Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 486 Good News

"Reporting to the emperor, I believe that the method of retreating and marching should be the same. Naturally, there are scouts, forwards, and rear troops. The emperor himself will retreat the central army and retreat slowly!"

After Jierhalang was stunned for a moment, he thought for a moment and said his answer.

For many years, the Eight Banners had to return north after confrontation with the Ming army, but each time they returned north calmly and proudly loaded with population and supplies. Even if the rear team was ordinary bannermen without armor, no Ming army dared to chase after them. , so the entire Eight Banners has long forgotten what it should be like to retreat under the pressure of the enemy.

"Prince Rui, what do you think should be done?"

Huang Taiji was noncommittal to Jierhalang's words, but looked at Dorgon and continued to ask.

"We can't just withdraw like this! This will only increase the prestige of the Ming people and weaken the morale of our army! Now that our army has suffered repeated defeats, morale is low, and the morale of the army is shaken. There must be a victory to inspire the whole army. I have the confidence that the Eight Banners are invincible, so that I can dare to fight against the Ming people in the future!"

The more critical the moment, Dorgon became calmer. His words were completely beyond everyone's expectations. Only Huang Taiji who was seated secretly nodded: My fourteenth younger brother is indeed a person with outstanding wisdom and strategy. The other princes, Baylor, who are far more experienced than the Eight Banners, unfortunately, the two white banners have always coveted their own throne, and this contradiction cannot be reconciled or compromised at all.

"Prince Rui's words are really refreshing. You continue to talk about it. Now that our army is at a disadvantage, how should we give the Ming army a head-on blow?"

Huang Taiji's ugly face finally calmed down, and he continued to ask questions with great interest.

"From today's battle, it can be seen that the left wing and the center of the Ming people are both new troops, with the strongest combat power and strict military discipline. The soldiers obeyed orders and dared to confront our army head-on. Compared with the Ming army on the right The other two routes are much different. Judging from the banners, they are both frontier troops similar to Liaoxi.

If the two blue flags confronted them with a little bit of strategy, although they wouldn't be able to defeat them completely, at least they wouldn't lose so many elite soldiers! "

Having said that, Dorgon cast a contemptuous glance at Jierhalang who was opposite him, and Jierhalang who was watching him listening intently lowered his head involuntarily.

Today, in the match against the Xuan Dabing of the Ming army, the pioneers in the middle of the two blue flags, who had already had the upper hand, were caught off guard by the opponent's general.

The tiger squatting cannons placed by Xuan Dajun behind the pikemen on the first floor were tightly covered, until the first pike phalanx was crippled. The white armored soldiers and heavy armored infantry of the banner suffered heavy losses. Although countless Ming troops were beheaded, the elites of the troops were completely lost.

After this battle, the two blue flags were severely injured, and there were less than a hundred white armored soldiers left. It has lagged far behind the other three flags.

If Dorgon were to command this battle, he would order to drive the rest of the soldiers to attack the rear formation after attacking the phalanx of the Remnant Army's spears. In this way, it would be useless even if there were tigers squatting and cannons. Who dared to order to shoot at his own soldiers, who would fight for him with such a general who treats his subordinates like nothing?
"I thought that while we were preparing to evacuate, we took advantage of the victory of the Ming army to slack off, and took these border troops and sent troops overnight to make a surprise attack to destroy the prestige of the Ming people!"

While Huang Taiji and others were discussing the follow-up strategy, the camp of Ming army commander Sun Chuanting was also full of stars.

In today's battle with the Qing army, the first contribution should go to the car camp on the middle road.

Although Che Ying did not directly kill a large number of Qing troops, they completely destroyed the Qing army's most threatening artillery array to the Ming army after withstood several rounds of artillery bombardment from the Han army flag. The dominant Ming army has an absolute advantage in firepower output.

There were only less than [-] gunners in the Han army flag, and after this battle, there were no more than one in ten, and all the large and small artillery deployed became the spoils of the Ming army.

In the situation of being helpless against the car battalion, the guards guarding the artillery formation on the middle road of the Lianghuang Banner could only retreat first, and then more than a hundred vans in the car camp lined up as fortresses and barriers, and thousands of people from the rear battalion went up Before that, under the command of the battalion officer, all the more than [-] artillery pieces were calmly carried and dragged back to the Ming army camp.

At this point, most of the artillery accumulated in the Qing Dynasty for many years no longer exists, and the only long-range attack weapons left by the Qing army are bows and arrows.

However, in front of the Ming army's guns, the Qing army's archers could not approach the Ming army within [-] steps to shoot arrows. In front of the Yongwei camp, Jingying, Qin army and other new troops, the Qing army's soldiers became living targets. , and the Qing army, which was best at melee combat, basically lost the opportunity to get close to the Ming army.

In today's battle where almost the entire army was in battle, the second most important thing was Xuan Dabing.

Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei began to study and formulate tactics against the Qing army after receiving their troops to leave the customs.

After collecting all kinds of specific information about the Qing army's confrontation with the Ming army over the years, and asking many generals and soldiers who participated in actual combat with the Qing army, the two finally decided on today's tactics on the field: at the cost of sacrificing some soldiers , to lure the Qing army's elite to fight hand-to-hand, and then use the tiger crouching gun hidden behind the first battle to kill and injure the Qing army's heavy armored infantry in large numbers, so as to establish the advantage in the subsequent battle.

Both of them are veterans who have been in the army for many years, and they know the importance of brave and skilled soldiers in an army.

When the two armies confront each other, the generals of both sides will dispatch the bravest soldiers in the battalion first. This small number of soldiers will become the winners and losers of the battle. It's still not enough to fear in terms of combat power.

This method of warfare was the best of the Qing army, and it was tried and tested repeatedly. As long as the most courageous people in the front line of the Ming army were defeated, the rest would be chasing and picking heads.

Even Sun Chuanting didn't see the trap carefully laid by the two.

In order not to affect the entire army after the defeat of Xuan Da's army, Sun Chuanting also specially sent the Yongwei Battalion to support them from one side. As a result, before Huang Zhen's troops broke through the interception of the Qing army and joined them, Xuan Da's army, which had lost more than 2000 people, had already taken The most elite forwards of the Qing army were completely killed.

If it wasn't for Huang Taiji's order to retreat after receiving the urgent report from the rear, Xuan Dabing's next blunderbuss formation and long spear formation would have gained a huge advantage in the battle.

As for the Qin Army and the Beijing Camp on the left, they have an overwhelming advantage over the two red flags on the opposite side, no matter in terms of weapon configuration, number of people, or morale. The gunners of the Qin army quickly established a winning momentum.

The Huang Taiji retreat came at the right time, otherwise, the right wing of the Qing army where the two red flags were located would probably be the first side to be breached by the Ming army.

As for the right-wing troops in Shaanxi, Gansu and other towns, they caught up with the order of the Qing army to retreat shortly after they fought against the Qing army's two blue flags. This trivial achievement is enough to make He Renlong and others excitedly brag for a long time.

"In today's battle, the officers and soldiers of all ministries obeyed orders and fought bravely, inflicting heavy casualties on the Eastern captives, especially the Cheying in the middle road and the Xuanda Office on the right wing. The details of the battle were described in detail, and Cheying and Xuanda Town were listed as the first and second merits, and the other ministries’ contributions were also described. Tomorrow, a fast horse will be dispatched to the capital to reach the imperial front and submit it to the imperial court. All your names are listed on it!"

All the generals under the tent were all smiling when they heard the words, and the atmosphere in the tent suddenly heated up. Everyone talked and laughed loudly. The temperature in the big tent seemed to rise suddenly. Everyone was imagining that the emperor was watching What kind of expression should I have after realizing the credit I have made, and what kind of reward I will get in return afterwards.

Of course, the generals in western Liaoning headed by Zu Dashou did not respond enthusiastically to Sun Chuanting's words because they did little damage to the Mongolian cavalry.

Among all the people present, Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei were the happiest.

After hearing Sun Chuanting point out the merits of Xuan Dazhen, both of them pretended to be reserved and stroked their beards with hands and smiled in silence, but their beard-stroking hands couldn't help but tremble slightly when they were emotionally agitated.

"quiet!
I have another piece of good news to announce! "

　Thanks to Gaga Guangzhou and Qingcheng Yunwu Piaomiao for their rewards.

　　
　
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