In this encounter, the Manchurian soldiers were confused by the Ming army's green flag and braids. As a result, they suffered heavy casualties under the Ming army's sneak attack. They collapsed before they had time to organize a resistance. As a result, the Ming army gained a lot.
It can be said that the Ming army took advantage of it!
It also proves that Li Guoying's original shameless tactics also had miraculous effects on the Qing army itself.
According to Tian Wen's inventory, this battle plan killed 65 people under the Manchu leader and captured 4 others.
The Ming army's own casualties were three dead and four wounded.
The exchange ratio is astronomical.
After ordering people to gather the bodies of women and children who jumped off the cliff and temporarily cover them with ice and snow, Wang Wu went to interrogate the prisoners.
It's not that we don't want people to dig holes to bury these poor people, but it's just that we have more than enough intentions but not enough power.
This place is different from the Wujiayuanzi area. There are many rocks and rocks that cannot be dug by human hands.
Kuang Mingjun had no tools at all.
The four captured Manchurian soldiers were all wounded.
Two are really full with red flags, and the other two are Han Chinese Aha who accompanied the expedition.
As usual, Wang Wu first ordered to kill a true Tatar, which was called killing the chicken to scare the monkeys.
He clearly adopted a "discriminatory" policy in his attitude towards Manchurian and Green Camp prisoners.
Or rather targeted.
That is to say, after the Green Camp soldiers were captured, they were basically released, while after the Manchu soldiers were captured, none of them were spared and all were executed.
The reason is that the more the Green Camp kills, the more the Qing government will replenish, so killing is useless, so it is better to release these scared prisoners.
Even if these prisoners are still enemies of the Ming army after they return, there will definitely be negative factors when facing the Ming army that defeated them when the war begins. Coupled with the fear deep in their hearts, they will naturally become a group of "rookie" existences. .
Niu Wancheng, the deputy general of Huguang Green Camp, was the "rookie" in Wang Wu's eyes.
At the same time, it is also the "gu insect" he raised.
In order to allow this "gu worm" to grow quickly, Wang Wu even took the initiative to help it grow in strength by constantly transporting the surrendered troops captured by the Ming army to the Niu Department.
I just don’t know how useful this “gu bug” will be in the future.
Wang Wu didn't have many extravagant hopes. He just wanted to "borrow" a way out from Niu Wancheng when he couldn't hold on any longer.
On the contrary, the Manchurian soldiers must be killed and must not be lenient!
Because every death of a Manchu soldier means one less one. Apart from going to the deep mountains and old forests outside the Pass to continue catching Jurchens, the Qing government will not be able to make up for the losses of the Manchu soldiers in the short term.
You must know that in the twenty years since the Qing army entered the pass, they have fought against the Ming army, Shun army, Daxi army, and Zheng army for many years. There have been countless battles. The Manchu soldiers, which were the core and fundamental force, were organized and eliminated by the Ming army several times, resulting in considerable losses.
Not to mention the distant ones, the closest ones include Zheng Chenggong who killed more than 4,000 real Manchu soldiers in Zhenjiang in the 13th year of Yongli's reign, and later killed more than 3,000 real Manchu soldiers commanded by Qing'annan General Dasu in Xiamen.
Two battles were enough to destroy the strength of one banner in Manchuria.
Especially in the Battle of Xiamen, due to the heavy losses of the Qing army, there were rumors that Shunzhi was killed by Ming army artillery fire in Xiamen, and Dasu was so frightened that he swallowed gold and committed suicide.
However, Shunzhi did die one month after the Battle of Xiamen.
There are different opinions on whether there is a connection between the two.
Wang Wu is not interested in how Shunzhi died, he likes to figure it out.
The result of his calculation was that he believed that the Qing government could currently use only 50,000 or 60,000 Manchu Eight Banners soldiers.
Moreover, both the generals and the subordinate bannermen of the Eight Banners of Manchuria were in a period of stagnation.
This can be proven by the fact that after Jin King Li Dingguo became king after two defeats, the Qing government almost no longer dispatched the Eight Banners of Manchuria to fight large-scale battles with the Ming army.
In the next few years, the attacks on the Yongli court of the Ming Dynasty were mainly carried out by the Han army and the Green Camp, with Wu Sangui's tribe as the main force.
The Eight Banners soldiers led by Prince Duni of Xinjun, the commander of the Qing army, were only supervising the battle in the rear.
Therefore, Wang Wu analyzed that this time the Qing government sent Jingxi general Mulima and Dingxi general Tuhai to lead 10,000 Beijing battalions to Manchu Eight Banners to suppress Kuidong, and also dispatched Xi'an general Fu Kachan to lead 5,000 Xi'an garrisoned Manchurian soldiers to suppress the same attack. Wanting the new generation of Manchurians to have some experience on the battlefield may be more about grabbing credit.
It is to prevent the Green Camp, composed of Han people, from taking the lead in the final battle with the Ming Dynasty, because that would allow a large number of Han civil and military personnel to obtain high-ranking officials and titles in the Qing court by virtue of their military merits, creating a situation where the tail is too big to lose.
This possibility is very high.
The Cao family slave once said that not only Wu Sangui's headquarters is strong now, but his generals Wang Fuchen is the admiral in Pingliang, Gansu, Li Benzhen is the admiral in Guizhou, Wu Zhimao is the general in Sichuan, and Wu generals such as Ma Bao, Wang Pingfan, and Wang Xu Either the admiral or the commander-in-chief.
These Wu Sangui's cronies were stationed in dangerous places and held heavy troops, which had already made the Qing court feel like they were in trouble.
So how did these Wu generals get promoted?
It’s not just because they have military merit!
However, the Cao family servant missed one person, and this person was the Sichuan Admiral Zheng Jiaolin who was encircling and suppressing the Ming army on the Western Front.
This person is also Wu Sangui's confidant.
There are people from Wu Sangui not only in Sichuan Lvying, but also in Shaanxi and Huguang, or people who may respond to Wu Sangui in the future.
Therefore, in order to prevent Han generals from becoming powerful due to their military exploits, the Qing court had to send a large number of Manchu soldiers to Kuidong to seize the throne.
Otherwise, after the Green Camp successfully wiped out the Ming army, would they reward those Han generals who had made meritorious deeds or not?
No matter from which angle you look at it, the final decisive battle against Kuidong does not require the participation of Manchurian soldiers. The hundreds of thousands of green battalion soldiers in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Huguang provinces alone are more than enough.
If the Kuidong Ming army really had the ability to break through the blockade and break out, they would not be trapped in this barren land by the Qing army for ten years.
If Wang Wu was still the same Wang Wu as before, he would naturally not think about this, nor would he think about it at all.
Limited horizons.
Now Wang Wu can see through the Qing court's little thoughts with his understanding of the future!
But it was useless for him to see clearly at this moment, he only urgently needed to know Du Min's plan.
It was the deputy capital commander who commanded the rebels to besiege Liu Tichun in Laomukong.
According to later generations, this second-grade deputy commander was probably the deputy commander of a military region, or a lieutenant general.
The first-level commander is the commander of the general area.
Only by knowing Du Min's military deployment, Wang Wu could look for any opportunities he could take advantage of.
This naturally fell on the three Eight Banners prisoners who were not killed.
Surprisingly, after killing one Zhenman, the remaining Zhenman and two Han people, Aha, saw this and actually poured beans out of a bamboo tube to confess.
They were completely different from the group of Manchu soldiers captured at Ma Shi Bay.
It opened Wang Wu's eyes. It is true that the same rice can feed all kinds of people.
Not all Tatars are heroes.
A Manchurian soldier named Kang Enbei, who could speak Chinese, confessed that they had not gone to Laomukong at all, but had been carrying out the "hole sweeping mission" of the deputy governor outside Laomukong.
The real ones who attacked Liu Tichun, the Duke of Ming and Anhui, were the surrender troops of Tian Heng and Wanhe tribes, and the Manchurian soldiers did not appear at all.
"Sweep holes?"
Tian Wen was curious and asked what acupoint scanning was.
"that is..."
Under the threat of the Ming army's broadsword, Kang Enbei honestly confessed that the acupuncture point scanning was given by the superiors, that is, except for those who surrendered, all the others would be eradicated, regardless of soldiers and civilians, men and women, or young or old.
"...make the thieves plunder all the grain, beans and buckwheat where they live, kill all the chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, destroy all the tiled houses and thatched houses, and leave no one alive."
After saying that, maybe because he knew that this "sweeping holes" was too outrageous for both humans and gods, Kang En was so panicked that he couldn't help but bang his head on the ground, which meant that they were also executing military orders and asked the Ming army masters to spare him for his honest confession. One life.
The other two Han people, Aha, saw that their Manchu master was begging for mercy, and they dared not hold on, so they also started to kowtow.
The blind man was so angry that he wanted to chop the three of them with his knife.
Wang Wu waved his hand to stop and asked Kang Enbei where Du Min was now.
Kang Enbei quickly raised his head and said, "To tell you what I'm saying, Vice-President Du is now in the Cizhu Cage."
"Ci Bamboo Cage?"
The name of this place is familiar to Wang Wu. It is about twenty miles away from Laomukong, and his sworn brother Wang Si is a guerrilla of the Cizhulong garrison!
It turns out that the Ci Bamboo Cage is occupied by Manchu soldiers, which means that his sworn brother Wang is in trouble.
Thinking of this, and thinking of his sworn brother Wang Liu who was in charge of the flag in Liu Tichun's headquarters, Wang Wu's heart inevitably sank.
Some pain.
In sight, the group of women who had been rescued by the Ming army were gathering together and looking this way.
After a while, Wang Wu asked Na Kang Enbei: "Are you willing to lead the way for me?"
Hearing this, Kang Enbei was stunned: "Where are you going, master?"
"Ci Bamboo Cage,"
Wang Wu's eyes were as calm as water, "I want to meet your Vice-President Du."
