Li Laiheng, Wu Sangui, Abatai, the soldiers and generals all made the same choice, which caused the most amazing scene to appear on the battlefield of Baigouhe:
The soldiers of both armies were exhausted physically and mentally. In the sudden heavy snowfall, everyone was dragging their tired bodies, using up their last strength to fight against the enemy in front of them.
Ridiculous, funny.
The snow is thickening, but the frozen river surface has been turned into a piece of fragmented clouds by countless shells. I don't know if it is real, or if in fact, only the flowing river water is left.
The corpses of soldiers litter the field. This is the river where the Song and Liao armies, Jingnan and Jianwen armies all fought.
It was also when the weather was freezing that the Battle of Junziguan broke out here. This battle took place five or six hundred years ago. Brother Yelvxiu, a famous general of the Liao Kingdom, destroyed the army of the Song Dynasty here. The Song army was attracted by
The proud crossbowmen could not open their bows and arrows due to weather conditions, so they were brutally massacred by the Khitan cavalry, with tens of thousands of people killed.
Li Laiheng seemed to be able to smell the blood from five hundred years ago. How many ancient battlefields and mass graves were buried on both sides of the Baigou River?
And after today, there will be another glorious piece of war history added here. It is both the glory of war history and the tragedy of the soldiers.
Ma Shitai, the general of the left camp, asked Li Laiheng puzzledly: "The soldiers' mental strength has been exhausted. It's snowing heavily at this time. It's a good time for us to retreat. Although Ding Feng is short of three points in the heavy snow,
The story of the soldiers, but the strength of the Chuang army may not be able to hold on!"
"If you can't hold on, you have to fight back."
Li Laiheng said in a low voice, and Fang Yiren explained in detail for him: "It is a taboo for military strategists to retreat before the formation. When it snows heavily, the Ming army and the Eastern captives will inevitably have no choice but to retreat. But at this time, whoever takes a step back first will be defeated."
They may be in a passive situation. So the more we need to retreat, the more we need to organize a powerful counterattack before organizing the retreat."
Ma Shiyao also nodded and said: "Sun Chuanting used his old military skills and indeed he also used this strategy."
"No." Li Laiheng shook his head and said, "I'm afraid the enemy in front of me is not Sun Chuanting, otherwise the Qin soldiers would not have taken action in such a situation... Instead, Donglu sent troops... I am afraid that the situation will be the same as the worst-case scenario I expected.
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During the chaotic battle, even the scholar Fang Yiren's face was stained with a lot of blood. The blood was mixed with snow water, so he could only wipe it casually, and then analyzed in a deep voice:
"The Ming Dynasty and the Donglu actually joined forces... This was a trick imitated by Guo Ziyi's borrowing troops from the Uighurs. However, the Donglu had already established a literate country in Liaodong, which was by no means comparable to the Uighurs in the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Chongzhen thought he was smart.
I'm afraid that borrowing troops to return to the Uighurs will fail, and instead it will become the laughing stock of the Maritime Alliance."
Li Laiheng stretched out his right hand and spread his fingers. After a while, snowflakes filled his palm. He said attentively:
"The snow is so heavy, it's time to retreat."
A gust of cold wind blew by, and the goose-like snowflakes were dancing and flying. The eyes of all the generals followed the flying snowflakes and looked forward:
Starting from the center of the Baigou River, the core battlefield where the two armies fought most intensively, both the Chuang Army and the Ming and Qing Allied Forces chose to prepare to retreat when the snow reached its heaviest.
First, the light artillery stopped their intensive firing; then the soldiers in the back group pushed forward slightly, and the troops on the front line retreated; then the soldiers on the front line first broke away from the enemy in front of them; if there was any
The pursuers will be reinforced by soldiers from the center and go up to the rear.
In this way, the army of nearly 100,000 people, with 50,000 troops on each side, dispersed and retreated towards the north and south banks of the Baigou River like a tide.
Only in the center, a very damaged frozen river was left.
Li Laiheng couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and retreated before the formation. This was a taboo for military strategists. Fu Jian, the hero of the generation who unified the north, retreated at the Feishui River, which ruined his life-long career of forging the unification of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, leaving only
A joke about the roar of the wind and the roar of the trees and grass.
Fortunately, the heavy snow used the irresistible power of nature to completely curb the possibility of further enemy pursuit.
Wu Sangui and Abatai finally had no intention or determination to fight any longer.
The day's battle has come to an end for now.
The Chuang army retreated to the camp on the south bank centered on Heyang Town, while the Ming and Qing armies were still stationed in separate camps on the north bank of the Baigou River.
After this day of fierce fighting, Wu Sangui, Gao Di, Li Fuming, and Liu Zeqing were dissatisfied with the Qing army and Abate, and their dissatisfaction with the Qing army and Abate had reached a critical point.
The legendary "East Master" did not have the magical effect of finalizing the decision at all.
After Li Laiheng led his army back to the main camp in Heyang Town, he hurriedly recruited people to take care of Liu Fangliang's body. Fortunately, although Liu Fangliang fell into the water for nearly a quarter of an hour, his physical strength was far beyond the level of ordinary people, so he was able to persist until
The doctor came to the rescue, and from the current situation, it seemed that there was no root cause of the disease.
This news finally made Li Laiheng breathe a sigh of relief.
"Master Liu is safe and sound, everything is fine...Master Liu is safe and sound, finally everything is fine... Otherwise, how can I explain to my adoptive father? There is no way we can continue the battle against Chuangjun!"
Liu Fangliang was injured and did not wake up. Liu Rukui, Ma Shiyao, Ma Shitai, Zhang Hong, Guo Sheng, and other Zuoying generals were now temporarily under the jurisdiction and command of Li Laiheng.
Fortunately, Li Laiheng was Liu Fangliang's close disciple. The two had such a good relationship, and there was no grudge between Zuoying and Qianying. Whether it was unified command or mixed combat, there would be no disharmonious factors that would affect the overall combat effectiveness of the Chuang army.
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"But the Beibei soldiers are still here. After tonight, we still don't know what the situation will be like?"
The generals were talking a lot, and the heavy snow temporarily suspended the Battle of Baigou River. But it did not mean that the war was over. Both sides still stationed 100,000 troops on both sides of the river. When the snow stopped and dawn came, there was bound to be an even more fierce battle.
"When the snow stops... Even if Gu Junen and Li Shiwei are riding pigs, they should have ridden to Baigou River, right?"
When Fang Yiren heard Li Laiheng's words, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "Hao Zhi will definitely catch up, and he will do things. Don't you worry, the master of the palace? As soon as the artillery mark arrives, and many straggler soldiers from the invading army are added to replenish the new force, we
Our strength has been greatly increased. The enemy does not know the power of our artillery, so he is bound to suffer a big loss."
"Zhang Pizhi, it's been so long since I sent Zhang Ruxing and Li Weiqun to contact Haozhi. Is there any news back? Haozhi is too slow!"
Zhang Pili quickly replied that several of Li Weiqun's scouts had rushed back to Heyang Town first, and they probably brought back relevant important news.
But when Zhang Pizhu brought the scouts, his complexion had changed drastically, and his face was livid, making everyone know at a glance that things must have changed unpredictably.
Li Laiheng looked at Zhang Pizhu's ugly face and knew something was wrong, so he immediately asked: "What's going on? Did Zhang Ruxing rebel? What happened!"
"General Zhang... General Zhang and General Li went south to Daozhong and encountered a large outflanking Qing army. Only a few of us broke out..."
"The Qing army made a detour?!"
The generals of the invading army looked at each other in shock. Even Fang Yiren, who had the pearl of wisdom in his hands, was shocked!
Only then did Li Laiheng understand why the Qing army's surprise attack failed. It turned out that it was not that the Chuang army's tenacity far exceeded the Qing army's attack power, but that the main force of the Qing army's attack was not on the Baigou River at all, but on the Chuang army.
's back.
"Donglu ugly type!"
Li Laiheng rested his elbows on the table and clasped the fingers of his hands in front of his face. The expression on his face changed. When everyone's eyes were focused on his face, Li Laiheng said decisively: