Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

() Although there were only two confrontations between the Ming army and the rebel army today, it was almost dusk when the two sides called for gold and retreated.

When the Ming army entered the camp, they could still maintain a neat formation under the orders of their respective military officers, but after a while, the entire Ming army became a little chaotic.

Why?Hungry!Most of the soldiers had been hungry for a day, and they all hurriedly started cooking.After Hu Chihai had a full stomach, the Ming soldiers who had been exhausted all day went back to their tents to sleep.

But you must know that after the hasty encounter with the rebels yesterday, the camp of the Ming army was not solid at all.And the work that was supposed to strengthen the camp now was not carried out because the soldiers were too tired.

In addition to those whistles who were selected to guard the camp, they all complained that they were unlucky, and they were half-hearted about the job of guarding the camp, and some even found a corner where no one could see to sleep.

For such a lax defense of the camp, many military officers opened their eyes and closed their eyes. After all, their soldiers have worked hard.Besides, the rebels have been defeated in the daytime battle today (according to the Ming army's opinion, these losses of the rebels are indeed a big defeat), so at least tonight will be safe.Just give the kids a break.

The combination of all these makes the defense capability of the Ming army's camp very negligible.But Governor Liu Yulie still knew nothing about all this.

As soon as Liu Yulie returned to the camp, he immediately called Jiang Guerez, who had made two contributions in today's battle, to his tent.He first asked the clerk to record Jiang Guerzilla's achievements in the merit record, and then kindly started a family routine with Jiang Guerzilla.

In today's battles of the Ming army, indeed, only Jiang Guerrilla's performance is remarkable.Not to mention his tactical literacy, at least Jiang Guerrilla and his army dared to fight and fought bravely.

Besides, Jiang Guerrilla's appearance is really pleasing, he has honed himself in the officialdom for such a long time, and his behavior and conversation are very good, so Liu Yulie and Jiang Guerrilla had a good chat.Even after dinner together, the two chatted happily for a long time.

Liu Yulie was not worried about his Ming army.Because behind him, there are Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing's rear army of more than 1 people (including civilian husbands).Of course, in order to be cautious, Liu Yulie once again sent people to ask the rear army to step up their pace and join up with the main force of his Ming army as soon as possible.

And this time, the Ming army still had a partial division.Wu Anbang, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Army stationed in Ninghai, will also flank the rebels in Dengzhou from the east in the next few days as planned.

And there is another reason why Liu Yuyeol is in a good mood.Immediately after the battle ended that day, he sent a messenger to the rebels to demand their surrender.In order to show his sincerity, Liu Yulie even asked the messenger to take the more than 300 captives and return them to the rebels.

The rebel military officer headed by Kong Youde also seemed to have the intention of surrendering when he saw that the daytime battle was unfavorable.The envoys they sent to Liu Yulie were well-mannered, but they also put forward conditions for their surrender.

In Liu Yulie's view, this condition seems a bit high.However, Liu Yulie believes that since Kong Youde has expressed his intention to surrender, the subsequent bargaining is only a technical issue.The recruiting matter looks like it's about to be settled.

Therefore, after sending Jiang guerrilla away, Liu Yulie wrote by himself, using his wonderful pen to write today's victory in the memorial of today's battle reported to the court.

We can imagine everything that happened after that.In the middle of the night, Kong Youde gathered all his cavalry, took advantage of the lax defense of the Ming army, went around to the back of the Ming army and burned the food and grass.

The rebels who stayed in Dengzhou City once again used false surrender.And Wu Anbang, the commander-in-chief who believed in the rebel's false surrender, was defeated again and had to retreat to Ninghai.

At this time, although there were coastal defense posts such as Ninghai, Wendeng, and Haiyang in the east of Dengzhou, and a large number of soldiers were stationed, they feared the enemy like a tiger and did not dare to attack the rebels, so they could only protect themselves.And the rebels had no time to look east at this time, they didn't pay attention to these guards at all, thinking that these states and counties would sooner or later be in their pocket.

What's funny is that the rebel's trick of feigning surrender seemed to be a trick, and it ate up all the Ming troops, making their victory unfavorable.

The main force of the Ming army here, Liu Yulie, immediately fell into panic after losing its supplies and food.You know, this time Liu Yulie set off from Qingzhou, and he didn't bring too much food and grass.Because Liu Yulie originally thought that the rear of the Ming army was under his own control, and if he needed food and grass, he could also smoothly transfer it from Qingzhou in the rear.

But now the entire army is in a situation of food shortage, and because it was attacked at night, Liu Yulie, who was shocked, immediately ordered the Ming army to retreat like a frightened bird, and to join Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing's rear army earlier .

In fact, this panicked move was not necessary at all.At this time, by the side of the main force of the Ming army, there was always enough rations for the soldiers to eat for one or two days.As long as they stand still and ask Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing's rear troops to speed up to join them, the problem of food and grass can actually be temporarily resolved.

You must know that in the rear army, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing originally searched a lot of food and grass from the Jining warehouse, and when they were stationed on the spot and marching all the way, Wu Shigong, the dragon crossing the river, and Liu Zeqing, the local snake, cooperated With a tacit understanding, they expropriated and looted a large amount of grain and grass.Therefore, the amount of food and grass in the rear army must be able to meet the consumption of the entire Ming army for more than half a month.

In the next half a month, Qingzhou's food and grass can always be brought up, and because the Ming army has an absolute advantage in numbers, just fighting Kong Youde like this can also defeat Kong Youde's rebel army.

On the second day, the Ming army that hastily retreated immediately fell into chaos.Because Liu Yulie only gave the order to retreat, and did not arrange which troops of the Ming army were in front and which troops were behind; which troops covered and which troops blocked the enemy.Therefore, the Ming troops who received the order all scrambled to retreat to the rear.

The most ridiculous thing is that Liu Yulie completely forgot to send people to ask Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing's rear troops to come forward to meet him.And the military officers of the rear army were also kept in the dark about the failure and retreat of the main force of the Ming army ahead.

Seeing this situation, Kong Youde immediately ordered the rebels to cover up and kill them.However, because the Ming army had a large number of people and formed a group, at this moment, the rebel army could not do anything to the retreating Ming army.

But when the Ming army retreated to Shahe, the situation changed drastically.Originally, the pontoon bridge on the Shahe River could pass the army in an orderly manner, but due to the scrambling of the Ming army, too many Ming troops crossing the river caused the pontoon bridge on the Shahe River to break.

Seeing that the way of retreat was cut off, the entire Ming army was in chaos.Some of them waded across the river regardless of the icy water.Some scattered to the upper and lower reaches of the Shahe River in search of places where they could wade across the river.

Seeing that the Ming army loosened their formation, the rebels took advantage of the situation to kill, and the entire Shahe River was quickly filled with the corpses of the Ming army.But in this way, the Ming army behind could barely cross the river by stepping on the corpses of their companions.

In order to protect Governor Liu Yulie from crossing the river, Jiang Guerrilla turned around and fought again.There are only three things, and Jiang Guerrilla's fate is not so serious this time.Unfortunately, he was killed in the pursuit of the rebels.

During the entire battle, the only brave general of the Ming army withered like a cherry blossom.Fortunately, seeing the bravery of Jiang's guerrilla troops, the rebel troops did not dare to confront them head-on, so in the end, most of Jiang's guerrilla troops fled back to the west bank of the Shahe River.

In this fiasco in Shahe, the Ming army lost more than 1 people, including casualties, drowning, capture and escape, and almost all the civilians were lost.All the artillery of the Shenji Battalion fell into the hands of the rebels.In addition, the rebels seized countless supplies.The casualties of the rebels were only in the tens of figures.It can be said that there is no loss.

The entire Laizhou battle ended in such an anticlimactic manner.