Chapter 44 [Battle of Sarhu]

After all, Jiannu's sudden rebellion was bound to be prepared, and he couldn't rush to send troops, but he didn't expect that the governor of Liaodong didn't want to see him at all! Just constantly use the command flag to urge the Ming Liaodong general army to go to war without delaying the fighters, and the Ming army has always kept a distance from the Houjin army during the pursuit?

Tong Nurhachi was very clear about the motives of the Ming army, the Ming army acted because they did not dare to fight a decisive battle, and only wanted to drive the Houjin soldiers out of the border of Liaodong Dusi.

And said to his father Khan Tong Nurhachi: "If the Ming army does not move, we will take the initiative to attack, if the Ming army retreats, we will take advantage of the situation to pursue, we must not withdraw silently, otherwise the Ming army will think that our army is afraid of death and despise our army." At the instigation of his two sons, Tong Nurhachi decided to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army.

The same Ming army also saw that the Houjin army moved abnormally and began to prepare for war, and the troops were divided into three ways to occupy the mountain danger digging trench and place firearms, this time the Ming army brought more than 200 kinds of firearms, it can be seen that firearms are an important long-range strike force of the Ming army, and the wind direction at this time is also conducive to the Ming army shooting for the west wind.

Then the Jin Eight Banner Army was also arrayed within the range of the Ming army, and the wind direction suddenly changed just as the Houjin army was impacting! Battle-hardened soldiers know what this means? The morale of the Eight Banners Army was greatly boosted, and the Ming Army was helpless! had to open fire on the charging Eight Banners Army.

After a while, the thick smoke of gunpowder obscured the sight of the Ming army, and the obscuration of the smoke made the Ming army's three-eyed guns, five-thunder guns, ten-eyed guns and other multi-stage fast-fire guns unable to aim and shoot! The Eight Banners Army rushed quickly until within 50 steps, and thousands of arrows broke into the trenches of the Ming army! The Ming army was already at a disadvantage in numbers, and firearms could not play a role at all in close combat, and soon the three camps were broken by the Eight Banners Army, and all 50 Ming generals below the general army of Ming Liaodong were killed!

Houjin also pursued the fleeing Ming army for 40 miles, resulting in most of the 10,000 Ming soldiers killed and wounded! After the battle, Jin captured 9,000 horses, 7,000 pairs of armor, and the victorious Houjin army continued to attack Qinghe Fort, and the Ming and Qing River Fort commanders: Zou Chuxian, and the Ming and Qing River Fort generals: Zhang Fangmin, led 6,400 Ming troops to all go to the city tower to defend and bombard the Houjin army with offensive artillery and extra-large Franky artillery.

At first, the Jin army repelled three attacks, and then the Jin army climbed the city tower with a ladder and the Ming army was not as brave as the Eight Banners in close combat, so that the Ming army defending the city was all killed! After the battle between Fushun and Qinghe Fort, Jin won one after another, and the Ming army suffered heavy losses, and the imperial court was shocked that the Ming monarchs and ministers began to pay attention to the Jianzhou Jurchens.

As soon as this matter spread, Mingshenzong felt that the situation was serious, and urgently transferred 80,000 elite Ming troops from Shanhaiwei, Baodingwei, Tielingwei, Datongfu, Guangningwei, Kaiyuanwei, Ningbowei and other places, plus 25,000 people from Liaodong Dusi Yehe, Jurchen Dongcheng Baylor and Xicheng Baylor also participated in containing the Houjin soldiers.

At the same time, Wang Guanghaijun of the Joseon Prefecture of the Li family also tolerated Houjin for a long time, but he didn't want to offend Houjin and Daming, so he sent the North Korean Gyeonggi Province inspection envoy: Jiang Hongli, with 13,000 people of the Li Korean army to participate in the expedition, a total of 118,000 troops were given by the Ming God Sect to the left squire of the Ming military department and the right of the Imperial History of the Imperial Palace: Yang Hao, who was transferred to Liaodong Jinglu and gave it (Shang Fang's sword can kill officials below the general army, and add 2 million taels of silver to the military expenses) to prepare to go out to war to recover the lost territory.

But before he got out of the mountains and Haiwei, he met the general manager of the Ming and Qing dynasties: Chen Dadao, the general of the Ming and Qing dynasties: Gao Xuan, the two generals escaped and were directly appreciated by the Ming Liaodong: Yang Hao, beheaded to show the prestige of the Ming army, and before the expedition, the Ming Liaodong also wrote a letter to Jiannu to try to scare them.

Tong Nurhachi, who received a letter on the way to retreat, saw that the letter was written (I, Daming, sent 470,000 troops to crusade against the Dongyu this time, and when will you wait for the quick surrender?) As soon as these words came out, many Houjin soldiers were frightened, and some generals even proposed to surrender, but Tong Nurhachi said in order to stabilize the situation, "Jurchen language: The Han people have a saying that it is better to be broken than to be a complete tile, and today Ben Khan will borrow it." ”

Subsequently, in the forty-seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, in 1619 A.D., the Ming Liaodong Jingluo took advantage of the Houjin to send troops to attack, and when the Yehe Jurchen Division, one of the four departments of the Jurchen Hulun in Haixi, led the army to sit in Shenyang, and the Zhongwei commanded to inspect the horses, firearms, and count the number of people.

And the Mingshen Sect also issued an order, saying, "Who can kill Tong Nurhachi?" I was awarded 10,000 taels of silver for the commander of the capital, 3,000 taels of silver for those who killed the traitor Li Yongfang, and gold medals for those who killed the eight great beylors of Tong Nurhachi. ”

After the holy decree was delivered, the Mingshen Sect issued an order to Yehe, Dongcheng Beile, and Xicheng Beile: "If the two Qing families can kill Tong Nurhachi? Then I will title him as the "Dragon and Tiger General", and if he can kill the Houjin generals, he will be given the hereditary official position of descendants. And Tong Nurhachi learned that the Ming army was coming, and also withdrew his troops back to Hetuara City to arrange.

Before the start of the war, the general of the Ming Liaoyang Guard: Liu Ling, to the Ming Liaodong Jingluo: Yang Hao, proposed, "The last general of the Jingluo thinks that we should wait for the arrival of the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army and the Qi family army, so that the chances of victory are better." "But the holy decree of the imperial court urging the war continues, and the morale is high, so that the Ming Liaodong Jingluo feels that it is okay to fight now, and it is not surprising that the Dongyu has no ability!

He began to arrange the battle plan, and planned to divide the troops into four ways to encircle the Jindu City (Hetuala), the Ming North Route Army by the Ming Kaiyuan Guard: Ma Lin, led 15,000 people from Sancha'er Fort into the upper reaches of the Hunhe River to attack, with the assistance of 25,000 Yehe Jurchens, the West Route Army by the Ming Mountain Haiwei General Army: Juniper, led 30,000 main elite as the main attack from Shenyang Zhongwei out of Fushun to defend the Yuqianhu to Suzihe to launch an attack, the South Route Army by (Li Chengliang's second son) Ming Liaodong General Army: Li Rubai, led 25,000 people from the southwest bread, The Eastern Route Army led 10,000 men to unite with 13,000 people of the Li Dynasty and marched north along the Dongjia River through Kuandian to the south, and all the Ming army targets to encircle Hetuala.

At the same time, there were only 60,000 people in Tong Nurhachi on the Houjin side, and he was calm and composed, thinking that there must be a flaw in the Ming army's four-way attack? He also listened to the suggestion of the traitor Hou Jin Third Adjutant General: Li Yongfang, the strategy (let you come a few ways, I will only go all the way), and first let the 500 Hou Jin defenders of Hetuara City drag Liu Wei of the Ming Army on the South Road.

In leading the main force of the Eight Banners Army to attack at Jilin Cliff near [Salhu City], the Ming army found the Ming army on the west road, and then Tong Nurhachi attacked the Juniper army with 45,000 people in the Six Banners, and the initial battle was blown back by the Ming army's artillery and forced the Houjin army to flee in a hurry, but the Ming Shanhaiwei General Army was in a hurry and ordered to pursue the Houjin army, and forcibly led the army to cross the Hunhe River when the artillery battalion had not caught up.

was Ming Yuan as the chief soldier: Zhao Menglin, pulled and persuaded him, "My Ming army has won the battle with firearms, how dare you order to cross the river without waiting for the artillery battalion?" "But the general soldiers of the Ming Mountain and Haiwei did not listen to him, and he thought that the eastern captives were vulnerable, so he continued to order to forcibly cross the Hunhe River and wait for the Ming artillery battalion in the rear!

After crossing the river, the general army of the Ming Mountain and Haiwei learned that the main force of the Dongyu was here, so they resisted desperately, but the Houjin army had more and more troops, and the Ming army continued to die! In a blink of an eye, it was impossible to see because it was dark, and the Houjin army took the opportunity to hide in the woods, and the general soldiers of the Mingshan Haiwei ordered to light the torches and shoot at the woods with five thunder gods, and the Houjin army saw that there was a fire and quietly killed from behind.

With the archers aimed at the direction of the fire, the general soldier of Mingshan Haiwei was killed by three arrows on the spot! Ming Yuan's chief soldiers: Zhao Menglin, Ming Baoding Wei general soldiers: Wang Xuan, also died on the battlefield! And the follow-up Ming artillery battalion that remained in Salhu City was wiped out by the Houjin Army before they crossed the river, and all the Ming troops on the West Road were killed!

Then the Ming army on the north road Ma Lin learned that Juniper was killed in battle, stopped marching in Shangjian Cliff and excavated three fortresses to garrison, Tong Nurhachi led the Eight Banners Army to attack, the Ming Kaiyuan Guard General ordered the Ming army to line up outside the deep trench and set up attack guns, tiger squat guns, general cannons, exterminating guns, etc. on the flat ground after the bombardment of the Jin army, outside the artillery array, the Ming army lined up a team of cavalry ready to rush to kill, and the front stood with the fire gun team holding the three-god god gun, the five thunder god guns, bird guns, kidnapping guns, thunderbolts and other fire guns to shoot together.

The rest of the Ming army generals dismounted and entered three deep trenches to defend in formation, and then Jin first sent the Six Banners cavalry to charge through the Ming army's east wing artillery battalion! Then the archers of the Second Banner Army shot the fire-breaking team in the Houjin knife player and the Ming army to hack to death, and the Houjin army was a little unable to bear it in the process of close combat and began to retreat eastward.

When the Ming Kaiyuan guard saw the retreat of the Houjin Second Banner army, he thought that he could pursue and kill, so he ordered the three trenches of the Ming army to go out of the camp and join forces with the cavalry and the firecracker team to pursue and kill the fleeing Houjin army.

At this time, the Six Banners Army that broke the East Wing Artillery Battalion happened to come back, and as soon as they saw the Second Banner Army besieging Tong Nurhachi, they hurriedly joined the battle, and the Ming Army Gun Team was killed by the Houjin Six Banners before they finished a round of shooting, and the Ming Kaiyuan guards prepared for the matter: Pan Zongyan, the deputy chief of the Ming Kaiyuan Guard: Ma Yan, died on the spot! Only the Ming Kaiyuan Guard: Ma Lin, came out with fifteen people, and the Ming army on the North Road was basically defeated! When the Yehe Jurchen army arrived, they saw the defeat of the Ming army and withdrew.

The Ming army on the east road, Liu Wei, because of the steep mountains, marched slowly and failed to march north on time, Tong Nurhachi used the method of decoy and annihilation to deploy defense in Abu Dali Gang, and sent people to pretend to be the Ming army on the west road, and took Juniper to order arrows and lied that they had approached the city of Hetuala, so that the Ming Liaoyang guard general: Liu Ling, the rapid march made him convinced? Immediately led the army forward, captured many cottages in Houjin along the way, and only realized that something was wrong when the front army of the Liaoyang Guard General of the Ming Dynasty arrived at Abu Dali Village?

The soldiers of the Ming army were suddenly shot by arrows, and the general soldiers of the Ming Liaoyang Guard just wanted to retreat but were surrounded by Tong Nurhachi and were defeated and martyred in the process of fighting! Lee's Korean army surrendered to the Houjin army directly according to the order of Gwanghaejun, and only the general of Lee's Korean Left Battalion: Li Yinghe, led 500 troops to fight Houjin's army, but all of them were killed!

The Ming army Li Rubai on the south road marched very slowly, and just arrived at the Hulan post in the east of Qinghebao, he received an order from the Ming Liaodong to let the Ming Liaodong general army withdraw, known as the "Battle of Sarhu", the Ming army suffered 45,800 casualties, 21,600 Houjin casualties, and the rest of the 34,200 Ming troops withdrew into Shanhaiwei.