Chapter 992: Wu Zheng arrived at the right time

At this time, if you look from a high altitude, you can clearly see that a thin and tortuous line of troops is driving a thick crowd of people, like a slender wave, struggling to hit the thick embankment.

The front of more than 4,000 people is indeed thin compared to the nearly 40,000 followers.

Wu Zheng had no choice, and when he learned from Qi Chenghao that Li Haiwei had entered Beijing from Yifengmen, Wu Zheng knew that things were going bad.

Nikan is not a rookie, and such an undisguised withdrawal of the Ming army is absolutely impossible for him to understand as a lure to the enemy.

Even if it is to lure the enemy, it only takes one tentative feint to distinguish it.

Then, the great victory of the Guan Ming army without the firearms of Lihaiwei will definitely not be able to stop the Qing army, which is twice as large as Nikan.

It was obviously too late to rush back from Xicheng to transfer troops and set off, Wu Zheng gritted his teeth and reorganized the forbidden army of Huang Dazhan on the spot.

Wu Zheng said a few words to these forbidden troops, "At this time, the battle of Dashengguan is urgent, this king will give you a way to live, and those who die in Dashengguan will be punished for their crimes, those who have not been in the past, and those who are passive and slack off in battle, will be punished for two crimes and their families!" ”

Thus, there is this "motley army".

With Qi Chenghao's 1,000 musketeers as the forerunner, and more than 3,000 forbidden troops followed, such more than 4,000 people were stunned to scare Nikan's 8,000 forwards away, so that the Qing army's vanguard broke the Chinese army, and it was like a note!

The forbidden soldiers who followed behind the musket battalion were really dumbfounded, they were indeed ready to die in battle, especially the forbidden troops under Yuan Chengli's department who were chasing and killing Wu Zheng, they wanted to exchange their own death for their families' lives, so it was much better than being killed at noon gate and causing disaster to their families by those who plotted rebellion.

However, they found it too hard to die today.

The Qing army retreated as if fleeing the plague, and they did not even look back to see how many people there were.

Even Nikan.

The fear of the firearms of the Northern Expedition has become a disease of the Qing army under Nikan, and it is no wonder that the 120,000 troops led by Nikan who set off from Jiangpu have withdrawn to more than 10,000 wounded soldiers on the other side of the river, and these people are still alive.

Among the more than 60,000 battle losses, sixty percent came from Chen Sheng's Lihaiwei, you know, Lihaiwei only joined the war after the afternoon of the second day of the outbreak of the war, and only guard www.biqudao.xyz ed the Jinchuan Gate.

If it weren't for the intermittent supply of ammunition, Chen Sheng would definitely be sure that after going out of the city to counterattack on the second day of the war, he would drive the 40,000 Qing troops from Dashengguan down the Yangtze River to feed the fish.

Therefore, Nikan did not think that the pursuers behind him were just blackmail and scare, and when the dull sound of shooting and dense explosions sounded, he took it for granted that Chen Sheng's Li Haiwei had returned.

So, the Qing army, which lost the cover of the Great Victory Pass, no matter how many people there are, can only be the target of the musket.

Wu Zheng was not surprised, after four and a half years of fighting, he was very comfortable with battlefield control, and it was not an exaggeration at all.

This is like the sense of cards when playing cards, and the psychology of the opponent, Wu Zheng concluded that Nikan did not dare to face the musket battalion.

If Nikan dared, he would not have 40,000 troops in hand, and he would not dare to take the initiative to counterattack out of the pass.

As it turned out, Nikan led his troops to flee in a hurry.

Wu Zheng intensified his efforts and sent cavalry at the right time, yes, the thousand war horses that Qi Chenghao's musketeers had a headache for.

Return them to the Forbidden Army, and there is this thousand-man cavalry.

Nikan is really about to cry, no matter how sharp the musketeers are, they have to rely on two legs to chase, as long as they flee, the Ming army will not be able to catch up.

But how did the Ming army have cavalry?

You must know that Dasheng Pass is across the waterway, from east to west to escape, you need to wade through, although this waterway is not deep, but it is definitely an obstacle to escape, especially in this kind of chaos.

Nikan had to make the decision to cut off the arms of the strong man, and ordered a part of the front team of the Chinese army to become the rear team, block the pursuit of the Ming army, and cover the front army and himself to cross the river.

Nikan's heart is indeed ruthless enough, he is ruthless in killing, and he is also ruthless to himself, he left 5,000 Chinese troops, fought from the river, and launched a counter-charge against the chasing Ming cavalry.

As Nikan boarded the ferry under the escort of his own soldiers, countless Qing soldiers took the initiative to throw themselves into the river like dumplings.

God knows how many of the Qing soldiers were landlubbers, and after this "poof" sound, after splashing a splash, I saw two hands dancing on the water, and then slowly disappeared.

This is so, the Qing army by the river is still going forward one after another, this tragic scene, so that Nikan on the ferry boat hysterically stomped his feet and roared, but there was nothing to be done.

What made Nikan even worse than death was that he was surprised to find that the chasing Ming cavalry was actually blocked by the 6,000 broken Chinese soldiers he left behind.

Blocked?

Blocked!

Nikan's Chinese army, although not Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, but the Han Eight Banners, at this time the Han Eight Banners soldiers, basically from the north of the Yellow River, to be precise, the first banner of the Han Eight Banners, is the artillery cast by Wang Tianxiang captured by the Emperor Taiji Yongping Battle, the formation of the Han Army Banner, the flag is blue, led by the forehead Tong Yangxing this "heavy army".

After Kong Youde took thousands of large and small artillery pieces and cannon casting craftsmen to take the initiative to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji expanded the first banner of the Han Dynasty to the second banner of the Han Dynasty, and two years later, it was expanded to the fourth banner of the Han Dynasty.

Three years later, in the seventh year of Chongde, the Qing court won the victory of the Songjin War, and the people who surrendered to the Daling River before were set up as a leader, and the original Han leader formed the Eight Banners Han Army, the flag color was the same as that of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, so there were eight banners of the Han Dynasty.

To say this, it means that nine out of ten of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty are hardcore "traitors", but they are elite veterans who have experienced a hundred battles.

Against cavalry, they were very experienced.

Facing the cavalry backlash, approaching a certain distance, they curled up on the spot and lay down, waiting for the Ming cavalry to come up and cut off the horse's legs.

It's a sinister method, basically a life-or-death one, but it's very effective.

Because war horses are spiritual animals, they have obstacles in front of the year, especially when they are alive, they often choose to dodge or jump, and the rider can control the war horse to dodge with the reins, but it is generally difficult to control the war horse to jump off the initiative.

Therefore, the situation of being trampled basically occurred in the back row of the cavalry line, because the war horses behind could not see that there was an obstacle in front.

But once the front horse is cut and the hooves are cut off, it will be frustrated, and the rider will be thrown out by inertia.

The cavalry behind will not only trample on the Qing soldiers, but also collide with their own wounded horses and riders.

The resulting chaos can be grasped by the prepared follow-up Qing soldiers, which can block the cavalry charge.

Since he stays behind, he is a life of nine deaths.

These soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty knew very well in their hearts that even if they were lucky enough not to die, being captured would be a dead end, so they fought very fiercely.

Almost three or four lives in exchange for a Ming cavalryman.

It was in this ferocious way that slowly, the true strength of the Ming cavalry was revealed.