Ming Empire

Chapter 146 Brilliant Victory

At dawn, Dorgon, who had already led his army away from Datong, ordered his troops to rest temporarily.

After the whole army stopped advancing, he and Duoduo led a group of soldiers, galloped up a hill, and looked back in the direction of Datong City.

In the direction of Datong City, the flames were still raging into the sky, the smoke filled the air, and the shouts of killing could still be faintly heard.

"Cao Yue has found out that we are retreating, and ordered his men to go out of the city to chase after us!" Dorgon said this with unconcealable anger and endless disappointment. "It is impossible for the Han army and North Korean army to escape many people."

"Brother Fourteen, we have lost this battle again." Duoduo also gritted his teeth, "Cao Yue is really capable, better than any general of the Ming army we have encountered. But ten Fourth brother, don't worry, one day, I will chop off his head and put it in my ancestral temple of the Qing Dynasty."

Both brothers have unspeakable loss and anger. They have never encountered such a predicament before. After paying a heavy price, they have not achieved any consoling results. The servants are behind the palace.This is a great shame, Cao Yue has humiliated Daqing several times, this account must be settled no matter what.

Duo Duo had been defeated by the city of Datong several times, and he felt more humiliated than Dorgon. He vowed that no matter what, he would wash away his humiliation and wipe out Cao Yue and his Datong army.

The Battle of Datong made Dorgon and Duoduo fully realize the huge lethality of firearms, and their concept of war has also changed a lot.

They no longer dare to underestimate firearms, fully believing that the great power of firearms can change the outcome of a war.

Fortunately for the defeat of Datong this time, the Jurchen elite did not suffer much loss, which is the foundation of the Qing Dynasty.With the Jurchen elite, there is still a chance to start all over again.Dorgon and Duoduo have agreed that after returning, the Qing Dynasty will also vigorously develop firearms, set up a firearm battalion, and follow Cao Yue's tactics. The firearm battalion adopts segmental shooting technology to further enhance the combat effectiveness of the Qing army.Dorgon believed that if the Qing army also had a few musket battalions, plus artillery battalions, it would not suffer a loss if it fought against the Ming army equipped with firearms.

The Qing army was far superior to the Ming army in cavalry and shooting, and if it was supplemented with firearms, its combat effectiveness would overwhelm the Ming army again.

"When my Qing army is equipped with a large number of firearms, I will come to Cao Yue for a decisive battle!" After Dorgon said softly, he also urged the horses to gallop down the hillside and ordered the army to continue to set off.

Although Dorgon led the army to retreat, he was ready to intercept and kill the pursuers. If there was a Datong army following and chasing him, he was ready to fight back, and even attacked Datong city quickly.

It's just that Dorgon believed that Cao Yue would not lead his army to pursue fiercely. At most, he would order the troops in the city to go out of the city to chase and kill the Han and North Korean troops that were broken.

It was a soft persimmon, easy to pinch. After Cao Yue wiped out the broken Han and Korean armies, he would definitely retreat to the city and would not rashly follow and pursue them.But Dorgon hoped that Cao Yue would send an army to chase after him, so that he would have a chance to stand up.

In many cases, the victory or defeat of a war is in an instant, and a small accident can reverse the situation.

Azige is different from Dorgon and Duoduo. He has not fully accepted the decision of the army to withdraw from Datong until now. When he stormed Datong City yesterday during the day, it was the direction of the east gate that he commanded. The Jurchen elite participated in the siege. And he directed it himself.It's just that the fierce attack failed to achieve results. The Zhengbai Banner he led was violently shot by the Ming army's muskets, causing heavy losses, and Azig himself was injured.

It's just that Azig violated the military order and commanded the Jurchen elite to attack the city, and was not punished by Dorgon.Azig also did not question Dorgon's retreat order too much because of his own defeat.

Those who opposed the withdrawal most fiercely were Hauge and other slave-building nobles who had conflicts with Dorgon, but they did not have the guts to propose a split with Dorgon and stayed to continue to attack Datong.

When Dorgon convened all the nobles to discuss the withdrawal of the army, he told everyone that his withdrawal at this time was a one-shot strategy. If the Datong army dared to go out of the city to pursue it, they would use the ambushes and cavalry to counterattack quickly, and the Datong army would be caught off guard. , and even took the opportunity to break through Datong.Withdrew from Datong City, he could take the initiative to meet Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji, Jiang Rang, and Jiang Xiang's troops who came for reinforcements quickly, disrupting the Ming army's arrangement.

The Ming army reinforced Datong, and Beijing's defense must be much empty. If there is an opportunity, they can take the opportunity to attack Beijing.

Hauge and his supporters were not as smart as Dorgon. In the end, they also recognized Dorgon's strategy of retreating and advancing. They left Datong City first, took the initiative to meet the other Ming troops who came for reinforcements, and looked for opportunities. Attack other cities, even Beijing.

In this way, after Dorgon deceived his subordinates, he hurriedly withdrew from Datong and retreated to the front line of the Great Wall.

And Cao Yue, of course, would not be so stupid as to follow and pursue the main slave-building army without suffering great losses.He ordered Zhao Tai and Zhao Liang, two deputy commanders, to lead the seventh and eighth battalions and Jiang Xuan's tenth battalion to go out of the city to pursue the broken Jiannu routs. He made a risky pursuit of the main force of slavery who had retreated away from Datong City, violating the military law.Zhao Tai and Zhao Liang also strictly obeyed Cao Yue's order, led their cavalry troops, and took advantage of the darkness and the chaos of Jiannu to kill them fiercely.

Outside the city of Datong, where blood flowed into rivers and corpses were piled up, many souls have been added.

At dawn the next day, the hunting battle ended.

Regardless of the previous counterattacks, the Datong army captured 5000 Jiannu's servants and killed more than [-] people in the battle of chasing and killing them out of the city. Once again, they achieved brilliant results.

This victory made Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting smile happily, all the worries from yesterday were swept away, and it also made other generals of the Datong Army go crazy with excitement.

When did the Ming army achieve such results in counterattacking the Jiannu invasion?
In the Datong Defense War, the Datong Army wiped out at least [-] to [-] Jiannu, while their own losses were only more than [-].In the past, tens of thousands of Ming troops wiped out [-] to [-] Jiannu, and kept the city from being breached. This can already be described as a great victory.This victory can be described as unprecedented.More importantly, after this battle, the vitality of the Jiannu must be seriously injured. At least in a short period of time, they have no strength to invade south.

Many people think that from now on, the people in Datong will live a stable and peaceful life for at least one or two years. How can this not make people happy?

However, Cao Yue was not so optimistic. He continued to closely monitor Jiannu's movements, and soon information came back saying that Jiannu had designed tens of thousands of ambush soldiers in the north of Leigong Mountain, which was tens of miles away from Datong City.This made Cao Yue feel very lucky. Fortunately, he did not act recklessly and sent a large army to follow him, otherwise he would be ambushed by Jiannu, and the outcome of this battle might be reversed.

Cao Yue also soon received another piece of news that his cousin Cao Bianjiao was leading tens of thousands of horses to quickly reinforce Datong.

After receiving this news, Cao Yue's joyful mood was suddenly poured with cold water. He somewhat wanted to understand why Jiannu suddenly withdrew his troops, which was probably related to Cao Bianjiao's reinforcements.

Will Dorgon meet Cao Bianjiao's men on the way to retreat?

If Dorgon wants to save face and lead an army to attack Cao Bianjiao, then the tens of thousands of Cao Bianjiao will be in danger!
(End of this chapter)