers, the army was defeated like a mountain, and Jiang Xuan was forced to lead the troops to withdraw to Shanxi and defend to the death in Yonghe Pass.
Wang Zhu and Haturi's mission was to garrison on the north side of Bailu Mountain, but also to prevent the Shanxi Ming army from coming to support, but they did not have the spare strength to attack Yonghe Pass, Halitu reported the information of the Ming army to Duoduo, and Duoduo couldn't help but speed up the pace of attacking Bailu Mountain.
Before Wang Mu, Gao Jie and other Ming troops arrived at Yonghe Pass, the Qing army attacked Xiaosongshan for five days and five nights, Hongyi artillery continued to bombard day and night, and the barrel of the cannon blew up several doors in five days, blowing up Xiaosongshan beyond recognition, Dong Daqi Department, Mei Shifeng Department, and Jiang Rang Department stationed in Xiaosongshan tried their best to defend it, Zhang Luofu and Jiang Hao sent troops to support in time, and every attack of the Qing army was beaten down, and the two armies stained Xiaosongshan with blood, and almost every step was lying with the corpses of the soldiers of the Ming and Qing armies.
The Qing army's attack was defeated, but it also destroyed the Ming army's tunneling tactics, Ling Jingyang withdrew the Iron Fist Army and other troops to Bailu Mountain, and let Wangbao, Baidun and other weaker combat units go to Houshan to garrison with Shi Tie to prevent the Qing army from attacking from the back mountain.
Duoduo saw that the attack was not successful, and suddenly felt that the troops were stretched, these days the attack on Xiaosong Mountain lost thousands of soldiers and horses, and the Qing army besieging Bailu Mountain was more than 50,000 people, he had the idea of encircling the point to send reinforcements, and immediately ordered a more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to support Wang Zhu, so that Wang Jian and Haturi must annihilate the Shanxi Ming army that came to support Bailu Mountain.
The two people who got the support of Wang Zhu and Halitu were more confident, especially the defeat of Jiang Xuan's troops a few days ago, which made the two of them look down on the Shanxi Ming army, and after getting the increase plan, I had more than 15,000 people under the command of Ang Shu, and launched an attack on Yonghe Pass under the leadership of Wang Zhu and Halitu.
This attracted the attention of Niu Guangtian, who was also lurking on the north side of Bailu Mountain, he realized that the Qing army went north, it may be that Jiang Xuan led the Shanxi reinforcements to come, and the Qing army lost the attacking Ming army reinforcements in the north, Niu Guangtian wanted to support the Ming army in Bailu Mountain, and wanted to join Jiang Xuan, but he only had hundreds of remnants, which was not a level compared to the Qing army.
Just when he was at a loss, the general who was suddenly stationed at the front rushed back and said to him: "My lord, there are Jiannu troops rushing to our army, do you want to withdraw temporarily?" ”
Niu Guangtian asked the generals how many people were in the Qing army?
The general replied to him that there were more than 500 people in the Qing army, and they were dressed as green battalion soldiers.