1338 The Weakened Dashun Army
After the two sides met, Li Zicheng and his side sent someone to try to persuade them to surrender! But the revenge of killing their father and taking their wife was not so easy to bear? As soon as the envoy approached the Guanning Army, he was shot into a hedgehog by a rain of arrows!
At this point, all the doors for negotiations were closed. In fact, Li Zicheng didn't care about the success or failure of the negotiations. In his mind, the tens of thousands of people in the Guanning Army could be destroyed every moment. His attention was more focused on Shanhaiguan.
Li Zicheng paid attention to Shanhaiguan because he thought Shanhaiguan should be easily compromised. The reason is very simple, because Wu Sangui has brought out all the people who can fight in the Guanning Army, and there is no decent army in Shanhaiguan.
The most important point is that since the construction of Shanhaiguan, his focus on defense has pointed to outside the pass. The wall facing outside the pass is thick and tall, with many equipment. In comparison, the wall facing inside the pass is much inferior.
So Li Zicheng took it for granted that Wu Sangui felt that Shanhaiguan was not enough to rely on, so he left the city to fight with him.
But in fact, the idea of leaving the city to fight against the Dashun Army was Dorgon’s request! He wanted to use the Guanning Army to drag Li Zicheng’s army to exhaust them, and then defeat them in one fell swoop!
From a tactical perspective, Dorgon's idea was very successful! The Guanning Army was a military group that had been trained for a long time. With the support of the Ming Empire, the Guanning Army had complete armor, high-quality weapons, and was trained extremely elite. Apart from Liu Pei, they were the only troops who could fight against the Qing army head-on!
On the other hand, Li Zicheng's side lacked training in the army, and the soldiers' combat skills were basically achieved by fighting on the battlefield. There was a lack of cooperation between the troops and hills. So far, the Dashun Army's armor has not been fully equipped. So Li Zicheng's desire to retake Shanhaiguan and plow Liaodong by the way was a natural idea!
The two sides were getting closer and closer. Under Wu Sangui's command, Guanning Army took the lead in stopping and deploying a circular formation that was good at defense. The formation laid out by the entire army was dense and sturdy, and it was obvious that it was an elite army that had been through the battlefield for a long time!
In addition, Wu Sangui also removed some of the artillery from Shanhai Pass and hid it in the formation. He arranged the most elite cavalry into the formation. All other cavalry were transformed into infantry and
Strengthen defense.
Li Zicheng looked at Wu Sangui's small round formation opposite, and looked back at his army that could hardly see the boundless. For a moment, his confidence increased greatly! He laughed and began to dispatch troops.
In the first wave, Li Zicheng sent more than 100,000 people to surround Wu Sangui's round formation and attack from all sides! Prepare to put down Wu Sangui in one go!
But when the two sides fought, Li Zicheng and the others were shocked! Because there was basically a one-sided situation on the battlefield!
The charge of Dashun soldiers cannot be said to be disorganized, but it is absolutely inconsistent! The formation is not neat! This gives the opponent the opportunity to defeat each one!
Moreover, the martial arts and physical strength of the Dashun Army soldiers are far inferior to that of the Guanning Army soldiers! Moreover, the opponent has complete armor and armor. When the two sides fight, the Guanning Army soldiers are often injured but not killed, and will not even be injured! Any Dashun Army soldiers on the front line will be chopped to the ground by the opponent in three or two!
Moreover, artillery seized the opportunity to bombard it, opening up a land of death among the soldiers of the Dashun Army. This was a huge consumption of the morale of the Dashun Army!
Under Wu Sangui's command, the entire circular formation was slowly rotating counterclockwise! Like a huge millstone, crushing the Dashun soldiers wrapped in little by little!
Moreover, Wu Sangui's command and the cooperation between the soldiers were very exquisite! After a while, the soldiers on the front line would be quickly replaced by the people behind. The people who were withdrawn would go to eat something, take a break, wrap their wounds, and wait for the next attack!
On the other hand, the rotation on the front line of the Dashun Army is very chaotic! Some teams are in front of the front for a long time and cannot retreat, some have just entered the battle and received orders to retreat. Some even mingled with the rotation team when they withdraw and stirred up a ball! This gave the Guanning Army an opportunity to take advantage of!
And whenever the Dashun soldiers are in chaos, they will launch a short assault! After killing the opponent in large quantities, they will retreat to the formation!
So the entire battle lasted less than three quarters of an hour, and the soldiers of the Dashun Army were defeated and dispersed! The result was that the Dashun Army spent more time on the marching than the battle!
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When the Dashun Army collapsed, Wu Sangui released a group of cavalry in time to attack. These groups of cavalry were the most elite in the Guanning Army! Their mission was not to penetrate or kill many enemies, but to disperse these Dashun Army soldiers.
This mission is very familiar to the Guanning cavalry! They drove a small number of defeated soldiers to attack the Dashun soldiers who were organized, forming a larger collapse! Then they drove more defeated soldiers to attack another position, forming an effect like the rewind of the Milky Way!
In less than a moment, the more than 100,000 Dashun Army was driven to death by the Guanning Army cavalry and was defeated!
In shock and anger, Li Zicheng sent cavalry to the battlefield, trying to drag the Guanning cavalry into the battle so that they could be submerged with their number advantage!
However, the Guanning cavalry was not interested in fighting at all. As soon as they achieved the results they needed, they immediately retreated back into the round formation! Taking this opportunity, Wu Sangui had already reorganized the formation, replaced the soldiers' armor and weapons, and had a brief rest.
Li Zicheng made his second mistake at this time! If he could behead the retreating leaders and make orders to the entire army, perhaps there might be some future battles.
However, the leaders who returned were all figures who followed Li Zicheng over time. Li Zicheng was unable to make up for a while. After the persuasion of everyone, he accepted the statement of settlement after the war and then signaled the leaders to retreat.
This will give a hint to the leaders of all sizes who have not yet entered the battle, that is, it doesn’t matter if they are defeated, but everyone is protected! Moreover, Your Majesty is a nostalgic person, so he will never do anything to us! In this way, the fighting spirit of the Dashun Army decreased by three points again!
After receiving a group of people, Li Zicheng sent a second group of people. But the result was no different from the group of people. It was just that it was a little longer. It was still beaten and returned. As a result, the failed leaders were still not punished!
Chapter completed!