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Of course, the impact of Azig's sudden death was immediate.

However, because this incident came too suddenly, its influence will manifest itself in two diametrically opposed forms within a short period of time.

The confidant guards around Azig, the most direct troops, showed shock, anger, and then an instant burst of vengeance.But the ordinary soldiers farther away were at a loss, and even slightly terrified.

Because of the loss of a unified command, and no one could immediately have enough authority to take over from Azig to command the entire army, Xianghongqi entered a short period of inconsistent orders.

The two Jiala commanded by Zhuobutai and Shaerhu were already ready to attack under Azig's order.

Moreover, Zhuobutai and Sharhu were only shot two and three times respectively, unlike Azig who was shot five times and had no time to leave his last words.Zhuobutai and Shaerhu didn't belch or fall into a coma after giving the order to charge, and their troops rushed towards the [-] dragoons led by Li Yu like crazy.

The other Jiala inlaid with the red flag appeared dull and confused, and they hesitated for a long time before catching up. There was a disconnection in the pursuit of the Qing army itself.

Li Yu ran fast, and his [-] rifle snipers had no time to reload on the battlefield, so of course he got on his horse and galloped away immediately after firing a shot.

If you don't run at this time, you are still waiting for the Qing army to treat you!
The remaining [-] Wuchang-made smoothbore riflemen were ordered to cover their comrades with rifled rifles and withdraw first.This is also to ensure that not a single shot of the new weapon falls into the enemy's hands, and they have to make sure to clean up the field.

So they calmly waited for the Qing cavalry to charge a little closer and enter the effective range of the musket before firing in batches one by one, and then mounted their horses and retreated.

Both sides were cavalry, and the Ming army came with one man and two horses, and they rested for a long time before the battle, so their sprint speed was naturally faster than that of the Qing army.After firing the guns and running, the Qing army had no chance to catch up. At most, they just used their bows to shoot arrows indiscriminately, injuring more than a dozen mounted riflemen of the Ming army. Only two or three people were shot and killed. .

However, the Ming army's rifle blockade caused more than ten times as many casualties as the Qing army. At least 80 to [-] people were shot down, and the musket bullets were more powerful, and at least half of them were killed directly.

After the two sides broke off contact, Li Yu quickly walked toward Zhu Wenzhen and made a rendezvous, and also seduced the two Jiala commanded by Zhuobutai and Shaerhu to get closer.

Zhu Wenzhen held three thousand cavalry musketeers in his hands, and of course he would not be as polite as the cavalry of the Qing army, who were not much different in number. A classic breech double-barreled nozzle output against the face, and a brave charge and attack immediately made those who came with anger The enemy calmed down.

The specific way to calm down is of course to let them drop hundreds of corpses!
The elite short-barreled musketeers of the Ming army confronted the cavalry of the Qing army face to face. Under this tactic, who is stronger and who is weaker has already been repeatedly verified by several classic battles over the years, so there is really no need to repeat it.

The hope of the cavalry of the Qing army is only to keep the distance from the cavalry and shoot, and to use the shortcomings of the short-barrel firearms of the Ming army cavalry, which is weaker than the cavalry bow, to slowly consume them.But this kind of tactic will be restrained by the long-range rifles of the Ming army. Although there are only a few long-range rifles of the Ming army today, only [-], it is a pity that the Qing army has long been in chaos. How can they play such an exquisite tactic?
After the two Jiala were beaten and maimed by the Ming army, the remaining three Jiala were uncertain about their decision-making. When they vented their revenge for Azig, the Qing army could only choose to retreat temporarily and rebuild the command system. Choose another day to fight again.

Zhu Wenzhen was also very calm, knowing that he couldn't pursue deeply at this time - most of his troops' muskets were not far away, and the enemy chased him even if they wanted to escape, and it was easy to be kited.The two armies then pulled apart.

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However, the Manchu cavalry who were flying the red flag were easy to withdraw, and the nightmare for the entire Xinyang Mansion and even the Qing army on the Huaixi battlefield had just begun.

Because the upper reaches of the Huaihe River were frozen in snowy weather, since Zhu Wenzhen was able to cross the Huaihe River on ice last night to burn, kill and destroy, he can also cross the ice southward and return to Xinyang safely at this moment.

When he returned to Xinyang City, it was already late in the afternoon, and it would be dark in about half an hour.

The siege troops of the Qing army outside Xinyang County have not received the news of Azig's accident at this moment. Seeing that Zhu Wenzhen dared to come back, they were full of fighting spirit and planned to divide their troops to meet them.

Zhu Wenzhen took advantage of the speed advantage of a cavalry with one man and two horses. He made a detour at the beginning and opened up a little distance so that the Qing army could not catch up with him too quickly.

At the same time, Zhang Huangyan, who was always paying attention in the city, saw that Zhu Wenzhen had returned safely. Although he didn't know how much he had achieved, he firmly believed that he must have won a vote more or less, and firmly let the defenders The troops split up and went out of the city gate to respond.

Of course, Zhang Huangyan would not allow the defenders to go too far out of the city, at least they had to be within the covering range of the Flang machine and the Hongyi cannon at the top of the city, so that the combination of high and low crossfire would not be worthwhile for the Qing army.

The generals of the Qing army who were in charge of encircling Xinyang County were mainly Xiergen and Haning'a under Azig, who were not considered famous generals. The main reason was that Azig didn't intend to attack Xinyang by force during this period, but just wanted to besiege it. The Qing army often changed defenses in cold weather.

Faced with the Ming army's daring to send troops out of the city to respond to Zhu Wenzhen's "provocative" behavior, Hilgen and Haning'a certainly couldn't bear it, and immediately organized troops to rush up to try a decisive battle in the field.

Zhang Huangyan didn't even have time to send someone to ask Zhu Wenzhen about the results of the battle, so he had to bite the bullet and face it head-on, which was a bit risky to say the least.

Seeing this, Zhu Wenzhen didn't have time to go back to the city to report. He made a decisive decision:

"All rifled snipers, detour back to the enemy's left flag formation and take four hundred steps, dismount and fire in salvo! There is no need to hide your firepower!"

The Ming army used rifled guns before, but they were all concealed, lest they would expose their strength and lose the suddenness of the first sneak attack.But since Azig was blatantly killed today, it won't be long before the Qing army knows the terrifying range and high precision of this artifact.

Therefore, there is no value in hiding any more. It is better to take advantage of the time it takes to transmit the information difference, and quickly maximize the suddenness of the sneak attack, and get two more votes by the way.

Even if only a few Jiala'erzhen and Niulu'erzhen were killed by sniping, it would be nothing more than a slap in the face. Anyway, the capital has already been earned by killing Azig.

The Ming army snipers, who had already finished reloading on the way home, immediately followed the order, made a special detour, and shot at a vital point on the enemy's second line that the friendly guns could not reach.

For a while, dozens of officers and guards of the Qing army were caught off guard and were shot dead and fell off their horses.

Zhu Wenzhen chose this purely for the purpose of deterrence, telling the enemy: Our army now has the ability to kill rear officers, don't get it wrong that those musket infantry did it!

After a round of shooting, Zhu Wenzhen immediately took advantage of the astonishment of the Qing army, launched a charge, and made the whole army shout: "The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have broken through Zhenyang County! Kill Azig!"

"The sharp spear pierces Yang with a thousand steps! Every shot must hit! Tianzhu dog tartar!"

The soldiers shouted chaotically, and some lines were not unified. In short, it was a sudden impulsiveness that hit morale.

The Qing army on the opposite side had dozens of officers and guards killed by sniping at the beginning, but they were only astonished at the sharpness of the new weapons of the Ming army, and then they were hit by such a bad news that was hard to distinguish between true and false, and finally gradually panicked.

Especially Zhang Huangyan, who had been fighting for more than two months, suddenly became courageous and dared to go out of the city to fight back. This is too abnormal.The morale of the Qing army could not help but become more and more shaken, and many soldiers gradually became suspicious and believed in the propaganda of the Ming army.

Encountered on a narrow road, the brave won, and the Qing army's courage weakened, so they had to retreat slowly, first seeking a steady and steady fight back to the camp.

And in the following day or two, the news of Azig's death apparently spread to more and more Qing troops. Even if some troops were temporarily concealed, at least they would receive orders from above asking them to shrink their troops.

And after Zhang Huangyan responded to Zhu Wenzhen's return to the city and formally confirmed the results of the battle, he was also very energetic. He quickly ordered to write several success reports and documents to the defenders everywhere, trying to encourage the Xinyang theater as much as possible while asking for reinforcements to expand the results of the battle. The morale of the Ming army's various departments turned to counterattack.

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In the next five days, the Ming army finally turned to the counterattack, and Zhu Shuren, who was sitting in Fengyang far away, received the good news from his cousin in a pleasant surprise as mentioned above.

Zhu Shuren really didn't expect that Huaixi would be able to counterattack so quickly along the way.

Since he originally planned to digest the results of the battle in the middle and east roads, he used Kong Youde in Pizhou as a bait to bloodlet the Qing army, and by the way reinforced Liu Zeqing and Gong Wencai by sea to cause trouble for the Qing army.

Therefore, Zhu Shuren's troops were still sufficient. He immediately made a decisive decision and dispatched many reserve teams from the middle to reinforce his cousin.

The collapse of the Qing army's morale and command system brought about by Azig's death was also really terrifying. Some of the Qing army wavered and shrunk, causing the flanks and backs of the friendly troops to be exposed, and were interspersed by the Ming army. After the war of annihilation, the remaining Qing army became more and more at a loss, fearing that they would be betrayed by the friendly army, so they had to retreat in unison.

It took more than half a month for the Ming army to recover the land south of the two important rivers, Rushui and Yingchuan, not only recovering the entire territory of Xinyang Prefecture, but also advancing part of the vanguard to the territory of Kaifeng Prefecture. .

The Ming army on the boundary of Nanyang Prefecture was originally blocked by the Qing army to the south of the Tongbai Mountain pass in Fangcheng. Now, as the local Qing army defenders feared that they would be attacked by the enemy and gave up the dangerous pass and retreated, the Nanyang Ming army also swarmed out to regain Ru state capital.

The northern part of Xinyang Prefecture, the entire Ruzhou Prefecture, and the southern part of Kaifeng Prefecture (the part south of Yingchuan) were all restored within one month.

After a few years, the Ming army advanced again to the Xuchang, Yancheng, and Chenxian areas-this is basically the same level that Zhu Shuren did when he succeeded in counterattacking Li Zicheng.

Compared with the Qing army in the middle and east roads, the Azig troops lost a lot of land. The only luck is that the troops lost less vitality.

After all, they had to retreat because of the accident that the Prince of England was killed by a sniper.Most of the troops retreated because they were worried that their teammates would waver and their flanks would be sold out. They did not retreat because they were defeated on the battlefield. At least [-]% to [-]% of their combat power was preserved.

Azig's road has a total of more than 10 horses, and the total number of battle losses in consecutive battles has not exceeded [-] to [-]. Compared with the other two roads, it has performed well.

So far, in the four or five months of bloody battles that started in the early autumn of the third year of Longwu and lasted until the twelfth lunar month, the Qing army completely lost the few small pieces of land in Huainan.On the West Road, additional land was lost in Yingnan, Huaibei, and in the east, land in Sinan, Huaibei was additionally lost (to the Xuzhou line, except Pizhou, which is still under siege and bloodletting)
In terms of troop losses, the Central Route Army was the worst, with 4 to [-] troops annihilated, and [-] in the battle of Feishui alone.

The losses of the Eastern Route Army are not too many, so far they have lost more than 1 but less than 4.But considering that there are still a considerable number of troops in Kong Youde's cage, they have been sentenced to death in advance.When the Ming army withdraws the money, the total loss of the Qing army on the East Road will exceed [-].

After the death of Xilu Azig, he also lost a total of 3 horses.

The three fronts of the Qing army added up, and during the five-month tug-of-war and the defensive counterattack of the Ming army, a total of 21 soldiers and horses were destroyed.

The Manchu cavalry accounted for more than 7000, the Mongolian soldiers about 11, the Han army flag [-] (including Kong Youde's [-] who were not dead in the account), and the green battalion [-].

In terms of generals, a prince, a county king, two Baylors, several Beizi, and Fuguo generals have died in total.Plus two of the traitor Sanshun King (Kong Youde is waiting to die).

The fighting power of the Qing army has been completely broken so far, and it is impossible to get up after being beaten.

Before the war, the national combat power of the Qing court was only about 20 full Eight Banners regular army, 40 to [-] Mongolian army flags, [-] Han army flags, [-] first-line green camps, and [-] second-line reserve green camps, plus the Manchus did not serve as soldiers. There are [-] to [-] adults in Mongolia, and less than [-] in Mongolia.

To put it bluntly, there are 40 troops that can be directly pulled into the battlefield. 20 Manchu and Mongolian males who can be recruited, 40 Han Chinese who can be recruited (no amount of recruiting can guarantee morale and loyalty, these 40 were recruited from the group of traitors who were promoted as "assistants of the ruling class", Others are purely oppressed Han Chinese)

Losing 21 soldiers now is equivalent to cutting off half of the country's first-line troops!
Even if Dorgon discovered that the situation was wrong within the five months after the start of the war, he increased his mobilization. The green battalion reserve team became regular ahead of schedule,
It's just barely replenishing the manpower that can be mobilized to less than 30.And considering that the recruits can't guarantee their combat effectiveness at all, and they can't participate in offensive battles, so the newly recruited 10 people are just filling in and stabilizing the defense lines everywhere.

Regardless of whether the loss can be made up in the future, at least Dorgon's third-line offense is completely bankrupt.Dorgon's personal political prestige within the Qing court has completely collapsed.

Once his only half-brother, Azig, died, and Duo Duo, who died three years ago, Dorgon completely lost "he himself presided over the center, and he led troops outside to make meritorious service with his mother's brothers." Layout.

Since then, Dorgon will inevitably fall into the embarrassment of "regarding the inside but not the outside", or "regarding the outside and ignoring the inside", and there is no way to break the situation.

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With the successive defeats of the Qing court, internal conflicts gradually became acute.

The Ming army is naturally thriving, and ZTE is booming.

In the twelfth lunar month, the Ming army continued to stalemate at a slow pace, and in the end they didn't keep Kong Youde to pass the New Year's Eve.

After several months of siege, there was not much food and grass in Pizhou city.The Ming army also released words: Kong Youde will never be forgiven, but other ordinary soldiers who have been serving as thieves for a short time can be pardoned.

As the army rations were exhausted, the Qing court had no intention of saving them at all, and the soldiers would eat each other if they went on.

Those soldiers were of course unwilling to sacrifice their lives for Kong Youde, so finally, one day in the middle of the twelfth lunar month, a mutiny broke out in Pizhou city. Kong Youde's direct troops launched a surprise attack and opened a city gate.

Hearing the shouts of killing in the city, it was confirmed that there was real internal strife. Of course, the Ming army who besieged the city would not be ambiguous with them, and quickly swarmed in.

Kong Youde originally thought that he could suppress the anti-justice army, but as the Ming army entered the city through the north gate, all hopes were shattered.

At that time, Kong Youde was personally supervising the battle on the tower of the south gate of Pizhou, that is, the Baimen tower, to prevent the rebels from approaching the gate.Seeing the Ming army swarming from the north, he knew that if he was captured alive for his crime of hardcore traitor, he would definitely die a miserable death.

So Kong Youde was determined not to be captured alive by the Ming army, nor to be found by the Ming army to prevent further torture, so he asked his confidant soldiers to get a few torches and some firewood, and hid directly in the tower. Clicked.

He hoped that the roof of the city tower would burn down, smash him to death and bury him, and then burn the body slowly, so that it would be difficult to distinguish.It's a pity that the lower half of the city tower is still made of stone, so it can't be burned at all, and the fire will not spread quickly.

The shouting slogan of the Ming army "capture Kong Youde alive and take him back to Nanjing Lingchi" is getting closer and closer. Several rafters on the roof of the tower finally burnt out one after another and fell to the ground. Kong Youde immediately made blood spurt out of his mouth, his tendons were broken and his bones were broken and he lost his resistance.

The rafters hit his back, which seemed to have broken his spine, equating to the direct paraplegia of his lower body.

However, just when he thought he was finally going to be freed, several low-level officers next to him looked at each other, discussed with the soldiers below, and then made up their minds, and came over to move the rafters together.

Kong Youde was stunned for a moment, vomiting blood intermittently and screaming hoarsely: "Why do you save me? It's hurting me! Let me suffer more!"

However, in the next second, those officers took out hemp ropes and tied up Kong Youde, who was seriously injured and had a broken spine.

"My lord, I'm sorry! If you are burned to death, we will be treated as a stubborn traitor and die accordingly! Handing you over to the court like this, we don't ask for meritorious deeds, so we can get away with it! You can just give it to your brothers Die!"

Kong Youde is also a mighty general, and his weapons and armor are also very sophisticated. If his martial arts skills are still there, these few small and medium-sized troops will not be able to take him down.

But now he is paraplegic and has become a dog with a broken spine, why should others be afraid of him?

Kong Youde wanted to kill himself by biting his tongue, but the other party directly hit his mouth with an armor-piercing hammer, smashing his jawbone, and his teeth fell to the ground. He immediately lost the ability to bite his tongue, and passed out directly.

A group of spineless soldiers begging to be exonerated carried Kong Youde down, shouting surrender slogans all the way, and finally made the Ming army stop the butcher knife.

The White Gate Building behind him collapsed in the gradually blazing fire.