Puff, puff, puff. After several arrows were struck, Li Weiqun also rushed to Shunjun and continued to rush like this. The risk was quite huge.
Gao Ruli crouched on his horse and asked, "Has the general heard the Manchu language?"
When Li Weiqun was asked by Gao Ruli, he immediately woke up from the excitement of charging the camp. He raised his ears and carefully distinguished various different sounds in the chaotic battlefield.
The clang of bows and arrows, the clash of metals with swords, guns, swords and halberds, the neighing of war horses, the tearing of cloth as the tents were trampled over, and the crackle of fire burning wood. A few of them were not restrained by the Qing generals.
The gunslinger fired the sound...
The chaotic sounds of battlefield killing rushed into Li Weiqun's ears. He clamped the horse's belly with his feet and finally heard the sounds he had heard in Dangshan Mountain and Baigou River.
"Are there Manchu soldiers? Did the Qing army reinforce Guanzhong with large troops?"
Gao Ruli said: "This is not necessarily true! If the Qing army really had more than 10,000 troops going south, we should have discovered it long ago. It is estimated that only a small number of Eight Banners soldiers entered Shaanxi, or maybe only Dorgon stayed in Shaanxi.
Just some Manchurian soldiers."
Li Weiqun glanced over and saw that the movements of some braided soldiers were indeed completely different from those of other Yifan soldiers. Their movements were sharper, and their counterattacks after mounting their horses were particularly fast and ruthless.
He clicked his tongue and said: "Let's charge for a while longer. If there is no chance, we will retreat to Tongguan immediately."
"What about Ma Jinzhong!"
Li Weiqun shook off his cloak, held Ma Shan across his chest and said: "You lead the troops back to Tongguan, and I will go to meet Ma Jinzhong. Let's rush!"
The organizational advantage of the Shun Army cavalry gave the Dashun Army a great advantage in the first moment of the night attack. However, the reaction speed of the Yifan soldiers was also extremely fast. Wu Sangui's deputy general Yang Kun gradually mobilized troops near his camp.
The array is a brigade.
After Song Yougonggong gathered his troops with his servants first, the other generals of Yifan also responded one after another and came with their servants. After the troops were gathered, Li Weiqun knew that there were not many fighters in the Shun army. When Wu Sangui mobilized troops from the middle camp
After arriving, the less than a thousand cavalry troops in the Dashun Military Region were more likely to be completely surrounded and annihilated by the enemy.
"rush!"
Li Weiqun rushed into the formation and took the lead in attacking several times. After burning more than ten Qing army camps, he began to change the direction of the cavalry team's attack, preparing to choose a weak point in the enemy's camp to withdraw.
But at this moment, the drums and trumpets sounded loudly in the Qing army camp, and the lights in the distant Zhongying camp also flickered brightly. Gao Ruli was familiar with the old Ming army system, and also knew what the flags and lights of the Guan Ning army meant, and he immediately said in surprise
:
"Wu Sangui has sent troops to help!"
Li Weiqun led a small group of cavalry in a circle, and several feudal servants chased them on horseback. Li Weiqun and the soldiers around him took out short-handed muskets and killed them with half-turn tactics.
Since Wu Sangui surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the most elite Mongolian Yiding cavalry in his army were forcibly taken away by Huang Taiji. Therefore, although the Yifan army gathered the last elite of the Ming army, in terms of cavalry, it was actually inferior to Guan Ning.
During the military era, there was still a slight regression.
It is precisely for this reason that after Li Weiqun's nearly a thousand cavalry attacked deep into the enemy camp at night, although they immediately encountered a tough enemy due to the quick response of the Yifan soldiers and suffered a swift counterattack, they still did not suffer many casualties.
Li Weiqun quickly counted the casualties of the troops. He estimated that the Shun army had only suffered casualties of dozens of horses. After that, he looked at the Qing army camp where the lights were gradually brightening, and sighed:
"It's a pity that our troops are still a little short, otherwise we wouldn't have missed such a good fighter opportunity as before."
Gao Ruli smiled bitterly and said: "General! How many elite cavalry can there be in Dashun's army? There are really tens of thousands of such elite cavalry, so why do we need to attack at night?"
Li Weiqun still shook his head repeatedly. The Yifan army had not repaired their barracks before, and the barracks were too wide. In fact, it was very likely that it would be difficult for the various ministries to respond to each other.
This is a particularly typical situation of an unstable foothold. If the Shun Army can invest more troops, Li Weiqun is confident that he can take advantage of Wu Sangui's unstable foothold to cause heavy damage to the Qing army.
"What a pity, we still have too few troops! An old fox like Wu Sangui will definitely spare no effort in the strength of his soldiers tomorrow, seize the time to rebuild the camp, and will not give out such loopholes and opportunities again."
The light in the Qing army camp became brighter and brighter. After the Shun army cavalry detonated all the last ten thousand enemies, they concentrated their firepower and destroyed all the remaining ammunition.
Some of the reinforcements Wu Sangui transferred from the middle camp were fighting the fire, while others joined the servants gathered by Yang Kun and Song Yougong, and began to catch up with the Shunjun brigade, preparing to launch a counterattack.
Gao Ruli smelled the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood in the air and said: "Wu Sangui is catching up, general, it's time for us to stop!"
After all, Gao Ruli's military experience was old. He was someone who had fought alongside Li Zicheng, and his grasp of fighter planes was still better than that of Li Weiqun.
After his repeated advice, Li Weiqun finally gave up the chance to fight again - don't take advantage of too much!
In a night attack, you must not be reluctant to fight.
The knights of the Shun Army took advantage of the situation to withdraw from the enemy camp and retreated in three groups. The soldiers of the Yifan vassal were pursued by more than a thousand cavalry mobilized by Yang Kun and Song Yougong first. However, when they were halfway through, Yang Kun saw that the Shun Army had no intention of fighting.
, he waved his hand and ordered all the troops to give up the pursuit and retreat directly to the camp to rest.
The Yifan Army is indeed the last elite collection of the Ming Army, and its boldness and fierceness are not much worse than the Eight Banners Army.
At this time, the Qing army's front camp was in ruins, and it was estimated that two-thirds of the tents had been burned and trampled by the Shun army cavalry. Wu Sangui woke up very early, but he was very cautious, so he did not immediately organize a counterattack, but went ahead to
The concentration of troops in the middle camp is also to prevent the enemy from reinforcing other troops.
Under Wu Sangui's confidants, Wu Guogui, the commander of Yifan's Left Banner, came with a group of armored cavalry to protect him. Wu Guogui usually looked vigorous and vigorous, but at this time, he had bags under his eyes, was low in energy, and looked a little depressed.
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After he dismounted, he said to Wu Sangui: "Your Highness, the bandit knights are really powerful! When the bandits robbed the camp, I immediately led dozens of servants to the front camp to rescue General Yang. Unexpectedly, I met a group of bandits.
, the enemy and we both had dozens of cavalry, and after a battle on a narrow road, the bandits were eager to retreat and did not continue to attack and kill, but our army still lost more than ten cavalry."
Wu Sangui had already suffered losses at the hands of Li Laiheng and Liu Fangliang on the Baigou River, and knew that the bandits were powerful and should not be insulted lightly. However, the victory of Wulu in the battle against the Qing army made Wu Sangui feel that the fighting strength of the bandits was uneven, so he might have a chance.
What Wu Guogui said made Wu Sangui immediately narrow his eyes:
"It looks like this is an elite army! Has Li Laiheng arrived at Tongguan?"
Wu Guogui said cautiously: "If Li Laiheng arrives at Tongguan, maybe we should not be the vanguard for the King of Yu. The terrain of Tongguan is inherently dangerous, and with a famous general like Li Laiheng and the elite troops of Huguang under his command, I am worried that the Yifan army will be extremely powerful."
Big loss."
Ever since Wu Sangui suffered a loss from Li Laiheng in the Baigouhe battle, he had paid special attention to collecting information about the Chu Chuang army, especially Chu Chuang. After this period of intelligence collection, Wu Sangui had a better understanding of the overall strength of the Chuang army than other Qing troops.
People are more aware.
He knew that Li Laiheng was the most powerful among the Chuang army. When he thought that Li Laiheng might have arrived near Tongguan with the main force, he became even more unwilling to sacrifice his life for Duduo.
Wu Sangui said slowly:
"Although Duduo is the brother of the regent, his relationship with Hauge is unclear. This time the regent sent him to Shaanxi, not to make Duduo meritorious, but to transfer him away from the capital.
Don't worry, Duduo has no backing and the regent will not help him, so we don't need to be afraid of him.
This time Duduo only brought a few thousand bannermen, although he said that troops would be transferred from northern Shaanxi and Datong in the future. But these Eight Banners soldiers and ours totaled only tens of thousands of troops, so how could they possibly capture Tongguan?
Unless the regent personally comes to Chang'an to supervise the war, no matter which prince comes here to supervise the army, we cannot be driven by him to die in front of Tongguan and Li Laiheng!"