The Liaodong Army still continued to use cavalry battle groups to hit the remaining rebel left-wing resistance battle groups. However, those battle groups and the scattered rebel soldiers also blocked the path forward of the Liaodong Army's cavalry.
Taking advantage of this time, the rebel center began to retreat. The soldiers behind the rebel right wing also began to retreat. At this time, the coalition forces, which were approaching about 200 steps away from the rebel right wing, officially launched a charge.
Seeing the charge of the coalition forces from a distance, Zu Dabi said with a mixture of contempt, sourness, and anger: "Those Shandong troops are quite good at taking advantage!"
Jin Guoqi also replied contemptuously: "Just give them a meat bone to chew on, what's the big deal?"
The Liaodong generals suddenly burst into laughter.
The battle between the coalition forces and the rebel right wing was also very clean and tidy. It was completely one-sided.
After the coalition forces charged, most of the rebel soldiers on the right wing fled towards the rear. However, a small number of rebel soldiers knew that if they just ran away, it would completely turn into a one-sided massacre. So they stayed where they were.
Resist on the spot, preparing to repel an allied charge before retreating.
However, these two completely opposite performances immediately caused the rebel right wing to become disconnected. Liu Zeqing had no problem at all with commanding the defeated dog.
Liu Zeqing first commanded the cavalry to go around and insert into the gap between the front and rear units of the rebel right wing, blocking the retreat of the resisting rebel right wing soldiers, and then allowed the coalition infantry phalanx to press through. After a short time, that part of the army was
The rebel right wing soldiers who resisted were surrounded.
Seeing that they were in a desperate situation, and after resisting for a while, they felt that there was no hope of fighting, so that part of the rebels surrendered to the coalition forces.
At this time, on the battlefield, in addition to the rebel prisoners, there were also a few rebel soldiers who were being chased by cavalry. The rebel army had all withdrawn from the battlefield. The Ming army also began to clean up the battlefield and take a rest.
"Sir! We have a big harvest. We searched just now and found that every traitor had four or fifty taels of silver on him." A commander of the coalition army happily ran to Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing, the military attachés of the coalition forces.
Reported.
"Oh?" The eyes of all the coalition military attachés lit up. Liu Zeqing also immediately ordered, "Strip all those traitors, dead or alive. Let the sons and daughters also keep their hands and feet clean, and remove all the traitors."
The captured silver is kept together and we will distribute it together after the war."
Liu Zeqing's consideration was very thoughtful. After all, the coalition forces were also united by various Ming armies. At this time, it was best to adopt a post-war distribution method to avoid hurting the feelings between the brother troops in order to snatch and capture on the battlefield.
"Let the soldiers pushing the carts go to the Liaodong Army. Be more humble and tell them that we are here to help bury the corpses. We don't want the heads of those corpses. The reason why we do this is to pick more.
A few pieces of tattered rebel armor." Wu Shigong said from the side.
After hearing this sinister idea, the military attachés of the allied forces burst into laughter. Liu Zeqing smiled and said to the smiling general: "Go quickly and be careful not to let the Liaodong Army see any flaws."
But the Liaodong Army was not a fool after all. At first, they thought that the coalition forces really took the initiative to do the dirty work of burying corpses to flatter themselves after seeing their strong combat effectiveness. And those tattered armors had sufficient military expenses
The Liaodong Army also looked down upon them. Therefore, they sent these tattered armors to the beggars of the coalition forces.
But the Liaodong Army also soon discovered the secret that the rebel soldiers were carrying a large amount of money. However, by this time, the coalition forces had already transported dozens of cartloads of corpses back. After some disputes and negotiations, there was nothing they could do about the rebel corpses that had been transported back.
However, the Liaodong Army also robbed more than a dozen horses and carts from the coalition forces to relieve their anger. The Liaodong Army was also aggrieved by the coalition forces who sided with them.
In this battle of Shahe, more than 4,300 rebels were killed (all beheaded) and captured. Among them, more than 1,100 rebels were killed or captured by the coalition forces. The Liaodong Army suffered one casualty.
More than 150 people were killed and wounded by the coalition forces, including civilian casualties in the river blocking battle, a total of more than 320 people.
The reason why the coalition suffered relatively large casualties was because in the final battle with the right-wing rebels, most of the rebels left to resist were the old Liao troops from Dongjiang Town who had strong discipline and combat effectiveness.
Eighty-seven war horses were captured, of which 22 were captured by the coalition forces. Except for the dozen or so horses that were later snatched away by the Liaodong Army, the coalition forces still made some gains.
A total of more than 43,000 taels of silver were seized, of which the coalition forces captured more than 30,000 taels. The reason why the coalition forces gained so much is because in the end the coalition forces mainly faced the old Liao army among the rebels. They had already looted so much
He took the city and put all the stolen money on himself. So now, all the stolen money has returned to the coalition forces.
The Liaodong Army was somewhat unlucky. They faced mainly soldiers recruited by the rebels in Denglai. Therefore, although the Liaodong Army killed and captured more people, and was later set up by the coalition forces, therefore,
The money they captured was far less than that of the coalition forces.
In addition, the Liaodong Army and the coalition forces each also seized a number of guns, bows and arrows, armor and weapons. Due to their haste, all the materials in the rebel camp were left behind. The Liaodong Army, which took control of the rebel camp first,
If you want to monopolize this batch of supplies, you must take revenge on the coalition forces.
But who are the generals and deputy generals of the coalition? Let’s not talk about Wu Shigong, just look at the general Liu Zeqing. He is a fierce man who did not hesitate to fight against Sheng Yangong in order to grab land in Shandong. Therefore, between Liu Zeqing and Wu Shigong
Arguing with reason, that is, under the threat of fire and war, the Liaodong Army reluctantly distributed a small portion of the supplies to the coalition forces.
However, the supplies allocated to the coalition forces were mainly grain and grass. But for the Ming army at this time, they were on the inside and had a sufficient supply of grain and grass behind them, so these grains and grass were the least valuable.
It was Wu Shigong who carried forward his style. In addition to selecting 20 better armors and these provisions, he gave all the other seizures to other coalition forces for distribution. This made everyone happy.
However, all the military attaches, including the officers of the Runing Battalion, were used to Wu Shigong's morbid love for food and grass. However, it was inevitable that some people would whisper behind their backs: Has the son of the Marquis been hungry since he was a child?
Then came the distribution of the money. However, the military attachés of the coalition were all veterans in dividing the spoils. They quickly came up with a distribution plan that was acceptable to all parties based on the number of their own soldiers, their respective military exploits and other conditions.
Of course, Liu Zeqing got the most silver, and Wu Shigong's Runing camp also got a big share, just over 10,000 taels. Even Jiang Cheng, who was not present and stayed behind, also got a thousand taels of silver.
After lunch, the Ming army marched into the rebel camp. While counting and distributing the captured items, the rested Liaodong Army cavalry divided into several teams and left the camp to pursue the rebels.
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Liu Zeqing looked hot, and he discussed with Wu Shigong: "Brother Chang Jing, do we also want to send out our cavalry?"
Wu Shigong rolled his eyes at Liu Zeqing and felt sad that Liu Zeqing could not grasp it clearly. So Wu Shigong shouted with hatred: "Even if you want to send it out, the Liaodong Army will not agree!"
But Liu Zeqing, who was unwilling to give up, still proposed to Jin Guoqi. As expected, Jin Guoqi sternly refused. Although the reason for the rejection was high-sounding, the central idea was: Your coalition has already taken advantage once, and now you still want to
Share a piece of our Liaodong Army's pie? Let's just dream.
But at this time, Kong Youde's defeated rebels showed their combat effectiveness. The rebels who were born in Dongjiang Town have been fighting guerrillas with the Hou Jin Army. Therefore, they used tactics such as gathering the defeated army and covering and setting up ambushes after retreating.
Quite skillful.
Therefore, the pursuing Liaodong Army cavalry did not achieve much success, but suffered several small losses. The allied military attachés who learned of this result hid in their camps, snickering that the Liaodong Army's stolen chicken was worthless.
Let’s not talk much about the small actions between the two Ming armies as vanguards. In any case, relying only on the vanguard of the Ming army, they achieved a great victory in the Battle of Shahe. This news was sent to Zhu who was still leading the main force of the Ming army on the march.
Dadian and Gao Qiqian were there, and they were both ecstatic immediately.
Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian immediately arranged for messengers to be sent to the court to reveal the victory. The Liaodong Army and the Allied Forces could afford this honor. You know, as long as more than a thousand enemy soldiers are killed (with heads) and captured, the battle will be won.
It was enough for the emperor to complain to the Ancestral Temple.
Then the main force of the Ming army accelerated its march. On August 2, the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign, it reunited with the vanguard. Once they met, they listened to reports from the military attachés of the vanguard and recorded their merits.
Of course, during the report, the military attache of the Liaodong Army and the military attache of the Allied Army had a little quarrel. Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian were not surprised by such contradictions. It would be strange that there were no conflicts among the various armies of the Ming Army.
Okay. As long as it doesn't affect future operations.
So after appeasing both sides, Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian first credited the vanguard military attaches. Jin Guoqi, the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Army, Liu Zeqing, the coalition commander Liu Zeqing, Wu Sangui and Chen Zhongzhi were credited with the first meritorious service. Other pioneer military attaches, including Wu Shigong, also
Basically, they were all recorded as minor merit. Even Jiang Cheng, who stayed behind, was recorded as minor merit.
The assessment of this merit is quite loose, because the current Ming Dynasty court has lacked victory for too long.
Moreover, the evaluation of these merits is mainly the result of a private compromise between Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian. Zhu Dadian's official position is the governor of Shandong, so he must be biased towards Liu Zeqing, the local military attache in Shandong; and Gao Qiqian is the supervisor of the Liaodong Army
, he must also be biased towards the Liaodong Army. So don’t attack each other anymore, the two sides should still share the results and everyone will be happy.
He basically stayed up all night, and the quarrel just now consumed a lot of energy, so Wu Shigong felt a little sleepy when he listened to the credit report. He didn't care how well he remembered his own credit, since his own credit couldn't be lost anyway. Lose.
When the military meeting was over and he came out of the big tent, Wu Shigong couldn't help but yawned. Suddenly, he was surprised to vaguely discover that a young general was left in the big tent.
Through the crack in the door of the tent, Wu Shigong discovered that the young general kowtowed to Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian and said, "Godfather, Mr. Zhu." Then the felt at the door of the tent was put down.
Wu Shigong was a little curious, so he asked Liu Zeqing: "Who is the person who stayed?"
Liu Zeqing curled his lips and said: "It's Wu Sangui, the young military general who is known as the most loyal and brave in the world!" (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!