The sound of killings on the Loess Ridge was loud. Liu Yan held up a telescope to observe the battle situation. He saw the soldiers of Xuanfu Town and Shanxi Town fighting bloody battles and fighting very bravely. He couldn't help but admire: "It seems that the Ming army is not incapable of fighting. As long as the money and food are sufficient and the generals dare to We can still fight to the death with the Qing army!"
In fact, the Qing army in the late Ming Dynasty was not as powerful as the remnants of later generations advocated. At least compared with the Xiongnu, Turks and other ethnic groups in history, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were actually not good enough.
It's just that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was lucky. They encountered the dying Ming Dynasty, who was being bloodletted by thieves such as the Little Ice Age and Li Zicheng. They also encountered traitors such as Wu Sangui leading the way, so they got a huge advantage.
At this time, the fighting in the direction of Huangtu Ridge was fierce, but the Ming army was still advancing. Liu Yan felt a little relieved, and then looked back to the west of Songshan Fort, worried that the Qing army would surprise attack from the flank.
"I don't know if Tang Tong and Ma Ke can be on the stage!"
At the same time, west of Songshan Fort.
The sound of cannons and cannons was faintly heard from all over Huangtuling. Ma Ke, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan Town, listened attentively for a while, then turned around and continued to joke with Tang Tong, the commander-in-chief of Miyun Town. The two were not only sitting in a huge tent Below, there were actually some fruits placed in front of them. Ma Ke and Tang Tong were talking and laughing here. It didn't look like they were fighting at all, but more like an outing.
"It seems that the fighting in Huangtuling is very fierce. The soldiers and horses of Xuanfu Town and Shanxi Town are so brave to fight?"
Tang Tong, who was wearing exquisite armor, looked in the direction of Huangtu Ridge and sighed: "The slave thieves in various parts of Huangtu Ridge are well-defended. It will be very difficult to capture the mountain. Yang Shuai and the others are afraid that they will lose their troops."
Marco smiled and said: "The governor has his own arrangements, I will just obey the military orders."
Tang Tong gave a thumbs up and praised: "What General Ma said is right. As generals, we can do whatever the governor arranges. Especially General Ma, who has been in the military for a long time, I will follow Ma The commander-in-chief is here, and I feel at ease!"
Marco smiled and said, "Commander Tang, based on our friendship, you will be outspoken if you say this."
Then Ma Ke looked at the military formations in front and behind him, with a sense of pride in his expression: "The governor asked us to guard to the west of Songshan Fort. I, Ma Ke, can say here that as long as General Tang and I are here, We must not let any Tatar soldiers or horses cross Songshan Fort and threaten the friendly forces attacking Huangtu Ridge!"
Tang Tong was flattering again, and the two of them were talking and laughing, very close to each other.
It is said that after receiving the military order from Hong Chengchou, Tang Tong and Ma Ke immediately took out their troops and deployed them on a hill northeast of Songshan Fort, about two miles away from their own camp, where they monitored the Qing Dynasty west of Songshan Fort. Military movement.
This time Tang Tong led 15,000 troops, including 6,000 cavalry, and Ma Ke led 20,000 troops, including 8,000 cavalry. Both armies were organized into chariot camps, plus accompanying artillery and other baggage. Here, After the deployment on the hills, it turned out to be powerful.
Both Ma Ke and Tang Tong took a fancy to this hilly highland and thought that as long as they set up a large formation here, no matter whether the Qing troops came from the west or the north, they would not be able to ignore the soldiers and horses of Shanhai Town and Miyun Town and defend Songshan. The Ming army attacking the mountain to the east of the fort provided a solid front barrier.
Like the traditional military formation of the Ming Dynasty, the two soldiers and horses also have the chariot camp in front, and the cavalry in the back and on both sides. It had been a long time since the military formation had been set up. The sun was gradually rising. Marco looked into the distance. There was no movement in the wilderness to the west for a long time.
So Ma Ke laughed happily and said: "It seems that there is no fighting on the Western Front today. The Tatar soldiers near Songshan have all gone to Huangtu Ridge!"
Tang Tong adjusted his cloak and said: "Yes, as General Ma said, I feel comfortable today. Without moving a single soldier or sword, I can get the credit of guarding the rear wing..."
Before Tang Tinghua finished speaking, his eyes suddenly widened and he saw a black line spreading across the field ahead.
The two people's expressions immediately changed, and they both thought: "I'm afraid it was hard to be comfortable in the past."
Gradually, a huge force of Qing soldiers and horses appeared in the west of Songshan Fort. The flags were flapping, and the vast number of people and horses came overwhelmingly to kill them. The number of soldiers was probably more than 10,000.
However, after watching carefully, Tang Tong and Ma Ke both let out a sigh of relief. Tang Tong even said with a smile: "It turns out they are the losers of the Han Army Flag."
The two of them could see clearly that although the Qing troops that had been forced in exceeded 10,000 people, most of them were the banners of the Eight Banners and Han troops. It is estimated that only a few thousand of them are the Eight Banners Manchu soldiers, as well as some Eight Banners Mongolian soldiers, foreign Mongolian soldiers, etc.
The troops of Ma Ke and Tang Tong not only have stable car camps, but also occupy favorable hilly terrain. As long as they hold on and do not attack, with 35,000 troops and horses, they are still confident of taking on more than 10,000 Tatars. of.
The Ming army was already well prepared. Even if Ma Ke and Tang Tong were in trouble, they would return to their own formations to prepare for the battle. A group of generals also followed, roaring loudly and commanding the soldiers to prepare for the battle.
Looking at the Qing soldiers, they also saw that about two miles in front of the formation, a large formation was set up and down on a hilly plateau.
Suddenly, Ma Ke's expression changed drastically, and Tang Tong's face turned blue. He saw that the Han army flag soldiers and horses actually pulled out dozens of Hongyi cannons, and they were all in the style of the heavy cannons on the Loess Ridge. A heavy artillery that shoots ten-pound shells!
At this time, both Tang Tong and Marco were dumbfounded, and they hurriedly gathered together to discuss how to fight.
While the two were nervously discussing countermeasures, on the other side, Bai Guangen, the commander-in-chief of Jizhou Town, was also raided by the Qing army. At this time, thousands of Qing army heavy cavalry had already entered the carriage camp in Jizhou Town. The gunners and gunners in the car camp broke up and fled, trying to escape downstream. They left their backs to the cavalry who rushed past. They were constantly trampled and chopped to the ground, and their eardrums were shattered by howls and screams.
Some gunmen wanted to resist, but everyone around them was running away, or they saw the Tatars' heavy cavalry outflanking them, and the Qing cavalry outside kept shooting, so they had no choice but to flee with them out of fear.
In the front camp, left camp, and right camp of the chariot camp, chariots were constantly overturned and knocked away, and countless Qing troops rushed in from the gap. Their constant outflanking, division, tearing, and expulsion seemed to make the Ming army feel that their men and horses were everywhere, and that every part of the carriage camp had been breached by the Qing army.
At this time, the defeated soldiers in Jizhou Town were panicking. Most of them followed the flow of people and rushed towards the front formation after being driven away by the Qing soldiers. Many people were crowded together, pushed down, trampled to death, or fighting each other to gain space for survival.
Originally, the several car camps deployed by Bai Guangen had several hollow square formations, plus the Chinese army's rear formation, which could effectively provide fire support to the front, rear, left and right. However, after the defeat, the soldiers fled as if they collapsed, and all arrangements were useless.
In front of the musketeers and artillerymen were the spearmen and shield bearers of each battalion. When the Qing cavalry had just broken through the car camp, they were still resisting in formation under the command of their respective superiors. But then countless broken soldiers rushed in, fear instantly invaded their minds, and these soldiers immediately dispersed and joined the ranks of the broken soldiers.
At this time, Bai Guangen, the commander-in-chief of Jizhen, never imagined that the military formation he deployed would be defeated so quickly. Is this just a blink of an eye?
Bai Guangen shouted loudly: "Send the order: broken troops are not allowed to attack the Chinese army's formation. Anyone who violates the rules will be shot!"
The generals around him did not dare to neglect. If he allowed the defeated troops to attack the central army, it would be the result of the entire army being defeated, and the entire Jizhen army would be finished. Even if the friendly forces rescued them in time, under the pursuit of the Qing cavalry, the loss would still be calculated at 70% to 80%.
At this time, Bai Guangen did not dare to send out the cavalry. There was no car camp to resist and cooperate directly. He sent one thousand or two thousand cavalry, just to deliver food to the Tatars.
Under Bai Guangen's order, the main barracks, both on foot and on cavalry, quickly formed a circular formation that was conducive to defense. In the center were dense shields and spears. A large number of archers were also deployed in the direction of the broken troops.
Like Yang Guozhu's main barracks, the headquarters of the remaining generals of the Ming Dynasty were mostly cavalry and basically cold weaponry. Not to mention the arrogant soldiers and powerful generals, they all fight old battles, bows and arrows, which is just a leisurely thing.
The round formation had just been set up at the main barracks, and in the blink of an eye, a wave of broken soldiers rushed in, with many civilians screaming and running away on both sides.
Between the formations of Bai Guangen and Wu Sangui, both sides deployed some chariots, some cold weapon troops, and some cavalry to cover the civilians digging trenches. Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, several of Bai Guangen's car camps were defeated, and those civilians were exposed naked to the iron hoof of the Qing army.
The more than 10,000 civilians immediately exploded. The Qing cavalry violently killed and drove them away. They screamed and fled in all directions. There were panic shouts everywhere: "Tatars, it's Tatars!"
Those civilians formed a huge crowd and rushed across the military formations and cavalry in front. Some of them rushed towards Wu Sangui's formation, and some rushed towards Bai Guangen's military formation. Some people even fled far away towards Hong Chengchou's Chinese army formation, only begging the Tatar soldiers not to notice them.
However, those Qing army cavalry were divided into groups to pursue them, and they were constantly driven from the front. As long as they escaped a little slowly, they would be stabbed to death in the fields by the pursuers.
"What a waste!"
Although Wu Sangui was in his own military formation at this time, he could clearly see the situation in Jizhen.
Wu Sangui was dumbstruck at first, and then turned pale. In just one round, several of Bai Guangen's car camps were defeated? How long has it been? Just a stick of incense.
At this time, the cavalry of the Eight Banners Manchuria Xianglan Banner and the Zhenglan Banner, as well as part of the Eight Banners Mongolian Army, also attacked Wu Sangui's military formation.
Due to the strict orders of the Wu army and the close cooperation between the various car camps, although they suffered a lot of damage under the fierce attack of the Qing army's cavalry, they still achieved quite a lot. The Qing cavalry had no choice but to circle outside the carriage camp. Wu Sangui sent out cavalry to attack from time to time. The two sides were evenly matched, which was indispensable for their great achievements after the war.
But Wu Sangui never expected that the situation on the battlefield would take a turn for the worse. Bai Guangen's 12,000 men and horses were defeated in an instant. His left wing was exposed to the Qing cavalry, and many defeated soldiers and civilians rushed towards their own army. .
Thinking that Bai Guangen was also known as a fierce general, and the soldiers and horses of Jizhou Town were also called a strong army, it was really unbelievable that the Qing army suddenly appeared and the soldiers and horses of Jizhou Town were defeated so suddenly and without any warning!
At this time, Wu Sangui's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness. He looked at Bai Guangen's handsome flag in the distance and murmured: "Bai Guangen, just wish for yourself, I don't have time to care about it now!"
If Bai Guangen's army formed a strong formation, Wu Sangui would naturally send reinforcements to support each other. However, now that the Ji army is in disarray, even if we send reinforcements, it will be of no avail, and they may even be dispersed by the rebels.
Moreover, if Bai Guangen's formation is broken, the Qing soldiers on both wings can gather heavy troops at any time to attack Wu Sangui's troops from the left and right. If they separate their troops, their own military formation will be in danger.
So Wu Sangui immediately shouted: "Send my order to the general, all troops and horses will hold their positions tightly. If the defeated soldiers and civilians dare to rush into the army, they will be killed without mercy!"
Some people died, but not completely...
