Two to three thousand Zhenglan Banner reinforcements?
Duolong and Geng Zhongming looked at each other, a little bit dumbfounded.
The reinforcements arrived too late. If they had arrived earlier, they might have been able to defeat the reincarnation of Zhu Hongwu. If we come now, I'm afraid we can only retreat together.
"Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated - Wan Sheng!"
The cheers of the Ming army swept over, and Duolong was startled again, and hurriedly said to Geng Zhongming: "It's not for this reason, it's better to withdraw... First join the reinforcements, and then guard the pontoon, so that the crown prince of the Zhu family can It will be difficult to gain a foothold in Dagokou. We can force the Zhu family prince back this time, which can be regarded as an explanation."
In this current situation, it is impossible to capture Zhu Cixiang. Everyone knows that Emperor Gao, the Great Patriarch, has been reincarnated, but you are still scratching your head! Gods and Buddhas have blessed me if I don't let anyone capture me.
But we can't let him linger here in Dagukou. With a "reincarnated Zhu Yuanzhang" staying in Dagukou, the regent still dares to enter Beijing? It’s not safe to enter Beijing!
Therefore, Duolong can only do the next best thing now, and first block the throat of Dagukou - the Weihe River Floating Bridge, so that Dagukou will be under the attack of the Eight Banners army at any time.
Although Zhu Cihong was probably the reincarnation of Zhu Yuanzhang, he had too few soldiers and horses at hand to fight head-on with the 100,000 Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers. If we can't hold Weihe, we have no choice but to go south.
And once Zhu Cihong went south, wouldn't the Qing Dynasty successfully take over the Central Plains?
Since ancient times, those who conquered the Central Plains conquered the world. With the Qing Dynasty having the Central Plains, even if it could not sweep the world, it would not be difficult to maintain half of the northern half and create a confrontation between the Jin and Song Dynasties, right?
Duolong and Geng Zhongming finally evacuated from the battlefield! Only more than 500 real Tatars and less than 100 Geng Zhongming's soldiers followed them. Nearly 1,600 fake Tatars with positive yellow flags all became the prey of the Ming army who were on the battlefield with great momentum.
So far in this battle, the Ming army has achieved a complete victory!
However, the appearance of two to three thousand troops in blue clothes and blue flags on the edge of the battlefield still cast a shadow over Zhu Cixiang's victory.
His victory came a little late... One hundred thousand Manchu troops had already entered the pass, defeated Li Zicheng's main force, and probably controlled tens of thousands of Guan Ning's troops.
The loss of one or two thousand at Dagukou is simply a drop in the bucket. No, another three to two thousand reinforcements from the Zhenglan Banner came from the Manchurian side... It seems it's time to withdraw the troops.
"Master Chitose, those coming should be soldiers and horses from Manchuria's Zhenglan Banner or Xianglan Banner!" Wu Xiang, who was very happy just now, became nervous again, "This is real Manchuria, not comparable to those Eight Banners and Han armies. "
He didn't know that those who were beaten to death by Hao Yaoqi's fire rifle soldiers were the elites of the two white flags of Manchuria, the real Manchurian heavenly soldiers!
But even if I knew it, I still couldn't believe it... After all, after kneeling for a long time, it's not easy to stand up again.
Therefore, Zhu Cixiang made the right choice not to use the elite Guan Ning troops brought by Wu Guoyong, but to use the veterans of the rogue bandits captured from the Battle of Tianjin Wei as fire soldiers.
"So what if the real Manchuria is real?" Zhu Cixiang snorted, "I don't believe that the real Manchuria is made of iron? I just want to meet the real Manchuria for a while!"
Wu Xiang and Wu Sanfu looked at each other with solemn expressions.
The prince doesn't know how powerful the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers are...but he is in high spirits now, so it's probably useless to persuade him, so he should just take it one step at a time.
If it doesn't work, just keep the prince and run away!
"Drum beat, unite!" Zhu Cixiang ordered loudly, "Use the Central Division's Forward Union and the Cavalry Association as the forerunners to pursue the defeated Manchurian army until all the Tatars are driven to the north bank of the Wei River!"
Hearing the order issued by Zhu Cixiang, Wu Xiang and Wu Sanfu breathed a sigh of relief - it turned out that the prince still knew to give up when he was ready... Although they only defeated the Eight Banners Han Army, it was also a big battle. Won.
With this great victory, the new army's backbone became much stronger. Whether it is going south to Jinling or negotiating peace with the Tatars, I will have a lot of confidence. No one in the four Jiangbei towns in the south had defeated three thousand Tatars at one time and killed more than two thousand of them, right?
So we must not let the hard-won victory slip away again...
When the new army in overcoming difficulties retreated as soon as it was good, and slowly advanced in formation to force the "fake Tatars" to retreat, Duolong and Geng Zhongming had already led hundreds of defeated troops away, and gradually separated from their pursuers.
Seeing the enemy troops behind him getting further and further away, the number one warrior in Manchuria finally let out a sigh of relief and said to Geng Zhongming, who was walking away with him: "They are still the Ming army after all, so they don't dare to pursue them... .”
Geng Zhongming smiled bitterly, "The Ming army is still a little afraid of our Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers."
"Your Majesty, Zhang Jing, it seems that the soldiers and horses in front are not from Zhenglan Banner!"
At this time, one of Geng Zhongming's soldiers suddenly opened his throat and shouted, "They seem to be setting up a battle formation!"
What?
Duolong suddenly turned his head and saw that most of the soldiers in blue had dismounted and formed a gun formation near the South Fort of the pontoon. The soldiers in blue who had not dismounted were also holding swords and spears, and formed a formation behind the spear array.
What does it mean?
Could it be that the people on his side were all wearing Ming army clothes and they didn't recognize them?
Although they couldn't figure out what these Zhenglan Banner soldiers and horses wanted to do, Duolong and Geng Zhongming still led their men to move closer to them. After a while, the distance between the two parties got closer, and they could see the clothes on the other side clearly.
As soon as they saw the costumes clearly, the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers started to exclaim in surprise. It turned out that the "soldiers in blue" who listed the battle formation beside the pontoon were not Qing soldiers with the white flag, but wore blue clothes over their original armor and jackets.
"It's not a true blue flag..."
"It's the Ming army in blue!"
"Fell into a trap!"
"mean......"
Duolong also found out that he had been fooled! He thought to himself: Prince Zhu Ming, the reincarnation of Zhu Yuanzhang, is really powerful! We have prepared an ambush for a long time... Now we are intercepted in front and pursued behind, so we have no choice but to fight them!
Thinking of this, he suddenly drew out his sword and shouted: "Warriors of the Qing Dynasty, when we meet on a narrow road, the brave will win! Charge with me!"
The number one warrior in Manchuria is going to fight hard now!
...
"Madam, the rebel soldiers from the front are rushing toward us! They seem to want to fight us desperately!"
"Hmph! Then take them down, it will be our meeting gift to Mr. Qiantose!"
Those who spoke were the two leaders of the "Blue Soldiers", one was the red lady who changed into a blue dress, and the other was her husband Li Yan, who was also dressed in blue clothes and a blue hat - the Dashun Army was originally blue clothes and white hats, but Li Yan, Hong Niangzi and his wife now no longer mix with Li Zicheng, the non-resisting emperor, so in order to distinguish them, they dyed their hats blue.
Li Yan loudly ordered: "Beat the drum!"
"Dong dong dong..."
Hearing the sound of war drums, less than 3,000 spearmen, archers, and swordsmen in battle formation all held weapons and assumed a battle posture. Behind them were two to three hundred cavalry, a group of dozens of cavalry, spreading out with their backs to the Wei River and the pontoon bridge. Lady Hong and Li Yan personally led dozens of cavalry and stood behind the formation to supervise the battle.
And behind these spearmen, archers, sword soldiers and cavalry, there are four Hongyi cannons! However, there was no gun mount and it was mounted directly on the cart, which was inconvenient for firing, so it was not put into use.
These four Hongyi cannons were begged by Li Yan from Li Zicheng after he arrived in Beijing. Less than 1,000 reinforcements arrived together. They were not the old camp of the Dashun Army, but elites selected from the captured Ming troops. Incorporated into the departments of Li Yan and Hong Niangzi. Now they are all following the couple to vote for Zhu Cihong!
And the time when they arrived at Dagokou was really coincidental, just when Duolong and Geng Zhongming were defeated.
A group of cavalry wearing Ming army uniforms were chased by the Ming army under the banner of the prince. Needless to say, there must be rebels and traitors here in Dagukou who opposed the prince... There is no one who is loyal these days, Zhu The prince of the family has kidnapped Emperor Chongzhen again. It is normal for some of his subordinates to be dissatisfied!
The red lady is also a warm-hearted person, and she has long accepted the official title of Shuaifu Qianhu from Zhu Cixiang. Now of course she has to work hard to perform.
So he asked his subordinates to open up a formation and block the first warrior in Manchuria.
The first warrior in Manchuria was really unlucky. Inexplicably, he ran into an enemy army that didn't know that the Tatars were scary, and they didn't know that he was a Tatar.
Moreover, they are still a fresh force, but his side is already depleted of men and horses, and there are still pursuers behind him!
