Chapter 113: King Pingxi's War Observer
The cannon was lost by Mu Shenghui, what happened to Guan Niu Wancheng?
The problem is that such an important matter was not reported by him seriously.
In this way, if the above wants to investigate the responsibility, Niu Wancheng will definitely face great trouble, and if he doesn't get it right, he will have to bear the charge of "delaying the military plane".
Fortunately, Mu Lima, the general of Jingxi in a rage, did not think of finding a "scapegoat" for the time being, and at this time, he was angry when he looked at the two red banner Manchurian soldiers who were desperately running back.
He knew that the Manchurian children in Beijing who went out this time were unbearable, but he didn't think about it, but he couldn't bear it so much!
It was simply a loss of face for the Eight Banners, and it also made General Jingxi embarrassed.
The generals of the Eight Banners also shook their heads, although they questioned the general's military order to attack the Eight Banners first, and did not want the Manchurian children to suffer too many casualties, but the problem exposed by the new Manchurian children in this battle was not fear of war and cowardice, but that it was simply unusable.
It seems that it is really necessary to rectify the Eight Banners of Manchuria.
Yang Maoxun, the governor of Huguang, shook his head secretly, and felt that this Manchurian army was a bit out of character, and it was not the same army as the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry that galloped on the battlefield back then.
After shaking his head, he naturally thought of Wu Sangui, who was far away in Yungui.
In recent years, it has been rumored that Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, wants to rebel, and the imperial court is always on guard against the southwest, and the first emperor intends to recruit the Kuidong Ming army, which is the sworn enemy of Wu Sangui, which is to prepare for the future "Imperial Wu", so there are two years of persuasion and appeasement of the old Shun army in various provinces in various ways, and the results are also very significant.
At present, only the remnants of the thief Li Laiheng and Yuan Zongdi and Hao Shaoqi entrenched in Maolu Mountain remain, with no more than 30,000 or 40,000 people and no more than 10,000 soldiers, and they will be wiped out sooner or later under the encirclement and suppression of hundreds of thousands of troops.
It was precisely because of the effectiveness of the offensive against the Ming army in Kuidong that the Qing court confiscated the seal letter of General Wu Sangui Pingxi on the grounds of the end of the Yunnan-Guizhou military operation, and also abolished his right to use people to make up for it.
Although anyone with a discerning eye knew that the Qing court was weakening Wu Sangui step by step, Wu Sangui did not rebel against this move as some people thought.
Yang Maoxun judged that Wu Sangui was so abnormal and willing to be suppressed, there were only two possibilities.
First, Wu Sangui had no objection at all;
The second is that Wu Sangui has antipathy, but for various reasons he forcibly suppressed the antipathy.
Yang Maoxun thought that Wu Sangui was probably worried about the Eight Banners, so he didn't dare to raise the flag to rebel.
After all, the Eight Banners have been famous for a long time.
The eight banners of the Beijing camp, the eight banners of the garrison, and the twenty-four banners of the Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han armies add up to 200,000 people!
But if the twenty-four flags are as unusable as the eight banners of the Beijing camp in front of him, will Wu Sangui still have concerns about the eight banners and be jealous?
Thinking of this, Yang Maoxun couldn't help frowning slightly, and now if he wants to dispel the irritation of the Manchurian Eight Banners to careerists like Wu Sangui, he must take Maolu Mountain at all costs!
Use a big victory to suppress the unbearable Manchurian children in this battle, and use a big victory to dispel Wu Sangui's dissatisfaction with the imperial court!
Tu Hai expected that the two red flag disciples in the first round of attack would not have many great results, and it was very likely that they would be severely damaged by the Ming army, but he did not expect such a large number of casualties.
According to rough estimates, the two red flags and three Niulu who fought in the battle suffered at least four to five hundred casualties.
In other words, a banner member of the Niu Lu system died in this battle.
This is something that has not been done since the entry into customs.
Even in the battle of the martyrdom of Prince Jingjing Nikan, the Eight Banners that went out did not have the loss of the formation, although Nikan was killed in the battle, but the Ming army did not achieve much success.
Right now
Tu Hai sighed slightly, and casually looked at Mu Lima, whose face was dark, but he didn't know whether to dissuade him from continuing to attack with Manchurian disciples first, or not to persuade him.
Objectively speaking, although the artillery bombardment of the army disrupted the formation of the flag soldiers, the casualties of the flag soldiers were not very large until the Ming army took the initiative to attack, so as long as the flag soldiers who went out to fight could not be afraid of death before reaching the Ming army's defense line at the foot of the mountain, there would not be such a large casualty as now.
However, the truth is that all three bulls were defeated.
I could hear the young Manchurian kid crying wolf for fear from afar.
This scene was not only witnessed by other Manchurian soldiers who did not participate in the war, but also by the Green Battalion and the surrendered army.
Tu Hai casually glanced around, and found that many of the descending troops who were originally sitting quietly on the slope and down the slope stood up.
I couldn't see the expressions of those surrendered troops from a distance, but most of them were related to shock.
It's not that I'm shocked how strong the Manchurian soldiers are, but that the Manchurian soldiers are so wasteful!
Not to mention the Green Camp.
I was really very bored in my heart, and I was extremely dissatisfied with Mulima who used troops indiscriminately.
It wasn't until Sun Dali, the leader of the Zhenghong Banner, withdrew that Mulima knew that the deputy capital commander Hebuso had been killed.
However, the general of Jingxi did not change his course and gave up the Eight Banners to attack first, but attributed the defeat in this battle to the accidental death of Hobusso, which led to the collapse of the banner soldiers without a leader.
At the moment, he still ordered the two white flags and deputy commanders Santu to lead 5 Niu Lu and 2,400 people to launch a second wave of attacks.
There are many old armor-clad people among the five Niu Lu bannermen of the two white flags, and their combat effectiveness is higher than that of the two red flags.
Mulima's decision was not resisted by the generals of the Eight Banners, first, they did not dare;
Second, many people also realized that the Manchurian children might be in danger of losing their country if they continued like this.
If there is no bloodshed and sacrifice, I am afraid that it will not be possible for these newborn Manchurian children to regain the glory of their fathers and ancestors.
Tu Hai didn't speak at all, he knew very well that once he opened his mouth to dissuade him, Mu Lima, a brainless and face-saving idiot, might be able to send all the Manchurian children up.
Before the battle, the Qing army again launched an artillery bombardment of the Ming army.
Due to the exposure of the Ming artillery, several artillery pieces were destroyed by the Qing army in this round of shelling.
This round of shelling was a little longer than the previous one, and the focus was on the Ming army's fortifications at the foot of the mountain.
After the bombardment, when more than 2,000 Manchurian soldiers in armor with white flags launched another attack on Huanglong Mountain, tens of thousands of elites under the command of Zheng Jiaolin, the governor of Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty dozens of miles away, were camped on the Yellow Lawn.
Zheng Jiaolin was originally going to lead the army to Maolu Mountain on the order of Governor Li Guoying to participate in the general attack on Li Laiheng's troops, but the arrival of two mysterious people made him give up this idea and put on a posture on the yellow lawn to watch the excitement instead.
One of these two mysterious people is the chief soldier Wu Guogui, and the other is the chief soldier Ma Bao.
They are all the confidants of Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi.
The two secretly came to Zheng Jiaolin's army for two things.
The first is to ensure the encirclement and suppression of the old Shun army in Kuidong, especially not to let Li Laiheng be Zhang Changgeng, the governor of Huguang, or Bai Rumei, the governor of Shaanxi.
In that case, it would be extremely unfavorable to King Pingxi.
The second is to see how capable Mu Lima, the general of Jingxi, is.
Therefore, after hearing that Mu Lima personally led 10,000 Manchurian children from the Eight Banners of the Beijing Camp to the front line, Wu Guogui, who was the executioner, personally strangled Yongli and his son with a bowstring, suggested that Zheng Jiaolin stay still, so that the arrogant Aobai brother would break his head in front of Li Laiheng.
It's best to let the 10,000 true mans and Li Laiheng come to the same end.