The pre-noon sun shone on the embers of the battlefield. At Li Laiheng's request, the soldiers of the rebel army cut off all the pigtails of the Eight Banners soldiers. Thousands of pig tails were piled into a hill, and the blood and long hair scattered among them, before noon,
Under the sun, there is still a cold atmosphere.
The Qing army was almost completely wiped out, but the casualties of the Chuang army were equally heavy. Of the more than 2,300 people killed in battle, almost half of them were Hao Yaoqi and Ma Bao.
The core elite troops of these two intruders suffered numerous casualties, and the number of injured was even higher. Almost everyone was injured. Almost the entire organization of the troops was broken up by the Qing army, and it was considered lost in a short period of time.
combat effectiveness.
But the surviving soldiers were not depressed. On the contrary, they were deeply proud of their troops, their comrades, and themselves for their outstanding and brave performance in this fierce battle.
These ordinary soldiers did not know how terrifying the enemies they defeated were, nor did they know what such a great victory that annihilated nearly 2,000 real Manchu soldiers and more than 4,000 Manchu, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners soldiers meant in history.
But they are still proud, proud of the warriors who stood up one by one in critical moments, proud of the warriors who stood firm amidst countless storms and random arrows.
All the corpses of the war dead were carefully collected by the survivors. In the future, Li Laiheng would take these corpses, even their battle robes and ashes, back to his hometown of Shaanxi, Henan, and Huguang.
The Han people settled down and relocated. In the original history, these fallen soldiers might have been buried forever beside Shanhaiguan in Youyan, Liaohai Sea, or they might have followed Li Laiheng in another time and space to self-immolate in Maolu Mountain, but now they will all go home.
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"I'll go home!"
The autumn air was crisp, and Li Laiheng took a deep breath. The gunpowder smoke in the air had basically dissipated. Although the smell of blood was still very strong, when Li Laiheng, who had experienced a bloody battle with Shura, smelled it, he found the smell to be quite sweet.
"Is this what victory feels like? It is indeed so refreshing and sweet."
Zhang Pizhu and several pro-military soldiers inserted a wooden sign on the battlefield of the Battle of Dangshan. They used daggers to carve on the wooden sign "Twenty-three hundred and twenty-six soldiers of the Breaking Army fought."
There is a line of words "Nowhere in Dangshan Mountain".
"Sigh... Donglu was made a quick move by us, but he still killed and injured so many soldiers of the invading army, which shows the strength of Donglu's cavalry."
Fang Yiren let out a long sigh, and Li Laiheng silently approached the wooden sign. He took off the red tassel felt hat he often wore and hung it on the corner of the wooden sign. Then he turned back and looked at Ma Muji.
The orientation says:
"There are still 10,000 Ming troops in Ma Muji, and Xuzhou is estimated to have 20,000 to 30,000 officers and soldiers. Our work is far from finished!"
In fact, the 30,000 soldiers and horses under the name of the Xuzhou Suppressor General had long been defeated and there were only a few left.
The more than 10,000 river defense soldiers led by Liu Liangzuo fled without a fight, without a single confrontation, and without a single shot fired.
Liu Zhaoji's 10,000 officers and soldiers performed better. Although they did not kill many Qing troops, they still fought with the Qing troops near Dangshan Mountain, which consumed a lot of the Eight Banners soldiers' physical strength. Most of these 10,000 soldiers were in the process of disintegration.
They were killed by Obai and Ye Bilong, but two to three thousand people followed Yu Yongshou and Gao Qian and fled back to Xuzhou.
Coupled with the Biao camp that protects the two governors Shi Kefa and Hou Xun, as well as Chen Zilong and Xu Du's Zhejiang regiment training, it is estimated that Xuzhou can barely have a combat strength of 10,000 people, but in the end it is just a patchwork of troops.
In fact, in a fight, they probably wouldn't even be able to hold back two or three thousand invading troops.
Although Li Laiheng did not know about Liu Liangzuo's defeat without a fight, he also learned from the hundreds of Qing prisoners captured by Gu Kecheng that the Qing army had previously defeated Liu Zhaoji's 10,000-man westward marching corps near Dangshan County.
matter.
Therefore, he was not worried about Xuzhou at all, but Chen Yongfu and Yuan Shizhong's ten thousand people were considered powerful soldiers among the Ming army, and they were definitely not comparable to the miscellaneous troops of the Xuzhou Suppressor General.
Previously, Gu Junen bought the Chuang army an hour of transfer time in the name of persuading them to surrender.
Now after a night of fierce fighting, more than half a day has passed, and the one-hour time limit has long been exceeded.
Furthermore, last night the rebel army suddenly withdrew more than 10,000 people from near Mamuji. A bold and careful person like Chen Yongfu, as well as someone like Yuan Shizhong who knows the rebel army very well, would definitely have guessed the sudden transfer and mobilization of the rebel army.
What's the reason?
They may not necessarily have guessed that the Qing army suddenly crossed the river and reached the vicinity of Dangshan Mountain. However, they most likely thought that the Ming army's westward marching regiment had arrived on the battlefield, and Ma Muji was expected to rescue the siege.
Just because Ma Muji was also covered in heavy fog last night, Chen Yongfu did not dare to make a hasty judgment. Yuan Shizhong also felt that Li Laiheng was cunning. Maybe their sudden withdrawal was actually to lure the Ming army away from Ma Muji's position.
He ran out to fight with the Chuang army.
Both of them were very cautious, fearing that they would fall into Li Laiheng's trick again. Therefore, they did not rush out of Ma Muji as soon as the intruders withdrew and moved, but waited until dawn the next day when the fog gradually faded.
After they dispersed, the Ming army officers and soldiers carefully sent out a small force to tentatively attack the camp of the intruders who were besieging the city.
After this test, Chen Yongfu discovered that the strength of the siege army had dropped sharply. He immediately guessed in his heart that the relief force of the Xuzhou Suppression General Organization had arrived near the battlefield?
I hate that I was deceived by Li Laiheng!
From this point of view, Li Laiheng should have discovered the traces of the Xuzhou Suppressor General's westward marching corps throughout last night, and then deliberately sent a top strategist like Gu Junen to deceive the officers and soldiers, allowing the intruders to move and mobilize easily.
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After a whole night like this, Chen Yongfu broke out in a cold sweat. He knew very well about the combat effectiveness of the troops under the command of the Xuzhou Suppressor General. According to Chen Yongfu's estimation, after a whole night passed like this, the Chuang Army was likely to have conquered Xi'an.
The Jin Corps was defeated!
Thinking of this, Chen Yongfu's hope for Ma Muji to rescue the siege was mostly shattered.
However, Yuan Shizhong felt that even if Li Laiheng had really defeated the besieging regiment, the strength of the invading army surrounding Ma Muji had dropped sharply. Their 10,000 officers and soldiers, plus tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians who had returned to Germany, could definitely seize this opportunity.
Hurry up and carry out a breakout operation.
Chen Yongfu was very opposed to a breakout now. He was more cautious and believed that one night was enough for the invading army to defeat the westward advancing corps and then rush back.
Now that the Ming army was breaking out of the encirclement and leaving Ma Muji's defensive position without authorization, if they did not break out of the encirclement before Li Laiheng's main force came back, wouldn't they have fallen into a trap themselves?
Chen Yongfu opposed it in every possible way, but Yuan Shizhong gained strong support from Hou Fangyu and other returned German gentry. Of course, these returned German gentry felt that there was only a dead end if they continued to hide in a corner of Ma Muji, so they might as well fight now.
Fight, fight, and find a way out. After all, it's not these officials and gentry who go out to fight for their lives.
So when Li Laiheng brought the main force of the Chuang army, which was covered with scars after the Battle of Dangshan, back to the vicinity of Mamuji, he saw that the Ming army officers and soldiers had rushed out of the Mamuji defensive position and counterattacked the Chuang army's siege camp.
One scene.
He was not wearing a helmet or a felt hat, and his bun was much messy after a day and night of fierce fighting. Li Laiheng pushed the few hairs in front of his eyes with his palms, looked at the officers and soldiers who had surrendered in disbelief, and said with wide eyes:
"Are Chen Yongfu and Yuan Shizhong tired of living together?!"
The main force of the Chuang army rushed back to the vicinity of Mamuji. Although after such a tragic and fierce battle as the Battle of Dangshan, the physical strength of the soldiers and horses was exhausted to the extreme.
However, the result of the victory also greatly boosted the spirit and morale of the soldiers. Moreover, Gu Kecheng's three thousand troops did not directly participate in the bitter battle at Dangshan, and the strength and physical strength of the troops were quite intact.
After they blocked the ferry and captured the prisoners of the Eight Banners, they also joined Li Laiheng's main force, and then fought together back to the vicinity of Mamuji.
Because Chen Yongfu was unwilling to send his own troops to break out, Gu Kecheng's three thousand vanguards had already arrived before Yuan Shizhong could break through Li Laiheng's remaining troops in the outer camp of Mamuji.