wrong! wrong! Wrong go...why are you going north?
When Nikan saw Doni's army heading north, he was so anxious that he almost fell off the roof of the ruined temple.
Isn't this Dhoni too unreliable? Now is a time when the brave will win when we meet on a narrow road. Even if we fight with our lives, we may not win. You even escaped from the battle... Do you think you can run away? Do you think the Ming army’s cavalry is weak? When the time comes, let people chase them all the way to Shenyang. It would be great if three or four thousand of the thirty or forty thousand troops around us can go back!
Even counting the more than 10,000 cavalry that Obai brought back before, plus the soldiers and horses left behind in Heilongjiang and Jianzhou. It would be great if the Qing Dynasty still has 20,000 people left who can fight!
This number is much smaller than the number of troops Huang Marfa had during the Battle of Sarhu... What should we do?
Nikan was completely confused. He didn't even know how he got down from the top of the ruined temple. Anyway, when his lost soul came back, he was already sitting in the temple, surrounded by a group of people who were in constant panic. There were various Zhangjings, and in front of them stood a new Manchurian Dadan Zhangjing who had just been released by the Ming army. He was hesitantly talking about the conditions for the Ming army's recruitment and surrender.
"Big, big, the Tomorrow Soldiers said that as long as the prince dies, everyone else will not die, and there is no need to go to the American Mansion. They can go to North Korea..."
Qin Mingtao, a ruthless man, sometimes has a kind heart! He actually showed mercy to these traitors and Donglu. Instead of going to the United States, he could go to North Korea... What a good condition!
Now everyone was moved, except Nikan.
He also read too little and didn't understand what "die" meant for a while, so he asked, "Coax? What are you coaxing? I am such an adult, do I still need to coax?"
Yes, they are already so old and cannot be coaxed...
"Your Majesty, dying is not coaxing..." That "black man" Duncan was literate and knew what dying meant. "According to the explanation of "Erya", dying means death!"
"Erya? Death..." Nikan jumped up immediately. He couldn't agree to this!
Nikan yelled: "What? Why? Why did you let me die! I am the cousin of Ajige and Dongguo, and the uncle of Ming Dynasty!"
Clang......
There was a sound of drawing knives, and the group of Zhang Jingdu in the ruined temple pulled out the knives!
Nikan nodded heavily, "That's right! Let's fight out together!"
While he was talking, he wanted to draw the knife, but when he touched it, the knife was gone!
He was still shouting, "Where is the sword? Where is my king's precious sword!"
Duncan, who was standing behind him, responded: "Your Majesty, your sword is here!"
As he spoke, he stabbed Nikan in the back with the sharp blade in his hand. Nikan was not wearing armor, and he was stabbed to the core with a steel knife.
He was still unwilling to give in. He lowered his head and stared at the tip of the knife protruding from his chest. Before he could understand what was going on, he heard someone shouting: "The prince committed suicide..." .The prince would rather die than surrender to the Ming Dynasty, so he has committed suicide!"
Nikan's body has gone limp, but he is still thinking in his heart: "I committed suicide? But when did I stab my back with a knife?"
...
The heavy snow is still falling, and it has become heavier and faster than last night. The north wind carries heavy snow like goose feathers, blowing on the face like a knife.
Brigades of Qing troops rolled forward in the midst of the wind and snow. The snow on the official road was getting thicker and thicker. The infantrymen walking in front did not have leather boots that were enough to keep out the cold. After walking in the snow all night, many people's toes were frozen off and they could not walk at all. They could only hold on to their weapons. , move forward step by step, and sometimes you can’t get up again after you fall!
The cavalry at the back was not much better. The black cavalry and lancers (foreign cavalry) of the Ming army, as well as four to five thousand young soldiers who marched on horseback and mules (they all knew how to ride horses and mules), bitten this group of Qing army's brave cavalry. Behind them, they fired black guns and launched attacks, constantly consuming their strength and morale. At the beginning, there were still some Manchu warriors who thought they were very powerful and dared to fight with horses and spears. As a result, they were beaten by the Ming army's black guns and the lances charged, and they were all turned into a pile of rotten meat. Only then did these invincible Manchu warriors realize that their abilities were of no use at all.
The wind and snow are so strong now that the arrows shot out by the wind will miss the mark and cannot do anything to the armored enemies. However, the Ming army's flintlock guns were not affected by the wind and snow, and they could still make a killing blow!
The Manchu warriors' horseback attack was restrained by the Ming army's lancers. It was not that their horseback skills were inferior to their opponents, but that their horses were too inferior. Of course, the Mongolian horses of the Manchu warriors also have advantages. They can endure hardships and stand hard work. If they can fight against the Ming army in this wind and snow for another ten days and a half, their Mongolian horses may be able to defeat the Arabian horses and broken horses of the Ming army's lancers. The ears are broken.
But now, those Arabian horses and broken-eared horses have not lost their physical strength and can still charge hard!
As for the hand-to-hand combat that the Manchu warriors were most confident about, it no longer works... Those young soldiers riding horses are not only fierce and brave, but also good at cooperating. They will work together as a squad to kill one or several Manchu warriors. The warriors might be able to win in a single fight, but they really didn't have the guts to fight against ten flintlock muskets that were mostly loaded with bullets and bayonets attached. Hand-to-hand combat requires not only martial arts, but also courage. Once the courage is exhausted, no matter how high your martial arts skills are, you will not be able to display them. What's more, the young soldiers of the Ming Army are also good at hand-to-hand combat.
So the Manchu warriors suddenly discovered a fact that frightened them - they were far inferior to the Ming army even in hand-to-hand combat...
Their long-range shots are inferior to their opponents, their horse-riding charges are inferior to their opponents, and even hand-to-hand combat is inferior. Apart from the best one among the thirty-six strategies, what else can they do?
So what was originally an orderly retreat soon turned into an uncontrollable rout. Driven in turn by the terrifying black spearmen, foreign horse soldiers, and young soldiers of the Ming army, the old Manchurians who were marching on horseback had no way to escape and had no choice but to drive away the infantry in front. The infantrymen, whose feet were frostbitten, could not walk. They crowded together in large groups and blocked the official road.
The wheat fields on both sides of the official road were not harvested and were now covered with heavy snow. They were all frozen to death, but they did not freeze into solid ice. They were all rotten in the soil and became muddy and difficult to walk on. Those old Manchu cavalry knew not to let their horses' legs sink in, so they began to whip their whips to drive away the infantry in front. The new Manchurian infantry who had been tamed in the past were no longer willing to do anything. After being whipped, they angrily fought back with their spears, piercing the chests of many old Manchurians with their spears. These old Manchus were used to being arrogant, how could they let the new Manchus offend? As a result, a fight broke out between old and new Manchuria during the retreat.
Doni and Yue Le had no choice but to come forward, comforting and suppressing them, and reluctantly allowed the troops to move forward.
But the pursuers were still there, and soon the old Manchu cavalry in the rear were cornered and began to collide with the infantry in front. The result was another chaos...
However, the pursuing Ming army was obviously not in a hurry to eat up this Qing army that still had some combat effectiveness - what was there to be anxious about? The current battlefield is more than a hundred miles away from Liaoyang and more than two hundred miles away from Shenyang. How exciting it is to chase them all the way!
When the army retreated to Halahe Fort, something even more terrifying happened. Someone in the Ming army who followed took a long eight-foot long spear and took the head of Prince Jingjinzhong of the Qing Dynasty to call for battle.
Now the old generals in the Qing Dynasty are withering away. Like Nikan, there are not many left. Nikan was beheaded, and everyone in the Qing army in Halahe Fort was frightened.
This time, Doni could no longer care about the more than 10,000 New Manchurian infantry who had retreated to Harahe Fort. He no longer allowed the precious Cavalry Battalion cavalry to cover them, but fled with the cavalry and the Manchurian officers in the New Manchurian infantry.
However, the pursuing Ming army did not let them go and chased them all the way until they drove Doni to Shenyang Mansion. They had to stop the pursuers because the weather was too cold and Obai sent troops to respond.
At this time, the Manchu soldiers who had followed Doni back to Shenyang City, excluding the troops brought by Ao Bai from Shenyang City, were already less than four thousand...
