The artillery units dragged heavy artillery on horseback and retreated slowly.Although there were non-commissioned soldiers of the Marine Corps who desperately resisted the attack, their number was limited and they could not stop the Qing army for long.Seeing that he was about to be caught up by the Qing cavalry, Zheng Chenggong finally sent rescuers to block the pursuing Qing cavalry and take the cannon back to the rear.Without the help of artillery, the cavalry of the Qing army poured in, and the Jiangnan cavalry was really not as fierce and brave as others, and gradually showed signs of collapse.Zheng Chenggong had to lead the pro-army brigade back to retreat, leaving enough space for him to gather the troops that arrived one after another and regroup.Unexpectedly, his handsome banner slowly moved backwards, directly shaking the Jiangnan cavalry's will to fight.Under the impact of the Manchu elite's fierce death, the Jiangnan cavalry was quickly routed and fled in all directions.Zheng Chenggong had to turn the orderly retreat into a rout, and the armor was crooked, allowing the Qing army to chase the ass for more than ten miles.Fortunately, Bai Wenxuan organized his troops in the rear in advance, built a barrier, and blocked the Qing army in front of the barrier, so he reluctantly separated his army from the Qing army.The tens of thousands of Jiangnan soldiers who did not retreat to the rear of the barrier were all killed by the Qing army.The artillery, which had retreated to the rear, resumed firing and blasted the Qing forward back.In this battle, Zheng Chenggong lost nearly half of his troops and was unable to advance.Luo Yangxing, who was following the army, hurriedly ordered the telegraph communication squad to send a report to Li Yan's former enemy command headquarters.Li Yan was also taken aback when he heard the news.In order to confront the Northwest Army, he once again changed Fan Wencheng's policy of treating the Han people kindly, drove all the Han people in the Central Plains to the north, and then moved outside the Guan, killing the Han people who did not resist, and the Han people in his army resisted and weakened their combat effectiveness.But according to the intelligence, he also has an elite cavalry army composed of pure Manchurians.Everyone judged that this elite army would be used to defend Beijing, but unexpectedly he sent it to block Zheng Chenggong.It is impossible to defeat Zheng Chenggong's Jiangnan cavalry army with a mixed army, so Li Yan did not pay much attention to the battle situation in the east.Now, if Zheng Chenggong is defeated, the entire right wing of the Northwest Army will be exposed to the Qing army, and moreover, it will be exposed to the elite of the pure Manchurians with the highest combat effectiveness.This Manchurian elite defeated Zheng Chenggong and moved south along the Dezhou line, which would not only threaten the right flank of the Northwest Army, but also threaten the transportation lines in the rear, and the Eastern Front Attack Corps of Xin Sizhong and Wang Jianguo was also in danger of being partially surrounded by the enemy.Li Yan telegraphed the order of the Eastern Front to attack the corps, and immediately sent cavalry to the north to support Zheng Chenggong, attack the back of the Manchu cavalry, and cooperate with the Jiangnan cavalry, striving to destroy the elite army of the Qing army first.In order to make up for the gap left by the cavalry of the Eastern Front Assault Corps after it moved north, the Mobile Corps cavalry advanced eastward to take over the position of the cavalry of the Eastern Front Assault Corps.Li Yan's transfer just gave Zilharang a chance.Gushan Ezhen Borhu and Gushan Beizi Eyidu, who have long been ready to stop, are now called Dutong with the restructuring of the Qing army.When the cavalry of the Northwest Army moved, they launched a surprise attack.Bol suddenly attacked from the vicinity of Laishui on the western front, taking advantage of the cover of darkness, breaking through the defense line of Li Da's musket army, and fleeing all the way south to east.Eyidu took advantage of the gap when the cavalry of the Eastern Front Assault Corps went north and the cavalry of the Mobile Corps did not reach the designated position, broke through Wang Jianguo's defense line east of Bazhou, and galloped all the way to the south.Both of them followed the arrangement of Jilharang, and after breaking through the defense line of the Northwest Army, they were divided into pieces, and quickly dispersed in the hinterland of the Central Plains, which was basically uninhabited.The purpose was to avoid the main force of the Northwest Army, and to use the speed of war horses to rush around the rear transportation lines of the Northwest Army, hospitals, grain and grass distribution stations, left-behind organs, and other facilities, so as to completely disrupt the rear of the Northwest Army.What's worse is that the movements of these Manchurian cavalry troops are all learned from Wang Shuo's guerrilla warfare methods, and even Wang Shuo's fried noodles are on their backs, so they don't need to bury the pot to cook at all.This method of taking advantage of Wang Shuo's limited strength and excessive space to break into his rear to make trouble just hit the soft underbelly of the Northwest Army.Li Yan found out that he had been deceived, and immediately ordered the whole army to retreat, shrink the defensive line, and not give enough space for the Manchu cavalry in the rear to move.The Northwest Army quickly retreated, and the battle line retreated from the Zhuozhou line close to Beijing to Dingxing, and then sent a cavalry army to quickly counter the Manchu cavalry for a decisive battle.At this time, Zilharang, who had retreated in the city of Beijing, led his army out again, closely following the retreat of the Northwest Army, putting pressure on the Northwest Army, so that Li Yan did not dare to use all his main force to deal with the Manchu cavalry in the rear.After learning the news that Wang Jianguo's cavalry was approaching his back, Ao Bai did not return to the army, but took advantage of the dark night to quietly set off to the northeast and returned to Liaodong through Shanhaiguan.After all, Zheng Chenggong had 200,000 cavalry, and after repelling Zheng Chenggong, the Aobai army looked amazing and intimidating, and in fact, under the bombardment of the opponent's artillery, it had already lost more than half.He could no longer afford to lose these only Manchu elites, and according to Zilharang's orders, he had to return to Liaodong, use these elites as the backbone, recruit the newly grown Manchu children, and reorganize the army to defend the last territory of Liaodong.The Manchurian elite was highly disciplined, and there was no sound in withdrawing troops north.At dawn on the second day of Wang Jianguo's cavalry, the sentinels in front suddenly lost the trace of the Manchurian cavalry.The commander-in-chief of the cavalry did not know the truth, so he had to stay in place, while contacting Zheng Chenggong, who had retreated to the south near Tianjin, and reporting to Wang Jianguo through Zheng Chenggong's telegraph.The telegraph had just been invented, and it was very thick and bulky, so it could only be equipped at the corps level, and the cavalry did not have it, so they had to go to Zheng Chenggong and use his telegraph to report the situation and ask for instructions.Coincidentally, the telegraph machine that Zheng Chenggong brought with him was still broken, and it couldn't be repaired no matter how much it was repaired.The game that has just been invented, the power supply voltage, and the electron tube are unstable, and the damage is originally normal.But the news could not be transmitted, and what to do with the next part of the cavalry armyThe cavalry commander had to send a fast horse back again to report to Wang Jianguo in Bazhou, and he was stationed in the same place, waiting for instructions.This back and forth delayed time, and Wang Jianguo's cavalry was tantamount to leaving the battlefield, making the rear of the Northwest Army even more insufficient, and it was unable to deal with the guerrilla warfare of the Manchu cavalry.That's when something big happened.On the way back to the headquarters hospital in Baoding, Lu Xiaoyu was attacked by the guerrilla troops of the Manchu cavalry, and most of the medical team and the wounded were killed, and Lu Xiaoyu disappeared
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