Chapter 2077: The Battle of Beiping between Qin and Qing Dynasties (3)
Huang Taiji attacked with all his strength, but failed to shake Lu Long. This was completely expected by Nurhaci. After all, without being able to attack from both sides, it was too difficult to attack with Lu Longsai's defensive power. .
If it were that easy, Xianbei's 400,000-strong army would not have been blocked from Lulong fortress by Liu Yu's Hebei coalition.
"Have you ever found out the reality of the Qin army in Lulong?" Nurhachi asked quickly.
"We found out, there are nearly 10,000 people."
Hearing the news, Nurhachi couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, there were only 10,000 people. Huang Taiji and Fu Jian's 100,000 troops could still capture it if the casualties were not counted. If the Qin army had 20,000 people, it would be completely out of control.
"Immediately send orders to Huang Taiji and Fu Jian to capture Lulongsai as soon as possible at all costs."
"twitter."
After giving the order, Nurhachi leaned back on his chair in a daze, full of worries about the battle situation on the front line.
In the battle between Qin and Qing, the total strength of the Qin army was 350,000, while the Qing army was 300,000. However, Qin Hao only used 10,000 troops to divide the Qing army into two, and pinned down the Qing army of 13 Ten thousand troops.
Now the Qing army still has 170,000 troops in Youbeiping, but it has to face the fierce attack of 340,000 Qin troops, and is about to fall into a crisis of food shortage. This situation is a close call.
"No, we can't remain passive like this. We must buy time for Huang Taiji and Fu Jian." Nurhaci said to himself in a solemn voice.
The reason why the Manchu Qing fell into total passivity was mainly due to the fall of Lulongsai and the interruption of food routes and retreat routes. As long as Lulong was recaptured, although the entire crisis would not be resolved, the situation would be much better, and at least the situation would be better. However, you can still run.
Although Fu Jian's 70,000-strong army is now blocked at Jieshi Road, if it is a forceful attack regardless of casualties, it will only be a matter of time to break through the Qin Village. Then they can successfully reach Lulong Fortress and attack from both sides to retake Lulong Fortress. But the Qing army in Beiping must persist until that time.
As soon as Lulongsai fell, the Qin army in Youbeiping immediately launched a general offensive, apparently to coordinate Lulong's Qin army and catch up with the Qing army in Youbeiping before the Qing army retook Lulong.
Now both the Qin army and the Qing army are racing against time. But it is obvious that the Qin army has a greater advantage.
Although the Qin army is the attacker, it has an army of 340,000, which is twice the strength of the Qing army as the defender. Moreover, the Qing army's force distribution is extremely scattered. If no changes are made, sooner or later the Qin army will be defeated one by one. Break.
"The strategy of setting up fifty-five camps without giving up an inch of ground and defending in layers was indeed feasible before, but now it is out of date.
I had previously thought that if the Qin Army came to attack, they would rely on these strongholds to weaken the Qin Army's strength little by little, causing the Qin Army to suffer a bloody blow.
But now the strength of the Qin army is twice that of our Qing Dynasty? If our Qing Dynasty disperses its troops like this? Even if it can weaken the Qin army, our army's casualties will not be small. This is tantamount to competing with the Qin army for consumption.
The Qin army can afford losses, but we, the Qing Dynasty, cannot afford losses. "
Nurhachi murmured to himself.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty established a total of fifty-five strongholds, but the Qin army captured seven strongholds on the first day alone. In the next three days, the Qin army's offensive slowed down slightly, but it was still the same. Thirteen large camps were captured in succession.
Now there are only thirty-five large camps left in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the continuous demolition of twenty fortresses has caused the Qing army to lose nearly 20,000 troops, of which 10,000 were killed in battle, and 10,000 were captured. The total military strength was also reduced. down to 150,000.
The situation of the Qin army on the offensive side was not much better than that of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. After defeating twenty Manchu and Qing camps, they also suffered 20,000 casualties, of which 10,000 were surrendered troops, and the total strength dropped to 310,000. .
This was under the condition that the generals of the Qin army personally participated in the attack, otherwise the casualties of the Qin army would have been greater, which shows how serious the casualties were during the siege of the city.
If the battle continues according to this casualty ratio, the Qin army will suffer at most 40,000 to 50,000 casualties, and it will be able to completely pull out all the Manchu and Qing camps, and then fight to the gates of Wu Zhong and Jun Mi.
At that time, the Qin army will still have 300,000 troops, while the Qing army will only have 100,000 troops. The gap in strength between the two sides has not narrowed, but has further widened. The Qin army will have three times the strength of the Qing army, and the trapped troops will How should Nurhachi resist in an isolated city?
Therefore, what Nurhachi needs to do now is to delay as much time as possible until Huang Taiji and Fu Jian contribute to the Lulong position before the Qin army approaches the city.
After pondering for a long time, Nurhaci gave the order: "Go ahead and give up the twenty-five battalions and concentrate your troops to defend the tenth battalion, which is the strongest."
If we still disperse our troops and wait for the Qin army to attack battalion by battalion, it will only further reduce the Qing army's strength, and it will not have much effect on delaying time.
The defense power of the fifty-five strongholds established by Nurhachi was not balanced, and not every one of them had strong defense power.
Those small villages with only a thousand or less than a thousand people, even if all the troops are exhausted, cannot delay the Qin army for a day.
Therefore, it is better to just give up, or concentrate our forces and defend the ten camps with the strongest defenses.
Among these fifty-five camps, there are more than a dozen camps built on the mountains. They are the work of Nurhachi who spent a lot of time and effort. Their defensive capabilities are far better than other camps.
Concentrating troops to defend these ten camps may still not be able to stop the Qin army's offensive, but the effect of delaying time is definitely much better than defending thirty-five camps.
The generals guarding the battalions on the front line breathed a sigh of relief after receiving Nurhachi's order to retreat.
The Qin army's offensive was too fierce, and it was beyond the ability of these 1,800 men to withstand it. If they resisted forcefully, there would only be a dead end. If they hadn't been concerned about the children in the rear, they would have surrendered to the Qin army in an organized manner.
Now that the Qing Emperor ordered to retreat, they were naturally eager to do so, and led their troops to abandon the stronghold and retreat overnight.
After daybreak, Long Qie led an army of 10,000 to the First Army to attack the camp, but found that the camp he wanted to attack was empty.
Long Qie was always cautious, fearing that this was a trap, so he first sent spies into the camp to investigate and make sure that there were no ambushes or fire starters in the camp. He still did not enter the camp with the entire army, but instead brought two thousand soldiers and horses into the camp to investigate.
"Brother Long, it seems this is really an empty camp." Zhong Limei said.
After Long Qie was silent for a while, he nodded, but he was extremely confused in his heart.
The living space of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was already small, and it was squeezed smaller and smaller by the Qin army. How could they take the initiative to abandon this camp?
"Inform the Grand Governor of the situation here immediately, and we will continue to move forward." Long Qie ordered.
Long Qifei Ge sent a letter to Bai Qi to inform Bai Qi about the empty camp, and he led the army to continue to advance, only to find that there was more than one empty camp, and the two subsequent large camps turned out to be empty camps.
