Ming Empire

Chapter 9
The situation on the battlefield was unexpected by no one. Neither Huang Taiji, the commander of the Qing army, nor Hong Chengchou, the commander of the Ming army, could have expected that the Zhenglan Banner army horses led by Hauge and the Han and Mongolian cavalry of the servants were defeated in the battle. Under Cao Bianjiao's men and horses, Cao Bianjiao's East Association Army launched a counterattack after massacring Haoge's troops.

Of course, in the entire Songshan battlefield, only Ru*feng Mountain was where the Ming army defeated the Qing army. In other places, the Qing army gained an absolute advantage. .

The entire Songshan city was in chaos, all the Qing troops were chasing after the defeated Ming army, and the Zhenghuang and Xianghuang banners led by Huang Taiji were also dispatched to attack the Ming army in Songshan.Huang Taiji didn't come to the front line in person, but he didn't have many troops around him.

In the entire Qing army camp, there were only some old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers left, and Huang Taiji's two thousand guards.

The Zhenglan Banner camp led by Hauge was just northwest of the Two Yellow Banners led by Huang Taiji. After most of the Jurchen Banners retreated into the camp, they finally stabilized their positions. Start organizing a counterattack.However, the servants of the Han army were frightened and fled on their own, destroying most of the resistance organized by the remaining sergeants of the Zhenglan Banner.

Cao Bianjiao, who led three thousand cavalry to hunt down, quickly destroyed the resistance that the Jurchens had managed to organize, but the Jurchens' immediate combat effectiveness was really not ordinary, and the fleeing Zhenglan Banner Qing army also showed a strong force The combat effectiveness, the casualties of the Ming army began to increase.

However, the defeated Zhenglan Banner Qing army and a Mongolian cavalry army that had stopped retreating were still unable to withstand the impact of the Ming army cavalry with high morale, and another cavalry led by Cao Yue also came over.Cao Bianjiao and his generals are all able to recruit and fight well, and the sergeants are also veterans of hundreds of battles. They quickly cut a bloody path in the Zhenglan Banner camp and rushed to the depths of the camp.

"My lord, the two yellow flag camps of the slave chieftain Huang Taige are in front of us," a sharp-eyed bodyguard saw Huang Taiji's dragon flag fluttering in the night sky under the light of torches in the distance, and immediately agreed in surprise. Cao Bianjiao, who was rushing to kill, roared, "The front is Huang Taiji's camp!"

"Brothers, follow this general and enter the camp of the slave chieftains to capture Huang Taiji alive." After defeating the remnants of the Qing army led by Hauge, Cao Bianjiao regained his courage. He was overjoyed, and without the slightest pause, he immediately ordered his men and horses to change the direction of attack, preparing to take advantage of the situation and rush into Huang Taiji's two yellow banner camps, turning the Qing army's camp upside down.

If the slave chief Huang Taiji could be captured alive or killed, then the outcome of the Battle of Songshan could be rewritten immediately.

At this time, Huang Taiji was bragging and bragging with several of his advisers in the camp, namely Daming Jiangfan Wencheng, Tong Yangxing, Ning Wanwo and others.The Ming army fled before the battle, and the Qing army was mobilized. There is no need to say more about the outcome of this battle.Huang Taiji didn't need to fight in person, he just waited for the good news from various ministries in the big tent.The battle of Songshan has been going on for a long time, and the first battle was still lost. Huang Taiji's psychological burden is very heavy, but now the situation has completely changed, and the last elite troops of the Ming Dynasty will be wiped out in this battle. From then on, no army of the Ming Dynasty can resist the Qing Dynasty. Huang Taiji was in a happy mood, and became amiable to the advisers around him.

"Gentlemen, we can discuss how to attack Beijing next," Huang Taiji, who was reclined on the soft couch, sipped tea slowly, and spoke to Fan Wenchen who was sitting beside him with a very relaxed tone. Said: "How to attack Beijing, Mr. Fan..."

Before he could finish his sentence, a faint vibration came from a distance, and there was a faint cry of killing.Huang Taiji had been fighting since he was a child, and he was very experienced in war. He immediately judged that this was the scene of a large cavalry rushing to kill not far away.

The Qing army almost went out to attack the Ming army. How could there be a brigade of cavalry rushing in the nearby camp.Suddenly, Huang Taiji thought of something, and his face suddenly became very ugly.

At this moment, a servant rushed in quickly, knelt down in front of Huang Taiji with a plop, and reported in horror: "Your Majesty, something is wrong, the Ming army has attacked the camp, and they are rushing towards the imperial tent."

"Is it really the Ming army?" Huang Taiji suddenly turned pale with shock, suddenly got up from the couch, and asked repeatedly: "Is it really the Ming army attacking the camp?"

At this moment, another fast horse rushed over, and the knight on the horse quickly fell. After being shouted and questioned by several guards outside the tent, he realized that it was the person sent by Hao Ge, the owner of the Zhenglan Banner, to report the news.With the support of two guards, the flag Ding who came to report to Zhenglan Banner quickly ran to Huang Taiji, knelt down with a plop, and reported with a crying sound: "Your Majesty, the troops of King Suqin County were attacked by the Ming army. The ambushes caused heavy losses, and they retreated to the camp. The Ming army came after them, and they were already heading for the emperor's tent. Prince Su implored the emperor to get out of the camp as soon as possible."

"What?" Hearing that the Zhenglan Banner led by Hauge had suffered a disastrous defeat, and the Ming army was chasing after him, Huang Taiji gasped. The arrogance just now disappeared without a trace. It was just a lure, did Hong Chengchou arrange this deliberately, the purpose was to send a surprise army to attack the camp when all the Qing troops were dispatched?
The cries of killing and the sound of horseshoes became louder and louder, Huang Taiji had no time to think, and immediately ordered his two thousand guards to assemble immediately and prepare to resist.Huang Taiji then ordered the news of the Ming army's attack on the camp to be reported to the nearby Dorgon, Prince Yu Duoduo, Prince Azige of Wuying County, Doro Raoyu Beile Abatai and other generals, ordering them to rush back to help.

After the order was issued, Huang Taiji ignored Fan Wencheng and others in the tent, and ordered the guards to prepare to put on armor, and he would personally lead the army to fight back.

A number of guards quickly left the camp with Huang Taiji's order.

The violent sound of horseshoes and shouts of killing came from far and near, and it was not far from Huang Taiji's imperial tent.

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The [-] cavalry led by Cao Yue and the [-] cavalry came out a little later than Cao Bianjiao. His troops, together with Cao Bianjiao's [-] cavalry, chased the fleeing Qing army from left to right.

The combat effectiveness of the Qing army was very strong, and the Ming army suffered from severe phobia, especially among the leading generals.But Cao Yue was not affected by this at all. His ten-year experience in the former army and the damage caused to the Qing army by the concentrated shooting of muskets just now filled his heart with an indescribable excitement. He felt as if he had been beaten. Like chicken blood, he desperately beat the mount under him, commanding his men and horses to charge towards the remnants of the Qing army.

The army was defeated like a mountain, and this sentence also applies to the Qing army. Under the drag of the Han army and the Eight Banners of Mongolia, the injured Hauge could not control the situation at all. In the camp of Zhenglan Banner.

Cao Yue, who was guarded by his own soldiers, rushed to the front of the team. A sergeant of the Qing army who came forward was panicked and cut off an arm by the sword in Cao Yue's hand, and then the sword in the hands of another soldier Violently hacking at that Qing soldier, the big head of the Qing soldier immediately flew into the distance and hit another Qing soldier.Soon, the sergeant of the Qing army who was unfortunately hit by the head of his companion was also cut off by the Ming army who shouted to kill, and the ownerless horse screamed and ran around.

The morale of the Ming army was riding finely, rushing around, hacking and killing the chaotic Qing army.However, the combat effectiveness of the Jurchens is really not something to brag about. Even though they were completely defeated, after returning to the camp, with the help of the soldiers who stayed in the camp, they still organized resistance.

The Ming army led by Cao Yue also suffered casualties, but the Qing army still couldn't stop their offensive. Thousands of cavalry rushed around in the Qing army camp.Cao Yue also ordered the sergeants to use the torches in their hands to light the camp of the Qing army, causing even greater chaos to the Qing army.

Soon, the Qing army's camp lit up with flames soaring to the sky, and the sky was red for a long time.

Cao Yue didn't know that Cao Bianjiao's men had already gone to Huang Taiji's two yellow banner camps, and he didn't know that it was the Zhenglan Banner Qing army led by Hauge who came after the defeated Qing army. He, commanding nearly 3000 troops, took turns charging and killing in the Zhenglan Banner camp of the Qing army.When entering the camp of the Qing army, in order to obtain the best attack effect, he divided his troops into divisions, and ordered a general who cooperated with him to lead [-] soldiers to charge from the other side. He led [-] family members and [-] most powerful cavalry, quickly raided the camp and set fire everywhere.

Huang Taiji's distress order was quickly sent to Dorgon, Duoduo, Azige and other generals who were commanding the Qing army to attack the city and hunt down the defeated Ming army. They were all surprised when they received the order to return.But at this time, a fire broke out in the camp, and the fact that the Ming army attacked the camp was beyond doubt. They also immediately dispatched most of their troops and returned to the division for rescue.

Soon, Cao Yue's troops, who were rushing to kill in the Qing army's camp, were intercepted by a returning Qing army.

Seeing that the Qing army returned to the division for rescue, Cao Yue didn't bother to fight. He commanded his men and horses to continue to charge for a while, and then quickly headed northwest to break through.

Because there were fires everywhere in the camp of the Qing army, before returning to the division for rescue, most of the Qing army participated in the battle to attack Songshan, or chased and killed the rout of the Ming army. The men and horses led by Cao Yue easily rushed out of the chaotic Qing army camp.

Before the battle, he had a secret discussion with Cao Bianjiao, and after withstood the attack of the Qing army, he was ready to break through. Of course, Cao Yue would not miss the opportunity to break through.He didn't want the remnants to be forced to retreat to Songshan City, besieged by Qing regiments, and captured or killed after the fall of Songshan City.If you escape from the encirclement of the Qing army, your fate is basically in your own hands. As long as you run fast, you still have a chance to escape and ascend to heaven.

Those who followed him out of the Qing army's camp included the family troops with almost no casualties, and the cavalry who lost dozens of cavalry and left more than [-] cavalry.After leaving the camp of the Qing army, more than a thousand riders rushed to a hillside. Cao Yue drove his horses to the highest point. After checking the situation around, he decisively ordered to change direction and head north.

"The Qing army must lay ambushes in the direction of Songshan, Tashan, Xingshan, and Ningyuan. Our army will take a shortcut to return to the pass, and we will be ambushed by the Qing army. If we want to return to the pass, we must take a long way," Cao Yue suddenly thought. .

He didn't delay, and immediately ordered his men and horses to head north and west quickly.

"I don't know if Cao Bianjiao led his troops out of the siege. I hope to join his troops soon!" Cao Yue thought to himself as he drove his horse away from the hillside.

(End of this chapter)