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Chapter 464 Capture Hauge Alive, Destroy the Puppet Qing Dynasty

"Kill! The False Emperor Hauge is right there! Brothers, let's join forces with General Zhu to destroy the thief!"

"Prince E has an order. Whoever captures Hauge alive will be crowned Duke! Whoever kills him will be crowned Marquis! Reward 10 taels of gold! [-] pieces of Hangjin!"

With the Dongjiang Town Ming army led by Li Yu arriving on the battlefield, the situation of the battle became more and more tilted towards the Ming side.

The 1 Korean Ming army and the [-] Han Ming army formed a powerful new force with a high proportion of cavalry and a large number of muskets.

Li Yu has been in Dongjiang Town for several years, summed up his experience in killing Azig, and further developed the tactics of the dragoons, forming his own unique tactics.

In the past few years, he set off from Phi Island in North Korea and Zhangzi Island in Yizhou to harass the coastal areas of the Qing army and the coast of the Yalu River many times. The harassment was weakened, but the effect was outstanding.All kinds of sneak attacks have exhausted the Qing army, and now it is finally time for the general offensive to harvest.

If it is said that Zhu Wenzhen's Ming army mainly consisted of [-] pistol cuirassiers, plus [-] Mongolian servants, the dragoons were only a few hundred.

In Li Yu's army, there were almost no cavalry archers, and there were no more cavalry pistols than Zhu Wenzhen, but the proportion of dragoons using "riding rifles" was extremely high.

Originally, the Ming army rarely used dragoons on a large scale. Even if they did, most of them used rifled sniper rifles in order to snipe and kill enemy generals from a long distance.

And Li Yu also combined the characteristics of the Ming army of North Korea——North Korea's military source, hand-to-hand combat ability is really unsightly, and the organization of killer teams is basically free. Among the traditional arms, only the bird gun team is available.

Therefore, it is delusional to expect the cavalry from North Korea to dare to sprint and fight the Tartars, and it will definitely collapse as soon as they come into contact.

Li Yu could only make use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and equip a large number of cavalry with muskets, bird guns made in the Ming Dynasty, preferably old-fashioned ones made in Wuchang.When fighting with a large cavalry force, you can only dismount and walk in advance before approaching the enemy, and prepare for the array with ammunition.

However, there is no distinction between high and low tactics, as long as it is easy to use.In the dignified formation of queuing up and shooting, as long as the enemy can force the enemy to confront you head-on and hit the hedgehog formation, that is the skill.

Li Yu's soldiers stopped and lined up when they were two or three hundred steps away from the enemy, and then sent out to the Qing army from a distance. The soldiers counterattacked Li Yu's formation.

However, Li Yu had no tactics at all. He continued to stand in line and shoot until some formations were dispersed by the enemy. Then he gathered the cavalry reserve team with an absolute superiority in numbers to block the entrance and strangled with the Qing army.

The cavalry was used by him in such a conservative way, and he had no intention of using it as an aggressive force to outflank, penetrate and cut the enemy, or sneak attack from the side.

Purely as a defensive reserve team, a defensive reserve team with strong mobility and timely replacement, can be regarded as a wonderful scene in the history of East Asian warfare.

But no matter what, no matter how wonderful the tactic is, if it can help the friendly army lead to the final victory under a specific environment and situation, it is a good tactic.

What the Ming army wants in this battle is not to defeat Hauge, not to repel Hauge, but to wipe out Hauge as much as possible, and wipe out an enemy mainly composed of cavalry.Such consumption and delay can precisely play its due role.

The bloodshed and consumption of the two sides continued, and the Ming army had already won an absolute advantage in the exchange ratio.Every casualty of a soldier of the Ming army can take away at least two or three or even more casualties of enemy soldiers.

Even if Huang Degong and Li Fuming didn't rush to the battlefield, if Zhu Wenzhen and Li Yu didn't crash or break out, they would be able to exhaust Hauge by themselves.

Time passed by every minute, and it was another hour of bloody battle. The Qing army was completely exhausted, and thousands of Qing army Han soldiers who were coerced began to collapse and surrender in an organized way.

But at this moment when the battle was fought, as the sky was getting dark, the last blow of the Ming army finally arrived.

Huang Degong's troops were disjointed from front to back and almost formed a long snake formation, but they rushed to the frontal decisive battle without any hesitation.

Originally, Huang Degong's troops should be the most powerful of the four Ming armies, with [-] cuirassiers, not only a large number of troops, but also extremely well-equipped.

However, because he had received Zhu Wenzhen's warning in advance and needed to rush to the battlefield, Huang Degong had to adjust the horse matching arrangement, trying to equip some troops with one man and two horses, in order to catch up with the decisive battle.

So in the end, what he brought to the battlefield in time was only 5000 iron cavalry.There are still 5000 people. Because they gave up their horses to their comrades, they became relatively slow-moving infantry. It may take another two or three days to reach the battlefield. According to the current progress, the decisive battle will definitely be over by then. It's over.

Those soldiers who surrendered their horses were doomed to miss the glory and chance of meritorious deeds in the final battle against the Tartars, but life is like this, and many things fail to catch up.

However, even if only 5000 elite troops rushed to the scene, it would be enough to cause Haug's final collapse.

These are [-] elite cavalry, everyone wearing forged steel breastplate, everyone holding a pistol or a double-barreled breech gun, and everyone is equipped with a straight-edged sharp saber made of fine steel, or it can also be called Single-edged thick-backed cavalry sword.

When such a force appeared on the horizon, the morale of the Haoge army fell to the bottom.

The Han soldiers of the Qing army who were still hesitating were all trembling and terrified all day long. When Huang Degong finally rushed to the front, groups of Han soldiers of the Qing army knelt down and surrendered, or immediately shouted to turn their backs and lead the way, to help Turn around to hide and kill the Manchurian soldiers in the Qing army.

The Mongolian soldiers in the Qing army, after being torn apart by Zhu Wenzhen's Ming Mongolian servants for most of the day, at this moment, they were also on the verge of collapse, and they put down their weapons and surrendered on their knees.

In the end, there were only a few thousand core Manchu cavalry around Hauge to fight.Or ignore the torrential Songhua River, directly trying to force the horse to rush down the river and swim.

However, how can such a reckless approach be able to swim across the raging Songhua River?Unless you are lucky enough to hold a big tree into the water, or find other floating objects to drift, you will die in all likelihood.

He, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Hauge, personally drew out his sword and hacked and killed indiscriminately, to the extent that the emperor himself went into battle to fight.Thanks to Hauge's good martial arts skills, he can barely be regarded as a fierce general, and his weapons and armor are also the best.

The cavalrymen of the Ming army wanted to capture them alive in exchange for more rewards for the sake of heavy rewards. Unexpectedly, some soldiers were not good at martial arts, and several people were killed by Hauge in succession.

But as the number of personal guards around Hauge became less and less, it was really impossible for this insignificant personal martial arts to make waves.

The cavalry team of Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen rushed to the vicinity, interspersed and cut back and forth, and when they were really impatient, they let the pistol team directly bombard the pile of people with shotguns in circles.

At this point in the battle, the generals of the Ming army basically figured it out: even Oboi was wearing several layers of heavy armor, and Hauge, as a false emperor, was marching in person, so how could he be poorly protected?Therefore, as long as you keep the distance with pistol shotguns, you can't kill Hauge, and it won't affect your capture!
On the contrary, he can use this opportunity to consume all the guards around Hauge!

Things did not turn out as expected by the general of the Ming army. Seeing that the iron cavalry of the Ming army rushed to the face, the maximum distance was no more than [-] or [-] steps, and they slammed the emperor with bullets.Many loyal Qing army Zhenghuangqi guards rushed forward like crazy, covering Hauge with their bodies, but they were all shot to death by shotguns, killing as many as they came to block the guns.

After half a cup of tea, almost all the guards around Hauge were killed or injured.
Although Hauge himself was not penetrated by the shotgun, the elbows of the gauntlet and the palms of his hands were cut by a few shrapnels because the armor was not well covered and there were gaps and loopholes.

Hauge's elbows and palms were continuously overflowing with blood, and the meridians in his arm were cut off by shrapnel, and he was no longer able to defend with his sword.

Only then did Huang Degong leap forward with a gun to grab the head, and he directly lifted a gun barrel with the tip of the gun snapped off, stabbed Hauge in the ribs, and smashed sparks on the protective mirror.

Haoge spat out a mouthful of dirty blood, and several ribs were broken. He fell off the horse and couldn't help but be captured alive by Huang Degong.

"Congratulations to General Huang for capturing the false emperor alive! Prince E is sure of his word, and I ask His Majesty to ennoble you as Duke!" The generals next to him rushed forward to congratulate him.

Huang Degong was also very satisfied, his whole body felt like he was going to float up, his blood pressure was jumping up and down, and he was so happy inside.

The false emperor was directly captured on the battlefield!This is not going to be famous in history like Wei Huo Douxian and Li Jing.

"Quick! Tie this guy up! Then send someone to fly back to Beijing to report the victory to the prince!" Huang Degong excitedly grabbed his thick beard like steel needles and shouted orders.

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After Hauge was captured, the battle basically came to an end. In the end, thousands of scattered soldiers either surrendered directly or threw themselves into the Songhua River in an attempt to escape for their lives.

The surface of the Songhua River was hundreds of feet long, and it was briefly stained red with blood. It was only because of the huge flow of the river that it quickly dissipated.

The last assembled army of 5000 from the three tribes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was completely wiped out. About [-] people died in battle, and countless people were seriously injured and fell into the river without leaving any bones.

There were about [-] people who surrendered and were captured, and the total number of escapees was only a few thousand.

In the next few days, various Ming armies continued to chase the north and expand the results of the war, occupying counties and towns in an encirclement to eliminate civil resistance.

Among them, the three cities of Jilin, Ningguta, and Songyuan had to be attacked for one to three days before they were taken.For those who still dare to resist even the emperor is gone, the Ming army will certainly not be polite, even if the resisting Manchus are only strong men and ordinary people, but since they have taken up arms, they are the enemy. After breaking the city, they are allowed to let go of looting liquidation.

Because the Songnen Plain has a vast area, even if the emperor of the enemy country is gone, the work of taking over the rest of the land still lasted for more than one and a half months, and it was not completed until the beginning of October.

The coldness in the hinterland of the Songnen Plain is far more than that of the Liaodong Peninsula. In winter, it can basically be [-] degrees colder, so it is already frozen below zero in October of the lunar calendar.

Before that, the Ming army harvested all the crops left by the puppet Qing Dynasty this year and put them into storage, which happened to be used as military rations for the occupying army, and there was still an extra surplus.

It is rare for the Qing Dynasty to realize that after planting the field for this year, it failed to eat the new rice and new wheat to mature, so it was directly married to someone, which can be regarded as a good cycle of heaven.

On the other hand, on the second day after Hauge himself was captured, Huang Degong sent a messenger to report back to Beijing immediately (it was already night on the day of the capture, and the troops marched in a hurry and could no longer travel at night, and urgently needed to rest)

Considering that the grassland has not been completely cleared, and there may be a small group of hostile stragglers active, Huang Degong can't let the messenger deliver the letter alone, otherwise it will be troublesome to meet the remnants of the enemy and be intercepted and killed.

So in the end, a cuirassier team of one hundred men was sent out, each with three horses, traveling more than two hundred miles a day, and slowly returned south to deliver the letter.I set off on August 25th, walked for nine days, traveled two thousand miles, and finally delivered the news on August [-]th.

As for Hauge himself being escorted back to Beijing, the journey was even slower. He could only travel a hundred miles a day at most, and he had to be strictly guarded. He was not delivered until mid-September.

Zhu Shuren was in Beijing and learned that Hauge was finally captured, and Jilin, Ningguta, Songyuan and other places were all conquered. Although he had expected it, he was overjoyed at this moment.

He also wrote a memorandum overnight, and sent it to Nanjing together with the victory report to ask for credit for the meritorious generals such as Huang Degong.

It was much faster to deliver the letter within the customs, and it was expedited six hundred miles directly. On August [-], the Nanjing court got the good news.

At this time, it was less than a month before Longwu Emperor Zhu Changhao's fiftieth birthday and Wanshou Festival passed.Naturally, it was unavoidable to put up lights and festoons again in Nanjing, and the whole city crazily set off fireworks and salutes outside the city to celebrate.

Therefore, we went directly to the mouth of the Qinhuai River and the Yangtze River outside the city, and chose to set off in the most prosperous neighborhood of the entertainment industry.

At the same time, in order to make it necessary and worthwhile to go out of the city to watch the ceremony, several firearms research institutes in Nanjing have also made a lot of colored fireworks shells of various metal salts based on the newly developed detailed principles of flame reaction, ensuring that they cover as many people as possible. The color of the flame, and then made into a firework shell fired into the sky by heavy siege mortars, in order to show the power of heaven in the Ming Dynasty.

"Bang bang bang—" the loud sound of the salute was heard outside Nanjing, and they stayed up all night.

With a big wave of Zhu Changhao’s hand, fireworks were set off outside the city of Nanjing for three consecutive nights. The first night was at the mouth of the Qinhuai River, the second night was at the Jiangfang Fortress Mufu Mountain, and the last day was at the foot of Zijin Mountain, near the Taimiao and Xiaolingwei. Annunciation.

"Emperor Taizu! All the ancestors are above! Your descendant Zhu Changhao has honored your ancestors for you! The Northern Yuan that Emperor Taizu didn't take down has been destroyed! The Mongolian and Yuan tribes called the pseudo-Khan tribes have surrendered to Ming!
The Puppet Qing Tartars were annihilated by our Ming Dynasty!Our soldiers of the Ming Dynasty captured the Tartars and false emperors alive in a decisive battle with cavalry in the fertile fields outside the Northeast Pass!During the 50 years of humiliation in the Ming Dynasty, the south wind swept away Hu Chenjing, and the north entered Yanjing to the side of the sun! "

On the night when the salute was set off, Zhu Changhao went to the Taimiao Temple to offer incense in person, and then went to Xiaolingwei to offer incense.

However, no one in the court and the Chinese military accused Zhu Changhao of being extravagant, and everyone in the world felt that this was money that should be spent.

This is the destruction of false Qing!Even if you fire a [-] cannon salute, you deserve it!

In contrast, Zhu Shuren in Beijing has been keeping a low profile recently.He was in Beijing to handle the work in the north, and to take care of the aftermath. He stayed until the ninth day of September, when Hauge was sent to Beijing.

Then Zhu Shucai personally led the troops to the south, and escorted the captives back to Nanjing to offer captives.His mission in Beijing is almost over.The follow-up work in the north can be returned to Zhang Huangyan in the "revolving door" to help stabilize the governance for a few years, and then it can be handed over to other governors of Beizhili.

Zhu Shuren set off from Beijing on the 20th day of September and led the army slowly. After walking for more than [-] days, he finally crossed the Yangtze River on the [-]th day of October and arrived in Nanjing.

Hauge and a group of the last Manchu princes and nobles were all tied up in a prison cart by Wuhuada, and they were used to offer prisoners together.

When Fulin was arrested before, because he needed to appease the surrender and disintegrate the wavering faction among the enemies, he couldn't torture and kill them all.

But this time Hauge was arrested, there is no enemy to split up and disintegrate, he himself is the last culprit,

Of course, it is necessary to accept the dignified joint trial of the Ministry of Criminal Justice of the Ming Dynasty and other three judicial departments.

Even Emperor Zhu Changhao would send a representative of the Supervisor of Rites to attend.

(End of this chapter)