Nanming Yiming

Chapter 80 Annihilation of the Eight Banners (for subscription support)

He Dazhuang was an apprentice at the Huji blacksmith shop in the city, and his relatives died in the previous war.

After hearing the news that Ma Zhifu recruited young and strong men to go to the city to help defend Huzhou, he relied on his natural strength to become the leader of a team of young and strong.

Although these young and strong were only temporarily recruited to defend the city, the guards of Huzhou Prefecture still divided them into groups according to their individual physical conditions. Spears are responsible for guarding the crenels of the city wall.

The instructors of the Shenji Battalion repeatedly warned them that the Qing army's archers would keep throwing bows and arrows on the city. When they were on the top of the city, they must pay attention to sticking to the city wall as much as possible, so as not to expose themselves to the Qing army's archers below the city.

And specially trained them to assassinate the Qing army with spears at the head of the city, so that they must hit the vital point and take it back in time.

Like all ordinary people, although they hated the burning, killing and looting of the Qing soldiers, they were still very afraid of these Qing soldiers because of the prestige of the "Eight Banners Soldiers".

Even after smelling the bloody smell permeating the city, some people couldn't help but vomit.But as the battle intensified, they no longer cared about these things, and began to concentrate on the crenel.

When the first Eight Banners soldier just exposed his chest, a young and strong man next to him stabbed with a spear, and the Eight Banners soldier easily dodged, and held his companion's spear, and was about to chop off like his companion.

At this time, He Dazhuang immediately seized the opportunity to stab from the other side, directly piercing the Eight Banners soldier's throat.

But before he had time to be happy, the second Eight Banners soldier climbed up from the crenel again.

The Eight Banners soldier threw a throwing axe and killed his companion beside him. He Dazhuang quickly stabbed at him again, but this time he missed, the spear failed to hit the enemy.

I saw the Eight Banners soldier showing fierce eyes, and raised his knife to slash at him. At this time, only a "bang" was heard. He had just exposed half of his head and was headshot by another gunner.

Taking advantage of this rare gap, He Dazhuang immediately returned to his post. When the fourth Eight Banners soldier came up, he directly shot him and kicked that Eight Banners soldier off the wall.

Although they have killed 10 Qing troops who tried to climb the city wall, the battlements on the side began to be unable to withstand it. More and more Eight Banners soldiers climbed to the top of the city and began to kill them. .

Seeing more and more Eight Banners soldiers rushing to the top of the city, Weng Zhiheng immediately led the 500 Qing troops who had thrown into the city with a big sword into the battle.

At this time, the "white armored soldiers" of the red flag had already been exhausted, and even the "red armored soldiers" were consumed in the early siege battle and the exchange of the first wave of city heads.

These "white armored soldiers" and "red armored soldiers" actually act more as cannon fodder and are easily consumed.

It's just that before the Qing army entered the customs, they hadn't fought a few tough battles at all. When the casualties were not large, it was naturally easy to replenish, and there would be no problem of the decline of the Eight Banners' combat power.

If there is a series of hard battles, once these elites are exhausted, the combat effectiveness of the remaining Eight Banners soldiers will also drop significantly.

At this time, although the Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers on the head of Huzhou City seemed extremely brave, they were actually nothing more than "the end of their strength".

I saw Weng Zhiheng rushing towards the Qing army in one stride. He was so brave in the city that he killed 3 Eight Banners soldiers in an instant.

This "Liaodong Tiger" has a great reputation. At this time, he seems to have turned into a killing god, constantly harvesting the heads of the Qing army, killing those "Eight Banners Warriors" powerless.

And the morale of the Ming army behind him was also boosted.

Coupled with the absolute advantage of the Ming army in terms of numbers, the two sides fought evenly at this time.

Qian Mo hurriedly ordered the young man behind him to throw a jar full of kerosene down the city, and as the torches were thrown down the city, the city was instantly engulfed in flames.

Some Qing soldiers who were covered in fire were crying and shouting for their fathers and mothers, shouting and rolling all over the ground, and the rhythm of the Qing troops ascending the city was suddenly interrupted.

At this time, the Qing army on the city wall gradually became overwhelmed, and they were constantly beheaded by the Ming army without follow-up support.

Seeing that the "Eight Banners Warriors" who attacked the top of the city were crushed down by the Ming army again, Jin Li had no choice but to withdraw his troops.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion seized the opportunity to shoot at the fleeing Qing army under the city, and dozens of Qing soldiers were killed by the Lumi guns of the Ming army during the retreat.

Seeing the Qing army receding like a tide, the soldiers and civilians in Huzhou City burst into thunderous cheers, and they actually repelled the most elite Manchurian Eight Banners of the Qing army.

He Dazhuang even beheaded 8 Eight Banners soldiers by himself in this battle, becoming the young man who killed the most enemies.

"Courage is the key to a battle! With one effort, you will be weak again, and you will be exhausted three times. If you are exhausted, you will be full, so overcome it!"

Qian Mo knew that the Qing army retreated, and feared that there would be no chance to capture Huzhou City again.

The Qing army who attacked the city in this campaign killed a total of 900 people, but how to leave the remaining Manchurian Eight Banners has become a problem.

In fact, this is also a problem that has been encountered during the war between the Central Plains dynasty and the ethnic minorities.

Even if the Central Plains dynasty, which lacked cavalry, defeated the northern minorities, they were rarely able to fight annihilation battles because they could not carry out effective pursuit.

Even if the northern minorities are defeated, they can still use the advantages of cavalry to quickly withdraw from the battlefield, and they can make a comeback in a short time.

Similar to the conquest of sending a large number of cavalry to continuously attack Mongolia in the early Ming Dynasty, it is definitely rare in the Central Plains dynasty.

On the contrary, once the army of the Central Plains Dynasty was defeated by ethnic minorities in the wild, it was almost always defeated.

The "Battle of Tumu Fortress" in the early Ming Dynasty was a typical example. In one battle, the three major battalions of the capital were directly emptied, and almost all the elite troops in the north of the Ming Dynasty were wiped out.

Just when Qian Mo was worrying about how to keep the Eight Banners outside the city.

The 1500 Qing army led by Wang Zaixing arrived outside the city of Huzhou.

There were only 1100 people left in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, which was originally the red flag. Counting the 700 Mongolian cavalry, there are less than 2000 people.

Jin Li had already given up his plan to attack Huzhou, and was thinking about how to retreat, but he did not expect that reinforcements would arrive.

Wang Zaixing said: "Humble post, Wang Zaixing, deputy general of Jiaxing, was ordered by Governor Xiao to come to cooperate with General Pingnan to attack Huzhou."

Jin Li asked: "Wang Zongbing, I heard that the Ming army in eastern Zhejiang is aggressively attacking the city and plundering land in eastern Zhejiang. How is the situation now?"

Wang Zaixing said: "Before I sent troops from Jiaxing, I heard that the Ming bandit Zhang Mingzhen's department was already attacking eastern Zhejiang and occupied the entire Taizhou Prefecture; Huang Binqing of the Ming bandit in Zhoushan also took the opportunity to send troops to attack Ningbo and was working with Zhang Mingzhen to attack Yin County, the prefecture of Ningbo. .”

Jin Li was surprised and said, "I didn't expect the situation in eastern Zhejiang to be so severe?"

Originally, Wang Zaixing was worried that Jin Li would capture Huzhou, and he also wanted to exaggerate the military situation so as to fool him away.

However, seeing that Jin Li had just suffered a big defeat, and more than half of his 4000 troops had been lost, it was natural to keep Jin Li steady so that Qian Mo could take the opportunity to eat up the elite of the Eight Banners.

So he said: "General Pingnan need not worry. Admiral Tian Xiong has already led 5000 elites to Ningbo. I believe that Eastern Zhejiang will settle down soon."

"Governor Xiao arranged for 2000 people from our department to cooperate with 2000 people from Hangzhou Deputy General Li Baoguo's department to capture Wukang and Deqing counties in the south of Huzhou. Our army fought fiercely with the Ming bandits for two days and finally regained the two counties. The humble officials immediately joined forces and went north to cooperate with General Pingnan Siege."

Hearing this, Jin Li felt a little embarrassed. Although he captured Si'an Town, he suffered heavy losses; now he lost troops under Huzhou City, these green battalion soldiers actually won two counties, and now they come to support him.

Wang Zaixing saw the displeasure on Jin Li's face, so he quickly said: "Thanks to General Pingnan who restrained the main force of the Ming army on the northern front, our troops were able to encircle and wipe out the Ming army with more than five times the strength on the southern front." .”

"It's just that the Ming army's combat power is strong, and our troops also suffered heavy casualties. I am also worried about the war in Huzhou, so I led two troops to wait for dispatch overnight."

Hearing what Wang Zaixing said, Jin Li's mood calmed down a lot. He thought that they had 4000 troops attacking the two counties, and now they have sent 1500 people to support, and it seems that more than half of them were killed.

So he said: "Today, our army has filled up the moat and directly killed the head of Huzhou city. It is only the cunning of the Ming army who did not know where to get a lot of fierce fire oil, which barely prevented our army from breaking the city."

"It's getting late today. Tomorrow, the Mongolian Eight Banners will cooperate with Wang Zongbing to attack the city. I, the Manchurian Eight Banners will support you, and we will definitely be able to break through Huzhou City in one fell swoop."

It seemed that Jin Li was determined to let Wang Zaixing and Agari go to attack the city with cannon fodder first. Although the two were not very happy, they did not dare to refuse, saying: "I obey my orders, and I will definitely attack Huzhou tomorrow!"

The Qing army stationed the camp on a small hill to the southwest of Huzhou City.

The Mongolian cavalry was responsible for scouting around Huzhou City. At this time, the Qing army was insufficient in strength, and it was impossible to encircle Huzhou City.

With the cavalry of the Eight Banners present, Jin Li was not worried at all about the Ming army leaving the city.

At this time, the spies of the Ming army outside the city had already entered Huzhou through the water gate outside Huzhou city.

Qian Mo, Weng Zhiheng and others quickly formulated a plan to wipe out this group of Eight Banners soldiers, and asked the spies to leave the city by water to notify the various ministries.

At that time, the gate of the west gate of Huzhou was wide open, and the Ming army began to leave the city.

The investigating Mongolian soldiers hurriedly notified Jin Li, so a large number of Manchu and Mongolian cavalry rushed to the west gate.

By the time the Eight Banners cavalry arrived, the Ming army had already retreated back to the city.

After an hour, the Ming army at the south gate was dispatched again, and then the Qing army was busy again.

Taking advantage of the gap between the two dispatches of the Eight Banners, the soldiers of the Chongming Camp led by Lu Shanhai and Hong Fugui have successfully lurked near the Qing Army camp.

At this time, the spies of the Qing army basically concentrated in the direction of Huzhou City, and did not release sentry cavalry at all in the other direction.

The Eight Banners soldiers of the Zhenghong Banner were stationed in the middle of the camp, and Wang Zaixing's Han army and the Eight Banners of Mongolia were camped on both sides of the Manchurian Eight Banners.

After being tossed by the Ming army several times, the Qing army finally fell asleep.

At this time, the patrol team of the Eight Banners outside the camp of the Qing army and Wang Zaixing's patrol team met outside the camp.

Unexpectedly, the green battalion suddenly launched an attack and quickly solved the patrolling Qing troops.

Wang Zaixing asked: "Have all the Qing troops patrolling outside the camp been dealt with?"

A green battalion soldier said: "Except for the sentry cavalry watching in the direction of Huzhou, all the Qing troops patrolling outside the battalion have been solved."

Wang Zaixing said to Hong Fugui: "Once the camp is attacked, the Qing army will definitely go to grab the horses, and we can ambush more musketeers near the horse farm."

The Baqi masters who had just fallen asleep had not slept for a long time, only heard the sound of "bang, bang, bang", and the camp was full of flames.

Lu Shanhai and Hong Fugui led the Chongming Battalion into the Qing army camp.

The Eight Banners Soldiers are also a strong force in the army. Faced with such a chaotic situation, they can quickly come out to fight against the Ming army.

At this time, Wang Zaixing suddenly led the green battalion to "rebel against the water" and attacked the Qing army from the side.

In the chaos, many Qing troops who were too late to pierce their armor were quickly killed by the Ming army.

Under the escort of a group of personal soldiers, Jin Li rushed towards the racecourse to seize the horse.

At this time, hundreds of firecrackers rang out, and General Pingnan Jin Li and dozens of Eight Banners elites were all killed by the blunderbusses.

After the commander was killed, the remaining Qing army did not collapse.

The injured Salmu was leading the Eight Banners soldiers to fight against the Ming army. After the initial panic, the Qing army also began to stabilize its position.

Three or four hundred and eight banner soldiers are breaking out under the leadership of Salmu.

Salmu took the lead with a mace, and many soldiers from Chongming Camp and Jiaxing Green Camp were killed by him.

At this moment, Lu Shanhai stopped Hong Fugui, who wanted to go forward to challenge him, and shouted: "Lu Mi is ready, aim at this big man of the Qing army and shoot me."

"Bang, bang, bang"

After a puff of white smoke, Salmu and many Eight Banners soldiers who charged with him fell into a pool of blood.

At this time, Lu Shanhai shouted: "Brothers, these Eight Banners soldiers are the Qing army who besieged our Jingnan Camp in Si'an Town. Governor Qian ordered them to kill them all on the spot, leaving no one alive."

Hong Fugui, who couldn't help himself for a long time, immediately led someone to kill him without saying a word.

At this time, the "white armored soldiers" and "red armored soldiers" who were facing the red flag were already dead and injured, and the main high-ranking officials also met with Lord Yan.

The leaderless Eight Banners soldiers had no morale, but they also knew that the Ming army would not let them go, and they were still doing the "battle of trapped beasts".

Although the fighting ability of the Mongols is not as good as that of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, they still have a way of escaping.

Agari actually slipped out of the encirclement circle of the Ming army with more than a dozen Mongolian cavalrymen, and gathered more than a hundred Manchurian cavalrymen who were scouting outside Huzhou city, and broke out in the direction of Hangzhou overnight.

After running wildly for a while, seeing that the Ming army did not come after him, Agari's heart finally dropped.

At this time, a sentry came to report that there was a fork in the road ahead, and there were two roads.

One is leading to Wukang County, and the other is leading to Anji Prefecture.

Agari thought that Wang Zaixing had turned his back on the water directly, and Wukang County must not be able to go, so he ordered everyone to go in the direction of Anji Prefecture.

Not long after they walked, they entered a canyon, and saw that the road ahead was blocked by big trees.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion led by Huang Yu had been waiting here for a long time. In the end, this group of blood-debt Mongols could not escape and were all sent to the west.

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