Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Dawn of Heroes

Mu Shenghui's death made it impossible for the Qing army to turn around.

Hao Shaoqi, who was old, was supported by the chief soldier Hu Yinxuan, and went up the slope with difficulty, and cut off Mu Shenghui's flag with a knife.

Capture the flag.

The flag fell, and the army was defeated.

The mountains and fields are full of fleeing green battalion soldiers.

After learning that Hao Shaoqi had beheaded the Qing general Mu Shenghui, Yuan Zongdi immediately ordered his subordinates, Ma Shengsheng and Lu Dalong, to lead their troops to break through to the eastern front, so as to join forces with Li Laiheng's army, who was attacking in the east.

He also sent people to urgently inform the king of Han, the king of Andong, the court of Hong, and the father-in-law of Pan to the king behind him.

Knowing that the soldiers had broken through the defense line of the Qing army, the seriously ill Hongbu Yuan suddenly cried silently.

King Han and King Anton couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Sima Tai, the deputy general of the Green Battalion, who led his troops to desperately block the Ming army on the Eastern Front, knew that the general trend had gone, and when he heard the defeated soldiers wailing that the general army had been martyred, he had no intention of holding on, and hurriedly withdrew with the rest of his troops.

On the way to retreat, he was scattered by the Ming army, and in the chaos, Sima Tai's left leg was poked with a spear by a Ming army soldier, which made him grit his teeth and let his own soldiers carry him away.

After Li Fuguo led his troops to attack the Qing army's defense line, he ordered the general soldier Li Chunwei to lead people to pursue the Qing army's rout, and on the other hand, he and the general soldier Ying Wei led people to meet the soldiers who broke through on the Western Front.

The defeat was like a mountain.

Under the pursuit of the Ming army, Sima Tai's troops were quickly defeated, and most of them were annihilated by the Ming army's Li Chunyu department, and a few troops surrendered, and only dozens of people escaped with Sima Tai.

The Qing army on the Western Front basically collapsed, and it was the general Qin Guodong who was still organized.

The Qin department had a thousand battalion soldiers, and the defensive line was located on the right flank of the Ming army breakthrough.

Hearing that the general soldier Mu Shenghui was killed in battle, and seeing that the Ming army had broken the line of defense lines, and the two Ming armies in the east and west were about to meet, Qin Guodong did not dare to fight again, but on the way to retreat, he was surrounded by Liu Heng, the prince of the Ming and Anhui Kingdoms, and Zhang Daling, the chief soldier of Hao Shaoqi.

Seeing that there were Ming troops in all directions, Qin Guodong, who had no way out, actually sent someone to ask the Ming army to surrender.

When the Qing soldiers heard that they were going to surrender, none of them objected.

The reason is that they were also the Ming Army three years ago - the Great Western Army!

Qin Guodong was under the Bai Wenxuan Department of the famous general of the Great Western Army.

Bai Wenxuan, together with Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, sent troops to quell Sun Kewang's rebellion, and was named King of Gongchang by the Yongli Imperial Court for his merits.

Three years ago, Bai Wenxuan led his troops and Li Dingguo's adviser Awa to ask Burma for Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang to no avail, and then took away the tin foil.

At the end of the year, Wu Sangui led the Qing army from Mubang to travel more than 300 miles in a day and night to the rear of Bai Wenxuan, and Bai Wenxuan was caught off guard against the defeat of Tengyue.

Ma Bao, Ma Weixing, and Qi Sansheng, the generals of the Great Western Army who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, pursued Bai Wenxuan.

Ma Bao personally brought Wu Sangui's letter to persuade Bai Wenxuan to surrender, and in desperation, Bai Wenxuan led more than 10,000 family members of the officers and soldiers of the department, more than 3,000 war horses, and 12 war elephants to surrender to the Qing army.

The Ming army, which surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with Bai Wenxuan, was transferred by the Qing court to the Kuidong battlefield.

Qin Guodong has been participating in the siege of Li Laiheng's troops with Mu Shenghui, the general soldier of Yunyang, in the past two years, and about 20,000 former Daxi officers and soldiers participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Lao Shun army in the entire Kuidong battlefield.

In addition, there are more than 40,000 units of the Ming army that have been surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in recent years, such as Tan Hong and Tan Yi in Sichuan.

If it weren't for the Qing court's new transfer of 10,000 people from the Eight Banners of the Beijing Camp and 5,000 people from the Eight Banners of the Xi'an garrison to join the encirclement and suppression, the two sides of the Kuidong Battlefield would have fought their own people.

On the side of the Qing army, whether it is the governor or the governor, or the governor, the admiral, and the general soldier, all of them are demoted officials of the Ming Dynasty!

The soldiers are 100% of the original Ming army!

Seeing that Mu Shenghui was dead, and the troops were besieged by the Ming army, the army had no fighting spirit and no morale, Qin Guodong thought about it and simply led his troops to put down their weapons and then surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

I don't care about the consequences of doing this to his old boss Gongchang Wang Bai Wenxuan, and what impact it will have on the generals of the Great Western Army who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, let alone the small family that was charged as a hostage by the Qing court!

Zhang Daling, the chief soldier under Hao Shaoqi, wanted to slaughter all the surrendered Qin troops because of the heavy losses of his subordinates, but was fortunately persuaded by Liu Heng, saying that if he surrendered today, it would be difficult for him to lay down his arms in the future, whether it was the Green Battalion or the Eight Banners.

That is to say, to be happy for a while and to vent hatred for a while, but it will lead to the complete defeat of the anti-Qing struggle.

Another Qing army, under the leadership of Du Si Xia Bingzhong, fled to the northeast to defend the noble defense line of the general army.

Yuan Zong's first general, Wu Shijun, led his troops to bite the rout.

Xia Bingzhong, who was anxious to flee for his life, did not dare to turn back to resist, and no one dared to stay behind, but the Ming army that caught up was like chopping melons and vegetables, and rolled down the hillside.

Xia Bingzhong was killed on the spot by the Ming army, and the remaining three or four hundred people were suppressed by the Ming army under the leadership of Yang Wei, the general manager, in a mountain recess with a radius of less than 100 zhang.

but they refused to surrender.

Fantasized about holding out until reinforcements arrived.

Seeing this, Wu Shijun did not attack, but only ordered people to set fire, but the trapped Qing soldiers choked on the smoke and walked out by themselves.

Yang Wei neither wanted to descend nor be choked to death by smoke, so he committed suicide with a knife.

So far, in addition to the sporadic rout, most of the Yunyang general army Mu Shenghui's troops were defeated, together with Mu Shenghui, 145 large and small officers and more than 2,000 soldiers were killed in the civil war, and more than 1,800 battalions surrendered to the Ming army.

The Ming army suffered even greater casualties.

In order to meet the Ming army on the western front, Li Fuguo on the eastern front stormed the Qing army's defense line at any cost, and even mobilized the people in the village, resulting in more than 1,600 casualties.

It accounts for more than half of the entire Beiting Village's military and civilians!

It was almost a war breaker.

The Ming army on the western front suffered more than 800 casualties in Hao Shaoqi, Yuan Zong's first department suffered more than 400 casualties, and Liu Heng's department suffered more than 300 casualties, and the total casualties of the Ming army on the eastern and western fronts exceeded that of the Qing army.

The remnants of the two old commanders Yuan and Hao are less than 2,000 people.

If it weren't for Hao Shaoqi's killing of Mu Shenghui, the number of casualties of the Ming army would inevitably increase.

Li Laiheng's son, Li Fuguo, and the general soldier Ying Bing saw Hao Shaoqi lying on a stretcher.

The two of them were startled, and only then did they relax when they knew that the old man just asked Naqing to slash Mu Shenghui with his buttocks, and there was no fatal danger.

After Yuan Zongdi, who arrived at the same time, informed each other of the situation, he immediately arranged for personnel to take his family and people through the Qing army's defense line, and arranged for people to take away all the weapons and materials abandoned by the Qing army.

The Ming army did not have the strength to garrison the Qing army's defensive line, and it would not be long before the Qing reinforcements who received the news would arrive.

The families of the Ming army who were passing through the defense line of the Qing army were stunned by the tragic situation of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood in front of them, Rao is that they have experienced too much life and death, and they have seen one after another relatives leaving them, and they can't help but hide their faces collectively at this time.

A girl who had been tied behind her with a strip of cloth by her mother suddenly began to cry.

Because, she saw that her father was on the pile of corpses not far away.

"Daddy, Daddy!"

The girl's cry quickly spread throughout the team.

When Wang Wu led his troops to follow from behind, there were weeping soldiers and civilians in front of him, and sad cries in his ears.

After a moment of silence, a blood-red banner headed towards the east without hesitation.

If you want Shenzhou not to be full of blood, blood must continue to flow!