Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 264 Hauge in Desperation

But at the beginning, the Manchurian soldiers under Hauge were able to bear it. After all, only a small part of the Ming army entered the city, and the Ming army had not yet entered the city.

But as more and more Ming troops replaced the Green Battalion soldiers, Hauge found that there were heavy infantrymen of the Ming army wearing iron armor and holding swords and shields everywhere around him.

In addition, there are countless Ming army crossbowmen and gunmen standing on the city wall and shooting at them.

Gradually, more and more Manchurian officers and soldiers were consumed by the Ming army and the Green Battalion soldiers. In the blink of an eye, Hauge found that the number of people around him was reduced by one-third.

He brought 3000 people with him when he came out. The one-third less meant that 1000 people had been killed in the battle just now. Even Hauge, who had always been cold-blooded and cruel, could not bear such tragic casualties.

"No, I can't fight anymore."

"Warriors, withdraw with me, let's fight out of the city to find it."

I saw Hauge raised his arms and called out, galloped his horse and escaped from the siege of the Ming army, and then took the remaining nearly [-] officers and soldiers of Mizhou to the center of Huaiqing Fucheng, which was the direction of the Fuya.

He didn't want to hide in the government office and fight like a trapped beast, but he wanted to escape from the entanglement of the Ming army and escape from Huaiqing Mansion from the west or north of the city.

Riding on the horse, Hauge thought to himself, I am the eldest son of Huang Taiji, I cannot die, I must leave Huaiqing Mansion alive.

I also want to go back to the capital, go back to Mizhou, defeat Dorgon and Fulin, and ascend to the throne as emperor.

Hauge felt that his life was precious, and he had more important things to do. He felt that he didn't deserve to die, so he struggled so desperately.

But it is a pity that under the siege of Zhu Cixi's tens of thousands of troops, there was no chance for him to escape and there was no chance for him to survive.

If Zhu Cihong knew Hauge's heartfelt feelings at this moment, he would definitely persuade Hauge not to waste his efforts. With this skill, he might as well choose a good geomantic place, choose a good coffin, and let Zhu Cihong send soldiers to bury him.

In this way, at least one can end up with a whole body, and don't have to endure the pain of swordsmen.

However, Hauge was very lucky to meet his loyal lieutenant Dotuan when he arrived at the government office.

"My lord, my lord." Seeing a soldier and horse running towards the south of the city, Dotuan stepped on the horse and shouted.

"Dotuan, how many people do you have left?" As soon as they met, Hauge asked Dotuan how many people were left.

He didn't ask if the green camp rebellion was quelled and the Ming army was kept out of the city. Even he couldn't do it, let alone Dotuan.

Instead of wasting time asking unnutritive questions, ask him how many people are left.

"My lord, there are 500 soldiers and horses by my side." Dotuan bowed his head and said very respectfully.

When he attacked the East City Gate, he was not as fierce as Hauge's tactics, so the number of casualties was only five or six hundred.

"Great, when we get to the north of the city and gather the officers and soldiers together, I will have almost 5000 people on hand." Hauge said excitedly.

"Well, my lord, I will escort you out." As Hauge's lieutenant, Dotuan already knew Hauge's plan.

And today, it will also be the time for him to be loyal, and now they are still trapped in the city, wanting to leave Huaiqing does not know how many lines of defense have to be broken through.

However, Dotuan had already entrusted his life to Hauge, and today was just a destined day for him.

"Okay, with a loyal servant like you, Guzhen has no regrets in dying. Don't worry, after I kill you, I will share the honor and disgrace with you. If you die, I will pay homage to your grave every year. The heads of a hundred Han people will be sacrificed to you."

Seeing Dotuan's actions, Haug was very moved.

After the last soldiers and horses of the team arrived at the government office, Hauge did not hesitate, and immediately sent troops to the north of the city. At this moment, there were more than [-] officers and soldiers of Chizhou beside him.

In an ordinary siege battle, it would be easy for him to kill with so many troops, but unfortunately Zhu Cihong's troops were more than ten times his own. If Hauge could still be given a chance to escape, then he would simply kill himself.

Just when Hauge gathered his troops and marched north of the city, Zhu Cihong happened to lead the troops around him to the government office.

At the same time, the Banner Guards and Jin Yiwei also rushed to the city in armor, from the south gate and east gate to the west gate and north gate.

After rushing to the mansion, Zhu Cihong couldn't find Hauge anywhere, and there was no one around the mansion, so he knew that he must have escaped.

After leaving a part of the soldiers and horses to seal up the government office, yamen, treasury and other places in the city, they also suppressed the ground to prevent the rogues from going to the streets to loot while the army was attacking the city.

Zhu Cihong picked up the imperial guards around him and chased northward.

Time waits for no one, if it is too late, maybe Hauge will escape, so Zhu Cihong dare not stop for a moment.

After arriving at the north city gate, they saw a melee between the Green Camp soldiers and the Jinwu Guard infantry under the city gate. The corpses were piled up like a hill, and the city gate was almost sealed. Hauge and his Mingzhou officers and soldiers were unable to move forward. .

In order to break the barrier at the gate of the city, Hauge ordered hundreds of Mitezhou infantry to dismount and fight, and joined the Manchurian soldiers sent here before to break the defense of the gate of the city together.

At this moment, the city gate has already become a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. I saw a middle-aged man with a thick back and a waist standing leaning against the foot of the city wall panting for breath.

"Baihu, the brothers are almost dead, let's withdraw and let the brothers come up." A soldier wearing a helmet with the word "Yong" next to the thick-backed man said to him.

As he spoke, he shook his arm desperately.

"No." The man flatly refused.

"How can I, Shi Yigong, be a deserter? Your Majesty has an order to surround Huaiqing City and kill all the Tartars in the city. If I retreat now, wouldn't I be a deserter?"

Shi Yigong was originally from the Central Plains. Due to peasant wars and natural and man-made disasters in the late Ming Dynasty, he became a refugee in the last years of Chongzhen and fled to Yangzhou, Huainan.

I originally thought that where the business is developed and the economy is prosperous, it is easy to get a job that makes a living.

Who would have imagined that there were too many refugees, and because of the war, water transportation stopped, millions of people lost their livelihoods, and Shi Yigong almost starved to death.

Fortunately, Zhu Cihong went to Yangzhou to recruit refugees as soldiers and gave him a bite to eat, so he had a chance to survive.

"Brothers, kill me." Thinking of this, Shi Yigong raised his sword and went forward to fight with the Manchurian soldiers.

At this moment, people like him are no longer in the minority. Those Green Battalion Soldiers and Jinwu Guards are either for a bite to eat, or to increase their ranks, or to avenge killing some Tartars.

In short, at this moment they erupted with a combat power that was completely unlike that of the general Ming army. Although the time was not long, it only took a few incense sticks.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Hauge was furious. He never imagined that the pig-like Han Chinese in the past would have the courage to resist him.

(End of this chapter)