The bloody fierce battle, with the collapse of the Qing army, gradually came to an end, Zhu Wenzhen's three thousand Ming army cavalry killed red-eyed, and could not restrain the horse for a while, and chased out about ten miles before gradually sobering up.

And the disadvantage of "wearing less iron armor", which had previously caused the Qing cavalry to suffer losses against the enemy, also turned into an advantage as they turned into fleeing-

When fleeing for their lives, they had to lose their armor to escape quickly, many of them didn't wear iron cotton armor when they came today, the horsepower was well preserved, and they quickly pulled away after the bloody battle, and the Ming army horses carrying heavy armored cavalry couldn't catch up.

Moreover, the Qing army was very undisciplined and abandoned a team of men and horses of Zuo Guangxian, the traitor general of the former Ming army, these people ran slowly, and were trampled and collapsed by Zhu Wenzhen, and the Qing army took the opportunity to stay away.

And when Wadak was just killed, Zhu Wenzhen didn't know the identity of the other party, but just looked at his armor and war horse, and it was estimated that he was a senior officer. As for the faces, they have been bombarded with shrapnel and are unrecognizable.

As the Qing army ran wildly to open the distance, Zhu Wenzhen also had the opportunity to calm down and carefully examine the battlefield, and the line of fire found a few Qing army officers who had just been captured, and directly pulled a bunch of horsewhips over to torture them, only then did he force the identity of the enemy general to know that he had killed a right meler Ezhen.

Earned!

When Chongzhen was at the beginning, the deputy general of the Ming army was able to kill a Jiala and annihilate his subordinates, so he basically had a chance to be promoted to the chief officer. He actually killed a Maile Ezhen directly today, and he was half a level higher, but it was a pity that the governor had just been promoted to his own general army before leaving, and there was no official position to be promoted for the time being.

The old boss, General Cao, knew his merits, and I am afraid that he would also be impressed.

In addition to being happy and excited, Zhu Wenzhen didn't float, he quickly calmed down, and hurriedly ordered the troops to regroup, rest their horsepower, and then prepare to retreat slowly.

"Gather the horses left behind by the Tartars! Don't take these knives and guns, pick the best ones at most, and change horses for those who can change horses and ride, raise good horsepower and slowly retreat!

Wadak dared to outflank from the west of Yuxian, and it must be that the Tartars had another way to outflank them from the east of Yuxian! We just ran into this enemy army, but it was just a time difference, if this road of Tartars is unable to meet up with friendly forces, other Tartars will definitely come to search! Always be ready to fight again! All firearms are reloaded! Scrutinize! ”

After a few teas, the remaining Ming cavalry reorganized their ranks under the constraints of Zhu Wenzhen. Compared with before the war, the number of war horses has increased instead of decreasing, and there are still hundreds more wounded, but the number of soldiers is much less.

I have to say that the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Qing army is still okay, even if the light enemy rushes in and kicks the iron plate, they still cause hundreds of casualties to the elite cavalry of the Ming army.

Fortunately, the Ming army won after all, and he got the opportunity to clean up the battlefield, Zhu Wenzhen could carefully search, and let the soldiers take away the double-barreled rear-loading trolls and revolvers left behind by the battle dead robes to avoid being captured by the enemy.

Strive to keep the detailed structure and test data of these two weapons secret from the Tartars for a year and a half, at least not to let the Tartars find out the weapons data of the Ming Army in this round of southern invasion.

In fact, the high-ranking generals under Zhu Shuren's command also knew that when tens of thousands of people were engaged in large-scale melee, it would be impossible for weapons to be kept secret for a long time, and there would definitely be remnants and seizures.

Even if the enemy does not have the industrial strength to imitate it, at least it can be taken back for testing, thoroughly understand its technical characteristics, and strive to develop its strengths and avoid weaknesses at the application level. All the generals of the Zhu family army can do is to delay this process, fight as many asymmetric wars as possible, and slowly weaken and reverse the strength and weakness of the enemy and us.

The soldiers under his command also knew the severity, strictly carried out the order, and then retreated slowly and orderly along the way.

However, what should have come was still coming, and after they retreated, they were only half an hour after they were discovered by another cavalry of the Qing army who searched from the other side of Yuxian.

Zhu Wenzhen put on a posture of showing weakness after the bloody battle, and walked slowly, which really attracted the enemy to scream and charge wildly. At this point, Zhu Wenzhen also knew that it was impossible to leave, so he ordered in advance to turn around and form a formation. Fortunately, there was also a gap of time between the two battles, and the soldiers had eaten dried meat, drank water, rested and regained a lot of strength, and could fight again.

And although everyone's physical condition is not as good as in the morning, the morale is very high and the spirit is high.

The soldiers all listened to Zhu Wenzhen's propaganda and knew that most of the Qing cavalry on this road were the same as those encountered in the morning, and they were rushed in to carry out a roundabout outflanking mission by light enemies, and most of them did not wear heavy armor. As a result, in the battle in the morning, the Ming army still had to fight before its confidence skyrocketed, but the battle in front of it was already full of morale before it started.

Of course, there is also the disadvantage of bursting morale early, that is, it cannot last. Zhu Wenzhen knew the truth of being vigorous and then declining, so he directly let his subordinates go up recklessly.

Everything that followed, as expected, was like a replica of the battle in the morning, and even better - this Qing cavalry, in fact, had arrived at the meeting place behind the enemy that had been discussed with Wadak in advance an hour ago, and it was only after a long time that they did not see Wadak come to join the division, so they searched further.

And this kind of search mission that goes beyond the plan will inevitably lead to the physical exhaustion of the infantry army and the disconnection of the rear army. Therefore, the first time to rush to the battlefield, that is, a force of the size of Jiala, did not even bring the servant Han army and the Mongolian cavalry, and the total strength was 2,000 people.

They even had fewer people than Zhu Wenzhen, and they also ventured forward, with light armor and heavy armor, and it was the first time they encountered a musket unit in actual combat, and under multiple superpositions, it was naturally another wave of hundreds of people, more wounded soldiers dragged their crippled bodies and fled in embarrassment, and more than 400 war horses were captured.

The most ingenious thing is that Zhu Wenzhen initially divided the troops into two groups in order to cover the evacuation of the wounded, and let the wounded go first with the extra war horses, and the elite soldiers with intact combat strength were cut off.

Originally, this trick was nothing, but when the broken troops entered the fierce battle, in the team responsible for escorting the wounded soldiers in front, the guerrilla who was responsible for leading the team had a flash of inspiration, and wanted to help the battle, so he asked his No. 100 people to drag the broken military debris behind the horse's buttocks, roll up the dust, pretend that the army came back to reinforce them, and at the same time, he also played out the banner of the word "Cao" early.

This kind of trick was originally nothing, it could only be regarded as a basic exercise, and many famous cavalry generals used their horse's tail to drag branches, and used a small number of troops to pretend to be a large number of reinforcements. But the situation on the battlefield was already beneficial to the Ming army, and the Qing army suddenly thought that it was a plan, and Cao Bianjiao's banner frightened people, which further aggravated the collapse.

Zhu Wenzhen fought two battles in the morning and afternoon, and made a lot of money before the enemy reacted, which can be said to have made a lot of money.

After repelling all the outflanked enemies on both sides, he retreated steadily, stationed overnight, and continued to march the next day, returning to Nanyang County (Nanyang County is more than 100 miles away from Yuxian County, and it is too late to go back after the battle in the afternoon, so he must spend a day)

And the Qing army was already frightened, and really did not rush into pursuit again.

……

On the night when Zhu Wenzhen killed Wadak, in the camp of the Qing army in Ye County, Prince Azig of Ying was also shocked when he got a bad time.

"What? Wadak died in battle? You waste, how can you still have the face to come back alive! How can I explain to my second brother! The second brother was originally a thoughtful person, and now I can't think that I conspired with the fourteenth and fifteenth brothers to kill his sons! ”

Azig has no feelings of kinship with Wadak at all, and the royal family is already weak, and it is said that the death of a nephew is nothing. But he knew very well how violent the internal undercurrents in the court were after Dolgon took power, and he really didn't want to cause trouble anymore.

Azig was also a ruthless man, and immediately severely punished the officers of Jiala and Niulu who escaped back, especially picking out one of the most responsible and should bear the blame of the master, and directly ordered to be dragged out and executed. It can also be regarded as convenient to give Dai Shan an explanation in the future - a slave in our banner did not do a good job, and the master was killed, and we have already implemented military law.

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Subsequently, the matter of accountability was revealed, and Azig quickly paid attention to the battle situation, he did not understand how the cavalry troops he sent out to outflank and divide and encircle the enemy-occupied area could be defeated by the Ming cavalry so easily!

He first carefully inquired about the size of the cavalry of the Ming army, but unfortunately soon got a misleading information - the officers who fled back, seeing that the prince had killed a person to calm their anger, of course they wanted to boast that the enemy was stronger, and it was said that they were facing several times the enemy and being outnumbered, so they were defeated.

And they are not completely lying, after all, Zhu Wenzhen still raised the banner of Cao Bianjiao. If they don't distinguish between truth and falsehood, then they will all say it as it is, and the stronger they say the Ming army, the lighter their sin will be.

As a result, Zhu Wenzhen's 3,000 cavalry, when it came to Azig's ears, was at least assessed as "led by Cao Bianjiao himself, at least 10,000 or 20,000 elite cavalry of the Ming army".

In this way, the Eight Banners cavalry of the Qing army on each road was only 2,000 people, and it was understandable that they were defeated.

Of course, the new horse-mounted firearms used by the Ming army were also blown up by the Qing army. Azig also attached great importance to it, and hurriedly asked if there were any physical objects seized, but unfortunately there was not, and he had to listen to the language descriptions of those people first.

"How can such a firearm be fired with one hand on horseback without having to stop the horse without holding the reins? Can you shoot two or more shots in a row? Like the old three-eyed firebolts of the Southern Barbarians? Much more powerful than the Three-Eyed Firebolt? Is it possible to reload on the battlefield? ”

The more Azig listened, the more mysterious he became, but considering that the officers who had fled back were all the same, he could only believe it.

Subsequently, he carefully sent people to examine the seriously wounded who had escaped with their lives after being hit by the musket, observed their injuries, asked the military doctor to clean the wounds, tried to find more clues from the projectiles and wounds, and discussed them with his staff and military advisers.

Soon, a knowledgeable staff member beside Azig summed up some useful experience and reported it seriously:

"Lord Wang, the cavalry muskets used by these southern barbarians are very different from usual. Its projectiles are extremely small, mostly iron slag and crushed lead, but the number is dense, and it is estimated that it is a shotgun, which is also consistent with the description of the wounded soldiers.

When the military doctor examined, he saw that some of the wounded soldiers who were slightly injured also had a lot of fine broken lead embedded in the iron cotton armor, all of which could not be penetrated, but the sides of the forearms and legs were not easy to be protected by the armor, and they were embedded in the broken lead, which caused the injury. And those who were seriously injured and killed in battle were mostly in order to grab time and go into battle with light armor. ”

Azig touched his beard, and said with hatred: "The Southern Barbarians have this thing, but it is inconvenient for my Qing Dynasty's light cavalry to be too lonely to go deep and close." Cao Bianjiao really has a hand, and he failed to kill him in the Battle of Songshan at the beginning, after all, it was the disaster of my Qing Dynasty.

Pass on my general order, from tomorrow, let our army intersperse and divide the cavalry that surrounds Nanyang counties, slow down, and shorten the distance between each other, and not go too far alone!

Today's adventure of outflanking nearly a hundred miles at every turn, wanting to swallow a few counties in one bite, can no longer be had! The fighting spirit of the Southern Barbarians is very resolute, so that the sons and daughters are vigilant at any time, even if it is a scout battle, they must be neatly dressed! Then there are those who underestimate the enemy and cause the defeat, and the military law is engaged in it! ”