Liang Huacheng's soldiers and horses rushed until evening before retreating. In just half a day, nearly two thousand soldiers were killed or injured.
"Everyone, after today's battle, our troops have not defeated the enemy camp's fighter planes. It seems that we cannot defeat the enemy in the shortest time. Do you think it is necessary to continue this battle?" Hesitant Abatai said in the evening military discussion.
At the meeting, he conveyed his intention to withdraw from the army in a questioning tone.
It is not unacceptable to withdraw the troops. The canal will indeed make the transportation of materials much more convenient, but the canal does not lead all the way to the outside of the pass. Sooner or later, the land route must be taken. Since the Ming army blocked Wuqiao and refused to use the canal, then they will not go. In order to Ming Dynasty
With the army's moving speed, as long as they change direction, they will definitely not be able to keep up with the rhythm.
"Baylor, the general feels that we still need to fight. Today, the general will lead his troops to block the reinforcements from the Ming army camp. He found that their fighting intention was not firm. After joining our army, they hesitated to move forward and even retreated.
Five miles away!" Subandai reported a situation that was not consistent with common sense to Abatai.
"The reinforcements of the Ming Army are not willing to fight?" Hearing this news, Abatai suddenly became energetic. The reason why he didn't want to spend more time here was mainly because he was afraid that the Ming Army Camp and the Yongwei Camp would be jointly camped. Now the Ming Army Camp is
If the will to fight is not strong, the situation will become favorable to one's side.
"Chang Kechi, since we attacked the Ming Dynasty this time, although our army has achieved many results, we have repeatedly lost men and horses at the hands of this Ming army. My nephew believes that this battle should be fought with all our strength to defeat the enemy in order to boost the morale of the army."
Mandahai's attitude represents the opinions of the main generals of the Manchu army! The Yongwei camp has had quite a feud with the Qing army in the past few months. Since there is an opportunity to take revenge this time, why should we let it go?
Abatai, who originally wanted to retreat, changed his mind under the persuasion of his subordinate generals. The Ming army's camp was not very willing to fight, and this opened up unlimited possibilities for war. At least there was no need to rush in time, and there was no fear of being copied.
A way out.
"The war will continue tomorrow. Liang Huacheng's Han banner will spare no effort to attack the Ming camp. The war drums will not stop and the offensive will not stop!"
Want to launch the main attack again? Liang Huacheng couldn't help complaining when he heard Abatai's military order. But he couldn't say this to his face. In front of the Manchu uncle, the Han army could only be used as cannon fodder.
General Abatai's tactics were very clear, which was to use the lives of the Han army flags to consume the Ming army's firearms. When the Ming army's firearms were exhausted, the Manchus would take the initiative to attack.
Early on the next morning, the Qing soldiers launched a fierce attack on the Yongwei Camp Headquarters. The offensive was much more fierce than the first day.
The battle reached noon, and Cao Ruohai became a little anxious. It was true that he had repelled several rounds of Qing army's rush, but the Qing army had no intention of retreating. This is not the key, the key is that the reinforcements agreed upon, there was no movement at all.
No, and I don’t have many firearms here. In particular, grenades consume a lot of money.
An anxious Cao Ruohai quickly followed the traffic trench to Liu Yuanbin's camp and asked him what was going on.
"General Commander, when will the reinforcements from the main camp arrive to join the camp? It's been a day and a half, and there's still no sign of them. The situation is not good."
"They are probably blocked by the Qing army and won't be able to arrive for a while. If we hold on for a while longer, they should be able to arrive."
"There are not many firearms left! If this continues, the ammunition will be exhausted by night at the latest. Is the camp reliable? How about we quickly arrange for people to break out? With the power of grenades, we should open a hole.
It’s no problem.”
"The military governor strictly ordered our army to fight without retreating. If we break through without authorization, the entire army will be passive. At a distance of thirty miles, the reinforcements will be able to crawl there tomorrow morning." Liu Yuanbin did not want to retreat mainly because he knew the Ming army.
With his virtue, the attack can be carried out, but retreating will be troublesome. It is very likely that if his side breaks through, other troops and horses will collapse. At that time, the responsibility for the defeat of the war will have to be resisted by the new army.
"Since we have to hold on, we have to think of some ways! We have to save ammunition, otherwise it will be difficult to withstand the arrival of reinforcements."
"You should really save your firepower, save the grenades for use in critical situations, and use muskets more often to attack the leader of the captives. If the general is killed, the captives will naturally retreat."
The way Liu Yuanbin came up with to save ammunition was to use focused strikes to specifically snipe at the Qing generals. Although the accuracy of the bow gun was average, the targets of the Qing generals were not small, and they were all on horseback. As long as they dared
It is not difficult to rush within twenty or thirty meters and knock down both men and horses with one shot.
Abatai, who had been following the progress of the war under Shuai, heard the changes on the battlefield. "Send the order and ask Liang Huacheng to strengthen the offensive. Ming Gou's firearms are obviously about to be used up."
Abatai gave orders to continue to strengthen the offensive, but Liang Huacheng was in a dilemma. All the necessary means had been used, how could he strengthen the offensive? After one round of attack, there were hundreds of casualties. After fighting yesterday and today, he himself
The capital of the 20,000 Han military camp is about to be lost.
It was hard to disobey orders. Although he was complaining in his heart, Liang Huacheng still had to bite the bullet and let his men continue to organize the charge.
"What's going on? The enemy's thunderbolts are clearly being used less! But Liang Huacheng's men retreated faster." Abatai originally thought that the Ming army had reduced its firepower output, and his side's offensive should be more powerful.
It was more effective. But contrary to expectations, Liang Huacheng's troops actually retreated faster.
After listening to Abatai's question, the soldiers quickly ran to ask Liang Huacheng what happened. The situation reported by Liang Huacheng was that the Han army flag was unable to fight anymore. The officers who led the troops into the battle suffered too many losses, and the grassroots
The organizational structure has been disrupted, how can we still organize the battle?
"We have lost some generals, and the Han army flag cannot bear to fight anymore. It is really embarrassing for the generals. Zhun Ta, you lead a group of flag soldiers and hold them behind the Han army flag to supervise the formation, but there are Han soldiers retreating.
If you kill them directly, you still won’t believe it. Without generals, we can’t fight!”
Abatai used ruthless tactics and asked Zhun Ta to lead the white-armored soldiers to supervise the formation behind the Han army and force the Han army to charge forward with swords.
People are so strange. It is obvious that if they rush forward, they will die, and if they retreat, they will die. Moreover, the danger they face when retreating is much less than that of advancing. But as soon as the Han army flag was ordered to the formation, they immediately became energetic and began to move forward desperately.
Forward thrust.
The Qing army suddenly exploded with unprecedented fighting power, forcing the new army to use all its energy to deal with it. This round of charge by the Qing army did not end until the evening.
On the third day of the war, the expected reinforcements did not arrive, and the New Army's ammunition reserves were depleted. At this time, the war had really reached a bloody stage for the New Army, and they had to fight with the Qing Dynasty.
The army engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
"General, we are in trouble at the hands of the warlord! We don't even have the ammunition to break out, so we can only fight to the death with all our strength."
"Ruohai, in such a situation, you and I must fight hard and never retreat! It's useless to complain now, we can only fight hard." Liu Yuanbin regretted it very much at this time. If he had known that the soldiers and horses in the camp were so unreliable, he should have brought them with him.
The new army emerges on the battlefield! It's too late now, we can only fight bloody battles!