Most of Wu Sangui's Ningyuan Army soldiers and horses have crossed the Nvnu River. On the south bank, there are only a few hundred healthy soldiers guarding the camp, and the rest are civilian men and strong men accompanying the army.
Ningyuan's army built a total of four pontoon bridges on the Nerv River, but only two of them were built at the intersection of the Nerv River and the Xiaoling River. After crossing this bridge and further north, you will reach Jinzhou Nanguan.
The other two pontoon bridges were built on the Nuer River. Although there was Pingchuan wilderness after crossing the river, they could not reach directly to Jinzhou City. A few miles to the northeast, they were blocked by the winding Xiaoling River.
As a result, the soldiers of Ningyuan Army were actually divided into two parts. Most of them passed through the pontoon bridge at the intersection of the two rivers, and entered the boundary of Jinzhou.
The other part of the soldiers and horses passed through the two pontoon bridges on the Nuer River and entered the Pingchuan wilderness between the Nuer River and Xiaoling River.
Here there are only more than 3,000 soldiers and horses from the left and right battalions of Hu Xinshui and Xia Longshan, plus more than 1,000 soldiers and horses from another guerrilla force, Gao Dejie, making a total of 5,000 Ningyuan Army soldiers.
The Qing army on the opposite side is mainly composed of Han troops, and a part of the Mongolian Lantern Banner troops led by Hu Shibu are also here. They can quickly move to Jinzhou City through the three pontoon bridges on the Xiaoling River in the northeast.
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Although the Qing army had slightly more horses, Hu Xinshui, Xia Longshan, Gao Dejie and others also had mostly cavalry. They clashed with each other and did not fall behind. On the contrary, they were evenly matched with the Qing army and seemed to have a slight upper hand.
Similarly, most of Wu Sangui's Ningyuan Army, which crossed the river at the confluence of the two rivers, had the upper hand. The main force of the Ningyuan Army was already nearly 10,000 strong.
Moreover, Cao Bianjiao, the ASEAN General Soldier, also crossed the river here. The two most capable frontier troops in Jiliao Town gathered together, not because of Tan Tai's Zhenghuang Banner and Suna's Mongolian White Banner.
Able to resist.
When the two sides first started fighting, Tan Tai felt great pressure, but Gushan Ezhen, who had just taken over the Manchuria Zhenghuang Banner, was in desperate need of performance. How could he be willing to ask for help easily?
Tan Tai persisted like this. If he only had Wu Sangui's Ningyuan army and horses, he might be able to fight for a while longer. As long as he could hold his position, he might be able to repel Wu Sangui's Ming army.
Who would have thought that Wu Sangui's place was indeed the key breakthrough point for the Ming army. As Cao Bianjiao's troops crossed the river and headed north, the battlefield situation took a turn for the worse, and the Ming army instantly gained a clear advantage.
Tan Tai had no choice but to send people to Prince Rui Dorgon for help. However, Azig's troops had already gone to intercept Wang Pu, the general of Datong, and Dorgon did not have many available troops.
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After receiving Tan Tai's request for help, Dorgon finally calmed down. Now, except for Zhang Cheng's Xuanfu troops, all traces of the Ming army have been revealed.
The main attack direction of the Ming army could also be determined, which was where Wu Sangui crossed the river to the north in Ningyuan. Dorgon immediately sent an order, ordering Mandahai to lead Manchuria warriors with red flags to support Tan Tai and attack Wu Sangui's Ming army together.
Mandahai received the order loudly and led the warriors in the flag to rush away.
In this way, until mid-noon, Dorgon received another request for help from Tan Tai and Mandahai, saying that the Ming Army Wu Sangui and Cao Bianjiao's troops were unstoppable and requested to send more reinforcements to help the battle.
Almost at the same time, military reports came back from Azige, the king of Wuying County, saying that soldiers and horses of the Xuanfu of the Ming Army were found on the north bank of the Xiaoling River outside the South Pass of Jinzhou. They were very powerful and asked Dorgon to pay attention to them.
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Azig is like this. Although he has a straightforward personality and is brave in combat, his shortcomings are also obvious, that is, he is reckless with his words, does many things without thinking, and never gives up easily on the battlefield.
Just like this time, he must have been unable to defeat Datong and the Xuanfu Ming army, so he sent people back to report that Dorgon must pay attention to Zhang Cheng's troops. In fact, this meant asking for reinforcements.
As Azig's younger brother, how could Dorgon not know about his brother's problems? What's more, even if it wasn't Azig, he would definitely pay attention to it.
After all, Zhang Cheng was the culprit and the real culprit who killed his brother, Prince Yu Duoduo!
In fact, Azig specifically reminded Dorgon to pay attention to it, and his intention was the same. How could he not pay attention to the revenge of killing his brother?
Dorgon thought for a moment and then suddenly issued an order, ordering Manchuria to set up a yellow flag on Gushan'e and Zhenbai Yintu to lead the warriors of his banner, and immediately rush to Prince Azige of Wuying County to obey his orders.
After Baiyintu heard the order, he seemed a little reluctant. He hesitated as if he wanted to say something, and opened his mouth, but in the end nothing came out.
After Baiyintu set off with the Manchurian Yellow Banner, Prince Rui Dorgon quickly ordered the remaining soldiers and horses of the Manchurian Zhengbai Banner, the Mongolian Zhenghong Banner, and more than 3,000 Bagala warriors from each banner to immediately move with him.
Jinzhou Nanguan.
As the military order was conveyed, nearly 20,000 Qing cavalry galloped into the air, and a sea of white and red flags swayed toward the southeast.
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Just when Prince Dorgon of Qing Dynasty led the last two elite soldiers of the Qing army to move to the south of Jinzhou City, the situation on the western battlefield changed again.
Prince Zheng Jierhalang of the Qing Dynasty, after defeating Bai Guangen's Jizhen soldiers and horses and Qiu people's Yangfubiao camp, did not go west along the north bank of the Nuer River to attack Ma Ke's Shanhai navy.
This old fox saw that the main force of the Ming army was almost all on the north bank of the Nerv River, and the south bank was already empty. He commanded the main force of Manchuria's Lantern Banner and Zhenghong Banner to catch up with the pontoon bridge.
Under the pursuit of the Qing cavalry, the Ming army in Ji Town suffered heavy casualties, and very few of them escaped to the south bank. Qiu Minyang's Fubiao camp also suffered more than half of its casualties.
Only those Ming troops who fled eastward along the north bank barely had a chance to survive. For example, Bai Guangen, the commander-in-chief of Ji Town, fled all the way to the Ma Ke Army under the escort of Ma Funing, the general of Zhenbiao Camp.
, to survive.
As soon as Jierhalang set foot on the south bank of the Nvnu River, he felt extremely comfortable. Under his command, the Qing army's cavalry quickly repelled the Ming army that stayed behind.
Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, also knew that he was outmatched. He led more than a thousand soldiers from Jizhen and Fubiao Camp and had to retreat eastward. He also ordered people to report to Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, requesting that reinforcements be sent as soon as possible. Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.
After Jierhalang easily captured the Jizhen Camp on the south bank of the Nuerhe River, he immediately used it as the location of his Chinese army, divided his Qing army into two, and headed west towards the Twin Mountains with the Xianglan Banner to support Du
Du, and pursued Qiu Minyang eastward with Shuotuo's red flag, which was intended to take Ma Ke's retreat.
It has to be said that Jilharang's move was too insidious. He left Wu Lai's Mongolian Zhenglan flag on the north bank, leaving him and Ma Ke's Shanhai navy to struggle to support it.
However, he led the elite warriors of the Eight Banners of Manchuria directly into the rear of the Ming army. For a moment, it was really like entering an uninhabited land. The Qing army had blue flags in Manchuria and red flags flying across the south bank of the Erhe River.
People can cure it.
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Here, although Tang Tong has retreated to the Twin Mountains defense line, he still controls the initiative on the western front battlefield.
But just when Tang Tong was reorganizing his troops and preparing to take the initiative to attack again and kill the Tatars by surprise, an unimaginable thing happened that caught him off guard and threw him into disarray.
As shrewd and cunning as Tang Tong was, he never imagined that the Qing army would come from behind and suddenly stab him in the butt.
He had over 10,000 soldiers in the battle in Miyun Town, and nearly 20,000 strong men and horses accompanying him. Naturally, they could not all be stationed on Shuangzi Mountain, so Tang Tong left part of the baggage in the back camp next to the post road east of Shuangzi Mountain.
However, the Tatars with blue flags from Manchuria rushed towards them. General Hu Yuntong of the right-wing battalion was stationed in the rear camp. There was no time to organize effective resistance, and the Tatars with blue flags from Qing army broke into the formation.
It was not that the soldiers and horses under Hu Yuntong were unable to fight, but the Tatars came too suddenly and were temporarily unprepared, so they were allowed to break into the camp.
But as a result, the soldiers and civilians who were originally settled in the formation became panicked. They rushed around the camp. Although the army was panicked, it also slowed down the Tatars' attack speed.
Hu Yuntong knew that the rear camp could no longer hold on, so he hurriedly summoned a group of servants around him and set fires everywhere in the camp. This could not only prevent military supplies from being left to the Tatars, but also delay the advance of the Tatar thieves.
At the same time, he also led his servants to fight left and right in the camp before all the Tatars were killed. He gathered the soldiers of the right wing camp who were divided in various places as much as possible, and headed all the way to the Twin Mountains in the west, fighting and retreating.
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At the foot of Shuangzi Mountain, Hu Yuntong met up with the guerrilla general Liu Chengwu who came to the rescue. They formed a defensive formation according to the mountain's shape and finally stabilized their position.
Looking at the fire and the smoke billowing from the right wing camp station east of Twin Mountain, Tang Tong felt extremely uncomfortable. He gritted his teeth and cursed loudly: "What did Bai Guangen do for food? He actually made the Tatars come from his flooded areas. What a shame."
Damn..."
The more he cursed, the angrier he got, and the angrier he became, the more he hated him. He suddenly pulled out his sword and draped it heavily on the rock beside him. With a "bang" sound, sparks flew everywhere, and Tang Tong roared with hatred: "What a bastard!"
But hate after hate, scold after scold, in the end it will not solve the problem at hand.
Tang Tong had no choice but to consider withdrawing his troops. He knew that the main force of the Ming army had now crossed the river to the north, and most of the old and weak were left behind on the south bank of the Daughter River.
Now, to the west are Du Du's thousands of horsemen, and to the east the flag should be the Tatars with a blue flag, but it is not yet known how many horsemen there are.
If they were to meet in one place, they would be attacked from the east and west by the enemy and would be unable to defend themselves. What was even more terrifying was that they did not know whether reinforcements would come.
In fact, if it is certain that reinforcements will come to save them, Tang Tong's troops can shrink their defenses and stick to the Twin Mountains defense line, which is not impossible for them to last for an hour.
But there were many uncertain factors here, and Tang Tong was not willing to take the risk of the entire army being defeated and stay on the Twin Mountains waiting for reinforcements.
He made a prompt decision and immediately organized the entire army of Miyun Town to break out of the encirclement. He hurriedly summoned his general from the Biao Battalion to fight guerrilla Tang Youren, and ordered: "Assemble the entire army immediately and prepare to break out of the encirclement."
Tang Youren naturally carried out Tang Tong's military orders unconditionally. After he responded to the order loudly, he immediately gathered his troops, packed up his ordnance, and made preparations to break out of the encirclement.
At present, it seems more ideal that the thousands of Tatars under Du Du's command did not come to attack the Twin Mountains defense line. After they recaptured the pontoon bridge on the post road, they immediately stationed there and organized the coated Akhas to urgently repair the pontoon bridge.
Therefore, Tang Tong is not worried about the risk of being surrounded for the time being. All he needs to consider now is the direction of the breakout, whether to break out to the east and return to the base, or to break out to the west and then turn south and return to Songshan.
Heading east was originally the best option, because in addition to Bai Guangen and Ma Ke's residence there, there was also the headquarters of Hong Chengchou's temporary governor. As long as he could safely evacuate to Hong Chengchou's headquarters, he would not be afraid of the Tatar siege.
But the problem is that Tang Tong is still not sure how many Tatar thieves there are in the east. Just imagine, since they can kill from the direction of Bai Guangen's station, it is enough to prove that Bai Guangen's Jizhen troops have been completely defeated.
Tang Tong had 10,000 reasons to believe that if there was only one Tatar with a blue flag in the east, they would definitely not be able to defeat Bai Guangen's Jizhen Army so smoothly, because he knew that there was Qiu Minyang's Fubiao Camp over there.
And now that the Tatars can advance here, Qiu Minyang's Fubiao camp must have been defeated and retreated, so the Tatars in the east are by no means a minority.
But the west side is not a good choice. There, follow the post road and you will find the pontoon bridge, where Dudu's thousands of Tatars are stationed.
Although it is possible to turn south two miles west, the roads there are all rugged and difficult to navigate. We have nearly ten thousand soldiers and thousands of civilians on our side. If we retreat from there, we don't know how long it will take.
Just when he was hesitating, Cheng Haishan, the commander of the left wing battalion, also rushed up the mountain. He said urgently: "Commander Tang, the Tatars are coming from the east. Our division may be attacked from both sides."
During the battle, Tang Tong also changed his usual behavior. He also enthusiastically greeted them and said: "I also have this concern and am thinking of breaking out and leaving."
He then asked Cheng Haishan: "According to General Cheng's opinion, where should our army go?"
When Cheng Haishan saw Tang Tong asking for his opinion, he immediately said bluntly: "Commander Tang, I think we should break out to the east."
"oh."
Tang Tong narrowed his eyes and asked, "Why should we break out to the east?"
Cheng Haishan seemed to be confident, as he said: "Commander Tang, although there are slave bandits attacking from the east, I estimate that General Bai's Ji Town troops must have been defeated by them.
However, more than ten miles away is the headquarters of Hong Duchen. It is so important. How can we allow the slave thieves to run rampant here, and how can we let them threaten the retreat of General Ma's soldiers in Shanhai Town.
When I think about it, I am afraid that Governor Hong has already got the information and is sending the Governor Biao Battalion to intercept the slave thieves. We will rush east to break out. As long as we break through the slave bandit's army and march a few miles, we can meet Hong.
When the governor, ministers and reinforcements meet, why should we fear slaves and thieves?"
After listening to his words, Tang Tong looked thoughtful. After a moment, he shook his head and said, "I think it is not advisable to break out to the east."
Cheng Haishan was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "Commander Tang, why did you say this? If breaking out to the east is not advisable, then breaking out to the west will end with a burned pontoon bridge. Where will our army go?"
What's more, there are thousands of Du Du's slaves over there!"