Chapter One Hundred and Twenty Lord Baylor's tricks come out one after another
Red clouds sailed like sails in the wind, one after another, filling the sky. In the eyes of the soldiers of the Chuang Army, this was undoubtedly a great omen of victory; but in the minds of the Manchus, all this marked the future.
Auspicious atmosphere.
The march of the Ming and Qing allied armies looked very mighty and majestic when they first set off. In any case, this was an army of tens of thousands of people after all, and both the Qing and Ming armies could be considered two
The essence of the regime’s military power.
Although the morale of the soldiers has dropped to the bottom, looking from a distance, the appearance of such an army is still shocking. On the north bank of the vast Baigou River, tens of thousands of soldiers are walking towards a place under the guidance of carnivores.
The ending is quite pessimistic and the position is unclear.
The soldiers of the Ming army were so dejected. The more the army advanced, the more inconsistencies among the various departments became apparent. Each of the generals had their own calculations. Wu Sangui and Liu Zeqing repeatedly tried to delay the advance of the army, which further caused the army to become confused.
mess.
The soldiers were at a loss as to what to do and felt that there was a very lax and decadent atmosphere permeating the army. This decadent atmosphere soon began to spread and quickly swept the entire army.
The coalition forces had just marched eastwards and less than halfway, not only the Ming army, but also the soldiers of the Qing army began to be affected by this decadent atmosphere.
Abata suddenly felt a headache. He was a veteran general. And unlike Wu Sangui, people like Liu Zeqing were only responsible for themselves. Abata also had to deal with the Qing army, every Manchu family, and the emperor.
Tai Chi and the Qing Dynasty were responsible.
The responsibilities on his shoulders are of course completely different from those of Wu Sangui and other Ming Dynasty warriors.
"Mr. Hong, Bachelor Fan... Oh, eh!"
Abata originally wanted to ask Hong Chengchou and the others something to ask, but when he found that Hong Chengchou deliberately avoided him, a chill ran down Abata's spine.
This situation reminded him of his past history of being punished by Huang Taiji repeatedly.
Are the nine thousand and eight bannermen of the roundabout troops heading south going to be gone forever like this?
Abatai thought that most of the soldiers and horses under his command were from a group led by Xiangbai Qi, who were in considerable conflict with Huang Taiji's direct line. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.
If you win, you will get rid of the bandits, if you lose, you will get rid of your political enemies?
"Mrs. Hong...you shouldn't be so dizzy..."
"Baylor, we have arrived near Xiong County!"
At the forefront of the Ming and Qing coalition forces was a group of Qing army exploratory cavalry. Although Abatai was distracted because his sons Bo and Tuo had not returned from the south, he was, after all, a veteran of many battles, with rich experience and the ability to deploy
Still very detailed and thorough.
Tanqi also sent him the progress of the intruders, and informed Abatai of the fact that the insurgents had left the Baigou River defense line and were moving eastward, preparing to block Baiyangdian to intercept the enemy.
Abata touched his bare forehead. In such a cold weather, his scalp seemed to be covered with a thin layer of frost. As expected, the bandits were mobilized by him and had already left the Baigouhe defense line.
This more or less gave Abatai some confidence in fighting.
The current situation... should be better than attacking the preset position of the bandits by force, right?
With this idea in mind, Abatai ordered the entire army to speed up and rush to the battlefield before the bandits could seize the favorable terrain near Baiyangdian in order to obtain a better battle situation.
He was still thinking that using this opportunity to mobilize the bandits to leave the defense line, as long as Abatai could defeat the bandits in one fell swoop in the field battle at Baiyangdian, and then go south to join the outflanking troops, all problems would no longer be a problem.
Abatai silently rehearsed the previous battles in his mind. He believed that in the previous Baigouhe battle, the overall combat power of the Ming and Qing coalition forces was undoubtedly higher than that of the Chuang army. But the problem did lie in
As for myself, if I had not planned to let the Ming army wear out for a while, but instead invested the main force of the Qing army from the beginning and launched an all-out attack, I would have been able to crush the Liu bandits immediately.
So this time Abatai learned his lesson and put the Qing army at the vanguard of the coalition, trying to rely on the bravery and skill of the Eight Banners soldiers to boost the morale of the Ming army soldiers.
He thought that based on past experience, as long as the Eight Banners soldiers could give full play to their field advantages and had no obvious disadvantages in terms of military strength, the Qing army would never be defeated by any Han army.
"Baiyangdian..."
Baiyangdian Lake is gray in winter, and its most famous reed poles have completely withered away, leaving only a landscape that looks like a broken mountain with water. This is quite in line with the situation of the Ming Dynasty at this time.
The misty morning fog turned the rising sun as red as rouge. It rose slowly among the trees covered with a layer of fog, and then turned into a pale and bright silver disk, hanging above the heads of the coalition soldiers.
On top of head.
The sun was so high that its light and heat could hardly warm the coalition soldiers. Everyone felt that not only was the atmosphere chilly, but their bodies were indeed cold.
The Manchus who grew up in the white mountains and black waters should have dismissed the coldness of the Yanzhao land. However, the pessimism and panic spreading from the Ming army had affected the emotions of the Manchus, making them panic.
The feeling comes.
The army continued to move forward, and the guards around Abatai rushed forward on horseback. He heard a crackling sound in his ears, which seemed like the roar of ice breaking.
When the soldiers stepped on the ice and walked on the ice, the crackling sound would roll under everyone's feet, which was more frightening than the thunder in summer.
"what is that?"
Someone suddenly discovered that there were many ice blocks three or four feet high accumulated on the ice. They were crisscrossed across the ice, like low walls, blocking the road on the ice. At first glance, they looked like intruders marching on the ice.
The field fortifications set up on the other side of the ditch are the same.
After a while, the frightened soldiers slowly realized that these were actually ice cubes that had naturally condensed on Baiyangdian Lake. Probably due to snowfall, some of the melted snow water resurfaced on the ice.
It condensed into low ice walls.
This was originally just a very common scene in Baiyangdian in winter, but the soldiers of the Ming and Qing Allied Forces had already been enveloped in an atmosphere of panic and panic. The vegetation was full of soldiers, and the wind was roaring. If they saw any strange sight, they would immediately react to them.
Emotions caused huge fluctuations in their morale.
Although Abatai had an unusually slow political sense and made many mistakes, as a veteran general of the Qing Dynasty, he should have seen the highly unstable morale of the Ming and Qing coalition forces at this time.
If the situation were different, Abatai would definitely stop marching immediately, because an army in such a state would never have the ability to fight the enemy in a life-and-death battle.
But now Abate's situation and his situation do not allow him to take another step back. No matter what the state of the army is, Abate can only force himself to believe in the invincible bravery of the Manchus. He can only believe in this
, the myth of the Qing army’s invincibility will never be shattered by their own hands.
Even the news of the defeat of Dangshan has long been known to the Qing people.
"Baylor, do you want to take a break? Our troops are okay, but the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty are getting more and more chaotic, and there are too many soldiers falling behind along the way... There are too many soldiers falling behind along the way, right?"
After hesitating for a while, Abatai bit his lip and said, "Well... OK! After a little rest, we have arrived at Baiyangdian before the intruders. The intruders were mobilized by me and hurriedly left a very advantageous defensive position.
As long as we recharge our batteries now, we will surely be able to defeat the bandits soon."
The guards immediately issued military orders, asking the Qing soldiers to stop and take a rest near Baiyangdian. Then someone sent this order to the Ming army's queue, and Gao Di, who was following Abatai,
Second General Li Fuming also immediately ordered a rest.
The superintendent, Grand Scholar Li Jiantai, took a breath. At this time, Abatai ordered the entire army to rest and reorganize, which made Li Jiantai feel that this Donglu general was indeed a calm and trustworthy veteran.
However, the number of Ming soldiers was much greater than that of the Qing army, so the speed of message transmission was slightly slower. Before the news reached the people in the rear team, they only found that the people in the front team seemed to have suddenly stopped. They were already in a
In a state of high tension, this sudden change made the soldiers feel inexplicable panic.
"W-what...what's going on? Why did Dongshi suddenly stop?"
Even Liu Zeqing, who had always been shrewd and cunning, was taken aback. He rode his horse in circles twice, panicked in his heart and unable to understand what was happening in front of him:
"What's going on? Have the vanguard already engaged the intruders? Has a fight already begun?"
Liu Zeqing couldn't figure out the change in the situation, and the soldiers below were even more confused. It's just that someone heard Liu Zeqing's question about whether the front line was already engaged. I don't know how he misheard it, but he actually shouted after it.