Chapter 262: Moving to Pingdugou, food and grass are in danger
After the casualties were tallied, Shi Dayong followed the rules and sent the bodies of the Jinzhou soldiers who died in the battle to their hometowns, while the dead captive soldiers were buried on the spot.
In this battle, 135 wolf cavalrymen, 120 light cavalrymen, 170 Changping veterans from the left and right second battalions of the infantry, 1,360 captured soldiers, 260 men from Qi Sanbao's tribe, 140 men from Wang Tiande's tribe, and 18 horse thieves under Peng Dachui were killed in this battle.
A total of 2,203 people were killed, including 425 veterans from Jinzhou, accounting for more than two-thirds of the veterans who went south to Jinzhou.
There are now only 275 Jinzhou veterans left in the Jinzhou Army, 165 of whom are wolf cavalry, and the rest are light cavalry and Changping veterans from the left and right infantry battalions. Wang Tiande has 360 people, and Qi Sanbao also has 240 people.
A total of 1,150 captured soldiers were executed.
In addition, there were 16 horse thieves under Peng Dachui and 40 soldiers led by Guo Yi. The biggest consequence of this battle was that the Jinzhou Army's capable soldiers were quickly exhausted. The current Jinzhou Army could no longer
Taking on the task of independent operations, General Shi Dayong became a veritable empty-handed general.
There were about 3,600 corpses left by the rebels, and more than 400 wounded soldiers. After interrogation, it was learned that the rebel leader was not Kong Youde, but the new marshal Li Jiucheng. The one who caused heavy casualties to the Jinzhou Army was the Dongjiang Army led by the rebel general Geng Zhongyi.
Liao soldiers.[
Wang Cheng'en once told Shi Dayong that the most important person who prompted Kong Youde's mutiny in Wuqiao was Li Jiucheng. This man was a gambler and the father of Li Yingyuan, the general manager of the Kong Department. It was said that he was a bad gambler and was so bold that he gave Sun Yuanhua to him to buy horses in the northwest.
He lost all his tens of thousands of taels of silver, and then he decided to add fuel to the fire, leading Kong Youde and the eight hundred Liao soldiers to the point of no return in rebellion!
Shi Dayong felt that such a character was somewhat similar to himself. He was also a gambler, equally desperate, and equally reckless.
It is interesting to think about the fierce battle between two gamblers. If there is a chance in the future, I would like to have a good meeting. These gamblers are both handsome.
Naturally, Shi Dayong would not care about the corpses of the rebels. He did not send anyone to treat the wounded soldiers, leaving them wailing in the pile of corpses.
After the "Eleventh Slaughter" was over, Shi Dayong asked Li Dashan and Shao Wu to clean up the battlefield and collect all the weapons abandoned by the rebels. He also asked Cao Bianjiao to immediately lead people to gather the war horses left by the rebels.
Although there were heavy casualties in this battle, the gains were huge. Not to mention the armaments, there were probably hundreds of war horses, which could be used by all members of the Jinzhou Army to become a highly mobile horse-mounted infantry army.
The people in Jizhen, Jingying and the Liaodong ancestral family were all jealous. Shi Dayong was afraid that they would also be interested in their own trophies, so he asked Xiao Cao to move quickly and collect the horses that could be collected in front of him first, and the rest could be collected.
If you find it, look for it. If you can't find it, don't bother with it. If it has already been taken away by people from the other two families, don't try to rob it.
However, after half a stick of incense, Gao Qiqian sent a eunuch who was a royal horse supervisor and ordered the Jinzhou army to immediately retreat five miles and camp at Pingdugou. The small official village would be taken over by Jin Guoqi's Jizhen army and Jingying camp.
In addition, no materials on the battlefield are allowed to be taken away, and will be collected and received by the Beijing camp.
The time given to Shi Dayong was only half an hour. At this time, the sky had already darkened, and most of the Jinzhou Army's camp had been set up. Snowflakes were still falling in the sky, making people tremble with the cold. This man moved to Pingdugou in the dark, and it was almost astonishing.
It means killing people.
He drove himself away and robbed his own things. Eunuch Gao was so fucking bullying! The generals were furious and asked the eunuch why. The eunuch was not upset at all and just said: "This is Eunuch Gao's order. If you...
If you don't accept it, just go to Eunuch Gao, why are you angry with our family?"
"Look for me, do you think our Jinzhou Army is easy to bully?" Li Dashan was so furious that he really wanted to go find Gao Qiqian and ask him clearly.
When the eunuch saw this, he didn't stop anyone. He just sneered and said, "This is not bullying you, but a military order. If you don't obey, you will be responsible for the consequences." After saying that, he turned around and rode away.
"General, if we don't leave, the worst we can do is fight Gao Qiqian!" Li Dashan was really desperate, his eyes were red with anger, and he wanted to fight his Gao Qiqian with a white knife in and a red knife out.
Cao Bianjiao, Shao Wu and the others were also furious. Even Peng Dachui and the other thieves, who had been standing silently aside, were also very angry and could not swallow their anger. More than ten of their brothers had died, and now
The trophies that brothers sacrificed their lives for were snatched away out of thin air. As a man, you cannot accept this!
Wang Tiande, Qi Sanbao, Zhao Xueqi and others heard the Liao generals scolding their mothers. After understanding, Wang Tiande sighed and said nothing. However, Qi Sanbao shared the same hatred as the Jinzhou generals and was angry at the order of the eunuch Gao. Zhao Xueqi however
He watched calmly from the side, peeking at Wang Tiande from time to time. When he saw that the other person was only looking at Shi Dayong, he couldn't help but curled his lips and swallowed back what he wanted to say.
The subordinates were so angry that they unanimously disagreed to move to Pingdugou, and they refused to give him a feather in the capital camp. If Gao Qiqian dared to force himself, they would fight him to the death.
However, Shi Dayong changed his previous attitude of not taking Gao Qiqian seriously, and instead ordered Jiang Wanli: "Give me the order, pack up your things immediately, put the bodies of the brothers who died in the battle onto the carriage, and let's go to Pingdugou."
He also ordered Cao Bianjiao: "Get as many war horses as you can, and don't worry about the rest." [
"General?!"
The generals were stunned. Previously, Shi Dayong dared to kill Gao Qiqian for the sake of military merit, without caring about the consequences. Now, Gao Qiqian rode on his neck again, and he actually swallowed the bad breath. This change made the generals
They were all a little surprised. They thought that Shi Dayong would definitely lead them to fight Gao Qiqian to the death!
Seeing that the generals were not willing to give in, Shi Dayong was not willing to give in either, but he had to calm down, sighed, and said to the generals: "The situation is stronger than the people. Let's take this breath first, and we can always settle accounts with him in the future."
"You don't want all those things?" Li Dashan was a little unwilling. The rebels had left a lot of good things behind. How could they still have time to clean up the battlefield when they had to break up the camp and carry away the corpses?
Shi Dayong knew that Li Dashan was talking about the firearms and weapons, so he ordered: "Pick up some good ones and take them away, and leave the rest to them."
After saying that, he waved his hand to the generals to prepare immediately. Seeing this, the generals knew that the matter was a foregone conclusion. Pingdugou had to go, so they had no choice but to go and prepare.
When the soldiers heard that they were leaving here to camp at Pingdugou five miles away, they were all indignant and full of resentment. But when they saw Shi Dayong taking the lead in carrying away the bodies of the soldiers who died in the battle, they all fell silent.
Half an hour later, the eunuch who had delivered the order came again, but this time he did not come alone, but brought a cavalry of two hundred people. Seeing that the Jinzhou Army was ready to set off, the eunuch was a little surprised, but said nothing.
Several carriages from the baggage camp were brought out, but they were still unable to transport all the corpses. Finally, the war horses were gathered together and transported to Pingdugou by horse and camel, and then they tried to find some carriages to transport them back to Changping and Jinzhou.
The Jinzhou army was divided into two teams, one in front and one in the back, with the captive soldiers and Wang and Qi troops in the middle, and set off all the way to Pingdugou.
After moving to Pingdugou, the Jinzhou Army became an abandoned army - no one cared about them anymore.
For some unknown reason, Gao Qiqian did not lead the Jingying and Jin Guoqi troops to Laizhou, but stayed in Xiaoguantun.
One day, two days, three days and seven days passed, and Gao Qiqian still had no intention of going to rescue Laizhou.
This made Shi Dayong very strange. After Li Jiucheng's rebels fought in Xiaoguantun, the main Dongjiang Liao soldiers and cavalry suffered heavy losses. Most of the remaining troops were a mob. Although there were many artillery pieces, Zu Dabi's three thousand cavalry were hidden high above the ground.
With the 2,000 soldiers from Ji Town and the 4,000 soldiers from the Beijing camp, their strength is no less than that of Li Jiucheng. With the cooperation of the defenders in Laizhou City, they can reach the city and annihilate the rebels in one fell swoop.
Now, without fighting or retreating, he was standing alone in Xiaoguantun, watching the rebels attacking Laizhou more than 20 miles away. He got up and dived to see what kind of medicine was being sold in the gourd! What on earth was he waiting for! He did this
Is he worthy of the emperor? He is timid and capable!
Shi Dayong was very angry, but there was nothing he could do about it. He also went to Laizhou alone. He now had a total of 1,000 men, most of whom were captives. In the battle of Xiaoguantun, gunpowder
It was almost exhausted, and more than half of the wolf cavalry and light cavalry were lost. Even if he wanted to come to the rescue, it would be difficult for him to fight.
On the third day of December, news came that General Deng Gui and Wang Hong had led thousands of Sichuan troops to come to the rescue from Changyi and joined forces with Gao Qiqian in Xiaoguantun. However, after obtaining these ten thousand Sichuan troops, Gao Qi
Hidden but still standing still!
After the battle in Xiaoguantun, no more official documents came from Shandong. I don’t know whether it was Gao Qiqian who intercepted the official documents from Shandong, or whether Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, could not remember that he had a detachment under his command that had come all the way from Liaodong to put down the rebellion.
army.
There are no official documents, no reports, no military information, nothing.
Pingdugou seems to be isolated from the world, not knowing anything about the outside world, and not knowing about other things outside the world.
The feeling of being forgotten is as if the Jinzhou Army has been completely wiped out and no longer exists in this world.[
The food and grass obtained from Shahe can still last for half a month. If there is still no food and grass after half a month, the Jinzhou Army will be out of food.
The people sent to Xiaoguantun to request for food allocation went twice, but both times they were rejected, and Gao Qiqian could not be seen at all.
He went to find Jin Guoqi, but the other party said that he could not make the decision. Without the order of Eunuch Gao, he would not dare to allocate even a grain of grain. The last time Jiang Wanli went there, this time Jin Guoqi sent Le Guoqi to receive him. Although Le Guoqi did not
Like Jin Guoqi, he directly refused, but tactfully said that they did not have any extra food and grass. After moving south from Ji Town, they had already exhausted all the food and grass they brought with them. Now they all rely on Eunuch Gao to allocate food and grass supplies from various prefectures and counties in northern Zhili.
This supply is only enough for three days. If it is given to the Jinzhou Army, they will starve.