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Chapter 966 Where to go, fight or go?
Soldiers from the Ming and Qing Dynasties had been fighting fiercely for two days. The road from Nvnuhe to Xiaolinghe, and then to the South Pass of Jinzhou, was full of traces of the battle, and the bloody wreckage was full of corpses of both sides.

Some people or war horses who were not completely dead for a while struggled and crawled forward alone in the cold wind blowing by "swish". They wailed faintly, as if they were expressing their unwillingness to the vast sky.

At this time, the sun was gradually setting between the sky and the earth in the wilderness in the west, and its dazzling light was also slowly weakening, followed by bursts of chills hitting the upper body.

On the desolate battlefield, there were still some soldiers who were not seriously injured, lying flat on the hard and cold ground, humming and moaning from time to time to prove that they were still alive.

Because the war was not yet completely over, the main forces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties were still fighting fiercely, and the field doctors who rescued the dying did not dare to leave the brigade too far.

Moreover, although there were some doctors in the Qing army, they almost only treated the important generals such as the prince Baylor, and were not responsible for rescuing and transporting wounded soldiers at risk on the battlefield.

But now the fierce battle between the Ming and Qing Dynasties has reached a fever pitch, and those who went out with the army to serve in the banners also went to the battlefield with the armored soldiers, so naturally no one came to clean up the wounded soldiers on the battlefield.

On the other hand, Xuan Dajun's side is similar. Datong Town is the same as other military towns. There are only a few military doctors serving the generals in the army, and they don't pay much attention to the treatment of wounded soldiers.

Although the Xuanfu Army equipped many doctors in the battalions, they also set up medical officers in each battalion, and set up a medical bureau specializing in the treatment of wounded soldiers.

But today's battlefield is too grand and huge, and it is the time when the fierce battle is fiercest. Even Zhang Cheng is not willing to let the doctors take the risk, and even if they are like the soldiers of the Xuanfu army, they are not afraid of death, but The battlefield is so big that it cannot be transported for a while.

During the military discussion, the faction headed by Prince Su Haoge and Wuying County King Azige insisted on fighting again tomorrow, and was bound to regain Jinnan's lost trench wall defense line, and strongly opposed the withdrawal of troops back to Yizhou.

Right in the middle of the Zhengbai Banner camp in Manchuria, is the Chinese army tent of Prince Rui Dorgon. Outside the tent, there are many guards of Zhengbai Banner Baya La soldiers, and a large golden dragon banner flag erected high. Hunting in the cold wind.

The morale of the Qing army was not high. After all, after two days of fierce fighting, they failed to defeat the reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty.

But if the battlefield is victorious, things will become simpler. In addition to the elite knights chasing and defeating the fleeing enemies, the infantry of each battalion will have a lot of time to rescue and transport the wounded.

If you simply fight for consumption, the Qing Dynasty still can't afford it!

One is to launch a fierce attack before all the Ming troops have assembled outside the Jinzhou South Pass, and regain the Jinnan defense line lost during the day, so that they can continue to besiege Jinzhou and wait for an opportunity to defeat the Ming reinforcements.

Under Wang Pu's puzzled eyes, Zhang Cheng called Zhang Chengfang, a Chinese military officer, and asked, "Has the military report passed to the Governor Xingyuan?"

Wang Pu was startled when he heard this, and said: "Ningyuan Wu Zongbing won't succeed, how come Dorgon still has spare energy to support Dai Shan, an old man?"

Zhang Cheng glanced at Wang Pu, and said: "General Wang will rest here for a while, and this commander will go to arrange military affairs for each battalion."

But what if he wins?
The city of Jinzhou has been guarded for more than a year and a half, and the grain and other supplies have long been exhausted, and the personal wealth of those generals must be placed in Ningyuan and other cities in the rear, so how could they stay in this dangerous place on the front line.

He also stood up with the support of his own soldiers, looked at the smoke and dust in the north, and said: "Today's battle, my Xuan army is indeed in danger, it can be said to be extremely dangerous."

In the tent of the Chinese army, the princes and Baylor of the Qing Dynasty, as well as the generals such as Gu Shan Ezhen of each banner, are discussing what to do tomorrow?
There are only two options left for them now.

But how can it be easy to capture a strong city everywhere?

However, even these elite cavalry of hundreds of battles always attack the enemy with cavalry and shooting from a distance, and there are few melee combats. Dozens or hundreds of cavalry form a team of their own, and they gather together or rush to chase. the enemy, or retreat together.

Then there is Dingkou, besides Zu Dashou's Liao soldiers, how many civilian husbands Ding Zhuang and women can there be in Jinzhou City?
Although in Songshan, Xingshan, Gaoqiao, etc., especially in the cities and fortresses around Ningyuan, there are indeed some gold, silver and treasures that can be looted.

Zhang Cheng shook his head and said: "Wu Shuai and Cao Shuai may not necessarily be defeated, but I aided the Liao king's army to cross Hebei first, and then fought fiercely for two days in a row.

"Zhang...Zhang Shuai, it's really enjoyable...enjoyable."

Daishan led the Tartars from the Manchu and Mongolian banners and camped in the west of Jinzhou City, not far from the camp of Prince Rui Dorgon.

Wang Pu didn't catch his breath, and his speech was still intermittent, but he continued: "It's still...it's more exciting to follow Zhang Shuai to kill slaves, it's more exciting...it's exciting...to kill slaves like this...it's really a pleasure! "

When Wang Pu heard him mention Zhang Zhongping, the commander-in-chief of the supervising battalion, he also became interested. He looked around for a while, but seeing that he was not nearby, he said with a sinister smile: "This supervising army from Governor Xingyuan is also You are brave, you have put in a lot of effort in today's battle, and you are worthy of being a trusted general in Governor Hong's battalion."

The majestic commander-in-chief of a town and the leader of an army are so close to each other, bathed in blood, and fought with slaves and thieves with their lives, which is rare in today's Ming Dynasty.

However, the Ming army could rely on Jinzhou’s fortified city to form a solid formation, and the inside and outside of the city were horns of each other. They could also transport grain, grass and firewood from Songshan to Jinzhou City through the Xiaoling River.

Now, seeing that if they continue to fight, they will only continue to lose troops and lose their generals, and they will not get any benefits at all. They don't want to continue to make unnecessary sacrifices here.

It is precisely because of these reasons that the Mongolian ministries of the Outer Fan and Mongolia are not in favor of continuing to spend time with the Ming army outside Jinzhou City. They all wish to withdraw their troops here, so that they can take the warriors of the various ministries home. Preserving their own strength is the truth in their hearts. idea.

Even some Taiwanese and Kyrgyzstans from the various ministries attached to Mongolia have expressed their support for the withdrawal of troops, and there are many people who agree with the withdrawal of troops in the Mongolian Eight Banners.

However, the Qing army did not pursue it forward, they still guarded the original position, and in the middle of the large wilderness, there were only a few fine cavalry with different colors of armor and flags, still galloping back and forth to fight.

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It seems that the battle in Jinzhou is finally coming to an end! "

As a result, the strategy of "surrounding brocade and fighting for aid" set by the Qing emperor Huang Taiji himself could no longer continue, and the efforts of the past year and a half were wasted. stand up.

And the slave thief sticks to the north bank, waits for work with ease, and is the field wave battle that he is best at, so he naturally took advantage of it. Today's battle, until now, can have such an ending, we are lucky. "

It doesn't matter if you can rob money and people, even if you suffer some battle damage. After all, you may not be the one who dies, but as long as you don't die, you can rob a lot of gold and silver, men and women. Why not do it?

The commander-in-chief of Datong Town, Wang Pu, was on Zhang Cheng's left. He was actually sitting on a saddle. He didn't know whether he took off his helmet by himself or discarded it during the battle. It was covered with bean-sized beads of sweat, dripping continuously.

"Return to Commander-in-Chief, it has been reported to the police, and it was Mr. Zhang Qian, the Supervising Biaoying Camp, who sent someone to send him back to Xingyuan." Zhang Chengfang replied.

Although transshipment and treatment of wounded soldiers are of great benefit to restoring morale and stabilizing the morale of the army, but when the war is pending, the soldiers of both sides are fighting to the death, and victory or defeat is the key.

Zhang Cheng looked at Wang Pu's appearance, shook his head secretly, and thought: This person really can't boast, as soon as he praises, he puts his nose on his face.

Zhang Shuai, why don't you go up again with the whole army and kill the generals in one go, until the slaves are crying and screaming, without leaving any armor, so that he can know how powerful our Xuan army is, and go back to Shenyang City in desperation. "

However, the armor on his body is very complete, although it is also full of blood stains mixed with dust, but there is no damage, only a few arrows hanging on the armor, but it seems that it did not cause any harm to him.

But this time in the Battle of Jinzhou, what they were facing was the strong city of Jinzhou and the hundreds of thousands of elite Ming soldiers who aided Liao. win.

Wang Pu had also recovered some strength at this time, and he asked a little worriedly: "Zhang Shuai, what should we do next? Do we want to fight the slave again?"

At the beginning, Wang Pu was extremely bored with him and didn't want to see him very much. However, in the final decisive battle, Zhang Zhongping was able to lead the accompanying soldiers of the Supervising Biao Battalion, rushed into the battlefield with Zhang Cheng and Wang Pu, and fought to the death.

After this battle, Wang Pu also seems to have changed. Although he still loves beauty as before, and there are many exaggerated performances in his style, compared with the previous styles, he has restrained a lot.

At this moment, the battle between the Ming and Qing was coming to an end. It seemed that the Qing army had the upper hand on the main battlefield. The Xuan Daming army gave up their original garrison positions and retreated nearly two miles to the south.

A tough battle like this is not as tempting as when Chongzhen entered the interior of the Ming Dynasty to plunder in the 11th year.

It is precisely because of this that the battlefield on the north bank of the Xiaoling River in the south of Jinzhou is full of wailing, not only the unwillingness of those who are about to die, but also the soldiers who have not injured their vitals, and uttered low-pitched groans.

Receiving Zhang Cheng's praise, Wang Pu became visibly excited. He struggled upwards as if he was about to get up, but he was exhausted after a long battle, and his breath was not evenly breathed. He suddenly felt dizzy and almost fell on the spot.
Fortunately, the soldiers at the side had quick eyes and hands, and stepped forward to support him, so as to avoid embarrassment.

Zhang Cheng was sitting alone on the mound, panting heavily, and the heavy duckbill knife clamp was thrown obliquely in front of his feet, it could be seen that his physical strength was very exhausted.

He turned his head to look at the setting sun in the west, and said again: "At most one hour, as long as we can hold the South Gate, maybe we don't need to fight again tomorrow."

It was because of this that Wang Pu's view of them changed greatly, and he secretly admired them in his heart.

At the end of Shenshi, the sun had already set on the edge of the wilderness in the west. It was just before dark, the sky and the earth were dim, and everything was shrouded in obscurity.

The second option is to retreat to Yizhou and look for an opportunity to fight again. After all, if the Jinnan defense line cannot be regained as soon as possible, once the main force of the Ming army gathers here, it will be too disadvantageous for the Qing army.

As for the idea of ​​withdrawing troops, the most supportive ones were the princes and Taiji from the various tribes of Outer Fan and Mongolia. They were originally lured and forced by the Qing Dynasty to join the war.

Wang Puli took a few breaths quietly there, feeling a little calm, and then said vigorously: "People say that 'a slave is invincible', but in my opinion, it's just mediocre.

There was a big hole in the armor on the left shoulder and under the left rib, but no blood was seen flowing out, presumably no flesh was injured, and seeing his blood-soaked appearance, one could tell how intense the fight was just now.

Zhang Cheng smiled, and said to him: "Just now, I came back to report that the northern captives with the Mongolian red flag have rushed to the south of Jinzhou, and also found that the Manchurian red flag and the Mongolian white flag are galloping towards Daishan. .

Zhang Cheng's state was much stronger than him, and he had already breathed evenly. He said in a steady tone: "Haha, Wang Zongbing is really brave. He is just like a god of war, fighting in and out of the formation of slaves and thieves."

After a while, Zhang Cheng continued: "Fortunately, Li Jiyu and He Zhenxiong did not disgrace their mission, successfully repelled the slaves, broke down the wall surrounding the brocade moat, and welcomed the ancestral soldiers and horses in the city to break out.

After the last battle before sunset, the Qing army launched two consecutive violent charges, but they were still unable to recapture the trench defense line outside the Nanguan Pass, and finally had to give up. Otherwise, once the sky completely darkened, it would be difficult to even retreat.

Once the battle is defeated, it will be a dangerous situation for the entire army to collapse. At that time, not to mention the wounded soldiers lying on the ground waiting for rescue, how many soldiers in the entire army can survive?

After he finished speaking, he strode toward the east with big strides. Wang Pu was stunned for a moment, and then strode forward to chase after him, shouting, "Wang Pu, go with Zhang Shuai."

The camps of the Qing army are surrounded by four camps. The two camps in the middle are Prince Li Daishan Xianghong Banner and Prince Rui Dorgon Zhengbai Banner. Next to their camps is Prince Su Haoge Zhenglan Banner Camp, Wuying County Wang Azige's inlaid white flag camp.

From this point of view, there is still a big battle before dark. "

His legs were still trembling unceasingly, and he didn't seem to want to stop, he exhaled heavily from his mouth, and his chest kept rising and falling.

As Wang Pu said, even though Zhang Zhongping, the commander-in-chief of the Biaoying Battalion, was sent by Hong Chengchou to urge Wang Pu to cross Hebei as soon as possible, he stayed to monitor whether he was doing his best.

Although Haoge and Azig were scolded by them jumping their feet and scolding each other as "counseling", they still couldn't change their minds.

And Prince Li Daishan sat on the big chair beside Dorgon, stroking his beard and meditating, while peeking at Dorgon out of the corner of his eyes, but he himself remained silent.

Dorgon was similar to Daishan, he allowed everyone to argue endlessly in the military tent, neither saying which side he would support, nor which side he would stop.

However, he also glanced sideways at Daishan in secret, and seeing him smiling, but never expressing his opinion, he couldn't help cursing inwardly: "You're really old and slippery, you're an old fox!"

(End of this chapter)