Chapter 364: Picking Fruits
With the roar of muskets, the Tartars who had gradually left contact fell in line.
The retreating enemy is always easier to deal with, especially the side with the advantage of long-range firepower, which is simply harvesting without damage at this time.
The Tartars in the central front retreated faster and faster, but the Qi army was not eager to pursue them. The selection soldiers and the Ruishi spearmen in Zhenyuan Camp formed a protective line together. While advancing slowly, the guardians and the guardians fully exerted their firepower.
With the volleyballing in full swing, the Tartars' morale quickly fell into an inevitable state of collapse. Gradually, even Wanyan Loushi lost control of the front-line troops - he had just put all the officers and the supervisors into the battle as reserves.
Finally, in about the fifth round of musket shooting, the Tartars, who had withdrawn for more than fifty steps, shouted and retreated like a tide.
The Tartars on the Central Front finally collapsed.
The entangled cavalry on both wings found that the situation on the central front was not good, and the Tartars showed the highest level of a feudal strong army. The cavalry on both wings did not retreat, but quickly broke away from contact with the Qi army in person with the tactical maneuverability of the cavalry and consciously concentrated on the central front.
A quarter of an hour later, Wanyan Loushi used the two wings of cavalry to regroup the supervision team and began to gather the defeated troops.
At this time, Wanyan Loushi had lost all the chances of victory, because more and more Qi troops crossed the river. Half an hour later, even some field artillery crossed the Qinghe River. Not to mention that Loushi had suffered heavy casualties at this time, even if the entire army came and had previous experience, he would not dare to rush to the Qi army formation with artillery support.
But he didn't want to accept the result of complete failure - this non-legitimate general, who claimed to be the first Jurchen general, still wanted to save as many troops as possible. After all, all the Jurchen soldiers he brought out this time were Jurchen soldiers, and the entire Jin Dynasty currently has only 50,000 core forces.
As if in order to save his face, Wanyan Loushi reassed one mile away from the Qi army formation. He used the rear formation led by the Living Girl (composed of previous defeated soldiers) and the cavalry deployed on both wings to intercept deserters, and soon reassembled a unit of about 3,000 people.
After seeing scattered cavalry appearing on the flank of Qi's military formation, Wanyan Loushi finally ordered the troops to retreat.
Xu Shiyang did not order a pursuit either. The Tartars did throw away a large number of horses, but they had too many horses, and the remaining armored soldiers could still guarantee one person and one horse. The hundreds of cavalry in his hands did not dare to pursue the three thousand enemy cavalry, and the infantry could not catch up with the cavalry who was determined to escape.
Xu Shiyang calmly looked at the enemy who was gradually moving away and gradually disappearing, and never ordered a pursuit.
The commander of Dingyuan brigade Li Jinghuai ran over excitedly, unable to control his excitement and shouted: Commander! We won!
Xu Shiyang glanced at him and didn't blame him.
After all, all the previous victory of the Qi Provincial New Army and its predecessor, Qingzhou Army, against the Tartars were either sneak attacks or a somewhat frustrating defensive counterattack. Except for them, others had never even won.
Therefore, the impression of the invincible battle in the field of Tartars is still deeply rooted in the minds of most people.
This battle just now was not only a field battle, but also after the Qi army forced the war to fight against many pure Tartar infantry and cavalry after the temporary disadvantages, and they won the battle.
This victory was definitely a huge encouragement for the Qi army and the nation that had been in decline for nearly twenty years.
Don't worry, just finish a battle.
Xu Shiyang said calmly:
This battle has not been completed yet, and this does not prove that we have won the war against the Tartars.
Now, go to the south bank and lead Dingyuan Camp to stabilize its position and do not give the Tartars an opportunity to take advantage of.
Xu Shiyang did not think that Wanyan Loushi would dare to fight back, but it was very important to let the officers and soldiers develop good habits of always being vigilant.
Yes. It can be heard that Li Jinghuai was a little dissatisfied with this order.
Let Feng Sanhu take people to clean the battlefield and bring our wounded back, and the martyrs' bodies must be taken care of.
Xu Shiyang continued to order:
Also, collecting the war horses left by the Tartars as much as possible is very important to us.
When Wanyan Loushi came, there were six thousand soldiers, one man and two horses. When he left, he only followed three thousand people around him. In order to get out as soon as possible, they did not take away all the war horses. It was probably good that they could maintain one man and one horse.
There should be seven or eight thousand war horses left near the battlefield. If they can be taken away, the number of war horses owned by the Qi army can be directly quadrupled.
For the new army, this is a spoil that is no less than Gaizhou City. Of course, Xu Shiyang wanted to hold it all in his hands as much as possible.
yes!
This response seemed much happier.
Li Jinghuai naturally knew how precious these war horses were.
Well, finally, I told Luo Haitao of the Navy that he asked him to prepare a fast ship to Changsheng Island and tell him that he would follow the plan.
Xu Shiyang didn't plan to let Wanyan Loushi go here and pretend, if you can win, if you can, if you can, if you can, you can leave, if you can't, you can't. How can such a good thing be in the world?
Before coming to Gaizhou, Xu Shiyang had two field brigades on Changsheng Island to prevent the Tartars from attacking in Fuzhou, and each of them had one brigade in Lushun, Jinzhou.
Isn’t it a pity to have such a huge field force?
The New Army General Staff formulated a complete plan before the war: if the Tatars were really in Fuzhou and these ambushers dared to reinforce Gaizhou, then the garrisons of the New Army in southern Liaoning would be dispatched by boat, take advantage of the strategic maneuverability of sea transportation to land at a certain location between Gaizhou and Fuzhou, and ambush the retreating Tatars.
Judging from the current situation, the morale of the remaining people in Wanyan Loushi has long fallen to the lowest point, and the combat-capable troops have only one thousand people at most. If they encounter ambush from two field brigades, it is possible to directly bomb the battalion.
Hurry up and clean the battlefield, and wait until the dispersed troops come back, and we will take down Gaizhou.
This should be the last result of Xu Shiyang's trip. There were still 1,000 elderly and weak Tartars in the city, as well as about 20,000 women and children of all ethnic groups.
Because his combat effectiveness was too weak, when Xu Shiyang went to Qinghe to face Wanyan Loushi, the defenders in the city did not even dare to leave the city to challenge the militia who stayed here to block the door.
When the Qi army sent out the looted troops and the artillery fighting along the Qinghe River, Gaizhou was just a ripe fruit, and it only took a hand to pick it off.
Ama.
Wanyan Huo's girl walked beside Wanyan Loushi with a sad face, her voice was frustrated like a defeated dog that was kicked hard:
We are fighting this battle too poorly. Give me a team of cavalry and let me go back and rush for a while! Now Hangou is definitely celebrating victory, and I will definitely be able to break through
I said that sometimes living requires more courage than dying. Wanyan Loushi said calmly: Do you think you have the opportunity to break away from them? Having such thoughts can only prove that you are not a qualified commander yet.
Chapter completed!