After the stormy and fierce battle of Dangshan, Ao Bai and Li Guohan died at the hands of the invading troops. Only Tan Tai and Ye Bilong escaped with 500 remaining soldiers.
However, their fate was no better than that of Obai and others who "sacrificed" honorably. As Abatai said, "Since the Qing Dynasty launched its army, they have never suffered such a defeat."
Although this battle failed, a large part of the reason was due to the imprudent intelligence and strategic deployment of Dororo Yubele Abate and Interior Minister Turge.
But of course Abate will not take the responsibility himself. Even though he has divided his troops three times in a row and repeatedly weakened the Qing army, the first responsibility for the failure of the Battle of Dangshan of course still falls on the commander of the battle.
The solid forehead is really on Tan Tai's body.
Tan Tai, Ao Bai, and Ye Bilong were all from Xianghuang Banner, and they were all direct relatives of Huang Taiji. Their encounter with such a huge failure on the south bank of the Yellow River would undoubtedly have a great impact on Huang Taiji's authoritative position in the Qing Dynasty.
Especially after the Songjin War, Huang Taiji's condition became more serious, and Dorgon became more domineering. At such a delicate moment, the power of Xianghuang Banner was suddenly greatly weakened, which indeed laid a deep foundation for the future of the Eight Banners Army.
Deep shadow.
"In the 20 years since the army was launched, the country has never suffered such a disastrous defeat! Tan Tai, your defeat is an unforgivable crime. You did not fight on the battlefield and escaped alive. How can you have the dignity to return to Shengjing to resume your life?
What? It is an unpardonable crime to humiliate the Eight Banners’ military power!”
Abatai has nothing to say to Tan Tai. Tan Tai fought a battle like the Battle of Dangshan with 4,000 Qing casualties, including 2,000 Manchurian Eight Banner soldiers. It was a super disastrous defeat. Even if Huang Taiji wanted to protect him, it was absolutely impossible.
Keep Tan Tai safe.
Turge was born in Xiangbaiqi, and he had a bad look towards Tan Tai: "Five thousand soldiers and horses! There are also two thousand powerful Manchu troops. I will let you answer for them all! Do you still dare to return to the outside world to resume your life? Once you return to Shengjing, you
Go and see for yourself how many family members will pay filial piety!"
Manchuria was already sparsely populated, and it had just experienced a huge loss in the Songjin War. Huang Taiji ordered the Abatai governor to enter the pass and plunder, with the original intention of plundering young people to make up for the lack of labor force in the Qing Dynasty.
Before the Battle of Dangshan, everything went smoothly. The Qing army only paid a few hundred casualties and swept almost the entire North China region of the Ming Dynasty. They plundered and galloped wantonly in Beizhili, Shandong, Denglai and other places, without a single
The officers and soldiers dared to resist.
But who would have expected that Tan Tai ran to the south bank of the Yellow River to contact the bandits, and unexpectedly fell into an ambush by the bandits. The loss of troops exceeded the total losses of Abatai's army since they entered the customs.
There were 4,000 casualties and 2,000 real Manchurian soldiers killed. This was almost the loss of another Songjin War.
Abatai hates that iron cannot become steel, so he has detained Tan Tai. As soon as he is sent back to Shengjing, he will hand it over to Huang Taiji to deal with it severely. The loss of two thousand real Manchurians, such casualties are unknown.
How many Manchu families will be affected? Even if Tan Tai is a close confidant of Huang Taiji, the banner leader, Huang Taiji will never be able to protect him or condone him.
With two thousand Manchu soldiers, Tan Tai was committing a crime against the Manchus, a group with high martial virtues, and against the great and glorious country of the Qing Dynasty!
The Qing Dynasty was a country of warriors. Even if Tan Tai was defeated, he should set an example and die on the front lines in order to restore his name and glory.
But he actually escaped, and he escaped in such a mess. How could Abatai and Turg defend him?
Ye Bilong was only a deputy general, and his charges were lighter than Tan Tai's. At this time, Abatai had not ordered him to be detained and controlled. He was still frightened by the performance of the invading army during the Battle of Dangshan, and he said with fear:
"The rogues...the rogue thieves are not Han Chinese at all, they look like a bunch of Ban Rongdi. We have never encountered such a powerful enemy in our lives."
After experiencing a disastrous defeat in the Battle of Dangshan, and especially after witnessing his good brother Ao Bai being shot in the head by Li Laiheng, Ye Bilong was completely infected with "Phobia".
He followed Tan Tai and fled eastward for more than a hundred miles. After slowly getting rid of the pursuit of the invaders, he walked aimlessly eastward for two days before finding a ferry to cross the river near Xuzhou.
Returned to the temporary station of the Qing army in Yanzhou Prefecture.
Unknown to Ye Bilong, it was precisely because he and Tan Tai's retreat route passed through Xuzhou City that it greatly intensified the panic among the general officers and soldiers in Xuzhou City, and ultimately intensified the conflict between Hou Xun and Shi Kefa, resulting in the collapse of Xuzhou City.
The outbreak of military rebellion.
Anyway, after Ye Bilong returned to Yanzhou Prefecture, everything he said was to exaggerate and promote Chu Chuang's tyranny and invincibility. Even when his brother Turge asked, Ye Bilong also said "rogue firearms"
"It's as sharp as a divine weapon", "Thirty thousand thieves and horses are irresistible", "The thieves set up a five-layer chain formation, and a hundred thousand soldiers came to kill them repeatedly" and other myths.
Almost all his pride and courage were buried in Obai's brain with Li Laiheng's shot, leaving only a weak and timid little heart.
The Qing army stationed in Yanzhou Prefecture certainly did not believe that the Han army could achieve a major victory against the Qing army with considerable casualties. That's why they believed Ye Bilong's lies and really thought that the Chuang army deployed 100,000 soldiers on the south bank of the Yellow River.
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Although Abatai was not considered a first-rate general among the Manchu clan, based on what Yi Bilong said, he felt that even if the combat effectiveness of the bandits was only at the level of an ordinary Ming army, with a scale of 100,000, they should never be underestimated.
Although the Qing army here in Yanzhou Prefecture has gathered a lot of troops to fight against hundreds of thousands of bandits, it is not without the possibility of victory, but the risk is too great!
And even if they were defeated, most of these countless Manchu warriors would be lost.
Abata certainly could not afford to shoulder this kind of political responsibility, so after listening to Ye Bilong's words, he also made plans to withdraw his troops and go north.
However, Turge and Ye Bilong were brothers after all. Turge knew that if the Qing army retreated outside the pass like this, Ye Bilong, who also fled after being defeated in the Battle of Dangshan, would definitely be severely punished.
To avoid this kind of punishment, the only way Turg could think of was to regroup, gather the main force of the Qing army, cross the river and go south, find those 100,000 bandits, and take revenge!
Turge was waiting for an opportunity to retaliate, but Abatai carefully inquired about the specific circumstances of the Battle of Dangshan from the 500 remnant soldiers who fled with Tan Tai, and became more determined that the battle should not be fought easily.
Based on the results of Abate's own inquiry, he concluded that Ye Bilong's "magic words" must be nonsense caused by panic. Because judging from the testimonies of the remnants of the soldiers, the enemy did not have more than 100,000 people at all.
It is difficult to say whether there are 50,000 people or not. There is a high probability that there are only 30,000 to 40,000 people.
A band of thirty or forty thousand bandits could deal a devastating blow to five thousand elite Qing troops.
Although this kind of combat effectiveness is not as good as the heavy Ming army group led by Governor Hong Chengchou, it is not far behind. And judging from what the defeated troops said, the bandits probably still have a lot of reserves and have not mobilized the entire army.
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Abatai thought of the previously circulated news that the bandits had 100,000 troops, and became even more convinced that this news must be true. In other words, the overall strength of the bandits was actually equivalent to 100,000 Ming Army soldiers at the second-line level or above.
With such strength, even if all the Qing troops in Yanzhou were to send troops together, they might not be able to win.
However, Turge didn't know whether he wanted to lose his mind to avenge his brother, or he had other political calculations. He still insisted that he must go south to take revenge in order to restore the mythical authority of the Eight Banners Army's invincibility.
Abatai argued with him many times, and the two even quarreled to the point of a fight. However, Huang Taiji was very guarded against the clan members led by the governor. Abatai did not really have the power to lead and control the entire army. Turge was originally
Huang Taiji specially arranged it to restrict and monitor Abatai's actions.
Therefore, although Abatai had firm opinions, he strongly demanded that the entire army immediately withdraw northward, leave the Yellow River Basin, and slowly withdraw outside the customs with rich loot.
However, under Turge's firm opposition, Abatai could not say the same thing. He could only take a step back and proposed to divide the Qing army in Yanzhou into two groups:
Abatai himself commanded the left-wing army and marched towards the Denglai and Lubei areas. After collecting the small Qing troops who had looted and looted the Lubei area, they detoured from the northern edge of the Shandong Peninsula to the Tianjin area.
Then Turg could lead another right-wing army to collect scattered and looted Qing soldiers in the Yellow River Basin, and then choose an opportunity to exit from the Jizhou area.
Abatai's arrangement can not only ensure that the half of the troops who are close to him will not be ruined in vain because of Turg's adventure. On the other hand, it can also squeeze out Turg who does not obey his command.
Based on Abatai's judgment on the strength of the bandits, if Turge is not clear-headed and really plans to cross the river south for revenge, he will definitely suffer a more tragic defeat than the Battle of Dangshan.
Abatai certainly thought about using this method to weaken Turg's power and release Huang Taiji's heavy surveillance and restraint on him. But he would never dare to risk the lives of 10,000 Qing soldiers, so even though he agreed with Tuge
Erg divided his troops, but asked Turg to swear an oath that he would never cross the Yellow River and could only clear out small groups of bandits north of the Yellow River.