Chapter 636 - Envoy's Boat and Car to the Sun (15)
Datong, Shanxi, November 9, 48th year of Qianlong.
This important town in Jindi witnessed the sad picture of Li Zicheng's army going north, breaking through Juyong Pass, and burying a dynasty. And today, King Qin's army, which gathered the elite military horses of the entire northern part of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, witnessed a little bloody afterglow of the imminent demise of this alien dynasty in this place.
History has inadvertently come full circle in space.
The stragglers who were defeated from Juyong Pass were mostly bannermen who transferred baggage in the rear of the army at the beginning. These people were lucky, Murong Parrot's strategic goal was only to eliminate the elite military horses of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningsui, and he had no interest in pursuing these auxiliary soldiers and people who were transporting heavy baggage. In fact, there was no need for him to pursue, and with Hailancha being beheaded by him and losing the restraint of this veteran, the Green Battalion, the Qing Army, and the Mongolian Army no longer had any generals who could take them together.
The final result was a complete rout of King Qin's army like a wave rushing into a sandcastle.
In the process of retreating, those who were trampled on horses and died were several times the result of the annihilation of Murong Parrots.
Tens of thousands of military horses, who can return to Datong in a systematic way, are not even 9,000!
Among them, the military horses led by Song Chun were originally a mixture of the flag soldiers stationed in Ningxia and Suiyuan, and they were also the fastest to escape.
If it weren't for Datong and the two important ministers of Ah Gui and Li Shiyao, these brave bannermen might have scattered and become the rout of the gathering side, which would be even more troublesome.
Originally, Ah Gui didn't expect these banner soldiers to be able to contribute, as long as they could be controlled by Hailancha and help the Mongolian army to monitor the Shaanxi-Gansu-Green Battalion, which was the main force of the Qinwang army. But I didn't expect these people to be so embarrassed and escape so easily!
Song Chun was the general of the defeated army, and Mang Guyi, who was transporting the baggage in the back, was also dizzy by the defeated army, and followed Song Chun to retreat to Datong in a daze, only to understand a little. The two of them have also served as the Minister of Defense for a long time, and although the war failed, it was a little easier to collect the defeated troops.
It's just that those defeated soldiers who have experienced the massacre at Juyongguan have already fallen into fear, even if they try their best to retract it, but they can't stop it at all.
The Ning Sui banner soldiers ran so fast that the remnants of the Shaanxi, Gansu, and Green Battalions that were released by Murong Parrot did not land sparsely until the past two days and some of them arrived in Datong.
Everywhere I saw the defeated soldiers covered in mud and snow, and the leading officers even cleaned up their banners, and they were still in shock when they entered Datong City, and the soldiers were even more empty-handed, and they didn't have time to bring back any ordnance and military materials. Frostbitten, the defeated soldiers with cold disease are in pieces, and some of them still look like people who are jumping around, seeing the Datong city wall, they must be in their hearts, and they swallow their breath directly!
As for the shoes that are gone, there are not a few people who run barefoot in the winter and freeze their toes.
Such a large group of routs, even if they were gathered, they would not be considered much combat power for a while.
A good army of Qinwang was defeated like this, not to mention the grain, grass and ordnance that Ah Gui and Li Shiyao had collected from all over Shaanxi, Gansu, Jinsui and Shaanxi during these days, all of which were cheaper than the thieves!
In the past, they were desperate to collect grain, grass and ordnance, but now the treasury of the northwestern provinces is empty enough to starve rats to death. Not to mention that the elites of several provinces were mobilized, but they suffered such an unheard-of defeat in front of Juyong Pass, and under all the defeats, whether it was Li Shiyao or A Gui, their control over the northwest provinces was weakened to the extreme.
I can't see anything in front of him, but as long as the news of the rout of King Qin's army comes out, the remnants of the Zhehe Ninja Blood Neck Sect lurking in the people will rise up again.
And Shaanxi and Gansu have always been fierce people, and there are not a few local tyrants who have martial heirlooms, once one or two people with different aspirations appear among these people, I am afraid that it will be a situation in Hubei and Sichuan!
The defeat was like a mountain...... As Si said.
Ah Gui has now changed into a cotton armor, guarding Datong City, what he saw in front of him was just a group of beggars and beggars who were similar to the road to retreat from the direction of Juyong Pass, in front of him, it was Song Chun kneeling to report the battle situation:
"Zhongtang, the anti-thieves are cunning, we have been ambushed! All over the mountains, just like a trick, so many artillery and muskets were killed, and the bullets really fell like rain, and in the blink of an eye, we were in a big mess! The thief chief was even more brave, and he went forward alone, and went straight to the sea commander, and we people didn't even have time to block it, so we let the thief chief take the head of the sea commander. At this time, we can only retreat, Zhongtang, we can't let all our soldiers and horses fill in the Juyong Pass!"
Speaking of this, the minister of garrison from the clan howled miserably: "Dozens of miles before and after Juyong Pass, the white land will become black, and the dense stacks are all corpses!"
Ah Gui barely stood still, just looking at the groups of defeated soldiers below, gritting his teeth and not speaking.
The elite of several provinces, tens of thousands of troops, and the military rations and salaries that followed, whether it was Pingzungar, Daxiao Hezhuo, or Jinchuan, did not have such a scale. Only an expedition to Burma, or it can be compared.
But the expedition to Burma did not exhaust the elite of Shaanxi and Gansu, but it was beaten up with a result of almost total annihilation!
What the hell is going on here?
And the ...... of Hailancha
Ah Gui has been up and down in his life, and there are not many colleagues who can be called close, and Hailancha, the Oroqen warrior who laughs at the monkey skin, is one of the few people who can advance and retreat with him.
After a lifetime of fighting horses, he finally fell on the battlefield and died at the hands of a group of rebellious traitors!
The capital has fallen into the hands of thieves, and the saint has followed in the footsteps of Song Huizong, and the only army in the northwest that can be relied on and can deter the heart of the world's small and unsubordinated people has folded in his own hands.
Seeing that this court, which has been loyal all his life, is about to really fall apart!
Even if Ah Gui was a good qi cultivation kung fu, he couldn't accept this for a while, and just tilted backwards.
Although Li Shiyao is old, he is fast with his hands and feet, and he will hold him up: "Zhongtang, you are the Optimus Pillar now, you can't fall!"
However, before Li Shuyao's words were finished, he saw Ah Gui spurting out a mouthful of blood from the sky!
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On November 10, the 48th year of Qianlong, Ah Gui, the minister of military aircraft who organized the army of King Qin, was shocked to hear about the defeat of King Qin's army, and became ill from hard work, and immediately coughed up blood and died in the middle of the night.
As Ah Gui, the last important minister of the Manchu court, also collapsed, looking at the entire Qing Dynasty, there was no figure who could raise his arms. Governors everywhere are mediocre and greedy, the world is in chaos, and the dragon and snake rise from the land, which is a foregone conclusion.