"Chapter 9: Three Reactions"
Man's two eyes are all parallel, but they don't see people equally, man's ears are divided on two sides, but he always listens to one side, and man has only one mouth, but he can always speak on both sides.
- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)
After the fall of the new Eight Banners, which had 200,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry, the Jianzhou Eight Banners, which had only 130,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry, began to gradually withdraw from Mulhouse Province under the command of the new Jianzhou Jurchen Khan Emperor Taiji, intending to return to the Jianzhou Jurchen base camp.
The 130,000 Jianzhou Eight Banners Army, which was expanded from the elite of the 60,000 old Eight Banners, has not achieved a leap improvement in overall combat effectiveness compared with the past; in other words, the strength of the Jianzhou Eight Banners is far less powerful than that of the new Eight Banners, and this is the reason why Huang Taiji has not gone south.
The news of the collapse of the New Eight Banners once plunged Huang Taiji, who had not yet sat on the throne of Khan, into extreme panic, and he was afraid that the victorious Tianlong army would take advantage of the victory to go north, because he knew that the 130,000 cavalry under his command alone would not be able to stop the counterattack of the Tianlong army.
Fortunately, the army under Bai Feng's command also needed to rest and replenish, and Huang Taiji, who did not want to continue to stay in the territory of the Heavenly Dragon Empire, had the opportunity to lead the army to evacuate the province of Mulhouse, but the countless gold and silver treasures that had been plundered did delay their retreat.
Until the Baifeng army rested for two full months, there were still about 30,000 cavalry of the Jianzhou Eight Banners who had not withdrawn from Mulhouse Province, and if half of the infantry who had not been withdrawn were added, there were still 50,000 people in the Jianzhou Eight Banners army remaining in Mulhouse Province!
In stark contrast to the slow withdrawal of the Eight Banners of Jianzhou, the Turkic army under the command of the Turkic Khan, since the province of Langxiang was recovered by the Tianlong army under Bai Feng, the provinces of Saint Diye and Yarsas, which were occupied by the Turkic army, were under siege.
The military headquarters originally deployed twenty-five legions in Langer Province, and although these legions were newly formed or reconstituted standing legions, their numerical superiority was something that the Turkic army could not ignore in any way.
With these 500,000 troops stationed in Langer Province, the Turkic army, which was only half the number of the Celestial Dragon Army, did not continue to advance southward, but with the recovery of Langxiang Province by the Celestial Dragon Army, the situation of the Turkic army suddenly became dangerous.
The province of Langel, which was directly south of the Turkic army, had an army of 500,000 Celestial Dragons, and the province of Langxiang, which was located to the southeast of the Turkic army, had at least 400,000 Celestial Dragons, and all of them were elite divisions.
After all, the fate of the 200,000 Jurchen tribe's Eight Banner cavalry has already shown how strong the combat effectiveness of the Tianlong counteroffensive army is, and Ji Li does not intend to let his cavalry die.
What's more, after such a long period of plundering, the Turkic army under the command of Jili Khan had harvested enough wealth and food for their Turkic tribes to squander for more than ten years without worry, and in this case, withdrawing from the Celestial Dragon Empire may not be a good choice.
Gili Khan, who made a quick decision, led the Turkic army under his command to evacuate all the territory of the Celestial Dragon Empire in only about a month, so that the Celestial Dragon army in Langer Province successfully recovered the province of Saint-Diye without much effort.
After the withdrawal of the Turkic army, the province of Alsace, north of the province of Saint-Diye, was occupied by the Khitan army of Wanyan Aguta, and for this reason, Wanyan Aguta, who was short of troops, even took the initiative to abandon the province of Mes, which was closer to the hinterland of the Tianlong Empire.
After the 35 Celestial Dragon Legions stationed in Reims Province and Klefmont Province recovered Metz Province due to the voluntary abandonment of the Khitan army, more than 600,000 Celestial Dragon troops came to the border of Verdun Province and could attack the Khitan army occupying Verdun Province at any time.
After a series of military transfers, the Turkic tribes, one of the three tribes that invaded the Tianlong Empire, took the lead in withdrawing from the war, and the Khitan tribes, who were unwilling to retreat, were surrounded on both sides by an army of 1.1 million Tianlong.
The Eight Banners of Jianzhou, which were retreating slowly, would all withdraw from the territory of the Tianlong Empire in about half a month at most; unfortunately, Bai Feng, who had the full support of the military department, was not prepared to give the Eight Banners of Jianzhou a chance to safely withdraw to the Jurchen base camp of Jianzhou.
The army of the Bright Knights of Archbishop Scola and the Holy Son of Charlorah will only occasionally participate in the battle once or twice, and will not always help the Celestial Dragon Empire to fight hard, this is clear to Bai Feng, so the army that Bai Feng used to counterattack the Mulhouse Province was the Eight Banners of the Celestial Dragon that he formed himself!
Using the Eight Flags against the Eight Flags, this is the real-for-tat, isn't it?
Considering the relationship between the Eight Banners of the Dragon and the Eight Banners of Jianzhou, in order to avoid the phenomenon of large-scale defection of the army of the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon, Bai Feng deliberately selected the two yellow flags and two blue flags of the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon as the main force of his army's counterattack on Mulhouse Province.
The bannermen of the two yellow flags, Dolgon and Azig, and the bannermen of the two blue flags, Dudu and Nikan, are all people who the new Jianzhou Jurchen Khan Emperor Taiji is eager to get rid of; even if it is out of their own safety, Dolgon and the others will not defect to Huang Taiji.
In addition to the 24,000 cavalry of the two yellow flags and the two blue flags, the 12,000 cavalry of Alexander and Antico, and the 20,000 cavalry of the Donald cavalry corps were deployed by Bai Feng on the flanks of the main army, responsible for protecting the flanks of the main army.
In the face of Bai Feng's practice of clearly protecting but actually surveillance, Dolgon and the others did not dare to raise any objections, so the 56,000 elite cavalry under Bai Feng's command divided into three ways and killed the army of the Eight Banners of Jianzhou in the territory of Mulhouse Province.
In fact, the 30,000 troops of the Jianzhou Eight Banners that remained in the territory of Mulhouse Province at this time were not the cavalry of the two yellow banners of Huang Taiji and his son, but the 20,000 cavalry of the two red flags of Daishan and his son, and some of the cavalry of the two blue flags and two white flags, totaling 30,000 cavalry.
The 30,000 cavalry scattered throughout the province of Mulhouse not only did not have a unified commander to command, but did not even have the most basic military coordination, and they fought separately, and their main energy was mainly focused on scraping the ground and plundering, hoping to make a windfall before leaving.
First, the 5,000 taels of blue flag cavalry in Mulhouse County were annihilated by the two yellow banner armies of Dolgon and Azig, and then the 5,000 taels of white flag cavalry in Colmar County were annihilated by the two blue banner armies of Dudu Nikan;
By the time the 10,000 Red Banner Cavalry of Le Tiyo County and the 10,000 Red Banner Cavalry of Serrestad County returned, Donald, who could not bear it, had already led the cavalry corps under his command to cut Le Tiyo County and Serrestad County into two sections.
Alexander and Antigonus, who acted at the same time as Donald, led 12,000 taels of Red Banner cavalry under their command to cut off their retreat from the rear of the enemy army by detouring the two flanks, and the 20,000 infantry of the Eight Banners of Jianzhou, who were responsible for guarding the road, were directly annihilated by the two Red Banners of the first attack.
After learning that the 30,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry left in the province of Mulhouse under his command were surrounded by the Tianlong army, Huang Taiji, who had not yet sat on the throne, first discussed with Dai Shan and others about the rescue strategy, and then gave up the besieged soldiers under the 'request' of Dai Shan and others.
Huang Taiji's initiative to give up, so that the army under Bai Feng's command was able to successfully annihilate all the Jianzhou Eight Banners army in the territory of Mulhouse Province;