Chapter 602 Battle of Songshan 8
Dorgon stood on a horse on a huge rock, looking at the Ming army breaking out, with a sense of fighting in his eyes. He smiled to Duoduo on the side and said, "Fifteenth brother, the Ming army is still fighting with beasts, and the combat power shown is indeed much stronger than usual."
Duoduo smiled softly and said, "No matter how powerful it is, it is a trapped beast. With just one last blow, they can completely shatter their fighting spirit. But I didn't expect that Hassanqi, a fool, did not block the reinforcements sent by Wang Tingchen. If it weren't for this, all the Ming army in front of us would have been eaten by us."
Dorgon shook his head and said, "He has less than three thousand soldiers. Although he has a good geographical location, he has few people after all. And the Ming army came to rescue with the will of death, and it is understandable that it cannot be stopped. Moreover, if all the retreat routes of the Ming army are blocked, they will definitely resist completely, and it will inevitably cause a large number of four battles to us. This is good, we can pursue as much as possible and defeat them completely with the smallest losses."
Duoduo smiled and said, "It's still the Fourteenth Brother who thinks carefully, then I'll leave first."
Dorgon did not answer, but pointed to a person in the distance and said, "The person riding a red horse and wearing golden armor should be Hong Chengchou himself. If he had the chance, he would capture him alive. After this battle, the next step in my Qing Dynasty was to enter the Central Plains. Hong Chengchou was familiar with the situation in the Ming Dynasty, and his role alone could be stronger than tens of thousands of elite soldiers."
Duoduo nodded and said, "I understand." After that, he waved his whip and ran down. Behind him, four thousand cavalrymen who had not been involved in the battle followed closely. It was like a gust of wind, shaking the sky and the earth.
Hong Chengchou led his troops out of the siege and met with Wang Tingchen. The two troops had less than 3,000 troops in total, and the other soldiers were either killed or dispersed.
The sound of horse hooves came from behind, causing the soldiers who had just broken through the siege and felt a little relieved to panic again. Wang Tingchen asked Hong Chengchou to go first, leading nearly a thousand soldiers behind the horse hall.
They rely on a small river that reaches their knees, gaze and wait for the Qing army. Various screams kept coming from the mountains and forests, which was shocking. The shadows of cavalry were increasing, at least thousands of people. The horses sniffed, their hooves kept twitching the soil, and the horsemen on them pulled the reins and tried their best to keep their formation.
In the Ming army, the old soldiers sighed silently, while the young soldiers were sweating coldly. Everyone knew that today was their own doomsday.
Wang Tingchen's eyes were determined, and he didn't know what to say at this time. Seeing that the Qing army gathered more and more, he raised his long sword in his hand and shouted loudly, "Kill the enemy."
The sounds around him were like thunder, and the momentum was still completely unreal.
Haoge stood in front of the formation, looked at Ming Jun in the distance, sneered repeatedly on his face, and waved his hand gently.
All the cavalry received orders and rushed down and rushed towards the Ming army opposite the river.
The Ming army, who had been in physical and mental health for a long time, had no advantage at all, persisted for two incense sticks and was eventually defeated by the Qing army. Wang Tingchen was hit by several arrows and fainted on the ground in serious injury. Yao Xun stepped forward to protect him, led dozens of remaining soldiers to fight and retreat, retreating all the way, with countless swords and swords on his body.
Finally, he saw that he had no choice but to avoid being captured and humiliated, and after kowtowing to resign from the king's court minister, he killed him with his own hands, and then committed suicide himself.
The Qing cavalry came and went quickly and continued to pursue. They did not care about the remaining soldiers who fled to the jungle, but only chased the Ming army along the main road. The bodies were everywhere, blood flowing everywhere, looking miserable.
The scattered Ming army fled from all directions, but under the pursuit of the Qing cavalry, they all fell to the ground and turned into a mass of mud in the forest. At this moment, both soldiers and generals were just an ordinary life, just to see if they could escape the pursuit.
At the same time, another cavalry was running westward. They were three thousand elite cavalry led by Cao Bianjiao. The number of people was not large, but they gathered all the horses in Songshan City.
The army was trapped for nearly eight months, and all the injured horses became food in the soldiers' stomachs. Even these three thousand horses were left by Hong Chengchou for his best efforts, just for the purpose of breaking through today. At this moment, these three thousand horses also played their role.
Cao Bianjiao ordered one thousand of these three thousand horses to grow a long queue. Each person held a torch in his hand, like a long fire dragon, winding for miles. The purpose was to inform the Qing army that I was planning to break through here. If you have the ability, come and chase me!
This was not Hong Chengchou's plan, but Cao Bianjiao's temporary intention. The Qing army's attention must be attracted here, and the possibility of Hong Chengchou and Wang Tingchen breaking into the river will greatly increase.
But this effort was wasted. Because the traitor betrayed, the Qing army had long known their evacuation plan. However, Cao Bianjiao had no idea about this. He firmly pursued the task of seducing the enemy. He even deliberately bypassed not far from the Qing army camp, so that the latter could notice the direction he was moving forward.
But what surprised Cao Bianjiao was that, except for a small group of Qing troops, he did not even encounter a single person blocking him. After traveling for more than twenty miles, he felt that his mission had been complete, so he ordered the entire army to abandon the torches, add chewers to the horse's mouth, and put soft cloth on the horse's hooves. Spread out the hundreds of scattered cavalry, specifically hunting down the Qing army scouts who had been following him to hide his true direction.
When he broke through the siege, Lu Xiangsheng once circulated a message saying that he would connect the self-army who broke through from the west in the Nuer River area. Although Cao Bianjiao didn't know how Lu Xiangsheng could bypass the Tashan front line and the large number of Ming troops in Xingshan Fort to reach the Nuer River, he knew that Lu Xiangsheng was not a person who spoke nonsense. Since he had set the location of the connection there, he must have his own method.
Cao Bianjiao believed from the bottom of his heart that there must be a way out.
At this moment, on the Tashan front line, a great war was continuing. The high-mounted flag of the character "Lu" fluttered in the wind, and the Ming army launched an attack on the Qing army opposite from everywhere.
Since the Ming army occupied Tashan, it has taken the initiative to take the defensive position and has never taken such a large-scale attack, and it has been carried out at night.
Jirgalang is the leader of the Inlaid Blue Flag and the main player to defend Xingshan. Although he received news that the Ming army in Songshan would evacuate tonight, Lu Xiangsheng is likely to launch an attack to support them. However, the scale is so large, it is completely beyond his expectations.
Bad news kept coming, and dozens of fortresses in front were captured by the Ming army. The Ming cavalry went around behind the camp and burned several villages. Jiergalang was in a panic. Faced with asking for help from all over the country, he had to draw elite soldiers from Xingshan to go.
The Ming army had an unexpected advantage, but when the Qing reinforcements arrived, the situation quickly became a confrontation.
Chapter completed!