Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

When Azig led the [-] vanguard troops of the whole army to the battlefield, the troops of Liu Tichun and Bai Guangen who arrived in a hurry had not yet fully deployed.

Seeing that Bai Guangen's troops behind him were still in formation, Liu Tichun in front immediately shouted: "Shooting arrows! Hold your spears horizontally to block the braided army. Let General Bai have time to line up!"

The archers of the Dashun Army immediately shot arrows, but there were too few archers who ran to the first row, and these arrows were sparse.The Qing army rushing to the front were all armored soldiers wearing three layers of heavy armor. When these arrows shot at them, they couldn't penetrate their heavy armor at all, and they couldn't pose any threat. They just nailed some of the armored soldiers. Just a few arrows.

"Steady! The tip of the gun is moving forward, those horses dare not rush over!" At this time, Liu Tichun could only hope for the spear formation.He yelled to boost morale, so that the soldiers holding long guns must not panic.

But at this moment, a loud cry came from behind the battle: "General Bai has run away! He has run away!" This call immediately made the Dashun army commotion.

Liu Tichun looked back and saw that Bai Guangen was indeed running away on horseback.What's even more ominous is that his personal troops ran away together under the flag of handsome.

With a sound of "Coax!", the Dashun Army's gun flower formation suddenly became unstable, and many soldiers threw down their spears and turned around and ran away in panic.

But at this time, the heavy cavalry at the forefront of the Qing army had already rushed to the front of the Dashun army.And those soldiers who fled, apart from making the gun flower formation full of holes, they couldn't escape at all.The heavy cavalry of the Qing army rushed into the formation of the Dashun army without hindrance.

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In this battle of Yumen, Tang Tong and Bai Guangen, the two former generals of the Ming Dynasty who participated in the Battle of Songjin, both fled without any battle because they were afraid of the Qing army.And these two routs brought great damage to the Dashun Army, making the already unfavorable battle situation even worse.

During the first round of the Qing army's charge, Liu Tichun and Bai Guangen's troops collapsed.Bai Guangen fled eastward with the remnant army and left the battlefield.And Liu Tichun's whereabouts in the chaos army is unknown.A big opening suddenly appeared on the south side of the main battlefield in Yutian County.

then.The troops of the Dashun Army, who were feigning an attack on the south side of Yutian County, turned around to meet them, trying to block the charge of the Qing army, but they were also crushed by the Qing army.

Liu Zongmin also immediately arranged for cavalry to block first.On the other hand, he wanted to withdraw the troops fighting with Guan Ning's iron cavalry, and shrink the main force of the Dashun Army first.

But Guan Ning cavalry saw the arrival of reinforcements.Their morale was high, and they desperately entangled the main force of the Dashun Army to prevent them from withdrawing from the main battlefield.In desperation, Liu Zongmin could only lead the rest of the main force to stand in front of the Qing army.

But at this time, Dorgon's [-] Qing troops who had wiped out Dazhong Zhuangshun's army also arrived on the battlefield.This made the situation worse.

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In today's battle with the Qing army, the Dashun Army was forced to resort to the most taboo refueling tactics.Putting his own troops into the battle with the Qing army one by one, and then being wiped out one by one by the Qing army, he didn't take advantage of his superiority in military strength.

Li Zicheng, who was watching the battle, did not organize any resistance at all after the Qing army smashed the troops of Bai Guangen and Liu Tichun.Instead, he turned around and fled the battlefield with more than 7 soldiers and horses around him.With Li Zicheng's escape, the battle has actually been decided.

It is very strange that the number of people participating in this battle exceeded 60, and the entire world was concentrated, except for the Runing Army.It was so anticlimactic, so one-sided.And the whole battle was lackluster at all. To put it simply, the Qing army arrived, fought, and won.

Following Li Zicheng's escape, all the units of the Dashun Army also fled.The Dashun Army left behind on the main battlefield was also pushed to the bank of the Jinshui River by the Qing Army and the Guanning Iron Cavalry.Together they started a massacre.The Jinshui River was blocked, and the Dashun army laid down nearly [-] corpses.

In addition, as many as fifteen senior generals of the Dashun Army were killed, and Liu Zongmin fled the battlefield wounded.More than [-] Dashun soldiers were captured and surrendered.Countless were captured, and the old battalion soldiers and horses that Li Zicheng was proud of also lost more than [-]%.This battle completely broke up the Dashun Army.

The primary reason for this defeat is: Li Zicheng and others did not think that the Qing army would send troops at all.

It should be said that during the reign of Chongzhen, the Qing army invaded the Jifu area several times, which caused shock to the ruling and opposition parties.It is absolutely impossible to say that Li Zicheng and others knew nothing about it or ignored it.However, their actions from beginning to end give people a very strong impression. It seems that in their minds, the war between Ming and Qing was a matter of the "former dynasty". Don't violate the river water, each can live in peace.

Why did Li Zicheng and the others have such a ridiculous idea?That only God knows.But what is certain is that the Liaodong issue in Li Zicheng's mind is only the Guanning cavalry led by Wu Sangui and others, and once Wu Sangui surrenders or is eliminated, the Liaodong issue has been resolved.Li Zicheng and the others simply turned a blind eye to the Man Qing who was staring at them outside the pass.

The poor performance of Li Zicheng and other generals on the battlefield led to the extremely tragic defeat.

With an army of 10,000+ horses staying by his side, Li Zicheng and others unreservedly launched a fierce attack on Guan Ning's cavalry. This is really "deep love" for Guan Ning's cavalry!

Even when the Qing army appeared next to the main battlefield, and there was no news of the troops sent by the Dashun Army to Dazhongzhuang to monitor the Qing army, Li Zicheng still had a fluke mentality and wishful thinking that the Qing army would not send troops.

And this kind of situation that ordinary people's wisdom knows is not right, but it happened to Li Zicheng and others who have experienced battles, this can only be said to be a ghost.When the Qing army appeared, no matter what, Li Zicheng should withdraw his troops first, gather the main force, and find out the situation first.But Li Zicheng wanted to go all the way to the dark.

Then, after the Qing army entered the battlefield, Li Zicheng fled the battlefield first, causing the entire army to collapse.If Li Zicheng's more than 7 soldiers and horses stand firm, and then withdraw the troops from the main battlefield in an orderly manner, although a big defeat is inevitable, it will not be defeated to a messy level.

Even after establishing their positions, they could resist and withdraw to the capital one by one, and then gather the more than [-] troops led by Song Xiance in the capital and the Dashun army near the capital gathered by Niu Jinxing.I dare not say that it will definitely turn the tide of the war and keep the capital, at least it will be able to retreat safely and go to the northwest provinces to manage a world.

And how did Li Zicheng do it?From extreme self-confidence to extreme pessimism, it only took the Qing army a charge.He immediately gave up on himself, only thinking of running away, lost the confidence to fight for the world, and immediately returned to his true nature as a rogue.

On the fifth day of August, the Dashun Army was defeated in the Battle of Yumen, and Li Zicheng fled back to the capital with the remnant army on the seventh day of August.As soon as he returned to the capital, Li Zicheng ordered the rapid demolition of the Guanxiang private houses and the sheep and horse walls. This shows that he once considered sticking to Beijing, but only two days later, Li Zicheng resolutely decided to go west immediately after the enthronement ceremony in Beijing. retreat.

And this decision is painful and helpless, but it is also correct.At that time, although the Dashun Army had many troops stationed not far from Beijing, it was impossible to organize an armed force strong enough to stop the Qing army (including Wu Sangui's troops who had already surrendered to the Qing side).And there is Yang Rusong's Runing Army in the outer city of the capital.It is impossible for Li Zicheng to hold on to the city of Beijing, which he has won so hard, during the infighting between the inner and outer cities of the capital.

On the ninth day of August, Li Zicheng held an enthronement ceremony in the Wuying Hall, Niu Jinxing performed the Jiaotian ceremony on his behalf, and the six governments each issued a letter of pardon.After the ceremony was hastily concluded, all the people in the city were ordered to leave the city to seek refuge. At the same time, they set fire to the palaces and gate towers of the Ming Dynasty, and began to evacuate Beijing.He also notified Nanlu Tian Jianxiu's Dashun Army to go north as soon as possible to join the main force of Li Zicheng's Dashun Army.

While deciding to withdraw from the capital, the Dashun army finally tore off the mask of hypocrisy, looted wantonly in the capital, and started a carnival like the end of the world.Then the Dashun army massacred a group of neutral officials and gentry left in the outer city, and fled westward with the officials and gentry who surrendered to the Dashun Dynasty and the people in the city.

But when Li Zicheng left the city for a hundred miles, the Dashun Army collapsed like an avalanche, and the battalions fled one after another. When Li Zicheng and others fled to Shanxi, there were less than 1 soldiers left around him.By the way, a little tidbit: Some defeated soldiers of the Dashun army like Bai Guangen also fled into Tongzhou City, causing the strength of Tongzhou City to suddenly expand to more than 6.

It is true that its prosperity was also vigorous, and its death was also sudden. Li Zicheng's Dashun Army shone like a shooting star at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and finally disappeared without a trace.

On the night of victory in the Battle of Yutian, Huang Taiji made Wu Sangui the King of Pingxi, and formally included Guanning Iron Cavalry into the ranks of the Qing army.And the Qing army was still in Yutian for three days, shaved the hair of a large number of Dashun soldiers who surrendered, and added them to the Guanning Iron Cavalry, Han Army Banner, and Sanshun King troops, and the strength of the Qing army suddenly swelled.

Under the suggestion of Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and others, the Qing army took Wu Sangui as the vanguard and marched to the capital with the slogan "Bong the prince ascends the throne".On the evening of August [-]th, the Qing army arrived in Jixian County and got the news that the Dashun Army had withdrawn from Beijing, so Huang Taiji immediately ordered Duoduo, Azige, Wu Sangui and others to lead the elite to pursue them quickly, and he himself led a part of the army to Beijing. .

But in the outer city, who didn't know the actual situation of the Yutian battle very well, the prince Zhu Cihong and others, the former Ming Dynasty officials and nobles in the city, and the city defense troops headed by the Runing Army suddenly broke out in chaos.