Chapter 471: The Battle of Jiangbei (2)
Crowds of Qing troops flocked to the palace and fought with the Ming army in the corridors, rooms, and meadows of the palace, and Azig suddenly realized that this group of Ming troops was not lying to him?
He hurriedly rode a horse to the outside of the city, at this time outside the city the Ming army and civilians were all over the field, the Qing army was indeed trying to chase and kill, but the Ming army was too numerous, and scattered outside the city, and the Qing army was also headless flies in the indiscriminate killing.
In the dark night, Azig also had no choice but to give up, he pinned his hopes on the palace, hoping that the Ming Emperor would be a man and would defend the palace.
He ordered the troops to continue to pursue and kill the Ming army outside the city, but at this time, the west side of the Yicheng was surprisingly quiet.
This attracted Azig's attention, and he immediately made a decision to mobilize 3,000 Eight Banner soldiers to disperse towards the west side of Yicheng, and the Eight Banner soldiers rushed to the west side with torches.
Zhu Youzhen went out of the city from the west gate under the escort of Wu Dading and others, a group of people ran desperately to the west, ran out of Yicheng for about a kilometer, and suddenly there was the footsteps of the Qing army behind him, Wu Dading led his troops to meet the battle, but was ordered by Zhu Youzhen to continue to retreat, as long as he retreated to Yuanqu and met with Mei Shifeng, there was still hope of survival.
The Qing army also found that there seemed to be a Ming army in front of it, riding a war horse and chasing after it, most of the Ming army was a foot army, and the speed was not as fast as the Qing army, and it was caught up by the Qing army after a while.
The soldiers who were assigned to the post-break mission knew that this was a mortal mission, so they did not hesitate to carry their weapons and return to the battlefield to fight the Qing army.
Three thousand Eight Banner soldiers were blocked by the Ming army, and after a fight, the Ming army's rearguard troops were all wiped out, but it bought time for Zhu Youzhen and others, and Zhu Youzhen led the team to retreat to Quwo.
Although the Qing army continued to pursue, but never succeeded in the pursuit, Zhu Youzhen's team also dispersed most of the way halfway, and when they retreated to Yuanqu, there were more than 900 people left, most of the civil and military officials surrendered to the Qing army, only Wang Chengen, Ximen Zhu and others still followed him to the death, retreated to Yuanqu County and Mei Shifeng rendezvous.
Mei Shifeng still has more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, and his subordinates reported to him that His Majesty broke through from Yicheng, and he hurriedly raised troops to respond, forced back the Qing army that was pursuing behind, and welcomed Zhu Youzhen into the city, Zhu Youzhen rested in Yuanqu City for half a day, and then convened the ministers to discuss the next plan.
The ministers were shocked, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army was too strong, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses collapsed under the attack of the Qing army, but the Qing army did not seem to have any strength, and Yicheng was lost inexplicably.
Zhu Youzhen asked where everyone should go, whether to continue to hold on to Yuanqu and wait for reinforcements from the Dashun Army and the Daxi Army, or to go to Henan?
Most people are reluctant to go to Henan, Henan is the territory of the Great Western Army, and it is better to die if they go to Henan and be captured by the Great Western Army.
Everyone was at a loss, only Ximen Zhu and His Majesty proposed, with the support of tens of thousands of troops, to go from Huguang to Nanzhili, and restore the imperial court in Nanzhili, as long as His Majesty led the army to Jiangnan, and there was great righteousness, Hongguang, Longwu, King Lu and other forces had to bow their heads and surrender, after all, no one dared to attack this team.
Everyone felt that there was indeed some truth, as long as the team reached Jiangnan, whoever ate the leopard's gall and attacked His Majesty would not cause the world to be angry.
Zhu Youzhen did not go to Jiangnan that year, and this time he would not waste the opportunity and ordered the troops to leave for Huguang immediately.
Zhu Youzhen said that he would do it, and ordered the troops to set off immediately, and tens of thousands of Ming troops rushed from Yuanqu to Huaiqing Mansion in Henan Province with grain and grass.
The Chongzhen Imperial Court buried its head in the Huaiqing Mansion, and the Huaiqing Mansion was also engaged in a fierce battle.
In Huaiqing Mansion, Li Dingguo led the elite of the 16th battalion of the Great Western Army to fight with Duoduo, and Duoduo was also an opponent in chess, and felt that Li Dingguo was worthy of being one of the best generals in the Great Western Army, and the two led the army to fight several fierce battles in Xinxiang.
The two armies clashed several times and did not achieve a decisive victory, but they both wanted to complete the battle in Huaiqing Mansion. The Great Western Army and the Qing Army were constantly reinforcing Huaiqing Mansion, and in the small Xinxiang City, hundreds of thousands of Great Western Army and Qing Army were gathered.
After the reinforcements arrived, the two armies fought several large-scale battles, but did not defeat the enemy, but lost a lot of soldiers and horses, and in the end, Li Dingguo and Duoduo were a little tired, and decided to use the army at the bottom of the box to fight a decisive battle in the field outside Xinxiang City.
The officers and men of the two armies also understood that this time was a decisive battle of life and death, and after the battle, the forward armies of the two armies appeared, and the forward army was the strongest force of all armies and the most outstanding team in terms of assault ability.
The vanguard army was evenly matched, Li Dingguo immediately invested 50,000 soldiers and horses on the left flank of the battlefield, and Duoduo also added 40,000 troops to the left flank of the Qing army to resist the attack of the Great Western Army.
Soon a fierce battle broke out on the left flank of the battlefield, and Li Dingguo had strong troops on the left flank, but
The real direction of attack is the front, the left side is just a front, and the Duoduo also has a whimsical strategy.
He also put the direction of the offensive on the front, and the left flank troops were also a front.
So when the left wing troops were in a hot fight, the two almost simultaneously ordered the main force to assault from the front, leaving only more than 10,000 people on the right flank, and the right wing troops of the Great Western Army and the Qing Army were also used as reserve troops and did not join the battle group.
The main forces of the two armies collided together on the frontal battlefield, stirring up thousands of bloody lights, and the battlefield's heads were tumbling, and the ground was full of human parts.
Li Dingguo and Duoduo are fighting on the front line, and the two of them are trying to defeat the enemy.
The soldiers of the Qing army also gritted their teeth and insisted, after entering the customs, the Ming army, the Dashun army has never been so hard, but today's bloody battle with the Daxi army, which is full of strength, is beaten to the dust, and the Daxi army is also extremely painful, they have fought with the Dashun army and the Ming army, and they have never worked so hard.
Even the battle with the Qing army not long ago was not so tragic, and the Great Western Army and the Qing Army continued to fight with unprecedented courage.
The number of casualties in the two armies continued to soar, and before that, with so many casualties, it would have collapsed long ago.
Li Dingguo had no reinforcements, and Duoduo had no reinforcements, and the two armies fell into a bitter battle, and many wounded soldiers died of excessive blood loss before they could be treated, or their heads were cut off by the enemy.
The two armies fought for a whole day, the Great Western Army gradually showed fatigue, and the green battalion soldiers in the Qing army also appeared to fear the enemy, and only the Eight Banners still had the strength to continue fighting.
At dawn the next day, Duoduo personally led 10,000 Eight Banners to launch a surprise attack on the Central Army of the Great Western Army.
After a day and a night of fighting, the Great Western Army was already tired and rolling, and was rushed and rammed by the Eight Banners, and suddenly the whole army was in chaos, and the Green Battalion also followed the Eight Banners to launch a fierce attack, and the Great Western Army tried its best to resist on the battlefield, but it was still defeated and retreated by the Qing Army, and it was about to collapse on the whole line.
The hero stood up again, Li Dingguo personally led the cavalry battalion, resisting the surprise attack of the Eight Banners in the front, the elite of the two armies fought head-on, and it was a bloody storm, and the offensive momentum of the Qing army was miraculously withstood by the Great Western Army.
The Great Western Army and the Qing Army were once again locked in a fierce battle, and the officers and men of the two armies dragged their tired bodies and continued to mechanically slash and kill the enemy.
No one dared to retreat, a retreat would mean a rout on the whole front, Li Dingguo and Duoduo were struggling to insist, and the soldiers under their command were also desperately slashing and killing.
The reserve units of the two armies also came up, and when they came up, they were eaten raw, and the corpses on the battlefield were strewn all over the field, and rivers of blood flowed like rivers, and the wounded soldiers who did not die let out painful wails, and even more were the soldiers who were killed before they could scream.
At this moment, a tattered army appeared in the sky, Duoduo and Li Dingguo were a little stunned, they had already concentrated all their forces, and it was impossible to have any more reinforcements.
Whose reinforcements are this?
Li Dingguo and Duoduo were praying, this tattered army of more than 30,000 people, they were like a sika deer, crashing into the depths of the woods, and suddenly saw two hunters fighting.
The fawn was blindsided for a while, and instantly turned into a fierce tiger and rushed towards the battlefield.
The Qing Army, the Great Western Army, watched this new force enter the battlefield.
The tiger's claws slashed at the Qing army, and Duoduo saw clearly that this army turned out to be the Ming army, and the Ming army was like a beast, biting the Qing army fiercely and rushing the Qing army to pieces.
Li Dingguo was overjoyed, and the officers and men of the Great Western Army were greatly invigorated, and bursts of roars erupted, radiating unprecedented vitality, and rushing towards the Qing army.
The morale of the Qing army was demoralized, and under the joint attack of the Great Western Army and the Ming Army, the army was defeated.
Duoduo saw that his subordinates were killed and staggered, and the general trend had gone, so he decisively ordered a retreat, and at noon that day, all the Qing troops retreated to the battlefield, and the Great Western Army pursued and killed twenty miles, killing the Qing army in blood.
Hundreds of thousands of Qing troops were either killed or dispersed into stragglers, leaving more than 70,000 people and Duoduo to retreat to Weihui Mansion.
The Great Western Army and the Ming Army won a great victory in this battle, but the two armies did not have time to celebrate, Azig led the army to chase and kill from Shanxi, the Great Western Army pursued and killed Duoduo, Azig launched a surprise attack from behind, captured Henan Mansion in one go, and cut off the road for the Great Western Army to retreat west to the vast base camp of Hu.
Not only that, Azig boldly mobilized Wu Sangui's troops to go south to Nanyang Mansion, completely blocking the road for the Great Western Army to retreat south, and Li Dingguo and Zhu Youzhen's combined forces won a great victory, and they were immediately blocked by the Qing army in Huaiqing Mansion.
Duoduo, who was defeated by the Great Western Army, finally got precious time to recuperate.
In Weihui Mansion, Duoduo gathered the defeated troops, obtained more than 20,000 Qing soldiers, led the remnants to return to Huaiqing Mansion, and Azig flanked the Great Western Army and the Ming Army.
The other large army of the Qing army did not get a chance to play in the early battle, and Bolo asked Dolgon to fight several times, but Dolgon refused.
Half a month ago, Dolgon received information from outside the customs that Jilharang led 200,000 Manchu soldiers to garrison the capital of Shengjing, and took in the Goryeo king Yi Liang and a group of old and young people in Shengjing.
There are more than 500,000 soldiers and civilians in Shengjing who followed the king to avoid Shengjing, there was a food shortage in Shengjing, and Zierharang wanted to expel the Goryeo people several times, and then thought that these Goryeo people were very good cannon fodder, and they could use the Goryeo people's hatred of the Fusang people, so that the Goryeo people were in front, and he led the Qing army to raid the Fusang people in the back,
Due to the uncertainty of the battle outside the gates, Dorgon did not allow Bolo's troops to enter the battlefield.
Bolo watched Duoduo fight on the battlefield again, but Duoduo's opponent Li Dingguo was a genius, and before Duoduo returned to Huaiqing Mansion, he led his troops to break through to the west, and Azig, who was stationed in Henan Mansion, quickly made an offensive posture.
Li Dingguo shook a shot, led the army to the north of Shanxi, and actually attacked Pingyang Mansion, Pingyang Mansion had just been captured by the Qing army, and there were not many defenders.
At this time, the Bolo army has been standing still. Finally useful, Bo Luo personally led the army to aid Pingyang Mansion, the Qing army was menacing, Li Dingguo was a great brilliance, led the army north to Ningwu Pass, where he and the Dashun army Gao Yi Gong Division, the two armies jointly resisted the attack of the Boluo Department.
Azig and Duoduo pounced, and the two of them had hundreds of thousands of troops, but they didn't make a difference.
Duoduo and Azig met and discussed, and Duoduo led his army south to attack the Fengfu.
Kaifeng Mansion was divided into two at this time, the north was garrisoned by the Great Western Army, and the south was garrisoned by Li Guo, Li Guo did not have many troops in Henan, the Qing army attacked Henan, he decisively gave up the previous station, and the whole army retreated to the south of Kaifeng Prefecture.
However, Li Dingguo saw the opportunity and led his troops to enter Huaiqing Mansion, which led to a decisive battle between Li Dingguo and Duoduo in Huaiqing Mansion, and finally Duoduo was defeated.
Duoduo's army went south to Kaifeng Mansion, along the way the Great Western Army surrendered and dispersed, Duoduo hit Xihua County in the south of Kaifeng Prefecture, where it was strongly blocked by Li Guobu.
Duoduo would not be able to break through Lee's defense for a while. This front was forced to a stalemate.
On the other hand, the Qing army, under the leadership of Azig, attacked the city in Henan Province, Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu were defeated, and were forced to lead the army to withdraw to the north of Huguang and join forces with Zhang Xianzhong.
The Great Western Army has long been based in Yunyang Mansion, Zhang Xianzhong's troops recovered to more than 500,000 people, but there are not many elites, in the face of the Qing army attacking again, Zhang Xiangzhong is much more shrewd this time, and ordered the troops and horses to retreat, the main force is stationed in Xiangyang Mansion, he sits in Yunyang Mansion to command, and the Azig army goes south from Nanyang Mansion to Xiangyang Mansion.
This time the vanguard of the Qing army was Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui led tens of thousands of Guanning troops south to Xiangyang Mansion, and the general suggested that he should also behead the De'an Mansion next door to Xiangyang Mansion, so as not to be attacked from behind by the Ming army in Jiangnan.
Two thousand Qing troops attacked De'an Mansion from Xiangyang Mansion to the east, and the road was unimpeded, and the Qing army thought that De'an Mansion was also ownerless, and the local defenders had long since run away.
Therefore, he continued to attack in the southern and northeastern directions of Duc An Province, intending to occupy the entire central and northern part of Duc An Province and complete the encirclement of Henan.
There were 1,000 Qing troops entering the north-central part of De'an Province, and the first thing to bear the brunt of was the fortress group built by Ling Jingyang.
At this time, Ling Jingyang was training troops in Jiuliguan, and in these two months, Ling Jingyang used Zhang Jinyan's fame to attract many local forces, including landlords and squires, frustrated politicians, and more unwilling to live in Jiangbei, which was ruled by Jiannu.
They brought a large number of people to Ling Jingyang, as well as countless grains and grasses, Ling Jingyang gradually gained a foothold in De'an Province, and the people in Yingshan County and other places planted crops on wasteland, and waited until summer to harvest the first batch of grain.
However, Wu Sangui's 2,000 soldiers entered De'an Mansion and disrupted Lingjingyang's plan to deploy a war, and many generals advised him not to show his strength too early, and as for the people in the central area of De'an Province, they could withdraw to the fortress group and temporarily throw the land to the Qing army.
Ling Jingyang vacillated between attacking or hiding forces, and at this time Zhang Jinyan began to behave again.