As the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the founder of the Manchu civilization, Nurhachi had supreme prestige and was deeply loved by the lower class soldiers.
Therefore, after witnessing His Majesty's death at the hands of Huo Qubing, all the soldiers of the Qing army went crazy and attacked Huo Qubing desperately.
Huo Qubing originally also suspected that the Nurhachi he killed might be a substitute arranged in advance? After all, this man's expression was abnormal when he died.
It can be seen that the reaction of the Qing army was so great that Huo Qubing felt that it was not fake, but if it was fake, these ordinary soldiers would not be able to tell it at all.
"Has it been set up?"
Huo Qubing couldn't think of a reason, so he could only cut off the head of the 'Qing Emperor', then ride out alone, then mobilized the army, and after paying the price of more than a hundred people, he surrounded the crazy Qing army.
Kill them all.
Lu Bu saw that Huo Qubing had a strange look on his face, so he galloped forward and asked, "You have accomplished such a great feat by killing Nurhachi, why do you look so worried?"
Huo Qubing sighed and said: "It would be great if the person killed was the real Nurhachi, but I'm afraid that what he encountered was a fake and the real Nurhachi escaped, then all the previous efforts would have been wasted."
"What? Is it possible that Nurhaci is fake?"
Lu Bu was shocked and quickly looked at Nurhachi's head, but he didn't know much about Nurhaci and couldn't tell the truth from the fake.
"General Wei Qing has been guarding Youzhou for many years and has had many dealings with the Manchus. I think he should be able to tell the difference," Lu Bu said.
Huo Qubing suddenly realized it, and he quickly ordered someone to send the head to Wei Qing for identification, but to his disappointment, Wei Qing couldn't recognize it either.
For a time, Huo Qubing was in a deadlock on the issue of whether Nurhachi was true or false, and could only temporarily give up identifying and focus on the pursuit.
Although the Qin army had defeated the Qing army, the casualties caused to the Qing army were actually not high.
Among the 70,000 Manchu and Eight Banners cavalry, only nearly 30,000 died directly in battle, and more than 40,000 defeated troops were being chased by the Qin army.
In a pursuit battle, it is naturally easy for cavalry to chase infantry, but it is not so easy to chase cavalry.
Even if the Qin army's light cavalry pursued at full speed, they could only kill nearly 10,000 bannermen. There were still 30,000 cavalry in a state of rout. If they were gathered together, they could still form a fighting force.
Of course, Huo Qubing would not give them a chance to gather together.
If you want to annihilate these 30,000 rout cavalry, you must limit their scope of activities.
Ten miles away.
The 160,000 infantrymen of the Qin army have already disengaged from the eight formation pattern, and have re-arranged themselves into a long snake formation, ready to prepare.
After Bai Qi completely annihilated Jin Wushu's troops, he disbanded the eight formations, and then led his troops to set up pocket formations, waiting for the Qing army to retreat and burrow into them.
Therefore, after a fierce pursuit and massacre, Huo Qubing deliberately lowered his speed and hung slowly behind the Qin army, so as to deliberately drive the defeated army in the direction of the pocket formation.
This was also the strategy set at the beginning of the war.
"Grand Governor, look, the Qing cavalry has escaped, General Huo has won." The soldier shouted excitedly.
Bai Qi looked over, then showed a smile on his face, and ordered: "Start encircling, erect shield walls, and erect gun formations."
"promise."
"The Grand Governor has given orders to start encirclement, erect shield walls, and erect gun formations."
Brush, brush, brush...
One shield wall after another, one forest after another, and one forest after another, all rose up in an instant.
The Qing army, which was panicking, was defeated. When they saw a Qin army infantry blocking the road ahead, they speeded up and prepared to rush over without having time to detour. However, they didn't expect that a large forest of guns suddenly appeared on the ground. They didn't have time to slow down and ran into it.
He was directly trapped into a hornet's nest, and his death was extremely miserable.
After finally stopping, the Qing army shuddered when they saw the miserable condition of the compatriots in front. Seeing that the people behind had already rushed over, they were frightened and shouted: "Trap, this is a trap, slow down!"
Slow down quickly, ah..."
The cavalry behind them had no time to slow down and collided directly with the cavalry in front. Then they hit the shield wall together and were pierced by their spears.
The Eight Banners' rout cavalry ran into the forest of guns one after another. The 30,000 rout troops soon suffered nearly half of their casualties, but they all stopped.
However, when they changed direction and prepared to turn around, their retreat had already been cut off by Bai Qi. They were surrounded by 160,000 Qin troops, and the space was constantly shrinking, and the range of the cavalry's activities was getting smaller and smaller.
"Push it across, leaving no one behind."
Bai Qi waved his hand and ordered coldly.
"No, I am willing to surrender..."
"Don't kill me, I have seniors above me and below..."
"Spare my life..."
No matter how the Qing soldiers begged for mercy, the Qin soldiers turned a deaf ear. They fired and retracted their guns like machines, constantly harvesting the lives of the Qing soldiers until the entire army was annihilated.
On the other side, Nurhaci asked a substitute to attract the Qin army's attention, while he fled to the seaside with dozens of his followers.
Nurhachi had already left a backup plan. Although the ferry at the port was burned by Chen Baxian, there would be no boats in western Liaoning without a watch, so he asked Yinzhen to transfer a boat to meet him in advance, in order to defeat the battle and allow the senior officials to escape by boat.
Return to western Liaoning.
After arriving at the beach, Nurhaci felt relieved when he saw more than a dozen ships lying along the coast.
"Huh? Where are all the civil servants?"
Nurhaci frowned. There was a shortage of civil servants in the Qing Dynasty, so he had already asked the civil servants to come here to wait. But now he didn't even see a single civil servant. Could it be that he had already left by boat?
"Your Majesty, hurry up and get on the boat."
"No, wait a little longer for the prince and elder brother." Nurhachi said firmly.
Nurhachi told Huang Taiji and Chu Ying about the evacuation of ships in Haikou. If they did not die on the battlefield, they would definitely come back to the seaside to fight with Nurhaci.
But what disappointed Nurhaci was that he waited and waited but could not see his two sons. It was very likely that they had died in the battle or been captured alive.
"Huang Taiji, Chu Ying, if you die, Ama Ding and Qin Hao will fight until death." Nurhaci gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, but still did not get on the boat.
"No need to wait, Huang Taiji and Chu Ying won't be coming."
At this moment, a familiar voice came from the boat behind, and Nurhachi's expression suddenly changed, because it was the voice of his mortal enemy Qin Hao.
Turning around, he saw Qin Hao standing on the bow of the ship, and the other ships were also filled with people from the Qin army.
"Escort me, protect me quickly."
The Manchu and Qing generals shouted one after another and protected Nurhaci to prevent the Qin army from sneak attacks, but they did not know that Qin Hao did not bother to attack at all.
"Qin Hao, why are you here?"
Nurhaci gritted his teeth and asked. Now he finally understood that this was a trap. The civil servants who came in advance must have been eliminated by Qin Hao.