Ming Empire

Chapter 115 How to Respond
The Mongols finally couldn't stand it anymore. Such a huge casualty was unbearable even for an iron-clad army. No matter how brave the Mongols were, they lost all their courage.Chahan died, and there was no one behind to supervise the battle, and the fleeing people began to appear.

The fleeers are like the plague, they spread quickly, and people follow immediately, and soon more people follow and flee back.

After a while, the remaining Mongols who were still able to escape frantically fled the battlefield.When the surviving people turned around and fled, their only thought was to escape from the range of the Ming army's muskets on the city wall as soon as possible, so as to get themselves out of this hell on earth.

The Han army who had just followed up was also torn apart by them.Geng Zhongming could no longer control his troops, so he could only run back under the protection of his personal guards. As a result, many people were trampled to death by the supporters.

Seeing this situation, Duoduo, who had been watching the battle, had no choice but to withdraw his troops and stop the siege.

The Jiannu who attacked the city were repulsed without paying much price, and they won an overwhelming victory. The soldiers of the Datong Army on the top of the city burst into earth-shattering shouts and screams, cheering for the huge victory .

Cao Yue was also very excited. Today's battle once again proved that firearms have an overwhelming advantage against cold-armed enemies.

As long as Jiannu continues to use this method to attack the city, he is fully confident that they will all be wiped out under the city of Datong.

Seeing Jiannu calling for gold to withdraw troops, Cao Yue also ordered the soldiers defending the city to retreat into the city to rest, except for some who continued to guard on the top of the city.

The morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted, and even the soldiers who participated in the battle did not consume much strength, and many of them were unwilling to go down the city wall to rest.

Cao Yue also warned them that Jiannu will definitely continue to attack the city in the future, and there will be too many times when they need to fight on the city wall.He didn't want to see Jiannu attack again, but the soldiers on the top of the wall didn't have the energy to fight.

Outside the city of Datong, there were stumps and broken arms everywhere, and blood flowed across the city. The inside of the moat was already stained red with blood.The pungent smell of blood made many people feel sick, but Cao Yue quite enjoyed the smell, mixed with the smell of blood and gunpowder smoke, it made him feel the taste of victory.

"Old man Sun, have you never seen this kind of war before?" Cao Yue looked at Sun Chuanting who was standing beside him proudly: "I believe today's battle will overturn your point of view. You must have learned a lot from it." , When you lead troops into Henan to fight, what I have given you today will benefit you immensely."

"Boy, didn't you just wipe out thousands of Jiannu? See how proud you are!" Sun Chuanting didn't care at all about Cao Yue's indifferent appearance. Today's watching the battle really touched him a lot. Unexpectedly, fighting like this can still happen, the mighty Jiannu will be defeated so terribly, and the losses paid by the two sides are completely unequal.

If every battle was like today, Jiannu would not be a threat at all, and the bandits would be put down soon.

Now Sun Chuanting can fully imagine how the several battles commanded by Cao Yue won, and he has a better understanding of the usefulness of muskets and other firearms on the battlefield.

It has benefited a lot, this is one of his biggest feelings today, suddenly he is very confident in calming down the chaos in the world.

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After Doduo's men stopped attacking, they retreated a few miles and set up camp.

That same afternoon, the troops led by Azig also arrived at the city of Datong and joined Duoduo.

At night, Dorgon's army also arrived at the city of Datong, so that the 10,000+ slaves had all arrived in Datong.They were stationed around the four gates of Datong and surrounded the city of Datong.

After Dorgon simply listened to Duduo's report, he immediately summoned the generals to discuss the military situation.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Dorgon sat in the middle, while Duduo, Azig, Haoge, Abatai, Babutai, Shuotuo, Sahalian and other nobles who built slaves were divided into two squads.These people are not the princes and county kings of Jiannu, but Baylor, Beizi, and Jurchen Eight Banners. Except for Jierhalang, the owner of the Xianglan Banner who stayed in Shengjing, the other banner owners have arrived. It can be said that most of the Manchu Jiannu The elite backbones all gather under the city of Datong.

First of all, Duoduo told everyone present about the general course of today's battle.

Duoduo was originally arrogant and arrogant, but under the city of Datong, he suffered two disastrous defeats, and the Ming army had almost no losses.Such a battle situation made Duo Duo very ashamed, and his confidence was also lost. His face was flushed with shame, and he knelt down with a plop, begging Duo ErGun to take heavy responsibility.

Babutai, who supported Haoge, immediately stood up and asked Dorgon to deal with the defeated Duduo, but Dorgon believed that the most important thing at the moment was not to pursue who was to blame, but to first figure out the situation and find Just do it right.Duoduo's negligence will be discussed after returning to Shengjing, and the punishment to be given can be determined according to the rules, and he will never take sides.

In today's battle, the Qing army killed a total of more than [-] people, including more than [-] people from the Mongolian Eight Banners, and more than [-] people from the Han army.Such a huge casualty, such a disparity in the casualty ratio, everyone was shocked, and everyone, including Dorgon, felt very heavy in their hearts.

"Everyone, everyone knows about the situation of today's battle. The Ming army has adopted a new strategy, and we can't break it for the time being. Let's have a good discussion today, how to attack effectively." Of course Dorgon was unwilling to punish Duoduo, he knew The defeat today and last time was not due to the incompetence of Duoduo, but because the Ming army adopted new tactics, used muskets on a large scale, and developed a set of very effective musket shooting techniques. If you want to defeat the Ming army, you must Come up with a way to defeat the enemy.

This may be a new strategy that Cao Yue came up with. The Qing army suffered losses in Songshan and Shengjing, and even suffered a few times in the city of Datong. The Ming Dynasty will have an absolute advantage over the Qing Dynasty.

Today's battle will affect the morale very much. If you lose the battle and leave like this, the morale of the Qing army will be hit hard, while the morale of the Ming army will be greatly improved. The scene where tens of thousands of Ming troops could be chased and run around will never appear again, and the Qing Dynasty, which has an absolute population disadvantage, will never have a foothold.

Dorgon ordered Duoduo to let the Mongols attack the city first. He didn't expect it to be effective, but he didn't expect the result to be like this. The morale of the Qing army was greatly affected, and even he was hit.

He already knew that in the war with the rogues, the troops led by Cao Yue suffered no losses. Now outside Datong City, the influence of the rogues could not be seen, and the Qing army had nothing to gain.It seems that the purpose of trying to take advantage of the fire this time is going to fail, and it is a bit of a ladder to steal the chicken.Reason told Dorgon that the best choice is to give up attacking Datong, even if a detour to attack Beijing is better than attacking Datong.

But now that the army has already entered the city of Datong with Chen Bing, they just withdraw like this, not to mention affecting morale. It's possible to drop it.What Dorgon needs most now is to come up with a perfect strategy. Of course, the best thing is to defeat Encounter and capture Datong.

(End of this chapter)