Chapter 464 Capture Hauge Alive, Destroy the Puppet Qing Dynasty
Chapter 464: Capture Haug alive and destroy the pseudo-Qing Dynasty
Author: East Zhejiang Pifu
Chapter 464: Capture Haug alive and destroy the pseudo-Qing Dynasty
"Kill! The Tatar pseudo-emperor Hauge is right there! Brothers, let's join forces with General Zhu to defeat the thief!"
"Prince E has an order. Whoever captures Hauge alive will be made a duke; whoever kills him will be made a marquis! He will be rewarded with one hundred thousand taels of gold! One hundred thousand pieces of brocade!"
As the Dongjiang Town Ming army led by Li Yu arrived on the battlefield, the situation of the battle became increasingly tilted towards the Ming side.
The 12,000-strong Korean Ming Army and the 8,000 Han Ming Army formed a powerful force with a high proportion of cavalry and a large number of muskets.
Li Yu spent several years in Dongjiang Town, summarizing his experience in sniping Azig, and further developed the dragoon's tactics, forming his own unique tactics.
In the past few years, he set out from Korean Pi Island and Yiju Zhangzi Island to repeatedly harass the Qing army's coastal areas and along the Yalu River. The harassment was weakened and the effect was outstanding. Various sneak attacks made the Qing army exhausted, and now it was finally time to launch a general offensive.
Harvest time.
If Zhu Wenzhen's Ming army mainly consisted of four thousand pistol cuirassiers and twenty thousand Mongolian servants, the dragoons only numbered a few hundred.
So in Li Yu's army, there were almost no cavalry archers, and there were no more pistol cavalry than Zhu Wenzhen, but the proportion of dragoons using "mounted rifles" was extremely high.
Originally, the Ming army rarely used dragoons on a large scale. Even if they did, they mostly used rifled sniper rifles to snipe enemy generals from a long distance.
And Li Yu can be regarded as a combination of the characteristics of the North Korean Ming Army - North Korea's military resources and hand-to-hand combat capabilities are really unsightly. Organizing a killer team is basically free. Among the traditional arms, only the gun team is available.
Therefore, it is a delusion to expect the cavalry from North Korea to dare to charge into hand-to-hand combat with the Tatars. They will definitely collapse upon contact. It is really too cowardly.
Li Yu could only exploit his strengths and avoid weaknesses, and equip a large number of cavalry with muskets, such as Ming-made muskets, and preferably some old-fashioned Wuchang-made muskets. When facing a battle with a large cavalry force, he could only dismount and walk before engaging the enemy, pretending to be
Preparing the bomb array.
However, there is no distinction between high and low tactics, as long as they are easy to use. In the grand formation of lining up to kill, as long as you can force the enemy to confront you head-on and hit the hedgehog formation, that's your skill.
Li Yu's soldiers stopped lining up when they were two to three hundred paces away from the enemy, and then faced the Qing army from a distance. The Qing army's rear team became increasingly chaotic, with increasing casualties, and they had to send more and more troops.
The soldiers counterattacked Li Yu's formation.
Li Yu, however, had no tactics at all. He just continued to stand and line up to shoot. It was not until some formations were broken up by the enemy that he gathered his cavalry reserves with an overwhelming advantage to block the mouths and strangled them with the Qing army.
He used the cavalry like this, so conservatively. He had no intention of using it as an aggressive force to outflank, penetrate and cut the enemy, or make sneak attacks on the flanks.
Purely as a defensive reserve team, a defensive reserve team with strong mobility and timely replacement, it can be regarded as a strange scene in the history of East Asian wars.
But no matter what, no matter how bizarre the tactic is, if it can help friendly forces lead to final victory under a specific environment and situation, then it is a good tactic.
What the Ming army wanted in this battle was not to defeat Haug, not to repel Haug, but to annihilate as many Haugs as possible, and to annihilate an enemy mainly composed of cavalry. This kind of consumption and delay can exactly play its due role
function.
The bloodshed and consumption of both sides continued, and the Ming army had gained an absolute advantage in terms of exchange ratio. Every casualty of the Ming army soldiers could take away at least two, three, and even more casualties of the enemy soldiers.
Even if Huang Degong and Li Fuming didn't rush to the battlefield, if they continue to consume at this rate, as long as Zhu Wenzhen and Li Yu don't collapse or get broken out, they can consume all Hauge on their own.
Time passed by minute by second, and it was more than an hour of bloody battle. The Qing army was completely exhausted. Thousands of Qing soldiers and Han soldiers who were trapped began to collapse and surrender in organized form.
At this moment in the battle, as the sky was getting dark, the Ming army's final blow finally arrived.
Huang Degong's troops were disjointed from front to back and almost formed a long snake formation, but they still rushed to the frontal decisive battle battlefield at all costs.
Originally, Huang Degong's troops were supposed to be the strongest among the four Ming armies. They had 30,000 cuirassiers. Not only were they large in number, they were also extremely well-equipped.
However, because he had received Zhu Wenzhen's warning in advance and needed to rush to the battlefield quickly, Huang Degong had to adjust the horse configuration and try to equip some troops with one man and two horses in order to catch up with the decisive battle.
So in the end, what he brought to the battlefield in time was only 15,000 cavalry. The other 15,000 people, because they gave up their horses to their comrades, became relatively slow-moving infantry, and they might have to walk for another two or three days.
Only then can we rush to the battlefield, and according to the current progress, the decisive battle will definitely be over by then.
Those soldiers who give up their horses are destined to miss the glory and meritorious service opportunities in the final battle against the Tatars, but life is like this, and many things are destined to be missed.
However, even if only 15,000 elite troops arrived on the scene, it would be enough to cause Hauge's final collapse.
These are 15,000 elite cavalrymen wearing forged steel breastplates, each holding a pistol or a double-barreled breech gun, and each is equipped with a straight-edged sharp saber made of fine steel, or it can also be called
Single-edged thick-backed cavalry sword.
When such a force appeared on the horizon, the morale of the Haug army dropped completely to the bottom.
The Qing and Han soldiers who were still hesitating all trembled and were in panic all day long. When Huang Degong finally charged in front of him, scores of Qing and Han soldiers knelt down and surrendered, or immediately shouted defections to lead the way and help.
Turn around and kill the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers in the Qing army.
The Mongolian soldiers in the Qing army, after fighting with the Ming Ming Mongolian servants on Zhu Wenzhen's side for most of the day, were in a state of collapse at this moment, and they all laid down their weapons and knelt down to surrender.
In the end, only a few thousand core Manchu cavalry were left, surrounding Haug and resisting. Or they ignored the surging Songhua River and directly tried to force their horses to swim down the river.
However, how can one swim in the turbulent Songhua River with such a reckless technique? Unless one is lucky enough to hold a big tree and enter the water, or find other floating objects to float, there is a high probability that one will die.
Emperor Hauge of the Qing Dynasty personally drew his sword and slashed and killed, to the point where the emperor himself went into battle. Thanks to Hauge's good martial arts, he was barely a strong general, and his weapons and armor were also the most sophisticated.
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For the sake of the heavy rewards, the Ming cavalry wanted to capture them alive in exchange for more rewards. Unexpectedly, some of the soldiers were not good at martial arts, and Haug killed several of them in succession.
But as the number of personal guards around Hauge became smaller and smaller, it was really impossible for this insignificant personal martial arts to cause trouble.
Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen's cavalry rushed close by, cutting and cutting back and forth. If they got impatient, they simply asked the pistol team to use shotguns to fire in circles at the crowd.
When the battle reached this point, the Ming generals basically figured it out: Even Obai was wearing several layers of heavy armor, and Hauge, as a pseudo-emperor, was marching in person, so how could he have poor protection? So as long as you keep a distance when using pistols and shotguns, it is
If you can't kill Hauge, it won't affect your capture alive!
On the contrary, we can use this opportunity to consume all the guards around Hauge!
Things did not go as expected by the Ming army generals. Seeing that the Ming army cavalry rushed into his face, they were only twenty or thirty steps away from each other, and they blasted the emperor with shotguns. Many loyal Qing army Zhenghuang Banner guards went crazy.
They rushed forward and used their bodies to cover Hauge, but they were all shot to death by shotguns. Those who came to block the gun were killed.
After half a cup of tea, the guards around Hauge were almost dead or injured.
Although Hauge himself was not penetrated by the shotgun, the elbows of the arm armor, as well as the palms of his hands and other parts were cut by several shrapnel due to gaps and loopholes in the armor that were not well covered.
Hauge's elbows and palms were constantly leaking blood, and the meridians in his arms were cut to an unknown extent by the shrapnel, and he was no longer able to resist with his sword.
Huang Degong then leaped forward to grab the head with his gun drawn. He directly raised a gun barrel with the tip of the gun broken off, and stabbed Hauge in the ribs, causing a "spark" sound to be heard on the goggles.
Hauge vomited out a mouthful of dirty blood and had several of his ribs broken. He fell from his horse and became exhausted, but was captured alive by Huang Degong.
"Congratulations to General Huang for capturing the puppet emperor alive! Prince E must be true to his word, and I would like to ask your Majesty to make you the duke of the country!" The general next to him hurriedly stepped forward to congratulate you.
Huang Degong was also very satisfied. He felt like he was floating, his blood pressure was jumping up and down, and he felt so happy inside.
Capturing the false emperor directly on the battlefield! This cannot be as famous in history as Wei Huo, Dou Xian and Li Jing.
"Hurry! Tie this guy up! Then send someone to Pegasus back to Beijing to report the victory to the prince!" Huang Degong excitedly grabbed his thick beard like a steel needle and shouted sharply.
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After Hauge was captured, the battle basically came to an end. In the end, thousands of scattered soldiers either surrendered directly or threw themselves into the Songhua River in an attempt to escape by drifting.
Hundreds of feet of the Songhua River were temporarily stained red by blood, but the blood quickly dispersed due to the huge flow of the river.
The last 50,000 troops of the three tribes assembled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty were completely wiped out. About 15,000 people were killed in the battle, and countless others were seriously injured and fell into the river, with no bones left.
After surrendering, about 20,000 people were captured, and the total number of people who escaped was only a few thousand.
In the next few days, various Ming armies continued to chase the enemy northward, expanding their results, occupying various counties and towns, and eliminating civilian resistance.
Among them, the three cities of Jilin, Ningguta, and Songyuan were attacked for one to three days respectively before they were captured. Of course, the Ming army would not be polite to those who dared to resist despite the fact that the emperor was gone, even if the resistance was full.
People are just strong men and common people, but since they take up arms, they are enemies. After the city is broken, looting and liquidation are allowed to be allowed to go free.
Because of the vast area of the Songnen Plain, even if the enemy emperor was destroyed, the work of taking over the remaining territory continued for more than a month and a half, and was not completed until early October.
The coldness in the hinterland of the Songnen Plain is far worse than that of the Liaodong Peninsula. In winter, it can basically be ten degrees colder, so it is already freezing below zero in the tenth month of the lunar calendar.
The Ming army raced ahead and harvested all the crops left over by the Qing Dynasty this year and put them into storage, which was used as rations for the occupying army and there was still an extra surplus.
The Qing Dynasty planted the fields for this year for the rare Dabai. In the end, they were unable to eat the new rice and the new wheat matured, so they directly married people. This can be regarded as a good cycle of heaven.
On the other hand, the day after Hauge himself was captured, Huang Degong sent a messenger and quickly returned to Beijing to report the news (it was already night on the day of capture, and the troops were marching in a hurry and could no longer travel at night, so they urgently needed rest)
Considering that the grassland has not yet been completely cleared, and there may still be small groups of hostile stragglers, Huang Degong cannot let the messenger deliver the message alone, otherwise he will be in trouble if he encounters the remaining enemies and is intercepted and killed.
So finally a team of 100 cuirassiers was sent, with one man and three horses, traveling more than 200 miles a day, slowly returning south to deliver the message. They set out on August 16th and walked for nine days, covering a distance of 2,000 miles. Finally, in August
Send the news on the twenty-fifth.
As for Hauge himself being escorted back to Beijing, the journey was even slower. He could only travel a hundred miles a day at most, and he had to be under strict security. It was almost mid-September when he arrived.
Zhu Shuren was in Beijing and learned that Hauge was finally captured and that Jilin, Ningguta, Songyuan and other places had also been conquered. Although he had expected it, he was still overjoyed at this moment.
He also wrote a memorial overnight and sent it to Nanjing together with the good news to commend Huang Degong and other generals for their meritorious service.
It was much faster to deliver the letter within the customs. It was expedited six hundred miles directly. On August 30, the Nanjing court received the good news.
At this time, it was less than a month away from the Longevity Festival for the 50th birthday of Emperor Longwu Zhu Changzi. Naturally, the city of Nanjing was inevitably decorated with lights and festoons again, and the whole city set off fireworks and salutes wildly outside the city to celebrate - the reason why they chose to do so outside the city was also because of Zhu Shuren
The main reason for the reminder is that if the city of Nanjing is opened up, fires will continue to occur.
Therefore, we went directly to the Qinhuai River estuary outside the city, beside the Yangtze River, and chose to set off in a neighborhood with the most prosperous entertainment industry.
At the same time, in order to make going out of the city to watch the ceremony seem necessary and worthwhile, several firearms research institutes in Nanjing have also made a large number of colorful fireworks bombs of various metal salts based on the newly developed detailed principles of flame color reaction to ensure that they cover as many areas as possible
The flame color was then made into fireworks and artillery shells fired into the sky using heavy siege mortars to demonstrate the power of the Ming Dynasty.
"Bang, bang, bang—" the loud noise of salutes could be heard outside Nanjing, and they stayed up all night.
With a wave of his hand, Zhu Changzi ordered three nights of salutes and fireworks to be set off outside the city of Nanjing. The first night was at the mouth of the Qinhuai River, the second night was at the Jiangfang Fortress Shogunate Mountain, and the last day was at the foot of Zijin Mountain, near the Imperial Ancestral Temple and Xiaoling Guard, which could be regarded as a gift to the ancestors.
Annunciation.
"Emperor Taizu! All our ancestors are supreme! Your descendant Zhu Changzi will honor your ancestors! Beiyuan, which Emperor Taizu didn't capture, has been destroyed! The Meng and Yuan tribes were called pseudo-khan tribes, and they all surrendered to the Ming Dynasty!
The puppet Tatars of the Qing Dynasty were annihilated by our Ming Dynasty! Our soldiers of the Ming Dynasty used cavalry to capture the Tatar puppet emperor in a decisive battle on the fertile fields outside the Northeast Pass! The Ming Dynasty suffered humiliation for fifty years, and the south wind swept away Hu Chenjing, marching north to Yanjing to the Japanese side
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On the night of the cannon salute, Zhu Changzi personally went to the Imperial Ancestral Temple to burn incense, and then went to Xiaoling Guard to burn incense. The grandeur of the scene was more than ten times better than that in "The Picture of Leaving the Police and Entering the Foot".
But in the civil and military affairs of the court, no one criticized Zhu Changzi for his extravagant ostentation. Everyone in the world felt that this was money that should be spent.
This is the destruction of the Qing Dynasty! Even if you fire a 10,000-gun salute, you deserve it!
In contrast, Zhu Shuren in Beijing has been keeping a low profile recently. He handled the northern acceptance work in Beijing and instigated the aftermath, and stayed there until the ninth day of September, when Hauge was sent to Beijing.
Then Zhu Shucai personally led the troops south and escorted the prisoners back to Nanjing to present them. His mission in Beijing was almost over. The subsequent work in the north can be handed over to Zhang Huangyan in the "revolving door" to help stabilize the governance for a few years, and then continue
Then it can be handed over to other governors of Northern Zhili.
Zhu Shuren set out from Beijing on the tenth day of September and led his army to march slowly for more than twenty days. On the sixth day of October, he finally crossed the Yangtze River and arrived in Nanjing.
Hauge and a group of the last Manchu princes and nobles were all tied up in a prison cart and used as prisoners.
When Fulin was captured before, he couldn't torture them all because he needed to appease and persuade them to surrender and break up the wavering faction among the enemy.
But this time Hauge was caught, and there was no enemy left to divide and disintegrate. He himself was the last stubborn thief and culprit.
Of course, you need to accept an upright and fair trial by the Ming Dynasty Criminal Department and other three judicial departments.
Even Emperor Zhu Changzi would send representatives from the Supervisor of Ceremonies to observe.