Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 275
After bidding farewell to Dai Shan, Dorgon quickly gathered all the 5000 cavalry that the Qing army had.

However, he did not immediately lead them to the flank of the Ming army to attack, but asked the auxiliary soldiers to bring drinks and meat to reward them and boost their morale.

In the feudal era with low productivity, wine and meat were absolute luxuries for ordinary people, especially in this chaotic world where ordinary people couldn't even eat enough.

Not only that, Dorgon's move also meant to use this meal of wine and meat as a meal for the soldiers on the road.

After all, what they were going to attack on the flanks this time was the Ming army with tens of thousands of people, and they had already defeated Haoge and Duoduo before.

"Soldiers, after drinking this bowl of wine, let's go to the battlefield together. After the fight is over, I will have a big bowl of wine and meat with you again."

After finishing speaking, Dorgon drank the wine in the wine bowl in his hand, and then threw it on the ground viciously.

Hu Qi suddenly appeared from the rear of the Qing army. They galloped on the flank and arrived several hundred meters away from the Ming army's flank in a short time.

At this moment, countless officers and soldiers of the Ming army are still complaining about the heavy rain that day, which wets their clothes. If they don't die in battle today, they will die in the rain.

Seeing this scene, Dorgon showed a smile at the corner of his mouth, "Stupid Han people, let me teach you what war is."

Seeing the right opportunity, Dorgon led his troops and horses to charge out from the flank.

Those Ming troops standing on the flanks never expected that there would be a sneak attack from the Qing army when it was raining heavily, and they all panicked.

Coupled with the fact that the rainwater kept dripping on his body, which took away a lot of body temperature, many soldiers of the Ming army couldn't cope with it, and didn't put up a defensive formation with long spears in time.

So Dorgon and his iron cavalry broke through. After Dorgon and Mite Qing's iron cavalry broke through the formation, they fell all the way into the crowd of the Wanming Army on the flank.

He rushed from left to right, trying to find Zhang Yong and behead him. In this way, today's battle is half won.

But before Dorgon found Zhang Yong, he found himself surrounded by countless Ming troops.

After he broke the Ming army's flank, although most of the Ming army fled in fear, thousands of people stayed and fought bravely.

Dorgon and his subordinates fought for a long time, killing and injuring a thousand or hundreds of Ming troops, and they also paid the price of hundreds of casualties before completely defeating the Ming army's flank.

At this time, Dorgon had the energy to find Zhang Yong.

Maybe God wanted to give him a little help, at this moment, Zhang Yong's Chinese army banner suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

As soon as he saw the banner of the Chinese army, Dorgon pointed in that direction excitedly, commanding the Qing army cavalry to kill it.

Naturally, he encountered huge resistance. The personal battalion guarding Zhang Yong was not as powerful as the ordinary Ming army. They had already set up their formations and were ready to defend against the invading Qing army.

Seeing Rulin's long spears, Dorgon was not timid, but ordered all the officers and soldiers to take out their bows and shoot at them with armor-piercing heavy arrows.

Although it is still raining, bows and arrows are not completely unusable, but the shooting range will be much shorter, and the damage to the bow will be a bit large.

But now is the critical juncture of the war, and Dorgon can't care less about these thousands of bows.

As long as he can win this battle, he can get everything, and a few thousand bows are nothing.

I saw the Qingqing cavalry taking out bows and arrows from their backs, lying on their horses, bending their bows and setting arrows, and setting up a circular cavalry formation commonly used on the grassland, and aimed at the weak points of the Ming army and shot.

The iron arrows pierced the air and cut through the sky, making a whistling sound.

With the sharp arrows coming, Ming soldiers were shot one after another. Facing the special armor-piercing arrows, their heavy armor could not protect them well.

Unless it is a person wearing two layers of iron armor, the armor-piercing arrow will penetrate the armor and penetrate deeply into the human bones and flesh.

Even some soldiers who use leather shields can't avoid it. The armor-piercing arrow carries huge kinetic energy and is sharp enough to cut through everything. It directly penetrates the leather shield and nails it deeply on the arm of the soldier holding the shield. It's like attaching a shield to a soldier's body.

Soon, the formation of the pro-barracks protecting Zhang Yong's army became loose.

It wasn't that the soldiers fled in fear of the battle, but that Qing's iron cavalry shot a hole in the spear array, and many Ming soldiers died, giving the Qing army an opportunity to take advantage of it.

But just when Dorgon was about to charge into the central army and cut off Zhang Yong's head, a cavalry team under the banner of the Ming Army suddenly appeared nearby. The number of people was four times that of Dorgon. .

After seeing this man and horse, Zhang Yong's soldiers cheered. Their reinforcements had arrived, and their hope of victory became even greater.

Countless soldiers rekindled their fighting spirit and returned to the battlefield one after another. Even Zhang Yong's personal soldiers jumped to the gaps in the formation and used their lives to fill the gaps.

"Where did this Ming army come from?" Dorgon was shocked when he saw this man and horse.

He never expected that in addition to Zhang Yong's troops, the Ming army would also have such a large cavalry.

Naturally, no one can answer this question. Everyone has been following Dorgon. Who knows where these Ming army cavalry came from.

But when the Ming army came and got closer and closer to them, Dorgon recognized the identity of the comer.

This Ming army cavalry turned out to be Abnai who fought alongside him not long ago.

After Abunai failed to attack the capital, Dorgon thought that Abunai would cross the Great Wall and return to the grassland, but he never expected that Abunai would join the Ming Dynasty.

Like his father Lin Danhan, he chose to fight for the Ming Dynasty for the money of the Ming Dynasty, and was an enemy of Manchuria.

Seeing the prairie cavalry attacking fiercely in front of him, Dorgon said angrily to himself, "Abunai, your father was killed by us, it seems that you are going to follow his path."

"Ming's reinforcements are here, shall we withdraw?" A general came to Dorgon's side and asked.

Dorgon wanted to say no, he must fight to the end, but as soon as the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them for some reason.

He knew that his five thousand soldiers and horses were one of the few elite forces in Chiqing, and they must not be buried here, otherwise there would be no hope for Chizhou.

So Dorgon changed his words and said, "Let's withdraw, withdraw to the capital, and withdraw from outside the pass."

Regarding the fact that he and Daishan defeated the enemy independently, Dorgon has given up hope. He feels that only Jierhalang's [-] troops return to the court to save the fate of Mizhou.

It's just that Jierhalang's [-] troops have to detour through Mongolia and return to Liaodong. The journey is thousands of miles. No one knows whether they can return safely or how many people can return safely.

(End of this chapter)