Shang Jian Cliff.

After deciding to compete with Jiannu here, the Ming army's scouts found a large force of pigtailed soldiers arriving from the valley at the end of the day. Looking at the color of its flag, it is the two red flags of Jiannu.

After the news of the enemy's situation, Marin urgently ordered all his troops to prepare for battle.

Dai Shan and his brother Abatai went to the high place to observe the deployment of the Ming army, and said to the left and right subordinates: "Are the generals of the Ming Dynasty carved out of a furnace, why do they like to divide troops and camps?" These deployments seem to echo each other and can be a horn trend, but they provide an opportunity for our army to take advantage of it and divide it and annihilate it. ”

Abatai asked Dai Shan if this was the case, why he didn't attack the two battalions outside the Ming army's camp first to weaken the strength of the Ming army, but instead attacked his own camp first.

The reason given by Dai Shan is very simple, if the remaining two battalions are attacked first, Ma Lin, the main general of the Ming army, will drive a large battalion of soldiers to help, because the soldiers and horses in those two battalions are all men and horses under the command of Ma Lin, and they are also the confidence that Ma Lin dares to hold on to Shangjian Cliff, and he must not be lost.

However, if the Marin camp is attacked first, the remaining two battalions of the Ming army may not have the courage to come to the rescue.

"Why is that?" Abatai was puzzled.

"People's hearts!"

Dai Shan chuckled lightly, and explained to the seventh brother that the soldiers and horses of the Marin Department were all transferred from Xuanda and other towns in the Ming Dynasty, and most of them were not directly related to Marin.

The various departments of the Ming army are not subordinate to each other, so in order to preserve their strength, unless they are in a desperate situation, most of these Ming army generals will not work hard, but they all look forward to others to fight hard battles.

In this way, after the main camp of Marin's main camp is attacked, even if the battalion owners of the two Ming armies outside will have the heart to rescue, it will become a problem who to send. What can they do when they have chosen the soldiers and horses to come?

"Although the Ming army is overwhelming, it is always lacking compared with my Eight Banners,"

Speaking of this, Dai Shan couldn't think of any words to describe it for a while.

Abatai understood the meaning of the second brother, and inadvertently thought of an inscription of "national unity" written by someone in the study of the eldest brother Yuying, and blurted out immediately: "Unity!" ”

"Solidarity?"

Dai Shan savored this word and nodded slightly, "Yes, my Eight Banners can have today, it is precisely because of my unity from top to bottom, all the brothers are twisted into one force, and his Ming Army is a plate of scattered sand, strong on the outside, and strong in the middle, how can it be the opponent of my Eight Banners." ”

After finishing speaking, Dai Shan raised his whip and pointed at it, ordering the two red flags to use their elite to directly attack the Marin camp, and did not do anything to the remaining two Ming camps except for a few soldiers and horses to monitor.

After receiving the military order of Gu Yingbeile, the generals of the two red flags of Jin Liang quickly gathered their troops to attack the main camp of the Ming army of Shangjian Yaming, first repeatedly rammed the defense deployed outside the Marin camp with cavalry, and then organized more than 1,000 infantry in iron armor to push the shield cart to charge the camp frontally.

The firearms deployed by Marin in the trenches outside the camp did not work as well as they had hoped before the battle, and many of the firearms could not even be fired, so the Jin army quickly paved the trenches leading to Marin's camp.

In order to prevent the Jin army from breaking the camp, Ma Lin ordered the original guerrilla Ge Shifeng to lead the camp out of the camp to counterattack the Jin army. The chariot formation organized by Gebe effectively delayed the Jin army's attack, killing and wounding many pigtail soldiers.

However, Abatai, the owner of the red banner who had suffered from the Ming army's chariot formation, came up with a way, and he asked his soldiers to take advantage of the upper hand to set fire to the Ming army. The smoke from the fire choked the Ming soldiers and prevented them from opening their eyes, and the Jin cavalry took advantage of the momentum to attack.

The guerrilla Ge Shifeng resisted desperately, and his army was still broken into by the Jin army. Ge Shifeng was killed in battle, and most of the soldiers were killed. The rest of the officers and soldiers had to flee back to the camp in disarray.

When the camp of this formation was attacked by the Jin army, the other two Ming armies located in Feifen Mountain, five miles away, and Jiazigou six miles away, as Dai Shan expected, did not organize soldiers and horses to support the Chinese army camp at the first time.

After the supervising army Pan Zongyan and the guerrilla Ma Yan finally organized their soldiers and horses, the Jin army had already ended the battle, and the two reinforcements had to retreat to the camp.

In this battle, the two red flags beheaded more than 2,000 Ming troops at the cost of hundreds of casualties, and burned more than 100 Ming army vehicles, which made the morale of the Ming army low.

The next day, Nurhachi led the Four Banners to Shangjian Cliff.

Knowing that the second son Daishan had achieved a great victory in the first battle, which had severely damaged the morale of the Ming army, Nurhachi couldn't help but be overjoyed, and praised Daishan in front of the sons and ministers and generals for being worthy of being Dajin's Guying Baturu, and said even more excitedly: "After I am a hundred years old, my young son and Dafujin can be taken care of by the second elder brother!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the Zhubeiles and the ministers were different.

Later, Nurhachi led the generals to climb the heights to inspect the Ming army, and saw that there was a mountain to the east of the Ming army camp in Shangjian Ya, so he ordered to occupy the high ground and attack the Marin camp from the mountain from the mountain.

According to Marin, who was guarding the camp, he also sensed that the Jin army wanted to seize the high ground at this moment, and deeply regretted that he had failed to deploy defenders on this high ground.

But it's not too late to make amends!

Ma Lin ordered Li Ximi, the deputy commander-in-chief of Xuanfu, and his son Ma Ran to lead thousands of troops to seize the high ground with the Jin army.

The two sides soon fought, and Li Xi's troops were full of elite soldiers of the Xuanfu, and the officers and soldiers were brave and tenacious. Ma Ran was also a young hero, leading hundreds of cavalry to repeatedly rush to kill the Jin army, and the two sides fought together.

In the distance, Pan Zongyan's troops and Ma Yan troops heard the sound of killing from the direction of the big camp, and they didn't dare to delay any longer, and each gathered thousands of troops to reinforce.

Nurhachi ordered his fourth brother Yarhaqi to lead the blue flag, and his nephew Amin led the blue flag to intercept Pan and Ma, and saw that the battle with the Marin Department could not progress for a long time, and in anger, he actually brought 3,000 white armor soldiers under his own account to rush towards the Ming army.

Rao was the elite of the Xuanfu soldiers of the Ming army Li Xi, and he was still defeated under Nurhachi's personal charge, and Li Ximi was killed in the battle by an arrow on the way to retreat.

Ma Ran and dozens of his own soldiers fell into the siege of the Jin cavalry, and they repeatedly rushed and killed several times but still could not stand out, and finally fell off the horse due to the exhaustion of the horse's physical strength.

Ma Ran, who lost his horse, fought to the death, and was finally outnumbered and killed by the Jin army, and before his death, he shouted to his father's camp in the west: "My son will not lose my grandfather's face!" ”

With the defeat of the Ming army out of the camp, the Jin army quickly seized the high ground, and then slammed down on the Marin camp, not giving the Ming army in the camp any time to react.

Ma Lin finally had no experience in battle formations, and he was terrified in his heart, knowing that the Jin army had occupied the high ground, and Li Ximi and his son Ma Ran were more than lucky, but he still made the most stupid mistake when he loved his son, and actually let all the soldiers and horses in the camp go out of the camp to rescue the already destroyed Li Ximi.

This move hit Nurhachi's heart, and he immediately ordered all the Eight Banners to dismount and form a formation to fight with the Ming army.

Dai Shan also learned from Ama to go into battle in person, riding a horse into the Ming army.

After the Ming army, which was already demoralized and had only five or six thousand people, left the camp, they hurriedly fired firearms and artillery, but the Jin army came very quickly, and the Ming soldiers who were fluctuating in people's hearts were in a hurry and had not yet lit the fire, and the arrows of the Jin army had already been fired.

Soon, the Ming army that came out of the camp was defeated under the front and rear of the four banner soldiers led by Daishan, Mang Gurtai, Abatai, and Tang Gu.

At this moment, Yarhaqi, who had just repelled the Ming reinforcements, also led his troops back to the division to fight, and saw that the Ming army camp was an empty camp, so he attacked it directly without thinking about it.

At this point, the Ming army was defeated, and Ma Lin was so frightened that he couldn't take care of his other son Ma Yi who went with him, so he fled with more than 100 people with his own soldiers.

The Eight Banners of the Ma Lin Headquarters soon turned to Feifen Mountain to attack Pan Zongyan's troops of the Ming Supervision Army, and Pan Zongyan shouted and attacked, and his courage was overwhelming.

However, as if Juniper's headquarters was affected by the collapse of the Salhu camp, Pan's Ming army was also shaken, and the generals and officers had no intention of fighting to the death, but only wanted to flee quickly with their families.

As a result, there was no resistance, and the camp was broken by the pigtails.

Although Pan Zongyan was a civilian official, he did not retreat from the fight, and he had no idea of escaping at all, so he and his four followers brought from Kaiyuan picked up the weapons of the rout and fought hard with the pigtailed soldiers.

When he died, his bones and limbs were rotten, and he was miserable.

Another Jiazigou Ming army of the Mayan Department took advantage of the Jin army to attack Feifen Mountain when the camp abandoned the camp to flee in the direction of Sancha'er Fort, the Jin army heard the news to chase with fine horses, Mayan was killed, the dead of its department Mi Valley, the blood flow is still under the cliff, and the water is red.

In just two days after the Battle of Shangjian Cliff, the entire army of Marin was defeated, with more than 20,000 dead and only a few thousand officers and soldiers escaping.

The Jin army lost less than 2,000 men, so much so that Nurhachi joked that as soon as Juniper died, the Ming Dynasty would be left alone.

Fan Wencheng even praised: "The ancestors are honest and do not deceive me, the Jurchen is not satisfied with ten thousand, and ten thousand are invincible!" ”

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Ma Lin, who was frightened by the pigtail soldiers, fled to the north like a frightened bird under the protection of his own soldiers, and I don't know how long it took to get rid of the pursuers behind him, and counted the number of people, only thirty-seven people guarded.

Thinking of the fiasco of the army, the whereabouts of the two sons are unknown, and Ma Lin, the son of the thirty-nine-year-old famous general Ma Fang, is lost and standing in the wilderness, and he doesn't know where to run.

Some people on the left and right said that they went to Dali Aha, some said that they went to Kaiyuan, and some said that they went directly from Sanchaerbao to cross the river and return to Shenyang.

Just as the soldiers were arguing about where to go with the chief soldier, there was a sound of hooves in the northwest, and everyone thought it was the Jin army's pursuers, so they quickly turned over and ran away.

Fortunately, they reacted in time that this group of people and horses did not come from the direction of Shangjian Cliff, so they stopped the horse from watching.

"It's Yekhbel Jintaiji here?!" Marin looked forward to it as soon as he felt like a drowning man had been saved.

Someone on the other side quickly answered, and said quickly: "I am Buyangu from Yehebu, dare to ask which general of the imperial court is ahead?" ”

Ma Lin said loudly: "I am Ma Lin, the chief soldier of Kaiyuan!" ”

The guards were also overjoyed, and Yehebu came at the right time.

"It's General Ma!"

As he spoke, Beyl Byangu of Yehe's department rushed over on horseback, and saw that Marin and his subordinates were embarrassed, and then saw that there was no soldier or flag in the distance, and his heart suddenly sank, and he couldn't help but ask: "The army is defeated?!" ”

This is how Marin answered, and he didn't answer with a bitter face.

Buyangu couldn't see it, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and then admired that Wei Gonggong was like a god, and it was really Zhuge Kongming's resurrection.

Then he asked, "Where does the chief soldier want to go now?" ”

"Alas,"

Marin hesitated for a moment, and then told Buyangu that he intended to return to Kaiyuan first, and asked the men and horses of Yehebu to return with him.

After Buyangu heard this, he didn't follow the order, but suddenly asked: "Since the army has been defeated, how can the chief soldier still have the face to go back!" ”

"What does Buyangu mean by that?"

Marin was very displeased, no matter how down-and-out he was, it would not be Ye Hebu's turn to teach him a lesson. But as soon as the words fell, they saw Ye Hebing beside Buyangu suddenly aiming an arrow at them.

"What to do!"

Marin asked in surprise, Buyangu didn't answer, and the Yehe soldiers had already released arrows.

There was a burst of random shooting, and Marin was like a hedgehog, and the rest of his own soldiers were all shot by arrows and fell to the ground.

"Buyangu, you... You're going to rebel against me... Da Ming, did you descend that Jianzhou? Marin did not bat an eye, and fell to the ground and pointed angrily at Buyangu.

"I, Yehe, have been loyal to the Ming Dynasty for generations, and I have a common enmity with Jianzhou, how can I descend to Jianzhou!"

Buyangu jumped off his horse, slowly walked in front of Marin, shook his head at him, and said hatefully: "The chief soldier has brought out so many soldiers, is it really a shame to flee back alone?" ”

"I..."

Marin was ashamed, blushing to explain something, but finally choked from excessive blood loss.

Looking at Marin's corpse, Buyangu was silent for a long time, and for a long time, he ordered Marin to bury the corpse of Marin and his own soldiers. He also ordered the new banner to be planted here, so that everyone could see the soldiers of the Ming army scattered here.

Banner - "Emperor Ming Emperor's pro-army Jianzhou Garrison Division".