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Chapter 430 Abate's Death
"You can't escape! Let the former army resist! Otherwise, all of them will be driven down the river and trampled by the Nanmanzi!"

Facing the collapse of the Qing army, Abate, who was old and weak, roared hoarsely, and even burst into tears, desperately asking his two sons to stop the soldiers who were about to flee, and let them fight to the death.

Yue Le's face was blackened by gunpowder smoke, and blood and tears criss-crossed and rushed out of black mud gullies on his face. He staggered to the front of his father and begged deeply:
"Father, the right army has completely collapsed, and the right side of the central army has also been torn apart and cannot be maintained, so we have to withdraw!"

Abatai almost didn't come up at one breath: "The withdrawal must be done in an orderly manner! You can't flee northward like this! If you really escape to the Shao River, there are still ten or twenty miles away! After running away, Cao Bianjiao, Huang Degong, and the two ends The crazy tiger chases and bites for dozens of miles, at least half of them will die on the way!

If you want to retreat, you have to swim east across the Feishui on the spot, and cross the river on the spot to get rid of the pursuit!It is necessary for the dead to carry the frontal enemy and buy time for the friendly army to wade across the river!Let the friendly troops on the east bank of Feishui respond! "

After hearing this, Yue Le didn't know how to refute, but Abatai's other son, Bo Luo, felt that something was wrong, and also cried out to persuade him: "Father, you can't! Feishui is wider and deeper than Shaoshui. Even if you can wade through it, you have to lose your helmet." Abandon armor, otherwise my son from the north will probably drown!
If you give up your armored soldiers, you will have no fighting power if you flee to the east bank.What's more, the warships of the Ming army can come and go on the Feishui. Although there are not many warships of the Ming army that can be seen right now, they are enough to kill and injure a large number of soldiers swimming in the water!The mouth of the Shaoshui River was blocked by our army, and Ming army ships could not sail in. It is safe to wade from there! "

Abatai's face was livid, his expression changed several times, and he still made a quick decision:

"You all think so, and Zhu Shuren must think so too! The Ming army knew that before our army crossed Shaoshui, it had already blocked the waterway from Shaoshui to Feishui, so they would naturally predict that our army would leave even if it retreated after the battle. peony water!

That's why Zhu Shuren concentrated so many troops on land today, and only sent a few warships to monitor the battlefield behind him!He didn't expect that our army dared to bet their lives and give up easy things!This is the opportunity!Once the delay is too long, the warships behind the Ming army get the news of the winner and rush to help the battle to finish, and they will be unable to leave at all! "

Abatai was already bedridden with a serious illness, and today he came to supervise the battle in person with the help of his illness, but at this moment, he suffered a series of setbacks, was so anxious that he vomited blood again and again.Yue Le and Bo Luo were shocked when they saw this, and hurriedly asked for their father to be carried away.

However, Abatai seemed to be returning to the light, and the old hand, who was as skinny as chicken feet, suddenly gained strength, and slapped Yue Lelai's arm to support him:

"Let go! My body knows that this king will not be able to return to Fengyang today. If he doesn't die from anger, he will drown in the water or die from the cold...

What's more, today's battle is like this, can Dorgon let me go back?I'm afraid Jierhalang is too embarrassed to let it go.If this king dies in this battle, you can still get sympathy and sympathy at any rate, you quickly organize troops and horses to wade through the water, and this king will cut off the heir himself! "

The Yueleboluo brothers were shocked, knowing that their father's ambition to die had sprouted, and wanted to persuade them again, but they were forcibly carried away by Abatai's confidant guards.

Abatai coughed up blood for a while, and his face was flushed. It seemed that coughing up blood had raised his blood pressure on his head and face and recovered.Calmly and calmly commanded a part of the reliable green battalion to stand up against the water and set up the Queyue formation, desperately intercepting the pursuit of the Ming army and buying time.

Historically, Abate died of illness in March this year. Now that he has survived until September, he is already in a good mood with power and control, and he can live an extra year or a half when people have happy events.

Once his physical condition encounters a major change, he may be unable to sustain it at any time, and he knows it very well.

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"What? The Tartars didn't even retreat to the north. So many people just jumped into Feishui to escape right here? Hurry up! Let all the warships that can go along the river intercept them, and if they encounter Qing soldiers who swim in the water, they can escape. Kill as much as you want! Shoot and shoot arrows at the river and let them do as they please!"

Zhu Shuren, who was supervising the battle on the opposite side, was far away from the line of fire, and because the Qing soldiers on the opposite side swam across the river, the target was not big, so Zhu Shuren could only notice this situation when there were hundreds of soldiers wading and fleeing in groups.

No one is a magician with open eyes. Zhu Shuren also knew the geography of the battlefield before the war, and he did enough intelligence work. He knew that the Qing army had a estuary from the Duan Shao River to the Fei River, so the Ming army ships could not enter. peony water.

Based on this stereotype, Zhu Shuren was certain: Even if the Qing army was defeated, the Qing army would only flee north by wading across the Shaoshui River instead of crossing the Feishui River in an organized way.

Under such circumstances, Zhu Shuren has limited troops after all. In this decisive battle, the total strength of the Ming and Qing Dynasties is about the same. Zhu Shuren can't waste too many troops on the Feishui River, and must concentrate his main strength on the front as much as possible. , Concentrate superior forces.

All of this indeed caused the Ming army's interception to appear a little weak when this unexpected fighter appeared at this moment.But there was no way around it. If the Ming army seemed absolutely sure to intercept it from the very beginning, then the Qing army would not have chosen this escape route.

Everything is a matter of trade-offs and trade-offs, how can there be a strategy that is so clever before the war?

Even if it is considered exhaustive strategy at the beginning, the enemy will change after seeing your first step of exhaustive strategy. How can it continue to be exhaustive strategy?
What can be done is to go all out, do your best, and kill as many Tartars as you can.

But do your best and obey your destiny!
The few warships of the Ming army on the battlefield immediately disregarded the danger of the lone army going deep, and the danger of being shot by bows, crossbows and muskets on both sides of the strait, or even being bombarded by a small number of light Flang machine guns of the Qing army, and went upstream against the rain of arrows. , Straight into the halfway of the Qing army wading and fleeing, when encountering the wading Qing soldiers who lost their helmets and armor, they aimed and killed them at close range.

I only hate sailing against the current, the speed is slow, the efficiency of this kind of pursuit is not high after all.

On the frontal main battlefield and the land battlefield, the Ming army was not to be outdone, and fought more and more courageously to be the first, encircling the Qing army fiercely.

Cao Bianjiao's cavalry was unable to kill the main formation of the Qing army's central army that had shrunk to resemble an iron bucket.After all, the cavalry is not used to bear head-on.

Even if the morale of the Qing army declined, they were already defeated, but thanks to the fact that the banner of the county king Abate was still standing there, and Abate himself personally supervised the battle and never retreated, more or less forcibly installed a backbone for the Qing army.

The military law of the Qing army was strict. If the prince who led the army did not retreat, the people below were not allowed to order him to retreat first. Even if he returned alive, the punishment would be very severe, and his family members might even be hurt.

It was difficult for Cao Bianjiao's cavalry to open a gap in the main formation of the Qing army, so Zhu Shuren didn't care about it, and quickly sent messengers to send a message on horseback, so that after Cao Bianjiao killed the main formation of the Qing army, he broke through directly to the north.
Don't worry about your back being exposed to the Qing army, let him go straight to Shaoshui, and chase and kill as many of the Qing army that fled north as possible—the kind of battlefield that chases death and chases north and stabs deserters from the back is the most suitable for cavalry to play , The magical effect of expanding the results of the battle.

After Cao Bianjiao got the order, he finally let go of his obsession with "chasing and killing another Qing army prince" and changed to chasing and suppressing the remnants of the defeated enemy on the northern front. At the same time, it also prevented the Ming army cavalry from suffering more casualties—— The lethality of the troops in the moon formation to the cavalry is still considerable. Didn't Liu Yu kill and wound the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty in such a large number back then.

After Cao Bianjiao Teng made his move, the frontal battlefield was handed over to Huang Degong, Huang Fei and Lin who were advancing slowly.

The Ming army's riflemen marched in large formations. On the frontal battlefield where both sides had lost mobility and space to maneuver, they took full advantage of their range and shot and killed rows of Qing army peripheral infantry.

Most of the main infantry of the central army of the Qing army were green battalions, a small part were Han army banners, and there were very few Manchurian and Mongolian infantry.

The bows and crossbows used by these people have a range far inferior to the latest Wuchang-made rifles of the Ming army. After being shot for a while, they couldn't help trying to launch a countercharge.

But it was impossible for the Qing army to win by cavalry recoil before, let alone this pure infantry charge?
Apart from leaving the corpses all over the ground and fleeing back again, and further disrupting his own position, it is impossible to achieve more.

With the collapse of panic, more and more Green Battalion soldiers chose to jump directly into the river and cross the Fei River to escape.
And even if they swam to the surface, they still had to endure the random shooting and killing of a small number of Ming army ships patrolling and hunting. After a while, the river surface of Feishui turned scarlet everywhere.

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Zhu Shuren in the rear has been watching the battlefield closely with binoculars,

Seeing that Huang Degong, Huang Fei and others finally surrounded Abatai's main formation from at least two directions, leaving only a small opening on the north side unblocked, Zhu Shuren was also very satisfied.

This detail was also requested by his front-line command. The so-called return to the army is not to stop. The east is Feishui, and the southwest sides are surrounded. If the north is also completely surrounded, it will be easier for Abate's army to fight to the death. With a small hole, the enemy can easily escape.

And even if you flee to the north, you can't escape the encirclement directly. If you walk more than ten miles to the north, you have to cross Shaoshui, which is connected to Feishui. up.

Seeing that the battle situation has entered garbage time, as long as the rifle team is slowly advancing in stacked formations and layer by layer peeling off the guns, the victory can be established, Zhu Shuren is relieved, and begins to think about how to annihilate the enemy faster and more——

Annihilating the enemy is inevitable, the only difference lies in the speed of time, and obviously the sooner the better,

Because the faster the time is, the less time is left for the enemy to cross the river in vain, the less time difference is left for the enemy deserters fleeing north, and the number of enemies who will eventually escape from the encirclement will be less.

Zhu Shuren observed for a while, and found that Huang Degong was still playing a little bit slowly. At least he had a way to increase the speed. After thinking for a while, Zhu Shuren asked the messenger to send the military order to the front again——

Zhu Shuren didn't want to interfere with the details of tactical command, and his talent in this area was not as good as Huang Degong, so he didn't know how to micromanage.Zhu Shuren is good at seeing the overall situation and political vision, so he is very clear about the boundaries of his abilities, but he just asked Huang Degong to give him a few slogans to shout:
"Let the former army cry out, the Han army will not kill those who cut their braids and disarm them, but those who kill the Tartars and surrender will be spared!"

After Huang Degong got the order, he felt that it really made sense, and immediately ordered the order to go down.

On the battlefield, guns and guns are fired, so chaotic, and complicated slogans are not effective in singing. Ordinary soldiers can remember at most two sentences, and they have to be both popular and confrontational.The two sentences Zhu Shuren ordered were very common, and they all shouted in less than two cups of tea.

On the other side, the Green Battalion infantry who had been cornered and were used by Abatai to cut off the rear finally had the idea of ​​turning against the water under heavy casualties and a desperate state of mind.

Some soldiers began to cut off their braids with knives, then dropped their weapons and bent over to the Ming army.In order to prevent being hit by stray bullets, some soldiers even lowered their bodies or even rolled away from the front line, just asking the Ming army brothers on the opposite side to see that they were not a threat.

There must have been small-scale misunderstandings and misfires at the beginning, and trampling among deserters is not uncommon.

But then the Ming army also immediately made adjustments during the running-in. For example, Huang Degong ordered the Ming army to advance and leave some corridors between the formations for the enemies who surrendered into the system to pass through.

The Manchu and Han soldiers in the Qing army's large formation were suspicious of each other, and suddenly rose to a higher level because of this change. Out of fear, some Manchu officers began to hack and kill their own Han soldiers who had slightly changed, and further ignited the gunpowder barrel. It directly caused a close confrontation.

At this point, even the pro-army around Abate knew that nothing could be done. Several of Abate's confidant guards came up and wanted to escape with Abate:

"My lord, let's go! These green barbarians are really unreliable! Brothers can't stand it anymore!"

Among the Manchurian Three Banners, the two white flags were severely injured and fled back in the early stage of the cavalry battle and the hollow musket phalanx. Abate had already allowed them to retreat, so the last one left on the battlefield was actually Abate himself Zhenglan flag.

As for Yue Le and Bo Luo, they always carried Zhenglan Qi with a Jia La. Just now, Abatai asked the two sons to lead a team to escape first, and they each took a Jia La.

So the guards left by Abate's side at this moment are just the most elite Jiala in Zhenglanqi, about 2000 people, plus the Mongolian and Han army flags that he thinks are absolutely reliable, about five or six thousand are hardcore confidants , old thieves, those who are usually fed with money.

After the large-scale mutiny and chaos of the Green Battalion, which filled the front line as cannon fodder, Abate could only rely on the five thousand backbones around him.

It's a pity that Abatai was about to run out of fuel, and now seeing a large area of ​​trilogy turned against the enemy, he was hit even more, he was so angry that he spurted out a mouthful of old blood, and fell into unconsciousness for a long time. Splashing water among the people barely wakes up:
"You can find a way to break through on your own. Let's say it's the king's general order to let you turn around. I can't do it. If I die here, it will be shrouded in horse leather. Dorgon will not liquidate my other robes in Zhenglan Banner. Over...cough cough...puff..."

While talking, he handed over his seal and some other tokens to his subordinates, trying to let them have physical evidence after breaking out of the siege, so as to avoid being severely punished by military law.Just after saying this, he spurted blood and fainted again.

Abatai's death completely broke the backbone of the Qing army's central army, and the guards around him were also at odds. Some wanted to follow his last order to break through the siege one by one, while others had bloodshot eyes and suddenly turned back. Desperate with the Ming army.

About half an hour later, the Qing army's central army in Xi'an in Feishui was completely wiped out except for the part that escaped and broke out.

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"Congratulations, my lord! Congratulations to my lord! The main force of the Tatars was wiped out by us! In the end, more than 2 people from the Green Camp turned and surrendered! They also helped us kill many real Tartars in the melee! It greatly eased the decisive battle of our Chinese army. casualties!"

"Cao Bianjiao, General Cao, chased death and chased the north, and captured five to six thousand enemy troops who fled north. They killed thousands of real Tatar and Mongolian soldiers. In addition to the capture of the Chinese army, our army took prisoners in this battle. A total of about 6000 people!"

The joys and sorrows of life are not the same. While the Qing army collapsed miserably, the Ming army's morale was naturally high. The whole army rejoiced and was overwhelmed by the ecstasy of victory.

The results and losses of the various ministries were also roughly reported quickly and brought together to Zhu Shuren.

All the generals were full of excitement, and they became more and more admiring of Prince E's grand strategy of using troops, and they also became more and more in awe of Prince E's political vision and tenderness.

Everyone felt that the prince had already surpassed Yue Wumu, and could be called the military god among the Han people.

Only Zhu Shuren himself was still so modest: "Hey, don't be too much. It's just a strategic plan, attacking the heart first, and the specific tactics are not all commanded by the generals themselves. It is you who practice well in ordinary times. You use your troops like your arms and fingers. What do you do alone?"

After being modest, Zhu Shuren patiently sorted out the results and losses collected by various ministries.

The infantry that suffered the most damage in the battle was the infantry that stretched out the left wing to encircle it at the beginning, because the two armies were still stalemate at that time, and the Qing army's two white flags charged fiercely at the beginning. But in this process, the Ming army definitely suffered a lot of casualties.

Huang Fei and Lin Yang's divisions each suffered 3000 or [-] casualties in the first stage, which is close to [-]% of the troops. They were able to fight to the death without retreating and did not collapse.

It has to be said that in the past few years, the improvement of the army's treatment, well-trained training, repeated brainwashing, educating the soldiers to recognize a few words, and learning a little patriotism and the truth that "everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world" have played an important role.

In contrast, the cavalry of Cao Bianjiao's tribe participated in the fighting all over the battlefield and the final pursuit. The total casualties were only about 3000, which was just over [-]% of the cavalry army, which is normal.

The rest of the main force of the Chinese army continued to fight bloody battles, with about five or six thousand casualties. Although the total number of soldiers was comparable to that of the left-wing army, the total number of the Chinese army was more than doubled. From a percentage point of view, this casualty rate was also high. Just six or seven percent.

However, the Ming army suffered so many casualties, and the Qing army suffered a disastrous defeat on the opposite side, and the loss was naturally at least several times that.

The captives who were captured alive alone totaled 8000 people, all of whom were Han Chinese, because there were no Manchurian captives left, or many Manchurian soldiers who had the opportunity to become captives were all in the green camp. The Han soldiers wanted to surrender. During the process, the internal strife was killed and used to sacrifice the head for atonement.

Huang Degong once chanted the slogan "Kill the real Tartars who come and surrender without guilt and retain them", so who would not want to submit a certificate of surrender for the Han soldiers in the green camp who want to surrender?Turning around and slashing at the original master with a knife is nothing more than normal.

The rest of the Qing army who were killed and wiped out on the main battlefield, and were seriously injured and died, there were also about 2 people, most of whom could not find their bodies for the time being. They either drowned and killed in Feishui, or fled north. When he reached the Shaoshui River and crossed the river, he was chased by Cao Bianjiao's cavalry and stabbed him in the back.

In fact, the number of people who were stabbed in the back in this kind of total collapse-style pursuit battle was far more than the number of people who died in the battle. Therefore, the Ming army estimated that the number of people who were killed in the rivers or driven down the rivers around the battlefield There are at least 2 people who died.

In addition, the two white flags of Manchu were crippled in the initial offensive.

After cleaning the battlefield, all the wounded were repaired, and more than 600 corpses of Zhengbaiqi soldiers were found around Huang Fei's initial position.

On Lin Chengcheng's initial position, more than 2000 corpses of two hundred cavalrymen with white flags were also found.

In addition to the cavalry of the two white banners killed in the blocking and chasing battles of Cao Bianjiao's troops, it is estimated that the number of casualties killed by the two white banners exceeded [-]% of its troops.

Although this time did not wipe out the two white flags that were rebuilt as they did when they fought Doduo, it was definitely a heavy blow.Who makes the cavalry highly mobile? In such a battlefield, the enemy can't fight but can escape.The troops that fled first were retreating under the cover of friendly troops, so it was really difficult to completely destroy them.

But in any case, the two flags with a full staff of 2 people have permanent battle damage close to 2000. Of the [-] people who fled back, there are at least some wounded who were slightly injured and did not fall off their horses. In the future, the combat power will be more or less reduced. It can be said that the two white flags have been completely beaten to the point where it is difficult to rebuild their combat power.

Although the total population of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army was said to be 25 to 2 in the past few years.In addition to nearly [-] regular army soldiers, each banner can also have more than [-] to [-] "reserve males".

However, Zheng Ding of Liangbai Banner had already been wiped out once, so when Duduo died, the total number of men of the right age in Liangbai Banner had dropped from more than 5 to more than 3.This time it was damaged again by nearly [-] yuan. Even if it is rebuilt in the future, all the men of the right age will be brought in. It is inevitable that there will be crooked melons and cracked dates.

If we say that the two white flags carried by Duoduo back then were mainly elite young people in their 30s and [-]s.

The two white flags that Abatai brought today are generally young people in their 40s and [-]s, and middle-aged people in their [-]s or [-]s.

This time I will lose half again, and next time I will forcibly replenish the full number. At least half of them are children in their 50s and [-]s, and middle-aged and elderly people in their [-]s and [-]s.Even if they are all "men of the right age to serve as soldiers", their ages must be divided into grades and batches.

If you lose like this next time, don't make up for the two white flags, or simply drag children under 15 years old, or old men over 60 years old, or women to the battlefield.

In addition, apart from the fact that the two white flags once again acted as the final damaged part of the Manchu cavalry, the Zhenglan flag of Abatay's direct line also suffered some losses.

The most elite Jiala who was led by Abatai himself as a confidant guard, because he couldn't evacuate in time, turned against the surrounding Han soldiers from the green camp, and finally failed to evacuate, and was annihilated by the establishment, and all 2000 people in the full staff were killed.

Two other Jiala were slightly injured, and each suffered hundreds of casualties.Therefore, the total number of battle deaths and make-up deaths in the Zhenglan Banner is close to 3000, which is not too small, but it is better than the two white flags.

Manchurian Three Banners, with a total of more than 1 permanent battle losses, and some fled back with minor injuries.More than 4 Han and Mongolian troops were annihilated, and 8000 captives surrendered.

In this battle, the Qing army was annihilated in total, reaching a total of more than 8 people!
Moreover, in terms of generals, the Qing army also suffered heavy losses. In addition to the death of Bumbleshan, the injury of Suksaha, and the death of Abatai in a panic at the beginning, there were also several generals such as Beizi/Fuguo General Ekeqin. The middle-ranking generals were killed,
Those who can be Beizi/General Fuguo basically have to be Nuerhachi's grandson or nephew, who can be regarded as the imperial relatives of the Qing Dynasty.Who told Nuerhachi to have many descendants? There are only fifteen sons, and over a hundred grandsons and nephews.

Although the total loss this time was less than that of the 11 troops wiped out in the end when Duduo went to Jiangnan three years ago, if we talk about the loss in a single battle, it may be worse in today's Feishui battle.

After all, the 11 lost by Duoduo that year was due to the Battle of Nanjing, the Battle of Jinshan Temple, the Siege of Jiangyin, the Battle of Jiangyin, and four small-scale series of battles before and after. , The Qing army that was wiped out was between 11 and [-], accounting for only half of Dodo's total losses.

Today's [-] was completed in a single day.

The total strength of the more than 12 Qing troops who fled back was only more than 4.

Among them, there are more than 7000 cavalrymen in the Three Banners, more than 1 in the Mongolian Army Banner, and the remaining Han Army Banner and the total number of Green Battalions are only about [-].

It can be seen that the green battalion was the most serious collapse and surrender. The Han army flag and the green battalion brought in this battle were 8 to [-], and only [-] left in the end.

Most of the [-] surrendered prisoners of war were in desperate situations. Once they heard that everyone was Han Chinese and could survive as long as they abandoned their darkness and turned to their light, they unscrupulously turned around and turned to their old masters to survive.

With the destruction of most of the main force of the Qing army, when the Ming army was cleaning the battlefield and counting the results of the battle, Zhu Shuren soon discovered a very funny little tidbit——

A small group of officers and arrogant soldiers of the Han army banner of the Qing court were not satisfied with the treatment of being captured as surrendered soldiers, and tried to ask Zhu Shuren to make a contribution, saying that they killed Abatai, the king of Raoyu County in the Manchu Qing Dynasty!

Abate was dead. Of course, this fact was certain. When the Ming army cleaned up the battlefield, they had seized Abate's mutilated body.

But exactly how he died, this process has not been conclusive for a while.

Hearing that a surrendered general claimed military exploits, Huang Degong, who was specifically responsible for cleaning the battlefield and gradually reviewing it, told Zhu Shuren first in private:

"The last general has already tortured the circumstantial evidence. Many people said that Abatai was already in critical condition, and suffered a big defeat. He vomited blood and died in the battle directly, and he was not killed by others.

This group of soldiers who surrendered under the banner of the Han army just happened to be the closest to Abate's central army. After fighting hand-to-hand with Abate's personal guard Jiala, they captured Abate's body in the chaos.

The highest military rank in the batch of soldiers who surrendered happened to be a speculator, so he cut off Abate's head, insisting that he beheaded Abate, and begged the court to reward him for reuse. "

(End of this chapter)