Chapter 406: Reinforcements (5)
Ling Jingyang and Li Guo got the news that Ninghua City had not been breached, and ordered all the officers and men of the army to bring only one day's dry food, accelerate their advance, and at noon the next day, arrive at a mountain col in the northwest direction of Ninghua City, where the Ming army sat down to adjust their troops and recover their strength.
The Qing army besieging Ninghua City also found that the reinforcements of the Ming army had arrived, and the Qing army generals ordered a retreat very decisively.
He led the troops into Ninghua City, the defenders in the city saw him leading his troops to come, and shouted for the rest of his life, after Ling Jingyang came to the city, he watched the Qing army in the distance go farther and farther, he was very worried that Yicheng was broken by the Qing army, and Li Guo was also very worried that the Chongzhen court was destroyed by the Qing army.
In that case, the entire Jiangbei would be left with the Dashun Army and the Daxi Army, and the Qing army could mobilize the main force to destroy Daxi and Dashun.
You can go from Ninghua City to Yicheng, not much closer than going to Henan Mansion, Ling Jingyang regrets giving up Fenzhou and Lingshi City, if there is a garrison in Fenzhou, you can reinforce Yicheng as soon as possible.
At this time, he had a sense of powerlessness, Li Guo was like him, the army had become a dispensable army in Ninghua City, whether it was to go to Xuanfu Town, or to support the Great Western Army and the Chongzhen Imperial Court, it would take dozens of days.
Ling Jingyang gritted his teeth, ordered Wang Mu in the rear to be responsible for escorting grain and grass, and ordered Wang Bao to continue to garrison Ningwu Pass, if the Qing army attacked Ningwu Pass, the whole city retreated to the south, he took the troops to continue to advance to Yicheng, Li Guo also gritted his teeth and insisted, leading the troops to Yicheng with Ling Jingyang.
The army went south to Jingle County, which was captured by the Qing army and burned down, a good city was all rubble, Ling Jingyang did not see a living mouth in the city, of course, there were not many people here.
Li Rufeng has been opening the way for the army, in Niuweizhuang in the east of Jingle County, found that the Qing army was camping here, this Qing army is the Qing army besieging Ninghua County, Ling Jingyang hesitated to fight this Qing army, Li Guo said: "Fight, definitely have to fight, even if one more Qing soldier is killed, it can also reduce the pressure on the battlefield in other places." ”
This sentence inspired Ling Jingyang, and he made up his mind to attack the Qing army, because the artillery battalion and the baggage troops were still there
Falling behind, Ling Jingyang suddenly had an idea, let the baggage and artillery battalions be used as bait, lure the Qing army over, and then concentrate the main force to defeat the Qing army.
This tactic is very risky, because the Qing army also has more than 10,000 people, the number is not less than the Ming army, but more than the Ming army, if there is no successful ambush, the Qing army breaks into the baggage and artillery team, it will be an avalanche.
Ling Jingyang asked Li Guo to pretend to be the main force to run to the south, and let the baggage and artillery battalion continue to advance, he led the army to remain silent in Jingle County, and waited for the artillery battalion to leave, and then ordered the troops to set off.
In this way, the Dashun army was in front, the artillery battalion and the baggage were in the middle, and the Lingjingyang department was behind, and the Qing army in Niuweizhuang only saw Li Guo abandon the baggage and the artillery team and went forward, but did not see the Lingjingyang troops behind.
The Qing army fought in Taiyuan for many days, and there was also a shortage of food, and the Qing army generals decided to eat the Ming army's baggage and artillery battalions to supplement the lack of grain and grass, and the Qing army said that they would do it, and more than 10,000 Qing troops rushed from Niuweizhuang to the Ming army's baggage and artillery camps.
After Li Guo started the Qing army, he immediately led the troops to kill a horse gun, and the Qing army had long been prepared for Li Guo to kill back, and arranged 6,000 soldiers and horses on Li Guo's way back to aid to resist the support of the Dashun army.
Li Guo was blocked by the Qing army, and he was not impatient, and led his troops to fight the Qing army on the spot, he knew that Ling Jingyang had many ideas, and he would not be eaten by the Qing army so easily.
Ling Jingyang was not in Jingle County at this time, and he was no longer behind the baggage troops and artillery battalions, but with his direct troops, the Iron Fist Legion, Zhang Shun, Li Rufeng, and the nine thousand soldiers and horses of Gao Ding's five divisions disguised as the people who escorted the baggage, only the old steamed bun artillery battalion was a genuine gunner, and the others were all soldiers of the Ming army.
When Ling Jingyang was waiting in Jingle County, he asked the people who transported the grain and grass to take off their clothes, and then led the troops to change into the clothes of the people.
The soldiers of the whole army hid their weapons in the grain carts and waited for the Qing army to attack, and when he saw the Qing army rushing over, he unceremoniously ordered an attack.
So in the eyes of the Qing army, the Ming army and the people actually lined up neatly, shooting the Qing army with bows and arrows and firearms, and the Qing army rushed up a group, and a group was killed, and the Qing army rushed the most fiercely, and the fastest runner were all killed and wounded.
After the "people" in the Ming army saw the Qing army rushing up, they threw away their bows and arrows and firearms, and rushed up with weapons to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army.
This time, Ling Jingyang personally carried a big knife to kill the enemy, and in the battle, he clearly felt that many soldiers in the Qing army were not Eight Banner soldiers, but green battalion soldiers with braids.
Mei Shaozuo led dozens of guards to protect him, Mei Shaozuo has grown a lot in previous battles, and he also regards himself as a Ming person, not a Fusang person, on the battlefield he tried his best to protect Ling Jingyang, so that Ling Jingyang can kill the enemy with all his strength.
Thousands of Qing troops were beaten to the ground by the Ming army, and when many Qing soldiers were killed, couldn't they understand that the Ming army's people were also so strong?
When the Qing army began to retreat, Lao Mantou ordered the gunner to open fire, and he wanted to blow up the Qing army into parts on the way to retreat.
The Qing army's attack was broken by the Ming army, forced to retreat to the east, Ling Jingyang led the troops to pursue the Qing army that did not withdraw, the old steamed bun in the Qing army retreated on the way, ordered to open artillery, dozens of large and small artillery bombarded the Qing army's retreat road, the red-coated cannon and the tiger squat cannon were subject to technical limitations, the accuracy was insufficient, but the Qing army's fastest retreating soldiers were blown up into a blur.
On the south side of the battlefield, Li Guo and his subordinates also began to exert force, thousands of soldiers of the Dashun army in a stalemate with the Qing army, defeated the Qing army in one go, and frantically slashed the Qing army on the battlefield, more than 10,000 Qing troops were defeated by the Dashun army and the Ming army, the entire battlefield was a rout of the Qing army, Ling Jingyang and Li Guo ordered the whole army to chase and kill, and be sure to eliminate the living force of the Qing army.
The Qing army was pursued and killed by the coalition forces, and the Qing soldiers who could not run fast threw away their weapons and surrendered, but half of the Qing troops withdrew from the pursuit of the coalition forces.
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