Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Regarding whether to rescue Hong Chengchou, Wu Shigong must of course weigh the pros and cons.The advantages are one, two, three, four, and the disadvantages are A, B, C, D. Wu Shigong is nothing more than choosing a plan that is most beneficial to the Runing Army.

So considering the end, Wu Shigong chose to join the two armies to break through together.

Of course it was not for Hong Chengchou.Now as long as you are a discerning person, you know that even if Hong Chengchou is rescued back to Liaodong, he is still a living dead.After suffering such a disastrous defeat, Hong Chengchou had already lost his political life in the court.Since there is no use value, Wu Shigong will never exchange the life of Runing Jun Erlang for Hong Chengchou's safety.

And Wu Shigong took a fancy to the [-] troops around Hong Chengchou.You must know that this time the imperial court used all the elite Ming troops along the Liaodong and Eastern Great Walls. Once the entire army was wiped out, the entire northern part of the Ming Dynasty would be completely open to the Manchurian army.

If only the Runing Army, a lone army, stood out from the encirclement, it would obviously receive great attention from the imperial court.Needless to say, this Runing army will definitely be transferred to Liaodong to defend the Ningjin defense line, and first solve the problem of the lack of troops in Liaodong for the imperial court.

At that time, it goes without saying that the imperial court will win over Wu Shigong himself and the Runing Army, but he will be stationed in Liaodong?That is not in the interests of the Runing Army at all.

The current strength of the Runing Army is not so large that it can be divided up. If it is mobilized by the court, one south and one north, the Runing Army will face the two great enemies of the Manchu and Peasant Army.

You must know that at present, even if the Runing Army gathers all its strength and faces any one of these two great enemies alone, it will be a situation of equal shares at most, and it may be even weaker.If the troops are divided again, it is very likely that they will not rely on both ends, and they will be defeated due to insufficient strength.Instead, it was for the sake of the imperial court that the Runing Army lost its own strength.

Another point is that the communication at this time in the Ming Dynasty was very inconvenient. It was impossible for Wu Shigong to live in Liaodong and command Runing remotely.If it takes too long, who will host the event in Runing?Maybe the officials under him will feel uneasy.It is possible to disintegrate, and it is possible to be bought by other forces, or one's own generals become independent warlords.

Although the possibility of this is very small, when Wu Shigong established the Runing Army, he set up the local system, the military system, and the financial system separately to prevent anyone from intervening in the affairs of other systems, so it is difficult for his subordinates to control these three systems at once. system.And then control a site.But people have no long-term considerations, and there must be near-term worries, and some things have to be guarded against.

Moreover, one of the foundations for the existence of the Runing Army is the financial source, and the source of the financial source is located in Runing, Guide and other places.If Wu Shigong lived in Liaodong for a long time, it would be very inconvenient to transfer food and salaries from Runing, so he could only rely on the imperial court for supply.If time goes by.The Runing Army in Liaodong would be choked by the court with food and pay, which Wu Shigong didn't want to see.

therefore.If Hong Chengchou's [-] troops are rescued now.A capable Ming army can be preserved in Liaodong.Coupled with the rout of Wu Shigong's gathering, and even a small and capable unit left by the Runing Army, it would be enough to contain the Qing army in Liaodong, and the situation where the Ming Dynasty's northern defense line would not collapse.And Wu Shigong can also have the opportunity to leave Liaodong and return to Runing with his large army.

The only thing to worry about is the return of the Runing Army.Just let the results of last night's battle be wasted, and the Qing army had more time to concentrate its forces to stop the retreat of this coalition army, which increased the danger on the way to withdraw.

But there is also an advantage.At least the strength of the coalition forces has more than doubled. As long as they form a group, the success rate of breaking out together will increase.And this increase and decrease can be said to be equal to the gains and losses!

But there is a phenomenon that is very ridiculous, from the beginning to the end, Wu Shigong didn't think about it-whether he won't be able to break through!

It should be said that in the Runing Army, the one who is least confident in the combat effectiveness of his troops is their commander-in-chief Wu Shigong.So Wu Shigong has also become a rare representative of the tortoise stream in the Runing Army.As for Wu Shigong's original book boy, Shumo, he believed in the tortoise style because he was afraid of death; and Wu Shigong believed in the tortoise style because of timidity.

Why is Wu Shigong timid?Then blame Wu Shigong's identity as a time traveler.As a time traveler, Wu Shigong was quite aware of the great reputation of Li Zicheng and the Qing army, so he always unconsciously overestimated their combat effectiveness by three points.

But now, even Wu Shigong, the person who saw the Qing army the most, believed that the Qing army could not stop the Runing army from returning.It can be seen from this that after the Battle of Blood Ridge, the confidence of the Runing Army was overwhelmed.They all think that the Qing army is nothing special.So before they knew it, Wu Shigong, the generals of the Runing Army, had placed themselves in the position of the strong.

Silent all night.

Summer nights are short, and after only an hour, the sky is bright.But in the next two hours, the southeast of the Runing Army's camp was full of voices, and a large number of defeated soldiers of the Ming Army fled to the Runing Army's camp, making it impossible for the Runing Army to rest.

And following those routs, there were still many squads of the Qing army chasing and killing them.Under Wu Shigong's order, the cavalry of the Runing Army dispatched again and again to drive and cover their retreat.Fortunately, the Qing army didn't chase many people, so the Runing army took most of the routs into their battalion.

The Ningjin Line of Defense in the Ming Dynasty was built relying on the coastline.Therefore, in this rescue of Jinzhou, the Ming army marched northward by relying on the coast.And to escape, of course, is to run back by the sea.

In this way, the Ming army would not get lost when fleeing, but it also made it easy for the Qing army to ambush.As long as the Qing army ambushed one by one in the narrow roadside near the sea, they could set up the Ming army one after another.And under such ambushes again and again, the speed at which the Ming army collapsed was simply rapid, and the atmosphere of despair became more and more intense.

This situation is like Cao Cao who fled after the Chibi War. Zhuge Liang arranged three ambushes in succession, so when he fled to Huarong Road, he didn't even have the courage to fight Guan Yu.

Therefore, under the ambush and pursuit of the Qing army overnight, the Ming army ran in disorder, the men and horses trampled on each other, and the weapons were thrown all over the ground. They had no combat effectiveness at all. Countless people were trampled to death or forced into the sea to drown.

After all, the Ming army had too many people, and the Qing soldiers slaughtered endlessly, and some people escaped in the end.Several military officers Wang Pu, Wu Sangui, Bai Guangen, Tang Tong, Ma Ke, and Li Fuming, who succeeded Yang Guozhu in charge of the town's military affairs, all rushed out of the encirclement with the remnants of the soldiers, but Wang Pu, Wu Sangui and others retreated from Xingshan to Ningyuan. At that time, they were blocked by the Qing army again, and the soldiers were killed and wounded, and almost all of them became polished commanders. (To be continued..)