Chapter eight hundred and eighty sixth meteor shining
When Azig led the 20,000 vanguard troops towards the battlefield, the troops of Liu Tichun and Bai Guangen, who had arrived in a hurry, had not yet fully deployed.
Seeing that Bai Guang'en's troops behind him were still forming formation, Liu Tichun in front immediately shouted: "Shoot an arrow! Hold your spear straight to block the braided army. Let General Bai have time to form an formation!"
The archers of the Dashun Army immediately shot arrows, but there were too few archers in the first row, and these arrows were sparse. The Qing troops rushing at the front were all wearing three layers of heavy armor.
The armored soldiers, these arrows shot at them, could not penetrate their heavy armor at all, and they did not pose any threat. They only nailed a few arrows to some armored soldiers.
"Steady! The tip of the spear is forward, those horses don't dare to rush over!" At this time, Liu Tichun could only place his hope in the spear formation. He shouted to boost morale, so that the soldiers holding spears must not panic.
But at this moment, a loud shout suddenly came from behind the formation: "General Bai has run away! He has run away!" This shout immediately caused the Dashun army to become commotion.
Liu Tichun looked back and saw that Bai Guangen was indeed beating his horse to escape. What was even more ominous was that his personal troops were actually running away together under the commander's flag.
With a sound of "Coax—!", the Dashun Army's spear formation suddenly became unsteady. In panic, many soldiers dropped their spears and turned around and ran away.
But at this time, the heavy cavalry at the front of the Qing army had already rushed to the front of the Dashun army. Those soldiers who escaped could not escape except leaving the Spear Flower formation riddled with holes. The Qing army's
The heavy cavalry rushed into the Dashun army's formation without any hindrance.
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In this Battle of Yumen, the two former generals of the Ming Dynasty who participated in the Songjin Battle - Tang Tong and Bai Guangen, were photographed out of fear of the Qing army, and they both fled without any fighting. And these two
This single rout brought great harm to Dashun's army, making the already unfavorable battle situation even worse.
During the first round of the Qing army's charge, Liu Tichun and Bai Guangen's troops collapsed. Bai Guangen fled eastward with the remaining troops and escaped from the battlefield. Liu Tichun's whereabouts among the rebels were unknown. In the main battlefield of Yutian County
A large hole suddenly appeared on the south side.
Then, the Dashun Army troops who were feigning an attack on the south side of Yutian County took the initiative to turn around and attack, trying to block the Qing army's charge. However, they were overwhelmed by the Qing army.
Liu Zongmin also immediately arranged for the cavalry to stop them first, while he himself wanted to withdraw the troops fighting with Guan Ning's cavalry and shrink the main force of Dashun's army first.
However, when Guan Ning's cavalry saw the arrival of reinforcements, their morale was high. They desperately entangled the main force of Dashun Army and prevented them from withdrawing from the main battlefield. In desperation, Liu Zongmin could only lead the remaining main force to block the Qing army's attack.
before.
But at this time, Dorgon's 20,000 Qing troops also arrived on the battlefield after the Dazhongzhuang Shun army was wiped out. This further worsened the war situation.
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In today's battle with the Qing army, the Dashun army was forced to use the most taboo fueling tactic, and threw its troops into the battle with the Qing army one by one.
By annihilating the branch, they did not take advantage of their superiority in military strength.
Li Zicheng, who was watching the battle, did not organize any resistance at all after the Qing army overwhelmed Bai Guangen and Liu Tichun's troops. Instead, he turned around and fled the battlefield with more than 70,000 troops around him. With Li Zicheng's escape, the battle was actually won or lost.
Decided.
It's strange that this decisive battle, which involved more than 600,000 participants and included all the powerful armies in the world except the Runing Army, was so anticlimactic and so one-sided. And the whole battle was simply lackluster.
To put it simply, the Qing army arrived, fought and won.
As Li Zicheng fled, the various units of the Dashun Army also fled. The Dashun Army left behind on the main battlefield was also pressed to the edge of the Jinshui River by the Qing army and Guan Ning's cavalry, and together they launched a massacre.
The Jinshui River was blocked, and the Dashun army laid down nearly 100,000 corpses.
In addition, as many as fifteen senior generals of the Dashun Army were killed. Liu Zongmin escaped from the battlefield with injuries. More than 100,000 soldiers of the Dashun Army were captured and surrendered. Countless soldiers were captured. And Li Zicheng was proud of his veteran soldiers.
More than 80% of the horses were lost. This battle completely shattered the Dashun army.
The primary reason for this defeat was that Li Zicheng and others did not think that the Qing army would send troops.
It should be said that during the Chongzhen period, the Qing army invaded the Jifu area several times, causing shock to the government and the public. It is absolutely impossible to say that Li Zicheng and others knew nothing about this or turned a blind eye to it. However, their actions from beginning to end
Their actions gave people a very strong impression. It seemed that in their minds, the war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties was a matter of the "previous dynasty". They did not have any enemies with the Qing side, and they could live their lives peacefully.
Why did Li Zicheng and others have such ridiculous ideas? Only God knows. But what is certain is that the Liaodong issue in Li Zicheng and others' minds is only the Guanning cavalry led by Wu Sangui and others. Once Wu Sangui surrenders or is eliminated, the Liaodong issue will
It has been solved. Li Zicheng and the others simply turned a blind eye to the Manchu Qing Dynasty who was eyeing the situation outside the pass.
The poor performance of Li Zicheng and other generals on the battlefield made this defeat extremely tragic.
With an army of more than 100,000 men by his side, Li Zicheng and others launched a fierce attack on Guan Ning's cavalry without any reservation. This was really a "deep love" for Guan Ning's cavalry!
Even when the Qing army appeared next to the main battlefield and there was no news about the troops sent by the Dashun Army to Dazhongzhuang to monitor the Qing army, Li Zicheng still took a chance and thought that the Qing army would not send troops.
And this kind of situation that ordinary people know is wrong has happened to Li Zicheng and others who have been on the battlefield for a long time. This can only be said to be a ghost. When the Qing army appears, no matter what, Li Zicheng should withdraw his troops first.
, gather the main force together, and first find out the situation clearly before talking. But Li Zicheng wants to go all the way to the dark side.
Then, after the Qing army entered the battlefield, Li Zicheng fled the battlefield first, causing the entire army to collapse. If the more than 70,000 soldiers and horses around Li Zicheng took up positions and then withdrew the troops on the main battlefield in an orderly manner, although it would be a big loss
Failure is inevitable, but it won't be a complete failure.
Even after establishing a position, you can still resist and withdraw to the capital section by section, and then assemble the more than 100,000 troops led by Song Xiance in the capital and the Dashun Army near the capital gathered by Niu Jinxing. I can’t say that it will definitely reverse the war situation and save the capital, at least it will
We can retreat safely and then go to the northwest provinces to manage our world.
And what did Li Zicheng do? From extreme confidence to extreme pessimism, it only took the Qing army a single charge. He immediately gave up on himself, thinking only of escaping, losing the confidence to fight for the world, and immediately returned to his true colors as a rogue bandit.
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On the fifth day of August, the Dashun Army was defeated miserably in the Battle of Yumen. Li Zicheng fled back to the capital with the remaining troops on the seventh day of August. Once he returned to the capital, Li Zicheng ordered the rapid demolition of Guanxiang houses and the sheep-horse wall. This shows that at that time,
He once considered sticking to Beijing, but only two days later, Li Zicheng decided to retreat westward immediately after holding the enthronement ceremony in Beijing.
This decision was painful and helpless, but it was also correct. Although the Dashun Army had many troops stationed not far from Beijing at that time, it was impossible to organize a force that could block the Qing army (including those who had surrendered to the Qing).
Wu Sangui's troops), and Yang Rusong's Runing army was still in the outer city of the capital. It was impossible for Li Zicheng to hold on to the city of Beijing that he had won with so much hard work while the inner and outer cities of the capital were fighting.
On the ninth day of August, Li Zicheng held an enthronement ceremony at the Wuying Hall, with Niu Jinxing performing the suburban ceremony. Each of the six governments issued a letter of pardon. After the ceremony, the people in the city were ordered to leave the city for refuge, and at the same time they set fire to the Ming Dynasty palaces and palaces.
The gate towers of each gate began to evacuate Beijing. They also notified Tian Jianxiu's Dashun Army on the South Road to move north as soon as possible to join the main force of Li Zicheng's Dashun Army.
When they decided to withdraw from the capital, the Dashun army finally tore off the mask of hypocrisy, looted the capital, and started an apocalyptic carnival. Then the Dashun army massacred a group of neutral officials left in the outer city.
gentry, and coerced the officials and gentry who surrendered to the Dashun Dynasty and the people in the city to flee westward.
However, after Li Zicheng left the city for hundreds of miles, the Dashun army collapsed like an avalanche, and all battalions fled. When Li Zicheng and others fled to Shanxi, there were less than 10,000 soldiers and horses left around him. By the way,
Let me tell you a little tidbit: some defeated troops of Dashun Army such as Bai Guangen also fled into Tongzhou City, which suddenly expanded the strength of Tongzhou City to more than 60,000 people.
It was true that its rise was rapid and its demise was sudden. Li Zicheng's Dashun Army was like a meteor that shone brightly in the late Ming Dynasty, and finally disappeared without a trace.
On the night of the victory in the Battle of Yutian, Huang Taiji undertook to confer Wu Sangui the title of King of Pingxi, and formally included the Guan Ning Cavalry into the ranks of the Qing army. The Qing army also organized the army in Yutian for three days, shaving off a large number of surrendered Dashun soldiers.
With the addition of the Guan Ning Iron Cavalry, Han Banner and King Sanshun troops, the strength of the Qing army suddenly expanded.
Under the advice of Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and others, the Qing army took Wu Sangui as the vanguard and marched to the capital with the slogan "In honor of the crown prince's accession to the throne". On the evening of August 10, the Qing army arrived in Jixian and received the news that Dashun's army had evacuated.
After hearing the news from Beijing, Huang Taiji immediately ordered Duduo, Azige, Wu Sangui and others to lead the elite to pursue them quickly, while he himself led part of the army to Beijing.
Being in the outer city and not fully aware of the actual situation of the Yutian Battle, chaos suddenly broke out among the prince Zhu Cixiang and others, the former Ming Dynasty officials and nobles in the city, and the defending troops headed by the Runing Army.