The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 694 Killing the Whole Army

In the August of the year before last, Xu Fu moved the general of Ji Town, and after taking office, he trained a total of [-] elite soldiers, of which [-] were veterans given to him by Ding Yi, and he drew another [-] from the original soldiers of Ji Town. The elite, with one belt and two, finally trained nine thousand elite soldiers.

At that time, the [-] elite soldiers were divided into three battalions. He himself led one battalion to guard the Santun camp (the headquarters of the general army of Ji Town), Wu Shuifu led three thousand to guard Leting, and He Daping led three thousand to guard Yongping.

This time he dispatched troops according to the order, he drew two thousand from each of the three battalions, gathered six thousand soldiers and horses, five hundred sentinel cavalry and a small number of personal soldiers, and Wu Shuifu led the troops to guard Ji Town.

He and He Daping came out.

Wu Shuifu and He Daping are both Ding Yi's subordinates, one is from Xu Dabao and the other is from Dongjiang Town.

He Daping's expression was quite bad when he heard that he was going to break out and escape and let them die behind him.

Since following Hong Chengchou's soldiers and horses out of customs, their soldiers and horses have never fought a single battle.

The first time he encountered Qing soldiers near Rufeng Mountain, Wu Sangui sent by Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui won the first battle, Hong Chengchou praised him greatly, and asked the court for credit.

The second time he fought against the Qing soldiers, Hong Chengchou sent Yang Guodong first, but Yang was shot to death, and then he sent Li Fuming to follow up, and the Qing soldiers were defeated again.

Xu Fuzuo's soldiers and horses were all watching the two battles, and he and He Daping kept discussing.

The Qing army was defeated in the first battle because they underestimated the enemy. They had never won every battle against the Ming army before, so they did not expect to be caught off guard by Wu Sangui.

In the second battle, Dorgon's command was completely wrong. More than 3000 guns of the Ming army were mounted there. The Qing soldiers won first and killed Yang Guodong. The ghosts who were beaten by the cannon cried and howled, turned around and fled.

At that time, Xu Fuzuo reminded that if you take advantage of the victory and pursue it, you will surely win a big victory and break the siege of Jinzhou.

Xu Fuzuo said this after seeing the situation on the battlefield, and regretted it after he finished speaking, because he didn't want the Ming army to win so easily.

But Hong Chengchou and other famous generals shook their heads one after another, fearing that they would fall into the trap, they still wanted to fight steadily.

Some people say that there are too few cavalry in their own country, which is not conducive to hunting, so don't worry.

As a result, Dorgon moved his position, retreated and hoarded the camp sixty miles away, and soon brought Huang Taiji with all the soldiers and horses.

At this time, Hong Chengchou had lost his first chance to defeat the Qing soldiers, but if Zu Dashou took the opportunity to break out of the encirclement and join forces with Hong Chengchou inside and outside, he still had a chance.

But Zu Dashou was attacked by Qierhalang for a while before, lost the outer city, lost a lot of food and grass, and dared not come out.

This is the second time that the Ming army lost its chance to defeat the Qing army.

When the Qing soldiers and Hongyi cannons arrived and the Ming army lost the artillery battle, they immediately began to consider breaking out.

He Daping found Xu Fuzou at the first time: "Mr. Xu, this Ming army is really useless. It seems that we have to leave."

Xu Fuzuo smiled wryly when he heard the words, He Daping had already called the Ming army directly, and did not regard himself as the Ming army at all.

He was not in a hurry, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly asked: "If Zongbing Ding is to command, is there still a chance for a comeback?"

He Daping was stunned for a moment, then sneered: "Why do you need Sir Ding?"

"The Ming army has more than 3000 cannons. As long as everyone is not afraid of death and pushes the cannon forward, the Qing army's Hongyi cannons are large and heavy, and it is difficult to move. They are bound to be defeated."

"They only have dozens of cannons, how many can they fire? Let him fire each of them ten times, and he must take a break, right? How many cannons can the Ming army be destroyed by firing ten times?"

The more He Daping talked, the more angry he became: "Everyone is greedy for life and afraid of death. Before the shells come, they just hide in Tibet. How can they fight?"

Ding Yi had fought against Oboi before in this kind of artillery battle disadvantage.

At that time, Ding Yi had dozens of cannons, and Oboi had ten, which was many times different from the number of cannons of the Ming and Qing soldiers now.

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses faced the dead and wounded, and the artillery bombarded them, pushing the cannons forward and closing the distance.

Finally, Oboi's artillery was killed.

Now the Ming army has more than 3000 cannons, and they were beaten by 26 cannons from the opponent.

As long as you are well-trained, brave and not afraid of death, and push forward for a while, so many cannons can kill all the Qing soldiers.

Xu Fuzuo was noncommittal when he heard the words, and thought to himself, if the Ming army was really so brave and fearless, it would make Ding Yi develop to this point.

"Hong Chengchou asked to break through at night. In my opinion, someone will run before night." Xu Fuzuo knew the virtue of the Ming army, and someone would definitely run first.

"Then what are we waiting for, I'll gather the troops and prepare." He Daping said.

"En." Xu Fuzuo hurried back to the camp.

The two returned to their own camp, assembled troops, and prepared supplies. It was about six o'clock in the later life, and it was still dark. Just when they were ready, they suddenly heard a commotion in the distance, and then there was a faint cry of killing.

Afterwards, the two people found out that there really was the commander-in-chief, Wang Pu, who ran away before the time was up. The Ming camp immediately bombed the camp, and all walks of life rushed to flee. The scene was extremely chaotic, and the infantry and cavalry were trampling on each other. Abandoned bows and arrows and armor and artillery can be seen everywhere. "Every commander competes to gallop, and horses trample on each other."

This Wang Pu is also the famous Wang Pao ran away. When Lu Xiangsheng led the troops to fight the Qing soldiers, he followed Lu Xiangsheng halfway, thinking about the danger, he couldn't go, turned around and ran away.

This time too, before it got dark, he was the first to sneak away, and the Ming army camp immediately collapsed.

Huang Taiji saw it, of course he was not polite, and immediately swung his army in, blocking and chasing.

The Ming army collapsed in all directions, almost half of the three thousand artillery pieces were lost, and everyone scrambled for their lives.

It can be said that Wang Pu used his own strength to turn the Songjin battle of the Ming army into a major defeat and killed the entire army.

Seeing that something was wrong, Hong Chengchou first organized his troops to rush out, but without success, he had to retreat to Songshan City.

When he was retreating, he only thought of Xu Fuzuo. At this time, he was riding on a horse and at a high place, and suddenly found that more than ten thousand Ming troops were in a mess around him. There was only one soldier and horse, and there was no movement at all. They were gathering and pulling carts in an orderly manner. .

It is Xu Fu's Zou Department, the commander-in-chief of Ji Town.

"Come on, hurry up and send an order to ask General Xu's military department to follow me back to Songshan." Hong Chengchou saw this and quickly pulled in this wave of strong troops.

Unexpectedly, the order came back soon: "Mr. Xu said that they are going to fight from the south. If we are willing to follow, they will wait for us for a quarter of an hour."

At this time, there were several generals beside Hong Chengchou, including Cao Bianjiao, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Association, Wang Tingchen, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and Zu Dale.

When everyone heard the words, many people scolded Xu Fuzuo for not obeying the command, only Cao Bianjiao's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly said: "Minister, Xu Fuzuo's subordinates are from Dongjiang Town, they are all brave and good at fighting, why don't you follow them and break out of the siege? "

When the Qing soldiers entered the pass, he and his uncle Cao Wenzhao fought the Qing soldiers with Wang Weizhong. At first he looked down on Wang Weizhong, but Wang Weizhong's soldiers were elite and he used chariots to add blunderbuss. The Qing soldiers fled in embarrassment. Cao Bianjiao has since recorded The soldiers and horses of Dongjiang Town.

He certainly didn't expect that it was this decision that saved his life. In the original history, he and Hong Chengchou retreated to Songshan, and were finally killed in Qing Dynasty.

As expected, Hong Chengchou didn't listen to him, and he certainly didn't want to take risks. Now that most of the Ming army collapsed and fled in all directions, they had fewer and fewer soldiers and horses. If they ran out and were caught up by Qingqi, they would surely die.

"Let's go, go back to Songshan first." Hong Chengchou saw that the shouts of killing were getting closer and closer, fearing that the Qing soldiers would kill him, he decided to retreat to Songshan.

The rest of the generals led their troops to follow.

Cao Bianjiao's expression changed a few times, he looked up and saw Xu Fuzuo's soldiers and horses in order in the distance, and finally decided: "Let's go, join Xu Zongbing." Immediately he took his own troops and horses to chase Xu Fuzuo.

Hong Chengchou and others shook their heads when they saw Cao Bianjiao leading his troops away from them.

"Wen Zhao is a brave man, but this nephew is disappointing." Hong Chengchou was very angry when he saw Cao Bianjiao leaving without authorization.

"Although Xu Fuzuo's soldiers and horses are well-organized, when the Qing soldiers' cannons are fired and the soldiers and horses press close, they will collapse within a quarter of an hour." Wang Tingchen sneered.

All the generals nodded.

At the moment, they didn't care about Cao Bianjiao, and hurriedly withdrew into Songshan City. In the end, about 8000 people followed Hong Chengchou into the city.

At this time, Xu Fu played the big camp.

Xu Fuzuo was already riding on the horse. At a glance, more than [-] people from the whole army were also riding on the horse.

This time they came with more than 6000 soldiers and horses (2000 were the main army, and [-] were sentry cavalry and other soldiers), of which more than [-] rode on horseback, and the other [-] usually walked, but they brought [-] horse-drawn carts.

6000 horses pulled [-] carts and part of the luggage. Among the [-] men in the army, none of them carried guns.

But not long ago, Xu Fuzuo gave an order, and the generals opened the box one after another, and took out the Lumi blunderbuss.

In the blink of an eye, there were already four thousand gun soldiers equipped.

They quickly discarded the [-] empty chariots, and then [-] spear shields rode in front, and [-] spear shields pushed the remaining [-] chariots into formation, and the gunmen entered the formation.

When they were ready to leave, Cao Bianjiao chased them with his troops.

"General Cao."

"Mr. Xu, I'm ashamed. We want to follow you." Cao Bianjiao also said bluntly.

"How many soldiers and horses do you have?" Xu Fuzuo looked back.

"It's about three thousand now." Cao Bianjiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Cao Bianjiao brought 9000 people out of the pass, but today the Ming army bombed the camp, and many soldiers and horses fled in all directions. Now Cao Bianjiao only brought out about 3000 people. Of course, there are a thousand family members among them, which is still relatively elite.

Fortunately, his three thousand soldiers, each with a horse, have a certain ability to act.

He Daping shouted at this moment: "With more soldiers and horses, our [-] carts will not be enough. Let Cao Zongbing's soldiers and horses come down and help us push the [-] carts that were discarded."

Xu Fuzuo immediately said: "General Cao, I have wronged you. We must cooperate sincerely to survive."

"Exactly."

Cao Bianjiao didn't dare to have any objections, so he quickly ordered people to dismount, and with two horses and one cart, he pulled up the two hundred carts left behind by Xu Fuzuo.

After the four hundred chariots lined up in this way, the space between them was huge enough, and Cao's soldiers and horses entered the chariot formation one after another.

After Cao Bianjiao entered the battle, he suddenly found that many of Xu Fuzuo's soldiers and horses were carrying guns. Before when they marched together, they had never seen a gun in their soldiers and horses.

Looking at the empty two hundred carts, he suddenly seemed to understand something.

Ni Niang's, it is as insidious as Ding Yi's soldiers and horses, Cao Bianjiao screamed in his heart, but he became more confident in escaping.

At this time Xu Fuzou already knew that Hong Chengchou would not come, so he waved his hand without hesitation: "Go. Go north."

They originally planned to go south, but found that too many Ming army troops fled south, and a large number of them went east. The east is the sea, and it is the road to death.

He decided to go north first, and then go south after breaking through the Qing soldiers.

(End of this chapter)