The Qing army was defeated, and the Eight Banners cavalry rode on their horses and took the lead in fleeing for their lives. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Hordes of cavalry passed through the crowd of Qing infantry, and countless Qing soldiers were trampled and trampled into pulp. The broken flagpole of the Green Battalion fell to the ground, and thousands of horses' hooves trampled over the flags that had turned into rags, and the ground was full of wailing Green Battalion soldiers. The infantry of the Green Battalion who were trampled to death and trampled by the cavalry of the Eight Banners were even more dead than in the hands of the Wu army.

After all, the four legs of the Eight Banners cavalry were much faster than the two legs of the Green Battalion infantry, and they could escape the pursuit of the Wu army relatively quickly. It's just that the infantry of the Green Battalion blocked the road, and the cavalry of the Eight Banners trampled on the infantry of the Green Battalion in desperation.

The Eight Banners cavalry fled the battlefield with the corpses of the Green Camp Qing Army, leaving the remaining Green Camp Qing Army to the Wu Army.

The main general of the Qing army also ran away, and after all, Zhao Liangdong, Wang Jinbao, Daniel Zhang, and others, the main generals of the Qing army in the green camp, all rode horses, and they took their own soldiers who also rode horses, threw the infantry to the Wu army, and fled for their lives with their own soldiers and senior officers.

"Leave a thousand men to deal with the Tartar infantry, and the rest of the brethren will come with you!" Gao Dejie asked his soldiers to issue a banner.

The cavalry of the Wu army divided 1,000 men and pursued the Qing infantry. From time to time, Qing soldiers were caught up by the Wu cavalry, but the Wu cavalry did not swing their swords to cut off the heads of the Qing soldiers, nor did they ride their horses to ram, but circled around the periphery of the Qing army, and also used cavalry bows to shoot arrows from time to time. Some cavalrymen pretended to charge at the Qing army, rushed a few steps, hacked a Qing soldier to death, and immediately turned back. The Wu cavalry acted in this way to deliberately drive away the Qing army and drive them to the river.

The defeated Qing army was driven into a ball by the cavalry of the Wu army, and people trampled on each other, countless Qing soldiers were squeezed by their own people, and if someone accidentally fell, thousands of feet immediately trampled on them.

But the Qing soldiers on the periphery are still squeezing into the middle. Outside, there were Wu cavalry around them to shoot arrows, war horses smashed, sabers chopped, in short, the periphery was dangerous, everyone had to squeeze into the middle, and as a result, there was chaos in the middle, and people were constantly squeezed to the ground and trampled into flesh.

Behind the cavalry of the Wu army, groups of Wu infantry had already pressed up, and in the distance was a burst of feather arrows, which fell like locusts flying in the sky, and the Qing soldiers on the periphery screamed and fell down a large area.

Seeing the appearance of their own infantry, part of the Wu cavalry rushed north, cut off the retreat of the Qing army from the north, and drove the Qing army southwest away. The Wu infantry that appeared in the south drove the Qing troops to the northwest. And to the west of the Qing army, it is the river.

The Qing soldiers at the front were squeezed into the river, they wanted to stand up, but the Qing soldiers in the back squeezed up again, so the first group of Qing soldiers who fell into the water were knocked over in the water, and they couldn't stand up at all, and countless Qing soldiers were drowned alive in the water. The weight of the armor on their bodies, combined with the impact of those who passed by, made it impossible for them to get up, and drowned in less than three feet of water in despair and fear.

There are constantly Qing soldiers who fall into the river like dumplings, and the Qing soldiers who did not fall into the water desperately wade to the opposite bank to escape, and some people wade through the water for a few steps, and then they can no longer get up, and the people behind them step on his back and wade past; Others step into deep water and sink to the bottom in the blink of an eye.

On the banks of the Huanshui River, there were countless people who fell into the water of the Qing army, and I don't know how many people drowned in the water, and only a very few lucky people could escape from the other side.

The Wu infantry approached the river and fired arrows at the water.

If the Qing soldiers took off their armor, they would be killed by random arrows in the water, and if they did not take off their armor, they would drown in the water.

"Almost, let people shout!" Wu Sangui looked at the tragic situation of the Qing army in the green camp and gave an order to the generals around him.

"Those who surrender are not to die!" The officers and men of Wu raised their voices and shouted to the Qing army.

Hearing the words that those who surrendered will not die, the desperate Qing soldiers knelt on the ground one after another as if they heard the sound of heaven, and raised their hands to surrender to the Wu army on the periphery.

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The news of Wu Sangui's victory reached Nanjing, and the military and civilians of the city celebrated.

"Northern Expedition! The overall situation has been achieved, if the Northern Expedition is made at this time! Within a year, the puppet Qing will die! Zhang Huangyan proposed.

Huang Zongxi said: "Yes! Northern Expedition to the Central Plains! When we rush to defeat the Beijing division before Wu Sangui and welcome the holy car into Beijing, our Jiangnan line can occupy orthodoxy. If Wu Sangui enters Beijing first, and the holy car is in the hands of Wu Sangui, we will be controlled by others from now on. I also hope that the prince will make a decision and send troops to the Northern Expedition! ”

Wang Yuyou said: "The Northern Expedition plan should not be rushed. Our army has been fighting for many years, and the consumption of food and ammunition is extremely great. And our army is a firearms army, after a battle, the consumption of ammunition is serious, and now it is not ready, and it will take at least three months to prepare. ”

Yao Qisheng said: "It is impossible to destroy the pseudo-Qing Dynasty within a year. Don't look at Wu Sangui's fierce offensive, but after crossing the Yellow River, Wu Sangui's progress is not so smooth! ”

Wang Xinyu looked at the map, pointed to the lower reaches of the Yellow River and said, "Yes, the two military advisors Shen Zhi and Xi Zhi are reasonable!" If we rush to the Northern Expedition, it will not only cause setbacks for our army, but also cause innocent people to suffer! Ladies and gentlemen, if our army is on a northern expedition, it will attack from the lower reaches of the Yellow River to the north. Let's not talk about the lower reaches of the Yellow River, let's just say that our army goes north along the canal, if the Tartars open the embankment of Hongze Lake, the lower reaches of the Huai River, and even the Yangzhou area, will become a thousand miles of Zeguo! Our army has naval warships, but the losses are not large, but it is a pity that there are tens of millions of people in the Jianghuai area! ”

Because of the diversion of the Yellow River and the seizure of the Huai River into the sea, Hongze Lake, which was originally the lower reaches of the Huai River, was poured into the sediment of the Yellow River, causing the bottom of the lake to rise, more than three zhang higher than the Jianghuai River!

Only when the Jianghuai area is completely controlled in our hands, especially the Hongze Lake, can we remove the danger of hanging lakes on the ground, and we can go north from the east route, otherwise the northern expedition army will still take the western route is the safest.

"If we don't take the canal, we will take the higher ground in the west, Fengyang, Linhao and Lingbi, although we avoid the hanging lake on the Hongze Lake, but we are out of the canal, and it is inconvenient for our army to transport supplies and baggage! Lord, if you want to achieve great things, you must not have the kindness of a woman! If the Tartars open the embankment of Hongze Lake, our army has sailors and ships, and the losses will not be large, but only the people! What if you lose a little of your people in order to achieve great things? Li Guangdi said.

Wang Xinyu said that taking the line of Fengyang, Linhao and Lingbi is actually the direction of the Beijing-Shanghai Railway in later generations, and the location of the Beijing-Shanghai Railway is higher, avoiding the flooding area in the lower reaches of the Huai River.

"Or take the canal!" Gu Yanwu said, "We can send a surprise army to capture Hongze Lake." By controlling the Hongze Lake embankment, you can prevent the Tartars from releasing water to flood the Jianghuai. ”