Chapter 162, Nanjing Nanjing continued However, because the Qing army was in a state of retreat after its defeat at this time, tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers and horses were scattered along the entire canal, lined up from south to north, and it was naturally far away from Yangzhou, the gathering place for the cross-river battle.
It is also far and near.
Among them, the two yellow flags of Huang Taiji are in the south, closest to Yangzhou.
The two white flag soldiers and horses of the three Dorgon brothers were at the very back, and part of them was in the northernmost Shandong territory, tasked with covering the entire army's retreat.
The other part was stationed in Fengyang, responsible for suppressing the various bandits in Huaixi and guarding the western defense line of the Qing Dynasty's remaining territories.
If there was plenty of time, Huang Taiji would of course find a place to assemble the entire army, and then march south in a leisurely manner.
Especially the two white flag soldiers and horses of the three Dorgon brothers must be kept in front of you to feel at ease.
Unfortunately, the military situation was as urgent as a spark, and the opportunity to take control of Jiangnan was fleeting.
When Emperor Chongzhen invaded Nanjing, recruited surrenders and rebels, and all parties knelt down, Jiangnan, the most fertile land in the world, would no longer have a share in the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, Huang Taiji could only take the two yellow flag soldiers and horses around him, go south to Yangzhou as quickly as possible, prepare to cross the river, and at the same time send orders to the entire army to come one after another.
Then, before the Eight Banners soldiers and horses were even halfway there, the Donglin Party in Nanjing could no longer hold on.
In order to avoid delaying the opportunity to fight, Huang Taiji, who refused to give up, gritted his teeth again.
Regardless of the fact that the army had not yet completed its assembly, he crossed the Yangtze River himself and rushed into the fighting field in Nanjing.
Next, as the Ming and Qing Dynasties continued to increase their troops and fight fiercely, Nanjing became an unprecedented cruel flesh and blood mill.
Since the Qing army was always at an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength, it was extremely difficult to fight on the battlefield, and the situation almost collapsed several times.
Huang Taiji, who originally hoped to easily conquer the south of the Yangtze River, was disappointed to find in the continuous war that the battle of Nanjing was not as easy as when he broke through the Great Wall and conquered the pass.
In his mind, the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, who were supposed to collapse at the first touch and then be slaughtered like weak chickens, actually became extremely difficult to deal with under the supervision of Emperor Chongzhen, and had the courage to fight to the death with the Eight Banners warriors.
The Eight Banners Army, which once swept across the Central Plains, also failed to fight in the south of the Yangtze River.
It was struggling everywhere.
It no longer had the invincible spirit of "the Jurchens are not satisfied with thousands of people and are invincible".
In the past half month, as the war situation has been tumultuous, one Qing army after another has been crossing the river.
By now, all six of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty have gathered outside Nanjing.
Only the two white flags of the Dorgon brothers are stranded in the Huaibei area and have not moved south at all.
Of course, the Two White Flags also have their own explanations for this matter, such as riots by rogue bandits, unrest at the rear, and the advance of the Dengzhou Army, etc.
But what a heroic figure Huang Taiji was.
How could we not see that the three Dorgon brothers were obviously rebellious and wanted to sit on the mountain in the north and watch the tiger fight?
In short, for Huang Taiji, the current situation is really critical: there is a stubborn enemy in front and a traitor behind, both sides are equally deadly.
However, the Jiangnan strategy has reached this point, and Huang Taiji is already riding a tiger and is unable to get off.
Although the Eight Banners of Manchuria suffered heavy losses during the fall of Liaodong and the Mutiny in Beijing, the Two White Banners of the Dorgon brothers still had 65 powerful Manchurian soldiers.
After adding the direct Han army, There are a total of more than 10,000 soldiers, a huge strength.
This military strength is even much stronger than Huang Taiji's two yellow flags.
Next, as the Battle of Nanjing intensified, Huang Taiji's two yellow flags were almost disabled because they were the first to enter the battlefield, while the other four flags also suffered heavy casualties.
Even if the Manchu soldiers of all six banners were added up, there would only be more than a hundred troops, and they were generally severely understaffed.
If he gave up the Battle of Nanjing now, gave up so many previous sacrifices, and returned to the north to defeat the three Dorgon brothers for his own power, the best result would be to die together with Huang Taiji.
The worst outcome would be for the Eight Banners to rebel and support Dorgon in deposing the emperor and usurping the throne.
Therefore, Huang Taiji had no choice but to pretend to be fat, and ordered the two white flags to guard the rear of Xuzhou and Lunan, acquiescing to their intention to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, in order to appease the three Dorgon brothers, lest the two white flags jump out now came to rebel; at the same time, he sent people to send his concubines and children to the Yanziji Camp in Nanjing.
This was not only to declare his intention to fight to the end, but also to prevent them from being taken hostage by Dorgon.
In the early morning of this day, Huang Taiji first ordered the entire army to have a full meal to replenish their spirits.
Then he smashed the pots and stoves, threw the remaining army rations into the Yangtze River, and burned down his camp.
Then, amid the discussions among the entire army, Huang Taiji brought his concubines and children to the officers and soldiers, and encouraged them generously and movingly, saying, "Everyone, we have now lost our hometown between the white mountains and the black waters. , and right in front of us is the city of Nanjing, the prosperous and prosperous Jiangnan, and your new home.
If we fail, we will become a lost dog and be ruined under the world.
There is no place to stand.
Now, we are left with only two choices: win, become famous, and enjoy eternal wealth.
Defeat, and die in a foreign land with no one to bury.
In order to show my determination, I have brought my wife, concubines, and children here.
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If the Immortal God does not bless me to win on the battlefield, then I would rather die in battle and have my bloodline cut off than endure the humiliation of being a slave.
Let’s fight together.”
Later, Huang Taiji, who had always been stout and whose martial arts was only ordinary at best, put on his armor, mounted his horse, picked up his weapons, took the lead, and was the first to rush towards the Ming army camp in the direction of Zhongshan.
The Manchurian soldiers also knew that there was no way out, and saw the Qing Emperor They all took the lead in the charge.
If there was anything they could not spare, they all rushed to the front, just like tens of thousands of tigers descending the mountain, roaring and exerting 200% of their combat effectiveness.
As for the Ming army, they had just learned the bad news about the fall of Huguang and the fire in the backyard.
For a while, people's hearts were in a state of confusion and their morale was low.
Several of the most capable generals were discussing the next strategic plan with the emperor in the imperial camp, invisibly relaxing their control over their respective troops.
Especially the Ming army's scout troops were very lazy in the past two days, and they did not even detect the news that the Qing army was about to launch a general offensive.
As a result, several miscellaneous troops of the Ming Army deployed at the front barely had time to put up any resistance, and were rushed to pieces by the wolf-like Qing cavalry.
They collapsed immediately.
The remaining defeated generals completely lost their restraints and scrambled towards them.
Escape from the imperial camp in Nanjing City or Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum.
At this time, there were only 30,000 Qing troops on the battlefield in Nanjing, while the Ming army numbered 90,000.
At first glance, it seemed that the Ming army had the absolute upper hand.
But it should be noted that among the 90,000 Ming troops, there are only about 20,000 real soldiers, and the rest are miscellaneous troops who make up the numbers.
There were even many landlords and rural warriors who came temporarily to "accompany" the troops to practice.
Not only did they not increase their combat effectiveness, they actually caused chaos in the Ming army's command system.
Even the most elite troops of the Ming army were mainly Huguang recruits who had been temporarily recruited and trained for several months, and their combat effectiveness was far inferior to the same number of Qing troops.
In addition, the tactical command capabilities of the generals of the Ming army were generally inferior to those of the Qing army who had been on the battlefield.
Before the reinforcements of the Qing army arrived, Huang Taiji only had a few thousand men on hand.
Even in extremely unfavorable street fighting, he was able to rely on the rich combat experience of the Eight Banners warriors to fight against an army ten times more powerful than his own.
The army was at a stalemate.
Although they fought and retreated, they never collapsed.
Now, due to the inspiring effect of Huang Taiji's example, the 30,000 Qing troops have turned into a real tiger and wolf army, and the combat effectiveness they unleashed is extremely astonishing.
Although they attacked the mountain with less force and more force, these Eight Banners warriors seemed to have no idea how the word "death" was written.
Not only were they not afraid, but they cheered and shouted loudly.
They held long and short weapons and faced the mountain.
They rushed towards the battlefield rookies of the Ming Army who had not worn their uniforms for a few days, and started a bloody hand-to-hand battle.
Those who are violent are afraid of losing their lives, not to mention these miscellaneous troops of the Ming army, which are far from being considered as horizontal.
They are just a group of ordinary villagers holding weapons.
Seeing the ferocity of the Qing army, they have long lost the courage to fight.
They were immediately defeated and retreated, trampling on each other and killing countless people.
After hearing the report of the defeat on the front line, the Ming army generals who were meeting in Xiaoling hurried back to their respective camps to prepare for the battle.
As the coach, Lu Xiangsheng immediately summoned the servants from the Chinese Army's Biao Camp and hurried to the northern foot of Zhongshan Mountain to provide support.
Unexpectedly, on the mountain road leading to the battlefield, Lu Xiangsheng was so angry at the spectacular scene he saw that he fell over and saw the defeated Ming army at the front.
Although he did not have the courage to fight the enemy to the death, he was able to escape while fleeing.
They are like rhinoceroses, all of them are running rampant and extremely brave.
Because they met on a narrow road, there was no preparation in advance.
As a result, almost in the blink of an eye, Lu Xiangsheng had not had time to clearly see the enemy's formation.
The reinforcements he had organized hastily were overwhelmed by these broken troops who were less successful than more defeated.
Even the several Ming armies that arrived one after another were defeated by these powerful men.
Due to the narrow mountain road, these people trampled on each other and suffered heavy casualties.
Several ignorant generals of the Ming army did not die under the swords of the Qing soldiers.
Instead, they were trampled to death by their own people's feet next to Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum.
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By this time, the Ming army's command system had completely collapsed.
As the Qing army's killing cries got closer and closer, reinforcements from all walks of life failed to arrive.
Even the most trusted Lu Xiangsheng didn't know where he had gone.
Emperor Chongzhen couldn't stay in Xiaoling any longer, so he had to give the order to leave.
Yuhuatai transfer.
Unexpectedly, after the imperial chariot was transferred, the Eight Banners soldiers could no longer stop.
The Eight Banners soldiers quickly identified the imperial chariot of Emperor Chongzhen and pursued him all the way.
Emperor Chongzhen fell to the roadside in the chaos, bleeding from his forehead, and passed out on the spot.
When the guards and eunuchs escorting them saw this, they immediately lost their backbone and did not even dare to enter the city of Nanjing.
They actually continued to flee westward to Dasheng Pass, then found ships and retreated upstream toward Wuhu and Chizhou.
At this point, as Emperor Chongzhen's chariot disappeared from the battlefield, the 90,000 Ming army on the Nanjing front line completely collapsed.
Among them, those surrendered troops who had originally changed their banners from the Nanjing Donglin Party Court once again chose to defect to the Qing army on the opposite side.
However, those Jiangnan landowners and rural warriors who came to help in the battle, hoping to earn a share of the dragon's merits, dispersed one after another in disappointment, and returned to their hometowns to continue to wait and see the situation.
The most unlucky ones were those Nanjing nobles who "abandoned the dark and turned to the bright".
They thought they made the right choice at the critical moment and could continue their glory and wealth under the banner of the orthodox emperor.
Unexpectedly, they encountered such a twists and turns, and everyone was immediately paralyzed.
Among them, Wei Guogong Xu Hongji chose to abandon his mansion and property in Nanjing, and followed Emperor Chongzhen with his family and servants.
But other Nanjing nobles did not have such determination as a strong man to cut off their wrists.
Most of them were reluctant to part with the wealth they had accumulated over hundreds of years, so they fearfully continued to stay in the city, waiting for the fate of the victor.
In the end, in the chaos of a devastating defeat, Lu Xiangsheng, the commander-in-chief of the entire army, was finally not trampled to death, but he could no longer catch any troops and could only be defeated by thousands of defeated troops.
Coerced, they retreated in a noisy manner.
Behind the defeated troops, there were Qing army rangers who were constantly harassing and pursuing them.
From Zhongshan to Yuhuatai to Dashengguan, dead bodies and abandoned armor could be seen everywhere.
On November 27, Lu Xiangsheng finally managed to contain 5,000 defeated troops and fought again in Wuhu with the 6,000 Qing troops who came to pursue him.
After a hard day's battle, they were finally defeated again.
Lu Xiangsheng was killed by an arrow when he led his servants to attack the enemy formation.
The remaining Ming army immediately collapsed and fled.
At this point, Emperor Chongzhen's eastern expedition was declared a complete failure.
Not only failed to regain the capital of Nanjing, but also lost the rear base of Huguang Province.
Even the army that had been painstakingly recruited and trained was wiped out on the battlefield of Nanjing, and it has basically withdrawn from the stage of competing in the world.
At the same time, in this war, what was destroyed by the war and smoke was the remaining power of the Ming Dynasty, which had been in charge of the world for two hundred years.
From then on, no one could prevent the collapse of the Ming Empire, and no one could put the shattered world back together again.
But on the other hand, the bad luck of the Ming Dynasty meant the good news of the Qing Dynasty.
When His Majesty Huang Taiji, soaked in blood, smelled the smoke that had not yet been blown away from the battlefield, and once again rode into Nanjing with great satisfaction, he seemed to see the revival and rise of the Qing Empire once again.
Obviously, as the victor of the war, he had no intention from the beginning to return the fertile soil of Jiangnan to those Donglin gentlemen who led the wolves into the house.
Beyond the word count: A long-lost rant about the incompetence of American imperialism.
If you have money, you will be willful.
Five hundred million dollars will train five super soldiers.
Recently, the top commander of the US military in the Middle East angrily announced that the US Department of Defense had previously allocated US$500 million to train 5,400 Syrian opposition soldiers to fight against ISIS and the Assad government forces.
But in the end, only fifty-four soldiers were trained, and as soon as these soldiers arrived in Syria to join the war, they were completely wiped out by a local al-Qaeda armed force, leaving only four or five soldiers.
It's equivalent to spending 100 million US dollars to train a soldier.
If only five people survive instead of four, are they making Captain America or training Gundam pilots?
Hey, it seems that the big tigers of the US military are too powerful.
This greedy It was too unscrupulous.
The number of 5,400 people shrank directly to 54 people, taking up 99% of the free wages.
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Even the Kuomintang knew that it had to hire strong men to make up the number.
In short, the U.S.
Department of Defense has done meritorious service, and the U.S.
Department of Defense has done meritorious service and will not give ISIS any chance.
They could kill themselves as a freedom fighter trained by the great American who carried on America's glorious tradition.
Superman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk and Captain America are possessed by their souls at this moment.
These five people represent the long history and tradition of the US military.
At this moment, they are not five people fighting, they are not five people.
Well, back to the subject, there are two reasonable explanations for this matter.
The first one is that the Department of Defense and the CIA are not on good terms.
The rednecks in the Department of Defense thought that they really wanted to spend their efforts on counter-terrorism.
Little did they know that all the money was taken by the CIA.
We went to arm ISIS, we just hired some random people to show off.
The other is that relevant departments conspire to deduct money from overseas funds for corruption.
Anyway, Congress cannot reconcile with the Syrian militants.
Unfortunately, as soon as the funds leave the Pentagon, a few extra zeros are already added to the accounts of military outsourcing companies and generals. oshow7: