Chapter 463: Battle of Liaoyang 2

In order to let the soldiers of the heavy brigade exert their minimum combat effectiveness, Wanyan Zongbi made a heavy promise in front of the whole army before leading the army to leave Liaoyang:

As long as the Mughurs can be defeated, all the Aha soldiers who participated in this war will be abolished from slavery, and each household will be divided into a ring of land (fifty acres), a large house, and an ox or horse.

If he was able to obtain the head of the Muguls in battle, or if he captured the Muguls for his exploits, he would be rewarded with Aha and a woman.

This promise is indeed a goal worth fighting for for the Aha slaves who are struggling to survive, so with the help of the Qi army, the three heavy brigades exerted their combat effectiveness that made Wanyan Zongbi feel a little surprised.

Beginning on the afternoon of 27 September, the light cavalry of the Mongolian army launched a cavalry assault on the phalanx of the three heavy brigades of the Jin army, but the Jin army formation in the shape of a zigzag continued to use various guns and cannons to return colors.

Among them, the most outstanding is the artillery of various calibers, these weapons that can only fire shotguns can cover everything within the first fifty steps of the phalanx, although the hit is not accurate, but the dense shotguns can not be dodged at all, once they enter this range, no matter the people and horses will be beaten into honeycombs by the dense gravel, and the death is extremely miserable.

The casualties of the Mongol army were not large, but the three rounds of charges failed to break the Jin army's infantry formation, and it was not until the Jin army's iron cannon began to heat up due to continuous fire and could not continue to shoot that the Mongol army really came into contact with the Jin army for the first time.

However, Wanyan Zongbi ordered the Jurchen armor soldiers to stand in front at the critical moment to gain the opportunity for the musketeers to shoot, and as a result, they repelled the Mongol attack for the fourth time.

At this time, Zamuhe also received the news of the rout of the Southern Route Army, but he did not want to give up and ordered his men to launch a fifth attack.

This time, a large number of wooden cannons and wooden guns of the Jin army were repeatedly loaded, and the worries of the Qi army before the war still happened.

Because of the explosion, the casualties caused by the Jin army's firearms on both sides were basically the same - both sides lost hundreds of people.

So the Jin army began to waver—no matter how temporarily they boosted their morale, slaves were always slaves, and they could not instantly regard themselves as Jurchens, nationals of this great Jin country.

When death is possible, no amount of reward promises are meaningless.

However, when the whole Jin army wavered, as if the Mongol army could reap the fruits of victory with more strength, the Jurchen cavalry led by Wanyan Zonggan rushed to the battlefield.

The situation took a turn for the worse in an instant, and the Jurchens, who had just won a great victory, found that the Muguls could not even eat the heavy army brigade dominated by Aha slaves, and they were immediately full of confidence and morale.

On the contrary, although there were still more than 14,000 people who were exhausted and entangled with the Jin army's infantry formation, they quickly collapsed under the onslaught of the imposing Jin army's cavalry.

Knowing that the situation was irreparable, Zamuhe took the lead in leading his personal guards to withdraw from the battlefield.

Compared with the Southern Route Army, the advantage of the Mengwu Middle Route Army is that the soldiers are not far from their war horses, although because of several charges, the war horses are very tired, and they have no chance to go to the horse stake to change horses, so they can only run away on the spot, but Wanyan Zonggan did not chase after him.

As a result, only more than 1,000 of the Monghurs were killed and more than 2,000 captured, and most of the remaining Mughal light cavalry managed to break away from the battlefield.

In fact, at this time, the Jin army had already won the victory, but the Jurchens did not have the habit of being forgiving and forgiving.

Wanyan Zonggan ordered the tired war horses of the cavalry to be stumped with the horse stakes left behind by the Mughurs, and then the 7,000 cavalry continued their efforts to launch a strong attack on the Menggu North Route Army near the wicker village farther north.

The commander of the Northern Route Army of the Menggu had more than 7,000 troops left by his side, but he had already received the news from the panicked rout that both the Southern Route Army and the Central Route Army had collapsed, so he hurriedly ordered the troops to assemble.

However, the scattered and plundering cavalry was not so easy to recover, so the Mughal commander made a decision that he would regret for the rest of his life - to stay near the wicker village for the night and wait for more troops to come and join him.

In the early morning of September 28, heavy fog fell from the sky, and Wanyan Zonggan ordered the whole army to dismount and attack the Mengwu Northern Route Army on foot.

The commander of the Mengwu army did not expect the enemy to come so quickly, and in the chaos, they couldn't see how many girls and real people came, so the commander of the Mengwu Northern Route Army continued to make mistakes, and he actually ordered those Mengwu herdsmen to hold their positions!

This gave the Jin army too much time, and after the fog dissipated, Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi led 20,000 Jin troops to the battlefield and completed the encirclement of the entire North Road Mongolian army!

After another two hours, the Jin army transferred the artillery of the heavy brigade and completely settled the battle.

So far, in the battle of Jinmeng and Liaoyang, the Jin army has achieved a complete victory.

All three of the invading Mongol armies were defeated, and for the next three days, the Jin army pursued the small Mongol forces that were scattered and plundered until they were all wiped out or driven out of the Jin-controlled area.

In this battle, the Jin State paid the price that all the lands west of Liao, Shen and Hai were robbed into a blank land by the Muguls, killing more than 8,000 Mengwu light horsemen, capturing 15,000 prisoners, and capturing as many as 40,000 horses!

The number of horses of the Mughal people is still large, one person with two horses is a common phenomenon, and one person with three horses is not an exaggeration, so the Jin army has made a fortune by seizing the horse stakes of the Mongolian army on three roads in a row.

Because the number of horses owned by the Jurchens is only higher than that of the Qi army, and the 30,000 Jurchens who have horses are only half, the arrival of these 50,000 horses is equivalent to tripling the number of horses owned by the Jin Kingdom!

It can even be said that the Jin army has more war horses than their soldiers!

There are also 15,000 Mughal captives, which are also a rare supplement for the Jin country, which lacks manpower.

The Jurchen Poles in excitement decided that these good Dingkou would be given four thousand to each of the three princes, and Wanyan Zonghan would take the remaining three thousand.

In the next year, they will transform these Mughul Dingkou into their own combat strength, so that the Dajin State's combat strength can be expanded to more than 55,000 people.

For the Jurchens, who have been irreversibly losing their main forces in recent years, this is the first time that they have expanded their ranks so effectively.

That's great news.

Of course, in this war, the heavy brigade composed of Aha slaves performed very well, and after the war, Wanyan Zongbi kept his promise and gave all Aha who participated in the war the right to settle down and open an account, and divided the land and real estate - anyway, the current population of the Jin State could not reclaim all the land on the Liaozhong Plain.

Importantly, the three princes discovered that with the right weapons, Aha slaves could be able to fight – at least when defending.

This means that the Aha slaves captured by the Jin army outside in the future can also be effectively converted into the Jin army, rather than being used only as auxiliaries or strong laborers.

Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Zongwang, and Wanyan Zongbi felt that they had found another opportunity to let the Dajin Kingdom maintain its hegemony.