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Chapter 449 The Battle of Destroying the Nation - Part [-]

"Can't retreat! Can't retreat! Nanmanzi's granary is already on fire! Work harder! Burn their winter grain storage completely, and Nanmanzi will be defeated!"

Seeing that among the troops on the left and right flanks that he sent, Boluo and Ye Bilong had collapsed all the way, and Mandahai's side might not be able to hold on at any time. Hauge's eyes were red, and he couldn't help screaming orders to stop his troops retreat.

In the final analysis, it was part of the granaries in the Huang Daying camp that caught fire in the Ming army, which gave Hauge confidence and made him extremely reluctant to give up. As a result, he was clung to by the Ming army and brought the war of attrition to its worst state.

After all, the illusion of being so close to victory is the easiest way for a red-eyed gambler to put all his eggs in one basket. At this time, whoever holds his breath can kill the winner, and whoever gives up, even himself The profits are completely lost.

Otherwise, as long as the Qing army despaired earlier and saw clearly "our army has been tricked, the enemy has already prepared, we must have no chance of winning", then he would have left.

And Oboi, who had just retreated from the injury and had just bandaged the wound, before the blood on his head and face could be washed off thoroughly, knelt in front of Hauge, begging with all his might:
"My lord! You can't fight anymore! Cao Bianjiao's counterattack is too fierce, and Prince Li's trilogy may not be able to hold on at any time. Just look at the smoke and dust rising in the distance to the east. It must be that Nan Manzi sent new reinforcements from Daming If you want to withdraw, withdraw now!"

Obai obviously knows what's going on ahead better than Hauge. He has personally experienced the cruelty of the Ming army still fighting to the death after elites from the Eight Banners rushed into the camp of the Ming army, and the layers of defenses were exhausted. He knew that victory would never Hauge thought it was within reach.

Zhang Huangyan, this dog thief, must have set up a poisonous plan, in order to lure the Qing army into it step by step, and finally tighten the noose around his neck slowly like a frog boiled in warm water. Powerless to break free.

After being reminded by Aobai, Hauge couldn't help looking in the direction pointed by the other party. Sure enough, there were more reinforcements from the Ming army appearing on the skyline in the distance.

Only then did he realize that today's fight has been bloody for at least two or three hours, and both sides are working hard to the death, delaying the arrival of another batch of enemy reinforcements.

"I'm not reconciled, I'm not reconciled!" Hauge roared in despair.

Aobai continued to persuasion: "My lord, just think about it, even if we burn the food stored by the Ming army today, we still have enough energy to continue to contain the Ming army until the Ming army collapses. If the main force suffers heavy losses, even if we burn the food Can't win!

The Ming army can forcibly transport food to Daming by road. If we don’t have enough cavalry to intercept and kill the Ming army’s land food team, then they will just lose more food.The Ming army competes with us to consume our national power, and we must not be able to fight! "

The last sentence finally woke up Hauge completely, and it could be regarded as the last straw that broke the camel's determination.

Hauge's red bloodshot eyes gradually faded away.

Indeed, the step of burning food is not enough to directly lead to the victory of the decisive battle. Even if the burning of food is successful, the subsequent move of "intercepting and killing the temporary land transportation team of the Ming army" must be followed up.

If the elite cavalry of the Eight Banners are finished here, it will be useless to burn the food stored in Neihuang by the Guangming Army.

"Let's go! Tell Man Dahai to withdraw quickly! Give way to Man Dahai for the infantry! Those infantry who are stuck too deep, if they can't withdraw, let them stall for time!"

Hauge finally made up his mind to break the arm of the strong man, and then asked Boluo and Man Dahai to return the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry.In order to widen the distance, Hauge also played a little trick, giving priority to the Manchu cavalry to withdraw first, while the Mongol cavalry had a lower priority, and finally it was the turn of the Han army flag and the green battalion.

It's a pity that tens of thousands of Qing army elites have formed bloody ground meat with Li Dingguo, Liu Guoneng and others in Neihuang Daying.Those troops who rushed the deepest were destined to be unable to withdraw.

Once they turn around and fight, the remnants of the Ming army's trench network behind them will crazily cross fire, fight with bayonets to delay them, drag them to the friendly army to divide the encirclement, bite violently, and completely wipe out those Qing troops who were singled out and cut. Kill all.

Seeing that there was no hope for their way, those Qing soldiers who were desperate to jump over the wall were naturally desperate to fight. While fighting, they tried to use the fire sources at hand to set as many fires as possible. The flames in the entire Neihuang camp became more and more blazing, and the chaos on both sides reached the extreme.

However, as the first batch of Eight Banners cavalry of the Qing army successfully withdrew from the battlefield, the situation quickly collapsed. Some Mongolian soldiers, Han army banners, and green camps gradually found themselves abandoned.

The Mongolian soldiers could not do anything about it, but the green battalion and the Han army flags were in an uproar. Scores of soldiers surrendered, or they were driven away by the Ming army, and civil strife broke out after a counterattack.

In this battle alone, perhaps Hauge could take part of the Manchu Eight Banners to retreat, but the Han and Mongol troops under his command would definitely suffer a devastating blow.

The retreat dragged on for more than a quarter of an hour, and the Manchu cavalry who were still alive and able to escape finally broke away from contact one after another, and then began to retreat at a gallop.

But the feast of killing was far from over. Although the cavalry of the Ming army were unable to pursue Hauge's core force because of the delay of the abandoned sons of the Qing army, the artillery troops brought by Hauge for today's battle had no time to run away.

The Qing army learned from the Ming army before, and used heavy artillery carts pulled by many horses to assist the Hongyi cannons weighing thousands of kilograms to maneuver quickly over long distances.However, the Qing army couldn't get home, they only learned fast transportation but not rapid deployment, and they never learned the structure of the Ming army's gun mounts.

Now that the army is about to withdraw quickly, of course the cannons will not have time to reload.Hauge also made the problem simple, but left behind a flag of Manchu cavalry to cover the artillery for loading and transporting.

But the Ming army came much faster than the Qing army expected and prepared. Seeing that the Ming army's left and right sides had at least tens of thousands of iron cavalry, and the full-flag cavalry left by Hauge had no choice but to make a move. After resisting and finding that they were invincible, they left the artillery and ran away.

A total of 130 Hongyi cannons, in the half-day bloody battle, were originally destroyed by the Ming army, about [-] or [-] cannons, and there are barely a hundred or so still usable.At this moment, it was time to be chased by the cavalry of the Ming army, but these cannons were completely useless.

"Don't panic! Fire at those barbarian cavalrymen! Fire! How can my Qing warrior be stabbed in the back and be slashed to death! Quickly load the shotgun!"

Tong Tulai, the commander of the Han Army Banner of the Qing Army, as the chief general of the artillery unit of the Qing Army, hoarsely ordered his subordinates to carry out the final face-to-face shelling when they knew they could not escape, trying to change one before death.

It has to be said that Tong Tulai is a family of generations of hardcore traitors, and the people raised by his family are still very loyal to their Manchu masters.Under Tong Tulai's hoarse command, before the cannon of the Qing army was destroyed, it actually successfully approached and fired for two rounds, and then was hacked to the face -

The first round was loaded with ammunition before the Ming army cavalry rushed up, and it was fired early. Only the second round was reloaded hastily after the Ming army cavalry entered the range.

At that time, the loading speed of Qing Army artillery was very slow. It is not surprising that it took five to six minutes or even ten minutes to fire one shot. Insufficient combustion residues of the wheel, directly stuffing iron slag, lead beads, nails and gravel indiscriminately and then fired.

Because the cannon was fired too hastily and was forced to speed up due to irregular operations on the front line of life and death, at least more than 20 Hongyi cannons exploded when they fired close to their faces!Some gunpowder piled next to it was even detonated.But at least seventy or eighty cannons successfully fired the second round of shotgun shells.

Two rounds of shotgun shooting, coupled with the power of exploding the chamber and ammunition, each shot can kill at least a few Ming cavalrymen.

In order to completely annihilate the artillery of the Qing army, Cao Bianjiao rushed up with these two rounds of shotgun, and in just 2 minutes, he paid the casualties of thousands of Ming army cavalry!The battle was not without its brutality.

Numerous Ming army cavalrymen wearing water-forged steel breastplates were directly pierced by heavy artillery shells, just like those exhibits in the Paris Invalides Museum in later generations, "The cavalry breastplate was directly blasted into a big hole in the chest. , come out through the back."

Even Cao Bianjiao, who is a fierce general in the world, led his team to charge and kill, but was directly maimed by the shrapnel.But Cao Bianjiao's fortitude was astonishing, and he still ordered his subordinates to run wildly and attack violently, and they must not fall short:
"Leave me alone! The cannons will fire this round! The dog tartar artillery has been slaughtered by us! Kill them all!"

The subordinates also know that the most dangerous moment has passed, and if they don't hurry up to kill the thief, the casualties paid all the way will be wasted. Groups of Qing army artillerymen with only sabers and bayonets slashed and killed on the spot.

"Hold it! Hold it! Ugh——" Tong Tulai, the commander of the Banner of the Han Army and later Kang Mazi's grandfather, led hundreds of confidant guards back to back and tried to fight back to back, but they were all hacked to death on the spot.

Tong Tulai himself was stabbed a hundred times, and was directly chopped into meat by the angry cavalry of the Ming army.All the field artillery combat power that Man Qing could dispatch was completely wiped out after this battle. A total of 130 Hongyi cannons were lost, and thousands of artillery, loaders, and logistics auxiliary soldiers were hacked and killed.

The Ming army paid more than a thousand cavalry casualties in exchange for destroying a country's artillery force. This loss is worthwhile.

It's a pity that Tong Tulai's daughter, Tong Jiashi, is ten years old this year and has already been born. His son Tong Guowei is also seven years old. Of course, these children still live in the city of Beijing, so they cannot be wiped out together.

Otherwise, as Tong Jia's biological mother of the later Kang Mazi, if she could be killed before birth, Kang Mazi would have to change his position and reincarnate.

However, until now, it is not known whether Shunzhi can live for a long time, and he doesn't care about those Tong Jia's Tong Guowei and others.If you can't destroy the eggs and kill the sperm, the effect is the same.

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The bloody battle in Neihuang County lasted for a whole day.

After Haoge retreated with the remnants of the Manchu cavalry, those Qing troops who were dragged and trapped couldn't be killed for a while, and they didn't all surrender. They still contained the fighting power of the Ming army, and the small-scale and sporadic fighting continued until the same day. late at night.

The loss of the Ming army was also not small. Li Dingguo's troops carried the line for seven hours from beginning to end, and more than half of the more than 2 people were killed or injured.

The rest of the troops who came up successively to take turns to fight against the pressure were in better condition, and each suffered casualties ranging from thousands to over a thousand.

Cao Bianjiao's cavalry unit suffered a total of more than 2000 casualties in the final regiment of destroying the artillery of the Qing army and the subsequent pursuit and killing of the remnants of the enemy.The three Manchu Banner bloody battles that defeated Boluo and fought with the Boluo tribe before also resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries.Huang Degong's cavalry, who arrived on the battlefield in the afternoon, also suffered slight losses in the pursuit.

In the end, everything was added up, including all the cavalry units of the Ming army, and the total casualties were as many as [-] people.The total casualties of the infantry units reached [-] to [-].

According to the final statistics, more than 4000 people were directly killed in battle, more than 9000 died on the same day after being seriously injured, and the remaining [-] were slightly or seriously injured.

For the Qing army, more than half of the five banners of the Mongolian army banner and [-] cavalry were wiped out. Because the Ming army would execute the wounded when they cleaned the battlefield, the casualty ratio was extremely high. Most of them were beheaded in the camp of the Ming army and the first-line battlefields on both sides of the Zhangshui River.

Counting the wounded, the Mongolian Five Banners participating in the war lost at least two-thirds of their vitality.This is also the result of Hauge giving priority to selling Mongols and Baomans when he retreated.

Considering that Hauge is now at odds with the queen mother of Mongolian descent, and Hauge's own biological mother was from the Ulanala family of the Haixi Jurchen.After this battle, Hauge sold his Mongolian teammates like this, and the Mongols were afraid that they would jump ship and break with the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, the significance of annihilating so many Mongolian cavalry in this battle is not only the killing of more than 2, but also the complete intensification of the internal contradictions between Manchuria and Mongolia.Even if the remaining Mongolian soldiers fled back, they might not necessarily work for Hauge again.

In the future, in the process of Ming's pursuit of the remnants of the Qing Dynasty, the Mongols are likely to temporarily protect themselves wisely. This will give Ming a window of time difference between each attack, which is very beneficial to Ming.

In addition to Mongolia, the losses of the Han Army Banner and the Green Battalion in the Qing Army were naturally even worse.Although they were sent up last when attacking fortified positions, they were also left behind when they retreated.

In the end, the two sides had a bloody campaign by the Commission for Discipline Inspection, and more than half of the Han army flag-coated slaves died in battle for their masters, but many of the green camps collapsed and surrendered.

But no matter whether they died in battle or surrendered, at least [-] of the [-] Qing Han armed forces that participated in the war were wiped out, and nearly [-] captives surrendered, and the rest were all dead.

The last Manchu cavalry, a total of six banners participated in today's battle. Naturally, the two white banners were the most unpopular because they followed Dorgon and Duoduo, and were assigned the most dangerous vanguard mission at the beginning. The bloody ground meat had the worst casualties, with more than half of the casualties in both flags.

The other four flags, with slightly different degrees of losses, managed to keep the establishment and retreat when Hauge withdrew his troops.

Coupled with the complete annihilation of the field artillery units, the Qing army was annihilated in a total of nearly 3 people, of which [-] to [-] were captured, and [-] to [-] were killed or injured, but they only got The Ming army suffered [-] casualties.

The exchange ratio between the two sides is about [-]:[-], which shows that the army is still playing very well. Although it has the advantages of intelligence and weapons, it also designed to induce the enemy to attack.

However, the Ming army also suffered relatively heavy losses, that is, the battlefield was dragged to the Neihuang camp after all, and the preparation time before the battle started was very short, and there was no time to transfer food, so the camp and food storage were greatly damaged.

The fortress buildings were largely destroyed by shelling and arson, and the infrastructure damage was so severe that it required a complete rebuilding.

After the war, Zhang Huangyan asked various ministries to calculate the loss of food reserves. According to the report, it was estimated that [-]% of the army's winter food storage was burned during the war, which was also a huge loss of property.

This is like the decisive battle between Yuan Shaojun and Cao Cao in Wuchao. Even if the history is changed and Cao Cao is defeated, the loss of food storage in the Wuchao camp will definitely not be small.

Of course, Zhang Huangyan also knew that the amount of overcooked food in the following statistics may contain moisture.Maybe the soldiers cleaning up the battlefield on the front line will count as "complete loss" the grain that was slightly burnt and not completely burned, or the grain that was spilled from the collapse of the granary.

But Zhang Huangyan didn't intend to pursue these issues. Just now there was a shocking bloody battle, in which 3 people were killed or injured. In this kind of bloody battle to destroy the country, why should the soldiers not be allowed to greedy for a few more rations?

As long as the battle is won, it will be regarded as a labor force if you pay more wine, meat, money and food. At this time, you can only turn a blind eye and close one eye. If you are as serious as Chongzhen, maybe something will happen instead.

Zhang Huangyan issued instructions overnight: "The loss should be dealt with completely according to the report, but don't waste the food that has not been completely burned! It just doesn't exist on the books. If you can eat it, give it to the soldiers! Especially those that are slightly burnt, as long as they are not black, they are all edible!"

The people below also know that the governor is knowledgeable, and immediately said that they would not go too far.So that night, most of the soldiers of the Ming army who had been hungry for a day in the bloody battle had enough fried rice and noodles with crispy rice. These days, they gave priority to eating food that had been roasted by the fire, and there was no limit.

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Because of the loss of the camp and food stores, and the fact that so many wounded people needed to be dealt with, Zhang Huangyan naturally did not have the ability to launch a counterattack immediately.Both sides need to lick their wounds.

Zhang Huangyan ordered Huang Degong to temporarily replace Cao Bianjiao, who was injured and needed to be taken back to recuperate, and asked Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen to lead all the cavalry troops and keep an eye on Hauge.

On the other hand, they quickly reported the victory to the Nanjing court and Zhu Shuren who were still in Kaifeng. In the report to Zhu Shuren, they also emphasized the losses of the war. Eat one and a half months of military rations to make up for the losses caused by this decisive battle.

After Zhu Shuren read it, he also didn't want to check the accounts, so he directly issued all the orders boldly. Even if the Zhangshui River was frozen, the direct land transportation from Kaifeng to Puyang had to meet the needs of the army.

Zhu Shuren knew very well that such a great victory could solve the fundamental problem of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and spending more money and food was nothing compared to it.

At the same time as delivering the food, Zhu Shuren also further instructed Zhang Huangyan that he must firmly bite the Qing army and try to wipe out as many of the Manchus as possible inside the pass. Don't kill them outside the pass.

At the same time, he also said that he himself will go north to Puyang in the near future so that Zhang Huangyan can supervise the army to further the northward expedition to Beijing.

In addition, he gave Wu Sangui and Jiang Yu an order to speed up the outflanking, so that they don't have to insist on "strengthening the stronghold and fighting dull battles" as before.

Hauge has been severely injured. Even if he catches the opportunity to fight Wu Sangui or Jiang Yu alone, Hauge will not have the strength to wipe out Wu Sangui in a short time. He will definitely delay until Zhang Huangyan's main force arrives.

Wu Sangui and Jiang Yu got orders, so naturally they didn't dare to neglect. On the third day after the decisive battle, Wu Sangui stormed Xingtai with all his strength, and finally broke through the city with the help of cannons. It was equivalent to spending five days breaking through the city.

Jiang Yu, who was further to the rear, after breaking through Zhending, also successively took over less important areas such as Luancheng and Zhaozhou, further threatening Haoge's depth.

On the third day after the decisive battle, Hauge finally made up his mind to quickly retreat to Beijing with the surviving main force of the Eight Banners.Considering that the Ming army was too sticky, he also had to use the remaining green battalion, Han army flag and some other troops as a backstop to ensure escape.

(End of this chapter)