One party was too tired to escape, the other party was too tired to chase, and the muddy water in the rain was full of people.
Dorgon has already taken off his armor and boots. Although it is dangerous to stop to remove the armor, as long as he takes off the armor, he can definitely make up for the time to escape. It is true that the cotton armor is too heavy after being exposed to the rain, and it is too difficult to remove the boots when they step into the mud.
out.
"Your Highness, hurry up, I will lead the troops to stop the enemy!" Seeing that the pursuers were getting closer, Wu Bai drew his sword and summoned his guards to fight back.
Dorgon was inexplicably moved and said: "I will treat your people well!"
Wu Bai was one of Huang Taiji's most important 16 ministers. His father, Wu Likan, was promoted to the vanguard commander. Wu Bai joined the army at the age of 16 and followed Nurhachi and Huang Taiji to fight. After Dorgon came to power, he made him a first-class viscount. He was Guarjia.
One of the ancestors of the family.
Wu Bai stayed to collect the defeated troops, and when the Datong army came after him, hundreds of people gathered...
The Eight Banners soldiers fled and the Datong Army also chased them.
More than a dozen Datong soldiers faced more than a hundred Eight Banners soldiers. The leading officer immediately blew the bronze whistle.
Hundreds of Datong troops nearby gathered one after another and lined up to surround these fearless enemies. Both sides were too tired to have any strength. They relied entirely on willpower to support each other. After a long time of stabbing each other, not many died, but the Eight Banners soldiers were injured.
There are many.
Wu Yong, who had followed Zhao Han in Luling County, was finally transferred to Liaodong as brigade commander.
His whole body was weak at this moment, his legs were shaking from exhaustion, and he hit Wu Bai's cotton armor with several shots in a row. The cotton armor was swollen by the rain, making it even more difficult to break through the defense!
Fortunately, with more people fighting less, a soldier stabbed Wu Bai until his body shook, and Wu Yong took the opportunity to stab him with a quick and accurate shot.
Right in the throat.
The 16th minister under Huang Taiji's command slowly fell down with his hands on his neck. Blood gushed out from the wound and was indistinguishable from the muddy water on the ground.
"Caught a Tatar official!"
There were Datong troops shouting nearby, and it was unknown which Manchu noble was captured.
Wang Tingchen held up a head, walked up to Wu Sangui and asked: "Which one is this?"
Wu Sangui took a closer look and replied: "Sixteen ministers, Abdai, Fucha clan."
"Haha, you killed a big fish." Wang Tingchen laughed.
Wu Sangui quickly became busy, and someone caught another general and came over to ask: "Who is this?"
Wu Sangui said: "Suohun, Niu Gulu, was the son of Eyidu, the five founding ministers of the Qing Dynasty."
"Kill if you want, don't talk nonsense!" Suohun was pushed into the mud, but he was still struggling and shouting. This guy seemed to be unwilling. He was Dorgon's general in the central army, and he hadn't had time to fight yet.
The troops collapsed.
Soon another prisoner came and asked Wu Sangui: "Who is this?"
Wu Sangui looked at it for a long time, shook his head and said, "I don't know him."
The prisoner roared: "My grandfather's name is Zhang Ku, and he is the Manchurian Batulu gifted by Emperor Taizong (Huang Taiji)!"
"Even after being caught, you will be violent!" The Datong officer who captured him immediately kicked him.
Zhang Ku fell into the muddy water and stiffened his neck and said, "I don't accept it. You are using magic. If you are a warrior, let's fight again with real swords and guns!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
The Datong soldiers burst into laughter.
To be honest, even within the Datong Army, the leather sheath of the gun was not taken seriously. After all, it can only be fired once in rainy days, and it is completely useless at ordinary times. Who knows that it will work wonders at a critical moment.
The Manchus and the Qing Dynasty didn't know that they thought the Datong Army's muskets could keep shooting in the rain.
Therefore, after the collapse of the front army, other Qing troops were so frightened that they did not dare to fight the Datong Army head-on. In addition, the two wings also collapsed one after another, and the morale of the Eight Banners soldiers of the Chinese army dropped. They began to run away as soon as they were rushed by the defeated troops.
The pursuit battle was still going on, and many Eight Banners soldiers collapsed from exhaustion, lying in the mud and waiting to be caught.
When the Datong soldiers collapsed after chasing them, they would often catch an enemy, tie them up where they were, and then sit on the captives to rest.
After the war, statistics showed that more than 6,000 enemy troops were killed, more than 8,000 enemy troops were captured, and the remaining Tatars all ran away.
Of course, they did not run away in organized groups. Some ran northwest, some ran northeast, and many fled into the mountains in the northeast.
Dorgon rushed all the way to Haizhou and waited for four days before some of the defeated troops escaped one after another. He repeatedly counted the number of troops and found that only more than 5,000 of the tens of thousands of troops were left. After waiting for another two days, 1,000 troops escaped again.
The remaining people.
At this time, the heavy rain has ended, and there are a few light rains every now and then.
After the heavy rain, Li Zheng led his army straight to Haizhou. In the rainy weather, he did not bring much baggage, and all the artillery was left in Yaozhou.
"Abandon Haizhou!"
Dorgon continued to flee with his army, and the Haizhou garrison and bannermen also fled. They were still in shock all the way to Anshan.
In Anshan, Dorgon temporarily reorganized and incorporated many bannermen into the army. His troops once again reached nearly 10,000, but there was a serious lack of military equipment. Most of the defeated troops threw away their armor halfway when they fled. Some Eight Banners soldiers
Even throw away the weapon.
How can this kind of army, which lacks weapons and armor, fight against the Datong Army?
Li Zheng occupied Haizhou and led his army towards Anshan.
Dorgon ran away again, this time a little more calmly, and the local Tatars in Anshan were able to take away their belongings with them.
Li Zheng occupied Anshan and finally gave up the chase. Because he advanced lightly to capture the two cities, the Datong army did not have enough food to eat, so they had to stay in Anshan and wait for the army rations to be delivered.
Daishan was in Liaoyang, staring at each other with Dorgon.
"Are there just a few Eight Banners soldiers left?" Dai Shan looked in disbelief.
Dorgon told the situation in detail, almost crying but without tears, he said: "The fire blunderbuss of the Nanmanzi is so powerful that it can be fired in the rain. In the heavy rain, it is difficult for the Eight Banners warriors to shoot arrows, but the Nanmanzi can fire the guns freely. How can this battle be done?"
Can you win the fight?"
Dai Shan said: "We have also seized a few of the Southern Barbarian fire blunderbuss, and even made hundreds of them. It is impossible to fire this kind of fire blunderbuss in the rain."
"But the gun went off in the rain!"
Dorgon said: "I asked the former soldiers who escaped back. When the gunshots were fired, the nearest one was only four or five steps (eight or nine meters) away, and the farthest one was only about ten steps. It is difficult to go fast on the mud in the rain.
To charge, the Eight Banners warriors could only form a formation and approach slowly. The Nanmanzi relied on this and actually fired their guns only after they had been a few steps closer!"
Daishan finally understood and could even imagine that scene.
Heavy rain and muddy conditions made the Eight Banners Army move as slowly as a turtle crawling, approaching in formation little by little. Some were eight or nine meters away, some were ten or twenty meters away, and then... bang bang bang!
No matter who leads this kind of battle, the outcome will be the same.
The Tatar front army did not collapse until the third row of guns. It was not that they were brave, but that they were blinded on the spot and did not react at all.
Dorgon looked haggard and somewhat disheartened.
His two white flags suffered heavy losses, and Shunzhi's two yellow flags also suffered heavy losses. However, half of the two red flags of Daishan and his son were transferred away by Daishan in advance, and the other half were still fighting in Tianjin. It can be said that they basically suffered no losses.
Now, Daishan is so powerful that he can crush Dorgon.
Dorgon said: "Second brother, you decide what to do next."
Daishan didn't want to worry about this mess. If he could take the lead, Huang Taiji would not be the one who succeeded him.
After thinking about it, Dai Shan said: "It is the rainy season now. Shengjing and Liaoyang City are high and deep, so the Southern Barbarians will definitely not dare to attack. The most terrible thing is that Haizhou is gone, Hauge, and Mandahai's army , we can no longer take the official route, and can only come back from further north. Send a message to Hauge quickly, asking him to abandon the defense of western Liaoning and lead the entire army back to Shengjing!"
The occupation of Haizhou by the Datong Army was equivalent to dividing Liaodong and Western Liaoning, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty had to spit out the western Liaoning Corridor.
Jinzhou, Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan are useless. Without food supply, no matter how many troops are left to garrison, they will starve to death in the city.
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Shenyang.
"Queen Mother, it's bad, Yaozhou is defeated!" A Han eunuch rushed to report the news.
Bumbutai asked in surprise: "Where did the bandit army kill them?"
The eunuch replied: "The bandit army has occupied Anshan, and the regent is guarding Liaoyang."
Liaoyang, right under Shenyang's nose, Bumubutai was frightened and was at a loss.
At this moment, the Han people in Shenyang City were already running around telling each other privately. Some were happy, some were frightened, and some were eager to try.
Shenyang and Liaoyang, the core areas ruled by the Qing Dynasty, had a large number of free Han people. They were moved outside the customs by Dorgon before, and then they all moved back. Now there are a large number of Han merchants and craftsmen in the city, and a large number of Han farmers outside the city. and tenants.
Nurhaci was so violent that he provoked the Han people to resist again and again.
After Huang Taiji came to power, he immediately carried out reforms. The first was to treat the Han people leniently. He stipulated that the Manchu nobles and bannermen could only have a maximum number of serfs, and all the remaining Han people were released and allocated land for Han people to cultivate.
To be honest, in Liaodong under Huang Taiji's rule, as long as they were not captured as coatmen and serfs, the lives of Han farmers were even better than those in the Ming Dynasty.
This reform measure is also the key to Huang Taiji's ability to quickly stabilize the crisis!
Huang Taiji is also allocating land to the people!
In the past few years since Dorgon withdrew to Liaodong, the policy has gradually been reversed. Land annexation has become more and more serious. The further away from Liaoyang and Shenyang, the more chaotic the Eight Banners are, turning all Han farmers into serfs. Large Han landowners also use usury to Loot farmers' land and turn them into tenants.
This year is even more stormy. In order to fight Dorgon's war, Han farmers were exploited so severely that even the villages around Liaoyang were already brewing peasant uprisings.
The traitors who defected to the Qing Dynasty were still trying to undermine each other. They were divided into three factions.
One group is represented by Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanwo. Most of them took refuge during the Nurhaci period. They can be called a generation of traitors.
One faction is Kong Youde and Shang Kexi, traitors who surrendered during the Huang Taiji period. They can be called second-generation traitors.
One group is the traitors who took refuge with the Qing Dynasty outside the customs during the Dorgon period. They can be called the third generation of traitors.
The first-generation traitor and the second-generation traitor have deep conflicts.
Because after the second generation of traitors surrendered, Huang Taiji rewarded a large amount of livestock and grain, which were obtained from the first generation of traitors. At that time, the old traitors called themselves "old people" and called Kong Youde and others "new people", complaining about Huang Taiji. There is a new person and the old person is forgotten.
As for the third-generation traitors, they were suppressed by both the first- and second-generation traitors.
At this moment, the three generations of traitors in Shenyang City are the most busy. They have been surrendered to the Qing Dynasty for the shortest time, have committed the least evil, have low official positions and titles, and have not very rich family property. They are trying to rebel and submit to the Datong court.
Hou Fangyu's father, Hou Xun, is not dead at this moment, but he is actually forced to become the leader of three generations of traitors. They all hope that Hou Xun will take charge of the overall situation and start the uprising in Shenyang.
