"Can't escape! Let the former army resist! Otherwise, all of them will be driven down the river and trampled by the Southern Barbarians! ”

In the face of the collapse of the Qing army, the old and weak Abatai, roaring hoarsely, and even burst into tears, desperately trying to get his two sons to stop the soldiers who wanted to flee and let them fight on their backs.

Yue Le's face was full of black marks of gunsmoke, and there were blood and tears crisscrossing his face and rushing out of black mud ravines, he staggered to his father, and pleaded bitterly:

"Father, the right army has completely collapsed, and the right side of the Chinese army has also been torn to the point that it cannot be maintained, so it can only be withdrawn!"

Abatai almost didn't come up in a breath: "Withdraw and withdraw in an orderly manner!" You can't run north like this! Really escaped to the edge of the peony water, there are still ten or twenty miles of land! ran away and was chased and bitten by the two mad tigers Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong for dozens of miles, at least more than half of them died on the road!

If you want to retreat, you must swim east across the river on the spot, and cross the river on the spot to get rid of the pursuit! It's up to the dead to hold the enemy head-on and buy time for friendly troops to wade across the river! Let the friendly forces on the east bank of the river meet you! ”

Yue Le listened to it, but he didn't know how to refute it, but Abatai's other son Bolo felt that it was inappropriate, and he also admonished with tears in his eyes: "Father, don't!" The water is wider and deeper than the peony water, and even if you can wade through the water, you must lose your armor, otherwise most of my northern sons will drown!

If you give up the ironclad heavy army, you will have no combat effectiveness when you flee to the east coast. What's more, the Ming warships can come and go on the water, although there are not many Ming warships visible at the moment, it is enough to kill and injure a large number of soldiers swimming in the water! The mouth of the Shaoshui River was cut off by our army, and the Ming ships could not enter, so it was safe to wade from there! ”

Abatai's face was pale, his expression changed several times, but he still made a decision quickly:

"You all think so, and Zhu Shuren will definitely think so! The Ming army knew that before our army crossed the Shaoshui, it had already cut off the channel from the Shaoshui to the Shaoshui, so it was natural to predict that our army would take the Shaoshui even if the troops retreated after the war!

That's why Zhu Shuren only concentrated so many troops on land today, and only sent a few warships to monitor the battlefield behind the flank! He couldn't imagine that our army would dare to gamble on their lives, giving up easy things and asking for difficulties! Here's the chance! Once it was delayed for a long time, the warships in the rear of the Ming army got the news of the victory and defeat, and rushed to help sweep the battle, and they couldn't go at all! ”

Abatai was already seriously ill and bedridden, and today he reluctantly helped the sick to supervise the battle in person, and at this moment he was hit hard, and he was in a hurry, and he was vomiting blood again and again when he spoke. Yue Le and Bo Luo were shocked when they saw it, and hurriedly asked someone to carry their father away.

Abatai seemed to be back to the light, and the thin old hand like a chicken claw suddenly became stronger, and slapped Yue Lelai's arm to support him open:

"Let it go! His body knows that this king will not be able to survive Fengyang today, and if he is not angry, he will drown and die of cold while wading......

Besides, today's battle is like this, can you go back and Dolgon let me go? Zilharang was afraid that he was too embarrassed to let it go. If this king dies in battle, you can still get mercy and compassion, you quickly organize soldiers and horses to wade through the water, and this king himself will cut off! ”

The Yue Lebolo brothers were shocked, knowing that their father was determined to die, and they wanted to persuade them again, but they were forcibly taken away by Abatai's henchmen and guards.

Abatai coughed up blood for a while, and his face was actually red, as if coughing up blood made his blood pressure rise and recover. calmly commanded a part of the reliable green battalion to stand up against the water and set up a moon formation, intercepting the pursuit of the Ming army to the death, and buying time.

Historically, Abatai died of illness in March this year, and now he has lasted until September, which is already a year and a half more for people to have a good attitude and live for happy events.

His physical condition, once he encounters a major accident, may not be able to hold it at any time, he himself knows very well.

……

"What? The Tartars didn't retreat to the north, so many people fled directly here, in the nearest jumping water? Fast! Let all the warships that can rush to it be intercepted along the river, and the Qing soldiers who encounter swimming in the water can kill as many as they want! Shoot at the river and shoot arrows as you please! ”

Zhu Shuren, who was supervising the battle on the opposite side, was far away from the line of fire, and the Qing soldiers on the opposite side did not have a big goal of swimming across the river, so only when there was a tide of hundreds of soldiers wading and fleeing in groups, Zhu Shuren could notice this situation.

Zhu Shuren also knew the geography of the battlefield before the war, and the intelligence work was also quite sufficient, knowing that the Qing army had a base to cut off the mouth of the Shaoshui River leading to the Shaoshui, so the Ming army ships could not enter the Shaoshui.

Based on this stereotype, Zhu Shuren was also convinced: even if the Qing army was defeated, if the Qing army wanted to escape, it would only flee north through the Shaoshui River, and would not flee across the river in an organized manner.

In this case, after all, Zhu Shuren's strength is limited, and the total strength of the Ming and Qing dynasties in this decisive battle is about the same, so Zhu Shuren can't waste too many troops on the surface of the Weishui River, and must concentrate the main strength on the front as much as possible and concentrate the superior forces.

All this really led to the fact that when this unexpected fighter appeared at this moment, the Ming army's interception seemed a little weak. But there is no way to do this, if the Ming army seems to have absolute certainty of interception from the beginning, then the Qing army will not choose this escape route.

Everything is a trade-off, a move, how can there be a pre-war strategy that is so brilliant that there is no last resort?

Even if you have no last resort at the beginning, after the enemy sees your first step of the last resort, they will change their tactics, how can you always count the last resort?

All you can do is go all out, do your best, do your best, and kill as many Tartars as you can.

But do your best, and everyone obeys the destiny of heaven!

The few Ming warships on the battlefield immediately ignored the danger of a lone army going deep, and also disregarded the danger of being fired by crossbow muskets on both sides of the strait, or even shelled by a small number of light Franc machine guns of the Qing army.

I only hate to sail against the current, and the speed is slow, and the efficiency of this kind of pursuit is not high after all.

On the main frontal battlefield and the land battlefield, the Ming army was not to be outdone, and became more and more courageous to be the first, and surrounded the Qing army wildly.

Cao Bianjiao's cavalry faced the main formation of the Qing army, which had shrunk to resemble an iron barrel, and it was impossible to kill it for a while. After all, cavalry is not used to carry hard and charge head-on.

Even if the morale of the Qing army declined again and had been defeated, thanks to the banner of Abatai, the king of the county, was still standing there, and Abatai himself personally supervised the battle and did not retreat, more or less forcibly installed a backbone for the Qing army.

The Qing army has strict military law, if the leader of the army does not retreat, the people below are not allowed to order to retreat first, even if they go back alive, the punishment is very heavy, and it may even affect the family.

Cao Bianjiao's cavalry was difficult to open a gap in the main formation of the Qing army, so Zhu Shuren was not too worried, and hurriedly sent a herald Pegasus to send a message, so that Cao Bianjiao could break through the main formation of the Qing army and break through to the north directly.

Don't worry about exposing your back to the Qing army, let him go straight to Shaoshui, and chase and kill as much of the Qing army as possible that fled north - the kind of battlefield where chasing the dead and chasing the north and backstabbing the deserters is the most suitable for the cavalry to play and expand the results.

After Cao Bianjiao got the order in the line of fire, he finally let go of his obsession with "chasing and killing another Qing army prince", and instead pursued and suppressed the remnants of the enemy on the northern front, and at the same time avoided the Ming cavalry from suffering more casualties - the troops who fought to the death in the moon battle against the water were still very lethal to the cavalry, and Liu Yu didn't kill and injure a large number of cavalry in the Northern Wei Dynasty back then.

After Cao Bianjiao freed up his hand, the frontal battlefield was handed over to Huang Degong, Huang Fei and Lin Yang, who were slowly advancing.

The Ming army's riflemen marched in large formations, and on the frontal battlefield where both sides had lost mobility and room to maneuver, they took advantage of their range and shot rows of Qing army's peripheral foot soldiers to death.

Most of the main infantry of the Qing army are still green battalions, a small part is the Han army flag, and there are very few Manchu and Mongolian infantry.

The range of the bows and crossbows used by these people was far inferior to the Ming army's latest Wuchang-made rifles, and after being shot for a while, they couldn't help but try to launch a counter-charge.

But it was impossible for the Qing army to win by cavalry backlash before, let alone this pure infantry charge?

There is no way to achieve anything more than to leave the corpses all over the ground and flee back again, and further disrupt their own positions.

With the collapse of panic, more and more green battalion soldiers chose to directly throw themselves into the river and wade through the water to escape, and the Manmeng war officers on the bank frantically slashed and killed those who went down the river, but they couldn't stop it at all.

And even if they swam to the water, they had to endure the random shooting of a small number of Ming ships that patrolled and searched, and after a while, the surface of the river was scarlet everywhere.

……

The Zhu Shuren in the rear have been closely staring at the battlefield movement with binoculars,

Seeing that Huang Degong, Huang Fei and others finally surrounded Abatai's main formation from at least two directions, leaving only a small opening on the north side that had not been blocked, Zhu Shuren was also very satisfied.

This detail is also required by his line of fire command, the so-called return to the division should not be contained, the east is the water, the southwest side is surrounded, if the north is also completely surrounded, Abatai's army is easier to fight to the death, leaving a small opening on the north side, the enemy is easy to escape.

And even if you flee north, you can't escape from the encirclement directly, and if you go more than ten miles to the north, you have to cross the Shaoshui that connects Shaobei to the water, and that geographical obstacle is enough to delay the deserters to be chased and killed and forced to land for a while.

Seeing that the battle situation had entered garbage time, as long as he slowly advanced with the rifle team stacking formation and peeled off the shots layer by layer, the victory could be established, Zhu Shuren was relieved, and began to think about how to annihilate the enemy faster and more-

The annihilation of the enemy is inevitable, the difference is only in the speed of time, and obviously the faster the better,

Because the sooner the enemy wades across the river, the less time is left for the enemy to flee north, and the smaller the number of enemies who will eventually escape the encirclement.

Zhu Shuren observed for a while, and found that Huang Degong was still a little slow, at least he had a way to speed up again, and after a little thought, Zhu Shuren once again asked the herald to pass the military order to the front-

Zhu Shuren didn't want to interfere in the details of tactical command, and his talent in this area was not as good as Huang Degong, so he couldn't do it slightly. Zhu Shuren is good at the overall situation and political vision, so he is very clear about the boundaries of his ability, but he just asked Huang Degong to bring a few slogans to attack the heart:

"Let the former army shout, the Han army will not kill those who cut their braids and disarm, and those who kill the Tartars and surrender will be exempted from crime and retained!"

After Huang Degong received the order, he felt that it was really reasonable, and immediately ordered the orders to go down.

On the battlefield, guns and cannons are fired, so chaotic, complex slogans have no singing power, ordinary soldiers can remember at most two sentences, and they have to be popular and combat. The two sentences that Zhu Shuren ordered were very popular, and they all shouted without two cups of tea.

And the infantry of the Green Battalion, who had been cornered on the opposite side and had been used by Abatai to break off, finally had the idea of turning back under the heavy casualties and despair.

Some of the soldiers began to draw their knives and cut off their braids, and then dropped their weapons and leaned over to charge the Ming army. In order to prevent being hit by stray bullets, some soldiers even lowered their bodies or even rolled away from the battle line, just begging the Ming brothers on the opposite side to see clearly that they were not threatening.

There must have been a small misunderstanding at the beginning, and it was not uncommon for deserters to trample on each other.

But later, the Ming army also immediately made adjustments in the run-in, for example, Huang Degong ordered the Ming army to advance and leave some lanes between the various formations to allow the enemy to pass through the formations and surrender.

Some Manchu officers began to indiscriminately slash and kill their own Han soldiers who had the slightest change out of fear, further igniting the powder keg, which directly caused a short-handed counter-fire.

At this point, even the pro-troops around Abatai knew that they couldn't do anything, and several of Abatai's henchmen and guard officers came up to escape with Abatai:

"Prince, let's go! These green camp barbarians are really unreliable! The brethren couldn't stand it! ”

Among the three banners of the Manchurians, the two white flags were heavily damaged and fled back when the cavalry fought and rushed the hollow musket phalanx in the early stage, and Abatai had already allowed them to retreat, so what remained on the battlefield to the end was actually Abatai's own blue flag.

And Yue Le and Bolo are always carrying a Jiala with a blue flag, just now Abatai asked the two sons to lead the team to escape first, and they also took a Jiala with each other.

Therefore, the guards left by Abatai's side at this moment just happened to be one of the most elite armors in the Blue Banner, about two thousand people, plus the Mongolian Army Banner and the Han Army Banner that he felt were absolutely reliable, about five or six thousand were hardcore henchmen, old thieves, and usually fed with silver.

After the large-scale mutiny and chaos of the green battalion that filled in the line as cannon fodder in front, Abatai could rely on the five thousand backbones around him.

It's a pity that Abatai was about to run out of oil, and at this moment, seeing a large area of troops rebelling against the enemy, he was even more devastated, so angry that a mouthful of old blood spurted out, unconscious for a long time, and his subordinates hurriedly pinched people and splashed water before barely waking up:

"You can find a way to break through on your own, just say that it is the king's general order, let you turn around, this king can't do it, die here, it's a horse leather shroud, and Dolgon won't liquidate my Zhenglanqi other robes for not fighting well...... Ahem...... Poof......"

As he spoke, he handed over his seal and some other tokens to his subordinates, trying to let them have a physical evidence after breaking through and avoid being severely punished by military law. As soon as he said this, he spurted blood again and fainted.

Abatai's death completely collapsed the last backbone of the Qing army, and the guards around him were also inconsistent, some wanted to follow his last orders to break through one by one, and some were full of blood and red for a while, and they wanted to turn back and fight with the Ming army.

After about half an hour, the Qing army in Xi'an, except for the part that escaped and broke through, was completely extinguished.

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"Congratulations to the prince! Congratulations to the Lord! The main forces of the Tartars have been annihilated by us! In the end, more than 22,000 people of the green battalion turned against the formation and surrendered! In the melee, he also helped us kill a lot of real tartars! It has greatly reduced the casualties of our Chinese army in the decisive battle! ”

"Cao Bianjiao General Cao's way, chasing the north and chasing the north, also successively captured five or six thousand enemy soldiers who fled north, killed thousands of true Tartars and Mongolian soldiers, plus the capture of the Chinese army, the total number of prisoners in this battle is about 28,000 people!"

The joys and sorrows of life are not the same, while the Qing army collapsed miserably, the morale of the Ming army was naturally high, and the whole army rejoiced and was drowned in the ecstasy of victory.

The results and losses of each department were also quickly and roughly reported, and they gathered here to Zhu Shuren.

All the generals were full of excitement, and they were more and more impressed by the grand strategy of using troops by the prince of E, and they were more and more in awe of the prince's political vision and soft technique.

They all feel that the prince has surpassed Yue Wumu and can be called the god of war among the Han people.

Only Zhu Shuren himself is still so modest: "Eh, don't go too far." Lone is just a commanding height, attacking the heart first, and the specific tactics are not all commanded by the generals themselves. It is you who have practiced the Fa in ordinary times, and you use your soldiers like your arms to make fingers, and what to do with loneliness. ”

After being modest, Zhu Shuren patiently roughly sorted out the results and battle losses summarized by various departments.

The most losses in the battle were the infantry that stretched out the left flank to encircle at the beginning, because the two armies were still holding each other at that time, and the Qing army's two white flags were also very fierce at the beginning, even if they finally suffered heavy losses and repelled the Qing army, but in this process, the Ming army definitely suffered a lot of casualties.

In the first stage, Huang Fei and Lin Chengcheng's troops each suffered two or three thousand casualties, which was close to 20% of the number of troops, and they were able to hold on to fighting to the death without retreating and without collapsing.

It has to be said that in the past few years, the troops have played an important role in improving their salaries, being well-trained, repeatedly brainwashing, and educating soldiers to recognize a few words and learn a little patriotism and the truth that "the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of every man."

In contrast, the cavalry of Cao Bianjiao's department participated in the battles all over the battlefield and the final pursuit, and the total casualties were only about 3,000 people, just a little more than one-tenth of the total number of cavalry, which was still normal.

The remaining main force of the Chinese army, after a continuous bloody battle, suffered about five or six thousand casualties, although the total number of people is comparable to that of the left wing army, but after all, the total number of Chinese troops has more than doubled, and in terms of percentage, this casualty rate is only six or seven percent.

And the Ming army has paid so many casualties, and the Qing army on the opposite side has suffered a heavy defeat, and the losses are naturally at least several times that of this.

The captives who were captured alive alone added up to 28,000 people, all of whom were Han Chinese, because there were no Manchu and Mongolian prisoners, or many Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who had the opportunity to become prisoners, were killed in the process of the Han soldiers in the green camp wanting to surrender and were killed to sacrifice their heads to atone for their crimes.

Huang Degong shouted the slogan "Those who kill the real Tartars and surrender are exempted from crime and retained", so who of the Han soldiers in the green battalion who wants to surrender is not willing to accept a vote? It's normal to turn around and draw a knife to cut the original master.

The rest of the Qing troops who were killed and eliminated on the main battlefield, and who were seriously injured and died of swords, also had about 10,000 or 20,000 people, and more of them could not find the corpses for the time being, either drowned and killed in the water, or scattered to the north and fled to the Shaoshui side, and when crossing the river, they were chased and stabbed in the back by Cao Bianjiao's cavalry, and the bones of the corpse were not left in the Shaoshui.

In fact, the number of people who were stabbed in the back during this kind of general collapse pursuit battle was far more than the number of people who died in the battle, so the Ming army estimated that there were at least 20,000 people killed in the rivers around the battlefield or driven down the river.

In addition, the Manchurian two white flags were crippled in the initial active attack.

After cleaning up the battlefield, all the wounded were mended, and more than 4,600 corpses of soldiers with white flags were found around Huang Fei's initial position.

On the initial position of Lin Chengcheng, more than 2,200 corpses of cavalrymen with white flags were also found.

Coupled with the two white flag cavalry killed in the blocking battle and pursuit battle of Cao Bianjiao's department, it is estimated that the two white flag casualties exceeded more than forty percent of their strength.

Although this time it was not the same as when Duoduo was played, the two white flags that had been rebuilt were completely annihilated, but it was definitely a heavy blow. Who makes the cavalry highly mobile, such a battlefield, the enemy can not fight and escape. The troops who fled first still had friendly troops to cover their retreat, and it was really difficult to completely annihilate them.

However, in any case, the permanent battle damage of the two flags with a full strength of 20,000 people is close to 9,000, and the 11,200 people who fled back also have at least some wounded who are slightly injured and do not fall off their horses.

Although the total population of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army was said to have been 20 to 250,000 in previous years. In addition to nearly 10,000 regular army soldiers, each banner can also have more than 15,000 to 20,000 "reserve men."

However, the Zhengding of the two white flags had already been wiped out once, so when Duoduo died, the total number of men of the appropriate age of the two white flags had been reduced from more than 50,000 to more than 30,000. This time, it has lost nearly 10,000 yuan, and even if it is rebuilt in the future, it will bring up all the men of appropriate age, and it is inevitable that there will be crooked melons and cracked dates.

If you say that the two white flags that Duoduo carried back then, they were mainly elite young people in their twenties and thirties.

The two white flags that Abatai brought today are generally young people of seventeen or eighteen years old, and middle-aged people in their thirties and forties.

This time, half of it will be lost, and next time it will be forcibly replenished, at least half of them are fifteen or sixteen-year-old children, and middle-aged and elderly people in their forties and fifties. Even if they are all "men of appropriate age to be soldiers", their ages must be divided into different batches.

If you lose like this next time, don't add the two white flags, or simply pull children under the age of fifteen, or old men over sixty, or women to the battlefield.

In addition, in addition to the two white flags that once again played the final part of the Manchurian cavalry, the positive blue flags of Abatai's descendants also suffered certain losses.

The most elite armor led by Abatai himself as a henchman guard, because he couldn't evacuate, he and the surrounding green battalion Han soldiers turned against each other, and finally couldn't evacuate in time, and were annihilated by the formation, and all 2,000 people were killed.

Two other Kala, who were slightly wounded, suffered hundreds of casualties each. Therefore, the total number of people killed in battle and killed by swords in the blue flag is about 3,000, which is not less, but it is better than the two white flags.

There were three banners full of people, with a total of more than 12,000 permanent battle losses, and some escaped with minor injuries. More than 40,000 Han and Mongolian armies were annihilated, and 28,000 were captured and surrendered.

In this battle, the Qing army was annihilated in total, reaching a huge number of more than 80,000 people!

And in terms of generals, the Qing army also suffered heavy losses, in addition to the death of Bambulshan at the beginning, Suke Saha was injured, and Abatai died in anger, and a number of middle-level generals such as Beizi/Auxiliary General level were killed.

Those who can be Beizi/auxiliary generals basically have to be the grandson or nephew of Nuer Hachi, who is considered a relative of the Qing Dynasty. Whoever let Nuer Hachi have more descendants, there are more than fifteen sons, and more than 100 grandchildren and nephews, so it doesn't matter how many more you kill.

Although the total loss this time is less than that of Duoduo who went to Jiangnan three years ago and the last 110,000 troops were annihilated, if we talk about the losses in a single battle, I am afraid that today's battle of Weishui is even worse.

After all, Duoduo's loss of 110,000 that year was due to the Nanjing Campaign, the Jinshan Temple Battle, the Jiangyin Siege Battle, the Jiangyin Decisive Battle, and the four small-scale series of battles before and after, which added up to destroy the 110,000, in fact, in the final Jiangyin decisive battle, the Qing army that was wiped out was between 50,000 and 60,000, accounting for only half of Duoduo's total losses.

And today's 80,000 was completed in one day.

The total strength of more than 120,000 Qing troops who fled back was only more than 40,000.

Among them, there are more than 17,000 cavalry of the Three Banners, more than 10,000 Mongolian Army Banners, and the total number of Han Army Banners and Green Battalions remains, and there are only about 15,000 escapes.

It can be seen that the green battalion soldiers are the most serious in collapse and surrender, and the Han army flag and green battalion brought by this battle have 70,000 or 80,000 people, and only 15,000 have gone in the end.

Most of the 28,000 surrendered prisoners of war were in a desperate situation, and as soon as they heard that everyone was Han and could survive as long as they abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, they turned their knives and killed their old masters without restraint.

With most of the main force of the Qing army wiped out, when the Ming army cleaned up the battlefield and counted the results, Zhu Shuren soon found a very funny tidbit-

There were a small number of officers and arrogant generals of the Han military banner of the Qing court, who were not satisfied with the treatment of being captured as a surrendered soldier, and tried to ask Zhu Shuren to make contributions, saying that they had killed Abatai, the king of Raoyu County of the Manchu Qing Dynasty!

The fact that Abatai is dead is, of course, certain, that the Ming army had already captured Abatai's mutilated body when they cleaned up the battlefield.

But how exactly he died, this process was originally inconclusive.

Hearing that there were generals who advocated military exploits, Huang Degong, who was specifically responsible for cleaning up the battlefield and gradually reviewing it, privately preemptively told Zhu Shuren:

"The last general has tortured the circumstantial evidence, and many people say that Abatai was already in danger of illness, and suffered a great defeat, and directly vomited blood and died in the battle, not by others.

This group of Han soldiers surrendered their banners, but they happened to be the closest to Abatai's Chinese army, and after fighting with Abatai's personal guard armor and hand-to-hand combat, they captured Abatai's body in the chaos.

The highest-ranking military officer in the batch of surrendered troops happened to be a speculative villain, so he cut off Abatai's head, not to say that he beheaded Abatai in battle, and begged the court to reward and reuse. ”