Saving the Ming Dynasty: I can exchange bodies with Chongzhen

Chapter 113 Big victory!

"Prince Rui, a large number of Ming troops have arrived from the south, either from Shandong, Baoding, or Denglai."

Dorgon looked to the south and couldn't see much, but he could hear shouting and screams, and saw fire and smoke rising.

At this moment, a huge noise suddenly rang in his ears, and the wall of the outer city suddenly exploded, with brick chips and dust flying everywhere.

A person next to Dorgon was caught off guard and was knocked flying by something.

He was pushed out several meters and slammed into the city wall. Then his whole body tilted and he fainted.

Only then did everyone see that it was a pitch-black iron ball.

"bright……"

"Ming...Ming army's artillery!" The shout rang out belatedly.

Before the shouting ended, iron balls came flying towards them.

"Master!" Dorgon's bondservant hurriedly protected him and threw him under them.

When Dorgon raised his head again, he suddenly noticed shouting from the Tatar city wall.

The Ming army's artillery smashed the outer city walls to pieces, and many parts had collapsed.

In the inner city of Tianjin, cheers were heard one after another.

The Ming army finally arrived.

"Has the hour already arrived?"

"My lord, they haven't arrived yet. It will take another quarter of an hour." The bondservant replied.

"Only a quarter of an hour left..." Dorgon kicked away the bondservant who was blocking his way and looked at the inner city of Tianjin. "Just a little bit left, just a little bit left!"

"We lost so many people, but we couldn't even break into the small city of Tianjin? How can we go back to see the emperor?"

“Attack again!” Dorgon gritted his teeth, his body trembling, his eyes almost cracked open, every bloodshot vein clearly visible, coupled with his ferocious face, he looked like a beast ready to devour its prey.

"Yes!" Several Niulu Zhangjing of the Zhengbai Banner took off their heavy armor, which would hinder their actions to climb the city.

Then he rushed towards the inner city of Tianjin again.

……

The Ming army is here.

The Western Front, the Northern Front, and the Southern Front were finally united at this moment.

The momentum suddenly increased again, and the shouts reached the sky.

"kill!"

"kill……"

The bows and arrows of the Manchu Tartars fell like a rainstorm, and men of the Ming army kept falling down, but no one retreated, especially the musketeers in the front. They all had firm eyes, quickly loaded ammunition, and then fired.

Shoot again.

"Bang bang bang~~"

Rows of Tatars fell to the ground, but the Ming army kept advancing forward like a mountain.

Even up to this point in the battle, the Tartars' ferocity has not diminished. They are like hungry wolves, fiercely fighting the Ming army.

The three major camps had the upper hand in the battle with the Tatars, but the situation was not the same after the troops from Shandong, Baoding and Denglai in the south collided with the Tatars. They were directly defeated by the Manchu Tatars.

Cao Huachun immediately ordered the entire army to attack, giving up cutting off the heads of the Tartars and shooting to the greatest extent possible without counting the ammunition.

The flames on Tianjin City were so high that the Ming army no longer needed to launch "fire dragons" to clearly see the crowds of Qing troops below the city.

……

Fortunately, the Ming army in Shandong, Baoding, Denglai and other places in the south did not flee, but under the powerful offensive of the three camps, after suffering heavy casualties, they finally stopped the decline.

The morale of the Tartars was destroyed and they retreated.

This time, he led more than 80,000 troops to attack the Ming Dynasty, but not only did he fail to attract the troops from the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty back to defend the king, but he also lost more than 30,000 troops. More importantly, his own Plain White Banner and Duoduo's Bordered White Banner suffered heavy losses.

This was something he couldn't accept no matter what.

At this moment, Duoduo ran back with a bloody face and grabbed Dorgon's arm, "Brother Fourteen, our losses are too great. The loss of the Bordered White Banner is nearly half, and the loss of the Eight Mongolian Banners is even greater. Since we can't break into Tianjin City, we must withdraw."

Dorgon's angry face was twisted like a knot, with blue veins throbbing on his face, but he could not resist the attacks from the west and north, let alone the addition of troops from the south.

Listening to the shouts and the flames rising into the sky everywhere.

Dorgon punched the wall of Tianjin City and let out an unwilling roar, "Ah~"

At this moment, he realized that he could no longer be so stubborn.

We can't let an army of 60,000 be buried here...

Once surrounded by the Ming army, the Qing army would probably suffer even greater losses if it followed the Ming's current tactics.

Dorgon turned his head and glanced at Tianjin City. He felt so bitter in his heart that he felt like he was being pressed into water and couldn't breathe.

They were just a little bit away from capturing Tianjin City, and then the Qing army could defend the city.

The Ming army's artillery would lose most of its advantages in front of the solid city walls, but if they defended themselves in a high position, they would still have the advantage of resisting the Ming army's muskets.

As long as they were within range, the Qing army's bows and arrows were more accurate and no less lethal than muskets.

Dorgon was confident in the fighting power of the Qing army, and after they entered Tianjin and held the people of the Ming Dynasty hostage, the Ming army had no choice but to act cautiously. At that time, they would put the blame for the massacre on the heads of the Ming army generals, and let the surrenderists of the Ming Dynasty claim that it was the Ming army's coercion that led to the Qing army's massacre.

It can also cause turmoil in the Ming Dynasty court. If the war situation is unfavorable, Chongzhen will activate his forgotten skills again.

Kill a good general!

"Brother Fourteen, make a decision quickly!" Duoduo's face turned red and his neck became thick, and he shouted: "Attack the city or retreat, we can't continue to waste time like this."

"I know." Dorgon took a deep breath and looked at the heads of the people and soldiers swaying on the city wall of Tianjin.

He couldn't say how long it would take to capture Tianjin City. Maybe one hour, maybe two hours, maybe three hours, maybe by dawn, Tianjin City could be captured.

But the current situation no longer allows this.

Once the Ming army's encirclement was completely closed, with the power of the Ming army's artillery and muskets, more corpses of the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia would be left on Ming land.

In this expedition against the Ming Dynasty, his own Plain White Banner, Duoduo's Bordered White Banner, and Yuetuo's Bordered Red Banner suffered heavy losses. In addition, the other eight banners of Man Meng also suffered heavy losses. Not to mention that he would not be able to explain to the other banner masters after returning.

But there is a huge problem, that is, this defeat will inevitably have a great impact on his voice in the Qing court.

From the title, we can see that the three words "Prince Rui" are higher than Prince Haogesu.

Hauge was the son of Huang Taiji, but his title was not as high as that of his fourteenth uncle. One of the main reasons for this was that the strength of the Plain White Banner and the Inlaid White Banner was far greater than that of Hauge's Plain Blue Banner.

Now the two white flags have suffered huge losses. If they are buried here, it is conceivable that they will completely lose their power.

In the past, whenever the Tartars invaded the Ming Dynasty, they would always send envoys back to attack the city, first the Ming people, then the Mongolian army, the Korean soldiers, then some other small tribes in Manchuria, and finally the Manchus of the Tartars.

But this time when Dorgon and Yuetuo entered the pass, they encountered three major camps as soon as they arrived in Tongzhou.

Fifteen thousand soldiers of the Manchu Bordered Red Banner and the Mongolian cavalry under Yuetuo were killed in one fell swoop, and then they turned south to attack the city of Tianjin.

During this period, they did not plunder many Ming civilians, but used Mongolian, Korean, Manchurian tribes, and Manchurian soldiers as their main forces. Dorgon's White Banner was actually sent up more than an hour ago.

When they came, Dorgon and Yuetuo had a total of more than 80,000 troops on the left and right wings, but now they have lost 35,000 people.

The Mongolian and Korean soldiers were almost wiped out, and the soldiers of the small Manchurian tribes were also less than 30%. The Bordered White Banner lost nearly half of its soldiers, while the Plain White Banner was in much better shape, losing less than 30%, or a little over 2,000 people.

But even so, this loss was something Dorgon could not bear.

Just when he was still making up his mind, suddenly a cannon shot fell among them. This time, Duoduo was knocked to the ground, and a wall collapsed, burying Duoduo.

"Dodo!!"

"Lord Baylor!"

Dorgon and the surrounding Jalazhangjing and Niuluzhangjing were all shocked and rushed to rescue the man from underneath. The military doctor came forward to check him out.

"Fortunately, it's just a scratch. The ribs may be broken, but there is no danger to life."

After the military doctor bandaged the wound, several people around him breathed a sigh of relief.

Among them was Dorgon, and several were bondservants of Duoduo. According to the Eight Banners system of the Qing Dynasty, bondservants were not family members at all. They were property rather than people.

If Duoduo died on the battlefield, they would also have to die.

"Retreat, break out to the north!" Dorgon swayed his body, gritted his teeth, and shouted with his heart bleeding.

"withdraw!"

"Du~~~"

The deep sound of a horn cut through the night.

After hearing the order to retreat, the Tatar cavalry gathered their troops and began to retreat in an orderly manner towards the north without any hesitation.

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Above the inner city of Tianjin,

Cai Zhongren, the magistrate of Jinghai County, who had not slept for a day and a night, and the people in the city were already exhausted. When they saw the Tartars begin to withdraw their troops, Cai Zhongren's eyes turned black and he fainted on the ground.

“County magistrate!”

"County magistrate!"

After massaging his legs and pinching his philtrum, Cai Zhongren finally woke up. The first thing he said when he woke up was, "We won! We finally won... Hurry, welcome the Ming army into the city."

"Grandpa, don't bother with that. Our Ming soldiers are chasing the Tartars."

"Going after the Tartars?" Cai Zhongren struggled to stand up and looked at the flames outside, which continued to bloom like the wings of a butterfly spreading.

The loud bang was deafening.

Billowing smoke and dust rose up, almost covering the entire battlefield.

In the distance, the Tatars and the Ming army seemed to have collided again, like two balls of thick ink, fighting each other.

The current situation is in stark contrast to the past.

The troops from Lu Xiangsheng, Ji Liao and other places in the north continued to harass, trying to stop the Tatars from fleeing northward. The three major camps and the southern front were chasing closely behind, trying to kill as many Tatars as possible.

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ps: The writer said that he would talk about the issue of damage ratio in it.

　Some readers mentioned the problem of casualty ratio. Often in a battle, if the casualties exceed 10%, the army will begin to collapse. In books, there are often thousands of casualties.

　　It should be said that this is the difference in equipment and mentality. First of all, the Tartars had never encountered such a battle before. Secondly, the Tartars' combat power before and after entering the Pass was indeed extremely strong. Their determination to die, as well as the sense of superiority formed by the inertia of crushing the Ming army for decades, made them almost unable to react, and they had already fought like this...

　　There will be another chapter around nine o'clock!
　　
　
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