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Yue Le suddenly brought his personal soldiers and reserve team and pressed forward.

He was afraid that if something went wrong, it would be difficult for the reserve team to rescue him.In the case of muddy ground, it is necessary to get closer to the battle line, so that the reserve team can quickly rush up to make up for the leak.

The elite main forces of both sides are getting closer and closer.Fifty steps, forty steps, thirty steps, twenty steps...

They are all twenty steps away, and they are still stopping. Let's arrange the formation first.Because there are no long-range troops, and you are not afraid of the opponent's charge, you can calmly form a team.

Today is a battle of cold weapons. Whoever has a neat and well-prepared formation will have a greater chance of winning.

Dorgon watched with binoculars, and there were soldiers holding umbrellas beside him.Although the telescope was not exposed to rain, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and it was almost impossible to see the situation in the distance.

"Raise the gun!"

Sol and shouted with swords drawn, the flag commander immediately waved the flag, and the army began to advance with spears.

Solhe, who came from the Yehenala family, was the founder of the third and ninth leader of Zhenghuang Banner in Manchuria.He can also be regarded as a minority shareholder of the Qing Dynasty, because he founded the Shi Guan Zuo Ling, and this army can be passed on to his children and grandchildren in the future.

At this moment, the distance between the main force of the two sides is only ten steps from the closest one, and fifteen steps from the farthest one.

The Datong Army stopped advancing. Immediately afterwards, Hu Dinggui and Xiao Zongxian asked the messengers to wave the command flag.

Yuan Siqian, as the front-line commander, also conveyed the military order, and then looked at Solhe's troops more than ten meters away.

Solhe led his troops to speed up, and when they rushed to the front of the Datong Army eight meters away, they suddenly saw the front row of the Datong Army squatting down, revealing a barrage of firecrackers behind them.

Is it possible to fire guns in rainy days?

Solhe was wondering when he suddenly heard a gunshot in the rain.

A platoon gun with a distance of only eight meters, only eight meters, a pig can aim at it with a gun!

When Sol and defected to Huang Taiji, he could only command 300 people, but now he can command 3000 people.As the gunshots sounded, his troops fell down in an instant in the front row, leaving only a few lucky ones standing still.

This is just the beginning.

The Datong firecrackers in the first row squatted down and put on their bayonets after shooting, or went to pick up the long guns that the soldiers helped carry.The second row of firecrackers, after squatting down in the first row, fired forward again.

"Bang bang bang!"

The Eight Banners Army, which was completely dead and wounded in the front row, ushered in another round of shooting, and was shot and fell down in a daze.

The second row of firecrackers squatted down, and the third row of firecrackers began to aim.

"The Southern barbarians know how to demonize!"

"The demon gun is a demon gun, and it can be fired even in rainy days!"

"..."

Man Qing, who was still in the back row, looked at the corpses of his allies, turned around and ran away.

The main reason is that the Datong Army didn't talk about martial arts ethics, and the cold weapon positional warfare that was agreed, turned out to be a shuttle.Which army in the world can withstand a row of guns at a distance of eight meters?

"Bang bang bang!"

A large number of Eight Banners soldiers were killed in the process of escaping, and the survivors ran faster immediately.From time to time, some people slipped and fell, and got up and continued to flee, all of them covered in mud and water.

"Army attack!"

"Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo..."

The command flag was accompanied by the charge, and the Datong soldiers of the former army stepped on the mud and charged across the board.The few Eight Banners Army formations that were not shot by the firecrackers immediately faced the situation of being surrounded on three sides, turned around and fled subconsciously.

Dorgon was observing the battle situation, and adjusted the formation of troops according to the battle situation, but the battle was over as soon as it started.

What the hell is shooting guns in the rain?

Of the [-] troops of the former Manchu Qing army, three or four thousand were shot and killed on the spot.And if they die without warning, if this situation is not defeated, then the Eight Banners Army will become a god.

The former army of the Datong Army charged for a while, and according to the predetermined plan, they separated and killed towards the two sides, and joined forces with the friendly forces on both sides.

The troops of Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui are all on the east side of the battlefield, fighting on foot with Datong Xiao cavalry.

When they heard gunshots coming from the front, they were already terrified, and seeing the Datong army coming from the side, they would be attacked from both sides.

"Run away!"

Wu Sangui once again used his strengths, and Zu Dashou also put oil on the soles of his feet.The Han soldiers under their command rushed to flee without the commander's order. Anyway, they would not die if they ran faster than their friendly troops.

"Kill the Tartars!"

Wang Tingchen drew his sword and shouted, and chased after Wu Sangui.

Wang Tingchen and Li Dingguo led cavalry to attack Liaodong. In recent years, they rescued many Han people and captured many Jurchens.Today, Li Dingguo is transferred to Hebei as a division commander, while Wang Tingchen stays in Liaodong as a cavalry division commander.

After the two sides chased and fled, they both slipped on the soles of their feet, and fell into the mud in various embarrassments.

The flag of the Han army, who escaped slowly, was stabbed when chased.So after falling down, these Han army flags simply knelt down and begged for mercy in the muddy water.

Wu Sangui was wearing cotton armor that was drenched by rain. When the soles of his feet slipped, he rolled down from the breakthrough.

He was thinking about getting up and continuing to escape, when suddenly his waist was stepped on, and the soldier who stepped on him was also tripped.Immediately, another rout soldier ran over and stepped on Wu Sangui's chest.

"Get out of the way!"

Wu Sangui reluctantly climbed up, hacked a broken soldier beside him to vent his anger, and then continued to flee to the northeast.

Yue Le, a rising general of the Qing Dynasty, is also fleeing with his remnants.His troops suffered heavy losses and were stunned by the volley of firecrackers. Although the Datong army did not chase after them, but went to attack the flanks, Yue Le still attacked Dorgon's central army in a panic.

"Your Highness, let's go!" the soldiers shouted.

Dorgon looked blankly at the former army that had completely collapsed, and at the two wings that were collapsing.Everything in front of him seemed to be a dream, completely different from the battle he envisioned.

According to Dorgon's prediction, the brave and fearless Eight Banners fighters will kill the Southern Barbarians to the point of throwing away their helmets and armor in the battle of cold weapons.

"Your Highness, hurry up, it will be too late!" The soldiers were still urging.

Dorgon finally came to his senses, he saw that his central army was in chaos, and it was disrupted by the rout of the former army.

At this point, the battle has been lost, and Dorgon had no choice but to flee.

In other words, Dorgon is not required to make decisions.The Eight Banners nobles in the Chinese army are already fleeing spontaneously. They are all veterans of the battlefield, and they know that if they don't flee, the whole army will be wiped out.

Solhe also fell down and was trampled by the rout soldiers, but he survived because of it, like a dead body on the battlefield.

His calf bones were broken and he could only crawl in the mud.

The follow-up troops of the Datong Army chased after him, and Suo Erhe struggled to stand up, and even wanted to raise a knife to fight for his life, but was stabbed to death on the spot by several long guns.

These follow-up troops, regardless of the battle on both sides, went straight to chase Dorgon's central army.

Wu Sangui rolled and crawled, and escaped for two miles.

The cotton armor was too heavily soaked in water, and it was too difficult to run on the muddy ground, and he was almost too tired to run.He wanted to call the soldiers over and help him run, but he couldn't see the soldiers at all.

Wu Sangui heard footsteps, and a Datong army chased him in the rain.

He saw the leader of the team clearly, and quickly shouted: "Brother Wang, I am willing to surrender, don't kill me!"

Wang Tingchen laughed loudly, and spit out again: "Who the hell is your brother? Bind them up and catch a traitor!"

Zu Dashou was also tired from running, and sat in the mud wearing his armor.

He drew his knife across his neck and wanted to commit suicide.But he couldn't let go, the knife was clamped around his neck for a long time, until the Datong army chased him, and he threw away the waist knife and waited to be captured.

"Boom!"

Thunder and lightning, more rain.

The Eight Banners soldiers in Yaozhou City are always paying attention to the situation on the battlefield.Knowing that Dorgon's main force was defeated, he didn't dare to defend the city anymore. The general took his family and abandoned the city in the rain and fled to Xining Fort in the northwest.

As for the supplies that Dorgon transported to the city, there was no way to take them away, they were just waiting for the Datong Army to receive them.

Chapter 563 [Undercurrent surging]

One side was too tired to escape, and the other side was too tired to chase, and the muddy water in the rain was full of people.

Dorgon had already taken off his armor and boots, although it would have been dangerous to stop to remove his armor.But as long as you take off the armor, you can definitely make up for your escape time. The cotton armor is too heavy after being soaked in the rain, and it is too difficult to pull out the boots when they step into the mud.

"Your Highness, let's go, I will lead the troops to stop the enemy!" Wu Bai saw that the pursuers were getting closer, so he drew his sword and summoned the guards to fight back.

Dorgon was inexplicably moved and said, "I will treat your people kindly!"

Wu Bai was one of the sixteen ministers that Huang Taiji used heavily, and his father, Wu Likan, was in charge of the front line.Wu Bai himself joined the army at the age of 16 and fought with Nurhachi and Huang Taiji. After Dorgon took power, he was named a first-class viscount.He is one of the ancestors of the Guarjia family.

Wu Bai stayed behind to collect the defeated soldiers, and when the Datong army came after them, they gathered hundreds of people. .

The Eight Banners soldiers fled, and the Datong Army also chased them away.

More than a dozen Datong soldiers faced more than 100 Eight Banners soldiers, and the leading officer immediately blew the copper whistle.

Hundreds of Datong troops nearby gathered one after another and lined up to surround these fearless enemies.Both sides were so exhausted that they had no energy left. They relied entirely on willpower to support each other. They stabbed each other for a long time and didn't kill a few, but many Eight Banners soldiers were injured.

Wu Yong, who had followed Zhao Han in Luling County, was finally transferred to Liaodong as brigade commander.

At this moment, his whole body was weak, his legs were trembling with exhaustion, and he stabbed Wu Bai's cotton armor several times in a row.Cotton armor swollen by rain is even more difficult to break through!

Fortunately, more shots were used, a soldier stabbed Wu Bai so that his body shook, Wu Yong took the opportunity to shoot quickly and mercilessly.

Right in the throat.

The sixteen ministers under Huang Taiji's command fell down slowly while clutching his neck. Blood gushed out from the wound and mixed into the muddy water on the ground, making it difficult to distinguish.

"Catch a high-ranking Tartar official!"

There was another Datong army shouting nearby, and it was unknown which Manchu nobleman had been captured.

Wang Tingchen raised his head, walked up to Wu Sangui and asked, "Which one is this?"

Wu Sangui took a closer look and replied: "The Sixteenth Minister, Abudai, Fucha family."

"Haha, kill a big fish." Wang Tingchen laughed.

Wu Sangui quickly got busy, and someone caught another general and asked, "Who is this?"

Wu Sangui said: "Suohun, Niu Gulu's family, the son of E Yidu, the five founding ministers of the puppet Qing Dynasty."

"If you want to kill, kill it, don't talk so much nonsense!" Suo Hun was pressed into the mud, and he was still struggling and shouting.This guy seems very unwilling. He is the general of Dorgon's Chinese army, and the army was defeated before he had time to fight.

Soon another prisoner came and asked Wu Sangui, "Who is this?"

Wu Sangui looked at it for a long time, shook his head and said, "I don't know."

The prisoner roared: "Grandpa is called Zhang Ku, Baturu of Manchuria bestowed by Emperor Taizong (Huang Taiji)!"

"It's still fierce if you are caught!" The Datong officer who captured him kicked him immediately.

Zhang Ku fell into the muddy water, stiffened his neck and said: "I don't accept it, you use demon methods, if you are a warrior, you can fight again with real swords and guns!"

"Hahahaha!"

Datong soldiers laughed.

To be honest, even inside the Datong Army, they didn't take the leather case of the firecracker seriously.After all, it can only be shot once on a rainy day, and it is completely useless at ordinary times. Who knows that it will work wonders at critical moments.

The Manchus didn't know that, they thought the firecrackers of the Datong Army could keep shooting in the rain.

So after the collapse of the former army, the other Qing troops were terrified and completely afraid to fight the Datong army head-on.In addition, the two wings also collapsed one after another, and the morale of the Eight Banners soldiers in the Chinese army dropped, and they began to run away as soon as they were rushed by the defeated soldiers.

The pursuit battle was still going on, and many Eight Banners soldiers collapsed from exhaustion, lying in the mud resigned to their fate, waiting to be caught.

When the Datong army collapsed after chasing them, they would often catch an enemy, tie him up on the spot, and then sit on the captive to rest by himself.

According to post-war statistics, more than 6000 enemy troops were beheaded, more than [-] enemy troops were captured, and the remaining Tartars all fled.

Of course, they didn't run away from the establishment. Some ran northwest, some ran northeast, and many fled into the mountains in the northeast.

Dorgon rushed all the way to Haizhou, waited for four days, and fled back to some defeated soldiers one after another.He repeatedly counted the number of people, and there were only more than 5000 people left in the tens of thousands of troops.After waiting for another two days, more than a thousand people fled back again.

At this time, the rainstorm has ended, and there are a few light rains every now and then.

After the heavy rain, Li Zheng led his army straight to Haizhou.It was cloudy and rainy, so I didn't bring much luggage, and all the artillery was left in Yaozhou.

"Abandon Haizhou!"

Dorgon continued to run away with the army, and the garrison and bannermen in Haizhou also fled, and they were still in shock all the way to Anshan.

In Anshan, Dorgon temporarily reorganized and incorporated many bannermen into the army.His strength was nearly ten thousand again, but there was a severe lack of military equipment. Most of the routs threw away their armors while fleeing, and some Eight Banners soldiers even threw away their weapons.

How can this kind of army lacking weapons and armor fight against the Datong army?

Li Zheng occupied Haizhou and led his army to Anshan.

Dorgon ran away again, this time a little more calmly, and the local Tartars in Anshan were able to take away the goods with them.

Li Zheng occupied Anshan, and finally stopped chasing him.Because they marched lightly to seize the two cities, the Datong army did not have enough food to eat, so they had to stay in Anshan and wait for the army food to be delivered.