Chapter 2158: Death of Nurhaci (Part 2)
As the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the founder of Manchu civilization, Nurhachi had supreme prestige and was deeply loved by the lower class soldiers.
Therefore, after witnessing His Majesty's death at the hands of Huo Qubing, the officers and soldiers of the Qing army all went crazy and attacked Huo Qubing desperately.
Huo Qubing originally also suspected that Nurhaci, who was killed by him, might be a substitute arranged in advance? After all, this man's expression was abnormal when he died.
It can be seen that the reaction of the Qing army was so great that Huo Qubing felt that it was not fake, but if it was fake, these ordinary soldiers would not be able to tell it at all.
"Has it been set up?"
Huo Qubing couldn't think of a reason, so he could only cut off the head of the 'Qing Emperor', then ride out alone, then mobilized the army, and after paying the price of more than a hundred people, he surrounded the crazy Qing army. Kill them all.
Lu Bu saw that Huo Qubing had a strange look on his face, so he galloped forward and asked, "You have accomplished such a great feat by killing Nurhachi, why do you look so worried?"
Huo Qubing sighed and said, "It would be great if the person killed was the real Nurhachi, but I'm afraid that what he encountered was a fake and the real Nurhachi escaped, and all the previous efforts would be wasted."
"What? Is it possible that Nurhachi is fake?"
Lu Bu was shocked and quickly looked at Nurhachi's head, but he didn't know Nurhaci well, and he couldn't tell the truth from the fake.
"General Wei Qing has been guarding Youzhou for many years and has had a lot of dealings with the Manchus. I think he should be able to tell the difference," Lu Bu said.
Huo Qubing suddenly realized it, and quickly ordered the head to be sent to Wei Qing for identification, but to his disappointment, Wei Qing could not recognize it either.
For a time, Huo Qubing was in a deadlock on the issue of whether Nurhachi was true or false. He could only give up identifying for the time being and focus on the pursuit.
Even though the Qin army had defeated the Qing army, the casualties caused to the Qing army were actually not high.
Among the 70,000 Manchu and Eight Banners cavalry, only nearly 30,000 died directly in battle, and more than 40,000 defeated troops were being chased by the Qin army.
In a pursuit battle, it is naturally easy for cavalry to chase infantry, but it is not so easy to chase cavalry.
Even if the Qin army's light cavalry pursued at full speed, they could only kill nearly 10,000 bannermen. There were still 30,000 cavalry in a state of rout. If they were gathered together, they could still form a fighting force.
Of course, Huo Qubing would not give them a chance to gather together.
If you want to annihilate these 30,000 defeated cavalry, you must limit their scope of activities.
Ten miles away.
The 160,000 infantrymen of the Qin army have already released the eight-formation pattern, and have re-arranged themselves into a long snake formation, ready to be ready.
After Bai Qi completely annihilated Jin Wushu's troops, he dismantled the eight formations. Then he led his troops to set up pocket formations, waiting for the Qing army to retreat into them.
Therefore, after a fierce pursuit and massacre, Huo Qubing deliberately lowered his speed and hung slowly behind the Qin army, so as to deliberately drive the defeated army in the direction of the pocket formation.
This was also the strategy set at the beginning of the war.
"Grand Governor, look, the Qing cavalry has escaped. General Huo has won." The soldier shouted excitedly.
Bai Qi looked over, then showed a smile on his face, and ordered: "Start encircling, erect shield walls, and erect gun formations."
"promise."
"The Grand Governor has given orders to start encirclement, erect shield walls, and erect gun formations."
Brush, brush, brush...
One shield wall after another, one forest after another, and one forest after another, rose up in an instant.
The Qing army, which was panicking, was defeated. When they saw a Qin army infantry blocking the road ahead, they speeded up and prepared to rush over without having time to detour. However, they didn't expect that a large forest of guns suddenly appeared on the ground. They didn't have time to slow down and ran into it. He was directly trapped into a hornet's nest, and his death was extremely miserable.
After finally stopping, the Qing army shuddered when they saw the miserable condition of the compatriots in front. Seeing that the people behind had already rushed over, they were frightened and shouted quickly: "Trap, this is a trap, slow down!" Slow down quickly, ah..."
The cavalry behind them had no time to slow down, and they collided directly with the cavalry in front. Then they hit the shield wall together and were pierced by their spears.
The Eight Banners' rout cavalry ran into the forest of guns one after another. The 30,000 rout army soon suffered nearly half casualties, but they all stopped.
But when they changed direction and prepared to turn around, their retreat had already been cut off by Bai Qi. They had been surrounded by 160,000 Qin troops, and the space was constantly shrinking, and the range of the cavalry's activities was getting smaller and smaller.
"Push them across, leaving no one behind."
Bai Qi waved his hand and ordered coldly.
"No, I am willing to surrender..."
"Don't kill me, I have seniors above me and below..."
"Spare my life..."
No matter how the Qing soldiers begged for mercy, the Qin soldiers turned a deaf ear. They fired and retracted their guns like machines, constantly harvesting the lives of the Qing soldiers until the entire army was annihilated.
On the other side, Nurhachi asked a substitute to attract the Qin army's attention, while he fled to the seaside with dozens of cronies.
Nurhachi had already left a backup plan. Although the ferry at the port was burned by Chen Baxian, there would be no boats in western Liaoning without a watch, so he asked Yinzhen to transfer a boat to meet him in advance, in order to defeat the battle and allow the senior officials to escape by boat. Return to Liaoxi.
After arriving at the beach, Nurhachi felt relieved when he saw more than a dozen ships lying on the coast.
"Huh? Where are all the civil servants?"
Nurhachi frowned. There was a shortage of civil servants in the Qing Dynasty, so he had already asked the civil servants to come here to wait. But now he didn't even see a civil servant. Could it be that he had already left by boat?
"Your Majesty, hurry up and get on the boat."
"No, wait a moment for the prince and elder brother." Nurhaci said firmly.
Nurhachi told Huang Taiji and Chu Ying about the evacuation of ships in Haikou. If they did not die on the battlefield, they would definitely come back to the seaside to meet Nurhaci.
But to Nurhaci's disappointment, he waited and waited but failed to see his two sons. It was very likely that they had died in the battle or been captured alive.
"Huang Taiji, Chu Ying, if you die, Ama Ding and Qin Hao will fight until death." Nurhaci gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, but still did not get on the boat.
"Are you waiting for Huang Taiji Chu Ying? No need to wait, they can't come."
At this moment, a familiar voice came from the boat behind, which immediately changed Nurhachi's face, because it was the voice of his mortal enemy Qin Hao.
Turning around, he saw Qin Hao standing on the bow of the boat, and the other boats were also filled with people from the Qin army.
"Escort me, protect me quickly."
The Manchu and Qing generals shouted one after another to protect Nurhachi to prevent the Qin army from sneak attacks, but they didn't know that Qin Hao didn't bother to attack at all.
"Qin Hao, why are you here?"
Nurhaci gritted his teeth and asked. Now he finally understood that this was a trap. The civil servants who came in advance must have been eliminated by Qin Hao.
(End of chapter)
