Chapter 314: The Forces (4)
Niu Guangtian heard that the Qing army only had more than 500 people, and felt that he could fight, but whether he could quickly defeat the Qing army and end the battle after the battle made Niu Guangtian not very sure.
After thinking about it, he still gave up the battle of the Geqing army and retreated further north with his troops.
The Qing army did not notice that the Ming army was quietly retreating, because the Qing army's vanguard army was not interested in fighting at all, they were interested in burning, killing and plundering, especially the vanguard army composed of green battalion soldiers, there was no discipline at all, as the leader of the vanguard army, he was as cold as iron, he had no ability, and he was unwilling to restrain his subordinates.
The five hundred forward army advanced to the lurking area of the Niuguangtian Department, where they finally saw the daily necessities left by the Ming army, as well as some discarded weapons and ammunition, Leng Ru Tie Even if he was blind, he could not be regarded as not seeing, so that his subordinates rushed back to report to Wang Jian, there were Ming army activities in the woods twenty miles north of Bailu Mountain, and asked Wang General to increase his troops to support.
After Wang Zhu got the news, his eyes rolled, and he asked Haritu for instructions, whether to divide his troops to destroy the other Ming troops, but Haritu didn't care at all, and Wang Zhu said that the Yonghe Pass Ming army should be annihilated, and even if the other few Ming troops were assembled, they could not form a deadly threat.
After understanding the Halitu ceremony, Wang Zhi ordered Leng Rutie to continue cruising on the north side of Bailu Mountain, and when he found the main force of the Ming army, he immediately reported that the other departments attacked Yonghe Pass with him.
At this time, not only Jiang Xuan's soldiers and horses, but also senior generals such as Gao Jie, Gao Ding, Li Guo, and Wang Mu discussed how to resist the attack of the Qing army in Yonghe Pass.
Unlike Jiang Xuan, Gao Ding and other generals of the Ming army, Li Houying still had tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, and he was thinking about how to annihilate the Qing troops who came to attack, not just to push the Qing army back.
He has capital arrogance, because there are thousands of soldiers in the back camp, and he has the ability to wrestle with the Qing army, he has a resolute attitude, Gao Jie and Gao Ding also agreed, Jiang Xuan's troops are not many, seeing that everyone has the same opinion, he also wants to export the defeat of Xinxiang City, so he also agreed to fight to the death with the Qing army in Yonghe Pass.
Wang Mu saw that everyone wanted to fight to the death with the Qing army, and it was useless for him to oppose it, but he just took the four major families, Mi Shengguang, middle and low-level officials, military dependents of the Dashun army, as well as Bai Lushui, Wen Yuanyang and other non-beneficial
The fighters retreated to the outside of the mountain, not laughing at him for his timidity, Jiang Xuan also deliberately mobilized 500 soldiers from the army to protect Wang Mu and others.
Because of the strong strength of the Qing army, forcing the Ming army and the Dashun army to merge into one, Li Guo and the Ming army general discussed, the Dashun army was the middle army, Gao Jie was the left wing, Gao Ding was the right wing, and Jiang Xuan was in reserve.
"The Point Guard Is Here"
Gao Yigong was a little dissatisfied with Li Guo leading the Dashun army to shed blood for the Ming army, but Li Guo said: "Gao Yigong, my Dashun army can't fight the Qing army alone, we are in front, if defeated, the allies will not live long." ”
"General, if these Ming miscellaneous people wait for our army and the Qing army to be exhausted, they rush out and annihilate our army and the Qing army, even if we die, we will be sorry for the soldiers of the rear battalion."
"Have you forgotten, tens of thousands of family members of our army, do you really think that they will withdraw, they will also be behind the Ming army, if the Ming army waits and sees without fighting, they will rush to the Ming army, forcing the Ming army to rush to the Qing army, and they can also cover the retreat of our army."
Li Guo also asked Gao Yigong to lead 300 soldiers to the family camp this evening, Gao Yigong took the order to go, and the next day, Wang Jian and Halitu ordered 15,000 Qing troops to arrive at Yonghe Pass and camp outside Yonghe Pass.
The Qing army just set up camp, Li Guo ordered his cavalry to provoke the Qing army, the Qing army rushed from Bailu Mountain, exhausted along the way, how could there be spare strength to fight, Wang Zhi took the infantry in front, Halitu ordered to avoid the battle, and personally led the Eight Banners to build a barracks, one afternoon, the Qing army barracks were out of scale, and more than 10,000 Qing troops returned to the barracks to rest.
The provocation of the Dashun army had no effect, Li Guo withdrew the cavalry, and the whole army was stationed in Yonghe Pass, at this time Wang Zhi did not know the number of Ming troops in Yonghe Pass, which was more than his troops, and he and Halitu discussed to attack Yonghe Pass tomorrow, pull out the nail of Yonghe Pass, and the whole army pursued the Ming army to the north.
Li Guo and other generals saw the scale of the Qing army today, and with the strength of Dashan County and the Ming army, they had the ability to annihilate it in a battle.
Gao Ding proposed to launch a surprise attack tonight, when the Qing army was unstable, pull out the Qing army camp in one go, Li Guo and Gao Jie and others thought about it, and felt that they could indeed raid tonight, if they waited until tomorrow
, In the face of the Qing army, which has recovered its strength, the Dashun army and the Ming army will be more difficult.
Everyone said to do it, the Dashun army and the Ming army rested in Yonghe Pass for a few days, physical strength is not a problem, after getting the military order for the raid operation, the officers and men of each army have carried weapons and waited in the barracks for the next instructions.
This time Jiang Xuan took the lead, he didn't want to be looked down upon by the Dashun army, Gao Jie was silent, he had already thought about it, follow behind the Dashun army, capture the Qing army as much as possible, and enrich the strength of the troops under his command.
Li Guo and Gao Ding outflanked the Qing army from both sides, after setting the tactics, the whole army had a full meal, and then kept silent, after dark, the Qing army also had oral cancer is buried in the pot, Wang Zhi had dinner, and deliberately took the elite troops to garrison on both sides of the barracks, which was to prevent the Ming army from raiding.
In his impression, the Ming army is vulnerable, but the Dashun army has some strength, he still thinks that his enemy is the Ming army in Shanxi, if he knows that tonight is the Dashun army and the Ming army together to raid, he will definitely choose to arrange the military camp and Yonghe Pass farther away.
Wang Zhi took his own soldiers to walk around outside the barracks, and saw that the Mi Ta army in the pass was blinded by a black light, and he was also a little afraid of a surprise attack, so before returning to the barracks to rest, he specially ordered 2,000 shield soldiers to be stationed in the front of the main camp, and also prevented a large number of defensive fortifications such as horse rejection piles.
He thought to himself that even if the Ming army attacked tonight, there were sword and shield men in front of him, which could buy him time to gather troops and horses.
When he returned to the barracks, it was already late at night, and there was no one in Haritu, one of the two was the chief soldier, and the other was the leader, but Wang Zhu was a Ming man, and Haritu was a member of the Eight Banners, with a prominent status.
Haritu can write a clear language, and said to Wang Zhu: "General Wang, is there any movement in the Ming army at the pass?" ”
"If you go back to Zuoling, the Ming army will not make a sound in the pass, and I will also let two thousand sword and shield men be stationed outside the barracks, and after dawn, two thousand sword and shield men will withdraw to Hehe, and the other soldiers and horses will attack the pass with me and annihilate the Ming army for my Qing Dynasty."
Seeing that Wang Zhu was doing a good job of defense, Haritu praised Wang Zhu for a few words, and he would win sleeping, and Wang Zhu also returned to the barracks with his own soldiers, washed up and fell asleep.