Chapter 619: Huang Ama, you have to figure it out
As a few trumpets sounded, the woods, where only a small number of Manchurian cavalry of the two yellow flags were on guard nearby, suddenly exploded and boiled.
Countless Qing cavalry suddenly poured out of the woods and pounced on Niujiazhuang like a tide, and the earth's earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves resounded through the battlefield, and even the earth trembled gently. In less than a stick of incense, the Qing army's vanguard had rushed to the south of Niujiazhuang two or three miles away. The two cavalry battalions commanded by Li Yuanyin were guarding there, and as soon as the Qing army's ambush came out, they were already aware of it.
In the face of countless Qing troops, they could not retreat, because the bloody battle in Niujiazhuang continued!
Both Huang Degong and Li Chengdong were dazed and had a serious delusion, thinking that their troops could quickly drive the Qing army out of Niujiazhuang - as long as they could occupy Niujiazhuang, they would be able to rely on the favorable terrain to hold out for a while.
This Niujiazhuang is not small! Before the chaos in the world, it was a big Zhuangzi with a population of two or three thousand, belonging to a huge clan surnamed Niu, and now although it is completely dilapidated, the Niu family who lives here is either dead, or went to the southeast as refugees, and some have joined the Qufu army, but the walls of Zhuangzi's house are still there, enough to squeeze in eight or nine thousand people.
As long as they can stay here, they will definitely be able to hold out until the two divisions led by Zhu Cihong arrive, and then they will be able to win a big victory!
Huang Degong and Li Chengdong, who were eager to win, underestimated the number of Qing troops killed from the woods, thinking that there were only a few thousand, so they asked the cavalry guarding outside Niujiazhuang to delay the Qing soldiers who suddenly killed them.
At the same time, the Qing army commanded by the lovely monk Du Lei was far more tenacious than Huang Degong and Li Chengdong imagined. Although they lost half of the Zhuangzi, the number of casualties and missing exceeded 1,000. But they still stubbornly defended the remaining half of the Zhuangzi, and fought with the Ming army house by house. The entire Niujiazhuang has become a flesh and blood mill, and the soldiers of the two armies who fought with all their might were all fighting heavily, and human lives were being consumed as if they didn't need money, but the battle situation was still in a state of stalemate.
"My lord, there are too many ambushes in Dongyu, far more than a few thousand, and the brothers can't resist it at all!"
Li Yuanyin's voice suddenly came, interrupting Huang Degong and Li Chengdong, who were discussing how to use their last strength to launch a fierce attack.
Li Chengdong turned his head and saw his adopted son covered in blood, standing there with the support of two armor soldiers, his young face full of anxious looks.
"My lord, Mr. Huang, the big thing is not good, there are too many ambushes in Dongyu, boundless, I'm afraid there are twenty or thirty thousand people! The brethren can't stop it, they can't stop it......"
"What? So many? Li Chengdong gasped.
Li Yuanyin's words were full of crying, "My lord, break through quickly!" If you don't break through, it's too late! ”
As if to confirm the truth of what he said, Li Chengdong and Huang Degong both noticed the sound of horses' hooves like rolling thunder at this time, as well as the sound of angry waves shouting and killing!
It's not something that a few thousand people can do!
"Hushan, how is it good?" Li Chengdong had no idea for a while.
Huang Degong's face turned pale, "I can only withdraw!" Niujiazhuang can't be defeated for a while, and there are 20,000 or 30,000 Qing troops outside, and if you don't withdraw, it's a dead end......"
"Good!" Li Chengdong nodded heavily, "I'll take the cavalry to kill a bloody road, and Brother Hushan will lead the infantry to follow!" ”
Huang Degong sighed heavily: "Escape as much as you want!" ”
Then the two glanced at each other wordlessly, and then went to reorganize the troops separately and prepared to break through.
Li Chengdong's two battalions of cavalry just fought outside Niujiazhuang, losing more than half, and now there are less than 400 cavalry left, Huang Degong still has a little scattered cavalry on hand, all of which are dead soldiers who have followed him for many years, and now they are also handed over to Li Chengdong, and the two families have a total of 500 cavalry, and they dare not attack to the north, so they all rush out from the east of Zhuangzi.
Huang Degong reorganized the infantry, leaving three or four hundred dead soldiers to contain the Qing army in Zhuangzi, and also left all the artillery, and 8 3-pounder guns fired desperately at the north to attract the attention of the Qing army. Then Huang Degong personally led seven or eight thousand infantry out of Niujiazhuang.
However, Huang Degong didn't go too far, and thousands of cavalry with yellow flags rushed over like a flood!
These thousands of cavalry are the commander-in-chief of the rear wing (ambush) of the Qing army, and the reserve directly led by Xinjueluo Baiyintu, who is inlaid with the yellow flag and solid mountain.
After Bai Yintu commanded the ambush soldiers to kill out of the woods, he immediately divided the troops into three routes, one route was led by Gushan Ezhen Tan Tai of the Yellow Banner, and rushed into Niujiazhuang to reinforce Dulei; One route was commanded by Suke Saha, and went around to the north of Niujiazhuang to cut off the retreat of the Ming army; All the way to the south of Niujiazhuang standby.
After discovering that the Ming army had broken through from the east of Niujiazhuang, Bai Yintu immediately led the cavalry to chase and kill. At this time, most of the Ming army was already in a panic, and it was difficult to maintain the array, and they were completely confused by the Qing cavalry, and they fled in all directions. Only a battalion personally controlled by Huang Degong still maintained the formation of the Morris phalanx, using spears to cover the firearms, fighting as they went, not only was not crushed by the Qing army, but also repelled the repeated attacks of several Niu Lu of the Qing army, killing and wounding hundreds of soldiers of the Eight Banners before and after.
Seeing this group of Ming troops piercing their hands, Bai Yintu was reluctant to fight for the lives of the old Eight Banners, so he had to let them live and turn to pursue the other fleeing Ming troops - in fact, they couldn't chase far, because Guishan still needed them to reinforce!
Dolgon knew he didn't have much time - once the Ming army from Jinan Province arrived on the battlefield, the Qing Dynasty would really be finished...... Therefore, according to later statistics, the losses of the Ming army in the battle of Niujiazhuang were not particularly heavy. Thousands of people who followed Huang Degong and Li Chengdong into the formation and withdrew from the battlefield, and nearly 4,000 people returned to the team one after another within half a month after the war. Although nearly half of the losses were made, the formation of the twelve Morris infantry battalions was still maintained, and as long as there were enough soldiers and equipment to replenish them, they would soon recover.
The Qing army's losses on the Niujiazhuang battlefield were close to 2,000 people, which was almost two and a half Ming troops for one Qing army Nine Banners.
Whether this kind of exchange is worth it or not, Emperor Amadorgon has to count his fingers!
When the fierce battle on Niujiazhuang's side was not over, a generation of Confucian Marshal Shi Kefa had already begun to "stop losses on the battlefield".
He, Gao Hongtu, and Zuo Maodi can hold on to the Shandong battlefield for so long, and the kung fu of "battlefield stop loss" is of course good.
They won't shed the last drop of blood in a bloody vehicular out!
Shandong's resistance to the Qing Dynasty is a protracted war, how can it last if it is dead? Only by defeating and not dying, can we be defeated again and again, and can we really last!
Therefore, when Shi Kefa and the others set up a formation on Turtle Mountain, they were already ready to retreat. More than 1,000 people were sent to divide into several teams, carrying a large number of banners and drums to ambush on Horseshoe Mountain and Yunmeng Mountain, about 20 miles north of Guishan, and at the same time, they also reserved a reserve team to serve as the palace army, and also built a small car city on Guishan Mountain with large shields, vehicles and bags filled with grain and grass.
However, the most important thing is that Shi Kefa and Gao Hongtu grasped the timing of starting to run away very well, and they did not have any luck. Finding that the situation in Niujiazhuang had changed greatly, he immediately discarded his baggage and vehicles, divided into several roads and rushed down Turtle Mountain, and retreated to Yunmeng Mountain and Horseshoe Mountain in the north.
At this time, Dolgon's army was still scattered on a frontal area more than ten miles wide, and the middle road was still fighting hard with the Ming army on Turtle Mountain. The left flank had just completed a detour and spread out on the right side of the Ming army's chariot array. The right wing of the Qing army, including the four or five thousand men deployed in Lizhuang, was busy pursuing the defeated army of Huang Degong and Li Chengdong.
And Dolgon's own team had just set off from Baijia Village and advanced forward.
However, Dolgon still refused to accept it when he saw it, today's battle has been fought so far, he has not won enough, and his own losses are not small, if he does not take advantage of this opportunity to chase and kill, what capital is there to negotiate peace with Emperor Zhu?
A burst of military drums resounded across the battlefield, and more than 40,000 cavalry on the middle and left flanks of the Qing army began to pursue one after another! The cavalry and cavalry infantry wearing four-color armor, if the tide spreads over the white field, hundreds of thousands of horses' hooves beat the earth like raindrops, and for a time it seems that the heavens and the earth tremble.
The power of tens of thousands of cavalry rushing to kill reached its climax at this moment, and the palace army left by Shi Kefa was quickly overwhelmed by the torrent of Qing cavalry.
After a fierce but short rearguard battle, a one-sided scene soon appeared on the Kameyama battlefield.
But it was one-sided, which also meant that the main force of the Ming army was also retreating rapidly......