"Can't be returned! No refund! The granaries of the Southern Barbarians are already on fire! Keep it up! Burn their winter-rich grain completely, and the southern barbarians will be defeated! ”

Seeing that among the left and right flanks of the army he sent, Bolo and Suppilon had collapsed all the way, and the Mandahai side might not be able to hold it at any time, Hauge's eyes were red, and he couldn't help but roar out orders to stop the retreat of his own troops.

In the final analysis, it was part of the granary in the Huang camp in the Ming army that caught fire, which gave Haoge confidence and made him reluctant to give up, so he was stuck by the Ming army and fought the war of attrition to the most tragic state.

After all, the illusion that is incomparably close to victory is the easiest to make a gambler who has lost a red eye desperate, at this time, whoever holds up one more breath can kill the winner, and whoever gives up will lose all the profits completely.

Otherwise, if the Qing army was desperate earlier, and saw clearly that "our army has been planned, the enemy has already prepared, and we will definitely have no chance of winning", then he will also leave.

And Aobai, who had just retired from his wounds and had just bandaged his wounds, had not had time to wash the blood on his head and face thoroughly, so he knelt in front of Hauge and pleaded with all his might:

"Lord Wang! Can't fight anymore! Cao Bianjiao's counterattack is too strong, and Prince Li's subordinates may not be able to hold it at any time. Look at the smoke and dust rising again in the distance to the east, it must be the southern barbarians who have sent new reinforcements from the daimyo, and if you want to withdraw, you should withdraw now! ”

Ao Bai obviously knows better than Hauge what is happening ahead, he has personally experienced the cruelty of the Ming army after the elite of the Eight Banners rushed into the camp of the Ming army, and the Ming army still fought to the death, and the layers of fortification and meat grinding were consumed, and he knew that victory was by no means as within reach as Hauge thought.

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Zhang Huangyan said that this dog thief must have set up a poisonous plan, in order to lure the Qing army step by step, and finally slowly twisted the noose around his neck like a boiled field chicken in warm water, and when the Qing army found that he was out of breath, he was no longer able to break free.

After being reminded by Aobai, Haoge couldn't help but lose his mind and looked in the direction pointed by the other party, and sure enough, more Ming reinforcements appeared on the skyline in the distance, and he couldn't see clearly for a while.

Only then did he realize that today's battle had been bloody for at least two or three hours, and both sides were working hard to the death, dragging the enemy's reinforcements to the point that they were about to arrive.

"Lonely unwilling, lonely unwilling!" Haug roared in despair.

Ao Bai continued to persuade bitterly: "Lord Wang, think about it, even if we burn the Ming army's grain today, we must have the spare strength to continue to contain the Ming army and drag it until the Ming army collapses." If the main force suffers heavy losses, even if the grain is burned, it will not be able to win!

The Ming army can forcibly rely on chariots and horses to transport grain to the daimyo in the future, if we don't have enough cavalry to intercept and kill the Ming army's land grain team in the future, then they will just have more food loss. The Ming army is fighting with us to consume national strength, and we will definitely not be able to fight! ”

This last sentence finally woke up Hauge completely, and it can be regarded as the last straw that broke the camel's determination.

Hauge's eyes were bloodshot and red.

Indeed, the step of burning grain is not enough to directly lead to the victory of the decisive battle, even if the grain burning is successful, the follow-up must also cooperate with the "interception and killing of the Ming Army's temporary land grain transport team".

If the elite cavalry of the Eight Banners is finished here, it will be useless to burn the Yellow Grain stored in the Bright Army.

"Let's go! Let Mandahai quickly withdraw! After the concession army is broken by Mandahai! Those infantry troops who are stuck too deeply, if they can't retreat, let them stall for time! ”

Hauge finally made up his mind to break the arm, and then asked Bolo and Mandahai to return the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry. In order to distance himself, Hauge also played a little trick, giving priority to the Manchu cavalry to retreat first, and the Mongol cavalry to give lower priority, and finally it was the turn of the Han army flag and the green battalion.

It's a pity that tens of thousands of elites of the Qing army have formed a bloody minced meat with Li Dingguo, Liu Guoneng and others in the Neihuang camp. Those troops that rushed the deepest were destined to not be able to withdraw.

Once they turned back to fight, the remnants of the Ming army's trench network behind them would frantically cross fire, fight bayonets to delay them, drag them to the friendly forces to divide and encircle, and bite wildly, completely killing those Qing troops who were left alone and cut off.

Those Qing soldiers who jumped over the wall in a hurry saw that there was no hope of seizing the road, and naturally they were still trapped beasts, fighting while using as much fire source as possible to set fires as much as possible, and the flames in the entire Neihuang camp became more and more blazing, and both sides were chaotic to the extreme.

However, with the successful withdrawal of the first batch of Eight Banner cavalry of the Qing army from the battlefield, the situation soon collapsed, and some Mongolian soldiers and Han army banners and green battalions gradually found themselves abandoned.

The Mongol soldiers were still helpless, but the Green Battalion and the Han Army Banner were in a complete uproar, and there were pieces of disarming and surrendering, or they were driven by the Ming army to flee and fight back, and there was civil strife.

In this battle alone, Hauge may be able to retreat with some of the Manchurian Eight Banners, but the military strength of the Han and Mongols under his command will definitely be devastated.

The retreat battle tore for more than a quarter of an hour, and the Manchurian cavalry, who were still alive and could escape, finally disengaged one after another, and then began to gallop and retreat.

But the feast of killing is far from over, although the cavalry of the Ming army was unable to pursue the core main force of Haoge because of the delay of the Qing army's abandoned son, but the artillery troops brought by Haoge for today's battle were too late to run.

The Qing army had previously learned from the Ming army and used heavy artillery trucks with many horses to assist the thousands of pounds of Hongyi artillery to maneuver quickly over long distances. However, the Qing army could not learn at home, only learned rapid transportation and did not learn rapid deployment, and they never learned the artillery mount structure of the Ming army.

Now the army has to be withdrawn quickly, and the artillery, of course, will not have time to reload. Hauge also thought about the problem simply, leaving only a banner of Manchurian cavalry to cover the loading and transfer of artillery troops.

However, the speed of the Ming army far exceeded the expectations and preparations of the Qing army, and seeing that the iron cavalry of at least tens of thousands of people on the left and right sides of the Ming army was about to be killed, the full-flag cavalry left by Haoge had no choice but to resist slightly, and after finding that it was not invincible, he abandoned the artillery and ran directly.

There were 130 Hongyi cannons, and in most of the day's bloody battles, about 20 or 30 were originally blown up by the Ming army, and barely a hundred of them were still available. At this moment, when it came to being pursued by the Ming cavalry, these cannons were completely useless.

"Don't panic! Shoot at those dog barbarian cavalry! Fire! How can I, a Qing warrior, be stabbed in the back and killed! Hurry up and load your shotguns! ”

Tong Tulai, the commander of the Qing army's Han army, as the chief general of the Qing army's artillery unit, hoarsely ordered his subordinates to carry out the final shelling of the face when he knew that he could not escape, trying to change one before he died.

I have to say that Tong Tulai is a family of hardcore traitors for generations, and the people raised by his family are still very loyal to their masters. Under the hoarse command of Tong Tulai, before the Qing artillery was destroyed, it actually managed to fire two rounds at close range, and then it was slashed to death by the face-

The first round was loaded with ammunition before the Ming cavalry rushed up, and it was activated early, only the second round was hastily loaded after the Ming cavalry entered the firing range.

At that time, the artillery of the Qing army was very slow to load, and it was not surprising that it would take five or six minutes or even ten minutes to shoot a shot, that is, it was a little faster when loading shotguns, and there was no need to consider whether to compact, whether to clean the residual sparks in the gun chamber and the residue of the previous round of insufficient combustion.

Because the cannon was fired too hastily and was forcibly accelerated by non-standard operation between life and death, at least more than 20 Hongyi cannons were directly blown up when they fired close to their faces! There was even a part of the gunpowder piled up next to it that was detonated. But at least seventy or eighty cannons successfully fired a second round of shotguns.

Two rounds of shotgunning, coupled with the power of the chamber and ammunition, each shot could kill and injure at least a few Ming cavalry.

In order to completely annihilate the artillery of the Qing army, Cao Bianjiao rushed up with these two rounds of shotguns, and actually paid thousands of casualties of the Ming cavalry in just two minutes! The battle was not without tragedy.

Countless Ming cavalry wearing water-forged steel cuirass, hit by heavy artillery shotguns, were also directly pierced, just like those exhibits in the museum of Les Invalides in Paris in later generations, "the cavalry cuirass was directly bombarded with a big hole in the chest, through the back."

Even Cao Bianjiao, who is the world's leading general, personally led the team to rush to kill, but he was directly damaged by shrapnel in one leg. But Cao Bianjiao was amazingly resolute, and still ordered his subordinates to run wildly to attack, and he must not fall short:

"Leave me alone! Artillery bombardment this round! The dog Tartar artillery has been slaughtered by us! Kill them all, and don't leave a single one! ”

The subordinates also knew that the most dangerous moment had been carried over, and if they didn't hurry up to kill the thieves now, the casualties paid by rushing over would be wasted, and naturally they all inspired the ferocity of fighting to the death, stabbing and slashing indiscriminately, slashing groups of Qing artillery with only sabers and bayonets on the spot.

"Hold on! Resist! Uhhh

Tong Tulai himself was stabbed with a hundred knives in his body, and was directly chopped into meat paste by the angry Ming cavalry. All the field artillery combat power that the Manchu Qing could dispatch was completely wiped out in this battle, with a total loss of 130 Hongyi cannons, and thousands of artillerymen, loaders, and logistics auxiliaries were cut and killed.

The Ming army paid more than 1,000 casualties of cavalry in exchange for the annihilation of a country's artillery troops, and this loss was still worth it.

It's a pity that Tong Tulai's daughter Tong Jiashi is ten years old this year and has already been born, and his son Tong Guowei is also seven years old.

Otherwise, Tong Jia's family, as the biological mother of Kang Mazi in the later generations, if she can be strangled before she was born, Kang Mazi will have to be reincarnated in a different position.

However, until now, I don't know if Shunzhi can live for a long time, and I don't care about those Tong Jia's Tong Guowei and other generations. If you can't kill the egg and sperm, the effect is the same.

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The bloody battle on the battlefield in Neihuang County lasted for a whole day.

After Hauge retreated with the remnants of the Manchurian cavalry, the Qing troops who were dragged and trapped could not be killed for a while, and they did not all surrender, but they still contained the combat strength of the Ming army, and the small-scale sporadic fighting lasted until late that night.

The losses of the Ming army were also not small, and the troops used by Li Dingguo's department to carry the line carried it for seven hours from beginning to end, and more than half of the more than 20,000 people were killed or wounded.

The rest of the troops, which came up one after another to rotate to resist the pressure, were in a slightly better situation, with more than a few thousand and a few thousand casualties.

Cao Bianjiao's cavalry unit paid more than 2,000 casualties in the final regiment to destroy the Qing army's artillery and the subsequent pursuit of the remnants of the enemy. And the bloody battle of the three Manchurian Banners that defeated Bolo and fought with Bolo was also thousands of dead and wounded. The cavalry of Huang Degong's troops, who arrived at the battlefield in the afternoon, also suffered slight losses in the pursuit.

In the end, all the numbers were added up, and all the cavalry units of the Ming army were added up, and the total casualties were as many as 8,000 people. The total number of casualties among the infantry units reached 20,000 or 30,000.

According to final statistics, more than 7,600 people were killed in the direct battle, more than 4,000 died on the same day after being seriously wounded, and 19,000 were seriously wounded.

On the side of the Qing army, the five banners of the Mongolian army banner, 40,000 cavalry, were annihilated more than half, because the Ming army would execute the wounded when cleaning the battlefield, so the casualty ratio was extremely high, and the final head reached 19,000, and the vast majority of them were killed in the Ming army camp and the front-line battlefield on both sides of the Zhangshui River.

Counting the wounded, the Mongolian Five Banners that participated in the war lost at least two-thirds of their living strength. This is also the result of the priority of selling the Mongols and the Manchus when Hauge retreated.

Considering that Hauge is now in danger with the Queen Mother of Mongolian descent, and Hauge's biological mother was from the Ulanala clan of the Hercynian Jurchen. After this battle, Hauge betrayed his Mongolian teammates like this, and the Mongols were afraid that they would jump ship and break with the Qing State.

Therefore, the significance of annihilating so many Mongolian cavalry in this battle is not only that there are more than 20,000 casualties, but also that it completely intensifies the internal contradictions between Manchu and Mongolia. Even if the remaining Mongol soldiers fled back, it is estimated that they may not be able to die for Hauge again.

In the future, in the process of the Ming Dynasty's pursuit of the remnants of the Qing Dynasty, the Mongols are likely to temporarily protect themselves, which gives the Ming a window of time for each breakthrough, which is very beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to Mongolia, the losses of the Han army banner and the green battalion in the Qing army were naturally even worse. Although they were the last to be sent in the attack, they were also left behind and cut off when they retreated.

In the end, the two sides had a bloody clean-up by the Commission for Discipline Inspection, and more than half of the Han army's banner-clothed minions were killed in battle for their masters, but there were many collapses and surrenders in the green battalion.

But regardless of whether they died in battle or surrendered, at least 40,000 of the 50,000 Qing Han Chinese who participated in the war were wiped out, nearly 20,000 surrendered prisoners, and the rest were dead.

The last Manchurian cavalry, there were a total of six flags participating in today's battle, and the two white flags were naturally the most unpopular because they followed Dorgon and Dord, and they were assigned the most dangerous vanguard task at the beginning, and in the end, they also suffered the worst casualties in the bloody grinding, and both flags suffered more than half of the casualties.

The other four flags, with slight losses of varying degrees, managed to keep the formation and retreat back when Hauge withdrew his troops.

Coupled with the complete annihilation of the field artillery unit, the Qing army was annihilated by nearly 100,000 people in this day-long decisive battle, of which 20,000 or 30,000 were captured and 780,000 were killed and wounded, but only 30,000 dead and wounded of the Ming army were exchanged.

The exchange ratio between the two sides was about 1:2.5, and it has to be said that the army still fought very beautifully, although it had an advantage in intelligence and weapons, and it also designed to induce the enemy to attack the fortifications.

However, the Ming army also had relatively heavy losses, that is, the battlefield was dragged to the Neihuang camp after all, and the preparation time before the start of the battle was very hasty, and there was no time to transfer grain, so the camp and grain storage were greatly damaged.

The vast majority of the barracks were destroyed by shelling and arson, and the infrastructure was so badly damaged that it needed to be completely rebuilt.

After the war, Zhang Huangyan asked all departments to count the loss of grain stockpiles, and according to the report, it was estimated that forty percent of the army's winter grain stocks were burned in the war, which was also a huge property loss.

This is like Yuan Shaojun's decisive battle with Cao Cao in Wuchao, even if history is changed and Cao Cao is defeated, the loss of grain in the Wuchao camp will definitely not be small.

Of course, Zhang Huangyan also knows that the amount of over-fire grain counted below may have moisture. Maybe the soldiers who cleaned up the battlefield on the front line will count the grain that is slightly over-scorched and not completely burned, or the granary collapsed and overflowed, as "complete losses".

But Zhang Huangyan doesn't plan to pursue these problems, just now there was a bloody battle, 30,000 people were killed and wounded, this kind of bloody war of the level of annihilation, and the soldiers are not allowed to be greedy for a few more rations of military rations?

As long as the battle is won, it will be regarded as a labor army if you give out more wine, meat, money and food, at this time, you can only turn a blind eye, if you are as serious as Chongzhen, maybe something will happen.

Zhang Huangyan gave instructions overnight: "The loss will be completely disposed of according to the report below, but don't waste the grain that has not been completely burned!" That's just that the books don't exist anymore, and if you can eat, you can add food to the soldiers! Especially those that are slightly burnt, as long as they are not dark, they are all edible! ”

The people below also knew that the Governor was knowledgeable, and immediately said that they would not go too far. So that night, most of the soldiers of the Ming army who had been hungry for a day in the bloody battle were enough to fry rice and noodles in a pot, and they gave priority to eating the grain that was roasted by the fire in the past few days, and there was no limit.

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Because of the loss of barracks and grain, and the fact that so many wounded people needed to be disposed of, Zhang Huangyan naturally did not have the ability to immediately launch a counterattack and pursuit. Both sides need to lick their wounds.

Zhang Huangyan ordered Huang Degong to temporarily replace Cao Bianjiao, who was injured and needed to be pulled back to recuperate, and let Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen lead all the cavalry troops and keep an eye on Haoge.

On the other hand, he quickly reported the victory to the Nanjing Imperial Court and Zhu Shuren, who was still in Kaifeng, and in the report to Zhu Shuren, he also emphasized the losses of the Great War, and implored him to urgently allocate some additional supplies, especially to replenish enough for the 300,000 troops to eat for a month and a half of military rations to make up for the losses caused by this decisive battle.

After Zhu Shuren saw it, he also didn't want to check the accounts, and directly and boldly issued all the orders, even if Zhangshui had been frozen, and it had to be transported directly from Kaifeng to Puyang by land, it had to meet the needs of the army.

Zhu Shuren knew very well that such a great victory could solve the fundamental problem of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was nothing to spend more money and food in comparison.

At the same time as sending grain, Zhu Shuren also further instructed Zhang Huangyan that he must bite the Qing army to the death, strive to eliminate as many Manchu living forces as possible in the pass, and do not let them be killed outside the pass.

At the same time, he also said that he himself would soon go north to Puyang, so that Zhang Huangyan could supervise the army to further the northern expedition to Beijing.

In addition, he also gave Wu Sangui and Jiang Huang orders to speed up the outflanking, so that they no longer have to insist on "fighting a dumb battle" like before.

Haoge has been hit hard, even if he catches the fighter and encounters Wu Sangui or Jiang Hao alone, Haoge does not have the strength to annihilate Wu Sangui in a short time, and it will definitely be delayed until Zhang Huangyan's main force arrives.

On the third day after the decisive battle, Wu Sangui attacked Xingtai with all his might, and finally broke the city with the assistance of artillery - he began to attack Xingtai a few days before the decisive battle, and finally spent five days to break the city.

Jiang Xuan, who was further behind, also successively took Luancheng, Zhaozhou and other less important areas after breaking through Zhending, further threatening the depth of Haoge.

On the third day after the decisive battle, Hauge finally made up his mind to personally take the surviving main force of the Eight Banners and quickly retreat to Beijing. Considering that the Ming army was too tightly glued, he also had to use the remaining green battalion, Han army banner and some other troops as a backstop to ensure escape.