Tan Tai hurriedly escaped from the city under the protection of his own soldiers. After leaving the city gate, he did not rush away. Instead, he led his soldiers to guard not far from the city gate, waiting for other defeated soldiers to flee one after another.
Out of town.
There was not much time left for him to collect the defeated troops outside the city. After a while, Cao Ruohai's troops, who were advancing along both sides of the city wall, arrived at the north gate and began to clear out the last gate controlled by the Qing army in the city.
The Qing troops guarding the gate did not hold out for long. Under the fierce offensive of the second brigade, they abandoned the gate and fled. The north gate was captured, and the Qing troops who had not had time to escape from the city were naturally unable to leave.
"We should defend the North City Gate with all our strength!" Tan Tai watched the Ming army take control of the North City Gate, and then thought of the tactical arrangement. It is definitely more difficult to defend a city gate than to face the enemy's firearms on the street.
Easy. As long as you have this city gate in hand, it will be much easier to evacuate the army, deal with the enemy, or even retake the city.
By accident, he lost everything. Just because he failed to defend one gate, Tan Tai now only has about 2,000 soldiers and horses at hand, including less than 500 elite Manchu and Eight Banners, and the rest are Mongolian and Han auxiliary troops. With this
It would be very difficult to survive in this vicinity, let alone seize the city, if the troops have lost their armor and courage.
Tan Tai was not the only one who regretted the careless arrangement. Cao Ruohai and Liu Yuanbin in the city also regretted not annihilating all the enemies in the city. Only after they saw a large number of Qing troops escaping from the north city gate did they know
What a stupid idea the two of them had at the beginning. They thought that Liu Yuanbin was fighting along the main street to fight the Qing army. The advancing speed should be much slower than the speed of rushing along the city wall. Cao Ruohai had time to move the four soldiers.
The door was under control! But who would have thought that the resistance of the Qing troops on the main street was not much stronger than that of the defenders on the city wall. Liu Yuanbin's troops who took the straight line on the main street advanced more than Cao Ruo, who had to take a detour along the city wall.
Kaifu fast.
"Everyone gather together and retreat south! Find Lord Baylor's main force!" Tan Tai was stunned for a long time, and finally regained his composure! Most of the army was locked up in the city, and it was very dangerous. At this time, there was no way to defeat the troops.
It was a city they could rely on. It was too dangerous for them to stay in Hejian Mansion where Ming troops were everywhere.
If he withdraws, he will definitely bear the heavy responsibility for the defeat of the city, but he must be held responsible if something goes wrong. Tan Tai does not want to stay in this place with no chance of winning and delay the future of the entire army just because he has to take responsibility. He is ready to go in a hurry.
Go south!
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of dense horse hoofs in the distance. When I looked closely, I saw a clear flag floating above the raised dust. "You bastard, the Ming army actually set up an ambush outside the city!"
"Tan Tai cried out in his heart that he was unlucky.
"Child Tan Tai, your Grandpa Ma has been waiting for you for a long time. Today is the day to send you back to the west." Ma You, who was galloping all the way on horseback, kept talking, eager to take advantage of the Qing army general.
The most uncomfortable thing about fighting is when others are attacking and you are blocking the attack. This is like eating the meat while others are eating the soup. This is what Mayu Liang did this time. The New Army only has two fully-organized cavalry companies, one of which is the cavalry company of the first brigade.
If it is to be used to seize the city, Ma Youliang of the Second Brigade can only be responsible for blocking, ambushing and coordinating the attack outside the city.
When Mayu Liang's people were about to rush to the front of the formation, Tan Tai saw clearly how many people were coming. Grandma's, there were only about a hundred people coming, but they dared to rush over to the formation! This is really a tiger being bullied by a dog! I couldn't be more angry.
Tan Tai turned his horse's head and faced Ma Youliang to kill him!
"Throw the bombs and retreat!" Seeing the Qing army approaching, Ma Youliang quickly ordered his men to light the grenades and throw them forward, then turned their horses and retreated a distance.
Zhentian Lei appeared on the way to the kill. Tan Tai quickly reined in the horse, turned the horse's head abruptly and retreated. He now had a psychological shadow on this thing, and his heart trembled when he saw Zhentian Lei.
A violent explosion sounded in the gap between the two armies! It did not cause any casualties, but it made Tan Tai dare not fight against Mayu Liang. Mayu Liang's tactics of using cavalry to throw grenades was still influenced by his juniors last year.
Inspired by throwing red ink cans. This tactic has no obvious advantage when both sides are cavalry, but if the cavalry faces an infantry legion, it will be extremely powerful!
The cavalry also wants to throw thunderbolts! Is there any branch of the Ming army that does not have this kind of thing? Tan Tai wants to cry without tears at this time, and he is in pain! From now on, the weapon he hates most is thunderbolts! Tan Tai, who has no choice but to do it, finally decides
Lead the troops to retreat south. If the Ming army is capable, keep chasing them.
So a very strange phenomenon occurred on the battlefield. More than two hundred Ming troops chased and beat two thousand people! What was even more shocking was that these Ming troops chased and cursed at the same time, without any regard for the powerful Qing troops.
Take it seriously.
"Qing Gou, if you can, stop and see if grandpa doesn't beat the shit out of you!"
"You are a Tatar. You can run faster than a rabbit. Are you a rabbit?"
After chasing and scolding for a certain distance, Mayu Liang quickly ordered his men to stop the pursuit and return to Hejian Fucheng. Mayu Liang still knew how much he had. That is, he was showing off his power near the city, brushing the waves, and bragging! He really wanted to pull it off.
If you open a distance, the Qing army will definitely turn around and clean up everything.
Just when Mayouliang led the cavalry to drive the remnants of the Qing army led by Tan Tai out of the city, the fighting in Hejian Mansion City was basically over. After the four exit channels were blocked, the Qing army stranded in the city could only
Choose stubborn resistance! Their stubborn resistance has no value. The Ming army soon taught the idiom that a man who understands current affairs is a hero with grenades!
The two thousand Qing troops still alive in the city finally chose to lay down their weapons and surrender on the spot. They were able to surrender so happily because there were not many Manchus left in the city, and they were basically all traitors and Mongolian soldiers!
After accepting the surrender of the Qing army, Liu Yuanbin and Cao Ruohai quickly arranged actions to take over the city and deal with post-war matters. After a short half-day of busy work, the battle for the army to regain Hejian City was basically over.
"Ruo Hai, we have gained quite a lot from our raid this time! According to a preliminary inventory, there are five to six hundred thousand taels of silver and tens of thousands of dan of grain. In addition to these, there are many valuable goods. It can be regarded as a small fortune."
"Hejian Mansion is an important place used by bandits to gather looting supplies. If we attack it this time, we will probably make the Qing Dog Master angry to death."
"I will definitely be very angry! Ruohai, what should we do with these trophies?"
"The Holy One has said that the New Army's captures on all battlefields must be tabulated and turned over! Twenty percent of them will be returned to the frontline soldiers as rewards. Private seizures in the army are strictly prohibited, as they will destroy the army's fighting spirit! Commander-in-Chief, don't you?
Are you trying to change this regulation?"
"Ruohai, who do you think I am? No matter how brave I am, I won't dare to tamper with the regulations set by the Holy One. I mainly want to get a lot of food this time, and the city of Hejian was severely damaged by the soldiers.
The remaining people in the city are having a hard time finding food, what do you think if we can use some of it to open warehouses to help the people?"