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"woo woo woo woo!"

The horn sounded, and the nearby dragoons approached, intending to surround Kong Youde's troops.

"Get out!"

Kong Youde was startled when he heard the sound of the trumpet, he chased too far, and he was already a lone army.The main reason is that the traditional cavalry of the Qing Dynasty ran too slowly and were gradually pulled away by the cavalry of Datong. Only the dragoon cavalry of the Qing Dynasty could keep up with the speed.

More than 1000 Datong cavalry who loaded their ammunition quickly surrounded Kong Youde.

"Bang bang bang!"

Kong Youde led his troops to rush out of the encirclement, but left behind more than 30 corpses, including his son Kong Tingxun.

"woo woo woo woo!"

Lausa was also blowing the trumpet to gather troops. He felt that this was not the way to fight. He had to gather cavalry to fight with the Datong army at close range.

The Manchu and Qing cavalry gradually gathered, and nearly a thousand people had been lost in two sticks of incense.

The Datong cavalry was not in a hurry to catch up, but methodically loaded the ammunition, and then slowly approached the enemy.

Lausa waved the flag order, intending to outflank and cut the battlefield, leaving some Datong cavalry behind.

"woo woo woo woo!"

Li Dingguo began to blow the trumpet and ordered the whole army to retreat without giving the enemy any chance.

Anyway, his combat goal is to hold back the Tartars and wait for the main force to come to fight a decisive battle.

At this moment, Hauge and Man Dahai, with their infantry and supplies, took the opportunity to continue marching towards Lutai.It is already very close to Lutai, and it can be defended by retreating, instead of being overtaken in the wilderness.

Badalie led his own Mongolian cavalry, and his mind was dizzy.

He couldn't keep up with the rhythm of Datong's allies at all, advancing and retreating in a daze.Up to now, they just ran back and forth, not one of the Tartar cavalry was killed, and one of the cavalry was not killed, as if they came to the battlefield for an armed parade.

Daiqin's side is similar, the Chahar cavalry interspersed in a daze, and was almost overtaken by the Manchu cavalry.

How did the riding battle become like this?

The Mongol knights couldn't figure it out.

The two sides fought until the evening, a full four hours.

Although the fight was lively, most of the time was spent on horseback riding, and the combined casualties on both sides were only two thousand.Among them, the Manchu Qing contributed 300% of the casualties.As for the Datong cavalry, only three teams were accidentally bitten. After a melee fight, more than [-] people were killed and successfully broke through.

That night, the main force of the Manchu Qing retreated to Lutai, 360 miles away from Shanhaiguan.

The next day, the Manchus continued to withdraw their troops.

But Li Dingguo was unable to pursue immediately, because the Manchu and Qing cavalry crossed the river with the cooperation of infantry, and they all waited on the other side of the nearby river.

Li Dingguo then led his troops to detour to the north for a full forty miles, and finally left aside the Manchu cavalry and passed through a bridge over the Jiyun River.When they caught up with the main force of the Qing Dynasty again, they were almost at Kaiping Zhongtunwei (near Tangshan).

People were tired and horses were exhausted, and there was no battle, so they stopped far away to rest.

They didn't bring much food, and most of the ammunition was consumed. If they fought for another day, they could only kill with knives.

On the third day, they fought for another half day, killing more than 1000 Tartars and killing more than [-] themselves.But the ammunition was exhausted, and the food was almost finished. He tried to attack at night and was found, so he could only return to Tianjin in resentment.

Fei Ruhe stayed in Tianjin to sit in town, Zhang Tieniu had led his troops to chase after him, Li Dingguo's cavalry got supplies halfway, and they broke away from the main force to catch up.

When the main forces of the two sides met again, the Manchu and Qing troops had withdrawn to Luanzhou, only 180 miles away from Shanhaiguan.

"Da da da da!"

A fast horse came from Shanhaiguan, only to say that he had an important military situation to see Hauge.

Hauge opened the letter and was dumbfounded: Yaozhou was defeated, the two white flags were almost destroyed, and the two yellow flags suffered heavy losses.Yaozhou was lost, Haizhou was lost, Anshan was lost, and Weining Camp was lost.

Haoge found Man Dahai and handed over the military letter.

Man Dahai looked at it and was speechless for a long time.

After some discussion, Man Dahai said: "We can't delay, otherwise the southern barbarians in Liaodong will definitely block the Liaoxi passage, and tens of thousands of us will not be able to go back. Let's go tonight, abandon the people and luggage, and only let Soldiers carry food for several days with them."

Chapter 568 [Deserters]

"The Tartars are running!"

"Haven't you been running?"

"Run north!"

"Chase!"

Luanzhou was also one of the transfer stations of grain and grass in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and many small boats were hoarded and built.

Hao Ge and Man Dahai did not continue to go to Shanhaiguan. . .Because the Liaoxi Corridor is in the rainy season, the speed of going back to Liaodong through Shanhaiguan is very slow, and it is easy to be blocked by Li Zheng, Hu Dinggui and others.

As a result, the Tartars abandoned tens of thousands of civilian husbands and a large amount of baggage that was difficult to take away.The infantry took boats up the Luanhe River and its tributaries to Lulongousse, while the cavalry marched along the banks of the river.

The withdrawal route changed by the Tartars is exactly the route that Cao Cao used in his expedition to Wuhuan!

Some Datong cavalry had already detoured and crossed the river, and went to Shanhaiguan to intercept.Hao Ge and Man Dahai suddenly changed, which disrupted Zhang Tieniu's arrangement, and nearly ten thousand Datong cavalry were waiting for the air in front.

"Infantry cross the river, dragoons shoot along the river!" Zhang Tieniu ordered.

It was already midnight, the soldiers on both sides were exhausted, and there were torches everywhere on both sides of the Luan River.

The Datong soldiers tried to cross the river, but were attacked by the troops behind the Manchu Palace.In desperation, they had to go south for a few miles and cross the river on simple tools such as wooden boards.

Tens of thousands of civilians, abandoned by the Tartars, are fleeing in all directions.

There are three thousand troops in the rear of the Tartars, all of whom are elite infantry.First, they prevented the Datong soldiers from crossing the river, and after the Datong soldiers detoured, these Tazi soldiers retreated to Luanzhou City.

For a while, Zhang Tieniu had difficulty conquering Luanzhou, so he had to send troops to gather up the peasants who had been abandoned by the Tartars.

At the same time, [-] soldiers were sent to block the north of Luanzhou City. Zhang Tieniu led the main force of the infantry and continued north to chase the main force of the Tartars.After all this tossing, Hauge had led his army to retreat northward for more than ten miles.

As for the thousands of Datong dragoons, they pursued along the west bank of the Luan River, shooting at the boats in the river.

"Get off your horse and hit more accurately, and aim at the Tartar boat!" Huang Fei ordered.

It was pitch black in the middle of the night, and the boats on the river were not lit, so they could only aim at the black shadows and shoot.

Yuan Shizhong stood on the bank, stuck the torch in the mud, aimed at the black shadow in the river and shot.With the light of the torch, he quickly reloaded the ammunition, rode forward, aimed at the shadow in the river and shot again.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Shhhhhh!"

Not only the dragoons were shooting, but the Tartar musketeers on the ship, as well as the Tartar archers, were also firing at the dragoons on the shore.

Finally, the boats on which the Tartars were riding were lit up one after another, but it was the firecrackers who needed to reload their bombs.

In the darkness, they didn't know each other's casualties at all.But the Tartar's hit rate must be lower, because the boat swayed badly and was still sailing, while the Datong Dragoons fired from the ground.

After chasing and killing from midnight to dawn, I was finally able to see the situation clearly.

There are hundreds of small boats of the Tartars, some of which carry six or seven people, and some of which carry one or two people. The small number of people is to make room for loading luggage.

More Tartar infantry, trotting along the river bank, took off their armor and put them on the boat.

Under Li Dingguo's command, the dragoons stopped paying attention to the enemies in the river, and accelerated their march to the north, intending to cross the river further north to intercept the Tartars.

As soon as Li Dingguo moved, Lausa also moved, leading the Tartar cavalry and chasing Li Dingguo across the river. Anyway, the dragoons were not allowed to cross the river.

"My lord, there are a large number of deserters in the Wuzhenchao Ha camp!" Shang Kexi came to report on horseback.

Hauge had a good idea, taking everything into consideration, but ignored the morale of the troops.

Kong Youde and the gratifying Wuzhenchao Ha Ying are all Han soldiers.The veterans in Dongjiang Town have been promoted to officers long ago, and ordinary soldiers are all added later.Some were transformed from the Ming army in western Liaoning before the Tartars entered the customs; some were simply supplemented by Han soldiers in Shanshan and Hebei after entering the customs.

In order to quickly withdraw his troops, Hauge let the soldiers take off their armor and run, completely losing their organizational system on the east bank of the Luan River.

Ever since, a large number of Han soldiers took the opportunity to escape.They knew that Manqing was about to end, and they didn't want to perish with Manqing. Now they escaped and still had a chance to survive.

"Da da da da!"

A few more generals came on horseback one after another, and the content of the report was similar: "My lord, the banner of the Han army under my command is fleeing!"

On the east bank of the Luan River, the Tazi soldiers were stretched and scattered for several miles.Many Han soldiers deliberately slowed down, and faced the urging of the officers, they said that they could not run anymore.

Even if you kill chickens to warn monkeys and cut off a few heads, it can only have a short-term effect, and if you continue to move forward for a certain distance, you will return to your old ways.

Before the main force of the Tartars withdrew to Lulong County, the number of Han army flags that fled halfway exceeded [-].

The Horqin Mongolian cavalry was following Lausa to block the dragoons along the river.They also received the news soon, so the leaders met secretly to discuss what to do next.

"Jurchen is dying, and Horqin can't follow her to death." The first person to express his attitude was Hauge's father-in-law, Hong Guoer.

Da Yuer's brother Manzhu Xili said: "Are you going to betray the Qing Dynasty?"

Budaqi said: "Your sister is the Jurchen Empress Dowager. Did she bring her clansmen to accompany the Qing Dynasty to her death? Badali's wife is also the princess of the Qing Dynasty. He is not the same as the Nanmanzi."

Manzhu Xili said: "The Qing Dynasty is gone, can we resist the Nanmanzi?"

"Of course we can't resist. Horqin's ministries should surrender to Emperor Zhao," Budaqi said. "Our Horqin warriors also fought against Nurhaci at first. But after we surrendered, not only were we not punished, but we were rewarded by Nurhaci. Treat the Nanman The same is true for Zi, if he surrendered to Emperor Zhao in Nanjing, Horqin’s ministries could continue to live in the grassland.”

"But Badali has already voted, and he will lead the Datong army to snatch our pasture and troops." Manzhu Xili said worriedly.

Bu Daqi said: "No, even if he wants to, he must be willing to do so. Emperor Zhao of Nanjing, like Huang Taiji, is a very smart person. As long as he is a smart person, he will not allow the reunification of the Horqin Grassland. If Dali wants to unify Horqin, Emperor Zhao will be displeased. At that time, we will join hands to kill Badali, and Emperor Zhao will at most give a symbolic punishment."

Hongguoer suddenly came up with a good idea: "Why don't we go back to the grassland immediately and annex Badali's pasture and tribes! When Badali brings the Datong army to kill, we immediately surrender and return some of the grassland tribes. Give it to Badali. Then ask the Datong Army to be the master and demarcate the pastures of each department, so that Badali will never even think about turning over for the rest of his life!"

"it is good!"

The leaders of Horqin reached an agreement and immediately ran away with the Mongolian cavalry. Their troops combined totaled more than 4000.

Of course, the excuse was to go forward and intercept the Datong Dragoons from crossing the river.These guys ran fast, bypassing Lulong County all the way, entering the mountain north from the Taolinkou Great Wall.

By the time Lausa realized something was wrong, the Horqin cavalry had been fleeing for a long time.

The Horqin cavalry not only ran away, but also deliberately spread the news of the Tartars' defeat when they passed by Sanchakou Castle.The Qing army (Mongolian flag) at Sanchakou was panicked, and there were not many in number, so they hurriedly put Horqin cavalry into the castle for defense.

"Kill them all!"

The moment the castle gate opened, the Horqin cavalry immediately launched an attack.

They fled without food. If they didn't rob the army food halfway, they would have to go back to the grassland hungry.

The Manchu Qing Castle at Sanchakou was slaughtered by the Horqin cavalry, and the army rations were also robbed by these guys.

Just when Haoge withdrew to Lulong County, the Mongolian cavalry who hadn't run away had serious problems again.

"Uncle, I have something important to discuss!" Gurus Qibu, the leader of the right wing of Karaqin, led his troops towards his uncle Selen.

Selen also wanted to discuss with his nephew, since the Horqin tribe had already left, should their Harqin tribe also run away?

The two uncles and nephews got together, Selen was just about to speak, when the nephew suddenly drew his knife and slashed out.

At the same time, Gulusiqibu's personal guards attacked Selen's personal guards.The latter was caught off guard, and soon half fell, while the rest fled back to their own ranks on horseback.

In this way, the left-wing and right-wing forces of Karaqin Mongolia fought each other outside Lulong County.

After chasing and killing for several miles, Gulusiqibu held his uncle's head and said to the remnant soldiers: "I am the master of Karaqin. It is that damned Huang Taiji who divided our Karaqin into two. Want to If you survive, kneel down and surrender to me!"

Selen was dead, and his remnants could not reverse the situation, so they could only get off their horses and kneel down one by one.

Then, Gulusiqibu took the Karaqin cavalry and went northward across the Great Wall and back to the grassland.He wants to rush back, digest his uncle's power, and truly unify Karakin Mongolia.

The next thing, Gurus Qibu has already thought about it, raised the flag to submit to the Datong court, and at the same time made good friends with Chahar Mongolia, and then sent troops to annex the surrounding small tribes.Horqin Mongolia is obviously in civil strife, and he can take advantage of the chaos to fight out and swallow some of Horqin's territory.

Gurus Qibu wants to take the opportunity to become the Great Khan of Mongolia!

As long as he conquered a large territory and kept submitting to Emperor Zhao, Emperor Zhao would surely treat him preferentially.

When Haoge sent troops to persuade the fight, the Karaqin cavalry had disappeared.

So far, the main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is still 50 miles away from the Great Wall.However, due to deserters and civil strife in Mongolia, its total strength was less than [-], and everyone was panicked.

Li Dingguo had successfully crossed the Luan River and was continuing to march north, intending to cross the Qinglong River again and go around the Great Wall to intercept the Qing army.Another group of Datong dragoons was coming from the direction of Shanhaiguan, and they also went straight to several entrances of the Great Wall.

Zhang Tieniu led the main force of the infantry. Due to the lack of ships, the whole army wore armor, and it was still more than ten li away from Lulong County.

Hauge and Mandahai faced each other silently, neither knowing what to say.

The tree fell and the monkeys scattered, and the Han army flag and Mongolian cavalry fled, making Hauge's withdrawal into a joke.

Man Dahai said: "I don't care about the infantry, those who can ride horses go immediately. As for the soldiers without horses, how much they can escape back depends on their own luck."

Hauge said: "Some Manchurian warriors have no horses, while some Han soldiers have horses. Do you want to let the Manchurian warriors ride all the horses of the Han army?"

"it is good!"

Man Dahai nodded and said: "Even if these Han soldiers return to Liaodong, they may cause trouble at any time. It is better to keep them here in the rear. If one more Manchurian warrior escapes, we will be more stable in Liaodong."