Chapter 994: A remake of the Battle of Fengzhen
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The ignorant are fearless, Hauge's heart is indeed not afraid of the Ming army, which can be seen from the fact that he led the army to evacuate Haizhou, when the army was stationed in Haizhou, Hauge was worried about how to evacuate Haizhou, he was afraid of wolves and tigers, and he couldn't make up his mind, so that his advisers and officers were anxious, but once a decision was made, Hauge was extremely confident, and decided to lead the army to evacuate directly in the direction of Liaoyang, and even gave orders to the sergeants stationed in Anshan, They were asked to make peace with the army and withdraw directly to Liaoyang.
There were also advisers who suggested that the army should enter the city when passing through Anshan and pay attention to the surrounding situation, but Hauge did not take such a suggestion.
When the army withdrew to Liaoyang, Hauge also sent many scouts to reconnoiter the surrounding situation, but Hauge's choice was to advance along the official road, and the scout's reconnaissance was also carried out along the official road, although Hauge heard a lot of dissuasive opinions and asked the army to evacuate, not to completely choose the official road, or to send scouts as much as possible to reconnoitre, and evacuate from some other more hidden and safe places, but Hauge did not listen at all.
In fact, the road from Haizhou to Anshan and then to Liaoyang is very familiar to Haoge, and the sergeants under his command are also familiar, but Haoge stubbornly chose to evacuate from the official road, which was something that his strategists and officers did not expect.
Of course, Haoge's choice is also a reflection of strong self-confidence, the front is nothing more than the Ming army to block, that is no big deal, it is enough to defeat the Ming army, and the army can also retreat to Liaoyang with high morale.
I don't know if Hauge was overconfident, or if he had an opinion about Dorgon deep down.
The Sergeant of the Blue Banner under the command of Hauge evacuated along the official road, and did not choose any other evacuation route at all. This surprised Yang He, and it was also a little incredible, could it be that Haoge had something to rely on, or that he didn't care about the army led by Yang He at all.
In the face of this kind of indifferent behavior that was almost a direct provocation, Yang He was also completely enraged after thinking about it. You must know that Yang He's temper is also very big, and he never thinks about his own safety when rushing and killing on the battlefield, if Haoge chooses to evacuate from other places, or do more reconnaissance, and appropriately adjust the evacuation route, Yang He can still figure it out.
In such a situation, if you change to Zheng Jinhong, I am afraid that it will be too late to be happy.
That's the difference in personality.
Yang He gave a death order, and he must completely annihilate the Zhenglan Banner army under the command of Haoge. And Hauge must be killed or captured alive, no matter how much the price is paid, the goal of annihilating the opponent must be achieved.
On the 15th day of February in the fifth year of Ruiyuan, the hour of Chen.
There was rain in the sky, but the climate was not so cold, and such spring rain was a great thing for the people who were working in the fields. But for the two-way army that is fighting, it is not something to be happy about.
A fierce battle unfolded on the open land.
What Yang He didn't expect was that. Hauge and his Blue Banner sergeants fought bravely, although in the face of rumbling artillery fire, the soldiers of the Eight Banners suffered some heavy losses, but they did not stop charging, and their dense rain of arrows did cause some trouble to the army.
The ambush location chosen by Yang He. It was too expansive, so that the role of artillery was not very large, and the sergeants under Hauge were basically cavalry, and they moved very fast. After the initial bombardment of artillery fire, he came to his senses within a short period of time, and after most of the men and horses dispersed, he effectively avoided the shelling of artillery.
The combat effectiveness of the positive blue flag is no worse than that of the positive white flag, but Dolgon has more strategies in commanding operations, so the positive white flag is more famous than the positive blue flag in the Eight Banners Army.
Yang He also had negligence, he had fought with the Eight Banners Army for many years, and he always won victories, which made him ignore the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners Army a little, thinking that defeating the Eight Banners Army was a very simple matter, and its combat mode was also fixed, first through artillery bombardment, followed by the attack of Mauser guns and crossbows, and finally the overall charge.
The artillery bombardment was not able to crush the charge of the Eight Banners Army, on the contrary, the tricky bows and arrows of the soldiers of the Eight Banners Army caused a lot of casualties to many officers and soldiers in the impact.
The battle soon reached a stalemate.
Yang He did not participate in the Battle of Fengzhen, but Zheng Jinhong once described the Battle of Fengzhen in the Governor's Mansion, told about the bravery of the Eight Banners Army, and warned many senior generals in the army that the bravery and combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners Army should not be ignored at any time.
As the number one governor in the Governor's Mansion, Yang He knew that he had made the mistake of underestimating the enemy.
Seeing that the fight had fallen into a stalemate, Yang He was anxious, and he was ready to order the army to start a general attack.
Of the 30,000 troops in southern Liaoning, there are only 10,000 cavalry, and as for the nearly 20,000 sailors led by Ding Baokun, there are only 5,000 real cavalry, and in the cavalry duel, the role of the foot soldiers is not great, especially when the battle is in a stalemate, it is difficult for the foot soldiers to immediately give cavalry support.
Yang He had nearly 50,000 soldiers under his command, and 15,000 cavalry all participated in the charge and fighting, which was advantageous in terms of numbers, but in the face of the Eight Banners Army, which had already encountered artillery attacks, it was not able to occupy the advantage.
So it's no wonder that Yang He is in a hurry.
However, Ma Xianglin stood up at this moment and dissuaded Yang He from ordering the army to attack on all fronts for the time being.
From the aspect of familiarity with the terrain, Hauge has an advantage, and his belief in the victory of the mourning soldiers is extremely strong, Hauge understands very well that the defeat of this battle means that the whole army is wiped out, and there is nothing, and once the victory is obtained, everything can be saved, so the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners Army at this moment is unprecedented.
At this time, what the imperial army needed to do was to persevere, constantly consume the confidence of the Eight Banners Army, let them gradually fall into despair, and when the morale of the Eight Banners Army slowly lost, it was time for the general attack.
Ma Xianglin's suggestion was adopted by Yang He.
Hauge was the first to charge, participating in the fighting, and even charging under artillery fire.
Haoge's bravery greatly encouraged the sergeants under his command, and when the Ming army began to fight, the Eight Banners Army, which did not have an advantage in numbers, actually occupied a slight advantage in the battle.
This made Hauge extremely excited, and he thought that the opportunity to defeat the Ming army had come.
Haoge, who rushed left and right, killed a lot of Ming troops, and at this moment he was almost about to become a god of war.
In fact, Yang He's negligence gave Haoge a chance, if Haoge at this time was sober-minded and knew that his task was to lead the soldiers under his command to quickly evacuate to Liaoyang, then he might also lead some of the soldiers to fight a bloody way and retreat to Liaoyang, although in doing so, the losses would be extremely heavy, and I don't know how many people could really evacuate.
But Hauge's self-confidence swelled up unprecedentedly at this moment, and he thought that the opportunity to defeat the Ming army had come.
Both sides have been fighting hard all the time, and they have not backed down from each other.
The battle lasted for two hours, and the casualties of the Ming army were very large, but the casualties of the Eight Banners Army were also very large.
Hauge, who had rested for a while, finally sobered up a little, because the officers under his command risked death to remind him that the main task of the army was to withdraw to Liaoyang, not to fall into a fight.
At this time, Haoge was finally ready to give the order to withdraw to Liaoyang.
Unfortunately, it was too late, and just as Hauge was about to give the order, a dense crowd of Ming troops appeared around the battlefield, armed with spears or Mauser guns, and rushed towards the battlefield with a roar.
Hauge's face turned pale, and he looked blankly for a while, then suddenly let out an angry roar from his mouth, and rushed to the battlefield again......
The battle lasted for four hours.
The battlefield gradually fell silent.
There are not many people around Hauge, and most of the sergeants under his command have fallen forever, but Hauge is still proud, that is, the sergeants under his command, no one will surrender, they all fight to the end, the battlefield is full of dense corpses, and the losses of the Ming army are also heavy.
Haug refused the plea of his own soldiers to escort him out of battle.
In Hauge's view, all the soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner under his command were killed, and he, the banner owner, also had to accompany his brothers, at this time there was no point in his evacuation to Liaoyang, not to mention that he didn't know if he could evacuate, after all, the front was surrounded by the Ming army, and with the personal soldiers around him, the possibility of breaking through was too small.
Hauge saw his sergeants charge the Ming army's defense line, regardless of the fight, but in the end they all fell, and every round of charge was like this, and in the end they were not able to tear through the Ming army's defense line.
Hauge did not regret it, he felt sorry for the sergeants under his command, and he had fought with these sergeants for many years, and now he watched many sergeants fall, such a feeling was unbearable.
Hauge was still fighting, but the soldiers around him were also reading and gradually falling.
Hauge's eyes turned red, he knew that the Ming army didn't want to kill him, otherwise he would not have been able to be on horseback, I'm afraid the Ming army was trying to capture him alive.
As the prince of the Great Qing Kingdom, as the son of Huang Taiji, Haoge will never allow himself to be captured alive, which is not only a shame for the Manchurian nobles, but also a shame for the Great Qing Kingdom......
Hauge was finally left with no one else.
Looking at the Ming army gathered around, Hauge smiled, laughing hysterically.
At this moment, he pulled out the steel knife at his waist and slashed through his neck.
A wisp of blood splattered out, and Hauge, who was on horseback, shook his body slightly, as if he wanted to stabilize his body, but his burly body finally fell off the horse and fell to the ground......
Annihilated the Eight Banners and the Blue Banner, this is a huge victory, but Yang He is not happy, the losses of the army under his command are also heavy, especially the fifteen thousand cavalry, the number of casualties should be more than half, if it is not for the charge of the foot soldiers, I don't know what the outcome of the battle will be, in terms of occupying the advantage in numbers and deployment, but the battle is carried out to such an extent, Yang He knows very well that he did not win. (To be continued.) )