The blood-red sunset is gradually fading, and countless corpses of soldiers that have not been buried are being circled by crows.
Li Laiheng pulled out an arrow shaft from the corpse, but the broken spear was still in the hands of the soldier's body. There were piles of corpses everywhere, including soldiers from the Shun army and Manchu soldiers. Every soldier was covered with wounds.
The armor was covered with wounds pierced by swords and guns, or scars caused by bullets and cannons.
Many war horses fell into pools of blood and sewage. The hot summer weather made the remaining battlefields smell bad. Flies gathered in groups, making it dark and eerie. The abandoned chariots and baggage seemed to have become a battlefield.
Graves followed one another, their shadows casting shadows over the mutilated corpses.
A new fire sprang up in the distance, spreading in all directions, burning more and more fiercely.
The smoke was rising. Although the Qing army had achieved an unprecedented victory, the death of Huang Taiji gave them a good reason for revenge. Not only the Manchu soldiers, but also all the Mongolian soldiers and Han soldiers also joined in this catastrophe.
In the feast, there was massacre, arson, and looting everywhere. Babies were impaled on spears, women were disemboweled and humiliated, and men were either plundered as slaves or executed on the spot.
The people were shouting and running, and many fell down. Some people who were frightened and fainted ran out of the house, ran into the house, and ran out again, running around in confusion, and the whole family was shouting to each other.
Guns and bullets resounded in every corner, and the cold light of swords and guns shone in villages, settlements, and cities one after another. There was thick smoke and chaos everywhere, and the horses jumped in fright. People trampled on the injured. There were groans everywhere underground.
, these people were frightened, others fainted from fright, a woman with a broken leg was sitting against a wall, breastfeeding her baby.
The fields were burning, the city was shaking, and people were falling off the cliff. More and more dark clouds were gathering, and a storm might be coming. The humidity in the air was suddenly increasing. Li Laiheng suddenly felt that his white felt hat was a little wet, and he stretched out his hand.
Come, finally catch a drop of rain.
There was a tremor in Li Laiheng's voice. He knew that all the mistakes he made were his fault.
"I'm late... I'm late... I'm sorry, I'm late..."
Liu Fangliang patted him on the shoulder and said nothing, but gave Li Laiheng firm support with a sincere and trusting look.
After they defeated the siege camp of Ji'erharang under Shenzhou City, the entire army rushed westward without stopping for reinforcements. Both Li Laiheng and Fang Yiren had seen through Huang Taiji's plan to use troops, and everyone expected that Huang Taiji would go with the main force.
Zhending is intended to have a decisive battle with Li Zicheng to determine the ownership of the world.
No one, whether it was the Chu Chuang generals or the Zuoying soldiers under Liu Fangliang, wanted to miss such a bloody battle. And they all believed that as long as they arrived on the battlefield in time, they would be the last straw to turn things around.
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However, the intensity of the deer harvesting battle still far exceeded Li Laiheng and Liu Fangliang's imagination.
In one day, the enemy and our armies, which numbered nearly 300,000 soldiers, actually fought to determine the outcome in one day.
They could not even imagine that Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang who took the lead time and time again, would die in the encirclement of the Qing army.
After the Qing army won the battle of Huolu, they immediately began to spread a rumor with all their strength, saying that Li Zicheng broke through Emperor Chongzhen's imperial tent and strangled Emperor Chongzhen to death with a bowstring among the rebels.
Li Guo and others had never witnessed such a scene with their own eyes, and the few surviving guardsmen of the Dashun Army could all be sure that Li Zicheng had never strangled anyone with a bowstring during the war.
Such a dramatic scene most likely did not exist in Li Guo's opinion. But even the cautious Li Guo believed that Li Zicheng had indeed killed Emperor Chongzhen when he broke through the enemy's tent.
After this, the news that Huang Taiji died of illness soon spread.
In one day, in a battle, three emperors not only participated in the same battle together, but also died one after another in this battle.
This is such a bizarre thing. This is a dramatic plot that Li Laiheng could not have expected.
"...We failed miserably."
Li Laiheng's sigh contained countless regrets and grief.
After the defeat of the Shun army in the Huolu War, the news that Li Zicheng personally killed Emperor Chongzhen was widely spread by the Qing army. In many places in Shanxi, southern Hebei and Shandong, the local gentry armed forces that had been completely suppressed by the Dashun army were again
It's starting to pop up again.
Before his death, Huang Taiji sent Duo Luo Rao Yu Beile Boluo to lead a forward army to seize Tumen Pass before the defeated Dashun army and cut off the Dashun army's return to Shanxi from Jingxing Road. Then.
Within Shanxi, rebellions involving Zhongming officials and gentry killing Dashun civil and military officials also occurred in many prefectures and counties. As a result, the Shanxi defenders were restrained and found it difficult to quickly counterattack Jingxing and open up transportation links with Beizhili.
King Duduo of Yu and King Azige of England also led the main force of the Qing army. They clung to the defeated main force of the Shun army and pursued them from Huolu to the south of Ningjinbo. They gave up temporarily because of the geographical conditions of the local water and lakes.
Chase.
The remaining troops of the Shun Army were divided into two groups, one group retreated to Zhangde, passed Hongti Pass and Yuxia Pass, and restored contact with Taiyuan; the other group retreated to Daming, taking advantage of the dangerous and solid conditions of Damingfu City to try to defend.
In the fierce battle of Huolu, the Shun army suffered casualties of about 30,000 elite soldiers. In addition to the sacrifice of Emperor Yongchang Li Zicheng, the founding military advisor Song Xiance, Wuyang Bo Li You, Guo Yi general Chen De and others died in the battle. In addition,
Qin Anbo's general Zuo Guangxian had his leg cut off by a Qing cannon. Not long after he retreated to the south of Ningjinbo, he swallowed gold and committed suicide because of the pain.
In addition, due to Taoyuan Bo and the commander-in-chief Bai Guangen's defection, many Qin troops also took advantage of the Dashun army's defeat to escape. Most of them soon followed Bai Guangen and surrendered to the Qing army.
One hundred thousand strong soldiers, after capturing the deer, only half remained.
When Li Laiheng and Liu Fangliang arrived near Zhending, the battle of Huolu had already ended with the Shun army's disastrous defeat and Li Zicheng's heroic sacrifice, making the support troops useless.
After the army learned the news that Li Zicheng had died, the morale of the army plummeted. The whole army was so frustrated that it almost disintegrated on the spot. Li Laiheng personally went into each army to boost the morale of the generals, officers and soldiers one by one.
After slowly stabilizing the morale of the army, he immediately decided to lead the supporting troops into Zhending City to rest and recuperate, threatening from the flanks the main force of the Qing army that was pursuing the defeated troops of the Shun Army.
Due to the death of Huang Taiji, the Qing army center was also in a state of chaos. Dorgon was still in Shanxi at this time, and Duduo and Azig, two princes who were qualified to make decisions in the center, were chasing Li Guo, and ended up staying in Shanxi.
The tens of thousands of troops at Huolu Field actually sat back and watched as Li Laiheng and Liu Fangliang led reinforcements into Zhending City to rest and recuperate without taking any effective action.
Chu Chuang's army and horses rested in Zhending City for a night, and then gathered with the defenders to attack on the next day. Taking advantage of the Qing army's fatigue and lack of vigilance and preparedness, they launched a surprise attack and killed the Han army's Zhenghuang Banner Meile'e Zhenjinyuhe.
A smaller victory.
The Zhending counterattack tied up a large number of Qing troops, which made Prince Su Hauge, Doro Rao Yubeilebo, Tuo Yuboluo and others want to take advantage of the victory in Tumen Pass to attack Taiyuan.
Bankruptcy.
Soon after King Duduo of Yu and King Azige of England learned that the young Li thieves had arrived at Zhending, they temporarily gave up their plans to pursue the remnants of Li Guo and returned from Ningjin to the north, preparing to re-encircle Zhending and completely annihilate Li Laiheng.
and Liu Fangliang’s army.
Li Laiheng and Liu Fangliang decided to break out of the siege before the main force of the Qing army realized its intention to siege the city. Through reconnaissance, they discovered that among the Qing troops near Zhending, Wu Sangui's Guan Ning army was least likely to fight to the death, so they decided to concentrate their forces to attack the Guan Ning army first.
The Dashun Army opened the city gates and attacked the Guan Ning Army with its main force. Because Wu Sangui felt that the loss of troops in the battle of harvesting the deer was too serious, he did not actively block the Shun Army's breakthrough, but deliberately gave way to the defense line.
This allowed Li Laiheng to withdraw from Zhending calmly.
The Dashun army that broke out first returned to the Shenzhou area. After Li Laiheng gathered the Shun Army's North Zhili garrison, which totaled about 40,000 people, except for Ma Bao who was stationed in Nanpi and did not return due to the long journey, Chu Chuang and
The main garrison generals of Liu Fangliang's left camp all followed Li Laiheng to withdraw from Shenzhou toward Linqing.
The remaining Nanpi guard, Ma Bao, took the initiative to abandon the city and go south before the Qing army surrounded Nanpi. After Ma Bao heard about the large-scale rebellion in Jinan led by the officials and gentry of the old Ming Dynasty, he led thousands of Chu soldiers into the old army.
Ben Jinbing rushed to Shandong, contacted local heroic armed forces all over Shandong, and prepared for a long-term struggle against the Qing Dynasty.
In May of the first year of Yongchang in Dashun, in May of the eighth year of Chongde in the Qing Dynasty, and in May of the 16th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, from the perspective of later generations, Li Zicheng, Zhu Youjian, and Huang Taiji died one after another, which means the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty
The end of the war also meant the beginning of the war against the Qing Dynasty.
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Regarding the consideration of new book themes, I would like to hear your opinions. The themes currently under consideration include:
1. Steampunk + paleontological monsters. The background is World War I and the Victorian era. The stage is Germany, which was recently unified. The general setting is based on the American fantasy novel "Leviathan";
Second, the group travels through the Byzantine Empire in 1453, but there seems to be no precedent for a group travel novel with a foreign background, and the subject matter is relatively niche;
Third, traveling through the Southern Ming Dynasty, probably not long after Li Zicheng was killed in Jiugong Mountain, the protagonist traveled to the remaining troops of the Dashun Army and led the remaining troops of the Dashun Army to unite with the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Qing Dynasty, which is the setting of the old version of "No Survival in the Late Ming Dynasty".
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