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Chapter 364

The bloody fierce battle gradually came to an end with the collapse of the Qing army. Zhu Wenzhen's [-] Ming army cavalry were so red-eyed that they couldn't hold back their horses for a while, and chased them for about a dozen miles before gradually waking up.

And the disadvantage of "wearing less iron armor" that caused the Qing army's cavalry to underestimate the enemy before became an advantage as they turned to flee—

When fleeing for their lives, they had to throw away their helmets and take off their armor to escape quickly. Many of them did not wear iron-coated cotton armor when they came today, and their horsepower was well preserved. After the bloody battle, they pulled away quickly, carrying Ming army horses with heavy cavalry I can't catch up.

Moreover, the Qing army very unscrupulously left a group of former Ming army traitors and surrendered general Zuo Guangxian. These people ran slowly and were trampled and collapsed by Zhu Wenzhen.

When Wadaq was just killed, Zhu Wenzhen didn't know the identity of the other party, but only looked at his armor and horse, and he was probably a senior officer.As for the faces, they were all bloody and mutilated by the shotgun shells, and it was impossible to recognize them at all.

As the Qing army ran wildly to widen the distance, Zhu Wenzhen also had the opportunity to calm down and carefully examine the battlefield, and the line of fire found a few Qing army officers who had just been captured alive, and directly whipped a bunch of horsewhips to torture them, and then forced him to find out the identity of the enemy general. Killed a right-mailer Ezhen by himself.

made money!

At the time of Chongzhen, if the deputy general of the Ming army could kill Jiala and wipe out his troops, he basically had a chance to be promoted to the general officer.Today, he actually directly killed Merle Erzhen, and he was half a level higher. It's a pity that the governor just got promoted before he left, and he has no official position to be promoted for the time being.

The old boss, General Cao, knew about his contribution, so he would probably look at him with admiration.

In addition to being overjoyed and excited, Zhu Wenzhen didn't drift, and quickly calmed down, and quickly ordered the troops to regroup and rest their horsepower, and then prepared to retreat slowly.

"Collect the horses left behind by the Tartars! Don't take the knives and guns, at most pick the best ones, and change the horses if you can change the horses to ride, and let them retreat slowly with good horsepower!

Wadaq dared to encircle from the west of Yu County, it must be the Tartars and another group of troops, outflanking from the east of Yu County!We ran into this group of enemy troops just now, but there was a time difference. If this group of Tartars can't join up with the friendly army, other Tartars will definitely come to search!Always be ready to fight again!All firearms are reloaded!check carefully! "

After about a few cups of tea, the remaining cavalry of the Ming army regrouped under the restraint of Zhu Wenzhen.Compared with before the war, the number of war horses has not decreased but increased. Excluding the wounded, there will be hundreds more horses, but the number of soldiers has decreased a lot.

I have to say that the combat effectiveness of the Qing cavalry is still acceptable. Even if they underestimated the enemy and kicked them on the iron plate, they still caused hundreds of casualties to the Ming cavalry.

Fortunately, the Ming army won after all, so they got the chance to clean up the battlefield. Zhu Wenzhen could search carefully, and asked the soldiers to take away the double-barreled rear-loading nozzles and revolvers left by Pao Ze, who died in the battle, so as to avoid Captured by the enemy,
Try to keep the detailed structure and test data of these two weapons secret from the Tartars for a year or so, at least not let the Tartars know the Ming army's weapon data during this round of southward invasion.

In fact, the high-level generals under Zhu Shuren also knew that when tens of thousands of people fought in a large-scale melee, it was impossible to keep weapons secret for a long time, and there would definitely be lost and seized weapons.

Even if the enemy does not have the industrial strength to imitate, at least they can take it back for testing, thoroughly understand its technical characteristics, and strive to maximize its strengths and avoid its weaknesses at the application level.What the generals of Zhu's army can do is to delay this process, fight as many asymmetric wars as possible, and gradually weaken and reverse the strength of the enemy and ourselves.

The soldiers under his command also knew the seriousness, strictly carried out the order, and then retreated slowly in an orderly manner, taking precautions along the way.

However, what was supposed to come was still coming. Not more than half an hour after they retreated, they were still discovered by another cavalry of the Qing army who had searched from the other side of Yu County.

Zhu Wenzhen put on a posture of showing weakness after a bloody battle, and walked slowly, which indeed attracted the enemy to charge wildly with screams.At this point, Zhu Wenzhen also knew that it was impossible to get away, so he ordered to turn around and form a formation in advance.Fortunately, there was some time between the two battles. The soldiers all ate dried meat and drank water, rested and recovered a lot of physical strength, and could fight again.

And although everyone's physical condition was not as good as in the morning, their morale was very high and their spirits were high.

The soldiers all listened to Zhu Wenzhen's propaganda, and knew that most of the cavalry of the Qing army along the way were the same as those they encountered in the morning.As a result, in the morning's battle, the Ming army had to fight to get their confidence soaring, but in the current battle, the morale was already bursting before the fight started.

Of course, bursting morale in advance also has the disadvantage of bursting morale in advance, that is, it cannot last.Zhu Wenzhen knew the truth of going all out, then failing and exhausting, so he directly let his subordinates go up.

Everything after that was really like reenacting the battle in the morning, and it was even better—the cavalry of the Qing army had actually arrived at the rendezvous point behind the enemy's rear that had been discussed with Waddake an hour ago. I didn't see Wadaq coming to join us for a long time, so I went further and searched further.

And this kind of search mission beyond the plan will inevitably lead to the exhaustion of the infantry and the loss of the rear army.So the one who rushed to the battlefield at the first time was an army of Jiala size, without even the servants of the Han army and Mongolian cavalry, and the total strength was 2000 people.

They even had fewer people than Zhu Wenzhen, and they advanced aggressively, fighting against heavy armor with light armor. This was the first time they encountered an army of horse-armed guns in actual combat. With multiple superpositions, it was natural that a wave of hundreds of people was captured and more wounded soldiers Dragging his body and fleeing in embarrassment, more than 400 horses were seized.

The most ingenious thing is that in order to cover the evacuation of the wounded at the beginning, Zhu Wenzhen divided the troops into two groups, letting the wounded go first with the extra horses, and the elite soldiers with intact combat power cut off.

This move was nothing at all, but when the rear troops were engaged in fierce battles, the guerrilla who was in charge of escorting the wounded in front of the team had a flash of inspiration. He wanted to help the battle, so he asked his number one hundred and ten men to join the battle. Behind the horse's buttocks were dragged broken military supplies, rolled up Zhengchen, and pretended that a large army came back for reinforcements, and at the same time, they also raised the "Cao" banner early.

This kind of tactic is nothing at all, it can only be regarded as a basic exercise. Many famous cavalry generals use their horse tails to drag branches, and use a small number of troops to pretend to be a large number of reinforcements.But the situation on the battlefield was already beneficial to the Ming army, and the Qing army suddenly felt stage fright and thought it was a trick. Coupled with Cao Bianjiao's banner to scare people, the collapse was exacerbated.

Zhu Wenzhen fought twice a day in the morning and afternoon, and made a fortune silently before the enemy reacted. It can be said that he made a lot of money.

After repelling all the enemies encircled by the two routes, he retreated steadily, stationed overnight, continued to march the next day, and returned to Nanyang County (Nanyang County is more than 100 miles away from Yu County, and it was too late to hurry after the battle in the afternoon. If you go back, you must spend a day)
But the Qing army was already terrified of being beaten, and as expected, they did not rush forward to pursue them again.

……

On the night that Zhu Wenzhen killed Wadaq, Prince Azig of England was also shocked when he received the bad news in the Qing army camp in Ye County.

"What? Wadaq was killed in battle? You trash, how can you still have the face to come back alive! How can I explain to the second brother! The second brother is always thoughtful, so why don't you think that me and the fourteenth brother ten The fifth brother conspired to kill all his sons!"

Azig has no sense of relatives to Wadaq at all, and the royal family has a weak family relationship, so it is nothing to die a nephew.But he knew very well how violent the internal undercurrent in the court was after Dorgon came to power, and he really didn't want to cause trouble again.

Azig is also a ruthless person, and immediately severely punished those Jiala and Niulu officers who had escaped, especially singled out the one who had the most serious crimes and should bear the blame for the trap, and directly ordered them to be dragged out and executed.It's also convenient to give Daishan an explanation in the future-a slave in our banner didn't do a good job and put his master to death. We have already enforced the military law.

Afterwards, the matter of accountability was finally revealed, and Azig quickly paid attention to the situation of the battle. He couldn't understand how the cavalry troops he sent out to outflank and divide the enemy-occupied area were so easily captured by the Ming army. Cavalry defeated!
He first carefully asked about the size of the cavalry of the Ming army, but unfortunately, he soon got a misleading message - the officers who fled back saw that the prince had killed a blamed one to calm their anger, and of course they wanted to boast that the enemy was stronger Well, speaking of it, our side was defeated when we faced an enemy that was several times stronger and were outnumbered by the crowd.

And they are not completely lying, after all, Zhu Wenzhen still raised the banner of Cao Bianjiao.They don't know the truth from the false, so they will always say the truth. The stronger the Ming army is said, the less guilty they are.

Ever since, Zhu Wenzhen's [-] cavalry, in Azig's ears, was at least evaluated as "Cao Bianjiao personally led, at least [-] to [-] elite cavalry of the Ming army."

In this way, the Eight Banners cavalry of the Qing army on each route was only 2000, so it is understandable that they were defeated.

Of course, the new-style firearms used by the Ming army were also boasted by the defeated Qing army.Azig also attached great importance to it, and quickly asked if there was any real object seized, but unfortunately no, he had to listen to the language descriptions of those people first.

"This kind of firearm can be fired with one hand on the horse's back, without having to rein in the rein to stop the horse? Can it shoot two or more shots in a row? Like the old-fashioned three-eyed firecrackers of the southern barbarians? Compared with the three-eyed firearms Are the guns more powerful? Can they be reloaded on the battlefield?"

The more Azig heard it, the more mysterious it became, but considering that the escaped officers all said the same thing, he could only believe it.

Afterwards, he sent people to carefully examine the seriously wounded who survived the gunfire, observed their injuries, asked the military doctor to clean the wounds, tried to find more clues from the bullets and scars, and discussed with his staff and military advisers.

Soon, a knowledgeable staff member beside Azig summed up some useful experience and reported it earnestly:
"My lord, the cavalry muskets used by these southern barbarians are quite different from the usual ones. The projectiles are extremely small, mostly made of iron slag and broken lead, but the number is dense. They are probably shotguns, which also match the descriptions of the wounded soldiers.

During the inspection by the military doctor, they saw that the iron-bonded cotton armor of some lightly injured soldiers was also embedded with a lot of small pieces of lead, which could not be penetrated, but the forearm and legs were not easy to be protected by the armor, and they were tricked into pieces of lead. Embedded, it hurts.And those who were seriously injured and died in the battle were mostly fighting for time, and went into battle with light armor. "

Azige stroked his beard and said bitterly: "The southern barbarians have this, but my Qing cavalry is too inconvenient for a single army to go deep and light. Cao Bianjiao really has a hand. He couldn't kill it in the Songshan battle. He, after all, is the scourge of my Qing Dynasty.

Send me an order, starting tomorrow, let our army intersperse and divide the cavalry that surrounds the counties of Nanyang, slow down, and shorten the distance between each other's support, so that we can't go too far alone!
Today's risk of outflanking for nearly a hundred miles and trying to swallow several counties in one go can no longer be repeated!Nanmanzi's fighting spirit is very firm, let the children be vigilant at all times, even if it is a scout battle, they must be fully dressed!There is no military law for those who underestimate the enemy and cause defeat! "

(End of this chapter)