Under Zu Dashou's order, Guan Ning's army privately issued an order to withdraw.
At the same time, Jierhalang also issued an order to withdraw troops.
It is not easy to withdraw from the fighting battlefield.
However, Guan Ning's cavalry, which no longer had the upper hand on the battlefield, retreated immediately, wanting to retreat from the battlefield.
Because Guan Ning's cavalry was relatively far back, as soon as they retreated, the pressure on the Eight Banners cavalry in front immediately doubled, making it more difficult to evacuate the battlefield.
How could the Tiger Banner Cavalry Division, as the dominant side, be willing to let them retreat safely from the battlefield, so they immediately pressed forward and tried their best to bite the Qing army who wanted to retreat.
boom! boom! boom!
The armored cavalry pursuing from behind fired continuously, and the Mongolian cavalry of the cavalry division also kept firing arrows, leaving as many enemies as possible.
Some of the Qing cavalry that was thrown down to block the Tiger Banner Cavalry Division were quickly overwhelmed, and the Tiger Banner's cavalry began to pursue the retreating Qing cavalry.
Under the pursuit of the cavalry division, Qing cavalrymen were constantly shot or hit by arrows and fell off their horses. Some Qing cavalrymen who fled behind were even overtaken.
Compared with the cavalry of the Guan Ning Army who fled for their lives, the Eight Banners cavalry would sometimes stay behind to intercept the pursuing troops, delaying the offensive momentum of the Tiger Banner Cavalry Division and giving more Qing Army cavalry a chance to escape.
The Tiger Banner Cavalry Division pursued the Qing army until it was shelled by the Qing army, and then began to retreat back.
"It's a pity that we let so many go back. If we had held on a little longer, we might have been wiped out." Zhang Hong took away the monocular in front of him with a look of pity.
As long as the Qing army persists for a while longer, he believes that the cavalry division will be able to completely annihilate the Qing army's cavalry.
"The Mongolian cavalry did a great job in this battle." Ma Yunjiu said, "If our Mongolian cavalry battalion hadn't defeated the Mongolian cavalry that came with the Qing army, we would have suffered many casualties in this cavalry battle. Not small."
Although the Mongolian cavalry in the Qing army is not good at armor, their cavalry and shooting skills are better than those of Guanning Army and Eight Banners Army. As long as the distance is shortened, they still pose a great threat to the cavalry division.
Hearing this, Zhang Hong nodded and said: "The Mongols' cavalry and archery have to be admired. Unfortunately, the Qing army will not use them. If we prepare more soldiers and armor for them, we will be under great pressure."
"There are no ifs in war. If you lose, you will lose." Ma Yunjiu said.
Zhang Hong looked at the cavalry division coming back from the battlefield and said, "This time your cavalry division suffered quite a lot of losses. Leave the rest of the battle to others!"
"The cavalry division can still fight, so why not take this opportunity to take the initiative to charge the Qing army and defeat the Qing army in front of it in one fell swoop." Ma Yunjiu did not want the cavalry division to retreat like this.
In his opinion, although the cavalry division had gone through a battle, it was still capable of continuing to fight, and he was very confident that he would take the opportunity to defeat the Qing army in one fell swoop.
"Since everyone has retreated, the cavalry division should not move for the time being." Zhang Hong said, "We are not in a hurry to defeat this Qing army. We will wait for the dragoon division to complete the encirclement and completely defeat the Qing army. Not too late."
The Qing army came to the door on their own. He did not intend to simply defeat the Qing army. He wanted to completely eat the Qing army that dared to come to Qingcheng and weaken the Qing army's effective strength.
The more troops the Qing army loses, the less pressure Liaodong will put on the Tiger Banner.
After Ma Yunjiu heard Zhang Hong's words, he raised his hand and patted his forehead, and said angrily: "I almost missed a big event. I forgot that the Dragoon Division is coming towards us."
"This Qing army has traveled a long way from Liaodong, and the logistics and supplies have taken such a long time. As long as they can't grab anything, they will be dead." Zhang Hong said coldly.
The Qing army wanted to bully the Tiger Flag as if it were the Ming Dynasty. In his opinion, this was a blind attempt.
Ma Yunjiu picked up his monocular telescope and looked at the Qing army in the distance. He said, "I don't know when the dragoon division will arrive."
"Wait a minute, it shouldn't take a few days." Zhang Hong said, "The Qing army has retreated. There should be no more fighting today. Let's return to camp."
After the Qing army on the opposite side fired artillery to drive away the Tiger Banner Cavalry Division, they began to retreat on their own initiative, obviously not prepared to continue fighting.
Although the Dragoon Division achieved victory, it suffered many casualties, with more killed than wounded.
The corpses of many cavalry division cavalrymen who died in the battle are still on the battlefield. They need to bring the corpses back and check whether there are any companions who were lucky enough to die for them to be alive.
On the other side, after the Qing army retreated, they set up camp five or six miles away from the battlefield.
Wow!
Jirharang kicked over the weapons rack on the side and strode into his handsome tent.
Dorgon, Duduo and other Eight Banners generals followed him into the commander's tent.
"Brother Ninth, we lost this battle to Guan Ning's army. If they hadn't refused to send troops, we might not have lost this battle." Duduo said angrily.
Jirhalang took a deep breath and asked Dorgon, "How many people have come back?"
"Only more than a hundred Eight Banners cavalrymen returned from the battle. Quite a few of the Guan Ning Army escaped, but only the Guan Ning Army himself knows the exact number," Dorgon said.
"This bastard."
Jierhalang thought of Zu Dashou's refusal to send troops and couldn't help but curse.
Only less than 200 of the more than a thousand Eight Banners cavalry came back. When he thought of this, he wanted to chop Zu Dashou alive with a knife.
Every bannerman who can become the Eight Banners cavalry is selected from the red-armored soldiers. Among the white-armored soldiers, they are all unparalleled. The death of such an armored soldier makes him feel distressed, let alone the eight or nine hundred who died in this battle. people.
Dorgon said: "Now it's not a question of who is the bastard. If we can't defeat the tiger bandits in front of us, how can we rush to Qingcheng? I'm afraid we have to retreat."
"We can't retreat." Jierhalang said, "The army has worked so hard to get here, and just retreat back like this. Long live the Lord, there is no way to explain it, not to mention that we have killed and injured so many flag soldiers, but we don't even have anything." Bring back."
Since the beginning of Daijin, the army must be strong enough to gain enough benefits in every battle to ensure the stability of the army. Once it fails to plunder the benefits many times in a row, it will lose troops and generals. At this time, many flag soldiers are tired of war.
The soldiers and armor used by flag soldiers in battle need to be prepared by themselves, and some are simply borrowed. If they cannot profit from the war, many low-level flag soldiers will not only be in danger of losing their lives, but they will also have no money to repay the armor when they return. If you cannot repay the money you borrowed, you will become someone else's slave.
"Since you won't retreat, Brother Ninth, how do you want to fight?" Dorgon asked Xiang Jierhalang.
Unlike Jierhalang, he had the idea of retreating in his mind. However, the commander of the army was Jierhalang. He could not directly say that he would withdraw. Otherwise, even if he retreated, he would easily become Jierhalang's scapegoat when he returned to Shengjing. .
His current status in the Qing Dynasty relied on the two yellow flags left by the old Khan to their brothers, which are also the two white flags today. He was unwilling to leave Huang Taiji an excuse to deprive him of his identity as the leader of the white flag.
