Chapter 963 Killing Tartars is the Most Important Thing
In the south of Jinzhou City, the three trenches dug by the Qing army during the siege were covered with wooden planks, mounds of earth, sand and gravel, and in many places there were the remains of unburned fires.
Amidst the bursts of screams and roars, a bright red flag kept waving. The soldiers with old clothes and a lot of marks from swords and axes were all Liao soldiers in Jinzhou City.
Since March of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, they have been besieged by tens of thousands of Qing troops in Jinzhou City. Although several breakouts were organized here, they were unable to break through the three deep trenches of the Qing army.
Now, with the cooperation of the Xuanfu Army, they finally broke through these three dangerous trenches and successfully broke through the Qing army's blockade. Their excitement could no longer be suppressed, and everyone cheered with all their strength.
For more than a year and a half, they were besieged by the Qing army in Jinzhou City. They were choked, hungry, and frightened. Now they were like trapped animals, chasing the Qing soldiers like crazy.
The killings continued.
Zu Dashou also tried his best. This time he not only gathered 7,000 elite Liao soldiers in the city, but also personally led them out of the city. In the city, only his brother, deputy general Zu Dacheng, led thousands of troops to stay behind.
Previously, Zu Dashou had only once personally led his troops out of the city to fight. At the beginning of this year, his nephew Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of the Ningyuan Regiment, personally led the Ningyuan army to transport grain and grass to Jinzhou City.
Although there were several large-scale breakouts afterwards, it was his younger brothers Zu Dacheng and Zu Dabi who led the troops out of the city to fight in turn, while Zu Dashou remained in Jinzhou City.
Only this time, perhaps because they saw a good opportunity to cooperate internally and externally, or perhaps because Jinzhou City had been trapped for a long time and had no fuel and wood, and had to fight to the point of breaking out.
Zu Dashou, the left governor of the Ming Dynasty and the commander-in-chief of Liaodong's vanguard, resolutely once again personally led the elite Liao soldiers out of the city to fight.
The armor on his body looks very sophisticated, but the dark red color it reveals in the sunlight shows how much enemy blood it has been stained with, and there are scars caused by swords and axes in many places, and its depths have turned black.
Red.
Riding on a slightly thin war horse, Zu Dashou glared at the Tatars to the west. Before he could meet the Xuanfu army infantry battalion generals who were coming from the south, he roared and charged forward to kill them.
"Sao Dazi, your grandpa is here. Go to hell!"
Zu Dashou roared angrily and took the lead in rushing towards the Qing cavalry formation to the west. Seeing his brother rushing ahead, Zu Dabi hurriedly shouted loudly and led the Liaodong cavalry with less than a thousand people around him to follow closely, and also headed towards the west to face the Qing army.
The array went up to kill them.
"Kill...kill the Tatars...kill..."
The roar echoed in the wilderness of the southern suburbs of Jinzhou for a long time.
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The wilderness outside Jinzhou Nanguan is full of soldiers from the Ming and Qing Dynasties fighting each other.
Starting from the earth city behind the third deep trench, within a few miles to the southwest, soldiers wearing various armors holding different weapons, chasing each other with flags of different colors and shapes, were chasing each other.
Keep killing.
People fell down one after another, screaming and wailing continuously, especially the sturdy war horses. When they fell, they rolled continuously and knocked down the crowd.
The further to the southwest, the more intense the fighting becomes. Whether you are the Xuanfu Army or the Datong Army, it no longer matters at this moment.
Only killing the Tatars is the most important thing!
Everyone's eyes were filled with anger, and no trace of fear could be seen anymore. Their voices were hoarse from shouting, and their arms and thighs were in general soreness and pain.
At this moment, as long as he falls down, he will never have the chance to stand up again. He is fighting with his last breath of blood, supporting his extremely tired body.
Even Zhang Cheng, the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu, and Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong, also joined the battle, with their heavy duck-billed knife sticks flying up and down and dancing left and right.
Zhang Cheng's war horse has gone to nowhere, but he still holds his knife-clutching stick tightly in his hand, stabbing and hitting it like a machine.
Zhang Cheng's eyes were blurred by the blood, whether it was his own or the enemy's, and his face and body were all dark red. At that time, the blood was mixed with the color of dust.
Zhang Chengfang led more than ten child soldiers, each holding a shield, a steel knife, and a short ax to protect him. However, Zhang Cheng was already looking like a madman at this moment. Not to mention the Tatar soldiers, even Zhang Chengfang and others could not get close to him.
forward.
Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong, is in a much better condition than Zhang Cheng. He has nearly a hundred servants guarding him, and they are rushing around in the military formation. This may be Wang Pu's most enjoyable battle since he entered the army.
Fight.
In fact, he had already thought about retreating when the fighting stopped briefly before noon, but he was afraid of Zhang Cheng's majesty and could not express what was in his heart.
In the afternoon, the fighting between the two sides resumed, and the fighting became more and more intense. He could not even say to retreat!
As the Qing army's cavalry charged into the formation, although Xuan's army did not lose in the battle between the cavalry on both wings and killed a lot of slave thieves, the infantry formation in the middle failed to secure the enemy's territory.
The commander-in-chief of the East Route of the Qing Dynasty, Prince Li Daishan, saw the right opportunity and decisively increased his troops. An overwhelming number of slaves, bandits and captives rushed in like wolves and tigers.
At this time, Wang Pu requested to send Li Jiyu's Dengfeng camp and He Zhenxiong's left-wing camp to fight, but Zhang Cheng firmly refused, but the middle camp had to be rescued.
Zhang Cheng had no choice but to send all his own and Wang Pu's troops forward instead of ordering Li Jiyu and He Zhenxiong to attack, because he would be of great use to these two extraordinary troops.
Wang Pu was extremely puzzled by this. He was unwilling to charge forward and risk his own life. However, the war had already reached this point. Due to Zhang Cheng's power, he could only keep his words to himself.
, and then swallow it back into your stomach.
In fact, Wang Pu didn't know that Xuanfu Army Li Jiyu's Dengfeng Battalion and He Zhenxiong's Left Wing Battalion, a total of nearly 5,000 infantry and cavalry troops, were no longer stationed behind their central army.
It turned out that Zhang Cheng sent his soldiers to Huangtuling last night to deliver an urgent letter to Li Jiyu, and He Zhenxiong came to the rescue urgently. He had other arrangements. However, this matter was extremely risky, and he did not inform Wang Pu.
Sure enough, just as Zhang Cheng and Wang Pu were leading the elite infantry and cavalry of the Xuanda Central Army, which numbered less than 3,000, to support the infantry camp in front, about two miles away to the east of the battlefield, a group of
The strange soldiers are quietly advancing northward.
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At this moment, the Qing army's Baiyintu headquarters with a yellow flag in Manchuria was defeated by the cavalry camp and the tiger guard camp led by Zhang Guangda in the west, and they could only hold on.
You must know that the 300 heavily armored cavalry of the Xuanfu Military Cavalry Camp are not just a good reputation, but are truly armored cavalry. On this battlefield where cold weapons are still the mainstay, they are simply invincible.
The manchurian yellow flag Gushan Ezhenbaiyintu was extremely angry after learning that his "Batulu" warrior Aobai was killed in the battle. He cursed "the abominable Nikan" and immediately led the banner
The warriors attack with all their strength.
Even so, Zhang Guangda still did not send out the heavy armored cavalry from his own battalion. Instead, he used light cavalry, Mongolian cavalry, and the Tiger Guard battalion to cooperate with each other, fighting and retreating.
It wasn't until Baiyintu pursued for more than a mile that he made a decisive decision and ordered his three hundred cavalry to attack with all their strength.
At this moment, the Tatars with yellow flags in Baiyintu had also been fighting with the knights of the Xuanfu Army for a while, and they had pursued them for more than a mile. Their physical strength and vigor had been exhausted.
At this time, they suddenly saw the Xuanfu cavalry rushing out. Under the pressure of the rumbling iron hoofs, they all felt chilled. However, as the pro-army of the slave chief Huang Taiji, they had no tradition of retreating in the face of battle.
Although the Tatars with the yellow flag were brave, they were like serving food in front of the Xuanfu cavalry. After repeated attacks from the cavalry camp and the Tiger Guard camp, they finally retreated.
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Compared with the successive victories of the West Route Ming Army, the East Route Ming Army led by Xuanfu veteran Guo Yingxian failed to perform as well.
This is not because they are not brave enough, but because among the nearly 4,000 men and horses on Guo Yingxian's side, less than half are cavalry, and most of them are infantry. Compared with the slave-thief Mongolian Zhenghong Banner Engetu tribe, they are naturally slightly insufficient.
However, these Xuanfu soldiers had experienced many battles since they aided the Liao Dynasty, and everyone had the belief to avenge their boss, Yang Guozhu, so naturally they all fought bravely and no one backed down.
Especially after they took refuge with Zhang Cheng, the new commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, they even made up the arrears of pay, and every time they faced a battle, they were rewarded for their merit. Naturally, they were grateful with their pure nature. How could they not move forward bravely at this moment?
The Yang Guozhu servant team led by Chief Hundreds Huang Baozhong and Tan Zhenlin also went into battle with Guo Yingxian's Biao battalion this time. They were grateful for the kindness of their veteran master, and naturally hated the slaves and thieves to the bone, so they had no reason not to fight bravely to kill the slaves.
However, even so, it is only on par with Engetu's Mongolian Zhenghong Banner.
Guo Yingxian formed a formation in the middle with the infantry of the standard battalion, leaving a team of cavalry on the left and right to protect the flanks. Huang Baozhong's retainers were arranged in the rear formation as a surprise force for surprise charges.
The infantry in the Biao camp originally had a high proportion of firearms, but after several battles, it suffered a lot of damage. Compared with when it first entered Liaodong, it was far inferior to before. There were only more than 500 guns of various types among the more than 2,000 infantry.
Guns can still be used.
Most of the cavalrymen used three-eyed muskets. They joined Zhang Cheng's military system relatively late and were not equipped with short-handed muskets. Only the three hundred former Yang Guozhu servants led by Huang Baozhong were equipped with only one short-handed musket.
Hand gun.
These short-handed muskets were brought by Zhang Cheng with the army to supplement the battle losses of his cavalry. There were not many of them. Not to mention the cavalry in Guo Yingxian's Biao camp, even this mere 300-person servant team could only guarantee that
Just one shot per person.
Chu Xingzu and Xi Zhicheng, the two generals of the middle infantry, commanded the infantry to carry simple horse-proof gun mounts and fight hard to meet the approaching Mongolian Tatars. They used blunderbuss and bows to kill the enemy from a long distance.
When the Tatars rushed forward, they formed a tight infantry formation and used shields and spears to defend the enemy. Guo Yingxian commanded the cavalry on both wings to rush out and attack the flanks of the Mongolian Tatars.
In this way, although Engetu's Mongolian Zhenghong Banner Beibei cavalry were fierce and good at fighting, they were unable to obtain benefits from the Xuanfu Zhenbiao Camp. Both sides were equally matched and evenly matched.
After fighting here for a long time, it was not until veteran general Guo Yingxian saw billowing smoke and dust rising to the east of his army's formation and rolling northward that he led his army to launch the final fierce attack on Engetu.
This time, he no longer retained his strength. He first used the cavalry on both wings to rush out to directly attack Engetu's flanks. Then Huang Baozhong and Tan Zhenlin's 300 elite cavalry rushed out from the central infantry formation and attacked Engetu.
military.
The reason why Guo Yingxian did this was to protect Li Jiyu and He Zhenxiong's troops in the northeast, so that even if Engetu discovered them, he would be unable to divide his troops to stop them.
However, God once again favored the Ming Dynasty, which was already in its twilight years, and Guo Yingxian's attack achieved unexpected results!
Engetu had been fighting fiercely with Guo Yingxian's Ming army for less than half an hour, and he already knew Guo Yingxian's tactics. It was nothing more than alternating attacks between infantry and cavalry, leaving him breathless and unable to break through the middle infantry formation with all his strength.
Therefore, this time, when Guo Yingxian led two wings of cavalry to attack his flank, he no longer faced it head-on. Instead, he retracted his flank towards the Chinese army, and concentrated his main force of the Mongolian Zhenghong Banner to march towards the Xuanfu Biao Camp on the opposite side.
The army formed a battle formation and launched a fierce charge at the same time.
But what they didn't expect was that Chu Xingzu and Xi Zhicheng, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu Biaoying Infantry Army, suddenly led their troops to retreat to the left and right when the Mongolian cavalry charged with all their strength.
As a result, the middle was vacated, and the Mongolian cavalry naturally divided into two, attacking the infantry led by Chu Xingzu and Xi Zhicheng respectively. In this way, a gap was naturally separated in the middle of the Mongolian Zhenghong Banner Tatars.
Come.
It was like God was helping them. When Huang Baozhong and Tan Zhenlin each led more than 150 servants to rush out on horseback, they easily broke into the Mongolian Zhenghong Banner Tatar formation.
They roared and howled in unison and rushed straight towards Engetu's central army. The "bang bang bang" muskets and cannons roared continuously. The Mongolian cavalry in front all heard the sound and fell off their horses, and soon broke through the Mongolian Tatars.
of riding formation.
At this moment, the Mongolian cavalry attacking the Xuanfu Biaoying infantry also turned their horses and wanted to turn back to intercept the cavalry led by Huang Baozhong and Tan Zhenlin, but how could they make it in time!
Engetu originally saw the infantry of Xuanfu's Biao Camp in the distance, and suddenly retreated to both sides. He thought his clever plan had succeeded. As expected, the warriors in the banner attacked with all their strength, and Minggou was immediately defeated.
In his opinion, as long as the Ming Dog infantry on the opposite side is defeated, what does the remaining cavalry have to fear?
But he didn't expect that the Xuanfu army hid a group of more fierce cavalry behind the infantry formation. Unexpectedly, Engetu was also a little panicked.
He watched helplessly as Huang Baozhong and Tan Zhenlin led more than 300 cavalry and went straight to where his Chinese army was. Engetu cursed angrily and urged his Northern warriors to quickly step forward to intercept them.
But in order to perform well in front of Prince Li Daishan, he was thinking of defeating the Ming army on the opposite side as soon as possible. At this moment, the main force of the banner had been sent out.
It was originally planned that after the Ming army's infantry was defeated, the main cavalry force would quickly return to support and outflank the Ming army cavalry that besieged its two wings.
But now he has only a few soldiers and horses around him, but he is surrounded by three groups of Ming army cavalry. Especially the Ming army rushing towards him seems to be the subordinates of Zhang Cheng of Xuan Mansion. The muskets they use are sharper and completely