Chapter 144: The old slave is cowardly
"It hasn't been broken yet, this Zhejiang army is really a little tenacious, and it is not the same as the soldiers and horses in Liaozhen."
On the low hill, Huang Taiji rode on horseback, pointing at the Zhejiang soldiers in the distance with a horsewhip and saying the difference between the Zhejiang soldiers.
However, Nurhachi said: "Let the iron cannon continue to fire, and the dead soldiers will rush in through the gap!" ”
"Yes!" Seeing this, Du Du next to him hurriedly asked someone to give an order.
The two sides had only been fighting for a quarter of an hour, and the two yellow and two white flags had already suffered hundreds of casualties, which was difficult for Nurhachi to accept.
"Bang bang bang!"
Suddenly, in the formation of Zhejiang soldiers, the smoke of artillery rose again, and then the positions of more than 30 iron cannons were hit by stone shells, and more than a dozen gunners were killed on the spot.
But bad things also broke out, a Franco cannon exploded, instantly shattering the chariot under his command and wounding more than 20 Zhejiang soldiers.
"Kill the dog!"
When the dead soldiers saw the opening in the chariot formation, they immediately poured into the mouth, and they were dressed in triple armor, and they were ready to expand the gap under the leadership of the white armor Bayala, but the fate was the same as before.
The wolf soldiers and boring palladium men who were waiting for the battle specially picked their feet and faces to greet them, and the more than ten Jianyu who poured into the gap immediately turned their heads in different places.
But Jianyu is not a fool, and soon someone pushed the shield cart into the gap, and the exploding chariot frame was knocked open, and more than a dozen people protected the chariot while opening up the battlefield inside.
Seeing this, the dead soldiers and heavy foot soldiers around them poured into the mouth one after another, and when they were about to open the mouth, they heard the sound of dense tiger squatting cannons.
Fingernail-sized bullets erupted from the Tiger Cannon, instantly cutting off the crowd that had poured into the formation.
At this time, the spare Chinese chariot was pushed up, blocking the gap, and the more than 300 prisoners who rushed into the formation became turtles in the urn.
Seeing that they were about to be in a different place, at this time, Jianyu's artillery stopped a cup of tea, gradually subsided the fever, and under the control of the Han gunner, launched another shelling.
The sound of "boom" sounded, like thunder on the ground, and the chariot was broken.
"Crash!"
Seeing that the previous collision had an effect, some of the dead soldiers immediately led people to push the shield cart, crashed into the broken chariot frame, and knocked several gaps from the position of the former army.
It's just that in an instant, thousands of Houjin dead soldiers broke through the opening, and at this time, the surrounding birds and tiger squatting cannons also greeted one after another.
Thousands of dead soldiers were hit in the cheek by the bird's hammer in hand-to-hand combat with the Zhejiang soldiers, or they were killed by the tiger squat cannon that suddenly withdrew from the wolf and exposed it.
For a time, the defense of the front army was almost broken through, but it was soon defended by the Zhejiang soldiers with firearms.
But such news is not good, because of the extensive use of firearms, which made the gunpowder of the former army quickly bottom out.
At the same time, the rear army was hit by a shield cart and began to fire guns.
Seeing that the front army of the Zhejiang soldiers was difficult to resist, Nurhachi immediately spoke: "Huang Taiji, the cavalry with two white flags led by you defeated the left and right cavalry of the Zhejiang soldiers, and broke their idea of breaking through. ”
"Yes!" Hearing this, Huang Taiji rode out of his horse, and under Nurhachi's gaze, the four thousand light cavalry and heavy cavalry commanding two white flags rushed towards the cavalry of the Zhejiang army and the two chariot formations.
Suddenly, the galloping sound of the 4,000 iron horsemen greatly boosted the morale of the Houjin side, and the gunpowder of the front army was immediately exhausted.
"Fight to the death!"
Qi Yuanbi drew his sword and roared, and the Zhejiang soldiers of the former army began to engage with the dead soldiers of the Later Jin.
At this moment, the sound of shouting and killing, the sound of horses' hooves, the sound of artillery, the whistling of stone bullets, and the sound of birds' guns rang out in an endless stream.
Qi Jin, who was in the Chinese army, saw the scene of the Houjin cavalry sweeping in, and immediately ordered:
"Shoot the arrows, let the left and right cavalry face protrude!"
"Yes!" The lieutenant responded, and then had the arrows fired.
With the firing of arrows, suddenly the Zhejiang cavalry began to move.
They picked up the speed of their horses and rushed towards Houjin's two white-flaged cavalrymen, and raised the Wansheng Franc machine in their hands.
When the two armies rushed less than ten paces, they staggered their positions, one side used bows and arrows, and the other used Wansheng Franc machine, and there were no less than 100 people who fell from their horses on both sides for a time, and at this time the two sides made a roundabout.
However, at this time, the superiority of the bow and arrow came out, that is, the rate of fire that the fire gun could not match.
The two sides retreated, leaving more than 100 corpses on the battlefield, whether they were horses or people, all lying on the ground, quietly unable to move.
The face protrusion and the middle are all dead, and few can live!
Soon, the two sides took a detour and met again.
Accompanied by the dense white smoke and the arrows that broke through the white smoke, more than 100 horses fell between the two sides.
Such a boring battle, but in every detour, took the lives of more than 100 people, and compared to them, what was even more tragic was the front army that had been torn apart.
Hand-to-hand combat is unavoidable, and the only good news may be that Zhu Youzhen has redressed the Zhejiang soldiers with chain mail and cloth face armor, so that they have some advantages in hand-to-hand combat.
But even so, the former army inevitably became a meat grinder-like existence, and every moment there were Jianyu who were dragged into the battle by boring palladium and hook sickle guns and were killed, and there were also Zhejiang soldiers who were stoned to death by the iron bones in the hands of the dead soldiers, and they were stunned.
The battlefield was chaotic, but the drums beat and everyone paused.
In the large array of the Chinese army, more than 100 people were placed in front of the drums, they pressed the drums and clicked the drums, and used the drums to transmit military orders.
The sentinels, who understood the military order of the drums, immediately began to regroup, and soon forced the dead soldiers out of the front formation, and used corpses to accumulate and block the gap in the car formation.
The dead soldiers were forced back again, and at this time, the Zhejiang cavalry on the left and right also returned to the formation.
"Mingjin retreats!"
Suddenly, Nurhachi, who was on the low hill, frowned and shouted this sentence, which made Du Du next to him puzzled:
"Great Khan, the front army of the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, as long as there are two more breakthroughs, the front army will be eaten, why retreat now?"
"You only saw their dead and wounded, but you didn't see us, and more importantly, Xiong Tingbi's house should not be far from here!" Nurhachi replied.
At this time, Du Du reacted, looked at the sky, and found that the battle had been going on for about an hour.
Xiong Tingbi and Qi Jin were originally less than sixty miles apart, and with this morning's hurry, they may be less than thirty miles away from the battlefield now.
"Shall we withdraw, then?" Du Du was a little unwilling.
"It's not to withdraw, it's to wait for the iron cannon!" Nurhachi responded, and then ordered:
"Let Huang Taiji lead the cavalry with two white flags and two yellow flags to the south to block Xiong Tingbi's Liaozhen soldiers and horses."
"Iron cannon waiting, this Ming army has already finished gunpowder, and we have plenty of gunpowder, just need the iron cannon to break the formation!"
"Yes!" Hearing this, Du Du hurriedly asked people to give an order, and after Huang Taiji received the military order, he immediately led the two white flags to make a detour.
Compared to the two white flags with only forty oxels, the two yellow flags with sixty-five oxels had more cavalry.
After a short time, nearly 8,000 taels of yellow flag cavalry were pulled out, and after the battle, there were still 35,600 people after the battle, and after the two white flag cavalry, under the command of Huang Taiji, they advanced towards the south bank of the Beisha River.
As soon as they left, there were less than 20,000 people left in the Jianjiao who originally surrounded the Zhejiang soldiers.
Both sides were resting and counting their own casualties, and the final number was staggering.
There were 457 casualties among the cavalry on the left and right sides of the Zhejiang army, 986 casualties among the front army, 245 casualties among the rear troops, and 191 casualties on the left and right flanks, totaling 1,879 people, of which 756 were killed on the spot and the rest were seriously wounded.
The seriously wounded were transferred to the Chinese army, and the busy Chinese army began to heal their wounds.
Looking at these seriously injured soldiers, Qi Jin's heart sank:
"I can't compare to my uncle......"
Qi Jin knew that this was a matter of training and command.
With the same practice, the Zhejiang soldiers have not tasted a defeat in the hands of their uncle for more than 20 years, beheading and killing tens of thousands, and their own casualties are only hundreds.
And he himself, just a battle, let more than 700 people die in battle......
"If my uncle is here, how will I fight?"
Qi Jin suddenly recalled the figure of the man in his memory, he rode on the vast grassland, led more than 10,000 Zhejiang soldiers, and defeated 30,000 cavalry of Dong Fox with foot resistance, but he lost no more than 60 people......
If it were him, how would he fight this battle?
"Boom!"
Time did not give Qi Jin to think, and more than 40 artillery pieces of Jianyu opened fire again, and the chariot was broken in an instant, and more than 100 people were wounded.
The Zhejiang soldiers could only collect the remaining gunpowder from each other, and in front of them were for the front army to fire at each other.
But soon, after only three rounds, their gunpowder was completely consumed and emptied, and at this moment, Qi Jin pulled out the knife on his waist and said to the soldier who was beating the drum next to him: "Change to the front battle formation, beat the drum!" ”
"Yes!" Hearing this, the drumming began to change, and soon someone sent the chariot to the Chinese army, more than 100 chariots were put on the drums, and the Chinese sergeants beat the drums to pass the order.
The chariots on the left and right flanks were replenished to the front army, and the Zhejiang soldiers began to move!
"Winter ...... Winter...... Winter! ”
The drums beat, and it seemed that every drum beat heavily among the generals and soldiers at all levels of Jianyu.
This was the first time they were afraid, and they were not to blame, but because after the count, their deaths and injuries were too unacceptable.
One thousand two hundred and forty-seven were killed and two thousand and fifty-four were wounded, making a total of 3,298.
Nearly one-ninth of the army's casualties were the first time since Nurhachi's debut swept Liaodong.
The last time such casualties were annihilated, Liu Wei and Juniper were annihilated.
But thousands of dead and wounded, in exchange for Liu Ling and Juniper were annihilated.
And for now, their opponents are still intact, and their numbers have not decreased much.
This kind of evenly matched battle made people begin to appear in the Eight Banners, and Nurhachi's face was not good-looking.
He watched his iron cannon shelling the Zhejiang soldiers every other stick of incense, and saw that the chariot was smashed and the surrounding Zhejiang soldiers were wounded, but he didn't see the big formation stop for a single step.
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Do you want to withdraw?
The thought arose in his mind, more than 3,000 dead and wounded, if it was placed on other battlefields, he might have retreated.
But right now, if this Zhejiang army is not exterminated, with such a great achievement, maybe they will develop even bigger, and Dajin will be able to exterminate them at that time?
Nurhachi thought so, but at this time, the cavalry formation of the Zhejiang soldiers had advanced one hundred and fifty paces, and it was less than one hundred and fifty steps away from the artillery position.
Seeing that Nurhachi did not speak, Du Du could only ask tentatively:
"Great Khan, do you want to transfer the artillery gunners back first?"
"Hmm......" Nurhachi bowed slightly, and Du Du hurriedly ordered the artillery to move back when he saw this.
But at this moment, the Tang Rider in the distance galloped forward, making Nurhachi feel faintly uneasy.
After a while, Tang rode in front of him, then turned over and dismounted and saluted:
"The Great Khan, three thousand Sichuan soldiers and seven thousand Liao soldiers from Shenyang went out of the city and engaged Mang Gul Taibel."
"Xiong Tingbi led 20,000 troops to six miles south of the Beisha River, which is only sixteen miles away."
"In addition, news came from the Han Shang that Sun Yingyuan, who commanded the Seventh-Guard Army of the Sixteen Guards, attacked Gushan Fort, Gushan Fort had been breached early this morning, and two hundred and twenty-seven people in the fort were killed, and Sun Yingyuan's headquarters was less than one hundred and sixty miles away from Xingjing!"
Sure enough, as originally expected by Dai Shan, Sun Yingyuan's plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao, if it can't attract a large group of people to come back, then it will be like a breakthrough to attack Hetuala.
One hundred and sixty miles, even if the army marches through the mountain roads of the remaining veins of Changbai Mountain, it can be reached in four days at most.
Nurhachi is not sure now what kind of combat power the seven guards and seven battalions under Sun Yingyuan are.
At present, the information obtained from the Han merchants is that the Yulin Guard led by Man Gui also belongs to the Sixteenth Guard.
If it was just a guard army, it would have crushed more than 4,000 Mongols in Shuo's Yijiala and Engdel.
If this Seven Guards is also the same level of combat power as the one under Man Gui, can the two red flags in Dai Shan's hands block the Seven Guards?
Dilemma......
At this moment, Nurhachi found himself in such a situation.
Unlike the Salhu time, this time the area of the Ming army was too large, and it was impossible to give him the opportunity to fight in a big roundabout.
Thinking of this, Nurhachi could only order:
"Let Huang Taiji return to Shenyang, order Mang Gurtai to light a fire, burn the green seedlings around Shenyang, and harvest the green seedlings in Fengjibao and other places as grass bundles!"
"Withdraw!"
Nurhachi was reluctant to speak, even though he knew that he could continue to fight, but reason told him that the risk was too great.
Not to mention that Xiong Tingbi's 20,000 soldiers and horses were only sixteen miles away from the battlefield, and the soldiers and horses under Sun Yingyuan's command alone let him throw a rat into a trap.
If Sun Yingyuan's combat strength is really as strong as Yu Linwei, then it is a sure thing that Hetuara will be surrounded.
As the Khan of Dajin, under his military orders, the Houjin army, which had long been fearful, began to withdraw.
"Withdrawn!"
On the battlefield, watching the Houjin people withdraw, Qi Jin finally had time to wipe the nervous sweat on his forehead.
"Hold on for a quarter of an hour, and the armies count the casualties! Harvest the heads in a quarter of an hour! ”
"Woo-"
With Qi Jin's order, the first battle of the Zhejiang soldiers into Liao ended with the head of 1,247 real captives.
It's just that after harvesting the head, Qi Jin ordered to bury the pot to make rice, hurriedly solved the stomach problem, and continued to embark on the road of supporting Shenyang.
At the same time, as Nurhachi ordered a retreat, Huang Taiji was the first Houjin general to get the news, but fortunately, he had not yet crossed the river, and he was a cavalryman, so he evacuated the fastest.
But Nurhachi underestimated one person, and that was Qin Bangping......
"Kill!
! ”
Six miles outside the east city of Shenyang sunk on the east bank of the water, accompanied by the sound of shouting and killing, the two blue flags of the horsemen charged and broke off.
Two quarters of an hour ago, Qin Bangping led 3,000 Sichuan soldiers and 7,000 Liao soldiers out of the city, crossed the sinking water, and engaged the two blue banners of Mang Gurtai.
The reason why Qin Bangping led the troops out of the city was because of a letter!
[Sun Yingyuan led the troops, went to Kuandian and entered Hetuala, Mangui led the troops to attack and disturb the Qinghe Pass, Xiong Tingbi led 20,000 Liao troops to aid Shen, and Qi Jin commanded 12,000 troops to help Shen]
The emergency military information sent by Beizhen Fusi Jinyi Wei Ti rode to cross the river at the risk of death, so that Qin Bangping finally couldn't help it.
has been surrounded by Jianyu for nearly three months, even the clay man has fire, not to mention him?
Qin Bangping left Qin Minping and 3,000 Sichuan soldiers to garrison Shenyang, so as not to have a fine work inside Shenyang to unite Mang Gurtai, and then led Qin Banghan and 3,000 Sichuan soldiers, plus 7,000 Liao soldiers under He Shixian and You Shigong, to open the city gate and go to battle.
Mang Gurtai reacted at the first time, withdrew the two blue flag soldiers and horses at the remaining three city gates, and tried in vain to besiege from the west bank of Shenshui, but was stopped by the artillery bombardment of Shenyang City under the command of Qin Minping.
"Let the heavy cavalry tear the opening, and the dead soldiers break the formation!"
In the army, looking at the Ming army a mile away, Mang Gurtai found that the Sichuan soldiers did not have the chariots of the chariot battalion as a counterpoint, so he decisively sent heavy cavalry and dead soldiers to interfere.
More than 4,000 cavalry of the two blue flags charged, ready to face the assault, and the white pole soldiers did not retreat at all, and the three thousand Liaozhen cavalry of the two folds were under the leadership of He Shixian and You Shigong, and they went to kill the heavy cavalry of the two blue flags.
The sharpness of the cavalry under He Shixian's command is not the enemy of the Eight Banners, and the two sides have faced each other several times in the middle of the battlefield, and most of the people who have fallen from the horses are two blue flag people.
The damage of the Three-Eyed Divine Weapon against the Facial Bulge is far greater than the bow and arrow in Jianyu's hand.
"King Qi and Long Live have an order, no matter whether there is a facial injury or not, as long as it is a real captive, a hundred taels of silver will be rewarded, and the brothers will kill me!"
"Kill!
! ”
He Shixian was brave and led the cavalry on horseback to boost morale.
The Liao soldiers beside him heard that a true captive head would be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver, and he also counted after the face burst, and instantly took the lead in turning back to the face burst.
The Liao soldiers under his command saw that the main general was so brave, and they also rushed to kill.
They turned back, and when they approached the two blue-banner cavalry, one fired his guns and the other fired arrows, and dozens of people fell from both sides.
While they were entangled, the two Blue Banner dead soldiers and heavy foot soldiers had already rushed to the front of the White Pole Army.
As in history, they carelessly did not use the shield cart, and the result was that when they rushed to the front of the formation, the white pole soldiers in the front row crouched down, and the white pole soldiers in the back row raised their bows and crossbows and shot in the face!
There were no less than 100 dead and wounded, and then when the crossbowmen lost loading their crossbows, the white-pole soldiers in the front row attacked.
Although the number of these Tusi soldiers was less than two blue flag foot soldiers, they were not afraid of death, they were well organized, and they used strange weapons with long blades on the top and iron rings on the bottom, which was different from the usual Liaozhen Ming army, which made Jianyu extremely unaccustomed.
The elite white armor with the head approached, raised his bow and shot, and killed more than 100 white pole soldiers for a while, but such casualties did not make the white pole soldiers retreat, but inspired ferocity.
"Don't give up an inch of land!"
Qin Bangping raised his gun and shouted, and then Qin Banghan and other Sichuan generals around him chanted together, and finally developed into three thousand white pole soldiers chanting one after another.
They raised their guns and stabbed them in the face, and even the brave Baijia Balaya had to retreat, hiding among the dead soldiers and firing cold arrows, specifically shooting the Sichuan soldiers in the cheeks.
But they never thought that when they retreated, they would let the dead soldiers in the rear not know why, and the momentum of the dead soldiers was stunned, and they did not break through the recess of Baijia Bayala in the first place.
Such a defeat led to the follow-up cavalry just rushing in front of the white pole formation, only to find that they had already filled up.
The white pole pierced, although the white armor bara was again bursting and killing dozens of people, creating a hole for the cavalry to be chiseled through, but when the cavalry just rushed into the entrance, after hitting three or four rows of white pole soldiers, the Liao soldiers on the left and right surrounded them.
The Liao soldiers did not dare to meet the enemy head-on, but they were very bold to follow the Sichuan soldiers in the left and right sides.
For a time, no less than 100 people died from the Sichuan-Liao soldiers, horses, guns and crossbows, and the cavalry who broke the formation after the two blue flags were also beaten to the point that they "fell off their horses one after another".
The dead soldiers uselessly broke through the Sichuan army's formation, but the cavalry could not penetrate it, which made the battle scorched.
"Rubbish! Rubbish! Dog minion! ”
Looking at the ineffective attack, Mang Gurtai scolded, but Amin next to him hurriedly said: "Use the shield car to break the formation and withdraw the men and horses!" ”
"Retire! Get on the shield car! Mang Gurtai yelled, and the people next to him immediately began to withdraw their troops.
"Bell Bell Bell ......"
With the sound of Mingjin, the Houjin cavalry and foot soldiers retreated one after another, but Qin Bangping didn't want them to go, he shouted: "Behead the real captive, regardless of the wound on the face, one hundred taels at the first level!" ”
"Kill!
! ”
was just a shout, and then shouted by more than 100 heralds, which led the two armies of Sichuan and Liao to form a formation to chase and kill, which made Mang Gurtai and the chased Jianlu feel terrified.
Mang Gurtai still wanted to get on the shield chariot and fight again, but at this time, Tang Cai came, turned over and dismounted, and ordered:
"The Great Khan ordered Belle Ye to burn the fields around Shenyang, surround Shenyang with fire, take the opportunity to harvest the grain and grass around him, and then return to Tieling with two blue flags."
"You...... I know! Mang Gurtai originally wanted to reprimand the other party for talking nonsense, but after seeing that the other party did have Nurhachi's military order in his hand, he held back his anger and ordered the whole army to attack.
The formation of the large army made the Sichuan soldiers and Liao soldiers stop and form a formation, giving the defeated soldiers of Jianyu a chance to escape back into the formation.
When they returned, Mang Gurtai immediately ordered the cavalry to pour fire oil.
"What are they doing? It's like pouring fire oil, could it be that it wants to burn us? ”
"Where are the dead people burned from here......
The Sichuan soldiers whispered in the formation, and when Qin Bangping saw this, he also stood on a simple chariot, looking at Jian Yu who was pouring oil, Tong Kong shrank, and ordered:
"Order He Shixian and You Shigong to send troops to defeat the Jianyu who is pouring fire oil!"
"Kill!"
Qin Bangping was still preparing to give an order, but He Shixian and You Shigong had already expected that the other party wanted to burn the grain in the field, and immediately charged with less than 3,000 cavalry after the battle.
"Set fire!"
Mang Gurtai roared, and then the Jianyu cavalry on the left and right immediately began to set fire, arson in the summer, accompanied by the wind blowing in the middle and lower reaches of the Liao River, and soon the fire began to spread, giving birth to a fire belt between the two armies of Ming and Jin.
"Fight the fire!" Qin Banghan shouted anxiously, after all, if the grain outside Shenyang City was burned, then the 200,000 people in the city could only rely on the imperial court for relief.
Even if you rush to plant, it's too late now.
More than 200,000 people need at least 2 million stone of grain to last until next autumn's harvest.
"Stop, there's no chance." Qin Bangping stopped Qin Banghan and looked at the other side of the line of fire.
On that side, Jianyu burned the fields around Shenyang and sent people to harvest.
Although the grain is not yet ripe, it can be fed to war horses after harvesting.
They have no possibility of attacking, and they are lucky to be able to relieve the siege of Shenyang.
The two armies of Sichuan and Liao could only watch Mang Gurtai withdraw before they began to fight the fire.
When the fire was extinguished, it was already dusk, and when Qi Jin led the people to arrive at the city of Shenyang, they only saw the charred fields and the blackened Sichuan and Liao armies.
The siege of Shenyang was lifted, but under Nurhachi's order, Jianyu returned to Hetuara with the money and grain obtained from the three months of sweeping more than ten stone forts.
The Ming army did not win, because Liaodong was surrounded and annihilated more than 10 forts, more than 17,000 soldiers were lost, 720,000 stones of grain were taken, more than 300,000 taels of silver and copper coins were taken, countless armor and stomach baggage, and more than 800,000 acres of cultivated land were burned, and more than 100,000 acres of green seedlings were harvested in Fengji and other places.
They also did not win, they obtained a large amount of baggage, but left more than 3,000 corpses of Jianguo, more than 2,000 corpses of Beiguo, thousands of women and children inside and outside the Guan, and lost the important foreign aid of the Bayo Ministry.
There is no winner in this battle, or it is a winner, and the key depends on how the two sides promote their own people......