Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 400
Wu Sangui, King Pingxi of the Qing Army, issued an order to withdraw troops.

He had to retreat.

Wu Sangui knew that the guards were more powerful than the previous imperial army, but he didn't expect that the guards were so strong now.

With only less than [-] infantry, he invested [-] troops successively, and even used his own [-] cavalry, but he still failed to move forward.

Wu Sangui is not a fool. As a famous general in Liaodong who has led troops for many years, he can tell that the guards have not yet activated their full strength, even the artillery and cavalry have not yet been used.

However, the guards only used what seemed to be no more than five or six thousand infantry to beat his cavalry, and the infantry lost more than ten thousand.

The leaders of the [-] cavalry were all his servants Jingqi who had been in business for many years, and most of the infantry lost were his veterans and officers.

So Wu Sangui could only order to retreat, he didn't want to lose all his capital here.

As for Hong Chengchou, he can naturally confess, after all, the wounded all over the ground can also show that he is trying his best to seize the ferry.

Wu Sangui was waiting for the red cannon's attack. In his opinion, now he could only hope that the red cannon could destroy all the obstacles set up by the guards.

However, what Wu Sangui didn't expect was that just when he ordered the retreat, Yan Yingyuan's side launched another attack on the artillery camp of the Qing army.

At this time, Hong Chengchou's main force, the Qing army, was also heading towards the Sun's Ferry, and they only paid attention to the battle between Wu Sangui and the guards ahead, and ignored Yan Yingyuan's small guards.

And Yan Yingyuan took advantage of this to take advantage of the mobility of the cavalry to emerge again, and aimed directly at the artillery of the Qing army.

The Qing army naturally knew the importance of artillery, so Hong Chengchou directly asked the Manchurian inlaid blue flag Mele Erzhen Sarhuda to lead five hundred Manchurian cavalry to guard here.

These Manchurian iron cavalry are naturally the strongest army in the Qing army today. Even if Yan Yingyuan and other thousand guards came to kill them, they would not be afraid, and they immediately opened their heavy arrows to fend off the enemy.

And no matter how strong these Manchurian iron cavalry are, no matter how skilled they are in bowing horses, they cannot compare with the range and agility of the Chongzhen Type 21 flintlock gun.

Yan Yingyuan directly blasted the head of Ba Yala, a Manchurian Baijia, with a single shot, and the blood of Ba Yala immediately spilled on the spot.

Before the other Manchurian armored soldiers could react, Yan Yingyuan shot another Manchurian armored soldier to bleed on the spot.

Yan Yingyuan pulled the trigger to his heart's content and shot these Manchurian cavalry. Naturally, these Manchurian cavalry were furious. They pulled out Lianzhu arrows, sat down on their horses and chased after them.

Xia Wanchun took advantage of this and brought a group of people to kill them. The infantry guarding the Qing army's artillery fled directly, and Xia Wanchun and others directly shot and killed these Qing army artillery on the spot.

Naturally, the artillery of the Qing army also ran away, and Xia Wanchun naturally pursued them closely, trying to maximize the number of casualties of these Qing troops and paralyze the artillery troops of the Qing army.

Hundreds of red cannons turned into red cannons in no time, and the cannon bodies were covered with blood.

Here, Yan Yingyuan continued to pick up the Chongzhen 21-style flintlock gun and shot the Manchurian cavalry who were chasing after him.

As a cavalry master selected from the hundreds of thousands of guards of the Ming Dynasty, his individual ability is not as weak as these eight banners, and it is no problem to raise his hand to make this full Qing cavalry burst into blood.

Mele Erzhen Sarhuda hurried back with the remaining one hundred riders. They were afraid. They didn't expect this small group of Ming troops to be so powerful. The firearms were sharp and they fought non-stop, one shot after another. The ground shooting is also very accurate, but their best archers have to have a process of taking the arrow and pulling the string.

Yan Yingyuan led his men to catch up with him. At this moment, the Manchurian iron cavalry and Ba Yala are like lambs waiting to be slaughtered in the eyes of the Xie directly under the Grand Marshal's Mansion of the Guards.

"They're coming up again! Run!"

These Manchurian cavalry yelled in Manchu language.

One by one didn't even bother to pick up their hats, and ran across the snow with their bare heads.

Snapped!
Snapped!
One after another, the Manchurian iron cavalry was shot and killed under the horse by the Guards directly under the Association.

In the end, only Mele Erzhen Sarhuda successfully ran out and successfully joined the main force of the Qing army.

And Xia Wanchun's side also killed the Qing army's artillery units and infantry.

The 500 guards chased these Qing troops around like chasing a group of pigs. In the end, more than [-] of these Qing troops were killed and injured, and the remaining thousands ran back to the main camp of the Qing army in embarrassment.

"Master Belle, Master Zhongtang, I don't know where such a powerful Ming army came from. There are about five hundred of them. Not to mention their horse skills, their firearms are also very powerful. They don't need to reload or aim. , one shot after another, and the shots went so far that we were completely overwhelmed, and my five hundred armored soldiers with the blue flag were wiped out, and I am afraid that those red cannons were not saved."

As soon as Mele Erzhen Sarhuda finished speaking, a deputy general of the Green Army of the Qing Army who guarded the artillery ran over:
"Zhongtang, it's gone, it's gone, the artillery is gone, [-] Ming troops were killed out of nowhere, the artillery was killed in pieces, those Ming troops are so brutal, their firearms never stopped, And it's very accurate!"

"Where's the cannon, where's the gunpowder, and where's the red cannon!"

Hong Chengchou yelled and asked, his face turned pale, and he grabbed the general's collar angrily and asked.

"The gunpowder was ignited by them, and the cannon was destroyed and thrown into the river," said the deputy general tremblingly.

Hong Chengchou sat back on the chair directly, muttering to himself:

"How could this be, how could this be, how did these Ming troops break in, how dare they break in, is it true that there are only five hundred, is there still five thousand, or even fifty thousand? Among my more than [-] main forces, there are five hundred Manchurian iron cavalry and tens of thousands of green battalions guarding them, so why am I being attacked by them? Could it be that the main force of the Ming army is really here?"

The more Hong Chengchou thought about it, the more confused he became.

At this moment, Wu Sangui also walked in suddenly.

When Hong Chengchou saw Wu Sangui, he immediately stood up: "King Pingxi, as a vanguard, what are you doing when you come back suddenly without taking your soldiers and horses to cross the river?"

"Forgive me, Zhongtang. Let me explain. I think the guards on the opposite side are undoubtedly the main force of the guards, and may even be the most elite main force of the guards. I have already invested [-] soldiers and horses, but in the end I couldn't advance half a step. The loss has reached [-], but the guards on the opposite side have only used less than [-] infantry, and neither the artillery nor the cavalry have been used. I think they are probably the strongest main force of the guards. We only need to cross the river. I'm afraid it will be difficult."

When Wu Sangui finished saying this, the first expression on Hong Chengchou's face was not shock but rather disbelief in what Wu Sangui said.

Luck Dehun, the Manchu general who conquered the South, also first asked Wu Sangui:

"King Pingxi, less than 1 infantry guards blocked your 5 horses. Are you treating Ben Belle and Hong Zhongtang as three-year-old children? His guards are heavenly soldiers and generals, and your Liao The soldiers were actually blocked by the infantry of the Guards with less than 1 soldiers?"

(End of this chapter)