"Shi Zheng, if you ask me to take the main attack this time, I have to let out a fierce breath!" Li Fuguo walked quickly to Hu Dinggui, violated the regulations, knelt down on one knee and asked to fight.
Although the military system of the Datong Army and official documents all read division commander, deputy division commander, captain, and deputy captain, the officers and soldiers who have read books are still accustomed to call them: division commander, division deputy, team commander, and team deputy.
Including the director and deputy director in the civil service, they are also called: director and deputy director.
More than 80% of the hundreds of soldiers killed by the city defenders belonged to Li Fuguo's regiment.
Hu Dinggui thought: "Your regiment has suffered too many casualties. Let's attack together with Lao Jiang. Also, if you stand up and speak, I will agree to you even if you don't kneel down."
"Yes!" Li Fuguo stood up immediately.
Li Fuguo was Li Banghua's great-nephew, and his family connections were as old as five years ago. But who put Li Banghua in a high position? Relatives who were beyond his reach also came to build relationships with him.
The power of the Li family in the military and political system is no different from that of the Fei family, so there is no queen to support them.
The defenders in the city ordered their troops and horses to kill Li Yangxing's troops at the rear.
As for the reinforcements on the seaside, they once again took boats to transport troops to block the retreat of the main force of the Eight Banners. However, Li Dingguo and Wang Tingchen were still separated and led the cavalry to chase the main force of the Eight Banners.
But we had to make a detour. The passage to the north was relatively narrow, and Li Yangxing blocked the way.
Li Dingguo and Wang Tingchen led their cavalry from the west of the city through the earthen walls and trenches, and galloped northeast along the north city wall. Then they passed through the earthen walls and trenches and arrived at the mountainous area in the north. They bypassed Li Yangxing's garrison.
At the Manchu and Qing camp, they led their horses up the hillside and then down, then ran all the way to catch up with the main force of the Manchu and Qing troops.
On the Manchu camp, Li Fuguo and Jiang Lin attacked from the front, while the other ministries and peasants and soldiers surrounded them from both sides.
The camps here were too big. After the main force of the Qing Dynasty withdrew, many places became empty camps. However, the various fortifications were still disgusting, and many places needed to be built with planks to get past.
Li Yangxing belonged to the trapped beast, leading three thousand Wu Zhenchaoha and a large number of civilians, huddled in the core camp left by Dorgon.
The battle has not yet begun, but these low-level soldiers of the Han army have already made up their mind to surrender.
Li Yangxing's wife and children were taken care of by Dorgon, but their wives and children had no one to take care of them. Maybe the orphans and widowers would be taken over by others. In this case, why did they risk their lives to cut off the Manchus?
Li Yangxing said to his soldiers: "As far as the Ming Dynasty is concerned, we are all treasonous people who surrendered to the enemy. The civil and military officers under the Nanman emperor were all defected to the Ming Dynasty. Even if we surrender, the Nanman people will kill us and beat us one by one.
Get up and work hard!"
The Han bannermen were silent when they heard this. They felt desperate and at the same time resented Dorgon for allowing them to die.
They are all soldiers without faith. They don't know why they are fighting. They are good at robbing and killing with the wind. They are also brave when fighting with the army. If they stay behind, their morale will instantly drop to zero.
Li Yangxing's army was annihilated by Li Dingguo in history!
"Boom boom boom!"
The Datong Army began shelling.
"Run quickly!"
The first to collapse were the civilians. A total of 20,000 civilian troops collapsed on their own the moment they were shelled.
Immediately afterwards, the Eight Banners of the Han Army in Wuzhen Chaoha Camp also fled.
Dorgon had long guessed that this would be the case, so he abandoned 20,000 civilians to cut off the rear. Either let them engage in a blocking battle, or let them flee in all directions. The Datong Army had to waste time and troops to capture them, so that they could give the Manchu Qing
The main force retreats to create opportunities.
The expected offensive battle suddenly turned into a pursuit battle.
Only Li Yangxing and more than a hundred soldiers remained in the core camp and did not escape, while the rest were scattered on the battlefield.
Dorgon's strategy worked. At least the main force of Hu Dinggui's infantry would not be able to pursue them within a day or two. Not only did they have to capture the prisoners, but they also had to screen, place and guard them. Only Wu Huapu led the dragoons to pursue them to the north.
When Li Fuguo and Jiang Lin led their troops to attack the formation, more than a hundred people around Li Yangxing, faced with a Datong army that was twenty times their size, all laid down their weapons and chose to surrender.
Some of Li Yangxing's soldiers even put knives on Li Yangxing's neck, tied him up and escorted him out of the camp to ask for his surrender.
Walking halfway, Li Yangxing begged his soldiers: "Kill me quickly and surrender with my head. Don't let me suffer again. For the sake of old friendship, please give me a knife."
The soldiers turned a deaf ear and escorted the general to surrender. Maybe he could perform some meritorious service in exchange for his own life.
Li Fuguo saw Li Yangxing and interrogated him. When he learned his identity, he immediately sarcastically said: "You are a good dog, do you deserve the surname Li?"
Li Yangxing knew that he was going to die, so he retorted: "What else could he do if he didn't surrender to the Qing Dynasty? The civil and military forces of the Ming Dynasty oppressed and framed him. If he had not betrayed the country and surrendered to the enemy, he would have been framed and killed by the civil and military forces of the Ming Dynasty. How can we clearly explain right and wrong?
?Don’t say any more, just give him a good reward if he is a good man!”
After hearing this, Li Fuguo no longer felt sarcastic.
The officers and soldiers of the Datong Army who were born in the mud-legged family all regarded the Han army flags and coats as traitors. However, Li Fuguo was a scholar. He heard from his elders who were officials in the clan that it was really difficult to explain the messy party struggles.
Li Yangxing ten years ago was definitely a victim. If he did not vote for the Manchus, he would definitely be tricked to death by the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty, and he would be framed for various crimes after his death!
Li Fuguo waved his hand and said: "Take him back for trial."
Li Yangxing, who was dragged away by the soldiers, twisted his neck and shouted: "Give me a good time, give me a good time!"
Wu Huapu grabbed the reins with one arm and led the dragoons forward at full speed. In the middle of the afternoon, they met the Datong cavalry led by Li Dingguo and Wang Tingchen.
The three of them joined forces and had about 7,000 cavalry.
"What's going on?" Wu Huapu asked.
Li Dingguo pointed to the front: "There are puppet Qing cavalry blocking them. They have already fought a battle, each with hundreds of casualties."
Wang Tingchen said: "According to the confessions of the captured enemy cavalry, the man who led the cavalry to intercept us was Babutai, the ninth son of the Tatar chieftain Nurhachi. Some of his men were Manchu cavalry, and the rest were mostly Inner and Outer Mongolian cavalry."
The Inner and Outer Mongolian cavalry refers specifically to the Eight Mongolian Banners (inner) and the Outer Mongolian Banners (outer).
The backbone of the Eight Banners of Mongolia are the Ming Dynasty border troops who surrendered to the Manchus, as well as those Mongolian troops who failed in the Mongolian civil war and fled to join the Manchus. There are also a few who are Mongolian tribes who have married the Manchus, and Mongolian slaves (steppe) who have performed meritorious service in battles.
Captured prisoners of war). These people settled in Liaodong as a whole and were classified as Niulu like the Manchus.
As for the outer vassal Mongols, they were Mongolian tribes that voluntarily surrendered or were conquered by the Manchus. They had autonomy, but they had to pay tribute on time, and during wars, they sent troops to help the Manchus fight.
As a native of Liaodong, Wu Huapu knew the situation very well and said: "The Mongolian vassals are not of the same mind as the puppet Qing Dynasty. Even if they marry the Tatar chieftains, they are not willing to fight to the death with us. There are too many young men and women killed and injured, and their tribe has
May be annexed."
Wang Tingchen, who also served as a frontier general, nodded and said: "Yes, in the battle just now, some Mongolian cavalry were indeed very slippery."
Li Dingguo suggested: "It is better to concentrate all our efforts and mainly attack the Manchu cavalry."
"That's what we should do!" Wang Tingchen laughed.
The Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry have similar equipment, but the Mongolian outer vassal cavalry is obviously dressed differently.
The previous cavalry entanglement has been tested, and the Mongolian outer vassal is indeed paddling the water.
Immediately, the three of them adjusted their tactics.
Wang Tingchen and Wu Huapu's dragoons launched a surprise attack from both wings and fired cannons. Li Dingguo led the cavalry to charge directly into the formation and kill them all towards the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia.
With such a fighting method, the Mongolian cavalry of the outer vassal chose to continue paddling.
They did not fight desperately to rescue friendly troops, but just carried out symbolic cavalry shooting nearby. It didn't matter how many Datong cavalry they could shoot, as long as they proved that they did not escape from the battle. These foreign Mongols were not willing to fight with the Datong army, but they did not dare to betray the Manchus.
Otherwise their tribe will be retaliated against.
"Blow the trumpet, flag order, and order the Mongolian flags of the foreign vassals to outflank us!" Babutai, who was under heavy attack, shouted quickly.
The Mongolian cavalry of the outer vassal received the military order and immediately outflanked it.
However, they were still shooting arrows from the outside and did not seem to cooperate with Babutai in the fight.
Babutai was furious: "Blow the trumpet and order the Mongolian flag of the foreign vassal to join the enemy!"
The Mongolian cavalry from the outer vassal immediately moved forward, but only took more than ten steps, and then continued to shoot arrows on horseback.
Babutai was almost pissed to death. Even if he could hit the Datong cavalry from such a long distance, he wouldn't be able to cause effective damage. What's the point of fighting your mother-in-law?
A year ago, the Mongolian soldiers from the outer vassals would never have dared to be so perfunctory. They would have charged desperately after receiving the order.
But the Mongols on the grassland are not fools. The Manchus and Qing Dynasties have been pushed back to Liaodong, and they may be wiped out one day. Why should they serve the Manchu and Qing court? Preserving their own strength is fundamental. Maybe they can be with Datong.
Make a good relationship with the army.
On the battlefield in front of us, the Eight Manchu Banners, the Eight Mongolian Banners, and the Outer Mongolian Banners totaled more than 12,000 cavalry.
As a result, after the full-scale battle, the seven thousand Datong cavalry actually had a partial strength advantage, and the Mongolian cavalry from the outer vassals were all in a state of sleepwalking.
Babutai, the ninth son of Nurhachi, finally enjoyed the treatment of the Ming Dynasty general: he was obviously surrounded by friendly troops, but in the end he failed to contribute!
And Li Dingguo also found the rhythm. When Babutai used the old tactics of the Manchu cavalry and dispersed into countless groups to fight. He mixed the valiant cavalry into the dragoons. When the enemy's skirmishers fired arrows, he used the dragoons to shoot at each other. The enemy gathered their troops and rushed to kill them.
, just use the valiant cavalry to charge and kill.
When Li Zicheng encountered the Qing Dynasty's tactics, he chose to abandon defense and use his speed to fight in close combat.
Li Dingguo had dragoons at his disposal, so the fight was more smooth, and he completely suppressed the Manchu cavalry tactically.
Of course, there were too few knights in Datong. Even if there were dragoons to support them, they would suffer heavy casualties during the charge. The casualty exchange ratio would probably be 1:1.3.
However, the Manchu cavalry suffered more casualties, while the Datong cavalry suffered more injuries. This was a victory of firecrackers over bows and arrows.
The battle lasted for about a quarter of an hour. Li Dingguo seized the brief opportunity for the enemy troops to gather and disperse, and summoned five hundred knights to rush straight to Babutai's main formation.
"Shoot an arrow!" Babutai shouted in panic.
Five hundred brave cavalry, facing the arrows of the Manchu cavalry, continued to rush towards Babutai, risking their lives.
Li Dingguo was hit by two arrows one after another. The arrows were stuck in his armor and kept shaking with the ups and downs of the horse. He took the lead and knocked over the enemy in front of him with his gun. Then he drew his gun and swept across, sweeping another enemy horse off his horse.
The general was so brave, and the knights under his command were so energetic that they charged into the enemy's formation with all their might.
When Li Dingguo stabbed the third enemy rider with his spear, there was actually an elite warrior on the other side, who caught Li Dingguo's lance at the moment he fell off his horse. Li Dingguo quickly abandoned his spear, suddenly pulled out his sword, and continued to charge towards Babutai.
Among Nurhachi's sons, there are also some cowards, such as Babutai in front of him.
Babutai was dismissed from all military posts due to the loss of his city and land. Although he has been reinstated, his title is only a third-class general, making him a scumbag among Nurhaci's sons.
Seeing that Li Dingguo was getting closer and closer and was almost surrounded by the Manchu cavalry, Babutai did not think about leading his troops to encircle and kill him. His first reaction was... to turn his horse around and run away!
Babutai's bodyguards tried their best to intercept them, but Li Dingguo killed two people again, blocked the weapon of a third person, and rushed behind Babutai on horseback.
While running away, Babutai turned his head and looked back, suddenly frightened out of his mind.
"drive!"
Babutai stabbed the horse's buttocks wildly, and the horse under his crotch was in pain and ran away, quickly pulling two positions away from Li Dingguo.
Li Dingguo's mount is a Wari gelding stallion. This kind of horse is only partially used in the Datong Cavalry. However, all commanders of the Knights at all levels ride Wari horses!
Li Dingguo's boots were equipped with spurs. He clamped his feet together and immediately accelerated, chasing Babutai's side.
brush!
The knife struck out and the light of the knife passed through.
He quickly ducked and ducked, lying flat on the horse's back.
The two were neck and neck. Babutai stood up and swung his sword. Li Dingguo knocked down Babutai's weapon with one strike. Then he leaned forward, abandoned the knife, reached out, grabbed Babutai's cotton armor, and directly pulled Babutai away from the horse.
back.
Then, he was beaten to the ground.
Babutai's soldiers from behind rushed to the rescue. Without haste to dodge, the guy was trampled to death by his own soldiers with horse hooves.
"The enemy general is dead!"
Li Dingguo, who had lost all his weapons, rode his horse with his bare hands and shouted, narrowly avoiding the enemy's cavalry blade, and had already penetrated Babutai's formation.