Chapter 762: The Ming army fled to the south and was defeated
Regarding whether to rescue Hong Chengchou, Wu Shigong certainly had to weigh the pros and cons. There were advantages and disadvantages, so Wu Shigong simply chose a plan that was most beneficial to Runing's army.
So in the end, Wu Shigong chose to join the two armies and break out together.
This is of course not for Hong Chengchou. Anyone with a discerning eye now will know that even if Hong Chengchou is rescued back to Liaodong, he will still be a living dead. After suffering such a disastrous defeat, Hong Chengchou has lost his political life in the court. Since he has no use value
, Wu Shigong would never exchange the life of Runing Jun Erlang for Hong Chengchou's safety.
What Wu Shigong is looking for is the 30,000 troops around Hong Chengchou. You must know that this time the court will use all the elite Ming troops in Liaodong and along the Eastern Great Wall. Once the entire army is wiped out, the entire northern Ming Dynasty will completely surrender to Manchu and Mongolia.
The army opened its mouth.
If only the Runing Army breaks through the encirclement, it will obviously receive great attention from the imperial court. Needless to say, the Runing Army will definitely be transferred to Liaodong to defend the Ningjin Defense Line and first solve the military shortage in Liaodong for the imperial court.
problem.
At that time, it goes without saying that the imperial court wanted to win over Wu Shigong himself and the Runing Army, but stationed in Liaodong? That was not in the interests of the Runing Army at all.
The current strength of the Runing Army is not so large that it can be divided into troops. If it is mobilized by the court, one in the south and one in the north, the Runing Army will face the two major enemies of the Manchu and the Peasant Army.
You must know that now, even if the Runing Army gathers all its strength and faces either of these two enemies alone, it will be an evenly matched situation at best, and it may be weaker. If the troops are divided again, it is very likely that the situation will be evenly divided.
If you don't rely on both ends, you will be defeated due to lack of strength. Instead, the Runing Army will lose its own strength for the sake of the court.
Another point is that communication at this time in the Ming Dynasty was very inconvenient. Wu Shigong could not live in Liaodong and command Runing remotely. If it took too long, who would be in charge of Runing? Maybe his officials would be uneasy.
It is possible for it to disintegrate, and it is also possible for it to be bribed by other forces, or for its own generals to become independent warlords.
Although the possibility of this is very small, when Wu Shigong established the Runing Army, he set up the local system, the military system and the financial system separately to prevent anyone from intervening in the affairs of other systems, so it was difficult for his subordinates to control these three systems at once.
A system, and then control a territory. But people do not have long-term concerns, they must worry about the near future, and there are some things that must be guarded against.
Moreover, a major basis for the existence of the Runing Army is financial resources, and the financial resources are located in Runing, Guide and other places. If Wu Shigong lived in Liaodong for a long time, it would be very inconvenient to allocate food and salary from Runing, and he could only rely on the court supply. If
As time goes by, the Runing Army in Liaodong will be strangled by the imperial court with food and salary, which is what Wu Shigong does not want to see.
Therefore, if Hong Chengchou's 30,000-strong army is rescued now, a combat-effective Ming army can be preserved in Liaodong. Coupled with Wu Shigong's defeated troops, and even the Runing army can leave a small and capable army, then
It was enough to contain the Qing army in Liaodong, and the Ming Dynasty's northern defense line would not collapse. Wu Shigong would also have the opportunity to leave Liaodong and return to Runing with his large army.
The only thing worth worrying about is that the return of the Runing Army will make all the results of last night's victory in vain, and the Qing army will have more time to concentrate its forces to block the retreat of the coalition forces, increasing the danger on the way to the withdrawal.
But there is also an advantage. At least the strength of the coalition forces has more than doubled. As long as they stick together as a group, the success rate of breaking out together is increased. And this increase and decrease can be said to be equal gains and losses!
But there is one phenomenon that is very ridiculous. From beginning to end, Wu Shigong never considered whether he would be unable to break out!
It should be said that among the Runing Army, the one who is least confident in the combat effectiveness of his troops is their commander-in-chief Wu Shigong. Therefore, Wu Shigong has become a rare representative of the Turtle Style in the Runing Army. And Wu Shigong's original book boy-Shu Tong
Mo, the reason why he believed in the Wugui style was because he was afraid of death; while the reason why Wu Shigong believed in the Wugui style was because of timidity.
Why is Wu Shigong timid? That must be blamed on Wu Shigong's status as a time traveler. As a time traveler, Wu Shigong is very aware of the fame of Li Zicheng and the Qing army, so he always unconsciously overestimates their combat effectiveness.
But now, even Wu Shigong, the person who sees the Qing army the most, thinks that the Qing army cannot stop the Runing army from returning. This shows how the confidence of the Runing army exploded after the Battle of Xueling. They all
They thought that the Qing army was nothing great. Therefore, Wu Shigong and other generals of the Runing army had unknowingly placed themselves in a position of strength.
A night of silence.
The summer nights were short, and the sky became bright after only an hour. But in the next two hours, the southeast of the Runing Army's camp was full of people, and a large number of Ming Army's defeated troops fled towards the Runing Army's camp.
, making it impossible for the Runing Army to rest.
And following those broken troops, there were many small teams of the Qing army chasing them. Under Wu Shigong's order, the cavalry of the Runing Army was dispatched one after another to drive and cover the return of their broken troops. Fortunately, the men and horses pursued by the Qing army
There were not many, so the Runing Army took most of the defeated troops into their own camp.
The Ningjin defense line of the Ming Dynasty was built based on the coastline. Therefore, when rescuing Jinzhou this time, the Ming army relied on the coast to march north. And to escape, of course they also relied on the sea to run back.
In this way, the Ming army would not get lost when escaping, but it would also make it easier for the Qing army to ambush. As long as the Qing army laid ambushes one by one in the narrow roadside near the sea, they could set up ambushes for the Ming army one after another.
.And under such ambushes again and again, the Ming army collapsed extremely quickly, and the atmosphere of despair became more and more intense.
This situation is like Cao Cao who fled after the Battle of Chibi. He was ambushed three times by Zhuge Liang, so when he fled to Huarong Road, he didn't even have the courage to fight Guan Yu.
Therefore, after a night of ambush and pursuit by the Qing army, the Ming army ran away in an disorderly manner, with men and horses trampling on each other, and weapons scattered all over the ground. They had no fighting power at all. Those who were killed by the Qing soldiers were killed by their own people.
Countless people were trampled to death and forced into the sea and drowned.
Finally, the Ming army was too numerous and the Qing soldiers could not kill them all, but some people finally escaped. Several general military officers Wang Pu, Wu Sangui, Bai Guangen, Tang Tong, Ma Ke and Li Fuming, who succeeded Yang Guozhu in charge of the town's military affairs, all brought
The remnant soldiers broke out of the siege, but Wang Pu, Wu Sangui and others were blocked by the Qing army when they retreated from Xingshan to Ningyuan. The soldiers were killed and wounded, and almost all of them became mere commanders. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature.