The defenders in the city are 500 infantrymen and more than 4,000 auxiliary soldiers. Now half of the 500 infantrymen have been killed, and more than 700 of the 4,000 auxiliaries and miscellaneous soldiers have been killed. Three of the four walls have fallen.
into the hands of the Ming army.
Jia Lazhangjing was heartbroken and secretly thought that the fort he was holding on to was about to be undefended.
That Jia La Zhang Jing suddenly remembered a legend from the year before last. It was said that when Zhenghuang Banner entered the Gyeonggi Province the year before last, he encountered a force full of firearms. The force killed Yang Guli who was attacking the city and was defeated. In the end, Yang Guli
In the first battle, all the Zhenghuang Banner warriors were given to the Ming army for military exploits, and only four thousand miscellaneous soldiers fled back.
Could it be that this Ming army was what he encountered? As he thought about it, Jia La Zhangjing became afraid.
How could the flesh and blood bodies of the Tatars withstand the intensive fire of muskets? After leaving more than 500 corpses, the Tatars no longer dared to fight back against the southern city wall. They hid near the northern city wall and tried to make a final stand in panic.
Waiting for them were 10,000 soldiers of the Tiger Division with rifles in hand. Soldiers from the Tiger Division rushed to the top of the city one after another, pressing toward the Tatars on the north wall with rifles in hand.
There are no battlements on the inner side of the city wall, and the Tatars gathered densely on the north wall became the best target for the soldiers of the Tiger Division. The front row soldiers of the Selective Group were the first to enter the shooting range and raised their guns to shoot from 200 meters away. It was just
A single volley from more than 200 people in the front row killed more than 100 Tatar soldiers who tried to defend the northern city wall.
Seeing that the four walls of the city were about to be occupied by the Ming army.
When the Tatar leader Jia Lazhangjing saw the Ming army's devastating offensive, he no longer had the confidence to fight even though the beast was trapped. He shouted "Retreat!" and jumped off the north wall. After rolling around on the ground, he climbed
Get up and run away to the north.
Seeing their leader flee, the Tatars' fighting spirit collapsed.
In just one morning, more than a thousand Qing soldiers died at the hands of the Ming army. How to fight this battle? As soon as the leader Jia Lazhangjing fled, the Tatar auxiliary soldiers and servants no longer had the fighting spirit.
Although these auxiliary soldiers and miscellaneous servants had a sense of superiority against the Ming army, their morale was extremely limited in the face of the heavy blow from the facts. They were defeated like a mountain. More than a thousand Tatars on the north wall lost their flags, and the army
With drums and horns, they jumped down after Jia La Zhang Jing. Seeing Jia La Zhang Jing's escape, more than two thousand Tatars in the camp no longer resisted, rushed to the north city wall, and jumped from the wall.
Flee outside the city.
Like a flock of penguins jumping into the sea, the Qing troops all jumped off the five-meter-high city wall, rolled around on the ground several times, got up and chased Jia La Zhangjing.
There is soft soil outside the camp, which is not as good as the concrete floor in later generations. A Tatar would not fall to death if he jumped from a height of five meters. However, there were still some unlucky Tatars who broke their legs and fell to the ground groaning.
The soldiers of the Selective Regiment kept pressing forward and fired continuously at the fleeing Tatar group. At first, only a few hundred soldiers of the Selective Regiment entered the fire range, but soon the soldiers behind them ran up. They rushed to the east,
On the north side of the city wall on both sides of the west, they shot at the fleeing Qing troops.
During their escape, the Qing army was attacked by the vanguard group on the city wall, which made them even more panicked. The fleeing Qing army was like a swarm of ants, and some people kept being shot and fell down. The people behind were still rushing towards the city wall, hoping to escape from the north.
The city wall escaped. However, the width of the stone steps leading up to the city wall was limited, and only three people could pass at a time. The Tatars crowded under the stone steps and became the best target for the soldiers of the Selective Front Regiment.
More than a thousand Qing troops who were originally standing on the city wall jumped over the wall and all escaped. Most of the more than two thousand Qing troops who fled quickly behind also climbed up the city wall and jumped off. But they were still fighting with each other.
During the regimental shooting, the thousand Tatars in the south of the camp were not so lucky. The width of the stone steps leading to the city wall was limited. They squeezed under the stone steps and could not squeeze up. The soldiers of the selected front regiment shot them down one by one.
fall.
Blood flowers were like fireworks, blooming continuously on the crowded Qing soldiers.
This is no longer a war, this is a massacre.
As the soldiers of the Selection Corps fired, the corpses piled thicker and thicker under the north city wall. Finally, there were two or three layers of Qing army corpses piled on every piece of ground. The blood flowed together, like a stream, at the corner of the city wall.
flow downward.
Four thousand Tatars threw eight or nine more corpses under the northern city wall, and only three thousand people escaped from this small fort.
In the end, all the Tatars who had not escaped from the city wall were killed, and the battlefield became quiet. Li Zhi climbed up the city wall, looked at the battlefield, and shouted: "The selected vanguard group mounted their horses to pursue the defeated troops!"
The two thousand soldiers of the Selective Regiment immediately took action, returned to the south city wall, climbed up the ladder, and found their horses behind the artillery position. They rode their horses and rushed north to pursue the defeated Qing army.
The vanguard regiment galloped north and divided into ten groups to search for the defeated Tatar troops. After chasing for two-quarters of an hour, a group of cavalry encountered the Tatar army that was following Jia Lazhangjing and escaping to the northeast.
The soldiers of the Selective Front Regiment wanted to rush forward and attack with horseback, but the Tatar auxiliary soldiers turned around and started shooting arrows, forcing the soldiers of the Selective Front Regiment back.
The cavalry stopped their horses a hundred meters away, loaded their rifles, and shot at the Tatar soldiers. There was another scream from the fleeing Tatar group, and more than a hundred Tatar soldiers were shot to death.
The Tatars were panic-stricken and no longer dared to form an organized escape, so they dispersed one after another. The soldiers of the Selection Regiment laughed loudly, jumped off their horses, cut off their heads, hung the heads on the saddles, then chased the defeated troops on horseback, and shot them one by one with rifles.
Kill and disperse the fleeing Tatars.
Another massacre.
Finally, when more than two hundred cavalrymen stopped chasing and rode back to the camp with their heads hanging on their heads, they had already chased and killed more than eight hundred Tatars.
After the cavalry returned, all the heads of the Tatars in the city had been cut off. Li Zhi counted the heads and found that in this battle, 2,441 Tatars were killed and 342 captured.
Tartar wounded.
This is a big victory.
As for Li Zhifang, thirty-seven people were slightly injured, seventeen were seriously injured, and fourteen were killed. These casualties were all caused by Tatar archers.
Li Zhi secretly said that after returning from this battle, he would ask the blacksmith to build stronger armor for the soldiers to reduce casualties in the exchange of fire with the Tatars.
Li Zhi handed the wounded to Shen Yuji's medical team and asked the military doctors to seize the time to treat the wounded. Shen Yuji's surgeons quickly mobilized and cleared the houses in the fort to set up a field hospital.
Li Zhi asked the soldiers to open the south gate and led the troops on horseback into the fort.
The military households of the Ming Dynasty in the fort had probably been killed by the Tatars, or had been looted. At this time, the fort was empty. Li Zhi found the granary, and sure enough he found bags of grain. The grain was packed in linen bags.
The equipment, apparently plundered by the Tatars, was piled up like hills in the granary, containing at least 20,000 stones.
With this food, Lu Xiangsheng's 30,000 troops and horses will not go hungry.
Li Zhi checked in the fort and found another silver vault. Opening the vault, Li Zhi found boxes and boxes of silver of various colors piled up in the room. The silver included silver ingots and broken silver, all of which were Tatar trophies.
Li Zhi asked the soldiers to count and found that there were 236,000 taels of silver in the warehouse.
Li Zhi secretly thought that Lu Xiangsheng would not be cheap with this money. He passed the order and ordered that each soldier of the Huben Division would be rewarded with 10 taels of silver. Each of the two thousand cavalrymen of the charging Selections Regiment would be rewarded with 20 taels of silver. The remaining silver would be collected by the baggage soldiers.
, after returning to Fanjiazhuang, he will also reward the disabled and the families of those who died in this war.
