"In the end, the general underestimated the enemy and was defeated. Please ask the prisoner to punish him." Ma Bao asked Zhu Hengjia to plead guilty.
"Ma Qing has made many military exploits along the way, so his merits should be offset by his faults." Zhu Hengjia did not punish Ma Bao, but asked him to take 20,000 defeated troops to Zhenjiang with him.
More than 160,000 troops marched north from Yixing with great momentum, captured Jintan County, crossed Baihe River, and approached Danyang County, Zhenjiang Prefecture.
Zhu Hengjia chose to take the route of Danyang and Dantu to capture Nanjing. This was not a blind choice. There are two reasons: first, taking this route can avoid Dasheng Pass, Moling Pass, Fangshan and other important passes, and bypass the Qinhuai River.
Rivers such as the Rouge River facilitate the march of the army; secondly, this route relies on the canal and the Yangtze River, so it can receive support from its own navy.
After the capture of Jintan, another good news came: Lishui County in the lower reaches of the Rouge River surrendered.
"The magistrate of Lishui County knows the situation," Zhu Hengjia snorted coldly and ordered the entire army to advance quickly to Danyang.
In the Ming army camp a hundred miles outside Danyang City, Li Benzhen chatted with Hu Maozhen. Zhu Hengjia placed Bu Congshan, Hu Maozhen and other surrendered generals under the command of Li Benzhen, who had 20,000 troops.
Li Benzhen and Hu Maozhen were both former subordinates of Gao Jie. They had a very good relationship and talked about everything.
"Brother Hu, does he know about Pan Yongxi and Wang Boxheng's request to see the country?"
Hu Maozhen frowned. Both of them were leaders of the Huizhou Rebels. He had bloodyly suppressed the Huizhou Rebels before. It can be said that their hatred was as deep as the sea. "What do they want to do to supervise the country?"
"They asked the prisoner to kill you to avenge the Huizhou martyrs who died at your hands."
"What did the supervisor say?"
"The supervisory authority did not agree."
Hu Maozhen breathed a sigh of relief.
Unexpectedly, Li Benzhen changed the subject and said, "Although the supervisor did not agree, he said four words, 'We will discuss it later'".
"What! Let's talk about it later?"
Upon hearing these four words, Hu Maozhen broke into a cold sweat and knelt down in front of Li Benzhen with a plop, "The general is desperate, please save the general's life!"
Li Benzhen hurriedly helped Hu Maozhen up and said, "Brother Hu, you and I are both surrendered generals and good friends. Why should we do this? If I don't want to save Brother Hu, why should I tell Brother Hu this?"
Hu Maozhen composed himself and said, "Please tell me how to survive!"
Li Benzhen said: "Brother Hu, if you want to avoid disaster, there is only one way: to make meritorious service! Only by making great achievements on the battlefield can you sit back and relax!"
Hu Maozhen suddenly realized, "Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, for your advice! I will definitely kill the enemy bravely and make atonement for my sins!"
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To the south of Danyang City are small hills and plains, which are very suitable for cavalry combat.
Guarjia Zhao Butai formed a formation in the south of the city, preparing for a decisive battle with the Ming army.
The dark Ming army formation slowly approached, with Liu Wenxiu's 45,000 troops on the left, Gao Minggui's 45,000 troops on the right, and the 70,000 Chinese Army led by Zhu Hengjia in the center.
The Ming army had a total of 160,000, while the Qing army had only 60,000. It had an absolute advantage in terms of numbers. But fighting a war does not rely solely on large numbers of people. Zhao Butai also had a trump card: cavalry, with more than 10,000 elite cavalry. His headquarters
There are five thousand cavalry, and Gachuha and Marsai each have three thousand cavalry.
Zhao Butai carefully observed the Ming army's formation and found that the Ming army's formations on the two wings were tight, but the center was sparse. He nodded, and it seemed that the Ming army had placed a lot of firearms in the center. He snorted, "Firearms are such a thing."
Although it has great lethality, it takes time to reload. It is easy to deal with infantry, but it is better to deal with cavalry. Hum, my Manchurian cavalry comes and goes like the wind. Before you can shoot a few rounds, they have already rushed to you. Besides, this formation
If the cloth is loose, the defense will be weak. Well, we must seize this fighter opportunity!
"Hahaha", Zhao Butai suddenly laughed.
Seeing the commander laughing, the generals couldn't help but wonder, "Why are you really laughing?"
"I laughed at the fake King Jing of the Ming Dynasty. He has such a great reputation that it is hard to live up to it. Is there any reason to deploy the central army loosely and the two wings tightly?"
Jiang Guozhu said: "Well, the Ming army's central army is so sparsely deployed. They must have reserved passages for artillery vehicles. They must want to bombard our army with artillery."
Zhao Butai glanced at Jiang Guozhu approvingly, "What Jiang Futai said is true. The pseudo-Ming King Jing must have planned this. It's ridiculous that he only relied on the power of muskets and artillery, but ignored the speed of our cavalry. The enemy is our own.
The distance is only three miles, and our cavalry will arrive in a moment. No matter how powerful his cannon is and how sharp his musket is, how many rounds can he fire? Hahaha!"
Jiang Guozhu also sighed: "It must be that the pseudo-King Mingjing was arrogant and careless because of his consecutive victories, so he set up the formation like this!"
"Huh, soldiers, important matters of the country, the place of life and death, the way of survival and death, must be observed. The enemy's slackness is the opportunity for our army to fight." Zhao Butai read "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and thought to himself, these are embarrassing
, I can’t fight a war, but the book I wrote is quite reasonable.
"Yuan Kuoyu, Zhang Guojun, Liu Chengyin, and others led their troops to attack the left wing of the Ming army."
"The last general takes command!"
"Wang Fuchen, Xu Dengdi, and you led the army to attack the right wing of the Ming army."
"The last general takes command!"
"Ga Chuha, Marsai, and you will follow my commander and lead the cavalry to charge; Guan Zhongzhong, Jiang Guozhu, and you will lead the infantry to follow the cavalry and charge!"
"The last general takes command!"
After laying out the military orders, Zhao Butai encouraged: "All generals must fight bravely to kill the enemy! If we win this battle, the court will not hesitate to reward the prince!"
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Zhao Butai did not expect that the Ming army's central military formation was not to facilitate the passage of artillery vehicles, but to facilitate the passage of war horses and war elephants.
Through the tea and horse trade with Gushi Khan, the Ming army obtained a large number of war horses. After a bloody battle, Sun Guangwei's cavalry still had more than 8,000 horses, and Zhao Xi's 300 war elephants still had 200.
Zhu Hengjia felt that the number of his own troops was much greater than that of the enemy. How could it be reasonable for an army of 160,000 to be suppressed by 60,000 enemy troops? He decided to take the initiative and let the cavalry and elephant soldiers go first, followed closely by the infantry, so he laid out a sparse formation.
, leaving a clear passage for war horses and elephants. Unexpectedly, Zhao Butai misunderstood that he wanted to rely on firearms to win.
When the battle was about to begin, Zhu Hengjia ordered his royal chariot to circle around the formation to boost morale.
This royal chariot is actually a command platform, pulled by eight horses. There is a high platform in the center with a dragon scroll for Zhu Hengjia to command the battle. This is actually beyond the limit. The emperor can only drive six horses, and the princes can drive four horses.
, Jian Guo Jing Wang drove eight horses and oxen! In fact, he also wanted to have a total of sixteen horses, twenty-eight horses or something. Unfortunately, the conditions of the ancient plank road were limited. No matter how many horses there were, the carriage would not be able to run.
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As soon as the king's chariot started running, the dragon flag, which was several feet high, fluttered in the wind, majestic. Among the various military flags of the Ming Dynasty, the flag flag had the highest status and was known as the "flag head", the Bi Ya flag, the trumpet flag,
The letter flags and the five square flags are much higher. Among the flags, the dragon flag is the most noble, more noble than the unicorn flag and the tiger flag, representing the supreme ruler.
What a dragon-coiled banner! There is a fur ball made of oxtail on the top of the flagpole, called "旓". This "旓" is not ordinary. When the Yellow Emperor defeated Chi You, he cut off Chi You's hair as a decoration for the banner. There is
"旓" is worthy of being the flag of an emperor.
The Ming army was victorious in consecutive battles, and its morale was already high. They were all inspired when they saw the dragon-coiled banner of King Jing who was supervising the country coming in person.
"Chitose!"
"Chitose!"
"Chitose!"
The cheers shook Danyang City.
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"Attack", Zhao Butai shuddered and issued a military order.
On the command platform, Zhu Hengjia held a telescope and saw only smoke and dust. After fighting for so many years, he had learned to judge the number of enemies from the smoke and dust.
"The Tatars actually have more than 10,000 riders?"
From Ma Bao's previous report, he judged that the enemy's cavalry numbered several thousand, but unexpectedly there were ten thousand cavalry.
"You're careless," Zhu Hengjia sighed. But he didn't want to change his combat strategy. When the two armies were fighting, it was most taboo to change their tactics at short notice. He paused and shouted: "According to Gu's military order, the cavalry and elephant soldiers attack!"
"Da da da!"
"Da da da!"
Two groups of cavalry strangled each other.
"Lululu", "Lululu!"
Two hundred elephants swung their trunks and roared towards the Qing army.
"What is that?"
"Elephant!"
"Prince Jingjin just suffered from these beasts!"
After the Battle of Maozhushan, the news that there were war elephants in the Ming army had already spread to various departments of the Qing army.
The Qing army was on guard, either by moving their horses to pass the war elephant, or by drawing their bows and shooting the driver on the war elephant. As long as the driver was shot and killed, the war elephant would be easy to handle without anyone commanding it. This was what the Qing army did after the Battle of Maozhushan.
The methods summed up by the generals. This is the case in war. Both the enemy and ourselves learn war in the war.
Despite this, these behemoths still brought huge psychological pressure to the Eight Banners soldiers.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
The cavalry of the Ming and Qing Dynasties were tied together and they all lost their speed.
Seeing that the cavalry had lost speed, Zhu Hengjia ordered the infantry to attack, and the Qing infantry also came.
At this time, the two sides were fighting together, and the artillery was useless. What was competing was the cooperation of the battle formation and the elite soldiers.
Zhao Butai secretly complained. He didn't expect that the Ming army had so many cavalry, which successfully caused his own cavalry to lose speed. Now the two sides were fighting in a melee. The Ming army had more soldiers and he had fewer. He was obviously at a disadvantage. He could retreat but he couldn't.
, the two armies stuck together, and immediately collapsed as soon as they withdrew, they could only fight to the death, hoping that the bravery of the Eight Banners soldiers could create a miracle.
"Okay! Stick it together and it's easy to fight!"
Zhu Hengjia was overjoyed and ordered Hao Shangjiu, Zhang Chengwu, Wang Guoxi, Long Haiyang, Wu Bangxian, and Jing Keqin to attack and charge fiercely. If there were more soldiers and fewer soldiers, the Qing army would be killed.
Liu Wenxiu and Gao Minggui on both wings also led their men to fight bravely.
The boundless army made Zhao Butai realize what it means to have strength in numbers. Although he resisted desperately, he was still gradually exhausted.
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"Brothers, follow me and kill the enemy's flag!"
Hu Maozhen roared, took the lead, and led five thousand men to attack Zhao Butai's handsome flag. He was originally the most powerful general under Gao Jie, and Gao Jie often used him as a vanguard, and he fought bravely.
Ever since he finished talking to Li Benzhen, he always felt like there was a sword hanging above his neck, cool and swishing.
"If you want to avoid disaster, you can only do meritorious service." Li Benzhen's words kept echoing in his mind. There is no greater merit than killing a general and capturing a flag, so he set his sights on Zhao Butai's handsome flag.
Seeing his menacing approach, Zhao Butai ordered Jiang Guozhu's troops to intercept him.
Chiang Guozhu's Chinese army guerrillaed Liu Guoyu and led his troops to block Hu Maozhen.
"Ouch", Hu Maozhen uttered a wolf howl, slashed Liu Guoyu to death with a knife, and led his army to wedge deeply into Zhao Butai's central army.
"Huh? Which army is this?"
Zhu Hengjia saw clearly in the king's car and asked Zheng Feng beside him.
"The people who supervise the country are the subordinates of the surrendered general Hu Maozhen."
Zhu Hengjia sighed: "I didn't expect Hu Maozhen to be so good at fighting! With so many strong generals around him, he actually let a surrendered general rush to the front."
Zheng Feng smiled and said, "He dare not not fight desperately. Last time Pan Yongxi, Wang Boxheng begged you to kill him to avenge the Huizhou rebels. You said 'we will talk about it later', which probably reached his ears. He killed the enemy desperately in order to redeem himself through meritorious deeds."
"Ear".
Zhu Hengjia was silent for a while and then said: "Fortunately I didn't kill him at that time, otherwise our army would have lost a strong general!"
In addition to Hu Maozhen, those who were targeting Zhao Butai's commander's flag were also Ming general Long Haiyang. He rushed halfway, but was blocked by the Gachuha tribe.
"Cut off the horse's legs, follow me and chop off the horse's legs," Long Haiyang shouted. The enemies were all cavalry, and chopping off the horse's legs would make them flip over.
Gachuha narrowed his eyes, fired a cold arrow, and shot Long Haiyang to death.
General Yang Fuchen of the Ming Dynasty was furious when he saw this, and stabbed Chuha under his horse with a spear.
Hu Maozhen rushed to Zhao Butai, but Zhao Butai did not answer and fought with him to the point of a fight.
Guarjia's strong generals, Ao Bai, Zhao Butai, and Mulima, are all famous Batulu in Manchuria, and Hu Maozhen is no match for them.
While he was in a hurry, Yang Fuchen arrived and fought Zhao Butai in a double battle.
"Yeah", Zhao Butai didn't notice and was stabbed in the right leg by Yang Fuchen.
Hu Maozhen's knife arrived and chopped off Zhao Butai's head.
The two men cut down Zhao Butai's handsome flag, and the Qing army was in chaos.
The Ming army fought like crazy and became more and more courageous as they fought more and more. Bai Wen selected the formation to kill Fengyang general Yuan Kuoyu of Qing Dynasty, Hao Shangjiu formation killed Huai'an general Zhang Guojun, Jing Keqin formation killed Xuzhou guerrilla Liu Chengyin, and the other generals killed countless enemies and made meritorious deeds.<
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Wang Fuchen, the kite on horseback, wanted to escape, but Shouxu, the party member of Xingping Bo in the Ming Dynasty, was chasing after him. Wang Fuchen suddenly turned back his horse and picked Dang Shousu off the horse.
"Brother Party!"
Yidu Bota Tianbao was furious. He and Dang Shousu were brothers and sisters, "Shoot me, shoot this guy to death."
"Bang bang bang!"
Ta Tianbao's fifty cavalry soldiers, all equipped with three-eyed muskets, fired in unison and shot Wang Fuchen to death.
The Battle of Danyang, which took place on June 30, the 25th year of Chongzhen, ended. In this battle, the Qing army suffered more than 30,000 casualties, and the Ming army suffered 10,000 casualties.
Looking at the corpses of Tartars all over the mountains and plains, Zhu Heng was so angry that he composed the words "Langtaosha·Pinglu":
The rivers and mountains are stained with green blood, and the misty rain south of the Yangtze River.
Put down the barbarians and enjoy peace.
Countless good people risk their lives just for their clothes.
Swing your sword to stir up the smell, and watch the corpses stand in Beijing.
You are never alone in Huangquan.
The soul went to Beijing to spread the message of Shunzhi, and the war started again.
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After the Battle of Danyang, generals Guan Zhongzhong, Jiang Guozhu, Marsai, and Xu Deng fled to Jurong County in panic, leaving only 20,000 people. The Ming army took advantage of the situation and captured Danyang, approaching Zhenjiang Prefecture to govern Dantu County.
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"Commander Gao and Magistrate Dai, the Ming army is approaching. You two quickly organize your troops and horses, repair the city, and defend the city with me."
Zhou Guozuo, the governor of Jiangning, urgently summoned Gao Qian, the commander-in-chief of Zhenjiang, and Dai Kejin, the prefect, for discussion.
"Don't worry Futai, we will live and die together with Dantu." Gao Qian and Dai Kejin agreed generously.
Zhou Guozuo was slightly relieved, but he did not expect that these two people had already planned to surrender. The only ones willing to live and die with Dantu City were his three thousand governors and battalions.
After receiving the letter of surrender from Gao Qian and Dai Kejin, Zhu Hengjia smiled and said, "When a tree falls and the hozens scatter, these two guys will be quick to seize the opportunity." He immediately ordered a day and night march to Dantu.
Very smoothly, Gao Qian and Dai Kejin opened the city gate, and the Ming army easily entered the city, killed Zhou Guozuo's Fu Biao, and captured Zhou Guozuo alive.
When he heard that Zhou Guozuo had been captured, Zhu Hengjia snorted: "Take good care of him. He will be needed when offering sacrifices to Xiaoling Mausoleum!"
Wen Ming's army captured Dantu again and Guan Zhongzhong, Jiang Guozhu did not dare to stay in Jurong anymore and fled to Jiangning in one breath.
Lang Tingzuo withdrew all the garrison troops from Jiangning Town and Moling Pass to Jiangning and Shangyuan counties, and gathered more than 30,000 troops to defend Nanjing.
This chapter has been completed!