Saving the Ming Dynasty: I can exchange bodies with Chongzhen

Chapter 122: Hauge is captured
"Qianmaling?" Dorgon hesitated for a moment, "Yuetuo, Dudu, you two take people over to support Haoge."

If they were far away, he could have an excuse to delay and deliberately let Hauge's military force lag behind, causing more casualties. This would make it easier for him to report to Huang Taiji and other flag owners.

But Qianmaling was only more than forty miles away, and he couldn't hide even if he wanted to.

The muscles on Yue Tuo and Du Du's faces twitched a few times. They wanted to refuse but couldn't find a reason. Now the troops of the two white flags had passed the checkpoint, and all the red flags under their command were inside the checkpoint.

"Prince Rui, with so few of us..."

Dorgon seemed to know what they were going to say, and he interrupted Yue Tuo, "I will send the Mongolian cavalry from the two white flags as well."

Yue Tuo opened his mouth and could only nod in agreement. He led the troops of the Red Bordered Banner and the two white Mongolian banners and rushed towards Qianmaling.

……

At this time, Qianma Ridge had completely become a bloody grinding wheel.

With the help of artillery and muskets, the bodies of the Tatars fell one after another. Even when the Tatar cavalry rushed to the front of the Ming army, they were blocked by the white-pole soldiers and rattan armor soldiers.

Seeing that the main force could not escape, the generals of Hauge's Zhenglan Banner and the two Huang Banners discussed and decided to survive in the cracks and break up into small pieces.

Before long, they each led their teams and rushed in different directions.

Each team ranges from hundreds to thousands of people.

Among them were Hauge and several Jialazhangjing from the two yellow flags. They were divided into more than a dozen teams and fled desperately.

Huang Degong led a group of people and chased the largest group from behind. One of the musketeers raised his musket and with a "bang", he knocked down one of the soldiers in the group.

As this man fell off his horse, the team of horses that were originally galloping on their horses suddenly stopped, turned around and launched a frenzied counterattack against the Ming army.

Dozens of Tatars pulled up the people who fell to the ground, helped them onto their horses, and then broke out again.

"Go, let's go!"

But during this delay, thousands of cavalrymen rushed over, surrounded the Tatars and started to kill them.

“Are there big fish?!”

"kill!"

Hundreds of Tatar soldiers were unable to stop the charge of thousands of Ming troops at this time. A Tatar in front was shot through the heart by Huang Degong's spear, and blood spurted out immediately, and he fell to the ground.

Another Niulu Zhangjing had just blocked a Ming army soldier's saber. Faced with the current situation, he knew he could not continue fighting, so he jumped on his horse and tried to escape.

But he was stabbed down by a deputy general of the Beijing camp.

There was chaos all around. The Tatars tried to charge several times but were blocked by the Ming army every time.

But even facing the siege of a large number of Ming troops, the Qing soldiers could only hold on with difficulty, but they still protected the injured Tartar.

Someone died in front of that man, and someone immediately took his place and protected him as he rushed out.

This made Huang Degong and several other leaders of the Beijing Camp and Guanning Army feel that there were big fish here, and it was even more impossible for them to let them go, so more and more people gathered together.

Soon, even the White Spear Soldiers gathered around, forming a four-meter-long spear formation, and stabbed the Tatars who had just been able to fight to the ground one by one.

In a blink of an eye, among the hundreds of people, only the man on horseback was left.

Immediately, the Ming army stepped forward and captured the man.

"What's your name?" Ma Xianglin asked, his spear pointed at the other's chest.

“……”The man stared at everyone with red eyes without saying a word.

At this moment, the deputy general of Jinzhou also rode over. He looked at the captured person, narrowed his eyes, and suddenly his eyes widened.

"Haug?"

"Hao..." Huang Degong was about to spur his horse to chase him, but suddenly grabbed the reins and said, "Who? Haoge? Huang Taiji's son?"

Wow~
These words were like water falling into a hot oil pan, and there was an immediate burst of exclamations and excitement at the scene.

"Hauge? He is Hauge? Does he look like this?"

"I heard he's a prince of the Tartars!"

"So, we captured a Tartar prince alive?"

"This achievement is better than killing a Tartar, right? Tell me...how much money can His Majesty reward us?"

"You only know money... But how much is it worth?"

The Ming soldiers were discussing excitedly with red faces.

"Who hit him just now?"

"Me!" A young boy stood up. He was the first person recruited from the refugees by the Yongwei Camp.

Zhao Fugui.

"Good boy, I'll go find the commander and ask for credit for you later."

"Thank you, General!" Zhao Fugui's eyes were as bright as torches. He had just listened carefully. This was a prince, and he had shot him down with a musket. It was worth at least a hundred taels of silver. With this hundred taels of silver, the whole family would no longer be in financial difficulty for the rest of their lives.

"Fugui, you go with the third team..." Huang Degong ordered his men to take Haoge back to the central military camp.

Then he shouted to his men: "Brothers, let's pursue the victory and see if we can capture another prince or something. These are all valuable things."

……

Thousands of soldiers and horses rushed away. Fugui stood up straight with a red face. He said to everyone he met: "Did you see it? I beat him."

"I am a prince and should have the dignity that a prince should have... You can't do this to me." Hauge's eyes were wide open, his eyebrows raised, and the bloodshot in his eyes was clearly visible.

"Shut up, snap!"

A thousand households slapped him in the face.

"I..." Hauge wanted to say something.

"Pah!" Zhao Fugui also stepped forward to try it out, and said with a smile: "It feels different to hit the prince!"

At this moment, Hauge was pressed to the ground, his mouth full of dust, like a cow or sheep waiting to be slaughtered. There was no dignity at all.

The situation did not improve until he was taken to the central military camp, and at least he was able to stand up.

When Li Banghua heard that Hauge had been captured alive, he excitedly found a military doctor to treat his injuries.

"You've heard of this man, the prince of the Later Jin. Being alive and dead are two completely different things. You better watch out for me. As long as you don't die, even if you are disabled, I will promote you three levels and reward you with 100 taels of silver."

"Governor Li, don't worry. As long as I am the only one alive, I will not let him die." The military doctor's ears turned red with excitement.

The conversation between Li Banghua and the military doctor made Haoge so angry that his lungs nearly exploded. He fell headfirst to the ground, but unfortunately the soil was too soft and he didn't even bleed.

Before he could react, the Ming army doctor fed him Ma Fei San.

This thing can make a person dizzy and weak, which makes it easier for you to clean the wound on the person's back and also makes it impossible for the person to escape and seek death.

Li Fugui kept staring at him the whole time. This man was related to his hundreds of taels of silver, and he couldn't let him get away.

……

Before Yue Tuo and Du Du arrived at Qianmaling, they encountered the fleeing soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner and the Lianghuang Banner.

"My Lord, please beg my prince..." Jiala Zhangjing of the Zhenglan Banner cried and begged Yuetuo.

When I heard the news that Hauge was captured, I was like being struck by lightning.

Yue Tuo almost fell off his horse. Not to mention the failure in this invasion, the capture of Hauge alone would charge him with the crime of failing to provide timely support, which led to the prince falling into the hands of the Ming army.

Du Du was also confused. "What should we do now? Should we still go there?"

"Why are you still going over there? Can't you see that the battle has been lost?" Yue Tuo calmed down for a few seconds, forced himself to calm down and said, "More than 30,000 troops from the Zhenglan Banner, the Two Yellow Banners and the Eight Banners of the Mongolian Cavalry have all been defeated. Even if we go over there with more than 20,000 people, it will be useless."

"What we have to do now is to escort the soldiers who have escaped out of the border as soon as possible."

He did not consult with the generals of the Zhenglan Banner, but first found several Jiala Zhangjing of the Two Yellow Banners and exchanged views with them.

Having witnessed the brutality of the Ming army and having escaped with great difficulty, how could they be willing to fight to the death with the Ming army again!

This was exactly what Yuetuo had in mind. He left aside the generals of the Zhenglan Banner and reached a consensus with the generals of the two yellow banners. Even if Huang Taiji blamed him at that time, there would be someone to share the responsibility.

Moreover, since Hauge had been captured, it would be extremely difficult to rescue him. How could these defeated soldiers and Yue Tuo's 20,000 men do it?
"withdraw!"

As Yue Tuo and his men left, the battle on the Ming army's side entered its final stage.

An hour later.

The counted number of heads was placed in the central army camp.

Seventeen thousand heads!
More than half of the 33,000 Tatars were killed or wounded on the battlefield, and the most critical thing was that a big fish fell into the net.

Huang Taiji’s eldest son, Hauge!
……

"We are the Ming army. Now we are all saved! We can go back now."

"The Tartars are all dead..."

"Each person can receive 15 kilograms of horse meat."

In addition to the two warring parties on the battlefield, there was another group of people, that is, the people of the Ming Dynasty. In just a few days, the Tatars actually captured nearly 100,000 people and tens of thousands of livestock.

Cao Huachun selected hundreds of soldiers from the three camps to be responsible for the affairs of these people, because he knew that if this matter was not handled properly, there might be more refugees.

The reason why livestock were not distributed to them was because these people were poor people. Even if the cattle and sheep were given to them, they would not be able to keep them when they took them back. It would be better to let them take some of the horses that died on the battlefield back with them.

Although it's just a dozen pounds of horse meat, it can help them regain their confidence in life.

After arranging these matters, Cao Huachun ordered the Ming army to continue the pursuit.

Intelligence from the Embroidered Uniform Guard showed that there were still tens of thousands of Tatars in Qingshan Pass who had not left, including a large number of captured civilians and livestock.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, which was last year, the Tartars entered the pass from the destroyed border town.

They "ravaged the entire capital area", conquered 12 cities, won 56 battles, and carried out 18 looted livestock and a large amount of supplies through Lengkou Pass.

"All of them decorated their mounts beautifully and returned triumphantly with music played." They used the looted gold, silver, jewelry, and silk to decorate their mounts.

He also chopped down a piece of wood and wrote four big characters on it: "All officials are exempt from sending gifts", mocking the Ming Dynasty court.

The Qing troops took their time and took four days to withdraw from the area outside the Great Wall.

Now, how can we not let the Tartars pay the price?
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