Chapter 649: Morale is like a rainbow
When it was found that the angry Qing soldiers were rushing back, the Ming cavalry alternately covered the retreat and even had the effect of self-generated guns, making it easier to kill the enemy.
Dolgon only tried a counterattack to know that the gains outweighed the losses, and then the broken Qing cavalry all used equestrian galloping to disengage with the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army", which made the losses much smaller.
After this battle, the self-confidence of the cavalry of the original Ming Army, which accounted for about 30% of the team, increased several times, and they believed that following the "Red Banner Army" had a bright future, not just about eating well, dressing well, and getting a full salary.
can also often win battles and obtain military merits, and may be able to seal the lintel of his wife and son.
The propaganda team reacted quickly and immediately publicized the case of this attack and harassment in which hundreds of Jiannu and Tartars were killed, and none of their own troops were killed, and only dozens of light and serious casualties were widely publicized.
It didn't take long for the battalions of the entire system to know that the "Red Banner Army" had a small victory over the Qing army, and the casualties were insignificant, and for a time the morale was like a rainbow, and the slogan of fighting Shenyang to recover Liaodong was loud and loud.
Everyone is singing "Song of a Good Man", and they all want to be a good man, fight Jiannu, fight Tartars, sweep Liaodong, and fight for ten thousand households.
When Huang Han rushed to Xifengkou with more than 5,000 soldiers of the newly formed guard battalion, the Qing soldiers had already gone away.
He realized that Jiannu's large-scale attack would take place within a month, and it was obvious that the breakthrough site could not be in the defense area of Xuzhen.
He immediately asked Zheng Zhihui, the eunuch of the prison army, to report to the Son of Heaven, and also sent three hundred and dozens of Tartars and Jiannu's first-level praise to the Beijing Division.
The general of the conquest won a small victory in a skirmish with the Qing army on the Great Wall of Xuzhen, asserting that the Qing army was a trial, and they found that the defense line of Xuzhen had no chance to take the initiative to retreat, and then the Xuanda side wall was very likely to become the next target.
Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, panicked, Emperor Chongzhen was anxious, and the official document of the Ministry of War and the emperor's holy decree were immediately issued and sent to Xuanda, urging the civil and military generals to strictly guard against it.
At home, Ding Wei was a filial son, and Yang Sichang, the right attendant of the military department and Xuanda, and the governor of the three towns of Shanxi, was summoned by the Son of Heaven to take up his post on the same day.
Hong Chengchou, the trilateral governor of Shaanxi, Gansu, Yansui, and Ningxia, also received a holy order to hold the defense line of the Great Wall to deal with the breakthrough of Jiannu.
It is rare that this time the Ming Dynasty was warned in advance and had time to prepare for defense, but it was not an egg, and the result disappointed the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces and the emperor.
In late June, the Qing troops who came to the border wall near the Hetao suddenly launched an attack after three days of repairs, and the defense lines of the Great Wall in Xuanda and Taiyuan were as fragile as paper paste, and the Qing soldiers only took one day to enter in three breaches.
The Qing soldiers' invasion of the Ming Dynasty basically coincided with the time in history, but in history, they broke through the Xifeng Pass and Dushi Pass directly from the Jizhen Defense Area.
After the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry entered the pass, they captured Changping in the blink of an eye, and successively captured Liangxiang, Shunyi, Baodi, Dingxing, Ansu, Dacheng, Xiongxian, Anzhou and other prefectures and counties close to Gyeonggi, and beat the land of Gyeonggi into a mess.
The Qing soldiers have not been able to do such a good thing now, and after touching a nose of ash outside the Dushikou and Xifengkou, it took more than half a month to go around the Hetao area and break in.
In the middle of July, the Shuozhou city between the Great Wall outside and outside the Yanmen Pass was drummed down by the Qing soldiers, here is only more than 150 miles away from the Yanmen Pass, and the Yanmen Pass is in danger after the miss.
Yang Sichang, the governor of Xuanda and Shanxi, who had just arrived, wanted to cry without tears, and he hurriedly dispatched troops to enter Yanmen Pass, Xuanfu, Zhangjiakou, Baoanzhou, Datong and other fortified cities to garrison.
He was good at strategy and short of tactics, and he was helpless in the face of the Qing troops all over the mountains, so he could only write a note to ask for reinforcements.
The Manchu and Mongolian coalition forces took Shuozhou City and used this place as a base camp to hoard and capture, and then divided their troops into four ways to plunder.
All the way to the south, intending to seize Ningwu Pass to kill Taiyuan, all the way to the north to attack, looting Datong, Xuanfu, the Nu chief personally led a road to the east to prepare to attack Yanmen Pass.
The men and horses who attacked and advanced to the west were the most rapid, and they took down more than a dozen castles in succession, led by the vicious Dorgon and Dordor.
At this time, Cao Bianjiao, Zuo Guangxian, and Wu Zimian, the three general military officers, were still in Shangluo Mountain in southern Shaanxi to deal with the thieves such as Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Lao Huihui who were playing hide and seek with the official army.
Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, sent 10,000 soldiers and horses to rescue Shenmu County with 10,000 soldiers and horses led by He Renlong, the chief military officer of Shaanxi, and Yu Chongxiao, the chief military officer of Yansui.
The long-legged general He Renlong got the report and learned that the Qing soldiers exceeded 30,000 and immediately abandoned the friendly army and ran away, and he ran into the Yulin Acropolis in one breath and refused to come out again.
Dolgon and Duoduo found that the Ming army came to the aid and organized cavalry to carry out ambush warfare in the movement, such a classic example is the ambush of the famous general Zhao Shujiao in the second year of Chongzhen, and the children of the Eight Banners are familiar with it, and they will draw scoops according to the gourd.
Although Yu Chongxiao is loyal and brave, but Master Guan sells tofu, people are not hard, and the combat effectiveness and number of the men and horses under his command are too different from the two white flags of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.
General Yu, who was besieged by the Qing soldiers, fought hard and finally died honorably, half of the three or four thousand men and horses under his command were killed in battle, and half became prisoners of war.
Hong Chengchou saw that the Qing army was fierce, and the chief officers who could fight under his command fled and the whole army was wiped out, how could he dare to fight again? He completely lost the chic spirit of directing the country when he fought the rogues, and had to be a turtle with a shrunken head.
Not only did he not punish He Renlong, who fled in battle, but also gave money, food and supplies in time, and comforted him with kind words, He Renlong seemed to have become a great hero because he escaped and brought back five or six thousand men and horses.
This is the sorrow of the end of the Ming Dynasty, the death war to serve the country is not to die well, but to give your life in vain, if you are defeated by the enemy and lose your people, even if you are loyal to your duty, you may be punished by the imperial court.
Therefore, the generals who do not have soldiers in their hands are all in danger, and not developing into warlords is the way to die.
His subordinates forcibly recruited good people to join the army, killed good people and risked meritorious deeds, robbed, and raped even more unscrupulously.
Sun Chuanting was preparing for Denglai with peace of mind, looking forward to following the "Red Flag Army" to recover Liaodong, and did not recommend himself to become the governor of Shaanxi because of the highest risk factor, and almost no one dared to go.
Therefore, he did not participate in the civil war, and on July 19, the ninth year of Chongzhen, the leader of the Liukou Alliance, Gao Yingxiang, who had accumulated several years of iron horsemanship, was ambushed by Sun Chuanting in Heishuiyu in the Meridian Valley.
This battle lasted for four days and three nights, Sun Chuanting occupied a favorable location and commanded the ambush soldiers to launch a strong crossbow according to the danger, and Gao Yingxiang led his iron cavalry to launch an attack with the intention of killing the place of death, and then the egg.
Now Chongzhen's nine-year Shaanxi battlefield is absent from Sun Chuanting, which directly leads to the fact that Gao Yingxiang, who has lost all the iron cavalry in history, was captured and sent to the imperial court, and finally the story of a thousand cuts at the entrance of the Jingshi vegetable market did not happen.
Due to the mobilization of a large number of Ming troops by the Qing army, the alliance leader Gao Yingxiang and his iron cavalry are still there, and the Liukou is several times stronger than history.