Qi Jiajun, an iron-blooded division created by the famous Ming Dynasty general Qi Jiguang, once made Wukou feel frightened on the southeast coast. Relying on strict military discipline, arduous training, scientific formations, unique weapons, and strong combat strength, Qi Jiguang has been fighting in the Southern Expedition and the Northern War for more than thirty years, nanping Wukou, and northern Mongolia, invincible and rarely defeated.
(Qi Jiguang stills)
Qi Jiguang once described himself in the "New Book of Ji Xiao": "In the thirty years of serving in the army, there have been more than a hundred battles of land and water in the north and south, and I have not been robbed. ”
According to the "History of Ming", the biggest casualty of the Qi family army was the Battle of Lindun, where more than 90 people were killed, but more than 3,000 Wukou were drowned and burned, and 690 enemy heads were beheaded. In battles such as surprise attacks on Niutian, the Qi family army did not suffer a single casualty. Throughout the decades of fighting by the Qi family army, more than 150,000 enemies have been annihilated, and their own casualties are only 200, which is a miracle in the entire history of human warfare.
However, it was such a victorious army, the tiger and wolf division, but it was completely destroyed in the "Battle of hunhe", why is this?
In 1588, the 60-year-old famous general Qi Jiguang fell ill and died, and handed over the banner of the Qi family army to his nephew Qi Jin. This rising star who followed his uncle in the bloody battlefield for more than ten years completely inherited Qi Jiguang's bloodiness and bravery, and he forged ahead on the battlefield with outstanding combat achievements, "training soldiers quite a father (referring to uncle) style."
It was this descendant of the Qi family, in the last battle of the Qi family army, in the bloody battle of the Hun River, even though he faced a desperate situation of life and death, the last person who fought still let the Banner of the Qi Family Army, which had never fallen, hunt and fly high.
It was 1621 AD, when Nurhaci led the Eight Banners to besiege Shenyang. According to the lord who guarded Shenyang, he sent people to the Ming court for help. Liaodong Jingluo Yuan Yingtai quickly dispatched more than 10,000 elite troops from Sichuan and Zhejiang to quickly reinforce Shenyang, and ordered 30,000 Liaodong Ming troops to rush to the front line as backup. Among them, the Zhejiang army is the famous Qi family army led by Qi Jin.
(Nurhaci stills)
Qi Jiajun had just arrived on the south bank of the Hun River when he heard the news of the loss of Shenyang. It turned out that the defender Ming had rushed to attack and was ambushed by the Houjin army. When he returned to the city, the drawbridge was cut off by the Mongols in the city. In this way, the impregnable city of Shenyang opened its gates in an instant, and was easily breached by Nurhaci.
At this time, the Sichuan-Zhejiang reinforcements fell into a dilemma, but they still quickly reached a unified agreement not to retreat.
In order to buy time for the Qi family army to deploy, under the leadership of the general Zhou Dunji, the Sichuan army crossed the Hun River without hesitation and launched a fierce attack on the Houjin army on the north bank.
This is an army armed with white wooden pole spears, known as the "white pole army". They fought bravely, were not afraid of life and death, made many military achievements, and were the elite troops in the Ming Army, "known for being afraid of near and far."
Nurhaci did not dare to take it lightly, and first sent a white flag to meet the battle. However, the fierce Eight Flags Iron Horse was killed by the "White Pole Army" with long guns. Several consecutive chargebacks were made, leaving behind the corpses of the Jin soldiers under the city.
Annoyed and enraged, Nurhaci immediately dispatched the elite Yellow Banner. However, his encounter, almost like the white flag, retreated in disgrace. In the two clashes, the 80,000 Eight Banner Soldiers did not catch a little cheap, but "thousands of crossbowmen died."
After the general Li Yongfang saw that the Jin army had been defeated repeatedly, he found the surrendered Ming gunners, rewarded them heavily, and shelled the Sichuan army. Under the heavy artillery fire and the attack of the Houjin army, the Sichuan army was in chaos, and almost the entire army was destroyed, and only a few people retreated to the south bank of the Hun River to join the Qi family army.
(Li Yongfang stills)
Qi Jin took advantage of the precious time gained by the Sichuan army with his life to quickly launch the famous vehicle array of the Qi family army on the south bank of the Hun River. After defeating the Sichuan army, the Later Jin army took advantage of the situation to cross the Hun River to cover up, and one of the most tragic decisive battles since the Ming Dynasty was immediately fought on the south bank of the Hun River.
Qi Jiajun first used the famous "Fire Three Stacks Array" to give the Eight Banner Soldiers a head-on blow. When the Eight Banners rushed to the front of the Ming Army's front 300 steps, the Qi family's large-caliber Flang machine artillery fired in unison, and the Eight Banners immediately fell a large piece. At a distance of 200 steps, the Crossbowmen of the Qi Family Army fired a volley of ten thousand arrows, and the attack of the Eight Banners was blocked and retreated like a tide. However, there were still a few strong Eight Banner Soldiers, who rushed to within 100 of the Qi family's army, and Qi Jin ordered all firearms, bows and arrows and other firepower to be fully fired.
In the end, even a small number of Eight Banner Soldiers who rushed to the front of the line were killed by the Qi Family Army's special weapon Wolf Fang.
Faced with round after round of onslaughts by the Eight Banner Soldiers ten times their own, the Qi family army had no fear and fought with their lives, and the fierce battle lasted until dusk. The car array was finally broken by the Eight Banners, and the Qi family army used the famous Mandarin Duck Formation to deal with the enemy, fighting with the enemy in close combat, killing the corpses of the Eight Banner Soldiers all over the field, killing more than 3,000 enemy troops.
At the most critical moment of the war, the Qi family army received bad news, 30,000 reinforcements were killed by Nurhaci's thousands of soldiers and horses, and they had fallen into a situation of Jedi helplessness.
The chief soldier Chen Ce died of exhaustion after beheading more than a dozen Eight Banner soldiers. The chief soldier Tong Zhongyu was afraid and wanted to withdraw from the battlefield, but was pulled by Qi Jin and cut off: "The big husband's service to the country is today!" Tong Zhong's face was shy, and he turned over and rushed into the battlefield, killing him covered in blood and wounded in many places.
Finally, the Qi family army fought to the last moment, and only Qi Jin, Tong Zhongyun and more than a dozen Ming troops were surrounded by the Eight Banners Regiment. At this time, the Eight Banner Soldiers had lost the courage of close combat, they were full of bows and arrows, arrows rained down, and all the Qi family troops were martyred.
In the "History of Ming", the words of praise for the last battle of the Qi family army are extremely praised: "Exhaust all their strength, swing their swords and kill 17 people." The Qing dynasty soldiers sent out all the arrows, and Tong Zhongyu died with Qi Jin, Zhang Mingshi, and Dusi Yuan Jianlong and Deng Qilong. ”
(References: History of the Ming Dynasty, New Book of Ji Xiao, etc.)