Anti Qing

Chapter 36 Selfishness
Outside Jindou Pass, the army was defeated like a mountain.

Only this time, it was the Qing army that fled everywhere.

The tight three-sided formation collapsed in an instant, the green battalion on the two wings fled crying, and the two generals Wu Zhaosheng and Tu Guobao surrendered and died.

On the Niutou Plateau, the banners of the Qing army are slowly retreating.

Under the plateau at this moment, the entire field has become a complete mess. Even if the artillery battalion of the Qing army fires cannons again, it will not change the situation of the battle in any way.

Some sporadic Qing troops were still desperately resisting in the corners of the battlefield. They fought with the chasing Shun troops, making faint shouts of killing.

The passage from the camp to the plateau was used to facilitate the transportation of supplies by the Qing army in the camp, but now it has become a reminder for the artillery camp on the plateau.

The Qing army on the plateau could clearly see that there were countless Shun soldiers rushing upwards from the camp, shaking their gleaming waist knives.

The combat capability of these artillery battalions is not as good as that of the Green Battalion's infantry. Once they are approached by the old Shunjun, one can imagine what will happen.

Seeing that the general situation was over, the Qing army on Niutouyuan couldn't think of any resistance, so they hurriedly withdrew eastward.

In order to slow down the pursuit of the Shun army, Commander Jiala Ezhen of the former Qing army left more than [-] light artillery pieces and a large amount of luggage in place, and fled lightly.

After the first group of Shun troops pursued to the plateau, they saw the Qing army retreating to the east. They did not continue to pursue, but began to scramble for the luggage they left behind.

This kind of chaos didn't change until a general Wuwei in blue arrow suit arrived.

Under the command of General Wuwei of the Chinese Army, the Shun army who boarded Niutouyuan established a position on the plateau and carried the spoils in an orderly manner.

Some cavalry troops of the Shun army under the plateau had stopped chasing, and began to gather the defeated Qing army, clean up the battlefield, and treat the wounded.

Li Zijing threw the torch under his feet and stomped it out, gripped the Yanling Saber tightly, and stared into the distance.

The purpose of burning the tents last night was to attack the morale of the Qing army's front line. Now that the Qing army's momentum is over and the main force is scattered, it is useless to burn the tents after the victory is confirmed.

Li Zijing exhaled, the tunnel was finally dug here in time, and the chaotic mood gradually calmed down.

After winning the battle of Tongguan, Dashun temporarily kept Guanzhong, so what should he do next?
Li Zijing's heart is very heavy. After these days of continuous fighting, too many people died for this victory, and his mood is not the same as before.

These Shunjun soldiers, who were called rogues in history, may be a little rebellious or a little arrogant, but in actual combat, they are much stronger than the Ming army.

These veteran soldiers of the Shun army could move forward fearlessly in the face of the arrows and artillery of the Qing army. Li Zijing sighed and turned his head to look.

On the bull's head plateau, there is a little golden light shining through.

The sky is full of red clouds, and the red sun gushes out like a furnace of boiling molten steel.

The golden light was so dazzling that Li Zijing unconsciously raised his hand to cover it.

Then what came into view was the Shura battlefield like a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

Fighting from afternoon to dusk, from dusk to late night, and then from late night to dawn, this battle is finally over.

Li Zijing's headquarters spent most of the time digging tunnels underground, so the damage was very small. Among the more than 100 veteran soldiers who went into battle, only four were killed.

Three of them were accidentally buried by the collapsed tunnel when they were digging the tunnel.

Liu Zongmin's Chinese army was different. In order to attract firepower and cause Doduo's misjudgment, almost all the more than 1 veteran soldiers of the Chinese army pressed on, resulting in heavy casualties.

Looking at Liu Zongmin's eyes, Li Zijing's eyes appeared a little complicated.

The original purpose of this battle, Li Zijing was selfish, winning the battle of Tongguan was not for Li Zicheng's Dashun, but for himself.

But now, in order to save his own life, so many people died of his own plan, Li Zijing's heart is also fleshy, and it will hurt.

Those Chinese soldiers who had nothing to do with themselves, in order to attract firepower for digging tunnels, rushed to death one after another.

Looking at the corpses everywhere, Li Zijing's eyes flickered, and his face was a little moved.

There was a sound of footsteps, and Li Zijing looked up, and saw Wu Zhaosheng, the former leader of the green camp of the left-wing Qing army, who was being escorted to the camp by several veterans of the Shun army.

I don't know if he is simply afraid of death or has another purpose, Wu Zhaosheng is very cooperative in all these, and after surrendering, he actively helped the Dashun Army recruit defeated soldiers.

With the cooperation of the chief general of the green battalion, it became much easier to gather the rout of the Qing army.

Seeing that some people surrendered and saved their lives, more and more Qing soldiers stopped, and one after another gave up their swords and guns, kneeling on the ground and begging to surrender.

The golden sunlight spreads over the field, and under the peace, there is a palpitating grindstone of flesh and blood.

For a mile outside the camp, corpses were strewn all over the ground, and blood flowed like rivers. The bones of soldiers from the Shun army and the Qing army were piled up like a mountain, and there were stumps and broken arms everywhere.

Even Li Zijing, who had experienced such a battle once, was still secretly startled when he saw this scene again, and stopped the urge to vomit.

The flesh and blood were burnt, and the fishy smell accompanied by the burnt smell was extremely pungent. Every time he inhaled it, Li Zijing felt his stomach tumbling.

The camp of the Qing army has become a ruin, and the Qing army still in the camp is now either a corpse on the ground or has been forced to surrender.

Even the Qing army on Niutouyuan is nowhere to be seen now. The sentinels came to report and said that they only saw more than [-] empty artillery pieces and many shells and artillery carts.

In the distance, the cries of defeat and pursuit gradually came like muffled thunder.

Duoduo had already run away without a trace, and even Berenikan, who was holding the red flag, retreated from the east gate of the camp in a hurry under the cover of the Jurchen cavalry.

The sound of horseshoes gradually faded away, and with the sunshine, the soaring fire in the camp gradually subsided.

"The cavalry cover the kill, the infantry follow, and the fine cavalry cover!"

"Ordinary soldiers should not rush too far forward, stay at the end of the army, lest the Qing dogs counterattack!"

Liu Zongmin rode his horse into the camp, glanced at the cave-like tunnel on the right hand side, and didn't go forward to say anything.

He just squinted his eyes and glanced at Li Zijing who was commanding his subordinates to clean up the battlefield, then waved the big knife in his hand and continued to issue orders one after another.

Liu Zongmin knew how difficult this battle was, and he would not slack in the slightest at the last moment when he was about to win an all-out victory.

After some orders, the troops of the Chinese army who were gradually dispersed due to the pursuit began to gather around the banners in the battalion under the control of the old soldiers.

"General Quan is holding the line, I'll lead someone to chase Duoduo!"

The Zuoying fine cavalry commanded by Liu Fangliang wore white arrow jackets and lined with cotton armor.

Compared with Liu Zongmin's Chinese army, which is famous for its rigorous formation, Liu Fangliang's left battalion is mainly skilled in bow and horse.

Liu Fangliang himself is better at commanding horseback riding. Compared with some Jurchen Baylors, Li Zicheng often asks him to be the vanguard of the army.

Liu Fangliang's Zuoying fine cavalry chased at the forefront, and went straight to the direction of Doduo's retreat to pursue, attacking the routs of the Qing army along the way, so that the Chinese cavalry and infantry following behind could expand their victories.

Running all the way, even if some of the Qing army's rout soldiers gathered together occasionally, they would disperse as soon as they charged.

Afterwards, the cavalry of the Chinese army charged again, and the slightly organized Qing army scattered and fled again, turning into a complete rout.

The infantry finally caught up, and there was nothing left to do but chop melons and vegetables.

Even those ordinary soldiers could easily knock down the flustered Qing army one after another.

For ordinary soldiers, this is a good time to be promoted to the old school, so how can they let it go?
Once promoted to the base, it will become the real main force of Dashun, from the armor to the equipped weapons, there will be a qualitative change.

Even their family members will be taken to the old camp, and they have the most basic guarantee in the troubled times, which is different from those refugees.

　Forgive me, I have been staying in my hometown for the past few days, and there is no coding equipment, so I had to find out the dilapidated notebook from many years ago.Another chapter tonight!
　　
　
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