Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 576

Hanzhong West City Wall.

The young and strong people in the city who were defending were helping to carry stones and logs to the city to assist in the defense. Some even set up a large pot at the top of the city and began to boil water, hot oil, and even boil gold juice.

While they were busy, they kept turning their heads to look at the battlefield outside the city.

When the Tazi cavalry charged, many Hanzhong people couldn't bear to look straight at them. Standing on the top of the city, they could see the momentum of the cavalry charge at a glance, and it made people feel more frightened .

Not many people think that the Ming army can resist the charge of the Tartar cavalry.

Chen Caifang was a Jinshi in the Wanli year. He was appointed to the Imperial Academy and served as an official in the capital for many years. Later, he was released as an official for a few years.

During the reign of Chongzhen, Hanzhong, a rich and prosperous place surrounded by Qinling and Bashan Mountains, was not peaceful.

People from all walks of life came and went, scraping the ground.

Ming army, Chuang army, Xi army, Qing army, Ming army, Ming army, I will appear on the stage after you sing, no matter how rich Hanzhong is, it will not be able to withstand such looting.

Hanzhong was originally known as a small granary in the northwest. There has never been a shortage of food before. As long as there is food in hand, there is no need to worry about food. It can even be transported along the Han River to Jingxiang or to northern Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu.

The war-torn people have been fleeing to Fucheng for several years. Chen Caifang also ran from Liuba to Hanzhong Mansion. He has been an official for many years, and his family was originally well-off.

Because he was appointed to the Hanlin before and served as the deputy envoy of the inspectorate, so in the past two years, after the various forces took control of Hanzhong, they still used him as the magistrate of Hanzhong and was in charge of civil affairs.

In fact, Chen Caifang didn't want to be a magistrate at all, but he couldn't do otherwise.

From He Zhen to Ma Ke to Li Guohan, he couldn't afford to offend anyone.

It's just that he never thought that one day he would wake up and it would be under Da Ming's rule again.

Wen Anzhi, the manager of the Five Provinces of the Ming Dynasty, summoned him, and after chatting with him, he still appointed him as the temporary magistrate of Hanzhong to assist in defending the city.His task is to maintain law and order in the city, and to convene the Baojia people in the city to assist in the defense.

Hastily cut the braids, the forehead is still shiny, so I can only wear a net scarf and then turn out the former Ming Dynasty official uniform and put it on.

Lead the masters to command Minzhuang at the head of the city.

He had also been secretly staring at the battle outside the city.

At first, I also felt that although the Ming army came suddenly, they might not be able to fight against the Eight Banners who had just defeated the Western Thieves.

He even thought that the Eight Banners could smash the Ming army outside the city with a single charge.

But when the two armies collided fiercely, he kept his mouth shut in shock.

The Ming army lined up outside the city, with 8000 troops.

It faces the Qing army with the city on its back.

It is divided into left and right wings, stretching for several miles.

The Qing cavalry rushed to the left wing first, but supported by artillery on the city wall of the Ming army, and under the cover of bows and crossbows behind the formation, the spear formation of the Ming army remained motionless.

Actually withstood the Tartar cavalry stubbornly.

The Tartar cavalry charged into the infantry, but they were submerged within a few feet.

People turn their backs.

The Qing cavalry beat like huge waves, but the Ming army was as solid as a rock.

No matter how much Ren Julang slapped, he resisted, but the waves were smashed to pieces instead.

"Cavalry, the cavalry is dispatched."

A master was so excited, he pinched his thigh and couldn't help shouting.

At this time, on the city wall, no matter it was the soldiers of the Ming army, the strong defensemen, or even the demoted officials like Chen Caifang, they all stopped what they were doing and looked at the battlefield in the distance.

This is an extremely rare scene.

It's more enjoyable than watching a play.

They stood high and watched from a distance, watching the Tartars ride after ride into the Ming army's spear formation, and then fell down one after another.

Some Tartar cavalry tried to turn around and escape, but they couldn't escape the bombardment of bows, arrows and muskets.

The weather is fine today, with a cloudless sky.

The battlefield situation is clear at a glance.

The two thousand Mongolian light cavalry were smashed to pieces not long after, while the thousands of infantrymen of the Qing army were still running hard behind, not keeping up.

The horn sounded.

Qin Liangyu, the president of the five provinces who was in command outside the city, ordered the cavalry to outflank.

Zhang Shipeng, the admiral of the Imperial Battalion, personally led the cavalry to attack. He and Zhu Wanhua each led a wing of cavalry, and rushed out like a roc spreading its wings, encircling them.

These cavalry were few in number.

But for the bloody Tartars who were hit by the Ming army's guns on the battlefield at this time, it was fatal.

Tun Qi, who underestimated the enemy and was careless, regretted it.

Order the cavalry to retreat.

Seeing this, Han Dai, who was still rushing over from behind, immediately ordered Ming Jin to retreat.

The cavalry were beaten up like this, and the infantry would be sent away if they went again, and they had to come back and reorganize.

But how could the Ming army miss this opportunity.

Although Chen Caifang was a good official in the past, and was forced to be the magistrate in Hanzhong for two years, she also saw many soldiers coming and going, and even fought outside the city more than once, but she really never fought like this of.

This intensity, this momentum.

When Li Chixin and the others came and were intercepted by He Zhen, the two sides also fought outside the city, but the fight at that time was ugly, like a village clan fight, there was no such scene.

Even after the western thieves came to commit crimes several times later, there was no such formation.

He Zhen attacked after Chang'an was defeated, and only yelled and cursed for a while, and then the two sides shot each other with bows and arrows before retreating.

It is so rare to see cavalry directly hitting the infantry.

The result is also amazing. I thought there were too many Mongolian cavalry, but this is the result?

Tun Qi knew that he had underestimated the Ming army on the opposite side, and wanted to withdraw and regroup, but Zhang Shipeng didn't give him a chance.

Qingqi charged for a blow, and rushed out.

On the battlefield, Qin Liangyu also issued an order, and all the ministries moved forward.

Qin Yiming, Ma Wannian, Ran Tianlin, Ji Congxiao and other frontline generals gave orders to attack.

The soldiers raised their spears and strode forward.

"These Tartar cavalry are finished."

Chen Caifang sighed, a little inconceivable.

"How did the Tartars fight like this?"

"Why did they use light cavalry to charge into the spear array?"

Several staff members also said.

Chen Caifang thought for a long time, "Because the Tartars won so easily after entering the customs, they haven't encountered such a powerful Ming army for a long time, and they thought they could be defeated in one rush."

Of course, it is not impossible for cavalry to charge infantry. If they encounter a large difference in strength, they will indeed be defeated as soon as they charge.For example, in the past, when the officers and soldiers rushed against the thieves, or even rushed against the officers and soldiers along the three walls of the army, they were often defeated in one rush.

The premise must be a big difference in strength.

Obviously the Tartars had made a mistake in pre-rebellion, and they didn't expect this Ming army to be so powerful.

Han Dai ordered the infantry to retreat.

"These cavalry seem to be unable to escape, they are surrounded, those cavalry are so fast." An aide pointed to the Ming cavalry who was galloping like lightning.

Li Guohan, the coach of the Qing army in the rear, also discovered this terrible situation.

He cursed angrily, "Is Han Dai a pig's brain? If he doesn't go up to respond at this time but retreats alone, isn't that going to send all the 2000 people in Tunqi away?"

"Hurry up and send an order to him, let him take the infantry up to meet him, and he must bring them back."

After cursing, he gave orders to his subordinates, regardless of whether the shield chariots behind had crossed the river or not, he hurriedly arranged his formation and went forward to meet him, and he even sent an order to Oboi to let his cavalry go up to meet him immediately.

He couldn't just watch the two thousand riders in Tunqi being surrounded and wiped out like this.

Han Dai led the Manchurian cavalry to protect thousands of infantry and rushed to the front of the formation. Seeing that the situation was not good, they retreated, but unexpectedly the cavalry did not escape and were surrounded. Li Guohan sent someone to order them to turn back and rescue.

"Damn it," Han Dai felt very angry, this is not torturing people.

But thinking about it, it was because they themselves underestimated the enemy that they made such a big mistake, and they didn't dare to disobey the military order anymore, so they had to order the whole army to turn around and turn back to rescue the cavalry.

When the infantrymen heard the military order, they scolded their mothers one after another, and they were even obviously unwilling to go back to die.

But the Tartar generals yelled loudly and beat the dissatisfied Han generals with whips, and they had no choice but to turn around.

But this back and forth, and wasted a lot of time.

The Ming army cavalry surrounded the Tartar cavalry, and the Ming army infantry quickly caught up and joined the encirclement and suppression.

When several thousand infantrymen from the Han generals arrived, there were not many Mongolian cavalrymen left who had been besieged. As soon as they arrived, they delivered goods to their door.

Zhang Shipeng, Qin Yiming, etc., who were motivated to kill, roared and continued to chop while taking advantage of the victory.

The Ming army took advantage of the victory and pursued, fierce as a tiger.

On the contrary, the morale of these thousands of Han troops was low at this time, and they feared the enemy like a tiger.

As soon as the battle was fought, many Han troops began to turn around and run away. Some even shouted while running, what is defeated, run fast, etc., and their morale plummeted.

Soon, the thousands of Han troops began to flee.

The Ming army took advantage of the victory and pursued them all the way.

When Oboi led the cavalry to arrive, the Ming army had crushed the left-wing army of the Tartars. Seeing that the elite of the Tartars had arrived, Qin Liangyu ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

The ministries gathered their formations and rearranged them neatly.

Aobai rushed to the battlefield, facing the Ming army who had just won a big victory and the whole army shouted long live, he didn't dare to approach at all.

"withdraw!"

Aobai didn't dare to underestimate the enemy, those two idiots Han Dai killed thousands of cavalry at once, this lesson is too profound.

With the thousands of people in his hands, even if he rushed up, there would be no good results.

Obai retreated slowly.

The whole Ming army cheered.

"Long live!"

"Long live!"

"My emperor protects, God bless Daming!"

Qin Liangyu rode a horse and stood under the commander-in-chief's banner, watching the Qing army retreat in desperation, and let out a long breath.

Looking back at the Sun and Moon Banner, she couldn't help shouting excitedly, "The Sun, Moon, Mountains and Rivers will live forever, the Great Ming River and Mountains will live forever, and my emperor will live forever!"

The Ming army won a great victory and wiped out thousands of enemies.

The battlefield was cleaned calmly, and the heads of the Tartars were chopped off with a knife.

For those wounded soldiers and captives, whether it was Qin Liangyu or Zhang Shipeng, they only made a chopping motion.

There is no need to keep it.

Waste food.

Some people cut off their heads, others stripped their armor.

Others collect knives, guns, bows and arrows.

The others were not idle, treating their own wounded, restraining themselves and carrying back their fallen brothers.

Some people directly disemboweled the dead horses of the Tartars, skinned them, and unloaded the horse meat into large pieces, and carried them back to the city.

Chen Caifang stood at the top of the city, feeling infinitely emotional.

Several masters also sighed again and again, "This is the victory?"

"It's too easy to win, isn't it?"

Yes, there must be at least 8000 Tartars, and the Ming army only had [-] people outside the city, and the Tartars were defeated?
"It is estimated that at least 3000 people died."

"More than that, how many of the two thousand Mongolian cavalry escaped back at the beginning? Almost all of them were wiped out, and almost half of the four thousand or five thousand cavalry who came up behind were lost. 5000 people."

This battle has been fought like this, and everyone can't believe it.

Chen Caifang turned her head and left,
"Where are you going?"

"Congratulations to Wen Jinglue!"

The Qing army retreated slowly, retreating ten miles before stopping.

The morale of the whole army was low, and there was a gloomy cloud.

"Beizi Tunqi and Gushan Ezhen Han Dai were all lost in the army, and there were three other generals, two lieutenants, and five generals all died in the battle. There were not more than a dozen soldiers in the battle, and more than five thousand casualties in the first battle..." Li Guohan couldn't help choking up tears when he reported the results of the battle to Oboi and other generals.

The crowd was silent.

This battle is fought like this, it is to blame Tunqi and Han Dai for underestimating the enemy. Li Guohan made a special confession before the battle that after the shield chariots and large shields are ready, the shield chariots should be used to cover, the infantry will take the lead, and the cavalry will cover and break the enemy. The two idiots rushed forward underestimating the enemy, and even rushed into the enemy's formation with light cavalry, resulting in a great defeat.

But both of them are dead, and these two are clansmen, now Li Guohan, the chief general, can't escape the blame, and of course they can't escape the responsibility.

Aobai frowned, "Let's talk about what to do next. Both Yangping Pass and Hanzhong Fucheng have been lost to the enemy. Ming thieves are powerful, and Chencang Road has been cut off. I suggest immediately retreating to Guanzhong via Baoxie Road, and quickly. , I am afraid that the Ming army will block the Baogu entrance if it is too late, and we will be in trouble then."

The Shimen plank road at Baogukou is very dangerous, on the west bank of Baohe River, parallel to the river.

The Baoxie plank road with a total length of more than [-] miles leads directly to Mei County in Guanzhong.

But if the Ming army occupied Baogukou first, or even directly burned a section of the plank road at Gukou, they would really be trapped here.

Li Guohan hesitated.

He was ordered to guard Hanzhong, but it turned out to be like this, and he evacuated like this, there is no way to explain it.

But Aobai didn't care about these things.

How Li Guohan confesses is his business, and if they hesitate again, they are likely to be surrounded by this elite Ming army, and finally the entire army will be wiped out here.

This is very possible. The battle just now fully proved that they are much stronger than Zhang Xianzhong and the others. Even after Oboi entered the pass, he has never encountered such a tough opponent in the two southward battles.

Now they have only a tired army of less than 2 people left, and the Ming army took the opportunity to seize the old and suppressed them. They didn't even have a place to stay.

He doesn't want to die here.

"I will lead the cavalry to the Shimen plank road first, and guard the Baogu entrance. The commander can lead the rest of the troops, and then withdraw."

"Let's go back to Guanzhong and meet Wu Sangui first."

Li Guohan hesitated, "I can't just leave like this. It will be difficult to come back after this withdrawal. How can I explain to the court? General Obai, you take [-] cavalry first, and immediately rush to the north of Baocheng Town to control the city. Then divide the troops to defend Baogukou.

As long as Baocheng Town is still in our hands, we can still have a stronghold in Hanzhong, where we can advance, attack and retreat. "

He couldn't bear the consequences of losing Hanzhong, so he could only make such a bad move. Although if he did so, he might be surrounded by the Ming army in Baocheng. Once the city was broken, the entire army might be wiped out, but Li Guohan still wanted to fight.

"Send someone to Chang'an to ask Wu Shuai for help, and ask him to bring troops to help as soon as possible. There is no room for loss in Hanzhong!"

(End of this chapter)