Chapter 516: Once Upon a Time in the Hunhe River (Two in One)
"Look, Lord Chief! It's the Sichuan Army! A small colonel stood on a high place and pointed to the defeated Ming army on the north bank of the Hunhe River.
"The last generals, Deng Qilong, Yuan Jianlong, knocked on the chief soldier!" Among the defeated Ming army, two blood-stained people came out of their armor and knelt down.
"How's the war going on the North Shore? Why don't you see Qin Dusi? Chief soldier Tong Zhonghua felt bad in his heart.
"Lord Qiyu, Qin Du Si ...... He died in battle, as well as the guerrilla Zhou Dunji, the staff general Wu Wenjie, and the garrison Lei Anmin were all killed! Now only more than 340 people including us are left in the Sichuan army, and they have successfully broken through.
My lord, I want to avenge Qin Dusi and them! "Four thousand brothers died in one day, and Deng Qilong couldn't cry anymore after speaking.
"Crying for what? Niangli is not like the men of our Sichuan army! My lord, we were the vanguard! The whole team of Tartar cavalry was already faintly visible on the north bank of the river, and Yuan Jianlong got up and asked for his life.
"Don't be impatient, how many Tartars are there on the North Shore?" Although Tong Zhonghua was deeply sad, as the chief soldier, he could only endure the anger in his heart.
"Nurhachi's forward is at least 20,000, led by him personally, all of them are elite with positive white flags and positive yellow flags, but they have taken turns attacking our army's camp on the north bank, and they have been repelled by our Sichuan army several times and killed thousands."
Yuan Jianlong wiped a handful of blood from his face and wiped it indiscriminately on the cotton armor.
"Well done! Let's rest after we go, and then I'll leave it to the official! Tong Zhonghua patted the two of them on the shoulder.
4,000 infantry against 20,000 Jiannu cavalry, plus it is still the elite of the Eight Banners, and it can kill thousands of enemies in most of the day, and the white pole soldiers are good.
Deng Qilong and the others didn't say much, they hadn't eaten all day, if it weren't for the starvation of the white pole soldiers due to Jiannu's repeated attacks, the Sichuan soldiers would not have ended up in this situation.
"Vice General Qi, it will take at least two hours for reinforcements, and now it will depend on the Zhejiang soldiers." Tong Zhonghua looked at the Eight Banners soldiers who had already rushed over, and turned back to Qi Jindao beside him.
The 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers in the camp were also infantry, and in the face of Nurhachi, it was impractical to retreat at this time, so they had to fight and wait for reinforcements.
The imperial court sent them to support Shen Yang, behind the high walls of Shen Yang City, there was plenty of grain and grass, there were only forty or fifty artillery pieces, and the 70,000 defenders in the city faced the 8 Banner soldiers who were not equipped with 50,000 grain and grass, and they didn't even survive for three days, which was really ridiculous!
"It's just two hours! Next, let's look at my Zhejiang soldiers! Qi Jin didn't say much, got up and walked to his subordinates.
The three thousand Zhejiang soldiers were already waiting in the built car formation, and the Qi family's army was so disciplined that they didn't even need him to speak to boost morale, and the soldiers all knew that today would be a bloody battle, but all of them were fearless.
"Three hundred steps!" A Zhejiang soldier in charge of reconnaissance reported the distance, and the ground under the galloping of thousands of horses trembled.
"Artillery battalion, open fire!" Qi Jin ordered towards the camp of large-caliber Fran machine guns on both sides.
Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom
Due to the heavy losses of the Eight Banners against the 4,000 white pole soldiers, only the generals lost eight members, and Nurhachi issued a strict order in anger that this group of Ming troops must be completely defeated!
"Two hundred steps!"
"Crossbowmen volley!"
The four rows of Qi family army crossbowmen had already lined up, and after the order, they neatly picked up the bows and crossbows in their hands.
Woo Woo - Blah bla
After two rounds of volleys, hundreds of Eight Bannermen fell off their horses.
The momentum of the Eight Banners' charge has weakened, and in the past, the Ming army was basically defeated at the touch of a button in the field battle with the Ming army, and this group of Ming troops is too strong.
"One hundred steps!"
"Prepare the firecrackers!"
"Rocketeers prepare!"
"Tiger Squat Cannon Ready!"
"Fire!"
Hulala-the entire Qijia army camp moved quickly, and only a moment later, firearms, rockets, and tiger squat cannons began to roar, and the Eight Banners soldiers who had just rushed into the Ming army camp less than fifty paces instantly turned on their backs.
The first round of the offensive lasted only a quarter of an hour, and Prince Duoduo of England stomped his feet as he watched the defeated Eight Banners soldiers, and in just a quarter of an hour, his warriors were killed in more than a thousand battles.
"General Qi, except for dozens of people in our army who were injured by Jiannu Feiyu, no one was killed!" Chen Ce, a veteran staff officer who is over sixty years old, came to report wearing armor.
"The Tartars are rushing again!" Before Qi Jin could speak, someone shouted.
"The whole team! Hold on! Qi Jin immediately yelled!
Two hours later, the Qi family's army ran out of ammunition, and the Jiannu cavalry still took turns to charge the battle despite the overwhelming number of people.
"General Soldier Tong, our army has run out of ammunition, when will reinforcements come?" Qi Jinhuo hurriedly walked to Tong Zhonghua's side and said.
"I just got the sentry report, the general soldier Zhu Wanliang led 30,000 soldiers to help, and went to Hupiyi to meet Huang Taiji, only one of them was defeated, and thousands were killed." Tong Zhong smashed his fist on the gun carriage.
"One general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies, and then the incompetent soldiers are also incompetent, if the court is in danger!" Qi Jin didn't say a word, drew his sword and wanted to continue to meet the Eight Banners.
The 30,000 Ming army was defeated with only one face, and the mourning was greater than the death.
It is a pity that the 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers under his command have resisted the elite of the 20,000 Eight Banners for two hours, but the position is already impregnable.
"Herald! Send this letter to the governor Yuan Yingtai as soon as possible, and ask him to send troops to help quickly! After Tong Zhonghua finished explaining the herald, he also drew his war knife and walked to the front of the battle.
"Iron wolf, thorn!" The firearms and ammunition were exhausted, and the Qi family army had to fall into close combat, but all the soldiers were still in good order and high morale, and finally rushed to the front of the Eight Banners and ran into the iron wolf of the Qi family army.
Duoduo roared in front of the formation, watching his Eight Banners athletes fall one by one, but he couldn't break through the car formation of the Ming army in front of him.
"Order your men to withdraw!" Nurhachi arrived from the rear and gave orders to Dord, who was already furious.
"But...... My warrior ...... "Dodor is unwilling.
"Humph! It's been more than two hours, and I can't even take down the camp of 3,000 people, let alone the warriors, retreat! Nurha snorted coldly.
"Yes, the retainer obeys!" Duoduo's brows furrowed into twists, where had he encountered today's shame after ten years of fighting.
"Send the Hannu captives over for that job, and tell them to take down the position in front of them, and each of them will be rewarded with a thousand gold!" Nurhachi stroked his beard and sneered, use the Hannu's soldiers, the Hannu's artillery, attack the Hannu's position, and let this group of Hannu kill each other!
"Zhang Dadou, Lao Tzu killed six, what about you?" Seeing that the Tartar soldiers were repulsed again, the one hundred and ten remaining white-pole soldiers in the front row were finally able to breathe.
"Lese, let's kill eight! Pang Yongguang, you bag, hahaha! The man named Zhang Dadou got up, wiped his sword, and laughed.
The white pole soldiers of Sichuan and Shu are all dressed in armor, with a layer of thick cotton, knives and arrows are not defensive, plus the strange spears unique to the white pole soldiers, and they are handy to stab the tartars.
"Danger!"
Boom - boom boom - boom boom -
"Zhang Dadou! You are a special mother, wake up Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu is not dead yet! You bag! Pang Yongguang shook Zhang Dadou's head, and his eyes turned red instantly.
A shell hit Zhang Dadou's waist, and the huge impact directly blasted Zhang Dadou in half, and Pang Yongguang crawled out of more than 20 parts in the face of artillery fire before finding Zhang Dadou's broken upper body.
There was still a joke just now, but it was just a flash of work, and it was gone.
Boom Boom Boom Boom - A group of Ming army Shenji battalion prisoners from Shenyang, under the supervision of the Tartar soldiers behind them, launched a second round of artillery bombardment on their own compatriots.
"Hide in the trenches!" After the second round of shelling, Qi Jin gave the order to the position that had been blasted open several gaps.
The artillery fire lasted for half an hour, and the station of the Qi family army was thrown into chaos.
"Duoduo, it's now, charge your subordinates, be sure to take it at once!" Nurhachi saw the moment and did not hesitate.
"The son has an order!" Unable to wait, Dodor turned on his horse and ran towards his camp.
"Chen Ce, what is the loss of the car formation?" Qi Jin shook his head, and a previous cannonball almost flew over his head.
"Report to General Qi, sixty percent of the damage has been lost." Chen Ce is a little old, but his words are surprisingly capable.
"The Tartar shelling has stopped, and I want to rush again immediately, most of the damage to the car formation is no longer useful, pass on our military order, abandon the car formation, and go to the mandarin duck formation!" Qi Jin is categorical.
Giving up the car formation means that the Qi family army will completely fall into close combat, which is also a helpless thing, the strength of the car formation is that the whole is complete, once there is a gap and the cavalry breaks in, the gain outweighs the loss.
"The Tartars are coming! Tie the mandarin duck array! Qi Wu, the official of the hundred households, yelled at his subordinates.
"Roar-" Qi Jiajun quickly formed a formation in a group of eleven people, two long players stood at the front of the queue with a long shield in their hands, followed by two Teng shield players with Teng shield in their left hand and a javelin in their right hand.
The next two are the wolf whiskers who hold the long wolf whisks, followed by four pikemen with spears in their hands, two on the left and right, and two on the left and right sides of the shield and the wolf whiskers in front of them.
Followed by two soldiers armed with "boring palladium" to serve as guards, supporters, and other work.
"Rush! Kill these damned slaves! Under the protection of his personal guards, Duoduo led more than 6,000 Eight Banner soldiers to meet him with a roar.
However, the Qi family army suppressed the Japanese invaders, broke the Mongols, and went to Korea to fight against the Japanese in any battles, and a team of players desperately resisted the cavalry charge, and then Teng shield hands, wolf swordsmen, and pikemen closely cooperated.
In only a quarter of an hour, the Eight Banners lay down a thousand people, and the Duoduo war knives were all curled, and there was no way to take this mandarin duck array.
"Duoduo, you step aside, let Brother Wei see this group of damned Jiannu!" The smoke and dust were billowing from the rear, but it was Dolgon of Shenyang City who came to support with 20,000 fresh troops.
Then 40,000 Eight Banner soldiers took turns to go into battle, launching a wheel-like charge against the Qi family's army, and Jiannu relied on the large number of people to come in turns, but after fighting fiercely for most of the day, all the Zhejiang soldiers were already exhausted.
Half an hour later, as the sky was getting dark, the Qi army finally repelled Dolgon's charge once again.
"Report! Qi Yu Tong General Soldier, Yuan Yingtai refused to send troops to help! The sentinel who came from Liaoyang dismounted and reported with grief and indignation.
"Got it, change your armor and get ready for battle!" After waiting for so long, after experiencing the initial anger, Qi Jin and Tong Zhonghua seemed calm.
How could they not know that there would be no more reinforcements, and Yuan Yingtai was frightened by the Tartars after his defeat in Shenyang.
Boom Boom Boom Boom - Nurhachi, who had not been able to attack for a long time, began shelling again.
The shelling continued until dark, but no one in the Qi family's camp escaped without permission.
"Old Qi, take advantage of the darkness, after the official leads three hundred people to the palace, you lead the rest of the people to break through, how many can you go." Tong Zhong held a long knife with blood in his hand and said to Qi Jin, who was silent on the side.
"The husband serves the country today, and the two of us have to die!" Qi Jin was unmoved.
At present, there are only a thousand people who can fight, and all of them are injured, and they have been fighting all day without a war horse, how can they outrun tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers.
And without the cooperation of the Mandarin Duck Array, three hundred people can't withstand a single face of the Eight Banners, so it's better to fight to the death, for the general's horse leather shroud, as a model for future generations, I hope the court will be vigilant.
"My lord, the Tartars have been killed." A veteran of the Qi family army came to report.
"Zhang Dadou, you bag of balls, and wait on the road for a while! I'll be looking for you in a moment! At the end of the day, we are still brothers! Pang Yongguang stared at the Eight Banners who pounced again, and stood up muttering while holding the left leg of the arrow.
"If General Ben remembers correctly, your surname is Wu!
Give you an order, go to war later, you ride the general's war horse to the east, go back and tell my three boys, so that they can learn martial arts and reimburse the court. Qi Jin got up and carried the bladed war knife and walked side by side with Tong Zhong.
"General Qi......"
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Turning his gaze back to the Qijiabao cemetery, Wu Chengye knelt in front of Qi Jin's tomb and muttered in a low voice, as if he couldn't get out of that memory, and old tears flowed down his cheeks covered with ravines.
"General Qi, General Tong, General Chen, Sun Yi, Zhang Cheng, Song Zhongliang......" Wu Chengye pointed to the surrounding graves and shouted the names of the former robes one by one.
"In that bloody battle, the Sichuan soldiers and my Qijia army fought 7,000 battles against tens of thousands of Tartars, and they fought for two whole days and killed more than 10,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners.
Later, I learned that the old master was stabbed several times, and the general soldier Tong was also hit by more than a dozen arrows, and the cruel Duoduo even punished the corpses of the two generals with five horses! ”
Wu Chengye's voice was full of anger, both resentment against the Tartars and resentment against the Ming army for not saving him.
"You are the veteran surnamed Wu back then." Liu Hong gradually sighed, the end of the Qi family army is not tragic.
"But in the end, what did the two generals get back? That Yuan Yingtai was cowardly and did not save the enemy, and wrote a note to the imperial court saying that General Qi was greedy for merit and rashly advanced, and erased all the merits of the two generals......
Lord, do you think my Qi family still dares to fight for the imperial court? Wu Chengye did not answer Liu Hongji, but muttered to himself.
"The imperial court is indeed ashamed of the Qi family, but do you believe Uncle Wu? This king never wanted to fight for the imperial court. Liu Hong gradually got up and looked around at the graves.
Liu Hongji's words startled Wu Chengye.
"This king fought in the south and the north, so that the children and grandchildren of my Han family would not bend their waists for the Tartars, and for the inheritance of the Han family to continue to stand tall on this land.
I'm sure the same is true of General Qi. Liu Hong gradually walked to the tombs of Qi Jiguang and Qi Jin and bowed three times.
"What the prince said is good!" A deep male voice suddenly came from behind, and a sturdy man walked over.
PS: This chapter has been written for a long time, firstly, to consult a lot of information on the Battle of the Hunhe River, and secondly, to restore the last tragedy of the Qi family's army, the Qi family army was established in the 38th year of Jiajing, to 1621, the whole army was wiped out, a total of 62 years of galloping on the battlefield, they are the heroes of the nation.