Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 180 The Green Battalion in Shibali Village
"Withdraw, follow me to the direction of Shibali." Hauge finally realized that he could not defeat Zhang Peilun, and decided to withdraw his troops.

Originally, his troops were smaller than Zhu Cihong's. If he lost too much in this cavalry battle, don't talk about a decisive battle with Zhu Cihong in the next battle. I'm afraid that even the green battalion will not be able to command by then.

At this time, the Eight Banners cavalry no longer cared about avoiding their comrades on the ground, and followed Hauge's footsteps in a panic and fled in the direction of Shibali.

"Soldiers, organize your weapons and let the auxiliary soldiers come up to clean up the battlefield. The next target is Shibali Village. Let's surround Chiqing's infantry." Zhu Cihong ordered.

Although Hauge withdrew his troops, Zhu Cihuang did not order the cavalry to pursue, even if they pursued at this time, Hauge would suffer a lot of casualties.

Because there are more than [-] mites in and around Shibali Village that are more attractive to Zhu Cihong.

Although cavalry is very important on the battlefield, no matter what kind of army, it is impossible to be purely cavalry. An army without strong infantry cannot fight tough battles.

As long as Zhu Cihong eats up Haoge's infantry in Shibali Village, Haoge will lose the ability to defend and attack the city, and then the entire northern Henan region will be in Zhu Cihong's pocket.

Soon, the auxiliary soldiers and civilian husbands from behind came up to clean up the battlefield. They transported the disabled Eight Banners soldiers to one place for treatment, and put the armor, weapons and horses in different categories.

There are many people and strength, and Zhu Cihong has a lot of civilian husbands and auxiliary soldiers. They cleaned up the battlefield within a short time after they came up, and moved all the usable things back.

If it wasn't for the fact that the blood on the battlefield hadn't been wiped clean, it wouldn't even be possible to tell that a battle had taken place here.

At the same time that Zhu Cihong was marching towards Shibali Village, Zhang Chao and Zhang Yong led the horse infantry to form a semicircle and surrounded the Qing army outside Shibali Village.

At this moment, the infantry of the Qing army who came out of the village were surrounded by the Ming army on three sides. Fortunately, the infantry battle was time-consuming, so after fighting for a long time, neither side showed signs of decline. downwind.

After Hauge returned to Shibali Village, he decided to withdraw his army to Huaiqing City and not to fight against the main force of the Ming army for the time being.

So the infantry were ordered to retreat slowly, and the cavalry troops guarded on both wings to prevent Zhu Cihong from leading the cavalry in a sneak attack.

It's a pity that Zhang Chao and Zhang Yong have been biting very tightly. As long as the Qing army takes a step back, they will immediately go up and take advantage of the chaos to hack and kill.

After a few times, the Qing infantry realized that it was impossible to leave without hitting the opponent and giving up voluntarily, so they had no choice but to continue fighting fiercely with Zhang Chao and Zhang Yong outside Shibali Village.

"Why are the infantry in front so slow, can't you come over?" Hauge has led most of the infantry and vests to the direction of Huaiqing City in Shibali Village, but the infantry that fought fiercely with the Ming army has not been seen for a long time. return.

"My lord, the Ming army is biting very hard. I'm afraid that part of the brothers won't be able to come back for a while." Dotuan replied.

"Forget it, let's go back to the city immediately." Hearing that Dotuan said that they might not be able to come back for a while, Haug decided to return to Huaiqing City immediately.

He was afraid that if he stayed here for too long, he would have long nights and dreams. If Zhu Cihong catches up later, it would be bad if even his part of the people couldn't escape.

"But my lord, what will they do?" Dotuan asked.

"They are just green battalion. They die when they die. It is their honor to serve as the rear for our warriors of the Qing Dynasty." Hauge said coldly.

The lives of the green battalion soldiers have always been worthless in his eyes, even the Han army flag, which has never been taken seriously by him.

"Let the soldiers pack their bags and set off immediately." Hauge didn't want to give hope to those green battalion in the rear, he was leaving now.

Pity those green battalion soldiers who are fighting bloody battles with the Ming army. They don't know that their master has abandoned them, and they are still fighting desperately with the Ming army.

After Hauge left, Zhu Cilang rushed to Shibali Village. His subordinates were not familiar with the local terrain, so the journey took a little longer.

"Your Majesty, Hauge is there, let's chase after him." A soldier said excitedly to Zhu Cilang when he saw Hauge leading the brigade away.

"No, let them go." Zhu Cihong decided to let Hauge go.

It's not that he is kind and willing to give these mite people a way out, but that he feels that he doesn't have the strength to finish off Hauge's troops.

What's more, it's not far from Huaiqing City, what if Hauge calls out the reserve team and surrounds him if he catches up to Huaiqing City?
"Surround Shibali Village to me, and don't let any Qing troops inside go away." As the saying goes, ten birds in the forest are worse than one in the hand.

Compared with Hauge, it is better to eat up these stubborn Qing infantry first.

Soon, Zhu Cihong's tens of thousands of horse infantry surrounded Shibali Village in groups. At this time, the more than a thousand Green Battalion soldiers who were behind Haoge Palace realized that they were actually surrounded by the Ming army on the inner three floors and the outer three floors.

The hopeless green camp soldiers chose to give up resistance and surrender to Zhu Cihong.

"Your Majesty, we surrender to you."

"Give us a way out, Your Majesty."

More than 1000 people stood in the encirclement and yelled, hoping that Zhu Cihong could hear their voices, and that Zhu Cihong would give them a way out if his heart softened.

"Your Majesty, should we accept their surrender?" Zhang Chao and Zhang Yong couldn't make up their minds, so they came to ask Zhu Cihong.

"No, kill them all, not a single one left." Zhu Cihong's tone was very flat, not at all looking like he wanted to kill more than 1000 people.

"But they surrendered, and they used to be the Ming army." Zhang Chao really didn't understand why Zhu Cihong was so cruel to these green battalion soldiers.

"It is precisely because they used to be from the Ming army and they are Han Chinese that I want to kill them all." Zhu Cihong's eyes were very cold, like a cruel, bloodthirsty cold-blooded animal.

"If they are Mongolians, Huihui, Michou, or even Koreans, I can let them go and let them work for me."

"But they used to be the Ming army, so that's not enough. When Li Zicheng came, they surrendered to Li Chuang. When Mite Qing came, they surrendered to the Qing army. Now, when I came back, they surrendered to me. How can there be such three surnames in the world? reason."

"If we don't kill them, wouldn't future generations have to learn from them? If there is such a day, will my Ming Dynasty still have peace?" Zhu Cihong's worry is not unreasonable, these people come back Betrayal, loyalty is really a big problem.

Zhu Cixiang didn't dare to use them, nor did he dare to let them live. If they were allowed to survive and set a precedent, Zhu Cixiang couldn't even think about how many people would serve the alien race in the future.

(End of this chapter)