"Your Majesty, Your Majesty... the Shandong soldiers of the Southern Barbarians were driven into the river by our warriors!"
"Your Majesty, we have won, Shandong belongs to our Qing Dynasty!"
"My lord, I finally won... The Qing Dynasty won the battle!"
Seeing the troops of the Ming Army who were forced to the edge of the Tu River, they finally rushed into the river in chaos. Hearing the cheers of the Eight Banners generals around them, Duduo, the Prince of Henan and Dingguo General of the Qing Dynasty, also let out a big sigh, with tears in his eyes. Wet.
It was really difficult to enter Shandong this time...compared to the last two times I entered Shandong, it was like a completely different world! It was the end of the Ming Dynasty in the last two years, and the soldiers were facing the direction. They were really invincible! But this time, either the walls are strong and the fields are clear, or the regiments and Ming troops are screaming to come up to fight for their lives. Even the nerds and old farmers in Qufucheng are shouting "Confucius bless you, invulnerable". This... I still read the books of sages. ? What books have you Shandong scholars been reading in the past two years?
It’s okay that the fortified city of Qufu is difficult to conquer, but this time Gao Hongtu took 30,000 people out to fight! Duduo's troops are no less than others. When fighting in a field battle with approximately the same number of troops, let alone losing...it won't work even if the enemy is evenly matched! Even if you win 60% or 70%, you will still lose!
Duduo couldn't afford to win a battle in which he killed ten thousand enemies and lost three thousand himself. How many people in the Qing Dynasty could conquer Manchuria? Where can three thousand people die here and five thousand people hang out there? What if everyone dies?
So when the Eight Banners Warriors stormed the car formation, the Eight Banners Warriors were bleeding in front, and Prince Duduo was crying behind them.
When he heard that Nikan's sword players threw javelins randomly and killed many soldiers on both sides in the melee, he almost cried... How could the fight continue like this? Even if Gao Hongtu is killed, he still can't explain it!
His son Dorbo is also preparing to become Emperor Wen of Wei! If all the Manchu warriors who supported Dorgon and the Duduo brothers were dead, how could they usurp the throne?
"Okay, okay..." Dorgon smiled and said to He Luohui beside him, "I finally won. Although I ran away thousands, I finally won the big one. Gao Hongtu should be able to do it too. Kill them or capture them alive... This guy and Shi Kefa are so powerful! Fortunately, Emperor Chongzhen is ignorant. If they were allowed to serve as governors of Jiliao, where would we be today?"
He Luohui smiled and said, "Wasn't such a powerful Gao Hongtu captured by you, the prince?"
As soon as he finished speaking, there were already white-armored soldiers with white flags shouting, "Run away, run away... Nikan has already crossed the Tuhe River!"
What? Ran across the river? Duduo was stunned. On the other side of the river was Gang Atai, his eldest nephew! How could Gao Hongtu be allowed to run away?
He quickly raised his binoculars and looked over, and sure enough he saw a large number of embarrassed Ming soldiers who had climbed onto the river beach opposite, each one gasping like a drowned rat! And the Qing soldiers under Gang Atai who were supposed to be waiting to catch people on the other side of the river have long since disappeared, but there are three to four thousand more Ming troops!
What happened? Ming army reinforcements have arrived? Is it the King of Lu Zhu Yihai or the filial son Zuo Maodi?
"This, this, this..." Duduo was so anxious that he couldn't even speak.
Since the Battle of Tuhe, although the Qing soldiers have the upper hand, they have not won much and suffered considerable losses. It would be a miserable victory at best. If Zhu Yihai and Zuo Maodi brought another 20,000 to 30,000 troops over at this time, Duduo would have no choice but to withdraw his troops in despair.
With this withdrawal, he will lose at least 80% of the prefectures and counties in Shandong that he previously occupied, and at most he can keep the east, west, and north corners of Shandong.
Even if the Qing Dynasty defeated Shandong in the third battle...
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty... Atai has just arrived!" He Luohui's voice rang in Duduo's ears again.
Duduo quickly looked around and saw Gang Atai, who was soaked all over and had no cotton armor. He was wearing underwear and was being supported by several Li family soldiers. He came crying.
When he saw Duduo, he couldn't even walk away, so he came crawling back. As he crawled back, he cried: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, this slave is guilty. This slave deserves to die... This slave is not responsible." Southern barbarian soldiers!”
Duduo really wanted to kill this useless Gang Atai with a knife...but he couldn't kill this slave casually, because Gang Atai could control Duduo's call "Fifteen Grandpa"! His father, Li Yongfang, married one of Duduo's nieces (of course older than Duduo). And this Gang Atai recognized Duduo's niece as his biological mother, so he is now Duduo's grandnephew. Now Gang Atai's cheap grandfather Raoyu County King Abatai is still alive! For the sake of brother Abatai, even Duduo’s knife can’t cut it!
Duduo asked angrily: "Is it Zhu Yihai or Zuo Maodi who is here?"
This guy also has a temperament that says whatever he wants. Artai didn't even think of letting Zhu Yihai and Zuo Maodi take the blame. It's time for him to remind others.
Artai was stunned for a moment, but he quickly realized, "It's Zhu Yihai..."
Where is Zhu Yihai! In fact, it was Li Chengdong who led thousands of people to kill for a while along the north bank of Tuhe River. And this guy Gang Artest doesn't know how to fight at all - he rose to fame by flattering others, so how can he know how to fight? Therefore, he did not expect that his flank would be attacked by the Ming army's cavalry, so he did not set up an infantry gun formation on his flank.
As a result, when Li Chengdong came over with hundreds of cavalry, Gang Artai's left wing was instantly destroyed!
And Gang Atai was also a coward who was afraid of death. He did not dare to lead his soldiers to fight for his life. Instead, he ran west for a while, and then crossed the Tu River to see Duduo.
He also knew that his sin was not small, but he still wanted to survive, so he continued what Duduo handed over and blamed all the blame for the defeat on Zhu Yihai - it was not that he couldn't fight because of Artai, but that Zhu Yihai had too many soldiers!
"How many people are here?" Duduo asked.
"Yes, there are twenty thousand, maybe thirty thousand!"
"So many..." Duduo's eyes went dark.
Is this battle really going to be lost? This is how to do?
Shanxi has not yet been tied, Henan has only won most of it, the situation in Shaanxi is confusing, and the battle in Tuhe, Shandong is a field battle between the dignified formation... If this is defeated, Wu Sangui will definitely change, Li Zicheng It is also possible to counterattack in the Central Plains, not to mention Zhu Cixiang, who will definitely launch another Northern Expedition! This is the death of the Qing Dynasty!
"Your Highness, retreat quickly!" He Luohui was also frightened by Gang Atai, and made a suggestion in a daze.
"We can't retreat! If we retreat, it will be over!" Duduo gritted his teeth, "Blow the trumpet, form the team... let's go to the Tu River to form an array!"
Duduo is a great military strategist after all, and his decisions at critical moments are still correct. If he leads his troops and runs away, not only will Shandong be unstoppable, but Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi will also undergo changes. Because there are no live broadcasts in battles, people outside the battlefield can usually only analyze the outcome based on who escapes first.
Whoever escapes first will usually be judged to have failed. And the one who didn't run can brag a lot.
If Gao Hongtu's less than 30,000 men fought a battle with a similar number of Qing soldiers, not only would the whole army not be wiped out in the end, but the Qing soldiers would also be "repelled"... Zhu Cixang would not be able to do this again. If the bragging king brags well, the Qing Dynasty will really be unable to survive!
On the other hand, Gao Hongtuo's military ability is still a bit lacking. He didn't realize that he was on the "edge of victory" and thought he was defeated.
The old man was now wet all over. He was sitting on the edge of the river beach, looking at the defeated soldiers all around him, and couldn't help but burst into tears.
"I'm sorry for your Majesty, I'm sorry for the elders of Shandong..."
When he cried, the seven or eight thousand people sitting on the river beach and gasping for air all began to cry together, and this cry was out of control.
On the other side of the Tuhe River, the bugles and drums were blaring. They had just won a tragic victory, and the Eight Banners soldiers, who had been exhausted from fighting for many days in a row, also cheered up and formed an array on the south bank of the Tuhe River. Got into battle.
This time, Li Chengdong, who was with Gao Hongtu, was frightened. He quickly said to Gao Hongtu: "Futai, let's leave quickly... If we don't leave, the Tatars will come!"
Gao Hongtu wiped away tears: "Forget it, let's go...go back to Jinan Mansion to train your troops, and then come back to fight after you have trained your troops!"
